The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-14 00:00:00

Mr. Mason, from the East ludic House. presented I
Annual Accounts 4%f Salaries, Pensions, tat.—Ordered
to lie upon the table.
The Lunatic Stuck Transfer Bill. the New South
Wales Duties Bill. and the Nova Scotia Tr ule Bill,
passed through Committees, and were reported with—
set amendment.
The general Inelosure Bill rssed through a Com-
mittee, with amendments proposed by Lord Redesdale
and the Bishop of barter.--Report to-morrow.
On the motion of the Marquess of LANSDOWN,
the Earl ileanettamp was added to the Contuittee on
Foreign Trade.
Adjourned till to-morrow (rlais day.)
HOUSE OF COMMOVl—Toesetr. M.tacu IS.

CATHOLIC CLAIN'S.
Mr. FYNES pre4etttml a Petition from the Dean
and t"haptrr of St. Peter'', Westminster,against the
repe.il of the I.i %4 affecting hi% Maje,ity's Homan Ca-
tholic stilijects.—Ordered to lie on the table, and to
be printed.

NEW t•IIUTICIIF.n;.
Sir J. tiliAll.‘M presented a Petition frain the
Magistrates, Clergy, and Inhabit:llos of Carlisle, coin•
plaining of the increasing prevalence of irreligion and
insubordination, which they ascribe 1 in a great Inca:
sore to the want of a sullicient number of pla of re-
ligious worship. The Petitioners adverted to the in-
ailetial.v of the pros isions iu the late Aet for the erec-
tion el ti: iv Churches, and prayed for the enartment
of some legislative measure, by whieh the patronage
of such clam:lies Ai might be erected by robintary
sobseription toielit be se•fell it. the ..nwributors.
Mr. .I.IM ES prwested . ainst the 4.atement in the
preamble ot the Petition which hal boen:iti,t presented
be his 11..n.otrable Colleague, while i.e concurred
in
the Kerwrii raver of the Petitioners.
Mr. CI'ILW EN he also eon. arr...l in the pr
of the Pe:Hollers, but h.. conl.l not forbear making
one or too observation, on the •tatement they
had thottgit !miller to introduce into their Petitim..
He deprecated all :11..1. general ns to the
existence of blasphemy .1:1.1 insithorilinat;on in places
where the utmost order and 'nod morale were kti..wa
to prevail. 11,- admitted that this Petition was sizing!
by a ntialher of respectable persons of all political
opinion,: and for that reason he really believed that
it had been inadvertently signed by niaay of them,
who looked only to the general prayer of the Petition,
witlmot haring read the statement in the preamble.
Ile believed there was mot a comity in the kingdom,
which was more ilistinettislied for general pr.yriety
and atten•ion to the dories of morality mill religion,
than the county of Cumberland. Certainly no county
less deserved such a rharge as that of irreligion awl
insubordination, and he shoot.' be Choi to hear those
who made it p..int out a single instance of prJseottion
for blasphemy in th.• county of Cumberland.
After a few words from Mr. I. lIEN:;ETT, tbe
Petition was ordered to lie on the tab!e, and to be
printed.

At;III(TI.TCRAI. TMSTlllltift.
Mr. W(111E114)!..SE preNenteil a Petition froth
Lana-owners and Occupiers of I.ltol in the uriAlhour-
huoil of Norwich. coaiplainiesz of 3..,:ricttltaral
and awribing ninth of the exi•tinz pre•seire to the tato
oblitional eltitiec on nialt.—Oriler to lie ea the 1141,1 e.

