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. -% but Mr. sister. doubt CAM and he urasey death, by Mr. ication sanity. :roving .y after ,\\,\ 4/, T • - 1140 1 \ s , 116 Y , I d 7 1 / 2 14# 1-- i SN. NUMBER 92281 SATURDAY, MAD CH 23, 1822. PRICE, SEVENPENCE THIS is to give notice, that in Pursuance of Directions front the COMMISSIONERS fo,r VIC- THE LONDON JOURNALS, to convey. It would, we conceive, be wholly impossible to frame a Petition to the House of Commons upon the necessity of a Reform in the Representation of the People, which should not contain words that the Court of King's Bench, in strict interpretation, would not pro nounce to be libellous. , The very act of stating that the House of Commons does not properly represent the people of lie United Kingdom, and that reform is therefore necessary, is a libel; so is it a libel to Nay that the Government is up held by corruption, and +et not many nights have elapsed since the Marquis of Londonderry assured the House of Commons that it would be impossible for the Ministers to impel their scheme of government if places avowedly use less—mere sinecures with large salaries, were plucked from theirs- hands-. TIJALLING HIS NIAJtSTY'S NAVY, I shall be ready at this place, on TUESDAY, the 26th inst., to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), from such Persons as will undertake to Purchase the HIDEi, (except what may be wanted for the bock Yards), and FAT that may be produced from the Oxen s laughtered for the service of His Majesty's Victualling De- Partinents at Chatham and Portsmouth, from the Ist day of April next ensuing, until the :ioth day of June following. The Tenders to contain prices, expressed in words at length for each article, and to ,be made separate for each port.— EXTRACTS FROM THE D A ILY MORNING PAPERS WEST INDIA MEETING. March 23, 1822. The same to be paid for at the end of each month. Shadwell-Dock, March 12, 1822. WILLIAM MELLISH NEXT THURSDAY. SWIFT and Co. solicit the attention of the Public to the present Rich Wheel, containing THREE PRIZES of 1:20,000 ! Autl ,r_iG other Capitals. Not Two Blanks to a Prize—and Zni9 Two Days to DraW.—X2o,ooo for the First-drawn Prize tiE 1' 'THURSDAY, being the Last Day but One. TICKETS and SHARES, warranted undrawn, are Sell ing at the Old Offices of SWIFT and Co. No. 11, Poultry; , Charing-Cross : and 31, Aldgate High-street. TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS! ,„lEYTON, Stock-broker, respectfully acquaints the Public, that the next Day of Drawing will be EXT THURSDAY, when the First-drawn Prize will re ceive £20,000 over and above whatever it may he drawn. TICKETS and SHARES, warranted undrawn, continue v 4O Sal e a t th e l uc ky Office of EYTON, 2, CORNHILL and ,‘,.°MBARD-STREET, where No. 715, a Prize of £2OOO, on s A ",e Second Day of Drawing, was sold. All Business in the Public Funds transacted with fidelity and dispatch. GREAT SUCCESS AT HAZARD'S! ONLY TWO TWENTY THOUSANDS , DItMVN, and both Sold in Shares by HAZARD and -• wh o h a r e already Shared and Sold in the present £20,000 7,839 " 0 . 283 £2,000 2,290 3 .018 l,OOO Nu. 336 2,305....-- 5OO 0 ,791 , 8,074 5OO I 8,048 '" 0 . 281 5OO &c. &c. Another £20,000 must be drawn NEXT THURSDAY, 40, -1 as there are only Two Days to draw, and THREE P RIZES of £20,000 in the Wheel, a great Sale is expected. Tickets and Shares are Sellimc by HAZARD and CO., St ock -brokers, at their Old-established Offices, 98, Royal txchange Gate ; 26, Corn riOxford-street, gin; and by their Agents in all the principal Country Towns. 467 . TEN GUINEAS REWARD. TO PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, &c,— Whereas it has been discovered that certain Persons are in the habit of Printing and t'ending Labels, being copies (~ v imitation s o f t h ose a ffi xe d t o th e b o t t l es conta i n i ng t h e C,ENUINE BLACKING prepared by DAY and MARTIN, thereby enabling unprincipled dealers to impose on their cus tomers a bad an d i n j ur i ous art i c l e. W e here b y offer a reward t7f Ten Guineas t o an y P erson w h o s h a ll g i ve suc h informa -1;?n as will l ea d to t h e conv i ct i on of any one gu i lty of these "eral • practices. DAY AND MARTIN, Peb. 1822. 97, High Holborn. IMPROVEMENTS IN SAIL-CLOTH. THE PROPRIETORS of the ANTI 11.1ILDEW PROCESS have to announce the follow & additional Testimonial : Messrs. BRoWELL and Co. Feb. 14, 1822. 