The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-13 00:00:00

FORGERY.

Mr. Secretary PEEL gave notice, that on Wednesday
the 18th of March, he should bring in a Bill to atuend
and consolidate the laws relating to Forgery.

ESSEX PETITION. - •
Mr. WESTERN rose to present a petition from the
county of Essex, with which, though he agreed in softie
points, he was far from concurring in all. The Hon.
Member than entered into a history of the mode in which
this petition had been submitted to the meeting, after an-
other had been previously moved by two most respectable
gentlemen of the county. It had been carried undoubt-
edly by a majority of the meeting; and though, as he hid
before stated, there was much in it of which he approved,
there was also much of which he strongly disapproved.
It called for a reform in Parliamens--of that he approved;
it called fur an equitable commutation of the present sys-
tem of tithes—of that he had been always a supporter; it
called also for a new distributitin of the revenues of the
Church—but that was a project to which he could never
yield his assent. It also contained many unjust and inJie-
critninate charges against the higher class of society, to
which he could never consent to put his hand. It was
signed by the High Sheriff on behalf of the meeting,—a
practice not unusual ; but it would have been mote sa-
tisfactory to him if it had been signed by the persons
who attended the meeting. If that had been done,

he was certain that no one gentleman of known consi-
deration in the county—he did not mean for property,
but for caution, and judgment, and talent—would Lave
subscribed his name to it. He then read the petition
which was rejected by the meeting. After he had con-
cluded it, he said that not a single individual in the large
and respectable meeting which attended yesterday at
Chelmsford had been found bold enough to deny its state-
ments. Never was there a more entire concurrence than

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that shown at the meeting as to the universal and severe
distress which now oppressed all the industrious ,
In order that he might not have occasion to intrude again
upon the notice of the House, he would say that he eoukl
not give his support to the resolution which was that
night to be moved by his lion. Friend the Member for •
Cumberland. The adoption of his resolution would not
remedy the existing distress: nothing could do that ex-
cept a cautious mitigation of the Act of 1819, which
was a robbery upon all the debtors and tax-payers in his
Majesty's dominion. The House had, in his opinion,
only this alternative before it,—either to sacrifice the
measure of value to the country, or else to sacrifice the
country to the measure of value. He then moved that
the petition be brought up.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY could have wished that the
Hon. Member for Essex had had the prudence to defer
presenting this petition until the irritation had subsided
which had been occasioned by the defeat which he had suf-
fered yesterday. The Hon. Member had called the meet-
ing of his constituents a large and respectable meeting,
and yet had impeached their prudence at the very moment
in which he admitted their patience. Patient indeed the
meeting had been, for it had listened to the Hon. Member
for an hour, whilst he had been amusing himself by re•
peating once more his stale and often-told story respecting
the currency. The meeting was indeed a most respect.-
' able meetinm, for it disdained all party motives, and would
not allow itself to be converted into a party meeting. Fur
whilst it stated the existence of great buffering and dis-
tress, it denied their universality, stating its opinion to be
that the distress was so great, that unless some wise
measures were adopted to relieve it, it would soon be over-
wbelming. It had declared its opinion to be, that though,
much was to be done upon that subject within the walls
of Parliament, much also was to be done without It'
had declared its opinion that there was as great relief to
be derived to the agricultural classes from a diminution of
rents as from the boasted panacea of the Honourable
Member himself. He thought that if the landed gen-
tlemen in that House could feel themselves justified in
calling for a reduction of the salaries of all officers;
from the highest to the lowest, do a•n to the scale
of 1793, their tenants had a right to call upon them
to reduce their rents in the same proportion.—(Loud cries
of hear.)--The rental of the country was 50,000,094/
and if the landlords would take off 25 per cent„ jt tivQuht
equal in amount to a fourth part of our present tax:ttiom
relieve the agricultural classe,s)foEfl,2ex,sl9,ao,l,odoeooLi
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creditor,—quite the reverse : their object was to maintain
the national faith unimpaired. They called upon' the
House, after reducing taxation as low as possible, to lay
upon the country, SO far as should be necessary for the
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