The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-09 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETING AT LOUTH.

On the 7th instant a meeting was held at the Guild-
hall, Louth, pursuant to a requisition signed by nearly all
the most respectable tradesmen in the town to the 'War-
den, for the purpose of considering the propriety of peti-
tioning Parliament for a repeal of the assessed taxes. The
hour of meeting was twelve o'clock, when JonN FrrefllE,
Esq., Warden, took the Chair. The meeting was most
reepectably attended, but owing to the market, not at its
'pening very numerously so. Among the company
we noticed John Loft, Esq., 11. R. Allenby, Esq., of
Kenwick Home ; F. P. Walesby, Esq. barrister-at-law,
Chas. Wing, Esq. Dr. L'Oste, &c. &c. The Warden
opened the business, by briefly stating the thj,sct of the
meeting, and the gratification he felt at complying with
the wishes of the inhabitants in calling the meeting to-
tether ; he warmly concurred with the objects of the re-
quisitionist., for however he might differ on minor points
of policy, we were all painfully sensible of the generally
distressed state of the country, and aimed on the propriety
of seeking some relief from the present heavy bunt, ns of
taxation; anti among these burdens lie considered the
assessed taxes, especially the inhabited house-tax, as most
oppressive.
FRANCIS WALESBY, Ettri. barrister, rose, and after as.
tering the inhabitants of Louth of his readiness at all
times to lend hie best efforts for the promotion of any
', measure conducive to their interest in made and general
i comfort, proceeded to argue at considerable length that
the inhabited house-tax and window-tax were impolitic,
%Rico, arid unnecessary. They were impolitic, the Learned
Gentleman urged, inasmuch as they held nut a bonus on
theateeisw, for more families were induced to reside on
the Continent by the cheapness of house-rent, than by any
other merely economical consideration ; they encouraged
too the Igen% of hawking, which was so unfair to the
*Wed tradesman, and productive of so many and such
Nell-known evils to society; they drove the respectable
man who wished to live a settled life among his neigh-
bours, to the cart and the stall, because he was no longer
able to endure the charge of a permanent abode. The
taw denounces simple vagrancy, and punishes it as a
Crime; the Chancellor of the Exchequer virtually offers a
Premium for its encouragement—admirable consistency !
Them taxes were unjust, for they press with undueweight
on the industrious elastics of the community, and on that
!tertian even of those classes which most need• and deseives
Protection--the retail dealers. The wholesale maniac-
tureeand opulent merchant, who have their warehouses
and manufactories apart from their dwellings, and whose
greater means render them fitter subjects for taxation,
'l"P° this impost, while the tradesman, whose shop is
almost necessarily a part of his dwelling-bowie, hears the
full pressure of this burden. He is deterred from
reeking ornamental or even useful improvements in ,
his -shop, sista, be..: too. well knows that no sooner is ,
the "CtiTold —removed from his embellished front, ,
than the assessor is at hand with his bo,k, and long before
4 profit is made 1411444 to the expense of the repaira.—
• ' (Heir, heir.)—Tbe plea of necessity must not be urged
;.try 51inisters in justification of this tax, until salaries and
Pensions have been reasonably curtailed, and every efilli-
,
I.lale mode of taxation resorted to and tried. During the
ear, the salaries of Ministers and the pensions of foreign
soldiers and their children, were raised to meet trier prices,
but hive they been reduced to a rateable proportion in
the time of peace? During the last 15 years have they
been diminished one fraction? Sir Robert Peel's Currency'
Bill has had the effect of increasing his father's cotton
'pinning earnings nearly one-third, but has lie given up
one farthing to meet the exigencies which his own pre-
cipitate measure ba's created? Has his S rene Highness
of Saxe Coburg tendered back to the suffering English
-;: People tine mite of the fifty thousand a year we voted him
Rfoe his condescending courtesy in marrying a Princess
oyal of England ? Ile does not even spend his money
(Hnget us, and invests hie savings in foreign ,funds.—
ear, and cries of "shame, shame.")—There is a song,
continned Me. Weletby, which most of us have sung, and
stout which 1 hope all of us hare drank, "Here's a
litalth to the King, God bless him," Now, if the"
je
Mathing that can add fervour to my loyalty, or relish t° a
aiekirnr: est°46l; I*-Itradoees to nay sung, it will come upon
b.--- •*tehour when I learn that the King's patriotic re-
7011etreneee With• 'Prince Leopold have induced him to
ilthl 4.101n0 or. his extravagant pension to the national
bitelleitle"-(Cheers.)----Many well-meaning people fear
o petition for a repeal of these taxes, lest they should ern-
,:. harrilghtiOrantnent,' and apprehend that every possible
'eduction of official expenditure has been made. They
Ire rievensly mistaken, for the cloud of treasury locusts
4 dense sod dark as ever.; Let them look to the black
,• he of corruption and profligacy which a patriotic hand
IPened to our view in the last Session of Parliament, when
