The Sun.
London, England, 1813-04-24 00:00:00

tIVERY MEETING.

A Common Hall was yesterday held in Guild-
hall, for the purpose of receiving the Answer of
the Princess of WALES to the • Address of the
Livery.
The Lord Mayor opened the business by stating,
that an apology might, perhaps, be expected from
him, for appearing before the,Livery, and. calling
them from their occupations without a formal re-
quisition having been made stO him for a Common
Hall. He had thonght the .occasion on which
they were assembled too trival to call- 'a Hall, as
they had nothing to do but to receive the Aostver
of the Princess of Wales to their Address, which
it was known bad appeared in all the Newspapers
The heavy duties whioli his situation :imposed on.
him, made it very inconvenient for I,trt to bold
One in the Easter week, but the Aldermen and ..
Gentlemen who had waited on him wit;. a verbal
requistion, Were so urgent in press:ng for a Com.-
Mon Hall, that it appeared to him nothing short
of compliance would satisfy them. He, however,
assured the Livery, that if it were shewn to be Te-
quisite, he should be willing to.give them a Court
of Common Council, or a Common Hall every
day. His Lordship then dire'ted the Town Clerk
to read the proceedings watch had taken place
in consequence of the vote of the last Common
Hall.
The Town Clark then read a minute of- what
had occurred, in. whicl: the communications male
to the Princess of Waies were' read, tog,,iher with
the'answers given to them by her .itoyal liii.,ll-
ness. These, as they are a1r...;.u1y before the i?uh-
lie, it is unnecessary. tiescrirse. The minute,
after detailing the proceedings up to the pericui at
which her Royal Highness Weis waited upon with
the Address, wept on to state, ther_.. the Addsess,
together with the Answer, were sent for insertio,
in the Ganite, on the following day, Thesthiv.
They were not inserted, and in ,consequence of
this it letter .vas sent by the Remembrancer (Mr.
T. Tyrrel), on the following Thursday to S. Rol-
leston, Eisq.'requesting to know the cause of their
non-appearance. TQ this an answer was return-
ed, dated from the Foreign Office, by Mr..Rolles-
ton, in which he stated that he was not. authoris-
ed to insert any address in the Gazette which was
,not transmitted to pun through the Secretary of.
State forthe Home Departmeitt. After this inti-
mation,. a letter was addresied by Mr. Tyrrell to'
Lord Viscount,Sichnoutb, setting forth what had
°coated, and 'the Substance of the correspond-.
ence between Alet,,TOolVand Mr. RoLeston.
'flie delay whiciffhitiOtkosviilitee was coMplain-
cd of as usual, anti f O`ship was requested
to order the inserti'• .e Address, with the
Answer of the Princes; Soon as might' be con-
venient. In answer to this, the following letter
was received front Lord
.Bitimouth

" 'Whitehall, 17th April, 1613.
" Stn—l have just received your letter of this day's date,
including a Copy of an Address from the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Livery of London, to her Royal Ilighties's the
Princess of Wales, with a opy of her Royal Highness's
'Answer thereto, and desiring that I will order the same to
be inserted in the London Gazette. In reply, I have to ac-
quaint you, that in the exercise of the discretion which be-
longs to my official situati,m, I do not. think it proper to Louse..
the Address mid Answer above-mentioned, to be inserted in
the London Gazette. • " I inn, Sir,
" Your most obedient hunittic Servant,
" The City Remembrencer,',' " SIDMOUTIL"
The Loll!) 11,161(01i here observed, that it Would
he seen by the Livery that he had reason to doubt
the propriety of calling theM together On this oc-
casion. This had been Ihe impression on his
mind. He concluded by requesting their atten-
tion to a letterfrom Mr. Whtthr6ad, in return for
the vote of thankS to hint which they had come to.
in the last Common Hai:.-'--(Applause.)
Mr. Whitbread's letter was them react by the
Clerk., in which he stated himself to be very
happy',. that Ws 'conduct had appeared to merit
the approbation of the Livery. of London.
The LARD MAYOR again came forward,: and
observed, that this business being 'over, that fur
which the Hall had been called was concluded.—
He thanked the Livery for their attendance, and de-
clared tififiall to be dissolved.

