The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-04 00:00:00

WOOLLEN TRADE.

The follo►ving is a Petition which will be pre.
se►►ted to the House of Commons fromiludders.
Geld :

" That your Hon. House having judged It expedient to
make a great alteration in the commercial system of the coun-
try, by a Bill which has lately passed your Honourable House,
whereby Woollen Goods'of foreign manufacture are to be ad.
flitted into this country duty free for exportation.
" Your Petitioners humbly beg leave to state to your Hon.
House- that the measure has gwen them great and too well
founded cause of alarm•

" That the duty upon Foreign Wool, together with the
Duties on Oil and .13yeing Wares, have operated as a bounty to
the foreign manufacturer, and have caused a decreased demand
for British Woollens from the Continent, in all those Markets
where the Foreign Woollens have come into competition with
similiar goods of British manufacture.
Foreign Woollens into this country
" That by admittiog
duty free for exportation, while our own remain loaded with
duties imposed:at home, as well as others which the policy or.
jealousy have and will impose abroad, we shall be admitting
others to direct competition with ourselves upon unequal terms
in those countries where they have had no facilities of intro-
ducing their goods, and in which we have hitherto enjoyed a
monopoly of the market. The competition so unequal as re.
gards your petitionerstniust be followed by a similar decrease
of demand for their goods, as they have already experienced
upon the Continent, and a gradual decline of their trade, whilst
that of the foreigner will be stimulated and encouraged in a
correliNnding ratio.
"That your petitioners believe your Honourable House does
not intend to act so ungracious a part as to oppress them, and
foster their rivals; but they humbly submit that the measures
now recently taken have that tendency, and will produce that
effect as your petitioners firmly believe, and as by well ascer-
tained facts they could shew to your Honourable House should
inquiry be thought neceskary for its further information, and,
therefore, as a measure of justice, which your petitioners trust
and believe your Hon. House will not fail to extend to them.
" Your petitioners earnestly request your Honourable House
will repeal the Duties
upon Forme Wool, and other duties
which render their competition with foreigners unequal and
ruinous."

POST-OBIT JEALOUSY.—" PHILIP, who had
lived apace, dying a few Audis. after PERM.
NAND had left Castile, his Queen, whose brain
was somewhat distempered before, did upon
this loss sink into so deep a melancholy
that those who were about her had much
ado to keep her from starving- herself. And,
as during the whole' time of her husband's sick-
ness, she bad never, though she was big with
child, day or night, stirred from his bedside ; so
having some days after he was buried been told
by a monk, that he had read in some legend or
other of a king who had come to life again after
he had been dead fourteen years, she imme-
.diately commanded' her husband's body to be
brought into her bed-chamber, where, having
taken it out of the coffin and laid it in a bed of
state, with its face uncovered, she kept it .20
years, after which it was interred in the cathedral
of Granada, and when she was awake she was
continually looking at it, and watching when it
would arise. And as the Queen's fondness for
her husband, who had little deserved it from her,
so her jealousy of him was so much.increased by
his death, that she would never sillier any woman
but herself to go near bis corpse; nor one of that
sex, besides her old servants and ennfidentss td
come within the door of the room where it lay;
and. having left Burgos with a resolution never to
see that or any other city anymore, she travelled
in the night by torch light, with her husband's
corpse drawn in a hearse by six Flander's mares,
from one obscure village to another, until she
settled at lust at Tertelas, where, in a very mean
house, she was delivered of a daughter, without
the help of a midwife. For as there was no per-
suading her to lie in any other room but in that
where her husband's corpse was, so she never
would bear of .a midwife, though never so ancient',
being introduced,"