The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-26 00:00:00

on the importation of Corn and otl►er pro Visions,
and to open the parts upon the payment of those
ditties. is inte►rtled to procure the co •operation
rut the agrieult oral interests in all the counties Of
England, and for this purpose copies of the sub-
joined' Petition are' about to be sent to all the
principal towns and villages, that the greatest
,possible number of signatures may he procured
'anterior to the opening of Parliament

"TO THE HONOURABLE TIIE'COMMONS OF TIO If RING-
`DOM OF GREAT 'BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAM,ENT

ASsEMBLED.
" The Utimhie Petition of the several Occupiers of Lands in
the County of whose names are hereunto sub-

clibeJ,

" Showeth, That the soil of the United Kint,,ilmn is can-
petent and fully adequate to the supply of its population,
even if it were much more numerous than it is, with all the
productions of the soil of the United Kingdom—that is to say,
with corn, meal, flour, rye, oats, peai, beans, barley, beer, or
bigg, wool, flax. hemp, hides, tallow, seeds, butter, cheese,
poultry, vegetables of all kinds natural to the climate,
apples and pears.
. .

" That your Petitioners, with all-humility, submit to the etot-
sideration and wisdom Of this Honourable that as the
soil of the United Kingdom, and its productioni, are the
prime source of national industry and of revenue, it is impo-

litic, if this allegation be true, to admit any productions si-
milar In those of our own soil and climate into this country duty
ft te, until the cultivation of our own soil shall have extended
itself to its utmost ; but whether such allegation be

correct in all it's parts, or not, it is unjust tg the occupiers of
the soil to admit such productions duty free, inasmuch as
every such admission tends to disable the occupiers of the
soil from payment of their rents, tithes, taxes, and wages,
while it leaves them subject to all the pains and penalties in-

curved by the orui3sion to make gouci any of thes pay-

ments

" Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that this Peti-
tion way be referred to a Committee of their flonomable
House, where evidence may he given in support of the allega-
tions it contains; and if it shall there be made appear to He
a just, equitable, and necessary measure—then, but not
otherwise, that all the productions of the'soil of the United
Kingdom may in future be protected from the imisort of simi-
lar commodities duty free, in as full, ample, and beneficial a
manner as the merchants and manufacturers of . the United
Kingdom are, by the Navigation Act, and other statutes of
the realm, protected in their shi.,ping and manufactories
from foreign competition, duty free. And that your Peti-
tioners may have such relief as to the wis.lom of this House
may seem fit."

We also understand that Meetings will be held
in most of the County Towns Of England 3114
Wales, for the purpose of more completely effect-
ing the object in view. A similar assembly of the'
Land-owners, Farmers, &c. of the counties of
Somerset and Gloucester; has been held at Bristol,
and from the Metropolis various instructions have
been distributed over the country with a view to
facilitate the circulation and signature of the Pe-
tition. Need we add,any more? The question
spvaks for itself. 'Forestallers and Monopolists
must be opposed by every friend to humanity—by
all who seek the teal prosperity of the kingdom.
There is a possibility of carrying experiments too
far. 11 the experiment related only to a subject
on which, if an error is committed, it would be
oily needful to retrace the steps, and thus. reduce
matters to the status quo, the attempt might be
tolerated ; but in the case before us, if you Cmu-
mit an error, you may break the glass goblet
I
and, should this take place, pray remember that
I you cannot mend it.

MORNING CHRONICLE.

FOR THE SUN.

LETTER H.

I concluded my first Letter on this Print with
saying, as an utter stranger to its Editor, that no
man is more willing to believe in the soundness Of
his bead and heart than I ant ; hut I said no-
thing on the errors of the one, or the mistakes of
the other.
That his raper is illiberally partial is obvious,
and a Foreigner who reads it would think we
lived under a perverted Government, and that the
late Mr. PITT, with his Majesty's ;Ministers since
his lamented death, were a pack of political vil-
lains, who are conducting us to irretrievable per-

dition.
Not a word is admitted in it but smells of a
Fox, and a defence of the vilest characters that
ever annoyed an impartial and sober public.—
Every thing in it breathes a sympathetic spirit
for the degraded enemy of the moral and religious
world, and all that relates to him. It drops a
tear of compassion for a French conspiring Ge-
neral, and an Irish prevaricating Surgeon, who
it deems ill treated, though guilty of gross mal-
versation; and a Hoanousa, a TIIELWALL, and
a horde of others, are the gods of its idolatry...—.
The poison that falls from their chalice of atm-
minations is its wholesome beverage, which, it is
much to be feared, bath driven the uninformed to
ignoble punishment.
What, therefore, has such ff Paper to answer
for, in making it sacred to such bastard \Vhiggism,
such destructive policy, at whose altar none will
worship but the devils in MILTON, assembled in
Pandemoniam. This gentle rebuke, this repro-
bation of sin, may perhaps give it consequence,
when the substitution of silence might increase
its insignificance, and leave it to die by its own
deleterious medicine. But it thrives, and wicked-
ness ever prospers. Happy, however, is it, that
the hellebore of a ditch, which spreads its leaves
in a morning, finds its antidote in an evening
SUN.
Evil ever overbalances good, and mankind must
have a second croation, before virtue is able to
work a counterpoise. Yet conscience, if not
seared with a red-hot iron, reflecting on false but
ruinous politics, may raise contrition and repent-
ance in a nerespaper sinner, when glorious vt
ill
be the hour in which they operate,, before the
thought of (leant shall torment the expiring Soul,
or the grave receive the body to perish with (ac-
tion and party rage.
Let us hope, nevertheless, in all Christian cha-
rity, that time will amend the head and heart
here, and prepare the vicious its politics fur re-
demption hereafter.

AN OW ,

(To be continued.)