The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

COLUNIAI, TRADE.

PETITION FROM SOUTH SHIELDS. RESPECTING
NORTH AMERICAN AND COLONIAL TRADE.

[Printed by order of the Horse of Csamoss, May W, 1832.]

A Petition of the theresundersigned ship-owners mail
others. of South Shields, interested en British shipping, was
presented, and read ; setting forth, that the g I
depresswo of the shipping of the rnaatry traders the
Pe deem rs extremely anxious on the measures which are
before the House, ■ud which so materially bear upon
the ',hipping interests of the country; that, while they have
recently had under their consideration the Bills pending
before the dome fur altering the ancient navigation laws,
their attention is again drawn to the consideraton of
oilier Bills which are brought before the House, for en
extrusion of the warehousing system for cargoes brought
into this country in foreign bottoms, and likewise for an al.
treat ion of the ancient navigation and colonial policy (which
have been so long and so successfully polluted between
Great Britain mud the IVest lodes Hands), by which pending
Bilis fonetrei *hipping are 10.111, to be allowed a direct iuter-
Course with the [Selfish Colonies ill the West indica, and like-
wise a proposed estension for Hellish shipping to trade (seem
dee Colonies to Europe; that the Petitioners ate under the
necemeity of appealing to the House against steel, sweeping
concessions, winch tend to the metier altrogeo ion of the old sys-
tem of colonial law•, thereby drpricl/OC tier British ship-owner
of that part of tier colonial tea& wheel, he has hitherto, under
the wise and provident legislation of our ancestors, enjoyed; If
the pending Bills pass, they will upon doe col I caroling-
trade to Americas sitippiar, at a juucture when the British
shipping and seamen arc unidde to eider i utu mope. titan with
receive shipping, from the pressure of laxative and ether i x•
pewees, to whirl, the exigences of the Mate, sod the restric-
tions they are under of porelisiog every kind of stores in
England, subjects them lee, even ou many of the articles re.
quiade fur refitment is a foreign port, stitch have been
rendered necessary by misfortune; that, should the proposed
Bills peas into law, the nunehe•r of British ship( whirl,
are at present engaged in the Meat India trade mast of sue-
malty be cleanly diettinished ; and, cunsitiming the effect of
the proposed Americas I utereonrie Bill, is coujoartiou with
the either relaxations toed ahrogations of the Navigation
Laws, which are so well rale ulated to suit the American
and ether furrier shipping, the Petitioners are firmly of opi•
Mon Ant they will lieronw the carriers of the world
in preference to the British ships sod British seamen ;
and the Vendome' are fully mmible of the frandolent prac-
tices such emoressions arc calculated to inorndeee in smug-
dale to ■ad from the Crolooies, end facility with whirl,
foreigners provide themselves with similated papers of the
origin of goods, sad likewise of the dertiustios of ships and
cargoes to or from any part of world, as betel suit their
views ; avid that the pending Bills are calculated to lead to
an increase of seek practices, should they receive sie mew-
-1 Hon at the Lconlaturet that the otadone of the Lestaistore
ref t►a country has foe centuries given oxioettweekeutetsl to
British ship sad seanneo, and literate, ponied fur the two-

