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circumstances will permit, in the degree-in which such-in comes may have been reduced ; for, in considering this subject, it is important 'to bear in mind that the general amount and real pressure of taxation have been positively increased, in the proportion of the improved value of our currency. Your Committee cannot conclude the observations which they have found it their duty to submit to the House, with. out observing, that most of the Petitions referred to them Complain of the inadequate and injurious operation of the present Corn Lat. grain on and . pray generally for protection, nut for equal to tlly, b ut for all - the'productions of our Agriculture. country. —le protection given to the manufa c tu re s of this to I Y n i thin this p r i nc i ple, the Petitioners appear to be friendly a open trade; hut in the application of it, as expounded in some of the Petitions, and' ilinstrattd in the examination of some of the witnesses, your Committee cannot but appre hend that the duties which they contemplate, would be alto gether prohibitory. It cannot he necessary to enter into any statements to show that, practically, this would he the result, in all but seasons of scarcity, of -a fixed duty of 40s. a quarter upon wheat. Your Committee will merely repeat what they have already xlated,that .when the trade•in corn with the Continent was open, subject to the scale of duties imposed by the Acts of 1723,1791, and 1804, and in force till 1815, there never was an innwilation of foreign corn to any amount during the short intervals when the high duties were demandable; and vet those duties at no part of the time exceeded 245. 3d. per ,quar ter- To this fact they will only add, that what is proposed, addition ro the amount of the duty, namely, that it should 'e Permanent, " whatever may be the price," is a proposition wh ich your Committee are confident the Lexislature could never entertain, nor any considerable portion . of the commu nity ever countenance. The suggestions with respect to duties equally prohibitory On every other article the production of the soil of this coon .. try, all come under the same principle, and are open to the same abjection. The principle would, in fact, go far to anni hilate commercial intercourse altogether; and is moreover f'mnilcd, as it appears to your Committee, upon a mistaken statement, as well as an erroneous view of what is deemed pretiction to our manufactui es. In the first place, they feel the more warranted in affirming, that the argument of the Petitioners rests in part upon a mis conception of facts; as they observe that one of the witnesses, in order to illustrate his ideas and the wishes of the Peti tioners, has furnished a table of the duties payable on foreign Manufactured articles, of which several are subject to direct I . ) eavi dirties of excise in this country ; and upon which the I mportation duty, as for instance upon the article of glass, is imposed in a great measure to countervail the duty upon that article manufactured in this Kingdom. • But the main grounds upon which your Committee are disposed to think that the House will look with some mistrust to the soundness of this principle, is —first, that it may be well doubted whether (with the exception of silk) any of our considerable manufactures derive benefit from this assumed Protectioi, in the mai kets of this country; fur how could the foreign manufactures of cotton, of woollens, of hardware, compete with our own in this country, %silos it is notorious t hat we can afford to undersell them in tine products of those great branches of our manufacturiug ,indUstry, even in their ; flw n markets, notwithstanding that c o tt on an d woo l are so b- J t e et to a direct duty on importati o n, n u t drawn b ac k upon ' h eir export in a manufactured stale, as well as to all rite in direct taxation, which affects capital in these branches, in common with that capital which is employed in raising the Productions of the soil ? Secondly, that there exists this most eosential difference between the effect of protection given to the manufacturer (even it he did not enjoy from natural causes a preference in the home market), and the attempt at a simi !ar protection and monopoly to the produce of the soil—that '" all employment of capital, either in trade or manufactures, Profits are limited by competition. If, for airy length of ti mes or from any circumstances, profits are increased, in t„Y particular bran c h, a bO ve th e accustome d average, addi nal capital seeks employment in that branch, and profits are again speedily reduced to their former level. 