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London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

MINORITY

In /armor of 111►. Holahoriseri Motion, u That the Tax ea
1v iudu.. in Greet Britain is unjust, earqual iu irs opera.
, iOI,, WO moat UppreSailre to those reperially oho are least
"Irk to I elf It. nod that it appear.. 1.. this Ilcuse that the
•*•4lTax rhould he furthest h sod immediately i 'pealed"—
Jaly 2, 1822.
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Anson, lion Q. Graham, S. Eke. T. S.
Darter/n..1. F. Grottos, J. /tiro, do, D.
Henortl. Ho. U. G (..kilt, B. Hobart', A.
Berea% U. Ilamil ~,,,, Lord A. Reinhold, C.
'Prieto. 11. 14ee)wood, W. F Sri, let t, .1.
Iturcirtt.. liar F. Itietchinteu, Huo. Scott, J.
Ewer. G. C. H. Sefton, Earl of
Penrlts Juba Haeldeworth, Thor. Sr e • art, %r.(Tyreer)
etteraft, John Lroaerd, T. B. 'Tennyson, C.
C.. 1". et, Liveries Lockhart, J. J. Tilebfirlo, Marq. of
('•orplrell, lieu. G. Naherly, JJlsa Wane, J. A.
Carter, Job, Melaroly, W. 1.. %Sewers, C. C.
Careudieh, 11. M smell, Jelin Whitbread, W. H.
Ltai les, T. 11. II 'Haut, Mark Whitbread. SC.
De Creepiney,SirW. Menu, J. li. Wallies's, W.
)t 1,1717/11, T. /rieo►e, Peter Wltheme. J.
Voodoo, lion. T. SI arjunibnaka, S. Wilson, Sir R.
Velnesontib, Yig. Noermiri, Hight Wt.ed, Alderman
Droirop, W. J. Hoe. Sir J.
thireemarr, D. Palaver C. F. VELLUM.
terieuseant Sir It. C. Rubieroii, Sir G. Dekko'''. J. C.
E.lkeitme, Yee. Aasudrr► J. C. WOW, J.

4CRICULTIMAL DISTRESS, 4-e.

PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS

Descriptive oftb;LiCoirtmor---tlitateroftheitirivaltiorol port of
Cornetts;rfto rite Elf nil of the atterett State ..f the Cur-
-1..1141 on the C'a'rat Amonal of Taxation ; snit the rile-
nye Stromlo') of the Public Cresliior aid the Public, ea-
r 'orb altered State ul Curreucy.
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1. That the Select Committee appointed Iset Session to
inquire into the Peewits'a cemplaimingerf the Jittrewed slate
,uf the Agriculture a tie Uuite.l Kuipluni, reported, That it
was *kb sleep rivet they bad to riesseausace their Report by
stagier, that is their judgment she centplaterts of the reti.
themes were finanded w fact, and tl at at tie price of ems, as
that time, 'heroin-nit to the convinces of arobtefseasa, after
,allowlirg fur the stiterisesuf their isivcrineols, were by no
moans adiquate to the chargesaad osigoiago,„ sail that • could-
dei stile portion thereof must ►ave, therefore, twee paid oat
of their capitol•: that the pries of grain &airbag nip reseed
• still farther depresatun, via. fruits 654.41. per quarter of
wheat to 435.; aid all other gush sad all other &melee hav-
ing medergeate • ',Sailer or greater declise, the insafficiewey
sef the receipts of the farmers to cover their charge. meet he
- proportionably Warmed, w..ich is &Ohre cemlioned by the
immerses Pena. as on the table of the Rues-, representing
_ in she strongest terms their aggravated and excessive dro-
wse, and that in comely. uee thereof, she talon '■ many.
ilOtricts art destitute of emplotekei and the coneeqseat
memo to porch's° food, awl have broken out into acts of
.violeact mad aggression, and fur which the lives of wore
'have bee° forfeited uoder sane-boa of the law.
2 That it app. ars l.y the papers relating to she state of
1.-ebod, laid before skis Moose by his Alsjesty'e command,
that serious ditto, bauces have broken out is that country. of
which Ilk eleinnud sod rollretion of rents had been, on the
pall of the insurgeols, the alleged orates; and subsequeot
tufurnistioa has bet-a received, 'bat the labourers in ags ital.
tore, from • partial failure in the crop of potatoes, together
With a total want of emplu)inent, and consequent scans to
port base other food, •re in the more calamitous and de-
phrrable sitostioli ; and that many have died from the weal
uf imurichment, whilst the price or provisions still corselets, s
by Iva a. mot to afroid so tie occupiers of land the misuse of
oi-fraying rier variont charg• s to which they are tohjeet.
3. that is the some Report of the Select Commit tee of last
Settles, it is stated—" That the measures taken fur the re.
bewail" of the currency have coloributed to lower the price
of gr iiti aid tuber commodities gessesally, and consequently
to rau-e • serer. pressure upon lA. bolastrit of the cavalry,
mad not uoly to have mcaistoseed a pnoporlion of site fall of
Prices here, but to have produced • simile►, though nut
equal, ef•ct in other cuestries, and, in • degree, to have de-
ranged the markets of every part of the civilised world."
Mai In proportion as all rommodil les, whether the pito:free
of tha soil, nitnuftr tyre. Cr commerce, Irene experienced ■
dept• Won of their mosey value, au must the twosome ore
base 'offered a direct injury ; sod whate►er may be Ilse the.
{rem, it ls impossible shat the commercial sod reameractar.
nig classes of the comenuoity eau long cunttuue to prosper,
. "right the cultivates' of the soil arc rapidly slaking int•
reir. and decay, and she labuuters stiffs' lug in cousequeeee
of the want of the it usual empkomeet.
4 That soon after the pamiug of the Art of 1797, by
which the Bank of Eoglaud was roetricted foam paying its
motet in specie, the aiteient metallic standard of rake hay.
meg bee. Inge &plaid frees, she eurreerey of •the country,
tompoord i•f bank rotes, became depetcialeil, which &plc.
'Wilton was emoted, sod may be estimated by the •muuul
of bank paper ovary above 31. 17a. laid. necessary to per.
chase aa tomes of gold; and which theetionting-tWeer that
cum to 51. Its. war, on the average of "%Woo years to
1616, el. 10a 104. thence to 1819, 41. Ia and the last ten
years or Site tear, 41 Ilk. Id.: That this depreetatioe many
us Gaither •ud more accurately estimated by the peke of
commodities, partivelaily of wheat, at daffertiot periods, by
w►irh it teal also appear, that the value of gold wes re-
doted by She issue of paper, cbich Weigle its neatly ex-
clusive subootose; that the mien of shaft, according to the
Eton College rabies, spec the sverageof 150 year. peter to
the cutioneucement of ohs tale ear, whether calculated in
periods of ten or fitly years, bad sot exceeded 465. per quar-
ter, sad as ounce of gold would consequently, during aft
that time. massage for thi►tew bushels and a half; that
fives 1797 to 1616, the leverage price of wheal llemeated
from SOL to 128 s. per quarter, the averse.) of the last eight
years of the ear being 1012.91.1. sad the average of she
whole period 81e. 104. stud ao ounce of gold would 'therefore
only exchange fir eight bushels seven eighths; that the pries
of grass thus became, ire demonise' or mosey value, nearly
double its swan* at any former period; the real of land
and commodities acquired • Mauler additional value, mind
minsequestly all pomessers of fixed incomes sestaieed an
injury to the rated of earls •Iteration.
A. That the average price of wheat between the years
77117 and 1819 haloes hems, thetefore, is that tummy
about 800. per quarter,-exiatiag leases were formed according
thereto ; that the ge price Watt 1819 has bee. 85e.41.,
sad last year sad this, shoot 645.; that, epos the 'appeal.
ties of out being estimated at oneoloorth, or tee-eighthe sf
the sr Oil produne, na m coldest, at the price a :As, being
a re/Suction of these-eighth•, that so much of the money
♦alue of the gram modems is sairibitated, as constitiates the
esureet entire metal of the kingdom, sad likewitc se moth
kr the receipts .1 the occupier as annum to oue.eigithi

