The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-07 00:00:00

AGRICtILnIRAL DISPNES.

Oa iliorohy a very I.OIIICIVIIII mod respectable Sleeting of
the Herpleosen concerned iu Agriculture wok plane al
Battle, in Surrea, and upon the pritpusit of Mr. Julio
Feller, of' Rase Hill, she Earl of Asnioutanitatt was unapt.
issously called to the Cb.ir.

Mr. CURTata, M.P. for the County, ripsaw] the business
in a speech of considerable tench. He soul, the country
appeared to him to be !dared in a more perilous idealism
than ever before in the whole stream of its histuoy. Vie
were upon the brink of a dreadful piecipire, for pauperism,
penury, ruin and beggary, seemed with rapid striates to lie
pervading the whole land. The •iew was melancholy, but
de.p Ica e would
very great, we, e not, lie trusted, insiiiirrahle. Before it could
he dr lei mined what re notbi s were applicable to a disorder,
it was lest necessary to il,rfefla:n the causes of the Maras,.
These were serious, Inoue, alone of them might not be im-
mediately curable, all uf the in admitted of pallistives, and
muse even of remedies, if thase who had the power to grout
would only bestow iheM. The first and leading cause of
our distresses was the want of a !sufficient protection
of Ilirtityh agricultural ;nuance against that of foreiga•
Ova. lo descanlitig span th•s subji•ct, he reprobated
the Iste &post of 11w itgoicultaial Committee of the
NOUN! of Consomme, which be designated the most
fallactious of all compositions, and rapeseed a wish le
'sae the system of averages and imirehouving abolished. He
racommeode i a rigid economy in every departeweut of the
State, which should nut catch 51 the small fry, but strike at
the great leviathans of ulfice; and be contrived that mach
benefit might be further ilmived limo a tax sander the nallitel
of A properly tax upon the public feuds. There cat. be ee
mama, hr said, .by the Stockholders shook, not coatriballs tes
the support of the National Clergy, foe they have wools to brs
saved as well as the Lowdown. rs. There cars be me reason
why they should wet contribute to the support of the
poor, fur they make paupers as well as the lateduirners.
The national clergy and paispetlion bring me In the enema
deratiou of an ample topic uf grieranee—the stare of the
laws relative to the poor and tribe. In this country The'
poor are • greater harden perhaps, than in any other, and
whether it would be politic to make a liege class uf propel iy
.obi. ct to the poor rates, as contemplated by the 43d of
Queen Elisabeth, which has not )et been done, it is
difficult to nay. The best remedy would probably be
to increase the wages of the por, to better their
CiMiddir.ll, and to render them inlependent of the over.
seers; for there is too moth reason to think that pauper-
ism would be always. eso-equal to any gnaittily of properly
that might be subject to its influence. I Anil say but hide
on the subject of tithes, fur it is • subject of great debtor",
though productive of great evil. I make uo to the
clergy, fur I since-ely think that upon moot occasions they
are more moderate in their deinassils then the lay isopropyl-
aims, of which I myself am one. But lam convinced that
a revision of the laws which relate to tidies might add to
the respectability of the Clergy, in the contentrueut of the
laity, and the g petal benefit of the cause of religion.
Mr. rumen oh) d, that the speech of the Hon. Mem-
ber was, w hos opinion, meek better suited to the romrioliso
ado. House of Commons than to that of the meeting which
he had then the honour to address. He then read a series of
revolutions aulteitinithe attention of the I..gislatore to the
distress of the agricultural Interco in the Rape of Hastings,
in Sussex, mad imploring some measure uf relief, which,
after some aberrations by Mr Britton and Mr. Langford,
were unaninsi•naly agreed to.