tertiott of the casette', and secured the freight and Imo.
mission of the goods from VI/1011111 parts of lbe world, and
more particularly from our own Colimits, in British ships
manned with native women ; sod under these vim enact.
meats the maritime strength of the country was always
rearene in every clime a hardy race of seamen, able and wil-
ling fur the service sod protection of the Seale; how they
have performed that service the naval history of the coentry
mefficiattly confirm., in relating the bloody wars with the
Dutch for the maritime meceudsitcy, and the late treenen-
ditlis struggle with all the combined Powers of Europe, in
which the professed object wax to wrest this ssceadsocy out
of our hands, and thereby destroy the great bulwark of owe
safety aad our wealt►, which the navigation principles
adopted and consolidated in the statute of 12th of Charles
the Second, have been the means of establishing ; the value
and importance of those priuciples have been so self-evident,
that the Petitioners never contemplated that any change
would be suggested more titan to simplify the law, by !c-
-omfier, those statutes which had become obsolete : they
listed that the effects of those laws had satisfied every
Englishman of their utility, sod convinced them that they
were the foundation on which rested one protection, the
source of our greatness„ the serest pee riots of our
power, and t►e best bulwark of the British empire; that the
Petitioners are totally at • loss to account fur the strange
revolutionary principles is the commercial intercourse of the
constry euntaheed b the Bills which are pending before
the Hauge, which will efect • radical :hinge in our nevi-
notion and colonial policy, end the old laws, which have
been acknowledged or deserving of particular veneration
fur their onei its and wisdom; the Petitioners find is Usp
pending Bills principles diametrically opposite, and they
cannot disguise their matirseutr, bat candidly state, that there
appears • deliberate intention to di part from the old princi-
ple, mid to adopt in lieu an storied t►eory against both pro-
fessional opinion, and that of practical results ; the old sy►-
tem has brought us to the high pre.endomite is •Lich
Great Britain now glands; it is true the modern econo-
mists deny that any restriction's see necessary even to em.
ploying native shipping if the foreign shipping can be pro-
ctored on lower terms; the House must be fully aware that the
rise and progress of this nation to greatness is to be dated
from the provident determionlion to carry our commerce on
with native ships; the easement of those laws made our
eoweraeree and marine to grow up together, and this
principle of wholesome restraint has c•u•ed them to rise mad
to Sourish, which they have dune alternately, as cause ■ud
effect, accelerating each eater's progress; our ancestors
watched this rise and progress with the greatest care
and attention, ever jealoma and forward to check any
precipitate, wanton, or apparently systematic infringe.
meet of their favourite system ; that the Petitioners sat ex-
pressing these sentiments, •re only following the opinions
that have b•ew advocated by sonic of the wisest men the
country has produced, sorb as Lords Clarendon, Bacon,
Looghborough, Sheffield, Liverpool, Sir Walter Raleigh,
Child, Temple, and oilers, too numerous to detail,
and beg to subunit to the House, that the high pitch
of wealth and ?Aver the country bas üblained since
the enactment of those laws, has caused them to be cot.si-
dered as objects of attachment and veneration by every
British subject; sod they humbly solicit, that the wisdom of
the Hoare will deliberately weigh and consider the great be.
nefit derived from their, and not suffer aspic'''. with no other
foundation thew • speculative them y, to preponderate against
so much positive good; that the Petitiouers beg leave to
state to the House, that the sidp.ovruere are labouring seder
the greatest depression, that they are fast sinking their ca-
pitals, that their ships yield them no return adequate to
pay the expenses, that any more foreign competition must
accelerate their ruin, that they are no more able to compete
with foremasts in the sailing expenses of their 'hips the• the
agricultural i•teresls are able to compete with them is
growing corn or any other production of the laud; the
House must be sensible of the danger of tampering with
suck an important system for the pairpum s of a smell ad-
ditional (if any) speculative commerce and Increase of foreign
shipping, which moat force the Br' ' h to decline in the
same proportion; the British ship-owner will cease to em-
hal k his capital in a pursuit that must prove ruinoas to him,
the effect of which most be the reduction of sloe number of
British ships and British seamen ; this will lose the toiletry
her natural defence, and the freight on the imports soil ex-
ports thos will be lust, that which the petitioners had been
taught to venerate as the palladium of British security; they
therefore treat, Hest the Idolise will leggin those saws es the
source of oar greatness, the surest presrrvaliini of our power,
aid the beat bulwark of the empire; they therefore hum-
bly pray, That no alteration may be mole is the cilouisl
carrying trade ay two established by law, detrimental to
British shipping.

• ' MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE. MONDAY, NAY 17.
Tke arrivals of all psi. since last MOtlfley 114Y0
very great. and particularly of Meat and Oats : the former
article is 24. per quarter cheaper, and only the finest sainp...,
were is drained this morning, having no buyers to soy ether
description. Fine Barley is Is. per quarter tumor, but the
ordinary aorta for grinding wkl on the same fermis as last
seek. Oats, Beans, and Pease, are la. per quarter rhe.pri,
and dell mle at that abatement. In other entitle,/ nee',
So alteration.

CV RREISIT PRICK OF GRAIN.
Wheat. Kest tc Eillel 30s 50. Grey Posse
.--- Suffolk.... 30‘ Sas 'lna( Beans ...42.: 4 .
---liodullic.... 4.041 46,1 TICk 4110 •.. • ...., Ia i •:••.
Rya 24. 2641 Oats, Potato
Rarley Um lea Polsad Oats 244 •
%Tait
White Pease 24s Sita Floay per sack ....4J, :. .
&oaten 4BO 30. Rape Seeslip pot. labs ..a;gi ~.; I
-——-- - - -

INPORIATION
English Wheat, 11,484;
Oa Is 31,30; Rye, 10; Reel
Whrni, 144; Ostik, 1,31/41.-111

S LAST WEEK.
Barks, 3.3414; Hall, 3„591,
nti 1.787; Pease. 530..-100,
Kliih Flour 10,143 44(414.

