The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-02 00:00:00

A MILITARY FROCK COAT.

The edges are trimmed with rich mohair braid ; the breast or-
namented with French frogs and loops, hooks and eyes fasten it
down in front ; the cuffs are trimmed with the same braid, in an
Austrian knot or crow's foot ; tile s}iiris can he lined with buff
serge or of the colour of the coat. The trowsers of buff kersey,
with gaiter tongues, are cut moderately large, and button up in
front.

WORCESTER PARLIAMENTARY RE-

FORM,

At a meeting of tl:e Members of the Worcester Political
Union, and other inhabitants of the city of Worcester,
and neighbourhood, held on Monday, January 24, the
following Petition to the House of Commons, praying for
Parliamentary Reform, was agreed to :
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT AS-
SEMBLED.
THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED MEM-
BERS OF THE POLITICAL UNION, AND OTHER
INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER,
AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, . _

Slieweth,—That your petitioners perceive, from painful ex.
perience, that your Honourable House, instead of representing
the opinions, feelings, and interests of the great body of the
people • instead of being the safeguard and protector of the
rights, and privileges of the nation at large, has become
subservient to, and the representative of, the will and power of
an overgrown Aristocracy (not of that ancient and honourable
Aristocracy who established and defended the liberties of the
people, but of that Jew and boroughmongering Aristocracy,
alike the enemies of the King, of the ancient Aristocracy, and of
the people) ; and under whose influence your Honourable House
has abetted and supported every wicked and tyrannical Minister
of the day.
That your Honourable House has, by a series of acts, com-
menced, forwarded, and upheld, a most wanton, profligate, and
monstrous expenditure of the public money ; which, wanton, pro.
fligate, and monstrous expenditure of the public money has
mainly tended to benefit, enrich, and increase the influence of a
corrupt boroughmongering Aristocracy.
Your Honourable House has accordingly uniformly agreed to
acts for the benefitting the said boroughmongering Aristocracy
and other traltickers of seats in your Honourable House, by the
keeping up of all useless places, unmerited pensions, sinecures,
an immense st aiding army, and in officering that immense stand-
ing army as well as navy in the most extravagant Manner ; all of
which acts h ye tended to produce that greatest of all national
evils,—that greatest of all monuments of the folly, corruption,
and aegenera:y of your Honourable House—the NATIONAL
DEBT.
Here ycur petitioners make one remark : they think it a little
strange that your Honourable House should occupy so much of
your valuable time, session after session, in dismissing measures
to deprive the poor industrious famishing labourer and artisan,
when out of employ, of a scanty parochial pittance, and yet it
should never occur to the recollection of your Honourable House
of the necessity and propriety of taking away the pay of that
long, gripveus, and disgraceful list of State Paupers, who have
fattened of the vitals of the country, not one of whom but is
otherwise well circumstanced in life, and the generality of whom
have not rendered the State any real service.
Your petitioners, with all due submission to your Honourable
House, conceive it more disgraceful to be a State Pauper than a
parish pauper, inasmuch as the former is the cause of a great
portion pf the distress, wretchedness, and starvation of the latter.
This wanton, profligate, and monstrous expenditure of the
public money, has, b")'Your Honourable House, been followed
upby an unjust, oppressive, and overWbeiming system of taxa.
thm—a taxation,? parallel to which cannot be found in any
State, kingdom, or empire on the face of the globe ;—a taxation
that is rapidly impoverishing, degrading, and sinking the middle
and working classes of his Majesty's subjects into one general
mass of misery and ruin.
Your petitioncis e;re of oginion that this -hitherto wanton,
profligate, and monstrous expenditure cf the money—this
hitherto unjust, oppressive, and overwhelming System of-..a.;»-
;ion, are not only rapidly impoverishing, degrading and sinking
the middling and working classes of his Majesty's subjects
into one general mass of misery and ruin, but also producing
the greatest discontents—the most alarming fears, and frightful
consequences tliroughout the whole community. Thousands of
individuals, wh.o'formerii vc;:e peaceful, happy, and loyal sub-
jects, are:now, through Suffering innumerable privations, and
being plunged into the deepest distress, driven to deeds of despe-
ration, so that the foundation of society is undermined, and the
peace and prosperity ofthe kingdom endangered thereby. •
"rq prevent this approaching misery and ruin—to remove these
disconttliti; alarming fears, and frightful consequences, With
which the nationli threatened,.- to avert all these crying evils,
your petitioners beg, entreat, and iippldre your Honourable
House to retrace your steps, by lopping oft all unnecefarypl,4ces,
unmerited pensions, and disgraceful sinecures--by enforcing the
most rigid economy in every branch of the expenditure—by (hie
most
instead of increasing, the army--by reducing that enor-
mous load ut taxation ; but above all, by promoting such a Ra-
dical Reform in the representation of the people in your Honour-
able House, as shall restore to thee,; their long lost rights, liber-
ties, and privikges—such a Reform ai shall for ever deprive all
rotten boroughs from returning Members to yoUr`Honourable
14Ouse-,Aliat shall give a snore equitable and 'extensive sufthige
to the productive classes of the kingdom_that shall materially
shorten the doration of Parliaments—and' that shall-be suited to
the increased $61(410414 told' eli.•ilized age in which we live.
Such a Reffinti that shall efifible every elector conscientiouslY to
exercise his sutitage in voting by ballot; so 'that 'geocl patriotic=
and intelligent men may be returned to your Honourable liouscee
the honour and welfare of the country advanced thereby,--
that England may become, not in name only, but in reality, " the
Pn,•:v of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world."
Ycktr petitioners are aware that vote by ballot is disliked—is
dreaded by ttio bortmghmongering Aristocracy and other nal-
&kers in seats in yoUr Honourable House, because it is un-
English. Your petitioners Certainly -must ;;.lieve that the be-
rouglimongering system at electio.:s, with all its fl4,ant train
cf evils—hribcry, perjury, and other accursed practiCes, is' not
nn-Engiish—that persecuting and ruining whole families by the
borougismorigerimi; faction, because the heads of such families
have been'persons of integrity, and voted from pure motives, is
not un-English, but peculiarly English ; your petitioners are
Aware that a - lavish- and- excessive expenditure—that an
i;yefb(Vins., system of taxatibii—tlfit an astonishingly large
national debt, gcc. '&e. are things- width' are not • nil-English,
but peculiarly English ; aril the sponer your Honourable HpMie
makes them un-English the better, -
And for the attalnment of the above-mentioned objects, your,
petitioners would earnestly pray your Honourable House tol take
such immediate steps as your Honourable House may in its wis-
dom deem proper.
And your petitioners will, as in duty bound, ever pray, &e.