more and more in every succeeding year down to the earth in the presence of an for five years, suppose; and then they infamous boroughmonger? Is it the are after this to lose no more in any one fair prospect of being stretched on a bed year than they lost in the fifth year; and of straw in a poor-house, and of hearing this is to give them relief! How this in his last moments, a bargain made for monstrous system has bewildered the his dead body? senses of mankind!

To the emigrants, who are going The lot of the farmer is worse in such from Manchester, I most heartily wish a progress, than that of the tradesman or good passage, and great happiness in merchant. They can stop, or change their new country. If they follow the this course, any week or any day. He advice given in the EMIGRANT'S GUIDE, is always in for it for a year at the they are sure to do well. As for my least. They, if hard pressed, can flit friend, "JoHN HEYES" (I have always speedily. He must remain till his year, called him HAYS), I will, if he write to or lease, be out. They can put their me before his departure, send him a stock in their pocket in a day, and no-letter to a gentleman of New York, on body the wiser. His stock is a widely whose kindness I can rely for giving spread and most unmanageable affair: him the best advice relative to getting many eyes are constantly upon him; a employment. The letter should come, part of his property is in the land itself. postage-free, lest it should not be reHis lot is a most dreadful one. If he ceived. I will send my letter to him quit his farm, he has no place to go to. free of expense. HEYS is about 53 In short, unless he be wise as the ser-years old; but he is a sturdy man, and pent, a few years must make him a beg- would do very well in America. I do gar. Still, though this is plain before his not promise him any thing but useful eyes, he hangs on, till the ruin actually information, but that I will take care to overtakes him, and leaves him not the get for him. means of escape to a country, where he In conclusion, let me conjure all would never see the face of a tax-gather good men, who resolve to emigrate, not er, and where the remnant of his for- to go to the English colonies. As to tune, if he had the courage to gather it the base and silly creatures, who go to up NOW, would make him the owner the convict countries, it is no matter of a good farm. I hear of a very fine what becomes of them. But, the lies young man, in Wiltshire, who began about Nova Scotia and Canada deceive farming, on his own account, a few people. They do indeed get into the years ago, who has a wife and several United States at last; but, before they young children, and who has just sold off do it, they spend a great part of their with a resolution to go to America, money. Go, if you have labour in you, leaving parents, brothers, sisters, all be- or property in your possession, to the hind! These, boroughmongers, are your works! This young man is right: duty to wife and children is the first duty; and it says, Flee from the country of boroughmongers! This young man will bless the day that he formed this resolution.

And, what is it that any farmer can be so loath to leave behind him? Is it the constant sight of the miserable paupers at his door, or harnessed like convicts to draw carts and wagons? Is it the everlasting dunning of the taxgatherer? Is it the pleasure of reflecting that he is working and worrying to rake together money to keep the tax-eaters in luxury? Is it the high honour of being permitted to cringe

United States at once. There needs no information other than that which is contained in my EMIGRANT'S GUIDE: you need trouble nobody with questions: you will there find every thing necessary to guide you in your enterprise.

Now, let us hear what my fellows, at Barn-Elm, have to say to the "most noble assembly of freemen," on the subject of Wilmot Horton's project.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.

The petition of the undersigned

Labourers at Barn-Elm Farm, in the parish of Barnes, in the county of Surrey,

Most humbly showeth,

That your petitioners have perceived, that there is a proposition before your honourable House, for mortgaging the poor-rates, and for imposing taxes, in order to raise money for the purpose of sending a part of the working people out of the country, upon the ground, that, owing to their excessive numbers, they cause a charge upon the land so great as to threaten to swallow up the whole of the rents.

the fact, that it is the enormous taxes which disable the farmer, and trader, and manufacturer, to pay sufficient wages to his work-people.

or three hundred labourers and their families; and that, while all these are thus supported in part on the fruit of our labour, while all these, who do not work at all, have our dinners, in fact, handed over to them by the acts of your honourable House, we cannot very patiently hear of projects for sending us out of our native land, on the ground that we threaten to swallow up the whole of the rental.

