The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-08 00:00:00

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T a Numerous and Respectable :INIZETING
of the BCRGESS au rsamitTANTs of the
Town of NOTTINGRAM; and OeuntY of the same, and the
Precincts thereof; .held 'at the Guildhall, nui the sane
Notice
given by,.the Mayor, to take into consideratton the propriety
of petitioning the Prince- Regent -and 'both Hons,:s Of Par-
liameiit, to take such Measures aS maylead to the RESTO-
RA'hON of PEACE; • • . .
EDWARD SWANN, Esq. (the Mayor),
Being called ,to the Chair,
, .
The following lUesoAltiolls were unanimousfragreed to :—.
Ist---That it is the .opinion of this Mtetim; that' the alarm-
ing rind unprecedtuted Duay Qt the TVilAie a. this Town and
Neighbourhood, . the destitute' and starving Condition to
which Thousauds of its inhabitants are redaced, and winch
imperiously calls for prompt and 'ettectual Relief, :tad the'ra-
vid. 'met ease and insupportable Buideo of the l'oon's Rates,
are to be Atrihated to the long continued and ruinous War.
in tthich this Country- is engaged. .
- :Id— rt.at to the same Cause are to'be ascribed the general
Stagnation of Commerce, the alarming Augmentation of the
Public Debt, the Depreciation, of Paper Currency, the De-
cline of National Credit, audthe oppressive weight of those
Burdens which have in numberless instances reduced Wealth
tu Mediocrity, Mediocrity to' Poverty;, and the Poor to a state
of actual and'destructive Wont. , . • . • .
;id--That it is the opinion, of this Meeting, that the middle
Class' of Society, on svivsm the Burden or the Taxes or,lit-
shined by the .tvar almost wholly falls, hp unable to .)eitr Ole
excessive Weigtt of • public and parocifial Tuxes, with which
it is oppressed, much less to sustain those .chitlins which
we are told by the highest Authority' must be expected, if
the War be still -persevered in.
4th—That the industrious .a.nd 1913°0011s Poor being either
wholly or partially deprived of that 'Employment by which
-they were accustomed to Support their Fnunlies; • Grain and'
all other Necessaries of late having.risen to a price wSu hi
mch
the beet' tinies.couid,net have endured ; 'the immense s
exacted in the form of l'our's Rates are round totally, in-
sufficient to preserve those front actual Want wham they
are designed; to relieve, while the excessive pressure of
Rates is constantly reducing others to similar circumstances
of D,istress.
sth—that it is the opinion of
.this Meeting, that Pea ce
alone can alleviatethe Distresses to which this Country, and
particularly the Munufacturino Parts of it, are reduced, or
avert the still more deplorable Mies•which otherwise must be
apprehended, •and that the voice of Putriotism, the voiee•oif
humanity, and the precepts of .ChriStianitr, equally call Ott
• every inchvidual to exert nunseif accordiug to hi*Ability,. to
obtain the Restoration 91 that, Blessing.
6th--That trope these considerations; we deans it our duty
'to present Petitions to the •Prinetiltegent ittl to both llouses
' of Parliament, pitying, that such 'Measures limy. be imuteili-
ately pursued, as shall lead to the attainment of this must
deshiole and esienlially important Object.
7th=—Tiost the Petitions -,. i:ich have now been read are ap-
proved by this Meeting, and that they be laid at the Tot it
HAL', for the Signatures of *those Persons 'who are desir-
ous of contributing to obtain for their Country the Blessing.
of 'Peace.
Bth,That 'the Petitions, Ati 'the Prince Regent and to the
House of Lords, when signed,. be trateimitted to the Right
'Honourable Lord Holland, to be bY hint duly presented ; and
that the Petition to the House of Commons• be presented by
the Members for time Town.
9th—That a Committee be now appointed to carry these Re-
solutions int., ehect, and to procure subscriptions to defray
the cxpences "thereof; and that the following Gentlemen do
solids se such Cenuniatee :-;--Mr. Alderman Allen, Mr. C. L.
i"-•.,hvalr:ley,mr. Denison, Mr. F. Oen, jun. Mr. John Green,Mr.
" • r% Rawson Mr.. fluddlesttine, 51r. Stra.tan, twit Mr. 11.
Hopper.
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It)th----That these Resolutions be published iu the Notting-
Papers, and such of the London Papers, us the Counnittee
shall direct. •

E. SWANN, Chairman.
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J,1;..,,,,i,ct5r *be, nii)Cuia .I?Ahort. llnaucna hart,llll4lUl,,
moosiy restmeii, o'l'6 the:Di:lol4s of Meeting We given to
Et.w. Swann, the Mayor, tor his prompt aegniescenee
in
the wishes of the ftienas 0t Peace, and for his candid and int»
. partial conduct lu tlic Chair.
after whJeli,:the Thititlis of t4e Meeting were voted to
Lent I.),.!nisoci I.*.sq. for his exertions on the present, as well as
all lemur occastms.

