The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-20 00:00:00

T $ Ills ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE PRINCE OF
w ALF% PRINCE REGENT OF THE UNITED
LINGDOM OF GREAT ERITAIN AND IRELAND.

THE RUVBLE PETITION op THE UNDER.-
SIGN ED HOUSEHOLDERS AND IN HARI •
TANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF WESTBURY.
IN THE COUNTV OF WILTS. s.
im Mete.
I 'HAT your Petitioners basing been disregarded
and coateseneil in muttons in which they have cointitu-
venally implied (or vlief. and Boding their fondly-cherished
extieciashow dlsartieStoted and el ceased, turn with imploring
,„,.;..y.to sour osal Highness. cis their last resource, Cant,.
41-sioly grassing w your Royal Highness's paternal solicitude and •
meet the mei-ail/ice which they seek, and resting '
folly usgetred.yeur Retyul Highoers will uev. r 'elect the suppli- ;
e. • as at your people, In duly their requests, when reasonably
• ere wed.
Zw,t reef P 4 iiiiorwry hewing, in common with his Majesty's
141)111 !mod effectual:tie subjects, horn Jo they conceive with un-
esasobille.l patience aad fortitwe, the unprecedented and alin.es
ass wheltnies; burdens with which they have ham Inden during
rue late prattucted mid mast expensive war, bailed with pecu-
'jai eleaauce the return 41 peace, trusting, with it to enjoy its
.'jstingolshedroncomitanb,the bleteings of commerce and plenty s
but to their. e‘treane disappointment and dismay, they behold a
sisciaure all rally adopted by the Honourable the House ni Coin-
mow, and now peadaig in the Right Honourable the Howe of
Lords, which must inevitable (as the prices of all provisivas
depeud ell that of bread cord) have for its end the increase in
COI tit cry-1y necessary of life, and therefore deprive them of,
the blessiegs from which they have been so long estranged, and
which they se exultingly expected.
That yiitir Petitioners hvA shoal; the lite unprecedented
woes beheld the commerchil and manufacturing interest of their
country toiling ender the mod heavy and oppressive duties, sub-
lees a. extrumoinary rates'? insurance, their repots,. extreme-
), G.:cleating. and mane branches of their maantactures decay-
ing and reduced to utter rrih antrdisiretsi while the Landholder
oda been Subject to no vicissitude. or risk. but taking advantage
of the disttesses orate times, has made such enormous advances
io the price of his posetosiotts (far exceeding the increase of
nay other property), as to raise himself to opulence and luxury ;
thus enriching himself without endangering his principal, at the
ex pence or the mere numercus and usetul 'mitten of the com-
apitiitv.
That your Petitioners had long beheld with regret the per-
fection to which foreign nations have arrived. in the manufac-
ture or Many of the commodities, which were formerly confined
to this country; but they faltered theneelvev, on the return of
liner, by the cheapness of iaboor, to be enabled to bring their
produce to the foreign market, .with their accustomed advan-
ta4rs ; but to their extreme mortification they find themselves
already outsold in many of their manufactures ; and they arc
fully assured, that any measure tending to increase the present
price of Con, would. by rasing the costs of labour, totally ex-
clude them from the foreign market, and thus the mechanic be-
lug without employ, m spirit of emigration would he excited,
nod considerable additions made tq the already overgrown and
inereasiug Poor Rates.
That yourPetiiioners conceive the present prohibiting price of
Os. per quarter, affords adequate protection to the grower, as
the expellee attending the raising of Corn, is, and will be
• greatly diminished; and as the rents, which have risen beyond
all precedent. must be much decreased by the abandonment of
the Prnperty Tax, while the imposts substituted in its place,
are calculated principally to affect the merchant and manufac-
turer, the only sufferers from the late war.
That your Petitioners bud fully believed that the feelings of
newly the whole &mien, so decidedly and constitutionally ex-
pre•s, d to the Homerable the House of Commons daring the
pi esent Session, would have been sulllcient to have induced that
Ilenourehle Huuse to refrain, at least from passing the purposed
nice ere—a measure so deeply interesting to the community at
large, until the same had received a comideration proportioned
to its 11114 tottenituile ard importance ; but how are they aeo-
ni.hro el beholding their representations and entreaties wholly
disreearded, while the measure has been carried through that
flietourahte flame with a celerity tend haste, which nue of
their Honestnible Members has, as pew Petitioners conceive,
rightly termed " indecent," and is now with the same speed
Otheugh the Right Hon. the House of Lords.
Yew Petitioiwrs, while they cannot bring themselves to sup-
wee that your Royal Highness would, unlike your beloved pa-
.cat, our tuost venerable and gracious Sovereign, so fir oppose
bie wishes of his people as to give your Royal sanction in a
itiew•ure ill the 'ceiling', of so vast a ma-
jurity of the papuletion of the country, emu wetly entreat your
Royal IJfxtn e.,, that in your wisdnui you would see
tit to exert ne your Royal rrernicative, by directing a dismiss.
lion of the present Parliament, that the ...eiiiiisschts of his Whs.
lib I.iiticlul e atf elienate *airily way he more fully and
effectual', tarried edit ct ; and w Cf. w 'tit anxious riatibet
loch -1./ the present disturbed and unhappy state of France,
fearing test they may he speedily involved in mother war; to
Nolo Rity.al Highness they bauk with iacremiug centicleure Jer
the aversteu an measure, which will Wasl all the beuefft. of
the d.rwsning peace, and restore to Orin all the atis. ries which
they bad fatally hoped, they should at lewd for a period, have
e.cul CJ.
and your Petitioners, as Iht duty bound. shell ever
pray, &e.

rev Til Proprietor of this JOURNAL having swift/rawly op-
po►ed th. Coax Buz since its first introduction into Parlia-
ment, under a conviction of its being a most impolitic and dan
vino- measure, trust- he may pith confidence claim the
support of all Moat who entertain the same sentiments.—lie
hopes thereto's, that his pretensions to support will not be
overlooked, and that he may at least share with other Jour-
nals (most of which a ere in favour of the Bill at the commence-
ment) in receisi.ig the Advertisements, which the present mo-
mentous question may produce.
)dr. Lorna. trust. that his political conduct, during his captivi-
ty. has likewise given general satisfaction, considering the
numerous difficulties which have necessarily attended his pro.
traeted separation from his establishment.
Nevrgate, March 20, 1815.
In the Fifth Year of his Imprisonment.