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It is requested that the outstanding Prizes may be Naught in 'fur Payment with the lea,t possible delay, tbat the Lottery Account.' may be timed. Numbers of Tickets and Shares may be Ilegistered, and their fates may be ascertained, by applicatiou at this Office. L. II ESS E. A CLERGYMAN, Nlarlied, Beneficed, aid residing a moderate distance from London, his Pupils limited to Six, 'would be glad to fill a VACANCY with a GEN TLEMAN'S SON, and prepare him for the University, &c. Letters to be addressed to the Rev. H. S. Messrs. [larding and Lepard's, Booksellers, 4, Pall-mall East, London. The highest references can be given. SOUTHAMPTON STEAM PACKE IS. TipHE ARIADNE, Captain BAZIN, continues to leave SOUTHAMPTON every TUZSDAY evening at Si: o'Clock, for JERSEY and GUERNSEY, and leaves the Islands, on her return to Southampton. every FIMAY. THE CA MI LLA. FRANCIS LAWRENCE, Master, for HAVRE-DF.-GRACE (under the inspection of an Officer of Rank in the Navy, one of the Proprietors, who is always on board), will, on account of the heavy French charges at Havre, and the diminished number of Passengers, make only one voyage a week during the reniainder of the Season, as follows: From Southampton. From Havre. Tues. Sept. 19th, Ip. 8 morn. Frid. Sept. 21J, 12 noon. Tues. Sept. 26th, 3 afternoon. Frid. Sept. 29th, 6 morning. Tues. Oct. 3d, ip. 8 morning. Frid. Oct. 6th, 11 morning. Tues. Oct. 10th, 2 afternoon. Frid. Oct. 13th, 6 morning. Tues. Oct. 17th, ip 8 morn. I Frid. Oct. 20th, l 0 morning. Tues. Oct. 24th, 1 afternoon. Fad. Oct. 27th, 6 nu.rning. A Female Steward will attend on the Ladies. Passports for France may be obtained of Mr. W. J. I.e Fauvoz, French Consu late Office, 71, High-street, Southampton. L.EAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly famous for .1-d curing, in all its stages, the VENEREAL DISEASE One small Pill is a dose, and the taking of one Box, in a recent ease, will soon convince the patient of the certainty of his speedy recovery. Nothing can be better connived, more safe, or more convenient than this Remedy, fur such as are obliged to go journies or to sea, as it needs no confinement nor restraint of Diet; and sixty years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved that it will effect a Cure when repeated Salivation anti all other methods avail nothing. For the Scurvy and other Chronical Disorders, this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 persons of both sexes have been radically cured of the above cruel disor. tiers, within the East eight years. Prepared and sold by the sole proprietors, T. TAYLOR. and SON, Members of the Royal Col lrge of Surgeons, at their House, No. 9, New Bridge-street, in Boxes of only 2s. 91 each, duty included.—N.B. Two back doors, and Lights in the Passages at night.—They are also sold, by their appoiatruent, with copious directions, at the Toy-shop, 103, Oxford -street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill, *early oppositt the Monument ; and by one Person in every con siderable Town in Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to P meats taking the above, or other of the Proprietor's Medicines. THE most salubrious Article for NOURISHING the HAlR—lmproving its GROWTH and BEAUTY, and retaining it hi 'thy Vigour to the latest period of Life, is ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, The first production of the Age, and The ORIGINAL and GENUINE., A VEGETABLE PRODUCTION, possessing salubrious and wonderful nutritive properties, which prevents the Hair faUing off, occasioned by exceisive perspiration; is pre-eminently successful in nourt-bing the Hair, preventing its falling off or turning grey, &c. and has the unequalled property of jiving a must fascinating and delectable oppeArance to the Hair. Price .3). 6d.-7r.-10s. 6d.—and tlls. per bottle. CA VTIIOIII. The high popularity of the above invaluable articles has caused them to hr counterfeited, by imitating the Label, Bills, Bottles, and Advertisements. To prevent which,, observe the New Label on the Oil, and ask for " ROWLAND'S," observing that the Libel of each Bottle is signed in Red, " A. ROWLAND and Sou, 20, Hatton Garden;" and Sold by them, and, by appointment, Mr. R. Hendrle Per. Punier to his Mak-sty, Titchborn-street; Sanger, 150, dxford street ; Mr. Smyth, 117, Deleroix, 138, Gattie and Peirce ' 57, D. Rigge, 5 5 , Holmes ..nd Brewster, New B o nd-street ; Butle r, 4, Cheapside ; Bayley and Blew, Cockspur-street ; Berry and Lloyd, No. 18, Greek-street ; Low, 350, and Prout, 228, Strand; Bur gess, 68, Holborn Hill; Atkinson, Gerrard-street; Sutton, Bow Church - yard; Edwards, 67, Newberry, 45, St. Paul's Church yard; Barclay and Sons, 95, Ileet.market; J. and T. Rigge, 65, Cheapskte ; Stradling, Exchange-gate ; Nix, fronting the Royal Exchange ; Take, 41, and Johnstone, 63, CornhiU ; Colley, 28, Bishopsgate-street ; Ford, Feuchurch-street. THE MUTINY ; OR, SAFETY IN SUPERSTITION. ASHIP homeward bound, by Lascars chiefly mann'd, A scheme of revolt on the passage they planu'd; And rising en masse, the Europeans attack'd, By native and fanciful deities back'd ! Of different casts, yet their idols agreed That all the Lascars should united proceed To master the vessel, and spare not in sulfa A tyrannic Christian-dog's infidel life! The Captain