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system of perpetual warfare casts on nations professing our pure and holy faith , and its utter inconsistency with the whole spirit of the gospel .
That as those to whom life and immortality acerevealed , your petitioners are taught to connect this world with that which ; s to come , and hence are filled with serious apprehensions that , while the licentious influence of war
on public and on private morals has rendered multitudes less nt to meet the eternal judge , the sword has hurried them to his awful tribunal .
Your petitioners ^ therefore , earnestly invoke your honourable house to regard the multiplied scenes of public distress and silent suffering " , which are e , ver occasioned by war , and w ^ ich , at the present hour , the voice of misery arising" from the habitations of millions , more forcibly describes than any
representation which your petitioncts can give . They therefore respectfully intreat you to employ every means which the wisdom of your honourable house can devise , and which Christianity and humanity alike imperiously demand , for the speedy restoration ot Peace . And that your petitioners bear
leave to assure your house , that the peace which they contemplate is not such as shall surrender any of the just rights of Britain . Her liberties and independence are the objects nearest to the hearts of your petitioners ; and it is in the spirit of a pure ^ disinterested , and generous patriotism alone , that
they prefer to your honourable house their fervent prayer for the restoration of those blessings , which only peace can confer , and which your petitioners can never cease to urge on the consideration of your honourable house , by every mode which the constitution of their country has made the birthright of free-born Britons .
7 . That the Petition lie for signatures at Mr . SUenton * s counting-house , opposite the Exchange . 8 . That Samuel Smith , Esquire , and Thomas Babington , Esquire , the representatives of this borough , be requested to present this Petition , and that they , and the members for the county , he solicited to give their support and influence to the same .
9 . That the conveyance of the public opinion to the legislature , in a respectful and temperate manner , is constitutional and highly expedient ,
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and , so far from endangering the public tranquillity , obviously and unques * tionably tends to prevent the evils of sedition and disorder . JO . That the thanks of this Meeting are due to the thirty-one gentlemen who signed fheunsuccessful requisition to the Mayor , and to those gentlemen who have called the present Meeting .
11 . That the proceedings of this Meeting be advertised in the two Leicester papers , the Morning Chronicle and Courier London papers , the Nottiugham , Stamford , Northampton and Birmingham papers .
12 . That a committee be formed to carry the resolutions of this Meeting into immediate execution , consisting of the thirty-one gentlemen whj signed the requisition to the Mayor , any five of whom sha . il be competent to act .
13 . That a subscription be opened to defray the expenctis of this Petition , which subscription will be received by Mr . Joseph Nmmeley , r * t the High Cross ; where also a copy of the Petition wili lie for signatures . 14 . That the thanks of this M ^ etinor be presented to the Rev . Thomas Mitchell , the Rev . Charles Berry , and to John ftyley , Esq . for their appropriate and animated speeches upon the
occasion . 15 . Thai the thanks of this Meeting be presented to Walter Exuding-, Esq . and to J , E . Carter , Esq . for their handsome letters and the support they have given to this Meeting . ( Signed ) JOHN COLTMAN , Chairman .
Mr . Nunnely having taken the chair , the thanks of this Meeting were unanimously voted to Mr . John Coltman , for his impartial and upright conduct in the chair . ( Signed ) JOSEPH NUNNELY .
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Peace . — Petition from Warwick . 73
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VOIi . VIII . I .
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Petition from Warwick , To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , in Parliament assembled , the humble Petition of the Burgesses and Inhabitants of the Borough of Warwick :-
—Shewethy—That your petitioners beg leave to represent to your honourable House the pain with which they have contemplated * he numerous and complicated evils arising from the present widespread and long-protracted war ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/73/
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