The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-14 00:00:00

HARVEST. In consequence of the present unseasonable weather, speculation is at work to raise the price of corn to in unwarrantable height, and to circulate reports of the most gloomy kind to promote their purpose. It is stated, on what authority we know not, that the late heavy mine have been more severely felt on the Conti nent than in England, and that ail the country on the banks of the Rhine has become a scene of inundation awl distress. If the speculators should succeed to raise the price of grain to such an average as to cause our ports to be opened, we have little doubt, notwith standing the present reports respecting foreign crops, t'.at our farmers would soon complain of an inunda tion of foreign corn. The supplies of wheat have been CO immense since the commencement of the differences between Turkey and Russia, that the overflow into the putts of the 31editerranean will, it is said, have the ef fect of considerably reducing the prices in all the places I'D that coast. his therefore not the interest of the British farmer to co-operate with the speculation of t'be.ro;rvcs i,i grain. EDINBURGH, SEP:S. 11.—During the last fortnight ire haic experienced fine and warm weather, which 'has most beneficial etTects on the harvest. blany farmers will finish cutting this week. A great num ber of shearers were hired yesterday morning at the West Port, from 161 to 2s. per day: FROM THE EDINBCRGII STAR. 3 BERIVICKSHIHE.—In the course of the month of lingnst there were fourteen days on which we had showers, hut no con inued heavy fall of rain. These •phewers were most copious on the Ist, Gth, and fore noon of the Sill, and a very gentle rain fell during the greater part of the 31st ; but these rains, however ge nial an .I refreshing Wilke crops, were in no instance iu such quantity as sensibly to affect the rivers or stren streatcs. There is a great deficiency of water fur the wills, awl also for cattle on many farms where Ocre are no springs. The effect of the rain was less upon tl.e pastures than upon the crops, ail of which have greatly increased in bulk since the favourable change in the preceding month, and •owing to the warmth have come to a much earlier harvest than was cnre expected. Turnips base improved in the same proportion, and on proper soils promise to turn out a fair average. Putatees ;Ire considerably 'short of their bulk at the same period last year. We heard of some fields of corn • that were cat down ale:ut the I Ith ; in several places contiguous -harvest began from the 17th to the 2lst, and was ge nera; in the lower parts of the country b y the end of Haoi.th. Wheat is evidently above a fair average crop. In a few instances smut is observed, but it Is ,14 no means general. Barley also, and oats on good soils, will give a fair return on the barn floor, although they may not fully reach' the hulk of ordinary years. &Pi intliffereut and gravelly toils they are very light. Peas in many instances turn out beyond expectation. All grain is ;aid to be good in quality. New oats have given S stones and nearly a quarter per boll be side dues. The prices of stock were still on the decline during tie mon:h. At Melrose fair there was the largest show of sheep anal lambs ever remembered iir Oat market; 1 :cal 1:03111( sold from its, to I as. a-brad, and , one rarrel a little higher. The average of good stoclewas Onaut 125.; prime Cheviot ditto from ss. to Gs. 61 add Pat:heal faced ditto, 3s. to ss. 6d. Cheviot wedders at Ss to 15s. Gd. and bred ditto Dunmonts, 21s. to 23a. There was a good deal of business done, bat on about lower terms than last year. At Mune on the 2.S la there was a pretty full market of gnotl cattle, but almost no dealers from the south, and campara -t: rely few so 1.1; the best fat MS said to reach 7s. per st "tie, lintel', sinking (Ails. A number never got oSer for their cattle, and how can tenants in s.:cla via-ous antes settle their arrears with dun r!'tas t.tctors and callous proprietors. Sherears are en,:a::•eal at 1 Is. to 12s. for women, anal 12 shillings to 13s. fur men per week, with victuals. A great many reapers have arrived front the north and west country, chiefly Irish ; and we observe several of theni returning. The gr.:in markets have 'been plentifully supplied, and may he quo . ed :—wheat, 41s. to 455. ; barley 21s. to 245.; oats, ISs. to 215.; and peas, 265. to 2:35. per boll at six Winchester bushels, but they are looking downaiard.— TLe quartern loaf is 9d. and the shearers' dinner loaf and mutton and butter the same as in our last report. The herring fishery commenced in . the course of the month, but they are not yet so plentiful as usual on our coast. September 5. PEtrrosittna.