Star.
London, England, 1821-01-10 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY.

Jan. 13, Q. Parkinson and J. Duckett, blauchester,
calico-
printers, at nine, at the Bridgewater Anna Inn, Manchester.
Jan. 30, W. Fear, Bath, cabinet-maker, at twelve, at the Grey-
hound Inn, Bath. Jan. 31, W. Crossley, Doncaster, joiner, at
eleven, at the Eagle and Child Inn, Conisbrough, York. Feb.
1, W. Ansell, late of %Vantage, Berks, tanner, at twelve, at
the Bush Inn, Bristul. Jan. 51, J. Tarleton, sate of Liver-
pool, merchant, at ten, at the Office of Messrs. Lace and Co.
Liverpool. Feb. 3, J. Woolfe, Birmir:gham, fiercer, at three,
at the Stork Tavern, Birmiugham. Jan. 31, C. Ilammond,
Durham, draper, at two, at the George Inn, Deansgate, Man-
chester. Jan. 30, IL Fowle, 'Sandford, .Dersetshire, draper,
at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Blandfurd. Jan. 31, It. Parker,
late of Halifax, linen-draper, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn,

CERT I FICA TES—Ja ua ay 27.
W. Bright, Newland, Gloucestershire, dealer in corn. B.
Iloruby. Bernard-street, Foundling Hospital, plumber. W.
Mee Market-Harborough, Leicestershire, spirit-merchant. W.
hod, Redditch, Worcestershire, draper. C. Atkinson, Hud-
dersbeldOnerchant. T. Ashby, East-street, Manchester-square
baker. J. Mann, Leeds, brewer. W. Tozer, Ctediton De! '
von saddler. J. Chester, late of Doncaster, grocer. G. Hay-
wood, Birmingham, spirit-merchant
.16X11111T 30.--7-E Body, Morice Town, Devonshire, tiler-
cheat. H. Wood, Ropoinaker-street, Cripplegate, coach-smith.
O. Pumas, Liverpool, sailemaker. W. Watkins, Norton,
Worcestershire, corn-factor. G. F.theridge, Norwich, gold-
stnith. It and .1. Stater, Samlesbury, Lancashire, cotton-
spionen.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.
_ _

Peirson and Jackson, Coleiti;n;:unei,;ciit;;;LlTs. Step-
herd and Sheppard, Frith-street, Soho-square, jewellers. 80. i
Sher and Perkins, Bow-lane, writing-ink-manufacturers. Bates
and Co. Manchester, warehousemen. ' Hilton and Co. Repot.
street, Pall-mall, wine-merchants. . Henworthy and Ireland,
Irocunouger-lane, warehousemen. H insand Co. 'Change-
alley, skip-brokers. Heard and mit, I brokers. Marsh I
and Barnard, Norwich, anoraks. Wallington and Co. Frame,
Somerset, =den. .7. Stokes, mea and jun. Grosvenor-market,
dyers. Codger and Co. PI mouth, wine-merchants. Cortney
and Newton, Chester, ship Were. °ice-hell and Ross, Brit-
. eel, ship-brokers. Bruckli..4d and Williams, wholesale-Mbar.
dashers. &infield and Co. Bankaide, Southwark, dniber-trisr-
chants, Oa he as regards J. Schofield). Staten and Macre,
ikicester, haelem. Miller and Wolstenholme, &afield, Bri-
meniaanmstaumedhetnrers.Bgll and Taylor, Poultry, fur-
nishiseirommegan. Wheeler and Sheen, Upper Thanias-street,
onknerchassh. Davies ant Baidgridge, Pitston, •bluchers.

