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egrienltetal districts. But the fact of increase
4" 50 iblVidOrrekead generally. This mess be
borne iu euutd, teeesuse withonf It there coviei
un jest opinion fora), d on the comparisons at to the
present and past mate of the country. I t was ma-
terial to observe that this increase load taken place
leithiti the lust twenty or thirty years, in which time '
not one division or district, pot the maitulacturieg
population ur the agricultural alone—hut all—south
and west, north and rest, had assisted in this in.
crease. The next object tie would present to their
attennon, upon which he would caldera himsslf with
making some general statements—not to be taken
merely from his statement, hut for which they would
have accounts properly simplified and proved to guide
their judgment, so as to exclude the sulpiciou of
error, was the state of the revenue. It could not
but be most satisfactory for the House to learn that
the revenue had up to the laid account exceeded
that of the preceding year in the amount of more
then one million sterling. In 'eying this, he meant
the increased revenue to be understood as having
taken place on the same articles on some of which
taxation bore with • pressure different from that on
others. The fact was material in itself. and also
as it was connected with other circumstances.
which lie weak] have presently to bring befog.
them. From his stateineat of the particulars, these
House would be able to observe nut only what was
the condition of the revenue, and how collected;
but with what degree of pleasure it bore upon the,
several perils of the community. Here lie might
venture at once to declare, that never had there.-
' been a period at which the revenue was collected
with less arrears. Out of twenty-seven millions of
excise duties to be collected in last year, there were
not more than 5,0001. unpaid, and there was a clear
prospect ol recuvering the greater part of that res.
due. Not only was it sit increased and iticressing
reseirue, but it was of lighter pressure than any
heretofore—it was not pinched and strewed tip by
extraordinary coercima and the extreme rigour of the
law;. on the culinary, it was one collected with us
cure and as little diliculifielit any period of
which lie was aware. Another satisfactory fact he
would state, as one particularly bearing on Ibis sub-
ject, and us tending to sheer the increasing pros-
perity of the community taken together. He would
call their attention for a immures to the saving
batiks iustitutions, the progress of which gave
certain tudicatious of amelioration in the state of
the labouring clams'. Ile had a statement of the
aggregate account of those institution. within the
kingdom, from which it appeared that in the year
ending 5111 January, tail, there were deposited in
them 757,106/. ; in the year ending sth Jan. 1822;
the deposits within the year amourited tul.2os,edni.
These sums were remitted alieuet entirely trine the
wages of labour, and allowing for the d;te•se,,e,. on
the increase of population, ruse from 700,0001. to
nearly 1,200,000/. Having said this much on a
few subjects, bearing directly on the neture of his
statement.. he came now to the metier of the state-
ment itself, front among the dilettanti of which he
proposed to place first—tliough considering it by
no means first au coarequence—the foreign cirm-
mem A cometherable increase had taken place
in the exports of Bullish produce and manufactures
—the amount of that increase being from two to
three milliour in the course of the last year.l:—.
Their Luidships would have accounts in detail
before them nu a future tree:tidos.. lit the melee
time he might appeal for proof to the gene-
ral observation of men conversant with the iner:.
amide and snanufacturing interests. Ile admittr4
that there might Irvin particular causes be some
preemie!' in the corn trade ; there might lie kra
profit inekieg than in woollen, cotton, and hard-
ware; but no the combined intereos there were
considerable improvemeuts. He came next to the
subject ol the petitions which had been presented oar
agricultural distress. He was far from being averse
to •buntlant discusriosi on the subjectond wa. willing
to admit that coosiderable distress dud exist in a very
Urge part of the country as to the concerns of agri-
culture. That queeitem might undergo irreti table dis-
cuesiou, were it only to rid the mind, of the sufferers of
an id lesuggestion w hire' had been furnished them, and
which was daily growing prevalent among them,
that excessive negation was the eau.* of their dis-
tress. For this it would be clear there was Hot the
slightest foundation. as he undertook lit bluely the
House whenever the discussion should be regarded.
lie would detain the House for a little ia
stating fact !fleets must beer naturally on the
whole of that question. The filet he had to state
was this. •that a similar depression eluded in the
agriculture of all the countries ut Europe. Here
there was no argument for their Lordships' eOll6l.
demerit, but it was of a fact of each importance,
that it ought to be remersibeved on account of its
general bearing on the question of distress at home.
it was impossible that the superahumfance or
dearth of oilier countries (whatever night lie the
law to regulate- importations) 'should produce rio
edict here. If, for example, there were eisperabun-
deuce here, and dearth in any or a great many of
the States of Europe, that would act as a remedy
to both crises. On the other hind, when there was
a superabuudauce every where, that go must go
considerably its aggravation of Its evil no each par-
eglbes • Tue general auktitibuallauce then

