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AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

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Extenct from the Esidertetr emtexeri to the Re-
port or the Select Committee of the of
Commons upon the Agriculture of the United
Kingdom.
Jeri*, 15 die Martii, 1821.
Twomaa Sititamont Gooett, E.q. in the Chair.
John Ellison, F.. 9. again eelkd is, aid further eramieed.
Stale what you courtier would be the smallest emit at
which wheel resold be prutluce.l per arre, Minn the first,
sessusd,•nd third clam of soils, itidependentl) of rent ?-1
have been making a calculation this taunting upon the mill.
Ohms classes ; but 1 have nut taken the miter two, whirls 1
will, %sib Ifae perinimion of she Committer, deliver in un
tiitu.e Jay ; 1 hoer lakess a statement fee eight year*, of the
middling quality, worth shout 11. an acre, which 1 calculate
would produce three gleaners, ur twenty four bushels per
acre.. on an average, taking had and couil yearn together; 1
have tumid, in eorryiart out the amount of txpeisses and
pooloce,4f wheat wild at le-s than U. per quarter, there was
em rent remaining for the Isittllurd.
kllate what is the 'proportion of the rust of manual la-
bour ?—"I 'tumid cationic manual Labour at somewhere. about
front two shillings and sixpence Its three 'hiltless per hush. I,
to the production of wheat.
What would the horse labour cost ?—The horse labors,
would tpe abort float to the manual !slitter ; 1 should esti-
mate bone labour at two shillings mid sixpence, sod about
She sass for the manual !sheer.

How do estivate the 'slue of malearr ?—1 have est i-
to•ted the valsarof *anon at 3.. prr eul load; osier rustu-
ttury carts, arkielli contain about tweisiy-rickt bushels.
Iyhat is Our weight?-1 think it would he nearly a ton
aright, of rotten dau,t ; of ,otigh dung, out wore than four-
teen or Intern hundred *eight.

What dv yam valiante the rspaises of reaping and stack.
lag ?-1 estimate the capsule of reaping Si 12*. per acre;
tuttiag and shucking, the carting tu harms, td..d manual la-
hone, I estimate at es per sere.
What do you reckon tlhe threshing?—Furor shillings per
%limner.
When you speak of the expense of threshing, you speak
sr( ' -it by moos& I..hour ?—Yes.

doin
What'g do yen pay your regular men per week
144, a week to skew that are colustasitly by the day through
the tear, allowing them a guinea additiun.,l lu the mouth of
harvest.
What is the price of eOlll/1111011 labour ?—Alwint It. 9 I. per
thy, but urn more than fourteen Or fifteeu pence a wren by
some of my neighbours.
Fur what is that labour'—The common labour upon the
farm; such as hedging and ditching, and such sort of la-
bour; carting manure, or draining, or other labour ulitre
alley are worki.g by she day.
Supposing a Ind Ily good harvest to Ike place over
all the kingdom, would the inesemed quantity of the corn
the farmer would obtain remunerate him for the derreme in
price'—lt in impossible to answer that gisrution to the tans.
faction of the Committee or myself, but I should 'motion.,
from the ezperienee of the Present year, that it would out;
I should rimed that use priremowld be lower if there was
an abundant Corp the present year.
!supposing thirty millions of bmbela of grain were imported
timing she opening of the ports., which closed on the 15111 of
Ifebruary, 1819, what world the amount of labour laken
out of our own market its conisetplence of that quantity of
grain imported?—lt would amount to upwards of four Dui.
how ; I do not speak of four million. as manual labour only
1 iodide the horse labour; amid I should think, if the ma.

