The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-29 00:00:00

TURTLE.

MORRISON'S PRESERVED PORTABLE TURTLE.
Sent in Jars (hermetically sealed) to any part of the World,
and warranted to retain its good qualities for years.
TILE TURTLE in these Jars consists of the
parts of the Fish, killed in the West Indies, when
in the riiiehighest health and condition, and will be found to excel
in richness and flavour, the produce of the half-starved Animal,
hitherto used in this Country, after a voyage of several
months.

The TURTLE will also be found infinitely cheaper than that
sold by the great Dealers, not merely from the obvious dif-
6rence in price, but from its consisting of nothing but pure
Turtle, and no such refuse as White Mtnt, Tripe, or Liver.
TO Families residingi in the Country, and to Hotel and
Tavern Keepers, this TURTLE cannot but be a great con.
venience,_ as affording, at almost instant notica, the necessary
supply of exquisite Soup, without the waste and loss attendant
on dressing a whole Turtle.
Certificates of its excellence from Personages of the highest
distinction and best taste may be seen ; but a single trial is
requested in preference, as more certain of insuring appro.
!limn. •

To be had Dressed or Undressed, at the rate of 10s. per
Quart Dressed, or 12s, 6d. per Quart Undressed ; which last
makes 'nearly .three times its own quantity of the former.. The
Dressed requires only to be warmed ap, and with the Un-
dTessed a Receipt will be given* by which any Cook may make
it into excellent,Boup.
N. 13.—A liberal discount allowed to those who purchase to
Dress and Sell again, and to purchasers of a certain quantity.
FOR READY MONEY ONLY.
WA RETIOUS
3, CHARLOTTE ROW,;MANSION JIOUSE,
LONDON
Where may be had, every day, fresh. dressed, Turtle for isn.
mediate use ; and Portable Soups of all kinds, Dressed Meats,
Fresh Salmon, Vegetables, &c.

VALUABLE FREEHOLD' and LEASEHOLD FREE
PUBLIC HOUSES, FREEHOLD DWELLING-
HOUSES, and eligible Lout of BUILDING LAND, in
NEWPORT and CA RISBROOKE, ISLE of WIGHT.
• • TO BE SOLD BY AULITION,
By LOVE and TUCKER, on TIIURSDA Y, February 27,
1823, at the BUGLE INN, in NEWPORT, at Three
o'clock in the afternoon, (subject to the Conditions to be then
and there produced.) •
riVIE following Good Accustomed, Inde..
ill pendent INNS and TAVERNS;.eligible FREEHOLD
DWELLING-HO.USES, and singularly good Lots of
BUILDING LAND, &c. ;
Lot I.—A good-accustomed Leaseholdillessuage and Public.
House, &c. galled the Bugle, situate in Carisbrooke, in the oc-
cupation °Mr: John Hervey, as Tenant-at-Wilt.
Lot 2.—A Pieceof Parcel of Laud, attached to Lot 1,, for
building on.
Lot 3.—A Piece or Parcel of Land, attached to Lot 1, for
building on,—frontage in Castle-street.
Lot4.—Ditto the likeagain.
Irot s.—The .3laterials of a Stable, containing about 6,000
bricks, together with ten fine Lime Trees, now standing on the
above Premises.
Lot 6.—A good-accustomed Freehold Messuage and Public..
house; &c. called the Row Barge, situate in Pyle-street,'
Newport, now in the occupation of Mr. G. Cooper, as Tenant.
at-Will,
Lot 7.—A Freehold Messuage or Dwelling House, &c. ad-
joining Lot 6, now in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Perkins, us
Tenant-at-Will.
Lot B.—A Piece
ails ared 'of Freehold Land, adjoining
Lot 7, together with ge Sawing-house, and Tenement at,
tacked.
Lot 9.—A good-accustomed Freehold Illessuage and Public.
House, called the Star and Garter, situate in Pyle-street,
Newport, in the occupation of Mr. John Warn, as ' enant-at.
Will.
Lot 10.—A Freehold and well-frequented Public House,
called the Dolphin, situate on Newport Quay, in the occupa-
tion of Mr. W. King, as Tenant-at-Will.
Lot 11,—A Commodious Messuage and well-accustomed
Public , Rouse, &c. called the Sir John Barleycorn Hate King's
Arms), situate in Holy Rood-street, Newport, in the oecnpa-
Lion of Mr. W. Linningtont as Tenant-at-Will. •
Lot 12 Freehold Messuage or Dwelling-House, &c.
attached to Lot 11, in the occupation of Mr. 11. Linnington,
Lot 13.—A good-accustomed Freehold Messuage and Pub.
lic House, &c. called the White Horse, situate in St. Jamea's-
street, No. 21, in the occupation of Mr. C. Linington, on
Lease for three years.
• Should there not be acceptable'Biddings by Auction for Lots
1,6, 0, 10, and 11, they will be inunetliately put up to be Let
to the Highest Bidder for a Term of 3 5, or 7 years.
To be viewed, till the Sale, by applying to the respective
Tenants; and printed Particulars, with Plans of Lots 2,3, 4,
and. .12, may be had of Mr. Wnriley, Solicitor ; the
Auctioneers ; and at the Bugle Inn, Newport ; Yelf's Howl,
Rytle ; Vine. Inn, West .Cowes ; Mitre Tavern, Forum ;
County Chronicle and Isle-of Wight Journal Office, South-
arripton ; and at the Office of Messrs. Brodie and Co. Salisbury.

