The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-15 00:00:00

MAT THURSDAY.

Wingate/I Undl•swn Tickets and Sl.nres nee selling by
4: 4, l'.•utrsetor, No. 19, turtshiil, aad Yd, Oxford-
street. TAndon, who :Attired moJ sold. in inelast few ths,
2.1147 P MAIM 7.093 !LOW
796 21.010 2,Vti Y OOO
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4,133 20.9Uit &e. &r.
CARROLL shared ■nd sold F..tar Capital Priitta that la ere
drawn the First Day, Y7lh

Copyitultk. Twickenham.
TO BE SOI.;) BY AUCTION.
1:y Mr. LANGDON,
itSic George inn, Twickenham, on THURSDAY. May IS,
Iw,u, at Ind u'Clock, k Order of the Proprietor, in Six
Lots.
lIX COPYHOLD subai-tr.tial Brit:!‘ DWF:LLING -
b 7 HOUSES. Militate in iiteatt-nliey. Twieitenham, let to
1304 Ililleeetable tenants-at-a :t rental of n 11)
&4 pomade fourteen per *Nese premises
bate reetatlycuderrnne a th :rough repair, anJ are held at
a small annual quit-rent of one •Itilling.
Fell particulars n:ay be heel at the Mtar and Outer, Rirh-
mood: Phoenix, Islet/or:it: Mr. Wertern. Nn. $B, Castle-
street. ilolborn; sod Jolin Lr ngdou. Auction Rooms, Broad-
way. near Ludgate-hill, and Blaelltmathddll.
ANGEL INN.

uts.-r.II"IS7tAL OFFICE. !'UIt TRAVELLING.
THE following. AI .1i LS and oilier COACHES
Co irom the ahoTe Ina :- -
Paris ttoy at Mail, via Dover Tuesday and Friday Nights,
at •vielr e.

Portsmouth and Gosport Mall. through Godsluting. Pe-
tersield, and Ponies, ever: I:sc.:lag at a quarter past 7,
and Sunday at half past 6. tin its ►rritd a packet sails to
tat. isle of Wight, to comey passengers and parcels ; and a
Mail Coach sets off to Chichester, through Drayton, Havant,
Ernan orth, &c. _ .

Gloucester and Milford Mail, through Henley. Oxford,
and Cheltenham, every Eve..i.vg a quarter past 7, and Sun-
da y at half-past O.
Dover and Canterbury Mall. throneh Gravesend. Chat-
ham. and Foversham, ever) ,remit at a (p.urter past 7. and
Sunday at half past 6. From. Canterbury. passengers and par-
cels are conveyed to Deal. Margate. Itainsgate, Sandwich,
te.: and from Dover, parcels arc conveyed to Follstoue,
bandeate. ily the, Dimcaurch. Romney. and Ly dd.
Arundel and Bognor Post-roach, through Billinglturst,
Monday. %% ednesday, and Friday, a quarter before 7.
Cath and Bristol Pout-cerrh. to carry only four inside,
through Rending. Marlborough, Caine, and Chippenham,
every Moraine at 6.
Its% and Br( stol Light Post-coach, every Afternoon at half
past 2.
Bath Light Post-coach, in two days, to carry four inside,
Armtek Maidenhead. Reading. Marlborough, Desires, and
Alulkshals, Monday. K erinesday, and Friday Morning... at
N. This !Oath is chiedy intended for the accommodation of
families. Invalids. &e. sem cannot undergo the fatigue of
such a distance in one dsv. _ _

