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a PART 41 ATtl ENT.% It Y PAPERS. CAA be cfmNierieil reguleirly4 STATE OF 111 F. AGRICULTURE. `Copy cft'bet3aeries, and the :Abbtract of, the 'Cou►munictttions, received by the Loard of Agricult►►re, in 'Answer to Queries transmitted to several Correspondents, on the present State of ►he Agriculture of the Country. •• • QUERIES. - • I. Arc any Fwrins in your neighbourhood occupied by Ter►ants ?—and have Landlords h consequence been obliged to take them ii►to their own bands ?—Pleast to state the number of Far►us, and their size. 2. ilave any Tenants within your knowledge given notice to their Landlords of quitting their Firms at Lady l)tty, or any other period ? 3. Have any Faru►i been lately re-let at an : abatement of rent / and if so, what is the pro portion or such abatement ? 4. What circumstances denoting the cristress of the I4`armers have come to your knowledge, which may not be included under the above Q ,eries 5. Is the present distress greater on arable, or on gra - is farms G. Have Flock Farms suffered equally with others ? 7. Does the country in which you reside suffer from a iliminkhed circulation of paper % 8. What is the'state of the Libouring Poor ? ,and what i$ the proportion of Poor 4areS COU* ,pared with the years 1811 and 1812 ? 9. What remedies occur to you for allavisting theta difficulties ? The letters received in reply to the preceding Queries have been arrange() under the beads of those Counties in which the writers reside, and 'the res►►lts registered distinctly under each Query, have been brought into one point of view under tine respective titles. The replies already received amount to 288. FIRST. QI„TERY.--OcettrANCYr Two hundred aud seventy-nine replies. describing the State of becupation, lA:tive been received, which way be thus ar ).anged;,..— No. of Letters. Letters mentioning farms unoccupied by Tenants being thrown on the landlords hands 149 Letters in which no such want of occupancy occurs 113 Lett..rs in which limns are stated to have become WlCUitiv4taci, fur wont of being occupied by the laadlords 4I ' rc - pcitcr eltqloy; all lite tccir oti",tt `pr;iatiple 81 charity. I'ooll. RATES. The lett.irs eontMoilsz returns descriptive of Poisr Rate" are to the following put poi t.:— No. of Letters. Letters in whip, the rates haVe inetask -4 4jUCt 1811 and 1812 - 129 N.ll. in forty-nine of these letters:theProPffi= tional rise is given, and aninatits uu the average tc) . 42 per cent. decrcased. '24 N.B. In seven -of liese, !letters the prtipur4 thinkt fall is given, and amounts on an average to d9l per cent. are stationary, that is, neither higher Dor lower than 1611 and 1812 72 2S But this Table glees by,ho means a tuffirient idea attic distress at present arising from this heavy tax. as in a variety of instances the fat niers who lately paid to these rates have been obliged tO give up their farms, and are actually become piupers themselves, and receive parochial allowances like other paupers; and this increased burthen in many parishes occurs while sonic farms are unoccupied or run waste;• and its the east, the Most •favourable, the btirtheu falls in creaking weight en tie landlords. The letters ccnitain many complaints, that while the iminutaCturer, who have ovcaSiotted the-chief burthen pay seartftly any thing to the rates, the ac cumtilated weight falls on the occupiers of land. Bitt the surprising eilemnstaoce of this result is, the in cr.:se being so genera l at the very period in which, front the reduced price of provisions, a directly contrary effect might hare been expected. The great object of the Board in these inquiries has been to collect facts. If it be asks d, what conclusions are to be drawn from these facts ? Such will of s,,,urse suggest them selves with the greatest clearness to the Members of the i.e.