Star.
London, England, 1816-09-24 00:00:00

many 6.
to -a Circular seat by the Iwo Airicollim
every part of England. Wales, and,licosfeng. gab
above very important subject :
(Cantina.," front yesterday's STAIL) • I
BERKSHIRE.
HURT Benwu.t..—.l knot of no distress Oat has
happened to any farmers in this vicinity—oast of
them.larm well, and )uve Inigal habits. lithe Bank
of England were-more liberal in their discounts, it
would have the best effect 11. both the agricultural as
well as on the trading interest.
Rev. Da. Dunat.t......The rents of several tenants
of indostrious habits, of good experience,.of capitals
equal to their farms, NUMMI unpaid; and, should they
b pressed, I conceive that the fauns would be-unmet:-
p ed-by Ray other persons than the landlords. The
excess of paper beyond capital has been highly inju-
rious to this neighbourhood s the circuhttion was
forced, and has, of course, failed. We have paper
fully adequate to- our ordinary transactions; but
more paper, which was &we
_nee the representation of
Pry, would give proportionate relief.
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L. Loss .-..C01d; wet, arable land will not
pay for ploughing. Dairynien. complain of cheese
aaelletter, and pigs, selling at very low prices, and
the high duty on salt proving injurioesb In Cardi-
ganshire, `l7 tenants have sent me notice to quit at'
W.haelosas next, and they are much in asrear.—
Far Ming stock sells at reduced rates. I bought one
week 76 nice Southdown tags at 90s. each. We are
endeavouring to get our arable land into grass as
fast as possible. In the adjoining parish the Rector
Las received 9s. sa acre for tithe of very good grass
]and; and in Colwell, another adjoining parish, the
Nicer has Is. 6d. an acre from very cold poor grass.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
•
Jaws JAMB HASPIR.—The whole of the tenan-
try o$ Miss Wykbam, in the parish of Sydenham,
hangars& notice to leave at lady-day, and se.* al
Piths* have declared to me they would not occupy
&ems at • freduction of one halt the rent. Several
Persons and families have been reduced to absolute
mercy is this ish, and have been obliged to
dispose of their stock at not more than one-third of
its original cost. Many good labourers are now
goingthrar rounds at from Sd. to Is. 4d. per diem.
The only remedy that can, in Any opinion, relieve
the farmer and the labourer, is to bring corn to the
price fixed by the Legislature last Sessions of Parlia-
ment, which a small bounty on exportation would, I
thiakr accomplish; and also to give the farmer
the same protection for his property, engaged in
agriculture, which is enjoyed by the manufacturer
sad the tradesman, u I do conceive it to be both
jest and equitable shag the community at large should
maintain and support the poor, and that it should
not fall almost exclusively on the farmer. The duty
on malt is a great grievance to the farmer, as it
very much reduces the price of barley, by lessening
the consumption, and obliges him to pay an exorbi-
tant price for his malt, which he is obliged to use.
STRICKLAND FUZIMIAN..•••Many landlords have
been obliged to distrain on their tenants for coasider.
able arrears of rent, and other farmers have beta
loader the necessity of giving up their effects for the
benefit ef their creditors. This district certainly suf-
fers from a diminished circulation of paper, as from
the refusal of the country bankers to make the usual
diicosats, the farmer is obliged to bring his produce
of all kinds in large quantities to market, for the
payment of his current expends, taxes, poor-rates,
As. by which the market ha* been greatly over-
stocked, and the prices consequently reduced. The
distress of the fat mer cannot, in my opinion, be ef-
fectually allevbted until he receives a remunerating
price for the produce of his land, without which no re-
duction Of tare:, or even of rent, would, under exist.
Sag circumstances, be of much avail for his advantage.

SURREY.

