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Bean't DAttk. iniu a les Ei!• 43 Gi .,l _ 73 -0(1 Pt ' Poll-03" per qr. tye, Fog" .26s ; 'Js. a €. 04-- .tigi) i7S is 42i laws, DI tcoti, 11 71. a 5s :3 ,1 13 -1 ' I Sd- 03'.5 Od e-. I a 7'!. °ll., ci a Se 0J id a '1‘1"-' a 93 Xl'''. a Os 0,1-"" ply of f L froul inquiO4 e( ! ' to 1: 11° to 5 1 . to 3. 10 41ics Vise; 41° St. Jo' ° ' iv?..41' , -4 et/linen' leon ; di. r) A;.r. • • the ,to A n' 11el' F I to , Stokes) °I. - 1 Ci1 5 0" ~~.~„~' the `t.S' it/ , ( Numr)na 9188.1 PICTU.4I , I,I7VV-OFFICE, JalinurY 29, ) 49 - 2 ' THE COMMISSIONERS for. VICTUAL - • • LING ..His MAJESTY's NJ IT do here 'l/ give Xotice, that 'on Tuesday, the 12th of l'cltruary next, they kill be ready to receive Ti!nders in writing (seated up) and treat for the supply (on separate Contracts), of all such quasi of FRESH BEEF and VEGETABLES as may be re quired for the use of His Majesty's Ships and ressehi: at ireymouth, for the space of -Twelve Calendar Months front date of the Contracts, the Condition.s• of which may be store at the Secretary's Office. at this Office, or by apply i"4* to . the Colkctors of his Majesty's Custom's at Trey vro:m. record will he had to any Tender in which the Price ' 3140 11 not by inferted in words at length, or that .I.h/ill not be de livered $o :the Board before One o'Clock on the said • Ueßday,' hie I r B rit .r de, ; itA. / ess the Person • • Y -I ' o ',lakes-the Tender, or .rune Person . on his licher! , ati,nds to ansiver when called f7r. Each floater mast be acconikanied by a Letter signed responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the ' - arty tendering; in • the penal Snot of 500/. 4 for the due I 'e l ' 4 inuanee of the. Contract for Fresh Beef; and of 250!. I,l P' Me Vegetable'Contratt• HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. AGENERAL COURT of this CORPOR ATION will he held at-the FREEMASONS' TA VERN, on SATURDAY, the 16th instant, at Five o'Clock: H. It. H. the Duke of YORK and ALBANY, President. • Gentlemen intentlinVo be present are requested to leave their flames at the Bar of the Tavern, on or before the Isth Instant. Dinner at Six o'Clock, precisely. • JOHN WED - DERBURN, Sec.. . BR AMA PATENT PORTABLK PENS. ASPURIOUS.Imitatioh of these PENShay. inC recently been intr oduced for Public Sale, J. BRAMAH and SONS, 124, PICCADILLY, the Manufac turers and Proprietors of the Invention, acquaint its nume rals Patrons and the Public, that in future every Box or Packet of their Genuine Pens will he stamped with a fac si mile of the Signatnie of the Ins rotor "JOSEPH BRA MAH" by which means the Counterfeit will be easily dis covered. • -January 24, 129€1.. TO THE PUBLIC, BISH having advertised the Scheme of the ,-11. • State Lottery at length, begs leave to submit to ,nishest Friends, the Public, its principal Features, and 10 9`tcs fin-ward to a very extensive sale, as it appears to be noiver,Ally approved. It consists of only 20,000 Tickets, to I .s drawn in Four Days. a It begins With of THIS MONTH, . There are Five £20,000 Money Prizes, There are Seventy other Money Capitals, Thire are (1,610 othe'r MOney Prizes, There are nut TsVo Blanks to One Prize, Tbete are nut any Classes, Evqry Ticket will be drawn singly, Each Ticket decides its own Fate, and no other, There are £200,000 all Money Prizes, The very first Prize draWn must he x;30,000 - Money, Nearly to other Capitals may be expected First Day. 'Pickets and Shares are selling by T. BISH, 4, Cornhill, 9, Charing Cross, London; and by his Agents in the catta i l" . * r" In the present Lottery there are 75 Capitals, being "nsi , !erably more than double the number the last contained, as that possessed holy 33,—out of which, BISH shared and sold nearly.half, as he and his Agents distributed no less than Fifteen 1 . a,,* The Price of Stocks is affixed hourly against BISH'S Office in Cornhill, by which the Public may see the fluc tuations. • This Day was published, In Three Volumes, limu. price 11. Is. in hoards, SUMMARY of CHRISTIAN FAITH and PRACTICE, confirmed by references to the Text a.t Holy Scripture ; compared with the Liturgy, Articles, and Homilies of the. Church of England; and illustrated by Ex tracts from the chief of those Works which received the sitiction of Public Authority, from the time of the Reforma tion to the final Revision of the Established Furtnularies • By the Rev. E.. 1. BURROW, D.D. F.R. and L.S. