The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-29 00:00:00

CITY ADDRESS. , DISTRE.SSED STATE.#I4OIOre. COUNTRY:
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Yesterday the Right—......-
Hormorable the Lord Mayor, c ...a •
!arms, 2:r.—On meeting of
the Alkftnen, Sheriffs, WM li•Aaruni Council of the
City of . radon, waited-001,0es/ Royal Highness the Magistrates Smut neighbouring Gentlemen was
tha fence Regent, at CaritinAlvase, with the foi. held in dm town-hall, which was also crowded with ,
lowing Address and -Pttitionk, 'which was read by 1
i the town's people, among whom were several. of the
. opErative wearers. After a number of inhabitants
John' Aylvester, Esq. the Iticebatier : lad been sworn in special constables for the consti-
TO 1113 /LOYAL riscissisc,,,s wit 'rnistE oy wALESI optional protection of the place, Colonel Howard,
itlttaNT Or Tat -uxltEn TLlft/1011 Or GRtAT BRI• :of Corby, and Mr. Christian, of thirigg-hall, ad-
TAIN AND IllitAVD. I dressed the people. Amongst other' things advanced,
TYE 4igatiett ,tlin I)l7l44oll•AnnltEss AND rem- 1 they stated, that from the eveistocked state of the
Von or Tilt LOUD 3&% R, arm:toms:, AND i markets, and the dulness of manufatturingsales, ass
tD.IISIOrt or. Tilt CITY or LONDON, INCoSI- h
immediate advance of wages was impracticable—that
issa'N. CO lINCIL Aib: r.:ss MAD. though the sufferings of the poor were great, yet in no
May it please your Itiyii(ll ig films, . country were there such excellent laws far their relief
We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of the City of London, in Common Council assem- —and that if the labouring mechanic found it impossible
to support his family, he ought to seek parochial relief.
bled,.humblyappreach your Royal llighness, duti-
Some of the weavers, in reply, stated, that in con-
fully
to represent our deep sense of the difficulties sequence of the very low price of labour, they were
and dangers impending over the country, • and anal- compelled to perform twice the former quantity of
study to invite your beneficent. attention to the corn- work, and thus nearly double the quantity of goods
plaints and grievances of your afflicted but faithful was manufactured by the same number of hands, as
subjects.. I otherwise would,have been, had wages been higher—
Fourteen 'Mantis's hive elapsed Alice your Royal that to an independent mind, the application for
Highness acceded to the Regency of these Kingdoms, ' parochial assistance was at all limes grievous ; but
at which time wo felt it qur duty' to submit to you a . more particularly so now ; as in such case, they
statement of abuses Which had taken root in the va- ‘.
would be compelled to part with their children (and
rious departments of the Government, the speedy : those. perhaps, at a very tender age), who, being,
correciton and removal of whichwe deemed essential bound out.as parish apprentices, would be removed
to the prosperity and safety of the- Empire; and we from that controui and superintendance which every
now again present ourselvei before your Royal High- parent, whose mind is in the least impressed with the
ress to express our unfeigned sorrow, that during awful responsibility of such a station, wishes to have
this interval no efficient measures have been adopted over his children ; and sooner than be severed.
by your Ministers calculated to satisfy the wishes from them, they would endure any hardships—that
and wants of your people; but that, On the con- they had previously presented a Petition to the Ma.
trary, the sante malpractices and the same false prin- gistrates for an advance of wages, praying to be
pies of Government, have been tenaciously pursued heard on oath respecting the sufferings they were en-
and enforced, thereby adding contumely to injury, during; and even thisAast had been refused—that'
and extinguishing the spring of public energy in a several of the City Magistrates. being manufacturers,
free nation. . . they considered them bnilt to judge in their case—
We have continued to witness the same system , and that, though premises of an advance of wa-
of profligacy in the expenditure- of the public nio- i ges had, on a recent occurrence, been held out
ney—the same system of governing by undue in- 1 to them, these premises were no longer regarded.
essence and corruption—the same system of delusion . 'rise meeting broke up without any thing having been
in regard to the circulating medium and finances of ' determined. Very soon after, a_deputatiost from
the country—the same system of arbitrary and griev- the weavers waited on Mr. Christian with the Peti-
ous assessment and collection of taxes, by which in- tion they had formerly presented to the City Magis-
dustry is thwarted and liberty violated—the same i trates, in which were given abstracts from two Acts
system of introducing into the heart of the country of Parliament, asserting the power of tholtagis-
foreignlroops—the same.systern of persecuting the trates to regulate the price of manual labour, accord-
press, by which the value of free discussion on na- ing to the price of provisions. Mr. C. promised
tional topics is lost to Prince and people—and, finally, I them, that so soon as it was possible, his father, Mr.
the same system of coercive restrictions on the free- Curwen, who is now attending his Parliamentary
dom of commerce, by which many of our merchants duty, would hold a meeting of the County 111agis-
and manufacturers have been involved in ruin, and trates, when their Petitiou should be duly consider-
flourishing districts reduced to beggary. • 1 I
cd ; and if any thing could be done to ameliorate
As faithful and loyal subjects, and as the Represen. . their condition, they might rest assured it should
tatives of the first city in your Empire, we feel the i not be neglected.—We understand, that Mr. Chris.
deepest affliction in being thus compelled to reiterate i tian afterwards communicated to the Magistrates the
this enumeration of the malpractices and mistaken particulars of what had been promised, which met
principles of your Ministers; we should, however, with their cordial approbation.
compromise that Sense of public duty, and that cha.-
racter of frankness, whicb appertain to us as free-
men and Britons, were we to disguise the truth, and
forbear to express our conviction, that your confiden-
tial advisers hare plunged this great and once flou-
rishing Empire into an abyss, from which we can be
rescued only by radical reforms, and a total change
in our domestic Government and forti;u policy.
In a crisis, therefore, which involves. the destiny
of the greatest empire of these or past times,—of an
empire n hich is blessed by Providence with unequal-
led natural advantages, and which possesses a people
that tit all ages have bravely secured their prosperity
on the solid basis of public liberty—we feet that we
should justly merit the reproaches of our country
and posterity, if, at such a crisis, We were to refrain
from laying before your Royal Highness a faithful
representation of the public grievaoces, and express-
ing our painful apprehensions for the welfare and the
very existence of the nation.
We therefore pray—
That
your Royal Highness will be graciously
pleased to dismiss from your Councils those Minis-
ters who have proved themselves so undeserving of
the confidence of your people, and call to the Ad-
ministration vf the Government mess of public cha-
racter and patriotic principles, whose enlarged and
liberal policy is suited to the enlightened character
of iho nation—whose wisdom and energy would
prove', equal to the exigencies of the times—whose 1
inclination would lead them .to secure the affections
of the people, and whose public spirit would stimu-
late them to effect those reforms in the Commons
House of Parliament, and in the various branches
of the State, which, at this perilous crisis, are abso-
lutely necessary to the restoration of national pros-
perity, and not less essential to the honour aid true
interest of the Crown, than to the security and true
glory of the Empire.
Signed by order of Court,
114 F.N(I,Y WOO DfIIORPC.
' To which Address and Petition his Royal Highness
was pleased to return the following answer :
It must always be toy ittelintilian to listen with attention to
far Petitions of any part of Itht °Majesty's subjects. For the re-
drcv of any grievance; of's; hiciiibey can reasonably complain,
4 Igoe full confidence in the wisdom of Paramount, the great

