Star. — London, England, 1816-12-20 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL• intusssi.s, DECEMBER la. They write from Ghent, that on Sunday last the custom-houses on the frontiers had received orders te. deliver no more passports (pOrrayans) for the ceps, Union of corn, and that on the following day several waggons loaded with corn going to France had been stopped at Hallewyn. We learn from Tournay, that within a few days p it several French deserters have arrived. The merchants of Namur have addressed a petition to the States.Generaf, in which they allege a number of arguments to prove that the law only affects salt not yet imported, and cannot reach that which is al ready warehoused. They apply the same reasoning to the other articles subject to the tax. The Antwerlt I.urnal contains the following article rei.itive to Spanish commerce: The Consul of Spain in Belgium Worms the me: chants. that the King having heard the report of his Council of Finances on the total influence which the sale of foreign cotton goods has upon agriculture and commerce, has ordained—. " ARTICLS 1. The knit term for the sale of forelgn.wove Caton Goods, legally imported, is fixed for the cod of Deceits bet, 1814. " 2. This Article regulates the formalities to be observed for this sale, preceded by the stamp, which must be affixed to one mod of t he piece, and which is to be sold beginning at the end • lt marked. a iration of the term for •i I. Goods not declared before the exp the sale, shall be confiscated. • "4. There is granted, after the te rm fixed for the sale, de. lay of three months, which will expire on the 31st March, 1817, In order to make arrangements with the Philippine Company, or tar the exportation of the goods. " 5. This Article prescribes the formalities to be fulfilled at the Custom-house after the time fixed for the sale. " 6. Cooformably to the lOth Article of the Royal Schedule of November 6, 1802, shall continue to be prohibited the impor union of cotton goods, white, painted, or printed; cottons mixed with thread, silk, or wool; the cotton iles (ilabels), striped blue and white muslins (eitatellas), caps, bonnets, gloves, stockings, snittons,ermes, and under•waistcoatsWids), knit or wove fringes, ealoons, ribbons (rather bindings probably), chenelles or cords, Imps, brandllinp, gauzes aprons, bei•quilts, flannels of cotton and wool, and all other si milar gdods. " 7. This Article fixes the measures to be adopted sesint those who violate the preceding Articles. 8. ibis Order alms not affect the privileges granted to the Philippine Company, which were ratified October 3, 181 4." BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 13. Some persons in this city interested in the Swedish loans having applied to the banker of his Swedish Majesty at Amsterdam to obtain the payment of the interest due, have received the following answer : 44 AntsterJans, December 5,1816. " SIR—We answer the letter which you have written to us by informing you, that of the claims (wow) ea Sweden, all thi documentary titles to which must be delivered on the SIB of the present month in our bureau, under penalty of being deprived of all right. Oue-third of the principal will be repaid, and the inte rests in airear are annulled (prwrits it amass). " I have the huuour to salute you, (Signed) K UAW C A S I ISASSELOUZN Banker to Lis Swedish Majesty." The Swash Government owed eight years ar rears of interest. The late King Gustavus always fulfilled his engagements till the moment when the Government was changed. TIIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THlii DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK; Reduced 62I#—Cans. nto. shut—Cone. for cps. 63}t 4 per Cent 781 t-5 per Cent. Navy abut Exchequer Bills, 41.76. pr.—lndia bonds I Ss. pre. Having in former Papers suggested the idea of reducing the legal interest of money, and stated the 'orious fact that the decision of such a question )ust depend in a great measure on its justice, we proceed now to inquire whether the value of Stock. solders property would be lessened, were the legal Merest of money reduced, and taxes to the amount the difference taken off ? for if a rise of the funds his capital will be increased, but if they fall price it will be diminished. It might easily be shown, however, that when the sorniaal valasof every :her species of property is reduced, a fall in the no minal value of the Stocks may take place without ;y diminution of their real valves the value of all property being merely relative. It is incontrovertible that should Stocks fall from 60 to 60 they might still • of as much real valve at the latter as at the former price: for instance, if when the price has fallen he can buy as much land with the produce of his stock • 60, as be could have bought by the produce of the same Stock when it was nominally worth 60, be will be found to be neither richer nor poorer by the change that has taken place in the nominal value of his own, when compared with that of the property of others. But not to insist on this, let us for a moment exa mine tke question as to the probable rise or fall of the Funds, in the event of such a measure being adopted. Aid here a very simple question presents itself. Mat cause operates most powerfully to keep ip or to raise the price of the Funds ? The answer is equally simple.