The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-12 00:00:00

PArtacin L rtnr.inr,

TO THE P.M'Wit OF THE SUN.

•
lately made ma excursion into the
confides tif Essex, and Suffolk, and passed the
Whole of ftny time among the Farmers of that
district, I Ares not a little surprised to find that the
opinions of the practical ~vere qiiite contradictory
to those of the theoretical Farmeri—l mean those
trial- plough and sow upon paper. When I left
London, 1 hattiast finished a perusal of th:c
coltural Repori.;rand the daily Papers Were then
teeming with accounts of the numerous Meetings
to soggest Relief of the Labouring Poor, and of the
state_ of the Landed Interest. Aceetding to the
doctrines held forth at Guildhall and Palace-yard,
these evils were, brought upon us by taxation
alone. I was consequently very anxious. to hear
the opinion of men, who, although they could not
speechify at a County Meeting, I knew must have
a better knowledge of their own situation than
any Cockney -limners, bowever well they may talk
anti write. I accordingly suggested to my friends
thetecommentlation of the Ilo:Ird of -Agriculture
towards bettering the condition of the Labouring
Poor, t too Cot lagers should be encouraged with
en acre of ground and keep a cow*, 'These nem-
lions appear very well, but the argument of the
Farmers against it was too clear not to convince
me of their bad tendency : viz. How was a'
cow to be supported by cottagers in the winter
WithoOt /ndo:ill:1g from their emplOyers.? And
where, except in local situations, is there a right
of commiinage or waste sufficient for that pur-
Pose ? And, from the continual new enclosures,
lit le or no waste will remain in a very few vears..
Again; respecting the partial Meetings-ill
Co it-
lice for heailii big the condition of the. labouring
poor, pat Ocularly by granting a specific aunt per
week, acemdiag to the number of children in a
family ; i found that nint-tenths of the real
practical Fanners considered this practice as
one of the greatest causes of agricultural dis-
tress. It familiarizes the former industrious
labourers to receive parochial assistance, not
As a matter of distress, but as a matter of right,
ordered thern through the flattering thusly
of these modern philanthropists ; and seve-
ral of the petty villages which, I visited in in,Essex,
the harvest men, whilst taking their dinner
under a hedge, were reading to each other printed
copies of Resulutionv passed at some of these
Meetings or the County Town ; so that when
they retired to their *cottages in the evening to rest,
the!, found themselves dissatisfied with their
home, baring an indifference to work, and enter-
raining a hatred for their superiors and masters,
because distress 'WHS painted to them in such
Oaring colours' by fallacious speeches,' and bod-
ing that 410r:fiber - districts more encouragement
was given •
than lir their own village; the cou-
septenee is, when they receive this allowance,
merely one shilling and sixpence per week
for each child, they do not find a necessity for:
labour, but can spend two or three days in the
week in idleness null dissipation, in coesequence
of this tax uporp their,employers anti the public.
'rime expenee of parochial Poor is now increas-
ing, to such an enormous degree, that that alone',,
According to the opinions of many intelligent men
with whom 1 conversed, is. sufficient to cause, the
ruin of the Agricultural Interest, unless taken into
one general system of management by Parish
Officers, under the direction .at Government.---
One frivadi a young termer, loot just finished his
yearly calculation at expencil ; his farm coasisted
of 300' acres, for which he paid GOOL. per annum
rent, Auld the rate fitr the Poor only was 177/. for
the year, and is,now increasing. These are the
taxes that should be declaimed against.aod reme-
died by these wonder-tcm king spokesmen, nil not
the,taaes of the Government, witch are_ levietif to
pay oil the debts contracted for the only means
ut obtaining a lasting peace. , C.

• We cannot, however, accord with the opinion of our sen-
sible Coirestioodent in this respect. The plait objeLteil to has
been sirctinoosly advocated in 'nit: SUN iniut henevoli•roly
enloret4l by the *Winnable article in the Quarterly Review ;
law weals to unite the alipronntion of every lover of the in-.
feriur orders of society,

E AitAl Y.

GENERAL ORDER.

nurse Gnards, Oct. 1, 1516.

Inseferenee to the General Order, bearing date 14th Sep-
ternb.r. I rils, di4eantinning the Nl'orpete(l Web Pantaloons,
then 'Wu, 'by the Cavalry, the directs
it to he notified, their the Prinee Itegent i, idensi.d to approve
al: the duptitm of Overalls of ICersey Wove, of a 41a1 L Grey
toli)dr, iniittail Of Cloth. Orerills, us established by Mk!
Order shove reftrreil to.—A pattern, for,. the guidance tei
the Cmilry, iv* tieen ,itialed and lodged at the proper °dice
qt Whitehall. • " .

. .
Vouituand of his ltoyel Highness the Coninuinder-in-
W
tia witity CAI,V6ItT, Adjutant-Goletal.

The Conirniintler of the torcea in Ireland hits
receised iltePutS:Cß 11.r.GENT's commands to diS-
band-24 Girr6ott Dattnlion, at Cork the officers
of wltiehitiS said, are to remain on two months'
Nil pay after„its, being disbanded, and such of the
men, who from length of„servitude, are entitled to
pensiOns, are to he brought to Portsmouth, iron,
whence they are to proceed to Chelsea,
Major-General HOPP, commanding the forces
in North Britain, bas, at the request of the Lord
Provost of Edinburgh, issued an order, proldbit--
ing.the etnployment, of soldiers in the harvest this
season, and recalling such permissions as may
itave been already granted for that purpose. " The
indulgense. (says the order) allowed to the sol-
diers of assisting the farmers in getting in their
harvest, is intended for the benefit of the century,
and to get yin the corn as fast 'as possible iu plenti-
ful seasons, but not by any means to' interfere
with, the useful employment of the ordinary
husbandman, or labouring poor, who at present.
starer much distress from went of Work."-

The 29th of September a furious wolf entered
the village of Trioconville, district of ContmercY,
and rushed into the workshop of farrier. Some
Prussian soldiers who were near, attracted by the
critt 01 a ebild„ entered the piaci! and -livou 4is-
patcher:l the tztotatot with their ts,bres,