Star. — London, England, 1817-07-23 00:00:00

*1,047 lbs. whiet, by progressive imrorts, had in ernased in the year 1302 to 2,‘2,61,1E;: 4 lbs. 4' The East India Company's sales of I ttl;go, in iccessive years were, 1n 1f.03 2,n70,9k2 i!es. X 771,137 1 1 404 Y. 5 3 ,4114 1,04i,140 IPO3 3,4513,516 1,141,15/4 1 So 6 2,2'..;,! Sr; 174,3•:7 yo 7 5,115,315 I,h 3';,a14 J hob Y0ci11,11,7 711,153 9 4 7y7,:95 Islo 5,2i2,123 10451,4 0 ,9 xll 2,0h4,7 1 39 476.566 5,17 , 4277 1,521,273 3 4,197,997 1,370,650 ix! 4 4,637,111 1,/41.3,0'1• 1s 6,158,443 1,939,766 1 ••• I G 6,975.9.;i1 1,714,35 ." T uli.4, from remote antiquity, is known to have h wt hteitlul in the must valtosble productions, and if acknt.a lodged, from their first introduction into a.:etrope, to have. excelled in the Silk, Cotton, and ether manutactures ; her productive powers Are equal t any supposable demand upon her and itidus t v ; her ric!..sr provinces arc British: ant .1 it be i idced desirable to consumtnate the slave abolition— i it be indoe.: desirable to assure to Great Britain the c unmated of tlx market of Etat opt., associated as Oat object is, with the trade in manufacturtd gooJs; if it be desirable to asstue to Great Britain the undis puted and bloodless empire of the seas ; the E-ist India trade, through :he medium of the British car-, tier ougbt to receive nil the impulse coniistent with the prat: ctior. ut British West India interests, the preservation of whic;l is demanded by every conside raficn nct inv firm' the further importation of slaves. " h.: flower cat the United States of America re s tits fly from Planting and ishivigation, and since ti:e acicnctelecigmcnt cf the Amer:can independence. the current nt the British policy has in a high degree b •en favourable to :American interests. " Thme S:4tes wl:en British Colonies, were pot se;sed of the British Market for the produce if their Plantations. Their change from Provincial allegi• ance to liidepeadence and Commercial rivalry, has not been sufficiently maiked, and the high rate of freight incident to the monopoly of the East India C' u patty, too long prevented competition between tote Asiatic aad American Planter, and precluded the British People burn cuidinuing to draw from within their own Empire their accustomed supplies. The Cotton Wool, Rice, and Tobacco of America under dif,ie it system, wonid have found cheaper substi ti tcs in 'lit Cotton, Rice, and Tobacco of India. Un Jer the relaxx.ion, during die late war in cf that principle of public law, by which the tra ' • weep Europe and her Colonies, is in time of vas restr'cte,t, as to the several States, to the modes uud. a winch such trade is conducted dining peace, sod under the advantages which were conceded to I.er by the Commercial Treaty of 1794, particularly by the 13th Article of that Treaty respecting the AMerican intercourse with British India, the noviga- . tion of the United States has been equally favoured; when the Orders of Council of November 1607, were issued, the Europe in Market was supplied with Tro pical productions, chiefly through the medium of the American Flag, esnecially with the productions of the East ; at a period too, when by a gross anomaly, the individual British Merchant was virtually ex cluded from the East India trade. " Such are some of the benefits which have been enjoyed by the American, in preference to the Bri tish Asiatic and European subject ; the effect has been felt in the recent ceinflict between the two Coen tries, and in that conflict it is easy to discern the seminal principle of future wars, the frequency and duration of which will depend upon their relative naval power. Great Britain is, then, directed by the best maxims of policy, by Councils which Raw from the heart to the head, by Councils which are alike pri:mpied by feeling and by the understanding, to . extend her Eastern Agticulture and Commerce. " The ;collations which are at present presumed to he necessary two that purpose, and to ii.crease and coos firm the iliguence of Great Britain in the Mar. bet of Europe, are necessarily comprehensive in their plan. In number and character, they are few and s " It is suggested that direct intercourse in British ships be permitted between the several British Presi dencies in India and the Ports of Europe, for Sugar, 'Coffee, Rice, and all such other articles as upon due consideration shall not be excepted, subject only to the following conditions: '• That the ship shall touch at Gibraltar or Malta, if botind to a port south of Cape Finisterre, or at Falmouth or Cowes, if bound to a port north of that point ; not to pay any duty, but to shew that she is n milord agreeably to British law. " And that she shall not receive