The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-08-21
MISCELLANY.
From the London Coarier.
HOUSE OF coMMoNs-Junc 81, 1911.
Wecccrs' Petition.

The chancellor of the Exchcquer, advert
ing TO the dropped order for taking into con-
sideraloh the report Of the committee of the
Weavsrs' Petition dropped in consequence
OF House not having been made on Thurs.
day observed, that however the House
might despair of rendering any benefit to
the petitioners, it would not be treating them
with due attention TO take up the subject at
present, when perhaps, there were members
absent who were cesirous of delivering their
ssasanasnts upon II. He proposed, therefore,
that the report shouId be taken into oenoi,icr-
alton on Monday next.
Mr.. Whltbread expressed his regrct that
he should not have il in his power to be pres.
cnt on Monday. He thought that the ques-
tion, for the discussion of which he had pre-
pared himself, might Immediately be pro-.
ceedcd with, the more especially as 1t was
evident that no relief could be afforded. He
was about to proceed with some remarks on
scbjcot which he stated to be intimately
connected with the prescnb when
The Speaker interrupted, and said, that
the question before the House must be dis
posed Of.
The further consideration of the report
was then fixed for Monday.
AMERICA.
tions with respect TO the report OF the COM
mittec on the Weavers' Petition. He was
quite convinced that that report was proper
one, and that no measure, particularly one
OF pecuniary aid, could be adopted fer ,ha
relief OF the sufferers. To attempt such q
mode OF assistance woulG be TO throN water
on the furnace, the necessary CONSEQUENCE OF
which would be TO increase the fercentss OF
fane. bel feel a..
question was not one in which the Wea,erg
alone were concerned, but that it involved
the commercial community--leeling that the
weavers were but the heralds of the manu-
facturers, and that the manufacturers would
be but the hcralds af the observation-disclosures
ing that the whole trading interests of tho
country was in tho utmost dismay--hayipp.
heard that the strongest representations OH
the subject had recently been made to tho
right honourable gentleman opposite, by tho
Merrhn'ns nf liz pool, by the merchants of
London, BY tho Wcst-India merchants, and
by all connected with these various branches
OF commcrcc--knowing the very uniayoura.
bic state Of the exchange with foreign coun-
tries--having observed the avidity with which
the publick, catching at a straw, interpreted
an accidental remark in a late speech Of tho
right honorable gentleman opposite into an
expectation OF an approaching aecommoda-
ton with Russia, and of consequent vent for
British manufactures and produce to that
country--hnowing that the cxpedient resort
cd TO Of issuing cxchcquer bills, as a loan,
to~ the relief Of commerce had failed, none
Of those bills having reached their desired
objects, the operative manufacturers, he could
not conceive ii possible that the House could
be blind to the difficulties OF the situation i'm
which the country was placed. The report
oil the comnltee, although il dcpreta,ed,any
pecuDiary aid Gn which depreciation he COM
pleteIy concurrcd, fully acknowledged the
extreme distress oi the petitioners. Persuad-
ed az ne zcas that all this distress 7oas fhe cGecs
Of tie ruinous commercial hoHcy which had
been Inrsned by Ministers. Ii would have
been impossible for him, had il been in his
power to attend on Monday next, not 10 en-.
ter largely into the consideration Of the SUBJ
Ject. 1t was impossible for the house TO con-
ceal from itself that there was u growing dis-
position IN the country--a disposition which
hc confessed his regret that any administra-
ton should be exposed TO to make that
compulsion OH government which ought only
to be optional. Still, however knowing that
all the markets for English commodities
were closed against them having Observed
fhe .fral adjudication Of tie tase u Me For,
by which adjudication the scabbard zvas Mrozun
Gscay by fhis country NTH reference TO .5mtri-
eai rerarking the manner in which the
commercial relations between Great Britain
and /,merica had been treated by Ministers 8
haIing in his hand the documents Ministers
had REUSED TO produce, and which had Since
been published in America, comprising the
Jiplomstick correspondence between the tive
countries and seeing in that correspondence
the most gross and wanton neglect Of the
true interests Of England, he declared 1t to
| be his intention before he sat down, TO niove
| for the production ef all the haaer, he was
convinced it would appear to the house tho'