The Sun. — London, England, 1820-05-18 00:00:00

Y creel the am' ced• rdet tile be/ aril f O f ;110 left 7 00 be 111 t. ~..,. tlf° ,bei tie tea• of. i of i w of 10 0 i )%1' log: SS int o bO/1 o etr lO C reCt 0 01 it. l' , 4tt` tO 4 i (leg his Yesterday his INIAJRgiTY held his second Levee /I nce his accession to the Throne, which was very I"lfnerously anti splentlidlV cutle'l by ' II4 "Y whit Zere pr esent at t h e ti t st L evee , ant i a grew, num -I,er of othe rs . The comparsy began to arrive 'tile b e f ore one o 'clock, and contintod setting do wn till n ear t our . A g u ard of honour marched 411 .' 0 the court• y a rd of the King's Palace previous t he Ct)nttnencetnenr of the Levee, preceded by "e band of the Ist Itegiment of Foot Guards in their State uniform:, together with the ensign at - laa e d to t h e guard of honour, with the IVA -1"1(4), anti int 1;r1 battles its which it had ht:cti successfully engaged,...on it. A detachment of ll 'e Life Guar's marched into Waterloo-place aid Pall•niall, with their band of trumpets, kettle kru nlitsete. who played some delightful itieces alter ,l,n(ely wi t h t h e b an d o f th e guard of honour.— ':" yr itsentl, Sayer, and a numerous assemblage of / He Police were its attendance. The (3rattti llali 1 1 ,ali lined with the Yeomen of the Guard. The flotinutable Band of G:tittlemen Pensioners were 1 11 attendance in the Octagon Mill. Soon after 4.0 the Ki ng entert d t h e Stale Apartments, and .4" : iv ing received the report of the three regiments k boot Guards from the Field Officer in waiting, - ndeiy en t h e tn iii :m y va ss.word :he Colonel of It te Guard of Honour, llis 'Majesty pt (needed to Pr telve the Foreign Ambassadors and 'Ministers, o ▪ le Great Officers of State, anti those who have the , rivile ge of tbe entr6e. The Duke of Sussex came . it state, and was received with military honour., .'•; a 11 1; hand playing " God asst.: the King." Price r erbazy (the Austrian Ambassador), the Duke , beVollsbire, the Doke of \‘' elliligt01), Caine • bt e. Dike of Clare,:ce and Prince Leo 111(Icatne privately, hod et•tered by ti.e side door. h There were present, besides the Members of the 411 the Cabinet Ministers and Officers of State, the priori -141 D ignitaries of the Church, all the Judges, and Attorney ltd Solicitor-General and other Law Officers ; Earl Cathcart, 4114 1 Stickpin Waiting; Colonel King, Groom. iit Waiting ; 114 • 111 the other usual attendants. .i bu itft•—Atliol, Northumberland, Grafton, Somerset, De -71'144e, Montrose, Hantilfou, Wellington. 2 1 arguisses.--,Wineliester, Cliolinotidetcy, Lothian, Tweed- WeLesley, Lansdown, Hertford, Headford. 1 ,L 1431 4•--Ilathurst, Mount-Edgeumbe, Motley, Westmor k s Ashburohatn, Temple, Denbigh, NlaCclesfield, Apsley. 11 _• e lt,Granarcl, Bridgewater, Suffolk, Verularn, Belfast. -m lictoun, Athlone, Albemarle, ',misdate, Bective, Egre ;l4,l Yowls, Gower, Ancratn, Galloway, Mount-Norris, t l44 frets Surrey, O'Neill, Stair, Clancarty, Cathcart, Chi sters Bradford, Courtown, Winchilsea, Liverpool, 'Mut sr-at'e, Ilarro why, I t t--14 "finfs.--• ru Northland, Anson, Granville, Melville, Va t4tia. M u l eswort h, V a ll etort , B ut y, Sidout h; Enuismore, Killmore, ;Melbourne, Keith, Palmerston. - it. rras-11. Cholmondeley, De la Zortche„ J. Stuart, Min ' t illes Henley, A. Hamilton, E. O'Brien, Foley, North- Ric k, Sa n d on , Dinevor, Binning, Prudhoe, Longford, Aston-, 'N . , Somerville, Ellenborough, Eardtry, .1. Russell, L1444q15, Henniker,. Hawke, W. Russell, Karlstock, Thurlow, ritite, G. Seymour, Holland, Gwydir, C. Bentinck, TiatviiStieud. 4 i• gltt Iloituttrables—STr William Rae, Sir B. Bloom fi eld, 4st Willlans Grant, Sir Win. Scott, B. Bathurst, C. Abbott. i f ou ottrables--Charles Law, W. Cuss, Gray, W. F. 11 1)/4' Instone, Sir 'H. Hotlaam, Mr. Barnewall, Captain P. Rev. Dr. Wetlesley, Colonel E. Munckton, Mr. Rice, te natn-Colonel William Strattird, Colonel C. Stapylton, • .4nox, R.N., Captain K. Cast, 'Captain Perceval, King,. W. Pawlett, -- • --Eardley. .414:41'14461r/ors, 111iniiters, 4 - e.—Awerican, Turkish, Nether 7 84 400, Bavarian, Russian, Portuguese, Neapolitan. ' L4ops--Cork, Landatr, Quebec. $44), nett, Holland, °ce ' r4 ---Mack Mackinnon, Scudamore, Lee, R. Willis, J.Willis, Heberden. levsr.v.