The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-23 00:00:00

RIM 5 "7 - _~' 1 i ~' • ,-* L t<2l,_ , • . - • `,. , / ... . lUUBK #B4-7 -,_ , iv. Day t•pi L iampiklai qgs., Dig st; A RET HANDPEnti Author of Zellea the Crop. Printed for A. K. NEWMAN eel Ca Where may be ked. jest pelltil*:. • , Live ANCI Leann. or the first Jobs 111row,,*b , Irmo Latham. Esq. 4 vole. 11. 4*. Wurria tR EDI:411%11016 by Rewrite libolik&llMlNlMlki lea. ed. BRIDAL of Dusattotte, by K. M. tea* :111 It. I. ALIVE, o'r Infidelity, by Grose Stuart Rom* 8 volemes 4 , Ins, ' ht *calumet:v. a Hi ghlao Tale. by tbd lutko of Redmond' the Rebel, St. Kathleen, &e. 4 vole. TA ICS 011 A TlOnts...bilitlietalabp,mino. AK. 7+t' :*.es This Day is published. is 3 vols. t4saa,plea les. GA. TRACEY THE poirr, $ Skaneli ,frpia Printed for A. K. Num*. •C6.llLeitipe64ll - • • • •••• .••• -,••• IaIIOQUIPAIP‘ wit Lamas or ticutt..tito (441 Male, seirstaining Deft Marge', • , Ds Movranxv. or the Straaysitiatllcipali#ll.lllo4f; Neils Stephens, 4 vols. Moines or tars, is Tows sad Country, it VAC • tl a. ifSAISS, or Diamond cut DiBlBlB4, 1 Bast het. Novel. by lours Hods, Esq. S veils • A Sairrcu, by Miss Russai.4. or net OWN Craws, S volumes. WHAT SHALL Di, SHALL as, by Mrs. 440 e. 4 vols. •- TO THE NOBILITY , ("ENTRY. AND ICBM, OF THE VNITE9 KINGHCO4. JOSEPH IDOOPhIt AND SONS, LOH1(1110.GL•SS ITABILISHUSH, NO. 53. it s 8 01 , 141113.8 Tit IT Wlllll Ageneral traders in our partirtilar woe. we have , for luz'f a century : Oren special ratiefa4litis to a Middy respectable and li:diligent connexion. to whom f. e take this public opportunity of return.* OUP gralefol ise gnowiedymerte fur all pi:tilos-mu. and of ezforassing oar zealous and determined listen: ion 1 0Olfii411cmdisseliew of their frsture patronage. • With the change of the limn and anuses/lasers. Aim .erer, **left hare served lo give a sea featurzto the specs lotions of trade, ore mud neeessarily retry err arrange ments tubers/errs ; indeed, it has bream he more inspet•a the os men of capital and livfanuie fit thtirrespectire cir cles to yonsiiit the ;math neeentlies, bemuse the limits to whirls the emnftleVei.ll horizon has for ssvay years eetend rd gradually to eantrawl: acid the Alaaterseturer and .Irlison are tune colicky wader theconsagssentpreseure arisifty fromike wantof export and employment. Misstate tj'llsimye bus Orem rise to a class of Speculators. atm hare endeavoured to becicsL them:ekes by °briny ring& of entry toferior manufacture. whisk, although apparenUy cheap, yield the greeter profit. ; they are showy east decorated, bat ihaanlactu red without regard to durability, and con seqnentlyprore in the *craft a serious disappointment to the pure:laser. There has also exista an opporitee.etresie : another class of tradesmen hare made such exorbitant demands for their arlieles. as to create surprise la the tatttds of pur chasers how the great disparity in the sherges of dijfeeent 'houses caw be sativitetority e.rptaitted. H. snail tears this question as it rests, , and eider upon oar pure immediate sintfeet.' To be just in oat dealings as Tradesmen, we mast hare sprqfte, bid re Arai be resettled Irld • Muskrats one ; and therejtsre step between the 'corking mechanto ant his cheer less prospects—glee him fair wages suitable to the times as they really are—employ our capital in the purchase of first-rate material—and offer the character and et edit of an old established Mercantile House, to tie Inert imme diate patronage of the Nobility, Gentry, and public of the Gaited Kinydam- JosePll Can PER and SOY, in thus offering the nature of their business to notice, trust they shall not be considered as attemptini what they cannot maintain and sapport—their Ware:louse contains e'er, description of the best manu factured Yurniture. LOOKING GL ASSES. From the immense reductionwhiek has now taken plate.ran be offered Owen of magnificent sizes) so low as particularly to intermit Noblemen or Gentlemen desirous of fitting up their houses with this elegant and fashionable article, whe ther for the Drawing or Dini .g-Room. Chambers, Stair . Onus, Windotrs, Con - serratories: 4.c. For Windows, Door Lights, or exposed situations, their Plate Glass trill be fared i* a relative devree cheaper than Cross Glass. nit article. for a small insurance, trill be delivered, free from risk or breakage, or large glasses forwarded by spring ca ravans, constructed for the purpose, to any part of the *lngdosn,at