Star.
London, England, 1815-03-24 00:00:00

This day was riblished. pnce 6d the,Third Peluso, of
ItE LE.I"IIkR to WILLIAM WILBER.
.A. FORCE, EN M. P. with a Preface, in Reply to a speech
in the Ho,.se of Commons of a Direct:tr. of the African. insti-
tution, as rtported lo the Times. Aisp an Answer Ito a Repoit
of the Committee of the African instituelen, published lately by
order.of 'he Board. Ky kona THORPE, Esq, L. LD.
Chief Juvice of rra Leor ',and Joao of the Vice-Admiralty
Court in iliaii..7d.nny &c &c. •
Sold by Rivimz ons, Nornaville and Fell, Booth, Ridgeway,
Stockdale, Waii-r, Mack and Co. and Richardson, and at Li-
verpool. ti, is to:, :ice Ere. •

ST LEtiIMRD, SIPREDIICH, MIDDLESEX,
lIIARCII22, 1815.

At at numerous Meeting of the Inhabitants of the
above Pa!ish, held in the Church this day, 66 to con-
ider
the necessity of presenting a Petition to his
Royal Highuess the PRINCE RIZENTI to withhold his
arse t to tiie Bill for regulating the importation of
Corn, which has hcen read a third time and passed
tit ts,,th Houses of Parliament
:"
Mr. JOHN HARLOW, Churchwarden, in the Chair.
It was lte- lved as follows :
'that scarcely had we begun to enjoy the long and anxiously
looktel for repose, which seemed by the blessings of a kind Pso-
t.nesica so prosperoo,ly to open upon us, and to present to our
esi.aes.ed eta .urc :s a 1.11 of pis-nty—peace, at length presented
to no a nr4e of liaplicess and content —when tbil one, this fatal
measure of our L. gislature shut out trout us the dearest of those
'• blewngs, in a moment blasted Owss kind promises or a prosper-
spring,-deettated our fairest pi oseects, and at once annihi.
laced Loot our c.n.fe!ettee and nor hopee,—this measure restrict-
ing It: impetration of Corn, under pretence of protecting the
bruic r, the :.rower of c..rn, imposes the greatest difficulties upon
every class or people ( :cry a morren. ary relief and advantage
to the great landowner) l y depnving them of one of the first and
greatest bl-ssings of a peace, cheap bread, and a consequent re-
duction in the price tit every other necessary article of life.
That this Vestry have witnessed with extreme regret, and with
the most pauutul emotions, the unprecedented COCallei of legisla
ture—a coin:tict winch cannot but be considered as highly im-
proper and alarndog —iroprper and alarming, because the legit-
lathre he. not a moment coi.sid. red the trrcible appeal of the
people, expressed in mild and mo !crate language, and rresented
ky consii•utional m ;Mi. Yet is tin, not silent con-
tempt, ;.e tinnier r has aided the language of aggravation, and
earned this in Astne through all its stages with precipitation,
support i::g it by declamation, and silencing the voice of a whole
nation, tint by argument but by force.
'1 hat this Vestry, after having by constitutional means, in corn-

to,bn s. I'M the wisooe 114:3011, vatidy strove to ay. rt the en's which
• must n. cessatily result triatt the enacting of this final measure,
feel. aselt lwu .ti, and jusufied in taking this, their only and
la•t step, in acpealing to the PH: ice Regent, pra)ing his Royal
flighti, Si to Witl'holli his Royal Assert from this fatal Bill, whei
evs.r it may tie 'aid before his Royal Highness.
I I :17 tit's Vestry confidently appeals to he: Royal Highness in
the toP hope, and the en-::e reliance, his wisdom and his bent-
fie. hint to grant our prayer' the prayer of the
rschitie arid thus by a right exercise of his high preroga-
tive, on-, ha;:p:tieg4 to hi, sutiering people, and immortalize his
tin .e thc hitt:trot his coutry.
That the folloNctig be the Petition to be presented to his Royal
kiii;l:ness this day :

TO Old ROYAL 1116[111/4LSS PRINCZ IRLGItif Of Tilt UNI-
TLD kJ:it:PO/4 OF (./tEA I Bill ritry AP•D 1111111 LAND:
The hutubk PET' rrom of Vac Chorchwardeos, liverwort,
and other Inhabitant~, Housel,!cierp or the l'arah et
I.rot,ard's, t+hortditch, in t i Cnici y Ntuidk.
sex, wlo,pe name.; ate hereto tuh.cribLd.
With uuteizoed r stet we ..re coos, tiled to arprotch yo,a
Royal kisglisiess t.. lay at the fuo: of the Throue of dune realm-
tub our I Wilkie' iettitluU.

