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THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM MISSIONERS of HIS 411A.IESTrS .NAVY do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 27th In stant, at One o'Ctoch, they will lie ready to treat with such ,Persons as may Le willing to Contract for supplying either of the following Articles, viz.:— HE .GUARDIAN ASSURANCE COM PANY for ASSURANCE against FIRE, and on LIVES and SURVIVORSHIPS, Endowments for Children, immediate, deferred, and progressive Annuities, and for the Puichase and Sale of Reversions and Annuities, will OPEN for thC TRANSACTION of BUSINESS on the 17th instant, at No. 11, Lombard-street, the entrance of the Post Office. Deposits hive already been made on a subscribed Capital, exceeding. One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pounds, which, according to the Deed of Settlement, may hereafter be increased to Tivo :Millions. ` LONDONi'Dk.C. 14, 1821. , To th'e AGRIQULTURAL, COLONIAL, EAST INDIA, SHIPPING, and MONIED INTERESTS of the UNITED FOR THE SUN. Nation, as well - as almost every thing else'We poSA2st st•Ortli preserving, and which law is fast.becoming the model ofithita tion for alinost.every enlightened Nation in the world, y.ct this ;feat sacrifice is to be made for the experiment of a theory, tat has always been =successful whenever attempted to be plc ti4;;il, nor did it ever exist •In perfection, Mit in the Author's wind imagination . Again, what could have been mor e u ns t a t es -• manlike than the observation, " that our Shipping litteiest should - not be encouraged, in order to keep employed a parcel of old rotten ships," when it is well known to every, practical man and sound statesman, that the older the ships the greater the number of people to whom they give profitable employnuvit in their repairing, accOrding . to their tonnage and capital enri ployed, compared to new ships, which leave a large portion of capital for other useful purpost—so much for such StatcSni="s wisdom. KINGDOM. • AMEETING of MEMBERS of these seve ial -BRITISH INTERESTS is intended to be held at the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, on the assembling of Par liament, fur the purpose Of INVESTIGATING the CAUSE of the }arsenic NATIONAL DISTRESS, and of disenssinz_ and devising a Remedy; and particularly for the purpose of ascertaining whether our national ignorance of the mighty resources of the British Empire is not the principal cause of our national difficulties, and whether those mighty resources cannot be beneficially brought into action by a wise and com prehensive system of Commerce, founded on principlesof reci procity of - benefits, and combated with a system of finance, founded on self•creating and self-supportific , principles, so as to give profitable employment *to the whore of our capital, shipping', and people, and.thereby to renter a numerous and an increasing population, with a proportionate taxation, blessings—instead of what they now are, a curse. With the knowledge of such a system Of commerce and finance, the inevitable tendency of wificlL:trould be to remiwe tire present distress t s, and t o cartjthe'lrisiver and prosper ity of the British Empire to the highest pitch, the Meeting will he made, aceptaintett; and, as all British Interests have one object only to promote, it is intended that the Meeting should, consider the expediency of petitioning Parliament to appoint a Committee to ascertain the value of each and every British Interest to the State; with a . view to the imposition, on _rural foreign products, of protecting duties, which shall equalize, in the British markets, the butthens and privileges of Fo reign and British Producers, Ship-Owners, &c. Under such an equitable system, commerce might beallowed the freedom of air ; and the interests of every class of Britons, being se cured from. undue preference and unequal competition, would be permanently secured and rapidly advanced. The Manufacturing Interest at present possess undue pro hibiting protection ; their machinery is untaxed, or is at least very unequally,and inadequately taxed as compar ed with ma nual labour ;—a large portion of their labour and poor are paid by the 'Andre, Interest, through the 'more-rate, for which the Martufactuting Interest repay no equivalent. In addition to these considerations, it.may . be added,lhat • their manufacturing (ruin foreign in lieu of Colonial and British India cotton, is a loss to the Empire, amounting in the whole to about twenty millions sterling per annum. The Manufac turers, therefore, cannot be considered as an entire British Interest, a great part of their capital being employed un foreign product; nor can they be considered 'as having senti ments altogether congenial with the real interests of the Em pire. In inviting them to attend the prtoposed Meeting, therefore, they will be considered as - present in their real character. ON THE NAVIGATION LAWS; AGRICULTURE, COPPER NiIILS, TACKS, and BReIDS, to be deli tiered at Deptford and Woolwich Yards. ENGLISH BEES-WAX, to lc delivered at Deptford, Woolwich, Clstaham; Shcurness, Portsmouth, and Ply mouth Yards. DIRECTORS. STEWART MARIORIBANKS, - • Esq. M P. Chairman. '. .RICHARD MEE RAIKES, Esq. Deputy Chairman. Wm.lCaldwall Brandram, Esq. John Martin, Esq. M.P. William Copland, Esq: - - .Rowland Mitchell, Esq. W. D.,Dowson,.'Esq. Robert Mitf'ord, Esq. Sir Thos. H. Farquhar, Bart. John G. Ravenshaw, Esq. J. Garratt,tEsq, and Alderman Robert Rickards, Esq.: .. Nieholas Garry, Esq. John Shore, ESq. _ Wm. Haldimand, EN. M.P. Edward Stewart, Esq. -John Harvev . Esq. '''. -• • Andrew Henry Thothson,Esq. S.