TITHES IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

PARISH OF .ST. rrti sy CRIPPLETIATE.

Our readers, doubtless, are aware, that some
time'since 14It. Beresford, the vicar' of St. Andrew's, liolliorn,
set up a claim to 25.,9a; in the-pound as hi, amount of tithe,
from every. householder in that parish.
_The Itev. Gentleman
contended that he was entitled to this sum, under an Act of the
nth of Henry VIII., which. it was said, authorized the vicars
of parishes in the city of London to. receive 2s. titl. in the pound
by way of tithe. In consequence of this proceeding on, the
part of the vicar of St. Andrew's, the inhabitants of other pa.
rishes in the city of London took the alarm, and fearing that a
similar demand for an increase of tithe might be made on them,
determined to bestir themselves, anti endeavour to prevent such
claims, if made, from being auccessfl►l. Among the,number of
these parishes was that of St. Giles, Cripplegate-without, where
a Committee of the Inhabitants was nominated to communicate
with the Committee which, had been appointed by the Corpo-
ration to examine the laws relative to tithes lit the city of Len-
don, and to adopt such measures as they should think best
calculated t 9 prevent any addition being made to the sums al-
ready paid on that account in the city.
Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Giles, Cripple.
gate, was held in-the parish church, for the- ptirpose or receiv-
ing the report of their committee. The report stated that the
committee had frequently consulted with the corporation com-
mittee upon the subject in which the householders of the city
were so Much interested, and that the corporation- committee
had'earnestly requeSted them to.co-operate with them in peti.
tinning Parliament for the repeal of the nth of Henry VIII.,
relative to tithes in the city.

The report being, after some conversation, agreed to, Mt.
STEVENs moved a, reeolution, declaratory of the intention of
the pariah to co-operate with the other parishes of the, city, end
the corporation committee, in endeavouring by every 1e a 4
means to procure the repeal of the Act of lfrnry VIII. before
nientioned. This resolution was unanimously adopted.
Ur. NEwE lA, sun., expressed the pleasure which he felt of
witnessing the determination of the parish to, oppose, and be
i
trusted to defeat, this' claim. It would' be wise n the Bishop
of London to issue an order to present the Clergy. from bringing
themselves into ctinternpt by th6ir unwarrantable proceeding 4
with tee! to tithes. Tie could not doubt that the Her. ,Bishop
possessed sufficient. power to restrain the Clergy frunA assertingtheir pretended claim, when he had Made such a signal, diepley
of his authority the other day by preventing the Rev. Roa,lanil
Ilill from preaching a serthon for the benefit of it charity itclinik,
in consequence of which the school suslained a jos* OP pr04131.Y
two or three 'hundred pounds.. • , -
After sonic further conyarsittion of no-linportaticei ttke,3lot,
ing bruke up. ' ' ' -

FOR THE SUN.

[LETTER 11.1
A CANDID INQUIRY into AGRICULTURAL DIS-
TRESS by an AGRICULTURIST NOW RETIRED.

TO C. C. WESTERN, ESQ. M.P.

