Star. — London, England, 1802-11-15 00:00:00

.SAIUCGLING IN SCOTLAND. We have often had occafion to notiei the extent to which fmuggling is carried on at prefent in Scot • land. The following Letter, which appeared in the Caledonian Merestry, contains lonic judicious 'remarks upon that fubjc(t To TES PRINTER or Tilt CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sia—lt is tiniverfallv admitted that the practice of Smuggling is pregnant with innumerable ills. It defrauds the Revenue, it ruins the Fair Trader, it corrupts the morals of the lower ranks of the people, it difcourages the exertions of our own manufaaures, it depreciates the fair profits of the Farmer, and ultimately mutt fall a dead weight upon the Landed Intereft. With all thefe evils in its train, it is neverthelefs true, that this illicit trade was never carried on to a greater extent than it is at prefent in Scot land. On the caftan coati, the quantity of gin uthered in by the Smugglers is incredible ; and by their audacity and ingenuity, it is circulated, by •arious ramifications, over the whole country. That the faa is as I have fiated it, admits of no difpute ; that the evil demands immediate redrefs is equally true. - - Two claffes in fociety, and to them I would par ticularly addrefs thefe obfervations, appear to me materially interelled. Theft are the Fair Traders and the Landed Intereft. Refpeeting Fair Trader one remark will fuffice. A {lop muff be put to Siling,- or they may shut their Mops. To fellgood s which pay duty upon the fame terms with ofe who pay no duty, is a folecifm in trade altogether irreconcileable. The application is to obvious that it requires no illuftration. The Landed Intereft r -Though at firft fight their intereft may appear remote, yet upon due olsfervation, it will be found they are more deeply concerned than perhaps any other clafs of men.— The rent of their lands is their fortune, and this mull of courfe increafe or diminith in proration to the encouragement afforded to the Farmer. View ing the matter in thit light, I call upon them to confider what has occurred in Scotland within there twelve months. The Diftillers, after having been fufpended in their operations for two years, in January laft, again .permitted to work : having done fo for feven months only, they found them felves neceffitated to drop their licences, owing to a full market. And how co'ild it be otherwife ? the influx of fmuggled foreign fpirits was fuch, that the demand for home-made fpirits was not equal to one half of the ufual confumpt. If the fame caufe continues to operate, the fame confe quences may be expeaed to follow. If then the Diflillers of Scotland are to work only one half, or three fourths of the year, the barley produced by our farmers muff come to a heavy market, and the influence of this upon the letting of lands will loon be felt both by tenants and landlords.. If the Country Gentlemen would protect their own interells and that of the Farmers, the fubjeft upon which I now addrefs them will not fail to oc cupy their attention at the County Meetings. If to promote a foreign manidadure at the expence of our own betokens hoftility to our Country, it follows, that to fopprefs Smuggling is a duty in cumbent upon us as good and loyal fubjeas. By inferting the above in your ufeful Paper, you will much oblige • FREEHOLDER. 0(2. is, iSos. LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER as. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Confob 67j--Ditto, for time,64 .: Old per Cent. too}{—New spa Cent. 9 Onunum PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY : Eank Stock Long Ana. nil re.l6 3pa Cent. Red.! Short AIM. 4 7 -14 3 per Cent. ConL 67 India Stook waif New 4 per Cent. 83 bilk s per Cent. 97*/ S per Cent. Ann. zoo Osmium 'of dIL S Per Cag. 1797.993 10 0 99.1 Conf. for Nov. Ace. 67333 Since our loft two Mails have arrived from flambargh. A report mentioned in a former Mail that an alliance was in Tome forwardnefs between this Country, Maria, and Ruflia, is again Rated in a letter from the Continent. On a point of this kind nothing potitive can be publicly known till im perions circumßances de•elope the