The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-22 00:00:00

it average produce 01 ao acre of wheat woe 6/. 13s /feeble hod gives employment in the propane* of ales to one. Labour rose shoot 1813 to two shillings per day, but may now be estimated at something lees than one shilling and sixpence per diem. Hut there is also one oilier most important fact to vise. Sias* 1720, aid the two succeeding yeas, fiirmg afforded comparotiody so gain et all, as ap pears by the following duceesseot. It was not •aunt 'the price of wheat and holey toss sossickrably, that agricalture could be said even to bear a living profit. Average stafemest of the expense and produce of ao • acre of arable land oa a farm of 800 area. Average of 1790, 1791, and 1792. S a. d. Cr. l s. d. - -ORO Corn 1 24 1 0 Sheep - 0 6 6 - 014 0 Bullocks - 0 2 - 0 0 0 Pigs, &o. - 0 1 3 -0 3 0 0 0 14 interest of capital 0 2 10} Expenses Dr. Rent Tithe I II 3 - I 10 9 ito 9 Profit per acre - 0 0 6 Wheat ged 134. Ad. per qr. Barley... 96s. 4d. -- The avera¢e for an acre is takea by dividing. the amount which the cats sold fur by the aumbet of acres is the faun. We come now to examine the parts of this minute ississis sep ly. To bring the farmer to the level of 1 790 — Rent oust be lowered dearly 30 per cent. . Tithes Labour • .... • . o Rites • Direst Takes 76 ...-1..... Trsdausiss% Bill. • Capital e ---- By this process it is clear that every man's income or wearill of life would be enlaced to about one-half, and in some instances (the Clergy) more this one.kalf of their present amount. And were this the winis of the evil, it would soots be found light, because al; thing. would thus accommodate themselves to one common standard—the price of subsistence. . But we must call to our readers' atteetion that the direct text:tie* uply is included in the above accounts. Now the direct taxation is obviously so inconsiderable as to make a part of the mourn not worth a thought. The indirect taxation, therefore, in such computation es capes observation, but upon this, we apprehend, the whole matter will hr found to tun. 'The indirect tax.' stion reaches the farmer through other channels. The former subsists the Isadlord, whose satire income is derived from the rent of his estate. The farmer sub• gists the clergyman, whose entire income Is de-, rived from his living. The same reasoning holds throughout. Thus all the taxes these parties pay are paid by the farmer at present, and must be paid by the land is the last resort. Thus tin it is seen that the final (elation is the relation between production and taxation, tied no other view can satisfy the general gamin of the case. The pnaltscties-of AeOSOlegt.rili d ast—mhisls -Wow Of 4 cesntry. The nastiest is that pieties IsLisee t ilse- lips which the Stenalmureete for Its espouses. What ever proportion the total of taxation bran to the fetal ef production, is, in point of fact, the same properties of the price of every article. This is tree anengb for general purposes, though not mathematically tree.— Now then to apply this rule to the facts before us. In 1812 Colgulsoun estimated the agricultural pro dilation of (great Britain and Ireland at (nearly) 217 millions.—The following are the averages he took sad those fur the week ending Dec. 29, 1821 : 1812. Per Quarter. IRO. s. d. U. d. 70 6 Wheat.. .. .. .. .... 40 9 37 0 Barley.. . .. .. .... 19 29 0 Oats .. .. .. .. .... 16 8 43 10 Rye .. .. .. .. .... 21 II 38 10 Peas Rod Beans .. .... 24 8 Here then is a clear redaction of nearly one-half the entire total of agricultural income—and consider ing the manner in which the gee are known to be taken, iris only a fair computation so to reckon. The income of the agricultural community then is re duced one-half. 1812 was the year of the greatest prosperity ; but when Colquboun's prices are regarded. it will be seen that his estimate mast have been very low indeed, the published prices of wheat assigning 1235. BJ. (he has taken only 70s. 61) as the average at that time, and every other species of grain bore a similar proportion. Thus the real power of the coun try to sustain the weight of taxation was greatly be yond what he estimated it. (vin. as 123 to 76) fur con cerning the revenue there could be neither exaggera tion our diminution. We have taken this period be cause we know of no existing documents sufficiently accurate to bring the production of the year 1790 to, bear upon the taxation, which was then only '16,030,2861. leis however probable, that could such a comparison be instituted, it would be more tutor able to