The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-10 00:00:00

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dispose of •ay rot, front owe to three art of tlirir Cu.,.
ostritellott.

Aro yea sitsakin of me average ev.p )—Yes, their report.
*We power.
Have you rrdererl et all, to any sp►ri6' tionwittim, it.e
plownetioo you tome sister' was for &het piiipows'll an
eery here 1 was iodated to make the es/caniuna, for porprees
of a literary oaten.; nod ther.f..re I cannot noir err
proreso; but f recoiled moat dead!, that MI referr at., 1.,
the *omelet of reports front the ratation-horiae at Dtrra.c,
for a series of years, toy calculations *ere currebersted by
Awe amount*.

As ottopered with what vales lotion. were corrobo-
rated he the reports of the custom-boom al Haws c, of the
gowntity of corn espotted.
What would be the largest export ender the elocertittnn, •
that hare bees stated, in menthe? of quarler• f—Tar
Number .ww hone known Is shunt 500.00 it quaiierit.
That evisurrr it confined to Dantzie oat) ?—Yes.
What Oho .101(1 sun ihiy from the whole of the ports of the
Baltic !—Not altogether rune Mau that, as far as it is theft
warn Trooth.

loch/diner Reggie !—Yes ; 'Ketosis* of that which cone.•
by the Vistula ; there is very lift le steeple's.
reesanoine that the present sccrtiwalsted stock. at Danime
and oth►r experlitig ports of the 1101 th of Europe had been
disposed of, and that the triple in corn heiweete England arid
the continent of Eutope, was to be free from the time that
the crops of the ensuing harvest become the subject of met.
motile speculation, send►r that free trade, what do co. con-
ceive would be the import into this country l—That n wrens
a mercantile question than a statistical one, and 1 had no
mercantile mewl., therefore I air not so well calculated to an-
wer that as many merchants in !hi* town.
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Whul quantity of food would the labor► of one t•w•
disee in ilium countries, beyond what is 'memory for him own
eonanniptiow ?—I have •ever gear rallied it ; 1 apprebe•d the
labour of one mau does in fact produce but lade more than
hie own sustenance.

To what country do you confine your observations'
those countries which export their corn down the Vialula.
Supposimin an average crop all twee Europe, in the pr..
Beset state of growth in Europe, and the trade free, do you
'lsiah half •,illion of quarte,s would rum. into this roue.
try !—From the "thole of Eloope it meld ; the harvest' of
the north of Europe vary so munch from those of the .•asttn,
Th• 'rieslings assumes an nvcradt• ?—That is a very MI.
no le quintal,. as ouch as that would mine reit sioly.
D.. yin, suppose two niilknos would come not in
the pr.vert state of cultivation; I do sot apprehenJ the
shots/ WOO Id fOll4l supply us with three wce►s consumption ;
I J. not beli. we that lice surplus corn of all Europe, whole
could learnt here at Ides prices, is equal to the .'.frorrenro
betweell the storks in hand now, in the piosessioo of the
millers and the conductor., sod 'lest which they held tea
years ago.

Du yon mean that the stocks now are hiss than they were
bin ye►rs alto?—Yes; and in airmost efinal In the greatest
spasolitv a hick they could get from ati She norl.l.
Upnn a compari.on of the distress, is hich the Comminre
take for posited. yon must have obsess' d, prevails in
country adorns( the riccupiets of land., and the dnorron ion
observed on the Conti...lit in 1819; whirl. yboutd yogi goy .•
the must wire./ ?—t would say st is the most *eyrie here ;
but thin 1 must make a remark, that you hsvt• ears of
awn who area weirs of capitalists, and oho exist nu were
else, in the oceurere of laud it exists in Friont only to
a small extent.
Do you thick they will he capitalists long if the present
prices resoaio !—Pte, cest►iaty wet..
What, is. posse opisiuo, are the causes of the present dis-
tressed slate of agriculture ?—The common cause, the lionsitv
being beyond the demand; the production exerediug tiic
cumin ptlloll.

The loorlorlion of thin moots! alert('—Tee; and the
stir plug of all Lampe utoperolaog here iu the ease of a small
advance.

Do you sod think that the total min of the occupiers of
land in this country is quite inevitable Iran alleiatioa dory
not take place?—Yes; but an alteration oust take plies
*Pio,s they ate ruined.