--G. Bing, Phillips, Bernal, Ahercronthy, T. Dun- C. Strut, Trensayne, Macdonald, Dickenson, S. Per !otaels Trower, Grenfell, J. T. Stanhope, Hamilton, Prim -3,2ll°llllouse, Fielding, E. ;Montagu, Lamb, Pym, W. 7 tl e ers Bari ng , T. E rs l i i nc . Loi'he following were among those who had the i • ttfur of being presented to his Majesty e Rev• Dr. Chafy, Master of Sidney College, Cambridge, y 1 .4: the Lo r d in Wa i ting Claucarty, upon hit arrival in England, from th e . ,thtoutt of th e Netherlands • catholic Bishop of Quebec, by the Lord in Waiting r 4•111, Fitzgerald, on his appointment to the 7th Royal Ve '''rall.n attallon, by Viscount Melbourne iss * k oat d es C • st Chapelles, by Count de Caraman ' 144 o n. C. Law, by th e L or d i n W a iti ng S. , su aot Ha ns ill, Ki ng ' s Dragoon Guards, b y the Marquess et aeHertford - _ v• Dr. Clarke , to p resent a Volume of Authentic rfo - - ,„„,_. th• mat n t 4 relative to the Established Church kr it, I ... 14 13, 9wtie Folkes, by the Lard in Waiting itQ tt rwrence, on returning from his Professional Mission C ontinent, and on his election as President of the tordY 'Academy Ilia Ptz • Ilte ch ,uttch, by the Lord in W a iti ng • e N ice ' 0Y the Lord in Waiting : f s l Sloriliumberland, for his Grace to ptcsent the • Xl l 4 • ss() luti 4 4 ; j l it er4e l l ). atiti the Report of the Royal Humane Society eari e `."!s01), by the Lord in waiting -4e k ey • r•-rotftner, by the Lord in Waiting • 4,-,llielin",,,,..Harrison, Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge x ia lor L ynch .- by`' l the Lord its Waiting oyai Marines, on promotion t i _niel kai ., l ";: i Royal Marines, on promotion ut ac i d by the Hors. Colonel Kin k r w,,lti tig • Coryton, R o y a l M ar i nes , b y the the Lord in Bat k r "ani tig lam, on his coming of age, by the Lord in Motsk, } • " 4 ti„ „aens Majesty's Ex on of the Yeomen of the Guard, I of. Macclesfi ' 4 5 4 4, j. er.Cuntsinghans, R.N. by the Lord in Waiting x w i l le ers ou appointment to esd Royal Welch Fe / .".t Drak e 44cm..(_.7i!ermatent Assistant Quarter-Master General l i•-G en . sir Trd, Commandant Ist Devon Loeai Militia 41 41:1 1 :' • P. Dalrymple, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir it. M'Fitr , lii..."lfish.o.,'es, of bein g permitted to accept the Royal 90r.. (ie i, , ter , of Charles 111. by Col. Ponsouby • •• Geor- e , o n being appriitited Colonel of the tueran Battalion ",n,„i„,:"(2._.oanfisra albpointment to the Ist Royal Lancashire Tt 11 ; 4 1 w it.unittgi on , on his return front India, by . 4 . 1); tt i . u _ t "".!raide W. 1 Infie ld • ' • • w i .• Choh nele lett, by the Lord in n ailing t rail Edwa r d Dering, by the Lord in Waiting I 'y' the Lord i n W ait i ng ltovi,cw .o...thinnanney, Esq. M. P. Int Barnstaple, by " Z i d i :ro l nth, upon which occasion he receivers bei t ,, a i ."_tt Colon e l epoi titw „ s • - • enzroy, en his promotion and •vut : • jt.3t aata As.estusena of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras, by the Earl Bathurst, on which occasion be received the honour of Knighthood The Lord Chief Justice Abbott, by the Lord iu Waiting Dr. Holland, by the Lord in Waiting Sir Robert Kingsmill, by the Lord in Waiting Lieut. George Pitt Rose, 5,1 , 4111 Yeomanry Lieut. Col. Rooky, by the. Lord in Waiting Lieut. G. Gossip, 3d Foot Guards, on his appointment tot. Butler; Lieut.-Governor Royal Military College Dr. fieherden, by the Lord in Waiting The Marquess of Tr-red:tie, by the Lord in Waiting Mr. Fielding, on corsiitig of age, by the Earl of Denbigh Sir C. Peggy, Regins•Proressor of Physic, at Oxford Mr. S. Pa4e, Gentleman to Ilk Majesty MI% Nixon, : , :urgeon Major, Grenadier GU:II ds Mr. John Clerk of !.lie Cheque of Lis Majesty's Yeomen of the guard, by the Earl of 31acclesGcld Primrose, by the I, c , r d in. w a it 111,4 11r. G. 11 ' Ikon, Cusumissiuner of Customs, by the Lord in Waiting Mr. 