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ing.
That the ratension of these trades to the ont.ports would:
also prove disastrous to a very numerous anddeseri lag class
of his Majesty's-subjects; namely, the several wet-lemon and
artisans employed in those establishments formed upon the
banks of the river Thames, whose fatuities have been long
resident in or near, and attached to the several places where
the above trades :we carried on, inasmuch as very many of
them 'mist be thrown out of certain employment, at the great •
risk and hazard of finding it in the out-port:, and by the re-'
moVal of se large -a class of the population from the lxinks
of the river Thames, the property there, and also the.trades
contorted at or near to it, Must sours great injuri:
That the extension of the trade would therefore be attend-
ed' with certain and immediate injury to the interests and
,preyerty of the, peroons ,eomposing this Meeting, and to the
very numerous class of artizans and .wiirteinen in their am-
' ploy, without prOduding to the nation' at , large, muck less t
to the persois who, seek to have the Ea-•i India and China
Tt%ities thrown Open, those advaitikes which are so strenu-
onsly beld forth, but Sib dehisivelyeunceived.
That, in a witional-point of view, it is-extreniely impori-
ant, that. the trade to and from India • tool Ulna. should inot
be removed front the port of L'ildon, inasmuch as the
tuuild-
ing and eanipment of East ,ludi4 shipping in the river
Thames, concentratedin one spot a numerous body of ine-
chauic3, who have already rendered esseniked service to the '
naval loNer of the country in eases of emergency, tend who
Lye always cepable, of affording their imited service at a-few
hours notice, case of any great national -call for their as-
sistance. .
That. it is more than -.probable, should. the East India and'
China Traules•be extended to the out-ports, that the shipping
employed therein would be of a small class, and Wholly unfit
to he converted into ships of ivar, 04 %occlusion of the
large ela*s of ships hitherto employed in those trades in th,,
port. of- London, and which et different time*, have been
Air and supplied in aid of the reitianal strength,.
at
'tn 'meats lutist critical to the welfare of'the ionntry. •
That should the point of a geacral extensioa ,of the trade to,
India and China be conceded to the out-ports of the. United
Kin,,,,,dom, the remuneration -which the justice of Parliament;
would Unquestionably make to the parties, whose properties,
and trades must not only be Materially injured, ,but in many
'instances einiaely destroyed, would far exceed the' greatest-
posSible advantage •which the country at large,. or the ltd.,'
roeates fur snels- extension, would in any event derive there-!

from.
That this Mcetin. therefore detertniuci, in defence of
their property, and their several interests, that such Petitions
shall be presented to Parliament as shall be agreed, upon; and
arranged by the Committee,' praying that the l'rade to and
froll Ind:a and ellinft, may, on any rendes.) of the East India.
Company's Charter, be conducted, as igetofore, through the
medium Ofthe East India Conipany; and that such Petitions,:
when prepared, be left at such places for signature as the Com-
mittee shall este fit,
That the Members for the Counties of Middlesex, Kent,
and Surrey, be requested to present the several Petitions to
Parliarndit.
That ow con, Fippolntad by the General 'AI eet ing held
on the gotta day of April, Isl/, be a perittaneot Onnatittee
during ti1e'411015361115 ist Paributient; and t;o are hereby
empowered to use whaterer meart3 tho 7 shall see most e9e-•
'client to prottiota the oisje;:t ot this 'Meeting, and also to add
to their number, ei they shall see tit.
'That the Thank-. of this 'Meeting be given to the (;etteral
Committee for 4:o:wetting •the present Meeting-, and for the
active and vigilant fttiFlition to the interests thereof.
That n further flzimriptioa he now entered ittto.for the pur-
pose of de frayitrr, the expenses attending. the Petitions
tL
both Houses of• Parliament, and .of such other measures as
may be deemed la cessary by the Committee for the protec-
of the property and int:rests °iliac 'persons composing this
Meeting.
That all comsannicatione upon the subject of the present
• Mee-0115- be addressed to the G'orantittee under evver to
Mr. M:3reliant Taylors Hall, Solicitor to the
same. ••
That these resolution, he published in such of the ',quilting
and _Evening Papers as tin' Committee shall see tit.
(Signed) 'CH AIII.ES Ft. ttitlltNEß, Chairman.
Charles Ithatialea natter, I(iq. having left tie Chair,. it
VMS lltlallilllollBlV rtUtOITIXI,
-That, the 'thaiiks of this Meeting begird). to Charles Hantp4
den 'ranter, Fl,q. for the .-rt.at intotOM he bas tainnt itt the
important business of thi ; 'Meeting, anti tot his able and ju-
dietons conduct hi the Chair. • •