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- -.......mengrimemoing:=gßwmpollin C— , RIPELIZ / q- - 1 . • y2Z , 7 11......-.6 . • . •• P . . . , . . . , . , 74 I u ...• J ei. I ,i•y t . 1 ,,,_ • 7., '.....----:- mi.- . 4 ~ t : ~.. A * ft . 4 . 4- ! . • t• al - ' o .;. *t• , 4.: i ~ . , ,! • .-. ...: elie"""N- wie _._.,__,_' -.. e. r .474-‘• N71.77' 7-•i' • .---.-. NUMBER 5855. LONDON , M ON DA : t SEPTEMBER 10, 1821. .~ TIIRATRK•ROYAL, DitllllY-LANK. THIS EVENING, MONDAY. Sept. ID, his Majesty's Servants will perform (2d tiler) a New Mnteatie Piece, io there arts, 1.044 GERALD( DUVAL, THE BANDIT OF BOHEMIA. (7eral , li novel, Mr. Cooper; Camel Altroberc Mr. Bor. "p-ird ; Masrier, Mr. Gattie; Wiiiikin, Mr Melew ; Mr. Tlisaspeaa; Sarreolf, Mr. Smith. Ditched, Cutintess -of Alteetierg, Rhos Basilloon; Nina, Mite Cobalt; Mimetic. Mn. Bland; Barbers, Mrs. Egrreots. DR. DAVIS'S LECTURES. lyt. DAMN will cointneke. h;g FIRST WINTER COURSE of LECTI7EIFM on the THEORY soil PRACTICE of MIDWIFERY, and on the DISEASES of WO 11 EN sod CH 11. DR EN. ew TUESDAY the 24 ofOetolies, at lisitonst Tea &Clock in the Forrooon, at h.s Theatre of Midnifery, 29, George-street, H MOM- Meier. •—.----- - snored by the class of the eittursoisity uille f isitit it ?-.- Ex. •rtly so; jo lkja coontly 061111 i one-half of th e ttotoomout, are provid ers o f f oo d, erg therefore provide fowl for the whole. In most of the fillellifie• oil the ensitneni, the pro. rtder• of food a r e bow four-fittlto to pins-imam of the wlwle population. Is she Committee In roaderstand by t his tit shoofly, Ant difference Nisseen this tattoo y and some of the roitistriee on the Continent to shirk you r ter is this, that is. tloate essamtries, for instance, where nime.leolloi of she pupalatiosi are exclusively enraged in agricultisre. Moe-4,041m of the produce is !eon-ally consumed - by that class, mad only one tenth is brought to market for Mir other elastics, or fur oalel —Yes. But that in Warmish., one-half of the produce is bronchi to market for the consiimption of the ct.tsses tins iturnrchotely connected with the agrintllsire of Iles eeinatry ?—Yost exactly so. What inferenre d o yno draw io resattet to the of of this depressions of prove opals the dUierrut tumor** of the Coos tistent, as compares! w ith jble 'country, fro? the reapectiee proportions in whit Is thetitioM is mooed in egi icul tore tot so ostAitss — lllinsiort gumshoe. before 1 assort this; it is nut strictly true that only sine-half of the produce of this country Coates to mat krt. because that which is sold to the labourer., eves in ■gricullare, frequently Comes to mark , Aril; on Ike Continent. almost uniformly, the la bourers err fed and receive very trifiiiig money wises; lure they almost uniformly have money wages, and therefore the quantity brought to market here most be a much greater share than une-half; if the foreigis farmer has a surplus of leis per cent. of Isis produce, and if he sells it for tom per cent. loft, his loss upon his animal production would be omit per crust.; if the English farmer, who sells at least half his production, loses ten per cent. upon that half, it will he SS per cent. ■ntl, therefore, supposing the furrier forum could grow COM at the same rate precisely wit► the English farmer, supposing both id sell at a loss, sod tastily the same bass, the English farmer world love tweuty-Bte times as much as the foreign farmer. What has bees' the effect upon tht, Continent of this great retrolsioo in the prices of agricultural t•rudnee sine , the year 1818 ?_The principal effect ts. the great distress of the landholder, not of the farmer; almost all the mobility and gentry, in many p.srta of the Continent, are in a state of dreadful emir milt; they du out demo the whole of tin it proceads from their land in the farm of money, as we do in this country, but is' the form of services of eariosta kinds, either of themselves or of their horses and cattle; is. many eases the rent, instead of being paid in mosey, Is paid is kind; sometimes in the form of tithes; to the fir mer, therefore, who has little or nohow to staid to markets and who pays I.i. resit in the way 1 hare di berthed, the rise or fall of pi ices is of yes, little importance in many countries. la his Majesty's dominions even, in mock of the Russian territories, lirunswirk, nod in Saxony, t►e greeter part of what is !Nought to market comes from she laiidowners, or their hereditary bailiffs, us from she Sovereign's estates, whirls they geuerally feral omelets, and which bear a very large propoition to the whole landed purity of the country.. THRF:R Timms' THOUSAND POUNDS MONEY. RROLL. the Contraetur, buying published lJ the Scheme at fell lentrib in all the Town and Country Papers, has now owl, le recapitulate the chief pow, of the Lottery, which ere • THREE PRIZES OF 30.0001. THIIITY OTHER CAPITALS! NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE! EVERY PRIZE STERLING MONEY! EVERY TICKET DRAWN SINGLY' NO STOCK PRIZES!