a very trifling expense. SECOND-HAND LOOKING GLASSES Constantij an sale at a still more considerable reduction. CARVING A'ND GILDING In all its branches. with a rich assortment of Chimney, Pier, Clteral, and Toilet Frames. constantly on view Gentlemen desirous of haring the Frames Paintings or Prints re-gilt, Will fiud the terms particularly deserving *oiler. When the quantity is large, and Families are de sirous of aro:ding removal. they may hare theasfinithed on Ike spot with the greatest rare and dispatch. PAPKR HANGING, _ _ In erery decoratire department, in the I.est style of ele gance. upon meek a reduced scale as ;sill ensure a most ma terial satiny in large resitknrcs. CABINET WORK Manstfactured In a superior manner, with every attention to the newest fashion and latest improrensent. in this de partment will be found a great variety of the most elega nt articles admirably adapted for Noblemen and Gentlemen's state, at prices reduced beyond all former precedent. IN THE UPHOLSTERY ARRANGEMENT, They have studied to combine taste and elegance. haring se lected every article of the most modern introduction adapt ed for Drawing or Dining-Rooms, Bed-chambers, Av. from the plainest to the most coati, style. Families can be wait ed on in any part of the country with designs and patterns, at no other charge than the travelling expenees. Spring rararans forwarded with furniture to any distance at a :malt charge per mile, which saves all expellee of package, and pre rents the risk of breakage or injury. TURKEY CARPETS. florin!, ivst inrpr.rted a large validity, they are enabled to offer. warranted, of tie finest qnality, of large and small dimensions, on morrfaronrable terms than (.34 be obtained at any otAer house in London. Drawls, and all other ar poling equally reasonable. SEASONE9 FLOOR CLOTHS, Fitted to plan, much reduced in pries. FUNERALS FURNPMED, And eondneted with the greatest attention. from the plainest to the most sumptaalms exhibition of mourning grantlewr,. and with consistent regard to economy, without diminish ing the necessary respectability. To evince the anxiety they Pet for the erectire connate thin qf their orders, they bore engaged artists rontoecne to eklabit drawings. +stied to every displaj of taste. co-, namoy, and elegance: among these, the orauni.nfs areal.• kg heraldic embtu sonnients forma profit ni Ofeattlre. Any Noblertan or Gentleman 'desirous of clehangieg or. disposing of their fttrnittere, will find an immediate oppor-* !unity of dheling the s:tme at their warehouse. Appraisentents in Town or Country promptly attend el to. Joseoa COOPER and SON haring now .fullit explained tie immediate substance of their arrangements. most eonci-. drolly aNirrn. that a reduction of from i 5 to Yu ?or cent. ion be offered for the adrantaßc of immediate payment— . and once more beg to solicit the generous patronage Of the public. • Fandres from the West end of the Tonic by taking he route of the New-road, City-rokul, and leinshary-squa re, trill find en eery omits into Rishopsinte-street. (tepid! •:g the pared 41I'l CtS. Y 3, hishogsgate giro! n &Aim. .. ... : r #•". #, : ' ' ' .' r $--#:"' •r • -.:- ..,•#. 'l, f .41 ( 1 1 • 1 4 .. • . .: :: • I t l / 4 I . a ! : .. • • •••••, I ..... , t. % . t 4,, a .1 ' •:: * 14 0 0 1 11)014 9 r . • " 7S• Coat At :tee MAIMS?, All is the Field. cod SY liNgy aid .s she Scqffold l" • . :• .• ' trOUtINING.n..-De. WINN'S ANTI CAR isITJLso Zeittettl PAnfe teessed ro ll r f iIi ACK itUn gus itirlaVXß, nd wa vrkleY thy over all other Compositions Hitt bas beekollerad to Ike Public; it has the wonderful stoat of retying lea few seethes every description of Ladies' and Ginhemerte faded Mourning, Biel Hats and Costs. Silk ifteabilffs, Cfoluf. Lem, Silks, Muslin,. Cotton, Jean Boots. &a. whitest In juring the tester of the most dentate atilelle if offwwfes Ate and arrow, will retain Its virtues In all ellanson. end for any length of time. T. PRYCR, Oilmen,weirtheßriek layers' Arms. Kent-raid. Loaders, bags henget* assure per sists who constantly use the above *Mobster whoring Gen flonsen'a faded snits, that ha Is the sole possegeor of the Receipt ;or preparing the invalnabla and jostly celebrator! 11OUILNINCII REVIVKB, and, as a proof of Its rare end Itteelleat gadflies, begs to state, that he bah bed the moat uttpreeedented demand for It during the last twenty years.