the country than the one Colqubonn's state ments and those of the present time exhibit. Irs 1812, according to the same authority, which in this instance is founded upon official returns to Par liament, it appears the net revenue of the cowry was 65,231,0681. It seems from the documents printed by Mr. Hume, from similar sources, that the expeodi tura of the year ending Jan. 5,1821, was 51340,1131. This then is the inevitable conclusion. Agricul tural productioa is now charged with a weight of taxation double, according to Colquhona's state ments, but in fact in a much heavier ratio than in 1812. The Agricultural production then realised 217 millions, and paid its proportion of 65 millions. the whole production of the country being computed to be 430 millions, Agricultural production is now only 108 million, and pays the same proportions of 53 millions. The real proportions we have shows were much more favourable to the agriculturists, but t►is is esicient.—This will demonstrate. as clearkas any robins in Euclid, that MOTION is TOO CASS OW MI SM. The Oman has eartaialy too e.g borers the hor des...that fact is not less uppercut. and it should seem. aetwithstandiag the dawaisg and incipient liberality of a few of the landlords and clergy. he is ems la those isstaaess. yet far from his true level. —Sack is the inn light i■ which the matter ought justly to be viewed. Bat the bard*. is shifted. not removed. whoa all that eau Le dose for his relief. shalt have bean done. The (pestles 4101 retort's upon the consitry at large—cos a part of the induitry of the potpie so disproportionate to:winst ►as hitherto item Mas i mdse. to be abstracted labour - Rates - Bills !raves spas es the shape IMy averserso t ow's rate and _ to this ummenteee i enqiniry is. to our ineerttailding • perfectly plain. It is impossible. By dividing. 706 but ewend the ruin. however just and necessary inch division must seem. The Government once claimed (prehably) about one NINTH of the prothietion of the country, (according to Golgetheni. about Mat sz vcrms. as 65 kr 430.) Note, so far as apiculture is concerned, the Government probably. claims in the I proportion of ewe roverw. as 26 to 108. We do not profess exactitude, for to come at this tent proportion Iwhich manufacture and which agrichttne pay, is im practicable. We. accept the division of Coltinhoun.' and this must satisfy the country at Inge that no ar rangement short of an enormous 'reduction of the public expenditure aid an enormous increase of pro. Junior), can cave the Stare from inevitsble approaching bankruptcy—first, creeping like the dead rot through whole classes, and finally, sweepieg sway the credit and , the means awl the power of the Goverareeot. 111G1i1 WATlfit AT LIMOON•IIPIDOS 1 110111101 OM. after V.—Evening '1 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bask Stock. tan i India Stock. 1.11 4, 3 par Coot. Rod 76d I! Ditto Bonds. .. ...... 80s. S per CLCoa 76 6 H !South Sea Stock Ili par Coot Sift I South Sea Old Ann. 4 per Coots 063414 I Es. Sill Pd. m0nt...1. 64. pm 6 par Cents.Nary.lo7i 8 7fi l ---661/11 pm 6 weal. I Small pm Long Ann ID 7-16 i iron. for Aeet 761 toi 6 Imp. Spot. Cast i India for ditto Irish Seer Cent I Lott. Tieketa IOC Ifis tilt btattiOnan. "Tam gamily sssss SEMI" Is INCOOTOSsISS /ITS " Ten STATISII•k." r. LONDON: TUESDAY EVENING, JANCART 21, 1822. ..- 1.1 a...-- STO7K EXCILISOK. TWKLVK O'CLOCK. The Funds are looning up this Morning. Consol s are 74 to for the Account. This rise is *apposed to be owing to the contradiction of the report respecting tax upon tin Paris papers to the 20th instant Lave arrived this morning. • . The accounts that relate to Russia and the Porte are still fall of contradiction,. It had been reported that Moldavia and Wallachia bad been ordered to be evacuated, but an article from Ilerumnstadt of the 27th ult. states, that the execution of the orZers re ceived from Constantinople to this effect had toBp re sisted by the Jasisearies at Jassy. The istelHgence Ma Visas/ cm thtarter 3thii reparathme to "V 111. woe sew. Ischia. the Turks have lately sidlit several Asiatic corps into those provinces, and am their army its that quarter now amounts to 80,000 tom To, favour the Idea of peace, a letter from Odessa of the 22d ult. is quoted, asserting that on the 30th November, the Divan, through the Austrian sad English Atnitaest dors, requested a delay of thirty days to give a Minh tire suswer to the Russian Ultimatum; am/ JO+ also asserted that the Censor of the !Versate Gazette him been punished by being pat under an arrest