The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

JAMES BELLAMY, Esq. iii the Chair

Resolved unanimously,
That the properity of the kiagdom at large, including the
several classes of the community therein, as also the welfare
or the Government of the Country, materially depend on the
good state, progress, and spirit Of its Agriculture ; and in
order to secure the same; it is necessary that the Cultivators
of the. Soil should receive a fair remunerating Price fur their
prodnee,-to enable them to pay their Rents, Tithes, Taxes,
Poor and other Parochial Rates, Labour, and necessary
Outgoings. •

That the value of agricultural produce has been declining
for a considerable period,and at this time,the various articles
grown or raised by the Agriculturists are depreciated nearly,
if not fully, one half in their prices, -and that the losses con-
sequent thereon have hitherto fallen principally upon, and
are now chiefly sustained by, the tenants a occupiers.
• That the farming occupiers, by reason of such declension
in the price.s.of their produce,- have lost very considerable
sums of money, and are at this time losing their diminished
capitals sa rapidly, that it is much to .be feared that many of
them must (unless speedily relieved) be compelled to relin-
quish their farming concerns, and that many others will be
reduced to poverty and ruin.
That it is highly expedient that all classes of society deriv.
jug benefit front the fanning interests, should Unite their
endeavours iii enable the occupiers of farms to continue their
,occupations; and for this purpose, that it be earnestly re-
commended to landlords and the clergy to make suitable re-
dactions from'their rents and tithes,, and also to INite different
classes of traders and mechanics, to make like abatements in
the several articles of their trade.

That as the reductions above referred to will not be nearly
equal-to the present depression in the several articles of the
farmer's produce, and will not afford them adequate relief,
petitions of the "owners and occupiers of lands in the town,
hundred, and neighbourhood of Wisbech, and others inte-
rested in Agriculture, to both Houses of Parliament, be forth-
with prepared for,t he ' signature of • such persons as may ar
prove the same; and be transmitted, previous lir the Meeting
of Parliament, to the Lord Lie utenant and the Members for
the county,. to bt presented by them to the twc Houses of
Parliament. ' •

That such Petitions do state, in proper and respectful
terms; the woeful and increasing grievances the Landed and
Agricultural Interests are labouring under, the heavy losses
they arc sustaining, and the absolute necessity Of affording
them some speedy and effectual relief, as well for continuing
the Agriculture of the Country in a proper state for the sup-
port of its population, as also for the preservation of the
Cbuntry at large.
That the Al-embers for the County be requested to present
the Petitions, and earnestly to promote-the objects of the Pe-
titioners, and to use- their utmost endeavours to obtain all
retrenchments in the expenditure of the public money, in
the several departments of the State, that can be properly
made ; and in rffeeting any reduction in the Taxes most op-
pressive to thc•Agrickiltural Interests, that cau be safely dis-
primed with.
That a respectful, though strong and explicit, Memorial,.
signed by the Petitioners, lie transmitted •to the Right Ho-
nourable the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury, embracing the
purport of the foregoing Resolutions, and the fearful appre-
hensions of the Memorialists, that without speedy relief being
afforded to the Landed Proprietors and the Cultivators of the
Soil, many of them will lie unable to continue the payment of
the Government and other*Taxes in the manner they have
hitherto done and still wish to do.

That a Committee of fire gentlemen, consisting of Mr, Bel.
lamy, Mr, Watson, Mr. Nicholls, Mr. Sculthorpe, and Mr.
Joseph Marshall, or any three of theta, do cause the above
Petitions and Memorial to be prepared and left at proper
places in Wished) for signatures.
'That these RcsOlutions he signed 11 the Chairman, in the
name of the Meeting; and be published in the Cambridge,
Norwich, Lincoln, and such other Papers as the Committee
maythink necessary. JAMES BELLAMY, Chairman.
Resolved—That time cOrdial Thanks of the Meeting be given
to the Chairman, for his-general attention to the interests of
the country, and fur his able conduct in the Chair this day.
_ _

N. B. The above Petitions and Meuior•al will be left: for
Signatures at Messrs. White and Leach's, Stationers, in
'Wistecti.