41 1 hare the satisfaction to inform you I have had a fore-top. IWs stay-sail made of unbleached canvas, prepared by you, 1 board the Latona, front London to Shields, during the 4 4 f st four months, in which I experienced ver heavy gales wind, th e sail being wet and dry, and often confined in e net, an d h as no appearance of Mildew. JAMES PATERSON. t r his is to ce r tify, th a t th e a b ove sa il was ma d e b y us o f ex 'well and Co.'s prepared canvas, and at we have this day 4 nlitted it, and it has no appearance of th Mildew. WALKER and HENWOOD, P e t, 1 , 1 • 14, 1822. S a il-M a k ers , Li me h ouse H o l e. yell Process is equally appli c abl e t o th e w hit es t an d d eares t i t as to the brownest and cheapest Canvas. It does not a - t he least di m ini s h th e strength, but improves the colour Pi t . softness of texture in all. It is effected in a few days, for l,Shillings per Bolt, and is re t urne d, w h en sen t t o th em , 4, q 4 i , Parts o f th e t own w i t h out expense, t h e same b rea d t h tv,' ength as wh e n rec e i ve d. A re d C rown an d B , or t h e th a t s " Anti-Mildew," are marked in various places to shew Sai l the Bolt has undergone Browell and Co.'s Process.— P ro - Cloth of various qualities, which have undergone the I, ; e s , ' may be had at the following houses, viz. Messrs. trautters and Guthrie, 9, Idol-lane; George Brown, 53, II:ad-street, Rateliff; Peter Walker and Co. 310, and op en s, 276, Waping • and Walker and Henwood, Lime ft.__e Dole. li & --- 1 -, 1V- —4 Y were published, in 2 vols. 12ino. price Bs. in boards, EDITATIONS on the SCRIPTURES ; ll ~ , chiefly addressed to Young Persons, on the importance •eligious Principles and Conduct. Rector' By the Rev. RICHARD OND, A.M. of Weston under Penyard W , A and Treasurer of the - Cathedral of Her e f or d. yoUnPlt These M e dit at i ons are full of wisdom and pi e ty, an d ap extremely well calculat e d f or warm i ng t h e h earts of the 11 1 ,,gr and inspiring them with the love of virtue. Those on 4 4 L.ife and Character of Jesus' possess many beauties, (Se„,‘ lll be read with delight both by old and young."- I',tish Episcopal Review arid Magazine, March, 1822.) 4 / 1 4%nt(id fur F. C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, ' V at 1 1 Pll 11 ............._ er 00-p ace, a -ma . . S NEW WOR fhtg 4- 'aY was MRS published, with a beautiful F K. ron t ispiece, price n 6s. in hoards, the 2d EdAion of ETROSPECTION: a TALE.- . By Mrs. TAYLOR, o f O ngar. v oluctl w e give our very cordi a l recommenthy ion of her present Yo un e, as r ep l ete w i th the most instructive lessons, toti 1 to rantg and old, an d i n every way worthy of the writer's well tePutation."—Eclectic R ev i ew, M arc h , 1822. Inted for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet-street. Frei e Of NIMBI may b e h a d, b y t h e same Author, 1.;-t'atoily Mansion, a T a l e , 3d Edi t i on, ss. 6d. • P r ocal Dnties o f P arents an d Chil dren, 3d. Edition, ss. 4 Ni 4et:c al Hints to Y oung F ema l es, on the Duties of a Wife, Ai ut h er, and a Mi stress of a Family, 10th Edition, ss. klitlernal Solicitude for a Daughter's best Interests, 9th T h u e n ' 53. of iieridl Pr esent of a Mi s t ress to a Young Servant, consisting c.y Advice and real Histories, 7th Edition, t l, o ° ,s r iii'Spondence hetwet,l a Nlother and her Daughter at • By Airs. Taylor and Jane Taylor. 4th Edition, ss. kr a newSTRICTURES CURED. Method the above troublesome tt complaint is en ire y eradicated (without th e use o f n t g l e or Caustic), whether of long or short standing, ex th.ll•l...corris.titiitional, as well as all weaknesses generally Re- It4i t i !,Y e !is it,. and in a short time the whole system is re :" ( Is hein. , one of the greatest discoveries ever made. JOHN LYNCH, 44, ' Duke -street, St. James's. ttra7Pectable reierences id will he giv en if requ i red.—All Let 'o tie post-pa. - - 1, To oe p u ldi s h e d in a few days, 9 • it,.CTICAL TREATISE on t h e DISORDERS of the 41"elutes ACH and BOWELS ; with a new Method of Curing without either Bougie ye Caustic. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The system of dissection of the public expen diture, which has been recently adopted, is no doubt far from being agreeable to Ministers.