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London, England, 1821-02-08 00:00:00

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1821.

CONTRACT FOR SHOES.
IttiYAL HOSPITAL FOR SEAME,N AT GREENWICH,
Feb. (3, 1891.
QUCTT Persons as -map be- willing to Contract
K. 3! in: Supplying this Hospital m•ith .HOES, fi,r the Pen-
Si*crs foi Two Ycars'..nMy tirtel;',-er in their Proposals the
Director's of the said Hosrlz.o, at this Place, on SATURDAY,
the 17th Instant, at "i.leeeti o'Clock in the Forenoon: and in
the .mean time be furnished with_Forras of Proposals, and
actptainted with farther particulars, by inquiring at the
Steward's Office here.

be received. after the boor afore-.
said, nor will any be attended to that are not agreeable to the
said Forms; nor unless the Parties personally appear.

CONTRACT FOP, GREY KERsEY AND BLANK.r.,.:N.
Commissariat Department, Tiertsm y
Chambers, 7th February, 1821.
SUCH Persons as are-desirous of Contraction-
w;ll, the Aunt for- Commissariat .titipplies, to sonply
GREY KERSEY and BLANKETS, may receive particulars
of the Contracts at this ()Thee bet wren the Hours of Eleven
and Five, and deliver their Tenders sealed up and directed to
the Aunt for COramissariat Slypplies, marking thetvon--"
"'Tender fur Kersey, &c. on or before Saturday the 171 h
instant; but .Oune Will be received oiler Twelve o'clock on
that Day; 1,,q- will any Proposal be noticed unless made On
or annexed to a printed Particular, and the Prices inserted
in Words at leur.th: nr,t—unless a Letter be subjoined to such
Proposal, siened by t Persons of.kuown Noperty,
ing to gi hecok boongt..will, the Party tenderin::, ju !he
itoktifeg"sei! /IT thi:V:ii'friLiiVirs' fur the irriFFifiPin.i.tice of the
• •
Contract.

CONTRACT TO DELIVtI: COAI, AT NIA I:1.A.
Conimissariat Department, Treasury
Chambers, Feb, n, 1521.
•
SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting
with the Agent 'for Commissariat SupplieS, 'to deliver
Ficc Hundred Chaldruns of COALS at MALTA, may re!.
wive Particulars of the Contracts at this Offc., between
the hours of Ten nod Four, and deliver their Tenderi,
sealed op and irected to the. Agent fm Commissariat Supplies,
marking thereon Tender for Coals," on or before Tuesday,
the 20th Instant ; butt none will he received after Twelve
o'clock on that day ; nor will any Proposal be noticed, unless
made on or annexed to a. piloted Particular, and the. Prices
inserted in words at length ; nor unless a Letter be soh-
joined to such Proposal signed by Two Persons of known Pro-
perty, engaging to become ()mind with the Patty tendering,
in the Sum expressed in the Particulars for the due perform-
ance of the Contract.

CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION,
St. John's Wood, Mat y- le-hone.
Patron—THE KING.

President—The Bight Honourable and Right Reverend the
Lord Bishop of LONDON.
Vice-Prrsident—Theltizht.lion. Lord KENYON.

THE ANNIVERSkRY MEETING of tile
SOCiErY for CLOIIIING. 'MAIN I'AINING,_ and
EnucATING POOR ORPHAN CHILDREN of CI,F,IGY
MEN of the ECI'ABLISHED CHURCH of ENCLAND,

til of AGE to he pot APP.:ENTICE. Will he holden at FREE
MASONS' HALL, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's lon-fields,
on TUESDAY, the 27th inSt. 'file Chair will be 'alien at
Two o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of ELECTI into
the SOCIETY'S SCHOOLS at St.-John's Wood, a number of
ORPHANS, not exceeding Twenty, and other general
ness of the Day.
Dinner on Table at.nye-o'Clock precisely.
STEW AR OS.

