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

TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM to Wit.

AT t COMMON HALL, or MEETING of the
Mayor and Common Council of the said Toon, held at
the Guildhall in and for the said Town, ou Monday the 30th day
of March, 1812,
Resolved unanimously, That the Common Seal of (hi,. Cur.
',oration be affixed to the three several Petition to the Prance
of Wales, os Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and to the Houses 'of Lords and Commons, which
have been read by the Town Clerk in open Hall, Copies of
which are berearirr aulloined, and that the Town Cleak he di-
rected in the name and by the authority. of this Corporation to
trrinsmit the Petitions to the Prince Regent and to the House
of Lords, to Lord Holland, our Recorder. requestice th it he
would present the saute respectively to the Prince of Wale, and
the Hall .e of Loids, and support the Pra”.r of the Petoi.m
with hi • vote in the House, mil that the Town Clerk do in like
mussel transmit the Pelition to the Howe of Common. to Da-
niel Ler Coke and John Smith limes. oar Representatises
in I'a'-,rocut, requesting their aid and nx.i.tasuce in bulynri

Copy or the Petition to the Paine Regent %hit+ ta since
been prr.en!ed to his Royal Iligkom by Lord lioilAtul, Re-
corJer of Nottloghntn.
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORfat PRIM-7
$7 OF
WALES, REGENT OF THE ITED 1IN61)0A1
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND HU:LAND.
TOE HUMBLE PCTITION OP TILE stAvna 4Nn twit-
CSSCS OF TIS tuty,i .41%0 COUNTY or TOE TOWN
OF hOTTI‘ LOIS St,

Shesveth, That your Peritioreer,, the Mayor and Burgesses of
the Town and Cowl) of the Ton n of N..ttin_ham, tieing deep-
ly impressed with the severe privation to which large masse. Of
nuomfaciuring Po it in their own immediate neighbourhood hose
lice. exposed, arising amongst other causes in the main from the
asu,t of on adequate demand for their tivonsfactures, beg leave.
with every Sentiment of resp••ct mud offeciisrs to approach y.,tir
R441:11 nighnus4, m the. Itepres.entatise of your Re, al Father,
most respectfutiv to tepreseuttoyuor Royal flightless, that sour
Petitioners are of opinion that the evils ueisiste from the (limi-
tsit,hed ilemnnd for 14/tish Manufactures has been considelably
segravated by the system adopted liv the present ruler of the
Ccetch Empire its restricting the commercial intercourse of this
KiiKdom with the Continent of Europe. and by the existence of
the British Orders in Council as they relate to America.

Under bitch circumstances, your Petitioners tenet humbly en-
treat that your Itnyal Highness would be pleased 141 adopt every
means within your power, compatible with your high dignity
and character as the Repre,entatiye of the Executive Authority
in the State, to relieve the trading and manufacturing interest,
of th s Empire from the heavy sufferings to which thcy are sub-
jected, and to open new facilities for the extension of the Cont.
mere, of these kingdoms, and to thisend we humbly pray, that
your Royal Highness would be pleased, if not inconsistent with
the honour and security of these Heaton, to repro' the British
Oilers in Council as they respect America, in order to ispett
the way to an equitable and honourable arrangement of the dis-
putes between this t ountry and the American nnent, and
to the restoration of commercial intercourse with that widely-
extenaded Continent. _ _

And your Petitioners o ill ever pray.

Copy of Petition to the Howse of Commons a hich has been
since presented to the Muse by John Smith, Esq. one of the
Representatives in Pattionient for this 'roan, n •itoilnr Pei
(ion having been presented to the Mese of Lords, by Lo: d

TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRI CAIN AND
IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
TIISI HUMBLE FCTITION 01 TUE 'SALVOR LAD BUR-
GESSES OF Tilt TOWN ASID COUNTY OF THE TOWN
or NOTTINGII AN,

Sheweth, That )(stir Petitioners are impressed wills the most
lively conviction that the trading and ennaufacturing interests
of the British EMpire are experiencing severe uttering, owing
to the system adopted by the present Ruler of the French Em-
pire, in restricting the commercial intercourse of this kingdom
with the Continent of Europe, and to the existence of the
British Orders in Council, as they urea our commerce with
America.

That many thousands of the labouring, part of the community
in our own immediate district and neighbourhood have, by
these means, been reduced to payerty and distress, and thereby
seduced to temporary acts of violence. to restrain w hie!' the
strong arm of the law has !P.m necesmeily exerted in the con-
viction and punishinzut of Or otknders.
That your Petitiotters entreat that your Honourable Ilonge
will, under these circumstances, take into your intea serious
considerntion the manner in which these distresses have been
itferensed by the tomirpob created in favour of the East India
ny Compa, by that Mintier which vests in theta the exclusive
right of trade and IVIV igialoll to all militaries comprehended be-
tween the ('ape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan;
and your Petitioners reque-t that pair Homarable House
would determine whether it he conror ruble In the principles of
justice, mid of a liberid and enlightened polies, that whilst
access to these regions should he anon ed by the Act of the Sith
year of his present Majesty to all nations in amity with this
conntry, all the subjects of the littlish Empire, not clothed
with the privileges of the East India Company, use excluded
I he refrous. .

That your Petitioners are extremely solicitous that all the
subjects of Great Britain nod Ireland without di tine, ion should.
tor the expiration of the prewmt Charter of the East ludic Com-
pany, be admitted ill a full participation inshe trade to all those
extrusive territories comprehended in that Charter, sour ',Ea-
Goners Wog of opittiou that such a measure would utliad em-
phis meat to many thou-ands of workmen in the ditlerent $13111111..
factures of these Li:l.:dims, at present r. disced to poverty and
distress t that it would create an additional nurser) for seamen.
and prove the means of Mereasieg the riches. the revenue, and
the natiecal prosperity of the British Empire.
• That your Petisioners. therefore. most humbly entreat your
Hoimunible House to take these premises into your most .erisius
deliberation, in deciding upon the further extension of the
Charter to the Honourable the East !AM Company, and to
ran( each relief therein to the subjects of this Empire, engaged
to trade and commerce, as the nature of the ease may appear 10
our Honourable House to require, aud as to your I lonourable
House may seem es pedient iu a matter of such seri..us Import.
mice to the British Empire..
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
thilered, That the Priiiiimo to the Pa ince Regent, awl to the
Houses of Lords and C 1111 l mons, be adverthed iu the Nuitioglorm
Journal and Review. and ill eucb of the Lundou Newspapers ai
the Mayor may direct. By Older.
GEO. COLDHANI, Toon Clerk.
Nottingham, 16th April, HO.