- COltliur:it.Hollancl, E§q. . John,Thornton, , Esq. Geoigo- Amer, Esq. John Tulloch, Esq. John Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. . Geoitig . Lyali, Esq. As it is some time since I read the Navigation Act, added to which, my having given but a cursory 'reading to the 13111 in question, -I may be somewhat incorrect in the detail or itcnts of my calculations, but.the principle of them I defy the world to refute. _ _ Patterns of the Nails, Tacki, and Brads, with a Sample of the Bees-Wax, and a Form of th.L. Tender, may he seen at this Of f ice. No Tender will be T( reired after One O'CloCk on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party, or CM Agent for him, attends. Every Tenaer must be accompanied by a Letter ad dressed to the Board, and si,,ned by two:responsible Persoms., engaging - to became boauriwO iky Person tender ing, in the Sum of lOW. for the dae pofiirniance of the _Contract fur Copper Nails; and 400/. for the due performance of the Contract for Bees-Wax. I have been informed that some 'of Mr. Hall's proposed measures relative to port and other charges, are very g&i , d, as economy but not parsimony', should always be the order of the eeay. Still, in this, we should consider that our duty is to do justice to others as much as to claim it for ourselves, that tte consumer, not the. British Ship Owner, ultimately paysctoe .portoliarg6s on British ships and goods, and to make the worst of such overcharge, it is only a little more money taken -from one and put into some other individual's pocket at the public ex pence, 'and: which may be repaid them ultimately throUgli some other channel :—but, as far as relates to foreign pay ing more. lights, &c., than British ships, it is sound pp hey that it should. be so; for our enviable situation (ad *e hut know it):gives us a right in equity to address Foreigners, in the dignified Chinese style . , by asking them," 'Why do you come near us ?, It must be for your own, and not for our benefit ; , --for scarcely an article ymi bring us, or we take front you, but what deprives as many of our own shipping and people of profitable employment, as would carry and produce the same within the British Empire, .and who would consume our manufactures in a greater degree, relieve our poor rates, and benefit the nation 40 millions per annum." But you, (the Foreigners) say in an swer to us, When you come to our ports with your packs of manufactures, like as tiffany hawkers arid pedlars, we are very civil to you." But we, in answer, should say to the Foreigners, " It is our miscalculating policy (intended for your benefit), that obliged us to . visit your ports ; but if you would shut theist against us, we should be then 'thrown on our own mighty re sources, and do from necessity what the wisdom of our Legis. lature ought long ago to have done from choice, viz, : to take our packs and our excess of population to our own bern4ifid. Colonies, and to produce there, and carry with our own ships, what we have long, to our prejudice, employed your people and ships to do for }is." If the object for altering our Navigation Laws be to increase the profitable employment of Briiiih shipping and peOple, tiird increase our revenue and general prospenty, it will fail in that object, and produce an effect directly the reverse (a due proteCt ing system would accomplish tliat object) ; but if, on.the cc trary, the object for altem them be to serve foreign shippiity-, and foreign interest . gener y,'gtve opportunities. to a few' Bri tish merchants to invest their capital in-fortign ships and forests, and in foreign corn, hemp, flax, cotton, and tobacco fields; to the destruction of the like British interest, if that be the end, the proposed measures will completely accomplish the intended object. 22e Birchin-lane, Dec. 7, 1821. JOSEPH PINStNT.. AUDI' T ons. Lewis Lloyd, Esq. , William Ward, Esq. A. W. Robarts,, Esq. M. 1 ); I Thomas Wilson, Esq. Standing Counsel—.L. Shadwell,Esq, New-sq ., Lincoln's Inn. I Physician—George Darling, 111. D., Brunswick-square. Solicitor—Thos. Metcalfe, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's Inn. The principles upon which tbis. - ristitution is fouhded, have been adopted after a mature invesligiition of the practice of other offices, r.nd will,be found to combine advantages not hitherto offered by any other Assurance Company. The Capital subscribed hy a numerous and respectable Pro prietary throughout the Empire, affords security for prompt and certain indemnity, without the responsibility attaching to Societies for mutual assurance. CITY of LONDON TAVERN, Dec. 1 . 