Loud disapprUbation now burst forth from all
quarters, and cries of " No ! no! You have no
right to dissolve th,? Hall," mingled with hisses,
w- re every where heard. Those on the Hustings
called to those in the Hall not to go away, and
these answered by desiring those on the Hastings
not to retire. '

Alder Man WOOD, who had come forward to ad-
dress the Lord Mayor at the moment hip Lordship
dissolved the Hall, now presented himself again,
but had not spoken a minute, when the Lord
Mayor and the City Officers retired from the Meet-
ing. This called forth such reiterated shouts of
disapprobation, that it was impossible to hear a
syllable Lie uttered, till his Lordship and his at-
tendants had quitted the Hall. As soon as he
could make himself heard, he (Mdernum \Vlod)
proposed that Alderman Smith should take the
Chair. This proposition was loudly applauded.

Mr. WAlTilgiUsi said, they were not now in a
new situation. -They had before now been left by
'a Qhief 'Magistrate, who,negleeted his duty, and
inz:l#Jl a case the-Livery of London were capable
of 'caLtng another individual to the Chair, and of
'netimT_ as a body, though,their, resolutions could
l',ot go t'irth as those of the Lord Mayor, Alder-
&e. As a Meeting of the Livery, they could
come to such resolutions as they thou& proper.
A case similar to the.present had.occnrred in Mr.
time, when their conUnet had been such
as he had described.

Mr. Alderman S.:kit TH scrupled taking the Chair.
Though he sincerely, lamented that it had been
quitted by the Lord Mayor, he could not think he
bad a rigut to take it.' He was indeed told; on
legal authority, th,tt he had not ; and therefore
declinql taking that simation.
On the motion of Alr. Alderman Woon; Sir
\Vni. Rawlins was then called to the Chair ; who
immediately took' it atnids,t the shouts of the,
Livery.

.Mr. Alderman S:Urrtt then came forrvard an.o
said, that though
.the Meeting was no longer a
Common Hall, be should remain there ns a Li-