—A superabundance of mossy, oe its representatives, in the hands of the people... How then is this to be most speedily and effectually at tained ? By draining from the people, in excessive sues, all their earnings, without allowing any of the gains time to become capital—that is, to be produc tive of new gains or by a conduct quite the reverse? Let common sense answer the question. Cease the collection of every shilling of taxes that can by any contrivance whatever be left in the bands of indivi. dual►, and you will soon produce new capitalists, who will seek for an opportunity to invest their money where it may be most secure ! Or, in . other words, you will increase the number of those who will become candidates for the purchase of such Stock as may be in themarket :—that is, a rise in the price of the Funds will flow from the iocrease of capital arising from the powers of money left to produce its own proper fruit, in the hands of the community. There ate other points too connected with this pßic Red 4 pi Esc • obtk Mtn, prod bold later of d folly in pi Ow 0 othe mina any prop that be o Fla can at 5 caul bet abai whe saluc the • act iut • up i s i its tto tai ta: 1 tel L cc cc di sr a 0 A•fr question, which are lathy of much eonsideration.—.l SSELS PAPERS. 4 11 We have got out of a war ref two and twenty years • continuance--Look at the state in which rtitas left Last night i ll rlanders Mail arrived, w n which Wer e took samstances, bow could it be met? Where is the plate in the second Chamber o f the States-General, financier that could find eneitis to carry it on ? No on the 12th instant, on a proposition to restrain the Government can perform physical imp ossibilities.— exportation of Corn; but this morning has brought If, as we now stand, the utmost exertions can barely us Brussels Papers to the 18th, which enable us to levy a sum sufficient for =Treat expenses and to pay lay an am p le statement of the proceedings before our Readers. From a R epor t . the interest of our heavy debt, where are the means previously submitted to to be foudd for national defence in the event of such the Chamber, it appeared that there was no scarcity an emergency ? In new loans ? No, that is denied of corn is the Kingdom, and to this circumstance in the question stated. You cannot do more than may be attributed the errnneous statement brought by meet present demands (if you can do that), how a former Mail, that the exported= of corn from the then is the interest to be paid on new loans ? What United Kingdom of Hollaad and the Netherlands, ate loans ? Whit the interest on them but anticips• was to be Permitted- The contrary , tions of the fruits of Industry ?If these ha ve already fact : only such cons as has h o wever, is the previously been imported beeninortgaged to their utmost value—if they are may be sent out of the Kingdom. found insufficient, and in consequence the capitals We strongly suspect that this measure has been employed in aiding the efforts of industry are getting carried by the Totes of the Netherland Members; deteriorated, the draisolle portion must get less and for the Dutch must have changed their ideas entirely, less every year. Bonowing then, to any exteat an- or they could never support a measure directly op swerable to the exigencies of another war, i s a l tog ether posed to all their views of commercial policy ; for it out of the question. You cannot borrow for ever. used formerly so be one of their maxims, that gun- But can you to it certainty avert war ?