THE EVENING STAR.

for support : for, when the People cannot pay the
priCes themselves for what is indispensable to thole
existence, the Poors' Rates must pay it for them.
These remarks will be found not unseasonable at
the present moment. The Agriculturalists are at
their wits' end—they are in real distress—but their
proposed remedies hre mere delusion.
A Meeting of
,tile Owners and Occupiers of Land in East
Kent, was held at Canterbury on Saturday last. The Members
for the County, Sir J. C. HONTWOOD and Sir EDWARD KNATCM.
etas, were both present; and the former was in the Chair.
The Cnataxas opened the proceeding, of the day by an ap-
propriate speech, detailing the reception of their late Petition,
and stating that part of their object was obtained by Parliament
having entertained the question, and instituted an inquiry into
the mode of obtaining the averages; that they now met for the
purpose of considering what farther steps should be taken in the
ensuing Session of Parliament.
Mr. Renee Beceron, before the business of the day Was
proieeded in, begged to obtain their attention to some Reso-
lutions he had drawn, up ; that his opinion was still fixed as to
the fallacy of the returns under the Assize Law, which he had
brought to theit notice on their first Meeting in April last;
that the Committee appeared to have formed for the basis of
their Report the consolidated Act, 31 Geo. 111. and not in-
quired into the preceding enactments on the Corn Trade ; that
this presumption, be said, arose from the Report doubting why
the first district is governed by the returns of the Corn Ex-
charge, London, and not by the returns of the markets in the
three Counties—Kent, Essex, and Sussex—that to elucidate this
he had drawn up a Resolution, which, by the permission of
the Meeting, he would submit for their consideration ; that
the subject of average returns had been maturely considered
by the Board of Trade in 1789 and 1790, and two valuable
Reports were made, chewing that the returns from the twelve
Alaritime Districts only, were directly against their opinion.—
De urged forcibly the adopting for the future, that the averages
should be taken as so recommended; but that would not be of
much avail, without getting rid of a law which the Board of
Trade did not contemplate, nor could human foresight contem-
plate such an Act as the Bread Assize Act of 1813—that it
cannot avail much from what places averages are taken, as long
as that law exists. By the very able Report of the Committee,
it was clerbly shewn how much the market towns particu-
larly are in the hands of millers—that bounty was the mother
of averages, from the Revolution down to the year 1814,
when bounties were repealed altogether. Averages were first
made fur the purpose of obtaining bounties on exportation, and
it was very long before Parliament was awakened to the. frauds
of averages. Front 166.; to 1773, they had run one course.—
A year of great scarcity brought the Corn Trade under the con-
sideration of Parliament, and an Act was in consequence passed,
reducing bounties; and in the subsequent Session, a new mode
of collecting averages was enacted; and it was from this Act
the first District seems to have had its origin—for in the year
1781, the returns of the market price is Kent and Ewes-Were
so incorrect, that an Act was specially passed to take from those
Counties the power of making returns : but if restored to make
their returns, they can be of very little avail while the Assize
Act influences, under the control of the miller, the artificial
returns of high priced wheats. And in elucidation of that sub-
ject, he entered into a statement of the price of Sour retailed in
Canterbury, as compared with the assize price of bread. He
then proceeded to read a series of Resolutions, and submitted
them for the consideration of the Meeting.
Mr. MADDOX observed, that whatever weight ought to be
given to the Resolutions which had been just submitted, this
Aleeting being called for the purpose of petitioning Padiament
alone, it was not competent for it to entertain the consideration
of them, but they might become a subject for the deliberation of
a future Meeting.

This appearing to be the general impression, the Resolution'
were withdrawn.

Mr. D. J. RUMP% then, in a neat and pointed speech, pro-
posed the Resolutions and the Petition founded thereon.

Sir EDWARD Kraircitsuu., In returning thanks, observed, that
he had ever had the interest of Agriculture most at heart, and
trusted that there would always exist a good understanding be-
tween landlord and tenant.

We have great pleasure in stating, that the same
views that we have always held.on this question, are
now entertained by some of -the most enlightened
men in the kingdom ; and we are not without hopes
that their number will increase, so as to make a
suitable impression on the minds of those whose dis-
tress blinds, at present, their better judgment. It is
impossible to mend their circumstances by any body
of laws calculated to increase the price of bread;
this can only be done by enforcing such a system as
shall ultimately enable the People ge to eat to the
full," by the earnings of their industry, without de-
riving any portion of their wages from the Poors
Rate; and this will never be effected till the appetite
of the Government, by a system of economy, and
other and suitable remedies, be rendered less vora-
cious. On this subject, we beg to call the particular
attention of our Readers to the following extract of a
letter from Lord NUGENT to Mr. BAKER; of Adstock,
Bucks, in answer to a formal application from the
Buckingham Agricultural Association to support
their Petition :

