The National Register.
London, England, 1822-01-21 00:00:00

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL MEETING.

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A meeting of the Proprieturs aud Orcupirrs of Imnd in
the county of No. folk, was held tut Saturday 1;1,1, itt the
Shire-house at the Ci•ele of Nene ich, for the purpose of
raking into consldi fllllllll the ;wowed depressed state of iigri•
culture. The hour liscd by tee nigh Suesill. Sir J. Astir% ,
for the commencemem of the business of the day. was 12
o'clock at neon. A; ... nz the indiv idols ;arena were the Earl
of Albemarle and Laid Suilield ; T. W. Coke and E. Wilde-
home, E-quires, members fur the county ; the Reverends
Archdeacon Bathurst. (1. Clover, J Pres ..... J. I). Burton,
and many ether gentlemen of fertuue mid respertrelidity.
At a quarter past 12 the high Sheriff rose, and stated Rim
he had deemed it Isis dory, in cuts-rewriter of the utlirtuJ /MO.
'llllllll which lie then held, le call a meeting of the county
spun ■ requisition which he had received f unu crow.
and respectable body of the landholders within it. He thei e-
fore came forward to declare that the meeting was noes le-
gally cone eded fur the ;impose staled iti the requisil
lie should not Like op inure time than was sufficient to
c pre'. a hope that gentlemen would confine their obser-
vation, to the objects for which the meeting had been
called.
After the Under Sheriff had rend the requisition, and the
ugh Sheriff's answer to it,
The Earl of A t.nENtkit LE moved, and Lord SD/FIELD
seconded the proposer 1111 l , that the High Sheriff do take the
elinir. It was carreel unaiiinsuusly.
After the High She, dl' had I the chair,
„Mr. Tile ItTELL rase and said, that having been one of the
ludivieuals whit hod signed the reqiusitien which had been
Ifeesmitted to the High Sheriff, he felt it
nosierithent
Lire, as the dischriree iif his pubiic duty, to
b,eamione pinroW,r% of the causes which led to the pre-
sent Manning mid distre."!ing stub. of the agricultural interest
Hr had Oven, us ails dti!y, his best consider:lli .... to that
Subject ; and he did out hesitate to declare, utter such coo-
sidcration, that the pi incipal cane of the existing distress
was the mairmous end over. helniiiig taxation of the country.
(Loud applause.) It was said that the landholders bad the
remedy in their win hands—they could reduce their rents,
ant the clergy their teener. He would, honesee. lake ul
hima If to miser, that, even if rents and tithes sheiilJ be re
due. d to what they were in 1192, the cultivators of the haul
would find it impossible to go on. (Cheers.) But would any
matt be bold enough to say that, if the 'melee ds weir. to re-
duce their rents to what they acre hi 1192. that they email
etippoi I themselves its the present state of thing-? Certainly
they could not. Coal the clergy lire wuh their tithes
reduced in a similar proper-6.m ? Ceitaiely tad. Could the
laberie log man, who received 10'. a meek, live now upon it
ns he had dune in 011 Certainly lint. Then they ought
to inquire into the cause of this (teat sod distressing
wad if they slid so inquire, they would Mid the rause in the
great and oppressise taxation of the y. The worthy
eeetleroau
" I. That the present ;thirstier:, und depic•sed stale of sgt i.
culture in this kingdom must inevitably and speedily lead to
the Utter ruin of the oecupieib of thesoll, and is ill esentualiy
be most injurious to the owners of laud, unless eflectual
•mensurrs lie immedinerly adopted by Pailiainent to art est
its destructive progress.
" 2.'Ehat it is the 11111 ll ill n of his meeting th it the most pre.
bable, and tlierefure mesa wiper. means of rail-ding relief,
is to restore the currency to the standard of stilue iii exist.
cure, previously to and et the time of passing the Cush
ltestmp►ion paymeet Art (commonly (MLA Mr. Peel's
11.11,) it, in reference 10 1 has et ;soda d of value nearly all the
existing contrticts were made, ;led debts incurred, awl
liar
&permie from whirl It, it lenge, p. 1',1.141 ill, .l inevitably
involve the eehole cisuuuun,ty in the coalition
alto. 3 'Thant no meaeire of relief cut lie permanent and
die ctuel, miless the anal rigid ecommiy he enforced in t very
del. lenient of the stele, aud the expeetliture theleof, us
wed naval us military, I the head of the exeunt lye duals
to the lowest °thee lei of C....ern...1it. lie %cry materially
reduced—measures, the velopt 101 i of w hick, a ill retiree all '
classes from the overwhrltuiii burden of laealtue %Well
now oppresses them, enable lundlos d. to lower their rent, the
clergy their tithes, and lessen the
other heavy expenses incidental to the occupancy and
cul-
-Ilieation of the roil,
" 4. That 'he present heavy and oppressive duty on malt
operates greatly to the disiedvaiduze of the farmer, by re-
ducing the cunsumetiiin,mid cunsequently the price of barley;
and that the total anuibiletiurl of that tax it of vital import-
ance to the agricultural interest.
" S. That at petition, embracing all the foregoing objects,
he addressed to each 111111-e a as curly us pos-
sible in the nest ressime and that the Earl of Albemarle,
and the Earl of Orford lie requested to present the same to
the Rouse of Lords, aud the comity Members to the (louse
Of Cl/M1110111,"
Mr. W Amin se•ctinded the resolutions at considtruble
len:Ate
The Under shoot' then read the resolutions. After
they had been read,
The Earl of Menem ARIA', came forward, amid loud and
long cotiiiiiiird cheering, to address the meeting. lie
cumaienced las speech by obsei vine, that the Simi use
'which lie should make of the oppuriunity then afforded
1 1111 l to alhlri•sa the comity of Nor 101 k, 1/011111 he to return
has sincere thaliks to the ieapectable gentlemen who had
signed the requisition for calling it together—thereby
eta bling him and his brother trerbelJers tot set ruse their
aueirut wholcoone aud constittitimiel eights, of rattly,
openly, and tearlessly, discussing aily- matters a limb they
tosisidesed public gi ire cures Loud clime log.) His
'met o:auks we're tine to 'lie litgu ;Sheriff of the c y
tar the ti-adiness atuitla he 11.111 Slolittll to meet the wishes
or the reginsitionisis, :and rot the lottolsom, matinee in
e.lii, h he• had elloided the sanction us' his 11101 office to
the objects alike limy pinks,. it to Inter in stew:
0111 tu, ) lie load al.° to 'own his thou►.s lo tae genii,-
of the coonly tor nut Itasllng allowed theitiselvee to
he iiitleence4l by those pelsons, out, indeed, of limit
east cul1111) (Mu 01 tolhels, why Melt. 114111100 s of lirevt•rtt-
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ancieno, aholesutur, awl constentiimal sights ill English-
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