• Alas, Powders and other warlike supplies. should be sold alas I this is not to be expected. Our very poverty even to their enemies, if they were ready to Pay will be sure to be the cause of our being involved in for them. future contemn. Adopt means to enable the people The Journals received last night and this nursing once more to get rich and wealthy, and. when the also furnish some information respecting the Decrees of necessities of the State may require it , you w ilt have " the Beloved Fsnourawn" concerning t he sale a punt toapply to which will not fail you, when the and transfer of Cotton Goods. national safety may call for sacrifices from the people. BRUSSELS, DECEMBER is. Any other way of meeting future straggles is illusory. SECOND ClSMssea of Talt STATIII-GIWZRAL, Neglect this and you lose your sheet anchor. SsVINTY-21111X xis/3e911 PaltursiT. • Let us not, however, be misunderstood. We mean The Central Section made the following R e p ort only to maintain, that our view is correct as to the on the proposals of Mr. Hoffschnaidt and Mr. Pyke principles which should be kept in view in any mea- " High and Mighty Lords—The Central Section, sores which may be adopted for the alleviation of the the organ of the particular eections, will have the distress of the country.natnely, the adoption of honour to lay before your High Mightineases the some system which may enable the community to result of their preparatory deliberations on the two labour with the well-grounded hope that they and proposals made in your Assembly on the 6th inst.— their posterity shall enjoy some portion at least of the one by Messrs. Hoffschisidt, Baron de Tornaco, and fruits of their industry; for industry, ender any Gerlache ; and the othei by Mr. tyke. other impression, is always feeble and languid, and As for the first, the majority of the Sections has comparatively unproductive. We contend, that no thought there was SaasOn to adopt it, in order to pre system which shall not in its operation tend to vent by this means the inidoetunes with which the make the people not only easy but Agent, can Province of Luxemburg is menaced by the facility restore the vigour end resources of the country of exporting Cora to France, while the difficulty of and fit it to maintain its rank among the nations of the carriage renders it almost impossible to replan it the earth. This is what we contend for; but we do $ from the interior of the kingdom. not mean to maintain that the measures which we r. Other Members t hi n k, that if it cannot be have recommended are the only er the best means denied that the peculiar position of the Grand Duchy that may be devised to gain the proposed end. To of Luxemburg may require a deviation from the us, however, they appear worthy of a serious exami- general principle respecting the free circulation of nation; for they are not of that kind to which the of corn, and that in this point of view the proposed term temiterary palliation may be applied. They ate measure might be admissible, it is, however, to be either entirely fit for nothing, or they are of a nature feared that such a measure would give rise to other which by proper exertion and attention, may be qua- reclamations. They think also, that if the rya we re lified to meet our present circumstances on a scale of s o urgent, his Majesty's Government would have such magnitude as would produce an instantaneous already adopted some preliminary measure, as it did and general salutary effects. when it was proposed to prohibit the exportation of The real wealth of every country consists in its soil potatoes and buck wheat. They are therefore ad and its industry ; we have lost neither of these—there verse to Mr. Hoffschmidt's proposal. is not a more industrious people upon the face of the 66 As for Mr. Pike's proposal, the Sections were earth, That is, we yet possess every thing necessary go divided, that it seems difficult to say to which side to ensure national prosperity, if the derangement oc. the majority inclined. The Central Section must easioned by asricipatiogr on the fruits of. industry, therefore confine itself to laying before your High occasioned by a long and expensive war, were once • • hilithunesses the chief arguments on both sides. removed. Nor can this be effected but by the adop tion of measures calculated to lessen this drain, and ++Those who favoured the proposal, observed that all the neighbouring countries have prohibited the to allow the rewards of industry to run in their for. exportation and offered premiums on importation, seer channels, fertilizing, in their course, the national which has caused the exportation from our country estate, and swelling in their progress into a large river. to be so active, that it is to be feared our whole har vest, which has been very moderate, may be ex hausted ; that potatoes, a general article of food among the people, have failed in almost all the pro vinces, that the price of corn is so advanced by the purchasers for foreign account, that the inferior classes find it almost out of their reach ; that in less urgent circumstances a prohibition of exportation had produced the most salutary