fecret in fpite of the parties, or, till being concluded, it is no longer judged necefary to have any concealment. Till then we can only► eßimate by probabilities, drawn from the real or fuppofed •iews or interefts of the contracting pow‘rs ; and we muR confefs that, eßitnatins by this method, we are inclined to Ashok the report is not without Tome foundation. The Grand pt i ke Corirraortwe, who has been to Vienna, and, it is reported, is alfo to Tufa Lon don, is probably entrulled with Tome ioflruetions on the part of ALE x aNDIR relative to the reported alliance. At the twenty-firli (hdlg of the Deputation of the Empire, held on the 3oth ult. the French Mi ntier at Ratitbon prefented a Note, in which he orofffgs his confidence in the hope of the approach ing eo-oppatiot? of his Issipaitiat MAlF.rry in the intentions of thc Mediating Powers, and that his Majefiy has made kropofitions the moll proper to remove every dAulty. A Courier is hied to have patted through Straiburgh on his way to the French Miniaer at RatiCM, with materials for _• _ Imperial Court as may finally ministate the whole bufinefs of the Indemnities. According to intelligence from Peterfburgh, the Emperor has iffued orders, in confequence of the Treaty of Peace concluded between Prance and Ruffia on the Bth of (Maher, am, by which the former Comvercial Connexions between the two Countries were renewed, that the Treaty of Com merce concluded between Ruffia and France, on th e 31ft of December, 1786, (hall be confidered as revived for five years. FROM THE BABES OF THE MAYNE OCT. 31.--- There is much talk here of a Triple Alliance, which is Paid to be negotiated between England, Auftria, and Ruffia. The report that fuch an Al liance is already concluded is certainly premature VIENNA, OCT. 27...0M . Court prefents now nothing but a continual round of amufements and fetes of various kinds, for the entertainment of the Great Duke CONSTANTIN/ ; thefe will continue as long as his Imperial Highnefs than remain here. A report, however, is gone abroad, that he will, on the zd of November, depart for London, while others fay, he will accompany his Imp BRIAL MA• csry to Freiburg, and then return to St. Feted% burgh. The perfons who credit the former•report kern to be fupported by the opinion which many entertain, apparently not without foundation, that a doter connexion is in agitation between the Courts of Vienna, St. Peterfburgh, and London. BERLIN, Ocr. 30.—Lieutenant-General Count Lust is arrived hither, by way of Harnburgh, from his Embaffy at St. Feterfburgh. M. de Mossow, Minifter of State, is returned from Kcenigiturg. A Ruffian Courier, from Peterfburgh, paired through this place ye fterday, on his way to Vienna. HA MSUROR, Nov. 9.—lt appears that fome agreement has adually been made for the enlarge ment of the indemnification of the GRAND Dues of TUSCANY ; but there is no certainty as yet in what manner. While the letters from Vienna afrert that he is to have the Brifgan, letters from Frieburg allure us, that the Duca of MODENA has definitively accepted the fovereignty of that coun try. Some letters from Ratifbon (peak of Parma as being defigned as a part of the indemnification for Tufcany, while others, and as it fhould feem with more probability on their fide, affirm, that by the mediation of England and Ruffia, the greateft part of the Duchy of Parma will be given to the KING of SARDINIA* STOCKHOLM p 06 - 49.—Yefterday Count lhom s, Ambaffador Extraordinary from' the Court of Denmark, had his firft audience of their MAJESTIES and the Royal Family. On this occafion alto Count ORANGO, appointed Portuguefe Ambaffa dor to the Court of Ruffle, was prefented by Mr. Asaurallor, the Englifh Ambaffador. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 2.—lt is reported here that the Court of St. James's has promifed the Court of Stockholm to restore the two convoys captured by the Englifh, one of which was force months agu condemned by the High Court of Admiralty as a lawful prize. ST. PETERSBURGH, OCT. 21.