The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-02 00:00:00

• • • 46 A .' • % r rents ? STATE OF THE COUNTRY. -......-_. The following communication upon the sate of the country, has been received from a comspendest of, The Dublin Evening Post :-•-• 70 TUE EDITOR. Sta—As Me deeply interested is the welfare of AU country. I have taken some pains to Worm myself of the cause of the unhappy disterhasees which %Mkt and disgrace it; ankin search of .a remedy that might afford a rational hope of relief, I have given the most serious attention to the various oplaions advanced on this important sohjeet. • The principal, if sot the oily means of restoring tranquillity, recommended in yes/ Paper. lea Rave tion of Rent and of Tithe. With the latter I have no concern but to pay It; hot as a proprietor of land to a considerable extent, allots use to request a little isfor motion as to the method by which this 'eduction of rest, which I admit to be highly desirable, can be put into ptietiee. Immediately after the passing of Mr. Peel's celebrated Bill, from certain impression on my misd as to the effect of that measure, I proposed to givrep, at once, pearly all tbosecomforts and In s tants which my family had, for peasant's% ss.l°Y" , with out having rat derived one penny of their imam. from plat" sinecure, or pension. Os looking over the house expenses of my grest-preadfathee, in the year 1715, 1 Slid that five hogsheads of claret was the overage I allowance in his family, besides other wines. 1 live in the same house ; I potion the same number of acres; yet, for the last two years and a half, I have, from necessity. given op the use wino altoge ther. I have parted with my servants and reduced my establishment within the, bounds of the strictest economy. Ido not complain of these privations, but only that they have been made in vain. I have been compelled to dismiss many labourers, to, whom 1 had hitherto given employment; and, rarely do 1 allow myself the gratification of sharing with a friend my very frugal table. Thus, I have brew enabled to make rednetions from eight to thirty per cent. on that part of the rest which 1 ran call ntine; but, Sir, there is it least one half of the income of my estate the pro perty of others ; in interest, annuities, as* engulf hearten, laid on WAS the last i lweily years, and at the rate of the value of land darTog that period. My portion of the rent I can, and I did, reduce. without being asked ; hot, how cap 1 reduce that part which 15.11-t he forthcoming to pay others. lobe will sot bear of an abatement on their claims; the Go vernment taxes included, all ealcolated on the War pricer, and for which, I am manly 'a responsible agents' The interest of money debts, whether public or private. is principally derived from the sale of Apricot tnral produce; now that that produce has been low ered in value two-thirds, how are - the same sums to be' forced out of it ? 1 begin to think that, when the landlord is obliged I. give up half his income, the reduction most retteadt itself to all other property derived from the same fusel. The interest of the finvis most be reduced, when the property out of which it is raised, his fallen more then one-half. As to national good faith, of which we hear so mneli, it has been broken with the Agricultural in terest; and if, with the inevitable consequences of that measure before their eyes, there should be persons so infatuated as to rely on the continuance of such a sys tem, sir greedy enough to wait for a still greater profit • in the Funds, let them abide by the result of their venture. The relief I have been able to afford my tenants on my share of the rent, thougb given early, and rbeerful4 bestowed, bas been but of little avail. Yet. my estate is not let at a rack-rent; the avera ge is about twenty-two shillings the Irish acre, for good arable ground. I hate resided among my tenants from the hour I succeeded to the po ion of my estate; they ere well clothed and well fed, and comfortably lodged, for the most part in well-built slated houses. 1 have no Middlemen, and their rents were aiways re ceived in smaller or greater sums, at such times as baited their convenience; until these last few years, I never had occasion to send to a tenant for his rent. They are quiet, honest and industrious. But, all this is rapidly changing to poverty. to discontent, and ruin. If the payment of those encumbrances be delayed, law expenses are laid on in addition, with a merciless and unsparing hand. The relief within my reach I have given willingly, and I solemnly declare, that I would wiser be reduced to live on potatoes mind sour milk for the remainder of my stars. than distress one honest and industrious tenant. Bat their fate is net in my hand; my sufferings, my utter destruction will not mitigate their distress. Now, Mr. Eaitor, I have good reason to believe that nine-tenths of Irish Landlorde are in a similar situation. flow then can they effect the proposed reduction of rents, until necessity has forced a reduc tion of the monied demands payable out of those 1 have lately met, by mere accident, a Paper of Mr. Cobbett's pablishtd at London, in the Register of the 12th of September, 1818. I am not, by any mean., an admirer of that celebrated persons political tenets ; neither am 1 one of those who will not allow truth to be truth, because it proceeds from his pen.