— May biked at tho proprietor's oil and ardour weevil...se; haul senolessde et nutlet and Son's, Chosalats sod Orsastists,. it 'awl - .4414 .11birapyo; YYO, Rosirsuntteit. Plaie; Minsilmetwir; Si. Seckenwereet, ffelPfrer *base. Random and Sees. 9.1. Fleet•Asottet. chemists sirtgigte; Mr-Ititworsis St. Pastro Citureit.yardt awe* niassn. sotoar-otakera. Leadan-rontl.• .11Annttsisrk }and to be '10,0411 of • J. Prise, oilman. 23, Bridge-road, Lambeth; Mr. Stradflng, Royal agents/a; Mr. Johnson's medicine warehouse, Combill; Mr. J. Ifeby, oilman, Illackfriars'-road; Mr. Gregory, oilman. Grace- , church-wet-et; Mr. Melklrjonn, perfumer. Graceehureit street ; WWl**, oilman, Oxford-steset ; Mr. sterry, oil- man, Borough; Mr. Winter, oilman, Mile Find-road ; Mr. Garnett, oilman, Commercial-road; Mr. Miore, oil men, Shadivell ; and of Mr. Vaughan. oilman, Pratt-street. Lambeth.—And in the country, of Mr. Peters. grocer, Brighton; Mr. C. Smith, grocer. Canterbury •; Mfil. Ether ington. • bookseller, Chatham; Mr. Omar, stationer, Chat ham,; Mr. Franklin, chemist, Dartford; Mr. Pitts, druggist, Fore-street, gieter • Mr. Squire. bookseller, Taunton; Mr. Hinton, chemist, Dudley; Mr. Burman. draggle. Stratford on.-Avon ;. Mr. Atkins. Banbury ; Mr. Perkins, brush maker, Birmingham ; S. Wormy,. stationer. Deptford bridge; Wareup, steioner, Deptford neredway; Map And ,Tarr. Greenwich; CadJte, printer, Graveeend ; stationer. Maidstone; W. Head, grocer, tab t Mr. Moore, Seven talks; J. 11. Ar.lioson, chemist, Woolwich; .irs. Clough. Stationer, Manchester ; Mr. Dash. bookseller, Kettering ; Mrs. C. Dickenson, rrosa Cheeping, Coventry ; 11r. J. Neal., the Hie. Dover ; Mwsses. Stevenson and Co. Norwich : of Mr. Prid,reon, druggist, Lynn r. and by all the principal oilmen, chemists, drat:Oats, and stationers in 'l'awn and Country, price one shilling per bottle or packet. None are genuine but those signed "T. Pryer, Kent-road, London." SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING. AGRICELTURAL DISTRESS. A meeting of the iiehabiteets of the county of Somer set was held in the town of Well*, pa Tuesday, the 41st last, to take into consideration the propriety of petition ing Parliament on the subject of the existing unparal leled agricultural distress. Sir Thomas Lethbridge, Mr. Dickinson, and a number of considerable persons were present. Mr. Hunt, who bad previously addressed a letter to the inhabitants of the county, arrived in a post chaise about eleven o'clock ; and soon aftev twelve, about four theeteard persons being neseu.ltleil in front of mute b.tldi airs wettest hafateecikenTsseie-Heetl..- Thn Hsatt-Sttsitreti Vincent 'Stookey. ItaapYrapeCasei the business of the meeting. The requisition was first rend. It was signed by .Str Thomas Lethbridge, and thirty gentlemen acting se MaTistrates for Somerset. The Mon SIIERITV then addressed a few words to the assembly upon the propriety of their confining them selves a' strictly as possible to the subject of agricultural distress; time would be saved, and unanimity promoted by their so doing. Mr. FUNNING said, that baring signed the reqnisition he should take the liberty, for a few momenta, to state the reasons which bad induced him to take the opiviOn of the county upon the subject in question. Agricultural distress bad reached such a height, that it now became impossible for any man to be blind to it. Therefore it was that he (Mr. Ilanning) now appeared as an English man, exercising his right as a subject and as a freehold-, I er, to present a petition to the Commons Hoese of Par liament, praying relief for the suffering tenantry of the country. He should in due time read to the meeting a' petition which he had prepared. If it met with their approbation, as be trusted it would do, he could not doubt of its reception by the Legislature, seeing that it came from a county still so great and so respectable, and once so opulent, as the county of Somerset. Let the ' principles on which he was proceeding be fully under stood. He did not ask for protecting duties, for high prices, or for high rents; all he asked was, that even handed justice should be dealt under all circumstances, to all classes of the community. The distress was grow ing so severe, that, if it were not speedily averted, that numerous, iniinstriods, and valuable body of men, the tenantry of England, must absolutely bc annihilated by it. It was the tight of an Englishman to petition when he was unjustly taxed, and the landed int was unjest ly taxed. There were Twig points of pressure