The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-09-08 00:00:00

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' - .ON ON 7110 CORN LAWS. ought constantly td be in grass and till
----ime--- ditional' profit that is made upon the
4:.- u 'in corn, by its ' high.price will hot, in .
tgOtIgIUUDED FRObt OUR PAPER OF SATURDAIA
make up the loss upon the ether two-thi
6. It is said, that there is a danger in depending at all events, there can be no doubt that
on foreign nations for food. corn lands at a distance from manufactut.
The great deficiency of our crops in 1799 and would have been much higher if there had
1-800, was made up in a considerable degree by im- manufacturing towns in their neighbourhood,
lineations from other nations. Upon the failure of inhabitants would not only have been customers
..' the crops in France some years before, our Govern- corn at home, but also for butchers' meat, •
ment was said to use every means to prevent impor- other articles, which cannot be exported.
• tuition into that country without effect, notwithstand- ; 66 The taut of land can only rise," says
• i,tg the power of the British navy. If there were a " with the demand for its produce by people
;i, afee.iratle in corn no nation could prevent Britain pay for it, and that can only increase with
"•,:' from obtaining a supply, as the wants of this coun- her and riches of 'manufacture's, either at
try would be supplied from the markets to which we abroad. It is obvious that it is raised mar'
hid access ; and as oar demand would raise the price manufacturers living at home than'whee '
In these markets, an importation into them would a foreign country. 'finite, as their
take place from the nation which had prohibited its riches increase with the.cheapeess of common
-surd supply to Britain. and as the demand for butchers' meat
Mr. Malthus says, " if things had been left to corn falls in a manufacturing country, it
heir natural course, there is no reason think that the that the greater the importation of cone
commercial part of the society would have increased and the lower its price, the greater is
be and the surplus produce of the cultivators." It of the number and riches of the peopl
ta obvious, however, upon this author's principle, that the demand for butchers' meat, and
oultstthere were unoccupied land, the surplus pro- house, gardens, and other articles of convenience
duce Yould only increase in an arithmetical pro- luxury."
greleksoo whereas the manufacturers, with a sum- " The advantage which the owners of ,
4ety. of feed, would increase in a geometrical pro- from a 'high price of corn is also balanced
4 pion. Bence, as there is no unoccupied land degree by its raising the wages of the poop.,
in Britain, the whole increase of people must go into services they require, and the price of manufacL
the class of manufacturers or become beggars. As no .
and also by raising the poors' rates. to- , .
acre Labourers are employed to execute any work, , 66 A rise in the price of• food reduces foe a time ' ►
Bell, now dead, lived at Lime-kiln Nook,
li 51. a year for liberty to quarry lime : he
Alum what are thought necessary, few of the in- . the •
rate of wages, by obliging many to hire theM- ' who
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creased population can obtain employment in agri- present when Mr. Charlton demanded rant from
selves who live independently when it is cheap; but was
• Jackson fi4 the limestone quarry, end there was
culture, and therefore if they continue in the country
when the prices continue so high that the wages of
_, -some dispute respecting the rent ; he knew Mr.
they must either become manufacturers or come upon labourers cannot procure the necessary quantity as • . •
Ralph, whhse' lime-kilos were near the Defendant's,
te public as beggars. When the number of the 100- food and families,
for themselves
but he never knew he sold lime.
pie who have no land becomes greater than the spare
generates disease, and what it does not destroy re- !
William Rowlin said he' wrought for Robert Bell
food of the country can support, the surplus must duces to beggary. In proportion to the number •
'emigrate or die of hunger, unless they can purchase that die and become beggars, the competition for for four years, about twenty-seven years ago ; people
.leod from foreign countries with manufactures, andwages and the demand for food is got their coals front IVarnetfell Colliery, the Duke
work is less rise,
;pre allowed to import it. As the labourers in the of Norfolk then held that colliery, also that of
less and tends to redoce its price. Hence it appears
• provinces of Ireland and Scotland, in which there ave. that the, owners of land cannot gain very much by
Hewer-hill, under the Plaintiff. Bell told him he
•no manufactures, ale in a much more miserable stale, paid ss. yearly for quarry ink limestone, and had
raising the price of common food, even supposing
-Ihaelhe labourers in the manufacturing provinces of that it did not depress the price of the other produc-
liberty to take coal from the Duke's colliery, which
these countries, it is surprising that Mr. Ma he did • 11-sometimes got his ss. back, and soMe.
. lions of laud, and supposing that the labourers could • . v .
&hould impute the present distress of the labourers to , thing best . to driik, when he paid for histoil to
not emigrate. As great numbers have, however mai- -
'the diffusion of the arts of manufacturing. Tins des. the Duk " reward, and he was net to have his
Iguated, and great numbers have been cut off •by the
• Wits is solely occasioned by the people having be- quarry ass he get his coal there. aft ll s .
' war the wages of agricultural labourers have ad-
;cairn toe numerous for the.food of the country, and ' variCed nearly in proportion to the advance in the • A. persin-of • the name of Simpsotrgive 'similar
theft being prevented from importing it from foreign of food. The of the importationof testimony.
i• . price
couutrietr. , food, has necessarily stopped the demand for manu- The Dike 'of Norfolk's ate*ards proved that
It has been saki that there are considerable tracts'. factures' that would have been exported as payment, his Grace' leased the royalties
.'Orrsowerby,.and Se-
tif .caste land in Buitain, susceptible .of improvement, and ruined many thousands of manufacturers of par- , bergham, lied confirmed what 'related to the