—1 n the sth ar tide of the Treaty of Peace, concluded oa. 8, 18ot, with the French Republic, it was agreed, that all commercial conneaions between Ruffia and France should be put upon the fame footing as before the war. Now, as the treaty concluded Dec. 31, 1786, to fait z 2 years, was in force only till Bth February 1793, his IMPERIAL MAJESTY has ordered, that it fhall be in force from this date for a time equal to that in which it was fufpendcd, that is to fay, for the term of five years. RATISSON, Ocr. 30.—The underfigned has received, the 26th of this month, a Note from the Imperial Plenipotentiary, and from the Sub-dele gate of Bohemia, containing the communications, and the fame views of which they had given ad vice to the Deputation Extraordinary of the Em pire ; there is to be found expreffed in it with confidence and the molt lively interest, the hope of an early co-operation of his Imperial Majefty with the intentions of the mediating Powers, and he is far from entertaining any doubt but his Majesty has made the neceffary pmpofals calculated to remove every difficulty. This obje&, however, may be attained without the Deputation being forced to fufpend its operations, which , are fo ne ceffary to the tranquillity of Germany, and which at the fame time haften that moment fu fincerely wished for by his Majefty himfelf. The underfigned feizes this opportunity, with the fincereft, pleafure, to renew, as well to his Excellency the Imperial Plenipotentiary, as the Snb-delegate of Bohemia, the affurances of his high confideration. (Signed) LAFORET. CONSTAIITINOPLI, OCT. 7.—lt is now certain that the Prince CONSTANTINE YPSILANTI has ob tained the rank of Hofpodar of Wallachia, through the interceffion of Ruffia. The Ruffian Minifler, F refiding here, has delivered a Note to our Minif. try, in which it is (aid, among other things.— " The Bojaren in Wallachia have had recourfe to the Ruffian Government, and have imparted to hislss ?MAL MAJESTY their nnanimouswifh to get of Moldavia, and was difiniffed by the Porte with -out caufe. His RuSSIAN MA J RSTT, however, will notafume any right whatever refpeaing the choice of 4, Tarkith Governor; but should fee the ap pointment of the Prince YPSILANTI with fo much the more fatisfa&ion, as he formerly contributed, in a particular manner, to the effeEting that dole• alliance by which both Empires are now fo for tunately united. Before the French Government nndertook the famous expedition againft Algiers, which now fee= to have amicably terminated the difputes be tween the two countries, the Minifter of Foreign Affairs, by a Note to our Ambaffadot at Paris, made known the conduit of the Div and the de figns of the FIRST CONSUL ; in order, lays the French Minifter, that the Sublime Porte may have no caufe of complaint, Mould the FIRST CONSUL be under the necefEty of repelling force by force, -and of arsaibilatiag a Prince, who, departing from the laws eftablifhed between nations, and by the hoftilities commenced againft France, may be con fidered as having confpired his own downfall. Ufurious tmnfaCtions, fo ,frequent here during the was, are now forbidden throughout the whole Empire, on pain of tbe fevereft puniihment ; and fpecie itfized to its ad price, The plague has ceafed in all the provinces of the Empire, in confequence of the vigorous mea lures purfued by the-Grand Vizier fince his return from Egypt. Vex DIDIN TOT De GELDER, Ambaffador of the Batavian Republic, arrived here on the lath of September. On Wednefday next the King will have a levee at St. James's ; and on Thurfday the Queen will have a drawing room. The Kiwo has bees pleated to appoint ARCHI• BALD Marquis of DOUGLAS to be his MAJFSTYIS Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of Lanarkthire, in the room of ARCHIBALD Duke of HAMILTON and BRANDON, reigned. The gym:ft took an airing in her carriage on Saturday morning, attended - by Princeffes Lit ze- BETH and AUGUSTA. After a circuitous route in the neighbourhood of Frogmore and Windfor for twa hours, the Royal Perfonages returned to the Lodge to drefstor dinner. It appears to be the intention 'to choofe the STRAKER to-morrow. The following is the copy of a letter circulated from the Treafury to the Members of the Houfe of Commons a Your attendance is molt earnestly rapiefted in the Houk of Commons, on Tuefday morning next, at eleven, for the =e of taking the necelfary oaths, and of proceeding to the of a Spanker.