which he could name if ha thought tit; there were two or three which he would name, on which the pressure was most grievous. In the first place, in the name of the landholders generally, be complained of that impost I commonly called the " county rate'. The county rate for Somerset bad increased within his recollection from the sons of 30001. to the sum of 20,0001. a year. Hoe was this money expended ? First, in the maintainaggg of county buildings ; next, in the support of the con* gaol. Were the landholders the only persons Interested in these works? And the thing lei ea further; thi landholders actually paid for the protection generally or property throughout the county, for all the charges of criminal prosecutions were defrayed out of the county rate. The burden, as it stood, was a grievance peculiar to England; it was unknown, he believed, in any other part of the globe;' even Sontlaml and Ireland, our own dominions, were not visited by it. • The next point to which he would advert, was the maintainance of the highways; that work, which henetitted all el the people, was paid for, like the prisons and prosecn , lions, exclusively by the land. Even the Post Office, whielt obt 4ined its large revenue out of the roads, r an. Vilmted nothing at all towards their support. - A third' end more weighty consideration appeared in the state of the poor Laws. •at the present moment. tied forbid that be .loield be thought to deny the pour every We qd ..e relief. When the force of the labourer's arm was race, he was entitled to a maintainauee in his latter days ; bit what reason was there that the cost of that very proper maintainanre should he cast elmoa entire. upon the ;ended interest ? Let the paupers he main tained—let the saute persons keep them in their age aliditaribeisetliteti hy their exertions in their youth. Cheers. •Tbirlewas one more point on which lie would 'shortly trouble the meeting, ani that Was upon the emelt agitated qrsestion of tithes (tireat applause.)— It was far from his intention to deny the Clergy their dew, bit why should they he paid by the, landed interest -entinilyq Whyahould they be supported by one class only. wisen all classes alike enjoyed the benefit of their labours? There were ahurl.stkee of other saes, Heaven, I.new s sufficiently grievous ; bat he would not detain eheiteeeing upon those which pressed all el goal !rm. recollected well when the taxation of the soontry bad scar exceeded a fourth of its present amour's.— Us eft it at 13,000,000 a year—and it had since stood* nigh as 60,000,0001. Could it be expect ed that old* existing low prices, high taxes should be paid? If there was a single shilling taken from the peeketa sr( the people, which was not properly applied by Goverment, the imposition of that shilling was an just and ought to be got rid of. (General approbation)— Mr. Hasalng then declared. that (however he demaud ed strict eteponay) he would submit cheerfully to every tax that was essential to the safety of the state, and con cheled.by reading the petition in which his sentiments were embodied. The Petition was to the following effect ' • To ila dos of Of nnarahle the Commons of the United King- Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assem• bas4l. ♦, politico of ttio rreoboidetrillOtAgtior ittbahit; ay of Somerset. with bole leave to topmost I 'oat.. that the distress nailer which the agri- adistrel Inte — rest of the empire has laboured since the termi nation of the war, has latterly increased to a degree so alerw.ing, SA to threaten annihilating to that most respect able alum gip e community. And your petitioners lament that they as* °bagel' to state, that the measures already adopted by your Hon. (louse appear totally Inadequate to afferd the necessary relief. " Your petitioners therefore pray, that your Honourable House will take their case into your immediate and most se rious consideration. That you will he pleased to lighten those burdens which more immediately press upon the occu piers of land; and in order to erect this without Injury to public credit, that you will he pleased to order such a re. duetion in oar eatablishments, both civil and military. as will hriug the expenditure of the country within its reduced Income. " Your petitioners beg also to press upon the,considera tioa of your Honourable House, the extreme injustice of the poor -laws. the burden of which, with. few exceptions, falls on those interested in the land alone: