The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-27
FOREIGN.
LIVERPOOL PETITION.

hlN TsNIOtJL FE N.
The mayor having declined to comply with
a requisition presented to him, "to convene
public meeting of the merchants & other
Inhabitants OF the town, to consider the pro-
priety of petitionIng his royal highness the
prince regent, to withdraw the orders in coun-
Gil of the Goth April, 1907 A petition for
that object, is now signing in Liverpool, foun-
dedon the following resolutions which accom-
panied the requisition to the mayor, and
which were intended to be proposed for the
appreciation of the meeting:
1. That the trade Of this country, its COM
mercial and manufacturing interests, have
been principal cause of the vast superiority
OF its power and resources above other
countries OF much greater extent and popu-
lation.
2. That our ancestors, to whom we owe
the foundation of so marked distinction,
convinced of this important truth, have gil
ven ample proof of their regard for the In
tercsts of the trade, by the numerous legal
provisions by which it was cherished & sup
ported.
5. That among these provisions, are to be
found various laws encouraging the import
ct the raw materials giving bounties on
the export, and prohibiting the import OF
manufactures and subjecting the cxporta.
ton OF some raw materials to the sevcress
penalties.
the most absolute proof OF the wisdom from
which they proceeded.
). That we view with extreme concern the
present depressed state of the trade & COM
Inerce of the United Kingdom which is
manifest in the extraordinary number of
bankruptcies with unprecedented dehcien-
cies /; in the want of employment for Bri-
fish shipping /; in the diminution of our ma
nufactures from the falling off of export de-
mand in the number of artiticers and Ia
porers destitute OF employ IL ehe depreci-
alton OF many articles OF property and a
Dove all, In the alarming incre ase, s. affect
igg sufferings oe The Door.
8. That the measures Of the enemy hav-
ing excluded us, in a considerable degree,
from the Continent of Europe, the orders in
Council issued in 1907, and continued in Ger
tam OF their provisions, by an order of the.
25th April, 1869, were intended to force a
commercial communication with the conf
hent, by the pressure of it's necessities ;
paruCuiarly by preventing the produce of
enemies colonies from reaching the mother
country through the medium of ne trials
z. mat these orders, which from their ma
ture could be considered only as an expert
ment, are, after a trial Of four years, Sd far
from having effected the object for which
they were issued, that the exclusion of our
ships, produce and manufactures from the
continent OF Europe is more complete than
at any former period.
q. That whatever different opinions might
have been formed of the probable success
OF these orders, there can now surely be no
dlfference OF opinion as to the extreme ha-
gard to its best interests, to which the Coun-
try would be exposed by their continuance
y. That the continuance of the orders in
council, instead ofrestoring to us any part
OF the lost trade with the continent, is ma
niiestly the cause of still farther curtailing
our trade, by depiiying us of the market oil
the United States of America, by far the
most valuable for the consumption of our
manufactures, which this country ever pos
sesscd, and which has been estim ated to
cause an annual export of British goods to
the amount OF at least ten millions sterling
10. That the orders in council are the sole
cause of the continuance of the prohibitory
commercial laws of the United States and
that, even II there were no such laws and
the orders were acquiesced in bv the Anne
IIcan government, they would, by deDrivinp.
the Americans Of markets for their ar,.icuIo
turai produce, have the necessary effect of
forcing their industry into another channel
ii. That thereis striking similarity be-
tween some Of the most powerful means by
winch our own manufactures were estab-
hshed q the operation of the orders in coun-
Gil on America The export of sheep's
wool from England was punished by death !;
the export on cotton wool from America to
the principal continental markets is now pu-
nsled through our orders in council, by
conhscatiOn and we know too well the ef
feet OF the one measure III England to leave
any doubt OF the effect of the other in Ame-
RIGA.
u. That as America can no longer be the
carrier OF produce between French colonies
ana the mother Country, the enemy being
deprived OF all his West India possessions
consequence Of the withdrawing of the or
ders IN council would be, that America. af-
ter exhausting by export her present limi-
ted stock OF colonial produce, would resort
to tins country for the supply of her own
consumption
u. hat the home consumption of coffee
anu sugar IN America being known, from the
haOits OF all classes of the people, tt, be
greater IN proportion TO the population than
~ any ether country, the supply Of that
market aione would be an almost iocaIcula-
bic relief Il secured to our merchants.
Il. That besides the lie nand for Amer;-
caA consumption. our colonial produce yonld
lro)a3y hod its way, in greater quantities.
y tue continent Of Europe, thronr,h the me-
aiuin q America which would still far
he benefit tne Interests Of our West I.,dia
Tade.
j.. TIA. renewal oftrade with the T..