effects in the southern provinces ; that by adopting the principle of never prohibiting the exportation of corn, even when it should have risen to an excessive price, it would re sult, that our markets, from the facility of our com munications, would be always on a level with the highest markets in Europe, and our corn would be always carried to the countries where the highest price would be paid for it. " The Heathers who are of a different opinion, support it by observing, that at this moment there is neither a scarcity nor even any fear of a scarcity, that the high prices of corn is to be ascribed to other' , causes, that it is not even proved that the price is higher than in the neighbouring countries. " They think also, that to deviate from the gene ral principle of the unlimited liberty of the Coin trade, the urgent necessity of such a measure ought to be certain by means of authentic data and evident proofs; a necessity of which the Government alone can properly judge, to whose paternal solicitude these Members think the care ought to be left of taking or proposing such resolutions as circumstances shall require." DSC. 12. In our present circumstances nothing can be more foolish than to waste time and talents, and engender feuds and animosities, by discussions to determine to whom the blame should attach. It manifests the. same kind of wisdom which the man would exhibit, who, instead of carrying water to extinguish the flames, should address to those around him an elabo rate harangue, to stew the imprudence of his ser •ant in placing a candle in such a situation as to set his premises on fire. Let both the government and the people take a dispassionate view of the general question, and they will see that both may be better employed than in mutual recriminations. Yesterday evening Mr. LITTLZWOOD, the King's Messenger, was tent off with dispatches from the Fo reign Office to Lord WiLLIAM BiNTUICL. The PEN= Rams has lately received a very tee collection of casts, of the choicest ancient sculpture, from Rome and Paris, which his ROYAL litonume, with a view to the cultivation and improvement of the fine arts in this country, has presented to the Royal Academy. The precoedinp • of the Meeting. on Tuesday ° at the Town Hall, at Brighton , for the Relief of the Poor, terminated with the most encouraging pro spects. To find employment for those in want of work was the first consideration of the Gentlemen, and we understand that Sir B. Btoosivinto has re ceived the instructions of his Royal Highness the Ponce REMIT to communicate with the Committee to devise some sort of improiement, by the enclosure of waits ground at the north entrance of that town, to which the Palm Russiv will contribute t Jibe• sal sum of money. The Duchess of Donn patronised a Concert en Tuesday hut at the . Rotunda in Dublin. The Or chestra was filled by the Musical Amateur Society of that city, under the direction of Dr. CooAx, for the charitable purpose of relieving the distreseei of sick and indigent lodgers. The Duke of Gaarros left town for Easton, co Monday, for the remainder of the hunting wawa. Some objections were stated to have been made to Pyke's proposal is paint of form. The report being read, the President inquired whether the discouion should be immediately open ed f which it was resolved to do. A bog debate arose on the question, which of the two proposals should be first discuued when it was we d, by 46 votes to SO, to give the ineteder ti 'Mr. Hoffschmidt's. This Gentleman accordingly rose to suppmt ft project, for which purpose he read a Pvtiiih r , 4 , 411 Mr. Martlet, a landowner and most skilful acrid twist, which way presented to the Chams e , tt * 10th, and paints the miseries of his province, - Mr. HOPPECHIAIDT filled up the picture. li t d , scribed the soil covered with rocks, heaths, woods, sterile in the greatest part, having ac , k nit fields, except above Arlon, Luxemburg, an d tit French frontier, over which the corn will mi n b e carried, from the temptation of the hie pricer std the bounty on importation. Prussia can furnish i x , thing : the conveyance is difficult and almost in T , ci , sable in winter. The province of Namur his rs overplus of corn, and the Grand Duchy will be et posed to the greatest distress unless the exportatia.i prohibited. The Deputation of the States and Government have already stated this to the Ki ng . Mr. CLIFFORD spoke in Dutch against the prop Mr. TONTEIN MlLlMilekt spoke also in D uo against it. Mr. GEUDEBEAN in favour. Mr. Vatx ALPIIHN I though a friend to f r! . trade of corn, thinks there is here reason to exception, and votes in favour of tie proposal. Mr. ScHIERVEL