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

AGRICUL7VR4I. 4SSOCIATION.

fieriersun's Hotel. Palace-pied,
Western inter. May 1,1890.
At a Meeting of the Central C4.1111111i11•11. 31auagerront,
*Placated by a General Alerting of the Amweiatort (rime the
*event Counties In England dna peens, in conduct and
prosecnte, in bulb Hatton. of Patliament, the calms of all
the sobarribers tw dry Aanciatlon, and of the wrhalr ag,i.
cultural nuntrausnity thrinighoat f;reit Britain and Ireland,
to Papal protection ilia she merchants and marrufaetureca,
upon the terms aril condi, ions of the original resolietioul of
this Association, agreed to an the 14th day of
1819—Prc.rnt, of the Committee.
George AV. lu 11, iu the Chair, I John Mirtin
S. 11o,t1t. r, I Jolt tatusley,
John E jOlll. I ansepb Ito (rII,
I Johu Fortri.
Hen.). L'lsmotlier,
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

Classles Gillis Western. t:sq. I Din. Jerek.Ceetteise 819.
Grange 'inhere Snmiter, Esq.
°ENEMA I. ASPOCIATIOILS.
Noses. Mare of Ahode. Pest-Team.
Edward S3lnrstnne Grnage.-Blsrscate
Henry nuts .. Nialosaina Sandwich

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W Ohara Clapecitt .. Lillie Down Christchurch
Thomas King Asseilision Salisbury
John Phillips chn•ldenn irk Nitre. Wilts
Willihm I Ism... Abbey Milton ..... inland rued
Edwin Andrews Slirotnn .... ...... Blsrultaird
Johu Biickwell l.rekhamste.td......Ruckiugham
Willinm Siuith . Midilleion Cirounds Rieester
John Rare..., Stratton Lodge ....Biggleswade
W P. Lamb Rye.. Rye
Rani mei Seidler.... • Url kley.. Norihiana
Smyth Litegtey.... West Bergliolt Colebesi Pr
S P. Reales .. Caiiihrirl:te ..Cambridge
John Wilson Florld:cuit Banbury
&urge Rubiemni.. Cheohlistun ...... Suffolk
John Brirketro.....Short mead Rig:hew:Qs
Are herr lisker......Adstock Burl:lg.:ham
Thomas Kennet 1... Witleslnirough Keut
T. T. %leder N • rthiam Rye, Sussex
W. Thtirlow
Gusfield Park, t L..
. iu Halstentl. f """s
1. 3. Harper.. Bletlionridge Rork,
IVilli 401 R05e..... Winthedon Hill Barks
Edward Hurwood "Aston Clinton..." Rucks
Charles Horner ....Manrworth .. Racks
William Flowers.... Norihniartou ....... Burks

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William Myna ....Highgate ..... .... %NWleant

