The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-09-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Dam., &err. I4.—Cawe dotes tram ,tbs Rho Ilhe
Irvine, for Quebec.—Saikd the Berstads sloop d wow,
Fres& eosit.—Ressis is (be Dom his 'Majesty's shil
Redpole, Olympia, Rattiesoake, sail Scoerge.
PET XOUTH, SEPT. IS.—Caere is the Two Brotben,
boa;Lis sad the Gratitsde French brig, w 1 want, film Mare

• Sarcasm, Atm. 14.--Baiied his Majesty's ship Bruiser,
with 1, canny for hidoeur. The neat will sail about the 2bl
last.
Taosonto, Sart. 11.—Arri wed the Speculation, Ahkr, from

tor:moue ; and the Good Intent, %undersea, frau fioutiqer-
op.—sailed the Swedish bets, Marigaretta Louisa. armorer.
• for Bourdeatm ; and the Lady Louisa peeing, with a KA /or

.1.4.151 ca.
PownworTi, Sorr. 14.—Arrived Ms Waymire ships
oian, from Plymouth; retreat. from a crake; and she Iris.
marker, from the idediterranews.--Salled his Majesty% alp.
lbeeplialus, for Plywood!; NM the Portia, we a ensile.
Jimmies, Barr. 14.--Saikd the packet for G. Wilam* ;
the Albino I.acket, for Ca shores; at the Load Reba, racket,
dar Holland; ail with Mallows! Pielligere.

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&Joao BALILBV, called so, aadesmadaed.
,fey base oceopied for a pest number of years a
rellabelsterisin concern in the farming line ?—No ;
uptssors tither a small farm, in Northemberland.
,Dow assay acres ?-01re hundred and twenty acres.
My employment is sot farming ; I am agent to the
Earl 1.1 fankenille and other gentlemen. '.oin the
early part or my life I was a land-sorveyor, abd then
Ware agent t• several Noblemen and destinies,
and ban been for several years concerned is Wein
and :titling Gestlemee's estates. 1 have had very
little tine of late yesn to attaed to my farm; that
has been managed by my son. I was employed by
I the Bond of Agriculture in drawing up the Report
for the Counties of Noithemberland sad Camber-
land, with Mr. Geo. Gaily, and the County of Der-

ham 'alone..
Hare yoir any paper which will Inform the Co..
mittee as to the actual expense of farming 2—This is
a copy of what I delivered Is to the Beard of Agri-
calture ; the price of Maar, and every thiog a taken
as low as it possibly can he.
[The same was delivered le, and read, as fol-
lows
FOR NORTHUMBERIAN D.
Ax 11011111LiTIC 01 ?NI svillucs 01IP 0111•TIVATIVII • IPA= 0/1/
STITT ACRE% IN • Mee ouzel SUTER, TM
.11111111 MG CLOVIOSI OATS.
Sway the =ref the had to be sedt as le be-worth O.
as aye; the stablest itesatity el/wheat which such Nib eau be
to psalms (as as air) will be, al wbeet,Sl
MAN= mid ems,
16s aaseart •418 this I— e
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Wheat. 15 acres. at SO Inabells pc/ acre-4.10 WWI. -
at 10 per baled - de 0
Oats. 15 es. at 48 bah& per acre-720 Meek
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you 'shame it? •
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bed to a more eceesesical system of lea settatft,•or _ Teuderegipmereand fed , . 4!610 01 Sapposing the whole to be arable ?-A fortn• Oii-
in other weeds, Comfit the farmer to a saving as far yaw ft predoce, &eagle duos . ell 0 0 'sot be entirely arableeetetierptilo liglit'lantfieglejf
as possible, In regard to the .ember of horses and 1,44....eeee. km diga erpeases, wino skid ta.....- .
in a great measure. eve. ,e • .• • re qii
men employelin this buitiess 1-He would not have • qnsuse,er husk* , . -
the moss to be lavish of his money, and he would Witteksisbrflikeliaerroompat lb.verwarboollsia.. _ tae l'lli- . iii: :.: tholistirs 'What
syheltpril dq."2l-bi-Invaltilinnebt°ald thid:llll7t-tbefair-"r"*.ines 411'
be at as little defeats as he could. - cept the addition of faxed. i r ...e • . , , ,ii
%Mild not the effect of his tieing at a dietiabbed Leaving a surplus is favour of ihsealdvater of ..'
