The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-15 00:00:00

OF THE PEOPI.E OF GLASGOW AND VItiNITY,

AIsoCIATED FOR THE PURPOSE Op oBTATNING A
,REPEAL OF THE PRESENT CORN LAWS, TO
TITRIR FELLOW-SUBJECTS THE OTHER INHA-
BITANTS OF THE BRITIaFI EMPIRE.
COUNTRYMEN, _ _ _

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At a time Oche most awful solicitude, when thawelfare
of our much loved Country hangs trembling in the scales of
fate, we judged roper to lay before you
.our. sentiments on
a subjecti of the-last importance to us all, on which the corn.
forts and happiness of millions depend. In every human
society there is an ettiirt continually tending to confer on
one part the height of power and happiness, and tv reduce
the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The in-
. writ of good laws is •to oppose this 'etli,rt, and to datise their
influence universally and equally. But when any particular
Class of men. have it in-their piiwer to 'influence the legisla-
ture, 'then'the laws, which were solely intended for the pub.
lie good, become the most powerful engines of -oppression,
and, instead of retarding that Inequality, so inimical to gene-
ral happiness, accelerate its progress. The Situation of the
landlord is the most secure and independent. of ally other ;
holding in their hands the means of subsistence, they will
ever command the reins of power. Happy. would it be for
mankind it' power were .to be employed in promoting the
public felicity,' instead of forming schemes of selfish aggrau-
dizernent, equally impolitic as unjust.
Within these filly years land in this Country has, upon an
average, risen to more than three times its former value,
owing entirely to the rapid progress of Trade and' Manutae.;
ture; and as these increase the value of land .antkits ..produce •
will also increase. We are happy to state •ffiat this is the
opinion of the first Landholders- in this Country, who say,
That a growing-population and useful employment, must
more certainly increase the value of land than any artificial
expedient for raising the price of a part of its produce 4."
The History of Nations,. and the experience of modem
Europe, has convinced every enlightened mind of the itnotb-
licy and bad etteCtS of monopolizing systems. Their perni- ;
cious consequences in a mAnufaduring COuntri like. tins are
inure severely felt titan Many other. When the Competition
ht foreign markets, and our ability to undersell other Coun-
tries, depend on the cheapness of labour, it is surely bait po-
licy to lay any restraints upoo the importation of food. Shall
Britain, whose inhabitants have long been held up as the
happiest people on earth, be the only nation Where 'it is the
most difficult' to
.procure a livelihood by moderate labour ?
This Were a solecism in politics not easy.to solve. It is sure- '
ly very hard that the people -of this--Country should have to ~
pay.a bounty on the hxportation of Coro, that a foreign me.
chattle may eat his bread cheap, and to raise the price at
home.. ,

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To procure.abundance of fbod, at a moderate' price, has
ever- been esteemed true wisdom by all Governments. Upon
this basis must rest the population. riches. and strengthaf a
Nation. We trust that the tnne is not tar distant when all ranks ,
of Man Will see the impulicy of restrittions on the itnporta:.
,tion of food. None Call think, even for a moment, that we
are inimical to. the interest of the Farmer.; •we moil., sincetr.
ly wish that every bar May. be removed out of the way of
Agricultural improvement, None deserve a better recom-
pense for their toil than the cultivators of the:•grotind ; but it
Is not. from impolitic restrictions that it will ever.Volll.7.
Countrymen, these considerations have doubtless occurred
to you all; •we therefore-trust, chat, intluebccd by' the good
of the Country, you will come forward with itoanimity and
resolution. in expressing your sentiments on the present Corn
Laws, We are at this moment menaced by a haughty and in.
verel'ate 'FOe, -who is no less intent" on ruining our Trade,
than destroying our Constitution; who wishes
.equally. to
rival-us in Arts as in Arms —it were had policy to aid the ne....;
tartans design. If we cannot live cheap, we cannot Work f,
cheap ; this must in the end ruin our Commerce—on that
depends our Naval Strength. Countrymen, we have every
confidence in the wisdom of Parliament, that when our situ- •
ation is fairly represented,. they will give us every relief that
out' circumstances require. Our Country will not be 'un-
grateful.. W hen menaced •ivith Invasion, we have -run to
arms to defend her; when; her treasury is exhauster!, -we have
recourse to toil to fill it. Our Legislature know, that every
thing that raises the price of food depreciates the value of
money,,aud lissens the public treasure valid it wete•a•sorry
consideration, that, from such a paltry advantage, our Trade
should suffer so' severe _a , loss. —Let us
,all, therefore,, as
friends to ourselves, lovers of our Country, and-guardians to
'posterity, try, by all legal and constitutional niebris, to pro. -
cure a Repeal of the present Law, that our Children nay
never have it to gay, their Fathers saw evil corning on the
Country without attempting to prevent it.
In the name, and by appointment of the Committee,
LA UCHLA NT MUCKHAI.T, President,
Glasgow, November 1834.
* See .Resolutions of His GraCe the Duke of Hathilton,
and the Gentlemen.i J tistices of t lie • Peace, Freeholders,' and
Commissioners of Supply at' Lanarkshire, 1787, '

AMERICA.

THE HERNirrLss OIL' NORTH SALE:II.

Nrw-Yorki Nov. r 3.
The following Account of a singular Chart ter, now residing
in the neighbourhood of Salem,. in nutchoss County, in
this State, is from the roliticat Barometer, printed at
Poughkeepsie ; communicated, as the Editor declares,
from authority so respeitablc -tdrnits not' a doubt of its
petted correetness.

When the train of human events, appears to de.
viate from its wonted course, and becomes produc-
tive of characters altogether new and unexampled,
it has a claim on the world to be perpetunted.

An instance of this kind, where Nature has ap.
peared surprisingly to wander from its wonted opo.
ratio„,,, is Ai‘played in the eharafter and Manner of
life exhibited by a certain female in the vicinitrof
this town. We often heat of men, horn various
motives, .preserving a life of solitude in some
gloomy cavern of the earth ; but to find one of the.
fair sex immured in a cave, wholly secluded from
human society, is a true. phenomepon.
Acquainvd with all their delicacy nf, body, their
natural timidity of mind, their loquacity of temper,
and their inordinate love of seeing and being seen ;
to find them forsaking all human society to 'the
dreary haunts of savage beasts, appears, when re.
lated, too romantic to gain belief. Yet the Reader
may rely on the sequel, as a simple narrative of