The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

BOSTON TOWN MEETING.

On the 9th inst. agreeably to a notification for the purpose, a meeting was held in the town of Boston, to consider of the propriety of petitioning for an immediate repeal of the embargo. After considerable debate, the following petition was agreed to by a large majority:

To the President of the U. States.

The inhabitants of the town of Boston, in legal town meeting assembled, beg leave respectfully to represent:-

That uniformly influenced by a sense of patriotism and a respect for the constituted authorities of their country, they have sustained without opposition or complaint, the embarrassments and losses arising from the existing Embargo on the vessels and export trade of the U. S. and they trust, that the history of the revolutionary war, and the annals of the present government, will furnish ample testimony of their readiness to make any personal sacrifices, and to endure any privations, which the public welfare may truly require:

That they are fully aware of the indispensable necessity of supporting, at all times, the laws enacted by the government of their choice. Under this impression they have refrained from expressing the wishes they most sensibly feel for the removal of the embargo; and but for the great events in Europe, which materially change the aspect of our foreign relations, they would yet silently wait for the meeting of Congress, in the hope of obtaining from that honorable body, relief from the pressure of this great calamity, which bears with peculiar weight on the Eastern, states.

Denied by nature those valuable and luxuriant staples which constitute the riches of the South, they necessarily owe much of their prosperity, under the blessing of Heaven, to their own enterprize and industry on the ocean. It is therefore a duty, as well as a right, to avail themselves of every fair occasion which offers for procuring the removal of the existing restraints upon their maritime commerce, more especially when this may be effected in a mode consistent with the laws and policy by which they are imposed.

They therefore pray that the Embargo, in whole or in part, may be suspended, according to the powers vested in the President by the Congress of the United States; and if any doubt should exist of the competency of those powers, they would humbly request, that Congress may be convened as early as possible, for the purpose of taking this subject into consideration.

It was then voted, that the selectmen, in behalf of the town, transmit the petition to the President of the U. States.