'this would equally be the case if the demand for that particular article v 'ere doubled ; a n d it ma y f urt h er f requent l y h appen, as we hale witnessed of lite years (in all goods, for instance, liouglit of iron and cotton), that, owing to discoveries- its Muchanical and chemical science, and improvements in the M anufacture, au immense increase of consumption may be co ncomitant with, and probably, in a great degree, the result of, a great fall in price. , the sam e p r i nc i p l e, i t i s true, appl i es to the capital and t hat of th e f armer; b ut w i t h th i s i mportant d i st i nct i on, 'tat the price of caro, taken for any series of years, is nieces "rily regulated by the expense of production upon the lands W hich, at that price, make no return beyond the charge of ras ing it, together wills the ordinary profit of the capital ptPloyerf upon those lands: The cultivator of such lands, the time, is upon a footing with the merchant and the Z'onufactnrer; but if the demand for corn were doubled it :uld forc e iiito cultivation poorer inds, requiring a larger i1' , ."P.1 to raise the same quantity of produc e ; th e pri ce o f 11,,,'" Prouce wou determine e price ote whole, or f le poo d rer land s could mit be th maintained f in ! cultivation ; there cannot permanently he two rates of profit in the 1 1 4 !`" 4 ' occupation. It is sufficient fur your Committee to point 1 the grOutid of difference, and to leave it to the juilament of h it , e liousc, in connection with the observations which they already submitted in a former part of this Report. 4 nother wish expressed ,by some of the Petitioners, and i d s " of the witnesses, is for the r e p e al o f th a t d ance i n the a d— Act, which allows the warehousino in the United u n til' foreign foreign corn, when it cannot be taken out for home . -° ,, d socapti T l 'hc grounds upon which this alteration of the law is nig ted, for the relief of the British grower, are two-fold.- 2,t• That the foreign corn absorbs the capitals of the dealers, wouldbe employedo ulating in corn of in t r: ,„ ou otherwise growth;sh and, secondly, that it enables them to hold, il t hc warehouses of this country, a large stock of foreign i th e at, the notoriety of which soon the sett( makets, from dr,aa o f i ts b e ing poured its sasit is free by the • Prices rising above so shillings. ri te fast objection proceeds upon two assump . .ions, both the which appear to your Committee doubtful , that 1,11 apitals of the dealers are alisorbed in this foreign spe- L 4t ion ; and ally, that. if mit so employed, th ey would rec dlate with them in British corn- Your Committee C n ceire that there is no fixed moonlit of capital' assigned 1 1 this trade, and That it is governed by the same princi e' which stimulate the application of laid capi in valuer All",elies of foreign or domestic commerce. he of ft, t h e foreign corn now in this country, which cannot he sold )lr home consumption till the price shall, for some weeks, ire exceeded 80s. a quartet, is probably less than one mil. 63_11. sterling. British corn, by the last returns, was about per quitter. Can there he a doubt, if an impression generally; that it would rise to 795. before the next litl,:st, that abundant capital would lie found for specula hE • and is notabe want of it, at this Moment, rather to s e „ re celved .as erieence of an apprehension th at, in the s eoti 'l t of another productive harvest, the present low prices 1 1 1 : 1 not be improved ? r e th l "n the second objection, your Committee have only to co ar k, th a t it is un q ues tionably trite, that the present ac aloliit• • . of ih ion of a great quantity of foreign corn, the surplus ha ve " two or three last harvests on the Continent, would h ve ot c ,aosiderable influence upon the prices 'here, in the ge es t ` the ports being opened in consequence of a deficient not ' but the question is, whether that influence would herlcy9Carly, if not altogether th e saute , tinder that contin- Port, )f„...that accumnlati o n w e r e a lt oge th er at t h e s hi pp i ng vei r ,„ ° ' * Holland, or other parts o f Continent, instead of gQ?" dui lded b e tw een th em an d th e ware h ouses o f t hi s coon- Should the prices here he fluctuating, between 70s. and lie ow r e ibe small difference might perhaps be produced by the Reni ck d i e of th e a ccumu l a ti on i n our own warehouses, sti• to k, ‘ "ng the Briti s h grower t o b r i ng hi s own corn to market, p, rt v el , down the price when it was approaching to the re ale, in order t o s hut ou t the foreign supply. B u t i n t hi s •.t.ht_P t. et, accurate information must he to Ina, an advantage. int