The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-27 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONI)ON, WEDNESDAY, SF P 1 EMBER 27, 1626.

Sir Joux SINCLAIR, the well-known agricultural Ba-
ronet, lately furnished us with a strong argument in favour
of a free trade in corn, by pointing out the extensive
methods of improvement which remained still untried by
agriculturists. We were then well aware of the Baronet's
leanings; but his argument was good on our side, and we
used it accordingly. He has since grappled with the Corn
Question, and we cannot withhold from him that attention
to which his patriotic spirit and practical knowledge of
agriculture most justly entitle him. The lion. Baronet very
well remarks that a few figures and undeniable facts are
worth volumes or theory and fine-spun declamation ; and,
in conformity with this principle, he gives us the schedules
of the Income Tax, for 14[1. 'f he incomes liable to pay
under this tax amounted, in all, to 176,731,311/., of
which 25,000,000/. arose from trade ; and the whole
of the remainder, including income from the Funds,
income from taxation, &c., he rather oddly assigns to
the land alone,—a singular assertion, on which we shall
not stop to comment. Ile winds up these calculations by
stating the produce of the soil and agriculture of Great
Britain at 215,000,000/., and, including Ireland and the
Colonies, at 317,000,0001. We make no remark on the
extraordinary arrangement by which colonial and agricul-
tural produce are confounded ; and the still more obvious
incorrectness of,his facts, in giving the whole agricultural
produce of our Colonies, including India, at only 30 mil-
lions. The final and the grand mistake of Sir Jon NSI
N-
CLAM is, that he estimates the present quantity of our ex-
ports to Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway,
u likely to continue the same after the late system of re-
strictions as before. He takes the value of our annual
exports at 42,000,0001., of which 16,000:0001., he says, are
such as cannot be taken from us, and three-fourths of the
remainder are exported to countries which have no grain to
give. The remainder, which is exported to the corn countries,
is too trifling to be taken into the account. Now to us it
really does seem, that this trifling amount of our present
exports to these countries should be the greatest induce-
ment for us to increase our transactions with them, by
taking their grain in exchange. It does nut seem very dif-
ficult to comprehend that a nation cannot buy without
something to give in exchange, either to us or to some other
nation which may furnish it with gold for its dealings with us.
In either case, whether we are ourselves the exchanging
nation, or if we only receive gold which has been brought
from some other nation, the result is precisely the same.
Either the corn countries must procure substitutes fur our

commodities which they would consume, or they are
obliged to manufacture other commodities to sell to foreign
nations, and thus supersede us in foreign markets, in order
to Oe able themselves to purchase of us. Very unfair de-
auctions are made from; he accounts of recent arrivals from
foreign ports. There is at present an exporting mania in
foreign countries as much exceeding the natural proportion
as our own speculations recently did the permanent
se:ion of a salutary commercial system. It is obvtius
that the same causes could not possibly act so quickly
upon foreign countries as upon that in which the causes
first took their origin. We may therefore expect for sonic
time to see foreign vessels crowd our harbours ; but over-
speculation with them will soon produce its usual consei
quences, and trade will speedily return into its natura
channels.

One of those prints which have recently degraded the
press of London by substituting malignant fiction for in-
teresting information, and sacrificing truth on all occasions
to effect, has lately distinguished itself by playing second
fiddle to ConnETT in his declamations about the " Vigo
Bay thing," as he called it, and has brought all the press in
london, txcept itself, into a state of criminal arraignment
concerning the abortive schemes of the late period of ma-
nia. We do not know whether we do right in attaching
so much importance to the assertions of a Journal notorious
for falsehoods. // ri'!/ a pie lu visritj qed Nesse. We shall
simply deny, on our own parts, the alleged fact concerning
the Editor of This Paper, and leave it to our contempora-
ries to show how excessively ridiculous it is to identify a
Paper with every individual who either is or has ever
been connected with it. But who, after all, is this
declaimer against bubbles ? Why, the conductor of
a Journal, which twiny a long year has been itself
the very bubble of bubbles—the very essence of hollow
pretension—not a number Gf which could be made up
without deceiving the public a dozen times—which is itself
the most corrupt of all jobs—if The quantity of falsehood
employed in supporting it, and the little regard paid to
morality in bringing its weapons to hear on individual
character, be considered !as any proof of corruption in an
establishment which is conducted upon no enlarged prin-
ciple of national interest, but merely with a view to the
money to be made by the circulation of immorality. The
means of securing this object have been well calculated; for
calumny is always listened to. It is amusing to observe
how the outcry against mis-statements is directed by the
Reporters against the Erlitor,while the latter shelters him-
self under the Reporter. It is a mystery,—but one which
we think we have penetrated. Though difficult in most
instances to say who is the receiver, and who is the actual
thief, one thing is certain—the receiver of the stolen goods
has the larger share of the profits, and in this case he has
to bear by far the greater portion of the moral guilt. We
have heard it stated as the practice of a late journalist to
make a distinction of price in paying for intelligence, and
leaving it to the informant's discretion to make his demand.
The Reporters in most cases admitted the falsehood, and
claimed only the smaller price. This suited both parties :
the journalist had striking paragraphs, and the Reporters
could invent half a dozen astonishing occurrences in less
time than they could hit upon one in real life. This would
be a saving certainly 1

CITV, TUESDAY EVENING.

The English Funds at the opening of the Market dis-
played a heavy but steady appearance at SO ; from this
(potation they gradually declined to SO!, when the de-
cided sale, by one Broker, of 00,000 L, sent them dos n
to SO. At the close of the Market they had not recovered
the effect of the transaction in question, they then bearing
that quotation for Money, and sol for the Account. The
news by the Lisbon mail is of a nature to inspire confidence
in the Government under the new Constitution. Its pro-
ceedings have been marked by the most decided vigour in
respect to disaffected parties, and there is little doubt that,

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