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

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No. 1927.

% LONDO . PNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1812.
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ti :.ATttr, KO Y At, COVENT GAILDRN.
THIS present EVEN I N G, April 29; 'will
he perfitrawil,
THE CABINET.
After which, (for the Sd time,) a New Grand btakeßranoatie
Spectacle, called
THE SECRET MINE.
To-morrow, Julia, Cre.,r.—On Friday Rule n Wife nod
hnve a%V ife.—fin Satertlay, The Grecian Vattithter.--On Man.
day, king Richard the Taarday, Coriolanus.—On
Wedanday, livery Man in his Unmoor.

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TO AWE, HONOURABLE Tag COMMONS OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF MREAT BILI FA IN •AND
atimArift. ix pAILLIJIMENT ASEIithiRLIM.
Tni tiunnt.t 1%71110N OF TILE usohnstan en M.
CH /kill, tit MARS, Alt! OTOER IN u• anspirs or TO 6
Yowl or t.ttrusirooi.,
fag ay n, • , .
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r ,F(AT your Petitioner* ire compelled by the mast
urgent necessity to lay their distresses nod grievances be-
fore your Honourable Houle.
That the Reseal depreasina of the Commerce mid %muffle.
tures of the Country bits been particularly felt by the Town
and Port of Liverpool. That the Trade has rapidly declined,
and that the more lahortous part Of the Inhabitants, consisting
of Shipwrights Roisemahee,, S iilnlinkers. Carpenters, Porter,.
Carters, and Labottrers, with their numerous Families, are re-
dueed•to a state of usexample I suffering and distress.
Tbnt your Petitioners have heard with aurpri4e and iodigna-
lion, that statements have been made tending to keep your Ho-
i mumble Howe and the Country at law in ignorance of the
1 real state of ibis populous Town, aad denying fads, which are •
but too grievously sintering, to t very inhabitant of the place.
That it is nuM trart.smitur .F..titiatiersirmNrstithiltit had iseea;
rpOMlcly represented, that there were not more than 3001) to
lOW persfons, whose necessities entitled them to ingkpart and as•
sistonce from a public subwriptios of the Intl:dinning, entered
into for that purpose.
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TO rim TIONOCRA FILE THE COMMONS OF GREAT
1 BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PAHIbtANIENT AS-
SEMBLED.
a-NIL nvmsa.E PETITION OF TMI UNDERSIGNED INUAII-
' TANTS OF THE TOWN OP LIVERPOOL,
" vw erre, •
yottr Petitioners have been credibly in-
1i fiiwe},
and do believe, that the Right llonoursilile
George Rose. did. lately, in a conference hetneen hi. hi aje.ty'li
Chit wellor nf the Facheyiter Natt-etrinin Nhisier hl-inft inters
if vbe tovi'n of Biriainehune,eompare thevitthition of the People

IrIHE PANCLA.RMONICON, with the addition
of tke A U 1.111116 A NON. RE-OPEN ED on Monday. the
dth Wont, at No. st. Piccadilly. late the Liverpool Museum.
—Vr. GURK, the Inventor ow( Proprietor of the above In-
moot-a, which, during the short time of its Exhibitims at
Rams, .was immured w ith he mast flattering appro-
batioa and patronage of the British Public, most, re‘pectfully ,
apologises 111 the Nobility, Gentry, and the Lovers of Music. and I
tht Mechanical Arts Is gcaeral, for the interruption occasioned
in the Perform:wee, by an itecidentatinjary the instrument suss
mined, as %ill as by his sabsequest indisposition am)he woof ,
of a well-adapted -Room -for the display of its. plOd'ers, mid
sr-w bus toe haver to acquaint them, not only that the aforesaid
impediments arc entapietvly removed, hat nlso that he Iris avail-
ed hiniself.of the interval to improve comiderahly the Mechan-
ism cord aces of the Pantimmosticom The • Aulargsmor „ like-
oh, a seltperforining losirsitutut, apd constructed uo principles
similar to thaw) of the Ponliarinonicon, will, lie hopes, although
of lesser compass and dimensions, merit the opprohntion of ,the
Musical Public, by the sweetness 01 its tones, and the precision.)
of its execution of a.variety of the most difficult ;tad. favourite
pieces. With regard to the Patiharmooicon, ;is that invention
abendy beets honoured by the applause of a valorem» pub-
lk, Mr. li. will cooly confine himself to the statement of the Sift-
ple fact of its consisting of flutes. YO octave flutes, 31 clario-
Deo, and oboes, IA bassoons, 14 trumpets four French horns,
kettle drums, cvmhals, triangle, great drain. common drum, '
&c. ; beside a romplicte organ, all real instruments set in intona-
Mtn and performance by mechanism alone, so ;is to perform, I
like one grand orhestra of wind instrument-, overtures, sym-
phonies, marches, rondos. Sec. of which a constant variety, with
the addition of the most favourite English pieces, will hereafter
he dhpfayed. The performance will be-exhibited three times 4
u day, via. froryl to 4. 2 to 51,, rind 3 to 4 o'clock.
Enfraucc—first heath with owns to she incossoest 2s. 61).;
fecund heats, tr. 6d. .