—The effects of slight hoar frosts have been visild eon potatoe foliage. In the lower dist ricts shear. it , commenced about the 24th; and in Strathmore aeon. siderable quantity was cut by the 30th. The very dry state of the soil has brought forward the ripening pro- C:,3 sooner than was expected, whether it may have proved seriously hurtful to the tipening grain remains to he ascertained. On thicirlands, in good condition, the grain seems ; on • . g..a.. n.ot every description appears light: Wheat is much infected with smut, the increase of which seems to have been favoured by the season ; in other respects the reurn is as mach, or rather more, than was anticipated. Oars on light soils are a very light crop. Barley is late, and ripens irregularly. Beans and Peas will yield an ordinary return. Potatoes do not swell freely, and if mu :attire does not soon reach their.roots, the return will be sadly deficient. Turnips that came up about the 24th of July have made Bala progress and will yield little bulb. The second tutting of grass is very light, and in wary instances will not cut. The harvest is going briskly forward in almost every part of this district; bat some farmers that were ready to load have been wisher interrupted by the refrashin g showers that haw fallen within' the last three days.--. The demand for shearers this week has not been cOn: s derable.—(Dumfries &stiles%) • WATERIPOiIh &PT. B..—The supply of new Wheat at market yesterday was very large for the beginning oftigr • season. In the early part dike ilav;our last qnotatioii were obtained, but subsequently the demand slackened considerably, and 'the price become quite unsettled in the afternoon, few parebaseis would exceed Ms, for the best, and middlieg&ssples Were bought at 275. to t:ts, Most of what Is offering. Is 'Uri soft , .and much of it more whim injaiid by the rain, which, of coarse, sells - . at very inferior prices —flat, as farmers are naturally. anxious to get off their . Worst grain es early is possible, - t be quality of what is now cortiliw in cannot be consider ed a fair specimen of tIO gem ciadition of the crop. - - '# r ; ,4 E STATEscm . . which; we have reaps 4o hilieri, will turn t tub_ better than thigtaiii of . many had lea theinlto a rehend. Very few load, of iew . vats leave ; apps ed. this Week, and the price is consequently little better .than nontinal-L prime amities are considered worth . 12 shillugs„bnt some word has been sold as low as 9 shillinfA -and, We eat, 8 shillii7s! Barley still appears to be *beet 95.:9:1. but very little is coming in. Fine floor has pdvanced considerably; Seconds are now at .13s. to Jas. ; Sharps, and fine Thirds, 325. to 365.; Middling and coarse Thirds, 255. to 365.; Fourths, 18a. - td 22C. per bag ; the latter qualities in little demand. Oatmeal 12s. to 13s. per cwt. Pota toes, iiid. to 811, the two stone basket, 31 to 31d. per stone by the brg. • SATURDAY, ONE o'Ctocx.--Butter, of which the supply is large, has diclined about 2s per cwt. since yesterday ; the general rate to farmers is now As. to As. 6J.—and in a few cases 765. 2d. No brokeri' parcels purchased. Wheat is full Is. lower since morn ing,, being an abundant market; 295. has been the top price since about nitre o'clock, and only very good sam ples can now obtain so much ; a large proportion of . the supply has sold from 255. to 28s. No change ki Oats, Barley, or other articles. The weather, we are happy to perceive, has improved materially since our last. Only a few partial showers have fallen from Wednesday night to yrsterday mons hie, since when it has been almost uniformly fine.----- IliaterfiArd Chrowiele.) The fine weather yesterday (Tuesday last,) most have proved highly acceptable to the farmers of this county, although a large quantity of wheat has been so seriously injured by the late rains, that we fear it will be worth very little in the market. We hope our agricultural friends who possess kilns, bare used them to dry the corn housed in a wet state after having been thrashed, as they will find the corn so dried to make excellent flour. The pea crops are generally ruined throughout the county, by the continued wet, and will be of little use to the grower except for fodder; the beans bare also coffered. The barley and oats have likewise been greatly injured, but we hope not to the extent we have heard. The hops are a large crop, but there is general complaint of the mould. and we fear the quality will be indiffer ent, if this is the case. The potatoes we believe to be abundant. The apples have mostly failed ; in some favoured spots, however, there are good crops. Upon the whole, we do not recollect a more trying season for the farmer than the present one.—llere.prd Journal.) ST.ITE OF THE COUNTRY. During the last year the account of the poor-rates has generally deoreased throughout the country, be cause the prices of the necessaries of life have greatly diminished; the capacity of the wages of the poor had increased during that time, so that at the period when the effects of the adverse state of the wea ther upon the then ripening crops of corn were first considered serious, and a consequent rise in the prier of wheat first took place, the poor were, paid wages fully adequate to those of 1;921, and the dens of bread, and bacon, and meat geierallit. Atirleqlff iii the metropolis) were lower than they were at that time. The discontent and complaints whiob were attributed, by perfidious statesmen, to disaffection and disloyalty, and made the excuse for acts of the legislature at once unjust