The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

LEWIS V. WALTSR.

The Souctroaozsrasat. obtained a Rule to shew
cause why a new trial should not be granted. it will
be recollected this was an action tried at the sittings
after last Term. The defendant is proprietor M." The
Times" newspaper, and the action was to recover com-
pensation in damages fur an alleged libel. stated to
have been published in a report of a speech of Mr.
Serjeant Oxszow's, at the Kingston Assizes, in
which a want of fairness and integrity. in the exer-
cise of his profession of an Attorney was imputed to
the plaintiff. A verdict was found for defendant.
The COURT afterwards proceeded to dispose of cases'
in the peremptory paper.
By an extraordinary conveyance, letters were re-
ceived yesterday from Madrid, dated the 14th inst.
They confirm the important intelligence of the sub-
mission of the whole of Andalusia to the Government.
That of Seville was announced in the French papers
of Wednesday last, anti the submission of Cadiz was
communicated to the Cortes in their Sitting of the 14th,
in a despatch signed by Jauregui hitt.self. He had
resigned his command Into the bands of General Ro-
marate. whom the Government bad appointed to sewed
him, declaring at the same time that be would have
done so sooner, had he not feared to compromise the
tranquillity of the province. It is remarkable, that
the sabmission of Cadiz took place before the intelli-
gence of the resignation of the Ministry at Madrid had
reached that city. The party of agitators. who had
proclaimed disobedience to the 0 went, is now
ascertained to have been very small, and it is the ge-
neral sentiment of the people, tired by the excesses
daily committed, which has forced them to the only
alternative—that of obeying.
A letter from Hamburg received en Saturday user
Cons, that in consequence of the want of snow, the in-
tercourse of St. Petersburg with the 'lnterior is, for
the most part. impeded, and that, in consequence,
many of the Provinces of Russia are in want of rain.
Quer.; may not the want of mow bare also occasioned
the wait of ammunition on the basks of the Ptah,
• sad • want of decision in the Russian Emperor'. mind
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Itew6;;dl-; wb eh ;leiZl colony be in a
state of extreme distress. Among the lower orders, it is
said, there are few able to support themselves; sod the
members of the opulent part of the community are so
small that relief was impracticable. Many, it was feared,
must perish for want. Meetings of the inhabitants hail
been held, for the purpose of raising subscriptions, and
the Governor Lad intimated to them that a sum equal to
the whole raised by the colonists would be contributed
by the Government. Memorials have been sent to Eng-
land to claim the interposition of the Legislature. The
advice, are to the 6th onstaat, the vessel which brought
them to Liverpool having performed the voyage in the
short period of 17 days.
A letter from Captain Watson, of the Lord Cathcart,
dated Valparaiso, Oct. Y. states his having been again
detained, is consequence of despatches received from
Lord Cod' Mt&
Tea A ustv.—A detachment of shout 80 me. of the
Royal Dragoons marched from Radipole barracks to
Warminster and Frew on the 24th instant, where they
were expected to arrive on Saturday last.
Among the reductions in contemplation by Ministers.
it is said the office of Comptroller of the Preventive
Water-guard for the Suppression of Smuggling will be
abolished, and the business of the office divided between
the Custom House and the Board of Admiralty. The
former, it is added, will have the arrangement and sta-
tions of the boats, sitters, and boats' crew ; while the
latter will have the appointment of the officers, which
consist of Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants of
the Royal Navy, the patronage of whose nomination
is in the Treasury.
Preparations are making at the Pavilion at Brighton
for a grand ball to-morrow, is honour of his Majesty's
accession to the l brow. His Revd Highness the
Duke of York is expected to he present, with a large
circle of Nobility and Gentry. The King will coma
to town merely for the purpose of *inning the Podia- I
went in person ; after which he will return to Bright"
where he will remain until after Raster.

The Duke of Sussex, during his late visit to Nor-
wich, slept at the Palace of the Bishop of that Diocese.
In the report of the meeting at Huntingdon, there
appear, Mr. Cobbett sap, to be many things which be
uttered, and which be therefore disavows. He
is made to talk of that as "a lovely country," and to
put Mr. Dickenson in Sasses, and to impute to him
what he really did not say, even in Somersetshire.
Mr. Rennie, on Friday, commenced a course of Phi-
losophical Lectures, at the Russell Institution, where
he was attended by a numerous and select audience,
who appeared highly gratified by the intellectual treat
that he bad provided for them. The lecture being
an introductory one, Mr. Rennie, in a very masterly
style, reviewed the present state of the sciences, ani-
madverting with considerable force and felicity on the
mode now in use in scientific ises of culling the
Lexicon for a Nomenclature, of terms of art, which,
instead of disseminating knowledge to the world, ren-
ders it unintelligible to any but the pedant and the
blue stocking; applying these observations particu-
larly to Zoology, Botany and Rotyroology. The Lec-
turer, to relieve the occasional dryness of his subject,
interspersed it with many amusing and instructive
anecdotes. His favourite writer appears to be Lord
Baton, on whose learning' and philosophy lie passed a
well-finished eologions. The Lecture-room was
crowded to excess.