—NO CLAAAEs! DRAWING BEGINS 30th OCTOBER ! Attie prahtle,afrahatiort already twisted rerukee it ihte•ailittrAre the Diairsrelort to Arty imayAiwereitinue nn the el4mowlealtred - merit* of this Scheme. Ticket. and Sharer arc Belting el CA R ROL'S Fortunate Ofliree, No. 14, Curu hill, lord No. 28, Osfurd w ',cu. he •uld the hart 30,0001. Prix , ewer drawn, •latt No. 48, a Prize of 21,0001. and massy other Capital. in the Lottery just ended. After which TIIF. CORONATION. The Promtisiow trommeneee from Weytosiostor The )Zeroed keehe, the Interior of the Abbcy.—Tbe lotrodteetory Setae, in who'll Mr. Knight will introduce I we. Comic Song, entilleri;' , The Kin/ and 11141 Coresaliote, Old EnelanJ and the Peopte.'-.-The Fourth Scene, the Hall, iu the corm of which the Grew, Entre of the Chmwpiww. To emselude with the Puree of THE MAYOR OF IIAERATT. Mr Jarob Jalap, Mr Mnihrs ; Major Sturgeon, Mr. 4V. M. IVlMams ; decry IlassiM, 'Mr. Remelt, RnM, Mr. ThompasiA. Mrs. Sneak, Mrs. Marlowe ; Mrs. !iron', Mrs. Dobbs. The Doors is be opened at Si% o'clock, and the Per- Tormances to bitiu et Sewell. Roses, 74 ; Second Prier, 3s. Sd.—Pit, 3s. Sti ; Second Prsce, Ile.--11;allera, es.; Second Price, ls.—Upper Gal lery, Is.; SeCON4 Prier, Bd. To-morrow, Gerald' Dural—with The Coronation—sad Mow to Die for Love. NEW THRATRA-ROYAL, HAYNARICKT. 111115 EVENING, lIONDAY, Sept. 10, 11 will be performed the Tragedy iat. VENICE I'ItEsERVED. The Duke, Me Thompson; Prig'li, Me. Younger; Elerlanier, Mr. Baker; JaMer, Mr. Conway ; Pierre (4th trate), Mr. Terry; Renault, Mr. Fealkaer. Belvidere, by a prong Lady, her 4th appearance. After winch, 12th time. a neer Cootie Pifer, i• one eel, called MATCHMAKING. The Principal Characters by Messrs. dunes, Osberry, De camp, Terry, sod Mrs. Choices-ley. To conclude sill§ the Musical Enlerrsioosest of THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE. Rh• Frhitty, Mr. tViiiiSlllll j Compton, Mr. Ward; Engem,, Mr. Payola; Chicane, Mr. Voyager; Lino, Mr. .1. Russell. Laois, Mrs. Garrick ; Cosvalip, Mrs. Tayleare. Doors to he opcoed at Ilalf past Six o'Clock—lhe Play to brain at Steel. Boxes, sa.—Pit, U.—First Gallery, So.—Second Gal- lery. Is. Plarea for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Maasinghaan, at 'fire 'Moire.. • N.R.—Private Boxes may be had ■ighlly, by applieai ion •t the Box-office. On Wednesday, Venice Preserved, with liateb-enkimr, nod •other Entertainments. Then the Immediate (occupier of the land, and all the per sons employed under him, are very belle prejudicod by 'his fall of prices?—The smaller farmers, If they may be so called, are • kind of copyholdets, or custotnao y holden, paying, as I said before, rent partly in kind and services, whilst the landlords have the feed upon the land, after the corn of their tenants is carried; 1 am now principally renaming ray remarks to those countries from which we can derive the principal supply of corn. The occupier of the food, however, is affected in his capital to whatever extent the fall is the money value of his stock has been the effect of Ibis change in agriculture on the Cootioeut ? —Yes. BATE E-R0 TA Ly ENGLISH OPERA-NOUS/I, STEA ND. Ting EVENING. MONDAY, Sept. 10, will be performed (tStb lime) a mew Petite Piree, Jul two sets, called LOVE'S DREAM. Fretlei irk Eur, Mr. Wrench; Simon, Mr. Marley; Henry Morton, 31r. Pr-semen; Mr. Darner, Mr. Itoisbuthont. Cr eam Dormer, Miss Kelly; Maria, Mrs. Bryan. After which, 10th time, a new Operetta, called A CURE FUR COXCOMBS. The Character• by Messrs. Wrench, Wilkinson, Red. %when., W. Bennett, Miss E. Blanchard, sod MISS I. $lO - To conclude with (13th time) a new Melo-drama, is two ache, called THE MILLER'S MAID. lit whatever shape the rent is paid to the landlord la those countries, the effect has been principally tilt by him ?..—Pria cipolly so, To what degree has that effect been produced ?—lt is W. licull to separate the effect produced by that depreciation, •nil the effect produced by the former circumstances of the war; during the march of the whole of those immense ar moire that went to attack Russia, the troops in the service of France were quartered upon private individuals, generally in proportion to the extent of their bourses; the mobility sod gentry calculating upon a great demand to supply those troops so quartered upon them, were obliged not only to hoard their own provisions, but even buy more, and that at au enhanced price; their tenants saved from their share all they could, and by practising a wonderful degree of puma. minty, were enabled to supply their landlords and the intro. Wants of the towns with some store of provisions, in con sequence of which the tenants at that time became richer, and the landlords pooi er. What is the present situation of the landlords in those commies '—Their estates are generally mortgaged, aud a great malty for vale, and there are nu purchasers. Do they get any rut !