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of 'England and Frante to that of two men hcolobl.ow Mgr he;uls
in a vessel of water, and trying which can longest models the
pain of suffocatin.
That your Petitioners cannot, without- grent alarm. heatof
*Ms type or eampari.. to, as illustrating the effects of a Mat
which his Majesty's Ministers have, tram time to time, pro-.
noised to terminate by the subjugation and 10-strain! of France.
That thoegh the abase-mentioned comp:orismi too aptly IYIII-•
bes the condition of your Petitioners, hose ineath of live-
libind are alarmingly curtailed by the events of war, nod by
the process of taxation, and moue of whom are reduced to the
et.irepso-ssirwont. it hotly no styptic:4l4e to the Hight fla-
Mentraltle George Rose, And divers others. sbnilaely
4tanted, who, by the emoluments of the ndices which they hold
under Government, and the possession of considerable pentium
and salaries of sinecure places, are much at their case, iu the
midst of public calamity.
That your Petitioners do therefire pray your Ilonourrible
SOUR to pass a Hill for apprirpriating, du• Mg the future con-
Xlmiance oh She war, the Salaries of all Sinecure Offices, soul all
nlioterited and extravagant Pensio is to public parpwes. %hick
;ill your Petitioners humbly rOIIeCiVP. by tending in a degree
to equalize the pre,ure of the times. so i 1, at once, traaquillize
tie gerernl feeling, and accelerate to this commit) the acquisition
of the blessings of peace.

That it is not true that not* simile Shipwright is out of em-
ploy in Liverpool ss Ito is willing h, work.
:Ihnt tie feet is, that the distresses of the labouring pun of
the community and their families having rendered rebel* indis-
'sensibly necessary, &public subscription was entered into for
that object, in the month of December last, by which 'nearly
I‘,ooo penons were in oue week relieved.
That your Petitioners compute the number of persons an re-
ceiving relief, to hove been at least one-sizth part of the present
population of the Tawe.

That the falsehood of the assertion, that there is no want of
employ, for those who are willing to work. is apparent through
the whole Town of Liverpool. amidst all its docks, on rill its
quays, and in every street, where numbers of itoducttious me-
eliaisics, many of whom are free Burgesses, of the Town, are
seen without emplosment, whilst others are compalerl by their
necessities (o solicit in the vicinity of the Towu foe charitifble
aid. . . .