- risloture. With this expectation before us, we cannot be s rpri , ed at the anxiety t elt , 'and tbe apprehensions expressed • by many of the ablest persons (being Magistrates of the ex tensive jurisdictions), amongst the correspondents whose let ters are the basis of this general result. But the Board can not forbear nl.tking cm observation, as it may he extremely important to the future state of the country:—When it is considered that the tracts absolutely uncultivat ed are of considerable extent, and that a great number of faritss are thrawn upon the landlords' hands, in a reriod.when it must of necessity be extremely inconvenient to attempt theitcoltivatioo, in many cases licaVily burthensome, and in some ruinous, it must be evident that the 'management of these farms May:probably he so very imperfect as to occasion a great defalcation in the produce of corn. - It may also ,be observed, that among the circumstances mentioned in reply to the fourth Query, is that vita very general negiect of the use of all purchase d manures, together with a disehttrge labourers, formerly employed to an amount that must consi derably affect the future cultivation of the soil. These. points, if duly considered, may afford no slight reason for apprehend ing a considerable declension in, the amnit of future pro, ductions ;. and should such an effect arise, it may LOMB at time in which the pressure will he more severely felt. 14.1CCLESF . IELD, President. ACCOUNTS' ItEIATING TO ALIENS. RETURN of the Number of ALlF.NS,Resitlent i R ng dem in each year from 1793 to the preseut time, and o the number sent out. Year. Number of Aliens. I Number rent nut. HANifltritc;H MAIL, A namburgh Mail arriNed at - a late hotrt. last night. It brings a ethiflrmatlotv of the adjust ment of the disputes between Austria and Bavaria: Tire following are extracts Iitt . ANtPoRT, , APRIL CI the Treaty cow. eluded on the 14th, between Austria and Bavaria, the latter retains Besehlotdgaben; and the part of four BaiHinges of Salzburg, lying on theleft hank of the Salzbach. The capital, Salzburg itself, and Salsworcs al -Hach), fall to Austria. The very important tertitorial arrangements with Baden Which are now to tallow, are referred to Frank fort ; and the uegociations concerning them will Immediately begin here. Count Richberg, who it Bavarian Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to the German Diet, is •expected at frankfort this week. It is said that he.. In conjunction with the Austrian Getneral, Vacquant, will immediately open and proSecnte the negociatiolis at Carlsruhe. BERLIN, APlttL2S.—His Majesty the Kiag has been pleased,to confer the Order . uf - the Red Eagle of. the 2d Class off Count Chabot, the Prefect of Paris and of the Third Class, on Count de Cha vaunt, Adjutant Commandant of 'the National Guard of Paris. KONIGSBURG, Aram 11.—According to the last accounts from Matienburgh, 53 villages in the Great ‘Verder; with 9930 inhabitants in the die trict of , Tiegenhoff, 49 villageg, with 10,902 inha bitants, were under %%liter. To these were to be added the Elbing villages, 17 in number, with 40t)0 inhabitants. WARSAW; APRIL 15.---General carnot is still here, waiting for thedeeisiun concerning his des tinat ion front Sc. Petersburgh. Four police officers hive shot themselves lately. On the 12th, we had 22 degrees of heat. The pretended Prince of the Birmans has; we hear, been •further•interrogated upou his journey; in order to trace out more his relationship to the Sun and Mon. • Dming his residetiee in Poland and Ciallicia, this strange adventurer, who is a handsome young man, wanted to disqibute a Bit man family order, but nobody woold'aceept _ . COIgITANTINOPLB, llnttcit 11. A terrible storm has caused seycral shipwrecks in the Ar chipelago. An English frigate stranded near Teschesme, the greater part of the crew happily saved themselves, and there were hopes of saving the guns and the tackle. llamatuton, Antic 27.—Exchange on London 23d and,26th April, 34-6. Altt•i°tiME'l'lCAL, co,Lcu.L.kTioNs. AmtnicAl%; l'in)crs reached its yeiterilay o'l4 20th March; and Washington l'a l iers. to the , 1-itit of the same month. The Natiottal..