Star. — London, England, 1816-09-28 00:00:00

•i . • • PH ii4N+ qTRASIN G'ERMANT. - - -- - - • A Gersten Paper. the New. aileinannia. eisetteins Awe following judicious remarks on the apprehensions expressed in . many quarters of Germany on the in undation of that conntry yrith British manufacturers Sioce the yest 1806, there has !teens° much spoken, written, proclaimed, and decreed, against thezoinmet-, chit despotism of England, and against the-merehants cf the . Continent, who were said to be merely factors of the English, and to carry on all their business with Esiglish capitals, against the monopolizing spi. tit of the English commerce, that, as generally hap pens. with things that are often repeated. , almost every body begins so believe it; and now, when the Most dangerous enemy of the English is fallen, and the Rulers of his Empire seem devoted to the Eng lish interest, apprehensions upon this head begin to be more lively than ever. It we. express a view of the subject, we previously declare; that political measuies against foreign commerce are here wholly out nt the question; slick measures we mean as are, designed indirectly toe compel the attainment of poll ticlal ends. oil 'he reciignitien of certain principles, as for example was at least the pretendectobject of the Continental System. sa Whether such measures have a beneficial or ruinoes influence on inland trade and industry is here quite indifferent. The judgment on the propriety depends upon this, viz. Whether they are calculated to obtain the political ends ? and, whether these ends are worth the immediate sacrifices necessary to ob. tain.them ? In this point of view, Smith himself finds thh English Act of Navigation fully justified, which favours the navigation necessary for the de fence of Great Britain, at the expense of foreign trade, because security has the precedence of riches. But, even independently of these political ends, we readily allow, that in a country where matitilacturel. by means of high imporeducies, in entire prohibi tion of goodi. which might come in competition with Wei), hare been carried to such z. s as to em ploy a great number of l o nds, it would occasion very serious_ confusion and ice. nvenienCe if these limita tions were suddenly removed and the manufacturers ruined. We also that when certain produc tions of industry are subjected to duties in the coon-' try , itself,' it is also seasonable to lay a duty upon fo reign suticles co the sane kind. 0 Dut, mini: the exceptit n of these three cases. we ire nimble 1. , comprehend• how, according to the, principles of pouticai economy, the limiting of the consume von , if foreign goods (especially of the Eng lish, which are so distinguished for their cheapness,) by high duties, in prohibitions, can be justified.— He, is not the place, and after what has been said by class , cal writers on this subject, it would seem piesumptuoto to go into a minute detail and exa mination it the argument. We therefore confine . ourselves to proposing to our opponents the follow ing .“1/%IS t, in order to found or extend a new branch of industry, which is to be employed in the production of articles hitherto obtained from abroad,. 4-new capital is not required ? Whether, by the limitations of the importation of foreign goods, and the monopoly thereby granted to the nation against the foreigner, the capital of the whole social body is ;named ? or whether merely a new direction is given to a part Of it, all if it were forced by an artificial dam out of the channel in which it has hitherto flowed in consequence of a na tural, inclination, (declivity), in order to make it run In a sew one ? • a. Whether the fey circumstance that an artificial dam is necessary to direct the capital into this chair-, nel, and keep it there, is not the best proof that the ; one in. which it was before was far better adapted to the relations of the country. snore indepen-, and therefore more advantageous to the indivi. -deal *silo the public, than this new branch f whe _ giving a people cause to make themselves es iiele, which they migff have purchased at a &ewer rate, they are not hind.