— I will not take upon me to say, that it is an absolute prophecy, but, I think, few can deny a remarkable coincidence. Mr. Cobbett said, if you do so and so, such must be the result. 'fhe novernment have done as he said, and as to the description of the result, I fear it is so correct, that all wtst feel and acknowledge the deplorable truth of the likeness. Whatever your own opinion on tlge subject may be, I trust, Sir, that you will not refuse to give publicity in your respectable paper, to this letter, and to the following extract.--1 am, Mr. Editor, your mos! obedient, and humble Servant, A. EXTRACT FROM CORBETT'S REGISTER. Srptember IV. 1819. To enable the Bank to pay is Bold, on Amused, Me old lady mart reduce tat yeautity of the float ing paper. indeed you say, that a greet ditmiattioa most take place in the currency of the country. Now.' it is iocoutestibly true, that such diminution most create* great lowering of prices; and it is not less tree, that this lowering of prices must be far g►eater improper/ion this the diminution ita the smuttily of paper nosey. Because, the first elect of the lessening of eke qoastity of Mosey admit, is to straighten, and threw late discredit, wavy persons who got along I % • r • • • . r A • asinutio6la the quantity of carreney &desk sod if this lowering of prices? The rein and misery of a great pan'attle people, and the ideal sterritiou of many. Theme are the imitable consegaesees of lower*/ of prices by the means of a Adige in the value of money t sod, it is clearly sees , tbatneh change must be effected by a diminatkosof its quantity. Suppose me to be a Haberdasber. I have usy Asp fall of goods, as many as 1 shall sell is a year. i lay in my stock to-day. It aesonatele tl.rte thousand pounds, two of which I hart credit for. lf deal in glovesonly, and they are laid to by inlet 4s. I begin selling. -and 441 thilliegs a pair give me a good profit. But, at the end of the month, the Bask goes to work to pre pare hi Cash payments. It draws is a great deal of it! paper. Money becomes scarce. Prices fall. 1 tan sell my glovnill only 2s. • pair, and I am done for at a blow. Thne It mast be with the farmer, the' manetacteree, and withivery parses engaged in trade, Ito spatter of what sort. A mho borrows a thonsami pounds today neon ahem swill two thousand.-- Nast month the Bank dams in its paper, and the house is not worth one thousand... He loses his hems, for ever. Another dim to-ally, leaves an estate to is 'Son worth three thousand points, with legaeie4 to pay oat of it to the amount of fifteen hundred. Be fore a sale of the estate takes place. the drawings in of the Bank have lowered the word of the estate - to use thousand. The legacies can be paid only in part, sad the Son is a beggar. Wheat is 15s. a bushel, and a may calculating upon teat price, rents a farm at a hundred a-year. The drawings in at the Bank bring 'beat down . to b.& bushel. The man cannot pay his rest, his stock ii seised and sold. Ile goes to gaol, ad his family to the poor-hone. ' la the meanwhile, tilers is so money to pay the Journeymen and Labourer. ittnploytnent cannot be hid; and starvation follows. However, men do not, in very great numbers. starve to death, without an ef fort to save life. • Hence r.bheriel and thefts : and. to prevent detection, come murders. This is the natu ral, this is the inevitable, progress.' P.S. To the above extract from Mr. Cubbett, !shall nal, add, that the Duty on a barrel of Barley malted, Wooer more than lbs.; so that allowing ten barrel, of Barley tett', acre,tbe Fundbolders receive 71. 10s, an am, for 1!. Is. the landlord receives, (at least ia my case;) and of the Landlord's rent, half goes also is direct or indirect lases. Now, Sir, I ask, on which of those two rests the reduction ought to take place ; in sewn f the fall of prices, on the Food holder's rent of 71. 10s., or on the Landlord's rent of I!. 2s. ? Sbpuld the latter be reduced to nothing, sad the former remain untouched ? RATIO AT tomnon-nnipos TiV• W. Morning 6 in. after 9.—PlvehlWileia. gator 0. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Rant Stook ..... ...