The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-01 00:00:00

AT tt MEETING of the principal lohabitank; of
the Borough of KIDDERMINSTER, hi the Coil of
Worcester, held at the Guildhall la tire said Borough, th tk
day of April, ISM,. to take into consideration the prop of
addressing his Royal !Highness the Prince Regent, and P
ing Parliament upon the distressed stale of the_ present
pbrsunnt to a Requisition addressed to the !light fottnat
purpose,
JOHN NEIVCOM 8, Esq. High Buiisf, in the Chailk
It is unanimously Resulved.
First... That a Petition be presented to Parliament upon the
present distecsw•d state of thecoutory.
Fecund---That the Petition intw read and subjoined he adopted
nod ,;ngeri, cil ; and that it do lie for .Ignsitures at the Guildhall
tip leo o'clock on MionJav looming ties%
Third—That the Hon. V. B. Lyints. rind the I!nn. W. H.
Lyttletort the Represciaotiics for Ow Comity, be reguesied
to
present hoe Petition to the !louse of Common, and to give it
their iblippott.
Fourth—That the following Centlpmen he nimin ,ted a Com-
mittee to curry the some into r, t, rtes fl.. High Naiad'.
lienry Perrin. Eat. J."—T,...3 ;".ssi,. Willman • ;,er, Esq.
an* ftivhant Wilson, Vq.
fifth—Thot the Resolutions be signed by the Chairman.
(sig;tedl JOHN N EWCONI R.
The Chairman hating left the Chair, ;aid the same having
been taken by Henry Perrin, EA.
It is tomnimoosly Resolved,
That the Tliaoks of !hi, Meeting he given to the High Bailiff
for his readiness in calling the Meeting, and for hid conduct in
the (taly. (Signed) HENRY Piiit
TO THE 110NOURAIILE THE COMMONS OP"rFiE
KINGDONI OP' GREAT ISIIITAIN AND
IRELAND, IN PA Iti.IANI ENT ASSEMBLED.
THE RUMBLE PETITION OF THE GENTLEMEN, FREE.
DOLDERS. NIANr FACTLWERS, AND OTHER IN If ARIT-
A NTS OF THE noorscrin AND NRIGIIDOERHOOD OF
KIDDF.II.IIIIASTER, In THE COVNTT OF WORCESTER,
SHEWEITI,

That in the exercise of those inestinsaLle rights with which
the Coostitution of the Country has invested them, your Peti-
tioners mast te-peetfully apprnoch your Honourable Iftinse. ou
subjects of the highest imp atosiee to Ito it national nod indivi-
dual welfare. Ia the in-motion of your Authorities they he-
held that link winch unites them to the Throne: and to you, as
• Represent:lilies of the People, they dimes their confidence and
expeetatioto. Your immediate coluoev ion with those whose
soffrages have entrusted to you the preservation of their irate-
' rests, naturally leads them to look to your sympathy fur -
miseration, to your wisdom for direction, and to your measures .
for redress. They would therefore slate, with respectful soli-
mission the tircuinstances and wishes to which they would
claim the attention of your Honoursitile House, mid whirls, they
are persuaded, w ill be found to prevail in the rase of a great.
majority in every part of the united Empiie. Your Petition-
' era (residing in a town and district than which none in their
County ranks higher in manuiacturing importonre, and hut one
in population) possess the means of acruratelv observing the ef-
fects of protracted War and restricted Commerce. In illustra-
tion of these effects, they atould oilimit to the attentive consi-
deration of your Honourable House the high price of all the
necessaries of life,—the multitudes of the lidsouriteg elan-es of
the community thrown out of employment,—the consemeent
difficulty, if not impossibility, of their obtaining honestly and
without parochial aid the means of bothibtrace—and the too
well founded anticipation of comequences which (by adding to
physical, moral evils) must prove still more calamitous twill to
the individual sufferer. mid to the Country at large. In thus
adverting to the peculiar distresses of one particular class, your
Petitioners would by no means have it inferred that they are
the only sufferers. At must be obvious to tour Honourable
House, that the utipreeedentod number of failures and beak-
rupteies in the higher departuseuis of commerci ii society, mut
aft its descending gradation., are immediately owing to the
mine 4 &uses a hieh in their ultimate' but severest, operation ef-
fect the Isibourer and War (and especially when
conducted on the pi inciples of that in which we are at present
involved) being mire injurious to a commercial tuition like our
own than to one which possesses within itself greater physical
resources. your Petitioners proy that your II iiiiii onside House
will du all that in you lies for the attainment of an honourable
Peace. Hot if this great and truly desirable object prove at
pre-ent unattainable, sour Petitioners rill still feel an anxious
solicitude (*solicitude which has increased with each succeed-
ing day's experience) that your Honourable House should give
due uttenflon to the importance of public economy, and to the
remittal of all obstuelni in the way of 'Commercial iiiterenurze
with neutral siatioos. Excluded as this country is, in a great
degree, from the European and Ameticao markets, the iseces•i-
ty sufficiently obvious of widening every reinwitting chamwl
fur the free employtneut of the commercial capital of the Em-
pire I your Petitioner,. therefore, most earnestly entreat of your
Honourable !louse run to allow of any prolongoti iiii to the pre-
sent.term of,that great national grievance, the East India Mono-
poly ; but to resolve that, on the principles of a liberal econo-
my, the adiatitages of that trade shall be enjoyed by the nation
.at large, n idiom exclusion or limitation. Lastly—Before the
et its w hick now press so severely un the various classes of the
community arc extended and multiplied in a degree foto the
cumemplatin of which in its various aspects the mind revolt:,
your Petitioners beset-cis of your Honourable House to investi-
gate the causes,—to a-certaia efieetual means of rounteracti iiii
,-
nod, from motives of humanity, of policy, of patriotism, and of
i justice, to administer the appropriate remedies.