ttposing our diplomatic system. Every little Court hast
44 English Ambassador. The goatherds of Switzerland
have one to arrange their mighty disputes and tweet
Brave counsel over the tumulti of a cow paiture, theti:e
-Inhost important toriterial question discussed
lamongbo of
usateo; And every, Ambessador has
is:
train. Do
DovYthe
Poling
noblemen,
called" Each"
inl
lbw) devote them-
Nile believe these • young
/tee to study our foreign remlestntio'nest rtheY.
.Ainhassfador's
vet,, tes and endeavour to bring back political in orma-
wit that may be made available at boeyrneen?
enquiring
language te., often take the trouble of
here they are
~,..41e language of the country w .
1., tedi while they play such insolent and fantasntidc
"'eh% Is render the name of Englishmen ridiculous a
trften hateful, and have very frequently called forth the
*dens remonstrances of foreign powers. These are fdets
shish can be established by the most satisfactory proofs.
~. the salaries of Minieters were only reduced af the.
if rate and on the same principle as they were raise)
and
't our diplomatic expences were Properly reduced,
°I!! Ambassadors handsomely but not extravagantnly,
it'd, an extravagance by the way that only awaketa
" en Y, and fails to secure the admiration of foreiglnett;
1:10ing would be ' effected equal to the full amount :if
Gn.
fthehited house duty, and so far from the efficiency
leo-
-er„,ntee,t being thertiby affected, not even would Its ap
'iii-r,""elotinished.—(Cheei s. )—On the subject of petition-
MI Airliament, Mr. %deafly remarked, that bail be been
let elicited on the expediency of so doing ten months ago,
nth he should have strongly advised the having recourse
11
117 a conetitutional ramie of complaint, lie dared not have
41 out strung hopes of success. For the House of Coir
„Isom, *Web is now no more, and whose principles he
'neertlY honed wets scattered with its Members, had not
only shown- itself entirely insensible of the sufferings of
the people, hut had with unblushing shamelessness declared
itself incompetent to remedy evils which its own miserable
attempts at legislation had
produced. For was not the
Litgi", impoverished by a mistaken system of commercial
„,,..-43' e ''
In spite of the ceaseless transit of commerce, were
ear eldp•oveners in desponden and ruin? In spite of the
,"‘
rteieus tables m cyowded with figures announcing our
'flee'llsotured -exports, did not our manufacturers
enrePisinof
14. i- inadequate returns; and did not the retail
~ 01-2ers,itt spite of ears, industry, and trugality, share in
"le
disasters ? While, no
firm, ,i. our dense popula-
g, f soe farmer could find no market for his corn, nor
I".eylicier for his stock; and the labourer, though able
e,lh! !Pings nay anxious to work, was unable to earn
inlige, ,_iil.fficient for the subsistence of himself and his fa-
eiliZad was , not only doomed to drink the bitter
ten4l". 0 Poverty, but branded with ors opprobrinint
i °l,tatiper...-(Hear, hear.) By the h lump.
I 1,....Y With which the circulating medium was contracted—
a sob' Which excited suspicions of sinister motives—was
° tue Pressure of taxation on an unemployed population
renderedstance
*IWO intolerable? It was not factious to give
at te• the complaints of a majority of the eople.—
, fit* illii. "'knot of maloontents in a corner; but all
Englandlt is now suffering and dissatisfied. Whoever,
4 rieres 'loves the inetitutions of this country—and they
e in their integrity worth of the most fervent love-
-1 41'd wishe'a- ti,K
ose institutions to survive unhurt the
l
i;
11tonrin that is note so fiercely sweeping over the political
1 to Qu'll" off Europa, hit him study how to render the
mown People more comforteble and let those who have
Ornistrth and wish to keep it, show' themselves no longer
liillonmaaindniful_of thole who have none.—(Hear')—But the
Commons, whose power is now no more, and
whose memory, exclaimed the Learned Gentleman, I wish
1 did not live in its ill-judged theories and evil doings,
~, trier no sympathy with the people, nor evinced any
i IiKY to alleviate their eufferiogs; it treated all applitAi-
ons with contempt, and was met with proud contempt
le mili etttrit---it professed its own incompetence, and petu-
-1 t- Y rejected every practical lesson offered fur its intorno-
irn.--(Lotl cheese.)--.llut a new Parliament fraught,
t ' tem believed, with a far different 1)1,44, was about to
ittetoble under circumstances of a very trying and pecu-
lier •
1 ,;,010 nature. Never would a Parliament be more oar-
` an watched never were redeeming qualities more
f , wsly end' universally looked for. The Members of
it
tihne.new Parliament so well know the present temper of
- toevery
People and peculiar aspect of the times, that they feel
•_fityery existence of Parliement, as at present constituted,
a:ldepend on regaining the lost confidence of a reflecting
_4 examining peop1e..-.(Hear, bear.)—After expressing
r tallous hope that not only every county and city, but
! 7TP:Yttrivn and village, would petition Parliament on the
'Eject of their grievanees,, and imploring every intliyi.
. l of the humblest grade of life t,, recollect that be in-
,,,. iced one unalienable privilege of which power could not
ItPrisit him,nor poverty and lep
at _ .: . t ression take- away—that
-4
VUtilerllng Patlialments blx. tiraleaby moved the firer

