The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-11 00:00:00

AT. a MEETING of the several Persons coo.
centeil, employed. or interr.t.il iathe Building or Equq).
nyof EA'T IN DIA SHIPPING the PORT of LON-
Jael,l at iht: Cu) of Lindon l'alero, the 4th clay of

JOIIN ITEMS, Esq. in the Chair;
It was missed. Ch 0i1..., Hampden Turner, Esw. and second-
ed by !Await! Unroutrd, Esq. aad unanimous:, resqlsed.
Tara the persists moupositie tnis Ms-misty. lech cimsi•ts of
shiphoiltlets. skillarignts, Ship-chandlers. Msst,istaker, Block
and Pimp-makers, Roat-buil Chip-joiners, Ship-pittinhers,
Ilos.-p4i.aers 'tow GlaMem, SOlith3, Copper-smiths, Auebor-
Itope-makers, blilstitakers, Riggers, Ligharmen, W.l-
- mud of /111 other persons ctiurrnied, itioplated, or its-
ietered in the huildiug or equipment of East la
the port of London, have been loswougaged in swesnig sirsite.
seivral teaderawbovw .....Ma thud, amt. have Sir that purpose
cos-articled. bilk or msgiged large dents. manufutories, wine-
bnu.ev., storehouses, awl other premises, at a very eon-ideroble
expecte*: in various parts and ploces twae to the river Thames,
aithin the port of Loodon, turd have invested larr.,e capitals
the rim, anti engaged numerous workusrn to carry tot the
anti that a very iwporinat and consider:o3:e part of their several
censists, mid has for a series of years consisted, inn
titling out, supply bag. nod repairing ships and vessels in the
pm! of lon.loll, for the brat India and Chinn trades. •
That this Nleroing has perceived with considerable anxiety
and alarm, she various representations that have beets. made
from the our ports, preparaturs to the expected discussion in
l'arlian,mi upon the sot ject of the reuewial of the Dot India
C pui!,'s Coarter, with a view to edict the removal of the
intport and esport trades of India and China front the port of 1
lounlon, where it has been heretofore carried oat which cc.
VI 1.4.1111i11111114 this Meeting conceives to be grownded in a total
want of ex per tenet and knowledge of the subject in those from
a hoist they proceed, nod a Ito would in a lea year*, were the
tra:;es Ilauwu open, be thrunclics the victims of their own de-
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hat the beildieg, equipping, and supplyln•' East India ship..
ping wive. uader the sanction of the East India Company
t'icirters, been kung carried on in thr po-t of London to an ea-
t nt o Melt has tequired mid obtained sery large and expensive
cd dilishusents to conduct them is aloe 'moaner which trades of so
et -ei.•iye a nature require, mid that 'arse particular blanches of
-ear tr-ade, have in a very pa-ctiliar degree tended to character-
port of London to be, to it, n yid estalilishmetit, the most
esirmiye of any its thr known world.
I oat (hr removal 01 the Enst India and China (rides to the
Om-rots would urre-.,tily resider useless several of the very
11111:6,, manufactories, worehottees, storehouses. and other
and premises, which have been vomit tnied or eitgaged
,I„n; both side- of the river Tsiumes from London Bridge to
(ion •end„ and would. come-qua-oily, prove ruinous 10 the Jorge
eipit:.l.6 invested io the currying 011 the sevettil trades therein,
let Cie versos., composing the present Meeting.
ill the-removal of the time trades tat the out-ports would
we. warily prove ruinous to a very 11001E410P: and deserving class
of lit- Ma;esty's subjects ; namely' the several Workitiest and
Adis unemployed t:, these establishments formed upon the banks
of the raver Thames, whose families have been tong resident in
Cr incur, uud :latched to the sever..l places where the above
trides ale carried on, insomuch a, vet y many of them mast be
thrown out of certain employinent,or the great risk mad beamed
of tinting it au the out-ports s and It" the removal ref .1.111.1 e a
ehoo of the population from the sides of the rivet Thrones, the
property there, and also the trades conducted at or near to it,
matt sutler great injur •
Thm the removal of the trade wined therefore be attended
with certain and irremediable injury to the interests and pro-
perty of the persons composing this Meeting, Mal to the very
ouinerutts class of As tisans and Watt kitten in their employ, w ith-
out piodueing to Ilk* 11111i:11 at large, much lest to the persons
who seek to have the East India and China trades thrown open,
Ilion advantages which are so strenuously add forth, but so de-
lusively eoureived.
'not in a national point of siew,-it is extremely important
(bat the trade-to nod from India and C hina should ton he removed
loan the port of London, inasmuch as the building and equip-
oise/4 of the India shipping in the river Thames, concentrate
in ame•pot a immense, body of Mechanics, who have already
n node ral a...semi:it service to the naval power of the country, in
rams of emergenev , and who are always capable of affording
their trailed service at a few hours notice, iu case of troy great
wional calamity.
That it is more than probable. should the East India and
Chiba Trasies be removed from the port of London, the shipping
vmploied tlaerria would be of is small class, and wholly unfit
to be c, slurried Into ships of war, to the exclusion of the large
fio,v 01sulfsn hitherto employed in those trades in the port of
Lakin, and which sit different times have heel' called for. and
supplied an !aid of the national strength, at moments must critical
to llar ttelfure of the country.
Th3l this Warding, therefore, determines, ill defence of their
pr Iwo, and their several interests. that such Petitions shall be
wcomtid to Parliament us shall be agreed upon anal arranged
the Committee. porting that the trade to and from India to
Chi-. 4 may be cootineed as heretofore to the port of Lindon ;
mad that welt Petitions, w hen prepared, be left at such placer
for -gliature as the Coin& ;; itt ee•hdl Fee fit.
'I :..at the Members for the City of leind an; the Counties of
V-••cr, Kent. klialdleses' add Sorry: the-City of 1% estouinger •
tens to the Borough of Sastitlivi tisk, 'be requested to support the
P1.1.-er- of the Petitions nn Paliament, when the subject shall
Ic forward for discussion.
hat she Thanks or this Meeting he given to the Repress-Ma-.
tit n.a P,arlionient for Ow riot ct Loodtto and County of 11 id•
• for the great attention and lively interest they have
el •.01;',414 100 arth the stlij.et ad this Meeting.
'Ulm all com10114.1C41101;• 01109 10, !Object of the present Meet-
i- addressed to the Committee, under cover to Mr. Teas-
-11'.6 , Merchant s..iir.a.,r to the same.
Tied them Itesolutinms he published in such of the Morning
awJ i.veitiog Papers as the Committee shall see fit.
(Sag-gal) JOHN WELLS, Chairman.
•7"hu .Esq. haying left the ('hair the *lime was taken
'r Uharles Ilautpeen Turner, Esq. whereupon it was moved,
Et-saded, and totaasisono,lv resolved.
That toe Tiun.r, of this Meeting be given tat John Welbs Esq.
war the great interest he ha, taken in the important business of
Nat Mectis,z, and fur bit able will judicious conduct in the
I (S1.•11C i) C!IRItI.ES HAMPDEN TURNER.

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