10 0 How many rents -ntorstelbiltessunt kevieetatlelPA.
exposes be a greatly diminished predecel-No - Re should have made two and a huff. eerie.
doubt shoot IL .At what price would such teed u that you have Do you taint two and a half Feentailk eteeritilslile
Do you know of the application of any machinery take, at 21. pee acre, have let in the year 17921-I to the farmer as the four and tee, tevenete..-`tereney
is the cultist; again ?-Yes, I have sees a variety; 'appestat about half the price; ell the bees have ex- years ago, I should have.titoeght 1 lifiiiteyeate stile.
having been an old member of the Society for the pired, and they hem been doubled within tate years ; cleat upon the stiff lane end (eel eemilee
t asi upon
Entouragesient of Arts, Manufactures, and ‘Cots- where there hate been greet impreventents in our the light land.
mete, for thirty-ire years; and I have seen cape- country, they have been trebled. Have there been many ieclesurev in :Seaford-14m
daunts tried... .4 Ve e.. , What week! have been the etpevices en that twin and Shropshire ?-A great deal in Set Sorthiebe.
Have you known ehiseextensively used in pitting in the year 1792 ?---1 think We had labourers at from Whet description of Intid 1-Open fielda led come
the barest ?-No ; slew to any extent or adult- i one shilling to eighteen-pence a day ; they were eta oton both ; but more open corn.l.on4 0141.1 1i,,1115.
tage ; 4 base never son it tried effectively on a greet ' shilling 30 'ennui°, I recollect. Which sort of land ?-Both, but not much turnip
scale. it • I What do )ou think, was the average weekly price land,
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e Have you ever wee any useful application of ma• lof lebouversts )eare ago ?-I cannot recollect exact- Weald those inclosed hinds coseinue in Wage
chinery to the cutting of grain ?-No; 1 have never ly; Wove labourers are paid in kind mostly; all for corn at Bs. a ttoctiel?-I think net ; out of rho
seen any that I would use myself. I our farming seesaws are hired, and have a cow kept four years there ere two that you get gee,' revs,
Do eon conceive that the abundant harvest of last . audio leafy bushels el oheat, so many of burley, so one turnips, and one of seeds; when the turf i 4
year ly the cause of the present price of grain ?-I many of pews, -and so assay coals; there are very worn out they have unfoitninitel) bran in the It4bit
think it is v very material one. I few dayelahourers with u. of marling a great deal, which, whelp tho, surf in.
The 6:eat incrusts, of land under tillage is another, i et: her you consider the vales, taking it in mains, produces amazing elapsed' &lc bilteellterAtti
is it not 1- Yee ; a material one, certainly. !.mosey They would not exceed. Bs. or as. per aftewards.
Upon an average crop, do you conceive the prices week. • SuOposing them to be tuned tateeeastete,- would
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would be likely to'be more moderate and steady, in 1 What arethey mow ?-They havesometbing fallen the crops be as good ii. hetet ?-1f they Were weft
1 consequence of tie -increased .growth of this king- ;of late i IltOtare from 2s. ed. to 31. according to the managed eel would ; it depends spots' the .eualitt,
dent!-Yee. . difference et the band. ,of the 'anti, and the seeds that are snwit ; I am not
Do not the agrienltural improvements recently Thou jell consider labour as having rather mere !certain whether a great agate( the land that has her*
Wooed amble the' farmers, with reference to els slop doe f?-Yes, it has doubled; and rather i inclosed and ploughed, and produced great crops, if
pekilhere awl err duce, to cultivate grain at a lower mire, within these 25 years..
i it had been limed upose the surface serried oat pro.
pick Ilan amid have been the case had that ism-! If you paid a emo in corn instead of money, you 1 duce a bettor turn than that which week! euctedd its
I filt4lllll of husbandry never been adopted ?--,,. • would give him a bushel of corn Dow where you need ' after twine hem in he in tillage. - . Ireese. e• ..