appried of the mutiny, knew No art the impending result to subdue; For courage gave way to the mutinous horde, And terror now relied the stout vessel aboard. " Resign not all hope !" a brave passenger said, " At least Superstition shall lend us her aid." In Boots then of matchless resplendency graed, In which the fine forms of reflection were treed, He muster'd the mutinous Lascars on deck, And threatened on each ample vengeance to wreck; " Ye obdurate race, who thus cherish your crimes, Behold ! that even follow'd from far distant climes Your idols appear, to disclaim your pursuits, And chuse their abode in a Briton's bright Boots." AU Lascars the creed transmigration believe, — The passenger's words the retoiters receive In proof of their faith, and to duty adhere, No more if their Idols with Christians appear! Tae wish was complied with, and during the voyage The Lascars no longer in duty were Licking; The idols that awed them were kept in close stowage, And sav'd was the vessel by Waaalts's Jae BlAccitis: This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by ~'~~ 50, STRAND, London ; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID in Bottles, 6d. l2d. end led. each. Also PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. and led. each. A Shilling Pot of Paste is equal to Four Is. Bottles of Liquid. g 2, Ask for WARRIIN's Blacking. TUESDAY EVENLVG, SEPTEMBER 12, 1826. NAVIGATION LAWS.• SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. W. HUSKISSON IN THE HOUSE OF C I MMONS, FRIDAY, THE 12TH of MAY, 1826, ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SHIPPING IN TERM'. (Continued from our last.) If the system of di.criminating duties for the encou ragement of shipping were a secret known to this country 4!nne; if a similar system were not, or could not be, , put in force in every other country, I should not be standing here to vindicate the measure to which I have pi-4 referred, and the present policy of his Maje,ty's Government. So long as, in fact, no independent trading community existed out of Europe, and s.) lung as the old Governments of Europe looked up.ns these matters,—if they looked to them at on e —as little de serving their attention, and were content, either iron► ignorance or indifference, not to thwart our sy -tern, it would have been wrong to disturb any part of it. But is this the present state of the world? Did not the United States of America, in the first instance, for the purpose of raising to themselves a great commercial Marine, and of counteracting, our Navigation Laws, adopt, in their utmost rigour, the rulas of those laws, and carry, even further than we had ever done, in res. pect to foreign ships, this principle of discriminating duties against our shipping ? Can we shut our eyes to the fact that other nations have followed, or are follow. ing, their example? Do we not see them, one after the other, taking a leaf out of our own book ? Is not every Government in Europe, if possessed of sea ports, now using its utmost endeavours to force a trade, and to raise up for itself a commercial Marine ? Have we not boasted of our Navigation Laws, till we have taught other nations to believe (however erroneous that belief,) that they are almost the only requisite, or at least, the sine qua non, of commercial wealth and of maritime power ? D J these vauntings excite no envy, no spirit of rivalry, no countervail ng opposition in other countries? Did the success of the United States of America create no desire in those countries to follow her . example? It would be worse than idle, it would be dangerous, to dissemb'e to ofirselves the great changes which have been wrought, since the etablishment of American in depenchnce, in the views and sentiments of Eurepe, upon all matters connected with commerce. and navi s gation. They now oc6tpy a leading share in the atten tion of almost every Government. They are eiery where a subject of general inquiry and interest. Even in counttiss, of which the institt.tions are least favour able to tht discussion of political subjects, these ques tions are freely discussed, and, by discussion, the influ• ence of public opinion is made to bear upon the measures and policy of their Governments. In this altered state of the world, k became our duty seriously to inquire, whether a system of commercial hostility, of which the ultimate tendency is mutual pro hibition,—wbether a system of high discriminating duties upon foreign ships, with the moral certainty of seeing those duties fully retaliated upon our own ship ping, in the ports of foreign countries,—was a contest in which England was likely to gain, and out of which, if persevered in, she was likely to come with dignity or advantage? I will lay aside, for the moment, every consideration of a higher nature, moral or political, which would naturally lead us to look with some repug nance to the engaging in such a contest. I will equally lay aside all consideration for the interest of our manu facturers, and for the general well-being of our popula tion, who, as consumers, would obviously have to pay for this s) stem of custom house warfare, and reciprocal restriction ; and I a ill view the question solely in refer ence to the Shipping Interest. In this comparatively nat raw, but, I admit, not unimportant, view of the ques tion, I have no difficulty in