Star.
London, England, 1830-03-06 00:00:00

KENT COUNTY MEETING.

A Meeting of the county of Kent takes plate on Friday next, on
Yeoenden Heath. The requisition was headed by Earl Winchelsea.
The following obsu►ations, u to what may be expected at the
Meeting, are from The Seal Herald:—
" The question to be discussed at the Meeting, as far as relates
to the existence of general distress, is one on which little di►ersity
ef °pintas can psr►ail. That there is great and increasing distress
among 41 the producti►e classes, in every department of industry,
Pressing down all who subsist not on the produce of Taxes and
Tithes, (*undeniable. It matters not whether the precise degree
which the national impo►erishment has reached is, as some apo-
logists for the continuance of mis.go►ernment assert, exaggerated—
there is, indisputably, enough to warrant the most vigorous efforts
of the sufferers to obtain a ,mitigation of it at present, and, if no in-
demnity for the past, at least a guarantee again►t Its recurrence for
the future.

Here will there be some discrepancy in the arguments and pro.
positions of various parties. The Tories, it is well known, have
ever acted on the principle that the many are made for the few, that
the people are a heritage for the Crown and Aristocracy, that all "
improvements are dangerous innovations, that any change in exist-
ing institutions is not only inexpedient but mischievous. Their
avowed object has ever been to keep the people in subjection, and
at just such a point of prosperity as should enable the privileged
orders to draw from those below them the means of supporting a
splendid supremacy. These gendemen--well arc they known in
Kent—never object to the imposition of any tax, however grind-
ing—never opposed any grant, however profligate, while the
tlovernment was administered exclusively by them or their
pitons. Their present hostility to n.inistcrs is founded
principally on the measure in favour of Religious Liberty
passed last Session—aided by a dislike to the small infringe.
pent made on the system of monopolies by some approaches to a
less restricted commerce, and the substitution of a sound for a delu.
Five circulating medium. As adherence to these wise principles of
policy has converted Ministers into Liberals in the eyes of these In.
veterate haters of every thing liberal. • The Tories, in short, it is
perfectly well understood, are only anxious to eject the present men
in substitute others of their own faction who will rescind every
Ring advance that has been made towards improvement, and bring
hock the old system of Castlereagh and Pitt--ef monopolies, re.
elections, high prices, perpetual taxation and tithing, and the esta.
blishment over the people of their favourite doctriues of " passive
obedience sad non.seeistaisee." Knowing all this, the freeholders
will be cautious of what play be proposed by this party. Tiny wish
for nothing that will go to the root of the evil.
The Reheating Patty, we hope we may clash in this every grade
of Whip, Radicals, and lAberals, must be prepared with Remolu-
times and a Petition that *bad explicitly, boldly Net forth the wants
_ . _

and wishes of the inhabitants of Kent—of England. These are not
thews fot mummy and deference. Words strong. Mamie. of
Aettled detereninatioa, however unpleasant to can polite,
inset be used. The people .of Lilt expect that tigorows re.
trenchment will be danumdod--from the Crown downwards
to the lowest eineeurio and pkeemart. They expect that it shall
he eqs led to diminish greatly. if no to aboliab the Anti.
Constitutional Standing Army ; that the coupon sball be &11.
eared Bart the bereassing and swinges Imposition of tithes ;

they require that it be pointed out bow just, how necessary,
is the appropriat;on to the public narks of the enormous
Church Revenues—the manifest obstacle to real piety In the lucre.
seeing profewon of the Established Iteligion--they must have con-
veyed to the pen of their Rideri that an immediate abolition of the
Malt and Beer Duties, or of the Bread Tax or of the Tea Tax,
must be. granted, that dte necessaries of life may be within the reach
of the reduced means of all consumers. They will expect that their
most strentious.Protest shall be entered against the continuance of

every unjust monopoly—and, above all, they will demand that
their Declaration shall be recorded t f an entire belief in the im-
pure state of the Representation being the source of all their
misfortunes.

The great objects of this Meeting, then, will be to propose, in the
most emphatic terms, an immense and immediate reduction of taxes,
and a thorough reform of the representation of the House of Com.
moos. The County will never consent to be called together fur any
purpose short of this. In any cave this must and will be done. We
hope, then, it will come in a way that will preserve unanimity
among the Reformers.
Rent• has the example of Essex before her eyes. She will not be
found inferior in spirit and intelligence to her neighbour.