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.

The third Sussex district Meeting of Nobility,
Clergy, and other Owners and Occupiers of Land. con-
vened by public advertisement, for the pupal of
taking into consideration the agricultural distress cf
the country, and to consult on the propriety of peti-
tioning Parliament for relief, was hell at ►he White
Horse Inn, at Stovning, on Friday last, for the Rape
of Rrarnber. The meeting was highly respectable,
and the company assembled about half-past twelve, when
Sir CHARLES BURRELL observed, that he thought
the Member for the county present, was the most pro-
per person to preside. Ile accordingly moved "That
Mr. IValter Burrell be requested to take the Chair;
and the proposition was carried, with the greatest ap-
planse.
Mr. W. BURRELL complied with the wish of the
meeting; and after reading the advertisement by
which it was convened, said, that it was not for him as
Chairman, to point out what measures should be pug
sued to obtain the desired relief; but. be coeld assure
them, he felt as much as any man for the unexampled
distreseet of the great body of the agricultn. ists. He
hoped that Owners or Occupiers of Land in the Rape
of Breather would state their opinions upon a subject
of such eitel importaice to their interests.
The Rev. J. O. CUALLIN then rose, ■nd stated that
be presented himself to the meeting with much diffi-
dence, as there were, is that room, many gentlemen,
much more competent to the task lie had undertaken,
than himself. On that occasion, however, no one
could have much to say, as agricultural distress was
nal rersally acknowledged. It was not•only felt by
the farmer, bet by the labourer and the mechanic.
The Legislature bad also acknowledged it, but had
pointed to ■o redress. except time and patience;
which meant littlest's, in his opinion, but that they
must all come to ruin. He was no politician. bet be
could not see why the same protection should not be
extended to agriculture which manufactures and trade
enjoyed. The Rev. gentleman concluied by moving
the first resolution. which contained the Petition to
Parliament, as follows:

The bumble Petition of the undersigned Clergy. Owners
and Occupiers of Land, in the once prosperous Rape
of Bramber. a district embracing a Sixth Part of the
County of Sussex,
S ,—That many of your Petitioners have com-
pletely reached, and others are fast approaching to, that
state of penury and ruin, foretold by the Agriculturists
in their g I petition. presented to your Hou. House
in the last Session of Parliament.
That -uch distress is consequent on the great depre.
elation of all agricultural produce.
That this proposition was fully proved before a select
Committee, appointed by your *Hon. House to esquire
into the truth of the allegations contained in the raid
position. and that such Committee have acknowledged
in their Report the justice of your petitioner's claim for
relief.
That strange u it may appear. no redress has as yet
Web afforded to your petitioners, except the recommend-
able of time and patience.
4.-That your petitioners are fully convinced, that tbese
remedies will not alone answer their prescribed ends, but
Blast inevitably plunge them into greater distresses and
More general ruin.
net the labourers asd iseebasica dependent upon
_ retitloners for their 'Mowery fiseptel are pwr-

laav bruommteeturewf fonsiitltionerintter
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inability to find theta adequate employment, and that
inch distress is not limited to them, and the owners and
occupiers of the soil, but has a comparatively Injurious
effect 'upon the internal trade of the conntrc, as almost
all shopkeepers can testify by the diminution of their
reedipts. !• '!

Tliat your petitioners submit to the justice of your
lion. House, the expediency of extending to the agri-
cultural interest, an equal share of legislative protection
against foreign agriculturists, (who contribute nothing
to the exigencies of this country) compared with that
which has been granted with equal wisdom and liber-
ality, to the mercantile, manufacturing, and shipping
interests of the united kingdom; and to which the com-
parative excess of borthens borne by the landed interests
fully and equitably entitle them to lay claim.
That your, petitioners strenuously urge to the consi-
deration of your Hon. House, that their embarrassments
are seriously augmented by an impolitic and premature
attempt to return to cash payments, under the enact-
ments of Mr. Peel's bill, previous to any endeavour to
liquidate even a part of the national debt, In a currency
of similar value to that wherein it was contracted, by
which means the pressure of all money contracts, and of
parliamentary and parochial taxation, has been greatly
enhanced, whilst the means of payment on the part of
the farmer have been greatly reduced, which is fatally
shown by the sudden reduction of all agricultural pro-
perty.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your
Bea. House will forthwith take their present emba
M 1 state into your most serious consideration, and will
adept such measures for the immediate relief of your
petitioners, as shall enable them to discharge their !Aw-
ful obligations to the state, and to the national creditor,
and as shall restore the agriculture of this country to
web a state of pristine vigour as may prove beneficial
to the community at large.
Sir CHAR Lts BURRELL said the moderation of the
petition which had jest been read, he was convinced
mast satisfy all who had heard it. I t was not neces-
sary for him to say much upon the oceasien which
had brought them together ; but as a Member fur the
Rape ofilimmber, he considered himself peculiarly in-
Isios=He knew, that as much had been done for
shy at large as human laws were capable
of doing ; but be did wish that every advantage
should be extended to the Agricultural Interest that
'lre
that could be consistently granted with a due re-
gard to the welfare of the other el . f the people.
Some of the evils which existed, were certainly not
owing to the errors of government, but to a sudden
change from war to peace. War caused an uanaturAl
deraaad for supplies, and consequently, au increase in
their prices ; and inclosure bills had so multiplied
withia these few years that as immense number of ex-
tra acres had been taken into cultivation. The indi-
viduals who had invested their capitals in that man-
ner bad a fair and just claim upon parliament, to take
their distresses into immediate consideration. The
country also had considerably beuefitted by their ex
I anions, for at no one time had six weeks consuinp-
tion of foreign corn been brought into this kingdom ;
and bad it not bees, therefore, for an increased cattle&
tion, starvation must have ensued. He firmly believed,
that in addition to the burtheos which the long
war had entailed, much of the dist • now felt
was attributable to the measure which had been
adopted for lowering the currency ; for in proper-
Cu tle lessening of the circulating medium, had
the mein of payment been lessened, while the 'me-
lees. of the State were stationary. During the war