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 61, St. Paul's Church- Yard ; and 3, Waterloo-place, Pall Mall ; and sold by Ri vingtons and Cochran, 148 , Strand ; J . Parker , Oxtord ; Peighton and Sons ; and Nicholson and Son. Cambridge. .TFIE araTisur CRITIC. THE FIRST NUMBER of VOL. XVII. NEW SERIES, was published on the 81st of January, Price 2s. 6d.; containing the following Articles :—Wilks on Ecclesiastical Establishments—Burton's Description of Eto nian Antiquities, &c.—Bishop of Llandaff's Charge—Lady foes-ey's Letters— The Pirate—Rev. J. Lonsdale's Four Ser 'mom . at Cambridge—Bokker's Thucydides, &c. ; with a List of New Works published during the Mouth, and announce merns of others In the Press. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 62, St. Paul's Church yard ; and 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Malt. Of whom may be had, 'just completed, The Sixteenth Volume, or any preceding Volume, price 15s. ed. each, in boards ;or any single Number, at•-2s. 6d. ** A few Sets remain . of the First S,;cies, with General Index, in 44 Volumes ; and are offered.for lit. in boards. • REV. G. S. FABER'S WORKS. • This Day was published, In Three Volumes, Quarto, with 3 Engravings, !nice 61. 15s. in boards, - 'THE ORIGIN of PAGAN IDOLATRY', 1 ascertained from Historical Testimony,:and Circom liaantial Evidence. By GEORGE STANLEY FAEIF.R, R.D. Rector of Long Newton. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 62, St. Paul's Church- Yard ; and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. Of whom may be. had, by the same Author, 1. Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions, 4 vols. 3co 11. 4s. 2. Horse Mosaicze; Sermons at the Bampton Lecture in 1801, 2 vuls. 81'0. 11. 4s. 3. Dissertations on the Prophecies, 5 cols. Bvo.-21. 13s. _ • 4. Treatise on the Holy Spirit, Svo. 7s. 5. Dissertations on the Mysteries of the Cabiri, 2 cols. 43r0. 16s. • 6. Remarks on the Pyramid of Cephrenes, lately opened 1 31 , Belzoni. SVO. is. 6d.; 41n. 25. HUDSON'S TOOTH POWDER AND TINCTURE. THE above Discoveries, if attended to, will effectually supercede the necessity of a Dentist ; they .are sure remedies for ail I)isordrrs of the mouth ; they not merely cleanse and beautify the Teeth, but preserve them hem decay to the latest period at life ; they are an antidote for Gum-hails, swelled face, and the tooth-ach i • they remove the scurvy from the l e aving them firm an d of a healthy ,redness; they infallibly arrest the progress of Caries in the Teeth, refresh the month and sweeten the Breath ; they hoth ,possess the same virtues, and may be used alonei or together, but the 'rind tut acts mare speedily in fastening - loose Teeth, removing the Scurvy, Ike ; and it is an infallible remedy for the 'Tooth. ach, ;mil prevents a relapse ; they are so perfectly in nocent, limit Child may take the contents of .a• Box of the Powder; and the Tincture is an excellent Stomachic; price 2s. 9d. each • , Also, HODS( IVS TOOTH BRUSHEq in sets of three, made on Sci.sritifie principles, price 3s. and in Ivory, 7s. 6d. The fallowing - Agents are appointed:—Mr. Atkinson (wholesale Agent) 44, Gerrard street, Soho-square ; Sanger. 1 50 ; Chandler, 76, Oxtord•street ; Gattie, 57 ; Eigge, 35, ihlond-streei; Howell and dinars, 9, Regent-street; Paste, 41, Cornhill ; Prout, 2.?9, Strand ; Barclay's, Flett-tuarnet ; and mast Medicine Venders and Perfumers. N. B. As mistakes have arisen to the Public respecting the above articles, the Public are respectfully informed, that M. Hudson, Chemist, Hayinai het, has no concern with them; Th.E. is any genuine without the Proprict6'rs name and* Address is printed am the label. , # _ N .1 4 * , > f 4 ‘ 1%1 Yog. fl /7? //2 p i -"" a AGRICULTURE.; COUNTY OF - SURREY MEETING. Yesterday a numerous and most respectable Meeting of the Freeholders, Land Owners, and Occupiers, of the County of Surrey, took place at Epsom, in pursuance of a Requisition address ed to the Sheriff, to take into consideration the propriety of presenting a Petition to Parliament on-the present distressed state :of the Agriculture of the country. At 'about a quarter past 12 o'clock, the High Sheriff, accompanied by the principal Noblemen and Gentlemen of:the County, among whom were Lord Ellenborough, Lord King, Honourable 11. G. Bennett, Mr. H. Sum ner, Mr. Denison, Mr. Leech, Mr. Maberly, proceeded to the waggons, which were drawn up in front of the principal inn, where they had pre viOtislynsse-mbled.