The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-30 00:00:00

THE RESOLUTIONS.

itesoire 1., Ist. That the present elate of this country, which is
now in the twelfth year of peace, is that of the most unexampled
misety nod rain which it has ever fallen to the lot of any country
td endure. 31ereltants and manufacturers are stripped of their pro-
petty—the working or productive classes arc without the means of
tnsployment, without fond, uithout rainunt ; and beggary and
molten-ism, the ever fertile source of profligacy and crime. threaten
1.1 tatted their baneful influence throughout the whole of this in-
dustrious cone:Dunk,.
W. That one immediate cause of this deplorable and heart-
rending state of our country la the cruel and unjust measure of
prohibiting the importation of Foreign groin, thereby depriving us
.4 gitarkettk fur oar mmiufactureal goods, nt mire raising the price of
teed, add depriving us of the means OF ofltaining it it ahneet any
'peke, sod at, the same time forcing those countries, which would
erlllingls eat:lunge their corn for one good., to ettablish nienufac-
terlie of them own, whieit threaten to exclude us altogetlier from
Ole fozzip market.
• ild. That the Corn Laws, teed all other prohibitory enactments
valid tend to raise the prier of fnod, arc the necessary consequences
cf the enormous, ruinous, unjust, and unconstitutional amount of
*Oration. which the nation is atinughy called on to pay, in order to
itit:etalat a large winding army In the time of peace, tad to ephold
a system of favouritism and corruption, in the shape of use Les
placers, eemerited pensions, sinecures, grants, and ether tnioiti-
viem., 0.- it tea distributed amongst a few particular and influential
f-tral:,ee, who no: wily give no equivalent to the Slate, but who, by
twang of various unjust aud psrtial laws, paved Cy themselves,
ufu enahled to eviape those burthens which the rest of the comniu-
ussy pre socrwelltti. to bear, and by which oteani they are enabled
ts teenier a control over the Members returned to serve in the
tateentans Ileuee of Fernery:en', a control locunspatible with the
sr of the Britieh Cons itution, directly at variance with the
et Out Odic people, and ruineus to the best interests of the nation.
ttb. Via the grievous and unprecedented evils which the coon-
try: I% at Pentebt eta/feting under are such as to demand a great
and ionnedixte reduction lit every blanch of the public expenditure.
eth.Thet it is die opinion of this Meeting, that there sail be j
ecotter hatepluess nor content so Ina as the church and crown
;ends nmem us a stpuulua in the hands of the holders to support
dig Sotad w ; and we request that they it di be wild, to lrqui.
Aim the lase t debt, cr fur the purpose they were anginally in.
ttil34ll foite-n - ly, to support his 3lajeety. 1
fitr,. That in the opinion of this Meeting, no measures.ran be I
tue.odoced, calettland to afford effectual and permanent relief to
the *natty. mien secure the happiness and independence of the
people, L.l r a tharo,igh and radical reform of the Commons Home
et' P,p,liameet—such a reform as will secure to every Loglislinien
**wk.; in the matins( of threw laws by which hie life and property
sie ri, 1...., 4efei iccii ; —that .Innual Part 2 rneo te, Universal Suffrage,
54d Election by Bellot.wouhlarre to the steeple of this once free and
Lippe/poem', a coestitutionaThmfrol over the conduct of those who
1:44 cOmpeett the legislature,and would deter than from giving their
enaction to such acts as now disgrace theAtatute book. and the ope-
reeihee et which has plunged the working clearest into the lowest
dept` ocnelsery ; with Parliaments thus constitited, new life and
lions? ,/4d be infused throughout the whole o:motley ; England,
rev 'elewirl by be continental despots as a giant bowed down to
an eroid: by her eirttarrosments, and in a condition to be insuleed,
a feeder eepeet front her lethargic torpor, and, through the thiglify
elfir!eof her 4sTally talented and indueerious population, aided by 1
LeCiftfoefire mechanical power, would, in a short thee, become, it,.
r *A; the cnry of surrounding cations, and the 'admiration of
tha world."
Qtr. 11 it i hi; Meeting deem it their duty to call upon their fel-
heie.subjecle, -of every sect and party, to join them in demanding
'Acne tbit liegbleture suet e Reform of the Commons Houma(
I"fichantent as stilt secure to the labourer the fruits of Ids own la-
b taq, to the. merchant and manufacturer the fair profits arising
tom their tfade, and to every British subject a full partieipation io
a'.ithatiritrilegee and advantages of British citizens.
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'lnure STOCK BANS—As it is understood that Parliament
Galt assets in November for a few weeks. it is not thought newts-
selyete hold the proposed meeting to torn, a public bank for the
Getup iesi of Nitt.hundit ;land wild Diselsam before December, during
wiebdereortin we are lecittested to mate, for the information of the
frniwia of th. immure. that a morn( of those who are friendly to
tan undertaking will NI cslled, se sake the proper steps to carry it
tn. cllis..t.— Nereus:le Ciiresicia

We cannot report favourably as to the actual sales of
gagres from illiatlistiict ; the het three Tuesday's market,
attManehesiet having been flatter than usual. Still there
is oe tilposition to roil under the present prices, and where
a depts-ciation has taken place, it has been upon goods
wfticL the previous few works' demand had raised iii value.
A:fair proportion of trade appears generally to be doing,
and from all we learn, though no great improvement may
take place, there is little cause to fear that things will be
worn'.—Slorkpnit Adverliter.
't rrtws FEW is —We arc sorry to learn that the Typhus
Fever rage:: with great violence in the village of Bandon.
liptstittls of. 200 'person s are guff, ring under this dreadful
snaky. The disease is supposed by persona on the spot,
to have eristo from Ilya noisome effluvia of a common
sewer, which has not been cleaned for a number of rears.
The typhus fever is also prevalent at liillam, near Monk
Fryaton, a small village containing about 300 inhabitants,
two cf whom died from Ilia effects of that disorder Jut
le, —York Ihrald,