The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-24 00:00:00

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LONDON:
THURSDAY EVENING: OCTOBER 24,18 V.

STOCK Excuance, 12 o'Cioen.—Consols remain
steady at 821 i for the account, and 88fi fur money, stitli
little business doing.
Yest-rday, towards the close of the Foreign Market
an eminent Broker purchased 80 thousand Colombian
Stock, from 921 to 931. In consequence of Mr. Zea's
letter this morning, all South American Bonds maintain
their pikes, and the Chief Business doing in the above
Market is in New Spanish Bonds. All other Foreign
Srrnritie• remain stationary at the following prices.

('hili, Hi—Niew Spanish. 73) —old,S6ll47—Naw
sin —Old. SR —Russia. Sl—Danish. 9;e to 99—Neapolitan.
Si f—Scrip 83—Columbian, 93—Scrip, 93—New Spanish
Seep, 31

Paris papers, which have reached as to the 22nd inst.,
contain intelligence from Belgrade, which confirms the
statements previously received respecting the financial
difficulties of the Porte. A Firman was received and
published at Belgrade on the 4th inst. commanding el/
individuals to deposit their effects in gold and silver io
the hands of the Bovernment, but forgetting to state
whether any, or what compensation should be given.—,
This Pitman had not been more agreeable to the Turks
than to the Christians, and for the first time perhaps a
il
perfect commasity of feeling prevailed amongst them—
a feeling of deep anxiety, discontent, anti alarm. Waft
from Bitoglia of the 20th ult. state, that Choorscbid Pa-
cks, who was continually moving backwards and for-
Ands from Ternovo to Lacis%tad succeeded in colloct-
fog fresh troops, and hod soul a corps ofloolirdien
against Savona. But that corps having been entirely
routed, the Tarkish CoMmander had dispatched the
chief part of his baggage to Bitoglia, to which place it
we- thought that he intended to remove his head goer-
ters.—The most contradictory statements continued to
prevail in Paris; respecting the event, in the frontier
provinces of Spain. It is apparent, however, that an al.
teration has taken place in the tone of the Ultra papers,
from which it may be inferred, that something with
which the public is not yet acquainted bad miri-
bnted to abate their hopes. The Quaid/mute admits,
that " Letters from St. Jean-pied-de-port, and from the
frontiers of the Aldudes, announce that on the 13th
instant, a great number of soldiers and officers of the
Army of the Faith, had arrived at those places Rom Irati,
which Would imi.ty that the Constitutionalists had mar-
stied the troop of Cobra as far as the Fret.ch frontiers."
The sante paper adds "it appears probable, that the
Constitutionalists were in strength on the 12th inst. in
thefort of Frau, and
.s.at, if Barratia sod his hod bad
retired, it was to resume offensive operations in another
quarter." The arrival, however, on the French frontier,
of many soldiers and officers of the Army of the Faith.
in the condition of fugitives, three or four days after
that on which a great battle was said to have been fought
may serve to encourage a confident hope that victory de.
Glared itself in favour of the Constitutionalists, who
seem to have also gained possession of Irati. Should
these creme have really occurred, it would be impos-
sible for the Royalists to protract the struggle and the
sufferings of their conotry much longer.
The Itentes openeti en Monday at 93.75, and closed
at 93, S 5; Neapolitan and Span'-la Bonds mach the
WIMP.

