The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-27 00:00:00

SUNDAY, SEPTEMI3EIt 27, 1818.

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paraliged every effort of the people, every operation of the
state —the adoption of the bank rush ietion had a and ten or el
iinmediateeffeet in every branch of nailonal wealth —pro!lice
and lahour were soon doubted in value; for such was the
now:oiled enufilleare in paper currency, that banks mud
bank eetes sprang up like mushrooms user the whole empire ;
which circulation, though originating a secret and inveterate
di....ease. was mistaken for some time as a tymr tom of rosin--
city. The nioinent a check was given to this system, the
nation adopted a conduct in direct opposition to that which
it had pursued for the previous eighteen years —receding from
Indic:ended confideacos, and adopting letietal distrust—pro •
dare fell to prices that scarcely compensated far the lanoar
of its production—the red:le:het in the value of farming stork
was equal to 50 or 60 milliona—the crudest ceased to be for
price, but for a purchaser at *ay rate float could he ohtained.
The quantity at Ulalktt wit! intatuken for a seperabuta!atot
sua ply.
Tile experienee of the laid two years /eine...yid the Presi.
dent) has lamentably proved the fallacy ofsucio t, seppoeition.
The importation of corn in the year 1814:i was equal to a tont-
lion and a half of quarters—that of 1317 to two millions and
half, the last Aix mouth., greater than any f ree,&nl perictl of
eqtral dire !don. Since the year 1766, wait the exception of
but one short interval, we litter never ceased to be la; s'e
porters of cola. in the last two years and a half we have
paid to foreign countries not less than ten millions for grain
and flour. It has often been contended that ail io, well if we
purchase these articles of food, by the exportation of our own
manutictures. Bat how are the purchasei• of food and the
buyers of clothing and other utaxitfectures, citcumstaneedwith
respect to each other The former must purchase, the latter
may take the goods or not as it anita his interest and couve-
nience—these must be cheaper or better, or Ile will resort to
other markets—there is no reciprocity between the parties.
No country can be said to be in a state of aeciu ity that de-
pendAl.trgtly ea foreign supplies for the food of its people.
Hence it must be evident that there is an ample tield for
agricultnral exertions, foe above a twelfth part of the con-
euniption is still wanting.
to most parts of the kingdom the system of Agrienlture is
capable of great improvement. It is an object ut the highest
national impoi; aneo to lessen the necessity of such large
anneal importations of corn and dour—destructive not only
of national wealth, hut injurians to the substantial comfort of
the labouring classes. who suffer greatly from the frequent
flortuating priers of blond. The must likely means of ac-
complishing, in some degree, what is so desirable in the ge-
neral Itesbandry of the country, would be the introduction
and extension of green crops in all pails of the empire. We
might then hope to see a much smaller proportion of the
best lands in the kingdom applied to grazing. On a fair
review of what may be deeepol the probable average price of
wheat, there scents tie likelihood that it can be grown with ad.
vantage on soli-. of inferior frailty. It would toot be thought '
ptauleat for any farmer to risk a crop of a heat, stimuli in a
tolerably good season, was not likely to produce twenty.two
Winchester hotshots per acre.
The corn bill has had an importance and an oblogny at.
tacked to it which it dues cwt merit ; it neither has become.
nor is it likely to prove. any protection to :i:e growers of
grain. Toe ports have hitherto, and will in all probability,
be generally open to importation. TM: measure was mute
calculated to promote the vh•vvs of (lo vet oni en t, than the in
wrests of agriculture—the (hm, attending the bill was ins
potted to the farmer and loodholder—Got eritment lout itself
to the core bid to serve its own pll9lll.4Ca to be enabled to
levy the Lives— suet ced in which, the value ut land must
be kept nit. The policy we are nttempting is, to reconcile
eontradietions, to keep up the wattle of ?and and its products
at a rate tench above that of every other nation, nod at the
Imam time to he able to manufacture fur them. The attempt
is not likely pet mancntly to succeed—it is neither calculatool
to promote agriculture, nor to support the numnfactuires of
Britain. In a shot t time we shall be compelled so adapt a
system of ecoolooty and reduction iu espen.litisre—till these
prudential Me:emir% are resorted to, it will be vain to hope
that the necessity thr the itnpoi wive of graia will cease.
In the last sessions of Pal Insolent, chteets of great national
inipoititaCe caatellattrUthaellaSiOn. he peer laws occupied
• much ;Men: tun. It is tench to be regret 00l theta hill which
came before the Howse was, from thug to times an altered us
to prevent its passim: into a law. the importance ns the
etiaject—the indispensable necessity of applyina a remedy,
was endrereally felt, in and out of Parliament ; the mineird
lea: ure in selach most lie, by wise s eaulations, to primal pa-
rer 4 tastes:4e praidingfor U. • It is to be hoped that a coma-
tomes-teem of efforts will Its. ream:teed in the next saiuntou
this must interesting sottoject. 'flue evil Is of too long stood-
itm, and bas become ton inveterate, to be con retool by sem-
inary proceetliugs—titre mind be allessed to bantam*: better
re-potations, and to alreliali time abuses w hie) hat e term) stier•
honed by more than two centuries. Heavy assist. burden ut
poor rates no in this county, it Is light when compared with
the assessments in the South, where the whets- roral popula-
.ian is pauperised by the selfish, illiberat, tied townie
pruetice of combining the wages of Latiunr with the rates for
the poor : this ',nary has been ado' tell for Coe purpose of
distinguishing the bachelor footle the married man, mod liks
the famesitabie etfert of dcpri.mg the roomer of those Cairo-
Mr a Welts by due ileotottley, woulol eaeule hi te at a proper
period, to Irate made a pieviai .... tar the usatataiptanee of a
lamily, and the eujuya.out orthat state v hull Is youtomplated
by Alt as the cuitiplet ion of 1111:0.116 Implotbeas. Those a the
spirit tied itiolepeed..uey, wiueb form. die hada of our ua•
114)041 character—on which vitt Hatton:it probity& aty tests,
early do eradril. am! soon anvils aids emit lay dem ro)o.d. Oa
.be preset venire Of mitiviolota I itelea-emlenes end I,eede.me de-
-1.111 ...wet tinily over every other coutile.). Too chemist)
—to piece: ve these toesritimble ooget to be rile
Alai) and mot Or tiu•erittneet.-- fiats tick. base those na.
taus boast of itidtviolual seettlity or the stability of t' it
Ueite. maul a, winch depend mu minter, deepotisui f