To %bat do you attribute this races* of production be-
yond the demand'—The stimulus of former high prices, a
Trey Calllgf.

Anil in the falling off of the ileinand?--1 should say et) if
11164 not seen the wares of Ike amouut of taxes upon
spirits, beer, and Asap of tbat kind, which mars we
hesitate.

What is your remedy for the presets' aisle of things?-1
lave no doubt it will flood a leaned, in • very few years; but
the.., perhaps, the remedy will be worse than the disease
Would not she immense Wrapertatious, amnnwsine to there
'millions of quarter*, that took place is. the year 1316, hare
an effect to depress the price?—A very ittjurioas effect opus.
the holders of cure or the gravies..
he your upiaion could stay slteratiun of the premed core
law raise the price at curs al presto' i—Tea, I t►i•k it is
Feasible.
What alteration could effect such a rise I—The having the
same i•deerme•ts to • free trade its English cora** throe
nerd su be before the operation of the warehousing clause Ili
she Bill of 1814 ; the operation of that warehousing clause
has had this effect of withdrawing from the market the
English cora ; the great speculators by their uperatiotis
maintaiued 3U • piable price through the whole year. I be-
lieve it was the eaalwa, farewell, amongst the great dealer
is tors, to send their ■gents to examine the stets ut the
crops 111111160174 the reports made by them, to malt causal, a
of what ought to he the age mice of the year ;by shi Tr
aware • balance was produced between she hap., sod 1110
seller; if the stallions fell below their estimated averaze
they purchased, if they rote above die, sold ; and by Huse
natural mums a proper balance between product:on and cen-
sumption was maiutaiued with tolerable equability 'homage&
the whole of the year ; the effect now is, that no wit* ',lnn
will employ his capital to 'peculation* in Entlish wheat. Sep-
pose 11 14/ be at UN. • /railer, aid foreign whom at Jos • sir.
owl diet its WIC case or the uther, will the sprcwbtur calculate
upon selling, omit it reaches 80r. In the one cam the pr.•tit
upon the *peculation would be 33 per cent. in the tether
ease 165 per cent. If it should be supposed that persons
would rather lie disposed to speculate in article* *bate some
retorts. could be made at any time by a rnmaitsarrider, la-
ther than invest their tourney in operatorroa whose termina-
tion may be remnv.d to several distant ray.; it nit.), he
resist ked, that the diliereace in probable profit is so vastly
disptuourituned, and the silk of that profit brag Mug dc-
►eted, so small as t • outweigh the fear' of t►e moo ionoid
adecootturr, rsptri.rlly cosiriderias that uvoo.oliy use Ira, too
bye, rolls r 11'015 the inclemency other r ether at halves,..*
from some prestos.* bad seasons, the puce ul likes* ps th.a
country rest Iwo 11w price at which the ports e opened,
Tots think, thou, that the warehustong system is Gnome.
Ile to capisalrts and speculators !—No ; I um afraid they
have but tuned It so is fat t ; 1 believe they have loot.
D.. you thtuk it boastful to the agricult us sit ?--Yes, I ►are
stated that.
Are yuu of opinion that the iticworealences which ynit
ascribe to the issrehouseng clause of the lass Art, can be
obviated by a simple ripe:.) tot it, is • state of peace?(
Meat a ss•ople septet would be better t►aw twilling; ot
ap-
pears to ors that the pr. scot state of agriculture is a tow.
ho nary thing, and it is impossible it eau lung reduce, br-
ew•* prodactiou rind consumption will 'met.
Is what way do you sheik the repeal of that clause would
obviate the iaeonvetniences which you apprehend noise from
the wart of a dispinitiows to speculate to Bluish cool', easp-
p sing
all the other parts of the Act to rental atiAllt'ord ?
—The indoteements to speculate in Brutish rarii would vise
from the greater wearily the sp►culators would have in
having their preperiy w• this side of the water bather ihau
Ilse usher.

Do you consider t►at the risk of basing eon. ■t Anirrerr,
litelirriloso, or Aolbterdalll, would b. cuisrmle.rd 4 aaatr.•A:
diernolly to sp:culatorr, if the pospct A Fruit were is