A Priition was.lll9; proposed, iu conformity with the Re-
solo, ..... 9,10 whict,--

Mr. HOLLOWAY glared so amendment, stating that the
promo' unexampled dishes. is chi. Hy attributable to the
resumption of cash payments, wh rh has, by temietoug the
quantity of money iii euculatiou, tended to reduce the value
of all kinds u( property, and therefore praysag such a re-
duction in the expenses of the Slate as shall be equal to the
present increased value of moury.
Mr. Barrios seconded the amendment. A long discus.
sioa emitted, after which she amendment was ingatierd and
the o Jamul Petition was put ■od carried. The Rare of
Hastings is mimposed of forty-eau parishes. The popula-
tion of 1811 was 82.281; the populatioli of 1821, about
41,880 ; of which 1313 mem are unemployed ur unprofita-
bly employed.
The meeting broke up about three o'clock, and soon after
the majority of the Gristliest • pies. ni sat down' to •r ill
the Grim Ruiim ulster Ilse discussion took place. Mr. Cor-
te,. went noattimottely called to the Chair.
Several speeches were made ■lii r . i ... tier ; among them
one of cousiderable lesigth by Mr. 0011111,17, 11l a hich he c. fi-
ssured the Corn Bill, pointed out the effect of the return to
cash payment, a/Moroi a reduction of taxes in proportion
to the in. in the value of yamies, and expressed ■u opininti
that pried had ant yet reached their lowest point lades
presatuU.

&WWII appropriate goofs were drunk ; and the company
brukc op at an cavil beet.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

IPORT*NOUTR, JANUARY 4

Sailed a number of the ouiwaid bound, ;mune tlii m he
following :—Helle Alliance for India ; Sir David Scott fur
ditto and China ; Nestor for the Mauritius; Nymph fur
Naples ; Helena for Mont ; James Laing., Sir Edward
Hamilton, Princess Charlotte, Barbadoes Planter, and Tut-
lurk Castle, for J.imaica ; Britannia for Grenada ; Britannia
for 11,s nombuctr ; and Elisabeth fur Africa.

PLYSIOUTII, JANUARY 3.

Arrived the Playlrlitt, Padrelough. from Coulon turGenua,
with in,. of bums and bulwarks, and leaky; also the Cyrus
hum Ireland.

'FALMOUTH, JANUARY 3.

Arrivrd the Camillus, 61(Carthy, from Cork.
Sailed Ibe Reward, Miller, fur Jamaica; Ealing Grove,
calkner, foe Dominica ; and John Rickard, Diiiican, fur
Tuba Cu ; also the Lady Arabella packet for Lisbon, Fox
pit ket or the Islands, and Csonileu packet fur tke Etraxils-•
tack with a mild.

HARWICH. JANUARY 4.

Arrived the Panope, Hiss ins, Irmo tier Ruth, with Imo
of norhnr and rabic; Ann and Sarah, Roomy, from Ham-
bomb, wish loss of ditto arid windiam, pawls upset; and
Henry Freetint packet wish a mail from Hullartd.
The Cho, Iho I OW, Crow Mem. I, went un shore ow the West
Ruck.' paten:a), hot was gut off by four smacks with lum
ur anchor and cable.

lIIAMFGATII, JAIIIIARY 4.

Arrived the Adeona, Lloyd, from Lomit' fur Loodou-
de rry, having shot her cable; Twee fdebroedetw, Unrogh,
hum Bina for Cadiz, with los. of 21:ClaOr and table, siila, &e.;
the Gram, Ogilvie. from Hull. ham hMI an author rtud rail.
off the North Foreland ; the Om is, Voss, from Ihruborgh,
for Gibraltar, his Lovett ore the Goode. iu Santis, with km of
anchors, tallies, soil rudder, and is •shore to the westward
of this harbours if the weather moderates hopes arc auto/-
Word she mar be gut off ueat tide.

aIARGIATI, JANUARY 4.

The Miners's, Rster7, from Liinsi I. k, rise an above last
night cm rtiri.tiess rock, sad will lie obliged to whets
it is hard she will be gin off. The Ad. inns Jacobs, Rues,
from Amsterdam for .Part blalsua, is brought iu here by a
host. havleg beta oat of bet course, and was running on
blugate Mud.

TiIITMOUTM, JANUARY 3.

Arrived of the poet the Rayalt•t of Lt;ad ))))) trona St.
John's N.B. with stern how krd in, loss uf sails, stern bust,
Ar. and has sailed Inc Lyndon.