APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
first engaged us in the. contest, 
have wrung, from the credulity and 
confidence of the generous and 
industrious people of Great Britain, 
large sums of money, for which, 
in violation of all faith,’ no ade- 
quaie service appears to have been 
performed, or attempted. 
In the events of a campaign, so 
unparalleled i in calamity, your pes 
titioners, among other fatal conse- 
quences, perceive a large addition 
to the existing national debt, the 
speedy diminution of which has 
been long held forth to your peti- 
tioners, and to the country, asa 
measure indispensably. necessary to 
the maintenance of the constitu- 
_tion, as well as to the credit of 
Great Britain. 
Under the increasing pressure of 
such burthens, your petitioners are 
convinced, however highly they 
are disposed to estimate the forti- 
tude and loyalty of all descriptions 
of their countrymen, and how. 
ever readily they admit the tem- 
porary advantages which both the 
general commerce and the public 
funds of this country may have 
derived from the terrors and ca- 
lamities of other nations, that the 
consequences of -persevering in the 
resent destru¢tive war must tend 
rapidly to depress and ruin the 
occupations of useful labour, and 
profitable industry; and ultimately 
to destroy the only true sources of 
the nation’s power, our trade, our 
commerce, and our manufactures, 
Under this impression, your pe- 
titioners are compelled to turn 
their thoughts most seriously, and 
eagerly, to the only real remedy 
for the evils they apprehend, 
peace ;—for in the tranquillity, the 
civilized i intercourse, and the com- 
mercial prosperjty of the surround. 
toy 
ing nations of Europe, your peti- 
tioners conceive the commercial 
interests of Great Britain can alone 
find their interest and support. 
In the pursuits-of vengeance or 
ambition, in wars and camps, in 
desolation and blood-shed, even 
were the contest attended with 
temporary success, the result to a 
country, circumstanced as this is, 
must be national bankruptcy, and 
ultimate ruin. 
On these grounds your petition. 
ers humbly, bur distin¢tly, pray, 
that your honourable house, dis- 
claiming every pretence of right 
on the part of Great Britain, to 
create or correct a government 
for France, and disregarding what. 
ever is or may be the title or con, 
struction of the ruling power, 
which either does, or may exist in 
that country, will earnestly adopt 
the most effectual means for re- 
commending an immediate nego. 
tiation for peace, on terms con. 
sistent with the honour and secu- 
rity of the British empire. And 
your petitioners further assure your 
honourable house, that if, contrary 
to the hopes of your petitioners, 
motives of inordinate ambition,- 
or of implacable resentment, how- 
ever rashly and improvidently ex- 
cited, in the mind of the enemy, 
should render it impossible to ob, 
tain a termination of hostilities 
upon safe and honourable terms, 
your petitioners will be found 
among the readiest of his ma- 
jesty’s loyal subje&s, to stand for. 
ward to the last means of ex. 
ertion, in defence of their country, 
or to perish with its fall, 
And your petitioners will ever 
Pray s 
[Variety of other petitions to the 
fame purposes, which were echoes of 
the 