—The Requisition, sigued. , by the principal Laud 0 wners•of the County, having been read by the Under 'Sheriff, J. Smut, Esq. the High Sheriff, said, that as the Requisition was signed the 14th of Januar)‘, and the advertisement calling it did not appear till the 21st, he felt it due to himself to explain that circumstance. The Requisition did not, in fact, come into his hands till the 21st of January ; and as soon as he perceived that it was called for a legal purpose, and respectably signed, he lost no time in calling the meeting, and immediately sent a messenger with instructions for that pur pose. He felt it necessary to state this, lest it should be supposed that there was any hesitation or reluctance on his part to accede to the Requi sition. The HIGH SHERIFF having taken the Chair, begged to call the particular attention of the Meeting to the subject which they were that day assembled to discuss. He trusted that Gentle men, in delivering their sentiments, would con fine themselves to the object for which the Meet ing was called. That object was one of the greatest importance, and could not hut be weakened by the introduction of any subject with which it was not immediately connected. Mr. WEBB WESTERN, in coining forward to move a Petition to be presented to Parliament, had to apologise for addressing them ; but he was an old land proprietor in the county, and as such he could not give a silent vote upon this im portant occasion. Knowing at the same time his own incapacity, he thought it better to precede than to follow those who would address them with so much eloquence, that any thing he could have afterwards said would be lost and dazzled in the brilliancy of their speeches. He was not surprised that the meeting was so numerous, be cause of all questions that ever called for the at tention of the nation,'this was the most important. (Applause.) It was not possible that the landed interest should sink, and that all others should, not; all must sink or swim together. (Applause.) It was impossible that the other classes should exist if the agricultural class should fall. (Ap plause.) Landowners, farmers, householders, shopkeepers, traders, fundholders—Who never could be paid without the aid of the other classes, and particularly the agriculturists—he was ready to pay them, and to do justice to all, but they must have the means : all were in the same situation, and must stand or fall together. It was an easy matter to talk of high rents ; but before he came to that topic, he would advert to, another subject. It had been sometimes said that landlords and tenants had not the same, in terest : he maintained they had. It was very bad management for a landlord to let his land at a rent which his tenant would not be able to pay, after having had a fair compensation for his capital, and a fair remuneration for his exer tions. (Applause* No landlord who was not a fool would let his lands otherwise. it was the interest of landlords, and every man's feel ing of interest actuated his conduct more or less, to let his lands at a rent that could thus be paid. If he let his lands otherwise, the tenant was obliged to neglect his lands, and the landlord lost the unreasonable rent he had imposed; and afterwards he was obliged to let his lands at a lower rent than he could have got in the first in- stance. The present distress was of a very par ticular nature : he hoped it would not last long. The labourer was in unison, too, with the land lord and the tenant. Landlords, tenants, and labourers, were but links of the same chain— (Applause ;) they were all in the same bog, and must sink or swim together. Another mis apprehension was more generally believed ; it was, that high rents and high prices had enriched landlords and farmers. He believed neither of the assertions was true, and he thought he' could prove it to demonstration. Landlords were said to have doubled or trebled their estates. lie for one had doubled his rents, and he' was poorer than he was before.