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e Funds were as I.was IS and 49; now, n ly
bad their price greatly inrrensed. hut a 2.re ,t inrrea. •
had also taken place in the value downer. f h.;e who
had the misfortune to he morteagees, peculiarly felt
this evil, as great difficulty must he felt in pas ;us; in-
terest. He consider that to Mr. Peel's Hill ni inv
of the difficulties which now exist were attribatable—
for the Bank of Er eland haul endeavoured to meet
tlitif issues. and hat nor from II to 15 thillions of
gold in their possession. n hich they haul no p siibility
of getting into circu'ation ' The great ilk-A:Pion of
gold from the chanties of commerce was not only felt
here, bat foreign countries were also embaraseed by
the diminution of the eirenlatirg medium. The Bank,
anxious to remedy this evil, if possible, had offered to
send free of °teasee sums of polil to the amount of
3,0001. to country u unkers, hot they could not find the
means to purchase it. He had heard of af. c relative to
gold, which o tarred at Chichester and which he would
mention to the meeting. A person there took 34
eoverelens, and II of them. though of the proper
weight, were not north more titan ss. each, being'
made principally of platina. This might be disco-
vered by ringing them. is hich the person in question
bad failed to do. Sir Charles concluded by observing
that, the resolutions were such as he thought every
centleman who beard them mist approve uf. The
evils had been partly occasioned by souse Acti of Per-
lament which in theory were certainly good, .but in
practice evidently had ; and this being the coat, it was
necessary to retrace the sieps which led to them. lie
hoped the meeting would be unanimous in its prom&
jogs, and returned thanks for the paticoce with which
be had been beard.
J. M. LLOYD, Esq. M.P. said he came there wid
political view, bat merely to meet his fellow-eufferert,
He thought the Petition should only state the dies
greases which were felt, and leave the remedy to Par-
liament. He would be sorry that the unanimity of
the meeting should be interrupted, bat he did not
think any good would result from this or soy other
district petition. He should, however, hare great
hopes of a county petition placed in the hands of his
lion. Friend, the Chairman. As long as the question
was contemplated by those at the bead of llo►eromeat,
not as Moister*, but as Members of Parliament only.
no benefit would arise, as the commercial interest pre-
ponderated too much in the house ; but he was persuaded
if a County Petition was presented, it would meet the
attention it deserved. He meant to speak with respect
of the Peers; but it so happened, that almost every Peer
in this county, (and they were men whose talents and
virtues threw lustre on their rank) had approved of the
measures of Ministers. Ministers then owed them some-
thing, and if they would attach their names to a County
Petition, be was convinced it would be attended with
success. He had anticipated the result of the Agricul-
tural Committee in the House of Commons—the report
was evidently framed by the friends of Ministers. •
Though he felt so anxious for a County Meeting, yet he
would exert himself to the utmost of his abilities to fur-
ther the object of this.
Sir C. HUMUS. said a county requisition was not the
object of that Meeting, which-way, as the adveetieement
stated, to prepare a petition from the Rape of Bramble
to Parliament. • The geographical situation of Sussex
preelded the bolding a meetlnglitb advantage so is
to collect the sentiments of the whole county.' if Ti
were held at Lewes, for instance, the resolutions passed
would be the resolutions of that town, or at most of the
Rape of Lewes. Besides, the question had been dis-
cussed at a Meeting held at Lewes, a short time since,
at which the Earl of Egremont prisided, and the op.-
nions of those present were its favour of District Meetings.

After a few words from Col. LLOYD, the first resolution
was put, and carried unanimously, as were the succeed-
ing ones relative to the presentation of the petition, &c.

Thanks were then voted to the Ch.iinnan, and the
Meeting dissolved soon after three o'clock.
The Dinner after the Meeting was most respectably,
bat not numerously, attended. J. Dennett, Esq. pre-
sided, and the remainder of the day was pleasantly spent
in desultory conversation on the subject they had met
upon.-(Susses Advertiser.)