The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL .

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to the Honounittle the COMMONS of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND,
' in l'arliament assembled, • ,
th., ,ilitinhV PETITION of the urnlerx4,med INHABIT-
• ANTS of - pse TOWN and N LIbi(IBOURHOOD of
LI V ER POOI, •
SH ew era, •
• That in the year 1795, his Majesty, by the advice of hi
• then Ministers, engaged in a war ngainst France, for the
Oar!) Lae of curhl.tg the power of that country, and circuits-
..ocribirg lb limit..
That, hl the troseentiOn of the said war, various military
texpeditinas have.breaplanned and conducted, by successive
Administrations which expedition* have almost uniformly
' tailed lit ateninplishing the objects for which they were un-
siert ,kea.
• That is proof nf this assertion, your Petitioners beg leave
to call to the reeollection of your Honnyable House the Ex-
pedition to Flanders in the year 1793—the descent upon Qua
.. isi-ne liay is 1794—the Invasion of Milan!! in 1199—thg At-
• tack no Coostantionple in 1807-the Eireditinn to Egypt and
Buenos Ayres io the same yeat;--the disgraceful Conventiou
of Cintra—'the Canspaigit 11, Sir .John Moore In Spain—and
the Retreat of Sir Arthur Weliestiyr after the victory at Ta-
lavera, where he teßitio.iiiiiiindiiiniiiiiiid; to the mercy of
. the enemy. . . .
And they partienlaely iseg leave to tali to theirecolleetitra.,
of your flonmpthle lloatelthat his Majesty's preSent,Mials-
seri did, in July last, lit out an armament of a magninule
uttexaMpled in the annals of this Country, •far the purpose of,
taking Vie City of AittWerp, anti destroying the ships anti
stores which might be found in that von—anti that the said .
armament returned home without effecting the •object 4 6
equip-tom, and having its numbers miSerably thinned by so.
'disease, the certainty of the occurrence of which seems to
b*ve been known to every body, his Majesty's Ministers itiobe
• exerpred.
Your Petitioners farther beg lea**, An represent to your
how,„„bie 140,.....,., drat in considering the foreign•policy of
• Cr: aiiferent notoninistratin is who have managed the war with '
France, they find, that whereas, on our entrance into the
'. • 'nail weT, all the great Powers of Earope were in alliance
'with us, they are mew arranged on the, side of
,the enemy i
• sad, that the general remit of the present long protracted
. . limaitiii•s u,, that, notwithstanding the Most gallant exertions
on the pat of his MalesWs fleets nod armies, the limits of
France, 1.1.4ead of being contracted, are greatly extended;
1 innd that her power, instead of being checked, reigns para-
.: ,ut not threughonit Maoist the whole of Europe.
. • - • Your Petitiomers, moreover, beg leave humbly to state.
' that their Teolinponthe Uhnve-mentioned subject are ireall)
•- .• . r•AI toed by ItiC scandalous system of Peculation. which has
of late years been disclosed, and by the profuse expenditure
of public money, which has occasioned the grievous weight
of Taxation under which the nation now labours.
. • Your Petitioners do humbly conceive, that a long train of
' vaTsfqtuites, 411 e;) n' we have enuenera4rt, and the conseipient
.i.„,r,„:0„:, of the. relative streNtit, am! political influence of

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