for a destination beyond the limits of Europe, any return cargo, except at Malta, Gibraltar, or a port of the United Kingdom. " That Cotton Wool and Rice be imported from the British Settlements in the East Indies, into the United Kingdom, free of duty ; that the importation of Tobacco from India be permitted at a reduced duty, and that the free transit of all articles, the growth and manufacture of the European Continent, be permitted by way of Great Britain, under the provisions of the Acts commonly called the Ware ttousing Acts, so far as such articles are already the subject of direct trade between Europe and other pans. " If it be objected— " Ist. That a trade so permitted in Sugar and Crffee might operate to the prejudice of the British West India Planter. " 2t.1. That by the proposed direct trade, the busi ness of the British ports would be diminished. " :M. That the tree importation of Rice might in teile.re with domestic Agriculture, and that a duty is therefore expedient, by way orregulation. 44 4th. That the duty on Cotton Wool is low, and upon all Cotton, exported for foreign use, paid by the foreign consumer. 14 sth. That the United States of America, receive British Goods, in payment for their Plantation pro. duce, and that the Asiatic is to be paid in money. " 6th. That the introductirn of Foreign Manufac tures, even to be reshipped, would bring such Ma nufactures into mischievous competition with the Bri. tish Mattufattures. " It is anstored to the objections, in the order in which they stand : " 1. That East India Sugar and Coffee are al ready conveyed direct to the Continent of Europe, in 1 ortign ships, and that the home consumption of East India Sugar might be di-allowed, whenever the price of British West India Sugar should render such regulation necessary to the protection of the West India Planter. " 2. That it is essentially, in the nature of Coat.. mace, to avoid unnecessary charges, and a slight observation of the present state of Commercial rela tions is sufficient to shtw, that, if Great Britain will not curry on a direct trade iar certain descriptions of conanodi!ies, other Nationsirill so bade. " 3. That it is known by experience, that the Bri. tish Poor will not substitute Rice for I - loos:hold Bread, if the litter be within their means of purchase. Anctil Bread be nut 'within their means of purchase, the voice of Nature dictates that the supply of other food sl.ould be permitted at the cheapest rate. " That Cotton Wool is the basis of the must ext.risive of the British Manufactures. That the Cotton Fabrics constitute the principal cloathing of the poor ; and therefore cannot be pi 0. ducei too cheap. That the efforts of the people of the United Slate► of America, and of all Europe, are strongly directed to competition with Great Britain, in Cotton goods, and that it is therefore inexpedient to levy any duty on the raw material to be purchased in a state of manufacture by the Foreign consumer. " 1. That the efforts which are in progress In the United States of America, to establish usanutactoties, plainly indicate the contingent nature of the demand of those States for British manufactures. Titat the demand of Great Britain uprn the Agriculture and Navigation of the United States, tends to augment their Manufacturing ani Commer cial Capital, and consequently to accelerate their second independence, an independence of ear British Manufacturer. " That the continued dependence of the British Manufacturer upon the Cotton Plantations of Ame rica, is to be deprecated, as one of the greatest cads to which he cart be exposed. " That the losses and misfortunes which arose from that cause during the American Embargo, and American War, were very considerable. "I'llat dep::ndence upon that source of supply, would enable the United States of America, at any time, to cause distress and dismay throughout the manufacturing counties. " That when the United States shall have esta blished the Cotton Manufactory, a double incentive to War with Great Britain will be klt L.—namely, in the conscious power of distressing her, by withholding the supply of the raw material, and of underselling her in foreign markets, when deprived of that supvly. " That the demand of America for British goods, is not confined to the Plantation districts, nor in those districts confined to barter; that even if Great Bri tain did not purchase any American produce, Ame rica would be encouraged still to deal extensively withTher, if offering the cheapest Market, and that the speculation of some increase, or diminution of Ametican demand for British Manufactures, cannot be allowed to interpose to the prejudice of objects in comparably more important. That the Asiatic dues purchase some of the Eu ropean Exports, and that a considerable proportion of the cost in England of the raw produce of India is constituted by freight, paid in support of British Na vigation and by profit to the British Merchant. • 4' 6. That permission to assort a Cargo in Great Britain from her own productions in combination with all the other productions of Europe, would in fluence very powerfully the direction of Foreign pro perty to British consignment.