stating my conviction,—a conviction at which I have ar►ived after much anxious consideration,—that, in the long run, this war of dis criminating duties, if persevered in on both sides, must operate most to the injury of the country which, at the time of enter ing upon it, possesses the greatest commer cial marine. How can it be otherwise? What are these discriminating duties, but a tat upon commerce and navigation? Will not the heaviest share of that tax fall, therefore, upon those who have the greatest amount of shipping and of trade? Before we embark in such a contest, we owe to the character of the count! y, as well as to its interests, to satisty ourselves,—first, that it is necessary for its wel fare; and, secondly, that once committed to the trial with all the commercial powers of Europe, the country would have the firmness and fortitude necessary to go through with it. Do not let Gentlemen too hastily decide this last point in the affirmative. Let them call to their recollection the famous Orders in Council ; let them, above all, bear in mind, that we have yet had but one trial of this discriminating warfare,—the trial with the United States of Ainerica,—and that we came out of that trial, after several years' perseverance, by conceding the very object, for the maintenance of which it had been carried on. Would it be politic, or dignified, to engage in a like struggle in Europe, with the risk of arriving at the same result ? I t commerce, in naviga tion, in naval power, and maritime pretensions, the United States are our most formidable rival ; and we are now arraigned for not withholding from Prussia and Denmark, what Parliament and the county, ten years ' , ago, concurred in yielding to AMerica! Under what circumstances did England found her Navigation System ? Wire•r her commercial marine was, comparatively, insignificant, her wealth itrconsi• derable, be.ore manufactures were established, and a hen she exported corn, wo and other raw materials. When, on the other hand, Holland and the Netherlands were rich, possessed of great manufactures, and of the largest portion of the carrying trade of Europe and the world.- What has followed? The commercial marine of the latter countries has dwindled away, and that of Great Britain is now immense. But, in the progress of the change, England is become the seat of great manu factures and trading wealth, frequently importing, and never exporting, corn ; drawing raw materials from, and sending out manufactured goods to, all parts of the a arid. This was our state, though in a far less degree than at present, when America became independent : — She started by applying towards us the system which we had applied towards Holland. She was then poor, with a very small commercial marine, without manu factures, having corn and raw materials to export ; and we know what her shipping now is. Let Gentlemen reflect on these circumstances, before they decide that it is necessarily wi se to enter upon a similar cootest with other poor and unmanufaCturing countries. Let them seriously consider, whether a system of discrimi nating duties —now that the exclusive patent by which we held that system is expired—is not the expedient of such a country as I have described, rather than the re source of one which already possesses the largest com mercial mann! in the world. They will then see, that it may possibly be a wise policy to divert such countries from that system, rather than to goad them on, or even leave them a pretest for going into it. Let us for a moment, however, suppose that, at all hazirds, we have embarked in this warfare of counter acting duties, They who recommend this policy have no right to assume that, in the progress of the struggle, the discriminating duties imposed in the foreign country, (Prussia for example), on Bs irish shipping, will not be, at least, equivalent to the like dirtied levied in England on Prussian shipping. The Unite4'States did not con tent themselves with equivalency,—they went more boldly to work; so might any European power. If equi Talent duties be established on both sides, how will they operate? It is clear that the s hi p pi ng o f eac h country will stand in the same relative situation to that of the ether, as if no such duties had been imposed; •the duties, therefore, in both countries will be a tax; and a very objectionable one, upon the interchange of their respective productions. But, as those productions are diffeienr, these duties will affect differently the industry of the contending parties. Oar principal exports to the north of Europe are manufactured goods and colonial produce; our imports, timber, hemp, flux, pitch, tar (..ccasionally corn), and other raw materials. —The former must be sold dearer in the foreign coun try,—the latter in this country,—by all the amount of the tax. What is this in the foreign country, but a pre mium against our manufactures, in favour of the rival manufactures of other states, or of the importing state itself ;_and in this country, but a tax upon raw mate rials requisite for carrying on our own manufactures? A ship, for instance, is a manufactured article, and, to encourage our s' ipping, here is an additional tax upon the raw materials of that manufacture ! Our cotton goods, our woollen stuffs, barely maintain a competition with those of other conntri .s, and