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rai'e fertility, to be freed from some imposts, and to 

 be distinguished by their sobriety, industry, and 

 economy, they are going on increasing in numbers 

 till, in a few years, the division of land will be so 

 great as to cause the necessity of removal to less 

 peopled districts. 



The representation of the distressed state of the 

 agricultural inhabitants of this part of the Prussian 

 dominions, which has been here given, receives con- 

 firmation from the proceedings of the Landschaft, or 

 assembly of the provisional States of Prussia in their 

 last session. The address of the Assembly has not 

 been made public, but is said to have been framed in 

 very melancholy strains, and to have urged the King 

 to take some measures of a decided nature, respect- 

 ing the introduction of British goods, in order to 

 induce our Government to make some alteration in 

 the Corn Laws. Whatever may have been the re- 

 presentation of the States, the reply of the King, 

 which has been published, gives an air of probability 

 to the rumours, that it had an object, in some degree, 

 of this kind. 



" With regard to the prayer for an intercession 

 " with the English Government to repeal the Corn 

 " Bill, his Majesty expressed a hope, that to improve 

 " the intercourse between the two nations, a change 

 " will take place in the English Corn Laws." 



Berlin, 26th November, 1825, from the Hamburgh 

 paper, The Correspondent. 



One of the effects of the agricultural distress, 

 which was visible in the condition of the Inhabitants, 

 seemed to be a decrease in the cultivation of Bread 

 Corn. 



The replies of the President Rothe (see Appendix, 

 No. 11, B.) show that on six farms, amounting 

 together to 10,390 acres, of which eight years ago 

 6,926 acres were cultivated with Grain, there are at 

 present only 4,864 acres applied to that purpose, 