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and it is improper to allow importation till the coun- , _
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tieular kinds of goods. lime-kilns. The Duke of Detinshitia stewards did
try is all improved ; but as the owners neither im- it As the effects of these laws in raising the price the same.
pi.. . these lands themselves, nor let them on such of corn are obvious and immediate, whereas the Joseph Martindale -ProVed the custotaary right of
terms as to induce others to do so, it is cruel to pre- effects of the cheapness of corn and salt meat in in- the tenants to quarry limeitone ; and that Bell had
i'etti the people who have no land from importing : creasing the number and riches of the penpie, and ; sold great quantities' our of the manor: • •
4rood when the waste state of these lands are not int- consequently increasing the produce, and raising the I Joseph Monk house stated 'to the'ininie effect.—
far.
ble to them. rent and value of land for other purposes than corn He added, that, before Bari time, lie never knew
Malthus says, that the increasing population are not so obvious and of slower operations it is not any lime sold out of the manor' • JaCks, indeed, had
trief the countries from whence food is obtained, niay Iso much to be wondered at, that the promoters of done so,, but his quarry and' kilns were upon his
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s' tmetely prevent, them from, having any to spare ; Notwithstanding the Court continued to sit from
444 i art thl •• .5444, tite place gradually in the course the effects upon the rent and value of land. But , ;Robert Jackson`,' aged tt, Who had lived on the * Monday morning till Satunlay evening, a number
N f flinty nits,, If e'er ;as theiateinotion of the 1
there can be no apology for their meal brand
.'swinor of Sewerbk for fifteen
:years, gave his eils-1,4 very interesting lifials were left over until peat,
it; rplif it, iise tilt price,pf .footi....ist ),#, country,
\ them should have been so much mistaken respecting : own freebbit. ..
selfishness in pretending. that their t. Will so ii'Mkce elabstantfallfehe iiinti' as*the preeedingirtt. lyear. ' Amongst others; was one relating to the
' ''''.6" d gra' 'll • "KIM' the Perele&ltalii Pl° qua".tivf ',snake corn plenty, when their sole intention' was to !' nesse!: •• --. ----- --1-- I claims of Sir Wastel Briscoe, Bart. and his tenants
ANat illiebtp Ned' at the tieiegkes sue land wilt be
iiette
raise its price and the rent of lands, though capacious L, Joh i . r staled •in bvidebee, that, Little...to. lits Thursby, to a share of Westwaid Common,
nioreitia inure enriched' bjl4,ortation eud,preyt.._that is propekiioa as weeig_4i.,,ANfilitiliw p 0,41.4 1110;414411 . Febt the Dottialf -.Devonshire to desist which Is' now in the'cutivse of enclosure. This
tialie,ltui/mi *Pa as jrni".'"'"l'rit's in atirig`ol"- t. umber of paupers and their miseries must istreellie:". • from wiikag- the limestone quarry,. and informed , trial keeps the Whole common, consisting of
4(lWe-or triple the quantity of food may, be diegoot '• _ _,','„ ... l.' •' • the Dukraf Norfolk's steward of the affair, who , some thousand acres, uncultivated for another'year,
ve;idiseforei. then it is meat absurd acrd cruet. 10.
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• I said be sireveld actritaint his Grace and obtain an as all the tenants have been ordered by the Commis-
'bi4 rite the poor by preventing an importation of feod„ - ' ' BONAPARTE. .
•- . API : anaviest..- itvrtifteiwiards told Bell that hecould not stoners to desist from &pasturing it, as they were
-xiter. plenty is to be got, because that supply may . . .-..Naia-- -•-• •' guartinteel birn, es the kiln was upon the Duke of about to appoint to each tenant his share; and this
f,(adisaltylesoen some centuries hence. • Vapoleen's Manner of 'Mitt since he too
or ,11 Portland% privetwestare and he .did not lease the year the griming for cattle being ezFeeditigly scaice,
Mr. men concludes this subject by a section in • 664" cif •
tlif his' Wale empire, is thus descritie o at. s
-c • •i•i -royalty of it. tTlielprdperty afterwards-came to the'hardship upon the numerous ftrmers have been
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wittoltieesquires into the effects of the corn laws, . communication
gip, tely received front a Ge eptisa, the
~ •.0 - Duke of Devonshtrel . , severely Telt:
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, ,on the rent and value of land. , Here he sets out. win" was of a party (three in ilvAie
if) PlitA" • ' Richard Bell, aged 91, knew Lime-kiln Nook 'We must, however, in justice acknowledge that
s• .th stating, that the corn laws have not raised, from Leghorn th . e latter end of Se lOR sta eecariiie Pl,th "'• • L! k time he . 9
iiireq,„.• : • f•okyearS ago, at (nne',
nor in their nature are calculated to raise, the rent . of Ilba --
to the Island .. . . t, .;,i,, •i• 1: '' Bell's lands at ilifeelguards, from Relph ;he also through the business, and lamented that the Assizes
or the value of land, the ultimate end for which they: 66 After landing at Porto Ferteji;•, we were oe,o„abt .
• • anted it from Robert Bell, and it was the com- were not held twice a-year, though this_ measure
were enacted. sired to give in writing our names, to.expiaitt .thei men custom for the people to lead lime from the would' undoubtedly be attended with Considerable ex-.
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The lands occupied by the inhabitants of every ' nature of our business at Elba, to what nation we '
same place. t pence, both to the county and the gentlemen upon
prpulous town, form, in the strictest sense of the last came. 'These re-
belonged, and from whence
.we. ,
1 .44'his witness, notwithstanding his advanced age, the circuit. But as a great part of
.the business be-
r+ ride, an importing country, and the lands which quisitions being complied with, we were very hose- .. ..
! seas nee-falsely collected, and excited the admira- fore the Court related to the division of commons,
scpply these towns with corn and cattle, are export- tably received, and commodiously lodged in the town.,/
.. into • the don of the whole Court.—Mealguards is under the which was temporary, it was to :IP 'hoped that Ow,/
ii.gcountries. According, therefore, to the expected occurred that on walking . ...
