Star.
London, England, 1801-01-27 00:00:00

PETITION FOR MACS.

On TuefdaY the t 3th inßant, a very numerous
and refpedable body of Merchants and Broad-
Cloth ManufaCturers, met purfuant to public ad-
vertifement at the Mixed Cloth Hall, in Leeds.
Mr. BLACKBURN, one of the Truftees of the
Hall, opened the meeting with a very manly and
:mpreffive fpeech, in which he Rated the extreme
dithers of dib Country occafioned by the War.
He obferved that mot} of the Foreign Ports and
Markets were chafed againil us from the northern
extremity of Europe to the Adriatic; in confe-
quence of which the demand for our goods had
alarmingly decrcafed, and we were threatened
with a total extindion of our trade; at the fame
time the increafc of poor-rates and taxes became an
intolerable burden ; and the leffer Manufadurers,
unable to bear up againft the preffure of the times,
were daily finking into a Rate of infolvency and
wretchednefs. The exorbitant price of corn, occa-
fioned partly by the unavoidable wafte attendant
on the war, increafed the other evils, and aided,
with them, an accumulation of diftrefswhich greatly
exceeded hat of any former period in the memory
of the oldeit man amongß them. For the truth of
what he laid, he appealed to the knowledge and
feelings of all prefent. 14e concluded by obfirving,
the rruftees of the Hall had been defired by their
conftituents to call that meeting, and the refolu-
tioos to be propofed by the Chairman would ex-
plain its object.
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The Refolutions were read feparately and unani-
moutly agreed to Ivide STAR of the 19th and xoth
inff.) excepting that which related to the Petition
being prefented by Mai:. Wt LISBRFORCE and LAS-
CELLR s. They were read a fecond time, and.it WaS
earneftly defired , that if any Gentleman could
objet to them they would declare their reafons, or
teftify their objedions by a thew of hands.
Nctthe leaft appearance of oppofition was (hewn,
although it was believed an attempt to oppofe the
Refoluuons had been meditated by romp who are
Rill fuppofed to have an expiring attachment to
the continuance of the war. The whole meeting
feemed animated by one foul, and the friend of
humanity felt a confolation in Obferving an Aim-
bly of feveral hundred perfons forgetting their
former difference of opinion, now united in one
general and anxious with for Peace.
Mr. S. H. °errs addrefred the meeting in a
fpeech of confidcrable length, in which he very
ably traced the fimilarity of the
American Wa
with the prefent one. " They had both,
unfortu
nately for the nation, been popular in their com-
mencement and the earlier parts of their progrefs ;
but he had lived to fee the public opinion change
with rerped to the American War, and its advi-
fers and fupporters held in detefiation ; fuch he bad
no doubt would be the cafe with rerped to the
prefent war. He was glad to fee the time was
come when the friends of peace (whom he confider-
ed as the beg friends of their country) dare earn.
ble to petition their Sovereign without dreading the
appellation of Jacobins. The real Jacobins, if the
word meant any thing, were the friends of vio
lence and war. The defire for Peace, expreffed at
the County meeting at York, during the American
War, had, been feconded by other parts of the
Kingdom, and the Minifter was unable to con-
tinue it againft the general with of the people.
He hoped that day a foundation Cone was laid for
Peace, and that every County in the Kingdom,
alarmed 'at the awful &nation in which we flood,
would unite in a Petition to obtain it; for Peace
alone could rave this Country from abfolute ruin.

Rosear Hovosos Car, Efq. advocate, is ap-
Eintd Judge Admiral, in the room of BucHAN
tievairatt, Efq. and ANCHTIALD CANFPNE LI., jun.
Efq. advocate, fueceeds Mr. Car as one of the
Conitnilraries of Edinburgh.

POPISH BULL AGAINST PROFANE DRESSING
Slue' new Port has dire fed his attention to the
loofenefs of female drefs, and has adlually itfued a
Bull againft it. To this diforder he afcribes all
the evils which have afilieted Europe and deprelfed
the Church of Rome. The short petticoats and
the fcanty handkerchiefs of the Ladies are the to-
terrines he& eaufa, with all its mifchiefs. He fays
(we tranflate literally) "The' eye of a Chriftian
can no where turn ttfelf without encoontering,
abafhed, the difplay of feduaive charms, in pubhc
and private : nay, the very temples are profaned
by thefe indecencies, &c.
" The importance of this objeft was deeply felt
by Clement of Alexandria, who declares, that
women Mould on no account be permitted to ap-
pear before men in indecent apparel, left the latter
be led into temptation, and the former themfelves
be drawn into unrighteoufnefs, when they attraft.
the eyes of the other fex.' His Holinefs accord-
ingly has Itrialy enjoined us to reprefs free, or
caporal twfifintinct, according to the circumftances
of the cafe, thefe crying enormities : he direas too,
that their punifhment thould be extended to fucb
damfels as, though at firft fight they appear pro-
perly attired, are neverthelefs deckedintratif)arang
robes, and with a voluptuous and magnificent at-•
tire difplay themfelves in very fcduaive and temp-
ting attitudes. Moreover,fathers, hutbands, heads
of families who weakly or negligently permit their
wives, daughters, fervants, &c. to trefpafs againft
thefe rules, !hall not cfcape with impunity. Alto,
all taylors, haberdathers, milliners and men
milli-
ners, bair-dreffers, and others who contribute to
thefe enormities of drefs, (ball in no wife pats nn•
punithed."

The Bull goes onto Rate, that " all priells, con-
felTors, orerleers, church-wardens and others, (hall
in no wife admit fuels delinquents to the holy fup-
per ; that they (hall not allow women improperly
dreffed to enter the church, and if they come they
(hall he driven out, and if they refill, the higher
powers (hall be required to lend their aid."
This Bull is dated at Rome, the i6th of Ofto-
bet, sBOO. In reading it, the Ladies of this coun-
try, feeing the oppreffion to which Catholics are
fillsjed, mull congratulate themfelves in belonging
to the Bcformerl Church, which fecures not only
frecdoas of opinion, but freedom of drcfs I

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