The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-12 00:00:00

MONOPOLY IN COALS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

• SIR,—A very short letter will serve as an answer
to the observations of your correspondent" Justice,"
which appeared in The Bun of Thursday last.
Justice says, that if I consult the Shipping List, I
shall find a that there has always been, thioaghout
the year, a great surplus of ships every
market day, whose cargoes have remained unsold."
The cause is in a sorry way which relies on such ad-
vocates as " Justice" for support. The fact which
he has stated affords the most convincing proof of
the., pernicious effects arising from the " Vend."
Why should these cargoes remain unsold ? Every
family in the metropolis would have a good fire, if
their• means would allow them to purchase the ma-
terials of such a necessary comfort. They are un-
able to do so, from the extravagant price at which
coats are sold ; a price which the Vend, with other
causes, has contributed to establish and maintain. It
has.been estimated that this Vend, or restriction of
supply, rttises the price of coals to the amount of
6R. ,per cl,sdron to the purchaser, for exportation at
Shields and Sunderland. This will probably cause
tin Orhaneement equal to 3s. in the price of the Lon-
don. childron. Thus the quantity which can be sold
is iiiminiehed, because every man's power to pur-
chase is lessened by the imposition of this nefarious
tax. The present consumptiou. of coals in London
may be taken at 1,000,000 chaldrons annually. The
" Vend," therefore, takes every year out of the
Pockets of the inhabitants of the metropolis a sum
equal to 150,000/., which goes to increase the gains
of the owners of coal-pits.
The vulgar abuse with which your correspondent
has assailed the ship-owners of Whitby, I leave
without reply • it neither merits nor requires any
other treatment. But, should it be in any degree
essential to the reception of my former argument, I
beg to assure " Justice" that I have no interest or
concern
,ii shipping whatever. lam solely actuated,
as an humble individual, by a love of "public
justice," a member of his family, for which your
Correspondent " Justice" evinces but a scanty por-
tion of regard. But, had I been in truth a British
ship-owner, I trust that, as yet at least, it is a con-
dition of life to which it is no disgrace to belong,
and that it still retains some place in the ancient
feelings of the country.

At parting, however•, let me tell " Justice,"
that public enactments, as it is thought, have re-
duced the great body of the shipowners to the con-
dition of Pharoah's lean kine: they have no super-
fluous fat remaining to answer the purposes of
private monopoligts:.
Whitby, Jan. 10, 1829. NAUTICUS.

LORD ANGLESEA.

(From the Dublin Morning Register of Friday.

All the parishes in Dublin are in motion, and many, if
not all, are eipected to meet on Sunday. The original in-
tention was to petition fur emancipation—but that is now
only one of the objects, and the primary design seems to be
to express to the Throne, and to the British nation, the
tense which is entertained here of the awful and perilous
consequences which must infallibly attend the withdrawal,
under existing circumstances, of the protection afforded to
life, liberty, and property in Ireland, by the system of go-
vernment established, and pursued with such admirable
tact and impartiality, by the Marquis of .Anglesea. The
Brunswick desperadoes were early enough with their
" note of preparation," through their faithful organ, the
We know not who the truculent pensman was,
whether he was, according to the supposition of Mr.
O'Connell, a Fellow of College, or a Bishop, or Upper
Clerk of the Treasury—but on the first rumour of the
E"cal of the Lord Lieutenant, he proclaimed " the vigour
mad promptitude" of the Duke of Wellington, and de-
clared his pride at witnessing that " Popery had received
to mortal a stab, and its supporters so signal an overthrow."
This was a foretaste of what we have to experience in a
rein of terror, if we fail in averting it. This shows
how desirous the sanguinely faction are that " all the
titiseriee of the last years of Ireland (to use the remark-
able words of Lord Angleeea) shall he reacted." And
why does the redoubted Duke afford to the infernal faction
an occasion for the indulgence of " pride" or exultation ?
Because be has been anneyed by the yelping of some two
or three scores of kennels, get up principally by mendi-
cant Justices, intriguing Parsons, and atiptndiaries of the
Government! The question thee for Ireland generally,
and every district of it at this moment is, whether it shall
be left open to the sagacious Duke to maintain that in the
yelping of the kennels is to be recognised the sounds of the
national voice ? The " mortal stab" is, no doubt, anti-
cipated—but if it reach the heart of Ireland, it can only
he through silence awl apathy at the present momentous
• and very extraordinary crisis.
The requisition spoken of yesterday is receiving signa-
tures with great rapidity. Much is to be expected tbr the
cause of Ireland generally, from the national demonetration
to be made at the great meeting of the 20th, of which the
reader will perceive a memorable notification in our ad-
vertising conlirms.