to these your *Mi lliners beg leave to add the other parochial and comity rates, the latter almost exclwthely used for the protection of person"! property, when applied to defray the expense of maintaining the gaols, and the administration of the criini nal justice of the kingdom. Your petitioners, in addition, eannot refrain froin stating their opinion, that a commute- Coo of tithes upon a fair principle would be a source of happiness to the country at large; and a great relief to the lauded interest in par:icular. Your petitioners cannot con clude their bumble petition without big your Honour able House, that all they pray and ask for is, to he placed in every respect on en equal footing with other el of his Majesty's subjects, and that in justice they should only be eoinpelleil to contribute to the maintenance of the poor, to thoexpense of the administration of the criminal justice of the country. ens! to the support of oar establislimeot in church and state, in the same proportion as Is required from their fellow subjects, and for this, the birthright of every Englishman, they will ever pray." (Cries of " Reform,Re form" at the conclusion of the petition.) Mr. R. ASUTOR SANDTORD (a magistrate of the county) next Cause forward. lie was distressed beyond measure, looking at the meeting, to see so large a body of English yeomen petitioning the legi , dature to save , them from pattperism.—(Cheers.) 1V1,4t could men kijoisisessis‘soold the world think—of a Government ask ed the gonntry to atuels a state?—(Loud cheers. a supported the petition of his friend, Mr. Harming, because it prayed for a reduction in our over grown establishments, both civil anti military. The ex pense of the existingvivil establishments was greater than the people could, or ought to bear. What did England want with an Ambassador in America, receiv ing a larger stipend than the President of the United States himself? Was it to be endured that we should sow be paying public 'officers the same salaries whirls we had paid to them when wheat was a guinea a bushel? In the time of high prices, the salaries of Government officers had been increased one half;—who, since the return to low prices, had yet moved to reduce them again ?—(Alucli cheering.) With regard to our military establishments, they hail necessarily increased during the war. He did not desire to see 'withers deserted who hail bravely fought the battles of the nation ; but he wished to see military places filled up with old soldiers, and not given to men who had never seen a shot fired in their lives. Upon the county rates, it was really worth "while to trouble the meeting for a moment. In the year 1768, the county rates of Somerset bad been 8001. a year. I. the year ISIS, they had stood increased to 21,5001. — am increase of 21,0001, upon 8001. in only 50 years.— (Cheers.) As the matter stood, if a London traveller happened to he robbed in the county of Somerset, the county which had no interest whatever in the sufferer, paid the expense of his prosecuting the offender to con viction. With respect to the last article in Mr.Hanning's petition—the question of tithes—who was there that could doubt that commutation was necessary? (Great applause, anti cries of " No one"). He would come, then for,on so cold a day,the less that was said the better—be would come to a subject which some might think ought to have been touched upon sooner—the subject he meant, of Parliamentary reform. (Shouts from the mul titude.) That subject, gentlemen, might rest assured, would have been earlier adverted to, hut that it was in tended to call a meeting specially for the purpose of discussing it. A requisition most respectably signed. had that tuornipg been presented to the High Sheriff to call a meeting for a reform in Parliament only ; anti Ire hoped that the High Sheriff would act upon that re quisition without delay. If it so happened that the High Sheriff did decline to call the meeting, the Lord Lieutenant of the county would be applied to ; and it the application in that second quarter proved ineffective, the magistrates who had signet! the requisi tion would call the meeting themselves. When the meet ing took place, he (Mr. Sandford) trusted to see such a petition framed as would do honour to the county of Somerset : that the meeting should take place, and speedily. he pledged his honour as a man and an Eng lishman. The HIGH SHERIF, was about to put the question upon Mr. Hanning's petition, when Mr. HUNT, amid loud cheer., came forward to move an amendment. " Those,, ' said Mr. Hunt, " who did we the honour to meet me in %Yells 12 years since, will give me credit for assenting fully to what has fallen from the two last speakers, for the same statements pre. eisely whirl, those gentlemen have just made I suurutt ted to you on thlt occasion-1 repeat, 12 years sooner. —(Cheers anJ laughter.)