—(Hear !)—This was occa sioned, not by squandering, but they could not live in the same state with double the income. They had not more to spend ; they had not so much ; this he would say in his own case. When he had come to this country, he had laid a pipe of wine in his cellar for 391., which would now cost him from 1001. to 1201. The double, then, would not now pay it. The carriage bad cost him 1101.; it now cost him 3501. But to get out of his carriage , to leave luxuries, and get to the necessaries of life, he had then bought a pair of boots for U. ss. They now cost him 31. 55., at least so his sons, told him.—(2 3 t. laugh.)—Now the farmer could state a case for himself better than he did as a landlord. The poor's rates now were more than doubled ; leather, every thing was in proportion, but the poor's rates were decisive, and they were tripled—quadrupled. Ifohen, neither the landlord -nor the tenant had the money, who the devil had it ? (" The Govern- / , .. - . ei . 1. . , AZ : -,:.... ...I - . . , 4 ,, L.V, ' I * ...•:, '%.?:" • . burdens Which occasiooed-the sufferings of the agricultural classes, and of all clasSes. The dif ferenfjournals of the day, the different meetings held in various 'parts of the country, were enough to persuade one that the pressure was great; that it was sufficiently estimated, and that a retitle-. tion of the taxes was looked forward .to as' the only means of relief. They had been told that those taxes had been necessary for the support of the war. The war might have been necessary, and the taxes might have been necessary for its sup port: Great doubtS. were entertained on both points. Bat whether it had been necessary to go into the war, or to support. it with vigour, it was at least least equally necessary to reduce the .taxes which Ministers had laid upon us. during the war.—(Applause.)---Thar this wissitot done, was sufficiently evident. In 1792, the whole 'amount of the expenditure of Government Was 7,000,000/. The army alone now cost 9,000,000/. —much more than the whole Government cost at the last peace.—(Applause.)—Ministers and . their adherents could always find reason for ex travagant taxes and expellees, though men 'of sense could see no reason at all in their pre tences.—(Applatise.)—A Committee had been appointed by Ministers in 1817,—a Committee of Ministerial men—(hear, hear!)—they were called a Committee of Finance, and were to re duce the expenditure to what they considered necessary. As Mini - Aerial men, they had given the highest allowance to Ministers. Yet this year the expenditure was 700,0001. more than that allowance.—(Hear, hear!)—The year after the Committee 'had fixed their standard, the ex penditure had exceeded it by 2,000,0001. — (Hear, hear!)—lt had not been reduced so far as it now was p , till attemp:s were made last year ; driving, harassing, tormenting Ministers, and bringing them before 'the country in every step. At this moment 3,000,000/. might be saved, and, added to, that, the whole sinking fund, which was a mere delusion, Nvoul4 make abou t 7,000,0001. If a sinking fund was necessary, this was not the time for it; and it ought to be given up, that the nation might get breath and be better able to hear it. lie admitted that 7,000,000/. was an insufficient reduction. But looking at possibili ties, and at the severe pressure felt at this mo ment, and being by no means too. sanguine, he though this reduction was practicable, and ought to be instantly made.—(Hear, hear!!) [Lord KING now presented. himself to the meeting. Mr. Cobbett, whnhad stationed hitri self very conspicuously on a pOst-Chaise opposite to the Chairman, essayed to speak at the same time. The call was universally for Lord King, and Mr. Cobbett had the grace to be silent.]• Lord KING said, that though he had not Signed the requisition, it had not been from a wish to throw any difficulty in the way : on the con trary, he thought - the - requisition most proper, but he had not thought that it went far enough.— (Cheers.)-6-11 e was ready to do all in his power to promote the object of the Petition, and he thought the Petition a very proper one to be adopted. It was quite unnecessary to describe the distress which they all felt, It was not ne cessary for them to come from home to hear their distresses described.