We deeply larni•tit the cause wh:ch has comyelled us to dirttie%
the repose of your Royal Ilighticss, thu+ compel+ u• to
proclaiut aloud our heavy grievances znd severe dia.r. is.
We tumid) appeal to your ikoyi.l f liyhtiess, as Prince Regv.t
of these Uwted Kingdoms, and speak 'n the voice or the whoi,
nation—sr speak in the voice of a whole people. who h ok up to
your Royal Highnetti as their Prince and .-.,overeig.i, their parent,
and tlietr telly Lope:

I hu, is you lima! H'ghness called upon, a moment to paut,.,
to suspend lour pen—to withhold your Royal Assent: yet more,
y,,ur Royal Highness is most earee,tly iutreated for ever to with-
hold that Assent, whereby can alone he completed and finally
willed a law witaleishrd tor the sole purpose of thr. protection of
I tow, at the cer ain ruin of the many.
Tlos law, which will be speedily laid before your Royal High.
mess, fix, -s the importation prior of coni at the enormous sum of
ens. pet quarter, and this it is alleged is to protect the farmer, and
the grower of corn, but which, even though this be its operation,
can only tend to Liz mule firmly upon as our present sufferings
and di:tress, by establishing iris-sedans advantage for the grower
over the consumer; thus sowing the seeds of discord among
those whose interests do, and ought ever mutually to depend.
We will nut presume to enter at large ijto the arguments,
sound and ineeotrovi rale as they are, against this dangerous
measure; but warn we announce to your Royal Higline-s the
voice of the Naomi is raised against tirs iutended law—a voice
expressed in humble and constitutional Petitions from every the
remotest quarters of the land, and now lying on the tables of
both Houses ot Parliament, we venture an argument which must
be taken as decisive against this law, and which can have no sa-
tisfactory reply but in the condescension of your Royal Highness
•
in listening to,.and granting this our humble prayer. -
Nor can we, your Royal Highness's faithful subjects, refrain
invoking, solemnity hivoitiug the attention of your Royal High-
ness to whet we hutils..ty conceive to be the cause of the violence
that has recetlay been dope to the prayers and feelings of the na-
tion by the Home of Commons, namely—the notoriously corrupt
state ot that House, "duels has rendered it an) thing but the
image of the opinions and fecengs of the people: nor can your
Peniuiters conceal their fears, that taxless the people of
Englstul are fully and fairly represented in Parliament, unless
the intantuus ti sine avowed.), carried on in the sears ot the House
of C01:241031S be amululeted, that House must, at no distant
time, loathe co' tideuee of your Royal figNness's subjects, and
the much boasted representation of our beloved country become
a political nuisance instead of a national blessing.
With reCessive go ief your humble Petitioners presume to state
to your Royal Highness, the Cotrimens HOUSE of Parliament has
received those Petitions with crodoess, and in some instances
spurned at teen: w ith contempt; 2 conduct which paved the way
fur the n.ost serious corn:notions; thus placing our capital under
the rettraint of as untied toyer.

We, thcrefote, I.u,ably en neat your Royal Highness not to
ratify this luten.led law ; that no farther restraint may he pot
opal he lairrtation of Corn than that which our present laws
4:stabiles.

6buuld your Puyal Highness be phased to graut this our
payer, yuur 140).111ig. nee, will give that reps se,that happiness,
and that ci.ntent which ere have so loi.g looked for, but ht vain.
Thus will yuur Royal Highuess ba Leery breart with the must
lively en.utiutis u 1 gratitude, and all will feel at d know tu yuu—
a Paticas, the Father ut hi, Peode.
41:id yuur Petitioners will ever pray.

hat the Thanks of this Vestry by presentee to the Right
Hon. I ord Grenville, for hli polite attintion to the Deputation
who waited it; on as 11.or6Inp with the Petition against the
Corn bill hum :Lis Parish, and more especially for the able
support bis.Lordsh p gave that Peduou when presuiting # to
the How, of Lords.

That chit Vestry cannot but exp .ss their extreme displeasure
at the'CcUiduct of :be two Members representing the County of
Needdrise:, Gtvrek. Byug mid siltant Mellish, Esquires, to not
sui ',onus the ru Mon of tltSs Parish against the Cunt Laws in
tbs l louse of Commons.

'flat the cordial Thanks of this Meeting be given to Jaw,
bra Sbarfor. Eisl• for tite ibiuty rids Width hp has prepared
antler:ought forward toe Resolutions and Petition adopted this
day.
That the Thanks of this Vestry be also given to the Cbairniau
for chi unptrtiality and aiy* with which hi hada presided on
this occasion.

bat the resagelog &mistime be signed by the Cbairma
and publuited le two Morning and 'we Evening Nisi, 'ob.
in rub. JOHN HARLOW, Cbsitions.

DXE PRINCE REGENTS COURT.