—Very little; nothing but the clip. ping of their Merino flocks, which they now are selling very The Millre, Mr. Bartley; George, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Giles, Mr. Emery; Natty, Mr. Harley; Old Grimmer, Mr. Roll lauthain. D i ne, Mrs. Jerrold; the Miller's Maid, Miss Kelly. Illuminated Shrubbery will be rimmed at Eight k for the adalissiuu of the S.cuud Price, which cow metiers al Nine. Boxes, toi.; Second Prier, 3s.—Pit, 35.; Second Prier, 1.. 6d —Lower Gallery, 2r. ; Second Price, lc pre Gui. lery, h.; Second Price, 6.1 Wins Opel/ at H.ULpa►t Six, the Perri...mance to begin at Seven. l'o.snorrow, The Miller's Maid—Two %Ili/es—and The ♦aspire. A Cootie Ballad Open, iu three acts, •ill be produced -- . - 'Very ADM, will be publisheil, in 2 vols. 12enn. THE SIBYL'S WARNING !! ! • new Romance or Novel. By EDWARD BALL, Assihnr of " Edda," tice Re. " Come, tint Aunt is silk and feather, Come, dna scandal wag iirgeitim, Anat. mid labbies--ngling misses— Spook more loving se/y . *ban kisses; Peruse these ?static purrs ihroilek, If mastic, such as tell of you." Is the Committee to understand list all the co►n which has been raised to those cattalo ies, as far as your obarivaliosi goes in the two or three last yeses, has not csansioanded a price aJrquate to the expense of growing?—Certainly it has not ; most undoubtedly. . . Hal the price been materially below a remount/sting price —Where the surplus is at very small it is difficult to ealettLite whet a remoneraliaa pour i 3, au.' therefore I .wisuld, rather than give my own op , trust to ibo..e wtw Pane made calculations ou the *poi, whose caleulatiou• ere Inure likely to be accurate thou those whirls 1 or auy (ampler kuuld make. Mao, the ITALIAN •DON JUAN; or, Memoir. of the Writ Seaipa•ti, the Brigand of the Apennines, 5.. bonnie. MARY DE COURTENAY: • Novel, by the Cowes. De S.; CH. 64. Woods EARI. OSRIC: a Romance. By Mrs. Isaacs, 4 vole. 41 boards. EXILE of POLAND By Madame St. Ange. 3 vols. boards. _ Have you any such cakalinions ! I hove. Hare you the m with you '—Nu, I have out ; they are among my memoranda. You here slated that Hullsud and 'France are two of the centuries you r talon ?—Yes. Is Ilse at.tte of agriculture in Holland and franc., similar to what you have described existing in the north of Germany? —Certainly; iu all my runversailutis with Dutch farmers and landlords I fOund they were complatising that they were fusing by eve ry thing they rind ; the feudal syn. m dues taut prevail there as it dues in Germ uy. In those cuutitries the population not engaged in agricul ture bears a very coitaiderable proportion to the whole pa pulatitm in Holland, Flanders, and France?-1 am not stow sprinting of Holltud exclusively, %Lich contaios little m o re than two minions, but the kingdom of the Netherlands, con taining opt or acorn milliunc. A considerable proportion of the population of Hullaod is not or scent toast '—lit Holland they sir out so, but in deo s they are so. What is the state of distress in the kingdom of the Nether. binds, suit niece ectone,' where • diffe r ent * yam of farm isic prevails fount that of the north of Germany, and where the proportion of the populatauts employed in agriculture is ilitteient •--Wherever I went I hoard bitter complaints, par ticularly oil the rotation sole of Holland, from Ut►echt to the frontiers of Westphalia, which is geseraity pourish kind of land, a great purloin of which was brought into cultivation, during the war, in a cnnsid►rahle expense, but which has 'uttered the price not only of iii own produce, but all rather prodUre to such as rater!, that It wad selling fur a commits a blr loss. TALES UrTO-DAY. By Mrs. !Nisei. 3 rots. 11. 41 LUNG. Pi intrd for C. Chapple, Royal Library, P•ill-siall. Jail pieblitheil, by C. CH APPLE, Bookseller to hi . * MA iratY awl their 'turd Highttimme the Dukcs of Toils and Cambridge, Royal Library, Pall mall, E XPEUIENCE: Satire.—•By JULIUS. Book 1 price ss. Also, I. .NAPOLEON, and ether Pomo; by Simnel Gower, Eat 7.. HICII sum : a Satire; addrunierl to a young No Minium; rice 34. 641.41ittlwil in rationed paper. 2. MY LODGER'S I..LGACY, being Comic Tales in ease; Isy Tins. Bobbin the Younger; 6.. 114371116. 4. LONDON; tie lb. Triampli of Quark. .y; by the mine ; 44.0 m-bed in admired paper. b. HEATH FLOWERS; Of SotiVl, Odes, and Sonnets; by C. F. Webb; 4a. 64„ boards,. 