—(Cheers.) —They all knew their distress. But it was very necessary to ins , quire into the cause of it. If 7 by a Course of in temperance, one became unwell, it was necessary 'to inquire what course of life he had led. Six I years ago it had been said it was only a transi tion from war to peace. Well, the transition had been made, but the distress had not. passed away; Oh, then, it was the prosperity of one class which occasioned the distress of another, and this was an accident to which property Was al ways liable. Last of all came forth as the cause. of the distress of the country—What Exces sive produce.—(A laugh.)--Jhe real ,evil was excess of taxation. All other causes had been assigned only for the purpose of delusion,: they : were founded in fraud and deceit, and were in tended to keep out of view the true cause—ex-. ce - ssive taxation. This taxation had risen to such ext:..Ss by a war of twenty-five years, by the height of profusion and expenditure on the part , of a Government that was not controlled by the House of Commons, who were ready to vote more even than was asked. Since the peace, too. k a . military establishment, beyond reason or, bear ing, was misantained ; a very large Civil Li . st Was voted ; a paper currency all the while was making inroads into all persons' property.—(Great ap plause.)—Froni the beginning he had told that such would have been the effects of the paper cur rency. It was brought back again to a metallic standard without the proper red actions w hick ought to have accompanied it. The very lowest military establishment was required, and the loWest re duction of-the expenditure, of Government : the . Civil hist ought to be reduced in like mariner.— That was the proper course .to be adopted. II; possible, the• standard of 1792 ought ,to he .con formed to. The whole expenses, for England and Ireland had then been but 7,600,000/.. Now they were 21,000,000/. Why should they be three times as much ?—(Hear, hear !)--ssitedue tion of taxation was tl en the only relief. It was right to consider this subject in two points of view—first as to the debt, and next as to the re duction of the estimates., - They were first to begin with 'a reduction of the estimates, and to carry it to the highest possible amount. He de sired reduction to be proportioned to our means. The answer was, you have a great debt, and you must have a great revenue to meet it. But he must say, that if they did not compel, by every possible means, a reduction suited to their ezci gency, they would have very little liberty or property left. Their property would be taken both for extravagant. establishnients., and for TUESDAY, FEBRUA RY 5, 1822. ment," by several voices.)—He thanked them. It was so. The Government had got it for car-. rying on what they, called a just and necessary war, but what lie. called a crusade. It was a war which oijght never to have been commenced. He had been among the dupes who had been persuaded. that the war was right,— In ; consequence of that war, the expence had become enormous; but the enormous expen diture had not terminated with the war. Places, pensions, and sinecures, were created every day. Yes, they were not only continued, but additional burdens of this useless nature were created every day. In the meantime, they found their.money gone from them. They could not raise the money required, and those who had been fairly above the world were fallen below it, Landlords. ~ vete.! generally sensible of the change whichiiad taken place : 4ey had lowered their, rents. He defied any one to say that rents had not been lowered in every county in England. There were individual exceptions, for there were foolish landlords and foolish tenants.-,-- He had lowered his rents not a half, but above a third, and he never wished to see them up again ; but he did wish to see the country relieved from taxes which it could not bear.—Let them only have low rents and low prices, as thirty years ago, and let their bur dens be reduced to the same level. He there fore recommended Reform.—He wished for re duction and economy ; that was the Reform he meant.