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" the roost Noble the Governor General, &c. .

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Socretarikto Gov. Sec. ?al. «rui Foy. Depts."

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COTTON TRADE.

At a numerous and respectable meeting of the
'lmporters, Cotton Spinners, Manufadurerb-Printers,
and others interested in the Cotton Trade, held in
consequence of previous advertisement in the news-
papers, ARCH. CAMPIALL, Esq. in the chair; a
Report on the Cotton Trade of-Great Britain, and
on the died of the late Duties on the importation of
Cotton Wool, having been read, and approved of by
the meeting,the same was ordered to be printed, and
the Chairman requested to transmit cores of it to
each Member of both I louses of Parliament.
Thereafter the meeting came to the following Re-
solutions :
RtsOLVtD,

lit, That Cotton Wool, the raw material of our Mant*et-
tore, being now chiefly the prodiat of foreign independent
countries, or of the colonies belonging to other European pow-
er:, the foreign mantgatturer can purchase his Cotton Wool at
the same markets which the Sr/Sigh menu admen must neces-
sarily resort to for his.
2d, That the duty upon Cotton Wool has the ere& to limit
the importatino into this country of that article, to wl at may
be supposed the necessary quantity required, form trine to
time, for our manukaithiees thus creating a kind of artificial
scarcity, arid, in, addition to tt-e duty, a !till farmer enhance-
oient of the price, beyond that at which the fureign manufac-
turer will be able to supply himself.
Sd, That were no &mud to be levied anon Cotton Wool in
this country, the great eousumptiun of that article in our nes-
nufaetures, would render iiritain the mart of all the Cotton
Woof to be brought to Europe, furnishing tniis a very seeteti-
sieslource of ectiployment for shipping and commenual capi-
tal ; giving to our maniaiseturem an ad.-eetage rn Vie price u:
the raw material, over those of other countries ; and what is
of will more irneortante to them, an opportunity of prefe-
rence to making their selecting of those of Cotton
most suitabie to theiiriegp branches of their manat34 use.
4th, That any duty pun upon the raw meteriel, increases
progressively upon each oparetion through iv Rich the manufee-
Sure may afterweris pass, and Looms at oast to tiirin ar napkin-
lint port of the cost of the article to the consumer_
9th, That as our manufactures hare uni:nately to enter
into a competition for sale with the mer. efeetures of mint/its
less burdened, and whose labour is them:xi dual'
our:, wc
ought to be particularly careful, how we uurselves hold out
further encourseruent to the toresen triarieurieture:, law
him, in effect, a bounty upon Ira manufactures, to the
amount of whatever duties we rnoy uneuse oval oar own
6th, That when the foreign monstfacturar tall have beer:
thus encoaroged by us, and led on to term extensive esta-
blish:* his, and that the channel% of cornmerte begin percep-
tibly to be occupied eith his prodats, we may leak back,
w.th regret, upon the 'Tu.stalten covii.dezec under which we
had acted ; but airy repeal, then, of the datiesthat had nursed
this competition, evil. come too late to reinelly the es il.
7th, That the: Cotton Monufacture of Groat Britain, with
the simaidtary inenufactures immediately dependent upo.r
emploesin very great capita!, a:A in the different operatims
affords the means of subsistence to nearly a tenth part of the
po,ou'ation of the ivland.
Bth, That revenue levied upon arti.:lcS of censumptlon, Is
paid for the earnineei of lab mr, ur Front; of ca;:ltal, as ies red
inta income; while the revg.nait arta rn 'A-3 to te• drawn d rrctly
either frill' manufactures or Lade in pr,:ce,s, is not uniy taken
from what eventually never can be intotite, but is an anticipa-
tion arid eacioeclimcnt upon the means from which income is
to be derived.

9th, That, as the productive power and wealth of a country
de„,ctid altogether upon the successful employment of its in.
du try, the taxing in any degrae the raw material of one of the
must important brauc6.K of that iiidustr:, limiting its i.ower of
compeution with foreiga industry, is deviating from the first
principles of Commerce, an I is colitrary to sound policy.
10th, That 1,,t the rea,inis now stated, it is the opinion of this
Meeting that any duty on Cotton Wool ,s highly impolitic, and
may prove cutouts to the Cotton Manufacture ; that this Meet-
ing therefore declare their d...termination to persevere in repre-
senting
.the fatal consequences of this tax to Government,
and to Parliament, and to make every exertion in their power to
obrtm it; repeal.
Tat Meeting then named \tsars. John Stirling, Degald
Hatimitine, Kirkman Finlay, Archibald Cainpbell, Robert
Owen, Archibald Smith, Henry Monteith, Francis G
.luh:i Paulson, Witham Smith, Aloxander Campbell, John
Nlonterh, James Murdoch, John 1%1.11v/ham, Jame: D;Loinis.
won, John liirtholumew, Robert Thon;ioo, and Jigoi• s Os-
wald, as a Committee to conduct the business to appoint De-
legates in London; and to prepare a Nlenior.al to be laid be-
fore the Treasury, arid also a Petition to the I.luusz of Com-
mons, praying for a repeal of the act.
ARCH!). CAMPBELL.

Archibald Campbell, Esq. having left the chair, the thanks
of the Meeting were unsuimously voted to hint, tor his exer-
tions in this very important bushievs.
N. B. A subscription was immediately commenced, for
raising a fund tu defray the expense of coild,ictiog the aitpli-
cation to and a racy consALrable sum was sti-
scribed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING-R 00•4, FEB. 14.
oATLAN DS.

Ated ...1 2 to 5 agst Lignum Vitz.-7 to 2 myst Elotnor.
—Even, oetpeen Eleanor and Duxburv.—aUo to Z: that J.ili.i,
Q a,,ci Walton, do nut all win —(M to 61 L;gnum,
Gwiliscr, and Fk,nor, no not all win.
liEit BY :Ind OA uth ing done.