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

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catching it ourselves, whereby they ran away with
millions of our money, whilst we began to boirosi
on the national account to supply them. It would
overrun the boundaries of your Paper, Were we to
introduce historical records to move the immense be-
nefits derivable from our fisheries ; but without Show ing
how far the revenue may be benefited, it is enough at
this alarming crisis, if we show how fir the population
of the country may be employed, and especially the
idle poor, and disbanded army and navy, who if
they have not employment, must necessarily contem-
plate mischief. Supposing ourselves to have (as Sir
WALTLIT RALEIGH, in the time of J AhlEti 1., has de-
Scribed the Dutch to have) twenty thousand different
fishing ships, these ships averaging a crew of ten per-
sons each, would gite employment en board to two
hundred thousand mariners. But if we only make
a calculation upon the number of ships in his time
employed on our own coasts, that is to say, the eight
thousand above alluded to, the netting alone of that
fleet would employ, according to his estimate, du-
ring one-third of the year, more than all the present
aggregated number of poor in England and Wales,
who now receive parochial relief.
With respect to the waste lands of the kingdom,
which might be so usefully employed, why should
not the principle of the Roman Agrarian Law be
adopted by our Ministers, and the poor be made use-
ful members of the State, instead of existing as they
do now, a most intolerable burden to it ? In truth,
attention must be paid to the unexampled perplexity
of the people in all classes, and particularly to the
situation of the farmers and agriculturalists, who, if
they are not relieved, must discontinue tillage, and
want of bread, as well as want of money, may be
the next universal cry of the country.
Wen I reflect upon the condition of this nation
previous to the war of 1793, and consider the vari-
ous artifices that have been since adopted, and the
ingenuity that has been displayed, to swell the Na-
tional Dabt to nine or ten hundred millions, and at
the same time to obscure the understandings of a cre-
dulous people, and deceive them with expectations
of beholding future prosperity, aggrandisement, and
wealth, it reminds me of an old story, which I shall
relate by was of conclusion to this letter. A physi-
cian once undertook the Cure of a woman who had
sore eyes, upon the terms of " no cure no pay ;"
accordingly, every time he attended his patient, he
closed her eyes up w:th unguents, and while she was
in that condition used to march off with a silver
spoon, cream jog, or whatever article of value he
could lay his hands on. The woman's eyes, however,
got better, and still, as she recovered her vision,
there was every day less and less to be seen in the
house; at length the doctor came to 'her and said,
" Madam, I have discharged my part, your eyes are
perfectly well again, pray, therefore, let me be paid my
recomitence according to our agreement."--" Alas,
Sir," said she, " I am a great deal worse than I was
the first minute you undertook my case, for I could
see plate, money, furniture, and other effects of va-
lue about my house, till you had the ordering of me,
but I am now brought to such a pass, that I really
can see nothing at all."
Berks, Nov. 9.

BIKER, THE ROCHESTER PEDESTRIAN.

FOURTEENTH DAY. •
About Midnight on Sunday it blew a tremendous
gale, accompanied, at intervals, by torrents of rain.
At four o'clock mt Monday morning Biker went on
the ground, foil commenced his day's journey, but
from the wind and rain, ■nd the slippery state of the
ground, which Was a complete sheet of mud, he was
unable to proceed. After churning and slippiug over
the course till he hod rompleted about four miles, he
was compelled to relinquials his task fdr some time.
till the ground should he itievied with coal vibes, &c.
to dry up some of the mud and wet that lay on its
surface : but from the contindatiee of wind and rain,
however, he had only been enabled at noon to cont.
plete about eight miles; after dinner he commenced
again, sad although ashes had been spread up and
down the pathway, he only accomplished 17 miles
by five o'clock. A number of persons were employed
in shovelling the loose mud from the course, and to.
wards evening Baker proceeded on Isis journey with
his usual gaiety, and ise excellent spirits.
About nine o'clock in the morning, a sudden gust
of wind, from W. S. W. accompanied by the heaviest
shower of rain we ever witnessed, which lasted
nearly 10 minutes, knocked down the temporary
booth erected round a caravan with an elephant, &c.
and also forced a marquee from its faste gs ; and a
temporary booth for the accommodation of the spec-
tators, &c. nearly 100 feet in length, was also totally
destroyed. The ground presented a wretched appear-
ance doming the greatest part of the day, but to-
wards evening the tempest abated, and presented a
serene evening, with a brilliant moots, accompanied
by rather a frosty air. The following is a correct
statement of Baker's last seven days' journey :