/Aura Painsmorox.—The produce of farms. sold
at the present prices (especially on poor land) will
little more than pay the expenses and support an eco.'
Itaalical.family I hence there is scarcely any thing
left for rents or tithe, or if these are paid, the oceu-
Piers are involved in debt to aU the Individuals by
whom they are supplied with food; articles of cloth-
;, &c. Ido not consider that any partitolat dis-
tress has arisen out of the diminshed citiuladen of
paper from country banks—perhaps the ease with
which money, or rather paper, was borrowed at
these banks, whilst farmers were making profits,
may have led to extravagance. It appears to me
that the only remedy is a rise in the prices of the pro-
duce of the earth ; how This is to be brought about is
difficult for me to my ; the markets for corn have I
been long glutted, first, by the great importations
previous to the last harvest, mid added to this since
'inactive &greater quantity of grain (in proportion
to the crop)•as been thrastmd than usual, to raise
Maley for pressing demands ; hence I. should not be
surprised if something approaching tckstarcity should
appear before next harvest; this may raise the price
of cam bat it will come* too late ; for though they
soldiluve the greatest pan of their crop who are
farming for a livelihood, there may be some danger
of pricis rising too much, which will , put the Corn
• in force, and cause importation from those coon.
tries that can grow cora without our ex ; I ass
of opinion, that tbe rate at which Wheat- can be
brought in is too few, and thas it ought not to be ism
ported till whesit is 12$. 6d. a bushel; and, if it
woo possible to keep It fluctuating in our markets
ft* 10s. to 1111. 6d. Compare them prices with the.
present, and lee what the deficiency is in the gross
produce of a farts ; it is sot taking off those taxes
isat bear on occupiers of land that will give the far.
Alter sufficient relief; he 'must raise money annually,
of he cannot' Wei his rent, expenses cilia-fa:Mt and
micassary eapenditure of his tangly. Every article
he purchases has unavoidably err high money price
rtalitdosi, and the lessened value of money
ill
a great increase of landed property, without
no *tease of prices of agricultural produce, I see
pproepect that the cultivation of arable farms, es
oopeopou rich soils, can be carried on.
oss* PAGL—Thae ate eseetel farms of Lord
Xing's, at Oakhans and Clandon, in his own oecima.
don, in consequence of thelailure of tenants.. The
same thing at Esher, in the hands of their owner,
Cbarlcs Ellis, at Cluemol6, I should geese