6. SIMPLE. MINSTRELSV; by Mrs. Cockle; 10s. lapar It. 7. KATHLEEN; a Rallvd, front no ancient Irish tradi tion in the Valley of Glandrltingh; 2e. 6J stitched. t. Tarr or VIRTUE, 111111 other Poems; let Mks Remit; Is bowels. 11. roEvs„ Comte and ; At. b o i r Jr. Itl. MOSCOW ; or Triumphant S.ll ileVtlii.lll: a l'Orin, iii three Cools" , with Notre, and Critical; by Use ley. James Bohm.; 10v. 6J, boa.d., 11. VC LPINA ; ty tti.ier : a Wale of she Nine teentlt. Century, in Venni; he Or ••sess.- 7.. &null, 12. rAN(:Y ; or MINNOW' the Hurl; by William Free man ; tli. boards. Were those poor Aisiricts ilerlinine in their cultivation —I did out weren'e any, nor is it likrly they Antall &cline 10 .111.011. Du yun think they must souls &cline ?—Alsnost •11 the occupiers 1014 sue they must ; that they were Waist by Ihstw. MI you Bwl the same complaints in She Netherlands snit in Fs-miler %-11 eau only speak of ra•tire between Ilw hum. tiers of Grrevaavey and Pasts ; the miser parts I went through with too much rapidity, h• enable YIP Wrong] an opinion. What is the awe of agriculture in that put of Femme ! complaining; I atteutletl the mach of otteral of LORD RONA LD, the Ley A Bvi der : a Kees, to reght Coulon. : • reete, ie eight C3eiug. the town, sod conversed with the farmers; I fovea limy were all complaining, contrasting the picas they had ob tained three or four years before, with thr prices liwy thew obtaiwsid assisting wee they lost cnastderatity by it. Not kasswiwg whst questions uptight be iwilted.• base rot brisegist say witasiirsiolistas I wade at th e time with we. Whit was the difference in the 'priers of which they corn and the priers to which thew referred es better titters'—At use lows, St. Avoid. I was assured that the do. precis' iow had been about one ball fruits the highest pertwel to libst Was the general WI ao great ?—Nut to the twee Mewl troy where glee. - What was she 'feet tilwin rents io those coustries!—The kisses, tirluieh see short, are •!I ramming stat e gird they ebtpeet to renew their short leases at s great deduetiou Corn the rents they have *aid. Was that the eapeetaties im Holliad and Flanders like wise'--Ifes, universally Were the crops of the Period to which you refer, consider. ell as ibeadaust In those consumes ?--This were considered geed vests as uameuvad watt the aid gathered is ten or fifteen year. before; sod I emuld see that they were Mode better thou I had bees accustomed to see, but far in ferior to our crams. Do you attribute that iserenae to a better state of foie hue, or to more favourable seasons?—To • better .tale of footing, ariluag from the high micea they had prevtomily obtained. What do yea consider will be the result wpm the Coati sent, of this ',Hirai stale of prices, that Oft not adequate to the esttrosse of cultivation!—The sense as tans, be the case Mere : a diminution of the cultivation, and the ceasing to cultivate lands of inferior qoalities. And shoo a general diminutioa of the moils ?—Teo, where rents are piid in the form of money ; which is not the rose In the coonirim from whence the cots is principally supplied. Theo ylior ides of the Commend is, that the poorer lands brought into cul , ivstion by the high pikes whirl, prevailed before the peace, and which are molt expensive to the yoUricyfapered to their returns, will team is be collimated ! —They silt go out of cultivation till core *liaise a remune rating Rice. You have treated that their cultivation ahnsad is inferior to that of Eunlasid; in what proportion. apes Wide of equal qualifies, should yon state that at be ?—de i re to warn, soon land of the sane quality, anti the same portion of seed. They would istert-ase live, and we should increase mime ----- To trims du yon attribute she superior productireuess of agriculture here '—To that which a prelims's the greet sou►ce 'dear riches, the suerrtsineess of oar chastise; we ran cut. flante turnips lisle, wb•ch they callow du any ohne else; they improve She soil, and all the sisinn ;vend crops are bet ter fur It ; they cannot do it opus the Continent; we have summer shuvrese,they have ant, and their turnips die away Cass they not grow turnips to Germany'—Nut to any ex tent; you may ate them in patches, it is only where they can water theta; and in consequence of not being able t o grow turnip., as we cast, they are driven fur a fallow creep either to vow potatoes, or flax, whirls are exhausting crops. Do you not attribute a part of the superiority of English spiettleure to the superior capitals of this tenantry Certainly it requires a greater capital to cultivate utile tier• nips than with potatoes or film. . - Ate the farms upon the Continent divided into equally com modious subdivisions ■s in England'—la some counirits ; it depends opal circumstances; the finest cultivation ou the Continent is on t►e demesne lamb of princes or nobly*, or gentry, as we should call them ; and these they cc. to • certaiu extent follow one system ; the depletory are often rely extensive, a thousand or Kieen hissilred sere., with the addition of twenty or thirty thousand acres divided halo copyholds, granted out to copyhohlera. There are some, you state, of the same kind in Fiance —Yes, but the whole of the feudal rights are abolished. You continue to have coriespondeneo with those toile tries; has tone correspodent stated an increased stale of di.