— Neither do we conceive it to be very agreeable to the generality of Members, though it is a re vival of the practice of Parliament in days when it was really a controul on the Crown. It re quires no great penetration to discover why this system may not be very acceptable even to men who dislike wasteful expenditure in the abstract, and who are not influenced by corrupt motives. It is easy for a man of a cultivated mind to make a respectable figure on almost any general ques tion, without much labour or preparation ; but no man would presume to speak on the various details of extensive accounts, without first fami liarizing himself with them, which can only be done by a labour of which few, particularly in the upper ranks of life, are capable. The sub ject too admits of hardly any of those sallies of wit, those coruscations of fancy which electrify the hearers, and obtain such intoxicating applause for the speakers. We need hardly wonder, therefore, that the self love interwoven in our nature should inspire Members with an aversion for a useful but highly ungrateful task, and a preference for a mode of warfare better calcu lated for the exhibition of individual brilliancy, though less 'calculated to benefit the public. [THE TIMES.] Some debate having sprung up last night on the presentation of a petition in favour of Mr. Hunt, respecting a very celebrated speech of the late Speaker, the subject of which was the sale and purchase of seats in the House of Commons, we shall subjoin the chief parts of the speech it self, from which it will be very clear whether the illustrious Speaker's indignation was levelled against a false charge, or a real practice ! " The question now before us is no less than this—Whether the seats in this House shall be henceforth publicly saleable ; a proposition, at the sound of which our ancestors would have, startled with indignation; but a PRAC TICE which in these days, and within these walls—in utter' oblivion of every former maxim and feeling of Parliament—has been AvcrwEn and JUSTIFIED." ** * 4C Upon the whole, Sir, that for which I am most anxious is_the establishment of the principle ; being firmly persuaded that honourable minds, which may have hitherto deviated from what I think was the straight path of their duty, or may have been made to vacillate by the , practices which they saw prevailing around them with impunity, will shrink from them with abhorrence when they find them condemned by a 'specific law ; and other men, if actuated by motives less honourable, will be re strained by fears not less efficacious." [MORNING POST.] The German Journalists are still in doubt as to the actual fate of Ali Pacha, though we fear the account of his death will ultimately prove correct; and when we consider what a powerful auxiliary he has been to the cause of the Greeks, we do not hesitate to say that the fatal event will be infinitely regretful to us. For the pre sent, however, the statements are very contra dictory upon the subject. Some of them doubt ing the fact, consider the report of his death to have originated with himself, for the purpose of deceiving his enemies; while others state, that Ali's wife, a Greek Lady, had promised to give him up, dead or alive, to the Turks.— But this story bears scarce a feature of pro bability. What ! a Greek Lady give up the most powerful ally of her oppressed country to their barbarous and tyrannous rulers—and that Greek Lady a wife, too, giving up her husband ! The thing is surely impossible —we cannot for a moment give credence to so monstrous a tale. It appears that complaints similar to those which pervade the Agricultural interests in this country have of late become not less general throughout the Netherlands. Several petitions have been presented to the Second Chamber of Legislation praying for measures to relieve the distress of the Agriculturists. Some wish the importation of grain to be prohibited or re stricted ; others desire some modification of the' salt duty. [BRITISH PRESS.] Petitions continue to be presented in the House of Commons from various parts of the country, prayinc , for a remission of the remaining part of Henry Hunt's sentence. Mr. Lambton presented a Petition last night, signed by 4,820 inhabitants of the town of Newcastle-noon- Tyne, .praying for Mr. Hunt's liberation; but the terms in which it was couched grated too harshly upon the ears of a large majority of the Members, and the Petition was in conse quence rejected. The expressions were un doubtedly harsh, and but ill calculated to con ciliate the favour of the House for the benefit of the individual whom the Petitioners professed to serve ; but they contained some wholesome truths, and were undoubtedly not more harsh than the terms of many other Petitions which have been from time to time received by the House upon the subject of Parliamentary Reform. The House of Commons ought not to weigh in an over-nice balance the language of every Petition that is addressed to them. When free men perceive the