— " That it is well known that extensive consign ments of foreign produce are made to the Continent of Europe in consequence of the request for the Con tinental Manufactures, which consignments, upon every other consideration, would be directed to the Ports of Great Britain. " That the Foreign demand for British Manufac tures, must depend essentially upon the relative qua ' lity and price. " That the Trade of Transit, as proposed, would, by the increased attraction of Foreign Capital, tend to augment the demand for British Goods in all branches in which competition can be maintained, and that if competition cannot be maintained, the demand on the part of the unrestricted Consumer must necessarily cease. That such Trade would give employment to British Ships on their return trom the Ports of the Continent of Europe, and again on their outward voyage from Great Britain. " Of the productions of the Tropical regions of the Globe, Sugar is of the most considerable exported value as it is unquestionably the most bulky. " From the annual value of Sugar, refined and I consumed in the raw state, in Great Britain, not less than Six Millions Sterling, it may be inferred that ' the demand of the Northern and Southern divisions of America, and the Continent of Europe, is an ob ject of great magnitude.—That to supply that de mand, labour to a VAR extent most be brought into action, a large Commercial Marine be created, and important interests and relations be established : Coffee, Rice and Tobacco are respectively interior to Sugar, in extent of value and bulk, but claim similar consideration in their relative proportion. Cotton Wool is not only important as an Agri cultural production, and as the subject r , f extensive employment to Shipping, but as the staple of the most extensive of all the Manufactures. The annual i l consumption of Cotton Wool in Great Britain upon lan average of five years ending on the 31st day of December, 1814, is 340,000 bags, equal, at a low valuation, to st miilions sterling. " Tile greatest Marine carrier of those bulky and valuable products is most prepared for future contest, or is capacitated to controul Nations into Peace ; the latter is the high and glorious privilege of Great Britain, if she duly improve the advantages offered in her Indian Provinces. " From Asiatic soil, Sugar and Coffee arc to be produced to keep in check the plantations of the Fo reign West laJia Islands, the Brazils, and other parts of America ; from Asiatic soil, Cotton, Rice, and Tobacco, are to be produced to maintain cons petiti-in with the produce of the United States of America. " In Asiatic Ports are to be freighted the Ships by which, only, the Navigation of Foreign States can be prevented from great and rapid increase.— Upon Asiatic soil only are the advocates of the Slave Abolition to gain their final victory: Upon the Bri tish Asiatic Policy in the cl.villepement of the un bounded resources of British Asia, depends the ascen dancy of We British Raw." THE EVW.NING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1817. PRICE OF e - POCKS THts DAY A 1 TWV.I.VE O'CLOCN 3 ktee.uced B:4,ll—Ctruitsls 432:1 4 prr Cert . pt r 11411 k L.r. :lo.tivitivi I—ltv!itt Butid4 110 1 ' pr. tat:beeper 13.11% Sta. 34.. yr. It) the STAR of the 1 ltl: inst. we informed the Public :rf a report current on the Cent;r•.enr, that, it eppositirar to the Tre,ity of 1815, by the lnni A n islands were placed under B:ickh protecti , ar, borne Treaty was neg , elating for the delivery of Parga to the Turks. By the Treaty of March, ISO°, between Russia and the Porte, the possessions formerly bel urging to the Venetians in European Turkey, were as•:igned to the latter, on certain conditions ; among which was one that the inhabitants, who were all Chris tians, should retain all their religious ptivileges, and that no MAitometans should even be suffered to ac quire property or be domiciliated among them. All the places referred to in the Treaty, except Parga, were, in consequence, then delivered up to the Turks; but instead of adhering to the terms of the Treaty, the people were every where abused, and treated as subjugated slaves.