Total numker of utiles the first seven days, 961} 55 rods.
Tit,viay, Nov. 7, 50 miles, 192 rods.
Wednesday, ---- h 0 16$
Thursday, -- b 0 --- 16$
Friday, 6-- 216
Saturday, —so 216 --
Sunday, --- 50 144
Monday, (5 o'clock) 171

Died, on Sunday, the sth instant, in Dublin,
after a short illness, ROCK, the comedian. Some
eight or len years ago, he belonged to Covent-gar-
den and the Haymarket Theatres, at which he per-
formed with great credit, the low Irish characters.
His Ilagmaker, in Rosina, will long be remembered
for its excellence. On quitting the London stage,
he took the management of that of Edinhorgh.—
On the late Mr. limn', Stortoss taking the house,
he went to Dublin, and became Deputy-manager of
the Crow.street Theatre. He has left one daughter,

who promises to prove an ornament to the drams.

In private life, ;rosy ROCK was much respected,
and his company courted for his pleasantry.
MELANCHOLY EV EXT.—A melancholy event oc-
curred on Saturday, the 11th instant, in the neigh.
bourhood of Truro. About eight o'clock in the
morning, one of the sons of Mr. Bassett, of St.
Enoder, a fine young man, but who has for a con-
siderable time laboured under a temporary derange-

Surcloe.—Friday morning, Thos. Watson, a ser-
leant in the West Middlesex militia, put a period to
his existence by hanging himself in the stable of the
Ship public-house, Earl-street, Bristol.
Saturday a desperate act of suicide was attempted
to be committed by a respectable Clergyman loglg.
ing its Great Suff.,*lk-street, Charing-cross, by cut.
ting his throat wish a razor. Derangement is sup.
posed to be the cause. Through timely surgical as-
sistance, hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Friday night, or early on Saturday morning, the
shop of Mr. L. Elias, tailor and slop-seller, in
Dock-street, Deptford, was broke open and robbed
of 14 suits of clothes, several pair of shoes and
boots, several silk handkerchiefs, a silver watch,
plated candlesticks, &c.
Sunday night the counting-house of Mr. James
Jones, New Gravel-lane, Shark..ll, ace broken
open, and robbed of three pounds its copper. The
depredators exerted themselves greatly to open an
iron chest, in which property to a great amount was
deposited, but without effect.
BRIGHTON, Nov. 13.—Last night the Toomns
packet strived from Dieppe. Owing to a heavy
gale of wind from the south-west, the boats could not
put off to land her passengers, nor the packet put in
for Newhaven harbour. She was therefore obliged
to ride out in the roadstead. Early this morning it
blew a roost tremendous hurricane, accompanied by
torrents of rain, which has elicited the most painful
apprehensions of every one for her safety. At ten
o'clock, the packet was not in sight. Auother sloop
is now in the roadstead, and tier situation is seen
ith the utmost distress. The dreadful swell of the
sea, with a lee-shore wind, excludes all possibility of
rendering her any assistance from the shore. Twelve
o'clock.--The vessel has just run ashore, at ebb tide,
on the West Cliff, opposite Bedford-square. In-
stantaneous assistance was afforded to the crew, by
hundreds of persons flocking to the spot. We are
happy to say, the crew were all saved, and every
humane attention paid to their distressing situation.
She proves to be the Julia, of Elsinore, Captain
Tuomeson, bound from Bourdeaus to Copenhagen,
laden with wines. The Captain, finding that all his
efforts to get out to sea were useless, resolved to cut
his cables, and the vessel run on the Cliff, without
being dashed to pieces.
On Friday morning, about five o'clock, a fire
broke out in the issuer quadrangle of Winchester
College. NVe are happy to say that no life was lost,
and 'that no material accident occurred.

COAL M A RKET, Nov. 13.
Shia. at Market. Ship Bold. Price.
56* Newt Ale .... 444. ge. to 59,. M.
5 Sonderluod ... I . . 46.. 641. to Mk. OIL

•
To the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.

LE.TTER W.

REAL REM l'.1)! ES.

