The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

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OP LAND IN CORNWALL.

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, On 'Neuter Iwo. pursuant to tte Pall of the Mg
Sheriff, in eonsplianee•with a litrialeitioa of the Yeo•
enmity. a Meeting of the Owners sod Occupiers of
Land 'in this County was held is Eadmin. The
btertiog was mimed for twelve **(lurk. bet it was
nearly ..se whom the Web Sheriff se-timpani—I by a
hombre of Geotlensee. rowed tee Hall oecupied by
the Nisi Prins Court, at the A .;tae. ober • A .-noosider-
aisle atomiser of the respeetable Yeomanry of the Comedy, ,
i great proportion of whom ocetyy their ems land,
II ye present.
Sir A. o,ltlonaswo0r1. OMIT. WIWI that Ise
Iligh Sherstf take the Chair. Tne 'motion was em
mooed by it. W. Wynne Pennaeves, Esq. The
paroles present hiving signified their assent by am
etsmirioo. Pavro • Howzr2i.. Esq. the High Sheriff.
read the Reirolsitloo, which had been presenteol to bias.
aid stated that the present Meeting wee couvened 'fee
Von purposes therein mentioned.
PIIIIIIALLOW Paws.. Cane forward to OS:
porno his thanks to the Requisitionists for the honest;
trey- bad done him,. in malting bins the medium of
ennveylog their wishes to the Sheriff; ant also to the
Sheaf for calling the nieeting ono_tbe keonisition •1
thi Tenatenre. who riabed fur ae ow:U(4ly of hetesi•
tag the opiniens of the Lea-imam respective their
dhirteseed eittation. •end of toying their complaints
heroes Parliament and preying for. Relief. As he sair,
•fie<reser so marlyGentle moo prese et who were far better
able to enlarges* this melancholy subject than he watt
he should not occupy the time of the Meeting further.
•at proceed so, read the Resolutions which he bad 10
propose. Mr. tams then read the first site Resole.
Alone. • -
Mr. (koala Stitmotcs, of St. Ernie, seconded the
resolutions proposed by his respected friend. He',
et:tod there as an independent. Yeoman. farming a
quantity, of land which was his own properly ; from I
his experience as • cultivator. hi could assure the II
Meeting, that for the last three years he had made no
rent, and if he had bad rest to pay, he must have!
paid it out otitis stock. He was satisfied that a great
'part of the tenantry of the kingdom were even now
,absolntely ruined; and if measures of relief seek as
'those pointed_ out in the Resolutions were not
adopted, and that by the Legislature. without de-,
'lay, not only the tenantry but the landlords would be
'ruined.
The Rev. Mr. WALESP. is an able "pewit. exposed i
the fetlac'y of those sbe attributed Agricultural die-
tress to a transition flora war to peace. too much pro-
duction, and an excess of ropulatioa, and showed that
Is was caused by a prolusions of expeoditere es the
part of the Government ;—estressive taxation ; the
• Loop a the currer.cy,—and ilie defective state of
the erstiosal representation.
. •Mr. TA: menus next addtsseed the meeting. eosi
. mei:stained that it is oot from p'retecting Cities. from
the specilatiwes of Mr. Webb* Hall. from the rope-
- 'Woos of Lord Smeller. or the loans of Lord Lon-
d,,n,lerry, that 'they could hope to derive either remedy
or relief. It is, said he, the aceamolated burden of
taxation. sea the oppressive operation of the tithe
s stein, that tend mainly to segment, if not wholly to
produce. the extremity of oar distress ; that has in-
volved us io penury and starvation, has brought as to
the brink of rain, and rendered this country, once so
happy. free and flourishing, an abode 6t only for the
. Minister of the State. and the Ministry of the. Go-
spel. Time worthy gentleman apologised to his
Reverend friends for introducing them to the meeting
in such company, het did not hesitate to pronounce
a system that was a tax upon iodustry to be the most
hanefut and oppressive. Having pointed out what ap-
peared to him to be the leading causes of their dip
tress, he proceeded to
. the only remedy. Though be did not expect the pe-
. . tition *Web had been proposed on this occasion would
inert any Setter reception than those which had pre-
ceded it. be still thought it their duty to petition, and
if their prayers were not aoswered, it would only add
another instance, to the many npon record, that the
, only effectual measure from which we tan hope to de-
rive either remedy or relief, is a Reform in the Repre-
sentation of the People.
