The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

■ V f .. • r 7P7,4 I ... to. sd. to 3c eirl. Mr. Price sold hi• Merino* wool at 44. 4id. per lb. and 4s. was refused for &feriae rather inferior quality. •• At Koss Fair, on the 201 h last. Ityelarnlirind- ed sold at 2.. I lid., and Merino cold at 4s. Id. " Thetford F.ir was very fully attended, both.by tellers and buyPrs, and business was transacted with reat spirit, Nod the sales t oo k pl ac e i n the room.— NIG Coke offered his wool at 3s. per pound, which • - was imnrdiately accepted, hedecla wag that he should not sell t.o low if it was net sold In the room. The Roof of the prime flocks sold readily at the same price, and some about a halfpenny less. We have Ito account of the coarser wool. • " The price of wool of the same quality in Suffolk end F. es, it is expected, will be nearly the same. But the account of the Wool bleetiugs have not yet reached us. " The Meeting at Dorchester, in Oxfordshire, will nut take place' tilt the 29th. But I learn that 24. .14c1. per pound Is asked for the coarse sort of Gloucester and Liiceater mixed, and 2s. lid. re fused, or hest Southdown wool - See no reasoo why o, should not sell at least as high as it does in other counties. viz. three shillings per pound, sod in pro portion for wool not equally fine. I am sorry to find that some wool growers, contrary to agreement, sell their wool before the fair, by which practice they injure the sale in general, and seldom do themselves any good. " Some principal wool-staplers in London speak • of a great demand for Southdown wool,. and appear surprised at it, as the foreign 'wool is coming in very fast ; and they affirm that 0,300,000 lbs. of foreign • wool have been imported into London and Bristol. • More the Ist of January last, and consequently con. chide that wool will not coutinue to bear any advance en the last year's prices, so that their opinion is, • that British wool will, not retain its present price, end I am disposed to agree in that opinion, if an on restricted importation of foreign wool should be con. tinned." • The Report having been read, the Meetingnnani. imonsly requested that their Thanks might be given te n • Lord Sheffield, for the valuable information he had • afforded them. As usual little business was doge in the Meeting room. It is much to be regretted that Such should continue the case, when the contrary practice, which has succeeded so well at Thetford, has been freqeently end strongly recommended. Mr. Moon offered his wool at 3.. per lb., which is moderate, ootisidering that his wool is of the prime quality, . end that the Southdown wool, which readily sold elsewhere at that price, was derived from his flock. it is supposed that a few sales afterwards took place, end Wit inferior wools sold from 2s. Bd. to 2s. 10d. Many of the very respectable wool-staplers who usually attended the fair were present, among whom were Mr. Dyer, Mr. Gardiner, Messrs. Drew and Nonage, &c. &c. • The following Is a correct accusal of the prestos prices of apanish E.treoseura. or Seville Wool, 31. 6d. to 4s. 3d. per lb. Soria. ikon.- in (lit arartet: liegovias, 41. 6,1. to 51. 3d. do. Lt"nrstit, bc. 6d. to 6s 6d. do. There are wit. Is in the .itarket of the latter dais. for "thick ti. 94. ti regaled $ but the chief of thio claw of wool may be bought at b,. 9d. to 6.. 31. CONTINENTAL MANUFACTURES. -...-- SEQUEL OF THE ANSWER of HIS HIGHNESS PRINCE • HARDENIIERO TO THE PETITION OF THE MANU FACTURERS OF THE PRUSSIAN PROVINCES ON THE RHINE. (C..oclteded from ottr Paper of ynterday.) - " The possibility of maintaining foreign competi tion within such limits, that the advantages of it would not be exceeded by the inconveniences, has been scrupulously examined, with reference to the bases of this knowledge. The difficulties that spring - from the situation of the Prussian States, which are dispersed over a vast space, and from the extent of their frontiers, as well as the advantages that might result from the notion of several States in a common system of manefactures and commerce, must have ,been the better understood by the Government, in proportion as they are founded ou relations easy to be embraced. " It is in constantly having regard to all these considerations that we have conducted to matu►ity a plan of which the King has recently ordered the execution, sod conformably to which a line of Cu!. toms will embrace the frontiers of the three western provinces of the State—will assure a just preference to national industry, by duties imposed in just pro. portion on foreign products which may compete v►ith ours—and will facilitate and protect the liberty of commerce with the eastern provinces, by a rigor. ous surveillance against the