and second resolutions, (which will be found in the first
page of our Paper), and sat down amidst loud applause
from all parts of the meeting.
H. R. ALLENBY, Esq.—l beg leave, Mr. Chairman, to
second those resolutions, and to express my hearty con-
currence in what has fallen from my Learned Friend, Mr.
Walesby.
CHARLES WINO, Esq. moved the third and fourth re
solutions, and expressed his regret that the task of sup-
porting them had not fallen into abler hands than his.
He observed, however, with regret that on this occasion,
as on all others where the interests of the trading classes
of Louth were concerned, the influential persons of the
town were absent from their posts. This lethargy and in-
difference gave hint great concern, and he should never hr•
deterred from expressing his regret, nor prevented from
performing what he considered his duty, by a dread of the
arrows of calumny, which flew about SO thickly.---(llear,
hear, end applau e.)---He entirely coincided with what
had fallen front the lips of Mr. Waleaby, and deemed it
unnecessary to trouble the assembly with many additional
remarks Ile thought that salaries, sinecures, and pen-
sions' should be retrenched, and useless places abolished.
That as most of the evils that pressed down the country re-
sulted from the withdrawing of the circulating medium.
which Ministers were not willing to restore to its rid
footing, they might with propriety be called upon to adapt
their salaries to the new standard they bad set up. It was
a violation of equity to call for the payment of salaries in
gold, which were stipulated to be paid in piper—to bor-
row by one standard and pay by another. As Ministers
by their own measures had produced this ruinous derange-
ment, they ought at least to lessen the taxes by way of
compensation.
Dr. L'Osrx, in seconding these resolutions, said that
after the luminotpt speech of Mr. Wing, it was unneces-
sary in him to offer many remarks, but he must observe
that the collection of the assessed taxes was to him par•
ticularly odious. Was it not inconsistent with our feelings
of liberty its Englishmen, to ,see a tax-gatherer prowling
about our yards with his book under his arm, and peeping
into our windows like a spy ?—( Hear, hear.)—lle could
not bear the sight of a tax-gatherer, and he thought all
salaries should be reduced to take away the necessity of
having such unpleasant visitors in our houses. He con-
cluded by affirming his belief that the repeal of these
taxes would give great and general satisfaction.—(Hear.)
After the resolutions advertised had been carried,
llxNev LUCAS, Esq., moved to the effect that the
vll-
lages of the hundred should be invited to petition Parlia-
' mod, since their petitions, as poor men, were as good as
those of the most influential and wealthy among us.
Mutant) PAT/1)130N, FAq.,' staid that, notwithstanding
he had come to the meeting with an intention of being si-
lent, and notwithstanding that he feared the observation
he was about to snake might he deemed irrelevant to the
particular object specified in the notice which had called
them together, still,he thought the opportunity opened by
Mr. Lucas's motion for a few general remarks, too inviting
to he passed over ; he could not refrain from saying that,
in his opinion, the object of the present meeting was too
limited, too circumscribed, and that the resolutions which
had been passed savoured, in some degree, of partiality and
selfi•hness; for, bowed down as the country was with an
intolerable load of taxation, groaning as all classes were
not with this or that taxation merely—not merely ship-
owners, or merchants, or manufacturers, or tradesmen, or
farmers, bet all classes, and especially the most numerous
class of all, those who formed nine-tenths of the commu-
nity, namely, the labourers and artisans—burthened as
they all were beyond the power of bearing, with a mass of
taxes, amounting to nearly sixty millions a-year, be
thought it both impolitic, as well as unworthy of wise and
disinterested men, to petition for relief from any parti-
cular tax, as being more odious than the rest, instead of
petitioning against the whole amount of taxes which op-
pressed them.—(Applause.)--He had been delighted be-
yond bounds to bear the emphatic language in which Mr.
Waleshy, with a sincerity which did him credit, expressed
his sympathy with the labouring classes, but regretted that
the particular object of their meeting was so unworthy of
Mr. Waleaby's excellent address. They had assembled to
petition merely against the assessed taxes, so that the la-
bouring classes were not invited to the meeting at all; for,
he need hardly observe, that not one farthing of the as-
sessed taxes came out of the pockets of the labouring people,
except, indeed, indirectly ; and, in this respect, all taxes,
without any distinction, were equally odious and oppres-
sive; because, whatever tax was levied from any class in
particular, was invariably shifted indirectly upon the
shoulders of other parts of the community too. A great
deal had been said about the annoying mode in which the
assessed taxes were collected, as if the moth/ of collection
were the worst, nay the only bad part of the grievance !
It w•as odious enough, to be sure; but in hie (Mr. P.'s)
opinion the greatest grievance was, that their money was
extorted from them without their own consent, by a House
called a House of Commons, sod that the people receive
nothing in return; nay, that their money was spent in
ways most mischievous to the interests of the nation.-.-
(Much applause.)—They would have shown better sense,

