The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-14 00:00:00

TIi4,PrATESMAN.

L—Youi tati tlitl, lidied,lirt.idite tlce bargain
fur V4l.* god:
• • •

(1. the work cheaper than they might hare clone \it of
t fi•a.

A :tialogue between me ant one 6f my labourers
wit give you as correct a tuition of the state of the
country, in this.respect, 11F 1'44t1 will be Male to ob.
t.iin, from the Board of Agticoltore, though that
Beard of wise men costs us some thousands a year.
L - -600 rod of water-furrowing at J.I. a score rod,
li •.t,. ti,l.
Mr. C.—/ltit Pd. a ccnro is ten much, Emery.
L.—T,.O much, Sir ! Why it always used to be a
shiliine I
Mr. C.-- l'es, hot flour used to bet'COs.st bushel,
Bed new it is Ws at the same viii.
.:
1.. Flour is cheaper, to be sure, Str, but every
thin 4 el-e is lc dear a; e'er. ..
.sls, (2,.._11 ill you give me 18s. a score for a nice
rut hog? . ...'
..
. 1,.—N0, Sir (ides a smile and tens(; of the
. • :sir. C.—lint, you know, that, one year, since I
hire iiv,si at Bosley, hogs Iliti sell foe 181. a score;
atiii &hut. fur years, they sold.at ;Gs, or Lis. .• .. . - ... ......• .. .
l..—tress Sir. but a man wants something else be. , LiIIV 11174,1.G10.410. A.
Sidoqread a od•Viet.ts.
COURT OF CIIANCEIYr-Nos•-..11...
Mra..C.-1 know he does. Ile wants.. some good. .
• ANONYMOUS LETTERS.
fresh, hearty beer, . •
• ! • 'The LORD CitAncELLott, on entering the Court,
• L.—ldeer. Sir! finer is a poor man to bikr beer informed •Mr. Bell that his Lordship had received an
at :61,1( pre ? .. t
anonymous letter, respecting the facts of a petition,
Mr. C..,..11 Ay should he buy it Gil. a pot,.: when
In which that Gentleman was retained. If the. re-
he can have a bushel of malt fur Os, and hops for Is. •
presentations were false, and his Lordship could dis-
enough' to Make '2l gallons of as good beer as any
cover the author, lie should know what to do with
matt neel wish to drink. 'Beer that will make him wan ; . if• they were *true, the I4?llritei Counsel
feel bold when be has drunk a pot of it.
would know how to act ; but his Loalship had re.
L.---1 never brew, Sir. , • peatedly declared, that he weekd never receive such
Mr. f;.—Pray then, lilvil do yon think ? You . •
_ anonymous communications without producing teemmust think somethiug with your victuals. What' in Court.
is lit
• • ET-PARTE tilt 0. P. TURNER, BART. A LUNATIC.
•
• 'la.—Tea, Sir ! Mr. bEA-Cii stated, that he held a Petition of Sir.'
i. 7 r..— , an C.—Tea ! anil how much a wee how
.. . Gregor.), •Page Turner's, praying that the commission
much sown ? ' And whit do they cost tots. ,of lunacy which had been issued against him might
• l''—Whl•• Sir, we have II "2' of feet and be superseded. • The 'commission was issued on the
three p•Suods of sugar. The tea costs 'ls. 6d. and 17th of Noveinber, 1814, and the Jag found, that
the weir Ss. he had beets a lunatic from the 6th of September pre-
"*
• Mr. C.;---So, here is 4s. Gil. a week, 1st(1 out by
ceding. His derangente6t• was occasioned by a uer-
WI servant with the tiahohs and the Wist Indians,
roes depression of spirits: but his family, and the
When you might hare four times as much nourishment . physicians whiattended.hial were of opinion, that
coutWf half a bushel of •melr. ' Two weeks; at this'
, he was now recovered. o s
rate,' Weald cost you 9s. while, for•lDs. you might ; Sit SAMUEL ROXILLT appeared for Lady 'Page
Intre Agar full' pots of good 'beet a day for
;three
Turner. She bad not been able to see her snit, but
iteetek IL.'" Bet, this is' not all ; dating three weeks, site believed; from the certificate of the physicians,
• Yits ley out 13s: 61. to obtain whieevt,r nourish. •
this •- he was now restored to his sound mind.
ireeiet nine roods of sneer yields; while, if - Loki CIiaNCELLOR.--" I 'should be glad to see
1 34.t601. was laid out ih U bushel of milt, you Wointl•
Sir Gregory J'nge Turner myself, before ten o'clock
*ohrlifn for It the nourishmeirt which 3741b5. of sager ! on Monday Inbmin.o. •
iehls : because it is a well-known fact that every ;
) • - Mr. HART appeared for Mr. Turner, Sir Gregory's
,„,boshel of good malt contains, at the least; 151 b. of ,
brOther, who consented to the prayer of the peti-1
augt r. • •• •
I. -OVA a lawgh like that of Croon =hPa he non.
Sir SAMuEL ROMILLT observed, that it would be
;first discovered Iphigenia steeping by the faantaim)
very pnfortunate if Sir G. P. Turner should think
•Alt„ '41.1 lit.t how is a poor man to get it out ?
,that the commission had been issued without any
• Mr. C.—Why, as you do this bitter useless taste of . reason.
the+toff that you call tea ; and which, for the greater Lord C ..
_HANCELLOR.—" If `he should think so, it
pnrt,,vis, -rrhapv, composed of the leaves of the ash : will he a very unfavourable symptom." tke Asa thorn: that is by brewing; only, in- !
Mr. ROurELL appeared for several persons who
'etead ofiltrewitig thiee times every day, you need
•brew on one time in three weeks; or, if you were creilittes.
pie'r Sir &spurt. Itomitgfv,44,/se,
_aPlbear°4 for larrftl
.it not • cue tithein six nifigaus,wriee weeks,—NA ••
tredfFoi-s," who tsars` bilen preveded from taking toy
er eitlfAteittrreii late in the morning to your proceedings with respect to (heir demands. A G,.-
•work. • Na wonder Abe, you ate shuffling home a ..
Ureter) at the bar hod leen appOintedarbitrator be-
mile or two to slintiVri• instead of bo!tii;g out (as I
tweets Sir Grezoory and his creditors; but payment
be-
did when I was a boyllth your meat and bread in of the debts had been delayed above a year, .cud
your satchel, sled your per Ina wooden bottle, slang there was now no previaluse for their..
