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r' / . . irr - ' '• ' ' 4 , c re - , --- - 1 ' •••.' . ;-. e.`•e "... ,! N. • 1 •.; ;:. ... .• I• - . -- / . . . • : . ' l ifiki•\ 4 . $‘ . . . ' • • 1: . ' .. .° . • - ' ' .. ' ' ''".'.. ' ' 9 . Cf., qv ..p r , fiffu l iti(o It . k • ' i lel rt I s . r . Ott . . •hel , • . . - - 1 • ...... • _ . . . . . . -....- . . - • _ , NUMREIi 5916. PRICE 7d. THR A TRE-140 YA L, DRORY-LAN I. THIS EVENING. TUESDAY. Nov. 20. bis Majesty's Servants wilt perform (Otb time) a new Musical Comedy, in two acts, railed MAID OR WIFE ? Or, THE DECEIVER DECEIVED. The principal Characters by Mr. Elliman, Mr. Harley, Nita Smithson, aad Mies Cripelend. Many years roils:air, rblr, nor acre the insporiations muck. or at limit regularly increased till it , b.iitt the rar 1811.— They appear to hart been greatly augmented, and the ave rage annual imporjstion from that period may be stated at 900,P01Ibs tieing sea ly double the overage of any riett pierinus years; and tbiasceuwpaaied with ■ eorrrspor.d•ng improvenirni in the• quality of the Silk, mime of which has been found folly rips 4 to that produerel is and the averlige difference if ►ahte Iretwecti &As of comparative finality is stated not to be noire thou from five to ten per cent. Il is also to he reniitked, t h at the best and oldest, filatities are those in the possession of the East India Coo pans, sod it is only within a short period that the pbeibe.bibes of private egtahliehments have been excited, by the compe titiou of the Private Trade, to bring their tilat•rro to per fection; bit! in thmit lost, a gradual improvement has beam traced; al,ll as the preparation of Raw Si k affords more Cinpinynetit In the country prodnciag it than almost any other raw on itrrial, this commerce appears t 4 benne likely to be pro•'urtire of great ►ecipoc.rl ndtamt,ive, 1.. Great Britain and to India. The price of Italia,. Si'k from leas. to 245. per lb. racloprively of the duty, that of Pend from his. to 25s : but as it is stated that oilly one Erse of silk is neuunlly produced in Italy, whilst from two to Core are in the ...amr pe . I produced sit hobo, it is take expect ed that phew eke mipply shall be tatter regulated, the 14.. dist, silk of equal quality will bear a still lower price thou it does stow, as compared with the Italian. After which THE CORONATION. The Procession Comm from Westminster Hell.— no Second Scene, the Interior of the Abhey.—The Third. and Introductory Scene, in which Mr. Kolght will introdoce a new Comic. Song., entitled, " The King and the Coronation, Old England and the People."—The Fourth Scene, the Holt, in the course of which the Grand Entre of the Champion. To conclude with the favourite Musical Extravaganza. called GIOVANNI IN LONDON. Don Gioraosi, Illad•me Leporello. Mr. Harley; Mr. Florentine Fieickin, Mr. Barnard. Mrs. Leporello, Mix Cabin ; Miss C.onataut is Qnixotte, Miss Powcy ; lag Fmk Mrs. Blood. Plows to be taken of Mr. Rodwell, in the Rotes& of the Seams of the ?bemire. Private arms can poly be obtained ler die Bowing of Mr. indwell, at die Box-Odre. To-movvoo, Geraldi Duval-.with The Coronation—and Moesieur Tommie. On Thursday, Maid or Wife '—with The Coronation— ' sad Gliovaaai in London. On Friday, the Tragedy of Hamlet : Hamlet, Mr. Kean. _1 The importation of Kaw Silk front Foreign Europe Ea•, from many causes, beet, exceedingly variable, but it has io• creased in the course orate last three years, disfistg which it has averaged sham 550.000Ihe„ The imp o etai liuss f rom China have been c,rmiderably soemeutid in the last seven years, and average about 150,00011 n. In additioe to this, about 340,0001115. of Thrown Silk are annually imparted from Italy; earl the total amount of our importation. paying duty, therefore, in all preterit:lin, coneum..l in our ma nufactories, amounted in the last three year. to nn average of 2,100,00011 m ; in the year 