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Mott material in itself. Before he west
the, particulars of his statement he proposed t •
:atntle information on that fact, which work!
unqueskiniablet They were swam Of:
_ eVidence which had been token befnee
icttitural Committee. •Among the wk-
!a intelhgeut Intl occompltahrd man (Ile
Jacob), who lied travelled on the Cam:
taken great pains to inveattgate
state,af agriculture in every point. However that-
and lie himself might differ from thEl
witnets as to the conclusion, he fortis&
not dispute the like's of his valuable
though he did not call on their Lae&
on Mr. Jacob's testimony alone. Mt.
asked to give an account of the condi-
tion . lture tit the North of Europe. 11/e
elligllitsee was t hos
Wilt fa the preasitt altuothas of the Isodlords is Hasse
eelmOtribm l—Tkosr instates are gasman, l•Mtvievlballt WI a
pest many for salt, avid there see se parches/ma.
Du they net any rent?—Very little; moth"( but the imp-
pi n g of their Merino flocks, which they new are selling My
low.
Is the Committee to understand that all the corn whieh
has been rutted in those couturier', se far metier obeervallea
gees in the two or three last yew% tits Cut commaedeA a
price adeqeste to the empeuse of powisg!—Certainly it has
not; must undoubtedly.
Has the price been materially below a remunerating
peke?—Where the morphia is so very small it is difficult to
calculate what a remuneration price is, and therefore I
world, rather this give my owe 'pintos, mast to those who
' have made calculations on the spoy whoa. ealculatioas are
more likely to be accurate than those which I or say furtive's'
could make.
Have you any such calculations have.
Have you them with you?—No, I halm not; they are
moor my memoranda.
Yoe have stated that Holland and Femme are two of the
countries you visited'—Yes.
Is the stale of agriculture is Holland and France similar
to what you hare described existing la the north of GerimuM ?
—Certainly; in all my conversatices with Dutch farmers
and landlords I fused they were ceimplainiet that they woos
losing by every thing they sold; the feudal system does sot
prevail dame as it does in Germany.
In those countries the population not engaged In spimil-
ture bears a very crusider•ble proportion to the whole prr
potation in Hotline% Flanders, and France ?—I vim sot may
speaking of Hulloed exclusively, which contains little Name
than two millions, but the kingdom ails Ncilterlauda,cup-
taining six or
A considerable portion of the population of Holland is
sot agricultural?—lt Hulked they are sot so, but in Floe-
tlem they are so.
What ie the stal• of distress in the kingdom of the Nether-
lands, and those codeine. where a differeut system of farm-
ing prevails from that of the north of Gemany, aod •Ittre
the proportion of the population employed in agriculture- is
different ?—Wherever I went I beard biller complaints, per,
titularly so the eastern side of Hulloed, from Din cht to tie
frontiers of Westphalia ehich is generally poorwli kind of
land, a greet p 0.11401 ulwrinen was brought into cultivating,,
daring the war, at • considerable espouse, but which beg
lowerered the peke not only of eta own prAttee, but *dottier
produce to Both so extent, that it wassailing fur a cousider-
able loss.
Weire thole pew districts declining in their eslitviatioS ?
—I did not perceive any, our is it likely they *hunk' decline
so 9000.
Do you think they must soon decline?—Almost all the
occupiers told me thry must ; that they were iseitig by
them.
Did you bed the same complaints in the Netherlands sad
in Pearce ?—I can only speak of France between the truer
tiers of Germany and Paris; the other parts I went ',trough
slits ton much rapidity to enable me to form as upition.
What is the state ut agriculture is that part of Fraser ?—.
Bitterly complaining; I 'needed the markets of several of
the towns, and conversed with the farmers; I foand they
were all complaining, contrasting the prices they had ob-
tained three er four years before, with the prices they :her
obtained ; assuring use they lost enesiArrably by it. Net
knowing *hot gurstiutis might be asked, 1 have nut brolight
soy memorandums I made at the time with me. . •
What was the dill Pence in the printout which they corii-
plitiord, and the prices to which they referred as belles
times ?..—At one town, St. Avoid, I was assured that the de-
preciation bad been about out-half fruits the highest period to
thst time.
Was the general fall so peat ?—Not to the came extect
any whine else.
What wag Stir effect upon rents in 'bete ecuntries?—Thos
leases, which are abut', ere all re•ising out, and they etpret
to resew their short leases at a great deduction (ruin the felts
they have paid.

•h-Tas that the expectation is nollawd and Flawdrea.litae
wise f—Yea, universally.
:batch was the testimony of this Gentlemen, who
:bed taken great pistils to wither information in every
country titruulth which he had passed, which i,.-
!fiitutattutt he hod given before the Committee... O.
: the House of Continuos. Since the kiting of alai
wry imports:it info/motion, the fort was furtkvr
corroborated by a part of the proceedings in the
opens of the French (.:liaruber of Deputtre.
as thi 96th of November last. In the address of
the Deputies they soy—
a Organ of the gratitude yid filial piety of your saljeels,
we do not fear that we shall dilution's a joy tut pure by taii•-
hag to be beard at the foot of the thruste the iespectrut cow_
pt of the gricaltral toteresta, that frwiltul
ranee. TIN* continually issereaving (Mitre.' its Use 4...
partswats of Ilse east, west, and south, proves the &net...
they of the tardy precautions which are opposed to the fetal
istrinhectiou of foreign cora."
He did not utfer the up,iuiuo of dolt body at any
reason hoe their Lordships to adopt lit regard to al,
disuse of the evil. but it went to subsiantiare
fact ut the distress being general. 13 the King..
reply. Ili.* Address, his Majesty rays—
" I kwsw the diacwlties which attired the sale of even.
NuSwithataudiew the esta'kchuit of a receut Zee:sig. I La. e,
for the the, Woe, resstaittetl tie importation if torte.
TLe Ise. have been eatectited, but so law tan Orr -
vent the incutiv.bltilCr wlwels armee nous a superaou•sent
harvest: the whole of Euchre expericaees it at this
outheut."

Here were stifficient proofs of the fact. es it re-
tweeted France sod the North of Germany. the
same deprersioii of prices and distre.4 of agricul-
ture existing there us at home; but he retold taste
from mem that this truce was operative tterwevi
the greater part of Europe. In Hanover rod 1.,e
neightiouring states, tie had the most wissgsre.-
wurishle tuformatton that prices hot sunk w. her.
that the average of wheat was 3s. 7FIL inriserottil ;
rye and bailey, together with hotelier's meat, swan::
in the same proportion of depression. The mit• s
were at tulle Inure thßso one-half of the -war
standard. Ile was aware that it might )es br
said that this might arise in all those coolers.,
from excessive -tuestieu. He would Chew clad it

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