The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-23 00:00:00

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tintwithatanding the onfavonrable state of the wet—
thee, whirh prevented nninhera from attending the Meet-
ing at Lick, of the Owners and Occupiers of Land in lb:
County of Monmouth, on Friday the 10th lost. it proved
nee of the most ninserona and respectable ever known
is Monmouthshire. Bet one sentiment as to the im-
portance of the great ohjert of the meetinv, and as to
the necessity for instant and effectual relief. seemed to
pervade the whole County; f slthnngh happily the
state of things in Monrionthabire will not jninity the
application to it, of the terms whirls Mr. Cartels (wlto,be
it remembered, was brough t into Peri i amens at the general
election in uppmition to Mr. Cs venilish,the Whig Candi-
.i•t.), wool the lions. of Commons, no the $ll of this
month. to deacribe the deplorable si 'nation of the Bounty
of Stoeseit, namely, that '• the state of things there
r aald no looter he described as distress and misery, but
trio and desolation," yet the lientry, Clergy. Yeo-
manry, No.l cultivator. of the soil in Monmouthshire
know and feel too mnch of the general di . and
have ton jest a sense of what is due to themselves, to
their posterity, and to the conntry at large, to he longer
deluded I.e byporritical or self-interposed Hanlonr against
rnhlic msetinga in defence of their rights or properties,*
..r not publicly to protest 'taker. end- as publicly record
their reprobation of those measures which have brought
the errantry into its present eslsmitnue and perilous si-
tnation. The Sessions Hall was crowded to excess he.
fore twelve o'clock, and on the commencement of the
business, the press to get near the speakers was so
great as to force down the door in the screen between
the court and the opus space in the hall. Amongst the
gentlemen present we noticed Sir T. Salusburv. Sir H.
Protheroe. Mr. Lewis, of l.lantitlin, Mr. Lewis. of St.
Pierre, Mr. Jones, jun. of Glanarth, Mr. Jones. of Cly-
tha, Mr. Williams. pin. of Langibbv Castle, Mr. Phil-
lip., of Wenion, Mr. Moggride, the. Vicar of Aberga-
ycnny, his brother the Rev. Charles Powell, Mr. Fleet-
wood Berv, Mr. Thomas, of St. Alban's, the Rev. F.
Lewis, and many other magistrates and gentlemen, the
body of the h ill being filled with the most respectable
yeomen of the county.
Precisely at twelve o'clock the High Sheriff rose, and
Tend the Requisition, after whirls he declared the meet-
ing peened, and recommended strict adherence to the
terms of the Requisition, and, in cast of diversity of
sentiment. that every person should bete a fair bearing.
After a short pause,—
Mr. MoriontDGE rose, and said, it was to him mat- I
ter of regret that, of the many most respectable gentle-
men who as well as himself had signed the reqnisition, no
other presented himself to the meeting to introduce to its
rodee the business for which it was convened. From there.
naisition w bids had been just read, lie said it would appear
that the objects of it were two-fold. That which came last
is order (and he could hardly tell how it came there at
el), the allusion to the present disturbed state of the
county, he should speak of first, and dismiss in a very
few s, orris, as be knew it was the universal opinion,
which exactly agreed with his own, that a meeting. inch
as the present, a meeting of the owners and occupiers of
land of then hole county, iutended originally and reels-
nicely for the t.tinitidrnition of the present deplorable
state of the landed and agtirithitral interests, was nei-
ther thr most proper, nor the most advantageous for the
disraissine of ontrageo whirh had disgraced the work-
men in the iron-vi orks and collieries. whatever jest cause
of complaint they might otherwise have had against any
pert of the treatment to which they lead been heretofore
eithj.cted. To hear and in redress any real grievances
to the utmost extent of their power, and with the utmost
rigour of the law. the magistracy of the county had been
MO still were most aweinua--(llear.) —There had been
meetings of the Lieutenancy and Alagistracy of tbe
explessly for that purpose.** well as for the pur-
pose of presert ing the peace of the county, and enforce-
log the observance of the laws in all other respects;
other meetings wound be held for the same purpose, and
lie hoped periodic-Ole, so that all complainants might
know where and when to apply, with a certainty of find-
ing Magistrates assembled competent in number, as well
as anxiously inclined to discharge their duty in the im-
partial rl. 'tuition of justice to ell alike ; but the laws,
whirls are equally for the protection of all, are above all,
and must be respected, whether to protect or to punish.
To these Meetings of the magistracy of the county, this
sithject might therefore lie very well, and ought and
most be referred.} He said he should now address him.
eel( to the attention of the meeting on the main object
of its being convened this dem sued of one of more tin-
pnrtance it was scarcely possible that any meeting mild
be addressed ; he had, he said, witnessed the consider-
ation and partaken in the 'discussion of important sub-
jects in that hall ; but, when viewed together with this,
all others were comparatively insignificant. Others re-
lated, perhaps intimately, to the well-being of certain
classes of society; but this was &subject which involved
in it the vital interests. 113 y, as related at least to the
present generation, the eery existc4.-e of the leaded wad
eigrianit•tectl interests. Mr. Moggri.lge then proceeded
tie detail some very interesting facts explanatory of the
situation and extreose embarrassment and distress in
whirls the owned, and (weepier' of land were at present
involved. But, lee said, there was one fact which spoke
a volume in a few words, and which at once auperceded
the necessity of saying more, and said all that words
euntd express—a fact as inideniable as it was melancholy,
and which was at one and the same time decisive of the
triestioo snot of the ruin of the farmer; and that
was, that the prices of farm-produre bad gone back
below what they were in the year 1792, whilst in
the mean ti-oe taxation hail increased four-fold. He
dies showed that the existence of considerable dis-