" I agree with you (says his Lordship) to the full extent in
the description you give, at the outset of your letter, of the dis-
tressing difficulties under which the Agriculturists of this
kingdom are now labouring—but I differ from you when you
state that those difficulties arise out of the melancholy deprecia-
ted state of their productions.' The Petitioners appear to me to
contemplate the causes of their distress at the wrong end. Far-
mers are suffering, *t because their productions are too cheap,
but because the means of producing them are too dear. The
more cheaply the food of man can be supplied surely the better,
if it is raised at a rate which will afford a fair profit to him
who raises it. This leads at ace to what I consider the rug
causes of agricultural distress, which must be abated before
any substantial relief can be hoped for—l mean ova TAXATION,
and the ruinous pressure of our system of Poor Laws. That
the depression now so universally felt by the Agriculturists
(and which must, if it continue, terminate at no very distant
period in general bankruptcy), cannot receive even temporary
mitigation from duties on foreign corn, or from a prohibition
on importation, appears to me to require no clearer proof
than this :—that, for now consirierably mere than a year,
no corn has been imported, except oats, and yet that the price
of wheat and other grain has been falling, and the distress
of the farmer Increasing, during the whole of that period.—
Would then the price of our home produce for the last year have
been increased by enacting a forced price upon a foreign article
which was never brought into our market, or by a prohibition

oh the Importation of goods that &over were s'%ipped
ports? But, even supposing that, by artificial me,,,
sort, the price of corn could be increased, the whole di!
between that increased price and the present price pJ
deed be paid by the consumer, but it is a fallacy
that it would be enjoyed as so much clear gain by di; c... 4;
The immediate rise which must necessarily ensue in the pay
labour, and the immediate increase in the burthen of the
Rates, are two out of the many obvious instances in vatki
expenserof raising corn would be augmented in reopar,.

its market price. It is only to such means as will :mit
enable tke native grower to enter into the market ttid
foreigner, that I can look for a relief to agriculture; and it
not but feel anxious to oppose a delusion with which it apo
to me that Government is well content to amuse the am
turist, in order to divert his attention from the real caws
distress, namely, public profusion, and a want of clik
energy in Administratiou to meet fairly the momentous j‘ki
of the Poor Laws."

Lord and Lady Cotowery arrived on Monday toning
Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from the Continent. 4;
The Countess of WesrsllZATil has left her house is St zit
place, for Brighton.
BuncoToe, Esq. is arrived at Thomas's Hotta,
square, from a tour.
The Earl of Ho meows,' left the Marquis of Burma', ,
Trentham Hall. Bedfordshire, a few days ince, to
Countess and the Ladiesßvnia, in Devonshire.

Captain Gam', loth Hussars, arrived yesterday at Eituut
Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from a tour.
Count LAGAZA left Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-it...
terday, on a tour.
General Puwterr is arrived at his house in Half llonitrit
Piccadilly, from Brighton.
T. Buarott, Esq. is arrived at the British Hotel, Jerry/INN
from his seat in Lincolnshire.

AWI

THOMAS PAct, Esq. is arrived at Fenton's ;fowl, &Jaw
street, from his seat in Surrey.
Arrivals at the Royal Ilotel, St. .Tames's-istreet:.,cit
Hawn:pm, from Melton Mowbra:', LeicesterAiri; Fay,
Wets, Esq. from Otford,
Ikparturei front Shelley's Hotel, Cockspur-streett—C4ll
NNE:aml', on a tour; WVOTKIINt EN. to Camirtt.
Fowcza, Esq. on a tour; J. Esq. to Cattirts
Major lltwirr, to Newcastle; and Captain M. Fsszcat
scat in Kent.

