The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-18 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF BATH.

GENTLEMEN,
IF the lamentable dismissal of the late Ministry
should lead to a dissolution of Parliament, I shall beg leave
once more to offer myself to your notice, in the confidence that I
shall mect the same support I have so frequently experienced from
all classes of my fellow citizens, whose welfare it has been my un-
ceasing and uniform object to advance.
After the experience you have had of my principles during twenty-
five years, it would be insulting you, and degrading myself, to make
professions, or any display of my political opinions . They have for
their foundation the prosperity and happiness of the people : and,
in pursuing the means which I thought best adapted to secure
them, I can say, with truth, I have sacrificed all considerations of
private interest for the public good, convinced that no honest man
can feel truly happy, however abundant his means, if he is conscious
those means are wrung from the hard-earned wages of industry.
" By heaven) I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blond for drachmas, than to wring
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash

By any indirection."
Yet it is by means the most indirect, unjust, and oppressive, that
the industry of this noble country is weighed down, and your extra-
ordinary efforts to secure comfort and independence for yourselves
and families rendered abortive.

If you look at the situation of all the great interests and divi-
sions of industry, the real wealth and strength of the nation, what
is it? Are agiculturists prosperous ? Are the manufacturers suc-
cessfully competing with their rivals in every part of the world?
Is shipping remunerative? Is commerce profitable ? Are your
colonies flourishing? Is the balance of trade so much in your
favour as to fill your coffers with gold ? I fear, and indeed I know,
that all these questions must be answered in the negative ; and
why ? Simply because industry has to pay for every article used or
consumed within his Majesty's dominions upwards of 100 per cent.
more than it would pay if the Revenue were raised through Pro-
perty, instead of Expenditure; and until this great measure is
effected it is impossible for this country to flourish.
The Trades of Glasgow have said, " Give us cheap bread and
cheap knowledge," and, as the means of obtaining them, have
added, " Give us Household Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, and
the Ballot." These, fellow-citizens, are the vital questions, the
carrying of which in Parliament, in my humble judgment, can
alone enable you to obtain the further necessary measures to render
the Reform Bill of use. I mean a Repeal of the Corn Laws, a
Repeal of all Duties of Excise, a Repeal of the Assessed Taxes, an
equitable and discriminatine.' adjustment of the Stamp Duties, and
a Customs' Regulation Act, whereby all Custom Duties should be
levied by an equal per tentage on the value of the article imported,
with a power of exacting discriminating duties on articles imported
or exported in foreign vessels, according as those vessels belong to
nations which agree or refuse to meet this country and her colonies
on those fair and equitable terms which alone constitute a real Free
Trade system.
Let Property take upon itself the liquidation of the Public Debt;
for by Property it was contracted, and by Property it must be li-
quidated, or the Public Creditor must ultimately suffer ; for its
burden can no longer be sustained as at present by the industrious
classes. Call for and obtain this change in the system of our Re-
venue, and every class will flourish.
The expense of purchase, transit, shipment, frieght, and Mer-
chants' charges and profits will be an ample protection to the Bri-
tish Farmer, to whom his superior skill, machinery, and industry
will secure additional profits. Your Manufacturers will no longer
be reduced to the necessity of half-starving their people, and of so
deteriorating their material, that foreign articles are rapidly super-
seding them in foreign and even in your domestic markets.
Your Shipowners will no longer complain that they can neither
build, equip, victual, or man their ships, in competition with other
nations. The profits of Commerce will no longer be confined to
the monopolists, who make use of the Pnblic Funds to enable
them to engross all profitable traffic, and ruin all who enter into
competition with them, whose means are less ample than their own.
If we look to our Colonies, where is there one from which there
are not constant complaints of distress, only partially re-
lieved in those whose Government is expending large sums
of money, wrung from the bands of the necessitous at home,
to support those whom their exertions had previously expatri-
ated. Lastly, do the management and arts resorted to
by the Government and the Bank prevent Gold leaving the
kingdom? They do not. If the articles produced by the in-
dustry of the Country, and afterwards exported, exceeded the value
of the articles imported, the difference must. necessarily be paid in
Gold, and Gold accordingly would flow into the kingdom : but
Gold is leaving this Country daily ; and, what is an aggravation of
the evil, is that the Imports are in a great proportion as to value,
luxuries for the rich, which pay but trifling duties compared with
those imposed on the less costly, but more bulky, articles imported
for the use of the People.
It is with these opinions, principles, and feelings that, in the
event of an appeal from the Crown to the People, at the present
important crisis, I shall again come forward as the determined op-
ponent of the party whom I ever have opposed as the worst
enemies to their King and Country.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, with great respect,
You faithful and obedient Servant,
CHARLES PALMER.

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