The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-23 00:00:00

NORFOLK NZNTINGS.

On IVednesday last, at a snarling of lb*
,owners and occupiers of h.ud in the Hundred
of flensteed (called ander the Act .14y amea
Householders), held at Stoke Rummer, '• tatpak.t
iota con•ideration the present Agricuiterol
• Niel to propose such mewierc. •lor -the ta1..1-•
lion of the Legislature as may be best cohabited 1.1
afford relief," Ediestd Loathe, 1..9. was called t..
Abe chair. end a Petition. gromitied on the itelfillitL•
.tioos proposed by the Rev. W. Gordon, uiil Or -
c•oded by Mr. George Watson, rod which had
been curried with the single dissentient voice of the
Rev. Mr. Fisk, or to the resolution for Reform, wm
adopted as the Petition of the tneetmg, to.be pre-
sented to both Houses of Pailianietd; to the Home
Lords by the Earl of Alheauttle and Lord Sofficld,
and to the Moose of Commons by Thomas Without
Coke, E.q. Thanks ware voted to the Chairmen.
for his importoll conduct to the Clair; to Joecpte
Hustle, Esq. for hi. exertion. iii the cite., of rvdtie-i
lion rod economy in the Shiite ; to T. W. Coke,
E.q. fur hi. reedy seal aWI ail ention to the iiiter.ms
of the agriculturists; anti also to the mover roil
seconder or the Resoluil 00000 fur their activity in the
business of the meeting. There were about seveuty
gentlemen peseta.

HUNDRED OF GRI3ISHO-E.
A meeting of this Hundred took plsee on Mon.
day, at the Cronin lota, M ~Kurd, whicli was •t.
waded by some of the most respectable owners mid
occupiers of Land, atacingtt whom were J. Mostly,
-Esq., J. B. Toosey, Esq. the Rev W. Newcuit.e,
Rev. Mr. Waddington, Rev. Mr. Purtridge. &c.
4. Mnsely, was called to ihe.Chair.
Mr. Toossx, alter saying a few words, moved the
following Resolutions
That it is the opinion of this meeting that As nem.
piers and owners of land are auw, from Tenons Causes,
plated is so distressing a situation, that they eaa no loayr
meet the public or priests demands to oblch their roped/
is subject.

2d:That the sudden return to metallic comeoey, the Is-
tolerable hoiden of parochial rates, the great premiere •f
taxation, and the overwhelming importatiuu of formals
corm, are the leading cation of three uabuuaded and miaow*
dist remea.

3d. That mush alleviation to the weepier, of land he
withi■ t►e legislative power, which to be alfectoal must be
immediate in its application.
4th. That it is the opinion of this meeting that the recent
measures respecting the alteration of .the import price.
adopted by the House of Commons, will not *Quid hat
relief to which the very egiatence of the agriculturists en-
titles ties i M far from it, this aiming nn wily colander
those measures as 'outlier .and that a vital blow to their
property.
sth. That the totallasbility of the occupiers of laud (o
pay their labourers has ocealitioed them now to teeeive their
t►ief otainteoance from the parish funds, whirls encourages
idl ; the greatest cause of demorstgatuni, and the
strongest incentive to vice.
dab. That as this meeting attributes the principal part of
its distress to taxation, it humbly submits to Parliament
the propriety of repealing the titan oo raw materials, be_
cease they fall by their isdireet effect ►envier on consumers
than say other taxes, in proportion to the amount paid to
the revenue.
7th. That the Freest decision in the House of Commons
on questions of the greatest national importance, leave spoil
this meeting the strongest conviction of the rweessity of se-
riously impressing on the minds of his Majesty's Moistens
the dangeroas precipice on which t►e national wifely sod
welfare now stands; it therefore trusts, that the call fur
economy and reduction of Issatios, which ►as hoes echoed
from one end of the kingdom to the other, may not be
uttered in vain.