complaining and petitioning against indirect
as much as direct taxation, For what was the amount of
the assessed taxes? The meeting would be surprised,
after the strong picture which bad been drawn by Mr.
Walesby of the deplorable and hopeless condition of all
classes in the community, to learn that they had assembled
there to petition for a reduction of taxes to the amount of
only two millions and a quarter (fur that was about the
amount of the assessed taxes), leaving it to be inferred that
they would be perfectly well content to keep on plying the
difference between that amount and the 60 millions which
was now arising (ruin them. [Here Mr. P. proceeded to
develop. the mystery of indirect vocation, contending that,
in fact, every shopkeeper or vendor of any article of either
food or dress was a tax-gatherer, because a tax was artfully
implicated in the priceuf every cothinodity.l The labourer
paid no direct taxes; and yet, according to the calculation of
Mr. Preston, an eminent lawyer, out of 30/. such a la-
bouring man might earn in wages, 181. were taken from
him by indirect taxation, being the amount of more than
half his income. Here was an income-tax with a ven-
geance.—(Loud applause.) Ilia (Mr. P.'s) grocer's bill
might atnount to 30/. a year, and one half of that was
taxes, but compared with those taxes, his assessed taxes
were trifling. However, notwithstanding the partial cha-
racter of these resolutions, lie heartily wished them suc-
cess ; but, at the Caine time, warned the meeting against

