Star.
London, England, 1808-02-29 00:00:00

• SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS •
'''HE Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, inclined to
1 favour the Charity for maintzining, clothing, educating, and
putting out Apprentices poor Children descended from Welsh
parents who have no parochial settleMent in es. near London, are
requested to meet the Honourable Society of Ancient Britons, at
St. ames's Church, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, Mar. h 1. Prayer
will be read in the Ancient British Language by the Rev. THO-
MAS ALBAN, Chaplain to the Society, and a Sermon in Eng-
lish by the Rig,ht Rev. the Lord Bishop of CHESTER, and to dine
at the Crown and Anchor 'ravers+, Strand.
Sir ROBERT SALUSBURY, Bart. M. P. President.
VICL-PKESIDENTS, _ -

T. Wyndham. Esq. M. P.
Henry W. Wynn, Esq. M. P.
Colonel M. Wood. M. P.
Colonel Shiplt;y, M. P.
Walter Wilkins, juu. Esq.
'ARDS,
Daniel price, Esq.
Edward Powell, Esq.
John Roberts, Esq.
Edward Harris, Esq.
Edward Watkins, Esq.
1. THOMAS, Secretary•.
at One o'Clock precisely.
at Five precisely.

The Hon. Booth Grey, M.P.
The Hon. W. B. Lygott, M.P.
Sir- R. W. Vaughan, hart. :41.P.
Sir E. P. Lboyd, Bart. M. P.
Charles H. Tracy, Esq. M. P.
3 I'ZW,
Thomas Sainsbury, Es.
James Jones, Egg.
William Taitt,
Thomas %sines, Esq.
John Williaits, Esq.
Divine Service will begin
Dinner on Table

NEW WEEKLY PAPER.
On Saturday the 19th of March, I RO9, will be published,
Price Sixpence, NUMBER 1. of THE
PLYMOUTH and DOCK TELEGRAPH ; or,
NAVAL and COMMERCIAL REGISTER.
Printed on a good Paper, with an elegant New Type, from the
Founctery of Messrs. Fry and Steele. It will be published regu-
larly every Saturday morning, and circulated, free of postage,
throughout the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and So-
merset ; and etery principal Sea Pon and Inland Town in the
United Kingdom.
When it is considered that the Inhabitants of Plymouth, Stone-
house, and Dock, consist of at least Sixty Thousand, exclusive of
The Navy and Army; it is needless to expatiate on the local bene-
fits to be derived (particularly to the Mercantile and Trading In-
terests) from an Establishment of such public utility. It must in-
deed have been matter of regret and surprise, that this extensive
and populous District should so long have been deprived of the
advantages and aniusernent resulting from such an undertaking,
and indibted to a • distant retrograde source for a knowledge of
every interesting or incidental occurrence trgnspiring in its own ex-
tensive neighbourhood.
Orders and Advertisements for the Plymouth and Dock Tele-
graph will be received by B. Haydon, and P. Nktleton, Plymouth;
T. Hum, Stonehnuse ; L. Congdon, Printer, Dock ; and by 'Fay-
• and Newton, Printer's Agents, Warwick-square, London.

CASE

01 THt PITITIONTAtS INTERESTRD IN TIIII COASTING TRADE,
AGAINST THE BRISTOL DOCK SILL.
WHEN the Bristol Dock Company applied to
Parliament in 1807, for an Act to empower them io raise
a further Sam of Money to complete their Undertaking, they in-
troduced, among other things, Clauses into their Bill, imposing
heavy duties on, and otherways seriously affecting, the Coasting
Trade carried on with Bristol; which, on being known, excited
general alarm, and produced a most decided opposition in the
House; the result of which was, that every part of the Bill affect-
ing the Coasting Trade, was withdrawn, and the moat public and
positive assurances given, that no future attempt upon it should
be made. The dissolution of Parliament at that time, and the
Bill being opposed from other quartors, prevented its then passing t
and in the following and late Sessions, the Dock Company intro-
duced another Bill into the House in which the pledge previously
even to the Coasting Trade was adhered to. Toat Bill however
being opposed upon other grounds, was upon a division thrown
out of the House ; notwithstanding which, *e Dock Company
declared their determination of reviving the Bill in the present
Sessions, still assuring the Coasting Trade, that in such Bill " it
was not their intention to press any tax on their goods." A Bill
has accordingly been introduced into the House, which has been
read a first and second time, and was argued in a Committee yes-
terday', and aitourned for further hearing on Wednesday next,
itd March ; which Bill, since it has advanced to that stage, has, by
accident, fallen into the hands of the Petitioners, and is With the
utmost astonishment found to contain provisions of the most seri-
ous
and most alarming injury to the Coasting Trade, the existing
Duties being advanced from 1:0 to 200 per cent. and foreign
Goods imported Coast Ways, which by the original act of 18413,
were exempt, arc now leaded with all the Duties of that Act, and
those additional ones intended to be imposed by the present Pill,
without giving any additional advantage whatever. Coder these
Circumstances, the Petitioners feel a confidence that they shall
not in vain appeal to Parliament for a protection' of their Rights
and Privileges.—London, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1609.

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