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London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

AIR. ROBINSON'S BILL.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled,
The humble Petition of the undersigned MERCHANTS
and TRADERS of London, Sheweth,

That your Petitioners have seen, with considerable alarm,
that a,Bill has been brought into Parliament, entitled, " A
Bill to regulate the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions
in America and the West Indies, and other parts of the world,"
by which it is proposed to throw open the British Colonies to a
direct trade with the ports of Europe, and to surrender into the
hands of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council the
power of suspending or relaxing the provisions of the Acts of
Navigation, in as far as the trade with the British Colonies is
concerned, as to them, at any time, may seem meet.
Your Petitioners revere the wisdom of their ancestors, who,
in the establishing of a commerciarcode, regulating the inter-
course between the Mother Country and the British Colonies,
confined the same to a direct communication by British ships ;
and, although your Petitioners are aware of the distress under
which the Planters of the several Colonies do at this moment
labour, which they sincerely deplore, they cannot admit that it
is attributable to the intercourse with the Mother Country being
preserved and maintained as by law established ; neither are
they desirous of offering any objection to such relaxation be-
tween the Colonies and America as to your Honourable House,
in its wisdom, may seem meet. But your Petitioners do not
hesitate to record their deliberate conviction, that a departure
from the ancient established colonial law, by permitting a
direct trade between the Colonies and ports in Europe, north of
Cape Finisterre, will be productive of ruinous consequences to
many of the mortgagees of estates in the West India Colonies,
and be attended with incalculable injury to the manufacturing
and trading interests of the United Kingdom, as such relaxa-
tion will not only enable the Planter to send his produce to
foreign parts, beyond the reach or controul of the mortgagee,
' but also permit a direct supply of merchandize from the ports
of Europe to the Colonies, which must otherwise be principally
drawn from the ports of the United Kingdom.
That your Petitioners are aware that it is proposed, that To-
reign goods so imported into the Colonies shall pay duties equal
to those which may be shipped through or from this country ;
but your Petitioners consider, that such amount of duties would
be levied in the Colonies to the injury of the revenue of the
United Kingdom, which is at present chargeable with a portion
of the maintenance of the same, and further deprive the IS/other
Country of the advantages she at present enjoys, in the ware-
housing system, ;amount of charges on, transit, labour, rates,
rents, commission, &c. both outwards and homewards.
That your Petitioners look, also, with much alarm, to the
ruinous consequences to which the Sugar Refineries of this
Country—a most valuable branch of manufacture—will be sub-
jected, if the projected measure should be carried into effect,
as the manufacturers of that British staple commodity, depri-
ved, as they will be, of the usual supplies of the raw material,
will no longer be in a condition to furnish the Merchants tra-
ding to the Continent with refined Sugars, which are still ship-
ped in considerable quantities from this Country, to the Euro-
pean markets, at such prices as will enable them to compete
with foreign manufacturers.
That your Petitioners, not less, alive to the alarming innova-
tion, neither called for by circumstances; no; reconcilable with
the proper jealousy with which an adherence to our Colonial
policy has been regarded, cannot but express their decided con-
viction of the impolicy of transferring from the Legislature
during a period of peace, to the Privy Council, as it proposed
by the Bill now before your Honourable House, a power of
suspending or relaxing the provisions of our Acts of Naviga-
tion, a power which your Petitioners are humbly of opinion
ought not to be surrendered by Parliamenttin whose delibera-
tive judgment your Petitioners have always justly reposed, and
are contented to abide.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that so much of the
said Act as contains a provision for opening the Trade be-
tween the Colonies and the Ports of Europe, north of Cape Finis-
terre, and for delegating to the Privy Council the power of sus-
pending or relaxing the Acts of Navigation, may not pass into
a Law.
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Midis 14° die Mail) 182.

LOCKHART'S ESTATE BILL Read a second time,
WILD'S NATURALIZATION BILL and committed.
KER'S ESTATE BILL
TANNlNG—Petition of John Burridge and William Cluer, re'
lative to an improved process of Tonging ; to be printed.
EDINBURGH POLICE BILL (No. I.ft.eport further consi-
dered ; Bill re-committed to former Committee ; leave to sit
to-morrow, and to report on Friday.
ROADS—Royston, Lincoln Heath, Bridgewater, andlDartford
and Northfieet--read a third time, and passed. Cork and
Skibbereen—read a first time. Reading—Lords amendments

agreed to.
I N cu.() s URE—Din ton ( Wilts) 1 Read a third time,
BRIDEWELL—Lanark. and Glasgow f and passed.
TUFFNELL'S ESTATE BlLL—Read a first time.
GREENWICH CHURCH BlLL—Further time granted f°l.
making the Report till Wednesday, May 22.
SALT TAx—Petition of the Mayor of Haverfordwest, for the
repeal thereof; to be printed.
LEATHER TAX—Petition of the Mayor of Haverfordwest ;
also of the Farmers, Tanners, and others, of Cockermouth,
Whitehaven, and Workington, for the repeal thereof; to be
printed.
IMPROVEMENTBILL—Camden Town—Further time granted
for making the Report till Friday).
NAVIGATION BlLL—Petition of Shipowners of Dundee,
AGAINST, to be printed.
TOBACCO DuTiEs--Petition from Bristol, for a reduction
thereof ; to be printed. '
AGRICULTITRAL DisTnEss:—Petition from the Hundreds of
lunstead S. Happing—to lip on the table, and to be printed-
Coln; LAws—Petitions of Owners and Occupiers of Land in
the County of Rutland, against lowering the importation
prices—to lie on the table, and to be printed.
PUBLIC HousEs—Petition from Maidenhead, respecting the
mode of granting Licenses; to lie on the table, and to be
printed.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS—That they have agreed to
Bishop's Castle, Mold, Plymouth and Stonehouse Roads
Bills, Scarborough Pier Bill, and Warrington Gas Lit
Bill, without amendment : Bognor Market Bill, with amend-
ments.
DISTILLATION (SCOTLAND—Petition complaining, of the
restrictions on the exportation of Scottish Spirits, from Kam'
cardine—to be printed.
BOGNOR MARKET BlLL—Lords amendments agreed to.
HoP-PLANTERS—Petition from Battle, Catsfield, and other
parishes, for relief ; to lie on the table, and to be printed.
CORN IMPORTATION BILL—" to amend the Laws relating
to the Importation of Corn," presented, and read a Ist time,
to be read a second time on Tuesday, and to be printed.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS for THIS DAY. A
1. Mr. Lennard—Select Committee on Expences of the Thir''
Class of the Civil List.
2. Sir John Newport,—Bill to authorize occupying Tenants it,
Ireland to tender in part payment of Rent Receipts Or
Grand Jury and Parochial Assessments.
3. Mr. Chancellor of ithe Exchequer,—Bill to extend to Great
Britain the powers of the Commissioners of Inquiry into
Revenue (Ireland).
ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY.
1. King's Bench Business Repeal Bill—Committee.
2. Warehousing Bill—Committee.
3. Roman Catholic Peers Bill—Further consideration of Re
port.
4. Vagrant Laws Amendment Bill—Further consideration °f.
Report.
5. Supply—Committee.
6. Ways and Means—Committee.
7. Prison Laws Consolidation Bill—Committee.
8. Malt Duties Repeal (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading.
9. Stamp Duties on Legacies Acts—Committee thereupon.

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