The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

FREE-TRADE CONFERENCES.
SIR,—I take advantage of your perlyw-0*
to contribute on alternate days to your colon!b.;
to enter into a further examination of the c'ad
nervations of the Times on the Derby aj
Manchester Free-Trade Conferences ; alwade
mean to confine myself principally to one low
of reply, which shall be by constantly sup
that the landowners had worked out then.'"
n.
tence of a bounty on the importation of ede-
corn for five-and-twenty years as justice is
ISII-
- and were answering the same a • t
ments, mutatis mutandis, in our mouths so
removal of the bounty. s°
The statements of the Derby sympathizers,.go40
show that in the manufactures of the midland a51
there has been a downward progression, or rather
re
gression, for these five-and-twenty years. Does life
prove the existing distress of those districts to bs'ther,
result of the present Corn-law ? We should r.asirof
think not, inasmuch as the present Corn-law is
about half that standing."—Times, Dec. 14, 1841 i: flout'
Fancy the change described, and "we sae-
rather think" they would tell us, that the di 650
ence of time relied on was only a quibble, lore,
. much as the law, though not in precisely its Pars
sent form, had existed for five-and-twenty ie
and more.
" A more rational inference, we suspect, would be
the cause of our diminished manufactures is Wand
found in the pacification of Europe, which, ~.five t at
twenty years ago, set the nations of the continent of
liberty to pursue the arts of peace, the derelopeo4l;4o
their own resources, and the employment of their nay"
industry."—B. b out,'
Fancy the landowners groaning under a -Id to
on foreign corn, as they will be, and to
refer it all to the pacification of Europe. irearw
" If, then, overlooking or neglecting these c their
stances, our manufacturers continued to increase ayes
own production, and by invitations of fresh 01711.6„tou
from the country to multiply the numbers dePeo; the
a precarious trade, then, however we may feel -crsap-
poor artisans, however we may regret even the 1 v t
pointments and losses of the masters themselves, ;he
certainly we cannot submit our understandings to
,7e
delusion now attempted by those masters, nor lend 0- --
selves to the iniquitous project for making up their 0,;
lucky speculations at the expense of their neighbours'
—lb.
Their neighbours being us the supporterlef
The bounty. But let us remember, whelidter.
time comes, that "we cannot submit our on

standings."
" The plaint uttered at Derby by the midland mill;
owners has made itself heard among their north
brethren at Leeds and at Manchester, and IheY have re-
brethren
echoed the cry with a shrillness which
sharply on the ear, however little it may 10" the
derstanding."— Times, 18th Dec., 1841. gnaire
Remember this when duke calls ' f a
for a responsive moan, on the tribulation's °
bounty on imported corn.
"The art of the whole is to make truth serve do PurPlethee
of falsehood. It is true now, and unhappily it has often that
true before, and is likely to be often true fsgain'_;bat
the manufacturing.districts are in a state of sufferinbu'it of
it is false that their suffering is exclusively the re?-
the Corn-laws, and equally false that any Insteerirealpeel
n of that suffering would be effected by the
of of all h:
Think how magnanimously we will sal
to the landlords, when they tell us that theY age
theirs should be the better for the removal °et
bounty on imported corn.
" The Coryphieus of the meeting at Leed_e
,w_asvjaatiall,
tleman of that ilk,' named T. Flint. ,Cora'
syllogism is a little incomplete,
laws exist—distress exists—therefore the distress
been caused by the Corn-laws."b—ei/nb. this7:oll2l:
We will parody the argument, and
S Printing-House-Square syllogism is as
faollloSerey'..
a bounty exists—less English corn exists--th the
fore
the diminution has been caused by
bounty."
" The gentlemen who followed Mr. Plint were *4;o
the whole of their argument, as disposed of bi if
propositions which &c.—first, that the modificativ-'ia
not the total abolition, of the Corn-laws is regtlisitfo'
order to enable the mill-owners, by a reduction of w-iweell
to undersell their foreign competitors, which has "-
the cry of the manufacturers ;' —lb.. pti the
On this point the landowners have hoax% .vel
working classes and the working classes m,-04.
to a great extent, swallowed the bai .19 t The
ey
owner doubles the price of bread ;
the master manufacturer to advance the do the
price, and the operative carries it in his hand to a•
shopkeeper, who is the receiver for the laudll.
And this, says the landlord, is your wages; its
care not to diminish your wages! The falar the
is in a nut-shell ;it is not your wages, it an
tax to the landlord. And the working Mang to
cannot see this when he is told, is fit sitinartS
fill the cushions that tyranny rests its back r
upon. old
which oblitie
" —and secondly, that the Ministerial measurereci' ,
not have had the effect of lowering the price of
all, which has been the doctrine of the politic' e onothese
mists. We shall leave the Leaguers to reecalel
various allegations as they may "—lb. fr the
We shall not let the landlords ° f
bounty, because they prove that somes Of
political economists have made simpletonviyg
themselves. Perhaps they were in the enetbere
e
employ. But without insisting on tilaE,„% the
has undeniably been too much done to CO
plea
thieves to come out and be hanged, 'oil the,
that it would not hurt them much. Whicil
make no reason, why the thieves should go °twos
In my next shall be noticed the °User° er
on the Manchester conference, and if rooln SI to
mitst the attention of your readers
the impossibility of a Government's going.uch
whose cause has come to be rested nn by
breaches of the common-sense and justiced its
which the world, badly •is erfie
d
as it is,
the Times produces. To which shad be 3""f,
some further circumstances leading to the belief,
that the question of Free Trade is tbe POW . 5
enlle
which i
n the Cromwellian phrase, our en the
are delivered into our hand, and that here is fly
place and time ibr the Liberals to sound the Its
and Re-form. Yours sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSO.O
di rig 00,

den in the
Black heath, Dec. 2371841.
P.S.—I 0fha1,21,-elojrunstinsgeencbtlii.oenileeiteterof
That he claims the twenty- millions a-year as ci.c,
o the state upon the present rental, andirresgu.4
tive of the Corn -law, is a new IWit. Let us too.
90 for that, and the Cornpensation Bounty to_.,
But the last is the best to drive. The other neu..e
tralizes the claim for commiseration on the sc°l
y ING
Is
rt
e tl;:e:
of land-tax. -
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The late Lord Monson, by his will, proved:!:
the Prerogative Court, has left an annuity of
200/. toI
D
faithful valet, who travelled with him in his frequen
tours to the High Alps, Italy, and Germany. Puy ton
late
and in Lincolnshire, is entailed on the present reef
ull
and his issue. Gratton Park and estate, which
the ,
Lord purchased from Sir Mark Wood is left to the Co
tess of Warwick, his Lordship's mother,