The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-18 00:00:00

WAYLAND HUNDRED.

On Wednesday last a Meeting of the Owners
and Occupiers of Land in this Hundred was held
at the George Inn, Watton, for the purpose
of considering the present distressed state of
Agriculture, and the best means to be adopted
for its alleviation. The meeting was but thinly
attended, in consequence of the severity of the
weather; Mr. DEWING, of Carbrooke, was in the
chair. A Petition, founded on resolutions pro.
posed to the Meeting, was carried almost unani-
mously. Mr. CARVER, however, objected to the
resolution.

The following Petition was ordered to betn-
grossed, and to be left for signature at the George
Inn, Watton

To the Honmirable the Commons of the United Kingdom Of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled ;
The humble Petition of certain Owners and Occupiers of
Land, in the Hundred of Wayland, In the County of
Norfolk,

Stirsv.rn—That your Petitioners view with increasing
alarm the long-continued distress of the Agricultural Interest,
and have to lament that no efficient measure for its amelora-
tion has arisen from the appointment of a Committee of your
Honourable !louse in the last Session of Parliament.'
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That in the opinion of your Petitioners his highly expedient
thit the Tresent graduated rate of duties, with Its complex,
troublesome, and expensive machinery, for ascertaining the
average price of grain, should be abandoned, and certain fixed
Moderate duties on the importation of the several kinds of
grain should be substituted for it.
That your Petitioners see with Much satisfaction that the at-
tention of your Honourable Ilouse continues to be directed to-
wards an amelioration of the poor laws, which have entailed so
heavy and almost intolerable a burden on the landed interest;
nor would they express any impatient feeling at so little having
yet been apparently effected. In a case, involving so many and
such important interests, they are well aware that Legislation is
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That whilst your Petitioners gratefully acknowledge the re-
lief they have derived (and are now deriving),from the dimi-
nution of the duties on certain articles of the first necessity and
most general use, they have to regret that their distresses,
which are but too well known to your Honourable House,
compel them to petition for a still further and very considerable
reduction of those taxes which bear more particularly on the
Agricultural Interest.—. Whilst, however, your Petitioners
(from their utter inability to bear their present burdens) hum-
bly pray that all, at leant the greater part of the duty on malt
may be taken off, and the .several duties on houses, windows,
horses, and carriages, be 'diminished ; they are not conscious
that they are asking for what is to be exclusively beneficial to
Agriculturists, on the contrary, they doubt not that what they
ask as necessary to themselves will prove acceptable to the
other classes of the community.
That your petitioners, in, humbly praying for so large a re-
mission of taxation, do so with the full conviction that they
shall in' no way interfere with the just and undoubted rights of
the yublic creditor. In their view, certainly, there are not the
times when ny diminution of the principal of the public debt
ia to be expected, but they are fully confident that with due
economy the remaining revenue will be found amply sufficient
to pay the interest of the debt, and to provide for all the other
just and necessary expences of the State.
Your petitioners, however, humbly submit, that this can
only be effected by a system of the strictest economy and re-
trenchment pervading the whole expenditure of the State; they
are not insensible that the emoruments of receivers-general of
taxes and distributors of stamps have been greatly curtailed,
but the views of you rpetitioners extend much further than to this
or that particular office—they feel that their own necessities,
and are convinced that the best interests of the country, require
(what on a firmer occasion they ventured to suggest to your
Honourable House) an uniform reduction of the pay, mitions,
and aalaries, of all the servants of the State. Your petitioners,
therefore, most humbly entreat your Honourable House to
adopt those measures, which they, with the greatest deference,
presume to point out, and all others which in its wisdom it
may judge,effectual for their relief. And your petitioners will
ever pray, &c.--( Norwich liferettry).