for 21 ,, boars, for having allowed the iusertion in that Joarms); without previously asking the permission of the Eft. peror, of an Ode addressed to his Imperial Majesty, inviting is:na to combat the Turks. An article from Stockholm, dated 12th ult. says. " According to an official report of our legation at Petersburg, there ha■ arrived there a courier from Constantinople, who bad brought to the English am bassador resident at the court of Russia, an important despatch which Lord Strangford had charged him to submit to the Emperor Alexander. It is a justifica tion of the conduct which Lord Strangforil has pur sued during the course of his mission, and a detail of l a!! the steps which be bas taken in his quality of me diator between Russia and the Porte. His Imperial Majesty, it is asserted, bad not shown any displ oa the reading of this communication; but contented himself with saying, that he looked to the future, which could alone prove whether the hopes which Lord Strangford had entertained till thit time wera of a nature to be realised. The iatelligeoce relative to treece, however, is, in the mean time, highly favoarafili. .:111 lettere kali Corfu. of the 18th of December, we lad that- the Greeks are stated to have made themselves masters of Pains on the 2d of that month, after a mast obstinate attack, which had been preceded by several attempts in which they had failed. But what seems still woollies picious to their cause, is the proposal said to have been made by the Turkish Commander of Acro-Cu-. rintb„ the citadel of Corinth and the real key of the Peloponesus, to espouse their caste if they would re store his son. made prisoner at Tripolissa. and leave him the command of his corps of 20,000 Albanians and the undisturbed possession of all his res. This offer, it is said. was transmitted to the &Dated Calming*, who referred it to the coasideratios of the ►filitary Chiefs. Their decisive was not yet known, bat it was aadeipated that they • would not reject so advantageous a proposal. aid the war was looked apes as terminated la that quarter. The fortress of Medea bad surren dered. sad Napoli di Romania was little more thus a heap of ruins. Prince Demetrios Ypsilanti had season ed the title of General in Chief of the Army of Caron. Th. Govonsans is repressawd as dull segsirisi Arendt sad unit, Deputise inn tin Swims pro vince won psenoiling w Calnona. aa4 no gnat illassoliy was expand ta ipso in wens at the conimannsat of dm mon yam celUall s y . le article fro , a s t si f . " at Cassell of auew la coasegaerke et the mete ie ISTSI.II.II. SAO CIOCISSII lair, alumnus... lellitheibiLleMPOri Lit ie iota Pad to is Staff 11. to Obsilliesee. neg. ne• ral opinbia is that Iderstigsty will t iwtbs untint this proof of his devotiot and condescsagois Ala 441! tb' Welders will set reline their pert-folius above twenty • four hours more. 'Tbe Council of State has beer muck offended with Mot pdblicity which the &par dor has given to that Sitting in which there was a debate on the dismissal of the Ministers. The pro ceedings imputed to any of t h e Councillors appeared so grave; that the Council of State, in a bodt. be caused to •be inserted in the Universal es. article signed by thiety-three of its Members, wherein it diaigrows, without entering into any detail the wost part of the proceedings sod the speeches re ported is the Espeelsdor: This body _easrenches it self behind its dignity, add will not comprorigise 140' with the editors of public prints: bet, then, what id vantage is there in the article which they here cause , ' to appear, since it does ant relate, directly, any of w►at had bee. advanced, and does not contradict the results of the sitting? This e►ening, a roper• prevails, that the King is determined to dismiss th blioliters, and that be proposes to send a message t. the Cartes to require to be authorised to choose ne. Ministers from strong the Councillors of State. Thai permission is interdicted at present, not by the Coe stitution, but by a posterior law. It is feared the t he Cacussion which this demand sill protn.ke, wii hive no good effect on public opinion in the "iguana' is which the Council of State has been placed by fig' nature and result of the discussion in the late sittings Last sight, at the Prince's Theatre, the Pit and Bores lordly demanded the bywn in honour of Riego. The Neal authority wished to oppose it, and the uproar be came so violent that it was necessary to suspend the per foregone. ; but ',slog, at last, that all resistance was see. less, they ended by yielding to the public voice ; the hymn was cbsuoted. the acelamatious were usani•• muss, and all was restored to order.