The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-18 00:00:00

L RICE SEVENPENCE.

petitions should be forwarded 'arise Cities and Towns, wit h.
from all parts of Ireland, and out haring the candour to say
particularly front the Cities wherefore ? Ent the real
and Towns, expressing Ibe state of the cite is this : The
general feeling on this Tax, Window Tax is the Tax of
attempted to he perpetuated ajl others which bears least
upon the country, in violation on the poor mitt industrious
of a Ministerial pledge, and people of Ireland, and there;
of the health and comforts of fOre, without the Citie3 and
so large a perfion of the Em- Towns, the Levellers would
,pire ; and being Unanimous find no persons to complain.
❑pon this subject, as shall For instance, under Tour
not cease in our applications Hearths and Seven Windows,
until
,we oblaiU the desired no TaX is paid: and.• it can-
not be denied that nineteen
Twentieths of the Farmers'
1-lenses and. Cottages of Ire-
land pay nothing ! Therefore
it is, that an appeal is made
to the Cities and Towns
where the Inhabitants in fact
feel no real pressure from the
Window Tax, as the amount
Thereof is laid on the Lodgers,
and not on the Householders;
and which Lodge's, it may be
worthy of remark, experi-
ence Lo dimination of rent
from their worthy Landlords,
although the tax has been'
reduced nearly one-third

relief."

its arnountl—Then with re+
S pert to the false assertion of
a Ministerial pledge being
violated, The reverse -has beers

so often proved, that the oh-
-serration deserves scarcely

Sour notice, Lest, however,
there should be a doUfa of
,there being refutations to so

impudent an assertion, we
need only refer to the incom-
parable passages on that sub-
ject in the speech of Mr.
Dawson, one of the Meat-
bers for the county of London•

Berry, at his late return for
that county. Mr. Dawson,
in reply to Mr. Smyth, said,
4' Now, Gentlemen, I assert

main, that my vote was jus-
tified, and I think I shalt
have the satisfaction of Mi..
Sinytles approbation, when L
tell him that the only urge'.
anent by which ke supports
his view of the tax never

,existed. He says, that the
faith of Government was
pledged for its discontinu-

Allee on the return of peace,

be disdains any other assist—
ance, he relies only on that
,bulwark, and I tell hint that
it falls front tinder hint—t

maintain, and. I challenge
'examination, that such a

pledge never was given—it
►ever existed-=•I refer to all
the Political and Parliamen-
tary Records of the- time--
and I defy him tn prove that

it was given —I may be con,-
tradicted, Gent!eines, but I
cannot be refuted, and I say,
unless Mr. Sinyth's view of
the tax is not better support-
ed, that I hare a right to his

approval." NIL.. Smyth was

perfectly satisfied with this
statement.

Resolutions of thanks were then voted to Tige
Dublin Ereuing Post, The Piteman's Journal,
and Carrick's Paper. We understand the Editor.
of The Patriot is quite offended for his name hre•
ing omitted. These facts, indeed, speak trumpet.
tougued tor our purpose, since it must appear that
it was the part which they took in thii work of
delusion which earned for them the praise of the
Anti-Window-Tax. Men ; and having thus proved
the truth of our original assertion, we conclude
by calling on the enemies of the Window Tax to
deny, if they can, that nu Tax w,s ever less bur-

thensome in its application, or less OPpreSNiVe
in its collection ; that it is the wealthy alone wha
are taxed, and the poor exempted ; and that the
opposition to it, therefore, o,ates from faction,
and not from ally well-grounded causes of cum.
plaint.

CAUTION.—A canse (13r,iley zt. JOrtes) mas
tried in the Somerset County Court at• ichestrr,
on the 2d inst. in which ihe'pkintiff rrenver
damages and costs'of the dtlenddnt, for immode-6
rately riding a hone, which he borrowed of it
plaintili. It is hoped that this will prove Et
tiOll to persons t-Ito are in the habit ,J 1 ituPropet ly
tiding hotrowed horst.s.

A true hill was on Wednesday fowl,' by the
Grani Jury for the county of Middle:ex, against
the Her. lc'. Pliot, Renvo:zi, S. T. Stria-
tvant, J. B. Muvin, Stephen Witherden,
Bragg, J. G. Greenwood, aod S. Actes, the
younger,.alt of the parish of St. Matthew, Beth_
nal-green, for a cOwiracy to defraud the p(lor-
rate fonds of that pari6, in !nosing the accounts
of Mr. Alereerou.