'lliarlie, by the Lord in Waiting The E.ii of Verolain, by the Lord in Waiting- Mr. W • T. Praol, by the'Enl tit Bridge water Nli. Owen, King's Connsel, by the Lord in Waitinz Wto-lhrrys, Geutte" , " P , osower to hi , MeVstY Dr. itolit. kViihie, by the Lord in icaning Nlr. Cum:n*lllg, M.P. for 'Nairn m i . (JAIy ks ht , by the Lord in Waiting Sir John Nicheti, with an ilitdruss tiu,n the Judges and Ad togoi;,:r with the Proctors tit the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Cow is Mr. Hope, by thi, Lord in Waiting I. Thomas Dundas, by his Father Sir James smart, on his marriage The Lord Cluet.Justice Nlr. Leehnirre Chariton, by the Lord in Waiting The Hon. ‘Vni. Ctist, be the Lord in Waiting E. Butterwoi th, by the Lord in W a iti ng Mr. Phillips,on coming of age The High Sheila tit Pembrokeshire, with an address, Needham, by Lord lii mutey Sir Simeon Stuart, by the Lord in ‘Vaiting Sir lames Ramsay, by Sir Cieurge litifltrer Sir Robert Peel, ny't he EuriOn Waiting Sir Robert Shetheld, by Earl Brownlow Air. smith, by the Lord in Waiting 1 - iscount Anson, on his marriage, and coming to his title. At the close of the Levee hi3'Majesty gaveeLA audience' to the Duke of tialuiitoa, when his Grace delivered au Address to 'ht.. • _ • _ _ . His Nlaje . sty aliso ;rave audienCes to the Duke of Northum berland, ilia lifilie of Nloutrose, the Earl of Qourtoon, and the Earl of Cathcart. SPOR VINCI INILLLIUENCE. EPSONI RACES. These Races commenced yesterday; but as usual en•tho first day the ground was attended only by those persons in terested, and there was no betting excepting upon the Di,rby, to be run for this day, as follows:- 15 to 8 agst Pindarree 14 to 1 agst Duke 4to I agst Kill Deli) filly . 13 to 1 agst, Abjer 5 to 1 agst Sailor 100 to 5 agst any other. 12 to 1 agst Bro. to Blucher The Craven Stakes, for all ages,was won by Mr. Mills's Mortimer. The Gold Cup, value 100gs.—Subscribers of logs each, with YOgs. added from the Racing Fund. The winner to be sold, if demanded, for 450 gs. Mr. Walker's bl. t. Gem 1 Mr. :.:ltet'ens's Charming Molly Five others started, but two only were placed. The Woodcut Stakes, of 30 , gs each, for two-yr-o!ds ; colts, Ast. 0)11)- and fillies, fist. alb. was wosi cleverly Uy Mr. Rush's b. c. h'. Headley. The Sweepstakes of 10 guineas each was won easily by Mr. \Val'ees Shoehorn. Although hot few persons were on the ground, the road was touch thronged by persons going duw•n to be present at the Races this day. Yesterday was the Bitth•day of the QUEEN, when her Ni AJESTY ente►ed into the 53d year of her age: The beils.of St. Margaret, Westminster, rung on the occasion, flags were displayed on the steeples of sonic of the Churches, and the day was observed as a holidey at the Bank, Exchequer, India an►! Soak Sea Houses. The Duke of DevoNsmae%gave an elegant en lertaiument yesterday to the Directors ot'the An cient I\iisic, the Marquess of LANSDOWNE, and a large party of distinction, at Devonshire. house. The D ,chess of WELLINGTON'S rout,, 'on Tues 'day evening, at AO&ley-house, was attended by -all the leading and diatinguiblied fashiunables in - The Marquess of °HiloNo has gone to the Con tinent, ,v rh a view to the recovery of his health, accompanied by his physician, Dr. BOYTEN, of Spring Gardens. LORD AND LADY HAWKE.—In the Consistory Court of Doctors' Commons, Sir W. SCOTT gave, yesterday, his decision, in the case of Lord and Lady HAWKE, which has been so often before the public. He animadverted on the conduct of Lord HAWKe in suffering the Lady, who is the wife of another man; to bear his title, and also on his in troducing her himself as such, both at home and abroad, for many years, and even allowing her to be considered as hiS wife by his children of a for mer marriage and then coming to that Court to prefer a snit of jactication of marriage.— Sir WILLIAM SCOTT finally dismissed the suit in the following ' words :—He (Lord Hawke) must fight through the difficulties he has created ; and in•every case be will have the -protection to which he is legally entitled. But this Court can not indulge him with a general exculpation.frowt • all possible inconvenience, by pronouncing a sen fence of malicious jactitation against•the person' whom he himself has tutored. to use the language - of which he complains. 