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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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On March 23, 1797, the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of London submitted a petition to the King, lamenting the destructive war initiated by his ministers, criticizing attacks on constitutional liberties, and beseeching their dismissal to secure peace, restore credit, and preserve national happiness.
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LONDON, March 25.
The following is a copy of the petition agreed to by the common hall on Thursday:-
"To the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
The humble address and petition of the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of London, in common hall assembled, on Thursday the 23d of March, 1797.
"We, your majesty's most faithful and loyal subjects, the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of the city of London, in common hall assembled, approach the throne with deep affliction, and with the most awful apprehensions from your majesty's ministers persisting in measures which an accumulation of unprecedented calamities has manifestly proved unwise and destructive, immediately tending to pervert, and even to destroy, the acknowledged principles of our justly boasted constitution.
"We lament that, by the evil instigation of your majesty's advisers, these nations have been plunged into a war unparalleled in misery and destruction, which has nearly ruined our commerce, impoverished our manufacturers, depopulated our country, appalled the public credit, and widely extended the most flagitious corruption.
"We most deeply deplore that your majesty's ministers, abandoning the principles they once professed, have endeavored to prevent the remonstrances of your people, attacking the very vitals of our constitution, and depriving your subjects of liberties which their ancestors with so much energy "claimed, demanded, and insisted on as their undoubted right and inheritance," and which it is our duty to transmit to our posterity pure and inviolate, and for the defence and preservation of which, your majesty's royal house was chosen, and placed upon the throne of these realms.
"We therefore most humbly beseech your majesty to dismiss forever from your majesty's presence and councils, those advisers, both public and secret, of the measures we lament, not doubting that, by a change of councils, such measures may be adopted as will speedily procure the inestimable blessings of peace, and produce such a system of economy as shall restore the public credit and the happiness of your people.—But should your majesty any longer confide in such advisers, we are firmly convinced that they will completely undermine that basis of national prosperity and happiness, the reciprocal confidence of a sovereign and a free people, and inevitably destroy the boasted privileges, the internal peace, and the numerous blessings, that Britons have heretofore enjoyed."
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London
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Thursday The 23d Of March, 1797
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petition urges dismissal of ministers to achieve peace and restore public credit; warns of destruction of constitutional privileges if advisers are retained.
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The lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of London, in common hall assembled, petition the King expressing affliction over ministers' unwise measures that pervert the constitution, lament the war's ruinous effects on commerce, manufacturers, population, credit, and spread of corruption, deplore attacks on liberties and remonstrances, and beseech dismissal of advisers for peace and economy.