The National Register.
London, England, 1816-10-07 00:00:00

HERTFORDSHIRE.

W. Serinwicii.--The labour not being lowered adequate
to the price of corn, also tradesmen's bilk; such as black.
smiths, wheelers, and collar.makeis, and the great and
heavy burden of tithes, which are not at all diminished.

lll.—Remedies.

ESSEX.

IsAAc Rooes.—l believe my neighbours would hr well
pleased to have the duties lowered upon malt, salt and lea-
ther,and property-tax taken off thetenant. Hot, in my °pin ion,
these would not effect a cure ; the farmer should be enabled
I to pay the taxes as they now are, and when Government
can ease them, corn can be produced in proportion.
Joust VAIZEY.—The poor-rates in this parish, with the
present price of bread, are higher than at any period, I be-
lieve, in the last 40 years. The assessment to the poor, for
the parish of Halsted, ha 1811, was 16s. 9d.; in the year 1812;
Od. ; for the last four quarters, Ilia. The relative
price of bread in these periods is known. My individual
experience would prove the expences on tillage husbandry,
from 1102 to ISI I, inclusive, to be about 81 to 121 ; an in-
crease of expenditure, perhaps, the community cannot afford
to pay a fair profit upon. I so, the first object is all possible
reduction of such expenditure. As to legislative remedies—
I submit as the most important, a comprehensive con-
sideration of the whole system of the poor laws--their bear-
ing upon the land, in reterenee to other property—and a list
is the, cause, and probable consequences, oldie great increase
of the poor-rates. Under such investigation, legislative wis-
dom promises a good chance of edicieut remedy: Soma
consideratinos to the vexatious and hurtful manner of collect-
ing the property of tithes. The repeal of the war malt-tax
promises relict to this roomy, as a barley district. The
cart-horse tax, being directly on tillage husbandry, eanut be
afforded; and, as partial, is unfair, and ought to be repealed.
The effect, though not ruinous to the larger employers, is
equally hard as to the smaller--aud, while paid, is a deduc-
tion unfairly taken limn the just and legitiointe inolit of his
increased capital. Tune' ean be no nataral and etiattable dis-
tinction in this view of it between a farm of 701. aud of 2001.

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PRICE 9d.

per annum. As to thz. private temedv, rent appears to ere,
a general average observation, to be got beyond the fait
piaci, it should take, comparing the whole of agriculture to-
gether, now and '4O yearshgo.

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Mr. R. W. FORBES.—Commuting tithes, sat ing.banks, end
all such projects ( well miongli in their way in the season), are,
in the present state of things, not only useless, but (inasmuch
as a false reliance would probably ho placed on their sup-
posed importance) very likely to be mischievous. I would
not be uuderstand, as supposing Government to do every
thing ; it is an indispensible addition, that should
take a judicious and liberal view of the actual eiri umstances
in which each of their tenants is placed; doubtless cases
may be found, in which the invited efforts of landlord and
naut may not be able to relivre, but a mutual good under-
standing, growing out of confidence in the landlord's libe-
rality, and the tenant's skill, industry, and frugality, (sad no
man deliCient in any of, these qualities ought to be suffered
to remain as a tenant), will accomplish great things.
J. Bovs.—As the country seems to suffer fur the want of a
. circulating medium, and it has been known to do tolerably
well without gold, for many years past,we niay fairly conclude
there is not a sufficiency of paper credit. The principal
remedy that occurs to my mind, would be for the legislature
to endeavour to increase the circulating medium, which I
conceive would give a greater facility to the sale ot• our pro.
duce. And also, to take particular care that our markets
are not injured by the superfluity of foreign produce, of any
article which our country can supply. lam apprehensive
that nothing further can alleviate the present distresses, and
that we must patiently await the effect of time to bring all
things to a level. t have obtaimt•d information that the small
occupiers, all along the coast, who have been in the habit of
getting their living by supplying the markets with poultry,
fruit, vegetables, butter, eggs, &c. are exceedingly distressed
by the importation of all those articles from France and.
Flanders : these difficulties might be alleviated no doubt by
an additional tax on importation. And the difficulties of the,
Lauded Interest In general, which I find are dilly increasing,
might, and I think ought, to be relieved by a bounty on the
exportation of corn while it remains so very low.