The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn—ln your Paper of ;Monday last 1 per-
ceived the Report of a Meeting at Lincoln,
called by the !till Sheriff or the County, for the
purpose of tnking into consideration the expe-
diency of petitioning Parliament on the expected
agitation of the Corn Laws.
Really, Mr. Editor, it would have been more
in character, if those landed proprietors had

agreed to petition against the ruinous paper

system, which has already created so much con-
fusion in the country, than to keep up the ne-
cessaries of life, already raised to nearly double
the prices they had been at 30 years ago. This
measure has no doubt raised their rentals and
created high prices. It has filled the Work-
houses, by the pauperism of the working classes ;
it has created false credit and false capital ; it
has converted the commercial interests to gam-
bling adventurers, and driven many families to
total destruction. • Still the land owners in Lin-
coln wish to keep up the delusion, and try to
to persuade the farmers that prohibitory,
measures are best adapted to their comforts.
I tell (hem the contrary is the fact. Every
class of Society suffers by a continuance
of the War Taxes ten years after the Peace, as
they do by the heavy and oppressive Tythe Job-
bing, which increases with the rack rents. These
instead of the Corn Laws are the causes of the
paper deluge. The Revolutions proposed by a
Mr. J. C. L. Calcraft, are a truly Unique Com-
position although unanimously agreed to.
The last .was—to petition Parliament against
the Importation of Foreign Corn :
The second—that the country produced more
corn than was %canted :

The third—that no protecting duty could he
imposed which would act as a security to the
Farmer.

Upon the first Resolution, my remarks on the
causes of distress, and the paper system, answer
the thing fully.
Upon the second, If the country produce
more corn than is wanted, why are the prices so
much higher than they should be, or what I
have known them to he, before the rack-rents
axisted, and the country bankers issued their
worthless paper.
The third Resolution is a most ridiculous com-
position, for if no protecting duty on the impor-
tation of grain can serve the farmer, they may as
well petition to have the ports closed for ever,
even should a famine add to our future misfor-
tunes.

The late smashing amongst the paper money
dealers should have taught the Lincoln Gentle-
men better, and pointed out the necessity of
lowering their rents, in place of holding out lures
to pauperism, for surely farmers have not leis
profit on their capital employed than they had
before the year 1794, or the commencement of
the One Pound note currency, %%hich had nearly
involved the monied interest into a state of
bankruptcy, from %%hid' it is supposed it has
so lately emerged.

If the Lincoln Gentlemen wish to effect a
measure of general good to the nation at large,
let them petition to have that currency which
inundates the country towns with distress en-
tirely prohibited, and then they will do as they
should do.
Lincoln, Dec. 2(.

THE FOUR POUND LOAF.

CURIOUS PETITION.

(Franz the Progresses, Processions, and Magn;ficent Enter-
tainments (fKINGJAMES I. V. by .1. Nicuo 1., F.A.S.)

The following singular Petition, was presented
to the King at an entertainment at Theobald's,
by a young Gentleman:—
The Poore I►irrz's Petition to the Kinge at
Theobald's,the 171 h of April 1603.
Good King, let there be an uniformitie in true
without any disturbance of Papist or
Puritan.
Good King, let good Preachers he well pro-
vided for ; and without any briberie come to
their livings.
Good King, let Poore sonidiers be paid their
wages, whitest they be well emploi,-d, and well
provided for when they be tnaymed.
Good King, let there not be such delaie and
craftie proceedings in the lawe, and let La►siers
have moderate fees. A pox take the proud,.
covetous Attornie and merciless Lawler !
Good King, let ❑oe man have more offices than
one especially in the case of touching the La we.
Good King, let proone suitors hi- heard quiet-
lie, and speedilie, and dispatched favourably.
Good King, let ordinarie courses be deter.
mined in the ordinarie Courts, and let not the
Chancerie he made a common shifting place to
prolonge courses for private gain.
Good King, cut off those paltry licences and
all monopolies. Fie upon all close byting kna-