The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-06-01 00:00:00

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.• ' :•Ilests.., of foreign corn can-
,„ -', ' t ' --410.- Lemers ; 'when they are
; • . ' (Stan A COTIMPORA, imported. If, how-
We met to state that the , hopes we bad ~ interest must have
entertained of' -thepropesed alteration of the Corn weight outd, it not be best to
Impel* a permanent duty on the importation of
Laws being posapened until another :Session, hails
foreign grain 3 'Suppose on Wheat a duty of 4s. of
been completely disappointed. After several di
be. per qr., which added to the expences of- itepotta-
siuns on
propositions
subject, a Bill has been prepared ' and : "I' &c. alight probably. give to our own growers a
broughtinto Parliament, founded on the ppositioes ,
of Mr. Heskisson, and the Public wits soon have an preference over foreigners of 20s. per qr. or upwards.
• The advantage of this system, as competed with Mr.
opportunity of gppreciating• its effect. Alieady the Huskisson's propositions, would, in respect of the
consequence has been an. advance of 10a. per quer-
yet
we ;merchant, be all the advantage which .a simple and
ter in the price of wheat at Newcastle • and
h permanent regulation possesses over an unsettled and
hate Sir Henry Parnell and other Gentlemen in the
complicated systems...in respect of the manufacturer,
House of Cotrimons, in the face offsets and fierimon ' It would confine the'difference between the prices- Of
sense, gravely asserting, that," the objc•ct of the Bill ' corn in England and 'other countries within certain
is not to raise the price of corn." They telt us,reasonable limits, and it
.must always be kept in
that the effect of -the measure mesh be to extend
and encourage the agriculture of the kingdom, and. mind that it is the relative price (as compared with
the prices in other countries) and not the actual
eventually to produce a retlectionl* the price ..oa price which our manufacturers have chiefly to com-
earn. This is the great argument used by every Plain of. In the last place the duty would be a
TIE QUEEN TO TIT?. PRINCEAS OF WALES, advocate for the measure. 'lt is, however, a most fa-
" Winds r erode, Nov 25, 1814. s'"ource of revenue to the country, and tend,to allevi.
1 lacious argument. .The interest of Ad farmer ekes not ate other public burthens. We throw out these obs
44 The Qtretw has received, this afternoon the
, sileupieunidunuilisho
en
stuhienlinuannietintycy
fgt.'
,e.ortr.4inekrelliieskeehernpacr
ioldrede
is,; servatimis as hints which others more able, may im-
Princess of WALES'S Letter of yesterday, in reply
prove.and enlarge .opon..
to the communication which she was desired by the and this, we aperekend, isan instill:tome distinction.. ...-
PRINCE Rearec to make to her ; and she is sensible In the case of a crop one.fourth below au average, it . -.
of the disposition expressed by tier Royal Highness is supposed that the. prices of corn are doubled, while, • '
i painful on the other howl, iii the case of a surplus to the i • • ...,•* c
/tot to due* filthily, topics wh"
•, ft) , . tate fsttetzt, it is inveriably found, that :prices fakiv Ndr/ ' ' •
to botb, :. t.. -• . - ~.4,.. ' • • . -. • '• ..
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iciti
jortristecip ameth beloir /leek oadivary,levels Ashort op tit Wald 4 f trop w *
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41 The Qtrplareen is, it • AffivirtyPtit. . .. _ therefore raise wore money thae an abotwhant tree;'" ! following,
send eeopy of the Priticeseof WALES'S !ekes, to ihe and consequently by giving to the .farmer a Mono. • ii:ittelambreril --.
hale poly of the home market we make- it his.iiiterest to ha iy-agoten-,•=t,
Pansci Rewire; and lief Majesty easel&
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denims% rather tha.; increase the supply of corn—to , ' " Resolved. '
no hesitation .in communicating to the Inasfirrieue
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check rather than encourage the agriculture of the 1""Y See
Strangers who may possibly be present at ifeCtOert, , purpose twi
• country• It was = upon this principle, R$ . Lora • atmpas Rod
the.circumstances which Will prevent the 'erineess.of Laieterdale observes (hi his Enquiry into the Nature "we wisdom tv
'WALES from appearing there, if her Royal Highness and Orkin of Public Wallas, page 55)s " that the--s.
a hie"l'Peethe Dsuacbhiiit Brining---i°
u Pu'logsitCesugpeapoeral , that the igen
kid not rendered a compliance with her wish to this tobacco-plawers of Vi.giuia were led to Pat's ".! which these Deputies will suggest to his Holiness will