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Ilsaiiiseakeprovemeets upon land have tended Is to do before?-Exactly so, the same quantity of You hare never yet valued any bed at Jerre lOW
4serease the prodets very materially. ales; they are always bound to and a woman to 10s. ad. the Winchester bushel 1-Notreete44 think(
Jr the Committee to understand, that in year opi- work. Twenty years ago the women had 6d. a day have not valued so high ,ai other perseestsmho have
mien the inferior loads in Yorkshire, and ether : for thinning turnips, or bay-making; they have been employed in theyease neighbourheedee, • •:1
cestaties yea base deectitwd, woad be thrown out ! sow a shifting : masons Cod carpenten had Is. 6d. a Do you apprehend Chit there araleads -tet.sitla i
of tie caltivatinn.of *haat, if the price were to be Bs. 1 day 20 years ago, now they have 35.; three or four higher value upon teases 1..-With el . Ire boa Ate .'
a, Mabel; the prieesof sheep, wool, and other Pro' year' ego they would network under 31. 6d. and leases; and the tenants seldom eeqoires 'ewe ~e.
derm;excepting wheat, remaining nearly at their pre- , thefarmengatelover Imprevemeste, became the Wates Is the quantity of the tillage land -Mow *twit
sent rate?--I With, ender those circumstances, the' of workmen were so high. It should be:dated, that was 20 years ago independent of common any' *M AI
'illeitivation of %best wined be discontinued, we do not give ear !theorem any beer. ' - • land 1-A great deal moveln thetas* seven years ilea
Wonld those lands remunerate the farmer, if the Yoe stated, that yea 'valued land it 40i. which in the two preceding rani. ,• .r.
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ipeice-tif barley end oats were reduced in properties before the war you valved at only 9415 e; Sweat hind • De you conceive that des Atilt:teed lamitivite In-
to that of whist ?-Perhaps they aright; I cannel In a better Sete of improvement now then it was 1 proved?-In many instanceeie great deal ref lota
any bat that they might. • before the war ?--`No ; Ldo sot think •it Is in the diem have been some Instances to teeoseontsety,
Do you consider that many of the large landed . wheat soil', fee wheat has been cultivated there from since wheat has breast so Mr leek a !rifle
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proprietors of this kingdom have let their lonia time immemorial; the felncipal imprivements there generally speaking, It Amp .dreeo very am, feet
the manner you bates* strongly reprobated ? '-•:4114 have been in the turnip soils. proved. . .1; .tr,,. , , :, 45'1: -•-•
dear no 1. very few indeed. • • What do yen comities the mietive etym., upon Resit bees occasioned by einteppnceserso rifeehro
Yoe conceive, that generally their lands are let a farm, which ens say formerly let at 601. and capital 1-Yes, and man limey arid .u* niosnanarei
epee fair and moderate rents?-Cheaper. is emeralls i would Woo, let at lg.* year ?...-I emsslder then as I conceive that ten tense thremarisitrof llaie4s boa
than any other person's : great owners, and thl Nie . jest abort doehk,4" bout twenty years ghee, the ; now than there was 20 yaateiltoti ahai It/Sok'• asoflo
