Star.
London, England, 1830-06-01 00:00:00

TO HENRY BROUGHAM, ESQ.,

MY DEAR Ste—A petition to the House of Co mwits,
unanimously agreed to at a public meeting, held on
Easter Monday, in the City of London Tavern, has
for om:• time in your hands.
That meeting was numerously attended ; it was called
by public advertisement in all the daily journals a fort-
night before the day on which it was held. There was
not the slightest attempt to collect any individuals to
support any previously arranged measures ; it was equally
o;.eli to all parties, and its unanimous decisions were, I
a:preliend, an honest expression of the public feeling.
The unanimous prayer of the petitioners is, that mea-
.- i!res which I have to propose for the relief of the suffer
-
el; part of the population of the British dominions, may
be fairly investigated by the House of Commons.
As chain man of that meeting I- now beg leave to re •
;nest you to present it to the House, of which you are SJ
conspicuous a member. You were unanimous!y selected
by the meeting to present it, under the conviction that
von could and would do justice to the petitioners by the
•;tanner in which you would bring forward and support
;lio prayer of their petition.
And, allow me to say, that this is no ordinary or light
-bay which they desire you to undertake.
They know that a large portion of the population of
this empire is now suffering severely from ignorance and
I.overty, both of which evils they believe may now be
removed, to a very great extent, by the right application
of the means at the disposal of the British Government.
With this conviction deeply impressed upon the minds
of the petitioners, they are naturally and most properly
anxious that the. subject should be brought before the
representatives of the people by you.
They know that you have the knowledge and the
power to do ample justice to the subject, and to ensure
for it a full and fair examination. That if you will ca.d
aside all petty and personal considerations, and now put
forth your full strength and eloquence in a cause in which
the well being and happiness of the human race are deeply
I and permanently involved, you will attain greater advan-
tages for your fellow men than any individual has ever
yet had the opportunity of accomplishing.
Having said thus much in my public capacity, as
chairman of the meeting, I feel it a duty to the govern-
ment and people of this and of other countries to say,
that a new and strange period has arrived, when tl.e
most grievous oppression is experienced by the link; -
trious part of the population of the world, and alarm an
dissatisfaction among all classes, through those mean-;
which, if naturally applied, would create for all people a
continually increasing prosperity.
And that you, Sir, are now the chief obstacle in the
way of effecting this important change in the condition of
mankind.

For if you will not enter upon the investigation of this
subject in the House of Commons, no one, with the con-
trolling eloquence which you now possess in it, will ven-
ture to bring it forward in opposition to, or unaided by
you.

But of what real value are those commanding powers
of mind and of language, unless they are employed to
discover, explain, and advocate great and important truths
which can be applied in practice to relieve your fellow
men from the evils with which they are now oppressed—
evils which it is in your power now to remove ?
I fear not to say, that if you will call forth your ener-
gies, and give your whole heart and mind to the investi-
gation of those principles and practical measures which
I am prepared to submit to Parliament, whenever I shall
be called upon for that purpose, that you will be enabled
to diminish materially in this generation ignorance and
poverty, and to render them unknown in succeeding
generations.

I wish you not to ask any favour for me, from Parlia-
ment or individuals; ask for a Committee, or a Commis-
sion to investigate a subjest for the relief of the existing
distress ; it is a subject at present as little comprehended
by the Members of both Houses as by my friend Mr.
Hume, who, by unremitting industry, has made himself
master of numbers, but not of the great causes which
perpetually produce ignorance and knowlege, poverty
and riches, good and evil, and of the means by which the
knowledge, the riches, and the happiness, may be secured
for society.
These latter you have the power to secure, and that
you may judiciously exert that power, for the benefit of
others and the happines of yourself, is the ardent wish
of, my dear Sir, very respectfully, your friend and
servant,
49, Bedford-square, May 28. ROBT. OWEN.

The following official notice has been issued from the
War-office :—" The Secretary at War acknowledges the
receipt of a memorandum from E. B. dated 24th April,
1830, of which the following is a copy :—' E. B. requests
the Secretary at War will credit the public with the in-
closed bill for 501.' The said sum has accordingly been
paid into the Bank of England to the account of thu
Paymaster-General of his Majesty's Forces, for the
service of the public."

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