3, 1821: AT a GEN ERA IA ME KTI NG of SUEP OWNERS of GREAT BRITAIN, held this day, conformable to Advertisement ; • _ UPoTti;ernotion of JOHN WILLIAM BUCKLE, Esq., THOMAS WILSON, Esq., M.P., was unanimously called to the Chair. The Report of the proceedings ofthe Committee in the course of the last year was read and approved. The following Resolutions were then passed :- 1. That the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool be most respectfully invited to accept the office of President, in the room of th e E a rl of-Sheffield, deceased. 2.' That the Meeting have seen with the utmost alarm the in troduction of a Bill into the Commons House of Parliament for repealing some of the most important provisions of the Laws of Navigation ; and, though, well aware of the obstruction's to Commerce which have arisen from .the complexity of the inimor ous statutes by which the foreign trade of this country. is go verned, and of the consequent pressing necessity that they should he simplified, and that such of them as relate to importations from foreign countries should be embodied into one Act, yet this Meeting see nothing the principle of the Navigation. Laws of which foreigners have any just ground to complain, or which can be surrendered without prejudice to the British Ship- Ping and Navigation. 3. That immediately after ar answer shall have been received from the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade, as to the amount of the protecting duties on indirect importations which it is proposal to establish by the bill in question, a Ge neral-Meeting be convened, to take the stibject of the intended alteration in the Navigation Laws into consideration, with the view to making such representations to his Majesty's Govern ruent as may be found necessary. 4: That the best thanks of this Meeting, are due to . Joseph Blarryatt, Estv, for his able Speeches in Parliament on the iMportant subjects of the Timber Duties and Navigation LAME, and for his zealous and efficient services to the shipping interest on all occasions. The Company are bound. by the Deed of Settlement to refer all disputed Claims (where no fraud is suspected) to the decision of Arbitrators, if required by the assured. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Persons Assured for Seven years, whether upon Annual or Septennial Policies, are to be entitled to participate in the Pro fits with the original Subscribers, except on the Policies where losses have been claimed. No charge will be made for Policies where the Premium amounts to 6s. or upwards. • LIFE DEPARTMENT. Independent of a reduced rate of Premium, as compared with other Offices, having a subscribed Capital, Insurers for the whole term of Life are .to lie .entitled , at the end of seven years to participate in the prafits with the original Subscribers, either by .an addition Made to the amount of their Policies, or by a redUctiOn of their future .knintaiPpiniums at the option of the Insuters. • Persons insuredin this Office. ate allowed to pass bY Sea from one_part of the !Inked Kingdom to another, • and also ix time of Peace to pass in .decked vessels or steam•boats frOm British to Foreign Ports between the Texel and Brest, (both inclusive), without extra Premium or special leave of the Di rectors, as is usually required. . No additional Premium will . be required frOm Military Men unless when called into actual. §ervice. No charge will be made for entrance Money or Admission Fees. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE-SHEW, GOSIVELL-STREET. No charge will be made for Policies beyoud the cost of the Stamp. AGRICULTURE. AT a GENERA T L MEETING of the OWNERS and OCCUPIERS of LANDS in the' Hon • Bred of WISBECH and • its Vicinity, held at. the Session House, in Wisbech St. Peter's, in the Isle of Ely, on Thurs day, the Gth Day of December, 1821, pursuant to Public No tice, for discussing the propriety of Petitioning Parliament„ons its neat ',Meeting, .and other means which may he thought expedient towards obtaining RELIEF front the p resent AGRICULTURAL DISTRESSES of the COUNTRY. 5. That this Meeting being hiffhly tensible of the great ser. vices of Mr. Buckle, as Chairman of the Committee % and of his unremitted attention to the interests of British Ship Owners, offei him their warmest acknowledgments and sincere thanks, f ''' all his zeal, diligence, and able exertions'for the general in-' terests of British Shipping. 6. That the best thanks of this Meeting, be presented tp„ the Committee, for Their continued attention to the many important subjects which have been under their consideration. , .. 7. That John Plummer, Esq. M.P. A. Robertson, Esq. M.P. and Edward Ellice, Esq. M.P. Robert. Scott, Esq. . . . . John hying, sq. M.P. -be elected Vice. Presidents. The Meeting then proceeded to ballot for eight Members of the ComMittee, in the room of that number who were going out by rotation, when the Chairman declared the Election to have Callen on the following Hall, Esq. Gentlemen, viz.:— T. llenson T. , Esq. J. D. Powles; Esq. r; Forrest, Esq. J. hope, Esq. - W. Tindall, Esq. W. Fry, Esq. J.Marryatt,jun.Esq. "THOMAS WILSON, Chairman. . , Mr. Wilson having left the Chair, the warmest thanks of the Meeting were presented to 'him for his conduct therein„ as well as for his attention in Parliament to the interests of British Ship Owners: S. COCK, Sec. poRT of SOUTIIAMPTON.