mixture of the products of foreign manufacture. It is entirely in the spirit of this plan to use reprisals against, or make returns to, foreign Governments ; whether on account of the restrictions that they shall impose on commerce, or the facilities that they will grant to it ; and to en. gage neighbouring States to smite themselves for men. sures of common utility. " I believe I ought, above all, make you observe, how much more the prosperity of manufactures and of commerce depends upon the spirit which animates the individuals devoted to these two professions, than on any particular measures taken by the Government. There is a mode of conducting manufactures and commerce, which may, for the moment, appear very advantageous to individuals, but which bears, never theless, in itself a germ of ruin, which the power and wisdom of Government cannot prevent from forcing out of its way. Usually the operations of manufac tures are proportionally more perfect and advantage. one, ae they are formed on a greater scale. This pro. portion often induces the undertaking of enterprises so extensive, that they are stopped only at the point where the impossibility of sale puts limits to them. " But those who see their enterprises stopped by these natural limits, are not always just enough to acknowledge that the competitors whose activity pro. duces them, act upon the same views, and by the same right as themselves ; and they are therefore often tempted, in additiOn to means suitable and just to obtain a superiority, to employ others for the pur pose, which are neither just nor adapted to their end, and whose consequences recoil on their author, with out the State possessing power' to protect him from - • • . t L - •• ' TR It STATES! f‘ The obstacles teat salvia , a certain ftelat enetitnt , Ws are, limit the inbabitaetsl of foroigu coentr i tis !tarn to maoefictere tbecnielves what id* hive i. ;Kato purchesed frog)" Ike foreigner ;-.thrit. Otter people begin likewise to frequent the same market, sod to enter lute competition in. purchasing; and. finilly, that changes introduCed into usages and in. dustrious relations, diminish the consumption of ar. titles. In all these cases, there are greet losses to he sustained by those who have sacrificed - considerable capitals, in the hope that relations so variable in their nature would not undergo any change. Bat the State cannot afford indemnity to loose; of this de. scriptioo." CHYLON. EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM CEYLON, DATED 14 %nu! 3. 66 taut night's Gazette contains a Proclamation of Martial Law throughout the whole of the interior; arid there is a General Order of the 26th nit I think, directing that no treasures or ammunition should he removed from Revakella, Ariaavella, Altapeteye, or Amerapore, posts between Colombo and Candy, withoot an escort of twenty mete. All these posts have been lately strengthened from hence, and mil expect that the three. Provinces, called •the Sma ll Four, and Three Corks, will openly declare theakt selves against us very soon. The force in which the rebels .haveapptared round Candy' Isms induced, the Governor to call in his scattered detachments, and to concentrate his force in Candy : he means to keep Builds also. I conclude, from the apparent movements of the rebels, that they intend to change the seat of war, and to divide our force; the Des., %%we of Oovah occupying part of our troops in Lower Ouvah, and theieabouts, and the Pretender, or some of his adherents, menacing our communice. tions between Colombo and Candy. The rebels show no want of firearms or ammunition.: they now *ring forward their gingals. We trust that the melancholy situation to which the British interest .on-this island has been reduced, by the ignorant and impolitic measures which have beyn pursued in the 'Candle's country, will induce hit Majesty's Minis. ter, to make an immediate change of men and mea sures. As long as oar present System is observed, no solid tranquillity can be expected ; ,and the Can. diens will have no confidence in our professing's, as long as they are to treat with the outliers of the Candian Convention. We cannot help . comParing . the wretched want of talents displayed in the local government of this island, with the able and liberal policy of Lord Hastings, and must sincerely regret that our Government is not played under his con. trout." OAY AT ONE' O'CLOCK 4 per Cent. S 7 5 per Cent. Navy 106 India Hon& 94 93 p Long Ann. 94 Exchequer Hills 18 19 p eftICE OF STOCKS Tit Rank Stock 976 3 per Cent. Ned. 77j 3 per Cent.Contolt 71 Si per Cent. 87i Comas for Acc. 771 ~~y r ' ' -~`.-- THE 3T4rE9m.AN. LtINDON: FRIDAY, LUO US? 7, 1818. -^+1111..