The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-22 00:00:00

TITT NATIONAL REGISTER.

circumstances such as these that any wise man
woull susnend the fortunes of Britain, and the
chances of supply to her people, or speak of cult-
seeing the Cape is identified with the engagement
of our Home Pet:duce. The lesson which America
read to U 3 on this subject can hardly be so soon
forgotten, and yet the course which she followed is
but the course of nature. The friends of colonize-
don, and the advocates of that horrible war talked of
the separation of that country, ea nothing less than
the absolute ruin and downfill of Great Britain ; but
the fact both with regard to America and all.our other
Colonies is, that they have never aontribnted any
thing towards the defence of the mother country, or
to the support of its civil Government, and that
their utility as independent States is quite as great
as in the character of colonial dependencies, But
with respect to the great bug-bear of not being nble
to red our people at home, and the false and lying
assertion that large capitals employed in Aviculture
have extinguished ear peasantry; the first is a.geatn-
itous assumption which ignorance of the subject can
alone lead any one to make, and the latter is plainly
demonstrable by comparison and by facts to be quite
groundless. The Report of a statistical survey,
made about three yews ago, stated, that there yet
remained in the British Kiteedom 22,351;000 acres
of waste but irnproveable laud, which, enclosed and
cultivated, and let at but 10s. per acve,would produce
upwards of 111 millions, to be thrown into the great
stream of our circulating medium, to alignment
the sum total of private wealth, and to promote
by its expenditure, the Interests of *Commerce, and
of the public Revenue ; but above all to furnish
subsistence and employment to a much greater po-
pulation than this country now contains or would
in the natural progress of population, contain for
many years to some: But even this is but a small
part of this impoi tent question. No man who
has seen what hen been done in Norfolk, and
is now doing, by Mr. Coke on the one side, and
by Lord Albemarle on the other, and by men
who have the sense and patriotism to follow
those bright examplet can doubt that by skill, by
capital, and by industry, and still more, if we can
only add to these the due encouragement which
the Legislature owes as a boon due to that great
tower of national strength and prosperity, that the
agricultural produce of Great Britain might at least
be doubled and that the employment it now furnishes
might be doubled likewise. Let the man who
has the hardihood or the folly to tell the world that
large capitals have extinguished the peasantry of
the contery look ut the situation and condition of
the lower classes wherever the improsed system of
cultivation has extended. Let him look at Holk-
ham, where labouring inhabitants, so far from es- j
tinction, have multiplied tinder its present owner
from less than three hundred to inure than seven.—
Let
him enter their cottages, let him converse with
those who inhabit them, let him view their furni-
ture, their rutty children, their pill-styes and their
gardens, anti then we may safely leave him to answer
to Isis own heart anti conscience what is the justice,
where the foundations of his charge. But if' he is
still dissatisfied, let him paneto other parts of the
conntry where the whale scene is exactly as he
would recommend, where the farms are small, and
their occupants as poor us he could wish them, and
we would tell him that among no race of men
upon the face. of the earth can he find less to envy
and more to pity. Labouring and toiling infinitely
harder than the common peasantry, he will find
them, generation after generation, passing on with.
out spirit, without comfort, and almost even with-
out bepe. Here and there perhaps the niggard
ear4mony, which can have no other name than the
basest love of money, may have enabled a long life
to scrape together a kw hundred pounds ; but much
oftener the last days of life are devoted to a work-
home, or to dependence on parochial aid. Is this a
state ef society to he wished for or admired? Can
it coot ribete to public strength or public happiness?
Certainly not. The produce of the land is poor
and scanty, the cccupier is miserable, the labourer
badly supported and wretchedly paid, and every
shift and contrivance used to throw the whole of
tite expenditure upon the parish-rates. Besides this
who can be so absurd as to maintain that Agricul-
ture is not as fair and open a channel for the em-
ployment of capital, where it is possessed, as any
other ? How would the Editor of the 'Dines like
to be told that he was injuring the community by
the profit he derives, and from the immeasurable
space of intellectual ground he occupies by the cir-
culation of his paper? A law to prevent his selling
beyond a limited number of copies would be just as
wise, tied quite as equitable, as any regulation as to
time size of farms. Yee, we have no doubt but halls
11 ...1.11 editors might live very respectably upon what
he thus miserably and voraciously put into his own
pt.clet. Nor would the small farmer much thank
bins, if he reflects a little, fur his theory. The
hopes of rising is the great stimulus and solace of
exertion. He that now occupies twenty acres WO
!fl fitls deg he may mu (by Filar sea h to forty,

AVGUST N.

and he that has mounted to an hundred, can still
look to other steps of the ladder which he may
fairly aspire to mount. He can see and feel that
he is engaged in a pursuit where all is not low and
mean ,gel grovelling, but that like other profesiions
and employments it has its gradations and its ranks,.
which may confer respectability at least, it nevem
pint of honor The greatest authority orm the
law of nat;ons and the principles of uaturel justice
has most wisely and beautifidly told its, that." it is
the bounden duty of every Government to give to
its agriculture its, first nod carlic.:4 care, and to
make it, as far as possible, to be held in honour."—
" For," said he, " without tl:is, fAidesmen in tides,
even the most servile mechawics, will be inclined to
consider bin', that cultivates ,the earth with a dis.
dainful eye, and dare to despise a profession that
feeds the human race, which is the natual employ.
men of man, and was the darling occupation ef
the first Consuls and -Dictators of Rome."

FROM LAST mcnrs GAZETTE.

CROWN OFFICE. Aria. ei.

EMIIIM rammed to carve in this proient PAULI kM r NT.
Borough Aoliburton.—John Singleton Copley, orc
Majestys Sajearm at Law. atul 114 Majciity's Solicitor CLacral.

BANKRUPTCY ENLA !WED

S. Wortsll, A. l'upc, and J. Edmonds, Hutto!, barkm. crow.
Aug. 21 to Oct. 9.
BANKRUPTS.

J. G. Flowers, I.cadenhull Suect,
T. Wiagett. Plymo ith, boot and shoe maker.
1. Johnson. Sta ',ford. Lincoln. coach and him?.ss in: Jr
F. Litt:e, Mealag.de, Cumberland. blacksmith.
W. Litde. Meabsgate. Cumberland, slate.rnerchart.
A. Little, 51talagate, Cumberland, rood-mougt:.
G. Stanley, Kirkburton, York. clothier.
F. Prichard, I.lanrivrt. Denbigh, shopkeeper.
M Anderson, Eouth Ani pt on . poulterer.
J. Annely, Kingealowr., neer Bria.ol. grocer.
%V. Pratt, Itinuing'utra, druggist.
C. Fame. Bentarrolsey. dyer.
R. S. Diplyn and 'l'. Swayne, Lireehouse, cell merchants
W. Hyde, Howford Buildings, F. irchurch Street. merchant.