existence of gross abuses, they must feel them strongly, and words will necessarily assume a temper from the feelings which they are meant [NEW TIMES.] We own, we were greatly surprised at the pro ceedings of the Court of Common Council on Thursday. The report of them was very pro perly headed in The Times, " Breach of Privi lege"; for certainly those proceedings did form a most daring, and we believe a totally unpre cedented Breach of the Privileges of the House of Commons; nor do we know how that Ho nourable House can pass over the offence with out serious animadversion. We do not wish to speak disrespectfully of the Common Council ; but it would afford matter for great alarm, if such a set of persons were to be permitted to in terfere with the freedom of debate in Parlia ment ! The Constitutior, does not allow the House of Peers, nor even the King himself, to do what Mr. Favell, Mr. Waithman, Mr. Galloway, and a few individuals of their stamp, have done, in open, palpable, deroga tion of the dignity of the House of Commons! —We speak not now'of the strict, technical rules, by which all discussion of what passes in Parlia ment is regarded as a breach of privilege. Let the two Houses act in this respect as (generally speaking) they do act. Let them permit all fair and decorous argument on their debates; nor be extreme to mark what is done amiss by an acci dental slip of the pen, or a hasty expression in the heat of debate. But the case is widely dif ferent when we come to consider the formal de liberate act of a Municipal Corp Oration. Here power is arrayed against power, and even privi lege (risum teneatis) set up against privilege.— It is a false and foolish policy to pass over such an offence as this with disregard. Opinion is the support of authority ; but what opi nion wilt the People in general entertain of the House of Commons, if it suffer the Common Council of London to arrogate to itself a censo rial power over Parliamentary Debate ? There have been periods of our history when every in dividual who concurred in so daring a Breach of Privilege would have been instantly arrested, and punished with the utmost rigour: and though we do not wish to see such harshness revived, yet we do think it extremely impor taut to preclude all subordinate assemblages or bodies of men from interfering with the Legis lature. Early in the French Revolution, the Municipality of Paris began to dictate to the National Assernbly : and from the moment that this was tolerated, a door was thrown open to the sanguinary domination of the mob. If by the words " Breach •of Privilege," the Editor of The Ti m e s mean t to insinuate that the language uttered by Sir William Curtis, in Par liament, was a breach of the privileges of the Common Council, we should beg to know what Privileges he means. Ever since this same foolish Editor called the Common Council " the second deliberative body in the kingdom," some Mem bers of that worthy fraternity seem really to have been puffed up with the idea, that they are a sort of Parliament-men—that Guildhall is a kind of " Cheap Shop" set up against St. Stephen's Chapel, with at least an equal stock of political wisdom and experience. It is high time that this laughable self-complacency should be corrected. Let them talk as much nonsense and as bad gram mar as they like ; provided that they do not set themselves up against the law of the land, the Majesty of the Sovereign, or the dignity of Par liament. [MORNING HERALD.] We yesterday received, by the regular mail, Paris Papers of Tuesday, from which we had previously given somo extracts by express. The debate in the Chamber of Deputies is some what distinguished by a speech of ability, upon the foreign relations of France, by M. Bignon, a Liberal, to whom, it is said, Buonaparte in his will h,s bequeathed a considerable sum, with an injunction that he should write the - history of French Diplomacy from the commencement of the Revolution. This speech has had the rare fortune (for a " liberal" speech) of obtaining the honours of impression, by order of the Chamber, unopposed by the right side. The orator warmly condemned the acquiescence of France in the seizure and subjugation of Italy— which he said was in subservience to Russian in fluence—her non-interference in the cause of the Greeks, in deference to England—her non-re cognition of the new American nations, whilst England and the United States were eagerly embracing the commercial advantages of amity with them—her idle refusal to acknowledge St. Domingo—in fine, her venting upon the eman