bility of this country, are the cheapest landlords of wire peel for making. a sew earthen quick fence than teat. • is ti du ... :.• i -
ady persons in the kingdom. yes erne Is. V. to 1,.4d. per rood of reeln yarns; ; Do you think that if, wheat arse eirier:lloelelv
What proportion of lands in this kingdom do yes at resent tied for some years hack. it hail been bushel, Viey would continue to celtivine tbiteireleglit
INIKIIiie hare been letapon the system you have re- , hem to, 64. sees ; eeelme pretty,* the eeiri•of lime I lane ?eel riduk•they Irmo sot. ; - ^-10,Ort•O'-; "7*. -: vs' -
probated 1-I cannot tem an idea open that. • .at the *los was limo Ss. to 3s. 6d. per curt lead of i Then yeti tippreliend theft etneette a rear MU%
Is there not a considerable alarm among "the ace •24 hush;ls; t' is new from Se. to 7S. per care load; off in the roducej___Teiee. would tar & . •
amides of landeat this moment ?L-No doubt of It. paring eta.' 1 hen • done 'in tee county' of •Deetl.en tjon in thp•edighol, of, awe*? rellsiossy ;,„ 11,11;- a
What is the ground of that alarm ?-A fear oldie from 10s. to Its. per acre; now it is from 20s. to. farteeshi. year. mt, interesinnee as to have 41. fail j. 11454
price of every Wog falling ; till produce. •-• . lifts. per acre. "'' ' ' Keel that have beets ises'efthand burned, with wheat,
.A fear of all agricultural produce falling brhsw a; - . . and of fallow. ten arres,and ni no acres of one •,.•Re'll,
reinenera ling pricel-Ves. ; .Ik. ROaERT ilittrEt' of Dunsfal, to the county of seedy; but in consequedientor the diminution in ~rice
N lit not the effect of that alarm be, to eiscourege 1 &Bitted, tailed in; and examined. of wheat, I shall the nest spring sow them •ith nos
improvements in agricoltere?-No doubt of it, You are a land agent and surveyor? I urn a land , and the ttrong land il shall tarn into Qtre.p.ivessu,e.
clearly. agent ; I ant not much conversant with the men- I • Do you thiekehat Colalialge:',giii-he golle'lo- Yee,
.DO 101 l wine ire that if the.alsrm continues, there sornanent of land. . ' II think so, from the peobabilityee loireriug tire price
will *et he a difficult% is find* good tenants, with flow long have you been employed in that way? of corn. • t i.o •,....
11" "wield. capitals for farms 1-Not at fair and jest •-1 hlret years. D 3 you consider that the eimpitat requited for a
prices; not at 10s. a bash.!. IA what counties have you been principally ea. farm of 400 acres is doable what tit•was twenty years
If. he expectation should he entedained____ by the ployed ?-In Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, ago 1-4 shoild think it must, avaisarly as can be;
farmers, of wheat being et 10s. a bushel, would the Wareiickshire, Worcestershire, Monmouthshire, evil 'in the course of that time all the stock necessary for.
fanner' continue under any alarm ?-L think the Denhighthire; but !nestle, in Staffordshire. a farm and for implements of busbandry am at least .
plarm would eubside. What has been the increase in the rent of land for doubled. • 'l.#4: m V.L. -t . .-1
.D. yon know of any farms recently offered to be the lest2Ofyears ?-Double, or better thah double, Do )ou take into ronsideratieli the tartest ex-.