Ilrightssu Light Post-coach, through Reigate and Cuck-
held. every Morning at 8.
Post-coach, to carry only four inside, through
Henley and Oxford, every Morning at a quarter before O.
01k-heater. Bognor. and Petworth Post-coach. Monday,
AT,-Inestlay, and Friday 'Mornings. at a quarter before 7.
Doter and Canterbury Liyht Post-coach. Monday, Toes-
d3:.. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday Mornings. at 7.
Dolt'lasing and Golldford Telegraph Coach. through Ash-
abitd, Erma. Leatherhcad, are. Tuesday, Thursday, and
nsturday Murniugs. nt 9.
Littlehampton. Arundel, and Petworth Coach, Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at a quarter before 7,
except Sunday.
Kendal. Liocaster. Preston. Kirby, Lonadale, Bolton,
Iliorley. Or utkh rk , and Uarstang, Post Coaches, every a fter-
t:oon at Fite 1,--Itearded.
Doialmitig and Guildford Telegraph Coach. through
hi 'Exton, Dillon. Cold:cm. and Ripley, on Monday. Weil-
..rstts y, and Friday Mornings, at 9. and every Sunday
!..rning at 7 precisely, and returns to London the saute
Outtlolteing and Guildford new Coach. through Merrow.
Laudon. Horseley. Ettin!zlinri. Leatherhead, and Epsom,
lorry Afternoon at 3. except sundae.
NORTHERN COACHES.
York. Newcastle. and Edinburgh Poaches, and to all
parts of the North, et mil Morning. at a quarter past S.
Manchester, Lancaster, Kendal. Rochdale. Huddersfleid,
Bradford, Leeds, Hallifax, Rotherham, and Sheffield.
cos,!,es, daily.
CARRIERS,
To Twickenham. Brentford. and Isleworth, every Mon-
th). Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.
EAMES and Cu., Proprietors.

Parcels and Packages are safely and expeditiously Mill-
ie) ~.1 from this inn to ever) City, Ton u, Village. and
Cowry Seat in thc foilow Ceunties, viz. t Berks. Ducks,
Cornwall, Devon. Dorset. Hants. llerec.trtt. Oloneester,
Oxford. Somerset, Surrey. Sussex. Wits. Worcester.
South Wales, all par:s of the 141 e of W Wit. Jersey. littera-
try. aid all parts of France : and to all Pars of tht North
• Take notice, that no package. containing ;lass, china,
lialehrs, plate, cash. or Hank notes. however small the
Wee, will be accounted for, if lost or damaged; nor any
Eher parcel or paiseug, is luggage. of more than 31 value.
unless specified ns such when delivered at the Office and
P*4l for accordingly
Neat Port-Chaises, &c. at Ilsc shortest notice

The following is the Report of George Webb Hall.
Esq. Chairman of the General Committee of Manage-
ment f9r the Agricultui al Associations in Great Britain
and Ireland, !Haile to the said Committee at Hender-
son's Ilote!, on 'Alonday, the Ist day of May, 1820,
and approved of by the same :.-•-
" lientlensen—l have to report to you, that in exe-
cution of the triNts rev bt.fl in this Committee by the
General alc •ting held in this place, on Monday, the
totk day of Oct. last, I have ta;,rn upon myself to
send to the I }lief Magistra:e in every town in Eng-
land, Walt It, Scotland. and irelaii.l, on.i to circulate,
in (ration:: other parts if the l'nite,l hingdum, copies
of the origin and proceedings of tl.e Agricultural As-
societies's in Gnat tiritain, which has produced a very
considerable etrect in confirming, eremling, anti en-
larging the Associations then formed, and has added
many new associations to the general cause: that I
have held a most extensive correspondence with almost
every county ;n England, •nd with several in Wales,
in Scotland, and in Ireland, as will appear by the
bundles of letters now laid on your tr.l.le for your In-
spection and perusal; and I have particular pleasure
in reporting to you, that the Associations generally,
hare acquired nu inconsiderable
and consistency since 1 had last the honour of meeting
you in this place.
Vetelenien—We are now assembled for the pur-
pose of ente.ing tot one of the most arduous tasks ever
before confided in this or :my other nation to so small
a number of men ;—tnen too that are inexperienced
and untried in the path u Welt lies before them—an-
aided by power—unstreported by patronage—and
unprotected by interest : in short, I may fairly de
scribe ourselves as men destitute of every supposed rs
quisite for the nudertaliug in stirch we are about to
embers, except the energies of our own minds, and
the justice of our cause :—and supp,rted only by those
who have hitherto hero considered—but most mis-
takenly so considered, as I shall prove in the sequel—
as the most incotoideralde r:ass of men in the nation,
vim the Cuitivators of the Soil of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.

