The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Knowing your willingness at all times to give every
publicity to any proceedings, tending to open the eyes of the
people, I send you an account of the manner in which a meet-
ing of the freeholders of the county of Glamorgan, which took
place on Tuesday last, was got together ; and also the reason
why a majority of that meeting were in favour of the Tory party.
The meeting was convened for the purpose of voting an ad-
dress to his Majesty, to withhold his sanction from any measure
that may have for its object the appropriation of the surplus
funds of the Established Church to other than Protestant pur-
poses.
It might reasonably have been supposed that of the calling
together the freeholders of so vast and important a county as
this, and on a subject so dearly connected with the feelings of
every Reformer (and, I thank God, we have few others in our
county, if you except the gentlemen of the cloth,) public notice
would have been given some ten oriwelve days at least prior
to the day of meeting. But the gentlemen who signed the
requisition to the Sheriff, requesting him to call such meeting,
knew it would not answer their purpose to give much publicity
to their intended proceedings, and consequently the only notice
the freeholders had was an advertisement which appeared in
the Cambrian and Merthyr Guardian of Saturday last,
announcing the meeting to take place on the Tuesday fol-
lowing, being two days' clear notice only. Well, Sir, the day
of meeting arrived, and I really believe that, with one ex-
ception only, there was not a clergyman in the county of
Glamorgan who was not present. At a meeting of the Free-
holders of the county of Glamorgan I naturally expected to
have seen every independent farmer in the county, and there
certainly was a host of farmers present—but who were they ?
Why, the tenants of Lord Jersey and Mr. Grant. And what
brought them there ? The only information I could gather
from themselves was, that Mr. Grant and his agents had
ordered them to attend, but they knew not for what purpose 1
After the address had been moved and seconded, an amend-
ment was moved, and on a division taking place, I saw these
poor farmers arranged in martial order, commanded by Mr.
Grant and his whippers-in, in favour of the address; and of
course they beat us in numbers. Now, Sir, this proceeding I
have•no doubt I shall see reported in the Tory papers, as the
proceedings adopted by the freeholders of the county of Gla-
morgan I I will assert, without fear of contradiction, that
there was not one tenth part of the freeholders of the county
present, and for the best of all reasons—they were not aware
such a meeting was intended to take place. But had proper
etestice been given, in spite of all Mr. Grant's tenantry and
the exertions of the clergy, their address would have been
negatived by a majority of ten to one. After the meeting had
separated, I remonstrated with one of the farmers who voted
for the address on what he had done. He denied it. This
astonished me ; and I told him that I saw him stand on that
side of the Green where the supporters of the address were
drawn up. " Oh, yes," replied he, " I stood on that side, be-
cause Mr. Grant told us to do so, but I did not mean to vote
for any address." Now, Sir, what think you of such a county
meeting as this? It would seem impossible, were it not in
some measure accounted for by the circumstance, that not
one in ten of these farmers—the men whose votes secured a
majority for the address—understood English, in which lan-
guage the proceedings of the meeting, therefore, took place
Our respected county Member, Mr. Talbot, and our inde-
fatigable borough Member, Mr. Vivian, did their duty man-
fully and fearlessly, by delivering their sentiments on the ocea-
Mon. I wish I could say as much for another of our Members.
I am, Sir, your constant reader,
A FREEHOLDER, PRESENT
Swansea, April 23, 1835. AT THE MEETING.

On Monday a linnet's nest, containing four eggs,
was discovered most curiously constructed among the branches
of a broccoli, which was going into seed, in an exposed situa-
tion in a garden at Snutton.—Nitta Review.