Ste,—Before we come to Oral( of these, 1. must
notice a little more of the Quackery that is now
going fornard. That instrument of knaves, mot
oracle of fools, the Times Ne A apaper, has found
out, that " the declension in the priCes of
and °diet grain; tHreatens to prediice great
national di.tress." It tell' us, thatt all over the
country; " numerous faults are•abanilonetl by the
lo11:111ts hi an uncultivated slate; add that it is (h@
foreign enra, now lying in the warehouses, that
keeps flown the price of our owhi eons."
It is very true, fleet the dot:lei:4nd of price l pro..
ducing the cffoct that is here ascribed to it. No im:
prosements of the land are going oti. Fierners are
drawing in their eiperiditure in 01 directions. net
are leSsenimi the number of their horses and of their
labourers. Every sort of work that n:11 admit of delay
is delayed, or given up. The land is either badly
tilled, or is left Wholly unfilled, in numerous cases.
And, thousands upon thousands of farms, fire thrown
hack into the lutiiik of the osCners. The cultivatora.
of the soil are fleeilig like Lot, witlieut the need et
any injunction not to look heliiiid them.
But, that, which this swop man points out as the
sole cause of this great natillgel esil, really makes no
part of the cause. The Corn Bill did not make
wheat dearer than it was berme; and yet he ascribes
the low price to that B;11 not having gone far
enough. He ascribes this low price to tiie largd
store of foreign wheat now in England, though the
law does not permit that wheat to be sold here, anti
does permit it to be carried litany to other
This is a cause quite of the sort to be discovered by
one, whose optics are of a kind to enable him to see
nothing that is of less bulk than a sack of wheat.
The C' rte Bill forbade the importation and sale
of foreign wheat, unless the price iif wheat in
England was 10s. the Winchester WI:Owl. Foreign
wheat might be brought here and warehoused, but it
could not be sold here, until wheat was LOS. ti
bushel. Thus stands the law. Now, if all the
wheat in the whole world were warehoused in Eng-
land, why should that induce me to sell thy wheat
at 6s. 6d. a bushel, as I now do? If, indeed, mt
wheat brought nearly 10s. a bushel, I might be
tempted to hasten my sales a little on account of this
store of foreign wheat ; but, surely, my present
price is such as not to be at all affected by that store
any more than it would be by a store of stones or
of wool.

But, if this were the case; if this state of foreign

corn caused our con► to sell cheep, the owners of it
must be fools indeed to keep it here, and must hart
been fools to bring it here. They, at any rate, mast
have thought that its being stored here would not
produce doy such effect ; and yet, they are full es
likely to understand this matter as the stupid, though
prostituted writer of the Times Newspaper.
I, too, opposed the Corn Bill, but upon very dif.