cipated Colonies in the New World the humilia tion and utter nullity to 'which she was reduced in Europe. It would appear that M. Bignon, though of the Buonapartean school, does not propose to place France i❑ a more commanding position by military conquest. His view is, that France should recover her power and influence by a liberal policy in extending her foreign trade ; and he illustrated, by a classical allusion worth quoting, the assertion that commerce and navigation were the sources, not only of wealth, but of independence abroad and liberty at home. " Gentlemen, " said he, " the Re public of Athens, in the days of her pros perity, seeing in her navigation the princi ple of her strength and glory, constructed the pulpit whence the orators harangued the people, so as to face the Pyreum, in order that the orators, having the sea before their eyes, should never lose sight of the true in terest of the State. But when subsequently over powered by her enemies, Athens was subjected to the yoke of the thirty tyrants, the cruel policy of her rival, Lacedxmon, in order to prevent the return of her power and liberty, by diverting her from their sources, caused the position of the dreaded pulpit to be changed. The looks of the Athenians were diverted from the sea to the open country, as if commerce were necessarily the com panion of freedom, and exclusive attention to agriculture rendered more easy and secure the yoke of aristocracy." PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From The Liverpool Courier, illizrch 20.) Mr. BENNE T's motion respecting the funeral of her late Majesty has met with its deserved fate; it was negatived with out a division. No case, indeed, ever so completely broke down, and in all the main circumstances, truth forced conces sions from the Opposition, which gave credit to that Government they were so anxious to censure. Thus the public have been dis abused ; and the falsehood or folly of the charges against Mini sters, which were fulminated by the demagogues, and echoed in the disaffected prints, made manifest even by the Queen's party themselves. Nothing like an accusation was made out, except 'what, from its nature, was a mere matter of opinion, that Ministers ought to have sent the corpse in public procession through the city. We clearly think they ought not ; first, be cause her Majesty herself had desired not to be made a public spectacle. She plainly enough told those around her, on her death, she had had enough of that kind of folly ; her eyes were opened, when it was too late, to the manner in which her foolish advisers had betrayed her. If Ministers had departed from this direction, to which, certainly, they had no inducement, they would have undertaken, most gratuitously, to have paid to her public honours. This she had not merited. We speak not now of her private conduct, let that rest in the grave, but of her public conduct. The folly and faction which she ex cited and countenanced were not necessary to her defence.— There was integrity, and justice, and honour enough in the nation to protect innocence, had innocence appeared, with out appealing to contemptible demagogues and a base popu lace ; without choosing a silly London Alderman for her chief adviser, and a Radical secretary to write inflammatory nonsense to the ignorant. She threw herself not upon the nation's justice and generosity, but upon the most contempti ble faction of the state; and, a s th e M arquess of London derry sustly observed in the debate, " every circumstance con nected with her situation had been turned into occasion of cabal aryl disgrace." To assume, therefore, that Ministers ought to have departed from her own request, gratuitously to do her p i bli e h onour , was one o f t h ose absurdities which only the most doltish mind is capable of entertaining. But then, we are iold, the peace would have been preserved.— Nothing is moe improbable : the busy mischievous spirits about her Majesty had rendered that so unlikely, that, after they had, in ',heir ridiculous folly, protested against, a guard of honour berag employed in the procession, which Dr. Lushington himself admits to have been very proper, it would have been the most hazardous thing which Ministers ever at tempted to have sent the oody, so guarded, through the city of London, because its mob hai been excited against the military by the published letters frora Brandenburgh-house. Those letters succeeded in placing Government in the dilemma of either not sending the guard of honour, and thus laying itself open to censure for neglect ; or of exposing the military to the insults of the populace, in the narrow streets of the city, and endang,ering a loss of life much greater than could oc cur by following th e route proposed, had all the obstacles to it been anticipated. In even this matter of opinio n , we t hi n k i t p l a i n that Ministers pur sue d the wisest course. But, whilst so much sympathy was expresssed for those who suffered that day from their own folly, we find none for violated laws, and the triumph of a rabble, produced by the pusillanimity f a public officer, most justly, as well as Sir R. Wilson, discharged from an office to the duties of which he proved himself as inadequate as the other was insensible. To all the evils of misrule the Queen's partisans in the House were insensible. This is the character of all would-be statesmen. They regard passing events, without any connexion with great principles, or any reference to their results. Give them their momentary popu larity, and the ratification of their party passions, and the great interests of th e na ti on may go just where chance may drive them. On this subject it was well and manfully said be our respectable representative, General Gascoyne, " that there never was a more gross and disgraceful outrage than that com mitted by the populace in dragging about the body of the late Queen, who in her life-time had been made the tool of faction and of party, and in gaining a victory over the constit u t e d authorities." So the House itself felt, and Mr. Bennet put his motion into his pocket, from which, had he been wise, he had never taken it. lf, however, there were no great illustra tion of judgment on the part of the Queen's partisans in this debate, there was much of the maxim, " De gustibus," &c. or, in plain English, every man to his own taste. The cha racter of the Queen and the Common Council of London were very much to the taste of Mr. Grey Bennet, and that of the .Jury, who sat in inquest upon . the Cumberland-gate affair, was as agreeable to that of Mr. Hume. Sw wnLlNG.—Tradespeople and hotel-keepers are cautioned against the artifices of a man and woman of imposing appearance and fluent address, who have defrauded various persons within these few days. The complaints to the police have been nu merous, but as yet they have avoided detection. The travelling name is at one time Captain Jones, and at other times the Rev. Mr. Jones. The female affects to be acquainted with many per sons of fashion; she is good looking, and about the middle size. The man is about 40, and about five feet eight inches, and wears powder ; they are attended by a servant in green livery. - A working jeweller, in Charlotte -street, received an order to the amount of BR and part of the goods were delivered at a house in Gower-street, where the swindler remained two days only ; mantuamakers, tailors, &c. were in full trade. They answer the description of the persons who have practised frauds upon Ladies' Schools. On Saturday morning last, about half-past 2 o'clock, Hen ry Hodgkinson, captain of the watch, observed, in going his rounds, the gate of Messrs. Fosters' yard, in Lawton-street, Liverpool, open. He immediately collected four watchmen, one of whom he stationed on Newington-bridge, and the others accompanied him into the yard, where' they obser ved a man attempting to escape over a wall sixteen feet high, which divides the said yard from Messrs. Machell and Co.'s ropery. Hodgkinson struck the robber with his stick, and he fell into th e ro p ery , f o ll owe d b y t h e captain and his men. After a search of one hour and a half, they found him on a shed, seven or eight feet high, with his leg broken and otherwise hurt, and with a knife in h is h an d. Th ey conveyed him to the In firmary, where he will - lie until he shall be sufficiently recovered to be removed to prison. It was discovered, on examination, that several hundred weight of hemp had been stolen from the ropery, and the dog belonging to the p rem i ses was f oun d d ead. The prisoner is an old and incorrigible offender. esterday a Meeting of upwards of 300 West India Planters and Merchants was :held at the City of London Tavern, C. R. Ews, Esq. in • .. the Chair. The CiraineraN—The proper course was to commence by proposing that the Secretary be directed to read the proceedings of the last gener a l meeting, and which h e how proposed. Mr. HOLDEN ' the Secretary,, then rea d th e proceedings of the last general meeting, and the question that the pro ceedings of the last general meeting be confirmed," was carried unanimously. Mr. Eeets—As the business upon which he had felt it his duty to call the Meeting was likely to create much discussion, he felt that the more convenient course would be to dispose of other. matters which concerned West India interests previously to the consideration of the business upon which they were more par ticularly called together. lie alluded to the notice which had been given by the President of the Board'of trade, of his inten tions.