—Toe last speaker (Mr. Sand. ford) feels itteignant that there should he a necessity for this meeting : 1 nut tell you before Mr. Sand lotl was born—did I not forewarn yau of thaj which would happen ? —(.:titers )—1 have been telling you for years, that is, such of you es would listen to me, what tuns, come to pass if the Government persevered. 1 told you that the gioiry of an iniquitous war, pretty glory, gentl.tisen! You find it ill your ptirkets 1 doubt—(A laugh) —or rather, you might have found it there some time back ; 1 toll you that this " glory" would bring us Ti) the state we stand in. 1 have listened with great pleasure to Mr. Itenning's peados,. There is little in it to which I object, or to which yon will object ; bht the fault of it is, that it does'not go far enough. If that petition had been cacved in the year 1810, if would h.rve ctot . •% ` qtr" - ) , f4, 1 7,.Auf , .• PRICE SEVEN PEN( been sufficient ; bat now, in the year 1823, it will not do. We must go, I say, to the root of the evil. We are met to talk of oar grievances, and to advise upon a re medy for them. Mr. Sandford talks well about a meet ng to be called for Parliamentary Reform. (leadsmen. before that meeting takes place, a hundred mere of you will be upon the parish. -(Great cheers.) I wish to ex press myself without offence to any tone. I have gained a great deal, that at last I can be heard ; for I remember when, if I had touched the lightest doctrine handled this ay. the whole body of the church would bare been assembled to hoot the down.—(Laughter.)—l take it ite a great victory that lam listened to. If I propose any thing absurd, or state any thing untrue to the meeting. there are gentlemen enough present both able and wit- • hog to set both me and the meeting tight ; bat I hope that I shall not advise you, gentlemen, to do any thing which is unreasonable, or any thin which you will be ashamed to , look back upon when yea -get bars. !taco.` I - confetti," 11 was surprised to - bear Mr. Henning complaining—of all thing. in the world—of the county rate. How happens it. so many times as he bas met you here. that Mr. Manning sever thought of this grievance before? Mr. Manning said truly enough that the tax was an unjust one ; bat let it be remembered that the tax Is imposed by the ma gistrates themselves (Mr. Manning being one.) Properly administered, it is as fair a tax assay other tits upon the list. You must have roads to carry your corn to mar ket. anal your manure into the field—ethte road is no grievance, but there is a heavy grievance in the turn pike, with which these gentlemen magistrates check you on the :oad. Has it come to your knowledge—or to your pockets—that the general turnpike act, passed last session by Parliament, enables the commissioners to itn— poss a Heavier tax upon the poor man's cart. that: upot the petty tyrant, the magistrate's carriage ? —Cheere)— Where were your representatives, as they are calleu- Mr. Dickinson and Sir Thomas Lethbridge—where are they, I wish to know when this act passed into a law Where, I say, were those relievers of Agricultural dis tress?—Were they in the Louse, or were they not ? Let them take it which way they will. If they were in the house, and did not oppose the measure, then they be. ti eyed their trust: if they were not in the house, why then they neglected their dety.—(Cheers anal meal laughter.)-1 do not speak behind the backs of these gentlemen : they are present to answer for themselves. (Cries of " Let them answer.)" But lam compelled wh I look, to complain of delay. Mr. Sandford, as well as Mr. Manning, talks of the county rates. In 176S.they were 8001. a year ; in 1818. they were 21,8001. Why did not the people hear of this in ISIS? Mr. SANDFORD said that he was not in the commis sion in NIS. Mr. Ilurcr.—Then from that crime Mr. Sandford stands absolved. (Laughter.) But perhaps one of the magistrates ptesent can tell what became of 26,41001. levied for county rates in the year 1818 ? 