That in addition to the went of employ, the distreoed situation
of the Towu is aggravated by the present high and rapidly iii•
creasing price of all the necessaries of life, from which evil, if
some relief cannot i.e obtained by the speedy in terkrence of
your Honourable House, your Petitioners cannot but apprehend
the must alarming and fatal cnnsequences.'
That it appears to your Petitioners to be as impious ns Al is
unjust, to attribute the distresSeS which affect the country. prin-
cipally to the dispensations of Providence, as to the productions
of the soil ; or to • any other cause which site interfereuee of
year liounurable House, in conjunction with the other brauches
14 the Legislature may not ilia great degree remove.
That your Petitioners have heard with real alarm, that a high
and confidential Servant of the Crown did, la the presence of
I his Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of a respectable
Deputation (loin the Inhabitants of a large Manufacturing
Tostn, lately made use of language Which appears to your Pet s-
dowry, from the time and occasion on which it wits introduced,
to deveinpe the views sod intentions of Ministers, more deci-
sively than thousands of State Papers and Public Documents,
and shews.thnt they are prepared to risk the very existence of
the coyote, on the lurther prosecution of measures which have
already reduced it to its present unexampled state of suffering.
i That yotii Petitioners cannot but avow to your Honourable
Home, their mon solemn v4'11014)4,, alma the distresses of the
e y oras.peirsusedy occasioned Is the present ruhirrhs rind
I poirected War, by the sacrifice of the Manufacturing and
r mei& interests a the Country In war measures, injurious
ourselves, thereby debit-sting and drying op the very
of Revenue, and in particular by the Ordeal in Council,
!mein their operation our Trade with Neutral Slates.
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"Thia the consequences of these Orders, are move particularly
i felt in the Port ut Liverpool—where, tiering the year 1807, he-
ieg immediately pi jar to the alteration of the Orders in Council,
459 American vessels, independently of other Henreid ships, were
cleared out—and where, in the course of six months, in the year
1809. when the effect of such Orders .vas understood to be sus.
prnded by negotiation, 336 American vessels were cleared ant,
Which ships were laden almost entirely with British Manufac-
torets, having q*oried, in their out-ail, profitable employment to
great numbers of Merchants, Tradesmen, ,Mechanics, and La-
bourers of the Tonal of Liverpool.
That in consequence of the Ordera in Caused of November,
180 i, continued in certain of their provisions by another Order
in council of the 26th of April, 1809, the shipments from Neu-
tral States to this Port, are become very inconsiderable and
that in particular the Merchants of the American Mates 'heing
by local regulaiimn of their own Government, prevented during
the continuance of the Orders in Council from lu-spurting in res,
turn for their cargoes, the manefactures of this country, are
compelled fa draw bills of exchange for she proceeds of their
shipments, w Aids hills, hove been for some months lubt past at a
discatint in the United States of 15 to 21 per cent. and are now
Dearly unsaleable at any price, a eircuinstanee fell at the present.
lime with 'Articular pressure by this country from its enhancing
t e price, and greatly diminishing the quantity of grain and dour
effect of the Orders in Cutincil has been
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to dimini;h and injere the revenues. commerce, and manu6lo-
- of these kingdoms, they have also compelled neutrals to
rely mom their own efforts for thosehrticles which were before
supplied by this country, and notoriously to establish manufac-
tories of various kind., which mu,t eventually lend to an exclu-
sion of British maitufacorres, and thereby redder permanent
those evils which are at present emperienced. r.
'f hot your Petitioners cannot but contensplife.mielr the most
pointed sentiutents of disapprobation, the system of a licensed
trade with the enemy, by which a power of dispensing wall the
laws is anted in the Minister fur the lime Irate, and-has been
exercised, as yoer Petitioners humbly apprehend, to a MIMI
dangerous and Mitriniugestent. That the direct and immediate
effect of such measures is the increase of the •naval power of
our empties. the Irate-ferring the commerce of this country to
hostile or foreign traders, mut the encouragement of crimes
which destroy all confidence amongst denier(' Suites, and which,
when limited in their effects to these realms. are punished with
the most exesupinry severity. Your Petitiamers therefore most
humbly, but confidently, call upon your Hontitirahle House to
vindicate the national character, and to nark wills due repro-
bation a ss dein of intercourse, involving the breach of all mo-
ral obligation. highly dangerous to life ultimate safety of the
pantry. nod supposed by perjury, forgery, and fraud.
Your Petisimiers humbly conceive that these :and many other
esils would be done away by withdrawing the Orders in Coon.
cid ; thist such a measure by restoring a free intercourse, between
this country am:d n. weal States, world retiree the nation in ge-
neral, and the moo of Liverpool in particular, from great and
increasing distress—would open mid restore to our anuisafactii-
iers the most valuable markets which our country ever posses-
IA; would commute the shipments and importation of grain
and Moor, now su isidispewsibly necessary to the supply of these
islands; wound again afford employment to the Milo bum part of
the community ; and would, as your Petitioners are fully coo-
vinasd, be foetid a speedy and substantial remedy fir a great
part of our precut etifi; and-it security against those mach
greater calamities which app, ar to be rapidly appronching, and
which your Petstionrs cameo contemplate without sentiments
tooolarming to be expressed.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your Honour-
able House will take this subject into your immediate consider-
ation and will afford sour Petitioners such relief as your Ho-
sounhiellouse may In its wisdom thisik fit.

