Star.
London, England, 1810-05-24 00:00:00

crrr P1T7770N.

The following is a Copt of the Petition to Parlia-
ment, voted at the Common Hall on Monday :
To the Hon. the COMMONS HOUSE of PARLIAMENT.
" The humble Address, Petition, and Remonstruce of the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of London, in Common Hall
assembled.

" We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the City of
London, in Common Hall assembled, have witnessed with grief
and surprise the rejection by your HouSe of our late Address,
Petition, and Remonstrance; and we 6.1 leave humbly to declare
that, in the statement it set forth of our complaints and griev-
ances, it was our anxious wish to preserve every pos•ible respiet,
consistent with the honest, and as we then trusted, the constitu-
tional expression of our sentiments..
" Discouraging as such rejection may he .ocupposed, we cannot
forego the indisputable right we. possess', nor abandon the dut it s
we owe to ourselves and our country, of once more entreating the
attention of your I lonourable HoUse to the heavy calamities which
afflict us.

" We have beheld with indescribable conbrri.the extraordinary
power assumed and exercised by your Honourable House in the
arrest and imprisonment of Mr. John Gale Jones and of Sir Jiran•
cis Burdett, a power which, in our humble conception,. appears
subversive of the free principles of the English Corstifuticm.
" When we contemplate this power, exemplified ait it has
been in the afflicting instances we have mentionrd—when we
consider the numerous wrongs of which we have so long com-
plained, and which still remain wiredressed—when we observe
the enormous frauds, abuses, corruption, and peculation, which
have so long and so notoriously existed—when we mark the ex-
cessive point to which taxation has been strained—when we re
view the series of military enterprizes, which, atter imnu•nse sa-
crifices of blood, honour, and treasure, have led roily to disgrace
and disastt r—when we have seen the Authors of our public cala-
mities, not only escape, with ithpainity, but retain their official
situations, and receive the support of your Honourable House—
we :at convinced that all these depior,b!e evils are prodec-d by
causes, constant and irresistible in their effect, and that the root of
all our complaints and grievances is to be ►ound in the defective
state of the Representation of the People in your Honourable
House.

[Here the Petition states the circumstances which came out last
Session respecting the traffic in seats, and proceeds thus:]
" Without referring to other facts and circumstances, univer
sally known and admitted, a= to the inadequate state of the Re-
presentation, and the modes of obtaining seats in your Honourable
House, we feel ourselves called upon bitmbly to chserve, that
when we view these flagrant breaches of the Constitution ; when
we perceive the power of your Honourable I louse directed against
those individuals, who have presumed to discuss the propriety
of your proceedings, whilst no vote of expulsion, committal, or
even of censure, has been passed on the conduct of Lord Castle-
reagh and Mr. Spencer Perceval—when we deplore the painful
results of recent enquiries, the numerous failures and disappoint-
ments in which the grossest and most culpable mismana_!enient,
has been apparent to the whole nation, and recal to oar minds,
that the House of Commons ought to he the Guardian of our
lives, liberties, and property—the redressers of our wrongs, and
the controulers of Ministers—it plainly appearing at the sense
time, that no want of confidence has been manifesied ; tio system
of distrust evinced; no effectual enquiry instituted ; bits that, on
the contrary, a disposition has been signalized to stifle or evade
every attempt to promote investigation, and to correct abuses, we
cannot but exclaim, in the latTuage of Mr. Burkt.—" This is an
unilateral and monstrous state of things !•• and Ise consequently
call upon your Honourable I louse for an immediate and radical
Reform. If it he said that Reform would lead to violenceand con-
fusion, we rerly, that such in•inuations are infamous and wicked
libels upon the people, and the bleating; and benefits which the
British Coes•titution only Can inipatt.
" We would ask, can the people endure such wrongs, and can
they not entire to wive then, redressed.
" It it be sail that corrupt intbience is necessary to the Govern-
ment, we answer, that it would he the worst of libels tmon tha:
Constitution ; and if true, EtOisiimen ought to cease to venerate
that Constitution which I-aspires cnrruptitin for its support
" If it be said, that Reform would not relieve us fiora oppres-
sive taxation, we reply, that it has been for want of free and vi-
gilant Parliaments that all these enormous abuses and heavy bur-
tbens have arisen—that under the present corrupt system they
tnust increase ; and that were- the peo;sle fairly and hotiestly re-
presented, shay would, instead of austmnting, be gradually di-
sninished.

" To such objections we might reply, in the words of the
memorable Prat: st signed by thirry-two Pvers --` If the ohj,ction
means to insinuate that cor'ruption ti necessary to Goverimplit,
we shall leave that principle to refute itself by its apprent
ini-
qutt'
" We therefore humbly pray yoer Horonrable Ilr.use to tae all
these matters into your most serious ciinsiderat ion ; we roams: ly
Implore you immediately to revoke all your late proceeilmgs re-
,peecing Mr. J:din Gale :Tom's and Sir Francis Burdett, and, cti%-
vimald that all :be disorders of the Slate, the di-traction and im-
becility of our Public Council., the abuses which have under-
mined the British Constitution, crippled our national exertion.,
and now threaten the security of our venerable and beloved :.zo-
vereign's crown and dominion's, have arisen from the causes we
have described : we beseech your Honourable Howse to apply the
only remedy for these alarming evils, by a speedy and era-ctual
Rererm of the Representation of the Peopl.• in Parliament."

Enshey Park was erowded wit't company on Sa-
turday last, to witness t walking match which a
young man of family had undertaken ; he was to
walk 70 miles in '2l• hours, which he did without dif-
ficulty in less than 20 hours. ye never saw that
beautiful Park so full of company —he walked on one
mile from the Porter's Lodge. The Duke of CIA.
neNCE and Family, Lords WALDEGRAVE and GLEN-
BERVIE, and LorA Roar:wr SEYmoutt were on the
ground. The bet was for a considerable sum of
money.

A Mr. YEuVIt., a native of Dorchester, is attempt-
ing a match, which, if performed, will outrival Cap.
tam BARCLAY. lie started on Monday morning, at
Henley, to go 500 miles on foot, in seven successive
days, which is above 70 miles a day, and had done
160 miles at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night. He
is taking his course through Somersetshire,
&c. and intends completing his journey at
llagshot.
A person of the name of THISTLE:WAITE. in Hamp-
shire, who undertook to go 1000 miles in 1000 suc-
cessive hours, gave up, after going a fortnight.
Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a fishing-
smack upset, near Billingsgate. Two of her crew
were picked up by a ship's boat, and 'mother was
saved by the exertion of a waterman, who jumped
into the River, and caught him as he was sinking.—
The smack was towed into the Dock.