-- It would appear by the accounts from Madrid that the Spanish Cabinet have not received any official de tails from Gen. MORILLO for a long time, whatever itkfriends in this country pretend to have received, and that the state of affairs in Mexico is far from what has been represented. Letters have been re• ceived in the Spanish Capital, of the 11th of Jane, which admit that the Insurgents had• again appeared in considerable numbers on the road to Mexico, from whence an escort had just arrived with three millions of dollars, which were to be put on board the Sibyl frigate, one eut of many others lying at Vera Crez, and proceeding to Jamaica. It appears by the communications received from Ceylon, one of which we insert, that the state ¶if affairs in that island is more alarming, and fraught with confusion, than at ■ny former period. Mar. dal Law was proclaimed on the (2d of March, throughout the whole interior of the country ; a General Order having Men previously issued, di. recting that neither money nor ammunition should be removed from certain posts therein wilco. larked, without an escort of twenty men.-- The Governor was obliged to concentrate his force the neighbourhood of Candy, where his various detachments had been threatened by the natives.— The Dessawe of Ouvah occupied part of our ttoops in Lower Ouvah ; while the Pretender, as he it called, or some of his adherents, hung epos( our communications between Candy and Colombo. • The natives are represented to have got together both aminuoition mod arms. The most melancholy pro spects seem to haunt the minds of our countrymen, whose interests are involved in those of the British settlement at Ceylon. Some of our cotemporaries are taking up the sub ject of Arbuthnot and the persons who were executed pursuant to the sentence of a Military Court-mar tial, on the southern frontier of America, but they are endeavouring to discuss sh• matter totally in the dark as to any of the facts adduced on the trials. --A Morning Paper gives the copy of a let ter from Arbuthnot, " to an Officer of high rank in this country," about three month. before his execution, which merely prove.; that he was a principal acting party among the Creek Indians at that time; that several of the Chiefs of the Indians, whom we bad drawn into the late war with America, had written to our Commanders for ammunition, and that they expected to have such supplies afforded them by as s and that Arbuthnot did not be. •1 .. • • - 4110. 1. t_. ; • V t Hiritt'Aat the incroachmenti ape ; •• • tory..by the Americans were vial \ Of the American Government, butt to him that they were in consequence of 'false and improper sales, end the desire of the General. (GAtuss and JACILION) to get possession of In dian lend. One would imagine that the Americans- could be in no great want of land to occupy, and that they would find It * more their busi ness and interest to protect what they had al ready brought into culture than thus to seek to root out, at all the risks of savage war, the poor Indian from his paternal inheritance. Bat we say that ,no jest opinion can be formed of the justice of the sentence upon these onfortonate men from such irrelevant information. We ought to think as favourably as possible of the conduct of our coun trymen, but in met like these we must have well authenticated facts to form our judgment by, before we venture on condemnation. We disapprove of hasty military executions, even on the most irrefragable testimony of guilt. But whilst we ac knowledge and assert the popular • right of freely investigating and judging of military ope ration. and military conduct, as inseparable from -she right of suffrage, by which those who bestow mi litary rank are themseves clothed with the .power to do so—uhilst we would be the last to surrender that right, we most say that the degree of crime for which offenders are commonly, and without commiseration condemned to death, bears no proportion to the enormity of that, of which he is guilty who educates a whole tribe to murder , and rapine, pots the lout runtents into their hands, and even heads the binds which have slaughtered fathers, brothers, wises, and helpless infants. f- }gable terra. the knOirledge hat it appeared The French Papers to the 4th inst. have reached us. There is not a word in . them respecting the expected trial for the recent conspiracy. The different con tingents of the Army of Occupation will, it is said, be inspected by the Duke of AVELLINorou, in the coarse of the present month. An important annonce is made in the'e Papers relative to the dispatches re cently transmitted from Buenos Ayres to the French Government. It is stated that they contain overtures, for the establishment of a free commercial intercourse between France and the