The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-31 00:00:00

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When, in a great Comotereill, Country, the Mercantile
Body bt.tfic Aletropolisis pleased to notice with favourable
senttments the exertions °fan I.ll•UVitjUal for the laublieGood,,
he receives a most gratifying reward ~tOr, ii his labours:—
. but when that Individual has been 'bred and educated
atnorig.thern-,--when, during a long public lice, he has been
Within their clristant and watchful observation, he may well
pride tiiinself in those Sentiments, and they confer on him
the most valuable and It meting Honour. •'
" " •Such is Inv fortunate , situation at this moment, and I
should be lost to all SWIM: of gratitude and duty
,if I did not
,feel an interest, iiiereAsed, if possible, for your welfare, arid
'an additional anxiety to extend the Commerce of our N a.'
:live Country, by promoting every practicable means. of en.
cooking its Aoculture,
,Malll4l.lettlre:i, Trade, and I
-du,stry. . •

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AcceArny_ warmest. Thanks, ands believe me to ov:,' with
'the thust bincere. esteem and respedful gratitude, -petit- very.
bithful and attached Friend and humble Servant. .
JOl-04
()ratted, That said Address and Answerbe published.
Signed. by .0 rticr,
T. ALLEN, elk. Cid.

LINEN TRADE.
At a Nfeeting of 'the Merchants and Others concerned in,
the Ll NIIN -TRADE, held'at the Linen ILL, the. ictli of
August, RSo4,
1)15 THOMAS D'ititlEN. Eiq, in.tho Chair
The Act of the present ScNsiou of 'Parliament for Zh :ce-
real of the Export Duty upon British and- Irish Linen be_.
tuft reAd. •
Rewired, That dig' Meeting is (*ply seeable of the

many important Services which the Rig,,t Hon. john Fos-
ter has rendered tothe ishdustry of this Country, and particu-
larly to its StapleManuf..flore. ' • -
ResolvedtThat Mr. Foster'4 able
.and successful exer.
'firms in obtaining the Repeal. of the Law that suirjetted the
Linens oftitis Country lila Duty upon Txport, adds to' :tee
many obligations which we. already owe to his great Ao!!t...
ties =et invariable Attention, 'and claims our Acknowledg.
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went arid Thanks. •
Resolved, That an Address, expressive of those our Sert'..;
titnents, and'of-Congratulation to Mr. Foster onhis eleva.'
tion to the high and important Station of FirsrCeinntissioner;
of His Alairstra Treistary and Chincellor •of the 'Excite:
quer, be prepared, and presented to him froth this Body.
• Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to prepare said
Address. . '•• • •
And a'Committee having been appointed, and having re-
tired 'for that puip6Se, Vresented, on their return, a Copy or
an Address prepared by them ; and the salnC being read,
Resolved, That said Address do stand the Address of this
Meeting„ and that omit Chair Man be regitested to'transmit
copy of it to the rkiobt Hon. [(Ain Foster; an C4at he do
lei% from hint when 'ho will
.be ple4sed• to receive Vic
same. • .
Re:nil/ea, That the $31,1 Address be Pit:seine:l by a Dr.pu_
tation. foam' this Affecting, -consisting of the tolloWing Gen-.
tlemen
• DerriS Thomas O'Brien, tsq. .Francis Bergs, Esq.
Hanoi!, Esq. Hugh Crothers., Esq.
tt illiarn.Harkness, Esq. • Nicholas Eleantrig, Esq.
John Allen, Esq.
•Andsuchother “entlernetrof -the Trade as Lin Make it
convettient to at tend. • . • • •
• Resolved, That these Prodeelltigt, together with Mr. Fos..
ter's Answer, be published.
The Peptithion appointed by the Centlernen of the Linen
Trade: attended her a vast concourse the tto at rge•
waited on ;fir, Foster with the said Address on Thursday the
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