~3a~tk: 13j11 star been passed in the‘Honse of lterresentatittes, tit , : its fate in the Senate bad not been decided yvileit the last accounts.c a me away. In the Senate, on the lick-of st.4relt,:bn the motion of IVehtter;---11.esiiiveil, That it is expedient to provide by la* for making the gold coins of England, France; Portugal; and Spain, and the crowns of France, pat t& ot the laguleur rency of the united States; COlTV.SplidiLig Wi th the intrinsic value of S aid coins respectively ; and that the Committee on the - Nationi4l Currency be instructed to report a 11;11 accordingly. The Speaker also Ida before the House a let:. ter front William Simmons, late Accountant War Department, stating cet tain 'defalcations and misapplications of public; monies by Colonel hotel Thomas, hue a- Quarter.klaster-General, iri the Army ; also certain alleged improper reductiong by the Treasury Officers of the amount due Colonel T. to the Government ; and a belief that all was not fair, which had prevented the prompt communication of the information called for by the House Irvin the President vu the 10th The letter was referred to a Committee of five' The Senate was lett in full consideration of the National,Bauk Bill. Various amendments were. proposed„some of them rejected, others agreed to. The National latelligencer states—" We learr l that Mr. Pitikney has declined accepting the ein' hussy to Russia, to which he bad been appointe 4 preferring his seat in the House of Itepresents.. tires to that appointment." . The manufacturers, mechanics, • &c. of. Pbli a• delphia haye addressed a Alemorial.to Congress Oa the propriety and necessity of protecting tiome st i iuuhittry,and likewise theTaritl of duties report° by the secretary of the Treasury. • wAstIiNGTON crrr Mites 15. THE 1.1.t5K.---The tg establish a Nat , °lr i Bank has at length.finallv passed the house of Re presentativts by a majority of nine votes. Win" will be its fate in the Senate we do not on" ilertake to say. it can handy he expected t° he so cordially received to that Body as the Bill fro% the of Representatives respecting the L ol) ,' - , pensttioit of the -Members of Congress, which 1311 . finally passed the Senate yesterday by a vote ti 21 to 11. The geiteritl imptession, however, 9r pears to be, that the Batik Bill will also pass the Senate.—(Not. Intel.) • The Baltimore Federal Gazette mentions, tb* the ixteniive American property confiscated bl. Christophe at St. D o mi ngo must c l a i m t h e diate attention of the Executive of the It is necessary to observe in relation to the 11,1 letters :that their not containing the article of .occupation by tenants is laid singly to be taken as a sign of prosperity ; as a great num ber of them are amongst those the most descriptive of agri. • cultural distress. lt' may ho further remarked that the let :tors represent a very large quantity of land to he, unculti. *rated. SECONT) QUERY.—Nomrs TO (10yr. ' Two hundred and sixty-five replies liars been received to Ihiii Query, whidi way be thus arranged No. of Letterg- Letters in winch the expression is many farmers lust's gimp nutice to quit - - - 94 Letters In which the expeessions are uveral or a fiv bare given 11 ptiCi , to quit - - 90 T.,etters in which thy expression is all that can titter* n given notice to quit • - - 19 titter* In which the expression is none have .. . • given notice to qu i t - • 61 • 'lt is scarcely nrcvsiary to romarti, that until the present )criarl of declension commenced, inch an 'deo of giving no clic, it farm, ex opt for the purpose of hiring a better one, may los said to' beolnitist , unknown in the kingdom ; and cur cirentsistorsee Can more clearly 1tY41.11, the present degrade, Alin) of the employment, than these notices to quit. THIRD aUtKY.—lttnucrin4 orltENts. There have been 190 Returns. specifying the proportionate .trdnetidst of rekt ; and the average of then) all is iS per Ovnt. It should however he remarked, that this appiits only to :the letters widelt %pecify the ameant of the reduction; many others speak of the same fact, without giving precisely the teoportion. The land rents of the kingdom, according to the Returns of the Property Tax, have been stated at 34 millions r if the v l / 4 .al fact shookd eacved thit by only two millions, the total wAI he Ittl millions, and the loins of i 5 per cent. will give a totnl of nine millions to landlords alone; bat tins will by no 'means, according to the letters received by the Board, be the what.' Of one year's loss; as the amount of unpaid arrears is istAt ed in many of the letters to be very great indeed. ,itOURTUI QUERY.