The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-21 00:00:00

THE HUMBLE MEMORIAL

Of the undersigned, being Mester Maufactorers of Cotton
Goods. end Workmen who have been employed hi the various
Branches of that once extensive and important Manufac-
-ture

Sheweth,
That yonr Royal Highness's humble Memorialists, who arc
time and faithful subjects to his Majesty, under whose royal
banners many of them have fought and bled, but now are re-
turned home, cannot obtnin food, are brought to dire distress,
which is every ilay becoming more poignant; and unless some
means of relief be speedily discovered, one common Cola must
lON cave masters and workmen.
Th it the general and universal evil may be ascribed to seve-
r,ll causes—as, first, to a prevailing system of reducing wages.
This %ten) must at all times decrease the value of the stock
on hand, whicl►ia sometimes immense, and bath often proved
ruinous to the beit houses.
Second, the exportation of the half-wrought material, as Twist
and Weft. By this traffic, one part of his Majesty's subjects
ss'ork to (gable fOleigners to do without the other part, and
hence the restric:ive ineamies adopted by foreign Governments
4.ainot the finished manufactures of the Memorialists. And also,
a third growli4 rut of the former two, viz. the most able
of the masters have, either altogether or partly, declined the
ismnifactilie ; whilst others, by repeated sanifices of their de-
pegiated smocks, have become bankrupts. Heave many thou-
saudeare out of employ ; while tho iv. who have any cannot, Oli
a fair average one with another, earn more than far skiiliugs
await these Fe m.*. per ler* ; .04 two years since they could earn
taller shiiiiisps and Orirlit-we in the same thee.
'tame cotton manor...hire has given employment to many bun-
dr-it ti.ousmids of persons in the Unite,' Empire. Shall these
the tr.,,te perish together?--No ; Your Princely breast will
feel lie \1•11r future People—your present ward; all of whom
love, a.ol tsi.:t.y have (' night for your Royal House,and the
hL.sty vi ir ilt or native land.
Your itisy..l ij;ghoess is the Memorialists' only hope nosier
)ll?aven ; tteis turmbly pray, that your Royal 3
:kr !ie.-A1m...1v pleased to Dike intc your Rural Highness's
ratios* their dist, ; and viithout dictating,
or presuming to perm oat what Plumb" be done in this arduons
(We) the bleilloliatots Navy for speedy relief.

A person recently returattl from a trip to Paris state:
that the metrorolis restmbis an Eno.lish town, from th
umber of our 1.1J11..s with w•iiicj it is crowaa

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MR. SIIERIDAY,S. FUNI.R.IL.

[A more Partienlar Account than inserted in our hot.]
The remains of Mr.. Sheridan were, on Saturday se'n-
night interred in Westminster Abbey. The place chosen
was Poet's Corner ; st veryprOper tribute to'the genius and
talents of this vitamin,. man. The spor where the vault
was sunk, is immediately opposite the monument of
Shakespear On one side, and the tomb of Addison on the
other, in the middle of the aisle; the head of the ;pure
is to the north—the font to the south. The mourners
and attendants assembled in the forenoon, at the house
of an intimate friend of Mr. Sheridan, Peter Moore, Esq.
in Great George-street, At a quarter past one the
procession approached the Abbey ; it was a walking fune-
ral ; there was, we think, one mourning coach only. We
believe that no funeral, since that of Nelson, has been
more splendidly attended—by men of all parties—states-
men of all opinions; in a word, by persons who enter-
tained nothing but a common sentiment of respect to
wards u distinguished man, with whom some had acted
together in public, others had contended with in debate,
but wham all applauded and admired. The mounters,
independent of the family friends, amounted to about
200.