Meeting of West India Merchants, London

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At a General Meeting of the West India Merchants, the Chairman produced a Letter which he received, signed by several gentlemen of the West India Islands, of which the following is a copy:

SIR: The very alarming situation in which the West India Islands are placed by the late American proceedings, induces us to apply to you, as Chairman of the Society of West India Merchants, to request that they will not come to any resolution, as a separate body, at their next meeting, but that they will join with us in calling a General Meeting of the whole body of Planters, and West India Merchants,

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John Pennant,
Charles Spooner,
Thomas Storer,
Peeke Fuller,
Samuel Vaughan,
George Chandler,
Michael McNemara,
John Trent,
Montague James,
Samuel Torr˙ James,
Nathaniel Phillips,
John Davis,
Charles Fuller,
Rose Fuller,
Flo˙ Vassell,
John Ellis,
J˙ Kennion,
Neil Malcolm,
Philip Gibbs,
Thomas Walker,
William Gunthorpe.

To Beeston Long, Esquire, Chairman of the Society of West India Merchants, at the London Tavern.

In consequence of which it was Resolved, That this Society do very cheerfully concur in opinion with the gentlemen Planters, that we ought not to come to any resolution, as a separate body, at this meeting; and do also readily join in calling a General Meeting of the whole body of Planters and West India Merchants.

And having been informed that the 18th of the present month is a day recommended by the subscribers to the above letter as proper for such meeting, it is further Resolved, That immediate notice be given in the publick papers, that such General Meeting be called and held on the day aforesaid, at the hour of twelve, at the London Tavern, in Bishopsgate Street, then and there to deliberate on the measures necessary to be taken for the preservation of the general interest of the West India Islands in the present important crisis.

JAMES ALLEN, Secretary.