—lle would submit for their adoption a Petition whiCh he -begged leave to hand to the Under Sheriff to be read. The UNDER SHERIFF read the Petition pro posed : " The Humble r Petition of the Owners and Occupiers of Land, and ethers interested in the Agriculture of the County of Surrey, sheweth, " That the Committee appointed by the Hon. the House of Commons,. state, "rhat a considerable portion of the out goings on Arable Farms is paid out of capital, and not from the profits of the Tenantry.' " That in all probability the prices of the produce of Agri culture, in common with the prices of all other articles, will be lower, in consequence of the improved value of our money. " That they do not deny that it is the duty of the Legisla ture to shorten the duration, and palliate the evils of the .crisis. " That they think the situation of the grower of Corn both hazardous and embarrasSing in a country where the lowest price, which is considered to afford him a remuneration, shall habitually and considerably exceed the prices of the remainder of the world, although up to that price he should be secure& in the complete monopoly of that country. " That they think the ruinously low prices of agricultural produce at this moment cannot be ascribed to any deficiency in the protecting power of the Laws, that protection cannot be carried further than monopoly ; this monopoly the • British growers enjoyed 'for the produce of the two lost harvests (the Ports, with e the exception of the ill-timed and unnecessary im portation of Oats during six weeks of the last Summer), having been uninterruptedly shut against all Foreign import fqr nearly thirty months. " That they earnestly recommend that every opportunity should be watched, and every practical measure adopted for re ducing the amount 'of Public Expenditure, as the only means of approximating to a state of Finance, which, without im pairing the credit of the country, may lead to a diminution of the ,:xisting burthens of the people. " That they consider, so far as taxes fall upon the profits of the active capitals of the country, whatever may be the object upon which they immediately attach, or the parties by whom they are in the first instance paid, they operate in their ultimate effect as an abatement of those profits equally affecting the trading, the Manufacturing, and the Farming interest, by di minishing their means either of enjoyment, or of accumulating further capital, by savings of their annual incomes. " That they do not disguise from themselves that the weight of public burthens of the country (their nominal amount re maining the same), must be more severely felt in proportion as the money incomes derived from trading, farming, and manu facturing capital and industry are diminished. . . That no exertion therefore should be omitted to endeavour to reduce those burthens as nearly as circumstances will per mit, in the degree in which such incomes May have been re duced, for, in considering this subject, it is important to bear in mind that the general amount and real pressure of taxation have been positivelyincreased in the proportion of the improved value of our currency. [Here Mr. WESTERN observed, that the part of the Petition which had been hitherto read, was no more than a recitation of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons; what followed emanated from themselves.] " That notwithstanding such are the opinions of the Ho nourable Committee, no Parliamentary measures have been taken, except the repeal of the Horse Tax, or even recommend ed by them, that could induce your Petitioners to expect any immediate or to hope for any distant relief by reduction of Taxation. " That your Petitioners are induced therefore to humbly im plore your Honourable House to take the said Report into its most serious and immediate deliberation, with a view to such an alleviation of the present burdens as can alone enable the Agriculturist to meet the difficulties under which he now la bours. " That they humbly suggest, to your honourable House the reduction of direct and indirect Taxation, as being the most essential step to insure other abatements of the charges on rais in.