GUILDFORD, MAY ^.5.
Wheat, per load
Oat., per quarter Ol 11e to II 5,4
Barley, per quarter Ol 15e to 0/ Ise
Beaus, per quarter .. 1/ 0. to 11. to.
Grey Pease, per quarter.. 11 is to 11 Se

. SMITHFIELD, MONDLT, MAY 27. Our market towilauses abundantly Nupplied •illt all
sewiptionisof swot, bat the demand bring rather brink ii ,
mersifi, lasi week's priors were witaitied fur prime wear.—
late rail's haws occasioned a consul crible fell in Ho-
wie* of Hiy. The following is a correct statement of MO
priors sod wriabers:—

To oink the 'Old per stone or 81b.
Rect....ls. (M. to 3s. 4.1. Head of Cattle this day:
Mutton .Is. Od. to 31. 04. Beast,
Lamb ...3s M. to 4a. 04. Sheep sad Lamb _ 20.1n0
Vea1....3s 14. to 4s. Od. Calves
Pork ....2s. ed. So is. 44. Pies ......... ...... iftt
HAY-MARKET.
Hai
Clover
Straw.

NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL
(By the Carew)
Beef.... 1. 8d to 2s 611 Veld 241 fld lo b 4
Mutton.. Is 8d to 2s Od I Pork .... Is Od to 34 h
. _ _

Lamb 31 lid tO 4e-id.

PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW.

R. WHITTCHAPPL.
Hay 31 Os 41J to 41 41 Od Hay.... 3; tlr Od to 4/ P.
straw I/ 71 Od to I/ 179 ad Clover.. 4701 Od to 5/ I'
Clover 3! 51 Od to 418 a Ott t Straw.. 1! Od to 1/16. •1'

_
PRICE OF noes, per Cwi.
NSW POCK Styx . NM" saes.
Lem ....21 Ito to 61 Os Kent 2/ les to Vn.
se..ex —2l Its to 31 Its Some: .... 2/ 10e to 3! as
Essex....2l les to 41 4s I Essex .... el IS. to 4/ Os
Farnham, fine, 41.105. to la—Seconds, It 10e. to 6/. as.

PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of ttlh.
Price by WWI" (se elated by the Tallow Metiers) tr. Old.

PRICES OF TALLO
Town Tallow 38s Oil —I. Od
fellow Ramie 31s Od
White ditio...36s Od
bap ditto.... 24s Od —s Od
Welting 84148884 84 38s Rd
Ditto realB..lBs Od —s Od

SOAP, kc. per 11211).
Yellow Soap
Mottled
Curd
Graves 7. 64
' Good Dregs 6. us

PRICE OF CA NOI.F.c,
Frost 'Fellow Chandler*. liall.
Price of Glance, per duern, Ws Ud-Iluulds, ios 1.1.
6d. per du=es alluwed fur ready SI usey.

PRICE OF POTATOES, (runs MAYI3IO NIT 21.
Champion. (rum
Red Pol.lurs, from
Yo,kshire Kidarya al
Scotch PoWoes. irom
New relilacs, Ware
1;d per lb.

RAW ll IDI S.
I
Rest Heifers & Steers, pert. Ordinary.. 2s Od to 2s 4,1
2s 8J to js 0.1 Nlarirt Calf.. each 10. to
Middlings 2s dal to 2s 6J Eug. Horse Its Od to 0. 04

PRICE DE LEATHER.
Bulls, 50 to 56111Dr.cach 1841 to 14.1 per lb.
Ditto, 1,6 to 66110.. each Ind to Vil
Dreimiii: Itolca
Fitt...Com-1i Holes ..
Crop llidi►JS to 4U Ilia fur cutting 1811 to HIJ

Dill,. 45 to 501115....
..19.1 to '2 Id
Call Skins 30 to 401bs 23.1 to 174
Ditto 50 to 701bs •:. H.l lu 33,1
Halo 70 to Soht 't I to :Ittil
Small orals (thecolawl) l9d to 2011
Large ditto 151 to 1911
Talsord Ilurse Hades
Spanish Il°a se Hides 1" I to •20,1

COA i. M A i:ii ET, MAY 27.
Ships at Market. Slops Sold. Price.
OD Newcastle
16i Sunderland
2 Scotch Coal
3 Stone Coal . .. 3 sss 0.1 to 535. Dd.

BIRTHS.
On Wednesday, the 22.1 ionised, is Mosiszu-rbee, the
Lade of larateaaal-Colonel Cowper, of a da.igititr.

M A RRI AGES.

On the 25th Indust, at Mary le.lsone New Chords, Alexen-
arr Geage Millie, Esq. of Porilsod.rned, 111 dlr.. So.irs,
vi
-Neuthigliaira-platte, •idiew at tile late Julio Sp3to, Esq. a
Bristol.
Os Sainnisy lad, st Msry-leAtone Church, Henry Joltn,
eldest sots of Ilenry Grans, F.rq. of looli Ce•tl', in so,
went, or Glaronorsos, to ills), .IPiteh . r of tic..
le, of WoodlAB46 Castle, su :Ise eassse tossuty.

AA
IC
'to

Do
111,

J

,

psi
dra
TH
fowl

.