The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-12 00:00:00

STRICTURES,

Whether recent or of long duration, and which have hnffi, d the
still of outer practitioners, nee, A 3 their present impeovcd plan
of treatment. effectually and
.permanently cured, without the
patient suffering the excruciating pain and alarming beniorrhage;
which frequently fallen. the ay ficntion of the lunar
In the course of 20 years extensive pra. lire in ihii. metropolis,
numerous eases of strictures have been and are dna) under their
care, the total eradication of which is effected by a safe, cer-
tain, and expeditious mode of practice, superior to any other
yet adopted. The weakness. relaxations, nail debility proeeeds
mg from Ibis complaint, is specrldv removed, and the patient
restored to sound and 'vigorous health. But w here the dehllity
has for 3e:sr's existed, n proper persiiverance in their restorative
remediesinfter the stricture has been destroyed. is indispensably
requisite to revive the slumbering sparks of like, and to reani-
mate the constitution.
Several Noblemeaand Gentlemen of the first respectability
have been under the care of Mawr.. Currie and co. fur the re.
Royal of emirplaigoti of (he urethra. stri, Sores, &c. s end having
received a radical and permanent rare, request that references
may be made to them. as satisfactory evidences of the derisive
busmen), ity of Messrs. Come nod Co.'s plan of treatment. Many
of these Gentlemen have had strictures (rum 10 to 20 veto's, Ha
had been under the care of Messrs. Home, Ileavisides, and other
Surgeons of equal eminence, who attempted Ike cure by Ike ap-
plication of the lunar caustic, without seams.
Messrs. Currie and Co. may be consulted by either sex, with
the greatest delicacy, secrecy, and honour, at their house, Nth
107, Hatton garden.
Patients io the gauntry are requested to state the patriotism
of their case, axe, nail general habit of living, &e. &c. Mrbwi g
a remittance for advice an medicines, when the WOW ill be
given fluent to env part ofdthe klogdorn. Ti' ensure oat sece
so essential In their undertaking. the postage of letters may lie
added to the account for wedttian.7-1411 Jowl, Itaser-1107,
Houtorgaidra.
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CURSORY '" , ment, the rowth of wh, but would
onsinrATIONS ON THE C611:If LAPPS, ; neveaugr prevent the internalimportation ofeat a single quay.
SUBRITTED To TILE CONSIDERATION or ONAk ITIDISIIIIS or ter. The event has justified the prediction : from •
TUE WORKINGTON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1814. i 1800 to 1813, the average rate of wheat has been,
BY THE PRESIDENT. I for the thirteen years, within a fraction of 89s. the
—am.— i quarter.
The discussions width have recently taken place ; The delay adopted by Parliament was highly ex-
in Parliament on the Corn Laws, and the measures pediente Time was thereby given for instituting
likely to result from the enquiries instituted by the i enquiries into every branch of this momentous con-
two branches of the Legislatures deeply Interest every cern, on which the prosperity Of the empire so
friend to agriculture. greatly depends. It were better the farmer should
I feel myselfcalled on, in discharge of my duty to stiffer for a season, than have received redress at a
the Society, to submit the opinions I have formed on i Moment when the justice of his claims and the gene.
thasubject to their consideration ; I have also a per. ;sal interests of the empire were so imperfectly no.
, sonal interest in correcting a misconception if the derstood. The observations I shall take the liberty
'Alight **pourable George Rose, in adducing me as .of submitting to the Society will comprise two
lauthority for stating the rents of Great Britain to ' points:
Ibi exorbitant. It is iucumbent on me, likewise, ! First, Will an encouragement of importation of
to explain the reasons which induced use to abstain foreign grain contribute to a cheaper supply of Tic-
from calling a Meeting of the Society in the last teal to the community ?
year, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for I Secondly, If expedient for the general interests
SA alteration of the law respecting the importation •of the empire to discourage importation, and pro-
' of grain. i mote the growth of grain in the United Empire, at
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he he passage on which Mr. Rose grounded his what price can it be grown so as to procure such a
statement on my opinion in the House of Com. ' supply as would prevent any considerable fluctuation
mons, rests on a paragraph in the Report of 1811, of prices I
page 8l : 1 To sanction importation, a case must be clearly
'l' lhe exorbitant rents which have been giveo f r lard do not t made out, showing that the consumer is to be mate.
appear to we warranted, whilst the coml.:Iwo remain ..s they rially benefited, not in one, but a number of years.
are, lYr o this point, the evidence given before the Com-
, benSadi zetsloolitee Shillings;
ssrreiiltynto ltihiwe rate
,nnd uauett which
highly;it7b"ellin'l may T
, and w. bounty till wheat rencises a Hundred." 1 mittees of the two Houses of Parliament, is most
I There is nothing preceding or subsequent to this , material. In what relates to the Baltic trade espe.
! observation on exhorbitant rents, to extend it to the daily, it is proved by Isaac Sully, Esq. " that the
kingdom at large. Considering the report as par. ' ground is cultivated in Poland without reference to
porting to treat (generally speaking) of a particular lany relation the expense of cultivation bears to the
district, it was scarcely consistent with the acknow. I price at which the produce is to be sold." The
ledged acuteness of the Right Honourable Gentle. t merchants have the price generally of their own
man, or perfectly candid towards me, to give such i making. When the prospect of a bad harvest in
as extension to my opinion on a subject not within i England holds out hopes of an advantageous specu.
the sphere of my observation. f lation, the anxiety of the buyers induces them, in
I have repeatedly reprobated, as detrimental to, order to obtain greater quantities, to hold out better
the interest, both of landlord and tenant, the modes : terms ; hence it is clear, that the price depends on
practised for obtaining these exorbitant rents ; !our wants. Such a supply must be subject to great
mean, letting by ticket and public bidding. 10.1 fluctuations; and furnishes an argument against int-
' stances are numerous, where men of judgment have I portation, and its favour of an internal growth of
4 been betrayed into- offering rents, ss hick in their grain.
cooler moments they would not have done. Many I From France, at this moment, a cheaper supply
adventurers have, by these means, been introdnhed , might probably be obtained. Still, however, the
into the farms of men of capital and experience. It seller will be guided by the state of our own mar.
was not difficult to foresee the consequences that i kets. The cheapness of provisions in France arises
' were likely to ensue. A very useful lesion, though I out of past tyranny. Security of property, with
somewhat too costly, was taught the proprietors who mild and equitable laws, will speedily revive com-
bed recourse to these unwise acid ungenerous modes merce and diffuse plenty. Privations produce the
of letting their estates. Had Mr. nose favoured me present surplus. Ireland, for example, exports
with an opportunity of explaining myself, I should eight millions of agricultural produce, and supports
I 1 inive told him, that incapable as I was to pronounce • a population of five millions. The solution of this
on the general stale of rents in the kingdom, I was is, the people in general being fed with a cheaper
strongly disposed to believe from analogy, that so food than corn. The first symptom of the ameliora.
far from the rents being exorbitant, two-thirds of tion of that glorious country, will be a decrease in
the estates in the kingdom were let greittly below the export of victual. The same reasoning Is appli.
their valve. i cable to France.
to depend on it, would not last usFraace. Our supply from thence, if we were
! In support of this opinion, I should have adduced weak enough
, the superior state of cultivation itt Scotland, as ' long.
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well as the circumstance of the rents being higher.— The first cost of grain in America, and the ex-
To what are we in attribute this? In my view, there ,pence and risk of bringing flour, will afford no aid
lis but one mode of accounting for it. I conceive it i from that quarter, but in the event of high prices.
to be a consequence resulting from the prevailing 1 On the probable cost of imported grain, there is a
I system of granting leases on a fair and liberal dura. contrariety of sentiment. .
tion; and although exemption from tithes and poor I On a review of the proceedings which have taken
place, it is impossible to disguise how much is to
rates may be a consideration as to the quantum of !
rent, it can in nowise be applicable to the widely :be regretted, that an attempt should have bees
diffused spirit universal in Scotland. In confirma. I made to legislate on so important a subject with
lion of the effects produced by leaves, I would fur.isuch blameable precipitancy, and at the same time
they refer to the counties in England where the hest ' so totally unprovided with the requisite information :
I husbandry prevails. T much of the alarm excited is imputable' to this
the farmers are protect. I
(ed and encouraged by leases. High rents presup. I cause.
