The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-18 00:00:00

'EAST IN DIES.

89PAL—Intelligence has ,been just received at
the Presidency, of the death of the young Nabob
of Bopal ; a man of some promise. He' loaded
and cocked a pistol to, fire at something in,aMus-
ntent when his attention was taken up by his
child, a young 'daughter, running up to himi' in
fondling with her, the pistcd went ofF, .and "
shot
him dead on the spot. The Government remains
undiitorbed by the event, and looking for the re-
sult of the widbvi's confinement, who is advanced
in pregnancy. •

[EXTRACT FROM THE MADRAS 'COURIER.]
Tile Honourable JOHN HODGSON being about
to proceed to England in one of the Indiamen of
the present season, has relinquished hili seat as a
member of the Council of Government ;;and J.
H. D. °Glum!, Esq. has been appointed his
successor.

On:Monday-last, the Hon. John Hugh Donnel
Ogilvie took the usual oaths and his sedt lii Com);
cil, under a salute of 15 guns.

OLD BAILRY.—The Sessions commenced yes-
terday before Mr. Justice Barna and Mr. Baron
GARROW. Thenomberot cases for trial is only
165, and among them is no case of importance.—
There.ate no. fewer than 20 for uttering forged
notes.—No trial. of importance occurred during
the day. _ _

The Duke of Sussex has appointed CHARLES
KEMYS KEMYS TYNTa, Esq. M. I'., Provincial
Grand Master of the
.Freemasons of Somerset-
rice ALITUVR CHIVLIESTER, I,;;Sq, reailoed.

The following is a Copy of the PEIT/TION of the
SHIP-OwNeas,agreed upon at the Meeting on Tues-
day last at the City of London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street. J. W. lincx.LE, Esq. in the Clinir
To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain anctireland, in Parliament assembled.
The Humble Petition of the undersigned Ship-Owners
of London,

Simeweth, that the attention of your Petitioners has beets
attracted to a Petition which has been lately presented to
your Honourable House by certain Merchants of this City,
praying for a revision of the Commercial :.ysteum established
by the existing' restrictive and Revenue Laws.
That the said Petitioners dtclariog the prayer of their said
Petition to be " against every restrictive regulation of traoc
not essential to the Revenue, and against all duties merely
protective front foreign competition," your Petitioners cannot
contemplate without anxiety the possible admission of a prin-
ciple which recognizes the advainage of the Revenue alone
as the guide .in training our Commercial Code, overlooklog
the claims to protection' which your Petitioners humbly con-
ceive those numerous classes of the conominity to possess
whose capitals have been embarked in trades, which, being
considered of importance to the security and greatness of ths
cottony, have been protected and have flourished under the
existing system, and most still depend for their prosperity
upon its permanence.
That undastanding one of the chief objects which the
said petitioners seek to obtain is a relaxation of the naviga-
tion laws, your petitioners would earnestly implore your ho-
nourable house to pause ere it sanction an alteration in our
maritime code, and to weigh well the consequences of a de-
parture from that volicy Under which our commercial marine
has attained to unexampled prosperity, and tour navy to un-
rivalled power.
Your petitioners entreat of your honourable house to bear
in mind that the experience of more than two centuries has
shown the advantage of adhering to a system, which, by en-
couraging shipping and navigation, has so greatly contribut-
ed to the strength and general prosperity of the empire : and
they beg to state to your honourable house their titan coo-
victim' that this system cannot be departed f:aon iu any ma-
terial respect without a loss of trade in British ships, in pros
portion to the Increase of foreign trade which might be t hereby.
obtained, and the consequent sacrifice of British navigation,
and all the important interests dependent thereon.
That your petitioners, however, would have forborne to
approach your honourable house with this expression of
their anxiety, in the confidence that they might safely rely ort
the • wiido'm of the •legislature to protect from the risk of
unadvised experiment interests so vast and so truly national
as those of British slUpping, hail they only, as in the case of
the proposed alteration of the navigation laws, Been menaced
with direct attack; but your petitioners, having observed
tNat it is also sought to procure an alteration of the exist-
ing duties on timber in favour of foreign (nnum ce, cannot
retrain from declaring to your honourable loittse, respectfully
but unhesitatingly, their belief that such a measure would
be fraught, beyond any other change in our existing system
that could be devised, with consequences disastrous to the
Br itish ship. owner. This danger,t he great er as it is the less ob-
vious, they feel themselves peculiarly called upon to point out.
That the whole of this trade is peculiarly and pre-eminent-
ly British, the prime cost of the timber being paid for in Bri-
tish manufactures, and the freight being paid to British ships;
so that the entire SUM 'expended for the article in Great Bri-
tain goes through British channels, and contributes more or
less to time benefit of native interests, and the maintenance of
the national revenue.

That, if such alteration be made as would throw our ports
more widely open to the timber of the Baltic and Norway,
this intercourse, so important to the country generally, and
of such vital interest to the ship-owner, would be annihilated,
or reduced altogether to insignificance.
That, from the length and dillitulty of the voyage, the far,
ger part of the value of timber imported hither trout North
America consists of freight.
That the mere circumstance of the proximity of time northern
ports of Europe, by enabling ships to repeat their voyages fre-
quently in the course of the year, would alone reduce the
number of British vessels envloyed—in the carrying trade of
timber to one-third of their present amount.
That this would be the effect, without takir6- into consider—
ation the influence of foreign competition ; but expetience
has already shown the difficulty of successfully Contending;
with the ships of the, north of Europe in bringing,the timber
of those countries; liartly from the low rate of their outfit
and mode of navigation; partly front the natural predilection
of the foreigners interested in this trade fur employing their
OwliNessels..

