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and commerce of the British em- 
pire. : 
Your petitioners conceive that 
none of the ends proposed by the 
presegt war either have been, or 
appear likely to. be obtained, al. 
though it has been carried on at 
an unprecedented expence to this 
couniry, and has already produced 
an alarming increase of the na- 
tional debt, augmented by subsi- 
, flies paid to allies, who have no- 
toriously violated their solemn en- 
Zagements, and rendered no ade- 
quate service for large sums attu- 
ally received by them, and wrung 
from the credulity of the generous 
and industrious inhabitants of this 
island. ° 
Your petitioners, from their pre- 
sent view of public measures, pre- 
sume humbly, but firmly, to ex- 
press to this honourable house their 
decided conviction, that the prin- 
ciple upon which the war . appears 
now to be carried on, neither is ar 
can be essential to the property, the 
liberty, or the glory of the British 
empire. 
Your petitioners, therefore, ham. 
bly pray, that this honourable 
house, disclaiming all right of 
interfering in the internal concerns 
of France, will be pleased to take 
such measures as they, in their 
wisdom, shall think proper, for 
she purpose of promoting a speedy 
peace between Great Britain and 
the power with whom we are at war, 
Southwark Petition, 
To the Honourable the House of 
Commons of Great Britain in 
Parliament assembled, 
The humble Petition of the Inha. 
bitants of the Town and Borough 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
of Southwark, convened by pub. 
lic Advertisement of the High 
' Bailiff of the said Borough, 
Sheweth, 
That your petitioners, sincerely 
and awfully affected by a due sense 
of the trying and momentous cir. 
cumstances, under which they now 
appeal to the wisdom and to the 
feelings of their constitutional re- 
presentatives, the commons of 
Great Britain, in parliament as- 
sembicd, find it their bounden 
duty to give their opinion upon 
the present alarming state of pub- 
lic affairs, with ali the frankness 
and explicitness which the crisis 
demands. 
And, first, your petitioners freely 
and zeaiou:., declare their true and 
urshaken atcachment to the mo. 
narch on the throne, and to his 
royal family ; and their firm. de~ 
termination to support the genuine 
principles of this most excellent 
constitution, should any attempt, 
from whatever quarter, whether 
foreign or domestic, be made ta 
subvert it. 
In revolving, however, theevents 
of the present war with France, 
your petitioners, with the deepest 
concern, have observed that the 
uniform bravery manifested by the 
British fleets and armies, has, in 
no respect, advanced the presumed 
object of the war, and now, less 
than ever, .appears likely to at. 
tain it. y 
The consideration of the diss 
asters and defeats which have lately 
attended the unsupported efforts 
of the British arms on the conti- 
‘nent, is, in the minds of your pe- 
titioners, bitterly aggravated by 
the refleGtion that those allies, 
whose councils and resentments 
first 
