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NAVIGATION LAWS.
A T a GENERAL MEETING of the SHIP-
OWNERS, and others interested in BRITISH SHIP-
PING, held at. the House of Thomas Oyston, Golden Lion Inn,
South Shields, on Tuesday, the 3d day of April, 1822, in pur-
suance of notice, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the Consequences of the proposed ALTERATION in the NA-
VIGATION LAWS of this COUNTRY ;
H. F. HEATH, Esq. in the Chair ;
It was Resolved, That in the opinion of this Meeting, any
Alteration in the Navigation Laws of this Country which may
militate against the Spirit and Principle of•the 12th Charles 11.
will be highly injurious, not only to the welfare of the British
Ship Owners, and all others engaged in the Equipment or
Navigation of Ships, but also to the best Interest of the Em-
pire, by impairing its most effective means of defence against
toreign aggression,_ and encouraging in an equal Ratio the
prosperity of the Navy of other Countries.
That the Petitions to each House of Parliament, read to the
Meeting, are highly approved of, and that the same be adopted
as the Petitions of this Meeting, and signed by all present.
That a Committee be appointed for the purpose of watching
over the progress of the Bill now in Parliament respecting the
Navigation Laws, to correspond with such Members of each
House as they may select to present the Petitions, and for tak-
ing such other steps as may appear best calculated to carry into
effect the objects of this meeting.
That the following Gentlemen constitute the Committee,
viz. Messrs. H. F. Heath, Charles Magnay, G. M. Cleugh,
James Laing, James Kirkley, John Clay, G. Marshall, Thos.
Bell, and Daniel Heatley, with power to add to their number.
That these Resolutions, with the Petition, be printed, and
sent to the different Ports in the Kingdom, and to the Mem-
bers of each House of Parliament.
H. F. HEATH, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the Chair, it was resolved, That
the Thanks of this Meeting be given to him for his able con-
duct therein.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland. in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the several Persons whose names
are here-under written, being Ow-ers, part Owners of, or
otherwise interested in, British Shipping registered in the
Port of Newcastle, and belonging to South Shields, and
its environs •
Sheweth,--That your Petitioners are either professionally
Seamen, or have embarked their capital under the faith of the
Navigation Lawst or are otherwise so dependent on the Ship-
ping, that any measure tending to lessen its employment would
prove ruinous to your Petitioners.
That your Petitioners beg leave to submit to your Honour-
able House, that they have suffered a greater depreciation in
their property since the conclusion of the war, than perhaps any
other class of his Majesty's subjects ; and that the great sur-
plus of shipping have so lowered the freights, that the proceeds
from them are not sufficient to pay the expences of their voy-
ages.
That the shipping are charged with heavy duties on every
article necessary to their equipment, exclusive of a gross ton-
nage duty, of which nothing has been reduced since the con-
clusion of the war ; and, added to these burthens of taxation,
they have to pay a higher rate for provisions and wages than
the shipping of other countries. From these causes foreigners
are enabled to take freight at a lower rate; and as the smallest
difference in that respect determines the preference of the mer-
chants, the carrying trade must be wrested from us unless en-
couragement is given to the British Shipping, by a close adhe-
rence to the Navigation Laws. In considering the importance
of these laws, from the early period of our history we learn the
high value our ancestors set on the shipping-interest of the
country ; from the infancy, of our trade, it was fostered by
them with the greatest care and attention, by enacting, at dif-
ferent periods of time, a series of wise and salutary regulations,
for the express purpose of preserving to British ships (under
certain regulations) sundry portions of our trade with foreign
countries, together with the whole of our coasting and colonial
trade. The great benefits which have resulted from this wise
system are too obvious to require detail ; it is sufficient to ob-
serve, that it has increased the wealth and naval strength of
Old England to a high pitch of prosperity and power, and
placed her in the most distinguished and pre-eminent situation
as a great maritime nation. These truly venerated enactments
had their best principles consolidated into that ever memorable
Statute, the 12th of Charles 11., of which the declared object is
"to increase the Shipping and Navigation of this Nation,
wherein, under the good Providence and protection of God, the
wealth, safety, and strength of this kingdom is so much con-
cerned ;" and after the country has experienced the beneficial
effects of this act for nearly two centuries, the Committee of
the Honourable House of Commons, sitting on the Navigation
Laws, pass an eulogium that " a just respect for the political
wisdom from which the enactments of the Navigation Laws
originated, and a sense of the national advantages derived from
them, in their effects on the maritime greatness of the king-
dom, have rendered them objects of attachment and veneration
to every British subject."
