The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

that in these changes there existed a probability of
Isenefit being delived from these revolutions. But we fear
that all their patriotism and love of freedom consist in empty
sound; that tier practical liberty they will for ages be
found perfectly unfit. As soon as they find the Mother.
Country unable, to attempt any thing, the probability is, that
tbey will quarrel among themselves.

Various meetings in park y ,
taken place to procure the repeal df this impost. Other
meetings are convened on the subject of the Corn Laws.
This is a subject of the utmost impirtance.

PRICE OF CORN.
Those Gentlemen who think that the less John Bill! eats
the more he will wank, are busily employed in taking such
steps as shall keep Corn at its present price. The 'Whig
Farmers, and Ihe Morning Chronicle, are all in full employ
oi) this victorious occasion.- :At a meeting of these gentry
at Warminster, at which a Gentleman of ae 10,000 per ann. •
declared the necessity he (poor neon !) should he under •
of leaving the country, if some alteration disi.not take places
an attorney seconded the motion, which called up Mr.
llunt, to whom we are indebted for the follOving just obser-
vations:— •
`• This meeting," Ii said." bores resemblance to'a a Conclave of
Cardinals with closed doors," Instead of railing a nsettiiig like
this, why not call a public comity and time, and meet thr.questiou
manfully and openly ? One reason againat Ibis. was, find at .an open
comity meeting even Mr. J. Boleti would not he hardy as to hi itig
forward a petition, the bole object of which was the keeping up the
price of corn, tinder the cloak of its being a petition in favcio •ut the
tradesman and mechanic. In faet,this was a petition eoperially to'
benefit the landholders ; even the fanner was of secondary coosi-
deration, and it was decidedly hostile to the interest of every other
-el's, of society ; awl if acted upon it woild prose ruilion. es the
little tradesman, the mechanic, and the labourer. The landlord isad
met with no reverse since the commencement iif the war; his tents
had prorressively increased in proportion as the rest of the co.oluus
silty had suffered privations ; the nearer the mechanic and the
labourer had aptiroacheil toatarvation and beggary the hig,lier were
the profits; and the more efficient the means of tfie landholder. This
was no theoretical propositiens hastily intrealuced ; it was a practical
ntruisinolie resits qf recent inquiry. • He would read 10 the meeting
an account of the population of the parish of Enford, a large parish
in the centre of the comity of Wilts, with the comparative stateinent
of the rise in the price of labour the price of bread, avid the price
elf land within the last SO years.—The iminber of t
tants 656; of which number 2.50 were farmers, trisriesinesa;had their
families, 101 labourers, and 20a labourers not paupers. , About SO
years back, the labourers in this parish received 6r, per %seek
at this time they received Els. per week —3O year.. back, the quartern
loaf a veratredNl. at this time it was to)11.-30 years heck,the labourer
could purchase with his week's pay, 6s. fourteen qnartern loaves
110 w be could only purchase with his week's pay, 84 nine quartei
loaves—about 3t yeafs back, the principal farm in ilk* patt.i., then •
belonitise to the late. Mr. Iltnett, of Pythouse, in this county, wail
let for 4001. a year • at die present time this tai in, the property of
Mr. John flenett, of l'yt house, was let tor 1,t601. a year. Thus it
clean% appeared iu this parish %titbit' the last 30 years, labour had
risen froi» 64. to per week, 3;.1 per cent. the quartern loaf from
to icaz f 10. i per cent, the rent of I old from 4001. to 11601. '212
per coat. This proved that bread haft risen within this pet iod more
than three times as mach as labour, and land more thou twice as
much as bread, and more than six times as much as labour. At the
preterit price of land, corn, bread, and !about, the landlord is belie-
tired three times aamegh, as the farmer, and six times as much as
the labourer:

A vesr.sel is arrixed from Halifax, which she left on the
19.1.11 December. by which Me have papers to that date. The
following is from the Arcadian- Recorder of December 17,
1814:

4. BA aBA DGEG. Nov. s.—His Majesty's shins Bedford, Norge' (of
the Aleeste, bucephalus, Belle Poole, Dover, lit dra, Fox,Gor-
gon st,reship, and Norfolk transport. with troops, which left Plynao..th
an September last on a secret expedition, arrived here yesterday, where
they all remain for a few Osys to take in waster, and then pursue Ow
.uvoire for the service upon which they left England.
."
This ezpeditiorr rs ander'the command of Major General Keane,
and couiptats a force of betwecn two and three thousand men, an-

TIIE- NATIONAL REGISTER. • JAN. 15.
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probability of much. 11 • - f'ROPE.ittYlAt. •
tions. But we fear I Various meetings in Aifferent parts of the country y have