might also be a little varied at which a part of the cRh erign corn, upon the ports being opened, might End its way N , • Brit this di ff erence w o uld nu t be considerable, the s p h. s of Flanders and Holland b e i ng as conven i ent for the to -riles as most of our own ports from which, corn is shipped r Lond on Navin • st. ted the grounds uponwhich your Committee are hl'pinion that the expectations which have been entertained a r drantag e f rom th e repea l o f th i s clause, are rot likely to they conceive that the views in which ii was in f.. laced of making this eoutitry a deposit of foreign orain, o',.Tra.hich either our own occasional WalltC, or tli7ise of ~( 11 nations, might be supplied, are, independent of other -o ,, nsuleratio ns , too much in unison with our general ware ?_antuscing system, from whirl) this country derive such import , commercial advantages, to be abandon( ci, without fur ther proof of their prejudicial effects tin our agricultur e , th an any whi c h your C ommittee have been able ' to collect from the evidence. -• It is material to observe, also, that the wareh ous ing o f fo reign corn in this coontrv, thus great adr:iitrige,Uiat it places the supply of our Wants to the extent of the quantity 'warehoused, out of the teach , of foreign States, 'major, in out of their power, in a season of .searcity, to aggr ava t e th e pressur e o f t h ose wants, either o of c on) , or b y imposing a heav y Y Troll i biti ng t h e export The fact o f upwards of 100,000 of qty up on th at export. been dairertec:trziltel,y4,be sent iui f t ri r ntl:e warehouses of thi s country to the quarters o f wheat having Mc skews that, this facility of .defroait is I . . " t a matkr of inditic.ence to ttic commerce and nar , igation of tl!is count' y. An impression prevaikin many quarters- that large quan tities of corn, impoited February, 1819, have tecentl) been intr o du ce d in t o h ome consumption. This could only have occurred by a fraudult: s l elllsloll of the law. Of the existence of this - practice to, a -great extent, your Committee have received many intimation, y appear, however, to rest upon vague rumours, wlish the parties, when called upon, have nut come forward, or not teen able to substan tiate, except in one instance, the oarticulars of which your Committee forbear t 6 state, as it isunderstood that the per sons concerned in the attempt are now under prosecntion• her will only observe, that. the qUirrtity stated to have been withdrawn was inconsiderable., and teat it appears to them, if further security be requisite against tie recurrence of this fraud, that regulations for that purpos, may easily be de vised and introduced into the Bill, now before the House, fur better ascertaining the averages. Instead of expressing doubts with respe,t to the remedies which have been suggested by others, it would hare been far more satisfactory to your Committee, to have been en abled to conclude their labours, by pointing nit some imme diate measure of alleviation, which would have been effica cious at once to mitigate the distresi, and to Vlay the alarM which prevails among the agricultural classes of the con, mutiny. If such an expedient could have been found, even in a temporilly departure from arty sound and rem: ilted princi ple of general policy otn this subject, or in any modification of the existing law which could now be attempted, tr e y might have been disposed to submit it to the favourable cotisidera. tioo of the House; but when, atter a lung and ankious in quiry, they have nut been able to discover any means, which, in. their estimatiOn, arc calculated immediately to remove the present pressure, thry know too well their own duty to the House, and feel too much respect for the manly cha racter of that class of the community, wbuse (lithe tittles have been the object of their investigation, either to attempt to disguise the view which they have taken of, the origin and nature of those difficulties, or to recommend that specific plait of relief pointed out .by the suffering parties, sk hich, however sanctioned by the argomenfi anti prayers of their Petitions, appears to be founded in delusion, and likely therefore to lead only to disappointment. So fat as the present depression io the markets of agricul tural produce is the ettct of abundance from our own gro'wth, the inconvenience arises from a cause which no leaislanve provision can alleviate ; so far as it is the result of the iucteased value of our money, it is one not peculiar to the farmer, but which has been and still is experienced by many other classes of society. That result however is the more severely felt by the