•red from increasing dicit *apical by that pan of their revenue which they ergold igr have spared ? farther the father of a family could be called predeat, who, in order to disburse as little money asl pessible. should think fit to have his shoes and clothes COQ made at home, wed neglect for this the labour, his own proper occupation'? Whether it would not be considered as highly' by prohibition or enormous taxation of West India sugar, to keep up theadmirable manufactory of sugar from beet-roots Hind Whether ii is not codify. though less glaringly. absurd, by stopping or limiting the competition, to impose on the coon try another branch of industry, which perhaps is not qyite so unnatpral, yet still is not conformable to the neutral relations of the country *ad its inhabitants ? .." Whether. since the great flow of money in Eng. Imed is a subject of calculation and lamentation, this Mosley doe:. not fulfil its destination as a means of *mai when it is sent to a foreign country for goods, (siet . gratis, in the form of contributions, donations, ice. j ; since it is with the produce of our men mines, drat is a native production, or most hive carne him . , feweign countries in return for our productions f 44 Farther. whether a system of commerce, winch If the proposed idea was attained. and all nations sitottld adopt the principle, that only rawroductions itould be imported, and only goods completely Iniebed be exported, puts an end to all trade, and einuequently to itself ?. 4 0 Whether, we say, such a system. can be the kht and true one?—Whether. supposing the oppo eke systim (that is, the freedom of commerce) to be acted upon, we may not -conceive that, as in civil lite, the various branches of employment are divided among ipdividuais, the swop thing might happen on a lager scale among the nations of the world, and etch choose that which was best adapted to its asso rt( talents, its acquired skill, and its situation, and easeequeadr furnish the productions of its industry at the cheapest rate, and of the best quality I in gee tweet. whetter we, the connecters, are made for •the producers, or they for its ? in other words, whether, are to consume, merely in order that others say efin produce, Of the ',Vale 1--bWheaser it is better to carry as a snide with foreign cipital, (in which the _excess of the gain above the interest turns le the advantage Hof the cosintry,) or no trade at all ?—Whether it is Ise apprehended that fiiteen millions of men tea. Tint 'kith the - whole world will combine to ilreee.,l Mionopolir.ing eleratioa or dcgoaraioa of Prises, like, P x , I , La ' 4 1 . i I • 8 I I • I three or ther bur nation. _ the cheapest on that bound to betty ? these questions impartially, and . , the his eye can the countries which enjoy a, political par dianship on trade and commerce, will renbtincit . hfa: fears, and will see, even in the'vrell knownexpeessios of Mr. Western, only the very natural .reasoniug of a merchant, at which nobody may have reastrto pe frightened except the proprietors of cerpriO Mannfae. tories, which, like hot-house .plante, cannot be-.9ye t l served except by an artificial warmth, but die amity in the sunshine of universal liberty of commerce.!*: SATURDAt, SEPTEMBER 'IR, 1816. TRICE OF VOCE'' THIS DAY AT TWEI.VE O'CI,OCK s Illesleced abut--Ososatte. Ali{ —Cats. I ace. 64 4 per Cent. shut..-9 pee Cast. Navy 9244 India Beads 611. 7a. pre—Exciseseer 800, ea. 48. Ps DISTRESSED MANUFACTURERS. • Almost every Mail from * the Continent brings, fresh evidence of the determination of other nations to drive British Manufactures entirely from their markets. From every quarter of the Netherlands, petitions are fl owing in to the Govern ment from the' different manufacturers, praying for prohibitory laws against the introduction of all products of British in dustry -.Stagnation of trade-want of employmeet, for their different workmen the danger with whisk the very etistence of their establishments is threatened, by their " enterpriiing rivals," are the principal ar guments employed to gain the ear of their Rulers. Can we blame them, will the commerce of the world is feuered and deranged by the ofeeis of *, system originating in barbarous times—while the, bulk of Statesmen, and even of Mercantile men, ate , so ignorant as to believe that trade eau be best pro tected, encouraged, and extended, by a system of re straints and prohibitions and penalties—Can we, while this system is generally acted upon, blame our Con tinental rivals for endeavouring to make the molt of the system, while it continues to be acted upon . In 'act, however true it may be that Trade would thrive better, end prove more beneficial to all, if evirry restraint against a free intercourse was entirely removed, it is equally true, that any State which would singly act upon this expanded system, while other States maintained their individual systems of exclusion, would entirely ruin the Manufactures and Commerce of their' respective subjects. The remarks, therefore, which weoffer from time to time on this gun tion, are not thrown out from a spirit or envy or jealousy; but are intended to turn the attention of those, who, from their official situation, their rank, their affluence, or circumstances of any kind, possess cootrouling influence, to a subject deserving the greatest attention and the deepest investigation. Till the real interests of general Comtherce be generally understood--till she other States of Europe shall be ready to abandon every selis4 system, it is incumbent on