Right lice. John Kaye, D.D,
Lord Bishop of Bristol
Bev. George W. Hall, D.D.
Vice Chaneellor of•tike I.lni,
versity of Oxford .
nes% C. Wordsworth. D. D.
Vice-COancelior of the Elul-
- mersit y of Cantl;ri.dge
Rev. R. D. Shaaleford, D. .
F.R.S. ;tint F.A.S. Vicat of
St. Sepulchre, Londott
Dinner Tickets, 15s. tad), to be taken at the Bar.

ttight lion. Earl.Batlinrst
Hon. Earl Nl..invers
Right Hon. the Speaker
'Right Hon. Lord Chid Jus-
tice of England
1I; ht Hon. RIM. Peel, Nt.P,
Sir Coarles }'lower.
Thomas Esq-
WI Esq

Donations and Sithscliptions will in the mean time be
thankfully received hetheTreasurers, Iter. Archdeacon Cam-
bridge and Joslina Watson, Esq. at their Bankers, Messrs.-
Drunimunds, Charing*-cross, and lics,-rs. Sikes, Sitaillt, and
Co. Mansion Iloose-si rect ; and t, the Secretary. At Ni. 2U,
Great Knight Rider-street, DuctOr.' Commons.
J. B. NIOR.GAN, Sec.

EYTON, Stock-Broker, No. 0 Cornitill,
anti LoMbard Street.—New and advantageowt mode of
Adventure !—The chance of all the Capitals to be drawn on
Valentine's Day, 14th inst. for a tridar; and the certainty of
Three Prizes of 2,0001. •Consols, in the first Five Minutes !I!
• EYTON has the pleasure of announcing to -the.Pnhlic,
novel mode of adventure, possessing great and singular advan-
tages for all persons who purchase before Valentine's Day,
14th February. Whether their Tickets. or Shares are titaWfi‘
blanks, ot small prizes, on, remain in the whvel, they will
receive hack the Purchase Money for the same, with the
fol{ow ink trifling deductioos:provided they -iire leturned WI or.
before Friday, the 2311 of February.

.....
A TICKET may hive all !rid; except....lßs.
A El A .. may have all hack except.... 11c.
A QUARTER. ~. may have aH hack eAcept.....
An EIGHTH may have ali hack except.... 4s.
A SIXTEENTH.. may have all had: except.... 9s.

Girimc-esttry Adventurer the Chance of :ill ;tie Capitals and
other Prizes that may he draw,' that day, for as many shil-
lings as it has heretofore cost-pounds.
The `theme is immensely rich, and contains in Motley and
Consols, Sic Prizes of Moat)! , besides other Capitals, and
nut Two Blanks to a Prize!

All Business in the Public Pima,: transacted with fide-
lity and dispatch.

AGR IC U LITRE.

TO THE RIGHT HON. TH it EARL OF LIVERPOOL.
Sow hover, Lewes, :lath ,

MY 'LORD—I am so fully aware of the charge
of presumption. which attaches to so humble an
individual, for attempting to controvert the argu-
ments of a person of your Lordship's great talents
and high political situation, that it will be uselesS
to deny its justice : I therefore plead guilty to
the charge, and have only to request your Lord-
ship to look to the motives with Which this is
written, not, like many letters of the present
day, to bring your -.Lordship, and • the Govern-
ment, into contempt, but from a most ardent
wish to see, the different classes Of society once
more in possession : of the comforts they en-
joyed a few years since ; and on the regaining of
which, in spite of all the machinations of the
most factious demagogues, the Government of
this country will be considered not only abroad,
but at home, as the freest, mildest, and most
equitable in the world.
The astonishment and disappointment excited
by the declaration of. your Lordship's sentiments
on the subject of further Agricultural protection,
as reported in the public papers, compels inc to
come forward to defend the views of • myself and
other Petitioners, and to endeavour to prove the
justice of our case ; and.at the same time,bu t I trust
temperately and respectfully, to show that your
Lordship's sentiients have been founded °wan
erroneous view of .the queStion. In oriaj ,to
make my arguments clearly understood, it

