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London, England, 1822-02-19 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

Ain:ACTS FROM THE DAI LY MORNING PAPERS,

Februal y 19, 1822.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
• We have the satisfaction to inform our readers
that our Government has at length resolved to
=terminate all the commercial difficulties which
'have for some time subsisted between this Coun-
try and the United States of North America.—
Instructions have actually, as we understand,
'been sent to the several West India Islands that
:the ports should be opened immediately to the
direct trade of the United States upon the prin-
ciples of reciprocity proposed by the American
Government. By this arrangement the United
States are permitted to send their lumber and
provisions in American bottoms direct to our Co-
lonies, and are authorised to take in exchange
colonial produce. This arrangement will, it is
loped, be productive of very extensive advantages
to our colonists. The same trade may have been,
and, in fact, has for some time been carried on
between the United States and the British Co-
lonies, through the medium of Bermuda, which
was erected into a free port for the express pur-
poses of this commerce ; but it was so very cir-
cuitous, and attended with so much expence, that
neither party could derive such service from it
-as from its nature might have been fairly antici-
pated. We regret to say that the extreme dis-
tress of our West Indian Colonies requires every
effort that can be made for their relief. To
compare their condition with that even of our
:distressed agriculturists, would but inadequately
'express their sufferings, and the arrangement to
which we have now referred has been anxiously
sought by them, as the only means likely to re-
lieve them from a destruction which seemed
otherwise inevitable.

[NEw TIMES.]
We are extremely sorry to be under the ne-
-cessity of excluding from our columns many
valuable communications respecting the Agricul-
ture and Finances of the country ; and the more
so) as that necessity originates in so foolish a cause
,as the Epsom Meeting. It would be highly de-
sirable that the spouters at these exhibitions
'should be alloWed to talk unheeded ; but so long
as a curiosity exists to hear what all men of
'sense confess to be not worth hearing, a public
Journalist must report what certainly is very
little worth reporting. Notwithstanding our
limits are thus narrowed, we cannot refuse our-
selves the uncommon pleasure of quoting twelve
consecutive sentences of substantial good sense
from The Morning Chronicle:-
4, We are inclined (says the Editor) to suppose that the
heaviest and must oppressive tax on the Agriculturists of
England is that imposed by their own stupidity, if we may
use so harsh a term. In that very county which is this day
meeting on the subject of agricultural distress, the county of
Surrey, we observed, on Saturday last, in various places,
four horses and two men employed at one plough, on. a light
sandy loam. A Norfolk farmer would have made two horses
and one titan do precisely the same work. The sante awk-
wardness and want of econuny are to be found in almost
every farming operation, in all but one or two counties
in England. It is hardly going too far to state. that nearly
twice as many hiirses and men are employed on a farm as are
Featly necessary for its cultivation. Hence the enormous
bills of labour produced by many of the farmers before the
Agricultural Committees! In carriage, the same unwieldy wag-
guris are generally employed on every road, and foreverypu r-
pose. But theirolistinacy is proof against all reasoning and all
experience. We know an instance ofa farmer, ten miles distant
from Warminster, who took to market nine quarters of grain
in two Singleshurse carts, attended by one man, who went all-
at eight in the morning, and returned by six in' the evening,
while a neighbour of his, at the same distance, and on the
same road, employed for carrying the same load a waggon
drawn by four horses, and dr!ven by a man and boy, who left
bome. at five in the morning, and returned -at six in the even-
ing. The difference of expence between the latter and the
former was no less than nine shillings each time. Yet this
speaking demonstration of the advantrue was quite thrown
away on those who witnessed it. If the British manufacturer
were equally dull, equally proof againt improved and r co:to-
pical radices, would our manufactures have attained their
present excellence, and British industry be in the enjoyment
of so high a reputation ?"

Now, these are plain, intelligible, and judicious
observations. Evident as it must' be to the
meanest capacity,- that any measure proceeding
froth Governs ent alone can go but a short way
indeed in alleviating the distresses of the Agri-
cbiturists, we wish them to think of the old fable
book, where the clown is represented wringing
his hands, and praying to Jupiter to draw his

waggon out of the slough. Let them put their

owilshoulders to the wheel, and they will do
more for themselves, than five hundred Ilutnes
and Cobbetts ever will, or ever can do for them.

[MORNING POST.]

After the ti ial of the action Cartwright v.
Wright, which took place yesterday in the Court
of King's Bench, the Radicals will, it is hoped,
discontinue •their attacks upon " The Constitu-
tional Association ;" for a step more calculated
to destroy .the Liberty of the Press was never
taken. By the report of the trial (See our fourth
page) .it will be seen, that the " Venerable
Veteran," as he is called, sought to recover the
moderate sum of One Thousand Pounds da-
mages from Mr. Wright, the Editor of a little
work called " Ma Book of Wonders," for
certain words copied into that work from Cob-
hett's Register, and addressed by him to the
tiarajor himself, so, far back as the year 1817. if
his " name, fame, and character " had been in-
jurecl by the use-of the said words, why did not
the honest old gentleman proceed against Cob-
bett, the original writer of the alleged libellous
words, and net against Mr. Wright, the mere
citer of them ? Verily, there be some folks who
can strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!

4 - [M.ORNING CIIRONICLEM
The discussion of last night' on the motion of
Lord Londonderry for what may be considered
:the re-appointment of the Agricultnral Corn-
mittee, will, with the speeCif of his LorOship
Friday evening, put the Agriculturists in posses-
sion of what they have to expeCt from Parlia-
inent. Several of the CoUntry Gentlemen in the
Roine, who. appeared at County Ueetings quite
indignant at the profusion and prodigality which
prevailed in every establishment of the State,
declare thernselVessatisfied with the reductions
w.litch have beenyroposed by` Ministers. What
the AgriculturWs, have to look forward to
In flie 'way :of—relief from taxes, will there-
fore 'amount to next 'to nothing. Much stress
ifiai—l'aict by bird Londonderry on the effects