our own rulers to meet them by a system counteraction—.a system of self defence, calculated to defend and protect our own Commerce, our own Artisans, our own Agriculturists and Labourers. Of sll the evils which assail us at present from the heat , vely early , far .by . with those cotton manufactere, - vs can testif principal stippl, pt• another view peed not to escape the observatiot missists. Ou a very low 'cony obst beet data. the number of Ise Cotton Manufactures in the or the Cotton Spinners, tiOt ksi than 400,000. The di - jrsets paid In ordinary years, are oar obliged to take, is 10s. iv, by the reduction of wages AMA* of weekly circulation .sum which, by restorigg the tr: would be drawn principally from •Let the Government and our the evils entailed on Recent*. ofrodeste, on every thing that thy. by a loss to the country annum on one branch only of Oa thiAviculturalist this loss ilisitod weight; for it ioareases the 'it keeps doWn • the' prife of Cbrn consumptioi. To all this add the *grata& mentieg from the rapid consul going on of the capital of our Merchants, on whcrse establisht been expended, which can nevi. prohibition of the exportation of delayed. Already the Master such a state that if you ask a si of them ? he will answer, reSpecti of them-0 4 I dare not give them shall cease to give employment to the utter ruin of our own, till it be past remedy ; but only portntion of Cotton yarns, an soon be in motion, our poor cal on our laud owners, commerce public boythens will become co: the increased means wiaicb the for their payment. Since writing the -above wt man Paper (the New Allemannii merce, written with great te; which has shewa himstlf we? subject. We have given contend that the Cotton Mani that description which, in Gcrm, artificial dam to divert :Apital nel into a new source. l'his t. tand ifat,„. v s channel shish, works nacoasary, on our part, prevent the a back flow; and we maintain stay to accomplish this is by new Architects the entire mater which serves as the substratum Last nigbt we received the day. Extracts are given in a This morning those of Wedntsda , from which we subjoin some el By an article in these Journals Neapolitan Government has Island of Lampedoza, in perpcti States, in return for the spoil, Government. This cession; it be pleasing to the English, wilk such neighbours so close to Ma, derstand than that the cession approbation of our Government gine that not only our own, ' Powers of Europe would obi against' it. PARIS. SEPTEMI The Allied Powers, it seem. Knights of Malta to their , that they do not disturb the claiming back any of their possess, reignty of Maka and the loni, COURIER EXTRAORDINARY iak Count Alfred de Vaudrem (lentil, Peer of France, and has set out for NAples in qul Embassy. Gene: al Desaix aad Colonel tamed some months at the F' been set at liberty. They write from Smyrna Slivery lives very retired in has gene up to the desert wil Oa 'Thursday, the 19th ins storm suddenly burst on the onne—in less than an bout completely swept away by others were much damaged. four whiten perished. The Princes will imam& Champ de Mars, a getter; Guards in garrison at Paris MADRID, SEP', The Brazilian •Yrincesies great joy Cadiz, but it u reach Madrid. Lord Exmouth has announced t htßritidi Ainbasiader haw, . _ , .. . . • i . . • tit esei gtitearaida lb the r te lirri t Y Irs 4 e;:er s "Mel to .' ' —.' ' ' p•.•.•lt . ," 1 ' :7 N IC. At is comparatively r pure asiag the . ciitivi of indivy f ' ,'' . • -- - • --- ---- emailared totally enfit fn became we. - se long -ai it Ihrnishes them ' .;". - is rapest rate. call Gauge a political depen . ~... • • •, ~ .'''' N . . 9N. •• • , inset the case will t nation. a which;in reveriet °fits chief wow*, ia ~ ,_ ._ L... .* lychee of the cotton r to the Continent, and be ilangerous to •ar Ji •,b tiostAwrrAs.'slorro au 04 rrr """""! , dens of our Rtgiments e =. Pomo &c. --We hope that whoever will consi . fetalmi 'stored till Mender. •1' . ~_, *7 *try draw their prineipi uestions impartially, and at the maudlin cist _ a...A. - . —....1 r. Asr or arc WM? il 4g. 1816. Ilion is yet. :motile at thea — r"111i Period ofilf *. 