'No. 2313, drawn this 'Morning, 18th of May, a• : Prize of 10,0001., Three per Cent.. ConsolS, Ives Shared and Sold by HAZARD -and Co. the ConiraCtors; Royal Exchange, 26, Cornhill, and 324, Oxford-street; London, who also Shared and Sold Five of the- Capital :Prizes drawn the Ist day, April tire 27th. . This morning, 18th May, No. 12,313, drawn a Prize of 10,0001., Three per Cent. Consols, was Shared and Sold by J. and J. SIYBWRIGHT, at their Fortunate Offices, No. 37, Cornhill, Holborn, 38, Haymarket, and:l4l, Oxford-street, who also Shared and Sold, No. 9814, a Prize of 20,0001., and No. 13,75.6, a Prize 0f.5001. Con cols, drawn the First Day, 27th April. RoBBERY AND ATTEMPT To MURDEa.- 7 Tuesday night, it little afrer nine o'clock, a 'servant 'of Mr. swtworthy, bedstead :and tabinet-nicker, of Vine -street, Hatton-garden, .towards Clapham, after putting up some furniture at a gentleman's house in that neighbourhood, a man in a sailor's jacket stepped up to him, and laying hold of blur by the collar desired. trim to. deliver his money and watch. Mr. Stotworthy's :man, without answering him, knocked him down, when three others, who lay concealed in 'the adjoining close, ran towards . him ; one of them stabbed him in the - groin, another knocked hint. doWn, they then beat Min unmercifully, and after stabbing him in three places in the body left trim for dead, and robbed Van .of his wateti aud - tliree 11. notes, Lt b, COVRNT•GARPEN.—The Well.klloWll story in the Roman History of the Death of Virginia, by the handfof her father, so well known as to have been the subject of treqnent dramatic productions, furnished the subject of anew tragedy, which was brought forward last night at ihis Theatre, under the title of Virginius; or, The Liberation of Rome. CHARACTERS. ApFills Claudius . . . . . F. MA(IIE:Apr. Icahn: . Mr. C. K EAZ B TE. C;laudiui. . . Mr. toNNOB. • Nccins Dentatus . . , Mr. TEaur. Numeturius . . • • . Mr. EGERTON. tiir~iuia • • • . . I\liss Foo►E. Servia . . It is wholly unnecessary for us to ewer into a detail of a story so well known, except to ob serve, that the Author has deviated flout history in waking the tyrant Appius die by the haml of Virginias, who strangles hint in the dungeon, wittA eas he poiioned himself to avoid the fury of the people. This catastrophe WeaktiiS the mortal effect of the composition in rendering the tyrant the victim of private revenge, lather thatt of that self-reproach, which drives hint to despair, and urges hint to avoid by suicide the punishment that awaited him from the justice of his Country. There is a considera ble share of nrerit in this Play, both on account of the variety of characters which it introduces, and the consistency with which they are respec tively supported. The plot, we conceive, to be essentially erroneous in one particular. The piece should have ended with the death of Virginia, itvemig is the int e rest o f t h e f ema l e character upon tar feelings of mankind, that when there is an end tif tic heroine, the interest of the piece is also at an cod. That event was the natural, pro per, and critical conclusion of the piece. The last net relates chiefly to the madness, of the fa ther, which is an abatement of his criatacter, as it spews that his grief as . a •father • obli terated all,sense of duty to his Coontry. Nor can that madness excite much interest, as the Brea; prevailing interest in the fare of Vir ginia had subsided- There is . another : error in making the father so aoxions ior his datighter's. welfare, and yet delay his return to Rome to protect her, by doubts, expostulations, and apos. trophe with tire inessenger %Alio brings the news of the treatment which site has received, and the danger to which she is exposed. As his patriotism is lessened in one respect by grief for the loss of his daughter, to be con sistent, his • filial affection should have hurried him to Horne to effect her rescue. But the great error is the prolongation of the piece by another act after the death of Virginia.