The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-23 00:00:00

tot4t,adml,s . . ST4TS UF l'H E .719::ATTS. --...a.-- Uita( Ttlx DTIBLIN ateneverne ATIVERTIRER It is now generally acknowledged, that the harvest lias been a bad one—in short, that the different crops have by no wrens reached an averafre. We regret to state, that by accounts received on Sant: lay and yes fitday from the country, the rains have &one great da mage to the potatoes which still remain in the ground ; have suspended the sowing of winter crops, and ren dered some grounds totally useless which hail been previously prepared to receive the grain. Ambled to the disturbances which prevail in Mooster. and the spirit of which begins to be manifested in the vest. these supply grounds for apprehending that we have the prospect of a dreary whiter before us. Still it is remarkable, that the price of agricultural proiloce is regularly on the decline. Wheat is cheaper notwithstanding the indifferent crop and its bait qua lity, than it was this time twelvemonth. Sheep and 'horned cattle have declined in a still more rapid pro• •portion. The Fair of Ballinasloe was but ap indifferent one, in regard of prices, though the number of cattle sold was considerable. Those, however, who drove .away their sheep and beasts have had ample reason to regret their conduct. The Fairs, with one or two •egreptions, hare been declining ere,. since. With re gard to the extent of the depreciation, when it is . stated that good Beef and Mutton may be bad for, ; from threepence halfpenny, to foutpeuce per pound in the Dublin market, we need tot 'surely say any more as to the condition of the Irish tenantry. There has, it is true, been a slight advance in the markets last week, but it is only of that temporary nathre which is generally felt in Dublin just before Christmas. • Now, what are' the Tenantry to do ? Corn and Cattle have fallen 50 per Cent.—but Lands are not coming down. The Landlords struggle. not at the War rents—for' these are impossible, hot to make the abatement of a fifth or a fourth ; of 20, 25, and, in some instances, of 30 per Cent. Now. it is clear. that this deduction will not be sufficient. it is al ways found that Rents, on this depreciated scale, can not be collected. The Tenant may be fleeted, and by a late S ummary process, execution may be had before ejectment. This ruins the Tenant atones; but itdoes little service to the landlord.—lle may get another Tenant and another promise, signed, sealed, anti stainpt ; bid he will have the seine process to go through next year—and the result will be similar. — He may sell out, and receive one-third of his nominal rent. Nor is he sure, should he even make the abate ment, that be can receive even the reduced rent; for it is manifest, that the produce of Land is falling so rapidly, that what might now he considered a fair re . duction, would, before next Lady Day, turn out alto gether inadequate. But—and it is only fair, to take the converse of the proposition—can the Landlord afford to make those reductions ? He has five thousand a-year say. Well then, be could live upon 2,0001. certainly. But then he is recumhereil. There are various judgments on his estate. Ife has to pay portions of his sisters and younger • broliers, which portions were laid on, when lie had 9011101. a-rear. He has other liens on his lands, and *, Ktere are few sitsiiden estates, at least in Ireland. There are custodhatAlltfi-even mortgages. Supposet.alfor ex f ample, be ainfthlred 20.0001. in the year Is2oa 1t six . v_ercantas,in silks to pay off some *id eaoutubrancee-- • The interest on this sum is 1,2001. Take this 1,200/. omit of the 2,000/. that remains. ami be will be reduced to 90tY. His Younger brothers, and the husbands of his rioters, will insist upon the full amount of their fortunes, or the full interest. And bow is he to comply? It is, we repeat it. impossible that be can fulfil his contract, without his high rent, and this lie cannot have. It is true, be may live cheaper; beef, mutton, and bread, will be cheaper. But every article of what is • called luxury, le as high as during the war. %Vines are as high; groceries are nearly so; the tax upon horses, carriages, and windows, remain unaltered. We surely do not overcharge this picture. There is not a landlord or tenant in the community that does not feel he force. •o the MIMIC of Ibis, we imagine, it it too obvious to need any elucidation at this time of the slay. There used to be an out-cry raised against those who attributed them to the taxes. Yet, nothing, in our opinion, can he snore obvious. Reduce the taxes to what they were in the year 1790, and you have your remedy. Now, clearly this cannot be done. There are 34,000,0001. of those Tares paid on account of the • Debt. This, we are assured, cannot be touched. Our faith to the Public Creditor imperatively demands the regular payment of the interest. Be it s.t.