Vast the teasel is, Ilenterore, lhaVe tii Otter retie if Lela to
his cusgsgement, or the landlord to Ike Foos of his income..
'subject, at ihe same dem, to the paynsmei of all charges
-and seitlemesis ioereased an their amused io the ratio of the
Wormed netwin•l or Mary_ primer groin sod other emulate-
d Ates ; end in case eV mortgage to the estrat of ball the I
ode', et that lisrmod. • reduction of rrut in propsiieu to '
the fall in the moue, price of produce, places the mortgagee
in fall possessiou of tie metier.
6 That, Gnat the year 1797 to 1816, the country was,
with short intervals, engaged to a war of' unprecedented em-
cees, ; she saxes were quadrupled, es well es tumefy sod
parochial assessments, and a heavy public debt created r
That ibis period woe at the man time distiliguiaed by ee.
trsordiusry i Mos of national indestiy, applied S. its eget..
culture, maliefactures, sod commerce, by a &edify and
extension of credit he all those butte-brie giving more im-
mediate activity to capital, and $ rouse queue extent sad
complication of money engagements beyond all former pre.
ceders, : That the 'national debt, which on the sth of Jams-
my. 1793, was 42796'0,1461. •t au •unual charge of
'8,911.050/. protrusively d to the amount of
705,312,7671. of capital of serious tletoominetioes, on the
sth of January, 1822, at au I charge, inclusive of lir-
minsble and life ennuitiee, of 30,015,7851.; sad the total
of tun, wllielo oil the 5111 of Jenrette, 1193, •mounted to
17,858,418/. 1 Is. 3d., progressively inereseed, till in the year
1815, it ansouuted to 78,431,4891.: That, subsequent to the
war, li has beet, rediteed; and the total on the 5113 of Jo-
notary, 18/2, was 60,871,0851.
7. That ibis taxatiou has acquired an additional weight
by the Art of 1819, and tire measures preparatory thereto,
She diva e of s bids-min part be ascertained by • compari.
son of the price uf gold, belt rworekesily by the money price
of commodities, by •hich the nal value of all payments
most be determined: That the equivalent is gold to
60,671,0461. •aa, its the former period, 13,359,934ne. ; and
in the present, 15 657,246 m.; or in current emery of the
former period, 71.1119,992 e ; end that 'tuitions is therefore
further sod osejustly in al, as paid iu gold, 2,298,31205.
or 10,438,0671. in meal.
8. That She ge price of wheat of the former period
basing here 81s. 10d. per quarter, the equivalent of the '
fetus in wheat was 14,228,156 quarters ; and the price, since
1819, basing been on an overate 551. 64. the equivalent at
that price is 21,863,720 qua •or in emery, 80.459,0501.
and the increase of imatimi paid in wheat Is cousequeolly '
7035,565 quarters, equal to 18,787,2331.
9. That it appears from various evidence, given in sneers.
sire Committees appointed to consider the petitions of the
agricolierises, that the wages of labour of an able husband-
man, did, during the form, r period, amount to 15 or 16..
per week; and that, at IS.. the labonr of 5,000,000 of per-
sons fur 15 weeks, was then equivalent to the discharge of
the prequel taxes: that the price of labour being now re-
deiced to shoat 9.. per week, the labour of tweedy -seven
weeks of the same number of persons is sow necessary; and
which, al 15a. per week, amount' to 101,1500001.; and that
Ismatiou paid is !abeam is consequently aucreised to the
amount of 40,468,1751.
10. That it appears by a compalison of the official and
declared value of exports of British commodities, that in the
year 1814. the declared veue of the exports was 47,659,3881.
and the official value 36.120,7331, tieing 311 per cent. of the
declared shove the official value; sad that in 1821, the
quantity is official value amounted to 40,1948931. •nd the
declared va'aie to 35,82190831 being 11 per cent. of the offf•
Mal *twee the declared, making a total decline iu value of
431 per cent. sod the grams' price currents inhibit • simi-
lar declist: that the total soutaut of taxation in commit-
dicks is therefore upsivalent to 87,003,3971. of the former
perict.l, sad the focussed taxation paid re commodities to
26,331,5721.
11. That the further reduction of wheat from 555.6k1.t0 45..
sad ether agricultural produce, together with any further
decline is the mosey, waive of labour, and price of memo-
dities, additiorally ancremes the hoiden of hustles*, as well
as all utler charges, both culotte and private, rpm the pro-
perty and industry of the country to an extent propertiouate
to such further reduction ; —mid that as wheat exceed-
ell, apoa the lure/tee, the precut rate in the old money
standard, it mutt he expected that it will on an average these
!eosin, maims enhanced by meaty ; and that the price of
commodities, and wages of labour' sill matinee at the moue,