placing any reliance in the hope, nay, the strong exfiecta-
tion of success, which Mr. Waleaby had held out to them.
Mr. P. was certain that Mr. Waleaby not merely deceived
himself, and exposed the meeting to the danger of decep-
tion, too, by holding out such an expectation, but he was
as convinced as he was of the truth of any mathematical
demonstration that all hopes of relief from that House

would prove a delusion ; he was convinced that the Par-
liament now about to sit would display as much venality,
corruption, and contempt for the welfare and prayers of
the people as any Parliament that had existed from the
beginning of time.—(Loud applause.) A previous
speaker, Mr. Wing, had informed them, in the entlt-
eiaam of his loyalty, that he (Mr. W.) was as great a
friend to the sonstitution of this country as any man liv-
ing. Now. he (Mr. P.) must confess that the constitu•
tion, as it was called, was no great favourite of his; nay,
ho would even assert that that .constitution was the greatest
political nuisance in existence—that it was the source
of all other grievances, 'and must be abated before there
could be any rational expectation of relieE—(Loud ap-
plause.)--What, he would, ask, was the constitution of
the country? The answer would be-(though not quite
correctly, perhaps, but still it was a common one) King,
Lords, and Comntons Very well, he had no objection to
a King, not much to the Lords in their mere corporate
capacity, but a great deal of objection to their present
monopolising usurpation of power ; but as to the Corn.
mons House, they were a preciously corrupt set indeed—
the mere nominees of the Lords, to whom they were very
faithful, but quite independent of the people, to whom they
were very unfaithful, extorting taxes from the wages of
labour and the projects of trade, to be devoured by them-
selves, and to look for any relief from such a House would
be folly in the extreme.—(Here the speaker detailed the
facts brought to light by Sir James Graham's motion re-
specting the emoluments of the Privy Council, [Mewing
that of the 113 Right Honourabks who received 650,0001.
out of the taxes, 69 of them were members of either
House of Parliament-s-nemely, 47 Peers, and 22 Com-
moners, who voted into their own pockets 378,8460
Was it possible that any rational man could expect a
diminution of taxation from those who were thus fattening
on the vitals of the community like maggots on a decayed
carcase ?—(Applause.)—[The speaker then analysed the
constitution of the House, chewing that a majority of
above four hundred and eighty Members was returned by
a few Peers and rich Commoners.]--Such were the facts
(and these facts ought to be stamped on their memories)
offered to be proved at the Bar of Its House, in the year
1793, by Mr. Grey, now Earl Grey, who had beenttlk of sadly
spoiled since he became an Earl, for he could
nothing but his " Order" now.—(Loud laughter.) Could
any one wonder, then, at the prolongation of their political
evils, When the disease was so profitable a thing to these
Stare' Doctors ? We find it impossible to follow the
speaker throng
alter forcibly denouncing Mr. Brougham's propel), pean
ionf
II all Isis statements and arguntet.dtta ;, but,
Helene as a mere phantom, which wuuld asters! y nd
it
delusien and disappointment to the people, ime!utbe
aimed no blow at it, and did Dui even coquille the existence

