The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-11 00:00:00

WEST V. ANDREWS.

• . .
. This was an action under the 5Mh Geo. ITU, to recover a
penalty, of 1001. The defendant, being a guardian of the 'poor
for the parish of Westhampton, supplied, contrary to the
pro-
visions of the act, a sheep for the use and consumption of the
workhouse.
The cause was tried at the Essex _Assizes, in the spring of
last year ;. and: the Jury, on the ground that a fair price
had been charged-for the sheep, found a verdict for the de-
fendant.
Mr. GURN•tv, in the course of last term, obtained a rule to
show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a ver-
dict taken for the plaintiff; The act, he contended, was precisely
that which it had been the especial object of the Legislature to
prevent. • •
Mr. M AIIIIYAT argued, in support of the verdict, that unless
the price had been exorbitant, or the pro7ision bad in quality,
the defendant could not be liable to the penalty.
The COURT thoUght otherwise ; and made the rule absolato
for setting aside the verdict.

A. Sheep, the property of John Hall, Esq. of
Little Marshall, near this city, died a few days
since, considered by all who have seen it a great
curiosity :—I t was only 2 feet 9 inches from the
neck to the setting on of the tail ; 21 inches wide
on th'e back., and between 7 and 8 inches thick
in meat on the fore flank. • It was one of Mr.
Hall's high bred little new Leicester sheep, and
weighed 421bs. per quarter; was fed only on'
grass, hay, arid turnips.----(Exeter Flying Post.)

FOR THE SLIN

MODERN POLITICAL ECONOMY.
[LETT-Er. V.l

Mn. EDlToa—Having puffed aside all this
froth your Readers will expect to be treated pre-
sently with a draught of the real juice of malt
and hops ; I wish I could promise them any
such matter, but truly the subject is froth at the
top, and froth to the bottom ; when the sum and
substance, such as it is, is made up of such ele-
ments as I have exhibited, the whole can be no
better than its parts, for there is no vital prin-
ciple to connect them.

Previously to forming his conclusion, and
letting all the world know that rent falls always
on the consumers, and that the farmer pays no part
of the landlord's rent, Alr.RicAnno tells us, besides
what I quoted before, that " Corn is not high
because a rent is paid, but .a rent is paid because
corn is high." p. 62. That is to say, as popula-
tion -and capital increase, the value of products
advances, and land will let for more money ; so
will houses, taverns, gardens, stables, and all other
real property. This is the natural consequence, and
every little boy just come from school may see it. I
understand the fact and the reason ; high rents can
no more advance the price of corn than they can in-
crease the custom of a slop-seller in Houndsditch,
who, if his rent is too high, may break for lack of
profits. High rents and high taxes, however, have a
tendency to raise the prices of all articles in
trade, because the dealers must set their profits
at such a rate as will cover their unavoidable ex-
pences ; as long as this is practicable, and they
meet with trade sufficient, all goes well ; but it
makes this difference, that a little business will
not maintain a family, and though tradesmen can
fix their prices, they cannot force custom. There-
fore high expences are evils to trade when money
is scarce, and business is fiat. , These remarks are
very obvious, and may appear childish to your
readers, but I assure you if they were written in
a book on political economy, they ivould be con-
sidered as important elementary truths. In such
flowery paths as these of this infant science, it is
no wonder that we should wander a little astray,
and I must beg your readers to excuse my
gambols. I was speaking of the origin and na-
ture of Rent—and so Revennons sous a 110 S
11101a071S. llr. Ricardo speaks flat contradictions

in the passages just quoted ; but because it suited
the views of prejudice, our critics and news writ-
ers have received the doctrine in the worst sense ;
and it has been bruited with great diligence that
the rent cflandfalls alwass on the consumer ; I will
therefore add another sentence or two from the
founder of the new school, that his most valuable
tenets may not be lost—" No reduction would
take place in the price of corn, although land-

lords should forego the whole of their rents."—
He means not for this reason ; but that other cir-
cumstances must be in operation, affecting the
general prosperity of the kingdom, which raise or
depress the price of corn, without any regard to
whether land is let cheap or dear; or, indeed,
whether it be let at all, or cultivated by the
owners. Mr. Ricardo adds—" Such a measure
(taking off all rent) would enable some farmers to
live like gentlemen, but would not diminish the
quantity of labour necessary to raise raw pro-
duce on the least productive land in cultivation."
—Our master of scholars has here got into a

slough of ignorance and nonsense, hick he is
often bemired, as we shall see hereafter. The
other sentence, which I cannot forbear to quote,
is this—" Raw material enters into the composi-
tion of most commodities ; but the value cf that
raw material, as well as corn, is regulated by the

productiveness of the portion of capital last em-
ployed 'on the land,* and paying no rent ; and
therefore rent is not a component part of the price
of cwnniodities."—The conclusion is very true,
although the premises should
,(as t suspect they
will) turn out to be false.
I hope by this time it will be admitted and be-
lieved that high rents do not make dear bread,
because ,Mr. Ricardo says so ; it is, to be sure.
most fatally demonstrated that high charges, viz.
rents, taxes, . rates, tithes, &c. may all tend to
ruin the Cultivators, and impoverish the King,
dom, but they never can raise the price of corn ;
moreover, the price of corn has excessively fluc-
tuated during •the whole of the late war, and
through all the period of the rise of rents an I
taxes ; and it has steadily declined during a long

period in which these have been kept up as mach
as possible to their highest standard ; therefore
it is as true as if Mr. Ricardo had not said it ; it
is true, likewise, that rents generally had
been too much advanced, and that out-
goings of all kinds have been pressed too
much on the .profits of. the.. cultivators, and
have not. left them room to bear the fluctuations
of price, and the uncertainty of seasons,
I remain, Sir, yOur's &c.'
APERTUS.