That your Petitioners fully participate in these sentiments,
and are moreover fully persuaded that, however wise and salu-
tary the Navigation Laws were in the infancy of our commerce,
they are now become more imperatively so ;—not only from the
jealousy entertained by the European Powers of our maritime
and commercial greatness, and from the many forward strides
and intentions manifested by the United States of America to
rival Britain in her natural element, but likewise from the
livvy duties at present imposed upon British shipping, as it
must be evident to your Honourable House, that in the first
essays in trade, the competition between us and other maritime
States depended then on the respective exertions which each
nation made in industry ; our ships were not then fettered with
such heavy duties as have since been imposed on them from
the exigence of the State, which our maritime rivals have not
to bear in the same proportion. It therefore must be obvious
to your Honourable House, that this is not the time to make
alterations or grant concessions, inimical to the established prin-
ciples on which our Navigation Laws are founded. This would
be surrendering the benefits so hardly won, and of which the
shipping and seamen stand so much in need,—which, if con-
ceded, would increase the navigation of other States, and
thereby increase their means of offence in time of war. Your
petitioners beg leave again to remind your Honourable House,
that they have long been suffering under the difficulties which
nearly all classes of his Majesty's subjects have experienced,
since the conclusion of the war of such long duration, which
had much increased the number of ships and seamen; but con-
sidering this depression a natural effect, they never attempted
to trouble the Legislature with complaints for which there
appeared no immediate redress.
That whilst thus suffering under the greatest depression,
they are not more astonished than alarmed to find a Bill pend-
ing before your Honourable House, intituled, " A Bill to ex-
plain and amend the several acts for the encouraging and in-
creasing of Shipping and Navigation, and to regulate the im-
portation of goods and merchandize into Great Britain, so far
as relates to the countries from whence, and the Ships in which,
such importation shall be made,"—the principles of which, if
carried into effect, are totally subversive of the ancient system
of Navigation, under the faith of which they embraced their
profession, and embarked their respective capitals, and which
will tend to abrogate the principles contained in the 12th of
Charles ] which confines the importation of all goods or
commoditii s whatever, of the growth, production, or manufac-
ture, of Asia, Africa, or America, to be imported direct from
thence in British ships only.
By this wise enactment was secured to this country the whole
of the long transit from three quarters of the Globe, and the
next object was to secure the importation of the commodities,
manufacture, and productions, of Europe, direct from the place
of their origin, in British ships, or in ships belonging to coun-
tries of which the cargoes were the produce.
In these enactments, your Petitioners see nothing more than
the fair and equitable principles of reciprocal justice, they see
nothing in them hostile or invidious, nor are they any infringe-
ment on the rights of any other state ; taking it as a long ac-
knowledged principle, that all nations enjoy such right, and
have regulated their conduct on such principles, whenever it
was their interest so to conduct themselves. And that England
has found it not only expedient, but absolutely necessary, to
adopt it as her best means of defence ; and that the security of
her distant Colonies depends on her maintaining these princi-
ples.
Viewing .this system as maintained through so many succes-
sive centuries, what other sensation than the strongest feeling
of alarm can your Petitioners express on finding a Bill actually
pending. before your honourable House, containing an entire
ew
principle (so diametrically opposite to e before
acted upon) by which the goods Mid merchandise, being she
gcowth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or Arne
rico) shall be imported into Great Britain from ay put of

Asia, Africa, or America, or from any port-or place in Europe,
in British ships or vessels ? Only that the produce of Europe
may be imported into Great Britain in a British ship or vessel,
or in a ship or vessel belonging to the country of which the
cargo is the produce, or in ships or vessels the build of the
country or port, or place in Etirope, from whence or from, any
port whereof such goods and merchandize shall be exported
or shipped, for'the purpose of being exported to. Great Britain.
To these provisions in the pending Bill, your Petitioners
beg leave to solicit the attention of your Honourable House,
that as regards the imports between Great Britain and Asia,
Africa, and America, the long transit is ceded to all nations;
only, that an English ship must be employed from any foreign
port to Britain, and that the imports between Great Britain
and all parts of Europe stand so open, that should the pending.
Bill receive the sanction of the Legislature, the produce and
manufacture of the whole world (the excluded articles ex-
cepted), may be deposited in the Scheldt, or the Room Pot, or
any other continental depot contiguous to our shores, and which
it will be the interest of other Powers to establish, not only as
a commercial benefit, but as the sure means of annihilating
the Commerce and Naval Power of Great Britain. In this
way will the brave and hardy Tars of Old England become
the lightennen in the transit from those depots to Britain in
steam-boats and other small craft, to the seamen of conti-
nental Europe and America :—that this must soon be the
result if such a new system of transit receives the sanction of
' the Legislature, is the firm belief of your Petitioners.