— The proper close of the Merchant of Venice, would have been the discomfiture of Shylock, safety of Antonio, but SHAKSPEARE, the great Master of the human heart, knew, that by 11111'0- (4161)g the female chat octets again, the interest of the play was fully, maintained, while the mind Iva. agreeably relieved from the anxiety attending the preceding scenes. In Venice Preserved, the conclusion of the play would properly have been .the. death of Jeriiet and Pierre, but Os -WAY, ano ther Poet deeply conversant in the nature of man kind, knew that while the heroine existed the,' fifidfeitiirlhe play ; could not be extinguished :7 but tbef4getly of test night, whether th, se observations are just or not, is, we re peat-, a • drama of considerable merit.. The sentiments are natural and appropriate,. and are' often expressed with poetical energy and beauty. Sometime s , indeed, there. is a m e t a ph or . nut consistently maintained, and though traces of imitation of other plays are observable, yet the whole is highly creditable to the talents .of the Author. It is said 'that this play has been represented on the Glasgow Stage, and that it was written by a Alir• KNowt.es, a Gentleman not unknown in the Literary ‘Vorld. IVe never saw a play better re ceived, There was not one dissentient voice brough out the performance, and it was sanctioned for re petition on the conclusion by general acclamation. The piece was most admirably supported, parti cularly by MACREADY, C. KEMBLE, TERRY, AB BOTT, and EGERTON'i Miss FOOTE also' exerted herself with great effect, and is evidently improv ing very- fast in the serious drama. Mr.- C. Kass- BLE laboured under a severe cold, but -the spirit and -energy of his performance enabled him to triumph over his infirmity, to make a very powerful impression on the ,andience, and abun dantly to share in their applause. The house was NIL The Prologue was spoken by Miss S. BOOTH, and the Epilogue by Miss •13r.usTor.:, but we did not bear them sufficiently to-enable us to judge of their merit. 'EAST IN DIES. 89PAL—Intelligence has ,been just received at the Presidency, of the death of the young Nabob of Bopal ; a man of some promise. He' loaded and cocked a pistol to, fire at something in,aMus ntent when his attention was taken up by his child, a young 'daughter, running up to himi' in fondling with her, the pistcd went ofF, .and " shot him dead on the spot. The Government remains undiitorbed by the event, and looking for the re sult of the widbvi's confinement, who is advanced in pregnancy. • [EXTRACT FROM THE MADRAS 'COURIER.] Tile Honourable JOHN HODGSON being about to proceed to England in one of the Indiamen of the present season, has relinquished hili seat as a member of the Council of Government ;;and J. H. D. °Glum!, Esq. has been appointed his successor. On:Monday-last, the Hon. John Hugh Donnel Ogilvie took the usual oaths and his sedt lii Com); cil, under a salute of 15 guns. OLD BAILRY.—The Sessions commenced yes terday before Mr. Justice Barna and Mr. Baron GARROW. Thenomberot cases for trial is only 165, and among them is no case of importance.— There . ate no . fewer than 20 for uttering forged notes.—No trial. of importance occurred during the day. _ _ The Duke of Sussex has appointed CHARLES KEMYS KEMYS TYNTa, Esq. M. I'., Provincial Grand Master of the .Freemasons of Somerset rice ALITUVR CHIVLIESTER, I,;;Sq, reailoed. The following is a Copy of the PEIT/TION of the SHIP-OwNeas,agreed upon at the Meeting on Tues day last at the City of London Tavern, Bishops gate-street. J. W. lincx.LE, Esq. in the Clinir To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain anctireland, in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of the undersigned Ship-Owners of London, Simeweth, that the attention of your Petitioners has beets attracted to a Petition which has been lately presented to your Honourable House by certain Merchants of this City, praying for a revision of the Commercial :.ysteum established by the existing' restrictive and Revenue Laws. That the said Petitioners dtclariog the prayer of their said Petition to be " against every restrictive regulation of traoc not essential to the Revenue, and against all duties merely protective front foreign competition," your Petitioners cannot contemplate without anxiety the possible admission of a prin ciple which recognizes the advainage of the Revenue alone as the guide .in training our Commercial Code, overlooklog the claims to protection' which your Petitioners humbly con ceive those numerous classes of the conominity to possess whose capitals have been embarked in trades, which, being considered of importance to the security and greatness of ths cottony, have been protected and have flourished under the existing system, and most still depend for their prosperity upon its permanence. That undastanding one of the