Sin,—lt is the opinion of many persons, as well
as of yourself, that the return, as it is termed, to
CASH-PAYMENTS, under Mr. Peel's Bill, is a great
evil to the nation ; and the principal cause, in par-
ticular, of the present Agricultural Distress ; but
I believe this assertion to he a mistake. If we
take the reasoning contained in my Letter to E.
Solly, Esq., inserted in Tut: SUN of yesterday,
on the subject of Metallic and-Paper Currency,
into consideration, and apply it as one touchstone
to this opinion, we shall, I think, begin to per-
ceive the error. The total amount of the me-
tallic currency at this moment is not, I believe,
a tenth part of the circulating medium of the
United Kingdom ; I should, perhaps, be within
bounds, if I asserted (for no human being is able
to prove or disprove the fact), that it is not a
twentieth part, when compared with that of pa-
per: I will, therefore, taking this opinion for
granted, ask—how is it possible that one portion
of 10 or 20, used only as break-pieces, can affect
in its simple capacity the total amount of the
whole circulation ? Is there a farmer in the king-
dom, if he sells grain or cattle to the amount of
10, 50, or 100 pounds, that will feel himself
obliged to take metal in payment, in preference
to paper ? I believe no one will venture to make
this assertion : how then can the metal in the
Shape of coin now in circulation, operate upon the
market to which the great farmer resorts, in any
manner injurious to him, when the small farmer
who deals at the very sante market in retail,l
takes the paper or the metal that is going with- I
out a preference for the one or the other ? The
one or the other does him, in 'fact, neither good
nor harm. Metal assuredly does not harm him
for were the farmers assembled at any market ;in
England to insist, as they once did in 1798 in
Northumberland, upon receiving gold or silver
only, there is not a town, then nor now, that
could in hours be able to supply them with
the amount of their one day sales without im-
'.peding the progress of other trails:team. Will
you, Sir, be so c2blis,,ing as to refer to the parlia-
mentary debates of the above period, and subse-
quently, w lieu metal was scarce, and you will
!hid that in those distressing times the democrats,
die opposition, the friends of the enemy (Firench),
another description of persons which I forbear to
mention, and all the discontentedland distressed,
who being out of place wanted to get in ; I say
these several descriptions of persons invariably
insisted upon that (whether, for instances a pay-
meta of paper or metal) a Mich it was not conve-
nient or consistent with the national interests to
grant.

No, Sir, the present agricultural distress ori•
ginates in a very different cause, and I will ex-
hibit this secret ;—secret to those only who
tingly CiOSC their senses ; it began to-be felt, as
we learn from that worthy clergyman Dr. Bor.
lase, in his History of Cornwall, about 70 years
ago,,and still lives in increasing viirour in the up.
lifting of society throughout the kingdom, from a
state of comparative moderation to a rage for the
wildest extravagance. Two-thirds or the farmers
and their families are now become gentlemen
and ladies in every thing but manners and edu.
cation ; in those particulars alone (us far as my
observations extend, and I think I know them
pretty well) they are stationary. The lauded
gentry and nobility have deserted the implied
trust under which they hold their estates, and
have left the labouring. poor, 1% hose protectors
they ought to be, to the mercy Of their tenants ;
and after screwing up their rents to an unnatural
height, of from 9 to :100 per cent. by means which
many of their ancestors would have blushed to
have sanctioned ; they now, when they.perceive
their lands aballiio Ail into their own occupy ions,
make a merit of reducing thor rents at the in-
sufficientrate of 30, 40, or 50 per cent. Speak-
ing generally, few reduce their rents, if they find
upon inquiry that the farmer is SO tirCUMitaileed
that though pushed to extremity, he is, from some
cause or other, likely to hold on. Widows,
Orphans, Trustees or every description, and
proprietors of very small estates are likely to
retain what the law gives them, longer than
strict romal rectitude will justify in others,. bei.

