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London, England, 1831-04-29 00:00:00

GENERAL SHIPPING AND COLONIAL COM

AIITTEE.

COMMITTEE-ROOM, CITY•OF LONDON TAVERN,
APRIL 23, 1831.
AT a MEETING of the Committee held
this day, pursuant to notice, and in conformity with
a Resolution of the General Meeting of the 21st inst.,
NATHANIEL GOULD, Esq. in the Chair,

The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to :
1. That the prosperity and preservation of the West
India Colonies, from the extensive, uniform, and certain
market tor manufactures and employment fur shipping,
which they afford, are essential to the maintenance of the
general interests and the naval power of the Empire.
2. That to legislate benelicia ly for those Colonies, and
for the real and permanent welfare of all classes of the po-
pulation, requires an intimate local knowledge of the state
of society, and of the habits and feelings of the people ;
and a careful reference to the history of the establishment
of the Colonies, and to the laws under which British ca-
pital has been embarked in them, and their cultivation
stimulated by the long-cherished policy of the Mother
Country.

S. That when, for these reasons, local legislatures have
been•establislied, to coeice those legislatures in matters of
internal regulation involving their own private property
and Personal safety, is, in principle, dangerous to all the
Colonies, in‘l calculated to destroy their attachment to the
Mother Country, which, during the last war, so signally
contriblited to her successes, and which even now, in a
.period of extreme adversity, has not been extinguished.
4. That to effect such a coercion of the Colonies by
means of penal restrictions or burthens on their inter-
course with this country, appears to this Committee to
be, not only oppressive towards the non-resident proprie-
tors, annuitants, mortgagees, and others, who, though pos-
sessing much property in those Islands, yet have no in-
fluence in their legislatures, but alsu• exceedingly injurious
to the merchants, manufacturers, and ship-owners of the
Unite.! Kingdom, who are directly interested in this inter-
course, and who must be injured by its interruption to the
extent of many millions of capital and many thousands of
persons..

5. That the threat, as recently announced by the Chan-
cellor of-the Exchequer, to propose the adoption of such
means for coercing the Colonies, is contrary to the uni-
form usage of Parliament since the American Revolution,
and consistent only with those precedents which led to
that disastrous event ; and a revival of similar measures,
for whatever object, appears to this Committee the most
dangerous and deplorable policy, as the exercise of this
Odious power of coercion was, after repeated discussion,
virtually abandoned during the American Revolution ;
an abandonment strenuously advocated by the greatest
statesmen this country has produced,—and which the calm
concurring voice of all reasonable men has since pro-
nounced to be in conformity with those principles of sound
policy by which all parts of the Empire should be con-
nected and governed.
6. That a perseverance in this unwise and perilous
course of policy cannot fail to provoke measures of resist-
ance, endanger the peace of the Colonies, and thus put to
hazard not only the property but the lives of all classes of
the inhabitants, entirely destroy our intercourse with the
Colonies, and ultimately leld to their separation from the
mother country.
7. That Petitions be prepared and presented to our
Most Gracious Sovereign, and, upon the assembling of
Parliament, to both Houses of the Imperial Legislature,
expressive of the sentiments contained in these Resolutions,
and deprecating, in the strongest bat most respectful terms,
the anti colonial policy of this and other late measures of
the Administration ; beseeching them not to adopt any re-
solutions which must compromise both the commercial in-
tercourse and the political connexion between the British
Colonies and the mother country, and earnestly entreating
protection for the general Colonial and Shipping Interests
of the Empire.
S. That a copy of the foregoing Resolutions be trans-
mitted to the Right Honourables the Earl Grey, Lord
Viscount Althork and Lord Viscount Goderich, and the
Chairman be
,requested to ask for an interview with their
Lordships on the subject;—and that William Maxwell
Alexander, Esq., John Bainbridge, Esq., Henry Bliss,
Eq., Abraham Borradaile, Esq.. John William Buckle,
E.q., Andrew Col ile, Esq., Henry Davidson, Esq.,
William Tindall, Esq., and George Frederick Young, Esq.;
be a deputation to attend the Chairman at such interview.
(Sian_ d) NATHANIEL GOULD, Chairman.

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