Bat, Gentlemen, what we want in patronage we
will supply by facts ;what we want in interest by ar-
guenents, and what we want in political power, we
will ntstain by train and ;iistice, which, wp►n respect-
fully and iiroreriy sitiimitt-ci to the British Legisla-
ture, have never yet been pleaded in lain. With the
example, therefore, be:*ore our eves, of the final suc-
cess and triumph of 11r. Wilberforce in the instance
of the slave trade, after su many defeats, I urge you
to think of nothinz lint ultimate success; well know-
ing that until Heil>h agriculture shalt receive apigli
protection with her Commerce and manufactures, it
will be impossible to carry it on with advantage to
the country or ; e;.elit to the I tiltivator, and that the
declension of our agriculture must prove the destruc-

tion of both one commerce and our inanitto tures.
Gentlemen, I will not cont.' isl front ~on that the
most ilitfit uit point we shall have to encounter, is the ,
opinion which men of all ranks and descriptions, not
only in the United in, but throughout Europe,
have imbiLeti, viz. That the amazing wealth and
psi .ver which this mighty nation has flisylayed, is de.
rived from her commerce and manufactures, rather
than from her agriculture: and therefore it is that the
interests of our agriculture have been fur centnrics
past more or less sacrificed to the supposed, although
mistakes, interest of her commence and manufactures.
But those who investigate this question more pro-
foundly will ascertain that it is from the unceasing
industry and energies of her inhabitants, protected as
they are by her udrivalled Constitution, the fertility
of her soil, her bonnilless mines of coal, and the union
of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, in one
and the same people, that the United Kingdom of
Ureat Britain and Ireland has surpassed the whole
world in wealth and power, as she has in arts and in
arms; anti that all the present sufferings of her people
arise simply and solely for want of preserving a due
equilibrium between her agriculture, her commerce,
and her manufactures. She has sacrificed the former
to the mistaken interests cf the two latter sources of
her wealth and power; aid being well assured that
no redress can be expected until this Committee shall
satisfy the legislature, his Majesty's Ministers, and
the public, of the dependance not only of the com-
merce and manufa lure of this country, but of the re-
venue also upon her agriculture. I have spared nei-
ther time nor pains to demonstrate this fact by such a
comparative statement of the profits of etch to the
country at laige, as I doubt not, when it shall be tho-
roughly investi_ated, will set this question at rest for
ever. _ I therefore crave your must serious attention,.
and your most minute iuvestigatian of the following
comparative view of the profit to the United Kingdom
of Oreat Britain and Ireland, arising from her agricul-
ture, her commerce, and her asAtintActures; by which
it is clearly demonstrated, that the depreciation of her
wealth, occasioned by the import of foreign produce,
duty free—and which she might grow on her own
soil—amounts to a mush larger sum than she ever'
cleared by all hee commerce and manufactures put to
gather, whether for home consumption or foreign
markets: from whence it may be fairly inferred, that
all her present embarrassments arise from this single
cause. Dr. Colquhoun, in his " Treatise on the
Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire,"
estimates the property created in Ureat Britain sad
Ireland in the year ISI t-13, as follows:
Agriculture, and all its branches C 318.817.814
Minas aid minerals, coals, dm. 9.000.000
Alaueractures in every branch 114.130.01.10
Inland trade in all 04 branches 31,800,0110
Foreign rommercJ and shipping 46.373.70
Coastiag trade %OMNI)
Fisheries, exclusive of the colonial fisheries
of Newfoundlan t - 1.100.000
'i Chartered sad rrirste Isaakers 11,1100,00 ti