DESTRUCTION OF Sin JACOB ASTTAY'S SEAT
BY FIB the.3d inst. a most destructive
fire took place at Seaton Delaval, the property of
Sir JACOB A STLEY7 which in a few hours con-
sumed a noble mansion house, which, for mag-
nificence and grandeur, was equal to any in the
North of England. Every endeavour to preserve
the body of the building was. unavailing.. The
two wings (one of which comprised a large and
spacious kitchen, with various other apartments ;
the other, a beautiful stable in a style of princely
magnificence), were happily saved, by the great
and active exertions usedinmaking a separation
between them and the honse. The fire originated
in a.chimney to which a large beam of wood in
the roof was affixed ; the flames burnt with such
fury as to bid defiance to all human efforts. The
glass in the windows, by the intense beat, was
rednced to a • liquid state, and the lead on the
roof poured down like water. The fire com-
menced its ravages about four o'clock in the af-
ternoon of Thursday, and it was not before nine
o'clocic the devouring element could be checked,
when it ceased, and left the building in its pre-
sent state, a mass of splendid ruins:

OLD BAILEY.

EXTENSIVI TRAFFIC IN FORGED,tiQIj,F.S•

_ .
Yesterday L. Tye, alias Job-Jones, was charged Withforg,i.
ing and uttering a five pound Bank-note, with the intention to
defraud the Bank of England.
Mr. Serjeant BOSAXQUET, in stating the circumitartees of
the case to the Jury., observed, that since the detectiOn of the
gang of forgers at Birmingham about twelve month a since,
tnree of whom had been executell, there had been a very con-
siderable decrease in the circulation of forged notes ; not were-,
the dank aware of the existence of but one plate now in work,
of which the notes he should produce were impressions.
Harriet Goff, wife to Goff the officer, was employed by.tier;
husband and another officer, named Kinsey, to meet the pri;,,
soner. She was introduced to him by a woman, as a perm*,
who dealt in smuggled goods, at the Horse Shoe, in Gosweil.e.
street, and her companion told him that she wished to purchaie
skrecns, viz. five pound notes. He said that it was too late-
that night, but by appointment she met Mind-he next night at
the Jacob's Well, when she bought a 51. note for a sovereign,-
he observing that 101. notes were by far the hest.. She returned
to Kinsey, and told him. On the l'ith she saw the prisoner •
again, but he did not sell her any, as he said the man he got
them from was out of town. On the 213th she saw him, but he
was too busy to serve her, and appointed to meet her next day.
She went then to the horse Shoe, and purchased another. five-
pound note, which she paid for in wanted money. She- pur- .
chased again on the 22d for the last time ; she paid in.marked
money, and wrapped it in half a lottery bill of Haxard!s, Kin-
sey keeping the other half. Mary Dowling was the, woman
syho introduced her to the prisoner. Ile told her that he
.could.
supply her to any amount.
H. Kinsey, the officer, corroborated this evidence, He took -
the prisoner into custody, and found on his person the marked..
sovereigns with which he had furnished last witness ; • also the
corresponding half of Hazard's lottery-bill and another five- •
pound forged note.

- George L'ioff, the husband of the first witness, deposed to the
same effect.

I'. Glover, the Bank Inspector, proved the five notet produc-
ed to be forgeries in every respect. Impressions from this
plate had been seen by the Bank about the commencement of
last year. -
The prisoner, in his defence, said that the M. note 'stated to
be found in his pocket was put there by one of the ofliCers—he
could not say which. He called one witness to character, .who
had known him for thirty years, and be believed hi►u to be as
honest man.

The Cuitr BAttoi4 summed up the evidence ;—there was
no testimony to prove the charge of forging ; it was for the
Jury to say if they were not satisfied, as it regarded the pri-
soner's- uttering them with 'a guilty knowledge.—Verdict, .
Guilty.
Wm. Rivers, only 17 years of age, was indicted for uttering
as true, a note, purporting to be for 101. well knowing the sam3
to be forged, in the month of 'December last, in the parish
of • Saint James, Clerkenwell, .with intent to defraud. the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England. This pri'.
soner, though so young in years, and had been .twice suffered
to go at liberty on account of his youth, had in addition passed
a note for 101. to a Mr. Brown, and had attempted to pass the
one for which he now c.Looa indicted, to Mr. Wedgwood.
The prisoner in his defence said I have, my Lord, only
to ask you to show me mercy, and spare my life."—flitilty--•
Death ; but recommended strongly to mercy by the Jury,. on
account of his youth, in which Mr. Wedgwood joined. - .