value they sew bear, or be further reduced
12. That such effaces could out by posstbdity have been In
the cuatemplaiion of the Leg.slature, still lees of the people
of Epgleed, al the time of the passing the Act of 1819:—That
its destructive consequencesare row visible—that iodividuals
held to their contract, either havebeen or must be ruined;
as twexampled revolution of properly follow, and tLe bur-
dens{ of imietion become absolutely iutolersble.
W. That by the Pm Itemestary raper, No. 145, of the pre-
sent Session, esteems one and'imk, it appears, that from the
51h. of January, 1798, to the 6th of January, 1816, the sum
of 459,650,8261. of Mll.)lity, including bills feuded, was paid
into the Treasury on account of loans, for which an annual
charge for iotereat and annailtes was created of 23,800,0201.,
-which Mien, contested tutu a them per ceut. capital, is equal
to 795,334,0001.
14. That the average price of gold having bre n during that
.priiied 90s. 10d., the equivalent in gold to the mosey so lest
and eipital'created Ives 101,203,117 ore ; and the three per
cent sleek being now at 80, the said capital is equal to
140,085,550 use. of gold, at the hatoetaneelioned average
prier of 90e. 101, and that at the present pries of gold
of 77e. 8.1. to 163,407,306 OM; the difference, being
2.1,311,836 uas, coustototea an endue gain to the public
ct•tditor, at the escalate uf the public, equal in muter, to
110,974,6941.
15. That the averse, price of wheat having been during
the above period Ills. Ind., the equiraleet to wheat to the
mosey sie lest was 112,333,400 quart. n; and the prier of
three per real. stork besug now 80, and wheat at the same
average, the ./poivalert sould now be 155,533,185 quarters;
but at taba. 6c1., the average price inset 1819, et is equal to
029,285,478 Tower., at is money, 938,159,3301, beteg an
Increased gain of 73,782.215 maulers, by the alteration of
the counsel, or ise money 301,892,425/.
10 That the muual chaste of 23,860.0101., cleated in
the roiled el em. makei, was aqua! to 5,253,502 ices., and is
equal to 6,127,174 is.., being au increase of 874,192 me.,
or 3,403,866/ : That the above i charge its wheat was
equal to 5,831 370 quart, no, is, at the average aims 1819,
equal le 8,600,000 quarter*, oe in inuarey 35,196,6661., brie(
au IflffeaSe.l gain of 2,790,000 quarters, or in 'hooey of
11,318,3111.; sad that by compaihon with commodities mod
labour, its the pi...pottiest of difleresace of shear await relate
in those two period., an Neatly eitadue advantage so the
public creditor is probed to hhve been given at the charge of
the public
17. That all public creditors prior to 1798,and others sub-
s. well, have suffered 311 propuition to the .lepreeesitue that
fultaiwed their retpusiae loins; Mitt they are therefore en.
titled, iu strict juatier, to lie paid in motel, of value equal
to that of these periods, AA be iudcruhilie.l for the ihnti-
wished value of 'hair 11. c, Me doling the tali real. That
many of those creditors having probehly be mach a lewgth of
time sold their stuck and pereleased property, have mime
undersea, another and none fatal injury, by the mural loss
of the veld cerreury, and comeqecut diminution of the value
of their property su bought ;—uts the other baud, those who
lest their steamy • hen the cursory was depreciated below
the average of the elude p• rind, w4sepit a further undue ad.
vantage than is shows, by the forego•rig statements; and the
diute/sties was •t its realest eateut during the latter
wean of the wsr, when Ike largest pruporeion uf moue, was
lest, cud capital created; be addition to which the public
have, upon very advantageous Willi to the stockholder, re-
deemed a larger capital debt 11140 etiited prior to 1797.
18. That order all these rieniumiences, it,. evidently sod
iadispeambly necessary to take tato Immediate coooderetiun
the destructive effects that have siesta out 4r the eilteratious
made is the careeecy, by the Am of 1997 earl 1819, as well
I respecting the enormous. public bandeau created and se ITV.
1 IlleSta by the Act of 1616, as the revolueiou of property la
the vast and complicated Mineserse of iedividuals 'brussels-
out this country occasioned thereby; is order that, by • final
arrangement of the clammy, as equitable to all parties as
circumstances will admit, or by • reduction of taxation
equal to the advance oceasiosted by the Act of 1819, together
with the estalsiialisteet of some principle Yaw the adjustment
of private ceetracts, justice may, as far as possible, be ad -
mieisiwired to all, and the country saved hunt a resolution
of property, and also from • "ensure of laustioehryoud the
ability elf the people to sustain.
' July 8, 1812,

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