That, combining both the above-mentioned considerations,
namely, the shortness of the yorager.a.od..the coniktition of
foreigners, your petitioners do not
.fear contradiction in stat-
ing their belief, that, for' every foreign ship which'should be
thus employed, three British ships of equal size would be left
unemployed and your petitioners have good ground for be-
lieving that the ship-psviters of the ninth of Europe (at pre-
sent in a state of mucb difficulty) are nut the parties looking
with the least anxiety to the decision' which the British Go.
vernment may form upon this important question.
That your petitioners WoUld submit to your Honourable
House, whether, fur the sacrifice of interests so momentous,
any advantage, they will nut say equivalent, but approaching
to equivalent, be held out.
That although the primary motive of the Legislature, in
encouraging the importation of Timber from the British Co-
lonies, might not be the interests of Navigation, yet it has
proved to be admirably calculated for that object, as will ap-
pear by the following statement of the progressive increase of
the tonnage employed in that trade, viz.: The number of
ships cleared out (rum Great Britain to the British North
American Colonies was— •

Slips
In the year 181814 576
5
1171
1816 772

Tons Men
112,734 6,707
174,578 9,701
160,378 8,824

1817 1009 194,996 10,370
1818 _ 1317 - 288,501 i 15.008
1819 1525 f 340,537 1 17,634
That this new channel of_ employment opened must oppor-
tunely for the relief of British shipping, at a period of unpre•
cedented depression—the effects of a transition from war to
peace having been more severely felt by your Petitioiters thatit
by any other class of Commercial Capitalists, from the cir-
cumstance, in a great degree, of, 900 sail of. the largest kind
of merchant vessels, employed in the service of Government
during the war, having been thrown at ouce upon the market,
upon the cessation of the Transport service.
That in the year 1819 the whole number of British ships
that cleared out of the ports of Great Britain, including their
repeated voyages, atitountild to 19,371, of the burden of
2,254,937 register tuns; and navigated by 137,703 men. Of
this number, 1,525 ships, of the burden of 340,537 register
tous, and navigated b y 17,04 Men, cleated out for the ports
of British North America (almost wholly for the purpose of
bringing.houtTinther,) being 1-7th part of the entire'carry-
ing trade of the country.
It- is contended that the Foreign Timber thus admitted
would enlarge the 4emand for British Manufactures; the fact,
on the contrary, however, is, that the growers and importers
of Norwegian and Baltic. Timber .take but a very small pro-
portion of its price in articles of Britiih production ; every
cargo,imported' would, come in diminution of the quantities
taken from our own colonies, and would divert capital and
the powers of capital from tint inhabitants of a rising country,
all whose wants and habits are formed upon the use of articles
'.exclusiVely British, to•aliens, whose consumption of such pro-
duce. ikcomparatively partinl and trifling..
That yo it petitioners would further submit to your Ho-
nourable House, whether the freight of the timber imported
could be more beneficially bestowed for this country than at
present? Of its present large amount, 1,400,0001. almost tbe
whole is consumed in au outfit, of which every article has
employed British artisans, and paid heavy duties to the Bri-
tish Exchequer ; the larger portion of,the residue pays the
wages of British seamen ; for but a very small part goes to
form the.rate of interest upon the depreciated eopital of the
ship-owner.
That your-petitioners also beg to state, that this trade has
peculiar advantages as a nursery for hardy seamen, front the
nature both of the climite and the voyage; the ships employed
in it taking. an unusual number of apprentices,.vvim, in.a few
years, become sailors of the roost valuable description.
That,. in cmiclnsion, your petitioners earnestly implore of
your Honourable House to reflect what would be the conse-
quence of throwing out of employment' almost the whole of
the seamen now employed in the North American timber
trade ; for your. petitioners declare, that they know not
where to look for a substitute if this lwanch of the carrying
trade be taken from them, labournig, as they are, under
serious difficulties in meeting the rivalship of surionoding
States.

That your petitioners, therefore, entreat your Honourable
House, that before•any step be taken in a matter so deeply
interesting lo them (and, as they believe, so important to the
couimunity at large), or any pledge of alteration be given,
they may be permitted to prove at the lair of your Honour-
able House the allegations contained in this their humble
petition, whisk they entertain a perfect confidence they can
do to the entire conviction of your kiinoUrable House. __
And yonr petitioners, as iu duty bound, will ever pray.
Lyndon, May 16, 1830.

P A RLI A M E N T,

HOUSE OF LORDS, ‘VEDD:P.I.DAY, MAY 17.

The Mose proceeded in Appeals.—Judgment
g 5 given in the cause of Lidwill v. Grady, in fa-
'our of the Respondent, affirming the Decree of
the Court of Exchequer in Ireland.
The oaths were administered to the Duke of
Rotland.
Mr. PArkhouse presented flie 16th Report of the
Cat natic Commissioners.—Ordered to lie upon the
Tahle.
The Stage Coaches Bill, the South Sea Com-
pany., Bill, and the Transfer of Stock (Ireland)
Bill, were brought up from the HonFe of Corn•
Mons by Mr. 11. A. Taylor, Mr. Brogden, and
other Members and read a first time.
• The Glebe Exchange -Amendment Bill (extend-
ing► its provisions 16 Middlesex) passed r bro,igh a
Committee, and was reported• withont amend-

% Went.
Temple's Divorce Bill was rend a first rime.
Ity.,olveot Debtor:" Continuation Bill was
read i !hit ti rime arid paired.
Adjourn-et, till to ;tmmy (Ibis (lay.)