The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-30 00:00:00

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. E4Sl' mDIA l'ltADk. tall; Fespit'e, Ind ;Abet esisetri.4 in aide/ .Wth these therra
Kingdoms, ruhtect VIII t, 1
ary gtiliigerler.l reg • !anon!, Of ti,o',. tie
-s-mos the policy of this cem rii ay reqnlre, or as may to .neretenry
.11) TU MONOURABLE Tut FoilltoNe OF THE ENlTtif for maintaining the relations 05 thesetealins with frweigu stmes,
d securing tot ' ivernm e aent those revenues winch may -bt ere-
narymt. us sippo;l. • -
'FAIILIAMIST ASSEMBLED.
in toe commercial coacerus of the •
The humble Petition of
.. the Trustees of the Liverpool of all
ResLegi"disratiTXhae reg on t Ilulahtilimblvelllecite; ad
tb;
gfeci"tiere
I lloclss, country, is the protection of tai; vivid right in the eullject, awl
e ektewern, the further extension of 3111 Imeourable, just, and legitimate
',Thal the Port of Liverpool has, in the (verse of little more ' co:,,nerce and that therefore all monopolies wh. • zsetnile the
Tian licedtury, from its peculiar local advantages, and by the general hods of the people from trail ne with 'other canntries,
Oterprising spirit of its inhahitatits,raiseJl itself from the sitna- are in deropdion of the birtiorigle of the suiject, and Counter-
rem of a humble fishing town, to the distingeisited rank and ha- act the chief purteoe which they ought to h&c in slew; .
ptrtance of the second Port in the kingdom. Resolved,—That the inonopoly Of the East India Company ill
That your,Petitioners, Whose provauce it is to provide and an additional instance, with others that might he adduced, of
mine:sin the.requisite accomiaodasiou for the shipping resorting : the injurious consequences that must always attend such attempts
to this Port, have, at various times, under the authority of the at an exclusive tra&c ; and that we conceive It to hare Leen
logislatere, and as the Increase of the trade demanded, erected ' fully demototrated, ttot sully by the most conclusite reasoning,
wm.ive docks, and other conveniences, for the shipping into- s but by incontrovertible facts, that such iseesop 11.,, is prejudicial
Mks of the town. to the general Interests of the country at large, and tioicoor.i,cio
'• ' Mat, urged by the merchants at large two years ago, when • that commercial sirit, which, from the nature and local sitna-
is indispensible to their prosperity, and
rails' trade was in peat prosperity, your Petitioners sought for . timid thew islands,
Aid-obtained, dwrang the last Session of Parliament) powers for i upon which their security at this moment essenOally depritsb.
alt ferther improvement of the Port. ' , ,
Resolved,—That upon these grouse's we will most .entrilially
rinds in eoitdetatt°n not n'ttY of that r/i3ling Want of needm- unite with our fellow-zects, the inhabitants of other tostoc
medatioa in the docksfor resent purposes, but anticipating also
and
lien-ports in the k.
.inni,, in I
cal ions
tci
the b..gishaneen
the period when the rights of the n'elehallm and inede" of "I''''' few the abolition of the commercial Inottopoly of tbe Kota Indis
poi, its oemmon With all others his Alajesty'ssubjectq, to a free C:oinpanv, in such most speedy
and etliTtaal manner as they
trade with tbe East ladies would be retognrsed, your Petitioners ~
Inas, intheir *LA • sel •mostexpedient.•
JI g.
Lave coattariCett,various wollks upon an extensive scale, cake- - -
dime lated Wigneet-tk VIOL accession of trade, which, as they humbly Restilved',—That the Petition to the boss et CamMcoeter no*conceived,
nceived, Woeld be' the result of seek a system. proposed.and read to this .Meeting, is approve`, and that the
Your Petitioners, theiefore, anxious for the prosperityof tine
ewoe he signed by the Chairman, and the rersons atten ,thus
kepertant trusts commited to them, and confiding 11l the justice •
Meetiug, hod by such ethers as may think propet to sign the
i• of this Honourable House, Most humbly intreat Nat they will same.
adopt such measures, as to their wisdom shall teens best, for oh- 1 Resolved.- .ghat the Chairman be requested to transmit such
Wize; to Ne Port of Liverpool, as well as t§e rest of the IllaPed Petition to the Mem ers for the town of Liverpool, in order Nat
Kingdom. Rpiaticipation of the trade- With our eastern ricers- They may pfesent the sae*.