cause they are naturally suspicious, responsible,
or straiteued in their circurnstances:but the
great mass of landlordS are ~not.generally
either of these predicaments ;.-airti.if they are
pinched in their incomes, it IS usually occasioned
by the extravagances and fashions of the times,
which have induced them and their families to
reside every where, except in that place where
a man of landed 'estate tins the power to become
most estimable in, the public opinion, ands most
happy and independent in
,his own.
• But the. national effects of this' deOertiOn;
though comprising, a list of serious evils, are
calculable to inattentive observers. TO'Spealc
briefly but plainly, the mariners of the great. and
rich are aped by the whole mass of the' popUla-
tion aboVe manual labour ;—the poors' rates
from the want of contrOni, where they. should
Meet with regulators, are increased since the
year IMO from two millions and a half„ to,eight
and even to nine millions;--an- excessive.op.
pression occasioned by leaving the farmers chiefly
to manage this important trust, and who con-
squently, seeking their own interests, devised
the scheme of paying wages out of this fund;
a practice formerly unknown, generally thought
to he unsanctioned by law, but undoubtedly
highly oppressive to those 'w who are neither farmers
nor manufacturers;—the prisons Aire crowded
with criminals, because there are generally fewer
persons than formerly to watch over the morals
of the poor in early life ;—the force of example
induces the vanity of parents to introduce their
children into professions unsuited to the habits
of the relatives with whom they must in after
life chiefly associate ;—the 'Clergy, the professed
supporters of religion and morals, unaided by
the Nobility and Gentry, who would if pre7
sent we should hope, as their fathers did foe-
merly, give sanction to them in reclainring others',
from vice and profligacy, are now become, more
frequently than formerly,: indifferent and relax-
ed ;—and from the spirit of preferment.hunting,,
the uncertaintrof residence unfits them for the
duties so necessary to influence the conduct of
the people committed to their cure.
Amid such a complicacy of evils, all issuing
from one source, can it be matter of surprise that
I
the people are restless and uneasy, that they
Should take the law into their own hands, and
add to the asserted distress, by destroying thresh.
lug mills and other machioery,--7and especially
should do so when ,excite& by those .numereut
advocates for reform of imaginary abuses, but
WhO, if they could he induced to commence
that reform in their own persons, would. more
surely succeed than it is probable they Will by the
presentmeglect of some of their duties, and the Ulis.
taken means of pursuing others ;—were the farm-
ers, their wives and daughters to live as people
of their occupation ought to do, and us they ger
nerally did in the so eulogized period of pros.
perity 179:1; were the landlords to reside on,
their estates as they did formerly and even ge-
nerally at that time ; and to extort nothing br.
pond the then rents of land, adding only thereto
the fair proportion of advance of capital, ex.
pended in improvements and the increase of taxes.
since, which no one can grudge them ;--and were
tire Clergy to be more eiltially regulated and
paid ;—were these things to take place, there
would exist, no such misfortune as Agricul.
tural distress :--but until such a state of affairs
'is hrouilit hack, and such real reformation
• made by the complainants in whose power
alone it rests,—(yes I say alone,—for it mani.
festly rests solely in the landlords in .and
out of Parliament to effect it) the Public at
large has nothing to do with their distresses. It
is true the Public now enjoys that low price of
agriltural produce which has taken place of the
former unnatural exCess, and which, had it con-
tinued till this time would, as I mean briefly to
show, have bees the occasion of substantial mis-
fortunes to the sehoic ontien :—But through the
blessings of Providence, those evils have been
averted by the very means that have and do, it
seems, still excite regret in the disaffected, in-
stead. of gratitude to our most,.munificent
factor and almighty Protector. , • •
finny person atop actittaioed with the sciences
of commerce and political economy, knows that
the charges of each article exported, must be
made toyieldCa Profit to eveirpersen concerned
in its progress to perfection; its shipment, and
its sale. If any of these• fail to yield that profit,
the article will cease to he manufactured. And
we all likewise know, (however artfully and eve-
sively the argurneotatiott may be made to turn
upon the subject). that the increasing or decreas-
ing wealth of 'ar nation wholly depends for its
tte
profitl or its leis upon the balance" value between
goods exported and the returns :—for were
a nation so insulated as to possess no external'
commerce, it might exist iu comfort, but its opu-
lence wont(' never increase. The Agriculturists,.
therefore, ere greatly mistaken when they fancy,
that the rocultli 4, this nation so much depends:
upon them, as they are vain enough to assert it
-does. The only way in which the cultivators of
the soil contribute to the national wealth is by
ifeeding
defencethose ‘ovfho
thaartecoerinignitiegrlcl inbue rni
frntehree yn e caonde
tri'ie by any Means.tvlitifeiereither by:their-own
combinatiensor'by their-preponderating influence
iti.Parliutuent, to increase the cost of the exports
to a degree. unsuited to the profits of those eon..
Certred in the fereign traffic of all or of: any
vidoal article, the witele or. tho individual article
will cease to be exported : tuti'at no returns can
'be made but in the proportion' of sale Rai ptofits,
and Wealth.' of -the nation must suffer in ,like 'pro-
portion.

It may be matter of regret to all the agricul-
turists, aud of luformation to the larget proper.