That your petitioners have been told, that of late years, one million and six hundred thousand pounds, or thereabouts, have been voted by your honourable House, out of the taxes, for the relief of the poor clergy of the church of England; that they have just seen millions upon millions voted by That your petitioners have heard, and you for the support of half-pay people they believe, that, out of about eleven and their widows and children; that thousand parishes, in England and they have been told, that there are numWales, there are one thousand and four, berless women and children as well as the population of which is, on an aver- men, maintained as pensioners and sineage, under a hundred souls to a parish; curists; that there are many of these and that they know, that you have, in men (who have no pretence to have the evidence given before your commit-rendered any service to the country), tees, the statements of experienced each of whom receives more, every year, farmers, that there are not too many than would be sufficient to maintain two work-people to cultivate the land properly, but that the taxes take from the farmer the means of giving the workpeople wages sufficient for their proper maintenance; and that from this cause the land is not cultivated so well as it used to be, and does not yield so much as it used to yield, while the labourers are compelled to resort to parish relief. That, deducting the amount of the country rates, militia charges, highway rates, church-rates, and the law expenses, the poor-rates, that is to say, the money actually paid in the way of relief to the poor, does not, especially if we deduct the salaries paid to hired over seers, amount to six millions of pounds in the year; while the other taxes, imposed by the Parliament and collected by the Government, amount to about sixty millions a year; and, that, therefore, your petitioners cannot but think it strange, that your honourable House should be alarmed at the prospect of seeing the rents absorbed by these six millions, while you appear to be under no apprehension at all of those rents being absorbed by the sixty millions, especially as they cannot for the life of them imagine how it is that your honourable House can fail to perceive, that it is the burden of the sixty millions, which is the real and evident cause of the necessity of raising the six millions, day-light not being more evident than

That your petitioners have recently observed, that many great sums of the money, part of which we pay, have been voted to be given to persons who render no services to the country; some of which sums we will mention here: that the sum of £94,900 has been voted for disbanded foreign officers, their widows and children; that your petitioners know, that ever since the peace, this charge has been annually made; that it has been on an average, £110,000 a year, and that, of course, this band of foreigners have actually taken away out of England, since the peace, one million and seven hundred thousand pounds, partly taken from the fruit of our labour; and if our dinners were actually taken from our tables and carried over to Hanover, the process could not be to our eyes more visible than it now is; and we are astonished, that those who fear that we, who make the land bring forth crops, and who make the clothing and the houses, shall

swallow up the rental, appear to think compelled to pay taxes for encouraging nothing at all of the swallowings of these Hanoverian men, women, and children, who may continue thus to swallow for half a century to come.

voted out of the taxes for this purpose; that, as far as your petitioners have learned, none of your honourable members have ever expressed their fear that this description of persons would assist to swallow up the rental; and that they do not now learn, that there is on foot any project for sending out of the country these costly children of soldiers.

soldiers to marry, and for the support and education of their children; and that while we are compelled, out of the fruit of our hard work, to pay for the That the advocates of the project for good lodging, clothing, and feeding of sending us out of our country to the the children of soldiers, our own poor rocks and snows of Nova Scotia, and children are, in consequence of the the swamps and wilds of Canada, have taxes, clad in rags, half-starved, and insisted on the necessity of checking insulted with the degrading name of marriages amongst us, in order to cause paupers; that, since the peace, half a a decrease in our numbers; that, how-million of pounds sterling have been ever, while this is insisted on in your honourable House, we perceive a part of our own earnings voted away to encourage marriage amongst those who do no work, and who live at our expense; that £145,267 has just been voted as the year's pensions for widows of officers of the army; and that your petitioners cannot but know, that while this is the case, few officers will die without leav- That your petitioners know that ing widows, especially as the children more than one-half of the whole of too are pensioned until of a certain age; their wages is taken from them by the that herein is a high premium given for taxes; that these taxes go chiefly into marriage, and for the increase of the the hands of idlers; that your petinumbers of those who do not work; tioners are the bees, and that the taxthat for this purpose, more than two receivers are the drones; and they know, millions of pounds sterling have been further, that while there is a project for voted since the peace, out of those taxes sending the bees out of the country, no more than their due share of which one proposes to send away the drones your petitioners have had to pay; that but that your petitioners hope to see to all appearance, their children's child- the day when the checking of the inren will have to pay in a similar man-crease of the drones, and not of the ner for the encouragement and support bees, will be the object of an English of similar idlers; and that to your peti-Parliament. tioners it does seem most wonderful, That, in consequence of taxes, your that there should be persons to fear petitioners pay sixpence for a pot of that we, the labourers, shall, on account of our numbers, swallow up the rental, while they actually vote away our food and raiment to increase the numbers of those who never have produced and never will produce any thing useful to