Mons, hitherto seep' enjoyed eynthe Exit India Ceinpaelyo fed Resolved,—That a Committee be appoieted for the re'Fithe of
roue i'sitApsers is ill, as in date boded, ever pray. • ' ""' . : corresponding *ith Other /teat towns and collective bodies of
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0 .' i the manufacturing and coannerfial interest throtighout tb? kusg-
'` dom and adopting such measures as they may cdacelve Is be
'TO INS* lINUIDUItAIItet XRIt CIMINOIIIIr4IIIIII, C/STSIS e
_..._ • mos likely to met dime fteselutions late edict. •
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lEVECDOIR 0 i wirier BRITAIN AN DIRE REs, pl PAW;
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The Petition of the Niarr, Bailiffs, and bargeses At the ; 'NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:
'Foist of Liverpool, in Common Connell assembled, I
Manta wow BUMPILY 114tEWXTR, '
't PORTSMOUTH, 2O.
That your Petitioners conceive, that the subjects of these
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' Realms pearls an inherent right to a free intercourse of trade '
Sled the Eisgtiatd frigate with the koMestanVios.
'WM all other nations and *countries in amity with thin; subject Indiamen front the Douai, and.t*o !hips front Surinam:
lady In such replations as may be necessary for pre-4.r% mg a DEAL, Mattel' IS.
rgned OnderstanMrig with those centuries, and for securing to out
' own Sae Revenues devisablefrom sack intercourse. , Arrived yeaterday a French ptaam, eaptureilby his Majesty's
' Tit the monopoly of the Pest India Company, hoWever ex- ship --; also arrived to-illy his Majesty's ships Griffin end
-peditnt nr necessary at the period of their firit Charter, is, as fitisatio, with three French brig, which they Captured on 'their
your Petitioners humbly conceive, in the present state of Com-
m , and of the world, no longer*,; and it is moreover ioroc. passage from Boulogne to Dieppe, use was sunk and se. dAI
fist t with those principles which are universally admitted to bd
einsie
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del to the prosperity of t'ommerce. : be n made their escape into the latter port:
9.
That every other nation in Europe being, by Ilk signal softest PLYMOUTH, Mancu 2
stills MRjesty's arms, deprived of all territory and induenec in Arrived the Pheasant and Thracian sloops of War, Dom a
• * East ladles. as well as of all means of annoyance to the na- eruizes the latter from off Cherburgh, where trete five sail of
ligation of those seas. an ample field is now open fur the eXclu die line ready fur sea, but not supposed to be the ships that es-
lon of British skill and enterprise, and for the investment of that a _
n al from L'Orient
ca,,ital which is rendered. In a great *sentare, useles, lo those '-. ' - •
clitinnets.df trade where it has beretofore been employed. . galled, esterday, his Majesty's' ship Pelotas, with the lied i-
That 'mar Petitioners, as the guardians 41f* Interests of the• serraiwan convoy, with the wind at E. S. IL • the rov, of and
Town of Liverpool, while they lament the distressing sosren-
from Leith. in getting übder weigh rail foul of the tran port
sine of its commerce at t:114 Juliann., cannot but indulge a tan- B
ain' Shaw, and ends carried Sway her bawspriti and tins
game hope that* era is arrived which presents to foe Mer-
chants and Traders of Liverpool, in common with those of-every former went ou the ledge of the rock's at the south end of
part of the British Empire, new and brighter prospects in the Drake's Woad, where she struck heavy, but great assistant,
participation of a Traffic frona which they have been hitherto having been given by the Pilots, she was got of and ran into .
escluded. • -
St nehonse where both ships are now its safety' The Sips
That pew Petitioners disclaim any wish to interfere with the u '
Rights of the Itast India Company, which: they apprehend ,nay Diana and Alice were not able to get out to join the convoy.
he maintained inviolate, n Rhone the continuation of a system , The wind shifted last night to the S. W. and no* blots so
that infringes the privileges of others. • ' strong that the ships in the Sound are rudning late Catwater fOr
Your Petitioners, therefore, repining entire confidence in the .4., ,
Wisilo with/ ustice of this Honourable House, humbly entreat — . --' •
that t ey will he pleased to adopt such measures as may *cure MILFORD, Maned 27.
to the Merchants of the Port of Liverpool the advantages of a Arrived the Antetta French krivatoet, taken by MS Majesty's
free Trade beyond thti Cape of Good Hope. , ship Tounant, on the filth instanl, of Brest; previous s the raps
And yoar Petkioners, as in duty. bound, will ever pray. ! lure she had captured a Spanish vcwel with a general el t o,
Given under the Conatoon Seat of the said Town.
I dollars and cc/chloral ; the dollar and cochineal were timid t:ts • •
board the privateer. •

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TO COE IiONQURAELE THE. ablnlis6loNEßs OP THE
IJRITED RIND O]l Of DRIAT RIIITAIN AND ARS-
LAND, 111• PARLIAMENT ANSIMBLID.