His MAJESTY'S Attorney-General, Sir am!
GiFronn, was last week presented with the •
of the City of Exeter.
Last week, the Bath Corporation nnaairiv,•;:•
voted the Freedom of the City, in a box of Imar,t
oak, to Captain PARRY. It was the first e4C41,.
Hall that has been held since his return from 1,

perilous enterprise.
The Marquis of STAPIORD has ordered 200 r:
of coals to be distributed to the poor on his estates;!
Staffordshire, in addition to his other usual bounties
The Marquis of Nonrirnurrox has this rune
given employment to an additional number of
labouring poor round his estates, in Northampta,
and Warwickshire, and distributed his annual basal

of jackets, gowns, flannels, and firing, to the agel
infirm, and indigent.
The Countess of CHICHESTER was honoured, u
Saturday last, with a visit at Stanmer Park, from
the Princess AUGUSTA, where her Royal Highs
continued about three hours, and then returned
the Pavilion at Brighton.
Mrs. LUSHINGTON, the mother of Mr.LUSIM
TON, M.P. for Canterbury, now lies alarmingly ilia
his seat at Sanderstead, in Kent.
Lady OLIVIA BERNARD SPARROW has distributri
no less than five hundred pounds in seasonabledu
rities, in various ways, amongst the poor round bo
seat in Huntingdonshire.
The Sheriffs of Middlesex having some timenge
refused compliance with a Requisition which vs
presented to them to call a Meeting of the County,
to take into consideration the propriety of Petitioning,
the House of Commons for a Constitutional Refork,

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in the Represensation of the People is Parliament,r
second Requisition, to the same effect, has been
sented to the Duke of PORTLAND, Lord Lieuten
of the County. His Grace has complied with tbe
Requisition, and fixed Tuesday, the 16th inst. In .
the Meeting. •
A Requisition has been presented to the High Shs..
riff of the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely, to
convene a Meeting of the Freeholders and Ilia.
tants, to consider of the propriety of addressing the
RING to dismiss his present Ministers. The shed
bas appointed such Meeting to be held in the Shire.
Hall, in Cambridge, on Tuesday, the 16th instant,.
The names of the Duke of BEDFORD, the Marquises
TAVISTOCK, Earl FITZWILLIAM, and Lords
ems OsRoRNE and DACRE, stand at the head of thel
Requisition.
In pursuance of a Requisition addressed to the
Churchwardens of the Parish of St. Botolph
out, Aldgate, Middlesex, to convene an early Meet.,
ing. to take into consideration the propriety of pee.
tioning Parliament to use such means as may apple
necessary to effect the restitution of her MaJzsrls.
name to the Liturgy, and the restoration of all her
other rights and dignities, the Churchwardens have
appointed a Meeting.
In addition to the County Meetings which have
lately been called for Ministerial purposes, we bad
that one for the County of Chester has been convened, •
at a very short notice, for Thursday, as if to take the
County by surprize, and thus smuggle a suitable De.
claration, -not to be obtained by a more regular pre.
cess. The subjoined Notice, however, will shew ths
Ministerial expedition will be opposed by independot
zeal ; and the day of meeting will, we trust, make
manifest that true loyalty is not confined to those who
call themselves loyal; and that a sincere love for the
Constitution is perfectly compatible with a hatred Cl
those by whom it is badly administered:
" We, the undersigned, perceiving a Notice given by do
Sheriff, In pursuance of a Requisition respectably signed, of s
Meeting of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of tls
County Palatine of Chester, to be held at Nortbwich,' on so seri
early a day as ' Thursday next, the 11th instant, to nonvey ts
his Majesty the sentiments of loyalty and attachment to dr
Constitution which animate the minds of its inhabitant,:
leave earnestly to entreat the attention of those inhabitants ts
this most important subject. Such vague declarations of lola*
unaccompanied by any notice of the late proceedings against bef
Majesty the Queen, of the abrupt and hasty prorogation of PO
liament, at a season which peculiarly called for its counsel and
advice, or of the present distressed state of the country, apPeort°
us necessarily to imply approbation of the conduct of Ministers.'
of which conduct we feel it impossible for us not to disapptsi.
" In this and every other view of the subject, believing it ill
be of the utmost importance to the County, and to the Ott
dom at large, that the opinions of its inhabitants should be fidll
and manfully expressed, we feel it incumbent upon us to anal'
the proposed Meeting; and we trust that every Freeholder onli
notwithstanding the shortness of the notice, come forward 111,40
this most urgent call of public duty.
4' CaEWE. " EDW. D. DAVENPORT.'
" GitOSVENOn• " GEO. TOLLET.
" GEO. WILBRAHA " CNA& WICHSTEAD:
" WILLOUGHBY CRLWE, " JAIN TOM111)40X.