The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-30 00:00:00

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1816.

poor rates, heavy road duties, Ake. without any return for one
year, at least ; and the produce afterwards expected, 1 fear,
will prove a very Inadequate ►etarts to the various charges in-
curred. I leave lost besides, MOM. of arrears of rent by the
late tenants selling their crops and ether property clandes-
tinely, and then running away, or becoming insolvent. These
farhas are situated in the best part of Bedfordshire, and at the
distance of less than GO miles from London. The rent of the
%hole, at an average, did not exceed 255. or 265. per acre, ex.
elusive of tithes. One of my old tenants, holding a farm of
above 400 acres, leis given me notice of his intention to quit at
next Michaelmas. Another farm of SOO acres was thrown up
at last Easter, but is now let to another tenant.

EZRKSIIIRe.
Thorny DzieWltt..--4 know ofnoslistress that has happened
to any farmers In this vicinity—most of them farm well, and
have frugal habits.
Rev. Dn. Du R ELL—The renttsof several tenanU of indus-
trious habits, of good experience, .of capitals equal to their
farms, remain unpaid ' • and should, they). presses', I conceive
that the farms would be unoccupied It tiny other persons than
the landlords.
E. L. LOVEDEN.—CoId, wet, arable land, will not pay for
ploughing. Dairymen complain of cheese and batter, and
pigs, selling at very low prices, and the high ditty °unit prov-
ing injurious. In Cardiganshire, /7 tenants have sent me no-
tice to quit at Michaelmas next, Mad they are much In arrear.
We air endeavouring to get our aralFlpiaod into grass as fist
as possible.

LINCOLNSHIRF.
J. A. PEARSON.—A great number of assignments, many dis.
tresses for rent, a great reduction of the quantity of stock, re-
duced by having been sold off to enable them to meet their
payments ; in several instances, farms which had visually kept,
diving the summer from 300 to 600 sheep, have hail the quan-
tity reduced to one-third or one-foneth of that number ; and I
believe I may add, that a great many farmers have found it
extremely difficult, and some are absolutely unable to raise
money sufficient for the last payment of property tax.
(Acmes Tan N esos.—A general and rapid loss of property,
and the consequent ruin of many. The crops have beengood,
owing to the former price of grain baying spirited the farmers
to judicious management; but they ate now swallowed up (the
price of corn being so very low) by taaes,jacreased poor-rates
and labour; the farms are thus become of uo values where sheep
cannot be kept.
DANIBL great many who had not a surplus ca-
pital, but only sufficient to manage their farms, have been so
affected by the sudden pressure of tke times, that their land
lords have got only a part of their reets,.oo4l the tenants ar
now in gaol, and men who have been careful and industrious
too.
Rev. Mn. Tvitnen.—Many farrnerame entirely sunk their
capitals, ethers in great numbers have failed; no improvements
are going on; the coniaion business of farms neglected, Zee.
WILLIAM Rtateansors.—l have to observe, that this place
(Great Limber), as well as a great part of this neighbourhood,
belongs to Lord Yarborough, who has been a kind landlord,
consequently the distressesare much less here than in any other
part of this country. I have also still further to state, that two
estates have been recently sold in this part of the country, one
of them for 11,0001. which ten years ago fetched 18,5001. and
the other was sold fur 0,6001. that about four years age the
owner refused 1V,0421. for. The number of stock sales adver-
tised in the newspapers, and the several assignments made, de-
note the general distress of the farMers.
Da. Gee. ilarros.—This country has suffered most diced-
fully from the stoppage of two banks at Boston, in the summer
of 1814, and of a third the following-waster. But as the three
remaining books maintain their credit, there appears .ao dimi-
nished circulation of paper.
THOMAS I'ILLEY.—Many farms have been given up within
the last six months, and a great many more mast inevitably be
given up, unless some material change takes place; and how-
ever well disposed the present Ministers may be to give relief
to the agricultural part of the kingdom by redneiag their taxa-
tion, it will, in my opinion, fan short of what, the conntry re.
quires; for in consequence of the great failures which have
taken place iu the country beaks and other large commercial
concerns, in different parts of the kingdom, have so reduced
the paper circulation, and given finch a shock to public credit,
that the farmers have been obliged, a great many of them, to
take their corn to market, let the price be whatit may; and
from the immense quantity of foreign corn imported and on
hand in the year 1814, has su overstocked the markets, that
scarcely any sale cau be reit:limed , for it in many parts of the
conutry ; this being the tees Wikb coru, stock must of course
follow, and although the plough Tanners are at pre...at by 16. r
the greatest sufferers, yet the Weeding stock farms must even-
tually he in the same state. It corn remain iit ilie present de-
pressed price, the taunter stranue afford to cultivate his laml,
and the improvements of the COUNII'V must cease; therefore the
labouring poor, which was so tr•etall,. and industrimmy
euu-
pluved !mime, are now starving far want of enild..yi.ient.
WALlCER.—Numberless aveignuienti cud imp' isoionents
fur debt.
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Wt m. mns.—The failure of our country hanks has not only
injured, but ruined many; and destroyed public coillldenee
and credit in this part.
C. M. TL NPIA Th provincial pope?" are crowded with
wi ith molv, • debt