The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-05-21 00:00:00

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by toy keep- up the price. This keeping up of the
price it; in other words, a bounty on the eiporta-
don
,of Corn from Ireland, fiost. pnjustly .levied
upon the
.English consumer. Bow does this
bounty operate ? What good does it produce to the

agricultural interest.of. Ireland to'atorie for-the in
justice it inflicts* on the English consumer ? As
connected with the agiicultural interests of a country
we can recognise only tWo .classes of persons.--
The
proprietor of the soil, and the persons of all
classes, by whose *capital or superintendence or la-
~bour it is made productive. In most countries those
classes are strongly distinguished ; in Ireland they
are lamentably so; and, accordingly, we find, this
'system 'of bounty on exportation operate very dif-
ferently indeed on the condition of the two .classits
we have mentioned. The first, the proprietor of-the
soil, is enabled by it to draw from his estates, rent in
no degree apportioned to the state of society, or to the
general value of commodities in the coontry.where they
are situated. lie is enabled to vie with the magnificence
and axpence displayed by the aristocracy of another
country; in circumstances far more flourishing than
' his own. He evades all participation in -the gerwrat
poverty of his own country, 'by thup contrihutipg tor
aggravate and prolong it. Ile is tempted to mike a
foreign capital the place of his habitual. residence, not
less by the misery and discontent to be -found among
his tenantry at home, than by the allurements of
splendour and dissipation, to which that misery and
discontent afford the unnatural resources. A opera,-
',tion, of the widest nature is thus produced between
the different classes -of -the community,- and- the
improvement and civilization of Ireland stands
still, or creeps with a motion scarcely visible.--L
The other class of men connected with , the
agricultural_ interest, men whose capital, or skill
er labour, are " really employed in the work of
tillage, derive from the system of bounty nothing but
injury. They are -consigned to toll end contrive
exclutivily for the benefit' of others. They pro-
duce Corn, bat consume.only 'potatoes. If the corn.
harvest or Ireland could be doubled, ,whilst she
has the monopoly of the English marke4 it would
not .benefit the people. It would encrease the
quantity to be sent to. England, and augment the
revenue of the' land-owners, a revenue to he e.v,
pended most probably in London, but the toed of
the Irish people would still be
:potatoes. If we
wish to benefit the people of Ireland, we must
place them on the same footing as foreign countries,
with respect to the importation of corn into England.
It is by this means only thatithe fertilitf.ef 'lreland
Will ever contribute to the at4eyvnente. her labour-,
ing sons. The proposed essaciesents can tend. olkina
Lto the temporary benefit-of the -Eeglish Redo;
4fintleptitiptieter, whilst IF.ey will pilorluce laifilig 115
jd:7 tb theftii of the people of both countries.

. , .
..A. v.eiy- interesting cohversation- took place last
nigtt, upOn. the subject of Mr. D. Reathroyat's con-
finement is Newgate,, when Mr. Wnirsaitem, with
his accustomed perspicuity, sifted the matter so
closely, that the .speakers on the opposite side were
obliged to cry peccalli, and have adjourned it. till
Monday. The case of this Foreigner does seem to '
he a most extraordinary One, ae.- after *sidiot in .;
. - • 1". 't.' Some anonymoiis .infiammetovy hand-bills, u,..
this country 9pwards of twenty-six yearsOtaitioiV:.
baled in (he :coarse of last week, exciting the 10-,
at last detained upon.a warrant under the Allen. Acry botaingtiatitufsefurers to dissatisfaction at the,peulf.
although it does not distinctly Appear what is.the. i4' ration its ties Corn I.4a9s,"causea,larrge.sittlelfr
nature of the charge brought against him. • Tlilob,.' %let* idiii and ttotytmly disposed persons tobaig
seitations of Mr. WityreiteA n reittiivil to the 'eon. efritte;:isf several cespectable millers, faraters,..lo,
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duct of the self-created Tribunal or:tke st**, kek..tatprs, tit_ !anon. a
,parts. it,
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. on Sat
.• • • '-' -- • , 1 thiMarket in. consequerteti was finely attenderltl
change are deserving attertion,,-44.045i Tribune.
' less done,than iff max. prOollei,e-Ceki,..tatlipArlat
should have been able to procure. the .avitiioance of 'inir - f all •ci sei i .. , 4.
;,Government, armed with the authority oftblit. ,kitfft, --Alviees 'were yeste,rfai Oitok.S.o*
pct,, _. A..
ct, in order to discover evidence agidigitiiiiliiißitiail:/1, - -Y''4o..the date of tlh . ' !ft.: • llt • • ark
Citarged with a misderiteanarr aroct4,--ILlll—lciemaggi'v ' -',li. it i iot)ejed e its• appearance either in,the• itati •4. •
.L.I or the Seh.urbs. The Russian and 'British
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were the case, call for the severest vapreheaCion
, I etre in favour at'tbetorte, and the French Maas 0..
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Mr.,THostes9vl wis !Ruth, distressed on ThursclwlJl
evening; altd after'goiitg 10 hours on lite last day
his logs ilieklail)
Jbtif.he peisevered, andaccoiipliOleci
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