- tress or difficulty since 11819, or has it been improving )- 1 have one correspondent, Secretary to t►e Agricultural Sir tilt, of Saxony; my correspondence with him his been upon other subjects, hist I observe in one of hit letters, • re. mark that •• our agricultural affairs are in • nurse state dims when you examined certain lands with mc." Have say measures been taken by the Sovereigns of the countries so distressed, with a trtew to the relief of lure? —They have not it iu their power to do much, but they have as far as they can ; I believe almost all the Coutinentil Sovereigns have ward laws enabliog t►e peasants or the cat :ens to purchase those hods a hich are of knightly tenure, sad which could only he held by nobles. • Are you aware of any other m aaaaa es of relief that hare been reiwited to I know of n0°414.11; at one period the Xing of Prussia speculated in Toro, and purchased eirsn,ulei ably. heesime It was very low. What was the result of that speculation —I do not know, I never braid the re.uli, but I dare nay he lust • irtat deal of money i it Wag HIP,. Is firm hmn■nity, I believe, that he made the porches, s, when 11,. peasantry weie overloaded with corn. H Ave there been any particular I.2istative utettoieree la\e■ in Fettoce?—Theie is 3 taw .imitsr to Has there lutes soy Inter scheme?—Nothing later than the pernsauent duty with 3 et:taunted scale. Srippusisig the trade pi Olio. hemp,. WI country an d lb. Continent hod bees, free, ‘voiolil nul ihr effect of any growls! revulsion in the price., rot It a, you de•rrilse to have taken place in Enrope aine► Ilw year INIB, have principally bairn upon the castristrit a has MX the poore.t Noels in cultivation, and the voaallest capitals with which to early oil that cultiva two ?—.Nu; I apprehend Ilse wort carrel worth! lar (mina in the richest eusatilrice; Ilse ticker Ills coontry 10, • the higher the priers of artttlea of the first sieersairy alwa)so are, and generally in proportion to their tithe., and its case ut a uni vertal eurplus, It would naturally Elie to a county whe►e there was the highest, which would sieceenerily be the riche.* country, and thetefort the ininsteliate effect would he wore fuicilily felt there. Supposiug soother stimulant ;mete Or Chi• country, ur a enccesatua of abundatit bra V , ,t and the wires to etssilislue what they now are, ur to decline still further; epos. what pact of the land now in t '11,1330m5, Would the•it.,l of these low price. be principally felt s —Upuis shoat lands that se- Claire use Berated cltprildillise is, 131tossr. May nut the richest counts-sea base the poorest lands is culitrilioil?—fur a very short period, if ati all. you think, that in a new country, thinly land equally poor will be cultivnted, as so rich populous and old coutitties?—eittlaisily not. Hoar du ynii reconcile this answer with yuur last?-1 see nothing cuuleudicluty. Would you got call such new rianotry thinly iobsbi e.l , • poor coutitry as cosnpa,til with the uld —lt would be orris_ sary to mike a distinction between th.• soil and inhabtta•ta. You hare mated, that your has aril principally turned to those votaries from which rueland derives int principal supplies of emu, sud that in sunte of those coun tries, nine-tenths of the population is employed exclusively in aericulimr ; are you able to siatewliai pupation of !wean core any of those cuootri• a could supply, in Ike . v.nl of the pimas of Ibis conntey brine award to impolist ?—I have made calculations %halt it wunld he s lone protean to ex plain ; sod the steps of *hie II I have not wish me, not know. ing what tyirstioas would be asked; but II appeals to nee, rune of those eutititroes have veer beru able to export an nods as three days of slaair awn coussoupiuu. In stating this proportion, do you cou6ue it to wheat ? To bread corn, wheat sod rye, piaci pally. When you state three stays euwumptiusa is the greatest proportion they could repot, is dim calculation funned with reference to a stale of very high prices in this ceuatry, affording to the grower in those mollies a gee■t isiduccineat lo reouutaitte upon t►eir own growth, mid make that caper tatiou as large as possible?