Total

1 4114111.3 n

Agriculture, and all its hrtinehey. inOreat 3ritain
and Ireland
Of this creation, I ma. (*iffy est'inate one-fourth
therrenrator profit I.i the landowners for
frrnaldritain and Irv!awl - - - 34,981,406
To the cultivators of the t.oil for the profits of
stock, skill, and capital, 1 allow three-fourths
of this sum as clear gain. viz. for Great Britain
and Ireland, 40,053.304 i., of which I estimate,
for the cultivators of Great Britain. four-fifths 39,312.664
To the cultivators of the soil of Ireland, one-fifth 8.130,889
'tithes for Great Britatu alone, in 1814 - - 1,7114,808
Deduct these four sums from the amount created,
and we leave 110,237,01 N. for wages, maintenance
of working cattle, seed, poor's rate and taxes, de.
Mines and minerals, coals, de. 9,000,0401.
Of this creation I reckon 111 per cent., or one-
eighth, for the lord's share - - - - 1,124.000
The like for the farmers or workers of the mines 1,123,000
Deduct these two sums from the amount created,
sad we leave 6.7110,00111. for wages and working
the mines, de. de.
Total profits on the production of the soil in 1813£99,814,608
By which it appears, that in 1313, the productions
of the soil of Great Britain and Ireland yielded to the
owners and occupiers thereof, the net clear profit of
99,940,608/. to be expended in the c untry, whereby
all ranks and conditions of men were alike benefitted
and employed, and the tuxes were paid with facility;
bat in 1614, by the import of foreign produce, ditty
free, or nearly so, the productions of the soil were de-
preciated one-half of their former value, and they have
since averaged a depreciation of ab ut one-third of
their value in I 613, whieh depreciation has diminished
the currency of the United Kingdom, and reduced the
value of every other specie. of property in the same
peopor.ion, and produced that universal stagnation in
every other business of which all complain, but of
which so few can solve the cause.
Manufactures in every branch, 114,240.000 i.
Of Ibis creation. I cannot reckon more, and I pre.
lame the manufacturers will not claim, as net
profit, than 1911 per cent. The residue of the
nom treated is nil capital, wages, and dead
charges ; the total profit therefore to Great Bri-
tain sod Ireland on all her manufacture* Is - 14,174,7110
Inland trade in all its branches, 31.500,00 W.
Of this creation, I reckon for the same reasons,
in AR.. RAM