—Yet, we shall contend, that if some modification be not made, the Landed Interest, we mean the present Landed In terest of the United Kingdom, must perish under the operation of this National Faith. Anti most certainly, Justice and the Law are against . those who would contend fur a reduction of the Debt. The Landed Interest. beyond all doubt or guesting, contracted the Debt, and it Is only fair that it should be charged upon the Lands. Still, we think, something might be done in the way of melioration. Some Tales surely might be reduced. Meet has been a redaction in the Expeadltare of 2.soo,oooL—Why not repeal the Window Light Tax? —.Why not reduce the Malt Tax ? the benefits of which would be felt at once by the Landed Interest 2—Why not reduce the Taxes upon Leather, Salt, and Soap ? In one word, why not take off sonic of the Duties from Wines and Sugars ? PLENTY AND LOW PRICES. flaiway. Nov. 17.—1 n consequence of the reduced prices of Grain. and the alum created by hoarders and sneculaturs having subsided, the article of Bread has &Aura also. The Hellman was sent round on Thurs day, through the Town, to state that the loaf which bad lately been sold at 4,1. would be, in future, hut 34. and that it should be full two pounds weight '.—(Galway Ad 'grazer.) Tull WEATHER. (,minx THE DUBLIN EVENING POST. Nov. 20.) Extracts of letters received this morning :—At Barris in-Ossory the rains have been incessant; no thing can be done in the fields. Westport. Co. Mayo.—lncessant rains. Ennis. Co. Clare—Prom the fall of rain, this County is in a wretebed state; Hay, in the fields. to tally destroyed; very little Potatoes dug, and in most places hardly worth digging. (ratrat A CORRESPONDENT.) t it would appear, that, as Landholders can get but little price fur their produce. Land might be turned to advantage by breeding horses. English horst dealers have come here of late to buy, but cannot get any thing like what they want. At Limerick, just new. they advertised that they would attend and buy at the Horse Market. but could get but one horse TI STATES.AAN., that would suit them, the greater tiumbei there being' eli bad. be buyers are gone to Other Fairs. Noir, if the breeding of gotid Horses was en couraged in this Country while t h e demand for the nsnal produce is so low, it might probably cure' the evil a little. BUTTER TRADE. CHAMBER OP COMMERCE OF THE CORPORATION OF DUBLIN. The Chamber of Commerce, anal the Corporation, have had several interviews, regarding certain regula tions necessary to be adopted in the Butter market.— The Corporation insisted that they should have the appointment of Craners, Sse.; anal that their patron ago should remain untouched. This, they said em phatically was their sine 9na non ; but in the same breath they talked of leaving the question open to discussion. Now, the very question under discussion it the sine Qua non. We imagine that the Chamber of Commerce will not renew their interviews upon this subject with the Corporation. , The statement will, no doubt, be laid before the Commissioners of Inquiry ; and, on their report, some ;egislative ar rangements will be adopted. It is {nil time that this matter should be arranged. The trade, and the public demand it imperatively. Their interests should not be sacrificed to the patronage of the. Corporation ; and 'we feel confident they will nut.—(Dublin lifergatik Advertiser.) 13ARRAUR AND WHARF/AM lei TUE POUT OP DUBLIN. This cause so important to the mercantile body, wherein Lord Henry Seymour Conway, was plaintiff, anal Mr. Peter Brophy, defendant, to ascertain the right of the former to certain fees, claimed by him as patentee craner and wharfinger, is likely to be de cided in the. Court of King's Bench on to-morrow, the 20hia inst. that dry being specially fixed by the Judges to hear the further a►guments of one Counsel• on each side, and to pronunce the decision of the Court. The plaintiff's case will be argued, we under stand, by Mr. Ooold, and the defendant's by Mr. O'Connell ; from the well-known abilities and talents of these able Lawyers, no doubt, much curious matter will be elicited respecting the origin, not only of the Office in question, but of the early history of the Cus toms laws of the country, to which their researches must necessarily extend. • As far as the matter has yet gone, it bat been ad ' mined, that the plaintiff, if entitled to claim any fees, n bleb is the question for the Court to describing, tan only demand those existing about )SO years since, bat which his modern practice of collection had, in some instances, trebled. We hope in our next to be able to give a Report of the proceedings, and the decision of the Judges.— AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN IN GREAT BRITAIN 1/4 EACH YEAR. Fro. tlne 6th Jas., 1701, to thee* Jan., MI. WHEAT. ROB. BARLEY. OATS. Year a. d. *. d. *. d. a. d. 1791 47 2 31 8 26 1 17 7 1792 42 11 30 8 211 9 17 10 1793 48 11 35 11 31 9 21 3 1794 51 9 37 9 32 10 '22 0 179:r 71 2 46 5 ay 8 24 9 1796 77 1 417 0 Se 7 ft 1797 33 1 - 31 11 1 "16 9 1798 50 3 30 11 29 - I 19 10 1799 67 6 43 9 36 0 27 7 /800 113 7 It it 60 0 39 10 1801 118 3 79 9 117 9 36 6 1802 67 5 48 3 33 1 20 7 1803 56 6 36 11 24 10 21 3 1804 60 1 37 1 30 4 23 9 1305 87 10 SI 4 44 3 28 0 1806 79 0 47 4 38 6 25 11 1 1807 73 3 47 6 38 4 28 I 3909 79 0 52 4 42 1 33 8 1809 95 7 60 9 47 3 32 8 1810 106 2 19 0 47 11 29 4 1811 94 6 49 II 41 10 27 11 1812 125 5 75 11 66 6 44 0 1813 108 9 70 7 L 8 4 99 5 1814 73 11 44 6 37 4 26 6 1815 11.4 4 37 10 SO 3 ' 2 3 10 1816 75 10 43 2 33 5 23 6 1817 94 9 56 6 48 3 32 1 1818 84 1 54 10 53 6 32 11 1819 73 0 49 0 46 8 29 4 1820 65 7 40 10 33 10 24 4 SOUTH AMERICA. Letters from Rio de Janeiro to the 29th September, received by way of Jersey, contain the following intel ligence " We learnt some days ag• that General San Martin had entered Lima at the point of the bayonet. and that the scarcity of provisions hod previously become so great within the city. that Anterkan floor sold at ore husdred and twenty dollars the barrel. This news is confirmed by letters from Buenos Ayres brought by the sloop &ousel. in 14 days from thatplace. where it waerught by a. seesseagar &NW tbe,Costilillerse..-.llmafamnict.. sloop and the Beaver brig of war have arrived, le rein force the squadron on this station. It appears that the news from Lima will prevent the Aurora frigate from doubling Cape Horn, and that the voyage batb of that vessel and of the Alacrity has been countermanded. The Morgiana will retain immediately to her cruise off the coast of Africa. ' The French frigate Antigone has been in our port fur some time past. where she is aspreting the arrival of two other frigates of 80 gnus each. built on the new model. " This Government is putting under repair the ship of the line Vasco de Gams, for the conveyance of some families to Portugal. She appears to be even in a worse condition than . La Rainba, which sailed from hence about a mouth ago. We enjoy here a free press, and Dew printing esta blishments are forming. Our laws are the same as those made by the Cortes. The Prince Regent watches with care over their administration. One of the Judges who lately permitted an arrest without previously signing the warrant and subjecting the witnesses to an examination has been cashiered, and all the influence and interces sions of his family have not been sufficient to obtain his pardon from the Prince. " The environs of the city are infested by bands of robbers, mayor whom, thanks to the activity of the mili tary, have been arrested, but nevertheless the propri etors of estates find it necessary in many planes to keep guard by nit: sc. The persons apprehended are whites. " The Back has given notice of a sale of diamonds! rAs the working of the mines is a privilege of the Crown. we are led toltelieve that this branch of the revenue is about to be transferred to the Bank, and has contributed to improve their credit. " The negroes captured by the Morgiana, from the ' Emily schooner, are set at liberty, and the schooner is declar .fired lawful prize. •{ The 15th inst. being the anniversary of the Revolu tion at Lisbon, was set apart by the Senate of this city , as a day of thanksgiving for the establishment of the Constitution." HIGH WATP.R AT LONDON.BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mousing .19 m. after I. —Evening 63 min. after I. PRICE OF STOVER TH Rank St)ek 2.391 $ per Cent. Red 77 I per Cent. Con 7S; 78 xi per Ce A. Sri a per Cants. 9821 5 per C ;Nay), I 10/ tll 101 II per Cent. foes A 19 9-18 Imp. 2 per Cent. 76f 1 Iran b per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stook Ditto Ronda —a 084.1. South-Sea Stock South Sea Old Arno. Ex RUIN. 1008/.4sp.par.2'p. —NW as. pm. 9.s.pm. Sreall 119.45. 31. pm. India for ditto Con. for Aeat 781 Lott. 'r_akets 24.. IS*. ktattOntatt. COt "THE BETTIS, STATESMAN" IS INCOI STATESMAN." ITID WITI " TIIII LONDON: RBIDAT ETENINO, NOVEMBER 23, 1821. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The market is as yesterday. Consols 7bl, both buyers and sellers, and very little business doing. In another part of our paper is presented an inte resting article on the state of the markets relative to meat and torn; and though coming froni our sister Island is with a little variation equally applicable to this. To reader this statement still more interesting we have annexed to it a table of the average price of Corn for the last twenty years, by which our readers will be enabled to judge of the effect of the present reduction, upon the circumstances of the growers.