—The quantity which they can • JONAS ON DKTILLING. This day is published, Third Edifies, price es. in boards, 9 HE DISTILLER'S GUIDE roonprrliepil ing the whole Art of Distillation and Rectification, in on Its varinti3 Branches; with genuine Recipes for making RYE. Brandy, Willends Gin, and all Sorts of Compounds, Cordials, an,l Spirituous Wafers, by Distillasion, Agital Infusion, and Digestloll: shewing the host Method of Dig tilliog Simple Waters from Flowers, Fruits, Spires, and Aromatic Flouts : also , the Art of snaking British Wines. By PETER JONAS. London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pater uusier-row ; and Dung and Fsge, Touley-street. Sold by all Booksellers. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Extract from the Evidence anruxed to the Re port of the Select Committee of the House of Commons upon the Agriculture of the United Kingdom. Marti', 8 die Mali, 1821. Tttotaaa SipaLoci Goocsr, Esq. in the Chair. William Jacob, Era called in and examined. You occupy some hod iu Surrey and Kent, and farm it' —Yes; between 300 and 400 acres 1 have unfortunately bald fur the last ten years. The circumstance of your Arming that land has indebted you to tura your attention to the interesta of agriculture— That, and other ciritonseteoces of a literary nature. Darin that period bay. yon visiscd the Continent with reference to apiculture?-1 have, principally with that view. What part of the Cor.inent ?-11ollassd, the whole of the north of Germany, up In the frontier► of Poland, and m iscued ►lowly thrssitgh the middle of Germany and France. Was yore prinsipel atteatirn, during that residence on the Continent, directed to the state of the agriculture of the different countries through which you passed 7—Princi pally ; usy associations 'sere prisicipilly with Noblemen who were both large owners and occupiers of land; and their amtmen, who are a kind of htrediluoy bailiffs, with judicial powers quite uuktiowit here. lo bat year w.s you on the Continent'-1819, till the b, irianing of 1820. Ouse you had any means, since your return to England, of knowing what is the present stale of agriculture in the rots you visited in 1819?—Y•s; I have correspondents there, and I hare seen in this courtly one Nobleman espe cially, a very large agricaliurist on the banks of the Oder. State to the Cominittee what is the g 1 state of agri culture in the countries to which your attention was directed, as to its being in a state of improvement or decline, in the first instance ?—lt has uniformly the masks of vast improve ments, sines I saw it twenty years ago. As compared with the period when you visited the Con finest list, and the period of twenty years preceding, there have beets vast improvemeuts in the agriculture of those countries ?—Very great. To what do you ascribe that sapid improvement .?—To the gradual increase of prices during those twenty years • in proportion as a great er num b er of men were in arms, ;hey cuasomeJ a greater portion of the more valuable produc tions ; all the productions rose. 'rha you ascribe it to the increased demand, growing partly out of the effect of the nunsermss stones which the people have sustaised is. those parts of the world ?—Ex actly so. Was it in a slate of progressive improvement, and were Ilse Wilms rising *hell you visitrd it last?—No, they were then frau( ; ti .y have fallen must excessively. Have you trauma to know, nbeilter they have continued to fall since that period?—Ten, I have reason, as far as 1 can depend upon my coriespintilents, to believe they have cuistioued to fall. To what do you att. ibute this fins toutio• ?—To the ex cess of the eopply beyond the • Wars this the ellfect of iiscreased production or dinsissished! &mama, to of built firth I apprehend; it appears, that Ile . lung as the war continued there was an but especially a most prodiziotis deniansl took place in every pail of the continent previous to the expedstinto of Bona parte to It.. -ons, as the took:00.)ms of the country knew that large armies who to he marched through them, which would be (toasters,' opus. them, and which t pro viriou, every one was mixtures to lay iti a large store of provisions, that they might Plot have to al the too talent she soldiers •rIt•eol ; such stocks tieing provided hefurehonsi, of course raised the prices vet? high, those high prices gave n 1.11 , 71111U11 to agrieuittrie, mot brought into cultivation lahil of sn iuferior a quality :IS Is. II :Se been COI- Islfllled at a• great loss smiler soy other circumstance s; ill other cause of the great demand for ago ten:tura! productions, arose from the hest of lands all over the continent being appropriated to grow articles, not of food, Init of commerce, a.tb as tobacco, indigo, a n d various vegetables for the ma isufacture of sugar, amid substitute; for coffee ; when the war ceased, and the 110,151 WIC thrown open, the col. of those artirles fur hear generally reared, or mu a great rle4rer, and as they weir, sonic of the