*. per Coat. Rod 761 I 3 per Cent. Co 34 percent 6 per Coats 9.11 per Cents. Natty....... long Coat . Ana 192.161 Insp. 2 per Cwt 73 ii Irish 6 ear Coat I DAY Al' ONE O'CLOOIG I ladle Sleek. Dino Ronda .a ..11 s. pm ISouth Sea South Bea Old Ann . E. Hill 9d. IMO:. par 9s. p ----SOUL par ts.ra. --Small Is. 3s. pea India for ditto. ICon. for Aret.....77111 Loll. Tie1et5.......40. Os.. LONDON: WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 2, 1822. STOCK EXCHAN - 6 E, TWP.LVE O'CLOCK. Time is nut much business doing, though there is a report that an express has arrived from Paris this morning. Coosols at present are 7711. Baltimore and Norfolk Papers arrived this morning to the 7th of December, from which we extract the following : HAVANNA, Nov. S.—The Commissioners sent to treat with the Independents of Rio de is Piste, rc turned to the Spanish capital on the Ist of Septem ber, without having accomplished their mission. Wasuseaeots. Dec. I.—Official letter frees Com modore Sinclair, commanding naval officer at Norfolk• to the Secretary of the Navy : " I baye the satisfaction to inform yon. that the pi ratical schooner Moscow, prim' to t►e UAW &Mei' ship Hornet, has this moment anchored in thebarbour. after a passage of 28 days. I herewith forward you Capt. Henley's dispatch. Fourteen oat of thosineteen. composing the crew of the Moscow, are retained on board the Hornet ; the remaining five are - rrith tits schooner. PHILADELPHIA. Dsc. I.—Captain Lamson, of dm brifilelviderz, arrived from this place from Cape Ilzytien. In lat. 23, long. 70, discovered • wreck bore down to her, and found it to be a British schooner from Digby, N. S. bound to the West Indies with a full cargo, and had been capsized in • heavy gale when ten days out, and lost the mate and two seamen overboard. Captain h. took from the wreck the Captain and three men and landed them on the North Caicos. Retract of a letter from New South Wales. dated in May 1821 :—We bare had four Russian and two French ships here on a voyage of discovery. Their object aware to have been to explore the western patt of this country to effect settletneats ; but it is hoped they will not succeed. as at some future time they may become troublesome. The General Gates, Captain Biggs, which had been detained by the Government for having hemmed the port regulations, sailed about six months ago for New Zealand fishery, and it appears that tea convicts effected their escape in her, and Captain 8.. it is said, after leaving the port. seat a letter to the Governor, informing him of his having taken them on board. A king's ship. on the eve of sailing to the Missionary settlement in that island. was ordered to search, is which he succeeded, and NO , • y { ~ 3 1 1. , i old have liberated , : , 46 . 1 TIRO papers that were doe to the 31st have savir'fbit of litterlay contilis a detail of the die. cassias which UNA place in the Chamber of Deputies the prectidini day. and of which we gave a brtef sc. count (soma private letter in our last. This diwas• shim was regardad is Paetwwith interest, not so mach from the importance or Wpgaitude of its subject. as from the pesisilar state 1 affairs at this niouseat is France. It aro... it•*111 be remembered, out of a Report on a petition 1 i ...11. Crestin. an arocat, who complained' that the lase Keeper of tlis Beale caused him to be struck or . the evils by Aloe of the authority analysed so hie by a Ifeeroe of the 14th of December. 1810. The ground on which he took this step was. that *. Creeds bad written a defamatory paper against one of the Judges of the Court In which Its was engaged. In apswer to this. the petitioner alleged that the Decree on which the Keeper of the Sealtrelied was not sanctioned even by a Law of Exeoption, bet was created solely by ab solute power; and that the 63.1 Article of the Charter having abolished all such irregular commissions and extraordinary tribunals, had annulled this assumed authority of the Minister. Ibe Committee pro posed that the petition should be referred to the banister of Justice. M. de Martignac then en tered into some account of the history and con duct °t i the petitioner, whom he stated to have been long a respectable member of the profession. M. de Girardin maintained that the offensive precise tios was not written by its swims in Isis professional capacity, and that if it was censurable it fell pro perly under the penalties enacted for delinquencies of the press. M. de Coo rvoisier denied that the article of the Decree, under the authority of which the Mi nister acted, bad in any way been superseded by the Charter. and proposed that the Chamber should pass to the order of the day upon the petition. M. de St. Aulaire observed, that the Minister might merit re prehension, under certain ci rce meta nee*, for exercising a power so exorbitant as that said to be conferred by the Decree of December, 1810. M. de Serer, in de fence of his conduct. urged that. from the