►riHE Hundredth. ANNIVLiVARY of the
JL ORIGINAL PROTESTANT DISSENTERS' CHA-
RITY bet:ool,, Shakespear's Walk, 'isolated in 17i2.--
Supported by voluntary Cm:lo4l'onm. The Friends of ancient
Charts) still Use together at City of ',nudism Tavern,
gishepsgate-sireet; on rIIURSI)AY, the 30 h of April, 1812,
at Ilalf-pait Four o'Cloch precisely. to celebrate the Hundredth
'ear deceits Institution.
STEWARDS.
Mr. Thon•a• J. Allen, Mr. John 'Jaws.
Mr. Rrilwi t Charles, Mr. Richard Lumley,
Mr. William Cuak, 1 Mr. Tablas Natl.,
Mr. Joseph Gandhi], I Mr. Andrew Pusan,
Mr. Joseph Fletcher, Mr. J. 11. Peacock,
Mr. Thews Holt. Mr. John Shines, •
Tickets to be bad at the Stewards ; of the Maumee; ; at the
School ; ,md at the Tavern,

I M ?ROY EhT34 al.e. •
IVA NTED to. Pimbiute IMPROVED RUNTS,
V arising from iliMsti let fibr a itrm of ,years to
/lige Tenants, Ground Reds, et Freehold Mums 1 kart

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Alio y to Mr. Whititelit Esilale-Ageol and Aadialagerr.lialdh
4r., Chambers, Threadneedle street, Landon.

10 MINERS. OR COMPANIES DEA LING •IN LEA Of
SPECIMENS of rich LEAD ORE to be viewed'
at Adam Marray'l., found .311 ihe Estate of a Gentleman in
the North, wbo is slesirom of agreeing with any Company
willing to vearrh for the same.
Particular§ may be lotown by npplicition to Adam Murray,
tiiirre)or and Land Ageni, 3, Pickett-street, Temple-bar.

PLATE GLASS COMPANY.
ITTE Public are informed, that a large Assort..
AL meet of PLATE GLASS Is now on SALE, at fixed
Prices, by Mr. ALEXANDER BLACK. at the Companfir
WaireIiouse,ALISION•PLACE,BLACKFRIARR-BRIDDS,
of a fine colour, superior brllliaocy, and of various dintethioar,l
from It Welter to 144 laclieslaleark, aced ham 10 in 72 inches
iu breadths also Loaves ats Coiscore.: Mirrors, from lt to 96
irwbes its diameter. ' fwd the same asattrhpAK aw be had, for
Country Orders, by told * te lit lir. William Foster;
tit Oa ,Manatartory. war Prat at, lotatibbise.
From Ilse great impraveatissit .4 late, yeah re ea Ulla Master
117ottrits
factory. It is now allowed OW the tiorisiourre Plates ate Iva!