tion of them, that they are limited, in, their pro-
fits by means over which the Parliament itself/
were it &Vet) united in opinion, It'es,no controut;
this may appear to be an enigrnalo many of the
present petitioners, but it is a riddle easily,
solved.
In time of such hostility as that in which every
nation of Europe was engaged during the French,
Revolution, Great Britain bad no commercial cont.
petition to contend against; and, consequently, as
her manufacturers were less limited hi the prices
of their goods, they became the more indifferet4
about the increase of the prime cost. The farmers,
nothing , loth, made advantage of that state of
things, by factitious means, increasing the price,
of their produce to an unwarrantable excess ;
those who were prudent made such savings,
ns wise men under like circumstances al-
ways do ; and to aid in effectieg high prices,
bankers in every little town (anti village almost)
issued their paper moeey to aCeatmoodate the
agriculturists, who could afford by being thus en-
abled to withhold their produce, and to feed the
market, to pay interest for such factitious capi-
tal ; so that every one was gratified, and gene-
rally ignorant or indifferent, about the event
but from hence we have to date one other of the
evils under which the country is Onequivocally
labouring ; f mean a portion of the national debt ;
which suffered an, increase in the exact propor:.
tion the landlords and farmers by,ineans of this
artificial capital increased their rents and unwar-
rantable profits :—the ramifications of the evil
searched into recesses very far removed from the.
supply of provisions to the Government ler
the uses of the army, navy, and prisoners ;
for as every person felt the oppression, the.
Government was also obliged to increase
the menus of living to all the officers of the de-
partments; and every person furnishing labour
and materials•to the State in any way or artic:e
whatever, added an adequate per centage to meet
the pressure, so that in the course of a long
series of years under ss Inch a large portion of the
middle ranks of society (the indigent clergy, the
unprotected females, the fund-holders,and other
persons dependent upon fixed incomes), were
suffering, too many of the present complainants,
I mean the landlords and the farmers, with their
wives and daughters, were revelling and chuck-
ling in all the luxuries of established opulence.—
Still, even the then sufferers, above-men-
tinned; never complained ; they were blind to
the true cause, and attributed the whole to the
war of defence under which they were then
struggling. Those who then were prudent enough
to save now enjoy : and those ss ho then spent,
and are burthened with long leases, are loud in
their complaints;---but, I would ask, who is it
among the rest of the community, inclined as
they are to relieve them, can do so P---for

The several nations on the Continent of Europe,
and even in. Amt rica,. would manufacture for
themselves, if the priceS,of our goods, (I beg
this important consideration'may have its due
weight on the memory), were not so reduced iu
`price and improved in quality as to enable c:r
manufacturers to underselli. foreigners ; eeee in
their own markets, and even,when supported by
those countervailing duties,, of hit Ii every ea'
lion can estimate the value, whether beneficial yr
injurious, es well as we ourselves can. 'Flo, fail
is, and foreigners know it,—they cannot iticrea;e:
their, duties beyond' certain limits ; „and fortueate;.
ly for the interest of the Agriculturists them_
selves, those limits do not 'exclude our coin'' 4
cial supplies, even though our produce ot
necessaries of life are at this day from 40 k 4,4
Per cent. higher than on the continent of Ear, •
this is effected by the Superiority of our tt1t...1
nery ; which again, happily for the' aittiFftn...
rists, enables our m O
anufacturers to prgrler for
the articles of food than the inhabNlSts 0,04 e
Continent do ; in this xespect one ingenious tnas
chinist is worth a thousand
,landholders or
culturists, and renders the Ciltlfetlerai:.y
.tliseugt
it little knows it, &renter benefits. .
Under this view of the subject, and etre ec#its.
fident it is one under which an unprejudiced &Wet
will contemplate it, the landlords and their to.
nants,'who are.".. honest Met) iney save
themselves the trouble and loss
vcning public meetings, and reserve themselves
for a mutually calm_ hearing at their a u 4,$
to the democraticel demagogues and radie4l
leaders of the rabble, they have other sieWs fo-
reign to all the honest prejudices of the country
gentlemen and honest farmers, who naturally
strive to keep what they have got or recall what.
they had, viz. high rents and high prices. Tfii,Sit
well-intentioned, but mistaken people, may be
assured that rents and burthens of all kinds train
at length so find their level in these as they did
in former times, that the farmers thronghout the
kingdom may be able to gain a moderate, and
only a moderate living. The- landlords will be
regulated by: the natural .standard measure ;
mean the abiliti of the fanners ;—that is, whets
the fanners possess snfficient profit to induce thefts
to employ a reasonable capital, the landlords
will take the remainder; but, as- long us each of
these parties possesi any thing to yield to .the
other, it will prove a vain effort to attempt to
raise contributions from the `rest of
t. 14 comma.
nity, in order to support the exclusive advalititges
of these
riici twoesaie it)tanyietel olacttin;edbeerta,ocniie e
it:tilsedeth;
duty:oft=overy person independent,> 01.* tln
watch them narrowly as the most 'Burnt oar rw, .the
most opulent or dependent ;---the most influen
tial;—and therefore alt ether the most dangers
env body, when acting under interest: atd,#in
union the kingdom.

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