Your Petitioners submit to your Honourable House that in
the late tremendous struggle to subdue revolution, the blood
and treasure of this Country was unsparingly expended, and
that the abolition of the Slave Trade, and many other spontane-
ous concessions have been made, too numerous to detail, which
are proofs beyond any doubt of the generous and liberal prin-
t ciples which reat Britain has cted upon. But notwithstand-
' ing these sacGrifices,Petitioners have never been able to
discern from a Foreign Tariff, nor in any other way, that other
nations or states are smitten with a propensity for concession ;
they seem influenced as all nations generally have been, care-
fully looking after their own interests.
Your Petitioners are not amongst those who-consider that the
time is arrived when all the restrictive Statutes in the kingdom
may be repealed, so as to admit a perfect freedom of trade ; but
should that time be arrived, they will never object to it as a
general principle fbr all classes to conform to, yet they earnestly
hope that they are not singly to be sacrificed to make the expe-
riment ; as they entertain a more old-fashioned opinion—that
the marine laws made England what she is—and by her ma-
rine laws she must maintain her pre-eminence, or fall into the
rank of a very subordinate State.
Your Honourable 1-louse are fully sensible of the' necessity
of protecting a profession, on which depends the powerful ma-
rine which is the natural protection of the Empire, and which
the agriculturists and manufacturing interests are as much in.
terested in preserving, as those who are immediately connected
with the marine. Your petitioners are more anxious than any
other class' of his Majesty's subjects that a careful revision of
the Navigation Laws' should be made ; but your petitioners,
relying with the utmost confidence on the wisdom of your
Honourable House, trust that in this revision your honourable
House will never, under any circumstances, surrender that
great principle which is contained in the 12th of Charles the
Second, " wherein, under the good providence and protection
of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of this kingdom is
much concerned."
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that they may be
heard by Counsel against so much of the Bill as affects them,
and that the said Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands ;
and also that your Petitioners may have such relief in the pre-
mises as to this Honourable House shall seem meet.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

April 10, 18'22.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Among our extracts from American Papers
will be found a Message to both Houses of Con-
gress from the President of the United States,--
(see THE SUN of
,yesterdcw),—recommending a
recognition of the various American Provinces
lately belonging to Spain, which have declared
and are in the enjoyment of their Independence.
The wish of the nation on this subject has been
long a matter of notoriety, and if the leading
men in the United States have shewn less appa-
rent warmth of interest in the cause of their
Southern brethren than was shewn in their own
at a very critical period by some of the Monarchs
of Europe, the reason is perhaps to be found in
the difficult situation in which they wore placed
with respect to Florida. Certainly the recog-
nition can hardly be deemed premature by the
most fastidious of the,Legitimate Governments of
Europe. Spain will, no doubt, repine at the loss
of her Colonies, and that she should do so, is
not to be wondered at. These Colonies were to
her a source of revenue. While the people of
England are burdened to pay part of the ex-
pences of colonies (of which the revenues in
many cases, no doubt, sufficient for all neces-
sary charges, are squandered in sinecures and
extravagant salaries to the connections of those
who" possess Parliamentary interest), a con-
siderable balance, after paying all expellees
in America, was remitted e:•ery year to
Spain. Our colonies are only valuable to
us as markets for commodities ; and the in-
tercourse with them would in this respect be
more beneficial if they were altogether inde-
pendent of us. Spain, however, has lost her
reverme, and will have besides the mortification
of seeing other nations farther advanced in in-
dustry, reaping advantages from which she must
long remain excluded.—We certainly think it
would have become our Government to have
acted along with that of the United States on this
occasion. To no people in the world is the in-
dependence of South America an affair of greater
importance than to us. Our future prosperity
must be in a great measure dependent on the
prosperity of that part of the world. Every ad-
vance in its cultivation will be felt by the nu-
merous inhabitants of our manufacturing districts.
Interested, therefore, as we are in the welfare
of South America, as being in a great degree es-
sential to our own, the Government of this
Country is the last which ought to have shewn
any reluctance to take the step which the Ame-
rican President proposed. We could wish Mi..
nisters had shewn a little more attention to the
wants and wishes of the Nation than they appear
to have shewn on this occasion.

[NEW TIMES.
Our private letters from France mention that
arrangements have already begun to be made for
the approaching elections, and that every thing
indicates an accession of strength to the Royalists,
and an exclusion of several of the most furious
demagogues from the Chamber by their rejection
oa the part of their coestitueste• lii the depart-

meat of the Loiret MM. Crignon Dauzouer and
De Rocheplatte, both Members of the right side,
are named Presidents of Electoral Colleges. M.
Dandigne also a President, is a Royalist of an-
cient date. In the department of the Orne, M.
