The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

ftoru this ts,thnt there must be ediminutioo of our circa.
sting medium taken as a whole, or that the gold will
leave the country, in order to go to those nation where
it hears a higher price.—Soelo are the reasons on which
found try opinion. I offer them to men of sound un-
derstandings Wand to me by no tie other than that of a
semi wish to arrive at the troth. Then opinions I
bare often stated. I bate frequently seen writers and
speakers having a wish to cootrool them and to chew
their fshlacv, but, uith all the desire that a man can pos.
Ins not to deceive himself, and with all possible patience
in esrmining those attempts at refetation, I have never yet
iwyn able to chsemer any thing to make me doubt of the
e..rrettness of the conclusion which I have just had the
',moue to submit to you. If, then, this conclusion be
(orris! ; if the trrutity of circulating medium, as a
*twin, be diminished, prices must fall; and it it not very
etal, to say, not very easy to mark out, either their pro-
ves, or the point of depression at which they will rest.
What, thee, must be the lot of the farmer who shall
enutinte to bold a farm on en expectation of a rise of
prices? Is it consikle (with all the present taxes exist-
ing) for any 110411 to pay any rent at all out of the pro-
duce of any farm in the kingdom? The present rents
are, however, three times as great upon an average as
they were in the year 1790, and, leaving and rates
out of the question, ran a man, with prices lower than
those nf 1790, possibly pay rent three times as high es
in 1790 Gentlemen, one ground of the false hopes of
the tamers, is this, that the landlords do not seem to
see any very great and immediate danger. Now, Ido
not scope landlords of roguishness; I do not accuse
them of a settled design to beggar their tenants, but
they have false hopes, too, and this I should tell them if
they were present Instead of those who were probably
far the greater part, tenants. 1 should tell them that
tho v have been deceived and been deluded ; and this I
should have a right to tell them, seeing that the whole
nation would be ready to acknowledge that, at any
rate, my opinion in worth as much esthetes. I should have
right to say to them, that having experience as a sanc-
tion for so many opinions °flay own, mle opinions are now
noted to attention. When I say this, however. I call
air', perfect sincerity add that I say it in order to
strengthen that which I deem serviceable to my country,
and I say it Dot with any view of taking particular merit
to myself.---111entlemen, the landlords, who, like all
ether men, are iodoeuced more or less by their interests,
cow say to the desponding termini, " go on : pay what
"you are." This is very well; but you will observe, gen-
tlemen, that paying what you coals paying your alit
Vie landlord bays, " go on: tee shall see whether times
"sill mend." The tenant goesou,bet be get. sereceipt
IP furl ; he ens to lease fang into thetire ; its goes on,

pm in: sr hat he ern; pound after pound is drawn from I
him : and, when the landlord sees, that he ea* give him
whin more in the shape of gagreseet, he comes with a
distraint and scam down arse him his wife and his
children, like a kite upon a brood of helpless chickens in
his yard !---Gentiornen, I wish this were a eight of
fle.:y. Thousands upon thouswels of examples of the
real literal truth of it are now to be seen in this once
happy eutintry.-11 is raid that experience makes foot
wise ; snd it is, probably, because rumen are in plural
sot fools, that experience has not made them wise. We
heard enough of the aumrarry of some landlords;
of their tallies their beasts together; redecieg their
rents as it is called, wheelie have proceeded puffs for the
• u :papers. We have heard of their pompous declarations
about sitihing or swimming with their tenant,. One, mere
goripous that the rest; boa mods a sort of public ma-
*Uinta, deseribjeg the csairecties between him and his
tenants as brims like that between the *entail link* of a
drubs Ire are all," said hr. "links of the same
" chain; if WO link break, the dais is destroyed. aid
all the bogs of our happy state of society we at
"an end." ileetlemee, this is a ernes of rhetoric, as
they call it, and figures of rhetorie see of much too
Enssy a tezisre for men to rely on is ease. of pecuniary
compacts; and it eircordingly so hoppers% that this Oen-
glossa of the chain" has lately, in spite of his def-
tness of indissoloble conneciint, knocked iris finks out
of the chain by coming with the ibompings of a dim•
traint upon six of his tenants (in Emu.) Be, the►efore,
gentlemen, upon yowl guard. If you most quit the
lard, quit it with worthies in your pockets ; bat at
may rate, those w%o sow eontinse to give away their ca-
pital till they have none left, will hare nobody to thank
Ist themeelvita.—Gentlemen, ose of the grounds of the
false hopes to which I have alluded, is, that the "Go-
' " wanness meet do something." There is no met in
the case ; the word is can, mad the question is, "can the
"Government do any thing to raise prices?" The Go-
vernment, though very stews; though it can stop the
circulation of pamphlets; though it can pass laws to
regulate the s:se. of the paper upon which pamphlets
are to be printed, describing with a►xinus minuteness
the length and width of each sheet; Omagh it can
ix the number of sheets; anal the exact price of
the pamphlet to • farthing; though it can do these
things, and though it can watch over the well-being of
xild animals with such care as to prevent an unneces-
sary assault upon • partridge or disturbance of a hare,
though it can do these things, it has not the power to
raise the price of a South-Down Ewe, nor to preserve
the farmer anal Li* family from pauperism ; that is to
ass, unless it adopt those very measnrea which it has
persecuted me for having so long recommended. What
are the teal views of the Government at present, we
may probably gather from the opinions lately exp d
at Liverpool by the new Minister Mr. CANNINIII.
Loaning is a very clever man ; he is a great deal better
taiker than 1 am. Certain as I am that I have truth
and reason on my side, I should be very sorry to see
hint here ready to get upon this table to answer me;
for he can outtalk sue all to nothing. But clever as Mr.
tainixo is, be is nut clever enough to get the Govern-
ment out of the scrape into which he has mainly assist-
ed to get it. The remedy which Mr. CANNING has
is patience, and patience alone. Patience is a very good
remedy, when a mere attendance upon time will effect
the cure. lie seems to have thought that this was the
nature of your situation ; and here is the foundation of
his error. When the evil is temporary, patience may be
the remedy ; for the effects of bad seasons, such as would
predict a short crop of hops at Farnham, for instance, pa.
tience would be the remedy and the only remedy. As evil
like that of a sore leg, or any other ailment, in the cure of
which time is the principal doctor. we may reasonably
:repeal to men's patience. But in this CAW, there is a cause,
regularly at work to make the situation of the farmer
end of all connected with the land, worse and worse