ment, and was formerly an inmate of the berms Lu- ferent grouuds. I opposed it, Ist, because it tended
static Asylum, at Exeter, from which place he came to keep food at a high Oise, and, thereby, to drive
out apparently restored to sanity, having been re- people out of the country, and, amongst others, ma-
proved by his mother, for some impropriety of con- nufacturers, to the injury of England ; because
duct, flew into a violent passion, and threatened to it tended telteep srsalwolfrorthe rest of the world;
beat her with a stick which he held its his hand, but but, principally, because its object was to enable the
being prevented from accomplishing his intention by land to pay the present taxes, which the good of the
the interference of two of his brothers, he, unper- country required to be diminished, by the reduction
ceived by any of tha party, snatched up a butcher's of the army and of the pay, salaries, and pensions of
knife which was lying near him, and in an instant those, whose pay had been fixed at a high rate, or
stabbed the whole three. The knife entered Mrs. raised, on account of the high prices. But this sneak.
Bassett's stomach, which it is feared will prove fatal ; frog caviller appealed merely to the bellies of the mob
one of the brothers received the weapon between the and to the purses of the annuitants. Not a word did
fifth and sixth left ribs, and is likewise in a very dan- he say about the taxes; not a word about the ex-
gerous state; the other, though struck twice on the pences of Government; not a word about the pay of
breast with considerable violence, has sustained the the army and navy ; not a word about the pensions
least severe injury, and it is hoped may speedily re. and salaries and allowances and grants, all fixed, or '
cover. Immediately after the commission of these raised, in deer-corn times.
dreadful acts, the unhappy perpetrator fled, but was But, Sir, as lam now about to talk of real reme-
pursued, and has since been taken and placed in strict dies, we must take all these matters into view ; for,
confinement. is it just, that the people who have to pay the teen
MAGEE v. O'Gonat aar.—This trial, which has should have no consideration bestowed on them,
been fixed for Thursday nest, has been postponed while so much consideration has been bestowed on
by the Right lion. the LORD CHIEF Jeseice, until every body else? Let us see how this question stands.
the sittings of Nisi Prins after the present Term ; and Prices are now much about the same as they were
his Lordship has been pleased to express his deter- before the Anti-Jacobin War. But, is this the case
mintier' that such trial shall be called on first on with the pay of the army, navy, Judges, Police-
that day. s Justices, clerks, &c. &c.i You know very well that
Paovisroes.—ln Wexford, we hear, prime beef it is not. You know very well, that, on the express
is sold for twopence per pound, and potatoes for ground of the rise in picot, millions have been paid
one penny per stone. In Sligo and Donegal prime to the Royal Family ; that their ellowances have all
beef is two pence halfpenny per pound, and potatoes been augmented on that ground. Ynu know also,
three half-pence per stone. A Paper of (his morn- that the salaries of the Judges, that the pay of the
sag observes, that the Farmers declare they cannot
soldiers and sailors, that the salaries of the police-
obtain, in Smithfield, more than three halfpence per justices, that the pensions and allowances to Ambits-
pound for their beef, and that they would willingly seders; in short, that all exp•suces have been raised,
sell it by the carcase, sinking the offal, for two for many years past, and that some of them have had
pence per pound, while the butchers in our markets augmentation upon augmentation, on the express
charge from four pence to five pence per pound by ground of the rise in the prices of the necessaries of
the quarter.—(Dublin Evening Pen, Nov. II ) life. Well, then; now that the necessaries of life
The following curious circumstance we have from have fillets in price a full half, 041st not the pay,
a Gentleman just arrived from Waterford. It salaries, &c. to fall 5140, at least, hack to the old
shows the anxiety of the farmer to he relieved from mark ? What pretest can there be for now paying
the high war tax :—is A steady Q taker, in the these persons at the rate of dear corn prices ?
County of Waterford, had been so unlucky as to Some few years ego the average price of wheat
take a fpm, a few years hack, from a Gentleman was fifteen shillings a bushel, or, let us come to
of large fortune, who, it appears, has a greater re- the loaf; for that is nearer to the teeth of a judge or
gird for his cash than his tenantry. 'flue Quaker a soldier as well as of a labouring man. The average
lately applied to his landlord for either a reduction price, for years, of the waster's loaf, in Lomb's',
of his rent or a surrender of the lease, both of was 18d. The average price is now, and has been
which were refused.--. 4 Wilt thou, then,' said the for a long while, t Id. Green Bacon was 17s. a.
Quaker, give me a longer lease, that I may en- score. It is now Ws. Malt was les. a bushel. It
deliverer, by improvement, to render the land some- is now 9s. Bread, meat, and beer, are the things eta
what near the value ?'—The Landlord replied that elects the people live, or ought to live, and may live
he would, and, on consideration, would reduce the %ell; and though the Lord does not live upon thrm,
rent half.a.guinea per acre.—A lease for three lives his servants do. Upon this comparison of prices,
was agreed on; three names were insetted in the we have lowered the pay of our labourers, smiths,
lease, the Quaker requesting to omit Isis own, as wheel.. right+, etc. The men to whore we used to
he considered himself a bad life. The new lease give 3tel. a day, we now give 2011. I used to pay a
was duly executed, and the old one cancelled. In shilling for job-work where I now pay eight-pence.
about a fortnight, the Quaker returned to his Laud- 'Lime is as yet slime irregularity ; a good deal of
lord, and, handing him the lease, said, Friend, I disputation ; the men are loath to come down; many
hate done with thee and thy land ; may thee have all change masters; but, when they come to a new mas-
the success with it thou deservest. The three lives ter, they lower their price. Wisrk, however, stands
thou gayest me are all gone—they are no more—fare still in the meanwhile, and much diminution of culti-
thee well: appears that the three men whose ration takes place. Many, running about to 'seek
names had been inserted in the lease, were, et the the old prices, at last, get no employ at all. They
time, under sentence of death in the' nest county go to the "sottish; hut, what takes place then? Why,
gaol, anti executed according to their :entente."— the Justices compel the parish to feed them; but the
(Dublin Evening Post) palish compel them to work; so that, after all; they