It is stated in letters from Madrid,that OetteralPrere,
the sew Minister Plenipotentiary of Portagal, who re-
places M. Castro Pereira, had arrived there. It is *op-
posed he is furnished with potters to conclude qe much
talked of offensive and defensive treaty Tilt two
kingdoms of the Peninsula.
An article d,ttetl Frankfurt, Ort. 6, saidlPitliasaid
that a Loan for two millions has been rontracteltis

the Hanoverian Governinen, and that H. Mic set Itiailn
Agent of the Court of Hanover, has under a it.
Letters frost Vienna, says a French Pa announce,
that persons who hare not seen the Duke of Welling-
ton for some years. have perceives! a great alteration in
bis features, and a great change in his person. The
journey sloes not appear to have turnilvd the health
of his Crave, and lie is still so indisposed as to lie
obliges! to travel by very short stages on his way to

The Emperor Francis, taking into his consideration
the services done to the Austrian Empire by the bro-
thers Von Rothschild, has conferred on all the brothers
Rothschild, and their legitimate descendants, the dig-
nity of Harms of the Austrian Empire.
The Week General Theokares Kephalos, sent by the
Areopagno, has traversed several parts of Oermaov to
come to an understanding with the Philbelleni.7 So-
cieties on the gleaned giving the best directions possible
to the aid which these Societies have collected for the
unfortunate Christians of the E. It appears that lie
has reason to applaud the success of his mission. tieneral
T.Kephalos passel Lyons on the 12th, on his way to
Marseilles, to return- to his country. He met at Lyons a
distinguished reception on the part of a greatnnoiher of
citizens who are warmly interested in the fate of the
fireeks, and support the cause by their gifts and sacri-
, fires.

Y

DINNER AT SALISBURY.