man.

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worse beer than they could make for one penny; that they pay ten shillings for a pair of shoes that they could have for five shillings; that they pay sevenpence for a pound of soap or candles that they could have for three-pence; that they pay seven-pence for a pound But that, as appertaining to this mat- of sugar that that they could have for ter of check marriages and the breed-three-pence; that they pay six shillings ing of children, the vote, recently pass- for a pound of tea that they could have ed, of £20,986 for the year, for the for two shillings; that they pay double Royal Military Asylum, is worthy of particular attention; that this Asylum is a place for bringing up the children of soldiers; that soldiers are thus encouraged and invited to marry, or, at least, to have children; that while our marrying and the children proceeding from us are regarded as evils, we are

for their bread and meat, of what they would have to pay, if there were no idlers to be kept out of the taxes; that, therefore it is the taxes that make their wages insufficient for their support, and that compel them to apply for aid to the poor-rates; that knowing these things, they feel indignant at hearing themselves

described as paupers, while so many mit to military command, military law, thousands of idlers, for whose support military punishment, and, if need be, they pay taxes, are called Noble Lords loss of limb or loss of life in fighting; and Ladies, Honourable Gentlemen, Musters, and Misses; that they feel indignant at hearing themselves described as a nuisance to be gotten rid of, while the idlers who live upon their earnings are upheld, caressed and cherished, as if they were the sole support of the country.

That your petitioners know that, according to the holy Scriptures, even the ox is not to be muzzled as he treadeth out the corn; that God has said that the labourer is worthy of his hire; that the poor shall not be oppressed; that they shall be fed out of the abundance of the land.

That, according to the laws of the Christian church in England, according to the canon law, according to the statute law, the poor of every parish were to be relieved out of the tithes ; that they ought to be relieved now; that, at any rate, the laws of England say, that no one shall perish from want; that, if unable to work, or to obtain work, a sufficiency of food and raiment and other necessaries of life shall be furnished to the indigent person by the parish; and that, therefore, your petitioners have, in case of need, as clear and good a right to parish relief as the landlord has to the rent of his land; and that, if your honourable House choose to continue to take the sixty millions a year in taxes; if you choose to cause the working people to be made poor in this way; if you choose to reduce us in this manner to appeal to the parish rates to support our lives; if you choose to continue to compel us to give more than the half of our wages to the tax-gatherers; if this be your decision, we hope that you will not blame us for pressing on the rates and the rental.

that they are thus compelled to serve and to suffer on the ground that it is necessary either to the defence of the country against foreign foes, or to the security of property against internal commotion; but that we possess no property but in our labour, which no foe, foreign or domestic, can take from us; and that, if we be to be regarded as having no right to a maintenance out of the land in exchange for our labour, if we be to be looked upon as a nuisance to be gotten rid of, is it just, we would ask, that we should be torn from our homes, and compelled to waste the prime of our lives, subjected to military command and military punishment, for the purpose of defending that land?