--.13y Order o f the Honourable the COMMISSIONERS of His 4 A.IESTY'S CUSTOMS.—For PUBLIC SA LE"at the CUS TOM HOUSE, on THURSDAY the 20th of Decemlief, J 221, at Ten for. Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. For Home Consumption, for Dealers and others; '35 Gallons of Foreign Brandy. 'ATE USE. • 4 Leghorn. Hats 2 Fire Screens ilb. of Tea . - 281bs. of Worsted 1 Woollen Shawl 36 Dok. olCornelian Buttons 2 Musical Snuff Boxes • • And Ermine Lining and Trim wing tor a Pelisse. - FOR EXPORTATION. 48 Yards of Wrought Silk J I Silk Dress __ FOR PRI , of Foreign Brandy :320 Galls. of• Foreign Geneva 44-3 Galls, of French %Vine 42j Yards of India Muslin SO Yards of Lawn. 1351b5. of Itnitation Arrow Root Powder Sibs, of'fanned Cale Skins a Common Fans 17 Silk Shawls - • 27 Silk Scarfs 1 Velvet Pelisse 150 Silk Neck-kerchiefs 91 Yards of China Crape • fit) Pair of Silk Stockings 203 Bandana Handkerchiefs 1 7 Yards, of Velvet 178 Pair of Kid Gloves . Which have,been seized and legally condemned in the Court of Exchequer. The whole may be viewed, and the , Spiritg and Wine tasted, in the King's Warehouse, between the hours of nine and.ten o'clock, on the two days preceding the Sale. , f None of the above articles for Home Consumption can be sold for a less sum than )he Duties thereon respectively. SOCIETY . FOR THE -DISMARGE AND RELIEF OF PERSONS IMPRISONED FOR SMALL DEBTS. • Craven-street, Strand, Decernhe.r 5, 1821. BENEFACTIONS SINCE THE LA sT RE PORT, viz.:— ,c. s. d. The Most Noble the Marquess of Hertford, - V. P. per Secretary . - - Annual 25 0 0 Thomas Warre, Esq. - - - . i 0 10 0 Charles Stanhope, Esq. - - A. 5 5 0 George Aust, Esq. per Secretary - A. 2 2 0 lieriry Curry, Esq. per Dorrien and Co. - 5 0 0 William Hutchinson, Esq. per Whitmore and Co. 5 0 0 John Richard Baker - - . - A. 2 2 0 Jahn Marsh, Esq. per Secretary - - A. 1 1 0 K. P. Glynn, Esq. - - - A. 2 2 0 ~,r. a '• J. (per Treasurer) - -.- -, A. 5 5 0 4 . 63 7 0 Discharged and relieved from various Orisons, 93 Debtors, for the Sum of 223 7 10 Considered the. Cases of - 65 Petitioners, Approved - 4 1 Referred for Characters 8 Petitions, Rejected -6, and Considered Inadmis , ible In. Benefactions .._ _ enefactions are received by John Camden ,Nield, Esq. the Treasurer, Cheyne-walls, Chelsea; also by Nlessrs. Herrics, P arquhar,,and Co. St. James's-street; Messrs. Hoares, Fleet street; Messrs. Wbitmore and Co. Lombard-street ; Messrs. ind Co. Charing-Cross ; Messrs.' Dorrien and Co. !Inch-lane, Cornhill; Messrs. Haminersleys, Pall-Mall; Messrs. Veres and Cs. 77, Lombard-street; and -by Mr. G rasswell,- the Secretary, No. 7, Craven-Street, Strand, where tlie ,Books may be seen .by those who arc inclined 1 ,, ( "support this: Charity, and where the Setiety meet au ilia first WedneidaT in every 'Month. JAMES BELLAMY, Esq. iii the Chair Resolved unanimously, That the properity of the kiagdom at large, including the several classes of the community therein, as also the welfare or the Government of the Country, materially depend on the good state, progress, and spirit Of its Agriculture ; and in order to secure the same; it is necessary that the Cultivators of the. Soil should receive a fair remunerating Price fur their prodnee, - to enable them to pay their Rents, Tithes, Taxes, Poor and other Parochial Rates, Labour, and necessary Outgoings. • That the value of agricultural produce has been declining for a considerable period,and at this time,the various articles grown or raised by the Agriculturists are depreciated nearly, if not fully, one half in their prices, - and that the losses con sequent thereon have hitherto fallen principally upon, and are now chiefly sustained by, the tenants a occupiers. • That the farming occupiers, by reason of such declension in the price . s.of their produce, - have lost very considerable sums of money, and are at this time losing their diminished capitals sa rapidly, that it is much to .be feared that many of them must (unless speedily relieved) be compelled to relin quish their farming concerns, and that many others will be reduced to poverty and ruin. That it is highly expedient that all classes of society deriv. jug benefit front the fanning interests, should Unite their endeavours iii enable the occupiers of farms to continue their ,occupations; and for this purpose, that it be earnestly re commended to landlords and the clergy to make suitable re dactions from'their rents and tithes , , and also to I N ite different classes of traders and mechanics, to make like abatements in the several articles of their trade. That as the reductions above referred to will not be nearly equal - to the present depression in the several articles of the farmer's produce, and will not afford them adequate relief, petitions of the "owners and occu piers of lands in the town, hundred, and neighbourhood of Wisbech, and others inte rested in Agriculture, to both Houses of Parliament, be forth with prepared for,t he ' signature of • such persons as may ar prove the same; and be transmitted, previous lir the Meeting of Parliament, to the Lord Lie utenant and the Members for the county,. to bt presented by them to the twc Houses of Parliament. ' • That such Petitions do