It' fortunately . snake of Devinishire, but is not parcel of the manor • would be generally settled next dear. ,
earls of the corn laws, the rents of lands in the the next morning, we were overtaken. by the or.
country , swede Sotterhy.]
Emperor sad taro of his attendants, who were on, ! Another cause, Warwick v. (Alit's, which :as
caentry districts should be higher than in the town , `Mr. Berbera Bell, daughter Of Mr. George Bell,
horseback: He stops, saluted. us with great Oral ; left over, had excited general and lyvoly interest.
districts, where the prices are depressed by import- h°r • s - •seee farmed the lime-kilns under Mr. Jackson
asion. The fact, however, is the reverse--the rents proceeded on his tour.
batty and politeness, add then
, tweet y years ago, stated that her father burned and we.. respecting the letting uf, newly eccUuuled guourud, •
and was tried last year when A 'indict AM `4;itr•lefer
allands la' every town district rising in proportion During the ten days wt remained on the island,_we
I sold lime to * great amoont—never her father 'the Defendant. Warwick and auctioer farm s'ne •
*) the enemas* of the people and greatness of the had frequent opportunities
of seeing and conversing
SW be paid any acknowledgment, except the rent to
whose hatred to 1,-
tithes of the' parish of "W ' kail d stie ll * • nl.
isseortation. These causes invariably produce these with this extraordinary character,,. .
Mr Jacksea. Chapter of Carlisle, antirbroogh
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'items, 1:ot only upon the different districts of the the English, we understood,' was implacable. The
-George Robson farmed the kilns in question 30 cover Clhal l;• . f itokiedroikildkets st#.c.orami oir. . Alfas
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...Ames country, but upon different countries. ifol- inhabitants informed us that Napoleon generally years ago, and burned and sold 10,000 bushels the decis,n-at Coliates; teneesseatiabiainest from the '-
:sid for instance, has annually imported, and Po.
, the es-
rises at an early hour, and frequently visits .
yearly. He paid no acknowledgment to anntoht-/Court .of ]ti s. attach, to ibrisitlonarstii m 'fresh—,
;and has annually exported, corn for centuries; tremities of his dominions before dinner. In his,
1 except to Mr. Jackson, whose 'charge f6r 'reet-'trial : it was entered- No. 9 10 tbe• cause list,. bee')
set land in. Holland has not only given a much higher perambulating excursions he marks with great care I amounted tioilQguineas per annum. paned aver •ny .the: Judges, with!' certain remarki,
lent than land in Poland of equal fertility, but has such spots of ground as appear capable of agricul- Joseph Dodd, aged 60 years, remembered Joseph why*. ii is not Immo,"
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always been sold at a much greater number of years he conceives fortifi-
tura! improvement ; and where.Stoddart farming lame-kiln !Nook 30 years since ; : .
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seseavais......osulimds.; .1: • -.• ,tuli 1.• • ..
purchase of the rent. The principal part of Britain cations will be necessary, to protect the coast against I
i whence he led 40 cart‘loads of lithe io'ifreay, dis-
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;,icing occupied in raising corn, seems to have pre- the Barbary corsairs, whose sudden attacks and ;rant seven miles, and which does not appertain to 'I ' ,'"7lll,ll6ti'6iiiirt it appearit, that in tbli retlipicmsy .1
vented people from observing, that though land for dreadful excesses, the inhabitants have frequently
the manor of -fleefferby. i-• - *.dorirwttie the year, 181,kthe .4eaths ~*Sripi 4;476,
that purpose lets higher in proportion to the high price experienced. If the weather proves unfavourable
k i John Little; a telative of the Defendant, stated,' int Ai destertinltilM .til't)itintakitiat.4e4top, Rm,
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acorn, yet a higher rent still might be obtained for it 'he retires to his study, and will seldom spea to . it'in.flog in the reg ter, my
! that about thirteen years ago he was a partner desertl'imb 410.
4. „ , 5 . , 1! eg „
In the course of ,
for other purposes. 'llse high rent of land near all towns any one until dinner is announced. with the latter in the lime concern, for which they deaths' 16,469; .debelihr4i4664- militia,'deraths9loo,
is 'not owing so much to the high price of corn as to the afternoon he enjoys the
conversation of those - .
I paid a rent tettalr. Jackson, and did not know of desertions 1367.. la, 12.3,. deaths 18,00, dew.
?he demand for articles which can only be brought and
friends who have followed him into exile, . seems :
Defendant paying rent te any other person for the lions 6284; 'militia, eatloi 00, desertions 1368.
!rom a distance at a great expence. The richer and to feel a particular satisfaction in examining and i
same. I' .Pn Tuesday two girls were thrown from a swing
more numerous the inhabitants are in any district, • contrasting the different roues. of government that'
The Coasted fee the Defendant, in animadverting -le • Bartholomew-fair, one of whom had her .leg
the higher therefore will be the rents. 1' ,e land prevailed in former ages, and those which now regu- tipon the miters of this action, wet convinced that
late the European nations. During a conversation 'broken, -and ;the other received. a cut nn the head,
'war populous tow ha is high, not only on account of , it was that'of the stewards, and that the Duke of
which he held with us a few days before our dolor- . which is likely to be attended with most serious con-
the high price of produce, but also the greatness of •he : Devonshire knew nothing respecting it. It pot lfirn
,sequences.
lure, dot tart that Itit'thought the English nations . ,The father and mother :of the children
that produce. The quantities of ashes, soot, and , 1 ~., , in mind of katory concerning the' examination of a.st on by, and' witnessed the accident, and, tersiate,
• had reached the summit of human greatness, and . • i- 9 • •
putte.cent manure, are so considerable, that all the is. witness before the House of Lord : on a questilip tial •
ented their permission for the children to /* aide
_ . - 'tered, 't this day the most en-' - ' which was obi i pate - dangerous . t..,