1820, taken by itself, to 2,54741211 w ; the extent of which, as compared with that t it. rival manufacture in France, may be tedietated, whet, it is found in the work upon Fretteh industry and manu factures, by Mons. Cliapnl, formes ly 1l Mister of the Interior of France, and cone. germ!? of grist authority upon such 'objects, that the whole of France did not it otelieary )ears, down, to the year 1812, produce mwe limo 987,00011e5. ■nd that the whole of the Silk commuted in the French sua nufactury was not mitre thee double that amount. One of our own most intelligent maitufacturen states, that the value upon raw Silk is Mertes/al nearly fuer fold in the course of manufacture, sad that the whole value of Silk manufactures natio be staled at less than tett milli o ns annually, which. with the exception of a very trifling pro portion to the whole, is used fur home coessimptiosi. It therefore becomes au important object of inquiry, frern what cirenostances a manufacture of such growing cOII4C. queues at home holds nut each little promise of being advan tageous, with respect to foreigo trade, beyond t►e mere. imperialism I.f the raw material, This manufacture would undoubtedly not have hitherto rested, but by the prohi bitory laws which gave to it the entire mon o poly a the home market; but at the same time it has laboured under considerable ilisedeastages; the raw material which it pre pares hiss bees heavily taxed, sad the district in which it is principally earned no has been made subject to a law of regulatioo, by which the employment of capital, the price, and with the price the direction of labour, have been very unhappily controlled. The duties are 4a. the lb. stool, Ben gal; 51. 70. upon all either Silk; and upon Orgaiszioe, 14.. 71d.; and the total amuse( received upon three duties bee rut been more than from Ave to 600,000. Urgent:Me is Silk landied into Thread, fur the purpose of being used in manufacture, and has been principally imported Gann Italy; but from the airmen' of the duty, our capitalists have been induced to establish Silk mills fur this purpose here; and where's, twenty years ago, nearly one-third of the Silk im ported ros►isted elf Organzine, it. actual amount has re maimed nearly slatioteloy, whilst that uf the other Silk ha. beets nearly detailed, and it now bean a proportion of nearly one•sixth to the • hole. It has btu, however, a :stetter of surprise to the Committee, and it hit. appeared inexplicable to nearly all the wit sreses examined, that though the manu facture of Orgassine is roue almost entirely carried tan Ly machinery, and requiring, in great part, only the labour of women and children, yet that it cannot be made hire at less thus double the price for which it is thrown it, Italy; a cir cumstance which can apparently be best sceenuttul fur from this branch of MC manuface having been hut penally adopted in this country; and the Committee trust that when its economy shall be better understood, we shell have the same advautage as to price and skill its this, as tu uur other manufacturer, in which machinery is principally used. lit the mean time, the English Orgaurine is generally allowed to be but little inferior in quality to the Italian; but the proprietors of silk throwing nulls state, that even if the other duties were taken off, unless a protecting duty of nearly one-third its present amount were glass in favoisr of English Organ:nue, .that their establishment would b► ruined. The other duties bear, istopteNtiutiably, very heavily upon the price of the manufacture; they sistutiiil to 25, and in many instances tu 33 per neat. upon the prime cost of the raw material, and or this material these is a waste of cousiderably more than a quarter in the course uf manufacture ; this, with the length if time that elapses hetet.. n the first prima of the ditty suit Ow sale of the manufacture, and the umber of hands through which it