The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-15 00:00:00

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" ALTERATIO'g IN THE WINDOW TAX. , •
" We are sincerely happy, for the credit of our
Countrymen in .general, and particularly' for the
Citizens of .to find that the true delinea.
tion of the inteodeil ;node of collecting and as-
sessing the Window Tax, which appeared in our
-last publication,"bas wrought a great change itt
the public mind.
" Were, it Otherwise., we should be ashamed of
the folly and vacilleil,:vpn whiencharacteriled those
who agreed ;o a.sy-rent proposed by tirvib
.ties, and objected to iratterwards without a' 54Aw
dow of cousistencyjby their Orators.
" if the chaflge. eve` allude to had nnt-taken.-
place, how could. we place any reliance it ltiture
on the selection at Deputies on any Occasion
Or receive with attention the sentiments o.f iz
public body, '
through any other organ.,than the
voice of all. . This :vapid, indeed, he 'the
duction ot Babel itsclf, and 'cause the right of re.
presentation to be a phantom. •
" We are aware that a Morning Paper 'pre,"
suntes to cast Censure-on Mr. Shaw, and calls the ,
deputation 'a ,ham one--a•mere skeleton one, if
any one at all. But will this sage Oracle of folly
and. cabal deny that Michans's Parish 'that Patti's,
that Mary.:s and Anne's, that Nichol.ss!s Within,
and .Nicholas's Without, with ..Peter'§ and An.
drew's, J'ameS"S'And John's, had not their D.pq-
,tics present ; and also that Mr Shaw, not relying.
tlron thiS, had present:everyCitizen he could in-
fluence to attend otythe Occasion.
'°Bat'eve shall detain our readers no longcr
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bria.ging hotne self-evident faults .to obstinate
blinds. \Ye shall only_saY, then, thaf those who
originated the inea'sure ,deserve trout the
their sincere *thank; for thiy torte the caw :c
of
substituting a Tax, resting an the principle
of
justice and lenity, in place of one that, were
it
not 'for -the ho inanity of-the Government and the
Board.of Excise, have otherwise been exr.-
ereised and, whereas, now the poor ‘va be re-
livve 1, and the wealthy taxed only, as they
should be.
'" And now; since we liave sail- so mach, lei

us conclude by_ohserving oat. the 'tni.srakvn opi-
nion which .has gone abroad, that the
system proposed is an additio`nal faX on the •
I;e:'Vie. . - •
Sr riely the eXplatiatin given alr-c-rdy to the
ouf,J,r to trav,-, saristi,d drum nro
it.ilas-r,ot done so; let a, in.,
„form them, once for•all, that the'rnodified Tax,
'as simirlifird and proved in i:s, •excellence in our
lasCrob!ieution, is a Tax which reduces the Win,.
dots 'il ax. as it now is, insoMe.cases More that/
'one-halt- Again—that the modified Tax is a soh.
stitute otily for the .pri sent Window Tax—that,
in rt word, ther‘e i 5. to he no Tax but the one we
have-remarked-Upon already—and that those .who
have thought and argued otheroise, have done'so
either.from grosss ignorance, or determined 11016-
lity to every principle of chanty and beneVolence
to themselves, their fainilies, their country and
its prosperity.
'"ro the Parish Deputies' Address, who at-
tended the original proposition (mark the dis-
•tinction reader), dill, therefore. Lite people here'-
atter feel iildebted f'or relief—but the Parish Ora-
' tors must they_thank for a most, unhandsorne.use
of an assunseA and ill-lodged interference."