noel labour, as I slated before, was from two shillings lo
two shillings mod tixpersee a bushel, the manual labour wily
vu wheat would antarest to upwards of two millions taken
out of the country by the opening of the port", and the corm
brought in during the time they remained up. is.
Supposing this statement to be true, that there were
thirty million introduced during that period, what influesee
do you attribute this to have produced on time employinr u:
or nun-employment of war ow• labourers (or the laid two
years?-1 believe that it has tended to deprive mum' tabour-
ing men of labour epos the farms, ur in other words, to rte.
price the farmer of the cease of paying those labourers, and
earosequently he would nos employ them; I can speak of the
parish of Divide, bowleg nearly the whole of the parish; I
employ all the labourer., as 1 otherwise must pay them out
of the pours rater.
Have the pollees* to state to the Committee, what, in
your opinion, will, be she remedy for that evil ?—no far as my
own knowledge goes, I think that nothing is so likely to reme-
dy the evil ea • permanent deed duly to the amount of 3os.
or 40s. per quarter on import, which should be somewhat
equal to he d.ffereisee between the expense of tau ing grain
la great Britain and us the toutinesit.
At the present rate of tithes, taxes, and prices, would you
recommend a son of your's to take a farm ?—1 certaiuly
should not.
What is your idea of a flied duty; do you mean so high
as to be Oa prohibitory mere?—By no means; when she
priers of grain rise lobe oppressive on the consumer ; I mean
if the price of grata should rise even to 60a. per quarter, that
any Axed permanent duty the Legislature might third' fit to
nnnnn would not slop the importation of foreign grain lido
this couutry, when the price had risen to SOs. at appears to
ape that a Axed penumbral duty would have this operation
when the prise of wheat is this cuiiiitry wan 60r. per quarter,
aka foreign wheat would not be imported to pay a duly of
Zbi. or 405.; but when it ruse to 75i. pie quarter, that a
duly emu of 40s. would be paid by the importers, mid they
'would get a very good profit fur importing is.
Do you mesa to alter the law as to the importation price
of grain ?—lf it was in my power, I should alter that law;
for I do consider that law no protection olialever to the
!Wettish farmer.
In what respect then would you alter that law?—ln
the way I propose, by leering the ports uproot all time., by
payisg • fixed permanent duty on the import.
Do you think, from the information you have obtained as
to :be price at which grain could be grown on the Continent,
• duty of forty shillings would lo any measure protect the
Hrit.sh farmer ?—lt is my opinion, that it would protect
04 what 'sources of information do you funnd that opt,
ran ?—The amerces from which I derive that information.
ore from conversation that I have had with different import
era sf grain, and particularly a geutleman living at Lewear
(who has imported a considerable quantity), a very large
mealtime and • 'merchant ; he skewed me several letters
lately, both from Dimwit and trum Hantburgh, from ober-
cheats there, offeving to ship wheat at certain prices.
Did be inform you what was the general ge price of
cern in those poets ?—He did ; be fur:owed me, by letters
that 1 saw, which be said came from his correspondents,
merchants there, at what prices they would put different
wheats on board ; fur white wheats mud red wheats, to weigh
Ili and 62 pounds • bushel.
Did be give you any inforsaatio• respeeting other sorts of
grain except wheat ?—No, he did not. He is a large meal-
s/me; only testing in wheat and flour.
At what prices did it ai•pear that say of those wheat.
could be sold in Englandil—He told me, that atter paying
the freight, it could be delivered at Newhaven harbour, near
Lewis, at from 32 to 34 shillings a quarter; the ereight
would be about four shillings a quarter; that they could
buy it at 21 shallows to 30 shillings.
Did be state that as the would average price, or merely the
price at Ibis present moment ?—He stated that it wan fie.
gloomily lower; that he could frequently purchase it at a
less prier, and I suppose rice versa, sometimes it would be
brewer; when the ports here are open, the prices rise un the
opposite side.
Yoe have stated that you rated the manual and horse
labour at shout four Mailbags a bushel ?—Firs shillings •
heabel on wheat.
Don hut the price of that labour vary to • certain de.
Bore, according to the price of MIS j dues nut the cheap.
seem of corn eirabk pie to keep the homes cheaper, nod to
pay less wages to your work people ?—Must undoubtedly ;
it operates both he redwing the price of Stumm labour soil
oaf olaausl laborer.
Cass you tell is what proportion the price of the food of
the animal, both of the hareems', she man, eater kite the
price of the labour ?-449, 1 really custom l 1 have Noe