rely brat lauds, they acre very naturally appropriated to the growth of corn, this increased gissiitity oat hand, had in a,htitiors to it all these little petty :turns, which wire tours or less to the haints of every family list the Grotinrnl , as a provision for the ISOop• tiny rltlorflrol to hr qu irtered upon them ; the whole of this instead of being consumed was re turned to the snorkel ; bristles that, in the memo time the cultioatiou of INAIIIIIra had been eilffWei On to atrial very far beyond what is Louvres its Great Britain, and in some countries qual to what is grown in IT. I j this forms the fowl therefore of the lower daises mil' ropfe 41111,0 eXCIU,IVeII; the cousicytience of these eiscumAassres his tiered a reduction of the priers all agricultural poi duce v. ry for below a rs ntrisienstimg peke; at 11w same time it may 1w proper to rirniark, that Ow surplus produce of any indisedral Of the whole maim of cultivators Mire, is mom drralsly less than the whole sass, of 410111111110111 in this country. F.splain that t—The sorphis produrr of the whole moss of cultivators so those commies iss considerably less than the surplus produce of 11 mimic mass of totlivAlure in this nctory. Du you mesa by aurphas produce the produce sot eou- PFzE -r : f cut iicyr4oo:- fr g 1" - ft P , 0 4. • • •••1:: - ce,:40ra0...37q • Pitirr. 7d, dispose of •ay rot, front owe to three art of tlirir Cu.,. ostritellott. Aro yea sitsakin of me average ev.p ) —Yes, their report. *We power. Have you rrdererl et all, to any sp►ri6' tionwittim, it.e plownetioo you tome sister' was for &het piiipows'll an eery here 1 was iodated to make the es/caniuna, for porprees of a literary oaten.; nod ther.f..re I cannot noir err proreso; but f recoiled moat dead!, that MI referr at., 1. , the *omelet of reports front the ratation-horiae at Dtrra.c, for a series of years, toy calculations *ere currebersted by Awe amount*. As ottopered with what vales lotion. were corrobo rated he the reports of the custom-boom al Haws c, of the gowntity of corn espotted. What would be the largest export ender the elocertittnn, • that hare bees stated, in menthe? of quarler• f—Tar Num b er . ww hone known Is shunt 500.00 it quaiierit. That evisurrr it confined to Dantzie oat ) ?—Yes. What Oho .101(1 sun ihiy from the whole of the ports of the Baltic !—Not altogether rune Mau that, as far as it is theft warn Trooth. loch/diner Reggie !—Yes ; 'Ketosis* of that which cone.• by the Vistula ; there is very lift le steeple's. reesanoine that the present sccrtiwalsted stock. at Danime and oth►r experlitig ports of the 1101 th of Europe had been disposed of, and that the triple in corn heiweete England arid the continent of Eutope, was to be free from the time that the crops of the ensuing harvest become the subject of met. motile speculation, send►r that free trade, what do co. con ceive would be the import into this country l—That n wrens a mercantile question than a statistical one, and 1 had no mercantile mewl., therefore I air not so well calculated to an wer that as many merchants in !hi* town. _ _ Whul quantity of food would the labor► of one t•w• disee in ilium countries, beyond what is 'memory for him own eonanniptiow ?—I have •ever gear rallied it ; 1 apprebe•d the labour of one mau does in fact produce but lade more than hie own sustenance. To what country do you confine your observations' those countries which export their corn down the Vialula. Supposimin an average crop all twee Europe, in the pr.. Beset state of growth in Europe, and the trade free, do you 'lsiah half •,illion of quarte,s would rum. into this roue. try !—From the "thole of Eloope it meld ; the harvest' o f the north of Europe vary so munch from those of the .•asttn, Th• 'rieslings assumes an nvcradt• ?—That is a very MI. no le quintal,. as ouch as that would mine reit sioly. D.. yin, suppose two niilknos would come not in the pr.vert state of cultivation; I do sot apprehenJ the shots/ WOO Id fOll4l supply us with three wce►s consumption ; I J. not beli. we that lice surplus corn of all Europe, whole could learnt here at Ides prices, is equal to the . ' .frorrenro betweell the storks in hand now, in the piosessioo of the millers and the conductor., sod 'lest which they held tea years ago. Du yon mean that the stocks now are hiss than they were bin ye►rs alto?—Yes; and in airmost efinal In the greatest spasolitv a hick they could get from ati She norl.l. Upnn a compari.on of the distress, is hich the Comminre take for posited. yon must have obsess' d, prevails in country adorns( the riccupiets of land., and the dnorron ion observed on the Conti...lit in 1819; whirl. yboutd yogi goy .• the must wire./ ?