Yesterday, at one o'clock, thePaptcaßaosta held
a Court at Carlton House, for the purpose of receiv-
ing the Petition of the Corporation of the City of
London, not to sign the Corn Bill.
At twelve o'clock a guard of honbur, under the
command of Colonel GoftE. marched into the Court-
yard, preceded by the band of the Coldstream Regi-
ment of Foot Guards. A numerous detachment ot
the Life Guards, with their band, took their station
in Pall-mdll, and the adj(hiniag streets.
At a quarter before one o'clock, • the City State
Procession arrived, and entered Carlton House, as
follows :
The two City Marshals, Mr. Gough, and die other Gentle-
men of the Lord Mayor's Household, the Sword of State, the
Mace, the Lord Mayor's Chaplain, the Lord Mayor, Alderman
Wood, the Sheriffs, the Under-Sheriffs, the Recorder, the Town
Clerk, the Solicitor, Mr.SecondaryColllagridge, the El all Keeper,
Mr. Waithman, Mr. ravel*, Mr. Griffiths and a number ot
other Gentlemen of the Court ot Common douncil.

They were shewn into an anti.room. In a short
time after the. PRINCE REGENT took his seat on the
throne, attended hp—
The Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the
First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
First Lord ot the Admiralty, the Master-General of the Ord.
nance, the Secretaries in State, the President of the Board of
Controul, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Master
of the Mint, the Luri Steward, the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Mastcr of the Horse, the Treasurer of the Household, the Cump-
troncr ot the Household; Earl Poulett in Waiting; Gen Finch,
Groom in Waning ; Sir Felix Agar, Silver Stick; Cenral Battey,
Equerry; the YAge ut Honour, Bt.:.
The Lotto CHAMBERLAIN then conducted the COT•
poration into the presence of the Pittsez, when the
Address wa.3 read by the REA:ORDER, as fOIIOWS

" TO HIS ROYAL 11161iNt51 TOP. PRINCE or WALE', RI.OENr
VP TUC I:Sir/31 KINGLoM of GREAT narrolu AND
IRELAND&
" The humble, dutiful, and loyal Address and Petition of the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City or
London, in Ccunnion Council assembled.
" May it please your Royal Htghuess,
- - -

4' We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of 1-on Jan, in
Common Council assembled, most humbly approach your Royal
Highness, with no less grief than astonishments at the late pro-
ceedings in parliament relative to a Bill for laying further restric•
tious on the importation of Corn.
" We have seen that notwithstanding the voice of the mown,
has been constitutionally and must decidedly declared against
that measure by Petitions, which in point of number, and the
numb'sr and respectability oh the signatures thereto, have pdt
been treeeiled in die history of these realms, the Houtz ut Com-
mons has passed the said Bill, and that he proceedings tbeteon
have been marked with &precipitancy and pertinacious adherence
to the most obnazious features thereof, which plainly evinces an
utter disregard of public ftwlittg, and pi** public upiulpii
organ it ought to be.
" We have observed In the tAIT House of Parliament the
same precipitancy and the same determination to resist further
inquiry or to hear evidence, notwithstanding a Committee of
that Right Honourable House bad stated in their Report during
the last S. salon, that the investigation was not co lute, and that
turzher enqu ry would be necessary before any alteration Souk
Owe in the laws affecting the ioteres4s of tbe growers .ind con-
s timers of cora.

