The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-15 00:00:00

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min reril!‘ paid to tie Property Tax upon profits to the
amount of 20,000.0001. soil actually made sin more than
22,420,315/ No men tan wry, *hen all the contiogeneirs of
ors.le are taken into the accouut, that they Jul sot pay most
-bandanna• ly and honourshly li. the Properly To.
Thus,Gentlemen,firsve I at hor placed upon a rock, abich
all lilt 111rrt !Mlle and mvouraciarersin Go•t Britain can
...ter assail wilheffect, the tour proportioos of profit to this
zreat nation, arising ficrn her ezrientiore, her commerce,
:ad hee manolecturen. T;ve produrti of 111 e soil of the
['niter) Klnzilorn, up tolBl3, did yielel • proof to the 01k1.1011
~Coohot a sum than ff 09,840,6011
hit, tier commerce and ma-•ufaeturera doffing
the snow period, yielded a molit of only 28,025,468
exae ing n prepund. rove in favour of 'Oral-
mitre, •nt/ she irroloetions of the soil, over
eortirarre... and ms....fsetire.s, i t 111,8 1b,149
ell toesiderah y li ~ iv/0 r 11. e 001,0101 114 all she pro-
fits made by all Ito la.arte.l comine.e, and rimorifacterres of
Great Britain awl behind put together. Yet this agricul-
•re, this unfathomable mine of wealth, as long as it shall
be duly preetreteit, has this great nation sacriliced to the mi.-
%Ai. a views of her mi rebanto and manwfacturers, who eon-
....idling they cannot compete with foreign manufacturers in
awign marks Is with their woollens. Own . earthenware, their
hardware, and that, amoufactures g. nerally, miles* bread be
a•lifirielly cheap in this country; and by a hich artifirtal re.
alticlion a defalcation in the r. Infos of the pioductions of
tour son soil fur the last si% years"( cuncid, rahly more than
voice the amount of all the profits ever made by usr corn.
were? and manafactuses for truth our home and our foreign
w *she's have amounted to, has arisen, and a great proportion
sr our lab ,both agrieulturalond manufacturing, have
been thrown upon their parishes fur seiheistenre. Such,Geu-
t:emen, are the facts, the figures, and the results on which we
g•ri ...d our application to the Legislatirre for that protection,
s•ol sit the productions auto' soil, which the merchants and
niantifact•rers beer so long eujoyed for their skill, capital,
and iudostry; hot the principle and policy en which these
's iota fl st, hare beep so fully , ularged on in a former report,
li.at I will out trespass on your noir by here repeating the
s,gooriesita, and shell only rue mm. or) to this Committee, and
t:,e able British nation, the must serious examismlion
of
the estimate Which I have now the he 1111 l ur to lay before you,
that the same may le rerei•ed, admitted, and acted upon, is
tr .e, and if it shall %ear the test of examinetion, or be dr-
lecte.l sod (spud, if it shall tea found to be incorrect and
f .11!2C.0116.
C 0,001 conclUde this report, Gen ttenten, without contra-
tulatioz earl. of you, •:ol the whole class of cultivators of the
oil t'irotightrut Great Britain aril Leland, that I have at
last established our pretensions to the superior import-
ant.e of the agriculture of this couistry over her commerce
And .111110rneirres, upon a basis which it will be difficult fir
all Cie skill Mid Iligelllllly, all the industry, and all the power
af fig .r.s, in the hand* of the most able and ingenious
haiike.s. merchants., and inartistic:umrs this kingdom eau
p vduct, tuitnpuga, or even to shake.
Ihe date which Doctor Colquboun has afforded me are
torroliorateel and borne nut is, every instance by the pay-
ments to the propertty lax; awl from the telement of p‘u•
this respectively which 1 have formed, we have (hie (tort ors
r. suit, viz That the coltivaims of the *oil of the United
1. ircelom did, by their skill, capital, and industry employed
iu agriculture in 1813, earn for the land owners, the clergy,
end themselves, a clear ne tprofit of 99,640,60%1; while
ur
the same prriud, all the boasted results of all the commerce
sod aranufuctnres of the United Kilicilum, both at home and
abroad, amounted to no more than ruSt of 28,025,468/.
If this alatesnent will not convince the legialatare, his
le:spsty's Ministers, and the British public, of the jus-
t ca., the policy, and the incessity of equal pioteetion
fir the skill, capital, and industry of the cultivate'', of the
a.,01, with the merchants and manufacturers, nothing but a
aotiliuustion of their present sufferings ever cats du so.—
For it is as clear as facts and figures can demosistrwie, that
it tee productions of our owes soil have depreciated one
third nn value per annum since 1813, by the introduction
of foreigu produce duty free, then has it cost this nation
the third part of 216,817,6241. or the sum of 72,272,54 11.
per annum, fve the single purpose of enabling oar
merchants end manufacturers to vend from ten to
Cfiecu millions worth of their commodities in foreign
markets, *hereby a profit of n million and a half, or
at moat two millions merlin!, may be gained, to set spinet
this awful depreciation of 72,272,511/.; and by which de.
prreiat ion the lab ors of every man in the United la iiip:ann,
art king to gain a livelihood by skill, capital, and 1- Irate
beep a.. este'', a large portion of our agricottural and nierrufac-
turi lig labourers have been sent to the parish for subsistence,
the value of our lands line Leen reduced, our cultivators
sae dispirited and Uniteis down, and, finally, every other
Leiner of ireelustry Iv paralysed, because 1111 1011ge. supported
aro: by the copious stream which gave motion to the
whole, as tenor as one own productions maintained a rein*.
Legating price in our own markets.
I Imre the honour to be, Gentlemen,
four moat obedient and most faittifill Servant,
GEO. WEBB HAIL.

Which having been read, it it ordered. that such Report
be referred to tire general Committee of Management alresoly
appuiutrd, ur any live of them, particularly and minnitly to
consider and examine the same, sod report their opinion
thereon to this Committee.
(The Committee to which Mr. Hairs Report was re.
tessed, deeidtd, " That they consider the very able Repine
d the Chairman to be wound in principle and seem die
in detail. The remarkablee uiticideure which such Re,' .11
has developed' between the branches of wealth and pro-
perty of the Dritiah empire, as calenhsted by Dr. Colquh mu,
and the payments under the late Property Tan Act, must
tutiviner every impartial mind of the general currectceas
of
the argaateuts eustaitsed in that Report."]