The Jury brought in a verdict for the Plaintiff. ''
DAWSON V. DUKE OP NORFOLK AND OTHERS.
This was likewise au issue to try the right of the'
tenants of Martindale to a share of common upon
the above-mentioned waste-grounds of Hutton Soil,
now under inclosure. _ _ _ .

In this trial agyeat mass of evidence, both parole
and wt•itten, w, as produced to prove the right; and
the coutinl 'for both parties used their utmost &bill. '
ties in behalf of their respective clielt..
The Jutibc, in a peculiarly luminous manner,
are+ pp the intricate sutlject, and di,ected the
ry to gild for the Plaipliff, ,sbich they accordingly
ets,
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Aniiinist the evidence for the Plaintiff, a record
i liati 'given in, respecting a suit which the tenants of
Maitindale had with Andrew Huddle:ton, F'...q.
Li;v4 of the Manor of Iluttott Jots, • in 1690;
whittel.q.• a decree of the Court cf Exchequer• was
obtained in their favour. The Deleudavos• in this
1 business Upended one half of their estates. There
litstradition, that a person,, zealously active in this
otraited snit, walked on foot,. from Martindatle toLondon, in three days, in a pair of wooden . deg.
ailed boots ! 1 ! . .
Not less than 37 different suits depended upon
the preceding; but those who urged them agreed
to a compromise, and to take their . share ,of 1100
acres of the common. We undey,stapd. that the
amount of acres in the common mder inclosure is
3500. il