11LICiId °loenif:l6fhel:frelPiihf27:ll:7 ; :eh t 6M°C.thed it ti h nii i neg et tt.'titC:l4 l llll:llllll.l.4lllll:ll4 : -‘l4 : tss Pation of P o li t i cal bO nputation, fou l r iv workmen empl oyed bi the United % n o wl u insei n .esfier n aren ß sam : delac r a e l s lnl i c: he l epe d i al s er i sy : bttaW o bew p n a pe Seinn t le:a a h lik r ill e e co rade to its proper gdit, ebs •om foreign con sumes. tt Lary n dh olders 10 millums Pa nt our national indus try , .irt is operates with ag gTa ; in the Poor 'ta ws , what of Corn by a tgloioatd • I ca 'don of e vil • d e af ..ption which ,ur Manufacturerse a d &menu millioes hei ie ret be recovered, it the • a of Cotton yarn bel les ' • Manufacturers are cc spinner what he ti l e s 1 setting the greater pet thl hem credit." Tdl ve tent to foreign woo; Pt n, the evil will halm tii y put an end to th e el. t nd all our learns vit e aces will cease to pros ni :e will revive, and rise P omparatively light, by eri community will obtain is e have seen, ib s Ca. at iia) an article on Coe. emper. the Author cf :ll acquainted with lb another column. Z 2 iufactuse is preciselyel fit many, must require* th 1 from its wanted eh*. very diversion of o- usel which, family, erte --i ent the evils of that the only effect withholding from de tow laterial (Cotton yin) • , a far their new fabric. s • : Paris Papers of Tuo a preceding coleslaw 11, ntsday came to hands extracts. nays it appears that dd a agreed to cede it rpctuity, to the Unita Dilations ef the fortat it is observed, may not rho will not like to have Malta. Are we to or ion will depend• on the Tient 1 We should law t n, but all the MATitied .1 A•ject to it, and prose, .MBElit 25. !ems, have restored privileges, on conditio se repose of Europe b/ possessions, or the Sou Ili an islands. sF Vt:BEINtSDAY NORMAL eitil, son of Covet Vie Governor of the Loarld talstfof Chevalier at net Favee, who were . dr Fort of 'e:Karelia, haul en the 12th of Aug**. n the country ; Lain with y intimille..• istant, at 5 P.m. a frights e small coin of Poo-ot ur twenty two houses vs .y the waters, ate aters,;uuredand .4 t d. w • sediately r Oi eview, • • :ray review of the g a r a and the enrituto. , TEMBER IS. 4 . :a have been received is Uncertain wino 111 0 ° ounced to the King esi, that .i 414011024451 FRENCH PAPHR S. PARIS, SEPTEMBER RC The Director and Comptroller of the Post 0164 c at Calais have been arrested. A paragraph from Vienna says-4 , The mairiase of her Imperial Highness the Archduchess ',Korot, MNI with the CROWN PIIINCI4Ant of Portugal and Brazil, will not be solemnized till April next, as the Prince cannot return to Europe before that time. It is affirtned that the present-Qateen of BRAZIL thinks of accompanying her son to Lisbon, to fiat her abode there." The great object, the ohjem which now imam* almost all minds, is the mission about to be fulfilled ' by the Electoral Colleges. • The enemies of die throne are working in all directions to influence the oleo ti,,ns. Let us hope that all good Fraichmen will unite to defeat their immune' ; for if they withdraw themselves from toe dreams, if the Deputies should be elected, as at many disastrous epochs they have al toady been, the abyss would again recall the abym, abrnss abysms ismer*. But it is not sufficient to , go and vote. The else.. tors must profit by the terrible lessons given by imp& rience, not forgetting to what a degree inconsiderate choice may compromise, not only the happiness, bit the renown of the 'country. They should be well cnnvinced of this truth—that it is their ditty to loot for honour, firmness of character, and good sense, the candidates ; and that little regard should be pail to wit and eloquence, unaccompanied by the more essential qualities we lave mentioned. In fine, it is necessary that the horrible conspiracy of 1814 hould be always present to their minds; and that, high , * their confidence to enlightened men, and the friends of peace, tt'i should give it, above all, to MC OM whose part conduct is a Aledgsfor their future/ally. • The English Papers are very barren sat polipcol news ; instead of which they are filled with, trials, more or less important, which have come on at the different Assizes. Crimes have become more com mon in that country. the success of Lord Exmouth is made a subject of criticism with some club orat ors. But the English nation, which is readily pleased with the coinage of its seamen, is exceedingly proud and ostentatious at finding, that after the victory Lord Exmouth did not add the least condition to :be treaty which he had offered the day before the commence. merit of the action. It is reported that the Di Se Pow at Csisii ben br for what reason. The soak of Viscount Chateaubriand was offered for sale on Saturday morning. At .four the Jags 41'181)&061in put hip seals en the printer's presses.' Yesterday the Duke of Ragusa had a private an dienCe of the King. The Marquis de Coriolis d' at first air pointed President of the District e of Pont Au. demur (Eine). writes to as, says the Awned titsillo. hies, that an unavoidable cause of absence alone pre vented him from fulfilling this year the functions with which the King honoured him last year. We learn from all quarters that there is a great deal of posting on the various roads. All the elec. tors are posting to their Colleges ; they wish to con. tribute to proper elections to the Chamber of Deputies. The European Powers not yet known to have ad hered to what is called As Hoff Ales are, without reckoning Turkey, England. f which, probably, caw not do so without the concurrence of Parliament). Portugal, Spain, and the Italian Powers. • ' They write from Naples, that a Neapolitan physt. ciao has lately found riot a native opium more eifica , dons than that of the East Indies, for which Europe pays such large MRS. A religious INSUIDIDt is about to be erected at Brotteaux, to the memory of the victims of the siege of Lois. ASSIZE COURT. Yesterday came en the trial of Claude Landau, charged with proposing an attempt en the leing's' life.