The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-03 00:00:00

a tire noriittgl) of 'Sotithtirettk hati to piv n ,airy
of 1041. upon coal*, whilst inland dis ricts paid
tro rate.

Mr. AlOOlllBll WAITHMAN assured the House,
that the ft:: ug w !re•Gentlettren ‘iibo bad at•sem-
'bled to Fetition the Coal Doty WAS 110 t
to ~ohei' exiension to any other class of teir
fellow-sotjt•ts, but to be rtlicved altm!etbee from
the tax. They h r to pay a duty of 94. MI be-
sides all the expences of bringing the coats to
London, and measuring them, and all those
charges fell on tire poor consumer as well as
the rich. The object of •the Petitioners had
been to obtain the repeal .of the tax altoge-
ther ; but if his Majesty's Government were
of opinion that it roold not be given up,
then, indeed, they would desire that it might be
equalized.. It Was strange that Gentlemen who
had coals for trothitiK should feel themselves so
much -oppressed, whilst in the city of London,
tiotwithstattding so many additional expences,
many tmomfactirres flourished to R el cat extent.
Yet in that city and the neighbooring tills c:s,
the price of c.,als was 'o high, that the Poor
covid not procure them, Rod were :uppLed with
them by Charitab!e Institutions. The City 0:
Lott.toir and its eltviimrs rook moth from (he
'proprietor; rind workers of coal mines, Rod in-
deedwvr:t compelled to take from them. But it,
It weie trite, ai it had been reported. that coal
•was to lie 'mold at Blackheath, woold those Gen-
tlemen be very willing to v.iye up their Gondol.
customers, and allow to work out their owl',
purply ? With respect to matothrtotes, many
wrCe established in the vicinity of London. Ott
the banks of the river Wandle-, which .flowed
within a few miles of the capital, they wank' be
comd to be as numerous 11l any other
phrr of the kingdom.

Cotonrl Wool) WWI rd that when Gentlemen
ina:ie any applicat:on to Parliament, they Should
begin by making up their mind as to what they
uttitted. 'Flits seemed not to bare been the case
with the Petitioners again.st the Coal Ditties, fur
they did not yet positively know, whether they
wi• heft fur their total tepeal, or :nerdy their
equaliration. lie trusted, hOWeVtr, that when
the qiiestion should come to be debated, the City
of London would find no ground on which to es-
tablish its pretensions. All the advantages of the
tminufactitres were on its side lie the,: contend-
ed that the duties Cut Sea-borne coals were equal
all over the kinglioni. lie asked whether a duty
of 6s. was not laid upon them in the pout of Lon-
don, to he applied to the et ection of Churches 1
.ne should protest against any alteration in the
existing duties. There was a great stone fixed in
the Thameiabove Staines ; it ti. se Getitlemen
would remove it as low as Blackftiars
they ,vould pay as cheap for coals as inland coon-
ties.—(hear, hear ! and Laughter.)

Mr. Lt trt_pToN strongly objected to the
egali-
zatiott of the coal duty. . finalization wan a fine
long word, and bore a fair_appearance., but was
001 60 111 reality. lie thought that it arty duty
was to be laid upon coals, it was fit that a greater
poportion should he paid by the metropolis t hall
any other parr of the country. He begged to
know whether it was the intention of his Majes-
ty's Ministers to make this a question of their
litVls, and to lay a neW tax upon those parts of the
kingdom which had hitherto been exempted front
its operation) lie wished to know this, because
if bit side of the question had only to contend
with the City of London, he should then have no
great apprehension Of the result, . .
Mr. LUSHINGTON replied, that as far as he was
acquainted with the subject, it was not the inten-
lion .ot Government to propose any alteration in
the coal dui y.
After sew remlrks from Sir C. Murdatmt, Sir
Di. Ridley, and Mr. Clime!),
Mr. CANNING deprecated the endless revivals of
such discussions,whenever a petition was presented.
.They were not -likely to bring the question to any
satisfactory issue, and their only effect was to de-
. lay tile course of the regular business of the House.
He should have no, objection to allow the petition
. to lie onme table.
BkiNfai.T. represented the expectation .of
fiodifyg coal at Blackheath its su idle 0,11,10111'.

Mr. LITTL:To WOUIII tell she Right Finn.

Gentleman below bins (Mr. Canning) a n►ore
efficient n►ode of puttinst an end to those discus-
. &ions of which he so Strongly deprecated the re-
. vival. Let him ask his Right Hot). Colleague,
the Cha►►cellor of. the Exchequer, to come down to
the linuse,:tod declare at once that it was not the
intention ()f Government to in( erfere nit the subject.
The Petition was tl►en read, and laid on the
table.

Mr. .4.ldernian "rHORP presented a petition from
the Wait! of A!dg e, against the it new.l of the
I,nsolvent,Debtoi,s' Act.,--Laid on the table.