land is greatly eniiched, and even poor loud. pro-
duces great crop. Hence importation adds to the
produce of the country by increasing the produce,
whereas exportation of food impoverishes the land,
b 1 taking away the manure, and tempting the occu.
piers to exhaust it with crops of corn. An increave
in the numbfr and riches of manufacturers raises the
rents throughout a country by increasing the demand
hich led fresh,

might he fairly cousin, ~ p AY! '
lightened and' powerfirl natiou of the earth, although.
the population of Great Britain, including Ireland;
did not, as he understood, reach quite to 17 millions.
lie seemed to take great pleasure in speaking of
the Duke of Wellington, whose capacity, military
acquirements, firmness and conduct in the field, he
thought was never exceeded by any commander of the
present age, nor those who ftnurished in the proudest

•being put to him, the legality of _ _Jjected
to—after a consultation of two hours, it was agreed
rthe question shopld be put ; meanwhile, the Noble-
man who proposed it had forgotten its tendency, but
said he would pat another that was equally interest-
ing, which wit-44 How do you do ?"---66 Very
well, I thank you, sir," was the reply ; and all
that had been Said on this subject bore a resemblance
to it.

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for butcher's meat, which cannot he imports
—As the same quantity of corn must be given
to work cattle w hen dear as when cheap, the
expellee of improving poor land must increase
with the increased price of corn, and as such land,
after it is improved with lime or marle, ought to be
seldom in corn, the profits from the improvement de•
vcod much more upon the value of grass than the ya-
ks of corn. As more than two-thirds of a farm

_in such . amusements. ''' \-ti. •,. •
of '
The harvest is general lo theeownty ill' • ••
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and the wheats appear to have received little orm*'.:'
harm from the heavy rains, and promise a grile: •
abundance. t..
• Lin•',,,,,
A few days ago the coach that runs from ShrOtai;; • ..
bevy 'o Holyhead, in concequence of one 'et tlrsiil,,•.• '..
taking fright, ,fart,;''; ''•••*•t-
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era of the Grecian or Roman history."

horses _ , ran againsta,tornpike-gat#
The Juana directed the Jury to consider whether Corwen, with such violence ihit Ifi the itutlifie,.
the Defendant occupied this as his own freehold,! sengers were thrown off. One of then 3 kart isoctot
or held it as leasehold under the Noble Plaintiff ; fractured so dreadfully that he was not 42,00 to,
in the latter case the Defendant could not take survive more than a day or two. Several 1-4iverort
any limestone or other manorial property without gentlemen were on the coach, or in it, ,at the time of
leave. Ithe accident, but they escaped without injury, es-
After a few minutes consultation, a verdict 'Was! apt one gentleman, who was severely hurt in one of
giveu for thellaintift with is. damages. • his arms by.failioi betwesu the horses.

An English General Officer, w►o happened to be
present atilavre-de-Grace during the riot in conse-
quence of the exportation of corn, states, that the
soldiers showed no reluctance to interfere; that one
woman was severely wounded, others slightly, and
the mub was dispersed in a quarter of so hour.

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