On the 2211 inst. bring a Fair and Market-day at the cite
of Salisbury. I went from Uphusk nd in the roornin.
through Andover, and got to Salisbury at shout Ital.!
after ten o'clock, going to the Three Swans Inn, that
being the place where the farmers usually assemble to
dine in the greatest numbers. Half after one o'clock
was the usual dinner-time, and then I went into the
dining-room, and took a peat amongst the rest. The
party at dinner consisted, in iippearance, of some of the
most opulent farmers, and as to numbers, 'wanted,
perhaps, to about sixty or seventy. But, by the time that
the cloth was removed, the farmers frown other hos a►
rived in great numbers ; 'till, at last. the room, whiff,
is a very large one, was completely filled by gentlemen
standing as well as sitting; and I was informed that Se
only the stair-case was crowded, hot that great nanther,
were in the yard unable to get in. At this time, when
there could not be much less than five hundred person.
assembled, it is remarkable that I could not di/roma
single face that I had ever sees before.---The King's
health having been drunk, as is senal open seek we..
sions, a gentleman rose to propose my health ; obwo.
ing that he hid never seen inc that he knew of, brit the,
understanding that I was in the room, he should ph,.
pose my health, thinking that it might be the mesas ot
drawing forth something that might he awful to the
company. Upon this theiCathraoidrumcatinonrol4:,
gave
my heilth,
ll with tit
any thing in the way of
which was drunk individitaily. each person saying, lig
he took up his glass, " Mr. Counter's health." One
gentleman was proceeding with the usual signal for
giving cheers, but the company did not seem leased to
adopt the sugarestion ; and therefore, no ebeeticg took
place ; at which I was very much pleased, despising tin
thing as I do from the bottom of my heart; detesting it
as I always have, and particularly since the nine tines
nine cheers of the tax-hunting crew at Lirerpool. Deshler,
upon the present occasion, there would have bees that
which might have been deemed *leanness, on the panel
this company, peculiarly situated as they were with re.
gard to me. It consisted principally of men whose tendert
I had spoken for many years is term, of naqeslified dig.
approbation. The business of the day was for them to
hear me, and not to cheer me ; which latter would Inn
been, under the circumstance just stated, very astotor-
ing in them, and by no means pleasing to me. Upon
viewing this company, I felt satisfarties sot eerily es.
pressed. I saw a company of farmers, meal even to
that who honoured me with their atteusloWetrhithe,to
last year. They lad been called together, lot by any
spirit of party ;not because they were wasp-301mile, '
not because they had any dislike to the asipisten or :*
any body else that I have opposed; cot because they
had read the Register; but because they were of opinier,
from what they had heard of me, that they altoahl be
likely to heat from me something that might assist their
jndgtnent in the present critical state of their affair,
•Nuthing coold be more gratifying tog me than this. I
felt proud et being placed in such a limed's.; sad
endeavoutede by soy sincerity and openness of hemp.
to show that I was not unworthy of eonsider.
'able part of the nettle barons** Of which I am Amite
give a sketch, was, es the reader will see, 'wetly each
of a repetition of what has been before put I. print.
lint, those who have been regular readers ill he 'look
to recollect, that what is repetition to them. was (Pit'
new to these farmers of Wiltshire; and that it will be en-
peeled, throughout that country, that what was delivered
in the way of harangue should behoved la print. I pre
few, of course, to give merely the substance; (yr very
little more; and that substance was what will be food
described in the fulbwiag words:—
" Gentlemen,—The drinking of my health fps
this oceasiot, presents to my mini every circumstance cs
culated to give me satisfaction. I was bop end beed ci
the cultivation of the land. Farmers have, throughos;
my life. been that portion of aoriety most esteemed 11
me. When very young and in the army, is the King'
provinces in the North of America, the friends
asst acquaintances that I sought (ant of the write)
were farmers. At a more edeanced age. and Is
France, farmers were %gain my eerpasintances and arse-
elates. Afterwards, during a long residence in to
United States of America, though my pursuits caned
my business to be in great cities, my intimate and rt
sepal friends were nitrays farmers. And at this I.lne.
notwithstanding ell those circumstance, which so oats
rally connect we in one way or ether with pereenoono
than farmers, amongst nieu in that always heretofore
happy state of life, are those whom I most lore and es-
teem. To hare my health &ask by you, therefore, who
are all complete strangers to me, and for the parpow
which it has been avowedly given, gins me, as it met
to give me, greater pleasure than it would to tends-ed..:
applause of all the courtiers existing upon the face "
the earth. Asa this 1 may sad with the pitman rn.
priety, ..nd without any danger of meioses' of moil"
imputed ; because, Oentlemen, it is pretty notorious that
I never was amongst your flatterers in the days of Vol
prosperity. On the contrary, I was, perhaps.. the very
foremost amongst those to censure that conduct in you.
which really has been one of the principal CAWS ht
those calamities which you have now to emelt:re, sad
which it is my most sincere desire to help to Onion..
As to ?spreads, Gentlereee, reproach is due where the
conduct of men tenths to the ittittry of their country, a'
Your conduct certainly did for great :loathers of )ear,
klowesrf, Ott to the punishment due to misconduct, it ;4
nonsense to talk of that ; for, were we to adopt a
bf thinking like this, we must think it jest to came Ow
destruction of our cauntry. tan were acting ander dr-
lu,ion ; and if vou despised the sok-, cf those who would
have dissipated that deld•ion, it is tor them, neserthr-
less, now to pr..%•eut yoer ruin if they cat. or, they
would be more selfish and blameworthy that] yes
ewer were.--tientlemen, a crest part of the Wedmore
to efficient measures fur the relief of the coastr .
appear to me to arise from the fanners and othets
emote' tesi still. !tie laud, hei-m comideeed dwell
as a class of the commoni-t 7, hear stone of
tLi
politicians of the pr's-ent d.tv ; tt:.4l :erne of those wl"
have, unfortunately, but toe mucla ineueece and power
to hear these persons, one would imagine that yea fly.
n 1 only one class out of.a great number of Climes el
which the community consist. They tell us that the
classes must all be Urn cue of, and that all the other
classes must not be sacrilic..il for one. According t'
their notion, there is the doss of ship-Jotters dr
of merchants; the East India cluss ; the West fedi!
'lass ; the class of 11ml-holders. the military class sal
the naval class ; the class of placeumn and pensr.l;
the class of sineestie-people ; and, at last. be it 5.4
agricaltnrat class. Why, gentlemen. this "clash
they call it, is the whole hasty of the people ; it tv or.
city, but ',croons engaged in agriculture. ahem 11'
wnehytteennlatwiohna:t aforeVv.ehtatttliiieredolleßt'ort:atirdlinlae:.yrteoftj•littl.d.