United Provinces of La Plata. Whether the French Government is ■t liberty to ac cept or act upon these overtures, is more than wp can say ; but such an intercourse cannot but be very desirable to the French merchants as well as to our own. The King of NAPLES has issued a very sa lutary orrdinance for abolishing ti , e feoffment-trust, which had acted as a bar to the alienation of land, and as a consequent obstacle to the improvement of agriculture. We have given to-day the remainder of the reply of the Prussian Government to the application of the manufacturers in ;he Grand Duchy of the Rhine, for the exclusion of the products of foreign industry. Whilst they are promised the assistance of some . new fiscal regulations to protect them against external competitors, they are reminded of the difficulties in the way of efficient Legislative remedies for the evils of which they complain; and they are ju diciously admonished as to the injusious con sequences of overweening speculation. The ex ertions making by the Foreign Powers In exclude our manufactures from their territories is a sohject of deep interest to the People of this country, and ought to employ the attention of our Government mach more than the topics that seem to engage the special regard of oar Congress-hunting Negociaters. But the preservation of our commercial interests seems a matter perfectly foreign to the business of these Representatives of ours, who, if they have any notions at all on the subject of our prosperity, ap pear to think it consists in enabling these very Powers who are labouring to exclude us from their markets, to acquire fresh territory, to establish their restraints against us, and to repel the representations of their 'objects and keep down the energies Of others, by a preponderance of armed power. -+SVI.-- ~. Lord CASTLEREIGII, it is said, quits London this day for Aix-la-Chapelle, where the Congress is to commence its sittings towards the end of this month. We have not heard whether Mr. ALEXANDER' BARING accompanies his Lordship. Some of the political characters who are to figure at the scene of con ference, have already arrived. It seems the presence of the Military Commanders is deemed necessa►y to settle the points at issue. Count WORONZOW, corn. minding the Russian contingent, ha. already started for Aia .la-Cha pet le; and " to fill op this farcical 'mew., 0!" Madame CATa La NI, Madame GA Ir., the Routs...its, and LAToNT, and GOD knows how many more celebrated character., are announced as among the distinguished performers already assembled there. At the present moment, when the eyes of Europe are once more about to be drawn to this city. the description which we give of it in another page will, we doubt nut, be acceptable to our Readers. This is an age of crimes and of trials. We seem to have arrived at a period in the history of human action, when the strongest affections and feelings of our nature lose their power aver the heart, or seem to spring no more in the human bosom. In our Paper of this day we insert the Report of ti Trial in . Ireland, which develop - the fury of the passions in I . ' so eitriordinary and laissen(able trial of a parricide for the corder o f his N h This fatbe;• changed his riti on _b ecame r p testant and a tiolent persecutor o f t h e pp wbich he had ilbrmeily belonged in the ' nM period of the Rebellion. - ^••14 • The preparations now making for the ri d the QUEEN to Windsor are said to be in cone s. of the . desire expressed by bet MAJEsTT to les% KING We have so many reports about the state sh i . QUEEN'S health, and nothing from authorityl4; subject, the Physicians having ceased to issue Bo h. tins, and the Court Circular not coming un d eroi description, we know not what credit to %as c i i any ot these accounts. Wecan only submit Cheattst; Reader's eye, and leave hint to form his own ophi ss, rite following is one of the historical stat etneatc circulation :—" Her MAJESTY has been sne tt ,: more at ease since Monday evening. On N g . ceding Friday, after having Wen a tolerably 6 1 ,7 dinner, she was attacked *iih one of th ose st 4 spasmodic affections in the stemtch, which fore % alarming a feature in her indisposition, and aye rw m•ined partially under its influence during th og „ we part of the three follutsing daya. On the ' evening she was again somets hat better, and lis se , l : 'Weed, since that time, rather improving its assn otherwise, at least comparatively with s ep nerd miss for the last three weeks; and theist,, vourebleeppearances induced - his Rgyal Highnesith PRINCE REGENT to make his long.espected trips, the Pavilion. Her MAJESTY'S disorder, hose m, has several times assumed an appearance of sh a mei entire abatement, but has constantly r etu rne d wai l the greater violenco, and it is therefore to be app.: hended her present improvement may be but tangs" The house in which her MAJESTY resides is tat usually called The Prince's old house,' being ts, one in which the PRINCE REGENT spent the early p ot of his youth." It is now currently reported, and has been spates of with certainty in the first military circles, that sal the arrival of the British troops from France, am. duction of one Major and two companies will take place in every regiment of the line, except Outsets foreign service, and that the numbers will be so as to make the 93d Highlanders the junior reij. men t.. 1 , 5 , 7 ... 