The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-10 00:00:00

THE DISTRESSED MrLVELPACTURERS.

The Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Manu-
facturers have issued the following address to the working
classes out of employ.

TO TIIE MANUFACTURERS AT PRESENT IN DIS-
TRESS FOR WANT OF EMPLOYMENT.
Committee-room, London, May 9, MK
The Committee who have been entrusted with the distribution of
the money subscribed for your relief, commence their anxious task
by addressing to you a few words of advice and comfort.
It is with heartfelt sympathy and concern that we have learned
your present state of distress. No sooner was it known in the
Metropolis, than a subscription was entered into for your relief, to
which all classes have contributed, and which promises Jr to
i supply the means of providing you with the support of which you
stand so greatly in need.
Since, therefore, you are now assured of such a portion of relief
as will preserve you from extreme want, we may jastly.entn at you
to wait patiently for better times. We hope they are not far dis-
tant; but, whether they be or no, remember that itneatlence and
disorder on your part will bersure to delay the happy change, by
lessening the resources to which you must look for permanent imp.
port. Irsde and commerce can flourish ;only in a quiet and peace-
able country. A few years ago the working elassee in the spice!.
tural districts were severely tried with distros ; at that tints
you were in the enjoyment of plenty. You arc now called upon ta
suffer for a season ; but it will be only for a season ; and the
more quietly and patiently you bear it, the shorter will that seagull
be. Another motive to patience is, the Christian sympathy which
pervades all ranks of people on your behalf ; from your gracious
Sovereign, who, by his muniticentdonations, has given fresh proofs
of his being the friend of his people, down to the servant and me.
clunk, who have contributed a portion of their hard-earned wages
to this work of charity. all are feelingly alive to your present wants,
and anxious to relieve them.

We are persuaded that you are a loyal and well-disposed people ;
and that you view with sorrow and disapprobation the acts of vio-
lence which some misguided persons have committed, as being in.
jurious, in the highest degree, both to your present interests and
to your prospects of future employment. The King's lilinistre
present at our great 3lecting, whilst he promised that Government
would do its duty, by putting down and punishing acts of violetLe
and disorder, at the same time pleaded for you, as a friend whose
heart felt fur your sufferings ; and testified to your general good
i conduct.
Beller° us, when we tell you, that both the Government of etc
country, and your fellow-subjects at large, take the deepest interest
in your present distress, and will do all in their power to relieve it.
Be content to leave your case in the hands of those who me sea
kindly ilispo,Nl towards you. Do not be led awa:, by minrepresen.
tution, to believe that any remedy will be withheld. which cat with
safety be applied to your present case. The measures to which
some have wickedly and foolishly resorted, ate not remedies, but
aggravations of the evil.
The Subscription which we are appointed to distribute, will In
distributed only to those who are peaceable and orderly. A different
line of conduct will compel your fellow-subjects to withhold both
pity and relief, and will dry up the sources of Charity. Bur wa
conlidently hop better things ; and In that hope we Murat you to
secure to yourselves the benevolence and respect of those who ate
able and willing to alleviate your distress ; and, which is of far
greater importance, to approve yourselves obedient and roots. tint
savants of Dim, who both appoints this trial of )out patience. And
will in his own goal time remove it from you.
(here follow the names of the Committee.)