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• IMPERIAL PARLMMENTr.
I101:SB OP LORDS, APRIL 9./L
to a Committee of Privileges, which sat only foil few mt-
: nutes, the further coraiderxtion of the cal s of the Borthwick
' and Roxburgh Peerages Was adjourned till Thithday.
After the llottse was reamed, their Lordihips proceeded IN
forward the Bills itptin the table.
TRADE TO INDIA. •
i Th^ Marquis of STAFFORD presented a Petit eft.
Lain ManuLeturers and tithers, of the town of W lio SW-
-1 furdshire, praying that the trade to the East lititat bet
lirotvn open to his Majesty's s ; bjects at large, &c.
. Petition to the like erect from the towa of Weitatitherf.
'.was Presettlaikcope of their Lord:hips.
, The Doke of rrwitoNstt ItE prosented one ferns the Mat
of Waterford, in.lreland, map use renewal of the Esst India.
Company's exclusive monopoly.
One ton similar effect from Wigan, in tarpttyirt, as *-
seated by the Eart of BA LCA BRAS. Theis mg
several; ordered-to lie on the table.
Lord likistsvittn *seated a Poitiouipsarthe ".*
Burgesses, AM Comatepters, farming the Corporatilla 0f fft2 Cite -
of Bristol, praying, for the reasints therein assigned: that (Ike
Lordships would nut consent su a renewal of the exclusive pOl.
vileges of the East India Complav, &c. The Petition was read.
at leng'h by the Clerk. Upon r. hid
Lord GRENVILLE said, that in rising to Move
that this Petition do lie on the tablg, he could not
avoid recalling their Lordships' attentidrt to what
took place on a former evening respecting the intend.:
ed discussion on the great National Question, tot
which the Petition referred. They were told it was'
intended to bring forward these disoussions at cm
early ensuing period this Session. They were all
agreed that the Question was not only of the greatest':
importance to the commercial interests of the coon,-
try, but involving, at the same time, some of jhe • .
highest interests on which the British Legislature'
could be called on to deliberate. This subject,.-great
and eitensive as it was, he held it would be utterly'
impossible, were they to confine tbemielrei Oren to
,the commercial part of the question, to dinar! if in'
a tit and proptr manner, such as its Importaltid rte
quired, in chat remained of 'the Session, -toe Odra
ject toss recommended to the attention of. Parliament
from the Throne at the beginning of the Session.
Four months had now elapsed without a moment Gf
time being bestowed upon iL : but now, when they
were told the subject was very' nearly ripe for consi'
deration, their Lordships were expected to remain in
the same state of utter inactivity with respect to it,
waiting until they should ree:•ive lessons from the
other House of Parliament on the subject, and. anal
it was brought before them in the shape of a Bill. A
Noble Friend'of his had suggested a mode of pro-
ceeding, in which the subject could be brought be-
fore both Houses of Parliament, where the function
of the one Hoarse could not be necessarily eielnded,
until the other branch of the Legislature had-taken
its final leave of the business; but a mode and sys-
tem of deliberation in which both houses could reci-
procally afford light and assistance to each other.
He trusted some one of his Noble Friends would
come forward this Session, and bring the subject be-
fore the House in the shape of resolutions, involving
the consideration, whether, on just grounds, the'
trade, not only to the East Indies, but to every
other part of the Globe, could be prevented from
becoming goneral, br confined exclusively to any
part of the Kingdom. In this train of discussion, he -
trusted, they all wished to see it ; and he again ex-
pressed his hope, that some Noble Lord would, were
it not done by the King's Government, bring-the
subject before the house in the shape of resolu-
tions. But this consideration was of great and fm-
mediate importance, namely, that it appeared from
communications which have gone past to the world,
though not officially made, and even from the avowal
of Ministers, that they were not tken now adequate-
ly prepared to come forward.. Lordship con-
cluded by moving, that the Petition do lie oh 'the
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table.

The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE averred
that his Majesty's Government felt and entertained
the strortgest desire, and the most determined reso-
lution, to propose nothing to Parliament, which
they were not satisfied in their own minds was, upon
this great occasion, conducive to the general inte-
rests of the country. Ilis Noble Friend and the
House were aware, it was a subject which involved
such a collision of interests; •and there could he no
intention on the part of his Majesty's Government,
as he bad taken the liberty of stating, to precipitate
the discussion of the measure. With respect to the
particular course of proceeding to be adopted, a va-
riety of opinions may arise ; but with respect to
those avowed by his Noble Friend on that head, he
would beg to look to what was his own conduct en a
similar occasion, while forming a part of the then
Government ? He surely would not pretend to Vats
that the subject was not equally important in the year
1793 to what it now was. At that time, his Noble
Friend discharged his duty in the manner he thought
most advantageous for the purpose, when he pursued
a course directly the reverse of what he now recom-
mended. He was sure if consistency was to be
found in any individual, his Noble Friend could not
object to the adoption of a similarcairse on the pre-
sent occasion.
Lord GRENVILLE begged to assure his Noble
Friend that in the present case, the very thing which
he had supposed he should not say, was What he
(Lord G.) certainly meant to say, and because it
was strictly true.—He must protest, however,
against any comparison of the, importance of the
question in 1793, and at the present period. At
that time there did not exist- that great, immense,
and extensive difference of, opinian*hich now evi-
dently existed. The question then
ittpt, whether it
were proper to continue for * Ittree "the sys-
tem then in existence. At present theldrcutgest dif-
ference was manifested, were it only, fromathe nu-
merous petitions and applications tie the Itiegislature
from every part of tP.e country. These who, on
ithe fortifier occislen, were of opinion that nb change
Ought to be ;sod*, might have cousibuoti the period

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