rtmade Aid calealatios, to speak with any &fret of emi-
fidence.
You have said that von would have a permasento tiled
duty ou importation, (veal to the difference of the expense
of growing corn here, and growing corn in a foreign
country; suppose that the population of England were
very greatly to increase, and it should be necessary for us
to hare recourse to much poorer lauds, would not the dif.
retrace of expense between grow tag corn here, and growing
corn abroad be moat greeter than it is at Ibis remotest ; and
accurdiog to your principle, would it not be necessary to
increase the fixed prrotairetil duly accordingly ?—I answer,
as booboo labour la.* ms,kctable article, like every thing
elsr, the superabundance from an increase of population
will have a tendency to reduce tbs price of that labour,
I for which reasons I think touch of the pourer lands of this
country might be brought into cultivation, which now
remain • posit:ve waste, and the labourers be employed
under proper protection.
Du you think that the rice acorn would rise, if we were
under the necessity of cultivating poorer lands for the. sup li
-
port orlon' rot& ?—The diminution its the price of labour
wool) be a great inducement to thu cultivation of poorer
Linea.
If yes as a farmer were obliged to cultivate land of a
worse sysality than that yule now cultivate, would it not be
necessary for you to charge a higher price for your cum, in
order to remunerate yourself fur the capital you employed in
it ?—The expense of the cultivation is much greater on poor
land,.ronsidering the amongst of produce; then, uu the other
hand, by way of comoensating the former, if there are a
number of labourers in the parish whom he is compelled to
employ, or pay than out of the poor rates, it is much better
to employ them at considerably reduced wages, thus to keep
them on the posit rates.
Then arcording to your principle the farmer would get •
greater profit if he cultivated pour land than if be cultivated
good land, prof 00 rent for either?—Certainly not; I do
not mean to say that.
Du you think that the price of labour its regulated by the
price of corn lit any drgrre?—l do tank the price of corn
has some operation on the price of !abort, bet certainly not
to regulate it so as to snake a regular stale of increase or
decrease. If tie Committee will permit me, I will state how
it has an effect 00 the priers of labour; the very reduced
pa ice of corn within the last two years has been the means of '
throwing a cleat many labourers out of empluy, those !s-
-hooters rather Ilium remain idle would work fur much less
wages than they would do when there was coustast employ.
meat fur the whole of them.

Supposing we had a protecting duty sufficient to protect
tic grower of curls in this country, and consequently that
the farmer was making his fair remunerating sweat ;if ler
those ciecriniatanees be chose to cultivate pourer lauds,
would not the conrequence of that be a higher price of corm ?
—I should say, eritaiiity not. I have never yet been gives
to undristanal, that an increased produce raw tend to increase
the price; ■u increased produce will diminish the price i■
Ibis country.
Do you think the increased produce always tends to lower
the price of the commodity produced ? —The increased pro
duce will tend to lower the price to the consumer.
Although the charge of producing it should be increased
....The kroner has it not in his power to charge what Is
thiatirs proper, or what will remunerate him fur the capons.
of the article he produces; he is subject to other circem.
stances; be is differed from • COlllllllOll manufacturer who
edentates all his espeus•s in producing as article, and
charges accordingly for that article.
What do you conceive to be the causes of the difference
between the biglie4 and lora est resit on laud growing wheat
—The difference in product with reference to the capital
employed in parlor-log it.
Supposing the demand for a commodity to increase In a
greater degree than the supply, would not the prier of that
commodity rise although a greater quantity of it should be
produced ?—Uudoubledly it would.

Would not this he the case if poorer lauds were•ealli.
sated, seeing that from the in of population there
would be a demand fur s greaser quantity of corn, where..
the means of producing an increased supply, would be at-
tended wish increased expense?-1 do not appreheud that ohs
extending t►e cultivation of the poorer lauds of this country
world have any tendency whatever to increase the popula-
tion of she cuunoy; that being the case you have an in-
creased t.npply of cosn wishuut any increased population,
and cutioqueotly the price would be loiter by extending the
clitiovattnii.

Ttm increase of population is mistimed, and the increase of
the cultivation of poorer land in consequence the pm-
duce of the soil keep. pore with the increase of the puptila-
lion, I see no season why it should rise; if it did not it cer-
tainly would, and rice versa, if the inc of produce
exceeded the increase of the population, it would tend tattier
to decrease the price than uthei apse.
if Government lays a duty on the production of corn, 111111
it nut a tendency so raise the prier of corn, •Ithosigh no
additioual quantity should be produced, the demand to-
maitsing the same ?—I do not apprehend that it would, even
if a duty was positively axed on the corn grown in this coon-
MC; I do not see how that could tend to raise lb. prier, ex-
cept by diminishing the quantity of land used in the cultiva-
tion of that gown.
Suppose an increased population in England, would that
be Itkely to have the effect of affording • greater supply
front Ireland and Scotland, where they have no poor rates,
by bringing some of their poorer grounds into cultivation,
which are now uucultivated from the lowness of the price ?
I should think it would. Whatever would lend to extend
the C 11161116911 bulb of Scotland and Ireland and this coun-
try, would operate to reduce the price of corn in this country
to the consumer.

grain to keep up to *early Om would not that
bare an immediate effect in bringing into cultiratiut, some
of the poorer soils is Scotland and behind which are now
abatidoued ?—lt certainly would, and of extroding mattes-
lion in this country also, if grain were to keep up to the
price.
You base stated, that the form for which you paid soot.
per annum in 1790, ruse to 1,200/. pe m in 18111 that
i■ 1814 it fell again to 1,0001., at which it has continued
since !—Exactly
You hare alms slated, that the real of other farms, for
which you are agent, rose one-third from 1790 to 1811 !
Yes.