--Augnsta Leblanc*, atvitttess, the Duke of If a gusa's servant, on mount of whose absence the trial, had been twice pet off before, proved by a certificate, of the domestics attached, like himself. to the Duke's' service, that indisposition prevented him tram taking. the journey.. The Court admitted his entails, and dispensed with his paying the fine of 100 fr.; but the eapenses of citation of all the witnesses will re main to be paid by him. Leblanc now deposed,. that on the ISth of Maybe met the prisoner and one Toe:saint, journeymen' cooks, in the Rue d'Argenfeuil. Lanclan, the pri soner, asked him what,be was doing 1 1 ass employed, replied Leblanc, about the King's plate. In that ' case, said Lanclan, you might easily put en his dishes some arsenic to poison him 1 Here thq priscr not interrupted the witness by shedding tears, and 'eaclainning, o This is abominable I Can you really say such a. horrible thing.?" Toussaint, the otherwitneas, was examined. kit preemie's/Ad in the testimony which he gave. After thsCounsel bad been.healti on both sides, the Jury, not believing the testimony, acquitted the prisoner. FRANKFORT. SEPTEMBER IA Iler of The intelligence from Turkey continues to mustiog the Jew who gives himself out for a new and whose object is to found a new kingdom of Judea. Some raw:: assert that it is a Frenchman who is concealed under this disguise. COLMAR. SEP rEMBER IT. 'Vise Duke of Velliegtoa set out this inenthsig for Ceroay. A smasher of Geqprals, itc. were present at the gaud to*esuvres which his Grace cowed so be masa* between Caney and Tbeisia. to esuploy their idle, is the one which deserves the earliest and deepest 0011 Ale iavestigation.—Are we ourselves aecestary to this state of things? If a given demand for piece•goods requires either here or elsewhere the work of a certain number of looms, it is obvious that that country which can supply the yarn is the one which should best be aMe to keep its weavers at work. But what is the fact ?—Britain spins the yarn, and foreign weaves manufacture it into clfrihs of various kinds; while thousands of our own weavers are starving for want of bread i Is not the remedy obvious? Prohibit the exportation of British cottonyarn , and the nations of Europe must buy your outran fabrics. We have taken some paint to • ascertain what rale of wages our Cotton weavers and others immediately eniployed in the manufacture receive weekly—that is, such of them as can find employment—and•from undoubted authority we can state, that the average, I at this time, does not exceed Su Before the export of our Cotton yarns became so great is it now is, the average rate of wages was from 12s. to tss. in ordi. nary years; but if we go back to the time when the capon of yarns was on so small a scale as not to ope rate against the demand for our Piecegoods in the Continental markets, we find that the average wages was then 21s. to 255. weekly. That the depression of the wages of cur weavers— the diminution in the demand foe Cotton said; ought to be staked to she cause we have assigned, namely, the exportation of our Cotton yarns is proved by the simple fact, that the spinners and t h eir work men feel none of the distress which now presses on this weavers: they enjoy a complete exemption from the present calamity. The journeyman spinner is now receiving weekly from 30s. to 40s. while the weaver, when so fortunate as to obtain work, is glad to receive less than a sixth-part of that sum. Does not this fact prove, that a dreadful derangement exists in our manufacturing system—a derangement which requires some strong and wise Legislative .measure for its removal? But this subject also deserves to be considered in another point of view. One spinner is able toproduce a sufficient quantity of yarn to keep twenty weavers ' fully employed. Does not this skew that the trade of spinning only can never employ more than a very small proportion of our population ? In other words you )ore' your weaving uncle, your population mutt diminish ; the demands for Agricultural pro ducts mast be reduced in the same proportion Land this mpst be followed by a defalcation in the public revenue, or in other words, , an increase of the bur , dams on a diminished population. Ift should - alsO ha considered that option if s-