Star.
London, England, 1816-04-26 00:00:00

ad STINDIA SHIPPING.

Thii morning arrived at the Nita House the Pm.
sera of the Widmer Castle and Warley, East India.
men, announcing their safe arrival at Plymouth, from
China. The above ships sailed. from China the gth
of December, in company with the Hope, Princess
Amelia, Royal George, and Cuffnells. They saile4
from St. Helena, in pairs, as follow :—Royal Clmrge
and Hope, on the sth of March —Plinercs Amelia and
CUfradlls, on the 6th of Much Warley and
Winer Castle parted from the rest of the fleet on
the 19th inst.—Warley and Walmer Castle, en the
6th of March.

The Dev'aynes, BROOKES, for B4tarip, was left at
ISt. Helena.

• The Herefordshire and General Kyd had arr:v,d
at Wanapoo.

The Charles Grant, Essex, David Scott, lag%
Marquis Camden, mid Vansittart, were to:sail from
China on the Ist of January.

The Admiral Gambier Duke, which sailed frotn.
Deal on the Ist of September, was spoke with on the
28:h of December, in the Straits of Sunda, all well.
When the above ships left 6t. Helena, BsaPaitrr.
was quite well. All is quiat in China.

It appears from a Report laid before the House of (*unwire
that the whole value of the packages of ContrabandCwodi„cird
at Woolwich some weeks since, in a Government !rsalnflota.
amounts to Xl5O, at.d the article) were trifling 11;;;,ents eina
as many individitei.

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A T a MEETING of the MEItCHANTS and
FACTORS, corxemed In the WO Of. and WOOLLEN
TRAULS,.hu:den at the Guildhall Coffee-House, Loudon, on
the 25th day of April, 1816,
JOHN MAITI.A.ND, Esq. in the Chair;
IT W. 1.3 aafOCV

TLat a Yetttion be presented to the Honourable the Mine of
Commons, praying that the projected ;Ater-Anon' in tlie tasting
Laws, relative to the Importation of Foreign Wool sod the it.
portation of Lirittsh Wool, may not be entertained by toe Honour.
able House.

That the Chairman do wait upon the Representatives for the
City, attd vest them to present the Pi:firkin.
That the torquing Resolution be vub:ishell in the Pot&
Ledger, 'limes, Morning Pest. Morning Chronicle, STAR, 4:4
Courier. JOHN MAITI.ANU, atairm4r..

AT a MEETING of the MLItCHAN 4114
FACTORS concerned lu the WOOL and IVUOLIIN
IRADES, holden at the Guildhall C34lre House, this !Hi di;
of April, 1816, fur the purpose or takiug into enn,iderdi the
intrusted INCREASE of DU l'Y upon the 1M I'OR i'ION
FOREIGN WOOL, and the free EXVOR.T.MON of Mi.
USN WOOL;
JOHN MAITLAND, Esq, in the :hair;
_ .

It was Resolved, That our native iVoLI has always beet, arknow.
led to be of the highest importance to this Island, and neva was
more so than at the present period. It possesses an undoubted
superiority over the rest Of Europe fur such fabrics a, are of the
greatest utihry, and most extended consunivuon ; and the wise
policy of our Legislature has ensured this invaluable mataial to
our own Manufactures by laws strictly coufining It wilan our
I own shores, under the severest penalties.
Resolved, That this pullet is founded on the self-evident Erin.
zipie, that it is better to maintain our own Indu.ti:inu, workmen,
and enrich our manniacturert and merchants, by working up our
native produce, than to suffer it to become the instrument of a
rival trade in other countries. _ _

Resolved. That the vast hndy of useful men and their families
employed in the manufacture of w tub gives life to agricultire,
and raises the valise of land by the consumption of its produce,
whilst they largely contribute to the public revenue by the use o;
various articles of Eecise and Customs, which are paid for by
thetr productive labours, and dive employinitit and support to
mother very large portion of U.S inisenitants to caw asneetues.
Resolved, That the Woollens of Great Britain have found their
way into every part of the world; and that superiority in the
raw material, aisisted by the improvements in Machinery, bare
increased the Consumption to such a degree, that tlsii is an ireos-
trovertlble fact--that the Wools of our Island, tot wtocti nn
Wool that we can import bill form a substitute, are sufficient is
supply the present 'demand.'
Resolved, That this Meeting deplores the distress under which
the Agricultural latereit is new suffering; but they conceive this:
any measures irepo-ing a Tax upon Foreign Wool, and alluwini;
the Exportation of English Wool, can never afford permanent te-
ller, and must be highly injurious to the country. These aqua:te-
ed with the Woollee Mattutatures much regret the anxiety which
Agriculturists have *hewn to change the breed of Sheep, and to
encourage those producing fine wool, instead of those which pro-
dace coarser and longer wool; thereby depriving the manufac-
turer of a species of wool accessary for the articles peculiar to the
fabrics of the country, and rendering that wool particularly scarce.
Resolved, I but toe Woollen Trade has grown to its present
magnitude and importance under the obvious and most natural
encouragement of laws to keep the raw material at home, and to
admit the wool of other a .entries free, or almost free of duty,
and, even Pn time of war, to suspend those maritime regulatiora
made against ships and property of an enentrurith respect to wool,
the growth and property of that enemy; and that die Meeting
have no other wish than for a continuance pf this security, and
those regulations under which they and their ancestors have so
successfully exerted themselves.
Resolved, 'Mat it has long been incontrovertibly established,
that one peek of certain sorts of English wool will enable the
French, German, and Other Manufacturers on the Coutillent to
work up two packs of their own in articles which they cannot
otherwise make • and that it is therefore clear, that in the event
of their bring able to procure British Woul,they will he enab'ed
by the low price of labour and land, to undersell the British
Manufacturer in the foreign market, in articles which must be
made from the produce of England.
Resolved, That the manutacturers and dealers In woollens
base property too large and pledges too dear to them at stake, to
be for a moment indifferent to the general prosperity and safety
of the empire; hut that it must be obvious to every one, that a
duty laid upon the raw materials used in manufactures awes
cause an increase in the price of the manufactured article, and
thereby injure its sale in foreign countries, and in the Wilt pro'
portion encourage or give a bounty to the manufacturers of those
countries; and that, as the nianelacturers of hoigland now ex•
perience great difficulties in meeting those of ether countries, s
duty on the raw material must inevitably destroy their hopes d
regaining a considerable branch of trade, which they triad
that the peace, so happily concluded, would have laid open ti
them ; while the profit which arises to the country front the my
nutacture and export of the raw material imported will be I.
Resolved* That the Manufacturers of British Wool arelle odd
competent to describe the emended and most ruinous po
consequences which must follow the decay and destruetieo des
chief Manufacture; and that they look forward with apprebff7
Glen, that the expatiation of their Wools, and the propmed &Ohs
"chatnghgebutre crtaurtrklenntufefFtorheeirigwn etcrb,isdießstarPoe-esedy their' tannddustryialtililisn'
terprise,put a stop to the national advantages which tow Arise.
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the making and sustaining the numerous ships, Cellists*, M.cr:
nay, Roads, Canals, Mines, and Buildings, now employed
Woollen Trade ; deprive the Foos of their Employment, add
the Poor-rates, and diminish the rental of the Land.
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