I pose an improved system of agriculture, and a con. ! So far from sanctioning, I should have deeply la.
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sidentble expenditure of capital. Absence of skill, I merited to have seen the proposition carried for fixing
and want of means, may render much of the land in ; the standard of importation at 105 s. the quarter. I
the kingdom dear at ball its value. I firmly believe it would ultimately have proved inju.
If correct in attributing the stimulus of good hes. 1 rioos to the landed interest, as well as oppressive to
bandry to leases, what proportion of the kingdom is. the community at large. The price of victual may
so held ? Are two-thirds of the lands occupied by not have an immediate operation on the rate of the
tenants at will? I am, inclined to suppose a still manufacturer's labour ; so long, at least, as it is in
greater proportion. Be the amount what it may, if the power of the individual to command a full sup.
what I do not know may be judged of by what I ply of nec,asseries by a closer attention to work, or
do, I risk nothing in deciding the majority of the even by the devotion of a few additional hours.
land in England to be let below its worth, if occu. This, however, cannot hold good in what requires
pled under leases, and by tenants of capital. great bodily exertion, or with those employed in
My inducement for not calling a special meeting agriculture ; the price of provisions must ultimately
of the society to petition Parliament, procee affect the priceof labour. ,By the laws of England,
ded
the soil is primarily bound to support all who cannot
from a belief, that every step taken by the friends
of agriculture, injured, rather than promoted its in. labour, or are unable to procure employment. Ad_
mitting we could no longer employ the surplus of
terests. The irritation of the public mind disqualified
it from forming a fair judgment on the subject. Tinge our population in manufacturing for foreign mar-
kets, the land must maintain them. Little would,
and forbearance seemed the most probable means for
obtaining a dispassionate examination into the merits in such case, be gained by fixing grain at so high a
of the question. Want of respect for the Members price-
of the Society, or of zeal in whatever relates to agri. , To a certain point, the interests of the manufac.
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culture, cannot, I trust, be imputed to me by any tearer and of the landed proprietor are the same.—
one, much less by them.
, When one flourishes the other is prosperous. In the
' Of the numerous allegations contained in the
event of a failure in trade, the manufacturer may
countless petitions to, Parliament against an altera-
withdraw with his capital ; not so the landed pro-
, lion of the rate at which import of grain should be P
rietor, he is bound to the stake, and must abide
' permitted, not one of the millions of petitioners have
the consequences. If experiments were to be made,
been found able or willing, to substantiate a single
those who complain are not the persons who might
fact set forth. The alarm and prognostics of the be the greatest sufferers.
manufacturers on a former occasion, have proved so It is true, it does not absolutely follow as a neces-
wholly uaounded, that a more grave and careful
sary consequence that the price of grain should he
examination of the subject might have been expected governed by the standard at which importation is
fixed. It seems, however, not unfair to infer, that
from them. it would not be much below it.
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I enter fully into the feelings of those who con..
rowers of grain, that it ought, if intended to afford , tend for having grain, the primary necessary of life,
Mem security, to have been fixed at 7os. In the exempt from the restrictions imposed on other articles
succeeding Session, Sir Robert l'eele presented a of commerce; making the sureties
of one country
petition from Lancashire, said to be signed by 40,000 available to the wants of another. The theory IN
the repeal of the rate of import, , captivating; but a little attention to the subject is
and persons,
alleging p ra ytittlieg
ruinous consequences likely to re- sufficient to convince us, that what at first appears
, suit from it. In reply it was urged, by in self, li it. the general benefit of inattLittd, would pros de.
i amongst others) that the alteration might possibly I structive to numbers.