The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-21 00:00:00

Church-street, Liverpool, May 9, 1811
THE following Gentlemen hating signet!a
quisitioa to the Mayor of this Town. requesting •
to call a Public Meeting on the present Stated She Nation,
am 1 thr Liberty of the Subject. with which be has refined to
tionplyt the Remonstrate bUitillilled has since been addressed
to him, signed by the major part of the Gentlemen signing
the Requisition.
Thomas Rawson Richard Thornton
"William Shepherd John Marsh
Williatußoacoe Richard Downward
George Williams Peter Crampton-
Thomas Rawson, jun. George Booth
Willis Earle Joint Slater
Thomas Booth Jaunts Castley
Minot, Byrom William Doming
Thomas Martin J. L. Jardine
illiato Itatlibone Edward Rushton
Robert It. Jame* Whittle
Thomas Crupper, Jun. John Horsey
J. K. Casey Henry ?Miami
Edward Pearson Richard Grant
Joseph Bailey Joseph Hopkinson
Turner Parr Woods
' George Walker Richard Preston
John Swanwick Prancls Casey
Thlllll4B Holton Robert Prestoo, jun.
William Hope John OHO),
Jos. B. Yates James A. lifoigkinsoa
Lionel Lemon William Harvey
Joshua Evans James Harvey
Francis Itoult I Enoch Harvey
Minn; Jevons Samuel If Inca'
John Richardson l Henry Jamison
Thomas RM..in•oa George L. Clifford
Wallace Currie William itobiagom
George Briswalt Joseph Emma
John Holmes - Edward Ilastmett
W. S. Roscoe . Richard. Ilioodeli
Jaa ev P. Wilson - Andrew CoMber
Thomas Stair %Vilna n Bomlt
Joseph Fletcher, jun. John Buttock.
TO JOHN CLARKE, Esq. MAYOR.
SIR,-011 an emergency like the present, when the nation
R suffering under the elects of oriniterial mipronduirt, and
w hen a very general apprehensiou is enterm incl.!, that attempts
arc making tu stifle the voice of the people, by a direct '
Cock upon the personal liberty of the subject, we had t
tered ourselves, that however your predeeelion in Mice
might have opposed their audio' ity to the earned wishes
their townsmen, you, Sir, would' have beet, minted to hi
shean how fully you participated with your cuuntrymeu .
their sentiments, and would, in ptirsuance of oar request,
have enlist-nett a Meeting of the inhabitants for the purposes
in our Requisition melt:billed. We conceived that the exam-
pie; which had been already given by the presiding Might-
tr ill the City of IVeAntimt.ier and the County of Middle-
• . which have since heat, followed he Me (•Ry of Loudon
titer places) would have !wen a sanction, Irmo, had been
waiting, to our request. and would have deterred you from at-
tetepttog, by your single negative. to present the enhakitunts
of ult., great and populous town from publicly expressin;
their staid octagon this 'occasion ; and we earnest omit to tes-
tily our most decided disapprobationn( your refusal to coin-
an with ourjust and reasonable wishes in this respect.
'Nide ithvbinding the cow bitted 'series of calamities and dis-
graces is hich have heretic' this Country during the Last three
years, ;sod particularly the fetid -sul destructive Expedition
to the bland of Walchereti, we had still from thee to time
coosoled tormelves with the hope that, against the recurresace
of such ec.b, Mere existed an adequate and coastitutional re-
medy.
for this remedy we, in contemn with nor fellow subjects,
looked up to our Representatives is Parliament; but we are
reluctantly compelled to odd, that fur this we have hitherto
looked in vain. Although repeated in:tances of the profligacy
and misconduct of alinioers, both it home and abroad, have
been brought before tie House of Commons in the most fall
nod ample mangier, uo result, concordant to the wishes and
expectations of the Country, has been produced; whilst the
Inttat,lllll recently adopted by that House in restraint of the
liberty of the subject. and the freedom of political opinion,
are such as cannot fail to occasion the greaten anxiety and
alarm in the public mind. When however. we advert to
the open and avowed corruption which exists in the appoint-
ment of al.anbers to serve in Parliwaent, and observe the
gm-eat nomulter of pcn,ari having seats in the lionise of Coin.*
mom, wen, at the saute time, enj ty places and peosiont
under the Crown, we are no longer at a loos to account for,'
toe result that hasi taken place; and we conceive that the
time is now arrived when it is incumbent tat uli soppily to es-
press our decided conviction, that it is only by a bpeedy and
effectual Reform in the Representation of the People in Pat-
liatnent, upon principles consistent with the spirit of the Cuts
mitutton, that we call hope to preserve the liberties:tad bole.
pendence of our country from that destruction with which
they are so imminently threatened.
TO this 4rent object it was our wish, antler the sanction of
our Chief Magistrate, to have called the attention of our
nos nsinen; and although you, Sir, have deprived them of the
opportunity of expressing their opinion soder such sanction,
lye doubt not that they will perceive in the massive which
dictated such refusal, the grounds of their own triumph, and
t.!II still continue to cherish those sentiments of veneration
for the Constitution of these Realists as by Law established,
nut' that deterinination to maintain their tights:and liherties
tionapalred, which are the roily effectual rottezutirils against
heir overthrow. We me, Sir.
Your very uhetlieat Servant,
'IIIONIA.S RAWSON, Ste. dite;_

SECOND-HAND WA TCHEeI. -
FVolt ILEAI)Y MONEY ONLY, with pecu-
liarA.: advantages to Purchasers. To be SOLD, chiefly for
nant of Redemption, the largest A•surtment in London, of
second-hand 'Watches; con-is:law" of Chronoilieteni, in gold
aol silver cases. by esteemed Maker,; Repeaters in the
g remest variety; Ladies' fashionable Engine-aimed and Locket
Watches, with gold dials, &c.; and about 500 of every other
description, from two to fifty guilyw. amour, which will he
found many hy, the followingesieetned lookers, • iz. Ellicott,
Vulluomy. Arnold, Earnsliass. Burrard, Bruck-
bo.,ks, Dweriihouse, liutiim, Perigal, and Jamison.
The priors at which they wall hi sold, are wai ranted to be '
fr SO to 45 yer cent. less than the 3litoulacturers charged
for them. The peculiar ad vatukgrs stirred to Purchasers are,
the liberty of eschang,ing their WatclTeti w itluu six months,
if not approved, and of dim brio enga.ed to perform well
twelve soaths free of expetace.—N 0: :Li: Ludgate-Dill.
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