—ln other words, the Treaty not having been executed faithfully, ceased, iftto facto, as t o any who still had the power to refuse submissions without terms, and in violation of conditions solemnly ratified. Even the places retained by the Turks are held in violation of good faith, and yet they have the impudence to require another Christian town, now under our protection, to be delivered up to them a s A price for their acquiescence in our retaining the lonian Islands ! !—But what is more distressing, re port says that the British Cabinet (but we will Hot believe the disgraceful tale) lends an ear to this inso lent demand, and is now actually in treaty for the surrender of a Christian Community to the domino. tion of the enemies of the Christian name. The report that Britain listens to tlis proposal has filled the Christians, in those places, with consterna tion and dismay. Parga, in particular, puts forth the most urgent and well-founded claims to be re tained under British protection. Situated on a rock lICAT the shore, on the continent of ancient Thesprotia, eight leagues distant from the southerly extremity of Corfu, this town has constantly baffled the efforts of the Turks, who, for several ages, repeatedly attemp ted to reduce it to their power. As early as 1450 it follored the fate of the Corey reans (the ancient came of the ;rhabitants 61 Corfn), who voluntarily placed themselves under the protec• tion of the Republic of Venice. The Venetian Go vernment Easing ceased to exist in 1798, the French t-ok the lonian Islands ; and Parga, as one of their dependencies, shared the same destiny. In 1800, both were ocenpied by the Allied Armies, who drove the French from their insular and continental pos sessions. A few years after, Russia, by the Treaty of Tilsit, resigned once more the lonian Islands to France, and Parga was again comprehended within the cession. United and consolidated under a free Government by the Treaty of Paris in 1813, those Islands and their dependencies were placed under the special protection of Great Britain, who bound herself to secure to their inhabitants their property, commerce, and independence. If the weak forces of the Venetian State were suf ficient for nearly four hundred years to retain posses sion of Parga ; if the Russians, though at that period the Allies of the Turks, maintained their right over that city ; and even the French, notwithstanding a similar alliance, retained it in their power, it can cer tainly be no-very difficult task for England to resist the intrigues of Act PAL:HA and the importunities of the Turks, in a case in which not only justice is on her side, but her fairs is pledged in a double manner to preserve the Pargans trum the revenge of the ore and the yoke of the other. They have, in fact, note particular claims to our protection than the Grecian Islands themselves, as the following statement will shew In ISIS, when the destruction of the French army, in its retreat from Moscow, had emboldened Au to act on the offensive, this enterprising Chieftain as sembled a considerable force to besiege Barge, trusting that as Corfu was strictly blockaded by a division of our fleet, no relief could be sent from that island, to rescue the longed-for prey from his grasp. Apprised of his hostile intentions, and ani mated by the heroic spirit of their forefathers, the Greeks of Parga removed with much difficulty and danger all their old men, women, and children to Corfu, and retained only those who had strength . to fight, and hearts to die for the independence of their country. Thus prepared, they met the enemy within their walls, and drove him back in all his attacks, .with the loss of eight thousand men, and Au's own nephew, who perished in the contest.-- j Fresh numbers, however, poured in to press the siege, and cut off from all communication with Corfu; and unable to mair.tain themselves any longer, they applied to the Commander of the English fleet, gave him tl:e keys of their city, and placed themselves under the protection of Great Britain. This was not the work of the French garrison, but of the pev'ple themselves. Their surrender was accepted ; the Bri tish fh t g wo planted on the toners varier they Lad sk, bravely defer.dcd; an ill - 74121n fOlt thrown into our hands; and An P. r.;:is,!-. his tro .ps, fiacd with disappnintr.icilt :tnc! Is it to such a man, still more celehrated for t; horrible cruelties which lie has triton:4nil, u - 11:1-..