—The Journal Coietitetionact of Barcelutta, of the sth of January, has published the following address, which is remark able for its extreme brevity. This piece is signed by the Deputies of the different corps of troops both of this RN aid the s liltia : TO THS 1111 M AND m frint.al fiNESIT fit•s—The corps of time oatioial militia of this place, the first regiment of thiartillery, and the first squadron of the ume arm, the battalion of the train, the regiments of infantry of Soria sad Amigos, the Swiss regiment of Wimples', a detac hment of the regi tw eet of Marcia, sad a multitude of citizens of all classes, lift op to the constitatiosal throes of your Majesty their entasiinous voice, which is—Venn with The. oe•ext Aliaiatry. On the let of January the Municipal Junta of Bar celons also signed an address to his klajesty, sod so other to the Permanent Deputation, in which they se• rooded the demand for the dismissal of the Misisten, and were supported in their address by tke Political Chief. The principal cities of the province have not only followed the example of the capital, bat declared for independence if the King does not assent to their demand. The city of Saragossa has also sent a similac address. The French Chamber of Deputies were to have a public Sitting on Saturday last. The order of the day announces, Ist. the Report of the Committee on the project of law on the police of the journals. This re• port to be made by N. de Martignac. 2d. The open ing of the discussion on the project of law relative to offences of the Press. Facmcm FUNDS, JAN. 18.—Five per cults. 85f. 70c.; Bank Actions, 1535 f. A Brazil mail arrived Ibis moraing. The puke , left Bahia the 24th of October, and liio Janeiro the 17th of November. Extract of a private letter from Hayti, Nov. 28 Siace the death of Christophe the whole of timr terri tory which formerly composed his Kiortions ribd the Republic established by Potion, has heits (erased is•e one Ouvernment, upon the model of that of the federal Government of the United States, via. a Presider, Senate, and House of Representatives. Port-ea-Prises is the capital. The Spaeiards who had revolted at Port Delphin (26 miles east of Cape Hayd') arrived at Cape Hayden on t►e !3d of November, and claimed the protection of the Haytieo Government. Among those that arrived at the Cape was the Collector and MOll4OlOO, and all the principal iababitants. (/1101T,16 BALTIMORt PAPIII4 PSC. 22.) CoUna. ..+-We are at a loss to know the res.°, which 056004 Ike Congress of Colombia, to deduct 5 per Cost. front the ditties upon importations diiseqy from Stumps, in foreign vessels, and 7i par unt on their own. This is manifestly a diomisalaation to oar disadvaitage. Was it Inemidal to sowstraio oar .. vernmeot sego#atimt, implying a recognition of their indepoodeato ? If abet be the solicitation it is as awkward snaismostm Dm likely es be animal. Extrate of a letter iron Hannah, dated Plowneber iB:—The rain have bon very heavy throughout the , while island of . Cabo ; open SO thaw istwhispe ever be. Is,, known. Tie seeps haws seared veer waterially threaglion die him& Ns puns tea Man la ken ,_ - _ _ r 1 ~' 1 iiurior, is consetissee of the dreadful state •I{ roads : and the Cestanplsonse here has been dotal for five days, owing to the excessive fall of rain. The old Jacobin, on Saturday. boasted of the hied forbearance of Ministers, in cnatingto mutate thew eafortun ate people who had becorp objects of Robe; peer venLeanse, prevent! to the Sch of i~ptfi; ills. How emsdesesteding is these etellipreirif" eletloft:is yid ttlit!selket portfolio", to bows Abotitallik vbs. thiqr sae make sedgy bylssiag !It reminds us of those beeevilliellloaordiowifionser, who make a vides ofnecoogitg "si alsolog Om- Mau aid tithes whkje:e i e"if 011ett.. sad Hr. riving theme memo WIOAko base *• the mealiest chance of eyter"tralelksi litackess 514 forbearance in our rake. 1 10 . 011444 Phiostola. Yet, nothing can well be lostoel troadoefei that pre. seeds from the same quarter. Whether it lire a ice aody on the death of Roextrotle 11 :**Bies"tht late Preach Emperor ; a satire see the meatery Of Pert; suspension of the Habeas Corpse Act; . a Manehesa, tragedy ; six gagging bills. or the indiciado,. of as is. misitorial Bridge-street Gaag. The public, wholes,. 