The proceedings of the last General Meeting were read,
when the Chairman made the following Report to this
Moethig:
The Report of George Welsh Hall, Esq. Chairman of the
General Committee of Illawagentest for the Agrieul-
teal Associations in Great Britain sod Ireland, made
to the said Committee at Henderson's Hotel, on Moo-
day, the list day of May, 1820.
Gentlemen-1 have to report to you, that in execution
of the trusts reposed in this Committee by the General
Meeting held in this place, uo Monday, the nth of Oc-
tober last, 1 hove taken upon myself to semi to the Chief
Magistrate in every sown in &mimed, Wales, Scotland,
and Ireland, and to circulate iu various other parts of the
United Kingdom, copies of the origin and proceedinp ache
Agricultural Association to Great Britain, which has pro.
doted a very considerable effect is coolirming, extendiug,
and enlarging the Associetions then termed, and has added
many new associations to argent-rat mum: that I have hold
a 'gloat extensive correspoi.dence with almost every csously
In England, sod with several in Wales, in Scasilsoulp and in
lrrlacd, as will appear by the bundles of letteridetw 'aides
your table for your inspection'aml perusal : and Hove par-
ticular pleasure its repoeting to you, that the Aseociatioes,
generally, base acquired nn inconsideyable accession of
strength and consistency since 1. had lam the honour of meet-
lug you in this ii.see.
Gentlemen—We are now assembled i.;; the purpose of
entering upon one of the must arduous tasks ever helots
Ceufided in this or any other Patios to so small a ?manlier
of men • —Wien WO, that are isexperiencetlawd aotried in tic
path which lies before these—unaided by power•-ne-
supported by patronage—sad unprotected by interest; in
short, I may fairly describe ourselves as men destitute
of every supposed requisite fur the undertaking iu which we
are about to embark, except the energies of our own minds,
and the justice of one cause t--and supported only by those
olio have hitherto been cuasideted—but most mistakenly
so considered, as 1 shall prove in the sequel—as the must
considerable class of men in the nation,six. the Cultivators
of the soil of the united kingdom of Greet Britain and Ireland.
Bat, Gentlemen, what we want in patronage, we will supply
by Gets; what we grant in interest, by arguments • sad what
we want is political power, we will sustain by trolls mad jus-
tice; which, when respectfully and properly sithariited to the
British Legislature, have never yet been pleaded its vain
With the example, therefore, before oar eyes, of the fiscal
success and triumph of )Ir. Wilberfuree in the insane* of the
Slave Trade, after so many defeats, 1 urge you to think amt.
thing but ultimate success; well knowing that staid British
agriculture shall receive equal protection with her commerce
and manufactures, it will be impossible to carry it on with
advantage to the coratry or benefit to the cultivator, and
that Ilse declensioo of oar spiritism meat prove the destruc..
title of both our ColOrOcre and our tuanofactures.
Gentlemen, 1 will not conceal from you that the mope
difficult point we shall have to encounter, is the °plebes
which me* of all ranks and descriptions, not only is the
United Kingdom, but throughout Eater, have imbibed,
viz. Than the amazing wealth and power which this mighty
untie. has displayed, is derived from her oussimeree and ms-
tiefactures, rather tbau from her agriculture; and therefor*
it is that the intermits of one agricultuig have been for cow
tortes past more or less sacrificed to the *opposed, abloom,*
mistakes interests of her commerce and manufactures. get
those who investigate this wrestles more profoundly will
ssivrtain that It is from the unceasing industry and suer,
pea of her inhabitants, protected as they are hy tier **-
rivalled Constitution, the fertility of her soil, her Woe+
lees mines of coal, and the union of agriculture, mow
mace, sad manufactures, in one sod the same people,
that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has
surpassed the whale world in wraith and power, as she hoe la
sets end in arms; and that all she present sufferings of her
people swipe simple and solely for want of preserving a sine
equilibrium between her agriculture, her commerce, and her
manntectures. She has sacrificed the former to the mistake*
ieterestscif the two latter snurces of her wealth sod power; and
being well assured that nu redress can be rxpeeled until Ws
committee shall estisfy the Legialatnre, his 31ejeely's Minis-
ters, and the me bl ic,of the de pen den ce not only of the cam men,
and manufacture °Nos moo ry, but of the revenue also spots
her agriculture, I have spared neither time nor point to dr.
sueestrate this fact by such a comparative statement of the
profits of each to the country at large, as 1 doubt not, whet
it shall be thoroughly iavestigated, will set this qatution use
rest for ever. I therefore crave your EOM serious attention,
and your must eaurnte investigation of the following com-
parative view of the profit to the United Kingdom of
Greet Britain s,od. Ireland, arising frem her agriculture,
her itesionteser, and her inanufectures, by which it is
clearly demontstrated, that the depreciatiee. e( her woodth,
occasioned by the Import of ferric* produce. duty-free,
and which she might grow uu bre own soil, aisiounti to n
much larger aim sham she ever cleared by all her commerce
tied usasufacteres put 'greater, whether for hawse tossump.
ties ue foreign markets ; frees whence it stay be fairly in-
Awed, that all her rftgat eIabOrTSIMOOOII arise frees this
single cause. Ur. Gelqplscruo, in his 7'nm/be ou the Wealth.
Power, and Re:Norm:of the British Ewers. estilliste• the
property crested lb Great Britain and Irelsod, is the you
1612-13, as fellows
Agriculture, sad ell brioches.. f 2116,1117,010 • • ,
Pia** isiarTahomolp, &e.... b,OlOOOOO 0 P
• .111enufact ores iu pwar?..brotsch.... 414,11110,p01, 0 •
Inland hade in all itis brooches.... 3,1.1610,10041
•"- Farrig. comuteretraodaMpitieg... 46,373,040 • 0
Coostiog trade spoke*, 0 •
rokerisue euldOliVa Of lit Coloulat
;PlalPftSollll VlSo_o_e • .
S•arlerg4 Prithh, 0-ifkets ' Itelf•W 0 0
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Tood 11463,81rn f
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Without efazing.to inquire whether the peeks N tweet t
i. elf these Iteatte.hea..h milleUsis liere 'to elate that *la
estimate having lireat:lweollted"*.aid4hie. 11l 1040 aid nr6b.
liskid in that year, it mold, pet he fabr;cated at MSS.* he
porpnae of the agrieoltirista ; slid if ae cheek %hi esti.
@nate by the payment of die item fig, we shalt ise edits
molted at the cuifrcideries SS hich the
Doctor's tslimsie derives (mho till es.lecri;o3. 1 thew fuse
take the ertimate *boxcar?. fitclokle• r fur worse. iu MI it..
beseeches, as sojeiroilt scenes'e fal draw a cpmuert-ots
the esliesal ptufil m, eatb branch, 'amd which, elms aim.
lyaell, will appear as follows :1—
brindle% mad all it, broehee, is Great
Ontainand Ireland E 216,417,6114 0
Of this erration, 1 may fairly earlier., 1.41 h et
the rental .r net profit io the landowners for
Great Britain and !who(' 54,204,446 0
To the rultivators of the soil for the ',milli, of
stock, At ill, aud capital. I allow 3.4thsof sloes
sum so ckar gain, rig. for Great 13.110itt and.
Ireland, 40,433,3641. of •Ititlat estimate fur
the cultivator" of Great Britain 4 4!hs 31,622.611
To the cultivators of the suit of Ireland, I bth "dig II') I/
Tithes for Great Britain alone in lilt 2,721.644 0
Dedret thew 4 swine from the amount create.%
mail we leave 110,i27.01rif fur woes, inmate.
wife se Working cattle, Bred, peor's fate, mud
Nye, &c.