state, in proper and respectful terms; the woeful and increasing grievances the Landed and Agricultural Interests are labouring under, the heavy losses they arc sustaining, and the absolute necessity Of affording them some speedy and effectual relief, as well for continuing the Agriculture of the Country in a proper state for the sup port of its population, as also for the preservation of the Cbuntry at large. That the Al - embers for the County be requested to present the Petitions, and earnestly to promote - the objects of the Pe titioners, and to use - their utmost endeavours to obtain all retrenchments in the expenditure of the public money, in the several departments of the State, that can be properly made ; and in rffeeting any reduction in the Taxes most op pressive to thc•Agrickiltural Interests, that cau be safely dis primed with. That a respectful, though strong and explicit, Memorial,. signed by the Petitioners, lie transmitted •to the Right Ho nourable the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury, embracing the purport of the foregoing Resolutions, and the fearful appre hensions of the Memorialists, that without speedy relief being afforded to the Landed Proprietors and the Cultivators of the Soil, many of them will lie unable to continue the payment of the Government and other*Taxes in the manner they have hitherto done and still wish to do. That a Committee of fire gentlemen, consisting of Mr, Bel. lamy, Mr, Watson, Mr. Nicholls, Mr. Sculthorpe, and Mr. Joseph Marshall, or any three of theta, do cause the above Petitions and Memorial to be prepared and left at proper places in Wished) for signatures. 'That these RcsOlutions he signed 11 the Chairman, in the name of the Meeting; and be published in the Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, and such other Papers as the Committee maythink necessary. JAMES BELLAMY, Chairman. Resolved—That time cOrdial Thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman, for his-general attention to the interests of the country, and fur his able con d uc t i n the Chair this day. _ _ N. B. The above Petitions and Meuior•al will be left: for Signatures at Messrs. White and Leach's, Stationers, in 'Wistecti. General Merchant&, as well as those trading exclusively to foreign countries, althotigh both amiable and wealthy as men and gentlemen, are still in their mere mercantile cha racter, only factors fur others; and, in their dealings, are necessarily regardless of country, or of the cost of production or products, provided the customer at the end paykt hem their faCtorage, or a profit on the adventure. They are also, how ever, invited to attend the proposed Meeting; and it is put to thd candour of many Merchants themselves, a hether, as our unwise laws have invited, and do invite, them to invest their capital in foreign loans, forests, and ships, or its foreign corn, hemp, flax, cotton, tobacco, and rice fields, or in the speculation and factorage of them, thereby alienating British capital, and as they are now or about employing foreign in lieu of Britiih people and ships, to the great prejudice of the latter and of the Empire,—whether their attendance can be considered as that of a real and entire British Interest. This question I leave them to determine. It is also wished to he understood, that an Interest supported by a slave popula tion falls very short in its value to the State, when compared .with one that gives employment to a free population: but I entreat then► to consider, that the measures for which application is intended to be made to Parliaraont are founded OH the principles,— That the 'profitable employment of our own, and not foreign people not slaves, constitues the wealth and prosperity of the British Empire. That the agriculture of our'Empire,.when duly protected, is the root of and propelling power to all our other branches of industry; and that ultimately all our other interestsadvawce or retrograde with it in au equal ratio. That our exports arc the mere payment of our imported articles of 'consumption ; and that our general consumption can only be increased-by the profitable employment ut the great mass of our peOple. That in consequence of our Empire requiring about two hundred, millions of additional people, to bring all its resources into action, every man, whets duly employed, is a positive gain to the State; hut, when deprived of profitable employment, is a loss to it, on time other hand, of about fifty pounds per annum ; and consequently that the consumption of every foreign article, (even though such articles were bestowed upon us as a donation) provided we can produce the like of the foreign article ourselves with otherwise unemployed people, is dearer to us than if we paid such of our own unemployed people fur its production fifty pounds per annum per man. That a large taxation'can be supported only by a large in come, that neither the quality or cost of things are State ques tions, but belong solely to traffickers, producers, and consum ers, amtlhat all that statesmen have to do is to ascertain'their value to the State and protect them accordingly The time of meeting wilt be announced in a future wirer tiscutent.The Gentlemen who attend it are