The humbles Petitleas.of dada hacraliantS, Sfp-Owliers,
Tradesmen, and other Inlnhitants of the owzi of
Li-
verpool, whose names are hereto subscribed.
Your Petitioners humbly beg leave to represent to yoit' r Ho-
nourableHouse, that by various Clatters, gloated from time to
lime to the Fast Indies Compatiy, your. Petitioners have for a
long Witmer years been restricted in carrying on Trade' as well
with the extoosire possessions of the (*van, in the East In-
dies, as with the whole of the Islands and Territories in MAC*
and Asia. from the Cape of Good-Hope to the Straits of Magel-
lan, said havo thus, as your Petitioners humbly doncetie,_ opt
only hero prevented from exerting their mercantile skill and an-
dostry, and employing their capital In. a manlier • the must ad.
vaniageous to t!osir country and w themselves, but have been de.
prived of those jirtvileges whicis they humbly pretense are the
common birth-right of all his Majesty's subjects—the right of
carrying on a free Trade to all parts of the British Fenpire, sad
litho- countries in amity with this United Kingdom, subject only
to such general regulations of Trade the polity of this coati..
try may require, urns usayhe necessary fur nsainnining the re- !
lotion* of thne realms with foreignetates, and set uriag to lie-
vonnseat those reroutes which may be requisite for its support. '
our Petitinuers further bet leave hamar to state to your
Hotioumble How /bat the-yea:mot hut regoid all monopolies,
which prohibit the. general huly of tar people from carry ing on
Trade with ana, other country, and particular the monopoly
of the East India t umpany, us bighlv injurious-to the general
interests ef this country at large, ass to greatly discuursgiug I
that commercial spirit which, from the nature and local situation
of these Islands, indispeosible to their prosperity, and spoor '
which their security at this moment essentially depends.
Yost Petitioners havirg therefore assembled together in a
Gcneral. Meeting. have resulved to appeal for a redress of this
their grievance to your flonajarable House; in the bumble bar
confident ho that that you will consider the protection of the equal
rights of his Majesty subjects to a Free Trade, and use estensiine
ofau honourable, just, and legitiusate commerce, as amongst the
hot and most important objects of legislative regulation.
Your Petitioners, therefore, Amiably latreat that your Homer.
Male House wiN be pleased to take' i this subject nto your is*
sirloin consideration ; ands that you will at thogarliest *pp*.
ly adopt such measares for abolishing the sammereid now
yuf the East India Company as to the wisdom anipaut
may seem most expedient. •
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• Liverpool, 90111 IllEck, MS'
Sun,—l ant teeth-dell by the Committee tto yams
copy of the Resolutions which were u
_apatl
ar a General Meeting of the Aterchsolts, lit.
bLai psews of Liverpool, convened Oa thel;Al/ *the
j India Trade. , ,
The 131"aitiee, deeply itni;arti. wfth the inspottanee of the
subject, sot merely as it may. affect the town of LITok bet
an Molting the inievemi the privileges, and the ri ts oft e
=tar ails-owners, and manufacturers and other tbe
of the United Kieedoes, have directed me to sprit,
you of their intention of appointing is Deputation Intei Mt,
place, in the first week in April, to ce-operute with these,
sbeetherstialsers, cities, and (owes, in whatever tuessuttedif •
be slemiestvegelsite for the attainment of as object else& ;men,
,By, *dolt Alf opening to the euterprize.of the Bettie Mit%
talliraa teal to all Ike wurld..
, __ . Inmate cnnvieced, that the more effectual mode 41
aaalamplphiag so desirable a Measure, is strenuously to assert the
lilbstestright of all his Majesty's subjects to trade with every
Minsky is unity with vs ; and to ex preu those
.sentimehlhe la
inn, temperate, and respectful Petitions .to tie
u pe?utatiue to London from each ef al:Plichg: 7 '•,
r desired ti express the anxious with of the Ctles•
.'..e-I:eeive the rtatimigile einnonatcallawnatra
ao
ail ppigien ingsolitit. and .to assure thrall at. E
ie Oh Oomotoes .4tiestige.
I • 1 liett•Abt holillyitillAwilii Vial *Meth •
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tin inistatintient Inultle'Servant, • 1
, • • 'i', .4. 'M. BRACKEN BUILT,
facrethrp to he UMW
of Pd_ittirea al she
e ciptpqrattlaiint iti•
verpool,tand de . •-•chaa te, sbirstrre, frt t
een fir
that Port.

