The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-15 00:00:00

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LONDON:
ITSSUAT EVSNINU, Jameapt 15, 1822.
The 'relent meatier of the Agriculturists an
likely to be attended with coasiderable and important
results. They base already sheeted a great deal is
Merino' tbellelesiors of a restrictive law le the
shops of a Cern Bill. The braise of the fermis sp-
pear to get a little el by readies anti listselog
arguments which inseasibly eeedsice to the samelead.
and wide\ irresistibly klieg home to their awlsr-

meadiags the mamma/ el
rather Chas from the sew

impose oa the imported's of Cora a duty of fa.
quarter. The Lewes farmers. with the win !feel
Egremout at their head. muttered sat their grievances
and voted a petition for a duty ea fortira emu. hat
they said not a word about taxation, and rents, aid
tithes and pore' rates ; all these they were very cos-
tented to continue as at present. only give them a Cora
Bill—a protecting duty—a license to feed and fattes
on the 'presides' and distresses of all the rest of the
nation. They looked to such men as Lord Egregious
and the rest of their landlords to give them a lift is
Parliament ; for Lord Egremont and the landloeds
were aware that the isterests of their tenants and them-
selves were the same. and the higher remunerating
price they voted farmers in Parliansest, the higher
rents they should condone to receive. This was good
logic for such clear headed fellows as my Lord Zen-
smut aid the Messrs. Bliss.. But it has happened
that some clearer beaded fellows were in the minty
than the Lewes farmers. They have pointed out the
delusions under which farmers in geseral had laboured.
The cry of high prices has grown fainter and fainter
at each successive meeting. sad indeed it has at last
died away. Not even a lingering hope was expressed
at the Norfolk itemise that Parliament should he re-
quested to extant its aid in this shape. It was Judy
a subject of exultation to Lord Albemarle that thiiiessis
form was no Wager partied, Let the faletwelywaw
persevere is Omit. meetings ; let them expose chit suf-
ferings of the country ; let the sadism be routed against'
these men who han pinged the people into this tibyas
of misery and poverty ; and let some real sabetestial
relief be extorted from them, or let them be drives from
the possession of that power which they have too long
held. We were against County Meetings, or Meetings
upon say scale, so long as the nquisitiosists remained
In error, or in ignorance,but now that they have got light
sod information, mock good may be produced. Mishima
mast sow surrender either their measures or *hairpieces.
They are already undermined in their strongest points ;
for the independent member as they have hitherto called
themselves, are just beginning to enjoy the fruits of
their own policy, and consequently to tbisk that all
the advaat'ages that were in reversion for themselves
lof their kinds will sot prove a salhcient set off to
the taxes sad assessments that have swallowed up all
the produce of their lands. The acquisition of the
Oreavillites will avail bat little against the general
desertion. The meeting of Parliament will indeed
be interestiag. We shan't have forty or fifty members 1
voting away hundreds of thousands widen! *meg
don; we shan't have eveneheintisig sesjotides on the
most illiberal and unpopular qnestioss i we shan't have
a pared of pensioners laughing at the labiate of Mr.
Huse; we shan't have questions en-refute got rid if
by trickery; in short. we sheet eft the Twits bays I,