of the rotten-borough system, of which Mr. B. was him •
self a-creature, aye, just as much now (said Mr. P.). when
he is Member fur the county of York, as when he was
Member for Winchilsea, Mr. P. illustiated the benefits of
la real representation of the people, by pointing to the ex-
ample of the United States, which noly paid 24,299/. for
the whole charge of their civil and military Government,
' being not more than two•thirde as much in a year as hail
been recently expended on the ornamental work on one
gateway of one of our late King's Palaces.—(Loud cries
of 4, Shame !" " Shame !")—See, then, the difference
between a King and a President elected by the people !
Not that he (Mr. P.) had any objection to the. kingly
office itself—no, a King might be as good as a President—
hut it was necessary for the people to watch him well, and
to watch well all those who made laws affecting their pro-
perty, and this they could only do by sending real repre-
sentatives to the House of Commons, to accomplish which
object a reform was necessary, and it was, therefore,
perfectly clear, that without reform they never could secure
that blessing which they all appeared equally to long for—
namely, a cheap Government, or in other words, an
effectual ditninution of taxation. Mr. P. concluded by
expressing an earnest hope that another meeting, to which
the labouring classes might be invited, should be held, to
discuss the question of Reform, and sat down amidst loud
anti continued applause.
Mr. \VAl.s'atw, in replying to Mr. Paddison, said he
did not substantially differ from that gentleman in the opi-
nions he bud expressed ; but that he (Mr. W.) had always
taken as a useful rule of conduct the maxim of the pru-
dent Statesman De Witt, " Never to do snore than one
thing at a time," and he considered Mr. Paddison as pro-
posing far too many things to be done well at once, He
must correct the statement made by Mr. Paddison, who
said that sixty millions of taxes were wrung from an un-
wiling people, for the purpose of supporting tax-eating
pensioners, without explaining that nearly forty millions of
this sum went to pay the national creditor. Ile hoped he
was not too sanguine in the expectation he had formed of
the new Parliament. However, (exclaimed the Learned
Gentleman) let us try it.
A vote of thanks to the Worshipful the Warden for his
able conduct in the chair was then mnv►d by Mr.
Walesby,. which was carried with loud acclamation, after
which the meeting separated.

LINCOLN COUNTY MEETING.

(YESTERDAY)-BY EXPRESS.

REDUCTION OF TAXATION.-THE MALT TAX.

At one o'clock on Friday (yesterday), a meeting of the
Freeholders was convened by the High Sheriff at Lincoln,
for the purpose, as expressed by the requisition sent to
him, of petitioning for the reduction of a considerable
portion of the present enormous taxation, and particularly
for the removal of the duty on Malt.
The place appointed for the meeting was the Castle
yard, which is a spacious quadrangle, surrounded by
walls or buildings on either side. It is capable of accom-
modating many thousand persons, and on an occasion
shout a year back, when a meeting was held
.on the sub-
ject of the beer and malt taxes combined, it was crowded
to excess. On the present occasion it exhibited a marked
contrast, and although the time of meeting was postponed
as hour, and although it was mtrket-day, and the city
thronged with farmers, not mote than 1,000 persons were
assembled. These were, however, almost entirely of a
respectable description. The general feeling seemed to be
that they ought to wait till the intentions of his present
Majesty were ascertained.
The Thou SHERIFF briefly opened the meeting, and
after reading the requisition, expressed an intention of con-
fining the discussion solely within the limits pointed out
therein.

Sir ROBERT H/RON then presented himself, and com-
menced by lamenting the paucity of the attendance on
the present occasion. They had at last certainly cbtained
a great deal in obtaining the repeal of the Beer 'Fax, bu► to
render the measure complete it must be taken off Malt
also. The latter would enable the labourer to brew his
own beer, and consume it at home, thus keeping him front
the demoralising consequences of public house associates.
The measure bad never been opposed except by that
miserable faction who bad Lord Eldon for its bead, Michael
Sadler for its tail, and was aided by the virtues of the
Duke of Cumberland.—(Mixed expressions of disappro.-
bation and applause. )—He thanked God that the time was
gone when the opinion of that party was of any conse-
quence. They had now a most excellent King, who did
not think gew-gawa and a gorgeous display necessary to
the dignity of the throne, and who he felt confident
had the interests of his people at his heart.—(Great
cheering.)—They had a new House of Commons—one
certainly not more corrupt than the last—and he there-
fore felt a confidence that their prayers, if earnestly made
for relief, would be attended to. After adverting to the
recent events in France, and then again on the topics of
the effects of the Malt Tax, Sir Robert Heron concluded
by moving the following petition, to be presented to the
House of Commons :
" To the Commons House of Parliament ;

