The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-11-25 00:00:00

SIR —You told as. is 1811. that there could he no rests
at all, with sixty millions of taxes, without prices beteg
more than &wok what they ware before the IN?: tioW,
then, are there ea he rents, if there be sissy Minas. of
taxes,sed if prices be as low as they were before the war?
Yet you, in the Agricultural Report of 1821. told the
Landlords, that they would get rents. and good rentetol
Is that report yea cooked up the pretty doctrine, than
though we bad still a paper-money and Legal tender. anal
though the Batik dial not then pay in sovereigns, the
value ofowr catrrawy teas (an Iday 1821 minds
what too high"! Certaiely so moostroas • preposition
found its way upon paper, amongst any other To.
ple upon earth, aid never could have been tendered
r.
and received by any set of men living, except the preset ;
House of Gamow, who, in docility sad goodoiat..re
of this kind, exceed the whole world. A currency of be
high. value was a thing impossible, unless the taunt
gold had bees maliefiacr than it formerly war, •r the
pieces heavier, than formerly ; sad it was and is note.%
does, that the silver currency is less flee than it tome to
ha.. How could an ounce of gold be better, be re,nti
more, than an ousice of geld of the same fi smirk? '1 he
Object of this assertion was, to make the Landlords and
Farmers believe; that the prices weregot down to their
Shea low mark patiola coasequeace, of the trio Sig:.
wihre of our thew currency ;melte feed theca with a hope,
that, as the earrenpy got down to its proper mark, phi.
would rise agaia.ir, as you elegantly called it, rally.—
lost very little time in exposing the folly of all di.. ;
but. where there wasone to attend to me, there were the, .
wade to attend to you. Time, however, aid
a short time too, has decided tsetse*. as ; ends
the Landlords and Farmers now feel the efirets
of your No tirlssubk carreney. Of all the whole set
you ate the most closely placed dews. You sever caa
get out of your speech of 1814 ; that sensible *pleat, in
which you reported what 1 bad ohms said before tor.
anal for which speech the people of Havant learnt yeo
in easy.—Bat, in the Mail, you ware wrong then; fir
you, with your friend fair. W e (he celled you Lis
friend in 1818) wanted to keep up prices by • tore Bill;
while 1 insisted, at that emus times that se Cern Ihri
could keep sip prices if cash-paymeate row. This sets
is 1814, mind! While you and Mr. WESTERN sad the
like of you were poking about, like hats therm( Gay.
light, after Coro Bills to keep up pekes with, I le!(1 the
nation, that the riter must be put ma and kept ma, or
that the interest of the kid vowel be sedated, Of that
there must be a transfer of the estutes.—This was in
1814, mita! Who is fittest to manage public dill's.
thee ; you or 1 ?—lt is amain. bowever, that it is you
who have the management of a good part of do na ;
and, now, qoittieg yes, for the pretest, as a Statesman,
let me address to you a few words to your capacity of Ns.
goad Steward. You are our Lead dterartf, awl a
pretty large estate you have to manage. This 'Mee is
Nothing less than all theforests is the kingdom mid :a
the timber la them ; some Anadreds ef masers nod
mixes; and thousands of hones mad farms. And yet(
strange to say, this whole estate.wath, perhyp, a boa-
deed millions of mosey • few years t sod gm eerr.
should suppose, worth thirty millions of massy, yielas
to ibis wretchedly deluded cation a clear incase cf
Ask ahontfiftesa thonsaad pomade a year. as way he
siite.a. amount, mated in my Coffectioe emanate-
Pio. which 1 mast pelf off as • little hock the,
every Landloid is England ought to here is bi.
possessioo.--ean we think of this accurst with-
out astonishment ? Can -we think of the msey thee-
sands opus thousand, of acres of limit, rortrti
with timber; can we think of the eattiags t nthe
timber, of the esteem of the !laden-, the bark, lva
and top; can we think of them alone, to say gide, • f
tits /fiats, Amore, flosses, and Fenn*; can we think
of the fatties. of the timber alone, sad Ikea .thick of
the fifteen thousand a year, without exelaiutieg, r. What
" good, what a loyal, and above all what a wire waive:"
----lt is not permitted to me to doubt of may other
totality in you requisite is a Steward ; bet. 1 may JoaLs
of your skill ; and 1 do doubt of it ; and 1 say, that 1 ma
confident I could 'ell this estate for 30 millions of morel
the interest of which would bee mode beffet yaw.
And are things never to be otherwise that at pastel;
Is this estate always to be managed in the pretest way ?
We shall see that; hut, my opinion, in the meanwhile,
is, that we have here a part of the means that will Le
employed for clearing od thidelst. 'nisi' is great awl
solid estate; and, as for the grants that you or any body
else may hare made of it, we kosw what they are is the
hands °Meat Parliaateat. Tailing of graces, sod
being not far from Iroolater Forest, may I ask you is
what capacity Mr. C. W. TAILOR, member /air !f al
sets is regard to that Forest and its Matson end 14•y.6-
ties ? Is he lssodll Has be agraat of any sort? If
ha hes, what lies he paid for it ? Where does be era
Os book ? Where shall 1 find his *Mat as teasel ere •
rates ? I have many Whir questions to put to you 1.•
evicting ibe forests and metiers and terms in this part. t
Englani ; but, at present 1 must conclude. lot( and I
are yet both young miough to see the management ..
dais estate I..nerly info; and,
I trust,
shall see it. The golden soe,:reigm and the brae' !
titkeat will do what has never been done by :toy thii.ll
else. The farmers in this county (Hants) are pin; to
petition the "Collective Wisdom." Those, whom
thing else could stir, have been pat in ntotiois by the
hoshel of wheat. Those on o bow the PITT tribe coal.'
always rely with safety, that t ribe can rely on na longer,
That famous yeomanry, who pranced about ready
mat down Jacobins ; those Waterloo sod Jubilee rejoi,xl3
these are now become jacobins too. or, at least. as la
Jacobins as any of us (except you) ever were. They
have not, indeed, turned their swords into ploogb-sbaro
and pruning.hooks, fur they despair of good to come
from the use of either; but, at any rate, they have tarn'
and their foolish and fulsome addresses into iveic,..r
sad rensoastraucee.---Who will be foetid to burp Oal.
Meg dorm ? What other set have you in reserve? Wbo
[la woo to be made to believe in the goodness of the 11.-
111 g ?---W bat will you do, then r Will you es fa.
to the paper ? Will you snake an emission of insignia:
Will you Sedate, the Pelt!, appropriate the poblie pro:
petty possessed by the Church, (ad sell tbe Crown Lairds