Mr: AldermanWo- on was not prepared to move
a Vote (4' Censure on the Lord Mayor. NOtwith-
standing he had deserted them, they were Still a
regular, Meeting, and capable of coming to such
Resoliitioas as they thought proper to adopt. The
Lord Mayor had represented the occasion on which
they were assembled to be trivial. He (Alder-
m in 'Wood) contended it was .not so. He was
confident they must all feel surprise and indigna-
tion at the letter which had been read to them
from Lord Sitlinouth. These Addresses to the
Princess of -Wales on former occasions, on her ar-
rival in this country, and on the birth of the Prin-
cess Charlotte, had-been inserted in the Gazette
without delay. Did it not then appear, that on
this occasion' there was a particular feeling some-
where, unfavourable to the vindication of the
Princess ? In bringing for Ward this' subject, he
had carefully abstai-,Led from saying any thing
which . might be construed into a redaction
on the _Prince Regent, or on his Govern-
ment, but could he retrain from saying some-
thiug of them on this occasion ? Ile noticed the
conduct of the Lord Mayor in taking them up
to St. Giles's, and turning them of at Tyburn ; and
animadverted oh it with some *severity. He re-,
gretted the abieuc.e of thz:if Chief lquistrate. He
had intended asking 'him -a questioil or two on
th's subject. He did not believe that orders, had
been sent from C triton House to discourage car-
rying up the Address by the way • of Pall Mall.
He could not suppose this. What then could in-
duce the Lord .alayor to act us he bad acted ? lie
believed the Lori Mayor, before he consented to
grant them the use of the Hall on this occasion,,
hail waited upon Lord Sidnionth, to consult him
on the subjeil. The answer, he understood, to
have been sometning like this--`1 Why, my.good
Lord Mayor, you are the best judge, but if it
were my case, l should not via the use
of the Hall." To this it was sail the Lord
M:!) or bad 'give» a 'Curious reply, " that he
bad pronlised it to the Gentlemen who bad
H waited on him." e Understood inquiries bad
recently- been set on , foot with respect to• the
conduct of the Princess of Wales. 1 hese, he
trusted, were• now set at rest for ever. was
sorry,iie iatl not with him the Morning Post of
Wetitiesday last, in which it was stated, that if
a ReSolution were come to, to Addressithe Prince
Regent,' to congratulate his Royal Highness -on
the triumph of the Priocess, there was no doubt
but that such an address would be very acceptable.
It staggered him not a little to find such language
used by the principal organ of the Administra-
tion. How to reconcile such language from such
a quarter, with the .conduct of Mioisters, be
knew not. At all events, however, he hoped
those infamous inquiries which bad been instituted
had ceased, and that she would at last -be placed
in that situation which 'Was doe to her. Than
' this he was satisfied nothing could be more grate-,
f ul to English feelings.
Mr. WAITHMAN said, however ke' might have
differed from some of time supporters of the Address
at the time it was voted, he felt that when it ha:4.
once been voted, it was the duty of their chief Ma-
gistrate
to carry their resolutions into effect with
the greatest force and dignity which it was in his
power to give it. He was now glad that that Ad-
dresS had been voted and carried up to the Princess.
He was astonished at the conduct of their Law
Officers,. and also of that of Lord Sidinouth. It
seemed as if there was an impression on their
minds, that the narrow escape of the Princess
front the foulest conspiracy that had ever
been contrived was displeasing to the Prince Re-
gent. He (Mr. W.) had had very different im-
pressions on hii Whatever differenceS
might exist between the Prince and Princess, he
did not suppose that it could he other than gra-
tifying to him to find that his wife had escaped so
foul and malignant a conspiracy. He _would then
wish to as of Lord Sidinonth, how, he refusing to
Gazette the address of the Livery, and the an-
swer 'of the Princess, could justify himself for
thus making it appear to the country that the
Prince Regent was displeased with the result of
thejiate proceedings ? With respect to the Lord
Mayor, he amid wish to ask him how it had
happened, that the Livery were galloped up' to
St. Giles's and taken by a circuitous way of
two or three miles, round to Kensington,' if he
had not thooOt that a sight of the procession might
ebe iu
ie displeasing;avured ttoo Prince b heat Lord
irig Mayor had
that lie had
done it to keep peace, which he had sworn tOPre-
serve. Ile (Mr.W.) thought -it rather a intriona way
of preserving the peace, to drive time Livery up to
St. Giles's I, Their Chief Magistrate, accompanied
by their, Law Officers, oiight to have made it a
public procession, and gone through those
streets which it was expected it would pass
through, and which were crowded with per-
sons anxious to testily their satisfaction at the
triumph of the Princess. lie had thought it im-
possible for such conduct to pass unnoticed on the
part of their Chief Magistrate, and he had felt called
.upon to put himselfin the odious situation.of mov-
ing a vote Of censure on this occasion!.. The con 7
duct of the Lord Mayor in shamefully desert-
ing his duty this day, and abruptly retiring
from the Hall, proved that he feL ue deserv4d