rip i titisereiii Io n , the same IV,
Coasting trade. 9,000,0001.
Of this creation. the sense WI per cent, net profit 230,000
Fisheries, 2,109,0001.
Of this creation, the same 131 per cent. net profit 209.300
Chartered and private banker.. 3.3110.000/.
This being a creation of profit upon a capital of
40,700,0001. we carry the whole as profit - 3,300,000
Total net profit to the nation on all the hos‘ted
commerce and manufactures of Great Britain--
and Ireland only !!1 - - - - .2 46.020.4410
I will now proceed to cheek these results by the se-
veral payments on the property tax.
First, I deduct one-fifth of the sum of 54,204,106/.
above stated, as the rental of Great Britain and Ire-1
land, for the snare of rent on land in Ireland, notl
charged to the property tax, which leaves the sum of
43,383,5251. as the net rental of Great Britain,accord-
lag to Dr. Colquhoun's estimate. The payment to the
property tax in Great Britain in 1814-15 to Schedule
A. property in land, was 4,297,247/. which, multi-
plied by in, ascertains the rental of Great Britain,
according to the payments on the property tax, at the
sum of 42,972,4701. leaving only the trifling differ-
ence between the Doctor's estimate and the actual
payment un the property tax, of 391,11551. The first
item, theret,re, may be taken to be proved to demon-
stration as the profit from rent in lin-at Britain and
Ireland.
The next item is for profits to the cultivators of the
soil of Great Britain, 32,522,844/. They were charged
and paid to the property tax the sum of 2,176,228/.
which, at the rate of 7i per cent. on their pr rfits for
England and Wales, and I believe less for Scotland,
charges them with a profit of 29,016,373/. So that
here again we have demonstration, almost to a frac-
tion, of the truth of the Doctor's estimate, and of the
propor:i in of it which I have allotted to the cultiva-
tion of the soil of Great Britain as profit ;—for I ap-
prehend the allowances made to small tenants will
fully balance this difference.
1 have no mode of checking the estimate of profit
for the cultivators of the soil of Ireland, but the
amonnt is so reasonable anal so prop .rtioned to what
we can check, that I think no roan will diartrie any
,slight variation which might exist between the sum I
have estimated and the fact.
The next item is for tithes 2,732,8981.: this being
the amount returned to Parliament for 1814, no man
can deny that this was so much net profit from the
soil of Great Britain in that year.
The last item is for mines, minerals, and coals ; and
supposing that Dr. Colquhoun is right in the aggre-
gate, no man can assert that the respective proportions
of profit which I have assumed, are at all unreason-
able, but the fair and usual returns of profit actually
derived from the working of mines in general.
Thus have I established, by facts and figures, borne
out and corroborated in every instance by the actual
payments to the property tax, which amount to de-
monstration, that the net clear income of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, arising from the land, and the skill,
capita!, and industry of the cultivators of the sail, did
amount, in the year 1813, to the enormous sum of at
least ninety-nine millions eight hundred and forty
thorium, six hundred and eight pounds ; and we have
the evidence of facts before us. that, up to that year.
Ind as lung as this rtr.-am of wea!th was re:eived