let by tender ?-Noe very lately. • I think, to what it was 20 years ago ; within the last I, peness of !above, and every thee; sice?-40% the
If the rent of hind were aticsdnfed at a Tate pros seven years, it has been much greater than before ; I wages of 'abeam', and the expeacnof wheelwrights'
portioped re tiro prior. of 94. per bushel, do you there ire very few leases in that part of the world in 1 and blacksmiths, and all those kited's( firings.- . , ,
.think there 'lewd be any difficulty in procuring good which I have been coflterued; some old ones have What is it you give for wages .now ?-We•gira
tenants at that pries?-1 am decidedly of nilinim's expired in discourse of that time. half.a-crown and a gallon of -beer in- winter; and is'
that it should sot he lass than 10s. In any valuation /bet • you'''have made lately, at i summer 3s. and a gallon of beer. -
whet tent have you valued wheat?-Dnring the last ' What were the wages twenty yews -asp 1,---Not
yeerelpart of the estatitel valued I put at 13s. the quite half that; and if I were•to .include -the defetet
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basbeloed part at 14s. the baslist of nine gallons, as once of the price of malt liquor, it would be • still;
this yearly vales, for that year. greater. -, ... • a' : . I
la the part of the country that you are acquainted i Do you not save something :by thliishber tome
With,b this land -of a strong clayey nature 1-There chines 1-I 'think not ;el *are . oui owl/idol& *lee
is a good deal ek variety; bet a great deal in Staf- I shut up for these two year:tit slemstset mew thet;
fordshhe is wheat land. ' * - purpose. ' - - It.'t eCr, i ($.7 fU
De you recollect, .20 years ago, how you valued Do you consider the expenciecilleerieselialwalcie
wbeatf-Aboat Ss. Winchester measure. • tb.laudlord is liable, to be doge%• what they! wAre
Is ffibireeeds used in Shropshire 1-Of late a great 20 years ago ?-I think sore brickseieve not ilorrease2
goal. ' '' Am much, but timber is more than.double; eakeniere:
Ups. wheat land ?-I do net think more upes'diff! sent farm we Mid tbentlis# and matte theeeneut
lead, thee open light land. Ido the workmanshipi opt come tcaelgobtesleal•
What is the expenee of lime 1-Where I live, it of looney. . .cat .sit; ttno; .
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stands me is 13s. a ton, and then I have to draw it Does it amount to 5 per cent.? -t think • not sor,
frost the ernes!, six mile& Meek% as 3 per cent. foe the htedloild-to ley. ee, .
titbit a fair average?-Yes, I layabout five tons -Do you put your wheat hate bernsl,--I never pat!,
epee as acre, bet perhaps I lay on more than other' wheat intoner tarns till Lorantito thrash. ,
kimers. ^'Supposing wheat to be upon the average at Rs. a
' What do you think the amount of that would be bushel, can yaolgive . any gees; what would be the
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per acre ?-Seven poesds tee shillinp an acre, at least diminution of tillage ?-el shape! think, from my ow a
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Yea reckon the carriage nearly as much as the keowledee,leheuld roAlarA It *be- ha if upon the stiff
lime?-Nearly so. land.
How one, do you Sad it necessary to use lime , What proportion de theterrinbear for the
ee tends .
upon the same acrel--11Ither in the fallow or 'the.; tillage of corn 1-In cwslr+rdill'f' the staff laud Pro-
surface, upon every tillage, but I should prefer al-' tails most, in Shropshire.tte l'ght lend.
and altercate liming; upon the : That is, more *ban hag, is .
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ternalight randilleinckfull' years, tad upon the fallow Ste -Yes.
years, on stiff load. • , throw a •greati
Supposing the charges of agriculture remain the in the &mends for teener /-1.4 would
I What would be th -• eire:.: at''aat wrahapitd.7imitnneteaine:
and the price of wheat to be lower, and other many husbandry laheurers out or
grain in proportion, by one-third, would there be . _What %reale be S.A. effect of the
mock grain grew. spew stiff -lands 1-If the charges out of employmese upon tat ?our rates?-1w pro-
of cultivation, 'including the • and the levies portion as they wslted relief, it would ak, increase this
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for tie Do yin sk t phased system of 'coltiva- igreteeraletesplesall • fa 0-0 that the fares should, it any rat?, wake Three retitle;
m don le comm. .et berntii-adie Iwo economical ?..... ,
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ps oe- Yes LINA tris. •' at expeoces tool tulle e - SOS e do.yois ',diorite it ? 'it ought us otitto• Icor rents.''''/ •
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