D'ALTENBitowK drew a iii 7 l l ,- 1/ picture of the natural sterility of the province, , 4 voted for the prohibition of the exponation o' cars to France. Mr. DOHESGE spoke in favour of the pip 6* which was put to the vete and canied, by 60 me ; to 15. While the votes were collecting, some per sons i s the galleries having expressed disapprobation ever a Deputy voted against the proposal, M r . v ii Bvutvuo rose to cause the liberty of the vote rs to be respected, and to observe, that the publi c i s a d. mitted by the fundamental law to the Sittings, bst that all signs of approbation or disapprobation se strictly forbidden. _ _ _ The PRESIDDIT answers, that he hopes thisolam vation alone will suffice to maintain order, otherwise he shaU order the galleries to be cleared. The Assembly then proceeded to discuss the pet. posal of Mr. PUKE, which was adopted, after an aai mated debate, by 42 votes to 35. in the Sitting of the second Chamber yesterday, there were very long debates upon the budget, at thi close of which the law relative to the expenses vai carried by 73 votes to nine; in that relative to tit receipts by 60 votes to 22. The Sittings of the Chamber of the 13th, began by a motion of order made by Mr. Van Alithen, ex pressive of his dissatisfaction at the applauses able bunt forth on the lgth upon the adoption of the pro. posal of Mr. Pyke; he invited the Chamber to tau measures to prevent similar occurrences in future.- The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the Pr*: of the Law relative to the Militia. A great cin , i Members spoke upon this important Project-41r Pyke, in particular, observed, that the militia system as it existed, was vicious, because the time of servici is too short to form a good artillerist ; and, above all to inspire that erfarit du corps which is so necessary to the formation of armies. Mr. SWILL? endeavoured to shew that the 10 Article of the Project gave, in time of war, too gm a latitude to the royal prerogative. An amendrren which be proposed to this effect was rejected by votes to 38. The Proket was imrnediatrty after put to the roe and carried by a tnajority of 61 votes to 14. BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 14. ' Yesterday there was a genet al stagnation in ou corn-market. and a great quantity of corn remaise unsold. Twelve or fourteen French hussars 14v , arrived here: they have been sent to the depot of tit Colonic troops at Hardervyk. 0 BRUfSELS, DECEMBER Is. His Majesty has given the sum of 10,000 french the relief of the indigent in this city. His Role Highness Prince Frederick has subscribed 400 km per month for the poor of this city. The Duke of WELLINGTON, daring the time be mained at Brussels, was present at all the grand ea . tainments given by the Court and persons o f dist non. He returned with General MueestY told St. Marie. The Princess of WALES is said to be media Milan, and to remain there some weeks. We have already mentioned the receipt of inn ence from Lord Ibusseasr. From Tien Sill Emperor of Curran 11.1 s appointed an escort to has Lordship to Pekin, and every necessary prePar non had been made for the journey. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Moe. and suite arrived at &REAVES'S Hotel, Lads ! Monday evening, where the whole retinue remer during the night. On Tuesday morning the yOU PRINCE and his suite viewed the Cloth Halls, the e tensive woollen manufactory of Messrs. Womot. GOTT, and WOEMALD, one of the principal Oas nitg mills, and the great iron works of Mewl. I f TO N, MIJEE.(T, and Woon. Abput half past dlr.( they departed for Harewood House ; they wry! there about five, and were receivel at the graml trance by the Noble Earl, and by Lord st!tl LAWILLIS ; the servants, in their btate liverses,llo, the hall. At seven o'clock din ner was announce the costly service of gold plate was in '- whole arrangements were of the mo' even princely description. On Thur , perial Highness attended the morning Cathedral ; and the travellers then ;vomited verary, the scat of the Dike of AEGTr as ann°l 7i .!! is use, 20 ui s plendid is„ l , rOt , serv i c e at 5.." ga w : . ta IL& The 0 'a te, of Castle , worthy ei the relief seigtfoQu Sailed the Unic Came t h e Bch( Arriv , loss of p n wflg. AfricA ; liam trailspor F o ster,. for Try symme The otstwak aw ay, e .Carniiiii staid t and sAil Madras Wind Arrit tins ME also the port, t Dunes' Yarmol mornin, the Cal ship AT wind sqltalls bete tl, The from 'I itlto th cb ors The whole those c worlil every and tr Tear ; article rent F in lial Broad the II foil of belon t Wort of poi Came Ouv, for C Into t tlnt Minn Brent, Gelb, Antw Or Alfret 6114, by Ntl rad C fa B 4 it* at Pr