--Gcrtettu. _17.1 '1: or lintISANDIIT - 111 THE PRESENT RElttOti. far the greater nuMber of the letters enter into consi sterablodetails on the circumstances which denote the present ;steptumble state of the national agriculture, bankruptcies, seizures, executions, imPrisonments, anti farmers become pa rish paupers, err particularly mentioned by 'many of the cor respondents with great arrears of rent, and ill, •alitny cases Tit - he aest Poor Itotei unpaid. These circumstances are ge expresNed in language denoting,extreme distress, and :insolute rain, in la Cariety of instances. FIFTH ANt) QUERIES'::—ARADLE Asp GRASS LAND, AND FLACK,VAIMs C46IPARtI). The replies to theFifthQuery very generally assert the d:itress to be rimeh 'ilreater un Arable than on tiros Land ; but many of them observe, that'of late the prices of grass priduce.have so much declined, that the differenee'pro ,unses soon to he but small. hp general it k asserted that 'flnelofiirtinr bare sighted much less than others, but they 'have begun to feel it heavily, yet not equally in all cases, with arable SEVENTH QUERY.—. , Ctscut.Artnv or PApt,st. There is in the replies some difference of opinion upon this point.; lunch ntischief ii noted from the . failure of Country Banks. Many of the correspondents tire of opinion that agri. eititiltelitargrt mach for want of it larger and safer circula tion i and not a few complain heavily of the deficiency of pa rer being an extreme, that they arc forced to selitheir,pro. 'duct under a great depreciation of price merely for the want of antes to "ay kir them. But a few others are of opinion that the present amount of paper is adequate to the object of buying and scltlny at the present reduced prices. qUEß.V.—tif.vrt; of TUE 141101.181ti0 Poop AND isoo a It A' V r.:4. 'lite total ntrinbyrof letters containing replies ots the first - of the , e stiniett; amoi n to 2411. Two hundred and eleven tottery describe the state of the prior tinder various expressions, denoting a want of employ. tuent in terms more or less forcible. Ninety-six of the above-letters, -expatiating on the degree - 4:f this want Ipf employment, describe the extreme distress re• suiting from it as amounting to great snisery and Wretched and in sortie cu ea to an alarming degree. • ' Sixteen letters describe the state of the labouring poor as lwitiaer better nue ivorse than formerly. • 'Nineteen letters give a favonrable Report, representing their state as nut in want of employment, and thereforcOot distressed. These thirty-five cases, so much more favourable than the rest, rrquire a few words of explanation,' as in fourteen of bein there occur circumstances tendliir, strongly to claw that whatever the present state may be, it will soon become nut 4,uperior to that-of the rest. - In stern of theseeirses they are attended by minutes of unoccopied farms and notices to wait. is two others , the lower Itates are stated to he high and in creased. In one diss• the favourable report combilieswith the fact of fifyfiraicrs being distrained for rent. In another 01 , e t me fAtao . rablc report is conducd to one or two parishes with nciell distress in their vicinity. him:: other, in which the p , or lie represented as not suffering, it k admitted that they har,.! trss empl.iyment thah heretofore. In another ease ti3iptAysuctit is tound by wanufacturtst. And in one, the 20.75 r; 20,10 20,412 , 2-2,140 f 0,6111 19040 18,993 18,0,14 15,708 141,910 ta,44:a 18,c3t 18.590 INO4O 19,377 20,441 21,619 92, - 1.41 2.2,(;16 *Thare was nn a'trount taken of Alie first establishnient of the Alien ()thee in t 'Tit year, tinder his :Majesty's. I 1700 Aliens, subjects of France, or of dowrinion or controul of France, were kingdom ; but not being tiertnitted to lei they returned, and were permitted to tal here. 11 • nn resident, till the June 1798. Ivrociasout 100 nhour under the ordered *0 gllit the and oil the Contiorut die up their rekklence TRANSPORT OFFICE, 23n Aram, 1916. Sums exiwnded for the Maintenance, &c. of Frenc4 Pri*oners during the War, from 1803 to 11114 L.6,799,579 13 11 Do. do. 4813 L. 6,871,674 l I 1•l Accounts, amo►►ntinlf to the first-mentioned sum, were transmitted from this Wiest to the Co►muissioners fur British Claims on the 19th August .181 , 1 ; hut no claim for the ex. p e nce of pri•aners of wur for 1815, hos hitherto been mode by this.Departanent. KETT. GEORGE. .1, BOW EN, I. DOLICiL4S. CITY BUSINESS. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, which was numerously attended. The Lord Mayor laid before the Court the an swers of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to the Addre l / 4 ses agreed to by this Court, and presented nn Monday last to his Royal Highness, which were read, and ordered to be entered on the Journals. The,Committee fiir general purpose delivered ,a report in r.ipect to the Het of Common comeil concerning tile nomination and election of She- HMI for raising the fines for persons excused or; lected to that office refusing to serve the L.tune, which was read, and ordered to be printed fur the Members prior to being considered. A motion was made, and question put, that in asmuch as the Standing Committees o f t hi s Cm.- pointion are limited in their expellees with ,:re 74w:et to entertainments, no other Committee' be empOteered 'to draw tipOit the Chamber for any ,snot of money" to defray their expences in enter ,tainments without the express authority of this 'Court bein ,, obtained haute such expences arc theitrred. The Court then proceeded to the election of tw9 City VarshalS, and the Petitions of the se veral Candidates being read, and the ballot taken and cast up, was reported HS follows : For John Nl`orlt il-r,, Citizen,and Clackanker....llo Nevelt blrotthe s Wittier .. 151 It. IL J. 14tarely, Pavers-maker 75 .loin Luke, Cor(lwgirter '• ,*3 James Sumner, Clirdwainer . 41 Wiiliani Itnwlyttne, roun,ler Samuel Eforitart, Bowyer 6 John thytvorsti, Dyer Tiosums Beitivr : Nviour• • • • a Whereupon the Lord Mayor tleckted the elec tion-f 0 II!WC faallett 1.1110111 upon John W. m t n er s a d Nevill Browne. who were deelaruri Anis?. elected Marshals necoriirogly, diming Op pleaswe of the Court, nod subief.t to the rtilk urdert streeti to die goverowcut of the sa id TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,--in the Arithmetical Calculations inserted in Tfru SUN of this evening, you• have comtnitted in error (typographical no doubt), which makes .the quotient incorrect•: my opinion is, that it should. have been thus— 4q9,578(15 Shillings The givitient sinntlJ 'nit , : I: CH 2,0 I 4U,967,415 - 23,474,90- 1 1 In answer to the question of a Col:slant Reader w i t h res p e t t to coking nil the last two figures for shillings and multiplying the test by 5, which gives the quotient of pounds, „1 conceive, if you eta off the two lust figures you reduce the whole to the out-hundredth . part of what it miglinaily was (which is stinte as dividing it by IOU), With a surplus of what the two figure's . cut oil amount In and 45$ tii Wags aught ~to be de,id e d into potiiids by only 20 iiistead of lOU, of cou rse you must multiply by 5 . 10 get the, trot: answer. Should the two lest figures amount to mme that' 19 when cut 011; the answer will hot 'be coin ,pletely For Eranipk. 40702SC:if) $47,140, sA S 1 illinfit Proof: T.(O 1 46,7448.3,9 /..i3,37101--19 If-the above is ukntii iabertiot., , , you will oblige St. Jai April sm, ISI6, . 1. 0... TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,-1n reading'your Paper of Saturday even ing, 1 was much struck with it most important enquiry from one of your Correspondeuts, Why is it, that by cutting off the two last fi gures of ANY sum for shillings,. and by multiply lug the rest by 5, the quotient' will he pounds To'prove which the following example was pro duced 46,957,3 1 15 L. 1,347 ,665 Although unfortunately obliged to devote macli aE my 'time to accounts, I WitS tin surpsized at a question of sock infinite ingenuity coming Iron) finite thou, that 1 deemed it more pandent at first to leave the solution for brighter talents than my own--.bot toy curiosity overcoming this itaitif gle determination . , 1 turned over a few leaves of my old school cYphericng,ifnok, whtre 1 found, to my utter astonishment, in .one Nitre, that '2O shillings make ',a pound; in smother, that fi limes 20 are equal fo 100 ; and, in a third, that Cu divide. by 100 it is only necessary to cut oil the two last fi gures of the dividend, which becomes the steno mlnator of the fraCti on prodused, th e rema i n i ng figura being the quotient of the division. 