and to he printed.
PARNELL postisonml his motion for a Com
itsittee on the Commercial Interrostr,r between titeat
Itri Anil Ireland to that slay fortnight.
Mr. 6. BENNET mot 191, that there be before
the Mouse a Copy of the .Minotes of 1.:v:06,11,p t3l;eo
before the Committee 9n Pithily Income and Evisesoli-
titre, as far as related to th...lsolit lice.—Ordered.
Mr. witorrEsixv obtained leave to bring in a
Rill for the b tter Regstlatiun of certain Official .Ir.
range:m.l;ls its the new Ilankrotptcy Court.
REPE 11. OF TOE NIALT T.IX.
Mr. wEsTERN s tid Ise felt it necessary to postpone
his motion for the repeal of the last duties on Malt. in
consequence of the alssenre of the Sold,. Seeretary for
Foreign .Itfairs, who was prevented, it believed, by in-
di-position Iron attending io his place that isizist.
I 'enter these ciremostances, the earliest slay at which
Isis motion could he Isrostolst forward would h- Wed-
nesday, the •.!Ist i!:stant.
Mr. CR EEVEV conld not not help thinking, that
the llonottrahle Gesitlem-.H had been sosnewls It too
courteous in consenting to postpone his 'notion. When
the money of the p..ople was to be voted an ay—o hen
mill' were t.. he totrd fur the sityport of a large
standing .Itrtity. his M sj'esty•s Ministers were ready
enough to attend in their places. 'I le- Noble Lord, it
seemed had moils. Isiusself 111 by the is tulles. battles
which he had lost.•;st lost niolst. Why slid not th
Noble Lord yield sooner, when lee me.st }save seen
that defeat WAS inevitable, and that they hail the means
of compelling him ultimately to give 11Ay Tier run-
sequence of looting oil this lion. would he, that the
[louse wonbl go un voting the Supplies of doe year,
and the Ilutsustrahle Gentleman's motion fur the repeal
of a tax would not c.iisse on till all the Supplies hail
been granted. This WAS 3 most preposteroes yours.,
and he thonght the least the Noble Lord could hare
dune, when hr mask tisk rolitellittliratiOn ;1.1 to the ne-
cessity of delay, wool.? hare been to place the
noureble tientleman's notice and the Supplies in the
same relative position. lb repeated, that when the
money of the people was to be voted away. floe
Ministers were always At their post ; W.len a tax was
to be repealed, they were in bed.ur
mi.-Tins ON M
Mr. WESTERN pte.ented a Petition from the
Farnwrs. Merchants and ';'rallessesen of the Buriongls
of Colchester. wlso, on this to97:tsioa, he said, united
in complaining of the pressure of the last duties on
Malt on the agricultural interests.—Ordered to lie un
the table and to be printed.
A similar petition was presented from Land. Owners
and Occstpiers of Laud in the county of Linlithgow.—
Ordered to lie sets the table and to lie printed.
Mr. CI'ItWEN postponed his motion her the repeal
of the linsbandry horse Tax, to the :26th Mar, h.
Mr. B. 1111.8ItAILIM o:stained leave to bring itt
a Bill to regulate the attendance of Jurors at the
Assizes.
CFR ‘MPOI; ~;11 DISFRANCIIISIDIENT DILL

On the motion of Mr. S. woRTLEv, the Order of
the Day was read fur the further euseideratios of the

Diefranetisiestogt BIM libel
the several dames tree agreed
ordered to be rerelvtd tamiorrow.
On the motion of Mr. B. WILBRAHAM, a 11:11 to
regulate the ettendanee of Jurors at the Assizes was
read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time
that day three Heels.
The other Order, of the Day Were then disposed of,
and the Howse adjourned to this day.

MINORITY
::4 VArOl7ll OP MR. HI:311111.8 Rssot.vxtox--" That it
is expedient to make a lame Redaction in the Num-
bers and Expense of the Military Expenditure.**

Hen. Ahercrotebc, Aloe. Althorr, J. H. Allen, J.
F. Radiant, Sir J. F. Itongbe John Millie, John lienett,
J. Caleraft, Sir Isaac Coffin. J. C. Cllllltttlt, T. Creerey,
Vise. Clifton, C. Colrert. N. K. Colbtsrne, T. W. Coke,
S. Crompton, Sir W. DeCrespigny, Lucius Concannon,
Pittston Corbett, Dots. T-. Duistlas. T. 11. Davies, Vises.
Duncanitnn, W.. 1. ');otisnn, Ed. F.llice, Robs. Farrand,
Sir It. C. Ferguson, J. P. Draw, It sht. liortion, Pascoe
.1. W. 41ritlith, Lord taenorrhy, lion. E. Dar-
bard, J. lioldouse, Don. C. Hutchinson, E. Horuby,
Win..lisines. F. Lowlev, Sir W. Lemon, J. 11. Litigation.
I. JI. Lloysi, John Moberiv. W. L. llaberly.James
Martin, Right lion. Sir J. Newport, bout
Nuzent, Willi•sin Ord. Lord Osstastnn, Sir 11. Parnell,
C. P. Palmer. (1. Phillips, P. Prin, florid Ricardo, Sir
M. W. Ridley. Sir 11. Robinson. Ab. Roberts.
harts, I.nrd Rnssell, A. Robertson, John Sutith, R.
Snd Is, E. I f Sefton, R. W. Talbot, C. 'rulke, M. A.
11'111i:sus., Sir T. Winninfftsto, W. Whit-
iiiii re, Sir It. Wilson. M. Wyrill,— Whithres.i.
TICLLERA—Ifun. 11. Rennet and J. Haase.