1 1 ;sl7o 6 Accoents have been received from Corunna, of tit 18th ult., stating, that some Insurgent privateers, cruising on that coast, had anchored in the harbour of CAM rinse on the 14th, and demanded provisions and refreshments, which, after some demur on one side and menaces on the other, had been supplied and paid for at the prices demanded; and it was es. ported That they were selling the produce of their prizes in the bays and creeks of that province. Quebec and Montreal Papers to the 4th of Joy have arrived. Mr. ARCHIBALD M`LELLAH RAS Real tried as as accessary to the murder of Owzr VENNY, in the indian countries, and has been at.. quitted. Ile was immediately discharged. Em. grants from Great Britain 'and Ireland continue ta arrive in great numbers at the port of Quebec. They . generelly proceeded up the river in steam-hosts. number during the present season is calculated at 3000. The Agricultural Report of the month of Jane for the district of Montreal, is of en utifavoor. able nature. The crop; of wheat, and other produc. Lions important to subsistence, have' been injured by the drought ; and the rearing of cattle, especially as regards the preparing summer pasturage for them, appears to have been imperfectly understood or neg. lected by the Canadian agriculturists. The incite ments held out by the Agricultural Society of Que. bec will probably, however, do much toward, the introduction of a better system. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE arrived on Wednesday evening at Devonshire.house, from Paris. Yesterday evening his Grace kft town for his seat, Chatsworth, Derby shire. The landed property bequeathed by the late Earl of- Koury to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who sac. ceedsto the title, is, it seems, quite inconsiderable; it consists only of a farm in Ireland, which was re.. served by the late Earl when the remainder of the Kerry estate was sold, in consequence of basing apes it the ancient burial place and monument of Me Lords of Kerry. BRIGHTON, AUGUST O.—Yesterday, Lewes Races commenced, with indifferent sport. A sweepstakes of 26 guirreas (fear subscribers) wet walked over the course by Lord Eontsroaescolt, by Teddy, dam by Gbhanna, out of the Pillthtlf mare; • Ilis Majesty's Plate of 100 guises;, was won by Sir J. SHELLEY'S b. h. Pendulum, 4 yrs. old, in two heats, beating Lord EGREMONT'S g. h. by Canopus, Mr. Ceaust's b. Is. Sidrophel, and two others. The intense hest of the slay operated as a drawback to a large assem blage of company. • The friends of Mr. S. KENNA tell him jocosely, on his appointment to the management of Drury. lane, that if ha fail to fill the house, he is, at least, tar to " fill the stage " It is said Sir THOMAS liist.oP's share of prize• money during the late war in India amounts to £lOO,OOO. Ilowever encouraging this may be to ad. venturous spirits, let it be remembered they mint first fight their way up to the office of Commander is Chief, and gain it at the cannon's mouth. How dif• ferent to the peaceful Scheme of enriching a man, now submitted, which, without trouble or danger, and - requirine :wither skill nor talent, will CARROLL not only private., but even women and children, into R Fortune of ,e 30,000 or 160,00, in a few days, with 2,000 Sovereigns in Gold, besides Claret, Port, I and Madeira, as may be known at either of Cate• nor'., the Contractor's, Offices, No. 7, Cornhill, or 26, Osford.street, where undrawn Tickets and Shares may be lied ; ecd es there are no fixed Prizes, all the Capitals may he drawn Next Wednesday, the R eo esfs. Birt b.d.iy. The boxing matches between Spring and Painter, mid Crawley, a promising young pugilist, end a Clare• market butcher, were to take place at one o'clock to-day, in Surrey. l'ainter arrived from his training place in Eases yesterdny, and Spring was on the road from Kent to the seat of action. The Gentlemen of the sport were much engaged last night in settling their bets. Seven to four wss taken that Spring and Craeley both win. ...01ka 146 ~y _ ~. ~...: ---~.~_ . _-~-... ~5 .;...