'Now, its these facts may throw note light npon ;he problem, 1-tonst thank you to inseitthe same for the benefit of the rising generation ; burgs your " Constant Reader" can apply the smite ous method of reduction to Au , / number of shil lings, I mush intreat' him to employ H few se - condo on the'smo 0t54,625,98 and, hoping that he may. not become so constant a writer HS reader : or your well conducted and widely circa-. lamed "'publication, Will conclude by subscribing' myself Your most obedient ' , errant, yr• ' Great Ormond-street, Queen -'square ) M. Jun. April 114,10/04 41) St6tes. 'ken vessels had been seized—tlie rsti• mated property 126,000 dollars. YULICE INTEC,LI I NCE. • MARI.W.We A DMINISTk.RINU CANTHARlMis.—YeSteribiiv ti neighbourhood of this °thee was crowded. tcltile the Ma strafe sat, and his decision upon thiscit),* atv,.it e d with the utmost impatience. BeLhant was brooglit up 1w a , econti examilPr 19 additiotV to the evidence ettibudied lit u u r first keputt on this subject, it. W 44,4100 111 the prisoner was usually sent to rorehase'rea for the other servants. Some of the tea placed by the prisoner in the drawers of the two girls, teas' produced: before the Magistrate, and three Sur .geons*, who attended at the Office, immediatelV declared. thit there was mixed 'with it a consitle~ rabic quautity of cantharides. The object o f sham was no longer in their opinion equivocal. The Magistrate, however, could make out ni l lumina \for committing him, the girls having (O r ; tainly not without hesitation) d en i e d th a t he hit" attempted any, violence upon them, either bet° l.4 .or utter the operation ut the cantharides. Tu e boost keeper, who bad not the same in compassion tor him, swore that one of them Ii complained to her that he had muddy eutered li'e r • chamber when -she was in bcd,.but her ( b re ws bad induced him to-retire. The influence of lh e • cantlialides . was manifested as .stron g ly .oPon yonng female, who visited the complainants anti drank of the tea that was so powerfully corrupted , as upon - them. The prisoneridenied that he:knew any thing of the matter, and refused to answer a question. - Mr. LitcKs.regretted exceedingly that thveeolls no legal ground for committing the prisoner. 0 0 ,trusted that the adthonition. given hiat that day • would work same cl h in his conduct, and assurea him, that if any thing fatal, had Occurred in cow" sequcuce of the diabolical drug which he had ado ministeted, nothing would have sand him .frout time gallows. Belsham was then allowed to (feria , I.vis unnecessary to state that his master indig: nantly discharged him front his service, He If nearly 50 years old. QUEEN-SQUARE. J. Mi Naughton, Deputy Commissmry- 0 " neral in the Petinsula, was brought front 61 ' Niar in's Watch-house, in the custody of Newigs 3 !hp. Co:istabk; for committing most ()imago° asaidta on IkLtjoe Tole, of the 32d, C:trtAi 9 (Monti( 11, of th'e 67th, and the Waiters of th e Sillopian Coffee-house, Charing-cross, Hnel for breaking the flu nit tire and windows of the Co"' room, on Wednesday night.- The Magistrate* ordered the Clink to commit the prisoner until 11 prothiced h a il : --C a p t ain O'Connell oho chArg e “ the watchman of St. Martin's with abusing; for ordering him to do his duty, in preyentingA l t r ; \l‘Naughton fron t -e s s au ltin g hi m on Oak wig ni the wat(fiehous e . O n t hi s charge he *it* c° "" ° tiritted to Tothill-fields, until he produces b BIRTHS. _Am* Yeo-rday, Mrs. Henry Douglas, 7, Upper eadogurr- -- of a on. 01. TU •sday lest, Mrs. John Loaves, of Trinity-*vores a son. —OO MARRIED. — - d d jeawit ,,r ir, William Hen! tylarrjrtt, Est intestsliuboila m• ap); Jam as Harnett, of West Hall, Mortlake, tL 1(04 Mary * *r.cood (laughter of Robert Hunter, Esq. of Surrey. . 24v iOn wic th ks e i r ite t . h April, Sir John rIIED Stuart, Bart. of Allaulibtaint:r: Clip :11,,nday last, aged 9U, Mr. Henry Karmoek, of Loodins and nepttord. ors - ( r. ' LON:1)0:v : outer: br J. itSTA IRS, No• at " hu;l.!ines; and publisited by A.SCRIPPS, of at the Sing-Orrice, No. 114, Strand: Whfre Ativl a:tabs, Orders, Letters tvostimidiotc, mud kc ad 41103"