- produce, so absolutely necessary to avoid Bankruptcy to the Landed Interest. " That yOur Petitioners trust they are borne out and jus tified in this humble request, by the Report of your Com mittee. " That your Petitioners are less reluctant in urging your Honourable HoUse to this relief, because they consider the State may be ably and safely governed at a much smaller ex pence than it now is. " That should your Petitioners' humble request be ne glected, they are assured that it will take away from the la bourer that employment he so mainly relies on for his sub sistence." Mr. MABEarx, jun. said, that there_were three causes from which our distress proceeded. The first, to which, as of inferior importance, he would allude but shortly, was the depressed prices.— A small excess of coin beyond the consumption of the country sunk down the prices in a much greater proportion than the proportion of that excess. Thus, if the excess was one-ninth, the fall of prices was in the proportion of one-fifth or one-fourth. A computation, , taken with the greatest accuracy the setso ► before the last,. sheaved that the excess of produce was one ninth, but the pressure upon the farmer by the fall of prices ‘‘as in a much greater proportion. The second cause was more important, and pro duced a more important effect than was allowed to it—it was the restoration of our currency.— The same quantity of pounds was now paid as formerly, when the value of the pound was greatly increased. The increase of value now was in the same proportion as the depreciation had been before ; but this was too abstract a point, and - he would not dwell upon it. The third cause was the most important of all. It was the enormous pressure of taxation; the enormous '• e 4 • • SEVENPEtiCi::. , , - means of influence. -If they: did .not -resist` -- this, and 'compel the necessary reduction;', : ,they",' . would give him leave to say 'that they woultf...‘, have . quite as • much_ liberty and property - 4 . as 'they deserted.. If ,the House of Contnninir,• had the virtue to restrain the .. Government great reduction, a very large reduction indoelt7; Would be ma.d.: When he was .assured . by oxt, of his friends that 70 Members of that •Hous.e4 , shared among themselves, annually,' 180,00016'X; 'the public money, Ite, , inust say that he did not wonder though Mr. Hume, to whom all felt great obligation for pointing out the shathefut manner in which the public money was wasted; but when he had to urge -his argunients in the face of, such an assembly, it was no -Wonder that lie • failed. (Hear.) Ife 'teas a sincere Parliamentary . Reformer; but, for the sake of nnanimity, he, refrained from moving an arnetid7t'ent, becauSe.it , . was not in the requisition. . Till the House of - - Commons became the real representative of tli.' peopie holding a sufficient con'sol over the pub-v lic purse, and not disposed to vote ?.t1; and tnortii than the Ministers asked, because they shared s 7 k . much among themselves—till the Houi,e was thus reformed, he believed, in his conscience, C,-..tt tla& country could not enjoy prosperity. (Applaz:se.,) ,- Seven millions were mentioned as a sum which.. might be reduee& If reduction wag not carried at least to that extent, this .. Country could not, know improvement or prosperity. They corn-;' , plained that they had not remuneration ; but the;. question was in What manner they were., to : obtain it. (" Reduce the taxes.") •He Was-i. quite agreed with them. Reduction was Eike only means.—(Hear!)—A Corn Bill had • been; tried, and found delusory. If ever he'felt proud of a vote, it was of the vote he had given against that measure. Let them not hope relief front that: he was very glad that it was not retort=, mended by any meeting in the coUntry . . Mr., Webbe Hall had been discountenanced . by all parties. If any of them thought it,necessary to; expose the fallacy of his project, let them read, his own evidence; or, if they thought that too' troublesome, let them read Cobbett—the nit* able, and the most entertaining of publications— The Political Register. Let not their ideas be distracted - upon this subject. Let them keep taxation steadily in view, which if they did not reduce, it would soon reduce them.