The Sun.
London, England, 1816-09-19 00:00:00

INDESCRIBABLE MISERY IN LBWS.

A Westmioiter Meeting, misnamed " a Meeting
" for the purpose Of rating into consideration the
" distresses af the country, awl the remedy tot
" belipplied for relisivitcg them," vas held .on
WetineAay at Palace Yard. We cannot afford
• • •
room for the Usual, and, moretban usual portion
of Seditioir•abounding in the speeches of Orators
Burdett, Ilont, Parkes, &c. but we must notice
an assertion of the last Speaker, Made on the
authority of ,the tenerisble, Major Cartwright, viz.
" That there exists iu the town of Leeds still
" greater misery than he was capable of describ-
" i ! !"-1 his statement the Major had'' from
" the most respectable' indiViduals, :Whose local
knowledge could not be !lispnted! !!"—lndied!
We, should like to know where this " indescriba-
ble" distress, which the Major anal hii friends
describe so pathetically, is to be found.—On the
same Authority—on the authority of reformers,
and patriots, and baptist ministers; the country
has been deluded into the belief, that a degree of
misery is endured, which, upon inVestigation,
turns our, like the French Protestant persecution,
to have no existence but in the indesdlbable brains
of those Who have raised the outcry.. Here have
we, in.the North, simply enough, been commi-
serating the '` unheard-of distresses," which', we'
were so often assured, pressed heavily on the
pOpulatinti, of the South. Our Southern fellow-
subjects, no doubt, have been indulging 0161117
selves in considerable pleasantry at our credality,
and at the bulicroUs piteoustieSs of the larnenta-
tioos we have sent up for thth imaginary suffer-
ings. The Masters of the Farce, however, seem
obligius4ly inclined to, let us have a laugh in our
torts. They have shifted the'scene with wonder-.
celety, and have presented their delighted au-.
ditory in the Solidi' in return lot the uuheur a• of
distresses with
.which they furnished us"; with a
toil .ehargetl w oe-begOne.picture of the "
scribable. miseries" in the North ! ! !—ltravo
is, mere• cuachittery, to he sure then the,
machinery is excellent and, now that we have
discovered the joke, we can enjoy it as well as
our. rseighbours It has been a fruitful subject for'
the newspapers ton--match mine .ineerestinc, till
we heard of the great battle and the greit victory.
.at Algiers, thane the niust interesting intelligence.
their columns could have mustered.---That cond.'
derable ritificgtg-nraf prevail ill Leeds, iii common
frh other places (if we may'n'oW venture to be-
lieve that of any, other plice which does not come
Under our own impielime observatiOu) chiefly as
to the command Of Money: in. mercantile rd.
fairs, is unquestionably true. 'll6l, that. any nn-'''
common portion of distress is to be found—to
say nothing
,ot indiecrihahle misery—is as Ml-
douhtedly false.: We shall prove this to the sods-
faition
,of •the vatiots and the baptist ministers,
by the authority of
,t heir oWn Organ in this place,
which, but a few days ago, in reAtO`an extraor-
dinary applicatiOn from the Mayor, asserted that
much more distress bad frequently existed hi
Leeds, than the u..mar Ocinttot, which cliti.he'dis;
covered now. IVe
,proVe it to the satisfaction of
the public at large (anthie hope Our brother
realists will assist in giving it Publicity) by ibc'Un-
deniable fact, that- our Poor Rates are at nio•
me
g much lower thap.they hare been for ipaily yrio
previous.—.-So Mueli for the ."`locarkn'owledge,',
sand-time ,".iodeseribahle miseries,' of Mayeir 'cart-
wtight and his Correspondents. ' • .
reefs, I:ad:lgen ea s'ept.l6'