To Ills ROYAL HIGHNESS the PRINCE REGENT.
Slr---We, the Undersigned, Iturgessest or Inhabitants of
the Town; and aunty of the Town of Nottingham, and its
Pieciuets, beg Kavti to eland the 'attention of lour Royal
Highness, as benig.t.he Representative of a Sovereign, whose
higneet glory we presittneat is, that he slkoeld be considered as
the. Father of his People; while we dutifully present, before
the throne, a statenient'Of Old evils from whx, experienced by
ourseli•es, and by mations beside of his Majesty's, vast faintly,
mid, while we ear.iei,tly supplicate, front a paternal regard, so
becoming-au Englisit elonarch;that relief front dire distresse
whith the speedy
-restoration of peace alone eau' be expected
to atfora..
•
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On that Royal Power, .which was :designed to be a blessing
and protection to 'miliions, we 'call for tut exertion of God-
Illte iteuevolence, which shall speedily termivate ii coldest utt-
Itappiiy,,,counneuced with precipitancy, and direful! y prolonged
by we: exasperated passievis lid the infatuated understandings
of men. Malty are the motives to Peace, mu' most powerful,
whielitaight lie expected to affluence the nand of your Royal
Highness. A. respect.tor the divine principles of Chrititianity
tole flunetnit y, it. may be hoped, will prey cot your itoyai
Higfinecs from bring swayed. by the repfese:,O.i ions of. men,
who-c' prejudices, pasSions, -or selfish inters so+,;cyder them ..
advocates for the Perpetuity of a War whicloaf much 'longer
persisted lu, eal evideetly he aceolupenied•hy civil commo-
tion, by fautine,`atid by pestilence. •
• 'Aiiawfoladutonition of oar leiving nearly exhausted the tell
sources of.the.eountry is:paitifully obtruded on our notice by
the rapidly increasiug beggaty 'kla wreicla. durss of myrictili
°fits industrious and Ono inhabitants, who, at no very dis-
tant periodt.enjoyedailltience orreennPetenee; aitd also by the
obviously *greasing inability of .Our uhlest Financiers, even
while imposing is most oppressive texation, to devise Means
fur raising supplies in an; wise correspondent, to the Public
Atiptialk.xploutiture.
In .the largest parish of this once flourishing, but now mi-
serable Town, nearly a third part of its population, ht con-
sequence of the interruption of trade, is reduced tp the state
of paupers ;.inal in the other purl:ales of the town, not less
oppressive to those inhabit:MlA on WhOOVO, levy
ecttr be astute,
is tite burden of Poor's-rates. Ami wearc. informed,
that a like reduction to beggary waut of multitudes
of our countrymen in the different it towns
of this' hingdoin, is .theconsetotence of the annihilation of
our trade,"elid of the increase of the taxation produced by
war.
Aaditional to these evils, might be recalled to your Royal
.Highttees's rixellection those atso which are inesitable coma,- '
mitants of the most successful Mars, even whet' waged by na-
tions V. tiosc resources maY be the must ample, mid whose con- .
dition the itiosVllottri4hing. •
assorertly cannot .be a matter of little estimation with I
your, Royal flight:mos, that thousands of brave tneu should be
'extended lifeless on the field of battle: that thousands
.should
perish by the hardships of warfare: that there should be
thousands of mournipg _widows ,and orphan ebildreo : thht
thousands of parents stiould,be hurried to-the grave by the
loss of beloved suns, Who were the support of their de-
, dining years: that thousands should die lingering deaths In
captivity; and that the majority of the survivors of it long
and Lamely contest, having, in aceuree of warfare: exPeriPacett
interruption to those moral habits which promote the liar-
voinfort, and welfare of -civil Society :old of domestic
life, should, oo rue return of state of Peat e, be reudertal
less valuable theurbers of :society, and less Welt:0111C to the
roofs of their relations and friends.
As a speedy restoration of Peace alone can mitigate the
heavy etile we endure, and wave the Inhabitants of thnsland
Troutatipending runt, and the irrecoverable lose of their once
prosperous and enviable condition; as iota the ill success tuid
disappointed views of the eneiny tea,' lead him to listen More
readily to reasonable conditions of Peace; we join oar aillieted
,euuntt•yrnen in earnestly petitiouing your Alla' iligimesw to
marlifi,st, by sonic unequivocal expression or pablieact of the
Government, your truly ltoyal desire to seize the ear-
liest opporttutit) sheathing the sword of shlutht")

healing the sounds of a I:mg-protracted. war: that Alms
enera*may b!l,lVelllded it ~111 plac4bly.throwing the odium
e.etight in var and its c:nlconlitatit•tatieries sir your Rupd
pat,itientory Government. - . •.• • •
I{7evili intlaize the hope, that-your Royal
grant`the prayer of our petition ;
,and that your •
endeavours will be effential sonivrestorliii.7 to *the afflicted
people, entrusted .to your !loyal prote.ction, that lasting .Yeacc
after whirl) they so ardently aspire..
Thus m.tv the blessings of the peoce-malter descend on your
loyal Hizliness -; and thus may your Royal l'a.therovhen
called front his present state of stitiVringslo: a letter world,
he.enabled t resign to your ltofal .13.ighness,- in a .stag- Of
Peace, that Throne, which he ascentled.amitt the.din.of arms,
and on which he has continued to sit.during so many.years
of war. - • • • „
N. U. The Petitious to the Meuse of Lords and th'e /144se
af-Conunons, are similar to the foregolag, varying only in.the
usual forms of address. • . • -
'" The doors will be 'open' limn Ten in the Morning till• Six
(Mock in the Evening. •