Star. — London, England, 1812-05-30 00:00:00

. • AMBRiCAN QULsTION: This day was pubiahed, pr , ce Is ed. No. sewn, A LEI: l'Elt fiom a CALM 013 SERVER to a Ni)::t.F 1.0 1), on the. SUBJEC I . of the late DECLA RATION, Isla ive to the ORDERS in COUNCIL. sold by J. M. litiehar.kon.Qpposita th e Royal Exchange; Gala and Qtnari, rnttst.r , row ; and all other Bookseller'. Watery also may be bad, price Si rid. • A ttERIP.4 OF LE rIERS FROM A COSMOPOLITE TO A CI EWGYMANi cortalning a temperate Inquiry into the babjee o. eli•pute: 'mew. en Garar DetrAlN and AMERICA; With rein .rks o.i 41 1 1..frontous opinion entertained in this coup• try, re . 4-nr- 0.; paittility of Auk:AKA towards Faanca; la. authe , .te doormats to prove the e ottrary. B.ROC.EEDINGS. ORDERS IN COUNCIL - • The Examination of Manufacturers, before the Fit n e l fl t :i o n g f t i l i m a"n o a u b se „ af rac C t Orthe nKm m sh os a t i m be a e te n li r a in l w e'll ~ deuce givea on the occasion : 0 SPIT ALFIELDS. Mr. John Honeywell; has been in silk manufacture in SpitalfielOs ev' r since 17'97. Spitalfields parish con tains; at) ut 5. KM looms; and in the other parts of contiguous parishes, there are about 12 t r 15,000 looms. For the last twelve months, one half of the wear- rs in' Spitaltelds parish out of employ ; lower orders in d. pls,rahle srate, almost all out of employ; receive parochial relict; their numbers much in creased. At last census 16,000 inhabitants, and 2(K$) poor; considerable private charity. Soup.kit cben gives S or 4000 quarts of soup per diem; dis tress much greater than in 1800 and 1801; quakers --take the clef part in carrying on the soup-kitchen ; light saes the only ones cheap enough for American anerliet. In heavy silks the French undersell us, A getting raw materials cheaper. If market were . open, should have lip( rtuniry to send considerable -quantities to America, 'Turned off many hands during last ten months. Distress greater within three or four months. He employed in 1807, 130 • looms, v hich have gradually fallen-off to less than 90 ;row. Knows no otter cause bur the . stoppage of .A tnerican market. Sik or 7080 weavers in his parish ; . but the labourers generally distressed for want of Mork : legh price of provisions may be one cause.— Near 480 poor in workhouse in the year 1810.11, • and nearly as many out-door paupers: some persons died for want, from not being relieved in time. De ' clines givieg . any political opinions. The French • have trot attained the way 'of making 44t air. If p' it; vete epee, and the French did oblige America to take oli.s, let a great proportion of ours would find-a market. Norte of our silks so cheap as French, If of the ,came quality. Some of ours go to the West belies, some ro Russia and PortugAl t knows of none going to South America. Silk coming lately from the Continent has been mostly thrown silk: one cause of distress. Bow silk particularly dear during last six months. Before the Orders in Council the Ame rican orders came twice a-year. American trade did not ontpl , y quite one half of the weavers. Distress • portly ham dearness—horn want of provisions, but .: chiefly from want of-work•. Pr, If Hale, has been in the silk line above 20 yea - rs, and is Parish Treasurer. . In 1800.1, a con. ariderable sum was voted by Parliament for relief : but,at that period most were in full employ. From ' • 20 to 30,000 men, women, and children,are employed . in silk line iq and about Spitalfields ; from the num : bee of workmen and labourers of all sorts there, they are always subject to parochial dist ress . Thi n k s not • above one-third of weavers In full employ. Fashion last winter of ladies wearing broad-cloth greatly dis . • sppLifited them, and velvets and silks remained on ' hand. Large importations of raw silks lately from • ,Bengal, Articles in which we succeeded aga i nst . the French were gauzes, crapes, Persians, slight - Barcelorias, &c.; now not made at all. Export t ra d e . to America has declined for 14 years. Soup Society the means of preserving many hundred* of children ▪ P rof lower 'orders fri in dying of want. Bengal impor. tat!ons have not been sufficient : generally not so, 7 7 good as the Italian. In 179$ thinks as many were • out of work as now, and 40,000 were collected fur them; but then, the'qoartern loaf was-only 7d. arid potatoes very low. Trade very good in 1807: very bad indeed last Christmas. Many distressed who • used to supply the weavers, such as slop-sellers, shoe makers, dine. Many Jew s , &c. have bought good s ' on band at low prices, and sold them so, and deluged • the country shops with them at 30 or 40 per cent. under market price. Five thousand bales of silk im. . Orted last week from Bengal. Mr. George Sieveneon, has been in silk trade 15 years. When trade was good, employed near 260 weavers in London, now about 100 ; and at Read , log 120, now from 90 to 100. Turned off his hands in 1811, and this year, from loss, of the market.