Pftlek: Or .161t1C17,7TR.41,

The nitmerons petitions and urgent complaints of
the Farmers, and the appointment of a Couttnittee of
the !loose of Camino:is to invire into the valise of
their distress, ren ler a statement of the prices of Acri-
cultural ;wisher at the present ant previous tunes ex-
pedient, to assist the volution of several questions at
jil*ffie. The Committee. it appears, re-assembled on
Monday last : )l r. liottch in the l'hair.—There were
then ten Members present; several other Nlembers af-
terwards arrived. I..trd l'astlerea-At W 34 seated next
to the Chairman. They immediately proceeded to tle•
I 'ermine the course that should be pursued in pronto-
.
;hie ;hose inquiries t Heul to their charoe by the
House of Commons. Aftcr various suggestions. and
some diseassitms, it was res.tlved that they s h Auld hear
the evidence, that the parties might be prepared to
adduce in support of the allegations of the Petitions.
Phis inquiry is to constitute the first branch of the
Committees' labours. Several of the owners and oc-
cupiers of land, who had been instrumental in for-
warding Petitions t s Parliament, were in attendance.
3lr. K. C. Harvey, of Norfolk, was called in. Ile un-
derwent an extenleJ examination, occupying the Com-
mittee during the whole of the remainder of their sit-
' ting. Nis evidence went to illustrate the extent of
reduction that had taken place in the farmers' profits,
he allegiug that it WAS front Meaty to thirty per cent.;
and in support of his declarations, he brought
witlil
him and laid before the l'unsmittee Isis accounts and
books fur the last fourteen years. Several of the du-
enments acre handed in, and ordered to constitute part
of this wittiesv's evidence.
According to an article in the papers of this morn-
ing, the reduction has been considerably greater.—
T his article is taken from Vie 'fan l ottt i, r, null
is as follows A bushel of wit :at, hailer, beans,
Leas. and oats. a hatr of ;Haat-v.4,11114 .11b. of meat, were
purchased on Saturday se'noight, in our market, With
aE I note! The money was expended for 3I r. Holten
iiil.ll4, i.f Coltheitun Farm, near Bishop's lidiard, as
:

.t. 4. 0.
0 tebet4l%-le when? 0
el
her .10. 9
Otte dn. of henn4 u :1 0
(►nt• do. of pra4 .......11 3 6
4),1e del of Ali.. ........ .I) I 44
flue trig 4, I 3
Font lb. of inrat

lty referring t,i repritt of the mullion market
fur w•to.t 1%1.2, we find that trig. sswe nricles
wonl I then have elo-t £3 9s. 411., tak:mg the thimifranne
/Oriel! of that ig.

1. 11. (I. t. g. el
W1Art1..... ..... ...: . ....II 19 6to I I II
Harley 0 91 II to 0 It) 6
Oats U? II to 0 S U
Rpm. 010 0 11) 11 II U
Pres 0 111 0 11.1 41 I i U
I bag of polshos(liab.) 11 IU U
41b. of is lit II I 4
---,LS 9 4"

