The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-12 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE S •
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CONVENTION ROOMS, THURSDAY, APRI. 9.
Sir,—ln your Report of the proceedings of the !')
vention on Wednesday, the 10th of April, you state th. tt
Dr. M'Douall supported Dr. Taylor's motion. M r.
Rogers and Mr. Cleave are there reported as havir
attacked me in consequence of some remarks whit
it is inferred I made use of ; I assure yo',.
it would have pleased me, and given greater satisfac
tion to those whom I represent, had you introduced the •,
speech as well as the comments. As it nos stands, the
course you have adopted is neither creditable
to you,
nor just to myself. Instead of giving one woral of my '
speech, false impressions are conveyed regarding I,'7llat 4
am presumed to have said. Common justice would a ;
given both sides, or left out both. Ido not complain.
being left out in your report of our proceedings ; consi- /
dering what specimen we have already seen, it WOUM be
extremely desirable to remain unnoticed. What I Coln- I
plain of is a representation in your Paper which is en-
tirely incorrect. It will be inferred by every reader I
that I endeavoure.l to cast a doubt on the sincerity of
all men of property. In regard to the resignation of
three of the Birmingham Delegates I ail there was
an unfortunate suspicion existing in the minds of the
working classes towards men of title and men cf pro-
perty. The repeated desertions which I.ave taken
place in past years of men of title who pretended I
to advocate the cause of the people gave
rise to this want of confidence (a feeling which I regret
sincerely), and when we have a secession of men of pro-
perty fia m the Convention, I stated that the feerog of
distrust would be strengthened. It is as absurd as' it ;
is unjust, to represent me by inference from 'qr. A
Cleave's speech, as aspersing the character of men of
property. in the Convention. Mr. Cleave's opinion, or
misapprehension, is not my speech. But probably
it is the custom of the Press to give the part of
a report which suits their own convenience. I must,
however, confess such a course is new to me, and
you must excuse me. If the original remarks had been
reported, I would not have complained. Yon, how-
ever,
seem to view these subjects in a different light, 1
and give partial reports, remarkable only for their inac-
curacy, and after having conveyed the intended error,
you leave my defence in the bands of Mr. Marsden, I
and consider it of so much importance as to occupy ;
four lines. I would be as unjust, as your report is un-
fair, should I presume to doubt the patriotism and sin-
cerity of those men of property in the Convention, who
do honour to themselves and to the cause, by risking
all in support of the poor and oppressed.
.1 remain, Sir, your's respectfully,

P. M. 111'DOUALL.

ANNUITIES OF PENSIONERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sul,—As the same attempt may be made on th
pockets of the people as there was by the Adelaide
band in 1834, I wish with your permission to call atten-
tion to the amount that miserable attempt (against the
wishes of the people) saddled the nation with. Two
urillions sterline would about purchase the annuities of
pensioners termed retired officials. I took the trouble
in a paper of that day to go elaborately into the items,
but as that would be too long and unnecessary, as any
one and every man should interest himself on such occa-
sions to prevent these persons playing such fantastic
tricks—mark, at the expense of the tax-paying people.
We have not the slightest objection for them to lavish
their ill-gotten funds as they please ; their legalised
plunder there is no char.ce of the nation ever getting at ;
but we have our eyes widely opened to the facts, and
we must indeed be simple if we still permit such frauds
to be continued.

There is a ridiculous notion as to a military Personage
being an honourable man. Was it so to lend himself
to the scurvy attempt I have before stated, at 1 mo-
ment when it was impossible by a vote of the House of
Commons to show the feeling of the limited cGnsti-
tueney who had votes ? and this fine martial individual
to be led by the nose (no difficult job) by a German
Personage, whose ingratitude to the s(!ft &mimics who
Voted 100,000/. per annum as a bait for her suffrages in
their favour, who rewarded them only with " I tank
you, sare, mouch," and sting her pseudo-benefactors—
as the nation pays her the 300/. per day. The great
effort of id. per day on Exchequer Bills only produces
95,0001. per annum, and we tamely look at a Royal
cormorant without even the necessity of parade, which
narrow minds consider necessary to impress the igno-
rant, absorbing their wholesale amount, while we
are getting grey in our endeavours with such severe
competition to get returns so as not to be drawing
upon our small capitals. Of a truth it is time
something was done to curb the rapacious maws of
Royalty, and those who ape its follies at the expense of
the naticn. It would be therefore well to have, while
Parliament is sitting, a national guardsman at each
House, who should attend, as the pike do at the
Theatres, and when any known characters, or leeehe.s:
on the public purse appeals, ejaculate " Take care of
your pockets."

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
L. P.
" Lord I3rougham, .5,000/. ; Lord Lyndhurst (three
months Chancellor), .5,0004 ; Sugden (three months
Chancellor), 4,0001. Just a sample of the'host of pen-
sioned officials. Why are these men not made to do surre.
thing for the money? We do not want men to be kicking
their heel, at Baden-Baden, with brown curly trigs,