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A.ll AUNT of the Conquest of the ISLES

.4 of FRANCE and BOURBON; with observations on the
)li.tory, Soil, Products, Defences, and PuLtical Importance of
those Islands. . _

By TWO OFFICERS, who served on the Expeditions.
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LET/ER TO TWO DIRECTORS.

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tX LETTER TO EDWARD PARRY AND
CHARLES GRANT, Esqrs. Chairman and Deputy
Chairman of the Court of Directors in 1409, on the Subject of
thr CONIM&I.CIAL MONOPOLY of the EAST INDIA
COMPANY.

T a MEETING of NIERCHAN I'S, MANU-
h FACTURFR , TRADERS, and TITHER.% interested
In the EXPORT •1 RADE to INDIA and CHINA, from the
PORT of LONDON, held at the City of London Tiwern, the
15th of April, 181'2,
JOHN ATKINS, EN. Alderman, in 'he Cln:r
. . .

It was move .1 by DAVID GORDON, E.q and seconded by
SUWART MARJORIRANKS, Esti; And unanimous'y re,o:ved,
• That this Meetinr, conoi-ting cf Merchants, Manufacturers,
and Traders, of the port of London, who have been long tstab-
Lshed in the Export Trade from thence to India and China, feel
themselves cabled upon in defence of their respective properties,
to state the true situation of such trade to the country at large, in
order to counteract any misrepreseinxions which may have the
effect of misleading the public mind upon a subject of such mag-
simile to the community at large, and in which their own vital
bacrers are most deeply concerned.
1 hat the anxiety expresed by the various manufacturers in the
provincial towns of the United Kingdom 'n regard to the quar.-
tiiy of Exports to India and China, is grounded upon errollalLl4
dina, as will appear by reference to the actual export of such
tna u facto rers.
That it appears to this Meting from indisputable authority,
eat the quautity c f tonnage masts: by the lest Imia Conmany
fdr the private traders of the United Kingdom, (excluii rely of
that aliowed to he exported in the pi ivilege of their own Captains
. . . .

and officers), mound during the linst six years to tist,ooo tons,
and that during that period only "6,c00 tons of every species of
Ifeetviatture (jncludiog beer snit 4.(500 tons °twine), have been
Uctaalli engaged and shipped to India.
Thar the fact contained in the foregoing resolution, eine ft; a
gsk;isg and incontrovertible proof that the
.COeirany audtbe-
. .2a!lic at large have been disappointed in those hopes and tepee-
lo3.l which led to the granting the extra tonnage, and which
%induce upon the renewal of the present charier, by the desire,
end at the iustance of the manufacturers, and other rrsons who
pt that time expressed eimittr feeling, with respect Ws an eaten-
a e. export to those exhibited at the various Meetiup which have
been so iecently held throughout country. •
That the articles exported to India and China ate various, but
lot ettensive in any particular manufacture, and therefore rt.
nuirex.> be collected horn every part of the kingdom to one Con-
emtrved po'an for expiration with any rational prospect of ad-
vantage either to the manufacturer or the exporter.
Thai the experience of the last six yeses impre.ses this Meet-
ing with a decided conviction, that the market of India is not :a-
'obis of exterding the consumption of manufactures to the amain
which tine pahlic mind has been led to expect; any, therefore, if
the export trade to Ineta and China, as now confined to the port
of London, be p neral to the outports, it will be of no be-
neat to them, but will prove ruinous to those extensive este-
bl•shments which have been fortn-1 by the persons comprising
this Meethts, and to the large capita's t.try ".are invested userein.
1 hat should the Export Trade to lad a and Chit S be removed
from the Port of London, tl.e Coasting trade of the United Ktug-
dont, ti at best nt.rfery for our seamen, and great bulwark of our
national superiority and streog h—the in'and navigation, that
Lew source of great national wealth, as affording incalculable
lade des to the Improyeniem of the general aercultur.e of the
country—anti, lastfy, the revalue i:selt, would with these suffer
inconteival le is jury.
That a Neutron be presented to both Hues of Parliament, in
the "Mc, oi mereants, mantractursrs, tiadsrs, and others,
facers sued in the export trade to India and China, from the portof
1-15'16.1', praying that the export trade to India and China may be
ton,ioue.t as heretoiore to the port of I .ondoe.
Chat ;his Meeting approves of the Petition now read from the
Chair

Ton the same be now signed by the Gentlemen present, and
tie remain at this house eight clay, tor .igtia ore.
' Thr •he Committee chosen at the General Meeting held yes•
*day at this house, for the ptirproe of prepar.ng the Petition, be
Secatsted to continue permanent during the discussions in Pas-
humetit, and to use the •i• utmost exertioes to promote the objt et
If this Mt (tint, and tbat the Committee have the power of in-
&moot their ou ober as they shaft see necessary.
• 'Shat the Members. for the City at London, for the Counties of
L,ex. Kent,Milileses, anti to r.y,f,r the City of Westminster,
lied the itorough of Sowltwath. be requeeted to support the
rayer of the Petition in l'arliameut, when any discussion on the
lohj.ct shall take place.
I I hat rat Thanks of this Meeting be presented to Sir WI,LLIA
CURTIS, • Baroart, Mr. Aidermatt Cossehe, sod fir CNAIIIAS
?tact, Bartmet,ihree of the Representatives in Parliament for
this City; and to Geoicce 13 r NG, Psq. one of the Representatives
Paniament for the Comity of Middlesex, for their r.ttendlnee
Oda day, and ter their kind attention to the important objects of
libioNleetang.
That the Thanks of this Meeting to given to the Commi tee
stir convening the same, and for the great zeal anti attention they
sltenn to the interests thereof :
1 hat these Resolutions and :he Petition of the Merch4nts, Ma.
Istacturer, Traders, and others, of the Port of London, (after
de Petition shall have been presented to Parliament), be pub.
!tatted in the IVioroirg avid Evening Papers.
1;1'14 all communications* open the Pub] ret of the present
be address: of tbe Costunittecs, under cover to Mr.
lIASNAIt, 14401Th:it:A l'aylore-Hall, Solicitor to the Ateetiog.
'that a :aubseription be vow entered into by this Meeting, for
the pterpoie of dpi. ng •he expences of the Petitions to both
H of Pddian.t.u.t, tit such other riet.surks as may be
Ile` med neerssary uy •he Conuni•tee tor the pr 7.ert6n of II e
ti, rhts .ud its crests of the expo, tars trust the part of London to
1141 is and Clans. (Sip.
JUHY. ATRINS,.eha rman.
JoustATKINS, Est.Aliienran, having Irft the Chair, the
%ZS taken by lnat. i unit% Sairrlt, f.sq. Aidernian
t ttrupoil it was moved, *tenanted,. cad ainpnannosly rroohrtd,
List the tlaa,.ks of th v hlevting he sine*. to Mr. 414erntatt
4:11118'*, for hit julc:uus and idpeconduct Li the Chair.. -
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