censure,-and was afraid to' meet it. At least be
should have waited till a motion had Imevii made
for the insertion of their Address, and the an-
swer of her Royal Highness the Princess on their
Journals fur "the information of. posterity. This
he contended was the true purpose~ of their meet-
ing, and shit done, the Lord Mayor even then
should have waited to receive the thanks of his
fellow citizens for his •-conduettf but he had felt
that he did not deserve them, and in order to es-
cape censure, .he •had shamefully deserted his
duty. Under these -circumstances, he thought
they ought to mark their sense of his con-
duct in the very best manner in which it
could he marked. He then moved a Note' of
censure on the Lord Mayor. Ile would say no
inure on the conduct of their Chief Magistrate ;
but there %yet.° other officers, and Officers who re-
ceived large emoluments front the City, whose,
conduct he thought reprehensible; These:facers,
if' their services were. worth any thing, ought to
attend the Common IJitll and their public proces-
sions. Ile knew they excused theitmelves•by say-
ing they were the offigers of the Livery, as.
they were appointed by the Court Hof Common
Council but he would contend, that the Court of
Common Council and the Livery could not be se-
parated, and he therefore trusted their seine 'of t
time improper conduct of those officers rvould he
marked in the same way in which it was proposed
to mark that of their Chief Magistrate.
Mr. TnousoN seconded the motion of Mr.
Waithman. It had been attempted to keep time
name of the Prince. Regent altogether out of this
business, but the conduct of the Lord Mayor and
that 'of Lord .Sidutouth, made it impossible. It
must now appear to the public that either the
, or Soloe other highinrsonage,. was at
the bottom of all :that had taken place with re-
spect to the Princess.-4le next animadverted on
the conduct of the Lord Mayor with much se-
verity. 'Formerly their Lord Mayors were distin-
guished for their patriotism. Here he adverted
tea the conduct of Sir W. Beckford, and infered
variety -of Observations on that feeling which had
erected a monument to him, and that which af-
terwards erected one in the'same Hall to the Me;-
mory of Mr. Pitt. The monument just finished,
he regarded as a nun-k of the degeneracy of the
times. He proceeded to speak of Mr. Pitt with'
great bitterness, frequently interrupted by loud
disapprobation. MinisterS, he coittendedi bad
now a lure to make Lord Mayors subservient to
their purpose, which they had not formerly. Ott
their return-they had had time pleasure of coming
through Pall-mall, but their Chief Magisti-are had
not given them the honour of his company at that
time. His conduct harl this day prevented their
enteringon their Journals their proceedings for the
information of posterity. "Every Aiming had been
done that could be done by those in office, front
Lord Sidinouth down to the Lord Mayor, to pre-
vent the sentiments of the Livery being' made 'pub-
lic, who, he trusted, would not fail to »lark their
sense of such conduct.

The question was then put, and carried almost
uuanitnonbly,' three hands only*being held up
tigaiiitit it.

Mr. WADPINGTON declared the present to be a
perfectly legal assembly by referring to the Gren-
ville Act, which affirmed any assembly to be'''''so;
at which two'or more Magistrates were pre,:erit.
They were therefore competent to adopt :my re,
solutions they might think it right to come to;
notwithstanding they were deserted by their Chick
Magistrate, who had on all occasions been so at,-
tentive to his own fame, and the honour of his
commercial character. • He concluded by moving
the following Resolution

f"fhat.the,foregoing Resolution is the result of our deli-
berate research, and unqualified opinion, 'that the conduct of
the investigators: and accusers of her Royal Highness the
Princes of Wales, has been unworthy of an enlightened na-
tion. This MeatinF does. therefore transmit to posterity, its
solemn protest against the entice proceeding of the' Commis-
sioners appuintel in tpcc, to investigate and ,pronounre on
the supposed criminal-helii.vionr of that illustrious Princess,
as against the ambiguous measures resorted to for the pur-
pose of obtaining evidence. It also prutests against the re-.
cent proceeding of his Majt,sty's most Hon. I Council,
convened to re-investigate such supposed .Criminai conduct be-
cause its deliberation was fOouded on-such evidence given in
1F.06, but which a sitccession of his Majesty's Ministers had
declared to 'be undesetving of pny • credit whatever. The
whole appearing to this Ballh flagrant deviation um the.
himsceil priociples and practice of one judicial laws, and with-
out precedent, save and except in the' mjious anti tyranuic...l
reign of King Henry the Bth." _

,
Mr. WitiTrosAti was'sure the Livery would not
suffer themselves to be drawn aside from the busi-
ness of the day to enter into any discussion which
could not regularly have been gone into, had the
Lord Mayor.been present. No one had seconde4
the Motion ; he must therefore conclude, that it
had fallen to the ground, and begged to propOse a
vats of Thanks to Sir. W. Rawlins, for his able
and impartial conduct in the chair.
Mr. WADDINGTN' O said, be perhaps ought to
apologise for obtruding himself on their notice,
but he was sorry those who now sheaved so mueh
ardour in the (MUMe of thefrincess, hqd forgot
to bold up a hand for, her on a former day.

VAITIMAN said, theobservation which
had just been made was not worth a. reply.. It
was as ilt,natured as it was destitute of truth, and
came from a quarter,' where, of all others, sileilee
ought to have been prefeaed.