part
Contain ii in „ bands
at East Horgeley, whose estate is very eoriaiderabk,
and supposed tb be let on wry easy term*, in the
1. course of a few months, wilt, tesibahly, hive nearly
the whole of his property in Word hands. I know
of so abatement of rent, as+tisere are no farmers
ready totem. forward to offer to take land at any
price, at this moment. The distress of the farmers
sheets itself by paying up no arrears of rent, and fre-
quent,seiseres for King's and parochial taxes. Tine
wool, in conseqoenceof the iniportation from Germany
''and Spain, does sot fetch its value in proportion to
the coarse wools; this importation is universally con-
siderei as the greatest'. sacrifice made to foreigners,-
and our own manufacturers, at the expense of the
rowers of fine wool in England. The labourers of
this, neighbourhood are in a state of pauperism 1
never knew before, many of them living upon parish
support-, and many bz their nightly depredations.
Our poor-rates are increased about one-fifth since
1812; but as a large part of the parish is in the occu-
pation of the owners of the land, many of whom are
men of large fortunes, the dischaige of the labourers
has sot been so universal as in soma neighbouring
parishes, where the lands ire in the occupati of
renting farmers, who, frotn the low price of produce,o
have been compelled to discharge a large proportion
of their labourers, and in those places, of course, the
poor-rates is much more increased. As to a plan for
alleviating, these difficulties, it is very difficult to say.
In the first place, I consider the taking off the arses.
sad taxes on agricultural horses so trifling a thing,
that it is quite ridiculous to talk of it, by way of af-
fording any considerablevassistahce to the farmer.—
The most essential service would be to throw the sup-
port of the poor on all dames of society in the shape
of the property tax ; for I am satisfied, that if things
go on as they now do, in the course of a short time
there are many thousand acres of poor land which
will be thrown out of cultivation, and then you will
leak in vain in many parishes for produce to distrain
upon to maintain the poor, a situation which every
person residing in the country must look forward to
with horror. The exportation of elm also (nigh; to
be encouraged byahounty (whenever the average does
not amount to 80s.) and the importation also of fo-
reign wocaought to be loaded with a heavy duty, as an
encouragement to our home growth, so as altogether
to raise the value of the produce of the earth; and I am
sure the sensible labourers of England (of which there
are many more than people are aware of,) would
willingly submit to pay an increased price for their
articles of subsistence, in preference to the miserable
state they have been in the whole of this winter, and
which every country gentleman in England must bat
fully aware of. Lastly, I would suggest that every'
county in England should send delegates to London
to confer with the Board of Agriculture or any COM.
mittee that may be appointed in the House of Com-
mons to throw every light upon the subject, towards
averting the calamities that seem to threaten evert
branch of society escept the manufacturers.
/Str. Butxnaca—iCircumstances denoting the die!'
tress of the farmers, not included in the former gee-.
wise, are, innumerable advertisements of farming
stock, and the prodigious depression of the price of:
that description of property. The extraordinary ac-
tivity id Sheriff's Officers. Dealer. in sheep taking
back the sheep they have sold for want of payment I
markets thinly attended ; and the ordinaries alma*
deserted; universal dejection, from pthsent distress,
and worse prospects. Single men are many of them
is workhouses, or employed by the overseers of the
poi., in gangs, at one shilling per day, on jobs in-
vented for the emergency; farmers who have dis-
charged their labourers fox want of the means of pay.
ing them, are now obliged to maintain them in the
character of paupers. ''There appears to be but one
remedy for these evils ; and this, to be effectual,
must be applied immediately; it is to accommodate
our payments to our receipts, by withdrawing war
rents and war taxes. The taxes of 1814 and 1815
art drawn, not from produce but from capital : rents
as far as they ate founded on war prices, are also de-
ducted from the farmer's capital. -It is evident that
a continuance of such payments must eveatiially ruin
the receivers.
THOMAS CALVIIRLIY--OSS great remedy would,
in my opinion, be some modification in the poor's
rates, which year particularly heavy op agriculture ;
and it seems that many labourers would rather be
kept in idleness in the poor house than work for their

WILLIAM DALIIIIMPLZ•••The pariah of Chewing-
ton consists of about 1040 acres, of which there are
at present three bankrupt farms of about 520 acres:
These farms are under the influence of the bank-
ruptcy, and are lying in a most deplorable state, un-
cultivated, except a little bad wheat.

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'opinion- met& to havirralaiiiirwad,
only feel Abe pleasure of die times."--
at becomes insolvent, the landholder
have an estate, which some time
me upwards of £BOO per annum, On
£BOOO. Much of my land has been
thrown upon my bands, for which I have been ob.
liged to pay prerty tax, though I have net made a
peony of it. Yqu will ate that the poor rate is nearly
doubled, and hear, that the land is about ball price.
I have a very pretty cottage with "lands adjoining,
which I did let for some years ,at AV per annum,
for which I cannot now obtain 440. Another pro.
petty I let for a term, at £94 per annum, but the
man hat absconded, and cheated me of hundreds.—
The land is now react at £4O per annum. Thus,
out of 4800 per annum, when I have paid my inte-
rest and all taxes for vacant land, I shall scarcely
difioo a year to maintain a wife Mscl seven chit
uu Servants, dogs, and horses, ate already given
p ;w I
may add, my case is far from being a
singulpr one.
P. S. Since writing the above, I have had another
property of £5O. 15s. per annum thrown upon my
hands.