.over your shoulder. Nn wonder that-you areal, as Mr.
It oomm.s. hoped, if the commission shotlti be
st
- thin* , oelettes, and that that son of your's there, superseded, that some fund
_would be appreser . ted
Mho is 19 years old, and is five feet nine inches high,
I to enswer their demands.
is, es you told me last summer, 66 ton weakly to • Sir &tattier. ItostiLLY observed, that the act of
•man's work." No wonder that his knees bend un- ' arbitration was the act of the Court, which had re-
der. ilm, and that •he has a voicelike that of a girl,
ferred the matter to the Master.
• itietead of.beiiig able to carry a sack of wheat and to M. LEACH said, that Sir G. P. Turner was willing
joints over h five-barred gate. • ' to adopt such course for the payment of his debts as i
• L.—Ay, Sir,it is easy to talk ; but how am I to the Court- should direct.
breo without barrels, sir any thing to brew with? 1 Lean CHANCELLOR.—st I can give no directions
Mr. C.—AN these would not cost yoo as much as gill have seen Sir Gregory himself. Let him attend
you lose by tea-drinking in one single quarter of a me on Monday morning."
'year. 'llte, besides, does the ten-kettle, with its ,
EX-FARTE APPLETON RE BORERTsgm.
•ever'os-leg von:Seg., summer as well as winter, cost ! This was a petition praying that the bankrupt's
~„" n„,„i,,4 s Do tile tea.pots, spoons, ceps and ' certificate might be suspended, and the debts of se.
• stuoin4 Cost gnu nething ? Do rot pay nothing, in
verul creditors caps. aged. The Petitioner alleged,
• tne course of the year, to those vagabond pedlars, that the whole of those debts were fictitious, and
• whom I frequontly tirc in the village with their move- bad been proved for the purpose of procuring the
able houses ausl.their crockery-ware, whose•licence ' certificate.
to tt ntie they seem to interpret into a commission to Sir SAMUEL ItOMILLT opposed the motion, on the
ploteser. the cos upon is hose licences do net amount ground of its being supported by no other testimony
•toa t! ..usamlth part of the injury they do-in their that, that of an individual, Mr. Meredith Seancot,
tsamplose through the country, and who, indeed, you woo,
stated that he mas employed to go about the
may look upon as your fliettris, because they tear
city of London, to see if he could hire persons to
• anti here the hedges that you are employed to Make- prove fictitious debts. It was impossible that such •
• and to mend. Do you give-none of your money to. evidence could be received; for if it !ere true, the
-these wretches, instead of giving it to the cooper and la,w would order the witness to stand in the pillory
. the busier?
for a conspiracy. The Petitioner himself was on the'
L.—(Hiring had time to bethink him.) Why,
verge of lotoktuidcy when he presented hieyetition,
now, there, Sir ; there are potatoes as dear as ever. and iii less than two months after a Commission was
•Apa ,r man cannot get a bushel under 3s. issued against him. It would appear that ids me-
mr. C.—A" what business has he with potatoes, lives were most malicious, for he refused to sign the
they ? This trash is always dearer than Hour.,
~isrot certificate e ithout tolog paid.
pont& of potatoes are equal to one pound of non'. I
Mr. Moo-race said, that the Court would not ,•
in point of nourishment, and no mere. And -yet
listen to a petition which was supported sildely by
you buy prdatoes•for cheapness. 'Nis is your eco-
sach polluted testimony. The Petitioner himself had
. noroy, You give 304. for the same quantity of sou- trot sworn to ti.e truth of the facts, and his assignees;
ti,hreent that you can get fur 10s.
,Arld at,is,•too, lit
had refused to proceed in his petition. ' 1
!a smaller baik,effilliis'elteap!y prepared for the eve- • • Mr. CooKE held n brief in this matter before the
-witch, liable to nowasteaeolveitient to carry to your
Petitioner became a bankrupt ; on that event, it
.was
. leech, at any moment ready to be eaten. This is oider..l to stand over, to see whether his assignees
gloms economy ; hut, 'I must say, that Ido not so would file a supplemental petition. Not haring col-
, notch blame yes for this, tviten•l. consider how many leered any eliects under the Petitioner's Commission, '
great writers on (0'11; Ind how man wise lawgivers and being wholly unareueinted with nie tiCts, they
base lent their hand in the oils-leading of you. This lead refused to proteesl. The Leanne] Coansel was.;
• potatne diet constitetes, however, a component past not now retained; bat hating held the original
of the lea-drinking•system. Neither will permit you brief, he thought it his duty to piesent himielt to I
, to sallyout in the morning as soon as your eyes are the Court, and would follow his Lordship's direc-
. open. Both demand candle-light and an hour fur tions.
%cookery. Both send yod forth with something wet, i Sir Samuel. Root Lae hoped, the Court would or-
waste, and weak in your belly, to face the cold winds der all the costs of this application to be paid by the
and everkiag rain's, or the melting sot,. Both being.:
, Petitioner.
you home it noon, Omagh all scirta nf•weathet and :
The Loan Cu SNCELL3R svi,i, that In' would read
from all distances. Both k'ave you, if thirsty its the:.
the petition and arlidant itt support of it by Mende,'
- interval, to think at the pump or the ',nook. Both I moiohn,.
• ton& to make- you poor, weak, ill, and unhappy.—•i• °
!loth tend to multiply your cares, to give yen-a brood-t
4f putty childreto, to lower your spirit, to impoverish
our blood, and to shortett.youe days of-labour and
~ 1 life. 800 see the peopto•ave going to that Me-1
bodist -Meeting, and, as I suppose' you want to go-i
• oc.. !et us come-to a szttlererntses4