cesurtitstion of the tribe nale, there were many cases in which it was part of the duty of the Minister of Justice so per form the fenceless of a Judge. and amens' the twit ters which thus fell under his cognizance was the pre servadoe of the secesiary system of order and discipline amongst the avocets, for which purpose the requisite am• tho►ity had been gives to him by the decree in question. lie had never exercised the power, bet when there was no alternative. The affair of M. C restin was of this kind. In conclusion, M. de Serra observed. that be felt in common with all enlightened men, the necessity that the laws should be reduced to harmony and system, but this was not to be done by one sudden effort, and whatever laws might be in force, it was desirable that they should be respected. M. Manuel attributed the Decree to the tyranny of the Government which ex isted when it was issued. The Order of the day was moved—all the left side voted against it. The mem bers were, la fur—and 135 against the motion, so that it was only carried by 7. It was remarked that snore than 12 members of the left were absent. The Ministers did not vote. These papers contain no futh er advice. from Spain than those we stated yesterday. The accounts from Zante, of the 30th of November, r.present that island in a most agitated state. A great number of the p is had been coodemned to death, and many of the inhabitants had banished themselves. In Smyrna and Constantinople the Christians are a prey to the ills most dreadful su ff erings. On the il of Nov. the Consuls of the European Powers at the former piste p ted to the Turkish Authorities an Oficial Note, representing the danger to which , their countrymen were exposed from the discord 's which reigned in the city, and the excesses of , the populace. They attribute these evils princi pally to the opening of the taverns, where the laws of 3lahometanism were grossly and openly violated. A civil answer was returned to this remonstrance ; but it had not produced the good effects which had been expected from it. It is stated that up to the 3d of December the most frightful atrocities continued to be committed by a baud of ruffians, who were bat few in number compared with the aggregate of the population. War, it appears. has been formally declared by Turkey and Persia, and the fanaticism of the Janissaries has been shewn at Constantinople in repeated Hawses a of the unliffend log Greeks. Even the rrsidenee of the English Aui bassador has not been held sacred by this ungovern able rabble. The report of the assassination of the Crawl Seignor bad produced, it appears, much sensa tion at Vienna. A mercantile house of that 4.14, however, bad received advice. that up to the 29th of November, no disastrous event had occurred is the capital of the Turkish empire, except some confla grations. under the cover of which the Asiati. Turks attempted to plunder wine homes in the Basar, but were severely rep ii. The red flag, bad actually been hoisted at Belgrade, and this circumstance ►ad given some weight to the sinister reports circulated on the Austrian frontier.— But the Groan for the war against Persia is the sole reason for the measure adopted at Belgrade. and fur the disquiets& which As iahabitants manifested an peace. The fends, which had Liles at Victims os the 16th and 17tb, in consequence of the saws ken Con etentiseple, rose on the 18th se Son OS AO false h. co! of the reports wits seeertainedt • _Tie s~set of the inelispositios of the of Prance swore, front the Paris pipers, to Lays had se foundation. Os the 291 h, his Majesty heard Mass is hie sports/tests, nod efterwarda trammeled lithium with M. de Lewiston. Minister of the Gosseliol4 ; and is the afternoon with M. de Vil lel., Minister of Fisasee. He also gars audiences to Madsen de Sorgan sad the Countess Rapp. M. dielCholeeol sad M. de Boisgelis, who have gives in their resignation of their functions of Major-Ge neral sad of Adjutant-General of the National Guards, bare bees replaced by the Count Jules , de Pongees and the Viswent Sostltene de la Roebefoults The reports that bad piswiledi sad the agitation they had produced is the Ifesele:inarket of Peri% eq. pear, front the following paragraph, which was first inserted, in Vie .11essitearr of Friday, and afterwards it all the other papers, to have excited is the new 1111- oistry no little apprehension blalevolenee has gratified heel( for some days past by circulating various reports. tending to disturb the tran quillity which France enjoys. and to shake pabliecredit. if we are to credit these rumours, armies are about to b e assembled at the foot of the P yrenees," bat DO autho rity can lm quoted to unction these wanton h. hrications. The tiovernosent has assembled on the frontier of the Pyrenees. the troops strictly necessary for the