The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-14 00:00:00

DARLESTON AGRICULTURAL PETITION.

The following ii a copy of t►e Petition from the
Agricultural Associatiou at Harlesteo, to ►e pre-
sented on the meeting of Parliameat to the House
of Commove :

To the Honourable the Commons of the United King-
dom of Omit Britain and Ireland, in Parliament
assembled.

The bumble petition of the several owners and
meapiers of land, in the parish of Redenhall with
ilarleston, in the county of Norfolk, and other towns
finite neighbourhood, whose names are hereunto sub-
scribed.

Smarms—That your petitioners, filled with grief
and dismay at the unexampled distress which now fills
the country, again approach your Honourable House
to implore your immediate attention to the sufferings
s.f themselves and of the whole agricultural community :
that by an immediate revision of your Honourable
Commits yen may (err it be too late) save the country
flow die perils which otherwise but too surely as sits it.
That altbonvh your petitioners were not sanguine
in their expectations of great benefit, from the select
Committee appointed in the last Session of Parliament
to take into consideration the depressed state of the
agriculture of the kingdom, (constituted as
that Committee was) yet, from the incontrovertible
evidence of distress adduced before it, your petitioners
hid hoped that some measures of relief would have
been paroled or recommended by such Committee,
but in masich they are grievously disappointed ; nor
does the•report, notwithstanding its length and labour
(as far as your petitioners can comprehend) afford
&demi any hope a relief from tiler estretinge.
Text yosertitioners conceive it now to be setter

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of the demist demonstration. that *it agelemitttro st
this highly" lased eauntrf samba eveltio a word-
don with the productions of other eitentrien, admit•
ed into this due/free. or at veil %adequate dullest
and that one great cense of he prestut &Pm"s iP
the ruinously low pleas of grain. aseasional byfortign
importations prior to and in the year 11319.
That the acknowledged perversion and abuse of the
average system on which the cora law, are founded.
leads your petitioners to deprecate either' continum*
of it by any attempt to improve it, convinced that
such system is incapable of affording that protection
to the British grower to which be is justly entitled,
and that the only means of affording that protection is
a permanent dotty on foreign agriewlteral productions
of every description. clod to what is directly or indi-
rectly paid by the British grower.
That your petitioners have long believed. but are
sow must feelingly coovinced. that the great and
paramount cause of their distsese is as orrnassivs
AND OrnnintaLMlna TAICATION, which Canna. longer
he supported--a taxation which, with giant strides,
have already reduced a large portion of the com-
munity to pauperism, and which, unless very largely
and very speedily reduced, threatens the destruction
not may of themselves bet of the country.
Your petkioners therefot• earnestly implore your
Honourable House to mice their case into their im-
mediate consideration, and afford them that relief
which their distressed situation so imperatively calls
for.—Aad your petitioners will ever pray. &C.

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LONDON:
momort JANUART 14, 1922.

II EW 111111 L AND COML 1101.711, J•M. 14.

Lavanrooc, Jae. 12.—Arrived the Cortes, from
New York ; sailed the 26th alt. ; mu detained at the
month of the change' six days by contrary geed.. She
spoke the Columbia, from S b, for this port,
yesterday. The Magnet was to sail on the 18th ult.
The Isabella;(lAeds) from Baltimore, Rebecca Sims,
from Philadelphia, aid Oglethorpe, from Savannah
in 3 days after, wind W. N.W.