'Whims arid filiserals. Coals. 4e 0,000,010(.
Or this creatiow I reckon 114 percent. ur I.Bih
fur the lurd's share
The like fur the farmers or workers of the
mine,
Deduct these two suing f.imr the iineisnil
created. amid we leave 6,lso,tistOf fur wages awl
working the mimes 4c. Ste.
Total profits no the prodectidus of the
soil ip 1818 £P9,840 eitrB 0
By which it appears, that in 1813, the producriuse
the soil of Great Britain cud Ireland rjel.b..l fu-the na.J.4111
and occupiers thereof, the net clear profit of 011.810,808/.
be expended is the roomer, whereby all rank. amid
liens of men wire alike lausellieil tut employed, and Co
taxes were paid with facility ;hut 1514. by the. import NI
foreign produce, duly free, or snarly au, the inauliielianse of
the roil were depreciated use. half of their fariner antler. a
they bare seams averaged a depreciation of about 4ne.thiie of
their value is 1813, which depreciation hes diminish.d liar
carreacy of the Veiled liragdum, anti reduce.! time alley • f
every other species of property in the same pro puet.ta.alid
produced that universe' alagnaliun in every oil .r liwrirrei•
of which all complain, but of which sir few Call soled the
cause.
Manufactures in 'embrace's, 114,834,000:.
Of this creation, I casinot reckon enure, and 1
presume the mannfacturers w ill nut claim,
asset profit than I'2v per cent. The
residue of the sure created is all capital,
wages, and dead charges ; the total profit,
therefore, teGrest Britain cud Ireland on all
her manufsetnres is
Poland trade in all its branches, 31,5011,0001.
Of this creel ion, I reek'su for the same teases',
the same 121 per oral. het profit
Foreign corsaseverarsd shipping, 46,373.745 L
Of this (lentil/is, the same 114 per cert. set
profit