be tiecesSary-to extract the whole of that part of
your L'ordship's speech of the ‘23d instant, which
refers to the state of Agriculture. In answer tO
-Lord.Grey, your Lordship is rcported to have
true it is, that our Agriculture is not al-
luded to by- name ; but the depression under
which it:is labouring,if not expressly mentioned,
is at least sufficiently hinted a\t i_u the parazrapft
of the speech which spoke of .the distress which
still presses on a large porti-on of the King's
subjects. I Would remind the Noble Earl of
former discussions, and caution the House, and
the public against forming any rash opinions
on the cause of the. evil; ors proposing any plau-
sible remedies that might increase, instead of
diminish its pressure. The matter is one of the
most serious ipture ; it had engaged the at-
tention of. Parliament some years since, and
a legislative enactment -was then gassed, to meet
a state of things which did. not now exist. The
exit, live years ago,. arose, frOm a causc diffe-
rent from that which was now complained of, and
required-a different remedy :'3l:e prkes. had then
fallen, from impnrtatirn, sts''di:4 to excite ',limn
for our domestic agriculture ; and they bad
fallen still lover. at the present moment, .oat
to what was this fall, ,in the latter case, to
be ascribed ? To- an increase in our home
PrOtloction. This, if examined, would, I am
convinced, be found a full emlanation of the
fail of prices. - There has been no importation
Tor the last two years, so that no part of our'
agricultural distress can be ascribed to it compe-
tition of foreign grain in our. market. -There is
nu ground for. -supposing, as some do, that our
warehousing system has 'any share „tin the effect
that. is -complained of; and it noti then the in-
ference is irresistible, 'that we now sgrow enough
for our home consumption ; that formerly we
did not ; and that the low price of grain -is to be
attributed to an abundance or excess of produc-
tion. , This is my settled opinion,,—an opinion
which I am ready to discuss, and support, on any
proper opportunity. What woul(4 patticularly
caution the House against, is.; that. They should
not enter on the inquiry with the :idea .of ,new
legislative enactments ; no good could be• attain-
ed by such incessant legislative interference :
things would find their own level, if allowed fo
remain free."

On the first sentence of your Lordship's speech,
I will only say, lest it should-be thought to pro,
ceed from any adverse political feeling, that
should have thought-the universal distress of the
agricultural interest would have been noticed in
a more prominent manner, than merely by a hint,
which not one in ten would understand to allude
to agriculture ; and w4ich hint does not consti-
tute the leading part of the paragraph, but is
merely brought forward to prove, what has ever
been admitted, that the agricultural population
are particularly nosed fOr
The second sentence in. your' I..ordShip's'
'speech, cautioning persons against forming any.
rash opinions on the cause of the evil, or pro,
posing any plausible remedies that might in-
crease, instead of diminish, the pressure calls for
a more .minute examination. It can only refer
to the opinion, so universally held by the occu-
piers of laud, that their distresses have arisen
from unequal foreign competition and can only
be removed by placing the British and Foreign
Farmer on ,a level in the British market. Your
Lordship then goes on to attribute the present
distress. to an
_excess of home production ; and
that experienced live years since..to foreign in►-
portation. • With the greatest deference and re-
spect, I submit, that the case is exactly the re-
verse ; and that if agriculture ever suffered from
an excess of hurtle production, it was in 181.5,
rather than in 189.0 ; and for these reasons :
An excess of prOduction, supposing the demand
to continue the same, which one must do for the
sake' of argument, can only arise from great in-
ducements having been held out to farmers to
expend their capital in improving their land, in
expectation of being well repaid by She sztk-of
their produce at remunerating prices. Your
Lordship must be aware, that agriculture has not
had such inducements since 1813 ;-011 the con-
trary, it is well known, that ever since, with the
single exception of a short period when the price.
was high, owing entirely to the parali4ed.state of
agriculture, and wet harvest of 1816, corn has.
not sold at a remunerating price to the farmer.
Unless, therefore, it can he supposed, that far
triers would lay out their capital in raising corn,
with a conviction on their own minds, that it
must be sold at less than it cost them to produce
it, the present agricultural distress cannot be
ascribed to excess of production. • -
The argument used by your Lordship is the
same as that made is;e of by Lord Nugent', in
his reply to Mr.ißaker, which has been publish
ed in Most of the daily papers ; but even granting
that not a bushel of foreign corn had been im-
ported for the last two years, the distress may
still be ascribed to the import of, foreign corn,
duty-free ; for so immense was the quantity im-
ported in 181'7 and 1818, and previous,:to 15th
February 1819,, that the markets have-ever since
been in one continued dull state ; no buyers ap-
pearing, except from hand to mouth, all specula-
tion (which must .be the case so long as the pre-
sent corn laws exist) being done in foreign corn.
It is needle!-Iq to reniind your Lordship, that
in a trade of such magnitUde as the corn trade of
this kingdom, the supply must he, at particular
seasons of the year, greater than the demand for
imniedi,lte use, if the supply is to be equal to the
demand for the whole year ; and at such times,
unless there are purchasers to take off such extra
supply, the natural consequence is, a fall in the
price of the article; not jiz titied- by the growth
of the whole year, .To suppose that merchants