and injurious, and for the maintenahce, in time of peace, of an immense standing army, destructive of the &sauces and fatal to the liberties of the country, dis appeared ; affording a signal proof that. it was dis stress, the result of anal-administration, witch endan gered the peace and tranquillity of the Country ; not a disposition to turbulence, nor the prevalence of .e -dition. But if the price of bread-corn rises again, so as to, be placed once more nearly out of the reach of the in dustrious poor, the results, under the present circum stances of the country, may be of an importance to defy all calculation. At this moment a reducti.,u in the rate of wages is taking place generally; neither the state of the agriculture nor of the manufactures of the kingdom will admit of the contintsbnce of such wages as have lately been paid ; however winch the ne cessity is to be lamented, reduction is unavoidable where, as in the present case, the continuance of em ploy depends on the low price of labour ; but if, from any cause, the price of bread-corn rises to •the stand ard ofinsportation, which it is now too likely to do, the situation of the poor must become deplorable in deed, and the preservation of tranquillity very dubi ous. la the , mean time, and in any cars whilst it is persisted ifs under the existing circumstances, in con sequence of Mr. Peel's Bill for the Resumption of Cash Payments. the value and scarcity of bleary is continually increasing in the country, as that insane act progresses towards its maturity of mischief. Awed by the stern expression of public opiulow, • Ministers affect to begin the work of retreuchmeqp in good earnest ; but that this is all forced worOapsl a mere trap to catch the Orrery; tell - MiratelrahnslPlTlMs until, beginning in the right place, they nholish all Sinecures, they curtail all Pensions, and they .sedate all salaries from the Civil List downwards. But, as if to mark at once their own want offroper feeling ton ards *country, brought by their meows' to the brink of destractiop, their insincerity, and their folly, it is a fact capable of demonstration, that ail retrenelo meat .siluded to in the King's speech, and alome which time is so mach sef Ministerial bustle and pretension, *Ctshittot 'Mount to a tenth part of the actual la csgejectlexpesee which, has and will take pace In the wise of,the ,present row, in consequence of their other atessalee, Mr. Peel's Bill. Money is: the repre- i +tentative of y.alues t the medium through. which exel chettlfee.et roans opt spade. If a pound or a guinea re forslaes tot ate *lot a bushel and a half of wheat, and skt..another time Revival three bushels of wheat, it is Insalatifest, thatßeetau-getherer who demands payment of taxes to the emoting of this pound of Ones, in the year 18111. when three bushels of wheat set fetch .a pound or Ow, receives of the person basing •to pay it, double In actual value to what Ite.did.irt thole' .years. when wheat .sold for 14s. a bushel, ind .whet the general tale of tamale's was brought ap to its poi' .sent standard.. And the same thin holds pod :throughout ; far, excepting the Plaseetaan. and the 'Pensioner, the Sisecorist and the Stockholder, there 4 no individual in. the county, the value Of whim, indite try or property Is not throw* dew s bg *lds scow* financial binedar. is . svate such p rop ortion .. Yes .do - --~ .. --- a. 7 ! tlt lave retti4in nemainally the. salie, Cr yearly se ; wit 'at their Edna/ amount and positive tkinand of valves on the country to discharge . them, Is Ilona Tnas: DOUBLED ! It is nut, however, because such a retrenchment . as-la_ forced upon Ministers at present would be ineffectual, that therefore Re trenchment shouhl not take place: 'lt is not be cause witliont a return to a rational and jot system Ion: , since abandoned, mere retrenchment would prove insufficientohat therefore it should not be adopted, and rigidly enforced to the utmost extent of which it is capable. What shadow of pretence can there be for the Civil List oppressing the country on that scale of extension, the plea fur which was the increased ex penses of living, now that theAsti rv e es of provisions are reduced down to the standard 0 1 1792? Why should not the salaries of the Judges, and those of the Police officers, and of all others, whose salaries were doubled on account of the fall in the value of money, so that it required 13s. or 16s. to buy a bushel of wheat, be reduced to one half now that wheat sells for 7s. 6 , .1. or Ss. the bushel ? It is said, that a majority of his Majesty's ministers are convinced of that which we long ago foretold, namely, that it will shortly become impossible to pay the dividends to the fundholder in a money of increased value to the full extent of their present nominal amount ;—ur, in other words, that A REDUCTION IN THE INTEREST OF WHAT IS CALLED THE PUBLIC DEB: must take place. Hut we contend that, at any rate, this measure, however ne cessary, ought not to be had .recourse to, till every practicable retrenchment of the expenses of govern ment has been first of all adopted. Let the fund holder look well to this; it is his peculiar concern; and