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YARMOUTH; MAIICW V. . •
Yes,4odspsaile4, nos a cruise he the Holland toast. his Ms►
jesty's firliate, Deplree, 381 and foe' Hetigeland, the fleshy
cirri: iimi I/ 96 . '
The Chadamilsop of war front the Note, and Ferret, from
the Downs, derlirtid la the Rands on Monday. The Alexaadria
frigate sailed from the Roads.
COVE, Mines 93.
His Majesty's sloop Trineulo, 18 guns, Captain A. ReallYo
expected every day. is appointed td take the Reel for the Wtst
Indies under convoy, It Is mid they will sot pi-arced on their
destination until there Me SI sail. It is likewise mentioned they
will not take their departare, until it is ascertained Aka coarse
the French fleet has steered.
The brig Harmony, of Kirkcaldy, in running op the Frith,
on. Saturday se'anight, struck upon a sand-bask near Murat-
/ island, and immediately fell over on her beast ei.ds. She after-
! wards !lowed of, and ter anchor being gone, she drifted up the
i Frith until the brought up hear Aberdour ; althongti Sill oa her
beam ends, great hopes ate entertained that the vessel v, 11l be
got Into a pbce oT safety, le ber eargo, crobs6tiog of hemp,
i &c. must be greatly damaged. The cretx were savird by the
admit-home heat, frum Durntisland; but, we are sorry to
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, state, that another best, .which put of to their assistance trout
thq quarantine cutter, was upset) mad three of her crew pe-
risked. . ' .. .
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THE ROASTS.

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CO.k4 N EXCIiANGF., MARCH 30.•
Thirl day deft are considerable fresb supplies of Wheat ar-
rived, and gales heavy. at a dicletrioa in price of aboat'as. and
6s. per qpirter. Barley in good supply, mid terra. its price.
Rye mid Slalt are dearer. Beans of each description scarcely
at last prices. The sappliet_of Oataare again short,- and rules in
this trade named somewhaeligher. Flour does not maintain the
primulas* quoted list week. •
Wheat. 941110 1119 s Tick do. (nom) .. 59 59
Flee • 130 195 De. (rine Old) .. 60 62
Rye
Barley..,
Malt 9O , Vetatoedo. 00 .48
White Peas (boilers) 411 90 llapeSeed • 462 9
Grey do. ~., 6O di tine Flour • 106 s. 110 s.
Beans ' 58 64 Seconds ........ • 100 106
SMITHPIE.I.D MA RKET.—fittaci *.•
• •To sit* Offal. pet 'sten! et .• •
Baer ....6s. 9d. 10 al. 2d. Is Head of Cattle ads day r
klattue W. to 64. 4d. 1 Beasts .......
Veal ....7s. ud. to Bs. Od. Sheep
Perk ....fn. Ott. to 7s. 0.1. Calves ..s
I.lgrab ....TA. 4d. to at. 6.1. ........
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41. 10.. IV. to S. 04;04.
;Straw
M . yer
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The work of destruction in tie West hiding oY
Yorkshire is 'till continued, and we have this week.
the paint's' ditty to sad, another act of outrage to
those we have before megtioned :—On Wednesday
night the finishing shops of Messrs. thcivxsom,
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CARR, and Snatis,, in this town, were entered,.
and eighteen pieces of fine cloth, dressed by ma-
chinery, torn* sod cbt into shreds. The damage
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surrounded bt. bis '4 11'.1.*
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The public curio. . . Lig ablldkrtalk!
telt, that the Chapel, kastfeelecemthsinetchtuttry ,- TP*2l4lLw.,
ill sotto after eleven sad °dm' 1°1141"1"w '. ale "1" 54 1
.. - llalkkyfal the MoOrrforThe Nome of taking WO oro-
miens got in knipro. web loomorn es =row/ necks-
nearly wagged a tf7.-r... ai441144=1 4 #ititietQat . la-000Pa- .
1 crowded to mum tto,uve the alotempthefalt veneei , . i.t...: ...
he ?slice1 . tjagouth . . Z . , *vim% ilk set petits rime.
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dokraligimihed at from 4 to-Nel: The perpetrators of
`Ma amOorato act it appears, entered the premises
stuns tlfe roof, and after' effecting their ptwpese,
owered themselves out of sit upper story by means
b( a piece of woollen.--(Leeds Afartoty.)
The management of New Drlwy-lase•Theatre wilt
be given to *art. AsKslispoi, 84.010.14 D.
: The '
11.667,4 :t Fahemeth
li.,
tontLiabett In
s- 4 Gasx.-torek
.lm FesoldrVltiellas*
,tss.•• sem 1, . -.R. 1,1410, 4114.4-1,31 44. 1... '
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