The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-04-12

FOREIGN.
o. Received by the Macdonough
RELEAST Ian 81

BELFAST, Jan. 81.
COTTON TRADE.
numerous meeting of persons interested
in the Cotton Trade, was held at Glasgow on
the Goth inst. The Lord Provost being cal
led to the chair, the meeting took under con-
alteration the state of the Cotton Trade, and
the propriety of petitioning Parliament TO
take OF the tax on cotton wool, imported.
Among the resolutions adopted, were the
following
That this manufacture is not only of local.
but OF great national NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
very large capital, and supporting very
numerous population.
That this manufacture has attained its pre-
sent extent not only nncl.erished By haaa::es.
out retarded by taXation--a policy, which
nothing but the pressure of war, and the alb
sence OF foreign competition, could iusti-
fy.
That, during the continuance of ,hostil;
ties. and the operation OF the system which
excluded our manufactures, this branch made
RAPID progress oil the continent, which will
be still farther accelerated by the RESPITE
from war, and the return of national indus
try.
mat 1T IS not only On the Continent of
Europe this manufacture has arrived to such
an extent, but even in the u. States of A
merica, where the raw material itself is pro-
duced, not less than from four to FIVE hun
dred thousand spindles, of the most approved
construction, are at work whereas, in the
year l1S5, there were oaIy three thousand ::
and ABOUT eighteen hundred & eight, twenty
thousand ana that it is ascertained, from
late q authentic Sources of information. that
the wages OF labor for vonra people who form
the principal class employed i'm cotton facto-
res. very little exceed those which are ma; III
III this Country.
4 nat under rivalship already so power
tui, and which threatens to supplant the Cot
ton Manufactures Of this country in foreign
markets, II is ineiispensibly requisite to remove
every political restraint by which its progress
Can be inpeded
That the tax a. present existing on the i'm
Portauon OF cotton woolbeihe at tue rate of at
least 70 per Cent on the first cost of the coar.
ser qualities, when imported in British YES
Seis' ana 3opef cent. in American bottoms
has contributed, and will now more than
ever Contribute, to establish this ,Issdyan-
tageous competition, by aftording the Cnnti-
mental and American manufacture this high
premium TO bring forward cotton fabrics sim
mar 60 those which have been hitherto sup
pied by this country.
nat, OF the capital invested in this branch
OF traae, not less than 10 millions have been
sunk IN tie erecting OF buildings and machi-
merry winch are unconvertible TO ny other
purpose; and which, III the event Of fai
lure or the manufacture, must be irretrieva-
bly, lost
mat, IN the opinion of this meeting, any
drawback on cotton goods exported, is. i'm
the i1rSt placss irnpracticable in point of ope-
ratlon' and, In the next place, would be in
suihcient IN point of influence, as it would not
place the manufacture ON fair equality with
rival branches at home.
mat, under these circumstances, and
a dec led r. =
the danger OF such a tax, this meeting consi-
der IT. their imperious duty to use every con-
sutntional effort TO obtain tie repeal of a
measure which, if Continued, must ultimately.
tho inPercephbly. SuDteFt this gfrat and
beneficial branch of Commerce.
nat petition to the House of Com
mons Tor this purpose, be prepared & trans.
mitted, IN order that 1t be presented early af-
ter the meeting Of Parliament
LONDON. Jan. IL.
Great reliance isplsced in the best inform
| Ell circles IN tie statement in the latter part
| OF our publication OF Yesterday, intimatinp
that the Congress at Vienna had broken up
| and that Lord Castlcreagh was on his ret,r,
TO lnSland, IN consequence OF the declared
dettrnlndtion cf Prussia and Russia to kecr
| possession, the former of SaxoIv, and III;
latter OF Poland by force OF arms. If Il
should he found necessary. The advice,
] from Vienna, almost ever since the mcetius
OF the Congress, have constantly infornef
us that The discussion turned principally upor
Saxony and Poland, the settlement of which
there IS reason to think, would form IN,
| tunddineIaal points in the basis OF the gene
raj adjustment Of the new European system
| otpowcr aud politics. In these discussions. i
mas been Ton some time understood, tina
| Great Britain, France and Austria, were n
nited ~ effort to rescue SaxonV from tn,
grasp Of Prussia, and 20 secure her indcpen
dence, and aiSoto prevent Poland from being
arbitrarily made a province Ut Russia, or
dependent kingdom, which is but anothe
name for Il eTovince.
The adviccs from Wen, Of The Cd inst
N the French papecs received Yesterday, in.
form us, that Lord Castlercagh had present
ed note, insisting, in the name ofhis Court
That the points most essential to the gener
al Interests siiould DE settled before the iii