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SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS
TENANTRY.

The following letter has been addressed by Sir
Robert Peel to his tenantry:
TO THE TENANT-FARMERS ON THE
ESTATE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL
I wish to communicate with you on the present
state and the prospects of agriculture, so far as they
concern our relations of landlord and tenant, and I
know not that I could select any better mode of com-
munication than this which I have adopted.
There can, I think, be no question that the effect
of the recent changes of the law in respect to the
free import of the main articles of subsis•eince, will
oe to maintain a range of low prices in average sea-
sons, and to prevent very high prices in seasons
of dearth. In other words, their- effect will be to
ensure, so far as legislation can ensure it, cheapness
and abundance of food as the ordinary rule—to
diminish the risk of scarcity—and to mitigate the
suffering from it, should it unfortunately occur.
It is because I believe that this will be the effect of
the changes to which I have referred, that I look
upon them as irrevocable, and that I advise you to
dismiss altogether from your calculations the prospect
of renewed protection.
It is my hrm persuasion that neither the present
nor any future parliament will consent to re-impose
duties upon the main articles of human food, either
for the purpose of protection or of revenue.
I would at once act upon that persuasion, and pro-
ceed to consider in what degree the free import of
provisions affects the relation in which we stand to
each other, if I did not believe that other causes, less
permanent in their operation, have had • material
influence upon the present value of agricultural pro-
duce. I allude in parti:ular to the general scarcity
and high prices which recently prevailed for two or
three successive years, not merely in this country, but
throughout great part of Europe—to the extraordi-
nary stimulus thus given to production—and the na-
tural, consequence of that stimulus—a temporal and
undue depression of price.
I propose, therefore, to defer for a time that general
review of the relation in which we stand to each
other, which, bat for the circumstances to which I
have referred, I would at once have undertaken.
When undertaken, it will be upon principles which
I think you will admit to be just. I shall not refer
merely to the diminished price of one article or an-
other, but I shall take into the account all the consi-
derations which fairly enter into the question, shall
try to estimate the effect of recent legislation and of
improved means of conveyance, in reducing not only
the price of produce, but the cost of production also
—and shall compare the disadvantage to which the
tenant-farmer may be exposed from competition with
producers in other countries, with the benefit which
he may derive, if he has ordinary skill and capital,
from the abolition of duties on many articles, which
are, or may be, profitably consumed on a farm.
I do not undertake to make a general and indiscri-
minate abatement of rent, but, aided by good advice,
I shall consider the special ewes a wash farm, and the
circumstances under which it was entered upon; and
in the instances in which I shall be satisfied that
there is a fair claim for an abatement of rent, I will
favourt, and make it with much greater pleasure in
of an old and improving tenant, than in favour
of a stranger.
Although, as I have before observed, I do not con-
sider the present the suitable period for this general
review of our position, yet I am prepared without
delay to co-operate with you in preparing to meet,
not foreign competition only, bet that competition
with domestic skill and capital, which will be at least
as formidable to those farmers who are insensible to
the rapid progress of agricultural improvement, and
neglect to keep pace with it.
I have not the presumption to offer you advice as
to the practical management of your farms; but
I may try to impress upon you this truth, that if
there be any of you who produce, on the ha
not more than eighteen or twenty bushels of wheat
per acre, and if there be other farmers who, in not
more favoured positions, and on land of equal
quality, produce forty—and if they produce this,
not by expensive farming, but by yr economy—
by the command of adequate capital—by the
application of scientific skill—by the liberal employ-
ment of labour—by the saving of every patticle of '
manure, and the restoration to the earth of those eyes-
meats of fertility which are withdrawn with every
crop—l may, I say, without presumption, try to im-
press upon you this truth, that there is no amount d
protection from foreign produce, no abatement at
rent, which would enable you to meet the competition
of you own countrymen.
To aid the exertions which are required to en-
counter successfully that competition, I make to you
the following proposals :
The rent doe at Michaelmas last will be payable,
atmodi to custom, in the course of a fry days.
In the cng
ue of all those tenants, occupying more