tenant, in consequence of its coincidence with nil overstocked market, especially if he he farming with a burrowed capital and under the engagements of a lease ; and it has hitherto been farther aggravated by the comparative slowness-with which prices generally, and parti cularly the price of labour, accommodate themselves to a change i❑ the value of money. Iron* this circtunstance, combined with other causes, the departure front our ancient standard, in proportion as it was prejudicial to all creditors of money and persons dependant on fixed incomes, was a benefit to the active capitals of the country; and it cannot be denied that the restoration of that standard has, in its turn, been proportionally disadvanta geous to many individuals belonging to the modoctive classes of the community, and especially to those who had engaged in speculative adventures, either of farming or trade. That restoration must also be accompanied with embar rassment to the land owner, in propurtitio as his estate is en cumbered with mortgages or other fixed payments, assigned upon it during the period when laud and rents were rai,ed to as artificial value, in reference to the impan.ed value-of the money in which those incumbrances were contracted. From riie cessation of public loans, the ratability of large aecumulations of capital, and the constant operation of such a Sinking Fond as, in the present state of our finances, may henceforward, daring the continuance of peace, be regu larly appropriated to the reduction of the public debt, your Committee trust that the rate of interest of money, may, in a short time, be so far reduced Gelow the legal maximum, as to make those encumbrances a lighter burden upon the landed interests of th•• kiugdoin. It is an alteration which former intervals of peace have produced, at periods in many respects less favourable to its attainment; and it, in the present instance, the want of that alleviation' is become more urgent, your Committee venture to hope that, from the great accumulation .of capital in the coun tiy, co-operating with the effects of a positive and steady reduction of the public debt, this salutary result will also he more speedily brought about. They look forward to this mode of easing the incinnbrances of the landholder with the more anxiety, as, amidst all the injury and injustice which an unsettled eurrency—an.evil, they trust, never again to be incurred—has in succession cast upon the different ranks of society, the share of that evil which has now fallen tiptin the lauded interest, is the only one which, without inflicting greater injury and greater injustice, admits (now' that we are so far advanced in the system of a restored cOrt riles° of no other relief. The difficulties, great as theysinfortunately are, in which it has involved the farming, the manufacturing and trading interests of the country, must diminish in pro portion as contracts, prices, and labour, adjust themselves to the present value of money. That this change is now• in progress, and has already taken place to a coo.idershl e de gree, is in evidence before your Committee. They are satis fied that it will continue until that balance is restored, which will afford to labour its due remuneration, and to capital it fair return. And,ailt hough they deeply lament the deraog,- tarot which the fluctuations of the last ten years, in the va lue of the.currency, have occasioned in all the transactions of life,-together with the individual loss and suffering una- . voidably produced by the return to a fixed standard, they are satisfied that this was the only course which it was in the power of Piirliament to adopt, as well to prevent the continu ance of a derangement, leading, as it tutt,t have led, to the aggravation of those losses and sufferings, as to manifest to the world the inflexible determination of this c•tuntry rigidly to adhere to that good faith of which the moral character of the people is the sure guardian, and which, with that character, has placed Our greatness and our power upon the founda tion, hitherto tinshakeu amidst all our vicissitudes, of public credit and•uational lionour.—.brae IS, 1541, SHIP NEWS. DEAL, JUNE 22. —Wind N.— Came down from the River and sailed the Star, Elsden, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Copia, for Odessa ; and Waterloo, for the West Indies. • Remain the Janet, Punch, from Ramsgate for AmSterdam ; and William Penn, Brown, from Petersburgh. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the Scourge cutter,-from a cruize. YARMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Arrived the Economy, Willing ham, from Hull for London, with damage. PENZANCE ; JuNE 20.