The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-05 00:00:00

Parrs 'Anvil*

$ filter tie currency; for It could scarcely be *Re-
posed that a system. which had been the work of 20
years, could be, without ibrowitaienoe, so suddenly
abolished. He also took shame to himself for having
((sited in Parliament in favour of the abolition of the
-fthoperty Tau, since he was now persuaded that on a
modified scale it would be the most salutary measure
that could be adopted. Every man, however, who mixed
in public affairi, would often do things which's, would
whet wards be compelled-to regret. It was said by many
that the debt of the country was a great evil ; yet Co
one could sey that it was a loss to the nation ; on
the contrary, It was but the transfer of property from
one class of the community to another. It was. fie his
opinion, a alio of wealth t and be was peereaatiteatich
evil would remit if a reduction of the Mt should tape
glace. for Itianaelf, hie Lemiship sold. lit b. had
net. nor would lie ever ban., est Waggle the fuods,
said therefore in what he bed stated he anti of coarse
be iniluenced by no personal feeling. He mast say
that he thought them a sort of bank is which all might
take refuge; and that we should finCociselvee much
poorer without them. He had during a lift of seventy
yeses. witnessed many and various revolutions t_ surf
he must say, that any one who could bring himself
now to speak confidently on the subject, must ho-
of a very different frame of mind from his own. He
thought that before a county meeting shonld be decided
on, the measure ought to receive the most careful con-
sideration.
A conversation of some length and interest then
ensued, in which Mr. Bataan, jun.. Mr. Hitchins, and
Mr. Martin took part, relative to that portion of his
Lordship's speech which related to the effect of the
importation of corn; in reference to which his Lord-
ship said the agricultnrists had, not long since, an op-
portunity of havicg from Parliament a conditional
arratigetneut as to import of foreign corn, or a perma-
nent duty upon that import, and they chose the for-
mer. Still :he agriculturists complained. Aecoroling
to his opinion, the permanent duty would bore been
Netter for those agriculturists. while that ditty wool I
have been paid by foreigners. —(A ;oplanse.)—ltut
he
coofesonl he felt great diffieulty upon the whole o.f
this question, and he wished to have something &finis,
and distinq proposed, before ally rushee proceeding
was determined upon.
Mr. ELLx is. jun.. after expressing the utmost re•
sped fur the joodgit eat of the Noble Chairman, es-
premed his opinion that another application to the
I lions. of C.unmons upon this subject would be
htgfa-
Iy aelriseailio. It Ass necessary, inoleeol, to satisfy
•be min,' of the sgri.ul•nrists, that something &ether
should he done. Hr had reason to believe *it the
Report of the late Agricultural Conintittee. which was
Ahem Mecum kiss, was only carried by a usejority,ot
two. All the Comity MeMbres, indeed, who were
upon the Committee. were unanimously against its
adoption; and still retaining their 'item, it was
the wish of those firm advocates fur agriculture,
that the agriculturists themselves should come for-
ward to declare their own opinion, If, indeed,
the agriculturists did not make such declaration.,
their advocates in Parliament must feel themselves
deserted by those whom they endeavoured to serve.
Bat The Report of the late Committee having heel
Lail before the public for their consideration, it was
the duty of those must immediately interested t o
state their approbation or disapprobation of its p•sr-
port or tendency. He had, therefare, taken occasion
to draw up some Resolutiosoffouoded upon that Repo.. ,
and if their tenor were nut borne out by that lt-po•-,
he would be ready to admit Visit all that had h•e•o
June by the A grieultnrsol Ass.wiations was egregi sway
wrong. Tho•se Remolotioous were, lie felt, rather ion:,
but he would submit them to the consideration of t 1.9
Meeting to be disposed of as its superior judgment rui;;')t
think proper. The first Resolution referred to Eh •
cause which had collected so many farmers togetio-n•
us this occasion, and it obviously could • be no 0 -di-
nary cause that could induce industrious domestic men
:o leave their business and homes, and come fro.n
different and distant parts of the country to alien
that Meeting. That cause was indeed no less thy%
this, that these honest farmers saw that ruin was !.tr-
ing them in the face, and they canoe there in the ho?.,
that souse measure would be adopted likely to cionotnee
to their relief or deliverance ; to justify such a bop%
and to advance the object of thase who entertained it.
he dad ventured to draw up the Resolutions which, he
held-in his hand, and which, with permission, h •
would read to the Meeting—(rries of read, read !)
▪ *e Worthy Headman then read the
That at a moment like this, when ruin is daily over-
taking many of the most inslustrieus of the tenantry, a ad
threatening to overwhelm the is hole present rare of Li-
nters, it is a paramount tints which they owe to thee:-
selves and families, and to the numerous (lasers of
society dependent on then, for employmetmand suppost,
to endeavour, by every legal means, to avert such .s
general calamity.
" That in the last Session of Parliament, entirely ;
consequence of the respectable Petitioons presented to
Legislature from all parts of the kingdom, a Select
Committee of the House of COIBIUIOIIII was appointeo,
and directed to inquire into the allegations of those
Petitions, and to report their observ4:inua thereon to ttie
House.' 1-
..That the Report, which wap aside by a majority of
the.said Committee. although allowing to its fullest
tent the taws, of the tenantry as alleged iu their.
lions and admitting the justice of 'their claims (which •
indeed it was impossible to deny), is esvertheless sp in-
congruous. its reasoniug in souse pails so directly op.
posed to that contained in other pets of the smut Re-
port. as to leave the present race of caw., very I;tt.e
hope of escape from trretriexablireptss, unless
and in still greater numbere. he p, Died to P.srl onsent
is the ensuing Session, *rustle forth their drea.itisi 4,1.1
melancholy situation. and praying for i 00000 so-slime rriie.
I' That the ',Aid Report, at page I, admit* tibia, •
their judgment, the complaints of the petitioners ar.•
founded in fact, in so far as they represent tha:, at the
present price acorn, the returns to the occupier
arable farm, after allowing for the interest of his invest-
ment, are by no means adequate to the charges atoll out-
goings, of which a considerable portion can bw pa; i
only out of the capitals, and not from the 'well's of t'.e
teo4ntry:'--tisus *hewing how rapidly ruin is
taking all oe.:nioiets of arable haul. That the sal.: ite•

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