-- Understands French silks have been lately smuggled over ; but has seen none in the market. His Ame • rican trade was only an eighth or tenth of his whole trade, of which the returns were £50,000 a-year: but the American articles being the low sort, em ployed a great number of hands. Home market also considerably diminished. Cannot tell the cause exactly. A general falling off of the trade. Ma nufactory for pelisses, &c. considerable about three springs ago. Export articles are made by boys, girls, and women : gauze he made at Reading. Had con siderable orders in December, 1810, from America, which are still on hand. Generally used 'to sell fancy stock twice a-year to the shippers : that sale has failed, The greater part of his men discharged were employed for home consumption: but a considerable part of what was manufactured for home consump tion in the first instance, used to go to America.— Articles for America employ a greater number of , hands in proportion to value than other articles.-- Fancy goods failing London market, used to be sold for America at reduced prices ; such goods as he made originally for London ; dismissed the London bands first; as, if be had dismissed those at Reading, lie could not have got them again. Conceives, that besides stopping of the Ame r i can tra d e , t h ere has been a general falling off. . rveratecliEsToo. lefr. Tins* Wiggle, of Manchester, has been a general exporter in the American trade of the princi, pal articles for iS years, and to the amount, in 1810, of iCIOO,OOO, but were smaller.in 1809, and smaller still in 1808, and think; not era large in 1807 as in 1810. In Jan. 1811, shipped nearly to i1:70,000. Since then, nothing to the United States. Considerable ameunt nt lrnillarie rhint. ...• is .••• A - a .... .•••••.. • to makeup from 200 to 500. fkods on hand for Arne: ican market to amount of 450,000, and no means of sending them out. Nankeens almost totally omitted in orders last tw• years ; and a smeller guantlty of cotton shining, and camhric muslin, they being mann ' faciared in America. Since Amt rican trade fell off, money went farther in home-market purchases. Don't recollect exchange ever at a greater discount than 10 per cent. against this country, or in favour of it, till the commencement of 1811: very seldom so high one way or the other. The rise above par was during the embargo. Before the last five yea; sit seldom varied more than 5 per cent. Ordinary course, so near par, that he generally took that as a standard. At the beginning of 1810 it was very near par, and gra dually declined—at end of 1810 it got to and thence to 10 below par. In March, 1811, it was 11, and gradually varied to 20; at close of 1811 it re covered a little ; and his remittances were at 15 to 17 per cent. till April, 1812—since then the discount has increased to 20 and 211 against England. Chiefly receives payment in bills of exchange on London or Liverpool. Within two or three years has exported at the rate of 20 to £BO,OOO to Quebec and Montreal. increased his shipments there since 1809, but in 1811 and up to this time, the market there has been glut ted in many branches. The heaviest parts of ship ments there have been sacrificed at auctions. French manufactures were plenty, and selling low in the United States, in January and February, 1812. Ad ditional cost to consumer in France within the last two or three years, in consequence or freight and in surance, he calculates to be a penny per pound of Havannah sugar, and something less on a pound of bowed Georgia cotton; on ashes 4s. 6d. per cwt. — Price of exchange with America has depended some times on amount cf American money ire London, and remitted from the Continent. At the Embargo stoppage of shipments diminished the deposits in London. Understands sarsnet to be one article in which The French undersell us. Insurance from Bos ton to Liverpool is 3 to 34- per cent. but to Bour deaux 20 to 25 per cent. In April his calculation of insurance from Boston to Bourdeaux and back again was 40 to 50 per cent. Nankeens chiefly made in the United States, at Providence, Rhode Island ; a different sort of nankeen from the Indian ; the latter is preferred by a genteel person, the labourers wear the British manufacture. Understands hats sre made at Boston, ,so as almost to exclude our importation. Sugar refineries are also established there—price of sugars has been so low here, that w ithin three or four years refined sugar has been sent to Boston, not withstanding American protecting duty. Glass houses, are established near Boston, and a manufac tory of sail-cloth and duck. Supposes American manufactures of certain kind% will increase, particu larly in farm houses ; and that if American produce become lower than before, they will supply their wants. In New England, coarser clothing in a great degree made at home. The greater duties on goods by British than by American bottoms one cause of the trade being mostly carried en in American sh;ps— but are also faster sailers, and carry the goods drier, &c. which gives them a preference. Insurance to France he understands to include all the risk on the cargo; and the tisk in port only arises from any dis position of the French Government to seize the goods. Bowed Georgia cotton, a little time back, could be bought in America at sd. per pound, and delivered at Bourdeaux (reckoning the sea-risk at one penny, and two-pence to three-pence for freight), at about 9J. per pound, not reckoning any French duties.