The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-02 00:00:00

MR. OWEN'S PLAN.
• • 1.
ACCOUNT OF TUC PSOCILEDINOR
AT •&•ANNIAAL DENTING •k TIM ANNINTT OP
LAN•AN., NRLD AT RADILToN. ON TNT 16TD
ULTINfi. RALATITC TO $L OWIN't PLAN TOR
710 F: AweLIoNATION OP Tag POOR AND Woßk-
INO CLAMS.

- At ll#milton, ihs isb flay of Nottember, 1120, ►eing *
. General. Meeting of the Noblemen, Vreetioklere,
Jostler, of the Peace, and Comosissioaers of Sopply
fot the Shire of Langrk.
Which dnrSir James Stewart, Rut. laid before the ►Jett•
ing a Report of the. Committee, amonl by utleatee, of a
of the County, held at Lanark on the let
eay of May la.*, rela'ive to Mr. Genie Plan for amelimatlng
the conJiti 111 l of the working elutes, of the following
train :•-• . .

....-..
" In obedience to the remit from the county of Lanark, at
their Sleeting on the let day of May last, gone Committee
embraced an early opportunity of besting Mr. Owen at great
length upon the nature and details of the plan recommended
by him for the relief of the distresses of the country, your
Committee feel relieved from the et emsit y of reporting their
opinion un the principle, which are at the foundation of Mr.
Owen': system, as that individual has, with the same lilti•-
rality which has uniformly marked his erwidurt, agreed,
on the soggeation of pane Committee, to print, fur the
information of the Gentlemen of the conuty, Dame
detailed statements whirb have been laid its manuscript
Wore your Committee; and, indeed, without an op.
portunite of individually cud deliberately considering
those et:dements', your Committee 'mold not feel war-
rant. ii to recommending for adoption a system, which, is
mealy of its prominent festuree, is aeknowleolged by Mr.
(teen himself to be at variance with those principles which
are minct ioned by the approbation of some of the most en-
lightened political economists of the age; and your Com-
mittee are of opinion, that by being solimitted to she ordeal
of public discossOn, this system will undergo that full and
retooled scrutiny which is indiapensable either to its ultimate
adoption or rejection. With regard to many of the more
practical parts, your Committee are of opinion, that, in a
variety of situations, they may be acted on with great ad-
vantage to the community.
" Your Committee more particularly allude to the eaten.
pion of the spade hoisbanday, the beneficial revolts of which
are no dourly elucidated by Mr. Owen, and proved by the
documents to hr submitted in an appendix to his detailed
ttatemeots, and no this point your Committee are of opi eion
that a few comparative I.• however small a
scale. atitiiiivela eUlettlelftd and reputed by practical agri-
rultoirkts in different parts of the enmity, wield go fir to
noweriain the value of a mode of sgricoli nre w Lirh your Com.
mitten e 41111.4 help conceiving is irmight with important sd.
PatllatZell lite agricultural and nitutufaciuring population.
" Your Committee cannot solicitude thus brief Report,
toi.tliout expiessing the extreme setter whoa which they ex-
perienced on visiting the highly interesting e.talollatimant
muter the more Immediate direction of Mr. Owen. The
benevolence of that individual, and his prettier', is por-
trayed in the must pleasing features; end au impection
of the splendid manufactory at N. w Lanark, must con.
wince the most sceptical to how great an extent the sine.
flotation' of the conditiox or the manufacturing popula-
tion may he carrot!, when the views of the managers are
governed by that spirit of philanthropy which actuates the
partners of the New I.lnark works, whose memos of contr.'
user their popataliuu are atldy excluded by their desire to
direct them to the most valoodile purpose--that of pronto*.
log the comfort and independence of the parents, and of
training up the children, from their earliest infamy, by each
a voile, but at the salute time systematic course of elect.
ton, as, or the Opii.t•its of your C ..... midee, cannot fail to
resider phi in trey editable members of society.
" Twat Committee should, perhaps, apologise for this
seeming dletaPPlllll. and width the penman, ulnet•atisin of
must of the itoilisidual. for whose inspection this Report is
intended, mat have rendered iinuereessiry; but they could
not help sitting the favourable opportuoityla beariv.g the
most iiliquatified it %Canon>. to the internal regulations which
have been to zealously and benevoleittly unskilled at New
Lanai k Cotton Mille, for the comfort of the parent, and the
ause;ioratou sit the rising georration , and which they buin•
tidy conceive might in various digress be advantageously
'Wowed in most large manufactories, and which would go
far to mitigate many of the evils which have been found lo
smolt from the extrusion of manufacturing catablishmesits,
and the consequent cusicentrat iota of so large a promo lieu of
the population of the United Empire.
" Voile Committee ate at °maim,. time ert dibly informed,
that these arrangements, instead of invulvisig any pecuniaiy
sacrifice, are found to operate bent tietally OP a commercial
point of stew.
(Si:iud) " NORMAN LOCKHART, Comm.
" JAMES STEWART, D.
" T. GORDON,
" HEIM ;ROSMAN.
" WILLIAM !HINMAN,
" HY. s EwAHr.-