—Nov. 13." Tuefday General Sir HECTOR Mu*ao arrived in Edinburgh from the north on his way to Lon don; Wednefday •he reviewed his regiment (the 42d) in the Caftle ; and afterwards gave a grand dinner to the Officers .of his regiment, and a num ber ofOfficers ofdiftinttion at prdeatin Edinburgh. General Anna ROWS carriage, in which he will go to Court next Wednefday, is very magnificent; the wheels are conftruded in a manner entirely new. Mr. TisisaY returned from France on Thurf day. Vifcount STRANGVORD, the Earl of Essq, Lady Jomarrow, Lady CALrHultsr, Lady Flimsy, General and Mils JoaNsroa, General and Mifs I:ll4Lrott, Rev. Dr. HONEYWOD, Rev. Mr. DRUM KOND. etc. are among the lateft arrivals at Bath. The Officers of the Guards are about to aa a play in the room occupied by the Pic-nics, in Tot tenham-ftreet, laft feafon. They are employed daily in rehearfing. The Dowager Marchionefs of Mincer. has taken a houfe at Lyons, in France, for the put.- pole of refiding th. re during the winter, with her fillers the Mifs Goorssrs. Several other Englifh families of dillinetion will refide in the fame place during the fame term. The Bath Concerts commence on Wednefday. Mr. LINDLEY, and feveral leading Gentlemen in the proftffion, are gone from London to affill at them. Thefione-eater would have been put out of coun tenance if prefent at Guildhall on Tuefday. A whole Chisels Temple was fwallowed in five minutes by an Alderman's Lady. Mr. Pit tsr, the Cornfaltor, of Mark-lane, has purchafed the Ifle of Dogs, at Woodbridge, Suf folk, and is going to improve the fame after the manner of the Wet Docks in London. On Tburfday lait was married at Porchefier Church, WILLIAM SoyANcE, Efq. of Great Tor rington, Devon, to Mifs READ, daughter of the late JOHN READ, Efq. of Porchefter Lodge, Hants, and filler to the Hon. Mrs. YELVELTON, of the kingdom of Ireland. The Ride in Hyde-Park was yerlerday graced not only by many Equerian and Pedefirian Beaux and Beller, but by the carriage of the Duke of GLOUCESTER, and the chariot of the Duke of ST. ALBAN'S ; the latter, as Hereditary Grand Fal coner, claims and is allowed the right of driving through this part of the Park, a privilege allowed to none betides, except the Blood Royal. A few days fence Sir W. CALL, Bart. on his coming of age, gave a three days fete at his beau tiful feat at Whiteford, near Callington : on the fiat day he regaled on the lawn with beef, mutton, and thong beer, all the labouring poor families of the parifh ; on the fecond day the worthy Baronet entertained the gentlemen farmers and their fami lies ; and on the third Jay he received the congra• tulations of the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, of the county of Cornwall. There was a arlind-ballancifunatuaik occafion, which was CORN MdRXEI S. MARL{-LANE, WOVIMRSIt IS. Wlltat, in confeqnence of a (mall fupply, is rather dearer for the fuperfine Samples ; as was Barley in the firfl of the Market, but at the finifli dull at Friday's terms.-Flour is not a free fide at 485. to gos. and down to 435.-Oats go off freely at the prices quoted.-Barley and Peas are cheaper.-.--In *moll other Articles we note no va riation. Englifh Wheat, per qr. gos. g4s. Prime Elks, 575. gBs. Superfine Gos Fine Dantzic Wheat, 574. 6i s. Rye, 325. 365. Miley, 245. 265. (New) 295. 3os Malt, 445. 48s. Fine ditto SOS. Oats, 1511. 225. 245.64. lierfe Beans, New, 31 s. 34.5. Old, 3Ss . 3 L Tick Beans, New, 295. 325. Old, 315. 335. Hog Peafe, 38s. 435. Boilers, New 465. 525. Carraway Seed, 365. to 4ts. per cwt, Coriander, 28s. to 3os. per cwt. Canary, gos. to 935. per qr. Rape Seed, 341. to 351. per lag, Flour, 465. 50s. per fack. FROM TIM LONDON OAZSTTE, SATURDAY, NOTEMIER 53, Average price of Corn in England aad Wales, from th e g s , turns ending the 6th of November, ao2. Wheat. 1 Rye. Barley. I Oats. Beans. I Pie,s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s . d sd. 60 o 39 8 26 6 so o 34 6 40 o The average Price of Sugar, computed from the Return, made in the week ending the toth of Novanber,ie33s• id. p er hundred weight. PRICRS OF ORRIN, AT Tat FOLLOWING MARKtYS. BASIKOSTORtorMheM 363 cd to 6os od per saner. Barleyads od to 261 od I Beans 34s od to 401 od Oats Its od to ass od Peale 'oos od to 425. Manama IL/D.