let hint not wait till the rent-roll of the country be reduced to a skeleton, and the landlord travel up to town, at the commencement of the next Session of Parliament, with a much greater stock of shame, rage, and indignation in his bosom, than of money in his pockets. :Mighty causes are in opera tion, great events are about to be unfolded ; for mighty changes arc in preparation. , The measures of Minis ters and their predecessors al the Pitt school in p01i ... tics, have rendered such inevitable ! And, who will then he chargeable with reculationgry principles ' — who will then be justly answerable for disturbing the repose of social order who then will incur the re proach of blasphemy and the guilt of sedition. There are other quarters, to which the fundholdcr will have a right to look for sacrifices, or rather for restitution, however, before be ought to submit to a renunciation of any part of his interest or diminution .of his nominal capital. 11 he be blind, or infatuated, or timid enough not to discern these, let hiin " die the death." The great Lord Chatham, once cautioned the bench of iiish ips, in the house of Lords, not to con tinue their invariable support of war-systems and ex- trayagant expenditure of public money. It may, per haps, come to be considered hard, that the stockholder should be mulcted before some part, at least, •of the immense sums, which have been of late years voted for the benefit of the most richly endowed Church Es tablishment in Europe, be refunded. PRICE OF STOCKS THII Dank Stock Irper Cent. Red - S per Cunt-Coy. 741 31 per Ceut. &per Cents. shut 5 per Ct.Nsty iOtil 9 3 per Cent. Long Ain 1 1 Imp. S per Cant. 75k I rikh 5 per Cent. DAY AT ONE. 0 - C LOCI‘. India Stork Dime Beellealtftis- PO- Sou th-S ea Nock South Sea OW tun. Ex itil.erd. Os. Vs. Bs. pm. Siena Os. B ior Account India for eltto 2 14.1 Col. for A •rt 751 i Lott. Tickets 19t. ISs. man WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 0 min. after 4.—Evening 29 min. after Etc e ti; tAttOntatt. TIM BRITISH STAT&S)IAN" IS INCOMPOSATSIII WITI " TSR ETA' BSMAN." LONDON: FRIDAY EVENING, SEPITSMEIR 11, 1821. Our readers will not be surprised to learn that Sir Rouen: BAKES has resigned his situation of Chief Magistrate of the Metropolitan Police. A statement of the affairsittf the 14th of August, having, it is said, been laid before the KtNo, his Majesty was•pleased to express his disapprebation of some part of Sir ItonERT BAKES'S conduct on that filly. This seas communicated to Sir Itonsnr, and his resignation as a Magistrate im mediately followed as a matter of course. Sir ROBERT sat at Bow-street, fur the last time, *on Wednesday evening. " This statement," a Ministerial paper ob serves. scarcely requires any comment." Gad Sir RO-, BERT- HARRIA'S conduct, on the day of the QUERN'S Funeral, met," as the same paper remarks, " with the approbation of his MAJESTY'S' Government, we should not have heard of his • resigning a situation of such trust and Importance." Thoigh his resignation follows the Omits oY disaiirebalion as a melte,' of course, we do not think it should pass as an occurrence that requires we comment. The fault which appears to be imputed to him was that which the Coroner hinted in his charge to the Inquest on the death of HONET. " Sir ROBERT was known to be a man of very tender feelings, and could not be suspected of any wish to endanger the lives of his fellow subjects." He was commanded, a Ministerial paper says, (bat says not by whom, whe ther by the Lord Chamberlaio, or by a Secretary of State, or by au Undifickleer's Deputy) he " was conunanded to convey her Vajeity's body by a par ticular road, and the amplest means were afforded him to carry that command into effect. The whole civil power of the metropolis was under his authority, and the military, to an unlimited number, were placed at his disposal.. Yet with , all these elements .1 strength, .his first act wasio yield to the multitude." To this concession which thir• paper Imputes to the • pliability of his temper, it also ascribes the scents that followed. " Had the first attack of the people been .6stulY earliest, a second would at have been made." • •• list Air Itsontrt lisass, it, swan, did not think it Sionista with bloskiyasi LI ogistrate.or &Anglia i man, to 'Wed the military as well as dill forte. t. - • repel the peril:. in the manner which it would have mat the approbation of Governmeni blood of his MAJESTY'S subjec•s was at KI spared. What would in better time have civic crown or public thanks, at present bri4 displeasure ,of the cabinet, and the 831 place. nis fact speaks volumes. Sir retires from office under the frowns went, but . with that consolation which UN fully compensate for every loss be snstair probation of his conscience, and of eve , and reflecting mind. We had neither time nor opportunity in paper, to sai as much as we wished concerni verdict. In resuming the subject at preset point that strikes us is that in this verdict the and the grilty are involved in one common and the crime of a single individual is thl the whole regiment. The practical effect obvious,—to screen the individual