wiii speculate in iVritish or frish wheats, when
foreign wheats of eqn-11; Or soperior qualityonay
be imported at any at,half the
price, is to contemplate
.thrt which rievr.4
happen; and which inny be satisfactorily settled
by the practice of every considerable .cdrii fats,.
for in Mark-lane. In the course of the last
year; it is known, that, the instant the priCe at-
tempted to rise in Mark Lane,- such qnan'ities of
foreign wheat, imported previous to Februark
1819, immediately made their appearance, as to
depress the .ffiarket at once. The farmers having
been.thus reduced, are compelled to send their
corn to market,
.let the price be what it, may ;
and were the price to fall even to 40s. per quar-
ter for wheat, and other corn in proportion, tide
gre,at majority, of them mast not only sell at that
price,.but, in consequence of the price being so
reduced, must sell the more to meet their never-
ceasing expences. Every (lay that the distress
continues,-it must rather increase than diminish,
owing to this very canse, as every day brings
more sellers. into the market. is.it not obvious,
my Lord, that the markets must eonsequently
continue nil ? It was - obsetved
vi•eekS since; in one of the dissertations in the
" Englishman" on the funds, that they consider-
ed the price of farming produce lOok.ing down, at
the, same time the Funds were rather looking up,
to 'he owing to the farmers not Understanding the
nature of accoMmodation bills so well as tbe'mer-
chants, and being thus compelled to sell at the
present prices. The worthy writer -also lapghed
at the folly of farmers selling their corn, rather
than sell out of the Funds GC the vast sums df.
money they had accumulated some years since."
It is very kind to be told of our error ; but I
'believe very few of the unclaimed dividends be-
long to farmers, and nearly as few of those that
are claimed. Those farmers who made anything
from havhn their farms on long leases, granted.
twenty or thirty years ago,' expended it either in
purchasing land, or improving that in their oc-
cupation, for both of which -they nosy receive a
very -low dividend.