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. .iad, fat illethey Zney do not, indeed, plough and
.... acid reap and mow ; but, let those who live in the
fir .houses be ruined, and they are all 'mined, too. It
is „t, therefore, a class, to the root of which the axe of
„is is sow laid ; bat he whole nation, of whichh ylon.
ii, this present moment,t are only the first upon t e ist
of the victims. It is for me, now, Gentlemen, to en.
&soar •to make you some compensation for the trouble
hsve taken in coming here; not by latterine you ; ,
voe
'way imitating your deluders, but by frankly giving
roster opinions as to the matters in which you are most
aerpli interested ; which do not affect you distantly;
what' are not mere possibilities or probabilities; hot
which affect you immediately, and that, too, in a manner
the most vital. Every farmer knows that, with present
d'art' aed • present taxes., he cannot continue to pay rent,
rues out of his capital, and that great as that capital
soy be, it must finally come to an end. The main
thing, therefore, is for him to make this mind up as to
the question whether prices will rise. My opinion.isthat
they will not ; but, on the contrary, that they will fall.
I leave the effect of seasons out of the question; but
evened my opinion upon that which 1 know must take
place with regard to the currency. Yon all know that
it nth, diminution in the quantity of the currency that
has rested the reduction of prices; and you must there-
fore knew that, if a further diminution of the currency
titze place,there mnst be a further reduction of prices.
The operation of the thing is this. The law of legal 1
tender wholly Cease{ on the first of May next. That
will unquestionably cause an ed demand for gold
in esrhange fur paper. That gold must come from
abroad; and, in all probability, the far greater part of it
iwasediately from France. That being the nearest, and
berm! alt comparison, the most wealthy conntry upon
die eleatinent. Bringing the gol•i from France will
i. ease gold to rise in price in France; the gold here
west he kept op to the same price as the gold of France
sill he at, or else the gold will leave this country again.
—Von see, therefore, that not only must piper be
drawn in herein quantity equal to the gold brought in.'
let in greater quantity; otherwise the gold here would
rontinne at the same price that it Is now, which would
rot be equal to that of the advanced price of gold i•
France. Than, then, gentlemen, there will be before
the first of May, or immediately afterwards, more pounds
;simper drawn in, than there will be pounds in gold
I'M oat. Therefore there wilt be a further diminution of
the quantity of the currency, and a farther diminution of
the prices. This, however, is not necessary in order to
effect the ruin of the renting farmer. His ruin is mul-
r lets.• if he perseveres in paying any rent at all with
present prices and present taxes. A very large part of
the farmers are placing their reliance on the vague and,
in we opinion, groundless hope that the landlords theme
seem will interfere. Gentlemen, there are many reas-
ons oil they should out interfere; at least, while pie
km say capital remaining in your pockets. They see
clearly enough, that there is no efficient relief to ho
ghee without a very large redaction of the interest of
the National Debt. Out 0(64,000,000 of taxes collected in
the kingdom, and 54 of which are collected in England
alone, the other being collected in Ireland and Scotland ;
oat of these slaty-four millions, that which is called the
Noienal Debt actually causes the expenditure of forty
, millions
almost the
sar inore;forit
wholeistii of the
edebt, you
Army,
andwill a observe,
Itothat
all the other expenses. Now, to make an effici-
, sat *action of this Debt is hardly within the scope of
risibility, without resorting to Acts of Parliament that
shall touch deeply the property of the Church, and that
••• /kali affect the famine', the relations, the kindred of a
tonsiderable part of the most powerful lam/lords, in a
Manner extremely disadvantageous to-diem. If the
le.bi cannot be reduced ; if efficient relief oilmen be
Liven wittingly pradmelag this glfact as M. One fernailiene
of these landlords, they will hesitate long before 'Diet