here is an additional tax on their importation iiito those countries, to turn the scale against us t Our West India planters complain of the low price of their productions, and we provoke an additional tax, which tends to shut them altogether out of the foreign market ! If the end of this warfare should be, as, pushed to the extreme, it might be, that each country should export its own productions, in its own slips, and no country import the productions of I another, in the ships of that other, which would be the' greatest loser, the country manufacturing, or the country producing the raw materials? I will not even glance at the effect of all• this strife upon the consumers, that is, upon the bulk of the population ; because I know that, in certain quarters, I shall be taxed with theory, if I stand up for the general interest of the community, against the pretensions of a particular class, when the interest of that class is supposed to be at stake. Indeed, I have no doubt I shall be told brsome practical men, that all this is theory, to which they have a short an swer. That answer is, «We do not want anything from the Baltic. We have plenty of timber, &c. in Canada, all of which would be brought home in British Shipping; and, therefore, the powers of the Baltic must submit to our discriminating duties, without retaliation, or be content to lose our trade I really know not how to reason with such logicians. I believe the Baltic can do to the full as well without us, as we can do without the Baltic. We import quite as much timber from Ca nada as can be used, for the purposes for which that timber is fit. For other, and more important purposes, we want timber of better and more durable qualities. Looking to the Shipping interests of this country, and to the interests of Canada, I am not ene of those who think we have done too much for those interest., in the great preference, in point of duty, which we h eve given to the Canada timber, and in the consequent sacrifices which we make to encourage the importation of that timber, inferior as it is ; but I must say, at the same time, that the great annual increase of the impoitatii n from our North American possessions, under the present duty, thews that the proportion, which it bears to the Baltic duty, has not been settled to the disadvantage of the shipping employed in the Canada trade. Were it necessary, however, to make an option between a con test of discriminating duties with Prussia in the timber trade, or a further reduction of the duty on Canada timber, for the greater encouragement of our shipping, I certainly should prefer the latter measure, as the least injurious of the two to all the other interests of this country. For the reasons which I have now stated, his Ma jesty's Government have thought it more prudent and more dignified to enter into amicable arrangements with other Powers, founded on the basis of mutual in terest, and entire reciprocity of advantages, rather than embark in a itoqest of commercial hostility and reci procal exclusidn;—a system, at best, of doubtful benefit to the Shipping Intesest ;—involving the certainty of great injury to all the other important interests of the country; and which would, at last, place Parliament and the Government in the painful alternative, either.ol turning a deal ear to the complaints of the many who would suffer from the contest,—or of terminating it, as , other contesti of a like nature have been terminated, by concession, bringing with it not only immediate humi. liation, but other consequences, which do not end with the concession itself. But it is asserted, that we should not have been com pelled to make our ch3ics between these alternatives. Whilst I entreat the House to bear in mind the circum- 1 stances which I have already stated, in respect to the general feeling which prevails in the maritime countries of Europe, and in America, I must now call their atten tion to the steps which had been actually 'aim by Prussia, (the first power, atter the United States, with which we entered into a treaty upon this subject) before the negotiation of that treaty was entertained by his Majesty's Government. I bold, fir, in my hand a Report, made on the 6th of [PRICE SEVENPENCE. August 1822, by the British Consul at D.tntsic also Reports of the Vi ce -C onsu l s at K onigsberg and Memet, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I will not trouble the House with reading the while of these die , patches, but I request their particular attention to the lollowing extracts: Extract of a Dispatch from Mr. Consul Gibson, dated Daittsic, the 6tb August 1622. "Mr LORD—I do myself the honour to transmit t 6 your Lordship a translation of the Order of Cabinet (which I hare only now been able to procure) respect ing an increase of the Government Port Charges in the Pr ussian Ports, on vessels belonging to countries be tween which and Prussia no reciprocity has been filed by treaty, or which do not otherwise treat Prussian ships and their cargoes as advantageously as their own. Prussia has made arrangements with Holland, Den. mark, and America, for establishing a reciprocity in this respect, antithe present regulation has evidently for ob ject to induce other countries, particularly Britain, to eater into a similar arrangement. s 4 At present, Prussian, Dutch, Danish, and American ,hips pay, as public port charges here, about 46f com mon groshes, or about 17 2-3 d. sterling, per last of 4,0001 b. (about 4,1401 b. English), or about If tons British measurement; while British and other vessels pay about 77 2-3 common groshes, or about 29 2-Sd. sterling per last, making 811. sterling per ton measure ment more. The advance that is to take place will make, as it will be payable in gold at a losing valua tion, wiz. "On ships coming in with a full cargo of goods, a 40 : about • • 58 a " Do. with a qua r t er o f a cargo or less . 