chief objects which the said petitioners seek to obtain is a relaxation of the naviga tion laws, your petitioners would earnestly implore your ho nourable house to pause ere it sanction an alteration in our maritime code, and to weigh well the consequences of a de parture from that volicy Under which our commercial marine has attained to unexampled prosperity, and tour navy to un rivalled power. Your petitioners entreat of your honourable house to bear in mind that the experience of more than two centuries has shown the advantage of adhering to a system, which, by en couraging shipping and navigation, has so greatly contribut ed to the strength and general prosperity of the empire : and they beg to state to your honourable house their titan coo victim' that this system cannot be departed f:aon iu any ma terial respect without a loss of trade in British ships, in pros portion to the Increase of foreign trade which might be t hereby. obtained, and the consequent sacrifice of British navigation, and all the important interests dependent thereon. That your petitioners, however, would have forborne to approach your honourable house with this expression of their anxiety, in the confidence that they might safely rely ort the • wiido'm of the •legislature to protect from the risk of unadvised experiment interests so vast and so truly national as those of British slUpping, hail they only, as in the case of the proposed alteration of the navigation laws, Been menaced with direct attack; but your petitioners, having observed tNat it is also sought to procure an alteration of the exist ing duties on timber in favour of foreign (nnum ce, cannot retrain from declaring to your honourable loittse, respectfully but unhesitatingly, their belief that such a measure would be fraught, beyond any other change in our existing system that could be devised, with consequences disastrous to the Br itish ship. owner. This danger,t he great er as it is the less ob vious, they feel themselves peculiarly called upon to point out. That the whole of this trade is peculiarly and pre-eminent ly British, the prime cost of the timber being paid for in Bri tish manufactures, and the freight being paid to British ships; so that the entire SUM 'expended for the article in Great Bri tain goes through British channels, and contributes more or less to time benefit of native interests, and the maintenance of the national revenue. That, if such alteration be made as would throw our ports more widely open to the timber of the Baltic and Norway, this intercourse, so important to the country generally, and of such vital interest to the ship-owner, would be annihilated, or reduced altogether to insignificance. That, from the length and dillitulty of the voyage, the far , ger part of the value of timber imported hither trout North America consists of freight. That the mere circumstance of the proximity of time northern ports of Europe, by enabling ships to repeat their voyages fre quently in the course of the year, would alone reduce the number of British vessels envloyed—in the carrying trade of timber to one-third of their present amount. That this would be the effect, without takir 6 - into consider— ation the influence of foreign competition ; but expetience has already shown the difficulty of successfully Contending; with the ships of the, north of Europe in bringing,the timber of those countries; liartly from the low rate of their outfit and mode of navigation; partly front the natural predilection of the foreigners interested in this trade fur employing their OwliNessels.. That, combining both the above-mentioned considerations, namely, the shortness of the yorage r .a.od..the coniktition of foreigners, your petitioners do not . fear contradiction in stat ing their belief, that, for' every foreign ship which'should be thus employed, three British ships of equal size would be left unemployed and your petitioners have good ground for be lieving that the ship-psviters of the ninth of Europe (at pre sent in a state of mucb difficulty) are nut the parties looking with the least anxiety to the decision' which the British Go. vernment may form upon this important question. That your petitioners WoUld submit to your Honourable House, whether, fur the sacrifice of interests