tense hs.l been of more than seven years duration,
that eprt of legislative wisdom, the notorious Corn-Bill,
• being dated the 2Gth et July, ISI I. Previous to that
had the distress of the agriculturist been forced on the
consideration of Ministers; but neither then nor since,
Our even now, are Slinistvre disposed to adopt the only
measure of elbeietst relief of which the case is seseep- ,
table. A REUECTIoS Ur TAXATION PROPORTIONID TO I
Tilt lARDUCTION IN THS SAL* PRICE OP PRODUCE. ANO
IN TICE VALVE 01 RENTS AND OTHER REAL I•ROPERTY.
—(Cheers from all parts of the 111.11.)—The remedy fur
the evils complained almost be one of two things;
tither the value of farm-produce must he forced op so as
to enable the fanner to sell again et high prices, or the
expellees of producing his corn, moil of tearing and fat-
tening his cattle and sheep. must be reduced, so as to en-
able him to sell at the present low prices fur a reason.
able profit ; the former was a project which he believed
it surpassed human ingenuity to compass for any consi-
&rah,* length of time, and which would he attended
with even surpassing injustice, excepting indeed (as re-
lated to its practicability) the old paper-bubble was
again resorted to, and even then, nothing approaching
to permanency could be attained hefure that bubble
woold burst, and in the explosion hurl to destruction the
bone sad corrupt system which had heretofore engen-
slued it t hut as for its justice, that inflicted on itself, of
richly deserved destruction, would be the only reseus-
Hance to justice a Welt it could bear. On the other
hand, such a rrtinoion of taxation as would bear egni.
table proportion to the diminution of price, and tents
• A letter was reed by Oar Sheriff from Lord 0. Somerset,
expressive, es we undrr.tood, of his apprehensions of the ill
euniertienres of the meeting !
+ AS we afterwards beard. an arranitensent. proposed by
Mr. Alosigridne. fora meeting of the Ideuteessey and Ma-
gistrates of the Comity, at Pouf-y-pool. for Wednesday. ea,
seceded to by the other Ministration, with the intention ul
ha being renewed weialy.

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