—Arrived the Success, Roudell, from Cardiff for Rouen ; and Lloyd, Duran, from Newport for Jersey, both leaky. Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal, by the ship Kingston were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Coin, mander of that ship. . . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT HEATH RACES, FRIDAY, (LAST DAY.) Sweepstakes of 30gs. each, 20gs ft. Mr. James's Ajax - - Duke of Rutland's c. by Smolensko Lord Suffield's Juniper, out of Niobe 6 to 4 agst Juniper. Sweepstakes of 200 gs each. Duke of Grafton's c. by Woeful, out of Charcoal Loid Foley's Breeze - - - - Th e Judge placed two-6 04 on the winner. Plate of 501. for all ages. This race was won easy at two heats, by Patrick,, beating four others. The Wokingham Stakes of sgs each (Handicap). Mr. Colman's Patrick .. _ _ - Duke of Rutland's Pennytrumpet - - - Two only were placed, nine started.-2 to 1 agst Patrick -7 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's--4 to 1 agst Soota. - 1 - 2 - - 1 - 2 1 CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 22._Although we had but few arrivals of Wheat since Monday, a considerable quantity of that day's supply remained over f or t hi s morn i ng ' s market, the demand for which was . very limited, and only alew samples of prime quality - could be disposed of, but which ob tained Monday's prices, and all other sorts were only a nominal value, there bong no buyers of the ordinary samples. Barley being scarce, is ls. per quarter dearer. The Oat trade was rather brisker to-day, and fine Corn fully supported our Mon day's quotation. M hite Pease are more inquired after, and Beans sold rather freely.. • SMITHFIELD NAIIKET,. JUNE 22.—Altnougn the market this mowing was plentifully supplied with cattle; the sales were exceedingly dull. Prime Beef obtained with dif ficulty last Monday's prices, and the inferior descriptions were nominal: Mutton and Lamb are much the same as on Monday. TII LONDON- JOeft-YAIA. DAIEY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPEII3. June !-23. [BRITISH PRESS.] AGRICULTURAL REPORT.,--The principles ex= pressed in this Report, with reference to the means suggested by the landholders for improv ing their condition, and alleviating the distresses of the country, must prove a disappointment to those who anticipated from the Committee-the re commendation of what has•been erroneously called " further protection." The Report contains con clusive arguments against the impolicy of impos ing any further restrictions upon the importa tion of foreign corn, and proveS most sa , tisfactorily that; with respect to the home consumption, the British farmers ' have for the two last harvests enjoyed in effect a corn , plete monopoly. .The Committee give ample. proofs not only of the great extent of their labours in inquiring into the state of the agri culture of the country, and in examining the feasibility and expediency of the various sehemes. •of relief proposed by the numerous petitioners to Parliament, and by several Members of the blouse of Commons, but also that they were influenced by an anxious solicitude to gratify the petitioners if possible, even, as-the Report ex presses it, " by a..temporary departure. from any sound and recognised principle of general provided that such a measure 'offered any 'reason able ground to hope that it might be attended with some relief to the sufferers.- Their labours however, conclude by an admission that they cannot recommend any project as calculated to produce a certain. good, and such being the case, the country must now feel that it is. beyond the power of Parliament to administer relief to the agricultural interests by pursuing such steps as the landholders themselves recommend. Much of the existing evil is attributed, and we are tisfied very justly, to the effects .of the varying standard of the currency, and a hope thence arises that as this is restored to its ancient purity and consistency, and .as prices gradually accommodate themselves to the fixed standard, the evil conse quences of the former.deviation will cease to be felt. [MORNISG POST.] We have given, in a preceding part of our Paper, the substance of the Report of the Agricultural Committee of the House of Commons. Itis an able and important document, and will not fail to be read with interest. It abounds in deep and forcible reasoning, and suggests, as a mat ter highly deserving of future consideration, whether a trade in corn constantly open to all nations of the world, and subject only to such a fixed duty as might compensate to the grower the loss of that encouragement which he received during the late