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

Mr. LorxtL having suffered an impris' unment in
his Mgiesty's Ganl of Newgate for Three Years',
and a Half, which expired the 27th of May, in'
consequence of Three Ex-officio Informations, is'
still confined for the non-performance of the last
Sentence possed upon him for the publication of
an Anonymous Letter reflecting upon the Com-
missioners of the Transport Board. This Letter
tel4insorted dithout his knowledge and consent,
is set forth in the affidavits of two persons in his
employment.

The Sentence of the Court, for this last offence, was,
1 gighleen Months. imprisonment in Nesegate, to
"fry a Fine to the King of 5001. to find Two Sure-
t lies in the *gm siffsoQl.atA,,and histmetr in 10001.
I.ilor the space qf'nor.pa 7.ears.
Ditevgate, Sept. 9. • ' •

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LONDON:

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UP'tpUStlt 9, 1914. .
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We this day insert the Reroae of the Select
Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to
take into consideration the Petitions which have
been presented upon the subject of the Corn Laws.
This Report is very concise, bet, like that of the
House of Lords, not very satisfactory. The Corn-
tnittee commence their Report by stating, that dur-
ing the last twenty years a very rapid and extensive
progress has been made in the agriculture .of the
United Kingdom; that great additional capitals
have been applied to the improvement of land ; and
that these advances, in many instances, will be a
total loss to the parties, involving also the Iss' 10
the nation of the produce which, in a few years,.
asigh4 t. have been expected from such expensive under-,
takings, if, from the want of a sufficient encourage.
gavot to continue them, they should be abandoned in
their present unfinished state. The great source of
this encouragement to agriculture is traced to the
'increasing population and growing opulence of the
United Kingdom, and to the check which the con-
tiuuance of the war has given to the importation of
Foreign Corn ; but the Committee do not pretend to
offer to the country any statement by which we might
be enabled to form an opinion bow much this en.
Crease of expences of management and cultivation
has been produced by increased taxation and rise of
rents, or of the precise nature of the remedy required,
ezcstpt a suggestion, that it will be the policy of Par.
Wield to maintain, if Dot to extend, the present
Male of agricultural exertion and produce, In other
Wadi, to keep op the high price of corn. A sug.
ration is also thrown out, that this country pos.
bosses peculiar advantages for becoming a deposit for'
foreign corn,. which should be bonded and ware..
housed, subject to the same rules and duties as may
files applicable to other Corn. This, they think,
would have a tendency to keep the price.more steady
in the home market, and afford a security against the
effects of a deficient harvest.
We shall make a few remarks, ea passant, on
'these statements. In the first place, we have to ob-
serve, that we suspect the additional capitals which

are stated to have been employed hi the culture of
lend, will not be found to have been either so exten-
sive or beneficial as the Committee imagine. To the
landlord they certainly have been of advantage, but
we apprehend the country has reaped bet little good
from them. The class of persons whom the stagna-
tion of commerce has forced into the farming line,
have been a species of speculators who knew but lit-
tle of agricultural pursuits. It is notorious to every
one, that the great competition thus occasioned for
the possession of land has been the chief cause of the
rise of rents and it must be equally evident, that the
stock of substantial benefit could be but little in-
creased by the new-fangled system which these inex-
perienced cultivators introduced. As the hopes thus
incited were visionary, no wonder can arise that
they should have been disappointed.
We have no objection to such persons vesting their
capitals in farming concerns ; and, during the period
of continental exclusion, they may have been useful
to the community ; at least, at whatever expence
raised, by the sacrifice of whatever other objects ob-
tained, more native grain has been brought into the
market : but now, when the necessity which gave rise
to thetir speculations has ceased (which they ought to
have considered as probable), are they to be sup-
ported in the consummation and perpetuation of
them, at the expence of the labouring community ?
Are we to eat our bread at almost double the price
at which we ought to eat it, lest farmers should fall',
beck into their original condition of farmers, and
land-owners be checked in their attempts to subject
the first necessaries of life to espeasite projects of
`commercial scheming ?

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