The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-09 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER.

_SUPPRESS,' VOL

. ,UME OF BOA BD OF
AGRICULTURE.
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Our readers, doubtless., remember the judicious queries
lately circulated by the Board of Agriculture, with a
view to ascertain the true state of the country, and the
otlidally compiled summaries of the answers, for. the in-
finmation of Parlitunent. Since that time, the Directors
of the Board, for the more complete information, at least,
of their own associates, have printed the substance of
every answer in an octavo volume of 412 pages, under
the title of "Agriadheral State of the Kingdom in Fe-
benaq, March, and April, 18113, being the substance of
Me Replie.s to a Circular Letter, 4c. printed fir the use of
Me Members if the Board, and NOT FOR SALE.** In the
month of July this curious volume was completed at
press ; but, after twenty or thirty copies had been issued,
the further circulation it is ;mid was suddenly stopt ; and,
without the command of Parliament, it is supposed, nu
others will be delivered.

Among those correspondents, whose information occu-
pies th,;„ most considerable space in the suppressed volume,
and whose communications are marked by the most active

intelligence, tire--

Dr. Macqneen, of Bedfordshire ; the Rev. Joseph Scott,
Sir George le•eds, Mr. John Mortlock. and Mr. J. Wing, of
Cambridgeshire; Ali. John Vaitey, of Essex ; Mr. Quintin, and
the Rev. Dr. Maltby, of Huntingdon-Jiire ; Mr. R. W. Forbes,
Mr. Corlinge, ant[ Sir H. ()smith'', of Kent ; Mr. S. Taylor,
11r. Wyerley Birch, Mr. John Wright. Mr. Joint Motley, of
Norfolk ; Mr. Edo aril Martin, and Sir R. Brooke, of Northamp-
tonshire ; Mr. Jahu Wright, of Rutland ; Mr. John Thompson,
the Rev. Thomas Fenton, Mr. 1). Simpson, Mr. Thus. Archer,
and Mr. Edw. Gwilt, of Suffolk ; and Mr. Thus. Page, and Mt.
Joseph Pennington, of Surrey.

The portraits drawn by these gentlemen of the general
state of landlords, fanners and landowners, are deplorable,
except in the hop districts of Kent. The remedies uni-
versally recommended, as essential to the salvation of the
agricultural interest, arc an abatement of taxes and tythes;
hind several correspondents consider it inclispensibly neees-
any to dispense with the Sinking Fund.
The following are a few facts gleaned from the vo-
lume :--
At 13;:ge 43.—Mr. Charles Wedge says, the common brewers
are poisoning the country.

I'. 63.--The Cornwall Society complain. that the landholders
arc protected at the cost of the hailed interest.

I'. Gl.—Dr. Coke thinks the farmers .have over-ploughed ;
and say many of them sell of and run assay. The land is
going rapidly out of cultivation, and die farmer must have a
preiniten flout the public to enah!e hiai to manure.
P. 113.—Mr. G. Maxwell says, the country banks have done
all the in4ehief, by enahiinc the farmers to speculate. •
P. I24.—Mr. R. W. Forbes conceives the root of the evil to
lie in excessive taxation. He doubts whether the interests of
posterity require the preservation of a sinking•fund of 12 mil-
lions per annuin, or the protection of the present generation a
standing army of 14J,Jall men. He predicts, that the landed
property of the kingdom, if those establishments condone, is
on the eve of changing hands to an extent beyond ail former
example. He considers saving bank,, and all such projects,
not only useless at this time, but, so tar as they create a false
reliance mischievous.
P. 171.—Mr. J. H. Moggridge thinks no relief can be ob-
tained but by general measnres. In his opinion high rents and
taxes have caused the mischief, and they must be reduced:
I'. 198.—Mr. Wyerley Birch says, he has let one farm with-
out rent, and another for 1001. instead of 8001. He can lied
nobody to take farms offered rent free. At a sale, under a dis-
tress tor rent, seventeen horses were sold for 201.
P. 207.—Mr. T. Corr states, that horses which, in 1813,
fetched 401. on March 1, 1816, sold fur 111. Sheep 331. but
101 Ss. per score, and other things in proportion.
I'.234.—Sir Brooke. de Capell Brooke states, that the over-
seers let out the men to any person who bids from 2d. to sd.
per day, the parish making up the ditkreace, to a single man
Ss. to a man and his wife Ss. and 2s. fur each child per week.
P. 249.-31 r. W. J. Calvert gives a, similar statement; he
says that the overseer calls a meeting on Saturday evenings,
where be puts up each labourer by name to auction, and they
have been let generally at from ls. tlil. to 2s. per week mid
their provisions, their families being supported by the parish.
He gives other details of this shockiog system.
P. 31. Part 11.—Mr. E. Moor says, the labourers are billetted
by the overseers upon the farmers at 6s. per week, the parish'
allowing for the wife is.—with one child 2s.—with two Sa. 6d.
—and so on.
P. 42.-I'he Rev. J. Buck objects to all machinery, as re-
ducing the quantity of manual labour.
•
A subscription has been opened, at the Marine Library,
Brighton, in favour of the widow and 10 children of
poor Partridge, who was inhumanly shot in the Nancy,
off Dieppe. The Duke of York has subscribed 51.
The manufacturers of cyder and perry in the counties
of Hereford and Devon have detenuined to petition Par-
liament for a repeal of the duty of 10s. per hogshead on
cyder, imposed in 1805.

ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE.—The Shrewsbury Chronicle
says,—" The Right Hon. Lord Vitamin Dudley and
Ward Las given a public benefaction of 20001. towards
the relief of the existing misery among the poor classes
of the community in Dudley and some of the neighbour-
ing parishes."
13ARTIIOLMRW FAlR.—Monday bills were posted in
Smithfield, by order of the Lord Mayor, to warn persons
concerned in the Fair not to erect stalls or bootie, heihie
the Ito, tr of three, P. M. the same day. The inj wit:Lion was
obeyed ; but utter three o'clock it scene of banding ensued
of the roost rupid description.—About the same tune the
earavaris, wit t, all the monsters and wonders el the nation,
began to arrive in qtick sumession. Tuesday his Lord.
OIT luociai4icl the Fair with the usual ceremony.