war from the obstacles thrown in the way of free importation, and there by protect the capitals now vested in agriculture, from an unequal competition in the home market —is not, as a permanent system preferable to that state of law by which the corn trade is now regu lated ; but in suggesting this change of system for further consideration as a possible improve ment of the Corn Laws at some future time, the Committee are fully a waie of the unfitness of the present moment for attempting such a change, when a great accumulation has taken place iu the shipping ports on the Continent, and in the ware houses of foreign corn in this country. txaw T MES .] In the House of - Commons last night several Resolutions were moved by Mr. S. Rice, relative to some alleged misconduct of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, relative to fees and appointments. After a reply from Mr. O'Grady, the discussion of the question was defeered . until Tuesday next, on the suggestion of Lord Lon , : donderry, who. urged the propriety of consider ing with calmness and caution a matter of so much delicacy and importance in any country, but peculiarly in our own, where the judicial character is invested with so much dignity, and has long been so exalted by unspotted probity and eminent talents, that it is justly regarded with a reverence, surpassed only by the feeling of religious veneration. • [THE TIMESI The Report of the Agricultural Committee has been some time upon the table of the House of Commons, and we this day offer a few extracts from it. We fancy the agricultural gentlemen will find it more calculated to overturn their theories, than to satisfy their wants. The for mer, we fear, was not a,difficult task : the latter it was beyond the powers of a Committee to effect immediately, or totally ; and the Report, we should apprehend, will neither greatly acce lerate the period nor increase the quantity of relief, however it may explain the causes of the existing distress a►►d knit them into a system.— It is curious that the Committee should think it necessary to speak of farmers as trading upon borrowed capitals, and of landlords as having their estates mortgaged. That such cases may occur is unquestionable ; but the people who complain most heavily and most justly, are farmers who are sinking their own capitals- upon their farms, and landlords whO have the title deeds of their estates in their own hands, but cannot obtain their rents for the support of themselves and their families i❑ the accustomed comfort. [MORNING crutomcr.n.] The Journals which applauded the horrors of the period between the return of Ferdinand VII. and the re-establishment of a free Government— which lamehted the downfall of the Inquisition —which apologised forthe assassinations at Cadiz, now as naturally condemn the punishment of the men who have been convicted of endeavouring to involve Spain in bloodshed and anarchy, in the hope of replacing their fellow citizens in chains. We can easily understand therefore why the sentence pronounced against the sanguinary Elio, should meet the disapprobation of the Journals who share his principles. But how happens' it that Writers who are perpetually exclaiming against the intemperance and licentiousness of the Press, should indulge in the most grossly; vituperative language, when speaking of the Go vernment and Legislature of ;vain A Morning Paper of, yesterday, in commenting on the intel= ligence from that country, says, " the wife of General Elk presented a Memorial to the Cortes, but those wretches passed to the order of the day Prosecutions have been insti tuted by the Attorney-General for milder of fences against Foreign Governments than the above. "It is to be feared," says the same writer, " that Ferdinand VII. will have the baseness to sacrifice this faithful subject to the fury of the rebels." What Rebels ? Why the Cortes, to be sure, and all who obey the existing Government. Do we not know that according to Laybach and Troppau doctrines, they are Rebels, because their existence was not an ema nation from the free will of FerdinaißL Ilow ever, to term a Government with which our own is in amity, a Rebel Government, is, to say the least aft, neither very decent nor Very tein perate. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. • MOUSE OF COMMONS. • Veneris, 22° die Junii, 1821: Cinque Ports Salvage Bill,—considered in Committee; to be reported to-morrow (this day). Salvage Act Amendment Lill,—considered in Committee ; to be reported to-morrow (this day.) Customs Duties Bill,—considered in Committee ; to be re porte.d to-morrow (this day.) Scottish Malt Bill,—reported ; to be read a third time to morrow (this day). Scottish Distillery Drawback Bill,—reported ; to be read - 4 third time to . .. Morrow (this day). • • • Tobacco Duties Bill ;—Committee deferred till Monday. deferred from Tuesday till Wednesday. *,* For tbCPARLIAMENTART REPORT, see the Fourth Page. ERBATUM in Yesterday's SUN.