thanedfrce holTrshielf hthuemcboluenpetytoiftioLninocofinth,easisenmhablittadribt:
autho-
rity of the Sheriff, who beg leave to represent to your
House that, in common with the rest of the kingdom,
they suffer under grievous distress from the intolerable
weight of taxation ; that they have received no substantial
relief from the reduction of taxes which has hitherto
taken place, and that they cannot suppress the expression
of their disappointment at the trilling and inaticquete
amount of the reductions which have been made in those
establishments by which the resources of the country are
devoured. They, therefisre, entreat your honourable
House to take into consideration a serious and effective re-
trenchment in the expenses of the country, and that its
necessities may be relieved, and its prosperity restored, Ly
a further and larger diminution of its burdens.
" They particularly recommend to your Honourable
Howie the repeal of the duties on Melt, as a measure
which, they are convinced, will tend to lessen the distress
and improve the condition of all classes of his Majesty's
subjects, and your petitioners will ever pray that your
Counsels may be enlightened with wisdom and inspired
by patriotism."
Mr. HENRY MIMI', seconded the petition.
Major HereLly congratulated the meeting on the man-
tier in which the petition was drawn up. There was
great loom for reductions in the army and navy, but he
would telt them of others equally liable to the touch of
reduction. There were certain Peers and Privy Council-
lors who received among them 630,0001. per annum.
Now let them begin with these. Let them take from the
extravagant amounts bestowed upon the hierarchy ; they
would find ample ground there for touching upon.—
There were other classes among whom the public money
was divided, first, the necessary servants of Government
—next, the fundholders--and lastly, a set of Court flat-
terers, pimps, parasites, and sons of east-off women. These
were the flies that carried corruption into the country, and
whose allowances ought to be reduced. lie would ask
whether the cue of the landholder' was not strong in
I justice compared with that of these, and he pro.
posed, if the Sheriff would permit it, to submit
a resolution expressive of their opinion, that no attack
ought to be made on the fundholders, until the whole of
these pensions were withdrawn, and the parties so left to
feed themeelves out of their own resources. It ought to
be recollected, that the fundholders consisted principally
of persons who had purchased their property out of small
savings. AU these might have been io the condition of
fundholders, if they had seen fit to sell their freeholds,
He would not touch further on the subject, as he knew
the prejudice that existed upon it, but proceed to his reso-
lution if the High Sheriff would permit him.
Thsr &teeter said he had no objection, if it related to
the reduction of taxation.
Major HANLEY said, he only proposed taking an
opinion.
The Sitatur said, he had no objection if it related to

taxation.
Major Haney under these circumstances withdrew his
prOposed resolution.
J. C. CALI:RAFT, E 1141., M.P., said, that in the face of
those who had laid on those unjust and ruinous imposts
under which they were labouring, in the House of Com-
mons to which they had sent him, they would always Sad
him at his post, faithfully and uadeviatingly performing
his duty. He had no hesitation in saying, that the peti-
tion fur the removal of the Malt Tax had his hearty con-
' currenee ; hut it was not to that alone be would direct his
exertions, for he would extend them to two weighty bur-
dens on the people, the Assessed 'Taxes and the window
Tar ; the latter a tax for what nature meant untaxed
should he enjoyed. The Inhabited House Duty was also
highly objectionable, for it operated to prevent improve.
anent*, and led to an obnoxious prying into persons'
affairs. These taxes ought not to be allowed in a
civilised country. It was out of these taut that
the 638,0001. came of which they had heard. There
watt a person who received 8,000/. per annum, who
one scarcely knew where. to find, unless it were at
Brighton or Newmarket. He would also labour for
the reduction of sinecures. These were subjects compared
with which the Malt Tax was unimportant. He was oleo
an advocate for reform, provided it was a moderate and
a practical one. In all these ha wee ready to go along with
thew ; but Ito begged to impress upuu thou that there was

