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London, England, 1813-03-10 00:00:00

G. A. Fullerton

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Ci FY OF LONDON TAVERN.
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WM. HOLDEN, Sec.

BOROUGH OF WIGAN, IN THE COUNTY OF
LANCASTER.

AT a COMMON HALL, or MEETING of the •
MAYOR, BAILIFFS, and BURGESSES of the Borough
of Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, in Common Hall assem-
bled on Saturday, the 6th day of March, 11313, pursuant to due
notice given to consider of the propriety of presenting Petitions
to Parliament under the Common Seal of the said Borough,
against the renewal of the East India Company's Charter, and in
case it should be determined to present such Petitions, then to
prepare the same and pass them under the Common Seal of the
said Borough ;
Resouvim,
That the evils of Monopoly have been, by reason and expe-
rience, so fully demonstrat..d as to require no additional illus-
tration.
That the exclusive privileges of the East India Company,
Without producing profit to those who possess them, aggravate
the common evils of Monopoly. Sovereigns of an extensive ter-
ritory , toe). ruturally consider the concerns of commerce objects
of Inferl r importance, villch they consign to the inefficit-nt ma-
otk;ament of Agents too distant for ol•servation and almost be-
yond the reach of controul.
1 hat though the Countries comprehended within the Com-
pany's f.?bart,r, comain more than half the population of the
globe, the annual returns of the East India Company are very
small when compared with the Commerce of the Empire, and
that their exportation of British Manutactiir.s, whether consi-
dered in relAtioe to the '1 rade of the Country or to the lvxtent
of their Foreign darker, is altogether insignificant.
That the want of ilt-mand for British Manufactures in the
Eastern Markets, is chief!) to be attributed to the high prices at
which they are offered to sal; and that such a reduction in the
price as should allow the use of them to the body of the. people,
Would soon remove this subject of complaint.
That the East India Company have not supplied the borne
Markets on the best terms, as is manifest from the rapid increase
of American Commerce With inclia and China, whilst this de-
pends solely upon inuividual enterprize, and would not have in•
creased had it not been advantageous.
That the Commercial intelligence and Capital of this Nation
have arrived at such preeminence as to destroy even the plausi-
bility of the reasoning adduced in support of the exausive pri-
vileges of the c ast India Company.
'1 hat a free intercourse with the immense population of Asia
and the Western Coast of America when permitted to the indus-
try, economy, and skill of all out Merchants, cannot tail to bring
a great accession to the Tiede, Wealth, and Revenue of the Lin.
pre, and to raise its naval superiority to the highest pitch of
greatness.
That amongst the advantages which would ensue upon open-
ing the Trade of Ind a to individual.), we confidently anticipate a
great improvement in the culture and preparation of Cotton, a
r::w material of the most extensive use in our Manufactures, a
T.tq quantity of which this country has been accustomed to re-
ceive from a Power now hostile to us ; and that by this improve-
ment we should, in de t riving the United States of America of a
Market for their produce, diminish their power of annoying us,
arid transfer to our own possessions a considerable source of
weal rh. _ _

shotild there be any considerable emigration to India of
the s%perabundant population of these Islands, the obvious con-
sequence rill he the dispersion over a great extent of territory of
race Fes. rs,ing British feelings, wants and habits, by whom
will not only the Commerce of this country be extended, but the
mength and saiciy of India promoted, of which we are con-
vincid for the sanit. reason as that we consider any of our West
India Is ands more secure the greater proportion they contain of
White 1;11.4h:0111M _ _

That the alarm which the East India Company appears to feel
for the welfere of the Proprietors of existing establishments, is
much greater than the occasion warrants, though it i 3 a proof of
the:r consciousinets that the disadvantageous and expensive man- '
ner in which their Trade is c:atducted, will not permit them to
contend against individual Traders'on equal teems ; and that the
dread lest a great number of Artificers should be deprived of em-
ployment, is utterly grouiniles, since we are convinced that the
Port of London, which must always remain the great general
Mart of Este rn productisn•, will tesell derive an ircreate of that
Commerce from the dis3olution of the Conveany's Monopoly;
and that at a7l events an exit osion of die Trade will,• upon the
r.,.t01e, necessarily afford an increase of employne.at to the per-
sons in question.
ILat r.l the great Commercial Nations beieg in hostility
aeainst this Coentry, and by the valour of enir fleets and forces
exellided f:etr. the countries bounded by the Indian and China
tha :•ade of these Resiors will now center in our Islands
the err at Sterchuuse of the ‘Voritl ; and that we conceive it
o be most unreasoeable, that amidst the general distress at the
eotietry arising from the stagnation of its Commerce, any single
Corneal:yr should avemet to grasp at the exclusive possession of
a 1 rack thus enlaigul beyond all former !moods, and to which
the suffering hit chants and Manufacturers of this Country have
Malted as the reward of their patience and the relief of their
n:stress.
That the liberation of the Festern Trade frcm the Company's
Monopoly, will not be effectual unless it be complete, and that
all :Le Ports of the bmpire to which the Interests of the Revenue
will perodt Its extension, ousht to be allowed to enjoy ec.Jally all
1:s litaLtts. _ _

ls:a a Petition re presented to breh Houses of Parliament,
tr::yiag that an the exier., tun of the Kim India Company's cx•
&chive Commercial Privil,ges, they will not sutler atly i•art of
shun to be true ced.

Ilat the Petition now read be adopted, and the Common Seal,
of this Borough aibz d thrreto; and that the Right Honourable
the Lord I.mutenant of the County be requeued to present the
retinal) to the House of Lard% and the Members for this 80.
inegh the Petition 10 the House of Commons.
JOHN HOPWOOD, Mayor.