Coasting ire*, 2/11116,08111.
Of ibis creole% the name Ili per cent. net poet 280,002, i
Fisheries, falllllllllll. •
Of this eyeful.", the same 141 per ceasefire proht 10,800 0
Chartered Bed rivate hauliers, 3,600,0001.
This being • creation of pi oat upon • Petal of
40,700,000/. we carry the wittily as peat .. 3,seo,ree 0
Total net profit to the nation on all the boasted
cosier m aud mann Greta res at( Greet PA tali o--2—ot. 7-s
and Ireland uely ' " 41025,468 u
I will arm proceed to check them maks by the revisal
payments on the properly tot.
First, 1 deduct uur•hrtli of the sem of 84.204,4001. abase
stated, as the rental of Great &Bale mad !retinal, fur iiie
share of reel se land in !retard, sot thermal to the pit,
perty tax, which I the sips of 41,111111,8681. as the Mt
metal of Greet Britain, aemsellieg to Dr. Colgoliniteem eel,-
vast.. The payment to she property tax iii Great Britain to
1814.16. to Schedule A. property in laud, wee 097,047/.
which, asnltiplieii by lu, aseertaies the reetal of Great Bs i-
ts* according to tt.a. payments on the property tan, st the
seas of 110,072,4701.1eae5ug only the trilling difference its.
tows the Doctor's estimate anal the actual payment nu it.:
property tax, of 391,0551. The first item, Lerefore, way
takesa to be proved to deesoletraiion as the proGi from trot
In Great Britain and trebled.
The next item is for proles to the cultivators of the mil
of Opel Britain, 32,822,6441. They were charged and font
lode property tax the sum of 2,176,2281. which, at the rate
of if per east. on their peels, for Boatload sod Waits, and
1 believe less fur Scotland, chwgre them with a profit ..1
1111,1111110131. Su that here again we have demonstration,
gloom to a fraction, of the truth of the Doctor's estimate,
andel the proportion of it which 1 have allotted to the V.I i-
tivatiou of' the sail of Great Britain ea profit—for I (type.
bend the allowances made to small tenants will folly balloon.
this difference. .
1 have so mode of checking the estimate of volt for thy
cultivators of tho Pi; of Irelred, bet the amoral is us orb
tamable mod eta peopeetioned to what we can check, that 1
think so man will diorite nay slight variation which in:,,;',.t
exist between the sem ll have estimated and the fact,
'The next item is for tithes 2,732,8981.; this being she
airmail returned to Parliament fur 1814, DS) man can .1..' y
dal this was ormeels Del profit from the soil of Great li: I-
tido in that year.
The last it.. Wises, ininersla, and coals; and sop-
peeing that Dr. Colqubour is right in the aggregate, nu at-
can assert that the respective proportions of prollt *loch ..
have seenoted snot all aoreasoaable, but the fair aid usu.-;
rooms of profit Weeny derived from the working of min,. a
I. general.
Thus have 1 established, by facts an.l figures, bursa ot,t
sad corroborated in every instance by. the actual payniest:c
of the Property Tax, which amount to dmoueleresteu, tt.: t
the opt clear ieeemerd Gams. Britain and Um/ old. art-ins;
feest the land, and the skill,capital, and iodemry trf the s al
wawa of she soil, ilia amount in the year 11113 luelseee.., -
moue sees teat lent steety.slae millions eight huudett: at..l
feety timmeand Sul hisalred and eight pouoila; and sue hni a
the avideece of facts before us, that up to 'het year, lud -..
Wag ea this weans of wealth was melted and floned ilium, ti,
gym vein and artery of the State,oue taxes were ilaid With it,..
• lillapsoire labooreme were folly employed, our crammer. at... 1
at ussufseteess Iluurieherl, sad all casks prosprivil is 4:. n
-mar films bass, taxationf-st that lime much trer.ats r ma.
Ellilmasimissi. sit in Ilia, as MOS OS -tarsi!t• puidUctlue,•,
be growl, spurs per soil. were mirsarau. 4 .:al y fr.
-11,111111,17 so, up compete to our owe markets out Oar ovittpt ..-
dlentiovis, the agricultere of the imeintry Was befit palish s, • .
Mt of nor prisinetioss fell MI per:cent., Whet,. palm 'at • e
gm* with laterality even it thia elepsectattpo 1
.coiaitieni c
Amore eel ha.proprrty were oldie aneibleted in 0 itsittese ,
and all one subsequent embarrassments are bat the i !fit,.
that mistake,, policy which induced the Leg:ilatine in
;11114 to lutes tit the popular but fatal cry of cheap briar' ;
had fit permit the import of any productions which might`t..
liaised fruni ore taws 11011 upon teems which might prudo et at/
ralMbilitilliftdpCLlSlS in the value of our own produce.
Bet Jet us sow tompare the Deetor'e.eitimate of pore. I
crested by aye commerce anal inaitufampript, ••J the tech.*
which I have allotted urns such creation, ititit the pi) teirp.•
Much the merchants enJ manufacteret s have made es 14.•
rep ms.
•. ' , . ling tln profits all round on the. rump created, at 121
. mist. iacept ollre chart. red and to/ ate befitlieve, slits,.
a tended of 40100.00/. the !)meter he. tPilinillitd at con-
p*big has that..l2l pre cent. ire obtain • Path )‘ll, for t.. 0
la lilt Ilialitl‘aellifea sat .very breech, it.lainl tins. in". I
breathe., foreign commerce sod Shipp, g, eeamitug utn. ,
Oitherset, ps.d elprier.e - ' . . ~ Air um so,
then' sum or" 'Ant
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**cruet. 001 l elprittril, sod Arno . booker., .of het *a.,..
thou the soot of 411,624,141111. for Groot Itrptatototblre herl
pr this ousel, I write of glue fifth foe the ;Laic fa too,.
Which troves mei Joist for Gloat! &dim tool*,
1144440,1161. foe prod,. sad Ito own ; awl. I N be. ibee
.40$
twortglik 41, tiropestit Teo, anti, siut oppornelo
Iro4l. 114
M° Pr!)" ato fit"l,6l.
61011111 PM meorii the. 1)4.c fetisbali tg•141.,4 ‘ll6 ltltwo
fict. fk4,,r if itke ogscLaK assidac..artn.vl Lori
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