-• - force or deceit pr: cured hilt; pos,:::.i.sirin of a - a-d spirited peni-le, than fc; his talerrs, arzl is heroic inlta!litanz , . s: . : to be ti 1 '— Art the riat.sacres l'rev-!i1 arid , arct a v:hole people to be again -sc:ificed revcege of a merciless despot ' Soeh tally be the fate of the Paeans, it me shi-.uli.! ; draw froo them the pretection we ;are 1.,. gaged eerselves in 1813, and by zoletrn Treat: , ISIS, to exterd to their city. Dzsientrion too mild a punishment for their Itt , eury r Alt ; • places, the male populatit.n vini.l,l Se rut zo sword, and the females sold for slaven, (greed to prostitute themselves to the suldicts if Let it not be said that he would be restramed by conditions from visiting with his vtuge inc e a pei;ple that once defeated his :unties Ile had made and sworn treatis milli all his odic:- vic tims, but no sooner had they laid down their arn.s am] submitted to Ilk power, titan he rave his oazlts to the wind, and whole delui!ed cities to the sward. This is a consideration which, we tra:,t, will have some weight in the deliberations of Governme:A. W e might add many others connec:ed with local and political advantages which must render the po:ses6on of a town like Parga, on the shores of Albania, of considerable importance to this country. rat we think it suf f icient to appeal to the justice and huma nity of those who have conducted ouriaffitirs, and as sisted in regulating those of other nations, with _o much wisdom and liberality. They will lint abandon a brave and confident people to certain ruin ; and the heroism of the descendants of Ancient Grevce, receive its crown from the sympathy of bezut: humane Britons. The Park Papers of Sunday arrived this marnicg. The Duchess of Bunn- continues convale , ceir. The Duke of NVLLLINGIVN attived in Pad.. on Sunday night. The Tribunal r.f . Correctional Police I:as com menced the trial of the Members of ilie Secret Se.!- ciety, called the Lion Dorma:a. T 11- .ICE of acm:a lion states, that the As,ociation was, early in January, 1816, denounced to the Police, as bein; with projects against the Government-1!:,g ;:s chierc were two persons, named IloLuxii.LE (a cousin BONAPARTE) and O . GNET--th.a th it no:etiogs were held under masonic forms ; and every persoi initiated took a solemn oath Bovsr. ret and his family. tiou.sytig.t:, iu !.:S dektice, alle l zes that the Association was formed so far bail( as the year 180.5, and that it had for its object nothing hut acts of charity and beneficence. The determiii.i,i,in of the cause has been dderred for eight days ; bor, from what has already transpired, it has lost mu:l of its importance with the public. One Colonel BRUN, said to have been the leader of the insurrection at Grenoble, has been art eLrted at Genoa, when on the point of embarking with five of his accomplices for America. A letter from Cadiz states, that the troops, wl•ote departure for America had been postponed tin 4CCOllrt of the late seditious attempts ia Cataloni.:, had begun to be re-ernttaiked. One division in three traJ escorted by two frigates and a brig, has alreaJy set sail to reinforce the Royal Army in Peril, and it thought probable that another Expedition v.:;i b dispatched to the same destination before the. eli,t Summer. The safe arrival of the last Cunvoy froat the ilavannah, had not a little reanimated the pu!.:i; spirit. General LACY has arrived at Majorca, where Le f: to wait the pleasure of the KING, as to the execut:•4l of the judgment pronr•unced a ga ine,t hi m . has yet transpired :is to the fiit.:pf t7ie oth_r indivi duals involved in the same condernnat:on. The Captain of a ship attivc,l at Mareilles, w')e) left Tunis the 18th of Kay I.tsr, roporti that War had positively been declared b::tween Tonis and Algiers, but that no ho6tifiti:n had ;et taken place. The Rhine has comoletdy eve:flown its banks Rheinsheim and PhillipLbarg, and has de•Aroyed the hcpes of the harve.t in twat quart , :r. The ion:, datinn, it is said, will i e evea more di::ait.:•,:u.; to country, than the scarcity of ISW, French Funds, II)CA July, 66 fr. 70 c. Saturday last the trill of char:;ed wi:l. administering unlawful o:Ahs at t;lasgow, C.t:TIC ea before the High. Court of Justiciary, at F'liaburg! . .. In another part of our Paper we have given Oe fir.t Jay's proceedings, clown to the him: wi:irhti.e Mail left Edinburgh. This trial excites considerable interest in Edinb-argil, iron. some of its peep:jar features, will receive an equal degree of at:ention ca this side of the Tweotl. The PniNcr.ss 112 s accoucrietham is expected in Oct, ber. Louts XVfil. wi:ea he was in!Orrned Duchess of B!:!IP.1 'oven delivered of a icmal.: child, is said t.) have c:::!.:irned, with a sigit—• This i 5 what I ought to. have tn7peettfd :s 1 ln a mood, JAME': V. cf tv:lca info7owd ot birth of hir only child, the :nfor. , ;.r.a::: Q 4 Cen remarked to ele by -t' tidcrr, th a .7:e Cro , .vn !Ltd CO?)! into the family wit!, a female ; and piltheti:..:lly added—" It will pc) o , :t with a w,.;:nan atso." KJ NC, W!,:. 1! ct,