29 11-6 " Do. going out with a full cargo 29 " Do. with a quarter of a cargo or less . 141 A. II " Thus vessels arriving -even in ballast, and taking a cargo back, will in future be burthened with about 371 d. sterling per ton measurement more Government port charges than Prussian shi l .s ; which however is not quite so great an advantage to the latter as British vessels have over Prussian in Britain, by paying lower port charges, light money, /cc. and less duty on the cargo, if of timber for instance, which gives the chief employment to Prussian ships. " The Prussian Government make this new port charge regulation professedly from the interest created by the situation of their shipowners, who are indeed all going to ruin." Cabinet Order of the 40th June 1522. for the Encouragement of Homelpptsg: " In consideration of the unfavourable state of the shipping of this country for several years past, and in consequence of the representations made to me, founded on divers consultations, that v e unfavourable state of things operates the more injuriously on the said trade, as the principles always observed here, of imposing moderate burthens on foreign ships frequenting Prus sian ports, and of levying the same duties on goads im ported or exported, whether in foreign or in native ships, are not adopted in several foreign ports fre quented by Prussian ships ; I have resolved, so long as these relations subsi-t, so detrimental to the mainte• nance of this important branch of domestic trade, to grant the said trade greater advantages than it has hi therto enjoyed ; I therefore do ordain, " First. That the coasting trade from one Prussian port to another shall be considetei, exclusively, a branch of domestic trade, and shall be carried on ioiely by Prussian vessels, under pain of ship and property being confiscated, upon any foreign ship master b ing de tected irr it. • Exceptions can only be allowed in very urgent cases, and only for the public good, by the pro vincial authorities " Secondly. An increase of the hitherto exibeng hay. boor dues shall take place, iu ill Prussian ports. on Fo reign ships with cargoes, In-coming or out-going, but the same shall not be applicable to the ships of those nations : " a. With which Prussia has treaties, placing her ships and their cargoes on an equal footing with the native ships, or with those of the most favoured nations, in conformity with the stipulations therein made." 0 b. Which from other causes treat Prussian ships, with their car goes, the same as native vessels with theirs. With this restriction shall the increase take place, according to the following rates: " s. On in-coming ships—R.2 per last of 4,000 lbs. " b. On out going do 1 do. " c. (hi ships that have only one-fourth of a cargo or Ins ' 011* half of the above, " say in-coming . . I out-going • • k " Siiips in ball a d are nut subject t o the Increased imposts. " The proceeds of this impost shall not be considered as an additional source of revenue to the State, but shall be applied for the benefit of the ship-owners, accord ingly as you, the Minister of Commerce, shall pro pose to me. " Thirdly. In order to present, as far as is in the power of the State, a real source of profit to the ship owners, the conveyance of such goods as may be for account of the Government, shall be effected, in pre. ference, by native ships, regarding which I refer to my articular order of Ibis day. " The first and third of the foregoing enactments shall be put in force immediately ; but the second point only in three months after publication of this Order, which is to be made through the Collection of Laws, and according to which the needful is to be decreed. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILHELM." Egract of a Dispatch from Vice Consul Tithe, dated Konipbeeg, usel August, 1822. le SIR—I beg leave to draw the attention of yourEz cellency to several new laws and regulations of the Prussian Government, which ate highly detrimental to the British trade, and respecting which numerous com plaints bare been made to me by the Merchants and Shipmasters interested in the trade between this coun try and Great Britain. •" By the last tariff, a duty of one guilder per hundred weight is imposed on all sax, hemp, and tow, shipped in foreign vessels. This is probably intended as a measure of retaliation for the difference of import duty charged in Great Britain between goods arriving in British and Foreign vessels. This law has obliged seve ral British ships this summer to load flax at the low freight of thirty shillings per ton, instead of fifty shil lings, which they would have got, had not the mer chants been obliged to pay twenty florins pet ton export duty, because the goods were shipped in a British k vessel. As hemp and fax are, now that the corn