They have now soh' fallen one...bird ?—Yea.•
How do you aecooot for the rise is the rest shoe, 1790 of
Me faros which low hire, while the rests of the faro. for

•grhich you are neat are the same or lower than they were
N 1790,-1 answer. that I can ask more fur smother than I
ma do for myself; that is the only reason. I bare not su
large so abatement as is made to oilier leotards us the astute
fur winch 1 am emacerued.

TOAI have said. that ea some of Ibe best lead which conld
be cultivated. a farmer would he reausaerated even by the
present low price of grain, it he bad no real to pay ?—I be-
lieve I stated, on some particular rich lauds of light tillage,
where the represent tillage was het little.
What rent do you think a paid for that land per acre ?
We have some land in t►e asighbourhood that rents as high
as 40A. au acre; some of tie land 1 have been dasoribiag.
Ou that land, if no rent were paid, the farmer could even
at this price obtain a profit ?—Net at t►e price we are sell-
ing at in our roomy. We are wiling wheat at Lewes, at
no more than from forty-eight to fifty @hilltop per quarter;
that is the best price at Lewes, except white wheats; 1 on.
derstend they are selling higher in Lostdors.
Is there any land whatever iu your county oo which the
farmer could obtain • profit by cultivating corn, if he had
no relit whatever to pay ?—I think there is some land of that
description.

When you say. that the capital of the farmer has de.
creased in these unfortunate times, do you mean that the
mousy seine of his capital has decreased, or that his stuck
bas actually decreased; that he has fewer cattle, horses,
sheep; and a Ito quantity of bay, corn, sad of other things
wM contlitute the stock of a farm.'-1 beg to say, that we
one poi ocular (arm over whicb I avn agent, the farmer three
or four 'rare ago kept four or sem WWII (II es a small farm of
110/. a year); he kept sit or eight remits growing up breed-
ing stork, that he bred to Conte into work; and also three
to four cows, generally four. 1 was sorry to Sod the vlher
day, in gulag user this farm, that all the yeoman stuck were
your, that all the oar's were rose; that be had only three
mows; sod bad tate is four ur firs boyars, which 1 saw it

the yard, treading doom die draw, hi Ike of die Pm Pik
yonog stork.
Do yen thick that this state of thins Is petty repeal
among the agricultural classes?-1 do; and it is hot mo-
aned only to the rester of lauds. A circumstance Occurred
(within two mouths of this time) to me, of three farina,
two of them were of the amount of 4001. a year each, and
the other, 3001. a year; they have bees he the ocerpation of
the owners for fifteen or twenty years, sad those the most
economical farmers 1 kuow of is the county, who run into
ao unnecessary ezpimse whatsoever; they applied to sae to
get some friend to advance them roomy on mortgage, for
they could not go on, though they had no rent to pay; they
could not pay the poor rates, be.
You stated that the quantity of bonded wheat was injuri.
ons to the farmer in this couutry ?-1 think very considerably
so.

Why should it be heirtful to him until the price rises to
60. ?—lt is hurtful to him before the price rises to 80s. in
this way ; it takes several buyers est of the market. Those
who would speculate in • very full whet, in taking off the
surplus beyond that necessary fur the weekly consumption,
now bare kid out their money in the purchase of foreign
corn, that is now under hood, as I have been informed by
some of the factors here in town; for which season I con-
ceive that the British corn brought to market now, has not
ao many buyers as it bad before the warehousing system took
place.
A man buying bonded corn at 465. has so probability of
selling it till it rises to 80s.; but another person huying free
corn at fifty or sixty shillings may sell it whenever he
pleases ?—The precariousness of the sessoas in this country
art such, that we usually have seine is about three or four
years a very defective crop, which if Use price does not rise
to nearly or quite 80s. a quarter it Is totally impossible that
a farmer under those circumstances can be remunerated ; so
ibr speculator, in corn (those who have gut mosey at com-
mand) will not purchase under those eiressaistancrs, British
turn at 80a. if they can bey foreign cora, though under
bond, at 10.. though the one is free and the other is bonded
for the time.

if the warehousing system were done away in this country
would nut foreign corn still be warehoused in the ports of
Holland and Hamburg's, ready to be imported into ellis
country, as soon es by law the ports were opened'-1 bate
uu doubt it would, but certainly not be purchased by the
same people by whom it is purchased now that it is bonded
in Great Britain.