—For majority of 54 on the Catholic Bill, read 39, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Red 76a 1 Bank Lon; Ann. 19 3 per Cent. Cans. 4 per Cent 941 Exchcq. Bilk par 1 dis. 1 pr. 5 per Cent. Navy Ann.... shut Cons. for Opening 77q HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROT Morning, 33 minutes after . 8. 1 Evening, 7 minute. after part, viz. Generals EINNAniEu, For, and nAsTrANr ; M. CATROL, M. DEMARUAY, and the King's Commissioners, M. de CAUX, and M: TIIIRAT de ST: AmNIA . : The first and second chapters of the War Budget were adopted, with a rethiction of 36,000 fr. oh the first chaptei, as proposed in the Committe*. FRENCH THE SUN. SOLE2II QUIS DICERE F. 4 LSUM AUDEAT LONDON, S_ITURD.fr, JUNE 23, 1821. We •received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday. The last accounts ' from AValachia, dated 23d of May, represent the army of YestLANTI as receiving considerable reinforcements of volunteers ; and a letter from Athens furnishes a narrative of the insurrection in the Morea and• neighbouring province's, but the particulars have been already. before the public. "It would appear that the Turks retain possession of not more than seven or eight forti fied towns and castles. The peasantry of Attica, Greeks and Albanians, are in arms, and have raised tire standard-of Greece in the village of Meinidi, three leagues from Athens. They have been joined by the inhabitants of Salanis and of different villages of the Isthmus. The Turks have retired into the citadel of Athens, and have taken with them three primates, two ecclesiastics, and several of the principal inhabitants, as hos tages for the fidelity of the Athenians ; but the peo ple flock, notwithstanding, in great numbers from the town to the camp of Meinidi. According to advices from Constantinople of tire 181.11 of May, the Russian Ambassador has frequent conferences with the ReisEffendi. Private letters, of a recent date, from Spain,- represent that country as still in a distracted situation, owing o the numbers and activity of the disaffected. June 18, Five ppr Cents. • B6 f. 50 c. Bank Stock • ' 1599 f. --: c. . June 19, Five per Cents : 86 f. 35 c. Bank Stock 1590 f. c. r It appears that an interview took place be tween the actual King of Sardinia, Charles Felix, and the late King, Victor Emmanuel, at Lucca, on the Gth of this month. The Duke of IvIoDENA and the Archduchess of PARMA met them there ; and it is said these personages intend to remain at Lucca a fortnight.—A Royal Decree was pub lished at Naples, on the Ist instant, granting an amnesty to persons whose, names had been in scribed amongst the Carbonari, and who had not been concerned in any conspiracy, or guilty of any public crime. AGRICULTU RE.Wre received the printed copy of the Report of the Agricultural Committee yesterday too late for insertion, but our Readers will find it at leugth in our Paper Of this day.— It is impossible for us, in this short interval, to have perused it with such attention as to enable us satisfactorily to give a decided opinion on its tone, arid the expedients, which, it distinctly in timates, may be necessary to relieve the pres sure Of the heavy difficulties under which the Agriculturists are now labouring, and which, if not speedily removed, must involve then in cer tain ruin.—lt is the production, if we are rightly informed, of a majority only of the Committee, which, we understand, was by no means unani mous on any Of the various points before it. We would rather abstain at present from directing the attention of our readers to any - parti,i. cular passages of the Report; but there is one of such vital importance, that we cannot forbear submitting it to their most serious, but dispassionate consideration ; we allude to that part of the Report where the Committee express a hope " that the rate of interest of money may, in a " short time, be so far redtiCed below the legal " maximum" as to make the public taxes and. charges on the landed interest less burthensome to them. It is obvious that such a measure will strongly affect the public credit of the country, and that it would be unwise to adopt it without the most positive certainty of its beneficial in fluence on the general interests of the country. It is observed this day by The Morning Chro nicle, which throughout the year never fails to rail against