* 'am he.tte themselves le a vigorous manner for the
tensing of such reduction. To take a simple cam': if I ,
here a son or two who are receiving more out of the I
taxes than I lose by the falling of my rents: if that son 1
or two most lose what they receive by the measures that
venni,' give mit my whole rent, I balance the lose against
thegain, and *ling that I gala by the present state of
things, I am belie means in baste to change it, though
use tenants, one After another, are dropping into the
work nee. At any rate, as long as they have capital
tint me something, and as long as they have stock
spy 'farm of which I have the key, I shall certainly
;,.tereferring a hope test things will come about, to
00
the taking of steps which would strip my sone of their
Namur*. !knee, gentlemen, that torpidity in the land:
hoes Which appears so unaccountable to you. That they
will bestir themselves at last, or endeavour to bestir
tieniselves in defence of their estates, is likely enough,
I think they will bestir themselves too late for their own
interest : hut lam very sore they will bestir themselves
too late for your interest; and, is short, that they will not
teoir themselves at all, so long as yea have capital where-
s di to p sy them reut,as long as you have stock upon which
they Ca., trite. In saying this, I do not impute knavish de-
tizn or base motive of any sort to the gentlemen who
are ()niters of the land. They act as other men would do
and r similar eircomstaures ; they consult their own in.
terests, which is the course of human nature; which
ohms points out 'to man self p tion. Ido not
taw (fist if I were a landlord myself I shoOld act very
did'erentiv from them t but this I know, that laws should
be so coltrived as to prevent one part of the community
tram profiting nnjnstl at the expense of another.—We
lure heard some of the landlords speaking as if they
meant to make a stand for their property. Mr. Bennet,
for instance, one of the members for this county, cliti,l/41nr-
in the last Session of Parliament, discover a disposition
• to make snehi a stand ; but then the disposition was
enticed in so feeble a manner, that it really amounted
to nothing on which any rational mall can place • re-
lime. On yourselves. Dentlemen, much more than on
say hotly else, will your fate•depend. The reliance
sloth some men would bid yen have upon the govern-
ment and on this Parliament as now constituted, seems to
ale not a hit better founded than any reliance to be
placed npon the landlords. Not that I question at all
the sinrere and most anxious desire of both Ministers
std Potlianient to relieve you, and to save you; but I
latVloll very greatly the wisdom of the former asp) this
lalicalar matter, and I question the practicability of
•thrient measures hy the latter in its present'stote. As
.in instance of what the Ministers think about three mate
hrs. let Inc mention to you a pamphlet, which is ascribed
'a A Air. Ceurtenay, who is in some office or other
alder the government, and who appears to be a person
tech confided in by our new Minister, Mr. Canning.
Jan before the beginning of the last Sesssion of Par'
h'ineet, a pamphlet was put forth by this genikmaa.
remaining • sort of exposition of motives on the part of
'lo3ltnisters. In this pamphlet it was broadly asserted.
l:stilie distress of agriculture could not continue long.,
!io argument was this : .. no business will he carried
nn unless it yield a proper profit, the business of farm'
t",es carried on, and will continue to be carried on s
~t
t rehire the hto,i eels of forgoing must yield a proper pro-
Iv.' Here, in syllogism as regular as ever logician laid
.loiro,it is proved that you arereceiving a proper profit out
. I,Yonr business, and that you must continueto receiveollt
~
lrour lundness such proper profit. Your experience
,s''''tirs the argument ; it gives the lie direct to the r.
'lt t Along with this doctrine has been coupled the
.lOrtrine of expenses brig all defrayed by the coots.
: !Imr, generally speaking ; and taking in a long series
ll years, this is the case ; but it is not the cats at this
esoment with the consumers of agricultural produce. To
hum that the doctrine does not apply to every ease :
"Dement, to be a maker of candles, and suppose toy
limp to be full of them. Suppose all at once an addi-