Bth. Thai a Petition founded on the foregoing Resolutions
be prepa►ed for sigosture, mid that the Member. for the
county be r►quested to present the same, and futther its
•itelem to their utmost ability.
9th. That the thanks of Ibis meeting he given to the
Magistrates for their ready attention to the wishes of the
Requisitionists iu convening this meeting.
Mr. Tuawsa seconded the Resolutions, and they
were carried unanimously.
Mr. MOSELY then rose to offer a few remark, to
11w meeting. The readiest way, he observed, of
&ding a remedy for the evils Under which they ►uf-
fered, was to trace them to their causes. Low
prices appeared to he that ceuae, but, strictly speak-
ing, they were not so. In 1792 and 1793 prices
were nearly the same as at present, and the country
WWI in the most flourishing state ever knowoo.—
The landlords derived a proper income from their
property, the tenantry were contented with their
gains, the clergy were satisfied With their Wheel,
the peasantry with the wages of their labou►.•—
Therefore it was not the prices its themselves which
were the cause of the evil, but they must be taken
relatively to rents, tithes, rates, and taxatioso.--
There they found the difference betweru the two
periods. Rents and tithes were not iii 1792 one-
half their present amount ; rates and taxes were
not one-fourth. If they looked further they would
see whence this deference had arisen. lii the year
1790 we had a debt of 240 millions; now it it was
800, and the interest 31 millions, whilst the expenses
of the State were at least 17 million*: altogether
the expenditure was SO millions. In the yeer..1792
the whole was not above 17 millions. In 1793 dee*-
, ported e 77,327 quarters of wheat, bl.) that though
the price was the same as at prr.•ot, we could sell
it abroad. Ili 1797 the Bonk Restriction Act woo
passed, because it was impoesitile to provide foe
the immense expenses of the State without it. At
that period (he had it from a Direetio) the issues
amounted to 8,240,000/. Afterwards their issues
were greatly morasses', so much so that io 1811
it wes the general opinion that a great depreciation
hail taken place in the value of the paper curren-
cy. The Bullion Committee was appointed, and
declared that the depreciation had taken place._
But the Finance Minister persuaded the Howe
of Commons to declare that a one pound note
and a shilling were equivalent ton guinea. At that
very time the Government win buying up guineas to
pay the army abroad, at 265. or 94.. because the
notes had depreciated above 30 per ceut. In 1810
the issues of the Boort were 28 millions, or above
three times the amused at the period of the restricis
hon. The country notes were issued quire in the
same proportion, if not mote unbounded, which
wog very dinars'. se thelarger their imuesthe greater
the prat toll* emsnevy bootee., end it was only
required that they should be able to give in et.

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The Rev. Mr. Nswcoms said, he would tell
them in few words what was their real situation.
In 1792 the country was happy : its taxes were not
seventeen millions, he believed, but nineteen mil-
lions : its circulating medium was between thirty
anti forty millions. At present the circulating me-
dium was not more, it had been stated in the House
of Commons, than thirty-five millions, and notation
was at least fifty millions. So that if all the taxes
were required to be paid in one day, there would
Dot be enough currency in the country for it by fif-
teen millions.--e(Hear, hear.)—.lts 179 we were
happy, now we were as much the contrary as pos-
sible. He would say, that either the circulating
medium must be increased to an amount exceed•
ing the taxes, or taxation must be reduced below
the amount of the circulating medium.
Mr. MOICLY observed, Goat rument had proposed
to issue four millions of money, which would be
very serviceable. One million was to be sent to
Ireland, one was to be lent to the farmers; but this
scheme had been prudently given up, and two mil-
lions of taxes were to be remitted, to make up for
which he had received information that the Bank
was to advance two millions to Government, instead
of that sort of townie, the pension scheme. All
this increase of the circulation would be good as far
as it went.

Mr. Nat/costs, in reference to the state of Ire-
land, related that in the city of Limerick there were
warehouses filled with wheat, barley, and oats, and
the people were dropping down druid with famine
under the walls of them.—(Dreadful !)
The meeting was then dissolved. A requisition
sr's' handed about subsequeotly, for a meeting to
petition for Reform.