— The same has been lately sold at Liverpool at from 1-Id. to 16d. By last accounts, British manufactures in America sold rather dear, and the French cheap, they being of a different description. The cotton dc livered at Bourdeaux at 9d. would be bought here at 7d. a pound, reckoning a freight of lid. and pre mium of insurance, &c. at 5 per cent. and no duty. Employm nt of American shipping is certainly in a gnat degree owing to way in which duties are taken. fen per cent. is added to value of British goods, and duty estimated on that. Thinks it not possible to substitute French for British manufactures in Ame rica. His exports fell off in 1808, and ceased on-the Ist of February, 1811. In 1810, there was a Groin-- able trade. British goods remain unsold, though there has been.no export since February, 1811. The American goods interfere with the sales—the open , ing of trade would not much - promote imports of 1 that Lind ; such as broad cloths at 10s. to 18s. a yard. Has attributed cheapness of French manufac tures ,n America to the regulation for exporting net amount of cargoes imported, in French produce and goods, which did not find a consumption ; but doubted whether American merchants could find market for such a surplus. If risk of capture taken off by repeal of Orders in Council, French goods .would go cheaper by the amount of the insurance ; the same as to England if America complied with French port regulations. Our goods would not come into competition with the French even then—they being of a different description, and could not be subst►tuted, but from necessity. Fine cloths have gone to America from France, but never heard of any cotton goods. Thinks whatever difference of price may arise, that France could furnish America only with fine cloths of woollen or cotton, what good cloths the French manufacture for exportation have been generally too much above ours in price. Appre hends France cannot compete with us in woollens of a low description. Great proportion of carrying trade between us and America is in hands of American ship-owners. Repeats, that American ships are pre ferable as being better sailers, though our's may be stronger and more durable. Mr. John Richmond Jajfray, of London, is in the American trade, and has shipped goods to the United States, and a small quantity to Canada and British North America. Was in North America recently, and in Canada in September, October, and Novem ber last, where there was a great deal of English goods—as also in New Brunswick. At the two last places he was unable to sell his goods without great loss. Driush goods in general were selling there at i a loss of 10, and up to 50 per cent. below prime cost and charges. Believes one half of the goods were sent with a view to get them into the United States, which the precautions of the United States prevented. Has imported nothing to the United States since the Non- Importation Law took effect in beginning of 1811.— Would resume shipments on repeal of Orders in Coun cil. He would certainly then make a very large ship- 1 ment. Has considerable orders conditional op that partieularTy. Should feel warranted in shipping on that repeal alone ; as he conceives that would occa sion a repeal of Non-Importation Law. His corres pondents merely allude to the Orders in Council, they do not specify particulars. They mean the order of November, 1807, more than that of January ; but be conceives that order merged in the order of April, 1809. Arrived in this. country only about 10 years ago. Has not read the recent declaration of the Bri tish Government—but has heard of it t tenour. Would ship, if America repealed the Non-Intercourse, even though the Orders in Council remained. Arrived in America at the end of August last. Has a partner at New-York, a citizen of the United States. Is a native of this country. Has been an exporter to America 3 or 4 years. The fall shipment of 1810 to America was perhaps as great as any preceding year. The stock then in America, he believes, to be almost en tirely used. A few pareels may now get in by smug gling. Use of expensive goods may be diminished by the distress there, among the merchants particularly. If market were open, he would ship a variety of wool len and cotton manufactures. Almost every thing that used to be shipped would be eligible there; some small Manchester wares he should not ship, they being ma nufactured in America. No important rivalry as yet from American manufactures. More French silks there than the country wants, so that they cannot