No you think that tithes fall ultimately upon the rent of
land, or upon the consumer of the produce of laud ?—ho.
medistely on occupiers; in some &glee it must fall on the
consumer, though the producers must bear a considerable
proportion of the tithes at all times.
When you say that the Enghob farmer t compete
with the foreign grower of corn, on aceuuet of taxation, do
you not mean that be is under the necessity of so raising the
price of corn, to compensate him fur the taxes, that the con.
sumer Ands it more pruilable to buy the cheaper foreign
corn ?-1 think it totally impossible that the grower
or grain in this reentry can raise its price at ph ; there
can he no combination among the fat oars, if ors withholds,
another will send to market.

But it will be necessary that he should raise the price,
in order to compensate bim for the tax?-1t is necessary
that the price should be raised; ►et I think it is totally wit
of the purer of the farmer to liaise it, it must be raised by
the demand being greater than the supply.
When you say that the malt ins falls ea the occupier, do
you Mean that that does not alms fall Ow the eistimuser,
iscreasiog

by
raising the price of melt and the prim of beer?
—Noi in the proportion that it does on the farmer; for this
reason, the f hinter fithit beer to so teas, people, deffetent
from what ■ comatose family does; it has been the general
practice in Sussex, for the farmer to lad beer fur all his
t
la bourn se.

Supposing there was a free importation of barley, duty free
would out that tax, at present, fall entirely us the grower ?
—I shuuhl think it would be iutreasiug the supply at market,
and consequently reducing the price of the article.
Do you attribute the present low price of coin entirely to
the increased supply, or do you attribute • part of it to the
*lteration in the value of currency ?—I really have no !now.
ledge of the operation 4 the currency on i ing price..
Then you attribute the whole fall to the increased supply
of torn, ur the decreased consumption ?—lt must be priun-
pally from the increased supply et market.
Do you observe that time is an increased consumption of
potatoes among the labouring classes is your •eigbbour.
hood'-1 think there is a considerable increase withiu these
ten years.
. . .

Do you think that the large importation previous to the
end of February, 1819, has ►ad as effect upon the price of
corn to a late period ?—There eon be 1110 doubt it has ►ad a
very great influence on the markets, it has tended to in.
crease the quantity of grain brought to market, and by in-
creasing the supply, the dessard continuing the tame, the
price must decline. .

Du you understand that there Is say of that core in the
market which never has brew bonded'-1 am informed by a
factor, there are needy, or quite, 50,000 quarters in the
market.

(To be continued.)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

"Rre7401:1114 Auclurr 97.
Arrivrd the Southnorth, Simpson, from Literpool; Inte-
grity transport frunt Gibraltar; and the Rosario and Typo
(rum Cuxhaven.

Sailed the Gud Mid Haab, Cock, for Southampton ; and
Iltorkiugharo, Waugh, for Bombay.

PILTIMOVTA, •USUIPT 97.
Arrived the Yuri Merchant, Greyburs, horn Charaute fur
London. An American brig, name (Miaow'', has arrived off
the purl, bound up Channel.

FALMOUTH, ♦COUIT
Arrived the Juno, Blackburn, from Alienist for Grimsby;
and the Lyme picket, Clark, from Cork.
The marl for London, by a went regulation, leaves this
place now at half-put Iwo,p.m. instead of half-past five, a.m.
and the bags are closed at balf•past our every day.

WHITBY, AVOUIT 47.
Arrived off this port the Harmony, Stevens, frum Green-
land, with 8 bah, 110 tuns ; and Volunteer, Craig, 8 fail.
14 tuns.
DIAL, •UCYIT 28.
Came down from the River sod sailed the Amiable Eliza,
Grafitti'', fur Havre; Caledonia. Tate, fur ;
Mary Stephens, lot Genoa ; and Congress, Ridley, fur Mi.
tansiehi.

I H a, •uourr RS.
A small vessel, called the Mud), is lost un die Spaniard
Sand; she was Gum Bologna fur lomdun, crew and pas-
sealers saved.
Arrived the Mercator, Brewhi, with windlass •pset, ■nd
loss of anchor and chain cable; Telegraph, Amos, with lass
of anchor; and several ether vessels names uak•uwn.