The Thanks of the Meeting we:e then given to
Sir W. Rawlins.

Sir %V. RAWLINS, in a short lint appropriate
speech, returned thanks for the honour, just con-
ferred on him, and the Meeting inuediati,..ly
Broke up.

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GENERA: ORDERS:

Adjutant General's Office, Quebec, ,Feb 8.

"His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir George
Prevost, Zart..GovernOr in Chief and Co►nniander
of the. Forces in Br.'ish North America, baying
seen in the, BostoniGazette of the 28th January
publication, purporting to be a copy of a
GAMeral Order issued by the Americans in the fol
lowing terms, namely,

" Adjutant-General's Offipr, Washington City, Jan. 18.
GENr,.ttAt ORDERS.
•
"The follbwing Officers of flue Army and Mi-
litia of theUnited,States, .matte prisoners at De-
troit, Queenstort, ,and elsewhere, 1n been duly.
oxen:n:l;QU for, the Officera, Non-commissioned
Officer.; Drntinners, and Privates, tall.eri,"on board.,
his Britannic Ainiesty's transport Samuel and Jane,
on the eleventh day at July, 1813, viz. Brigadier-,
neta 'William ; Colonels Duncatf,lll‘Arthur,
Jatues Findley, and Lewis Cass ; Lieutenant-Co•
lonels James Miller, John R. Fenwick, Winfield
Scott, and John Christie.; Major James Taylor ;
Captains Nathan Heald, John Whistler, Henry
E. Breevontt, Josiah Snelling, Robert Lucas,
Ahrorn F. Ilull, P. Ogilvie, W. King, .1. Cook,
and Return B. Brown ; Ist Lientenant C. Lar-
rAo ; 2d Lieutenants James Dalliha and Daniel
; and each and all of the'aforesaid
ers are hereby deel:!red exchanged, and as free
to act against the United Itingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland', anii the dependencies thereof, as
if they had never been captured.
By order of Secretary of 'War,
" 'l'. H. Cusrzlrtc,, Adjutant-Gen."

?lis.Excellency considers himself called, upon in
the most public manner, to protest against the pre-
tended m d'ease of the above named officers from
their parole of bonOtir,• given under their hands
while priOners of war. ins Excellency having
expressly relnsed to accede to the exchange of the
officers above named, es proposed to him by Ma-
jor-General'neo.rborn,' in his Letters of the 26th
of-Decemher and 21 of January last, 'tither the
ammthority of the American Government, upon the
identical ttrlllA contained in the order of the 18th
of Janoary before referred his Excellency feels
hiteself conmptlled Imreby to declare, that Ire still
consolers those (Meets as prisoners of tear
their parole, and' that should the fate of war place
pny of them at tle.--d4i.no9al of theliritish Covern-
ment, I:4lfr,re a regular and ratified exchange of
theta ttihet4 place, they will be deemed to .have
broken their parole, and be thereby suhject ,to
the consequences sanctioned by the established
usages of war in the like cases.
The detachment of the Ist Regiment of
'Royal Seats, captured by the United States fri-
gate, the &see on ~boaril the Sanotel truer June,
transport, who are stated, in the said Order of the
IF4II of January, to have been duly exchanged for
the Cif acers of tie American army therein men-
tioned, bad been previously, us far back as
:the month of September last, regularly • ex-
'changed for the crew of the United States sloop
Nautilus and, a sufficient number of other sea-
men belonging to time United States naiy, as ap-
pears by an crtfcittl romninnication to his Excel-•
lenry of the 7th Sept. last, front bis Excellency
General .Sir J. a.Sherbrooke, coin-
mantling tl)e forces in Nova f!icotia, confirmed by
a letter' from Mr. Mitchel, the American agent for
prisoner= atilalifax, to the lion. James 'quint),
American Seeectlry of State, 'dated the '2434 Nov.
trawnnitted to his Excellency Mnior.-Gileral
DearbOrn, hip letter of the 2d Jan. last The
release of ti.e said detaclArient by such' exchange,
was !midis:led in General Orders on the :29th Sep-
tember Lea., at Montreal; and ;also CommuniCated
to I),ljor.tienertml Dc Irborn Ilk
letter of J:ma.last as ,the ground of his refusal to
accede to the before-mentioned proposal of that

