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London, England, 1830-03-18 00:00:00

KENT PET I ZION.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great

Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.

The humble Petition of the Freeholders of the County of Kent.
Showeth,—That your petitioners view with horror the deep and
overwhelming distress which pervades all the industrious classes of
society in the kingdom, but more especially those engaged in agri.
culture. That from the heavy and insupportable burden of
taxation which presses on the land, no profit is derived from
its cultivation. That thousands of industrious fanners, menu.
facturets, and artisans, have already been crushed by the weight
of the taxes, whilst those who still linger on see nothing but
ruin and destruction around them. Still, industry, and hu.
gality, have all been exerted in vain. That %bat rents have been
paid they have been taken from capital, to the serious diminution
of farming stock, sad injury of the soil. That from the crippled
and reduced state ottbit hang gkAmkgogiltad Lew it) s la-
bourer is thrown out of employment; or should he obtain it
employer cannot give him those wages which his bard toil demands:
whilst pauperism, moral degradation, and crime, are so rapidly in-
creasing as to threaten the entire frame of society. That in some
parishes the poor rates are failing from the total inability of the
' farmers to contribute. That in this dreadful state of suffering and
destitution, your petitioners are firmly persuaded that nothing
can save the country from convulsion and bloodshed but prompt
and effectual relief in aid of the poor rates; that to effect so in.
dispensable a measure, your petitioners beg leave to point out
to your Honourable House a source of relief which may be made
instantly available. They allude to the national property, nom.
monly called Church property. Your petitioners, therefore, most
earnestly entreat the Honourable House to take such steps as your
wisdomsnay suggest towards an immediate appropriatiou of a con.
siderable pert of the Church revenues in aid of the poors*.rate ;
and more particularly that, as the Bishopricks become vacant,
the successors may be appointed at a fixed salary not exceeding
3,0001. per annum. The surplus revenue of such Bishopricks to be
paid to the poor's fund ; 'and that all Deaneries, Prebends, and
such preferments, to be filled in the same manner ; and your pe.
titioners further entreat your Honourable House that, u pare.
chial livings fall vaeant, they must be filled in like manner; that
is to say, at a fixed salary—none, however, to be under 3001. a.year,
nor any to exceed 7001. This scale of income to be guided by the
population, such salary to be raised by an equitable assess-
ment on all property; and tithes in such parishes to be abolished for
ever. When, however, a living falls, the advowson of which can
be proved to be private property, the patron to receive a fair men.
pensation from Government for any loss he may sustain—the living
being filled up by a salaried incumbent, and tithes abolished. By
these measures, your petitioners hope that not many years may
elapse before that odious, vexatious, and hairassing system, which
may be justly termed the bane of agriculture, as well as of veil.
gion itself—the Tithe System—may be totally unknown in the
United Kingdom.
And your petitioners further pray, that, in order to lessen the
present enormous burden of taxation, rendered insupportable by the
enhanced value of the currency, which has doubted all money ebb.
gam es, every public eatablishmeat, grant, pension, sinecure, and
salary, be reduced to the scale of 1792. That the heavy and dig.
proportioned salary allowed to the Prince of Saxe-Cobosng be re.
duced four.fifths. And your petitioners take the liberty of drawing
the serious attention of your Wm house to a very prevalent opinion
abroad—in which your petitioners most fully concur—namely, that
all the misery, wretchedness, want, and degradation, whith now
afflict this unhappy country, have arisen frorn the people not being
fairly represented fir the Cdnunons House of Parliament. That,
as the house h now sonedtuted, few of its members have any syrups.
thy with the people. Thant large sums of the public money me voted
by themselves into their own packets, or into these of their Mende
or relations. That great numbers of them are the mere nondwess of
the Peers, or *the powerful %silvans''s-1a support Of which your
pendently beg to state, that Mr. (bey (now bred Otey)sibed
prove at your bit That 134 persons returned an absolute Majority he
per Houle. Yost Iteddthers, therefore, beseech your flee. house
that you *CO net ntlikr the peewit Pessieer to paws wleboot coming
a Stria inquiry to be mode MU the composition et tats Moose of
Common% hr order to °Mato far The people a full, deskeugh, attl
&ritual rawer in their Aim roes Patliament ; and, by drib nisi*
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