The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-10 00:00:00

ntc asitrele,lnawVier, Much We connenitte toe grdtv
ing system of prohibitory and proteetrug mines,
we said; that if it was not attempted to be dirtied
intooperation by the Agricultural Committee, un-
der the name of relieving the depressed. interests
of the Landowner, itt fact, laying an additional
rate upon every necessary of life, ere should con-
sider what had been done as fu mere trifle. But
what we apprehended might be in contemplation,
Is daily developing. The remedies proposed by
'the possessors of great lauded property, in order
to increase its value, are many of thein
naou-
strous, and all of theni resolve, into this :simple
proposition, by-some means or other to render
-the produce of agriculture dearer to the Con-
sumer : .to bolster us up to that unnatural state
which is the source of all our difficulties; ra-
ther than to lower us dawn .to that natural si-
tuation, which, by putting. us on a nearer level
with foreign nations, will enable us to terminate
them.' But it is not the Landowner alone who is
setting .his shoulder to the wheel in this essay—
every separate class in the community in pursuiog
its separate interest without reference to the good
oft he whole, is doing its endeavour to promote the
cause of high prices under the pretenee of seeking
relief or protection to itself. The Wine: Trade
'seam the Tax on WiOe reduced ; the Leather-
'Peelers the Tax on Leather ; the Innkeepert he li-
censes affecting his profits ; one party one tax and
another party another ; and for whit ? To enable
theta to sell cheaper ! No such, thing, but 'to en-
able them to realize larger snit) by their traffic.
Were they all indulged io their wishes the result
Would be
-that Government won't' have no reve-
nue, and yet the 'people would 'not buy the
modifies at one farthing less than they do
at this day. If we want proof of the truth
of this' we have only to lOok to the brewers.—
Where are the public benefited by the redectiou
of prices in their raw-Materials, or the remission
of taxation upon their Manufacture ? -rlit conti-
nuance of their prices is however so gross and no-
torious an outrage, that We think it must remedy
itself, and ultimately punish these extortionerl,
upon
.whom, in addition to the loss of business
troll) familes becoming their own brewers, We
trust the-CHANCELLOR' of the Ext.:140(11)Ft: tvill.lay
a Wiry licence 'duty for every ton of beer, they
manufactere.
produce too is kept up at an exr4r-
bitant rate, and ila short we see how, difficult it
is to get any articles lowered,after they have been
pushed to a high price; which even the threat °Fa
tax, or the rumour -of a scarcity is sufficient to
accomplish.
But after rill the others comes et last the great-
est—the Distressed Agt ictilturist praying fOrlielp ;
the men who said nothing when the (parcel* loaf
was 20t1. and 22d. fill the land with their lameuta-
lions in .14e first year after it has fallen to 9d.
and 10d, The !louse of Comtnans has efitertaitied
this question in a Committee, and every Laud-
Owner, treeordiug to his interest, has proposed
remedies, the aggregate of which form* so dread-
ful a picture of oppressiOn, that it is impossible
to contemplate it, without horrorand indignation.
Let us merely mass a few of the most proininent
together. ' We are called on to relieve the Corn-
grower, by' granting a botiuty on dm export's-
tioli of 'grain to feed foreigners at our expellee,
becanse, forsooth, we have Corn too cheap ; out,
for the' same reason, not to' .allow grain to
come into this country. We are &died Upon to
lay an impost upon the importation of wool to
relieve the stock farmer, 'leg we have upon butter
and cheese to relieve the dairy farmer. rye are
called ra to impose now ohnies onelover, liuseed,
rape, &a. We aye culled upon to lend the land',
owners and. their tenants betweett them 12 mil-
lions of the teatimes money, to enable them to
kieep op high prices.- In flue; whnt with bounties
for delivering us fhour .our superfluities, and
posts for preventing' the iutrodnetifin of any ugri-
cttltnral prodnee, so as to make provision reason
able, and. projects for supplying monopoly with
money to affect its objeet, these patriotic personi
seen) roost earnest to. restore land and its products
to their war
.value, for the pore purpose, as they
sayt of enabling them to live like .Gentlemen iii
splendour, to encourage our manufaetureri!* flow
self-interest blinds menitiod ? Does Mr. WsBretoe,
or Mr. COKE, 'or Mr. Anybody, with-',lO or 60,0001.
a-yearin rents, think to persuade an indifferent per,
son that all they want to do is to perpetuate the in-
comes they had recently enjoyed by raising the price
of bread, of clothes, of meat, of butter, 'of cheese)
&c. &c. merely that they way have it in their
power to act es the Vicegerents of Providence hi
this Island, 'dispensing their bounties to the poor,
the labourer, the manufacturer, and the State
We will do as well without their assistance, [sad
with these neeessu.ries at their present price 4, or
many of them lower,

Of all that bas been said on this important
ject in Parliament, the speeclrof Ltirti4aicsu.ss,,'
and espebially that of ROBINSON, lippetlr to
ae to be most convincing, • Entirely do we 'lg:tit'
with the letter, that the. system Ti•commended.is
radically vicious. :'That by these forcetliegislative-
measures, prohibiting all influx, we should in troth.
be imitating, as far as we could, the horrid Con-,
tinental policy of the infamous BUONISPARTE; and.
suicidal Non-intercourse of the selfish Americans'
destroying themselves to injure others.
This momentous topic we shall resume -from'
Lima to ,time,• sod now, only enter. nor 'protest'
against the cruel and absurd proposaFto trans-
twin (heat Britain, by bountiN wrung out of the•
people, into at competitor in the corn markets of-
other countries, which can grow so mulch cheaper
than we (31-14 Illtlier,than allow Its to' have -corn-
cheap at 'home,- which. will lead :.to cheapness-in
every thing clic, place all- our manoffettites
beyond the reach of rivalry by ,natifM'in
the world, ber.iides spreading ease: eompetenty,
aud,,comfort, o.ver.tbe -face ot the Empire.-
t We wonder the converse 'of this propniithni is nerei pat, •
and we astieo tqAtarich-the`,MantiliiPttirer, 4c.. in or..kr that they may eneonvagt .Igricultnrb. But We take no ti.trtyri4w ,
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