requested to be prepared to approve or to dispute the accuracy of the above propositions. The Editors of Newspapers, and other publi cations, are invited to insert arguments in opposition to these principles, provided they du the same by the answers. Those who understand time fundamental rules on which the propo salons are grounded, as well as those who do not, ,and yet feel a lively interest in their success, if found to be true, may learn further particulars, (if by letter post-paid,) on .applica tiuu to JOSEPH PINSENT, 22, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, Ltindon. P. S. No Englishman has coin plettd the discharge of his duty whale one means remains untried of averting the approaching fatal crisis of his country. PROCESS to PREVENT MILDEW in every KIND of CANVAS, made either of HEMP, FLAX, or COTTON. AITESSRS..BROWELL and CO. 23).Alder -111.11. manbury . , having had their Invention hOnoured by a thorough examination of the Society of Ship Owners of Gr ea t Britain, and Mr. COCK; its Secretary, basing on the I ith October last acquainted them, That the Committee (front " the evidence laid before them) are perfectly satisfied that " the Invention possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it, "'and consequently that it is of great importance to Ship "'Owners in general;"' beg leave to acquaint the Shipping Interest, that Sail-Cloth of - various kinds, whicli . have under gone their Process, may be had of Messrs. -Chalmers and Guthrie, Idol-lane, Tower-street. - Each Bolt is marked by a red stamp with a Crown so rtounding the letter 8.---The low pric e of ss. per Bolt (or lAd. per yard) occasions an expellee not exceeding in any case 5 per cent., for every Ship of what ever size, upon the whole oost of tlie PUBLICATIONS. On Tuesday, December 18, will he published, in Bro. price Iss. 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EDITOR—On the 22d ult. the Public' Ledger published observations on the Speech of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade (in last Session of .Parliament) and his Bill for par tially repealing our Navigation Act, which is understood to be intended - as apreliminary to a general uuprotecting system of , commerce,.and which was extracted from. Mr. JOHN HALL'S Pamphlet. On the perusal of this article, 1 saw its . evil tendency to the public, and immediately wrote the Editor the hasty letter to that effect which was inserted in the Public Ledger on the Ist inst. Now, as the Navigation Act is of vital im portance to the British Empire, I write this to sup ply 012 defects of that letter, and will feel ob 7 liged by your giving it an early insertion for the • • public good. First, Then, in presuming that the History of our Naviga tion Act is well know to your readers, I need not tell them, hat previous to the passing of that Act, the Dutch were not , • only our carriers, but our masters by sea. Yet this Niviga.- tlan Act very soon not only made us, on the same eleinent, Half our own, but the carriers for, and masters/of. nearly bah the world. It must be equally well known to your readers, that that Act provided that foreign producti should only be im ported from the place of their production, and then only in British or Native vessels, the consequence of which, added to the countervailing duties on foreign vessels, was, thit English vessels have been ourprincipal importers of such foreign products„ as well as our ports the principal depots of foreign wares and merchandize, for the supply of foreign market in the North of Europe. But, Sir, the consequence of the Vice-President's intended Bill would be, that the northern ports of Europe, in lieu of ours being so for theirs, would become the depOt of foreign goods for the British and foreign markets, and that foreign vessels would become the carriers for four fifths of the voyage. For instance, as several foreign na tions can navigate their ships at two-thirds the expence of Bri tish ships, and as the warehousing and port charges in the north of Europe are much less than ours, at the same time that the cost of transhipment of a cargo from a foreign to a British or native ship, added to the freight from many of the northern ports of Europe to England, would not exceed 20s. per ton.-- Thus, most of the goods from the Mediterranean to the east ward of Barcelona, as well as from Archangel, would pay to the foreign merchant for our importation by foreion ships through some of the ports of the north of Europe, while those from America and Africa, or the Atlantic, would in like man ner afford a profit to *foreign over British ships, (and by the aforesaid circuituous route, in lieu of coming direct in British ships) of from 20s. to 40s. per ton ; and, from India, China, and the Pacific Ocean, of from 21. to 31. per ton. Indeed, the -consequences of such repeal (loaded as we are with taxes), we cannot see to their farthest fatal end ! But it is fair to calcu late that it would be the means of investing' British capital in foreign ships, &c., and depriving of profitable employment. at least one hundred thousand British subjects, and throwing them on the poor rates to be maintained by the 'landed interest, at a cost of not less than two millions per