be sold to the advantage of importers. Assigns same causes for quantity, &c. of French goods as former witnesses. Three quarters wide French sarsnet sold at 6s. 9d. French manufactures were entirely silks, cambrics, and a few laces. As to Saxon and Silesian manufactures, he can only refer to the time of open market, when we were not undersold. Woollen goods particularly were selling at great loss in Ca nada. In case of repeal of Order of April, 1809, should make shipments at his own risk. He should 'mitre, with precautions for inquiry when the ship got off New York. Would run the risk, without insuring against American seizure. A few low priced cotton goods, and stout cotton calicoes, are made in America. • EAST 11V.DIES. The greater part of the European prisoners in Java have been enlisted into our setvice, for the Company's Madras European Regiment ; and a local corps of 900 picked Javanese has been formed for service at . Batavia, under the command of Captain MEARS, who has distinguished himself by his zeal and activity, in forming and disciplining that corps. Desertions from the native corps are, as might be expected at the out set, very numerous, as will appear from an official re turn which we have obtained, being the weekly re port of the three divisions of Batavia, Sama rang, anti Sourabaya : Welterresden , Augu st s, 1811. Rump. Natives. • Dead - $ - - 21 Enlisted 18 - - 339 Discharged 13 . 16 - Dvierted _ i - - 241 It appears IT< m the same return, that at the above menticned date the total efficient force of every des cription, in Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya, amounted to— Staff - - 20.1 Sick • 22s Europeans • 2,267 S Amboy nese 1,474 Do. 11?„0 NatiVet 13,244 Do. • 808 Total . 17,891 1,157 With respect to the climate of Java, the private ac counts ate at variance a good deal with each other. Our army had suffered from sickness ; but that was more attributed to the exposure and fatigues which they had undergone, than to any local causes. They were not housed until after the 26th of August, nor was a single tent allowed to be landed. 'Vet it was not considered that the casualities were so nu merous as, under like circumstances, would have been expected on the continent of India. The city of Batavia, and its environs, for four miles around, are represented as magnificent beyond all description. « Compared with the villas here," says a cowespondent, 4g the best Calcutta houses are co S - temptible." FRENCH PAPARS. PARIS, MAY 20. PREFECTURE or Poucc—An Ordinance, dated the 19th of May, fixing the price of ry e and barley, contait.s the following dispositions : Reckoning from Ito-morrow, the 20th of May, rye brought to the Hall at Paris cannot be sold there if it comes from the Department of the Seine, above 34 francs the septier (12 bushels), Paris measure; and above 56 francs if it arrives from the neighbouring Departments.— From the same time, barley, brought to the Hall of Paris, cannot be sold, if it comes from the Depart ment of the Seine, for more than 25 francs the sep tier, Paris measure ; or above 26 francs 50 centimes, ,if it arrives from the neighbouring Departments. MAY 21.—0 n the Bth inst. the Prince Vice-Roy of Italy arrived at Dresden, at four in the afternoon. Some hours afterwards, this Prince went in one oi the Court carriages to Pilnitz, where he passed the' night. On the 9th he returned to Dresden, and at noon left it for Glogan and Thorn. MAY 23.—Two vessels laden with grain have en tered the port of Toulon, near which, "on the 13th, the signal was made for on enemy's ship of the line and three frigates. RENNES, MAY 17. The Imperial Decree issued at St. Cloud on the Bth inst. to determine the price of grain., has been posted to-day, with a Decree of the Prefect of the Department, which prescribes the hectolitre at being sold for more than 58 francs. This news has caused the most lively satisfaction, as, before this Decree, grain was sold at 65 francs the hectolitre. ALTONA, MAY 7. The Danish corps which is to occupy the right hank of the Elbe, under the command of General Ewald, has already arrived in our neighbourhood. These troops are in excellent condition, and amount to 15,000 men. An English flotilla cruxes at the Month of the Elbe, but dare not attempt cite - ring that river, for fear of exposhig itself to the fire of our gun-boats, which are placed there. LUONITT„ MAY a. 04 the 12th we expect here 12,000 men of the French Imperial Guard, who are going to the neigh lbourhood of Glogoti I they will be followed by 14,000 of the Guards, who are proceedin? from Spain, and THE EVENING STAR. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY SI PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Red.lloll.