Star.
London, England, 1815-03-11 00:00:00

AT a General Meeting of the County of WILTS,
convened at Salisbury en Wednesday the Bth day of March
lal 5, to consider of the propriety of petitioning Parliament
against the adoptions of any measure tending to prohibit the im-
portation of Corn, and also earnestly praying that all those Taxes
denominated War Taxes, and especially the Tax called the Pro-
perty Tax and the Duty upon Malt and upon Beer, may not be
renewed under any pretence or modification whatever.
Resolved= That political corruption, after having exhausted
all the other sources of taxation, has at last proceeded to the
outrageous length of attempting to burden with a heavy tax the
very bread that we tat, being thereunto urged and encouraged
by the false statements of eerta n rapacious Landowners ; that
therefore a Petition be presented to the House of Lords, praying
their Lordships to interpose in behalf of this long-insulted and
long-suffering nation In such a manner as to prevent the enacting
of any law to prohibit or restrain the free Importation of Corn.
Resolved—That the following Petition be adopted by this
meeting.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parlia-
ment assembled.
The Petition of the Freeholders, Landholders, Tradesmen, Ma-
favorers, and Inhabitants of the County of Wilts, iu County
Meeting assembled,
Humbly Slieweth—That your Petitioners, at the moment
when they were panned in expecting to enter on the enjoyment
.of the blessings usually atteudaot on Peace to which they had
bees to long strangers, perceive with the deepest sorrow, th.,
attempts are making to prolong and perpetuate the sufferings
war, by enhancing and upholding the price of Corn.
That your Petitioners, seeing in other quarters political con-
ruption and private rapacity so firmly Lid resolutely kneed
against them, ay with confidence for protection to your Lord-
ships, and appeal to your noble mindedness, yoor justice, your
humanity, against the machinations and violence* of tins unreel- '
ing, this merciless league.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your Lordships
will reject any proposition that may he made to you to entertain
any Bill or other measure tending to diminish or rentals the
Importation of Corn.
And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &e.
Resolved—That the Sheriff be requested to sign the Petition,
and that copies of it be sent for signatures to the various towns
in the county.
Resolved—That when signed, the Sheriff do transmit the Peti-
tion to the Earl Stanhope, and request his Lordship to present
the same to the House of Lords.
Resolved— flat the Sheriff be requested to sign the Resolu-
tions, and to publish them in the Salisbury and Winchester
Journal, and in two London Morning and two London Evening
Newspapers.
Resolved—That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the
High Sheriff of the County, fur his readiness in calling this Meet-
ing, and for his impartial conduct in the Chair.
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