annum, as well as depriving a large portion of British shipping, docks, ands ware houses, of employment and occupation. It is most singular that the Vice-President should, at the very time of bringing in this Bill, submit another for the extension and improvement of the Bonding and Warehousing System : whereas the former would completely destroy the interest of the latter, by transfer ring the warehousing of foreign goods from our own, as well as those for Our own Market, to foreign ports. Though, when things are considered, I am not much surprized at the Ship- ping Interest displaying its present apathy and inefficiency in the defence of its interest against the intended Bill, which is brewing so fatally. their future destruction ' still, I feel the re verse at the Members of the Dock and Warehousing Interests 'viewing this pending destruction of their property with so much composure : and I regret the Landed' interests being so situated as not to perceive that the, Bill in question may sub ject them to the expellee aforesaid, for the maintenance of 100,000 additional paupers. I am equally sorry that the valuable time of the Chancellor, of the Exchequer should be so employed, in providingexpedi ems for the day, as to prevent his seeing that the Bill in ques tion (if passed) is likely to deprive the Empire of indirect. revenue, equal to a balance loss of one million sterling per an num : which revenue a ould be otherwise paid by the people in the consumption of exciseable and taxed articles, and in the building and wear and tear of ships, &c. I therefore contend, that a more impolitic measure than the one in question could not be devised by man, although it may appear to the consumer, at first sight, a hard case that the pro duce of India or America, deposited in Holland, and Wanted for our market, should, before imported here,•be obliged to be carried to the places of their production, at the expellee of our consumers, which presumed hardships foreigners and stiperfi cial interested Englishmen avail themselves of, by erecting it into a powerful battery to play on the feelings and fancies of honest John Bull. . But, when, we possess the depot for foreign goods, this can rarely happen, nor can it under any circum stances exceed (in my opinion) £20,000 per annum. There fore, to preserve our Navigation Act would be only like sacri ficing a farthing to gain a sixpence. I beg leave further to state, that all Legia!ative measures should founded on - the basis of these principles— •- - That the-profitable employment of our people constitutes the 'wealth and posperity'of the British empire; That, as we require about 200,000,000 additional inhabitants. to do our empire justice, that every man deprived of Profitable employment through the consumption of foreign articles, the like of which we can preduce ourselves, is a loss to the em pire equal to about £5O per annum, and makes even the of such foreign goods, dearer to us than if we had produced them ourselves at an expence of £io per man per annum, with our own unemployed people. ' That Agriculture is taC root of and propelling power to all our industry; consequently the branches of ourintitistry cantiot . be injured without affecting the root. That our exports are the mere payments of our imports; and that we cannot carry commerce beyond our consumption, nor can we increase that consumption but by increasing the profit able employment of our people in'the aggregate.. • That our distress is not owing to our late war, to our cur rency, to superior crops, or to the amount ; but to'the mode of our taxation,: and to a national ignorance of the mighty re sources of the British Empire, of that system of commerce and finance (the former should be founded on the principle of reci procity of 'benefits, and the latter on self-creatmgand seff-sup porting principles), necessary to' bring those mighty resources into action, so -as to give all our people profitable employment, , and to increase our revenue in the same ratio. • The great error of our Committees is the wasting their time in receiving evidence relative to cost and quality. from self interested people, whose business is to sell or buy 'their own, or any other country, or interest, which. may ofkcr them the greatest individual benefit, and which only belong to traffick ers, consumers; producers, and carriers ; whereas,. if they &in fined.themselves to State iestions only,• which is all they are required to do, they wduld . merely inquire the value of cur ,British and Colonial Interest to the State, and then protect •them'by protecting duties accordingly, from foreign competi tion : and, subject to thii protection; allow Commerce to nave the freedom of air, and to invite Foreigners to do the same.