lair, lEPollio,llol.
per cent. net profit 3,796.718

and flowed through every vein and artery of the State:
our taxes were paid with facility, our labourers were
fully employed, our commerce and our manufacture.:
flourished, and all ranks prospered in defiance dors
heavy taxation—at that time much gre:lter than it i.ll-
- But, in Inl4, as soon as for; gn productions,
which might be grown upon our soil, were admitted
duty-free, or nearly so, to compete in our own markets
with our own productions, the agrieulture of t'•
country was first paralised, most of our productiors
fell 50 per cent., while sales were made with difficulty
even at this depreciation; confidence in men and in
property were alike annihiLted in a moment, and all
our subsequent embarrassments are. but the effects d f
that mistaken policy which luduced the Legislature i
1814 to &ten M the popular, but fatal cry of eheao
bread; and to permit the import of any productiors
which might be Weed from our own soil upon terms
which might produce an artificial reduction in the
value of our own produce.
Bat let us now compare the Doctor's estimate c f
,property created by our comittercz and manufactu:e,,
and the profits which I have uliotted on such creation,
with the payments which the merchants and Ul4l3lafat:-
hirers have made on the property tax.
Estimating the profits all round, on the sums cre4t-
ell, at 121 per cent., except the ..hartered and private
bankers, which, on a capital of 411,700,000/. the Doc-
tor has estimated at considerahl> 1.-ss than 1•24 per ern:.
we obtain a sum total for the prol.s on mannfactur..
in every branch, inland trade in all its brancht•,
foreign commerce and shipping, roasting trade, fitlo
cries, and chartered and private hankers, of no moro
than the nnm of 25,1125,•111-/. for Great Britain and
Ireland. Of this sum I write off une-fifth for the
share of Ireland, which leaves a net total for Great
Britain alone of 2.2,1241,375/. for profit, and no more ;
and I then turn to the payments under the property
tax, anti find, schedule 11, trades pia 2,000,C00
which again proves to a tlemonstratii n how nearly th..
Doctor's estimate of the truth is to the fact.—For if
the merchants and manufacturers of Great Britain
really paid to the property tax u:.on profits to ti.e
amount of 20,e00,0110f., and actually made to mere
than 22,420,3751. no man can say, when all the con-
tingencies of trade are taken into the aecuun!, that
they did not pay most handsomely and honouraitl) :o
the property tax.
'1 bus, Gentlemen, have I at last placed upon a rm k,
which all the merchants and wanticturers in (=rt.t
Britain can never assail with effect, the true Trorer-
tions of profit to this great nation arising hem her
agriculture, her commerce, and her manufactures.
The productions of the soil of the United King-
dom.. to IBIS, did yield? prptit to *a maim— -•
lemlAin • • . 913,414111.0(14
While her commerce Mad snanufattures, during
the same period, yielded a profit of only %i( ,4' i
Leaving a preponderance in favour of agriculture
and the productions of the soil, over commerce
and manufactures, of - - - 71.81.5, I:0
Or considerably more than twice the amount of I
the profits made by all the boasted commerce and ma-
nufactures of Great Britain and Ireland put together.
Yet this agriculture, this unfathomable mine of wealti.,
as long as it shall he duly prate led, has this great
nation sacrificed to the mistaken views of her niere haws
and manufacturers, who contend that they cannot rovi-
pate with foreign manufacturers in foreign nsari:--t-,
with their woollens, ther earthenware, their liarduar-,
and their manufuactures generally, unless bread
be artificially cheap in this country; and by w •ich
artificial reduction, a defalcation in the retums
the productions of our own soil for the last *lt
years, of considerably more than twice the amount
of all the profits ever it arse by our commerce 5...4
manufactures for both our ho.iie and um foreign
markets have amounted to, has arisen, ;,:al a great
proportion of our labourer., both agricithiral a,•4
manufacturing, h.-ye been thrown upon their pa 1.,•• 4
for subsistence. Such, gentlemen, are the fact', the
figures, and the results on which we ground our alp-
plicatioit to the Legislature for that protection, on all
the productions of our soil, which the merchants and
manufacturers have so long enjoyed, fur their
capital, and industry ; but the princiele anti policy on
which these claims rest, have been so fully enlarged
on in a former Report, that I will nut trespass on your
time by here repeating the arguments, and shall only
recommend to this Committee, and the whole British
nation, the most serious examination of the estimate
which I have now the honour to lay befare you, that
the same may be received, admitted. and acted upon,
if true, and if it shall bear the test of exantioaticol;
or be detected and exposed, if it shall be found to be
ineerrect and fallacious.
I cannot conclude this Report, gentlemen, withont
e ugratalating each of you, and ti e whole class of cul-
tivators of the soil tlirougbont Great Britain and Ire-
land, that I have at last established our pretensions to
the superior importance of the agriculture of this coun-
try over her commerce and manufactures, upon a basis
which it will be difficult for all the skill and ingenuity,
all the industry, and all the power of figures, in tt e
hands of the most able and ingenice.s bankers, mer-
chants, and manufacturers this kingdom can produce,

to impugn, or even to shake.
The data which Docti.rlquhoun has afforded me
are corroborated and borne out in every instance by
the payments of the property tax ; and from the stay,
spent of profits respectively which I have formed, we
have this glorious result, viz. That the cultivators • f
the soil of the United Kingdom, did, their skill,
capital, and industry employed in ag it-gluier in l t. 13,
earn for the landowner., the clergy, and taentse.ves, a
net clear profit of 99,840,60 W. while, in the &oar
period, all the boasted results of all the toot erte
and manufactures of the United hingdo.r•, both at
home and abroad, amounted to nu more than a prcfit
of 28,0 t 5.-168/.
If this statement will not convince the Legisl It•tre,
bis Majesty otinistrrs, at d the itriash publt.•. of t..e
,stetice tit, po!icy, and the nest vit.) of Csi.t.,l Ft otet