—t would say st is the most *eyrie here ; but thin 1 must make a remark, that you hsvt• ears of awn who area weirs of capitalists, and oho exist nu were else, in the oceurere of laud it exists in Friont only to a small extent. Do you thick they will he capitalists long if the present prices resoaio !—Pte, cest►iaty wet.. What, is. posse opisiuo, are the causes of the present dis tressed slate of agriculture ?—The common cause, the lionsitv being beyond the demand; the production exerediug tiic cumin ptlloll. Th e loorl o rlion of thin moots! alert('—Tee; and the stir plug of all Lampe utoperolaog here iu the ease of a small advance. Do you sod think that the total min of the occupiers of land in this country is quite inevitable Iran alleiatioa dory not take place?—Yes; but an alteration oust take plies *Pio,s they ate ruined. To %bat do you attribute this races* of production be yond the demand'—The stimulus of former high prices, a Trey Calllgf. Anil in the falling off of the ileinand?--1 should say et) if 11164 not seen the wares of Ike amouut of taxes upon spirits, beer, and Asap of tbat kind, which mars we hesitate. What is your remedy for the presets' aisle of things?-1 lave no doubt it will flood a leaned, in • very few years; but the.., perhaps, the remedy will be worse than the disease Would not she immense Wrapertatious, amnnwsine to there 'millions of quarter*, that took place is. the year 1316, hare an effect to depress the price?—A very ittjurioas effect opus. the holders of cure or the gravies.. he your upiaion could stay slteratiun of the premed core law raise the price at curs al presto' i—Tea, I t►i•k it is Feasible. What alteration could effect such a rise I—The having the same i•deerme•ts to • free trade its English cora** throe nerd su be before the operation of the warehousing clause Ili she Bill of 1814 ; the operation of that warehousing clause has had this effect of withdrawing from the market the English cora ; the great speculators by their uperatiotis maintaiued 3U • piable price through the whole year. I be lieve it was the eaalwa, farewell, amongst the great dealer is tors, to send their ■gents to examine the stets ut the crops 111111160174 the reports made by them, to malt causal, a of what ought to he the age mice of the year ;by shi Tr aware • balance was produced between she hap., sod 1110 seller; if the stallions fell below their estimated averaze they purchased, if they rote above die, sold ; and by Huse natural mums a proper balance between product:on and cen sumption was maiutaiued with tolerable equability 'homage& the whole of the year ; the effect now is, that no wit* ',lnn will employ his capital to 'peculation* in Entlish wheat. Sep pose 11 14/ be at UN. • /railer, aid foreign whom at Jos • sir. owl diet its WIC case or the uther, will the sprcwbtur calculate upon selling, omit it reaches 80r. In the one cam the pr.•tit upon the *peculation would be 33 per cent. in the tether ease 165 per cent. If it should be supposed that persons would rather lie disposed to speculate in article* *bate some retorts. could be made at any time by a rnmaitsarrider, la ther than invest their tourney in operatorroa whose termina tion may be remnv.d to several distant ray.; it nit.) , he resist ked, that the diliereace in probable profit is so vastly disptuourituned, and the silk of that profit brag Mug dc ►eted, so small as t • outweigh the fear' of t►e moo ionoid adecootturr, rsptri.rlly cosiriderias that uvoo.oliy use Ira , too bye, rolls r 11'015 the inclemency other r ether at halves,..* from some prestos.* bad seasons, the puce ul likes* ps th.a country rest Iwo 11w price at which the ports e opened, Tots think, thou, that the warehustong system is Gnome. Ile to capisalrts and speculators !—No ; I um afraid they have but tuned It so is fat t ; 1 believe they have loot. D.. you thtuk it boastful to the agricult us sit ?--Yes, I ►are stated that. Are yuu of opinion that the iticworealences which ynit ascribe to the issrehouseng clause of the lass Art, can be obviated by a simple ripe:.) tot it, is • state of peace?( Meat a ss•ople septet would be better t►aw twilling; ot ap pears to ors that the pr. scot state of agriculture is a tow. ho nary thing, and it is impossible it eau lung reduce, br ew•* prodactiou rind consumption will 'met. Is what way do you sheik the repeal of that clause would obviate the iaeonvetniences which you apprehend noise from the wart of a dispinitiows to speculate to Bluish cool', easp p sing all the other parts of the Act to rental atiAllt'ord ? —The indoteements to speculate in Brutish rarii would v ise from the greater wearily the sp►culators would have in having their preperiy w• this side of the water bather ihau Ilse usher. Do you consider t►at the risk of basing eon. ■t Anirrerr, litelirriloso, or Aolbterdalll, would b. cuisrmle.rd 4 aaatr.•A: diernolly to sp:culatorr, if the pospct A Fruit were is HE 1.1., .-