° bring forward i n th e course o f t h e next week a Bill re lative to the West India trade. As he had not seen the Bill It was impossible for him to lay before the Meeting the details of the measure, but he would take the liberty to read an official communication, which stated the principle and outline of the measure. This document stated that it was proposed to lay open the trade between the British West India Islands and Colonies, and to give a protecting duty to the North American Colonies upon all goods imported from the United States of America._ At a Meeting like the present, composed of West India Planters and Merchants, it would be idle to take ',up their time in descanting upon the advantages likely to accrue to the colo nies'frone measures of this sort; and it was perhaps equally su perfluous to inform them that other bodies considered this mea sure likely to interfere with their interests; he had received from the Chairman of a Meeting of Shipowners a communica tion, stating, that that Body considered such a measure as likely to have an injurious effect upon their interests. He would not venture to suggest any particular course to be pursued by the Meeting, but he would submit to their consideration the pro. priety of taking some precautionary measures in case the Ship_ owners or any other body should attempt to defeat the kind in tentions of the President of the Board of Trade. li e begged leave to have it fully understood, that in making this suggestion he was not influenced by any distrust of the President of the Board of Trade, who he (Mr. E.) felt it his duty to state, had acted in all matters relating to the colonies, upon which he had had oc casion to confer with him, in a frank and candid manner. He knew the principles of that Right Hon. Gentleman to be not only sound, but liberal and enlightened —principles which could not be influenced either by calumny or importunity ; b u t he would submit, th a t th e meet i ng, out of consideration for their own characters, and for the friendly disposition manifested by the President of the Board of Trade and the Government, ought, in the event of opposition by any body of persons, to strengthen their hands by some public demonstration of their opinions in support of the measure which Government intended to bring forward. Mr. HIEBERT_In anticipation of the contingency alluded to by the Hon. Chairman, a Petition hail been prepared, which he should submit to the meeting for signatures, and which would be presented to the House of Commons, in case of any opposi tion, or which he should rather would be presented as a precau tionary measure. The Petitio n , w hi c h h e s h ou ld b eg leave to read, was short, and avoided the general subject of grievances, the discussion of which would occupy too much time. The Pe tition which he should now have the honour to read, and which he now moved be adopted, was short, and confined itself to the single point alluded to by the Hon. Chairman. The - Hon. Mover then read the petition, setting forth in substance, that the West India Colonies suffer great distress, from the heavy expenses of cultivation ; that the restrictions on the intercourse with North America considerably. increase the prices of provi sions and lumber, which can only be obtained through circuitous channels ; and that the consequence of these restrictions is a stagnation, amounting to an almost entire loss of the trade in rum with those States. The petition prays' that Parliament will take such measures as in its wisdom may be deemed most efficient, for averting these ruinous consequences, by laying open the trade between the British West India Islands and Colonies, and the United States of America. Mr. MITCHELL seconded the motion, which was carried un animously. HIBRERT then, moved, that Mr. Ellis, the Chairman, be requested to present it to the House of Commons._Carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN—If any Member wished to propose any additional Members to the standing Committee, he had now a - favourable opportunity. On the motion of Mr. C. N. PALMER, the following Gen tlemen were added to the standin g C ommi ttee :—Capt. Charles Ellis ; John Houghton James, Esq. ; Charles John Manning, Esq. ; John Burke ' Griffiths, , Esq. ; Robert Grant, Esq. ; William Bryant, Esq. ; James Inglis, Esq. ; Thomas De- laney Hall, Esq. ; Oswald Smith, Esq. ; David Lyon, jun., Esq. ; William King, Esq. ; and George Wheatley, Esq. Mr. HIBBERT then moved, that the Petition be left for sig natures et the Secretary's City Chambers, until twelve o'clock on Tuesday morning, and on that evening be presented to the, House of Commons.