That, about twelve years ago, an act was passed by your honourable House changing the mode of voting in parish vestries, and another act, about eleven years ago, establishing select vestries; that, by these two acts, your petitioners were deprived of a great part of their rights; that, by the latter act, hired overseers, strangers to the parish, were introduced with salaries, to be paid out of the rates destined for our relief; that these overseers are generally paid much in proportion as they give little in relief; that hence have come oppressions and insults on us without end; that, in some cases, the labourers wanting relief have been compelled to draw carts and wagons like beasts of burden; in others they have been compelled to carry large stones backwards and forwards in a field, merely to give them pain and to degrade them; in others they have been shut up in the parish-pounds, and, in short, they have been fed and treated far worse than the dogs of those who live in luxury on those taxes, a large That your petitioners are constantly part of which are wrung from the sweat liable to be called out to serve in the of your petitioners; and that, at last, militia; that they are compelled to we have seen a bill passed by your give in their names to the parish con- honourable House, authorising these stable, in order that they may be called overseers to dispose of our dead bodies out whenever the Government may for the purpose of being cut up by the choose; that they are thus liable to lose surgeons, thereby inflicting on poverty their time in the prime of life; to quit the ignominy due to the murderer. their homes, their aged parents, their That while we know that we have wives and helpless children; and to sub- a clear right to relief in case of need, we

wish not to be compelled to apply for that relief; we desire not to hear the degrading name of pauper; we wish to keep our wages for our own use, and not to have them taken away to be given to idlers; we wish to be well fed and clad, and to carry our heads erect, as was the ease with our happy forefathers; we are resolved, at any rate, not to be treated like beasts of burden, and not to be driven from our country; and, therefore, we pray that your honourable House will repeal the two acts above mentioned; that you will take from our shoulders and from those of our einployers, the grievous burden of taxes; and that you will be pleased to begin forthwith by relieving us from the taxes on malt, hops, leather, soap and candles.

And your petitioners will ever pray.

KENT AND HAMPSHIRE

MEETING.

THERE have been meetings in these counties, which meetings our greatest Captain will scarcely deem " a farce.' This insolent expression is now in a fair way of being answered in a suitable

decide which side had the majority; but he decided against the motion. No question with me, that the Major had the majority. But, no matter: it is quite enough, that the farmers of this county, in the face of the nobility and magistrates, made it doubtful which side had the majority. The haughty and oppressive hierarchy there got a blow, which ought to prepare it for other blows.

In Hampshire, where the great Irish Captain is the Lord Lieutenant, the aristocracy and the poor half-beggar gentry and the parsons kept aloof. The requisition of 300 farmers was not, however, rejected by the sheriff. Mr. HINXMAN, a farmer, moved the petition, which was seconded by Mr. HENRY MARCH, and carried with only one hand held up against it. Here, too, the petition prayed for reform of the Parliament, and for dealing with the debt and the church. Oh! Hampshire parsons! You who, in March, 1817, on that same spot, thanked the Parliament for passing the Dungeon Bill. Oh! parsons, what is now to become of you! You old friends But, more another time: the post is going off.

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APPLE AND PEAR TREES.

manner. In KENT there was an address AMERICAN FOREST TREES, to the King and a petition to the Parliament, both very good; in both, Parlia mentary Reform was prayed for; and in the first, a dealing with the church property. Mr. LARKIN, of Rochester, after a very able and spirited speech,

moved the address as an amendment on

I NOTIFIED, last spring, that I should not have a great many forest-trees to sell following sorts, and at the prices put this year. I have, however, some of the against them.

FOREST TREES.

LOCUSTS, two years old, transplanted,

BLACK WALNUT, very fine and large, 4s. a hundred.

BLACK SPRUCE, two years old, transplanted, 10s. a hundred.

one proposed by EARL STANHOPE, which Mr. L., deemed too mild. The petition was moved by Mr. BRADLY (a yeoman), and was carried in spite of all the efforts 75. a hundred. of the aristocracy. But the most remarkable thing here was an amendment to Mr. Bradly's petition, which amendment was proposed by MAJOR WAITH, and which prayed for an appropriation of the church property to national purposes. This motion appears N. B. I would recommend planters to to have excited a great stir. Strenuous raise the Locust trees from seed, agreeefforts were made to induce the Major ably to the directions, contained in my to withdraw this motion. At last, upon book, entitled, "THE WOODLANDS,' a division, the report says, that the which explain the whole matter very SHERIFF was very much perplexed to fully. In general, not a tenth part of

RED CEDAR, three years old, trans, planted, 6d. each.