—' When the farmer reads in the Newspapers para graphs, respecting the low prices of his productions, prefaced with the title of Old Times Returned, he cannot help exclaiming with a sigh, that those Old Pees return not to him. In the year 1791, the Average price of corn was less than six shillings a bushel, and now we believe it is less. In that year, all the taxes taken together did not amount to more than 13,000,000/. ; at present there is a charge so ettormons on the public, in consequence of the late jest and necessary tears, that had its amount at that period been predicted, the prophecy would have been laughed to scorn. If all taxation exceeding the sum .that was levied in the year just mentioned, were now taken off, if rents were reduced to the standard of ;that time, and the ,Poor's Rate properly diminished, all things would fall in a doe proportioa, and the far . Set would sot repine at selling his produce at et &heap a rate as his predecessor then. Between that period and this occurred the interval, in which to de fray the vast expense of the extensive warfare, as ex tensive issues of a paper currency were triade,by which the prices of all the articles of subsistence were raised to an inordinate height, and of consequence the price of all the manufactures of the country. The system was, however, calculated to last, only while the nation was able to force a trade by its monopoly and is domi nion of the ocean. On the return of race, if England were to carry on a commercial intercourse with other nations, it was meet -try it should return as nearly as possible to its old prices and relations; and the only way is which it was conceived by our rulers that this effect could be produced, was by a return of the Bank of England to cash payments. This end cool:; not, however, be attained, without previously diminishing the ;sines of Bank paper, and the consequence was, that the circulating medium became enhanced in va- 1 lue in proportion to its scarcity. To obtain a gives .sum to pay his rent and taxes. the farmer was cow. pelled to give a larger quantity of his produce; or. is other words, to make a great redaction in its price.— It was nut. as Br. JOHNSON said of the Isle of Sky% that eggs were plenty there, when they were sold at the rate of twenty for a penny, bat only that peace were scarce. The consequence of this al tendon has been to the farming class more de- OM/UN 'tins t. any other. in the case of other traders, the outlay for their articles has become in a great degree commensurate with that of their reduced sale ; bat the outlay of the farmer, in a greens proportion. than any other class, coasifte in articles that had experienced no deduction, for it con sists of rent, of tytbes, of poor's-rates. and a long list of taxes. Unfortunately fur him, too, this revolution came on at a period when his means were much reduced- At the peace he was in possession of the gains lie had made daring the war. That was the period. therefore, if the balance between a time of war, and a time of peace was struck, that would have been to him more fair and favourable ; fur he was then more able to stand the hazard and to pay the differ. ence. This proper period for making the change was ' pissed over by our rulers, for the sake of trying their favourite system of expedient.. and appeals to time slid chance. By this delay the injury they have done the farming class, whom they always mos' en deavoured to cajole. bas been the wider and the dee, er. A wider or a deeper wound, perhaps, was never gives to a country than has been thus struck by the ea/s -cions Statesmen who are the wisrulere of our national affairs ; for though that class had been their dupes, and bad been disposed during the war to sacrifice the rights and interests of the people to what they blindly deemed their personal advantage, we still esteem them one of ~ ~ } tt ,the most important members of the bo.iy pA t i e. they could not see at that time, they are mole to f r ,i at present, the misery they were bringing upon the,„, selves, by being tire chief promoters of that peruicion, system of warfare and taxation, of which they are 0 4 4 the first and most deplorable victims. A morning paper of skis day and yesterday h,, made some able statements upon the situation off* pay Officers, and on the cruelty and impolicy of allo t . ing others to purchase first commissions instead of via half-pay list being resorted to. With these statetora.. we (ally agree, but we should have wished that mil corrupt practices were traced to their particular cease., Had the writer of the articles in questimt gone into ti n real truth of the subject, Le would at once hare /re a l it to the want of a perfect state of representation is the Sen.ite. He would have said directly and us et o rs . cally, this is another abase that calls aloud for a p ar . liamentary Reform. He