THOMAS AIRMIAU.—There are many farms in
this neighboinhood in the hands of the owners, many
'of wbicb farms have lately been quitted by tenants
*who could no longer remain on them ; having sunk
'their property, their stock has been seized and sold,
and fresh tenants cannot be procured. I must beg
Ito decline *stating the farms; as it is obnoxious to
mention persons' names who want the same rent for
their lands, now wheat is at 7s. a bushel, and beef
'and mutton sd. per pound, as they did when wheat
was 16s. per bushel, and beef and mutton 10d. per
poind ; one year more will throw half the farms
and particularly poor farms) into the hands of the
owners. Any relief that can be given, by redaction
of taxes, will be ineffectual; the produce must be
advanced, or at least 40 per cent: must be taken
from the present rents, taxes, and tithes, etc. etc.—l
know many estates where an abasement of 60 per
cent. would not do ; but I also know farms where
little dine abatement Will be required. A farmer
near this place entered on a farm of £lOOO a year at
Lady-day 1813, with a capital of geSOOO '• he has
lately valued Ms stock; it is not worth 42000; at
Lady-day 1816, *here will be a year's rent due, after
paying which be will only have £lOOO left, and in
one year more, if things continue in their present
state, be will se reduced to beggary : he is an in-
dustrious man, about So years of age, with a wife
and five children :—.can any thing be more distress.
ing ? There are. many such cases. The distress is
greatest on arable and grazing farms at present—
dairies and ewe flocks have paid best, or perhaps I'
shouid say, lost least for the last two years ; but
every man is now applying his land to these puce
poses, and another year will put all farms on the
same terms : in fact, where the widens rent: are paid,
distress is general, and a very short time will stew it.
I am now going to make an assertion which I can
prove, and which the country will shortly find to be
the case, viz.— in various districts of the country, all
the stock ot corn and cattle on the land is not worth
three-fourths of the money that will be due for rent,
tithes, and taxes, next Lady Day, from the occupiers
of the land—a melancholy tenth, bat it is certainly
so. The diminished circulation of paper is general
throughout the kingdom; this cannot be local; this
has been the greatest evil, and it is impossible to
foresee the consequence. The Bankers can give no
assistance, and I very moth doubt if more than
three-fourths of them are solvent; and it the day
should come (and it is by no means improbable) that
credit should receive a severer shock than it has al.
ready, and if these persons should be called upon to
pay is specie or bank paper, one-fourth of what it
now considered property, would be annihilated; and
this would be attended ,with a farther reduction in
the price of farm produce, apd add to the present
distress. The poor are badly employed—they are
fast approaching in appearance and manner to what
they were 30 years ago they have already lost that
honourable independence they for the last 20 years
have enjoyed, and in many situations their starved
countenances and appearance altogether, chews their
humble and 'distressing condition—the poor's rates
are increasing throughout the country, certainly
higher than when wheat war 14.. and 16s. a bushel.
The increased business at the Petty and Quarter Ses.'
lions for trifling offences, thews the wretched state of
the poor, and how badly they are supplied. It Go.
vernment can by any means restore credit, and get
into circulatiodelS where there is only one, the thing
is accomplished; if this cannot be done (which no.
man will for a moment suppose) a deduction at least
from the modern rents, tithe., and taxes, of 40 per
cent. mast be made; nothing short of this will do,
and that the land.awners will find. Let them who
,
still insist on high rents do justice before it is too late,
as for any relief from the reduction of taxes (*in our
present situation) it cannot be expected. We far-
mer's account must be with' ; the land-
owners must make their bargain with Government ;
to this it is fast' approaching, and toahis it flaw.
cone ; and the longer it is delayed the more severely
will it be felt, and the greater will be the ruinous
consequencei. It has been the practice of late years
Ito thiow every burden on the farmers ; a thing little
thought of, but which is more grievous in many
parishes than the poor rates ; I mean the highway
rate, and statute labour for repairing the roads.—
What reason can there be why the public,, who use
the roads, should not keep them in repair ? Why is
a farmer to make smooth and fair roads, for others
to enjoy them almost free of expense ?. I hunibly
beg to suggest, that a Bill should be brought into
Parliament to enable the Commissioners of all the
turnpike roads in the kingdom, to raise the tolls
equal to keeping the roads in repair. Why should
not the Gentleman, the Merchant, monied men, the
coach-master, and waggon.keeper, repair the injury
they commit ? This would be a great relief to the
yeomanry. It is justice, and no man could corn.
plain.—(Te k coatkutti)

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7 asodorilad 4 375. Od. to Us. Od.
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I Cinders 0 05. cod. to ous.
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