from tl mutt which be had justly deserved. If thi be established and extended, we shall become danger of having the peace and the liberty try, and the lives of our fellow-subjects, in' gee of being offered up upon 'the altar of aprice. The verdict upon Honey, considered with that which was delivered on the death involves a contradiction. On this principi the same action may be at one and the same serving of the highest punishment, and serving of any ; a proposition, which, though argument, has been found by the opposition , late verdictsto be true in fact. The deaths of Francis arose so immediately from the sae and by the same instrumentality, that be said to hare been the same act; one has been pronounced wilful murder, wItV instance, is considered as amounting or slaughter. How this is to be reconciled loss to determine. But the consequences follow from such a contradiction, if allowed a precedent, are too evident and too dan k strike and alarm. In such a case and at sui becomes the public not to suffer either vei come mere brut inn falmex, as the last or termed, but with animation and energy proper authority, in order that, the persoi whom the different verdicts have been giver with be brought forward to stand their ti deadly violations of the laws of their cow ;the persons are not known and every meat hive been used in order to prevent their if a sense of those occurrences is permitted away without any further investigation, , do not, by petitioning Government in language which their ditty will inspixe t abows, urination of having justice done 'Op owned our country, we must, bencefortia,be content witbotit repining, to the repetition of outrage. sible of this, " we must," in the words of writer, " never suffer an invasion of our , stitution, however minute the instance ma pass by without a determined persevering One precedent creates another. Precedent cumulate, and constitute law. What, yesterda fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are justify the most dangerous measures, and do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied I Let us be assured, that the laws which protect civil rights, grow out of the Constituti; they must Lill or flourish with it. Thi cause of faction, or of party, or of an: but the common interest of every man it. " What remains to be done concerns the colleen of the people. They are now to determi.. selves whether they will firmly and constitutionally assert their rights, or make a slavish them at the feet of the ministry. To a generous there can be no doubt. We owe it to to preserve entire these rights, which delivered to our care; we owe it to our, to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. if it were possible for us to be insensible •' sacred claims, there is yet an obligation V ourselves from which nothing can arair sonal interest which we cannot surrender. even ens eras :lOU. wassid .be.a mime enormous than ratielJe, as a life Of civil freedom Is superior ti a bare existence & the bounty of heaven, we scornfully reject part of the gift if we consent to surrender t rule of living, without which the madden nature ie not only miserable, but contairptible.' Up to a late boar today no French papers rived. The accounts from Constantinople, down to the 10th of August; represent "Airs Russia and the Porte to bear a pacific aspect, outrages and murders, it is confessed, committed in the capital. British sultjeith been previously respected, are not secure. merchant had been on board a vessel is and on returning early in the eveeL at by a sentinel on shore, and siriosaly —Application was immediately rondo Strangford to the Government, and. was ordered into confinement. .The wounded is a partner ins respectable city ; and we. are happy to add this be thelateet accounts, considered to be in She departilie or Baron StrogonoCß Is symptoms of fear appeared in: the remittent, mere partieu.sely as it Wu te7rinit Wd; trahttlee Kensington obtained a a c rifice of iir Roster of Hovern- ve trust will tins, the Ns. 'cry feeling o yesterday's ning the late lent, the first the influent n accusation, brown upon 1 • :t of this is that punish- his principle once in daily r of out Oen. hourly dee. Slinitteriat • •red togethei h of Pranek pie, one lei ,atne time de- -1 scarcely de- ough false in on of the two A Honey anti true occasion a they may and yet the bile the other only to roan. we are at a es which mat- red to become Igerous not to `. uch a crisis it • verdict to be- one has been • ' I petition the sons, against en, may forth- trial for their ountry. But • leans seems to r detection. :rmitted to file_ if the ploltle the strongest • ;?heir deter- seed laws of ' tent to submit, ntrage. See- )f a selebrated r political eon- may appear, to ing resistance . lents soon ac : resterday, was e supposed to ad where they d by analogy. rotect us in oar .ion, and that ,is is not the ay individual. in Britain."-- collective hod/ mine for theme • • !onstitutionalip snrtender of generous mild . t our ancestors • they have tr posterity not destroyed. Bat isible of these binding sport jolt rap7- I PeF7 tr. 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