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HAMPSHIRE Af3ItiCULT6RAL SOCIETV.
Wisciwiter, iebntary 1. Three oVitiolt.
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lor the last three days the following Clinger has
been forwarded to ibe differeet Members of the
above Society
Si WinchWter, Jan. U ISIS.
" ceostinelie Of a reguisition from several Members
acting ender the suction of the President and Vice-President of
the Hampshire Agricsltural Society, I beg *aye to inform yob,
tbat.a Meeting thereof will be holden on Wednesday next. Feb.
the Ist, at the Swan Inn, Winchester, at twelve °duck. for this
purpose of Sating into consideration the propriety of petitioning
Parliament for relief la the present digressed state of Agried-
tore, wbes,your attendance is particularly,requitsted.-1 anr,
your bumble serves:4 a JOidA MITUV, See."

In consequence of this notification, a Meeting took
place at half past twelve this day. As soon as the
Members of the Society began to assembly, the writ[::
of this entered the room, and informed the Gentlemen
then present, that as be understood the Meeting to be
of a public nattily, he had attended for the purpose of
taking minutes of the proceedings for publication, on
which he was told that the Meeting was not considered
tb be exactly a public one—to which he replied, he in-
ferred from the terms of the notice that it was so, ins'.
much as it purported to be a Meeting to deliberate on
the propriety of Petitioning the Legislature oison a
public measure. The answer to this was, that there was
no intention of Petitioning Parliament in the present
instance, but only to consider what measures were ne.
cessary to relieve the distresses under which agr;clll-
- now labours. The writer was requested to re-
tire, and in case the Meeting should be decided to
be a publie one, be would be sent for. The Meeting
was afterwards declared to be private, and all those
petsons present who were not members, were request-
to withdraw. A full report of the proceedings can.
not therefore be given; but the following facts mat
be relied on as authentic : •

WM. POWLETT PoWLETT moved a petition which
he had previously prepared, and which underwent
some slight alterations only, praying the LrgislAture
to take the distresieffitate of agriculture into its most
serious consideration, and to afford such relief as to its
wisdom might seem fit. This petition was agree:l to
unanimously; not, however, as the petition of the
Meeting, but as that of the Farmers and others ince'.
rested in agriculture in Winchester and its neighbour-
hoed ; and subseqoently a resolution was adopted, the
object of which was to recommend to the farmers and
landowners of the county, to frame and sign similat
petitions, which for convenience, might be left at the
different market towns for signature. This wag
deemed a more reasonable mode than to call puWie
meetings on the subject.
The Meeting consisted of about 50 members,
among whom were Lord Northesk, Wm. Powlett
Powlett, Esq. Sir W. Heathcote, Bart. the Rer. C.
Rich, Mr. Fitzhugh, Mr. Blunt, and about thirty,
five other land-owners, many of whom farm their
own estates ; of mere renters there were not more than
ten present.

Saturday the Gloucester County Meeting was held
at the Booth Hall, in the City of Gloucester, Sir
CHARS.= COCKERCLL, Bait. High Sheriff, in the
Chair. Colonel BERKELEY, after an energetic speech,
proposed several Resolutions, and a Petition against
the renewal of the Property Tax, which were second-
ed by Colonel Klxoscora. After some discussion
Sir B. W. Gums expressed thoplerasure he should
have in presenting the Petition, to which he would
give every support in his power. The Resolutions
and the Petition were unanimously agreed to.
'Tuesday last, a Meeting was held at the S.in Inn,
Newport, to consider the propriety of petitioning Par-
liament against the renewal of the Property Tax.—
Jouti FULLAGARI Esq. being called to the Chair,
opened the business in an able speech. Resolutions,
declaring the Tax to be unjust in its principle, inqui.
sitorial, and unconstitutional, in its operation, and
stating that the people have a right to expect the most
rigid economy in every department of Government,
were severally proposed by Mr. THOMAS COOKE, jun.
the Rev. W. MUM and other Gentlemen ; a Pe-

tition, founded on the Resolutions, was Adopted by
the Meeting, which has been already numerously and
respectably signed, and will be presented to the House
of Commons by Sir L. T. H. Hotstss, Bart. one of
the Members for the Borough of Newport.
CAMOVS MEMORIAL. ...PAMPHLICTZEIL

011OOMN

STAVI LIATAR r.

',ART DAY OR DRAIIRINO.--NO. 1190. &awl
Prize of TEN THOUSAIiII POUNDS, was sold and re-%
gistered by HORNSBY and Cn. who shared and sold!
in the list twelve months upwards of Ono Hundred
Thousand Pounds in Capital. Prices) namely, three
of £20,000, three of 10,000, besides prize: of 42,000,
MAO, JB5OO, &c. &c.

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