Mr. J. C. RAS/Metall thee, in a long and eloquent
eretch, took a comprehensive view of the causes and
the remedy of the distress they experienced sod de-
plored. He confessed, that judging from the past,
they bai'very little cause to hope that their present
efforts could be &waded with more beneficial results
then those which followed their fernier exertions;
bat they came there that day to do their duty to their
c.oun:ry and to themselves, whatever time result might &
be'. When he looked back on thievents of the last
eight years, and eallsd to mind the boastings of the
" Pilots that weathered the storm;" their loud vaunts
of having brought the lof the State into_ the
harbour of a safe and bouourable peace, with her
• hull-uninjured and her timbers sound; and their tri
umphant declaration, that as the labour of the day
was ended. they might sit down to dinner, he was led
to ask if the f this was not the fact. In plate
• of bringing the Tinsel intobarbour, had they pot run
her amongst rocks and quicksands. where she was
• •in thntxer of perishing? When they were invited to
the banquet, they were not told what was the amount
of the reckoning they had to pay, and which, unhap-
pily. they now found they were wholly enable to dia.
Niarge.--(It is tol true !)—After peace was con-
„Aided, petitions had !seen presented to Parliament
it, V Meant might be resorted to, in order to secure
to she country the blessings by which peace was
logs Vy accompanied ; reduction in the punbe tepee-
. ditare • sufficient to allow of • diminution in the public
berthe• ss adequate to time necessities of the country;
bat th suglo these petitions were presented in
1915, it was only in the present year, 1892,
that the first attempts at reduction were made.
,Ministers cVe constantly in the habit of making the
,roost Which. statements of the situation of the coun-
try; mcordin t to them, no such thing as general
distress was or V
felt: for what they represeutrd as a
comparatively t, vial depression of commerce and ma-
nufactures, they wonsoled the public by a !WWII(
. representation of the iourisi.ing state of agriculture;
and now when ag, ficultere oda fast sinking alder the
weight of distress. V public wore consoled bi an as-
surance, that thins. h agriceltare was, to ,liciagra,
twofer a temporary cloud. the ion of prosperity alsone
brightly on the manufacturing sad commercial inter-
ests. it was thus that they endeavoured to delude

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and cajole thi naet.try.—(Applause.)--Bat the fee,
wee. that those who were beet able to form a entree
1 judgment of the ease, by so means confirmed these
tittering eereei 'nations. Mr. Raslileigh thee ad-;
verted in detail to the measures pursued by the pee-
sent Ministers, and especially to the maamovres of
Lord Londonderry. That mat, +aid Mr. R. to *bolo
the destinies of this country were is a reit RIPNIIIIIT
CUDIOllitAld, he meant Lord Londonderry, was certainly
1, env of the greatest masters of artifice that ever guided
she deliberations of a public body ; be could soothe or
holly ; would be jocular or grave as it suited his OP
pose. Bs- in whatever mood the Noble Lord might
ebance to he, 'whenever he (Ur. IL) heard him. It was
with feelings somewhat similar tit those with which
the natives of America hear the noise of the rattle-
soak,. When be tenoned the country with ao lase-,
rant iorpatinice of taxation. he was in his grave mood ;
wbea be reconimeaded the Sia Acts, as the only mess*
of saving the oonotry from reditioa. he was severe;
now be had become all Itiadness aed•courtesy ; he
loved the leaded interest and wet desirous to promote
thin. prosperity ; be bad giro them the boon of •
shilling a bushel en the elan duty. act bad granted
&Sampling, of the Hones of Commons to debate. on
Oa best multi irrelleviog the Agriculturists. with-
mot veducing•dst taxes.—(Applause.)—But is what-
!Mir' mood the Noble Lord might chaste Itsiti., he
sostiived to give the people good egoist* recollect it I
erten serions,he generally ended with proposing &penal
lawfand when pleasant.witb the layin g *nor& tos.—(Ap-
planse.) This same extraordinary statesman bad given it
as his opieloo.tbat the farinerpays no more than beat
6 per cent. in taxes, on the outgoings end iscomidgs
of his farm ; which taxes he estimated to amooot to
about 4 millions, In Great Benefit ; he also said, that
from the somber of bands It would have to peso
through Wore it reached the farmer, these 4 millions.
'if repealed, would not afford a relief equal to above 2
millions, 'which he regarded as too iosigsikoss to
afford any serious relief to the whole body. Dot whew
the proportion which the Agriculturists hors of tit
Income-tax was considered, the assertion that they
paid only 4 minima out of a taxation which amounted
to 53 millions, was too absurd to rewire rdatation.