I trust, my Lord, that I have said enough to
prove that the present distress has been- princi-
-pally caused by foreign corn,imported duty-free,
even though not a bushel had been imported for
the last two years ; hut when we .consider the
immense supply of foreign oats, amoun.ing to four
millions of bushels let loose on the mar'ke't, duty-
free, by the fraudulent returns of the averages in
August last (the possibility even of which was
scouted by persons in high official situations when
pointed out to them the year before), together
with the foreign barley 'and beans imported for
Coosbuiption in 181, and the present Weekly im,
pert of foreign : wheat, over loading those ware-
houses, which under a different system would be
filled with the produce of British industry,. can
vain' Lordship refuse to admit that our' present
distress is occasioned by foreign corn-imported
duty-free
With regard to the cause of the distress of
1814 and 181.5, there may be a doubt whether it
did not arise, in some-degree,,from an excess of
production, combined with an overwhelming iw-
port of foreign corn, duty-free. Previous to this
period, agriculture had rapidly improved : the
price'or corn,. being so high, owing to the extra-
ordinary
state of Europe, as to give a great sti-
mulus to .production. Every farmer was laying
out his profits irr improving his farm. In every
Session of Parliament, Inclosure Acts were ap-
plied for from every quarter. Your Lordship
might easily inform yourself, by searching -the
Journals of Parliament, of the difference between
the number of Inclo:ure Acts passed six years
previous to 1814, and Ahe last six years ; and if
the number in the former period should be found,
as I expect would be the case, ten times greater
than in the latter,. your Lordship would, per-
haps; be inclined to 'doubt the correctness,of the
opinion, that the distress now felt is owing to the
excess of production, and that experienced in
1814 and 1815 to foreign importation only.
It cannot be doubted that the population has
increased considerably since 1814, in much
greater proportion than any additional proddc-.
tions from fresh 'enclosed lands, even had the
land then in cultivation still continued in its then
highly productive state : but when it is :,:narn
that much has been laid down to grass in conse-
quence of the low' price of corn, and that farmers
for the -last few. years, have. been lessening
their .expenCes in every posSible. way, instead
of expending money in -manuring and improving
their farMS, it really perfectly astonishes me 'to
hear, from such high authority as your Lordship,
the present distress imputed to excess of produc-
tion. Your Lordship deprecates new legislati‘e
enactments. I answer that we do not require
new. All we 'ask is, that the spirit of the. R-
eport of the. CornM4tee of the House of Cumrndos
of 1814 shoUld be passed into a a'sk'
not hiiig'more. I have the Report now before-Me,
and' will extract the part in which the Cornmittee
Om up their Opinion in the following terms
cc Your Committee, without venturing to suggest
the Mode, cannot doubt that it will becOme the
Wisdom-, and Will'consequei;tly be the poliCy, of
Parliament on the one hand, by protecting British
agriculture, to maintain, if not to extend, the
present scale of its exertions -and prOduee ; and,
on the Other, cousistentlY With thii first Objett,-to
aiford the greatest possible facility and inducement
to the import of toreign corn, whenever, from ad-
verse seasons, the'stociiOf our own gi:Owth shall
be found inadequate to the consumption of the
United'ltZingdom."

Consistently ith this first object, namely,.the
pretection of British agrktature, there cari.b4", no
objection to give facility to the import of foreign
corn when e reany stand in 'need of it. Let

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[PRICE 'S.EVItNPP.X€E.

British agrienlture be PrOteaed, and 16i-eign
.
corn May'be 'Wong& in' at all
one, and Mil V iii)e,-.1,it"4 effecting'
ith6"-td'ob-
,r •
vew , and that is, hY Tilting such a ditty
on the import of foreign COni as Will prevent its
being brought here when British corn is lieloW
remunerating price to tbe grtiit.er titid wheti it
cities to a price stall oppressive to the CODSLIMP_T,
the importing merchant can well allOrd to paY.tht:
dtity. erroneously thoUOt by s(;inel batj
am sure not by a person Of yotir J;drdship's en-
lightened titind, the dtity wotiP bean increase
of price here, so much as a decrease of price
abroad. When there is an expectatiOn of wheat
being wanted, the price abroad initriediately fol-
lows the rise of the price here, leaving to the
importing rnerchant a fair return for his capital
and risk. .Fot instance, we're a duty of 40s. pek
guar el to he laid on the import of foreign wheat,
this would be the effect : that if on reachine:
London it would sell at 80s., ihe price abroad
would be as much below 3fis. (calculating the
expellee clf convevatice at as it would be be.
low 7.55. provided no 4t),,,tire're imposed. That
suck,wpuld efieOne need only look at
the gate of aglicultuf'eth: whetice.. the
foreign wheat. principally cdrues, al!d where it is
grown expressly for e*portation.
The last -sentence of your Lordship is tittatiftit
one indeed—" Things will find their Own leVet if
allowed to remain free." , -