General Merchant&, as well as those trading exclusively
to foreign countries, althotigh both amiable and wealthy as
men and gentlemen, are still in their mere mercantile cha-
racter, only factors fur others; and, in their dealings, are
necessarily regardless of country, or of the cost of production
or products, provided the customer at the end paykt hem their
faCtorage, or a profit on the adventure. They are also, how-
ever, invited to attend the proposed Meeting; and it is put
to thd candour of many Merchants themselves, a hether, as
our unwise laws have invited, and do invite, them to invest
their capital in foreign loans, forests, and ships, or its foreign
corn, hemp, flax, cotton, tobacco, and rice fields, or in the
speculation and factorage of them, thereby alienating British
capital, and as they are now or about employing foreign in
lieu of Britiih people and ships, to the great prejudice of the
latter and of the Empire,—whether their attendance can be
considered as that of a real and entire British Interest. This
question I leave them to determine. It is also wished to he
understood, that an Interest supported by a slave popula-
tion falls very short in its value to the State, when compared
.with one that gives employment to a free population:
but I entreat then► to consider, that the measures for which
application is intended to be made to Parliaraont are founded
OH the principles,—
That the 'profitable employment of our own, and not foreign
people not slaves, constitues the wealth and prosperity of the
British Empire.
That the agriculture of our'Empire,.when duly protected,
is the root of and propelling power to all our other branches
of industry; and that ultimately all our other interestsadvawce
or retrograde with it in au equal ratio.
That our exports arc the mere payment of our imported
articles of 'consumption ; and that our general consumption
can only be increased-by the profitable employment ut the
great mass of our peOple.
That in consequence of our Empire requiring about two
hundred, millions of additional people, to bring all its resources
into action, every man, whets duly employed, is a positive gain
to the State; hut, when deprived of profitable employment,
is a loss to it, on time other hand, of about fifty pounds per
annum ; and consequently that the consumption of every
foreign article, (even though such articles were bestowed upon
us as a donation) provided we can produce the like of the
foreign article ourselves with otherwise unemployed people,
is dearer to us than if we paid such of our own unemployed
people fur its production fifty pounds per annum per man.
That a large taxation'can be supported only by a large in-
come, that neither the quality or cost of things are State ques-
tions, but belong solely to traffickers, producers, and consum-
ers, amtlhat all that statesmen have to do is to ascertain'their
value to the State and protect them accordingly
The time of meeting wilt be announced in a future wirer-
tiscutent.The Gentlemen who attend it are requested to be
prepared to approve or to dispute the accuracy of the above
propositions. The Editors of Newspapers, and other publi-
cations, are invited to insert arguments in opposition to these
principles, provided they du the same by the answers. Those
who understand time fundamental rules on which the propo-
salons are grounded, as well as those who do not,
,and yet
feel a lively interest in their success, if found to be true, may
learn further particulars, (if by letter post-paid,) on .applica-
tiuu to JOSEPH PINSENT,

22, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, Ltindon.

P. S. No Englishman has coin plettd the discharge of his duty
whale one means remains untried of averting the approaching
fatal crisis of his country.

PROCESS to PREVENT MILDEW in every KIND of
CANVAS, made either of HEMP, FLAX, or COTTON.
AITESSRS..BROWELL and CO. 23).Alder-
-111.11. manbury., having had their Invention hOnoured by a
thorough examination of the Society of Ship Owners of Great
Britain, and Mr. COCK; its Secretary, basing on the I ith
October last acquainted them, That the Committee (front
" the evidence laid before them) are perfectly satisfied that
" the Invention possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it,
"'and consequently that it is of great importance to Ship
"'Owners in general;"' beg leave to acquaint the Shipping
Interest, that Sail-Cloth of-various kinds, whicli.have under-
gone their Process, may be had of Messrs. -Chalmers and
Guthrie, Idol-lane, Tower-street.- Each Bolt is marked by a
red stamp with a Crown so rtounding the letter 8.---The low
price of ss. per Bolt (or lAd. per yard) occasions an expellee
not exceeding in any case 5 per cent., for every Ship of what-
ever size, upon the whole oost of tlie