Ministers bad latterly received the asslsian-its'of a vo-
lunteer advocate, is the Doke of Doritiothate, who
bad recently been raised is the Peerage and bad
joined the Administration. The Doke was the_
of the Oreaville Family, who were so liberally pea-
ttioned out of the taxes. His Grace gave a statement'
of the &Toast of taxes paid by st.fariner sod his la-
bourers, bat of a farm of 400 acres, half arable sod
half pasture laud. Tire amount paid by tbe farmer
was stated to be 33!.; that paid by his servants, W.—
The absurdity of this calculation was fully chews IS a
small mil cheap pamphlet, which they might boy fur
3 pence-it was Cobbett's letter to Farmer's wives.
Vise Duke had omitted to take into his accoUnx.tlis
tonna:nets mounted with sacla-a farm, sad bad malt 4
"--noes for Andres, fir which be (3111w114•40
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he bad omitted haymakers, harvesters. sm.
smiths. carpenters, owns. saddlers, imitate..
lees, butchers and paupers.—lle hadloesidliii oats.
many articles highly taxed, which farmers must emit'
sumo, besides deeds, bonds, leases, wil:s, receipts,
ipostagr. and nrieus other articles, all of which were
taxed.—Hut if the distress wu caused by cuess of
prodactios, and j( it was evident that by throwing the
less prodactive lands oat of cultivation, • great new
her of additional labourers would be thrown on the
pours' rates, which would aggravate the evil, the only
means of relief, on Ministers own showing, was a ree
diction of taxation, which would diminish the expense
of cultivation.—We are now. however. arrived, said
Mr. Ras:eigli, at a periei when the reason fur coati.
ening taxation to support an enormous expeditors.
was shamelessly avowed. It was avowed by Minis
I tars, that if they reduced useless others, they scald
not carry on the system of Government. Mr.
Rasleigh, then recapitulated the arguments and
the lists of the divisions oe Sir Matthew White
Ridley's, Lord Normanby's, and Mr. Calcraft's motions,
end chewed that ow the avowals of Ministers sad
their supporters. the people could not hope for -any
reduction of their berates.. but through a Reform is
the House of Commons.—(Hear, bear.)—:This troth
way clearly demonstrated, and the effects of the la-
fluent, of the Crown, which Ministers were so desir-
ess to uphold, placed is • light that could not be mi.-
taken: by the nature of the divisions that took plaid its
the House of Commons, on Lord Normasby'e mo-
tion for reducing one of th- Postmasters -General,
and Mr. Calcraft's motion for the gradual repeal
of the Salt-tax. lard Nornsanhy's motion was
negatived by a majority of 182 to .39. In this ma-
jority were 9 Cooney Member.. 18 Irish, and 2tl
Scoitch Members, and 52 Placental. In the minority
were, 36 County Members, 7 Irish, and 5 Scotch
Mather's. -Se that had the que.sioe depended on
the opinion of the County Members a Reefed:lt
would have been carried by a majority of 4to I.
(Applause.) Mr. Caleraft's motion far the grldual
repeal of the Salt-tax was negatived by a mojurity of
169 fos 165. in the majority were 12 County Mem-
bPoltasc.e_tuFenro.
ot leis thei wantsiongidoriteyn‘wteheaet.
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oppressive Salt-tax would have been repealed, by a
eimjority of 4 to I, bad the qaestios depended on the
Collo,. Members of England;—(Great Applanse)—
awl that in both cases, the number of the Conley
Members who voted was exceeded by that of the Place-
' men.—(Hear, hear.) Thus were the feelings end opi-
Woes of the Representatives of the Freeholders of
Rrtgland ore: boine by the votes 4 the holders of
places under Government—(Slianse, sname!)—Was
any furaser proof necessary of the manner of which
the Influence of Liurernosent operated; or of the mo-
tives which induced Ministers to struggle so hard to
retain it?—(No, nu) He treated it was fully evident,
that the ilistcesses of the Agriculturists con.d only be
relieved- by ts.reduction of taxation ; and that such •
reduction con'd only be obtained through the nudism
of • Reforu.ed House of Conamons.—(Apolause.) Oa
three grounds he, should support the Rua's:lons. Mr.
Rashleigh sat down amidst the plaudits of the Mectiug.
The first nine resolutions were then put by the Sheafi
and carried unauiusonsly.. The ninth. which is the may
one for whiCh we have rout, is as follows :
That the lavish espenditure of Goverament; the re-
'tension of a great, .sonecusary, sod, therefore, nacos-
stirstional sailitarrestabliskment, is • time of peace ;
the continuance of useless °Goes; the granting of en-
meshed Fusions, aid the imposition of au esormons

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