The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-20 00:00:00

The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in-
duced several learned men to believe it spurious. But without
entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob-
serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England
claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual
possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of
the Council of Calcuith, held in 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chas-
ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seem at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth
part of the profits; which must be owned to be a very forced
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—
Page 111, Rapin's History of England.
" The plan which I have to unfold may at first appear start-
ling. • • • . to introduce within the Christian Church.
It may appear to encroach by those who have strenuously ad-
vocated the sacredness of the clergy's income, and entered
their decided protest against any reform being necessary, as re-
lating to ecclesiastical affairs."—Espilon Theta.
"The King, Henry the Fourth, representing to the Parlia-
ment his great want of an extraordinary aid, the Commons
went in a body and addressed him, ' That without burdening
his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenue
of the clergy.' The Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent with the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were
forced to find other means to supply the King's occasions ; the
clergy granted a tenth and a-half. —Page 49b.
'• The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
( Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergyul revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the King in order to save the rest."—Page 509,
Rapin's History of England. (1. )—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628,
14,662.

" /So mention, Bishgc Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au-
thentic book in the worts). During all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy end the Church appear to have been sup-
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious."—See
Selden on Tithes, and Barb. Rem. 169.

" Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the
tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants."-2 Black. Corn. 21.
From the above readings the following scale is deducible:—
Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quartern loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the
hungry"—and its denanciations are upon those who are unmind-
ful of " the child of misery baptised in tears."
Ethelwulph's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, 31. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translatior —A tenth of a tenth taken on
roduce, 265. per cent.
Hebrew —A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6s.
per cent —An Insight to " Forced Interpretation."
We cull from the " blaze of eloquence" of immortal Milton

the epitaph for the patron of this work—" Revolutions of ages
do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse."

" In the House of Lords, the debate being on the state of
Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, The Noble Lord had in-
sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right.
He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be-
lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament. '—( Hear, hear. ) See Morning
Herald, June 20, 1823.
There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10
per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,0001. netted him 5001. per annum, paid to the
State 501., under the operation of the tithe composition, an
outlay of 5001. subjects the cultivator to the same 501. ; this, in-
deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs."
" The alarm excited by announcing a proposed continuance
of the income tax was now beginning to operate; and the city
of London commenced an opposition by presenting to Parlia-
ment, on Feb. 8, two petitions against the tax, one from the
tLhoer d
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olkrlday3oira,yAorldae.rdmLani
v,carryid
Common
men, both
expressed Council,
ngr rorlan-
guage, respecting the odious and inquisitorial nature of the
tax. The Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts
to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fastened
by popular clamour and party manoeuvres. This attempt re-
ceived a final defeat by a petition, presented on March 18, by
Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London. The number of signatures was 22 ,000 .
March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the
continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol-
lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the
cry of question, and the House divided, when the numbers were,
for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37.
When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose
in the House, which was re-echoed by the crowd that filled the
lobby and avenues, and the, event was felt throughout the na-
tion rs a relief from an oppressive burden."—Annual Register

for 1816.
" It has been pres,nroptuous," so we read in the pithy
Examiner, No. 740, ",to dabble in chemistry; to look through
a telescope; to inoculate Itfr the small-pox ; to abate the viru-
lence of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a
knpmom
moment
; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con-
":
the stce lad r
con-
clusive--to read the Bibb,. And in what has all this pre-
euinewtioo. The generally I
ing innstuhierearnxdii.ety.voefresodin a etmruetnh—to
know more than it was convenient for other men they should
a truth !_which threaten to militate against a profitable
system of error, then thwful seorets' were invaded—the-
ark of the sanctuary' disturbed. Any Barabbas of the day
was milk-white compared with the daring offender : in a word,
away with him.' Could great men thunder,' says Shaks-
peare, ' there would be nothing 'but thunder.' Could they
make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there
would he a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.' "
Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the
community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
gave permanency to the system.
" Protest." "In our opinion, therefore, the land is sub-
jected to a direct taxation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and
poor-rate, to 33 per cent !"
On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn
Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Rosslyn and Lauder-
dale,—Journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
1827.

" It would shake the foundation of all property in the king-
dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 23, 1E825.
" Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Mr.
O'Connell, herald, Dec. 2, 1836.
It is now more than thirty years since the eminent linguist
Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical
of the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
Journal ;" it is twenty. two years since we became adherents to
his promulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun,
the Examiner, ansl the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of
vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and
" a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled
injustice from the press of England.—We hope this will not be
overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the
Press.

" What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the
Legislature? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws—
openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease,
and death on large portions of the community to enrich its
members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton
affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the demand
for and the wages of labour. It plunders the working-da_ses
to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these
things are the very reverse of its duties. It holds power to
cherish and protect the people, and is highly criminal if it
shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one stick
of the property of the obedient people. I—The Sun, No.
14,869, May 6, 1840.
" The Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings,
and the members declared that they did not despair. Neither
do we. Our conviction that tho Corn-law is a most Iniquitous
impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of
Commons. We believe that to preserve such an impost for
any length of time is beyond the power of the House of Com-
mons. The debate and the division of Tuesday may help the
degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can
neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor
maintain it in opposition to the public eonviction."—The Sun,
May 28, 1840.
It being spoken by him, " who spake as never man spoke."
Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. " But he (Jesus) answered and said, It
is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the month of God," it being our purport
to carry out, and the majority of a House of Commons to abro-
gate the mandate of the Deity himself, (2) though what we
submit " may at first appear startling," emboldens us.
This train of thought leads u,s to entertain the idea that it is
a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,0001.
to 30,0001. per annum should " writhe from the hands of pea-
sants their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf,
and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in-
tellectual character. The country's dignity demands the
abolition.

Therefore we hope that her Majesty will be pleased to pro-
mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent
•f 501. per annum, 11. per cent. on all houses at 1001. per an-
num ; two per cent. on all at 2001. per annum ; three per cent.
•n all at 2001. upwards at the aernual rent-charge. This paid
into her Majesty's Exchequer, the Clergy to be paid by a gra-
duated scale.
We pray her Most Gracious Majesty " hear us for our
cause," that it may disarm every depraved mind against her
" sacred person," and that no—
" Peasant shall have cause to say,
Heaven shorten Victoria's happy life one day."
(1.) • ,„* Dedicated to his Royal Highness Frederick, Prince
of Wales,the History of England, written in French bv M. Rapin
de Thoyras, translated into English with additional Notos, by
N. Tindal, M. A. , Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, 1732.

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)
By Appointment : Budd and Catkin, Booksellers toiler Ma-
jesty, Pall-mall; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, St.
Paul's, London.
By Appointment : W. Wright, Bookseller to their Majesties
the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and all the Royal Family,
Pall-mall.
(2.) Letter to . . . . on the Rcv. W. L. Bowles'
,‘ Stric-tures on tho Life and Writings of Pope," BY
the Right
Hon .I.ord Byron, and that Noble Lord's works complete
in one volume.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam :
J. Muller and Co. Leyden : W. H. Hazenberg. Paris :
Arthur Bertrand. Venice : J. B.lllissiaglia.
Schwetschke. 1826. vit f" • •• ' • Petersburgh
A New Plan for tturcli RetOrm : in a Letter addressed to
the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell. By Epsilon Theta.
London: Hatchard and Son, No. 187, Piccadilly.

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