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effieffeennecessary, by intimating her intends. or Ara of Assembly; .by which they restrained the ;be that of " domestic nomination namely, that
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Ilsolltilliffreesic the cause of her absence. • cultivation of tobacco to 6000 plants for ever
• Y I on the demise of a Bishop, his successor should be
.. negro kept ; and afterwards that they were Mme,. elected
t -7 -. -4.7 1 , • 44 Cil A MOTT", R." according to the purity of the primitive
doted to, agree, its saleutifol years, to burn a cer. '
, , by the Dean and tdhapter.", This plan
VIE /16111*Ett 00.1418 PliinEBB OF' IT/MS TO fain proportiou of tobacco for every negro ;" and we i lawn church,
. ••TR 8 QURBts. , • •remove objections on the score of fa:reign In-
may rest assured teat the farmers of this countrr. a' •° . . - '
ffueoce; but it remains to be seen, whether his. Ho-
- '6 The Princess of -Meru has the*. honour to ae• understand their own interests just as well as the tool
linen= will consent .to such an abridgment of the
knowledge the receipt. Of 4 note from the (allege, bacco planters of Virginia; and a great deal Netter 1 Papal 'claims. .
slated yesterday ; and begs permissioe to return her . than many Members who have lately spoken 43 II tint i
j Corr Laws iii the House of Common, —Vir I P 1
best thanks to her Majesty, .for her gracious Conde- . Grant, t . MONTHLY 4GRlCtlLitlit.dL REPORT.
, Member for Grimsby, said, 46 it was a. great' i
ecension, in Ih6 willingness 'wrested .by 'her Ma- ' error to suppose that the value of land was raised by I .
Jest;, to have communicated to the filosteirsolt: an increase •in the pike of corn. It was raised by' the wnehis"-ok. der
, 'whoa: halaidtd4hoseheitioiteffeets
ihatniiPmeretheproe;ernflyerncurkt.
fikanserf, who• will, in all probability, be present ;an increase of the profit of the farmer, and that de. orated. is 11.4 ' most pitnnisini stn e. The voting whente have
Italw•dottratt amiy, . ad shot ep into avpiitttle with a ftrOar
g het Majesty's Court, the reasons which have In. I pended on the quantity of cora he could produce."
pendant ling, an appearance that always precedes a
- I Again, 6' it was another error to say that the price of fall cro I.
flat-014r Royal Highness not to be present. :1
. labour depended on the price of corn. America and The I; ,r'ry crop iv most promising. helm a reeelarla cute
'..^' " Stich coinmanication as it appears to her-Royal
I ! ;the Netherlands afforded sufficient refutation of this Ow, in consequence of the eenial .huwers that fell at the he-
st Ls mouth • the late s=mn is fine v neon the curl
Mistiness, cannot be the less necessary on account of : assertion. The Trice of labour, like the price of IC4llll.l%eliassprotig into ear, and promise. an (mils, rip- croo. *
any publicity which it may be in the over of fret; every thing else, depended on the demand for ii.”—
Vat. nave ohm I i itow;7l well, and appear a fall ep.p.
in the tly, and look well
Royal Highness to give to her metives ; And the! We select these as fair specimens of the arguments „,,,,7:. amoitnenftwiK„roitht, row '
culture.ee
Princess of WALES, therefore, entreats the active 1 %Melt
.have been urged in favour of the Bill. 'the Bens have a large leaf and a regular plant.
titter fallacy of Mr. Grant's first position, must be • ' • .
rood offices of her Majesty, upon an occasion I
very clear from the principle we havealteddy laid rinsvri A Gentleman at Bat net Heves offered to stake
wherein the Princess of WALES feels' it so essential land elucidated. So far from the profits of the farmer 20Irt• 11. that the DA,. of "r. ALBAN'S horse did
to her that she should tI he misunderstood. • . • being in the direct proportion of the quantity of 'fiie.tint win a rote, when a 14-eidon Latitat immediately
" pan:taught-place, stayol, NIL s CSROLINIC P.!' produce, they will be found, in silicoses (I monopoly,' accepted the het. The Quit touched the cash, and
'to bein the ineeree proportion ofthatquatilits . Nir.G. told Latitat that the horse was not to start, who,
Tint QUEEN TO TIT E PRINCESS OF WI“.ES, ..• . • li, iiiiiseieietirii•the
9. iohnr, :e. .. ma.. ay.ista_•,
is not more fortunate bathe neat error, which he pre-
.... of hoes and finding it to get
' 7 -"" 1 tenda.to detect is. ties generally received Maxim that AWE SOBOttlibtely Stifled himself and returned to
"The (lucre cannot omit to acknewtedge the re- . . . v
.66 the price of Week is dependent on the price of town.
tatipt of the Princess of Watss's note,-of yeiterrlari; corn.,, sts au abstract principle, we perfectly agre • • •
e ' SIPARRING
.—A numerous meeting of the amateurs
although it does not appear to her Majesty to Ms •
,toith liim,, ;that
.4.6 the price of labour, like the