" We have observed the Miuletert of the Crown, with the
sant d:..regard ut the general voice of the gauntry, and whose
espec al duty it was to watch over the interests, not merely of
the landowners, but of the community at large, ':td the sanctum
of their authority to the support of a measure, witch, in us ope-
ration, cannot fail or proving most seriously injurious to the tits-
. uutacie ing and commercial interests of the km,:doin, in a very
high degree opy;essive to the poert and dauterous to the tran-
quilitty alai safety ui the Empire.
" bat thus deprived' of that protection which we might
reasoeattly have expected from the Representatives of the people,
and the hereditary Legislatoriof the country, we are compeiled
humbly to lay our complaints before your Rcyal Highness, as the
only constair Mal resource we have now rentalnin;;.
'Ye beg most earnestly to impress upon your Royal High-
! nt..., t....t the two Houses of Parliament Hein; cont;iused of
landed pruptletors, that having exantined such yersuns wily as
wee: land agehts, and ntieriv.,e connected wish land, and'hav-
! tug instituted no inquiry mos the truth of tite'allegatious el the
numerous Petitions agllll,r thr said Bill, or any witnesses hav-
ing been examined on diva' behalf, appears most partial and tin-
just, and highly irritating to the ieelings of those Classes who
love suffeted such privations, and made such unexampled sa-
trifices.
" That during a period of unexampled difficulty and excessive
deaniess of every ankle of consumption, your Royal' Highness
cannot but have perceived that the war, which was the occasion
of distress to the industrious and !abortions classes of the people, !
has, by causing a progreisive rise in the rent of land, been a
source of emolument to tho boded proprietors.
• ssThat it is' 'theretere, With concern and disgpointment
we Noy observed,=
that *at a menu when the le Were
aatiously expecting the blessings of peace', a dintinutiou of their
out dens, and the cheapness of local--the landowners, hut content
with dui advantages they had' thus derived—not Content with
having escaped chose and utisfOrttuies which liati *involved
thousands of other classes of the community iii 11112:•••00t con-
tent with being relieved front the Property Tax—have sought,
by the said Bill, to
_protect ;ink property from dial* changes
and fluctuations to which all other property is liable, and to se-
cure to themselves, Jo tittle of peace, e coutinuatici.of those
benefits Which hay% arisen grit of tint war ansVdisteess of the
times.
" Your Royal Highness most be dolt onsible that this ?DWI•
try his risen tq Its pre-retina* rank erelong Wilms by its many-
factures and commerce; it is by. that it bas acquired its wealth,
Which has raised and supported yes navy, and promoted the great-
seas and glory oldie *nub Umpire.
" 'That by the tespioitemenni in the various branches of ma.
nufactures in 'other 'ciiuntries and by the ititruChictiou of ma-
chinery, we have already fervitideble competition to encouuter ;
and that this measure, by implies up the price of food, Will
cause the emigration id Our mainitactursn sod citizens, and
Lead to naiades. the skill, industry, :ilia capital of this kingdom
to oilier nations. ' ' '

•• We theretore humbly Implore your Royal Highneu to ex-
tend your royal prott( :.on to intere s, closely connected whit
the prorperity or tht.,.: teahns, by wit!.ll hiding, on the behalf of
his Majesty, your royal assetit to the and we further
pray your Royal Highness to dissulvt. :he Commons House of
Parliament, who have furnished .he most conclusive evidence
that they do not support die interests, nor represent the !schuss
or opinion,' of the People.--Signed, by order ot Conn, &c."

To which Address his ROYAL litmus= was pleased
to return the follow:1:g Answer:

" I have heard, with the great. si concern, the sentiments con-
tained in this your Address am! i•etition.
" I shall ever be desirous of oying to the representations of
any part of hies Majesty's subj all the attention which may be
consistent with the duty imposed upon ine by the sacred trust
committed te my charge.
" But I feel it would he a dereliction of that duty, if, In corn-
. plume with the wishes which you luiSis thought proper to ex-
press, I
were to withhold the royal sanction tram tee important
measure which now awaits it, and so •o exercise the King's pre-
rogative as en Indicate a want of cungocnce en a Parliament,
which, wider difficulties the most triing, has, by the wisdom,
vigour, and firmness of Its cnnduct,'lnvariaiily upheld the ho-
n,ur*a he. mosey. Crown, and prdMoted the best interests of
itsi

His RorAL Monsen gave audiences to the Earls
of .LIVIMPOOL and CuoLkoannev, Viscounts CAS-
TLELOLAUU and SRDIOU awl Lord Nauman.

After the e Miaistere ita4.l left Fulton House, the)
:Auernbled is Cabinet at tbiTuieign:(:gfice, at lour
4b, cop.iequence oksupn: aivatibeinrriving
at ihrer ficiock from .Uover. Tbr Cabinet oat u.
urliberzttiou till neur 44,:ivben Mr. Cow's, WC
!Ling',
Ddesseoger, Wit, seat off with dispatches.

PALL4MINT4Rr P.ROCEEDIIIGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH Its.

The LORD CHANCILLOR sopeated in Ilse House at haft-paat
three o'clock, and soon after be and the Earls of 811CRiNOIIAM.
MIRE and SURFTIRSUILY, took their seats on the Woolsack as

The LOOM CHAINCIILLOII directed the Deputy Usher of the
Black Rod to acquaint the Commons that their attendance was
required, to bear the Royal Assent given by Commission to ar•
veral public and private Bills.
Shortly after the SPLAKILII of the House of Commons, accom-
panied by several Members and the Oaken of the Howie, at-
tended at their Lordships' Bar, when the Royal Assent was de-
clued to the following Ws;
The Bank Loan Bill, Lord Walsingbans's Annuity Bill, the
Tobacco Duty Bill, the Additional Ezdse Duties Bill, the To-
butts Imported= Bill, the Spirit% and Wine Bill, the Civil
List Accounts Bill, the Bank Restriction Bill, the Irish Linea
Bleaching Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the
Corn Bill, the Londm Wet Docks Bill, and twenty-five pri-
vate Bills.
The other Bills before the House were forwarded in their
stages; slur which the Howe was adjourned, on the motion of
the Earl of Ls.:earoot., to Wednesday sea:sight.