-4 per Cent. ?SR S per Ct. Cons. for sway SI H—Ditto foremost Gl* Spar Cont. 91ii—Sorip— pre—Loog Asia. 1517-tido Another day has passed etiohvatersobsvfeeioutlnioruaputrraabni:lgedAd.miti. ft. titration being formed I and, we have reason to ba. th lie i v s e d , a t y h , at n , oth up in t g o d th e e fin m iti o v m e mama i f is agreed by all parties that Earl Moms, as we an a l yesterday, is the fittest person to hold the A ce o f Premier, with the same consideration which attach e d to the late Duke of PORTLAND while in office. Ti n statements and observations of the Monier : ck w ai t and Morninz Pon of this morning, are deservi ng particular attention is the present posture of affairs; Motives of delicacy and respgct have 'lithe% prevented us from noticing the gross misreprev enti , tions which the Ministerial Papers are in the did ? habit of obtruding on their readers, as statemesect what has recently passed among the public ea , whom the country naturally looks up to ford" f w mation of a new Administration. It has btu and because uncontradicted by us, coddled, peated, that Opposition have rejected thalami, made to them by L., rd WELLESLEY. The Indi a directly the reverse. Lord Lis - rano,. and his 04. leagues did, indeed, most unequivocally, and an must say, liptartlly, considering who they are, rein the propo,als made to them by the Noble Marmisfcl a Coalition with him on public principles. Bat the answer of Opposition was dictated by a coatray spirit, and, as we are assured, was received and cold. dered by Lord WELLESLEY as satisfactory. If • progress has since been made towards the forma* of an efficient Administration, we dare pledge oor as. thority for the assertion, that the fault is not • is imputed either to the Noble Marquis, or to Mr. Cu. NING, or to Lords Gear and Gaauvius, of to is friends with whom they have consulted. The is, that his Royal Highness had not, up to a halm yesterday afternoon, authorized any of the diode. guished characters whom he has sent for to Cab.. House within this last week, either to form, or era to present to him the plan of such an Administratioa as could in any way satisfy the vote of the House d Commons. Until his Royal Highness shall be pleased to follow this old constitutional course, and Ida some person whom he may deem worthy of so Mgt a trust, and authorize him either definitively to fesi such an Administration, or to present him the AO of one, it is evident that no arrangement can be 44 It is with equal falsehood that the same papas are incessantly ringing the changes oa supposed it ferences in principle with regard to the mtuatlua d public affairs, between Lord WiLLASLIT and Mr. CANNING, on the one side, and Lords Gay sad GREW/MLR on the other ; while they are impudent!t holding out their own patrons as the fit and natenl associates of Lor4 CAsTLEREAOO and Mr. Causal in the construction of a new Ministry, from the ant conformity of their views and principles on all pan. With regard to the first, we could ask, what difla rences is primp& exist between the Opposition either Marquis W ILLLISLIT or Mr. CANNING, 00 de leading features of our present policy ? On tbeCa. tholic Claims, for instarce ? cit? the Spanish wart on the preservation of Peace with America ? ass the Bullion Question, so admirably stated end disco sed in Mr. CANNING'S speech last year ?" " Shades of difference on the polity of this at time measure, or of this or that degree of pursuing thl same measure, may and will exist among persd - who have not had the same facts to refer to for fa* ing their opinions ; but that diversities of this awe should be set up with a view of inflaming thee imp broad, fundamental differences of principle, is doer , right absurdity, and can only be the act,of men wlos in the desperation of seeing their beloved places to from their impotent hands, would keep the count/ in its present alarm, would perpetuate the ferslig which they have caused, would be ready to see tba , etsuntry become a province of France, and wadi render the Crown not worth the Reoser's waif - *hen he gets it. But *hat shall we say terdstehillt ed conformity between these Ministers, the rn*Pw Mr. PJNCZYAL and the Marquis WILLIDLST l grik his Lordship this is not a question of mere spoke tion. He has tried them ; he has worked with bee" Through many a painful hour he had. Wen oaf and Labouring to infuse into them some portion d im own spirit, to animate the sluggish mass 01 th e "' ;inky With some spark of Promethean hest , 11111 . thwarted and counteracted on all sides, and want as it were, by their cumbrous inaptitude, he fa forced out of their association, and absolutely sow Pe tha ll t ed the to bo re l s d ig a n nd in im h here noticed, are made not so much with a her P i p is ud ow en n t defence. assertion s impeding any union which may nos be furor s _ among the leading actors in the public concerts,. .11 0 their conduct hereafter, whether acting as a Mtehe with a view of misrepresenting and calummatlefl a b e or as an Opposition ,-.. 1f no intelligible step V/Ththtrinuthboti: taken for the formation of a Government Weisel' meeting of the House Mn, S. WoßTurr will give notice of ar!ir this day, it is hel iele4 •_. hi Sbil subject."—Mewing Cliroxide. .. Wools" . The Marauis W • a