trice ' of boxing took place yesterday, for the benefit of
quire any other reply titan that conveyed to Int 'cif. *very tillowAse, is regulated by the demand for the Champion Cribb, and on no occasion was bet- •
Royal Highness"s preceding letter. • , . it ;" but is thealensand for labour in any particular ter science displayed. Cribb, Belcher, Richmond,
:ga CHARLOTTE, as,.e. country not measured by tbe.quaielty of employ. Painter, Harmer, Lancaster, and Lennox, set-to.
meet ttot in a greirt degree dependent on the awl). Cribb was pitted with Painter, and both gave anis-
viers or deireemi of the articles manufactured ? That • versal satisfaction in a long ,bout. The Champion
• the price of corn is a • powerful ingredient in regu. ; also seteto with Belcher, when the best science was I
biting the prices of all home-made commfielities, has ! given, and some smart rallies were made. Harmer ,
been repeatedly demonstrated. To. illustrate the fact, I was set to try Shelton, a navigator, a candidate far '
washed put the case of a mkn who at present, by It' the boxing list, and his first effort was promising.
hours hard taboo,- for .ls fief a in the week, is just able I
lie
was matched to fight Lancaster next Tuesday.
decently to support himself and a family ;it is easy,to I The honourable Dutch Gentleman who deals itt ;
suppose that such an advance might take place in the paragraphs, and deteriorates his neighbour's pial.
price of bread, as would render it necessary that he I perty by stabs in the dark, says, that he has practised
should labour 18 hours a day in order to command the .
business for forty years, with unimpeachable lute-
same
means of support. What must be the conse- gat), ; but we enquire—who 'will assert the same ?
quettee ? We hope, for the honour of human nature, : Detected in his mat-practices, he becomes restive un-
it `would he universally admitted that the price of the der exposure ; hut, although he challenged combat,
'titan's labour should he increased. If men were ° shrinks from the conflict.. lai
v. e repeat, as on a former
mere machines, if they were 46. dumb beasts without occasion, let it fret his hours of malignancy to hear
'discourse of reason," then ittdeedahe priCe el labour • that the Public, always generous, patronise the pre-
might strictly depend on • the 'dement for It; bee split
Lessery-, distinguished for a liberal Scheme, and
since; workmen have " feelings, sense, and utter-1 flock ha- the
,Office of MARTIN, 8, Corntdll, who
'ants.," we May venture to attain that they will never; with unexampled liberallity, converts.tfiitianks in
work 18 beers iusteed of 12 for no other purpose-1 the Wheel. to an inferior prize, by: his- gratuity of
than to keep down the price of labour, and ultimate- those two admirable Engravings, The Modern Pro-
-).y to gratify the. avidity of the landholder. If, u 1 osetheus; and Britannia and the Sieei Champlatth
frequently may happen, additional employment can- 1 or Modern Christendom restored.'
licit be Risen to the workman, then in the case of an
,`'advanced price for bread, he and his family may be
reduced to beggary. The effe3t of any measure for
raising the price of bread is -therefore necessarily
either to advance the price of labour, and thus to in-
jure the manofacturing interests of the country, or
to drive the most industrious and useful,classes of the '
people iii crowds to the workhouse. I
. Witisinstbe -last twenty years, or singe the C/n...j
meneement of thet revolutionary war with France,,
the value of hind in Northumberland has been
trebled. Numberless are the reasons which have,
led to this extraordinary rise in the value of landed
property, bat among the principal we may eitu.l
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merate the greittly increased consumption of corn,
, ,
and the produce of pasture, consequent oft the war ;
the high rates of freight and insurance to which kite
importation of foreign corn was subject; the Ame-
rican Embargo and the Continental System. These
causes have now ceased to operate, and the land-
holder, who has long profited by them, must prepare
himself to experience, in common with the merchant
and ship-owner, a considerable diminution in the
value of his property. - s
It certainly does appear twits that. were
Laws entirely abolished, no' great harm woold be
done to the agricultural interests of the kingdom--;
In point of fact the Corn Laws have fog some years
past been completely a dead letter; they have been
no restraint upon importation, and yet agriculture
has continued to flourish, the value of land lets in-
creased, and rents have increased. Experience his
sufficiently shown that corn can never be imported
to an extent injurious to our own growers. When