In order, however. to obtain a proper knowledge
the • object. sad of the cirruntstances by which it has
been aire:teol, as well as of the manner in which they
have operated, it is accessary to extend our view..and
trace the progress both of the previews rise sad prssent
fail of prices. Du looking hick to the rotessocnrement
of the late King's reign. we find that in the year Ipitt,
the average price of Coro was 30p. 711. per' quarter :
to 179.1 (the *.id year oldie war) it was only 435.
2d. per ditto;
In 1799, it was 635. 3:1.
In 1.01, it was 1314. 4.1.1
And. immediately previous to 1813. It averaged
about 1
That is, in the tonne of fifty years, it angutrated
lire lottolrol per rent.
This augmentation 'nay be traced to rations canoes.
The ,rate of the l'ontinent--the state of the War in
which we were engaged, and whirls, towards the latter
peri,ol of this epoch, threw us Nom our Ow is re-
sources—the boundless emission of paper, which stood
to the Fanner in pl-tee of eapital--"Set, shove all. the
nourishing state of commerce, which within that
time, had ad.leil one-third nearly to oar population, anti
had trebled onr manufactured and Col at produce.
these operations• were " progres.iog," the
Farmers, though they gnat relied at the Taxes, had no
greut reason to complain—aecortliagly the toast was,
at merry meetings, 6. If this be War, way We never
know l'eace;" and the Landed Interest accordingly
carried on the War with heart and hand. They
were joined by t•'e Merchauts—for the impulse that
gave a feverish activity to the vne, communicated a
similar sort of euergy to the other.
Peace arrived soddenly in lsl3, or the prospect of
peace %las, almost certain. The Penivoula was con-
quered, and there was, of course, an end of exporting
beef and corn to Spain and Portugal. The destroy-