—Carried unanimously. Mr. ECUs thought the more convenient mode by which he could put the meeting into the possession of the business which • lie intended to submit to their consideration, would be to read. the Resolutions of the Standing Committee, in pursuance of which he had felt it his duty to call the meeting. The resolutions merely stated the necessity of convening this Meeting in consequence of the Petition and Memorial of the West India Dock Company, the contents of which had been communicated to the Chairman of the West India Planters in the following letter from the Chairman of a Meeting of the West India Dock Directors : " West India Dock House, 18th Feb. 1822. " DEAR SIR—I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the West India _Planters add Merchants, that the Directors of thi s C ompany are still in negociation with his Majesty's Government, upon the subject of the Company's exclusive privileges ; and, although these negotiations have not been brought to a conclusion, or even carried so far as to enable the Directors to determine whether they shall make their application to Parliament during the present Session, they feel it right to communicate to the West India Body the measures which they have taken. • " I am, therefore, desired to enclose to you the copy of a Memorial which is now under the consideration of the Board of Trade, and to express the hope of the Court of Directors, that the Planters and Merchants will concur in the general yiew of the question taken in that document. The Directors cannot but recollect that it is to the 'West India Planters and Merchants that their establishment owes its origin ; and when they re vert to the considerations which induced the 'West India Body originally to promote the undertaking, they find them peculiar ly applicable at the present time. At a Meeting held at the London Tavern on the 13th Decemb e r, 1798, at w hi c h up wards of one hundred Planters and Id erchants were present, it was unanimously decided, that the numerous advantages to be expected from establishing the Docks at the Isle of Dogs, might all be defeated unlesS the Legislature should render it obligatory on the ships trading to and from the West Indies to confine themselves to the use of the Docks and Warehouses set apart for their reception, and calculated for their accommo dation. ' " The Directors feel confident, that the experience of near twenty years will have strengthened the conviction expressed in this resolution, and that the Planters and Merchants will be induced to use their influence in support of a system so essen tial to their interests, and to preserve the integrity of an Esta blishment which may be said to be peculiarly their own. " The great object of security to the trade, which, if aban doned at this crisis, can never be placed upon the same advan tageous footing on which it stands under the West India'Dock system, is of such paramount importance, that the Directors trust that you will think it expedient not to allow objects of a. minor consequence, which the Directors will, at all times, be ready to discuss and adjust, to interefere with its attainment. " In conclusion, I have only to assure you that the Direc tors feel that the interests of the West India BOdy and those of ' l ' this Company are inseparably united ; and that it is their ardent desire to promote both to the utmost of their power. " I have the honour to be, &c. " WILLIAM MITCHELL, Chairman." 'He should also read a copy of the Memorial presented by the - West India Dock Company to the Board, and the petition 0 that Company to the House of Commons, praying for leave to. bring in a Bill, for the continuance of the Clauses, which coma; pelled all West India Merchants to unload their shipping in the West India Docks. The memorial to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Coun cil for Trade, dated 2d February, goes at great length into a 1, that gyred to nce„of : Corn- Fitness sidered e could n him . 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