Yes, my Loyd, they will find level ; but
it will be at the ruin of the Agriculture, And
nat only of the Agriculture, but of the Trade and
Manufactures of the kingdom. Can it be stip-
posed that the taxes can continue to be paid, if
thing, remain in their present sthte ? PSI i,Lord,
I do conjure you, as you vallte the interest of
every class of society, to pause before you irre-
vocably ,pass sentence in Parliament op the
prayers of the Agricultural Petitioners, who are
now looking to you for relief. Thousands of
farmers are now merely holding on their farms. in.
'expectation of relief the present Session ; and
,when once told that none is to be granted, but
that " things are to be permitted to find their own
level," their farms will be given up, the laud tuttst
remain uncultivated (for NN•here,can fresh tenants
be found ?) and labourerS emplroyea by them
must be kept by the parish ; and the unavoirlat,de
ruin which must ensue, will make this once frtrit,
fui and happy land a barren waste of wretchedness
and woe. And may I ask, my Lord, for what is
this risk to be done ? but to throw the landed
interest of this Country prostrate at the feet of
the great capitalists, who, with specious profes-
sions of liberal principles of free' trade; are
'hiding the country to its ruin. My Lord, the
most'valdable of all property is the labour of the
industrious classes, on the appropriate, reward
of which the happiness and security of States
must always depend. To see thousands of able
young men considered the burden instead of the
strength of the Country, is heart-rending to any
one who wishes that country well. It is impos-
sible that your Lordship can be acquainted with
the extent of the Agricultural distress. Let
me entreat your Lordship not to depend
entirely on the professions of those who, be-
cause their rents may be paid, . consider the
distress much exaggerated. Farmers will exert "
every nerve to keep their rents paid.
as they are to be sold up the instant it becomos
due, tho, will leave every thing unpaid rather
than rent. If distress for rent is issued, his other'
creditors immediately come upon him, whom he
might otherwise have kept at bay. They will,
as to my knowledge is the case, borrow every
shilling of the rent to keep their landlord quiet.
I intreat your Lordship to have inquiries
_made
of the country traders, whether they have their
bills paid by the farmers, and on their 'answer I
am content to rest our case.

iMy rd, unemployed population s peru,
liarly liable to be wurked upon by the inciters
of tniichief.• Let the peasantry have employ-
ment at appropriate•wages, and I defy the niost
insidious demagogue 'to assail them with effect.
Let them, as now the case in many litces, seek
.emplOyMent without being able to find it; and it
will be equally impossible for the severest laws
to preeent irreparable mischief.
M 5. Lord, this letter has extended much far-
flier thin ,1 'firEt intended, bu-t the subject must
'be'my excuse. I will only add, that yielding to
no man in loyalty 'to my King and country, I
again conjure your lA:Usti-4) to pause ere yoil
pronounce sentence on the agriculturists of the
kingdom ; which, if. dictated by wisdom, will be
the salvation,- tut, if otherwise, the ruin .01.1 he
country. .

I have the honour to -hei.Nyith great respect,
your Lordship's nioLt obedient servant,
ELLNtAN,

SOMNOLENCY.— rile, housemaid .of an emilien
banking-house in the City,. who lately arrived
from,the country, was in the. nitiht of Sunday
last seized kith a tit of siirmholenvy, which hr..•Evd
every attempt of her fellow-servants to.awaken
her fora considerable ..:part of , the following
day, when medical assistance was caned in.
After being copiously bled in—the :arra,..she
gra-
dually awoke,
.fist apparently in a fiery weak
-state.
.IViany Cases of a siMilarTnatiire have" oz.-
curad at different, per;Ods.' SOtfie yftya•ts pgo, a
„young woman of the nair.e Ras el, wo.resfcled
at'Stoke, near NO wiaitJe, -7n `Siaift.pre.shire,
knitting, .1•111 into a profthind.•sh4cp, is -vc.
she' contitincd for sdrne.. U .eeroil4;,,,Jv
inseriiible the whole time, w-fueirshe-
-first word She'ST.forke;waS th•askher mother vrtiat
she had done with the stOcking she was knitt.i7.4.
In the Isle 'of•Thnete:l4, faTirers have' com,-
pletedthe grey-pea 'FeaSO:l., arid nearly thA for
bean!, oats-, and .Canary