the measures of Government, whe ther right or wrong, that " the loudest inveighers against vice are often the greatest sinners." This maxim is doubtless founded on truth and expe rience, from whatever quarter it might issue, but we leave the public , to make the proper appli cation. We understand that the CORONATION will be celebrated on the 19th of July by public and private dinner parties, balls, routs, &c. through out the kingdom, and that a general Illumination of the Metropolis will take place on that eveninz. An Address to the KING from the Inhabitants of the City of Dublin, expressive of the joy and gratitude felt by them at his MAJESTY'S inten tion to visit that city, has been most graciously received. Co ear OF CLAuus.— The Court met again yes terday, and made further progress. Yesterday afternoon, at 'six o'clock, the Duke of YORK arrived in town from Oatlands.—The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess Au- GusTA left town yesterday morning for Richmond, where they spent the day with the' Dowager Countess of CARDIGAN, and in the evening re turned to London.—Yesterday the Duke of Crt- RENEE dined with Mr. and Mrs. SMITH, in Nest Norfolk-street. The Duchess of CLARENCE spent yesterday with the Duchess of - KENT, at her apartments in the King's - Palace at Kensington, Their Highnesses Prince and Princess E.• TERIIAZ Y are on a visit to his MAJESTY, at the Royal College in Windsor Park. NEW LOGIC.--If the increase of prosecutions proves the diminution of crime, then, pier contre, what must be the 'dreadful state of some Welsh Counties, where sometimes there is not a single prosecution ? If the absence of Complaints from SICILY proves the misery of that country, what a happy place must Old England be, where we have tio thing else—from the Opposition The Adventure Sloop of War, Captain SMYTH, is nearly fitted for sea, and will sail in a short time for the Mediterranean, for the purpose of surveying its eastern and southern shores. On Thursday Captain SMYTH gave an elegant de jcunt' to upwards of 100 visitors on board the ' Adventure. The quarter-deck was covered by an awning formed of various colours, and exclu sively appropriated to dancing, for which purpose an excellent band of music was provided, and cotil ions;quadrilles,&c. alternately enlivened the scene ..,,- _ for several hours. The refreshments, which were On Monday the French Chamber of Deputies numerous, and consist e d o f every d el i cacy, were was occupied With the discussion of an article in served in the cabins, and on tables placed round .' company were, the ' Llie Budget of the Mi n i s t er o f the Int er i or , re l a - the lower. deck. Anion. Admiral Sir Isaac 'Coffin, Bart. ; Admiral and . tive to the expellees of the Royal Council of MrS. Frazer, an d family; Sir Willi am and Public Instruction. This article, the last of the Lady Beechey ; Mr. Beechey ; Captain Brace; Captain and Mrs. Murray ; Mr. a n d M rs . M ur- Budget of the Mini s t er o f th e I n t er i or , was finally . • • • ray; Lieutenants Beechey, Slater, an d O a k es; adopted, after a st rong an d animated opposition. (commissioner, Mrs. and Misses Cunningliams; The Chamber then proceeded to take into consider- Miss Rennie; Mrs. Smyth; Mr. Warrington, ation the Budget of 'the Minister of War. The Pre- Stc: &C. Sz.c.. *: silent announced th a t severa l amendments w Mr. COGLE, who was s o d ange r ous l y woundedould on n evening the rioters be proposed proposed for a re d uc ti on o f t h e est i mates. T he stree M t, o dided ay last night in by Westminster in Infirmar othill y. Minister of War, in support of his Budget, gave a He was attended by Mr. STEritENsoN,-the House geneial sketch of the state of his department, .Surgeon, Mr. WHITE, and ' o th er . eminent medi cal'Geniemen, but he was too severely injured which was listened to with great interest. .. The to admit of . a hope of his recovery. The Coro- Abbe DE . POMPIER ES then explaitiQd his first. ner's Inquest, was expected to take place this amendment. M. TH I It_kT DE ST.A I GNAN,tbeKING9S day. Five of the rioters are in custody. ELECTION OF AN AmmumAN,--Yesterday a Commissary, in reply, passed in revielf all the re:- .•. . _ ' Wardmote - was held at Butch er 's H a ll, o f th e in ductions that were suggest e d, and'inSi'Sted thafno :habitants of Billingsgate Ward,. t o e l ec t an Al . reduction could be made in the Budget presented.. 'Clerman in the room of Sir WILLIAM LEIGHTON, The discussion was co who has resigned, when A NTHONY B ROWN , E sq . continued who the next day was unanimously eletted, amidst universal ap (Tuesday), in which the following persons took. plause.