Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-03-26
CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN NEWS
BY THE ELECTRA.

Owners and Agrcuturists of the County of
II Huntingdon was held on Tuesday last in the
borough of Huntingdon, for the purpose of con-
sidering the distressed condition of the Agr-
cultural Interest. The following is a copy of
the Petition which was adopted by the Meet
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United Kingdom of Great Britaia and Ire
land, in Parliament assembled.
"The petition ofthe Land Owners, Farmers
and Traders, whose names are undersigned,
residing in the vicinity of Huntingdon, and
parts adjacent
Most humbly sheweth,
"That the affairs of your Petitioners are in
state of embarrassment, and themselves and
families in ii state of distress and alarm of
which they are wholly unable TO lay am ade-
quate description before your Honorable
House-thai 1t is their sincere conviction, that
unless an efficient remedy be speedily applied,
a CONFUSION of the most alarming nature must
be the final consequence for they see the
h0ur approaching when rents must go unpaid,
taxes and tithes uncollected, reliefto the poor
undistributed, aud when the abouring classes,
raging with hunger, will be induced to satisfy
that hunger by acts of violence.
The cause of this state of suffering and
danger cannot, your petitioners hunbly pre-
sumo, be ether than manifest to your honor
able house bat your humble petitioners beg
leave 10 express their. decided opinion, that
the immediate cause is that act of your hon
orable house, which has, in fact, trip,ed the
value OF money compared with the price of
produce, and which, leaving the taxes unre-
duced and contracts anmodiied, has, in fact,
tfipled those taxes, and disturbed and violated
all existing contracts
Your petitioners, therefore hiimy pray
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adopt measures 20 rectify all contracts accord
ms 10 The alteration in the value of money
that you will be pleased To abolish all sineclres
and grants, all pensions not fully merited by
real puohc Seryices-to discharge the standing
army, TO cnrtali the civil list and reduce the
interest of the public Debt, SO that the burthen
oil taxation may be greatly alleviatad; these
measures being in the fixed opinion of your
humble petitioners, absolutely necessary TO
put an end To the present distress and misery,
and To turn aside the dangers which now
menace every species of property, as well
commercial as agrcultural-and which in the
convection of your petitioners, threaten to
produce scenes Of disorder, confusion and
violence, which duty TO their families, their
country, and their king, compels them to anti
cipate with a degree ofsurrow and alarm not
IN their power To describe.
Your petitioners are not insensible to the
defective state of the Representation i'm the
House OF Parliament, as at present constituted,
and cannot, therefore, help .expressing their de-
clded opinion, that the manifold evils that at
present aliict this unhappy country, are in
creased, If not occasioned, by this unhappy
circumstance. We, therefore, earnestly hope
your honorable House will lose NO time i'm in
shutting an inquiry into the present state oil
Misrepresentation in order that your petit
tiorers aud the people at large, may receive
thai which they feel is their birth right-a
iul, fair and free representation
Devon County .Neeiing.-The high Sheriff
of Devon, iin pursuance of a requsition, nu-
meIousiy attended, and respectfully signed, TO
call meeting of the county, to take into con-
SD non the propriety ofpetitionng Parlia-
ment on the present alarming state of the
country, has appointed county meeting, to
be held on Friday, the 1st Feb. next, at 1g
o'coca. I noun at the Castle of Exeter.
BY a letter from Paris, dated Jan. II, we
find hat ii was confidently stated in that CITY
on the authority Of letters just received from
spain, that Riego had died. The same ac.
count stated, that his death was occasioned
by poison administered by priests. There is
no confirmation of this in the Paris papers oil
Friday or Saturday.
Letters from Malta to the Goth of December
sued proclamation, prohibiting he expectation
OF warlike stores or ammunition. The brig
Nymph, which arrived few day before from
London, with muskets aud 400 barrels gun
powder on board, was laid under an embargo
out as her cargo was originally intended for
OOlstanilnOple, u was supposed she would be
suffered TO proceed The only consequence
OIL the prohibition would be to transfer all
the trade NTH articles comprelieDded in il
to Genoa aud LrghOrn, where no such impe
diment existed. This measure was extremely
unpopular with the British merchants resident
IN Malta, who were looking with some de.
gree OF hope to the removal of old restrictions
Rather than anticipating new obstacles to Their
declining commrce.-Sir Thomas Maitland
arrived there few days before from Corfu
re mas desired the principal merchants Of
Malta to submit 10 him their opinion respecting
the continuance Of the monopoly in corn. TO.
gethei with the grounds on which that opin
ION was formed. A report was current thai
TINS branch of the trade of The island will be
thrown open in June next
FRANKFORT, Jan. 12.-According TO letter.
rom Perth, IN Hungary, Prince Alexander
i, Psiiantl IS still confined in the fortress. Tn,
nurks, Tar from evacuatlng MOldavia anC
WaliachIa, receive daily rcinforcements ant
ther strength in those two Principalities ma,
DO estimated at 10000 men.
STUTGARD, Jan. 8.-The Swabian Mercu
~ contains letter written by an officer, for
merry belonging to the free corps of Lulzow
VINO says ne Is at MarseilIes with 60 or 20 in
9Nluuais, VINO are going to embark for Greece
confess, ne says, it is a strange mixture o
persons OF all natiOns-Gcrmans, French
capcs, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, Poles an,