The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-10 00:00:00

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ST. ANNE, WESTMINSTER, MARCH 7, 1815.
AT a numerous and respectable MEETING of
the INHABITANTS of the PARISI' of ST. ANNE,
WESTMINSTER, in Vestry assembled, pureoutt to public
'twice, to consider of the propriety of pelitioning Parliament
apiinst the Bill now pending for regUlating the Importation of
Resolved, 1. That the Inhabitants of thin Parish having for
the last 413 years patiently endured the hardships and privations
incident to a state of warfare, in the confident expectation of
procuring, on the rattan of peace, the necessaries of life at a
moderate price. cannot, withouLtbe deepest concern and alarm,
view the rapid progress of anneastue calculated to frustrate
their hopes, and to aggravate• the soferipgs of their numerous
poor by an additional restriction on the Importation of Corn.
9.. That it is impossible to view the intended Corn Bill in any
other light hilt that of an attempt to relieve the proprietors of
sand from the effects of that reduction in the price of the Beres-
• .-ies of life which they themselves might have foreseen as the
ronseiptence of the happy return of peace ; and as they
1 the exclusive benefit of the exorbitant prices which pre-
h reduction, at the expence of increasing the burden
-ied so heavily on the rest of the community, it
iable in them to expect the success of a measure
. . illen must be entailed on those who are least
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•hig great. endanerrial, and aianufacturing
nal country. capable of raising a suM-

deaf qtr.. • • its own consumption, and independ-
ent of fore% . the opinion of this meeting, ut-
terly impractit. •• • nerievere in an attempt to effect
seefi conversion I. t' •• -rage price of corn itt time of
peace beyond that , • avast' war, is to undergo a
certain and immediate ' • ',e of a remote and visiona-
ry good; and to throw a. - • •vrn internal regulations,
the invaluable benefits us • al extension of trade,
and that freedom of itnercou: - nations, for the re-
covery of which the blood as. • • this comity/ have
been liberally expended fur mar, • s; and which, if
preserved, may best answer the 0, . • ••••• :is of an over-
ruling Providence, by the friendly .. .. :: '-eommodution
of :Ali the nations of the earth;—the i. . • , one supply-
ing the wants of the other, and all un. • • id of har-
mony and peace.
4. That the proposed advance of the ..rixe of
wheat from 6.-.35. to 80,. as a protecting pric !ir this
Meeti ir to be unnecessary and extravign• t, an , ' • .: 4 by
the evidence on which the proposed Bill is .a•d • : :se re- *4l;
as the calculations on whirl, that evidence p ,-...r. ''. • , ere
made before the present reduesion in the price t • • •nd
of the materials used in husband' v, and during tin . , ; I.
sure of the Property 'fill from which the proprie--is .11 la id
are now to be relieved.

5. That 11, absolutely prohibiting all competition • o
corn, suffering it only to be locked up in a warehnit
to at: the waste, damage, and expence to which it taus
till t,,e price of wheat is at or above the general aver'.
per or mter, it is the manifest aim and object of the
reduction to raise the price of the home market to that
average i a hereas, by allowing foreign corn in be at
brnuo.;in to market upon paying an importation duty. re
by a wale gradually falling as toe general average of th
try rises, till it arrives at a free importation pike, su
eurourneement may be given to British agriculture, any s
and sudden fluctuation in the Corn Market avoided, and B

the first necessary of life, prevented from rising to an ezurt t..
price.
6. That Petitions in both Houses of Parliament, four A
u; .in the foregoing Resolutions, be immediately prep tred
the signatures of the inhabitants, and that Wm. Mellish, F.
one of the Members representing this County. be requested
prevent one of sill li Petitions to the Hon. Home of Commons
and that a deputation, enit-istiog of the Rector nod chneeh•
wardens or this pori.h, he desired to wnit upon the Hoke of
Norfolk, retinesting hi, Glare will be please.' to prese,t toe
other Petition to the House of Lords,

7. That the Thanks of this Meting be Rimy. In the Gentl.onett
Who sip ed the llequi.ition to this Vestry $ and to Messr%.
arid Ilucheo. the Churrh 4ardens, for their pr.unvi cons-
plidnre therowilS aid particularly to Mr. Bnonett, thr eeaior
Lit.nehwurden, for hie imprtialeoadart in the Chair.
E. ALLEN, Vestry Clerk.

LONDON, FRIDAY, MI.

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