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So strong was the feeling amongst all classes yes-
terday, 'on the subject of the treatment of the Prin-
cess of WALES, that certain persons . were Indus.;
telously occupied its spreading a report that the
Queers had been misunderstood by the Princesi of
Was.r,s ; and that het MAJESTY had written an ex-
planatory lett.* •to her Royal Highness, in conse-
quence of the Princess of W.4.le's answer to the
(lutes, of the 421 th of May. •
We are, therefore, indliced to publish the three
notes Subjoined, which would have been unimport-
ant but for this miserable subterfuge, which the pe-
xusal of them will completely expose ; and the pub.
1k are now in possession of the whole Correspond•

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DUBLIN, MAY 28.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DIAL, May St.—Arrived hi MajestOs ship Canton
with the Rariii, Metcalfe, Fairlie, Charles Mills, anti David
Stott, Last Indi.uneo ; indispensable and Maria, from_the
South Scns. and are sailed far the River. The remainder of
the East Is, lantea are nul yet round the South Turelaut, but
will reach the Dorms next I ',bd.

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PORTIIICIUTN. MA Y SI —Arrived the Haat tr,
fr as Lisb at. with the loss of an anchor aid cable I Wilber-
titre, Conk, for the Onarns. bAnil to
.11 tlif his Mojestol
ships Snap and Cracker,. from C herb u rtth t four transpnris frail
the Mediterranean. *ad a fleet is 'speeded latiurly at the Mdtiter
bank, undir c‘intat of his Maje,ty's ship Saracen; parties' ,rs
tninorrorr.••••Sfilled his Majta:y's Ships carnet, I)esternits, and
Griper,for Chertitires.ss-Pasted by far the I)oans, his Ma
Carnwallis. with the FAA ladin fleet, whalers., ate.
staler eirntity.—llis Majesty', ship Redwing is appoi:ded eon-
,tray for the Mediterranean, instead of the Peruvian. ‘
FA 1,1‘11111711. M Y. c9.—The Chesterfield parlirt arrived
yesterday t had a passage of '36 days. from Halifas t and the
PriecettsChnrlotte packet a'so arrived yesterday, from Hour
drape t • bid a passage sf nine tiny,.

yliruerrtt. Moir the Margaret. Omar,
front ',Tilton, bound to Dublin. bias captured. an the 27th inst.
by the American privateer Surprise, of fourteen, eon.. and
recaptured the following day by hit Majesty's ship Fox-
hound. Captain Oinay, of the Margaret. saw the Surprise'
caviare six or seven vessels belonging to the same Bret. which
were all likely to be retaken by the Forheini.d. I>ut write Of
'them have yet arrived here.—Crime in the Gloire,
Yrinreu
kovsl, and Aigrette frigate?, and a lii:e of-haute sbip
French). tviib British prisoners.—Also arrived hie MajesWe
'hip Fgniont, front Boardeatix. nod hi; Majestv's.shap Zeal ay.
f•-at Tinsque Roads, with British pii.onerv.—Soilvd his Majes-
X3's ;lap OrrOes, with a convaT for Bnurdcaux.
ANDIELIt LITTER IMON EI.TXOUTE, DATED ITAT 9.

" The Portuguese brig Flor de Levis, Capt. A hrus, js just
arrived from Figuiera. Oo Sunday last, in tire Biy of Biscay,
she fell is with two French frigates, under the tri-coloured
Sag ; they had been ont some time, and had taken, a few days
before, a British ship from Liverpool, and they stated they had
destroyed a number of veuelsduring their maize."

Those stage coaches, which are primed with the
Royal Patent Anti-Attrition Composition, travel
frem 40 to 60 miles a day, for four or even five
weeks together, without having occasion to take off
a wheel, for an'expence of less than nue, shilling ;
and as any carriage, by the use of the Composition,
follows lighter ; so the draught to the horses is much
ea•etr, and carriages travelling post, go in perfect
Pewit/ from it to Iboo miles, as in going that
eiPtatWe there is me 'nation to take out a lioch-pin.

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the sanguine hopes we had weight with the iAtillature, woi
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