;lir. C.— Very sell, a bargain Is a bargain. But,
as it oas an error, which, if -it Isethwade against you
I should hare cot recteil4n your favour, so ought you
to correct it in my favour ;. aud, you will perceive,
that though the, prices nVoer produce have fallen
one-half, l have reduced your, price but one-third.
L.—l do not know, I'm sure, Sir, how that is;
I'm no scholar, worse luck' Mine.
Mr. C.—Very true; but that bread and bacon and
malt ore-only half the.. price that they used to be
ss bpi, you bad a shilling a rod ? You are scholar
enough for that ?
L.—Your son did; indeed, Irk, say Dd. a rod.
Mr. C.—Very well then ; here, take the 11. 2s. 6d.
I say it oughetobe.but one.pound. You, therefore,
in conscience, owe me 2s. 6d. and when you pay it
me, I will employ you again, and sot before.
L.--Good morning to you, Sir.

Mr. C.—Good morning to-yOu.
[To be continued•]

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Nov. 13. •'t• s.
VX-1".11TE SIR GREGORY PIA!

-The LORD CitAxcel.Lett sahl he had sten the.' Peti-
tioner in this•oese this morning, *Min his Loe.litrip's
-ophilott the•Cnmmission ought en he•supeise.dwi.
-The COrdillitSi9ll • Wai of comic ordered to .be

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superseded, and the costs of all parties to be paid
out.of the -funds in the hands of the Court ; Sir
Gregory .undertaking to abide by an Award to
be made, by which the creditors would not be de-
layed.