-
-" o however, every possibility of Misr
tal:c or error upon this suht,ecti and to prevent
any further inkanderstanding.respecting it, his
Evelleney
.has:. thought proper to direct Illajor
Murray, agent for the exchange.of prisoners of
war, to proceed ‘vitii a flag of truce to the Ame-
ric;att head-quatters, and should he be satisfied
upon Wrildry, that. theviiieers, non-omonission-
cd,oilicers and men of the detachment of the Ist
regiment, or Royuf Seats, have not been o)nii-
thred by.the American poverninent as regularly
e.x,:hanged for the crew of the United States
slnop N4liiiPts, and other seamen: belonging to
the 'United States roy, 'as before stated, Major
Murray is then aothorked to release from parole
an equal number of tinkers , tan-commissionea of.
firers and soldiers'.of the regular troops of the
American army nnule prisoners of war at Detroit,'
Niagara,. or elsewhere, as may be agreed upon be-
tween liiitt and Major-General Dearhor.n,
" not his Excellency canto n..hnit the right Its,
stoned by the American GO\ eminent, in the order
before referred to, to arrange and class.the ex-
change of prisoners of ‘var in Sty* IllUllncr 11* may
hest snit their coovenienk:e or advantage. All ex.-
cli,niges of prisonent (ir must be ratitica by
both parti.,s before the ...rekease of them twcomes
valid, mid 'whenever it i practicable the ext-hange
is to he coodoetvd on the scale of partly of rank and
tterviee. ()livers grade fun gro,le,serjeant Jur ISer•
jeant, soldier for soldier, rqular for regullsr. and
joiliti3 far tniiitirt ; strict the tariff adopted for the
excliangf. in Ow foregoing order, can. only he ad-
mitted in cases where the regular exchange by pa-
rity of rink nnd service cannot take plane,' and
th'em wily by the mutual conciwrence. •of both
phrtivs:

(Signed) ‘c Er w. BAYNES,
" Adj. Cen. North America."

Safi:it-4,1,y ii Coroner's Inqueftt grit CM ft (")111°-
tez,iti, of -20 yeatii tic ege, of the' 'name of: Da-
vtage, who also 4:ol'nf the effects of p6ixon.---
l'he 'deceased was a girl of very `interesting ap-
pearmice, and lately under the protettioo of a
than of fortuilt., whc) ifri gone tilamoi. She had
hoot arrested last ; and thii eirratmatanee,
together with A eil:ditl of other einin-errvoznient4,
AVai the alleged cau,e of suicide.—N'erdiet,
4(411-i

• I,()Vit)ON Pt
At the Sin ot•c'

AMERICAN COTTON WOOl4.

EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER, DATED

DEAR SIR,

Von tell me that I. am not interested •in the
cotton wool question, and that you are desirous•
of having my opinion on the subject. I will en-
deavour briefly to state it.
Ist. 'Tie Government of 'the United States of
,America is more particularly under the ..controul
of the temporary opinions and wishes of the peo-
ple, and these people are. supposed to be individu-
ally governed less
..by the honour and general
permanent interests of their country, and more by
their own persOnatinterests than in any other coun-
try ; therefOre, to obtain a'speedy, honourable,
and advantageous peace, which is the object of
war, we should endeavour to nialce them, feel
the calamities which can inflict, not only by
our disposable naval and military force, but also
by commercial restrictions. Indeed, seeing that
the Northern States, where the war is already said
to be unpopular, will be principally affected: by
your naval and military operations ; and tikatit is
by commercial restrictions, chiefly, that the
fi,outherli States, where the war is said to be po-
pular, is .to be injured,- it woold seem that com-
mercial) restrictions ere more essentially necessary
than direct naval or military operations. Previous
to the wart the productions of the Southern States
were exported in vessels belonging to the North-
ern States ; and if now those productions are al-
lowed to be exported in foreign ships, how, will
the Southern States feel time pressure of the agar
The agricultural intereqs, the internal prosperity,
and consequently the .rpitiarity of
,the war, and
the resources for carrying it on, will he unaffected
in those States. .‘
2(1. The pressure that has been felt throughout
the United Kingdom by the Contintapal,System,
has arisen, I conceive, not so much irom the eh-
struetion to the • exporfation of tkernmfeile red
goods, as of colonial produce fo the Continent.---
The great maeltst kw our manufactured goods has
always been South America and the ‘Vest Inches;'
and these marketS have. been. redueed, not from
any want of demand there, but because their pr”-:
duce, with which elone th,:y cold] pay us for nor
manufactures was .tio longer valuable here, .when it
could no longer be exported. Cotton wool is a
staple article of South America .and the West In-
dies; great qultntities skre now cultivated there, and
the culture may be greatly increased : therefore, by
giving to those placesomd to our possessions iii the.
East.lndies and Africa a declared preference in the.
cotton ‘vool market of this country, a great and
certain and constant demand for our manufactures
is secured, inasmuch as by so doing you give to
these places the meansof paying for them; besides,.
it is the duty 'of this country, even if great sacri-
fices were thereby made, to give to the cotton,
wool of our own colonies, and our allies, 'tans)
amongst the latter, particularly to the Brazils, a
decided preference. Let us remember, that France,
as the price of peace, has oilere4 to guarantee
Portugal and its ,dependencies to the Liouse of
Braganza, and that they now sninnit to all the
calamities of the war to maintain their engage-
ments with us ; and.that but for the war all the
ports its Enrope would bo.opcii, in place of being
Ant; as they now are, to the introduction of their
Koduce. Further,. how is a. free trade to.the East
Indies to be Made the Most highly beneficial to
this,country but by giving the Owlet encourage-
ment to the peoductions of the soil of th.infe fruit-
fa regions Prmitote in this way the prosperity
of these countries, and you give to their immense
population the 111,Colbt and having the means,
will have-the desire, to conintmeou'r manufactures.
It cannot be doubted, but that under pepper en-
couragement there would scarcely be any limit,
either in quantityor quality; to the production of
cotton wtiol in our pohbehSiOni sin.
3]. It used to be the pediey of the Government
and the Legislature of this country to. protect our
shipping interests in every possible way such po-
licy has, been cOusidered as the great source of.our
prosperity and maritime superiority.; and I fear
eektit is now: neither less expedient nor lesS ne-
cessary than formerly. The cOttou wool which
we import from the 4astand -West Indies, Africa,
and South America, comes ity Ileitis') ships, nod
even if it should, under, ally circumstances, at. a
subsequent period become necessary, to -have re...
course to the United States of America for this are .
ticle, it can neither be expedient n )r.necessare to
allow it to be imported in stay other than British.
ships, under the regulations of our Navigation
Laws.

•4th. 1111111 be universally felt, that it is highly
important, that an adequate supply of,cotton wool
at' moderate prices should be s;ectited to the coun-
try andl certainly do not teal myself competent
to give a decided opinion whether' this can be
done without having, eventwally, recount: to the
'United States ; the inclination, of my rninds.how-
ever, is that it may, and looking to the large„quari-
tity now in this country, and the supplies th:,t we
shall certainly receive from various places, there can
be no cause for inunedi-iteakrin on this bend the
danger, if any, of. our not having an adequate
'supply at a future period must be 'very .remote,
and it is highly expedient !list the ntmokt press-
Bre of war • upon:: the people of the United
States of America. should be immediate.

sth . I have givim you a rapid view of the sub-
jeci-1 have not time for any thing else. After.
'perusing, it,l think you wilt agree With me, that
the importation of cotton wool, the Foduce of
the United States of America, should now be
law entirely prohibited, and that if it shoUld here-
after be fonnd, contrary to expectation, that ade=
iluate supplies at moderate prices cannot be.other-
Wise obtained, its importation should then be
alfoive'd in British vessels only ; and in such case,
I conceive that it would. not be expedient to im-
pose any great additiOnal duty ther*on.
Your's truly, H.