'men betrayed, who have see. Harm Charts and the till of Itights so oft.. outraged, eu well appeseion he value of those charitable itstasease of the. alloile lisposers of the public Money. That mot fishlike alculator the Right Honourable the Ceawescios if the EXCHZQUER, and his seadieters. peeked o lister. to the cries of poverty and wreteleadeee; file Right Honourable Deraileeese mid his fiasecial triremes may suppose that they see eke Miele of Pen lirough the sew telescope at the Home Dept emeat; in assortment of precious gems at the Board of Cot tool, or a valuable essay on stationary from the aeighbourhood of Buckieghain ; bit all won't do; the rats suspect a shipwreck, and make no imeret of their intentiess. It eau no loiger'be Cesied that Untie and profligate expenditure, have best the cause abed •rade., starving paelfacterers, aced haelerept trims ; that the PITT Mg bare been the nisi" tad sepportirs of the po hoary ; and that 'oho; let the Constitution brought back to its engissi pettily can save the Government. Tier hackled names Jacobi., Leveller, and Radical, are lest; they will no longer frighten the people of Egghead, they will no longer deceive the timid. 1. real (Oohs A the country are those that irtvolved it it its recant listresses, and let their fate be Ideas it may, it is of kik esesequence to time whom they have adored from respectability to sleety sod pauperises. - - ' In metier c ' eliegaf st to-day, areeas,. is wiled thee. Paisages in Lore Jager Xxsascei-Seceed Letter to the Yeomanry aid Parsers ef fheetingdr. for which we bad aot room in our paper of yeateriey. We have, likewise, gives a piece to egos vshiale statements, which such of our readers is wish to bt well ieformed me the 'abject, will be gratified to her, from an intelligent provincial print, which teed to solve the interesting question sew at issee—what an the ehar.ges neeeleary to Oft the British laadoww a fair met fir his sleets, tad the British Famet a fair Profit for his skill, capital, and labour ? The elistresm of the agriralterists art se great ail their claim' 14 argent that something most be speedily and efectagy dose, eat only to answer the qnestioe, but the farmers' and the laudlords' demands. la every part of the country we fled the parties meeting. or about to meet to seek recites*, anal among otherawe are glad to learn that the land owners aid land *tempers of, aeighbourieg county, Surrey. are to assemble is a county meeting, to petition Parliament for relief, sad to issued their members to the same elect. The odes. ter' are aware of the corning storm. au, to divert it, they are endeavouring I. make it be believed that the agricultural disunion meet be owing to ocensethieg else than ta vitiate. De they mess testy it laserjet to Mr. Penes Bill? It woad be toile- Gamy aweigh with their iuseesisteacy to seed this thoegist abroad. - _ A Ministerial paper says, that there is no troth is the report that his Majesty's Ministers Jested to pre pose tuParliateent a tax upon Fended Property 'sly, of 21 per cest. The opinion of the AttontsySseeral mid Solicitor Oatmeal has been takes. whether • tise•Loetliesu nest of braised by Ofj_44Wer to confer the boon of Kelgistisooll, sod Hoy o bed aselesdly of epi. aloe, that since the Unitas reetsucla right jaas ettistri. A copy of the *pinion bas bees sent to Lott Wellesley. An investigation Ins lately, we sederstaed, tai.l place in the Victualler/pollee. wltieb has led to tit discovery of great irregularities, and to some distill. sale Irons high oScial situations. Other removals sr sloe threatened. A few days, will, so doubt, brig She whole affair before the public. It is amid that the Court of Direetorsoi the Main. dia Company hare gives the Marquess of H a stiool fell peresisaloo to remain in iodi'a as Chief tioserssr , and that a ship of war has bees lately dispatched by Government with advice. to that effect. Should tls Marquess, however. prefer to rotors to Eaglaed. Edward Paget will rowed from Ceylon, and slow the rank of Conssoder-in-Cbief of the forces is It: dia. It is ale* amid, that is the event of the Marques" return. he will be appointed Ambassador to the Ciert of Vireos. A requisition bps bees addressedd• by several salt swat. fsesheidon. ttsd eeeopien of land its the rung of Survey, to the High fflseriS requesting that he s i'd call a Moeda( of the Freeholders, Landowner.. Occupiers affected by the present depressed state o f 'nur s e cohere in *geese". as esely as passable, in order '' petitlee Peritoneal fee sellef; sod to instruct the Mew hers for the Onsoty to support the said Petition. 1! cousplisesos with this mrisities the Sheriff has arrow ad each illuellog to be held at Epsom, on - Mosby. falt of Febroary mutt . OlA' * . ii - •