STATE OF LIVERPOOL.
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(rnom THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.)

It is, at all times, a painful duty to expatiate upon
the privations • which a considerable portion of the
labouring classes.are too often condemned to experi-
ence, either by the natural course of unavoidable
circumstances, or by the erring policy of their rulers.
But such a task becomes peculiarly critical at a pe-
riod like the present, when a spirit of insubordina-
tion and riot unhappily exist generally through the
country. Any remarks on such a subject, at such a
time, may afford an opportunity to the designing and
mnieyolenst to insirivate that they originate in disaf-
fection, and are artfully brought forward to foment
the very evils they affect to deprecate.—Conscious
of the honesty of our motives, no dread of such
consequences shall interrupt the discharge of our
duty. We feel imperiously called upon, by the
!contemplation or the actual state of thousands
• around us, to urge the benevolent and the affluent
ito step forward promptly and liberally, in some
effectual way, to alleviate the unprecedented dis-
tresses of their suffering neighbours ; to do this with
I effect, it is incumbent upon us to prove the reality
; of the suffering we deplore, particularly as its exist-
ence, in any very great degree, has been questioned
lin the House of Commons by General Tarleton, in
direct opposition to an assertion he had made a short.
time before in the same House. Ilk statement, that ,
'g not a ship-carpenter, rho was willing to work, was
out of employ," appeared so unintelligible to those
, who were on the spot, that the General was written
to on the subject; and from his answer to one of the •
freemen, which we have seen, it appears that such
a representation was made at the desire of a Liver-
pool merchant. How it accords with the fact, will i
be sliewit by the following statement, which is the
result of the first enquiry we have made on the sub-
ject, relative to the condition of the carpenters, who
i,were selected by their representative as an argument
against the alleged distresses of our townsmen. The
particulars were put into our hands a fortnight ago ;
' but we delayed their publication in the hope that some
more general document would have been laid before
the public from another quarter.
" There are at present (April 9) only ten vessels
in the Liverpool Graving Docks, some of them merely
in need of very slight repairs. Nine vessels are now
entered for the Graving Docks, four of which num-
, ber are only for tides, and two others are vet in the
river, and cannot he ready for the next spring-tides;
the remaining three, therefore,. ere the only ones of
the nine entered vessels likely to dock for the ensu-
ing neaps. Eighteen months ago, several vessels were
obliged to wait three months or upwards, after har-
k; entered for the Graving Docks, before they could
obtain admission. And one respectable house, which
on an average of several years, employed, besides
apprentices, THLRT Y REGULAR, JOURNEY-
MEN, has now only ONE JOURNEYMAN."

