The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-23 00:00:00

a. blessing to your people, :giving you, in the realms of
eternal glory, a crown that fadeth not away.
•!.` Brought by our professional avocations itrto daily in-
tercourse with the more numerous classes of our fellow-
subjects, it is, as it has for some time past been, our
painful lot to witness scenes of wide-spread, heart rend-
ine:, and ever-deepening distress, arising mainly-7-as alas!
is too obvious—from a want of •adequate employ, and a
consequent destitution to a very great extent of the com-
mon necessaries of life.
"In endeavouring to ascertain the cause of this most
deplorable state of things, we big to assure your Majesty
that after patient and dispassionate! investigation, we have
been constrained to admit the conviction, that it is to be
found primarily and chiefly in those laWs which, by un-
righteously interfering with the arrangements of our be-
neficent Creator, produce an artificial scarcity of food,
.impose shackles on trade and commerce, cramp the efforts
of industry, and, even where they seem to benefit, occa-
sion only a delusive advantage.
" Encouraged-by the parental solicitude which your
Majesty has uniformly manifested fiir the well-being of
your subjects, we humbly, yet most earnestly solicit your
Majesty's gracious interposition on this behalf, so far as
it can be constitutionally rendered ; assured that nothing
more becoines the dignity or answers to the office of
Princes and Potentates, than an imitation of the Sove-
reign Miler, who is good to all, and whose tender
mercies are over all his works.'
The Rev. Mr. FLETCHER seconded the motion. They
knew full well the opinion of her Majesty already -con-
stitutionally expressed.—(Cheees.) Their object was
not to enlighten their Sovereign, but to show her that a
_ large and influential body of her subjects coincided in
her opinion.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRXAN then put th ! address, which was con-
sidered- to :em'antly t imrvrrf.kbrebt'
forence as to the corn and provision laws. The address
was carried by acclamation.
The Rev. Mr. SMITE, A.M.,,tutor of Rotheram Aca-
demy, moved that the Rev. Dr. Cox, P.D. and LL.D.,
the Rev. Thomas Spencer, A.M., of Bath, the Secretaries
of the Conference, and the Rev. Messr'. Atkinson,
Chaplain, Massie, Fletcher, and M'Kerrow, be appointed
to present the address to her Majesty. This question
was one of life or death to this great country.—(Hear,
hear.) The destiny of the world were bound up in the
condition of England. • He trusted that God would deli-
ver us•from the incubus that rested upon the country.—
(Hear, hear.) In this question was bound up the wel-
fare, the progress, and the happiness of this land. Many
parts of Scotland were within a hair-breadth of the starv-
ing point. The poor had everything to gain and nothing
to loose, and prayed that the influence of the Confe-
rence might prevent the eitamities which he foreboded
were fast corning on the land if the present system of
exclusive commercial intercourse was longer continued.
The Rev. Dr. VAUGHAN, of Kensington, seconded the
resolution, which was put and carried unanimously.
It was moved by the Rev. Mr. MAssIE, and seconded
by the Rev. Mr. GwyrnEn, that George Thompson,
Esq., be requested to address the Conference.• The mo-
tion was carries: by acclamation. •
GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., then came forward amidst
the most rapturous applause. His strength would not
permit him to do more at that msment than read the
document he held in •his hand for their consideration,
and, indeed, it was unnecessary, as it contained all that
he could say on the subject. Gazing upon the unex-
ampled assembly he saw around him, he gave thanks
to God on behalf of the perishing poor.—(Loud
cheers.) Mr. George Thompson then read 211 address
to the people of Great Britain and Ireland, which was
as follows :
" TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDO3I OF GREAT