would have said, this h a smallfibre of Parliamentary corruption. The ffi l i ster cannot manage the Boroughmeogers, unleash I " them one way or another; if a Boeoughwronger be saddled on the country, Lis sons. his relations,* his friends, all look up to the scat of power. The automata voters of the Borough expect some new aeration for their honest suffrages. The Cutes', Excise, and Dock-yards are watched, for tie Borougbmongers have hundreds on the list, a i d Ministers must obtain their countenance. The nea r ft. lations get Commissions in the Army, either leis placed its the way of preferment, or on half pay ; while the ViTIMAN LIEUTIMANT, after many yea r , active service covered with wounds, is, from nests! patronage and employ, not unfreqnestly with afa wily, either starving in a garret or pining away gaol. From what appeared a short time since te. :petting these soldiers of misfortune, we were led le apprehend some measure of severity was iseditmd against them ; bat we at the a ime time eoesidersi there was some small portion of delicacy remaisieg u Head-Quarters to prevent its infliction upon guy deserving, though unfortunate, half pay officers, nee it was a fact notoriously known, they payed their irks as honooribly al a portion of those on fall peg; Tea, mad of sow of these on DOUBLE PAT!!! For the sake of argument we suppose a Litigant el Infantry, who has served is Spain. Portage!, Fraser, Waterloo or America. His regiment is is part te'axi and himself placed on half pay, with a wife sad three or four children, which is by no means improbable, as Subalterns are as likely to have children as Oeseral• officers. This poor fellow after all big *gigue, his battles and victories, has a bonne or,lodging to plotile; has clothing and food for his family to obtain; Well out of four shilliogs and six-pence a day. The mined cold and hunger drive him beyond Ws means ; M he no trade. no profession bat that of a soldier. lie states his case and offers his services is asy way. whereby he may add to Lis pittance; and sith every inclination to do his duty, he finds his ipe• ranee of business and difference of manners reek him a burthen rather than an assistant ; and lii employer delicately recommend* hint to turn biog• tension to something else. He is once more driers to the baltpay, which is in part mortgaged; tie few creditors are clamorous. his sources of p$ went are dried up, and be at once become+ the inmate of a prison. Suck is the case in a variety of instances, which could be averted by placing thou in narrow circumstances un full pay, sad allowing the sons or connections of Hots* withdstarmy in some ple of ampler resources, ec m to ha ti nia ll e tbs pimi lank so m e t a g g r e r: s tO industry for which they are mach better adapted. gations due to deserving officers call upo n ~ the ssi r wander-in-Chief to put a stop to the furth er of Commissions, which bas been, at all times, a dirte to our military institutions ; and it is only by its re molirnedaitl.lialtiitilhbossein t b h r e av d t a Bally remunerated. _ yolofrebrast;lw e, ho can ve be ntu s r:l D theptir. The decline of House-Kents in the capital it me of the consequences necesarily accompanying an hareem of taxes. The first of these are the Poor Kota. Mg snit the tax on window lights become' oppressive , "a lessen the value of houses materially. A builder trio every means to contract the burthen of a &sumac' window tax, by leaving the beauty and mares:keg of architecture out of the question, sod solwitting the building to the reprobation of taste and arcititeetnr. l order. The house when finished, has to tos 114 deal of the King's attd Parish Surveyors, Who l igii its taxation from the qualities of its compssidall t Is that the more pains and expense a man takes to be°• tiff and render his house convenient fur every te stis purpose, the wore certain he is to bare sit ion"ss is all his taxes. This has been severely felt is sber ; and many industrious men have been reollere'l " able to succeed in business from enormons rents aid oFf er sire taxation. it is therefore to he expected that sfor" they reduction in House Kent trill take place, Slid 3 change adopted in the ilystem of taxing houses. A' t ,e 1 resent mode of supporting tie poor calls loudly for . e Ares*, " it is a consumtnation devoutly to he wished , t,sat some member of Parliament would call forth the stoked exertions of a commivee honestly c hosen f rus ; the utast enlightened poi tion of the Legislature, red form a New lode of Poor Liws, or an bolnlv elseet in the present, to which there are so many rational ob. krtions. pat ticularly to that pa. t of the s ystem 0 161 * in; to the settlements of paupers, which teas' much litigation a+rd unnecess4ry expense. .• 1 ping Pt" eltwi dind ofd son are • 41 It i 111 le • ] I 1 is 37 *1 In ed wl r s a I I I