formationof a Sanitary Cordon. This Cordon will be maintained is order that no seturitymecy be wanting against the introduction into France et the destructive scourge which ravages Spain. This paragraph, however, bad not the effect of keeping •p the foods. Saturday. the 5 per Cents. left at, ace irding to out paper at 83f. 50c., and according to another. at 82f 50c. We are happy to learn from the Irish papers v rived this morning, that the account of " the atrocious murder," we received yesterday, was the work of a base fabricator. That there weld he any beings se diabolical as to propagate such inventions, teethe ma lignant purposed exciting alarm anal prrjndice evilest the deluded pessaatry of their Olivesl country, we could scarcely have conceived. They mast be ialleitely more vile than any of the unhappy men whose caws have been tried at Limerick. It has been well observed, that 17 the proceedings of the Special Consinlssion, it has been demonstrated, that the Limerick bromine- Ono was bat the desperate and Isolate* einievi-slio prasasstry, operated upon by local Cause/ of iPP I tttttt Ilst.for the acts of their calotnaia.ora and oppressors, no excuse ca. be made. The Dublin Morning Poet s which has distinguished itself by endeavouring to pat down the alarmists and fabricators in flublio, does not repeat any of the accounts of ether outrages we yester. day extracted from another paper. but it states with regret, that it was understood that an affray, attended with fatal results. took place at Ballygrasa, in the county of Limerick. as Christmas mcruieg. It appears that every act of Insubordination which has led to the usual penishesent of banging in [re -1 ind. has b en totally unconnected with politics, and has grown out of the cruelty of absentee agents. rach-rents, the extortion of parsons and tythe-farsners, lied the tyranny of petty magistrates. It is now said that the landlords are coming forward to reduce their rents, and the parsons to abate their tythes. What those vermin of tytke-proetin a who have leases of 'yams may do, is quite another thing. We neither thank theleodlords nor the parsons for giving up what they could not get ; their liberality Mlles with a bad grace. sad they make their offers now because they cannot help themselves. Had this enforced eonees,ion taken place sooner, those pitiable victims who bare left widows and children behind them to starve Of beg, would not have been driven to those breaches of :Lehr which brought them to an untimely end. Nor would those nocturnal assemblies have continued which still disgrace Ireland. We remember the hangings and 'leg gings that produced the insurrection of SA—we re member the removal of a CALDIIN. and the importa tion of a Coerce/Awe. The measures of the latter tended to arrest the misrule of the former, yet be was removed, and for what? Should the sppuintmeut of the Marquess Wer.Lesies prove useful, we hope no petty jealousies will be interposed to render his mea sure ineffective. . change in the head of the tio vernment of Ireland was certainly desirable, for if Lord T would quietly hear or join in an Orange toast which was not of ly obnoxious, but which his AIAJESTII ii.sd reprobated in his letter to the people of I reload, an acknowledgment is as sorely indicated that be approved of the Orange principles. Under this impression the abused andinsulted victims of miarrle most feel additionally grateful to the Knie for his Lordship's removal. Many symptoms of sa tisfaction at the change have been manifested by the preparations to receive the new Governor, on his land ing in Dublin. They cheris.t a hope that their noble Countryman is shoat to deliver them front many of these oppressions to which Ireland has to attribute its degraded coodition. We are willing to entertaia a liberal opinion of the Noble Marcuess'a appointment, though we expect bet little, so long as the preseot system soder.... The Irish people exidently form vel d a; .;S e ipatiass„ The general joy on the arrival olds.. Marquess, nearly equalled that. en the. landing ,of his NW iiSTT at the same bathos* (Howtii). • THE STATES All• 1 1 Preftiwdl. omildff th, aiieisfiode of i.ootif. fie bolsi:1111ra' soy; spiritism of tide elate, siese. do sot reveals he her * ' I f didree. but us pet as sad es altogether.' 4. What the onas s a im b l ib I then oralbo sioaggifddio aosooqualos oft great di- h • e eal: , L .., ;;; --;;;;;;;:.___. _ _ , t 4i ; i • , _.• . • I , ' . ) ). 1 • eiMIEBONg*E.- -----.......4.-.2._.1A111 1 thera ie ll e bo no doubt of diet ocrosioo. Lila' Walachia is evacuated by th e thi, e n a. karat that kfussitimsu forces. sad the Turkish frontiers on the 41 as IM Colgate. own wide of Austria are stripped of troops as in a period of 7ZRF , got Altattionan. - MI INITISI 'TATMAN" II IMPART' AAAAA WITII " TNI rtarterim."