The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-11 00:00:00

and Poles, killed, near Kretv, the Itubilan'stoldiers
who escorted them.'•

VIENNA, OCT. :IL—TU.. !Mes intelligent* from
Constantinople, state, that the French Amhe,ssador,
Count A adreossy, etijoycd flie highest eentideration
with the Ported ►: t. • Y
• EnoNTit;a4 or OcT. 22.-I)tiring the
last eight days, ntote than 2000 foreign troops, with
several ammunition and other waggons,- have passed
through Boar,. A transport of Itus•Aan prisencri
has also passed through that town, proceeding to
Magdeburg.
CO9iTANTI NO l'T Sinr:• 25.—An event which
may have the greatest influence upon Vie course of
affairs in the Otto Man Empire, -almost exclu-
sively occupies the attention of th:i public of
this capital. According I. ion order given with the •
utmost secrecy, am* comiag, a= it appears, per-
sonally from the fl mud Sei:;nior, Without the co-
operation of the IYran, the Growl Vizier, Ahmed
Paella, has brytt dismissed, aa:l spat to Broussa.—
Ali his property has'been conihcated to the profit of
the State.
Immediately after the tlisni.r.sion of the Grand
Vizier, the Caimacan of this capital, ';shaker Admud
Nem, was disgraced ; he Was banished the 15th
inst. to the island of Stankae. lie has been allowed
to retain his property, which is very considerable,
with the exception of the samptuous furniture which
he had in the Palace of the Porte, • in which he lived,
and which he must leave for the benefit of his suc-
cessor, who is called ltudsche Suleiman Pacha, and
owes his elevation entirely to the favour and pr6tec...
Lion of the new Grand Vizier. The Grand .Seigulor,
in his rescript issued on that occasion, accuses the
dismissed Caimacan of negligence in supplying the
capital with provisions.
Whilst the Grand Seignior discards the Turks who
co-operated in the Peace of Bucharest, the Missions
Plenipotentiaries daily receive fresh marks of their
Sovereign's favour.

"int STATESMAN.

AGRICULTURE.

and in general all the Officers engaged in the ac-
tion.
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"' In conclusion, Lieutenant-General Essen says,
that the ►ortie from Riga, of the corps entrusted to '
-the commatid of Count Steinhill, end the action, in
which the enemy se:4M a much more considerable
loss than we did, had for its consequence that the
troops of M‘Donald withdrew from the' position they
had hitherto occupied, by which means the corps of
Count Wittgenstein, which will support the corps of
Count Steinhill by its co.oppration, will be enabled
to act with much greater convenience."

TO THE LOITOR OF TUE STATESMAN.

SIR,-It answer to a letter from llcervores, in
your Paper of this evening, I wish to inform him
that the practice which he recommends,'" of ke.ep-
lug a register,in every parish or division of this coun-
try, of the number of arable acres of land, and
their annual prdduce of different kinds of grain, in
order to ascertain the quantity produced," is one
which has, for centuries, been adopted, and is still
continued, In Ilindostan, and in some of the other
Eastern Countries. .The Officers entrusted with that
duty were appointed by the Governors of districts,
in order that they might know the quantity of grain
produced yearly, and thereby be enabled to regulate
their demand of one-fourth, of one-half, or greater
or smaller proportion, of produce to be paid, as
the tax to the Government for the rent of their land.
These Officers in India are called Kanoongos, and •
are continued by the East India Company at the
present time in every-village, for the purpose of refer-
ence,
in case any of the cultivators of the land should
claim a reduction in their rents on account of a
failure of the crop, from droughts, or from mischief
from a hail storm, the effects of floods, d;c.•; and,
in all such cases, they are found useful ; their reports 6
being correct, and trusted to by both parties.
The East India Company let out all their lands on
regular leases for three, seven, or ten years, and 1
some are perpetual, on what they call "pattaks ;"
and the yearly rent and time of payment are as cor-
rectly stated in such pattahs, is as regular a manner
as any lease in Great Britain.
If the landlords in this country had the intention ,
of making, as the East India Company do, an abate-
ment in the rents whenever the crops of grain may '
fail, without making any increased demands in the
most abundant seasons, I think. it would be right
and proper to establish sucha practice in England.
But I am confident, that you and every other person
who considers the difficulty that would attend the
carrying such a plan into execution in the different!
parishes in the first place, and the expence and trou-
ble that would be afterwards incurred and occasioned
by collecting all these returns in one central office in
Loudon, are in themselves sufficient to shew the al.
most impossibility of its being effected, with any'.
chance of correctness or utility.
BENEVOLUS does not perhaps know, that in Sicily,
that very system which he recommends has been
adopted, in regard to the returns of the quantity of
grain•produced in such principality or division, and
that there
•are in that country regular magistrates in
each borough, town, and principality, who receive
these reports, and who, after the harvest, determine
what quantity of the grain,. the produce of the dis-
trict, shall be retained in the country for consump-
tion, and brought to market every week or month, as
it may be wanted, by all the farmers, in exact pro-
portion to their respective crops ; and, BcsEvoLus
does not appear to know, thet, instead of such a
system answering the ends that he expects to effect
by it, that the reverse has been the result.
You, Sir, ntust,know, although BEttEvoLes does
not, that one of the greatest grievances which the,
Sicilian pole have against their Government, is the.
continuance of that system ; by which the agriculture
of Sicily has been nearly.destroyed ; by which, in-
stead of exporting annually one million of quarters
of wheat to other nations, as she had wont to do,
she has been for the last years obliged to import corn
from Egypt for her own cousumption ; by which