Which having been read to the Meeting—
Sir James Stewart mated, that as Mr. Owen's publication,
alluded to in the shove Repent, was tow in the press, with
the vdew of bring circulated throughout the county, Ire,
Mr. Owen, should he allowed to add the Report as an Ap-
pend,* thereto, and the motion hating been seconded, the
same was unamentously agreed to.
Sir James Stewart meat laid before the meetiog a proposal
by a respectable Gentlessau of the county, for granting a
tome of ground, sufficient fur the purpose, of making trial of
the plan in contemplation, of the fallowing tenor:—
" With a Irmo nu facilitate the formation of an eetablish-
merit on Mr. Owrit's Plan, ethic* wont.' supte sods the neces-
sity of erecting a Be ideterii for the Culorty, Mr. ~,,,
of Daltell, submits to the Meeting a proposal to let Irmo
500 to 700 arrest of Isn.t, proper fur this purpose, on the
following conditions
" 1. 'That Her land shall be let on a long lease, at a grain
rent, to be bard by soy competent persons to be named by
the County.
" That the County shall advance • sum not exceeding
40,000 f. to be expended iu forming the F.maldisheneul.
" 3. That after the first year, interest shall be paid fur the
said sum at the rate at which the sense may he burrowed by
the County.
" 4 That the props arta, of the Mad shall be bound to en.
pay this capital at the stud of tweedy years; but that he
shall be permitted to refund it al any intermediate period.
" 5. That fur the benefit of the courtly, ruck delinquent*
as wswita otherwise be neat to Briderrell, shall be etcetera
into the Establishment, under regulations to be afterwards
agreed upuu. 31r.Hemiliun is *abut, beteg assisted by
the mellow of tse plait, to unpin:4,ml Hie *hole without
charge to the county."
-Which having bees likewise rent, sods plan of the ground
therewith produced strewn te. the Meeting.
Gtr James Stewart farther meted, that Me. Owen should
in like manner be allowed to preat both the Proposal mid
the Plan as an Appeutits lu his Report; mot site 1110111 M
leaving beta semeatted, the same was likewise wianisriuusly
agreed to.
The meeting agreed, that after Mr. OWeit's Report is
printed and circulated, and dote time allowed for delsberat.
tug thereon, the same should he taken into the noised/Tabus
of • Mlbsslyeitt meeting of the county, to be specialty
called fur the purpose.
Eltellettil from the minutes of the riveting.
(Signed) JOHN LAMB, Clerk.

A French merchant arrived in town yesterday
morniug, in great }lgoe, fin ti Paris, nn has having
received a letter from 11r. 111. Sc LTIli EIS, the hanker
of Rome, dated -17th November, tuforming
that the Commiiisary in Chief of the Austrian army
had just written to him, to apprise him to mike
arrangements for supplying hint with the necevs fry
funds, Lc. for the use of the'A ustrian army, which
would boot Beam very shortly.—(Evewite Popo )