Connell df the =Woo.
Being finnty of opinion that the total change in the domestic I
and foreign policy of the country, which it is the .
sktiired object of 41U1' Petition to actsintspisb, would only serve'
to berme the dangers, against which ;we have to contend,
shtitild ibeivantiag to myself, andil l4'eat interests commit.
I"; #1 clove, it I did ant steodidtptiwersee in those euden-
togrl,l*.4,.apperat to ase best 4000 to support the just
rightsselhe liar:ion. abroad, and to .pteinrve inviolate the Con-
stitution at home. These endeavours can only be attended with
ricceis ahrd'attinded by the zeal and loyalty of his Nlajesty's
PeVe:slifti,WTsids I *all continue to plade the strongest re-
liance:' •
They were all received very graciously, and had
the hOneur of kissing his Royal Highness's hand.
I:ettere received on Monday from the Dutch Coast,
slate, that there is an embargo on that side. It was
supposed to be in consequence of there being some
frigates lying at Dunkirk,: which the French wished
to get round to Flashing.'
The real triumph obtained by the Roman Catholics
In argument, as well as in independent votes, on the
discumien of their claims, has justly- satisfied them
that their rights will be established ; and they have
therefore resolved not to bring the question before
Parliament again at present.

Government are about to send out some troops to
the Isle of France; the major part of which are to
be drafted from the Marines.
RICHARDSON, Goon Luck and Co. respectfully
acquaint the Public, that the State Lottery begins
drawing To-morrow morning at nine o'clock and
finishes the same day.

TI I E :STATESMAN.

Fran' Me

'E, APRIL ?S.

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4cletirnlii -Office, April 28, 1812.
Vises,Altsleektol Sir Edward Pellew has transmitted
to J. Wilson Crokerl Esq. a letter from Capt. Sir I'.
Parker, of his Majesty's ship the Menelaus, giving
an account of the beats of that ship having, under
the directions of Lieutenant Rowland Mainwaring,
captured, on the 29th of February, near the Ray of
Frejus, a new French brig of war, called the St.
Joseph, pierced for 16 guns, but none mounted, on
her first voyage, from Genoa to Toulon, laden with
naval stores. The brig was moored within pistol-
shot of a battery (to which she had hawsers fast),
and flanked by another, as also by musketry from
the shore ; notwithstanding which the service was
performed without a man being either killed or
wounded on our side. One of the enemy's batteries
is stated to have suffered severely frGm the fire of the
launch of the Menelaus.

Sir Edward Pellew has also transmitted a letter
from Captain Manley, of his Majesty's sloop the
Badger, giving an account of the destruction of the
Countess d'Emerieau French privateer, of 11 guns
and 110 men ; she upset when in the act of hauling
her wind in action with the Badger, and only 14
of her crew, including the Commander, could be
saved by the sloop's cutter, the gig and jolly-boat
having been shot through.
Admiral Lord Keith has transmitted to John Wil-
son Croker, Esq. a copy of a letter addressed by
Captain •Burdett, of his Majesty's ship tke Maid-
stone, to Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, giving
an account of the boats of that ship, under the di-
rection of Lieutenant M'Mcekan, having, on the
4th instant, captured, off Cape de Gatt, the Marti-
net; a French xebec-rigged pri‘ateer, of two guns
and 61 men.

Carlton House:, April 47, 1812.
His Royal Highness .the -Prince Regent has been
pleased, in the mune and on the behalf of his Ma-
jesty, to appoint Liebtenant-Colonel Mellish to be
one of his Royal llighness'r Equerries.
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Lord Chamberlain': Office, April 27.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold
a Drawing-Room at St. James's, ou Thursday next,
the 30th instant.