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SATURDAT, APRIL 4, 1812.

EAST INDIA TRADE.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, March xs, tSit.
A T a GENERAL ,MEETING of the MER-
i.B. CHANTS-, SHIPOWNERS, MANUEAC
RE RS, and Others, interested in the Trade of this Port,
and the Neighbotirhot;d, convened by the Right Worshipful
the MAYOR, and held This Day at the Gui.dhall, tor the
Purpose of taking into Consider:dhoti the Expediertcy of
Adopting, preparatory to the h X I' I 1t ATI 0 N of the EAST

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INDIA COMPAINII"S CHARTER. such Me2sures as
may be calculated to obtain a General Participation in the
Trade, hitherto confined to that Company exclusively ;
GEORGE FO RSTE It, Esq. Mayor, in the Chair.
It was unminiously Resolved,. . ,

r. That it is the undoubted Right of every British Subjea
to
..xerciseFlee Trade with every country., depenuerit
upon, or in amity with, the British Empire, subjeCt only to
such RestrietiOns as the nature of the Trade may render
necessary.
• z. That the Monopoly hitherto enjoyed by the.East.l ndia
Company, while it has precluded the Private Merchant froth
participating 'in the Trade, has been so far front Operating to
the advantage ot the Company, that it-has reduced them to
the necessity of Appi) ing to Government, for repeated and
enormous Loans ot the Pudic Money to support their Esta-
b;isliment.

3. That the exclusive Privilege in question, is attended
with this peculiar circumstance of aggra ,ated hardship, that
while it excludes the !latish .Merchant irons a.ll palticipa-
_lion in the Trade, Foreigners are permi-Jed to share. its Ad-
vantages. .
4. That the Aigum'ent which has so often been used in
favour, of this. Monopoly, that the CapitAls of ivale Mer-
Chanti are inadequate to the prosecuting of so extensive and_
distant a Trade, is. completely answered by- tl►e tael that
Foicign Merchants, previouly to the late Restriction on
Neutrals;, had succeeded in taking to themselves tnure than
one halt of the-East India Trade,

, .
S. That if any -reasons were wanting against the continu-
ance:of this Monopoly, the obstacles which political circum-
stances have airnest every whew interposed to cramp and
fetter the operations of British Merchants.; would furi.isti
the most unanswerable. • '
_,, . • _ . . .

G.' 1 hat this Meeting,' being firmly impressed with these
Sentiments, deernS it expedient that Petitions, founded or.
the basis of these Restitutions, be iinJtectiatd) prepared and
presented to both Houses of Parliament; praying, That the
Alonopoly, enjoyed by the East India Company, may be
stiti-red to expire with their ,eNisting Charter; - That the
Gentlemen below be. a Committee,. for the Purpose of Pre-
paring such Petittoti ; and t.:t they he ;tuttiorised to print
and circulate C•pies- of these Resolutions, and'of Jr," Peti..
tions, and to correspond and cooperate with the Conunit-
tees :!ppointed for'gitnilar pur,oses in other parts of the
Kingdom. • .
• 7. That a Subscription .be inimediately opened, tor the
purposed o: carrying these Resolutions toto ett. Ct.
8. That Earl Grey and Lord Percy be requested to pre-
sent the Petition to the .House of Lords, and Sir Matthew
White Ridley, Bart. and Charles 10i111 ',Jaunting,
Nllleinhs,rs for this Town and County, to the HousEliol Coin-
1110b ; and that they, .and the Meninees for, the Cilbnties of
Northumberland ,Aut Durham, be rtytiCsted to use their ut-
most exeritons in its support. •
.GEoRG E FORSTER, Mayor.

The Chairman having lett. the Chair,
Resolved unanimously, , •
That the Thanks of this Meetillg 'be given to the
.Right
Worshipful the ,Mayor, for his readiness in' Convening the
Meeting, and tor,, his able, and impartial dundutt in the
Chair.

CON‘MITTEE. - •
The Right Worshii•ful the Mayor. • • - • .
The Master (4. toe Trinity House.
Sir t'uthworth Hewn, i,art •Newcastle.
Inseph Bohner, Esq. South Shields.
Nicholas Fairless, Ersq shun_
William Linskili, Esq -Tynemouth Lodge.
Thomas` Emerson H COlO3lll, Esq, Gateshed.
WilliamCliuk, Esq:' Long.-Benton.
'llion as imith, Esq Newcastle.
Benjamin Sorsbie, Esq dim).
Mr. john Graham Clarke, ditto. •
Mr. john Walker, Dockuray-square.,
Mr. P. I. B.ulmcr, Lernington. •
Mr. loin, I-Liwkes,'G.iteshed. ' '
Mr. William Redhead, Carville, .: .
Mr. Robert Rankin, Neiiicastle.
Mr. Matthew V initialer, ditto.
Mr. loseph Lamb, ditto,
Mr. Shallet Dale, ditto.
Mr. Miles NionknOuse, ditto.
Mr.,.William Armstrong, ditto.
THO,vIAS BROWN, Secretary.

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