—( Applause.)r. —The evil under which the country was expir ing was excessive taxation. Lands which had formerly returned large rents were now not worth cultivation, in consequence of that excess of tax ation-Which blasted the country. There was.fiti surplus profit. There was nothipg for the cultivator, and of course . nothing afterwards for the land lord. There was a report that the property tax would be revived. The great objection was,thatif_theygav4. any tax to the Government, they would spend .it. They had taken away this tax from them befor6, and they did very well without it. To use the phrase of the writer to whom he had already alluded, unless they were ." born idiots," they Would not agree to such a tax.—(Applause.)---- The revenue was said to be a proof of prosit'- 1 rity. There was partial distress, to.be . sure, bat the amount of revenue was a proof of prosperity. ~ If a stranger came to this country, .and saw the . distresses ; levies, executions, and similar motUs of transferring property, he would be apt to say, that this was not the flourishing country Whi:cit Ihe had expected to. find it. " Oh,- but,", says I his friend, " you have made a great mistake. This' is only' a transfer of property ; very ' di' - agreeable, to be sure, to him from whom it is transferred, but most agreeable to him to whom IheAransfer is made." They might double the taxation and • the revenue, and apply this doubled revenue to' influence a certain assem bly which -he would •not mention, and to en rich . their friends and. families ; and they might then say ,it was only a transfer—it was . no distress, but greater proof of the prosperity. of - the country. Ile 'derived ' great cOtisolation, he must say, from 'the . present proceedings. From the mode in which.it was felt, where it ought to be felt,' by the country gentlemen, a large proportion of the House of Commons would, perhaps, feel that they would do better by com pelling a reduction, than they had, ever done by . giVing taxes. As he had•said before, unless they reduced taxation, it•would 'soon reduce thern:=-- (Applause.) .., .. .. ' Mr. LEEcii said, that he had not signed the requisition:— that his objection to it had been, that it did not'express Parlia mentary.reform. If Parliamentary reform was not included in their petition, they blinked the question.—(Applause.)—Hewas very sorry that Lord King had thought it not regular to move such a resolution: He was the last man to wish to do any thing irregular, or to take the meeting by surprise. If they looked ' to the distress of the county,Thc could say that he was a cons:- derqble occupier of land, and, without calculating one farthing for rent, he was a loser.--(Hear, hear.)--Though he had not raised his rents for the last 40 years,—(That's true, yon-have not.") his tenants did not gain sufficient to pay him the old rent. In 1792, corn was, higher than now, and for seven yeirs before, and the taxes incomparably lower. The farmer was better off, and the cultivator was better off than now, were they to pay taxes and poor's rates only. If the lands were doiiblen ior tripled since, the enormous taxes surpassed that. But every 1 rent-raised since 1792 must be reduced to that standard; and ought to be permanently liXed so by every honourable landlord. —(Applause.)—lf' it was not their opinion that he ought, h.. :would not suburt his resolution. The Max. SIIERIFF said it was his painful duty to say, that he could not pat the zesolutica. , It would be a fiaud on thn -nunty. Mr. Tow xst:ND came forward on the hustings. This Meet int; would b a nullity without passing the resolution. They met to very little purpose, if they did not declare their sent - merits in favour or Reform—if they did not embody then in their petition—and-if they did not follow that up by all the coAstltutional means in their power.—Wreat and continual a: . phase.)—lf their voice was not heard, they must malte,it ba teat. He would wait Mr. Leech's motion.—(Crks cve.") The HIGH SiitYIFF said, he would suffer his right' . hapd to be cut off, before he would allow that 'resolution to be put. He could not do it, in Justice to the absent ,fieeTiOlo:ss (" They oug,ht to be here.")- r lf they i9V,TC aeFiroto oving Reform discussed at a county.rneeti - og, arid if they presqiit-d a requisition to that effect respectably and:nuyiiroUsly . 44d, wculd give it his best consideration vacd on eitiV4o,ccelazioa I