— And•as all British and Colonial Interests have but one End to serve, the whole should join in an application to•Parlianient for aCommittec to ascertain the value of their respective interests to the State,. and obtain protection as aforesaid, as all undue pro tection is self destruction. As my object is the establishment of truth, justice, my Coun try's and the World's good, I invite every man, - by facts or fair reasoning, to refute and drive me from my positions. Although I disclaim charging the Authors of the But 'in question, and its supporters in Parliament, with improper inn fives, still I cannot so readily release them from a conduct bor dering on (if it be not) presumption itself; in attempting to repeal a law, .to the beneficial effects of which, in practice, we, not only owe our maritime grandeur, but our exalted rank Ns a Yesterday morning the Twenty-third Annual 'Exhibition opened, of, Fat Cattle, 'Sheep, ana Pigs, sent up from most of the Counties within 150 miles of London, to be shewn for the Pre miums offered by the Smithfield Club, and by his Grace the Duke of BEnionn, the late Presi dent thereof. The six Gentlemen who had been appointed by the Club, as Judges for awarding the Premiunis were— - For the Oxen and Cows—Mr. William Sheild,. grazier,, ei Frieston, ,Lincolnshire; Mr. John Webb, grazier, of Barton Park, Derbyshire; and Mr. William Williams, butcher, cf South Audley-street. For the Sheep and Pigs—Mr. Thomas Chapman, graziei, of Drayton, Warwickshire ; Mr. John Ellis, grazier, of Exeat, near East.bourn, Sussex; and Mr. William. Featherstone, laic butchat, of Clarendon : place, Ellgryare-road.__ BI , ;DFORDEAN' PREAIIUMS. Class T. - -A piece of plate, value 20gs. to Mr. John Westcar, of Creslow, Bucks, for his 4 years and 11 months old liere_ fordshite oc, bred hy 'Mr. Edward Smith, of Shelley, 11cr.2- thrdshire, and fed on grass, hay; turnips, and 500 oil cakes; and a gold medal, value sgs. to the breeder of the above ox. Class 11.—A piece of plate, value 20gs. to Mr. Robert Mat ters' of Nethereote, Warwick,:sliire, for his 4 years old Scotch ox, fed on grass, hay, and turnips. . . Class piece of, plate, value 20gs. to ,Mr. Tothpsan Goode, of Cossington, near Leicester, for his three 32 months old new Leicester wethers, bred by himself, and fed On'g'l!as;, hay, and. turnips. Mr. Tompson Goode the Bedfordean gold medal, value sgs. as the breeder of the same. • • Class IV.-A pfecc of plate, value 200. to Mr. John Ellman, jun. of Southover, Sussex, for his three 32 months old South dnivn wethers, bred by himself, and fed on grass, hay, and-tur nips. .. • . Mr. John Ellman, Jun., the Bedfordean gold medal, value sgs. as the-breeder of the same. Class V.—A piece of place, value 10 guineas, to Mr. William • Hayward, of Watlington, Oxfordshire, for his three pigs of the satue litter, Suffolk and Essex breed, 3i weeks old, bred by him self, And fed on barley meal. . Mr. William Hayward, the Bedfordean gold medal, value five guineas, as the breeder-of the same. • • THE CLUB'S PREMIUMS. Class VI.---A piece of plate, value 10 guineas, to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, fbr his two years and nine months old llerefordshire .034 bred by. his Grace on his Woburn Parje farm, Bedfordshire, and fed on grass, cut hay, turnips, 234 oil cakes, and 25 bushels of bean meal. Class VII.—No award. • Class VIII.—A piece of plate, value ten guineas,' to. Mr. John Hill, Of Cotsbatch, near Lutterworth, Liecestershire„ for his three years and nine months old Hereibrdshire ex, 'bred by Mr.. Edwards, of Lodge Farm, Salop. Class IX.—A piece of plate, value ten guineas, to Mr. Sarni. Stone, of Knighton, near Leicester, for his seven years old cow, which has borne three calves, bred by Air. Robert Honeyberne, of Dishley, Leicestershire, fed on grass, hay, cabbages, barley, and,l23lb. of oil cakes. ClasS X.—A. piece of,plate, value ten guineaS; to Mi. Thos. .EdWard Pawlett, of Beeston, • Bedfordshire, tbr his:three '2O months old new Leicester viethers, bred by himself,- andled on clover, \ clover-hay, and Swede turnips. . • Gas's XT.-4 piece of plate, value ten guineas, to the Re-Y. Thos.. Plaskett, of Flarlaxton Lodge, Lincolnshire, for his 32 months old new Leicester' wethers, bred by himself, and fed on grass and cabbages. Class piece of plate, value 10 guineas, to Mr. Ste phen Grantham, of StOneham, Sussex, fOr his.three months old Southdown wethers, bred by himself, and fed on grass, hay, and turnips. . • Class X111:---A piece of plate, value 10,guineas, to Mr: Ste phen:Grantham', of Stoneham, Sussex, • for his three 32 months old tiouthdown wethers, bred by himself,,and fed on gram, hay, and turnips. Class XIV.—A pieee of plate, value 10 guineas, •to the Eat! of Bridgewater, for his, three. 24 weeks old Suffolk and Essex Pigs, bred by his Lordship, on his. farm atAshbridge, Belts, and fed on wash, milk, and barley meal. The Judges, at the conclusion, of their award, paid compli ments to the following Gentlemen, for the excellence. of their unsuccessful animals, or extra stock, viz.— . . Mr. William Smith', of Disltley.; the Duke of Bedfthd; Mr. ,Felix Booth, of Brentford ; Mr..Thomas . Pilley, of Seabrook ; Mr. titx , rge (furrier } of Poplar ; Lr. Johp.Wetherall, of Kirk by Mallory ; . Mr. Wni. .Adams, of Towcester; Mr. James Parsciris; of Walcott ; and Mr. Geork4 Dad; of Cheniis. There were a number of exhibitors of live stock, besides those men ior. d above. . • The gtiat and eaily ejteellehey of the animals exhibited, ap peared to give high satisfaction. A great number of ingeniouS agricultnral and other-.useful implements and machines were exhibited in Mr. earders'i spa cious lofts over the cattle-yard.