The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-04-20 00:00:00

BISH has already Shared and Sold TWENTY-THREE
Capitals in the present Lottery.
All must be Drawn Last and only Day.
NEXT TUESDAY, the 23J of APRIL.
BINH. of the Old State Lottery Offices,
T• 4, Combat, nod 0, Charing-crud. London, calls the
atteotnow of Iris bet Friendr, the Public, to the present
Rich State of the Wheel, which contains
TWO PRIZES of f. 40,000!
and 20 other Capitals of 1,0001., 5004 die. &c. all of which
most be Drawn on TUESDAY NEXT, the 2dd iostani,
when the Lottery will entirely Amish.
Tickets and Shares, warranted uadrawn, are on Sale at
DISH'S OlSces in London, and by his Agents to the
Count, y.
firers fleket—Erery Share—Every Capital—and every
other Prisc nut be drawn
NEXT TUESDAY.

SHIP VIVIVEAS' PATITION.

To the Honourable the Commons or the Visited Kingdom of

Gnat Rriiain :Intl Ireland in Parliament nmeml;leil

The humble Petitiuu of the undirroigned Ship Owtacio of
Loudon,

Shrweth--.1 hat yam Petitioners bare seen with the monist
alarm that Bills bare berm introduced not. your Honourable
Howse, to 'dad the provisions of the Navigation Acts of the
1211413th, sod 14th of Charles 11.. to the extent of admitting
the importation mu the United kingdom of the productions
of every part of the world, from amy part of the world, with.
slot regard to the place of their growth or preelection, pro-
vided only that the importation hem the last place of ship-
ment be made in British vessels.

That your Petitioners have ever bees taught to toosider,
aud their own experience has strengthened the conviction,
this the Navigatiou Laws are admirably calculated
to remote the d t aud must essential interests of this
vitiate, ; sod they consider them, also, to he strictly
cowartent with justice, sire* it to no more than reason.
able that islaoils like Great Britain wed 'retard, whirl.
depend f-r their. safely wad prosperity upon thei► ma-
rise, should so regolase their tot. rcourm with other as-
hore as to secure to themselves the mesas of efficiently
aorporting it, which they coofidently believe ran only be
done by reissuing the whole of the earryirg trade with
Stales which have usi ships of their own, as well as that por-
tion of the carrying trade with other countries, which, in their
josh-frowner with this kingdom, those countries are usable or
Ihowillsor to carry on in their owe ships.
That this prinriple bas now bees meth' upon for upwards
of two centuriem, and with Bic aid of our free Constitution
kit:, wider Providence, *Weed this kingdom to unequalled
prosperity and power. Your Petiliomers, therefore, cutout
but look apish any departure from it—not called for by some
imperious necessity—as a most dasgmous experinotos.
'Ebel the propose.' relit:shun is decidedly of that cha-
racter, sod •Ithusigh it is admitted by the authors of the bill•
to be imputoible `• to calculate with certainty all ifs hearings
end consequences." yet they hiring it forward without, as
your Petitioners connive, any •ilequate necessity. The pro-
moters of the mer•ort snort, it is true, that it would " be
easily wise. rouble of mudificatiou, should circumstances
ors-e to render sues andificstion essential to the
putt-chub any of the great object• which every con-
poderw ion of the notional safety and power imposes the
doh of inflexibly maintaising ;" lint your Petitioner* trust
that your Bounwahle House will rather forbid this dam-
gnome experiercui, than trust to the hailer of being able to
rectify the error hereafter, which must be a work of the
greatest isorertsiuty, and wwild durbtless isrolve this coun-
try in iliffieult ilimussious with any foreign State that might
he reaping the advantage so needlessly offered to them.
That your Petitioners beg to state to your Hoe. Hoare,
that they mil well aware of the malty impeiltinessts sod hard-
ships it 'which oar commercial satereeporee with foreign no-

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