-Wheat 52, od to 621 od per quarter. Barley 283 od to 3os od Beans 37s od t o acs 0 4 I Oats 23 s od to ass od Peale ass od to 461 ad NRWSURY..-What, 58s. ad. to 6IS. ad. per Ozarter. Barley 235 od to 25i 6d I Beans 33s od to aos od Oats SOS 6d to 233 od Peafe 38s od to ass od ffiNLßY..9.Wheat sIS od to 6311 od per Q2atter. Barley op od to 29s od I Beaus 36 5 od to aos ad Oats sos od to 26s od Peafe aos od to ass od Raaamo.-Wheat sos. od. to 631. od. perTarta. Barley op od to sys 6d 'Beans 36s oto aos od Oats sos od to ass 6d Peafe 44s od to 451 od At Warminfler Market, on Saturday laft, the prices of Corn were as follow : Wheat, by the quarter, 21. 16s. to 31. QS. Bailey, 11. 45.t0 IL 7s. Oats, 11. to 11.25. Beans, 11. as. to al. as. The Dutch Legiflature has fandiohed the pro, pofal of the Government, to grant a general pardon to all deferters from the army and navy. Admiral STORY has been furnmoned to appear to !land trial on the 21it of December, We have received the Bolton Papers to the Bth of Oftober ; at that period no account had been received of the reported arrival of a French army in Louifiana. In one of theft Papers there h a letter from Aux Cayes (St. Domingo) to the 13th September, which Rates continued troubles in that ifland: it reprefents the Blacks to have got polfeffion of the fort at St. Louis, although not of the town, which, however, had been nearly deferted by the inhabi tants. There not being any French troops to de fend the place, the failors from the American !hips, &c. had been landed for that purpofe. Another letter, dated from Cape Francois, the Al September, Pays—" The Brigrand Negroes in the mountains have driven the French troops within four miles of this city. The Black Gene. ral, who commanded at Port-an-Paix, has joined the Infurgents. DESSALINES and Caaisroist have been fent in Purfait of them." The Britifh troops which formed the garrifons of Surinam, DeMerara, Berbice, and Iffequibo, are Rated, in a' letter from St. Thomas, to have arrived at St. Vincent's—there are not, however, any accounts dire& from Surinam, of the arrival of the Dutch troops (which Come time fine put into Torbay) having arrived out. Road.Harbour, in Tortola, was on the ,7th of Anita declared a free port. The weather for Hallow Fair laft week, at Edin burgh, has been very propitious this year, and the prices of black cattle never were fo high. The (ales were at leafi ;os. a head higher than any market in Scotland. The buyers much more nu merous than the fellers. On Saturday afternoon the remains of Mr. STSELE were interred at Bunhill-fields Burying ground, in the City-road. Friday fall the remains of Colonel INNEs, of the 64th regiment of foot, were brought from Lon don, in funeral pomp, and depofited in St.lliary's church-yard, Southampton. On I'hurfday fe'nnight Mr. Jam ES BANNERMA4 late of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, died at Fiction, in Lancathire. His death was occafioned by a wound he received in the thigh, while per• forming a part in the farce of KoTzEBUE, entitled la Pcrovfe. The wound was occalioned by the wad. ding of a mufket, difcharged in the courfe of the performance, and ‘,ltich had unfortunately been overcharged with powder. Mr. BANNERMAN Wag a riling performer, and had given thong proofs of his theatrical abilities in the courfe of the late Fiction Guild, and is much lamented by the Ma nager and performers. This melancholy event will, it is hoped, be 3 caution to the managers of theatres, not to entr uti the charging of pieces fired on the Rage CO fervants or others ignorant of the effeets that they may produce. Mr. Warren, a Churchwarden of Bifhopfgarep was brought up a day or two ago befo re Loan MAYOR, he having been, for the lati two months, committed to Newgate for refuting to make up his parilh accounts. Thefe accounts hav ing ( been made up, a clear balance of 8261. al) * peared in favour of the pain. As he was nota ,T NI VAV 0114 %* 1 rt