AIIJOUST 2/.
Arrived from Greenland *be %Stalker, Ilarrisou, seven Gab,
230 butts; Lame!, panties., seven fisb, 290 butts; Man-
chester, Mitchinson, five tisk 70 butts; Sbanime,
four fish, 140 butts; Lbor, Lee, five fish, 170 butts; sad Ve.
lineable, Bennett. 10 fish, 280 butts.

Au American Paper (the Kentucky Gazette of
the 26th July) says—
.. About eight waggon bolds of specie were shipped a few
clays ago to the East ladies in one vessel. How many loads
have gone to the same country this season esunol be staled;
but a moderate calculation would settle it at about nae
hundred. Our gold is stealing of without notice. The
mint is continually coining, but very little circulates, sod
the reason assigned is, that it goes to England, France, &e.
As bills of exchange un London pay ten per cent., it is
cheaper to send silver or gold thou to pay the difference"
About twelve o'clock yesterday a great quantity
of plate was stolen from a house in George-street,
Hanover-square, by some person who contrived to
pose down the area steps unobserved (the gate having
been left unlocked), and entering the butler's pantry
whew the plate woe kept.

• SIMS EX ASSIZES.
••••••ICR.o.mgm.••••
Lawn. AUGUST eg.
GIILISBRT W. BLAIR.
This was a• attics for slander. The Plaietiff Is • our-
geon and apothecary at Worthing, a•d the Defesdant a
journeyman to Mr. Boning, a butcher of that town. Smith
Hanson, while with some other persons at the Royal George
lan, in the above place, said to one of the party present,
who complained of rlietunstisai—" Why not apply to Dr.
Gilbert, I think that he would give you some relief?"—
Upon which Thomas Blake, the Defendant, observed to
Hanson—"' When you see Gilbett, ask him wheat he saw
Mr. Duke last ?"—" What shall I say to him when lie has
given me an answer ?" was the reply of Hanson—Blake
then made the following statement, which constituted the
grunted of action r—" When Gilbert one day visited Mr.
Duke's, he wanted a basin and spoon for the purpose
of mixing up some medicine; a servant girl took the
basin and spoon in to him, and Gilbert used them is
mixing op the medicine; a few minute• afterwards the
basin and spoon were missed: an alarm was given. At
that moment Mr. Duke coigne in, and asked what was
the mailer!—The girl told him that • basin and silver
spoon were lost; Do you DOA I have got the spoon ?'
said Gilbert. I should as soon suspect you as the girl,'
answered Mr. Duke. Gilbert Hies insisted on being search.
ed ; Mr. Duke did searc► him, and fiend the spoon on hie
person; epos this Mr. Duke probed him out of doors, sad
horsewhipped him off his premises." U• bearing this state.
nient the wituess said that he modal inform Mr. Gilbert, the
Plaintiff, of it. " Do," replied the Defendant.," and tell hint
that I told you, for t bad it from good authority." On the
cruss•examisatioa of this witness it appeared that a brutkwr
of the I)efeadsnt hod bees prosecuted by the Plaimirff fur a
similar libel, and damages recovered epithet him.
Mr. W. Pennell corroborated the above evidence.

Mr. Duke was then examined : be paid that lie lives ofr
Leominster, near Arundel; that it was true • spoon • hick
bad been used by the Plaintiff was lost iu his house, and
that a person bad been searched, and the spoon found in his
possession, hut that person ass not Me. Gilbert.
Mr. MAR TTTTT for the Defendant, reminded the Jury that
his chest had nut invented the slander with which he Ives
charged, he had merely, through mistake, substitute.' the
name of Gilbert for the actual thief; and this mistake had
originated with the Defeeriames brother, of whom the Plain-
tiff had recovered ilamars, and, by so doing, bail fully via-
dicated his (Mr. Gilbert s) character. The Learned Counsel
thought the pretest action altogether uncalled for on any
reasonable ground, and confidently relied ola the Jury giving
the most trifling damages.
The Learned Judge, in Lis address to the Jury, said, that
small damages in this case would never do—it would cause
the public to suppose that there was some truth in the story.
If the Defendant was unable to pay in pocket be must pay is
person, otherwise poverty would become • license for ca-
lamity. The slanderous expressions which bad been so
clearly proved against the Defendant were peculiarly cal-
culated to injure the Plaintiff in his practices and the Jury
must be well aware that when a man—a professional man
particularly—war once supplanted in his business, it was
very difficult to recover the patronage be bad lust. This ewe-
sideration ought to influence the Jury is their decision as to
the amount of damages they should give.
The Jury, after a short consultation, ret•rned • verdict of
damages mud Is. costs.