Boucher d'Argis is appointed a President. These
nominations shew that the Ministry are not inat-
tentive to their duty on so important a point. It
is not doubted but that M.Laisne de Villevesque
will lose his seat for the Loiret. This gentleman
began his legislative career well on the right
side of the Chamber : thence he slid into
the centre, and at last has fairly gone oyer
to the cote gauche. It is alleged that (like
a certain noted Reformer in our own country)
he thought the Ministers wanted judgment,
because they did not offer him a handsome,
place, which would have suited him very well,
for his purse-is not abundantly replenished, 'Be
this as it may, his new profession of liberalism is
not likely to turn out very well : on the contrary
he himself is likely to be turned out.—The
liberaux complain bitterly that they are ridiculed
in songs which are sung about the streets. M.
Tirecuir de Corcelles, for instance, is nicknamed
Monsieur Cuirsel, which offends him mightily.
These gentlemen forget how much they were
delighted with the blasphemous and seditious
songs of Berenger. To insult God and the King
was in their estimation very allowable ; but to
offend M. de Corcelles and M. de Marcay was
beyond all bearing I

[THE TIMES.]
An important Paper has come to hand from
America, being a Message from the President of
the United States to Congress, recommending to
them a recognition of the Provinces which lately
constituted the Spanish Empire in the New
World, as sovereign and independent States.—
The principle whic has been adduced to justify
this proposition cannot, we apprehend, be fairly
controverted with any regard to common sense,
or to the law of nations. Any Government de
facto may be rightfully recognized, no matter
how it may have originated. The fact of so-
vereignty is, indeed, the only general test of the
right of sovereignty ; and where the interest and
welfare of foreign nations present strong induce-
ments to their respective Governments to acknow-
ledge the independence of a given State, whether
it be Monarchy or Republic, whether a revolted
colony or a liberated conquest, provided it be
in the actual exercise of that independence, no
blame can fall upon the Governments which so
consult the welfare of their subjects, and perform
the acts of recognition. Accordingly, no new or
questionable ground is taken by Mr. Monroe in
advocating this duty of friendship and sound po-
licy towards the old Spanish provinces. The
chief interest of his Message is in the facts which
it conveys, and in the confidence and authority
with which the President affirms the irreversible
success of the patriotic arms throughout the
whole extent of what has hitherto been .Spanish
America. The Message declares, that between
Spain and her Provinces, since the beginning of
the war, the United States have fulfilled impar-
tially the several obligations of the neutral cha-
racter. It then proceeds to trace, with a rapid
pencil, a general outline of the conflict, and of
the results derived from it. by each grand division
of the Spanish Empire in succession. Buenos
Ayres has enjoyed since 1310 the advantages of
an independent state, and assumed the rank of
one in 1816. The Provinces composing Columbia,
after separately declaring their indepeudence,were
formally united under one Government towards
the end of 1319; and the Spanish force by which
they were then tormented has since been either
wholly captured or destroyed, with the excep--
tion of a small fragment which is blockaded in
two of the fortresses. The provinces on the
Pacific are equally triumphant. Chili, since
1813, has been undisturbed by her old masters ;
Peru has been freed by her aid, and by that of
Buenos Ayres; and, finally, Mexico has asserted
her independence, to which " there is no oppo-
sition, nor a force to make any." The President,
therefore, concludes that the fate of these pro-
vinces—quoad any chance of a resumption of her
dominion over them by Spain—is irrevocably
settled. —maw—

[MORNING HERALD.]
The American intelligence received yesterday
is highly interesting. It appears that the United
States have at length formally acknowledged the
independence of the South American Govern-
ments, without waiting for the concurrence of
other Powers, with which it was originally in-
tended to act in concert. According to the
American President's words, however, " the im-
mense space between those Powers—even those
that border on the Atlantic—and these provinces
makes the movement an affair of less interest and
excitement to them." It may be suspected that
the American Administration, which is distin-
guished by the dexterity with which its foreign
relations and the national interests are conducted,
as well as by the allowabre thirst of commercial
'lucre, has required some advantages in trading
intercourse as the condition of this early, but not
'premature, recognition of the iudependence of
the South Americans. Any advantage in this
way, however, cannot be of any great import-
ance or of lasting duration. Nations, like indi-
viduals, cannot easily be kept from providing
what, they want, and disposing of their super-
fluity where they can da so mot adv. iltligVoultlY•
Their independence was practically so thoronghiy
established, that the boon of the recognition is,
nut of very great importance to them. The ATI-
tiO Government will, of course, soon follow this
eurapte—there is scarcely any ObStaclto frogn Itch
foaling pan. The heat diait9lool4 4a03