Star.
London, England, 1830-02-11 00:00:00

.SUFFOLK COUNTY MEETING.
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From the Suffolk Chronicle.

Pursuant to a requisition addressed to John Ruggles
Brice, Esq. High Sheriff of the dainty, and his com-
pliance therewith, calling a meeting of the freeholders
and inhabitants of the county. to assemble on the Corn-
hill, Ipswich, on Saturday, the 6th of February, "to
express their sentiments on the present critical position
of the agricultural interest," a meeting did accordingly
take place, at which about 40,000 persons assembled.
Among them we noticed, Sir Thomas Sherlock, and Sir
William Rowley, Bart. members for the county ; Sir
William Parker, Bart. Sir Robert Harland, Bart. Sir
' Edward Kerrison, Bart. Sir W. F. F. Middleton, Bart.
Sir Merles Broke Were, Hart Logan, Esq. &c. and a
vast number of respectable land owners and occupiers,
tradesmen, &c.

Ths High Sheriff, having stationed himself in one of
the. waggons placed in front of the Tuns Inn, briefly
opened the business of the meeting, and
Sir War. PARICKR immediately presented himself, and
moved the following petition :

" Your petitioners approach your hon. house to lay before you
the appalling pecuniary difficulties which pervade this district of
England, and to call the earliest attention of your hon. house to the
causes which am bringing our agricultural population and Its de.
pendant. in all trades to pauperism and ruin.
“ That we believe they wilkespedally be found in the cruel fluctu-
ations which have been effected in our currency—in the contraction
and consequent enhancement of the value of the circulating
medium, to a degree which renders It inadequate to the wants of a
country encumbered with such enormous taxation, and impoverished
by a system which unduly depreciates the products of domestic in-
dustry. We believe that, evident as these causes are In aggravating
the distress we experience, others, very potential ones, are to be dis.
covered in the fallacious protection which appears to guard the in-
terests of British agriculture; in the un-English secrecy in which
the averages from the corn dealers• returns alone are elicited; in the
vast influx of foreign corn and wool admitted to our markets for
home consumption, to the depression or exclusion of our own ; and
in the two oppressive duties on beer and malt, which, notwith-
standing the enormous increase of our people, circumscribe yo ea.
sentially the conversion of our barley.

"That we believe we suffer great injustice from the anomalous law
which lards coal, an expensive fuel with us, with severe taxation
and leaves this mineral (a source of indeterminable wealth and pro-
fitable employment) in the northern and midland counties, happily
free from contributions to the public revenue, and is thus manifestly
Injurious to the interests of our population, and of our manufactures
of bricks, lime, melt, and iron.
" That we believe that, in concurrence with the prosperity or de-
cline of British agriculture, our empire will flourish or decay ; and
in this conviction we entreat your Honourable Howe to give until.
aided consideration to the means of relieving your petitioners from
present sufferings, and of averting the dangers we have too much
reason to anticipate, by an expansion of the currency on • secure
and permanent basis; by adopting, as the ground-work of-our
averages, the return of the corn growers instead of those of
the deniers in corn (at all times open to inspection 0 by remission of
the duties on beer and malt, with permission of unrestricted sale of
the farmer; finally, by the severest retrenchment in each depart.
mart of the public expenditure."

Sir THOMAS Goocn, in the course of a long speech,
observed that there was nothing so dangerous to a country
as to be always tampering with the currency ; but we
should not have withdrawn the paper currency in the
haste we did ; and if we alter the currency again, Haillft4
will know what he is worth. The effects of returning to
a paper currency would be to unsettle the transactions of
men, from one part of the kingdom to another. The sub-
ject of taxation (Sir Thomas continued) comes last. I
wish every man to be paid, but not overpaid, and, there-
fore, } would strike at the root of all extravagance. The
nation is now in the same state as a man who is in em-
barrassed ' circumstances, and who must lower his ex-
penses to meet his income. We cannot remain as we
have been, but must lessen our expenditure ; Govern-
ment, therefore, must strike off all placemen and pen-
sions ; and we also must keep pace with the Govern-
ment, by reducing our own expenses. I (said Sir T. G.)
will never assist in laying one farthing more of taxes on
the country. (A person said, " You have done enough
now !") Our system of taxation goes on a wrong foun-
dation. Every person should be taxed in proportion to
the property he wants to have secured, and the people
who enjoy luxuries-ought to pay for them. I think the
first tax to be repealed should be that on malt, which I
always considered a very unjust and vexatious one. This
is no new opinion. I have always said so. How is the
poor man taxed ? Why, he pays more than 150 per
cent. on beer, and the yeomanry only 35 per cent, on
their luxuries. This is not just. This is the first blow
we should strike in the revision of taxation. Sir The:.
mas concluded by saying that he should use every ex-
ertion to keep faith with the public creditor, and, at
the same time, to reduce our expenditure in every way
consistent with the best interests of the country.--
1 (Cheers.)
An amendment, little differing, however, in principle;
was proposed by Mr. QuILT/R, but, after some dis-
cussion, he withdrew it.

The luau SH ERI Tr then put the petition to a show
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of hands. There were none held up against it.
The Meeting then dispersed.

A new epic poem, *waded " Bonaparte in Egypt,"
ispeparisir for publication in Pans.
A comedy her been let* received at the Odeon, in
Paris, entitled " The Libel ; or, the Sub-prefect on hie
Tour.'
The -number of theatrical bill-stickers in Paris has
been recently reduced to thirty. They are all licensed
by the police.
M. Derrecq, a respectable inhabitant of Vangirard, war
summoned on Saturday last, before the Correctional
Police of Paris by his Doctor for the expenses of at-
tendance upon his wife, which he refused to pay on the
ground that the Doctor bad several times gone into the
lady's bathing-tub to ascertain that the water was wt. the
proper degree of heat. This defence was not allowed,
and thus the Doctor did not safer for hie curiosity. .

NEW FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY,:
Thu market he. been very regrettably Mewled &Wog the
week. Prices per lb. to the comeaser
Vrai.—Leg, nal Lek, VI. Benet, 744. Shooler, std.
Bear—Flewst Roasting, 444 Ditto Sophia 4111. KM& Vhotlcf
of each. 544. Romp Steaks. H. Romp of Beef, 1141. Warms*
Illerreo—coddle. tad. liaeneb, ed. Leg, OK Shoulder, 44!
Ned, MI. Breast, OA. Nan— 544. to W.
NEWGATE AND LZADENHALL—TIIIII DAY.
By the Careate..—Per atone of Sib..
Beef
Mottos
SMITHFIELD MARKET. Fro. 11.
. CATTLI AT DIAIXIM
Beams. 113441 dye, 10?
Sheep sod Lambs lmo I Pigs ..... ...... 119
41" i '"*"..34 $d to 41 MI inst..... —lk Oil bp SI 104
od 4. 44 Herb ....r••••41 44 Is 44
Lamb' "Oa Od Oa 04 .
Hey (pet lea 4). it tis. Is 24 la. Clow, Ai Cla. Ot #44.1105.
Straw, AO Oa. to AM Ss. •

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