241,0001. only was expended ; what became of the other 5,0001. ? (Cries of Explain.") Mr. Henning talks of Scotland and Ireland not being unjustly taxed ; did Mr. Henning never bear of the misery, of the famine, to which Ire land was reduced by nowt taxation ; and especially by that heaviest tax of all others—the caw of a corrupt and peolligatdoesagietesey ? (Gleenee4- " Mr. Itaxise.-1 meant merely that Ireland was not subjected to *county rate. Mr. Humr.—No; hut to a hundred evils incompara bly greater. I agree with Mr. Henning, in thinking 'that those who make poor ought up toe certain point, to in.iintaio them. But lam far from thinking our poor laws unequal or unjust ; and I am sure that those poor laws could not Ire repealed, without the country being placed in a situation in which no honest man would wish to see it placed. Mr. Banning says that lbw, who create the poor ought to keep them. I an swer, that there are two sorts of poor—the great poor and the little poor. Lord Grenville Lord Arden, your men with pensions or sinecures of 40,0001. or 50,0001. a year—these are the paupers who impoverish the labourer, hang ups. his gains, and live in idleness by the sweat of his brow. (Great cheering.) In 1811, Lord Camden had 35,0001. a year, for signing his name 4ow and then as a Teller of the Exchequer. The fact was blazoned. A meeting at Bath was got up on the subject. Twenty four thousand into signed a petition against the abuse. Two days betore the petition was to have been presented to the House of Commons, Lord Camden comedown and resigned his sinecure. A person from the crowd.—Lord Camden is as honor able a man as ever lived. Mr. will give him credit for being so ; and I will nevertheless take some little credit to myself for: • his having given up his office. Mr. Banning, gentle— men, tells you, that he /only wants justice—just and. equal taxation. That is all you want. It is all I want. I only demand, as regards equality, equality of taxation,• not equality of property ; that old hinnbag is exploded, and even the knaves who live upon the taxes dare hardly accuse me of wishing for it ; though, if I did wish for it, I might perhaps have a chance to be gratified, for the great landowners are not quite in a condition to be envied,—their estates, gentlemen, might almost as well be in the moon, for what they get by them. (Laughter.) I sum here, after two) ears and a half imprisonment fur speaking my mind, ready, not withstantliftg, to speak my mind again. I will endeavour to do it lib a gentleman; hut still I will speak out plainly. Your representative, Sir Tuomas Lettsbridge—no doubt in private life he is a very honnurble man ; hut, in his public career, i stand here to tell him to his face, that he has voted for every tax of w h ich the meetingto-day will c Sir TnostAs LETIInILIDGE.-1 think that won't do. Mr. liesT.—Sir Thomas will be heard in his torn His lungs are as Food as loins, unit lie has as much .) the modest assurance, as the people call it. (Laughter.) I say he has voted for taxes through thick and thin. (Cries of No, no.") I say he has. I have as couch confidence as most men, and ant not ashamed to stela here to utter any thing that is true ; hot I declare that, if I hail voted for the taxes as Sir Thomas Lethbridge has, I should not have had the impudence to face the people of Simiersetshire. I complatn heavily of both the representatives of this county. The one has voted for every tax st hich you are now complaining of ; amt the other did the same while hie fa.-tion. the Whir. were in power. (Cheers.) lie voted to make corn dear; he v.iteil to raise the salaries of the Royal family front 12,0001. to IS.OOO. a year. That might not be wrong when things were in a nourishing state, awl prices high ; hut who, in the changed state of aff.;rs, has moved to reduce those salaries again ? When the Dukes of Porte unit Clarence first got 18.0001. year, 4,000 sacks of wheat would pay the 'moon'; but now 214:1410 sails will hardly pay it. (Cheers.) i.4i'hy have not these things been notieeil in the house? Sir Thomas Lethbridge is a (firm: of 6ovvrorneut. and he, perhaps, may nut like to notice thein: but Mr. Dick ! im i nn is on the other side, why has not he dont, it? It is not that lie has got wait/ lilt * for himself, is it ? lie is not a wolf in sheep's clothing, sitting with the oppoiis . n ami voting with ministers? I know a man 49 , a: plied to Mr. Dickinson to get his son into the Egasit: .r2l. man. ANUARY s 3, iB2& 4 :~ I • . - • • • -4 1 i , . ~