Star.
London, England, 1830-02-18 00:00:00

THE OBJECTS OF THE POLITICAL UNION.

lit.—To obtain by every just and legal means, such a Rzroax
in the:COMMONS' }loom of PARLIAMENT, as may ensure a REAL
and EFFECTUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE Lowza AND
MIDDLE CLASSES of the PEOPLE in that House.

enquire, consult, consider, and determine respecting the
rights and liberties of the industrious clause, and respecting the
legal means of securing those which remain, and recoveting those
which are lost.

3d....—T0 prepare Petitions, Addresses, and Remonstrances to the
Crown and the Legislative Bodies, respecting the preservation and
restoralion of PUBLIC RIGHTS, rad respecting the repeal of bad
laws, and the enactment of good kites.
4th.—To prevent and redress, u far as practicable, all LOCAL
PUBLIC WRONGS and OPPRESSIONS, and all LOCAL ENCROACH-
*nag upon the rights, interests, and privileges of the community.

sth.—To obtain the repeal of the MALT and the Bain TAX 11111;
and, in general, to obtain an alteration in the system of taxation, so
u to cause it to press less severely upon the industrious classes of
the community, and more equally upon the wealthy classes.

6th.—To obtain the reduction of caekseparate Tao wide:pence
of the Government in the same degree as the kgislative increase in
the value Owosso, has increased their respective values, and has
reduced and is reducing the general prices of labour throughout
the country.

7th.—To promote peace, union, and concord, among all classes
of His Majesty's subjects, and to guide and direct the public mind
into uniform, peaceful, and legitimate operations; instead of leaving
it to waste its strength in loose desultory, and unconnected exertions,
er to carve to its own objects, unguided, unassisted, and uncon.
tronled.

fith.—To collect and organise the peaceful expression of the
PUBLIC °inmost, sou to bring it to act upon the legislative
functions in a just, legal, and effectual way.
9th.—To influence by every legal mesas, the elections of mem-
bers of Parliament, so u to promote the return of upright and ca-
pable representatives of the People.
10—To adopt such measures as may be legal and necessary for

the purpose of Obtaining an effectual Parliamentary investigation
into the situation of the country, and into the cause of its embar-
rassments Ind difficoldes ; with a view of relieving the NATIONAL
DISTALII, of rendering justice to the injured as far as practicable,
and of bringing to trial, any individuals In whatever station, who
may be found to have acted from criminal or corrupt motives.
This is a catalogue of glorious " Objects," worthy of
the confederation of freemen. It is difficult to say whieh
of all these pirposes, for which the men of Birming-
ham • are united—if we except the fifth and sixth,
which individualise, and therefore contract their aim—
involves consequences more important than the other,
or promises benefits more substantial, to their country.
We are come, indeed, upon an exciting season, when
fifteen thousand citizens have constituted themselves into
an Association, to protect the poor and helpless against
unconstitutional exaction, and the whetter,' inter-

pretation—or barefaced delance—of the laws: wben men
are banded together, "to . enquire, consult, consider,
and determixe, respecting the rights and liberties of the
industrious clam., and respecting the legal steam of se-
curing lboie which Tomlin," and reikiser64 those which
are lost." But the.eightli, ninth, and tenthartieles cannot
be too deeply. engraved nprei. she biotite of rill:
those, whose• hearts ' are with their country. .To
bribe ?garde otreroti . 604 r upwi tititleouerning
powers----te purify notpopulurim tile prowl 41'euptsri-1

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