n)t only much fur their Member to do, but also much lin
them to do. It was for them to inquite if he was at hi,
post and what be was doing—not what he was saying, fin
he knew of 4 Member who after speaking on one side went
and voted on the other. lie was now their representa •
tive—let them watch him, and if he deserted them, then
let them desert him and flog him. But if the other they
elected should also desert them, why then he would as-
sist them in flogging him.—(Laughter.)—lle thought
that the present Ministers deserved a Wooing up,
and he was determined on giving them ore.
He would attack them with tooth and nail to torn them
out, for by God he did not like one of them. Ile could
hear testimony to the fact, that when his Hon. Friend the
Member for Curnberland, moved an inquiry into the state
of the nation, none of the Ministers dare face him, they
were up-stairs, and would not come down, and the conse-
quence was no house could be made. They would have
no more repetition of these kind of things. It had been
shown up too much by the Press. The petition hail his
concurrence, and he would advise them to petition, and
petition on, till they forced them to hear them. They
would no longer dare to lay their petitions on the table,
and there let them remain unheeded, as used to be the case.
The SuERIFF inquired whether any one was disposed to
come forward to oppose the petition ?—No answer was
made.

The &meter said, if the petition was not opposed, it
was his duty to announce it to he the unanimous petition
of the county of Lincoln.
Sir R. Utmost expressed a wish to have the unanimity
demonstrated by a show of hands.
The SHERIFF observed that where there was no
avowed opposition it was unnecessary.
It was afterward* arranged that the petition should be
sent round to the various county towns for signatures, for
which ample time would be given, as it was nut intended
to present it until the month of February.
The Rev. Mr. Starnossez observed that February was
quite early enough, for although Parliament was to as-
semble on the 26th of October, it was not likely they
would long remain assembled, for the Ministers must have
their gambols at Christmas. Bes►des the House would be
occupied with petitions against returns, and the Regency
question would have to be decided. Then, too, there was
no money in the coffers, and the House would be teased for
a supply, and as soon as that was granted an adjournment
would take place.
Mr. lixALxv wished as one their County Members (Mr.
Chaplin) was present, to c ill on him to state whether he
would support the petition. It was necessary to ascertain
that as it was customary to entrust the presenting of a
county petition to one of the Members for that county.
No doubt be would consent to present it, but what he
wanted to know was, how he would present it ? would be
support its ptayer ?
Mr. CHAPLIN said he had no objection to answer the
question, but begged at the same time to deny the right of
Mr. He Icy to ask it. With respect to the petition, he
had no objection to the first part of it, but he did not
think the tax on malt the one most necessary to be repealed.
He would support any motion for a reduction of taxation,
which he did not think detrimental to the country.
The Rev. H. Surrtionez expressed his belief that the
reason why they wanted the reduction of the Malt 'Fax
was, that they might keep up their extravagant rents. lie
thought Mr. Chaplin ought not to be cried down—he
was an independent man—he had never sought a favour
for himself, and many of these who clamoured most at
bins, had asked him to procure favours for them.
Sir R. Helton thought the question a fair one. Ile
was surprised at the allusion about the high rents of land-
lords, looking to the quarter whence it came, as he had
himself been called upon to interfere to protect that
gentleman's tenants from what they thought an exorbitant
demand.
The Rev. Mr. SIBTHOR PK repelled the charge both as a
clergyman nod a landlord. Ile received tithes front '7O
farmers, with all of whom he was on the most cordial
terms. Nut one of therm would say he was oppressed.
It certainly had beets his misfortune to buy land too dear,
but on discovering the fact be had it surveyed by two
respectable men, whose opinion he adopted, and reduced
the rents 60 per cent.
Mr. Mat as, thought, after what they had heard, Mr.
Chaplin wall not the person in whose bands the petition
ought to he placed. Ile therefore moved that Sir William
Ingilby he requested to present and support it, and that
Fir Robert Heron and Colonel Sibthorpe be requested
also earnestly to support it.
Mr. CA LEILA FT seconded the motion, which was
carried ; and thanks being voted to the Sheriff, the meet-
ing then adjourned.