so momentous, any advantage, they will nut say equivalent, but approaching to equivalent, be held out. That although the primary motive of the Legislature, in encouraging the importation of Timber from the British Co lonies, might not be the interests of Navigation, yet it has proved to be admirably calculated for that object, as will ap pear by the following statement of the progressive increase of the tonnage employed in that trade, viz.: The number of ships cleared out (rum Great Britain to the British North American Colonies was— • Slips In the year 1 81 814 576 5 1171 1816 772 Tons Men 112,734 6,707 174,578 9,701 160,378 8,824 1817 1009 194,996 10,370 1818 _ 1317 - 288,501 i 15.008 1819 1525 f 340,537 1 17,634 That this new channel of_ employment opened must oppor tunely for the relief of British shipping, at a period of unpre• cedented depression—the effects of a transition from war to peace having been more severely felt by your Petitioiters thatit by any other class of Commercial Capitalists, from the cir cumstance, in a great degree, of, 900 sail of. the largest kind of merchant vessels, employed in the service of Government during the war, having been thrown at ouce upon the market, upon the cessation of the Transport service. That in the year 1819 the whole number of British ships that cleared out of the ports of Great Britain, including their repeated voyages, atitountild to 19,371, of the burden of 2,254,937 register tuns ; and navigated by 137,703 men. Of this number, 1,525 ships, of the burden of 340,537 register tous, and navigated b y 17,04 Men, cleated out for the ports of British North America (almost wholly for the purpose of bringing.houtTinther,) being 1-7th part of the entire'carry ing trade of the country. It - is contended that the Foreign Timber thus admitted would enlarge the 4emand for British Manufactures; the fact, on the contrary, however, is, that the growers and importers of Norwegian and Baltic. Timber .take but a very small pro portion of its price in articles of Britiih production ; every cargo,imported' would, come in diminution of the quantities taken from our own colonies, and would divert capital and the powers of capital from tint inhabitants of a rising country, all whose wants and habits are formed upon the use of articles '.exclusiVely British, to•aliens , whose consumption of such pro duce. ikcomparatively partinl and trifling.. That yo it petitioners would further submit to your Ho nourable House, whether the freight of the timber imported could be more beneficially bestowed for this country than at present? Of its present large amount, 1,400,0001. almost tbe whole is consumed in au outfit, of which every article has employed British artisans, and paid heavy duties to the Bri tish Exchequer ; the larger portion of,the residue pays the wages of British seamen ; for but a very small part goes to form the . rate of interest upon the depreciated eopital of the ship-owner. That your - petitioners also beg to state, that this trade has peculiar advantages as a nursery for hardy seamen, front the nature both of the climite and the voyage; the ships employed in it taking. an unusual number of apprentices,.vvim, in.a few years, become sailors of the roost valuable description. That,. in cmiclnsion, your petitioners earnestly implore of your Honourable House to reflect what would be the conse quence of throwing out of employment' almost the whole of the seamen now employed in the North American timber trade ; for your. petitioners declare, that they know not where to look for a substitute if this lwanch of the carrying trade be taken from them, labournig, as they are, under serious difficulties in meeting the rivalship of surionoding States. That your petitioners, therefore, entreat your Honourable House, that before•any step be taken in a matter so deeply interesting lo them (and, as they believe, so important to the couimunity at large), or any pledge of alteration be given, they may be permitted to prove at the lair of your Honour able House the allegations contained in this their humble petition, whisk they entertain a perfect confidence they can do to the entire conviction of your kiinoUrable House. __ And yonr petitioners, as iu duty bound, will ever pray. Lyndon, May 16, 1830.