tioo of the French army is Hassle; apenea all the
ports in the North of &trope. Agrieu tore, e4nie.
quently. felt a revulsion, the prices began rapidly is
fall. The landed Interest became ala 1, am. i siir
Bente Parnell, an industrious Member of Parliament,
moved fur, and obtained, a Committee to inquire inq
the state of agricultere, and ta devise some tttraas of
saving that interest flout ruin. lie made his repast,
his remedy was prohibition, and he fixed the peke
under which wheat should not he imported, at Igu.
and 2d. the quarter. Blind was selling on the oppn:
site coast of Germany and France fur 4±s. to 4k, Fer
quarter
This proposition of Sir henry was deemed eves bjr
tl.e landed interest, which conq.ose four-fif hs of our
representatively too monstrous; so that nothing was
done in the year 1813.
Another report, notch more tion!erate and rellS4la4ble
was suade in 1814: but the Legislature came to no
decision on it: merits. In other words they did Hui
embody its propoitions into a law.
In 1315, the subject was again introduced "rids h. sr
ter success. INCSOIIItIODS were voted, and
a tar
grounded on those resolutions oas passed. The peith!
cipal provision of this law is the permission ofiehimet:
lug foreign wheat, %risen the English grain tenelsent,
zslts. per quarter. Other sorts of corn wree 02:41
according to their value, and regulations, it • I
ones it should seem, were athip•ed atlth regard-la die
mode and periods of strilting- the averages. Minis
now the law of the land.
Notwithstanding this 1.3 W, WliCh its proposers pro•
mixed would always keep the price fluctuating between
seventy and eighty shillings a quarter, Wheat fell, by
the Ist of January, 131 K, to lifts-three shillings and
sevenpence. On the meeting of Parliattsent, the table
of both Homes was of course loaded with Petitions:
but the ensuing Harvest was short, and by the first of
January, notwithstanding an immense importation, the
quarter of Wheat reached to 1114 s. 11111. On the first
of July, in this year, (1?.417) the average price of the
quarter got up to 109 s. 1.1. ; and yet it is remarkable,
'that at this period the clamour of the Agricultural
la-
terest was at its achle. Petition after Petition no
presented—Motion upon Motion was matle—altliongh,
for the corn in hand, they had from 3 Is. to 495. above
what they cohsitlersil a re 000000 treating price. The ob-
ject of these Petitions,
.and of the motions remolded
upon them, was to prevent importation. They cook
nut he listened to, for the consequence of granting
their Petitions would he, avitle-wastitig fasuint.. The
country had not grown enough of corn for its own
consumption, and the .Igricultural Luttrett lamest is
prevent it flout supplying the deficiency ! We are
quite sute that they did not look to the possibility of
this conseqnenee ; but we are equally certain, that
inch would Lye bent the consequence, if Parliament
bad attended to their prayers.
By the Ist of January, I stlS, the quarter was re-
ilitreil to 14:14..141., and the ittipty.latiuto, of coarse, coa•
tinned. In the next half year, it was only redacal
one shilling ; for, by the Parliamentary papers, we
fend the quotation of the Ist of July in this year,
:64 . Id. Now, it is rentarki.ble, and the Agricui:stal
Interest al Id bear the fart strung!y in rentendsraert,
though the years 11117 and 11304 were the greatest
iisiportiti;‘ years that ever oecurred in Englaatl,
amounting nearly to three millions and a half of quar-
tera, yet, during all that period, corn was above the
resnnuerating prieefree4 Ay thrwtel".s. if the re-
strictions which they sought to iutpose on impottation
were adopte.i, they would have the quarter at 200 s.
and upwards, rue population wonld ire dvicir in ditrltel.
but the fanner': elders wrothd b. full. %I heu site:!:
of the farmer, we mean the Landed harvest generally,
awl particularly
.those whose crops ha: petted to
It was not until the 14 of January, 1 19, that tie
;•:.ite of corn began to decline tensibly. It then fell
to 7as. Intl. Of course, the ports were closed. Aa
here there is another fact, which we would beg the
Farming Interest well to recollect and ponder arm.
Notwithstanding thee immense importation, the amount
..f which we have stated above, there were mot in the
Nlaryli of this ”tar store that, 9511 quarters of Wheat
in store; a plain proof that the previous importation
aa as barley necessary fur the tonsunaption of the
people, pending the. scarcity ; and a detwitistration
that the ptice of English I'ol'll was not intlitratvd by
the glut of the foreign coin: lity.
In 1%211, on the Ist of January, though nu corn
was permilfell to br imported, die average prier of the
(porter hail fallen to 6 Is. id.--awards his. under what
was stated to Ise the remtearriting price. Motet this time
11r. Webb Hall, the Secretary to the Agricultural As-
sociation:, golf up a nietityilto, upon which tie fowler•
lv had occasion to animadvert, northers/ne the medium
of innuitteralsle Petitions from the Agricultural inter-
est to Itioth Houses of '.'arliantent, praying: relief. )lr.
Maine Sommer grounded a motion or, these reifies".
and the Minister nut calculating •n the strength et
the Agrienltnrsl interest in the 'loose, Were beaten,
if
we recollect ri.,lttlY,
by a majority I
anjournmeest being moved, Was carried, and the par-
tisans of tbs. inister, routing shown the next slay, Mr.
I .10 or Mt. An
Slltnmer'ssmotion is as frittered flown into a l'oussnit'oe,
whose 11.141•14 wiry' restricted as to 'devising the bet
mewls of strih:op: the Average. This occurred, Ire
alrott the beginning of Jttne,
The arrival of her Alajesty,ahoet this slnsessaavr/t:*
unseal* s ronsequent thereon, pat every this else "iht
of the heads of the People fur the Fallon iAg six months
nearly. In the watt time, Corn coutioto.d to sleelines
and the Average of sales at lark-lane at the end of
:he year may be estimated at aliuibt 47 shilling'''. I`
WAS sran:elv 401. in the remoter parts of the Country.
Te this lOW state bare the prices of agrirultert
pro:hare been redly-est f:oist a height that was exorlsi.
tilt aml preposterous; and to what these injorionv
elevations and depressions has been owing, is the iv:
,
portant question now nevler discussion. Hy nu
cur
responding rhanges in the soil or in the seasons have
these strange vicissitudes been brought shout ;
are occasioned not by tl.e visitations of Cod, hot stied
itv time schemes of man. 1114 they result from the
pernicious induen,e of the Funding system, is as esi•
dent as the light of heaves'; anal that they cal
rem...lied by the alteration of any thing else enowt
vossiltly be conceived.

Ry a receat kltsl decision, the Corporation deork
have lost the right of taking a toll, which they have
enjoyed ever sin' e the reign of king John, nod Winch
produced a meow of %SOU/. s.year.

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I.IIPRRI4L PAR1.14.311111f1. . Iterate the Orampoan4
—l."-- BM was illi-ellettuittetl. tht
110 VISE OF I__ARDS___.—TrassAy.•MMltCH IL to, soil the
report °Mery
Iht the motion uf Mr. I