passes, each claiming a profit, tends no doubt very much to enhance its price Wore it is sold to the• consumer. It is calculated by one of the witnesses to do so, in articles manufactured of Italian Orgenzine, to the amount of 84 per cent.; in those of English Orgauzinc, from 45 to 48 ; and this exclusive of heavy duties paid in soap, in dyeing geode, &e. In order to counterbalance this duty with regard to the Export Trade, a drawback, with a variety of modifi cat ttttt e, not exrreiling tw.lire shinnies upon every pound weight of manufactured Silk exported, is allowed : a draw. hack which is very far in many cases, particularly in those of fine static, from being a connwasatiun far the duty originally paid, ROlOllll4 Other., p+rticislitfly in the article of parent Net Lace, the drawback upon which it stated by one of tl:e wit t o he o nly 4•..,per pound, whtld the duty and the effect of the duty mmont to 30s. The drawback however is, generally speaking, as liberal an could be sllowrd, without opening, a door to such frauds as might he peactieral, by dyeing giro& to give them artificial weugbt. It could with difficulty Ile better propurtioued 10 the real amount which has been paid in duty by the maunfacturer, and the Committee cannot recommend that it be increased ; but the chard.* that ere made upon those who apply for this drawback ought to he moderated. It appears that for retry exportation upon whirl, it is due, a chew is incurred ut; 455. whirls, in the case of the small parcels of Silk generally expos led, is a larger gum that. could be ii.maude•l in return ; awl thus , with the •arious delays which at present attend such Sus application, fr. queutly operate situ. (ether to prevent its being made. The exportation of 813 k manufactures, umd mixtures with Silk, though some have ueca►roualty been mule to most parts of the world, have, exclusively of the lh s, tish Colunin, principally taken place to Spain, Portugal, the United States, and the Brazils. Undue the ssialuug duties, a great increase of the export, except in a few art:cles, ran scarcely be Not ieipated. In fact, as far as relates to a huge proportion of the supply to the United States, both France and din country may long ceolusue to be undersold by the Chinese; though in ho siery, and perhaps is some fancied articles of fashion, we appear to have some sale its that country. With respect t•a the quality of our ■ilk manufacture, it is mishit, not only by proms tett-rested in the trade, bet by some American Gen tlest:see examined lay the Committer, that, setting the gun- I of price aside, It is it, matey respeete frilly equal to abet uf the French; equal it, the artiekdsf piece EWAN illreliur ribberde, very Knott) atipersue its gloves sod hosiery, se well as is poplin mud tole c annum uf wool and silk; but TIMATRR-ROY AL, COVENT-GARDE'. T HIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Nov. 20, wiN be acted Shakepeare's Tragedy of HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. Clandius, Mr. Chapman; Hamlet, Mr. Young; Pnlonius, M r . Blanchard; Lsertes, Mr. Abbott; Horatio, Mr. Coo our; !Cowin-rants, Mr. Censer; Goildenstern, Mr. Hunt ; First Grsve.digger, Mr. Emery; Second Grave-digger, Mr. Baran; Ghost of Hamlet's Father, Mr. Egerton. Gertrude, Mrs. Fattiii ; Ophelis, Miss M. Tree. To which will he added the Farce of TH it:: CITIZEN. Sir Jasper Wilding, Mr. Chapman; Mr. Wilding, Mr. Connor; Mr. Beaufort, Mr. Horrebnw ; Old Philpot, Mr. W. Fame ; Yoga( Philpol, Mo. Julies. Maria, Mrs. Chat terley ; Corium., Mimi Mow. Placee for the Beers to be taken of Mr. Breedee, at the Bon.ivirsee, Hart-street, from Ti. till For. A Private Buz may be bad ter the smitten, err sightly, of• Mr. Brundoe, at the Dete.o6ee. To.ntrinrow, The Exile, with Brother aged Sister. Oo Theirsiday, The Stranger: Mrs. Haller, Miss Bakewell —with The Libertine. On Monday Mr. Maeready will appear in the Tragedy ni V:rgiiiiui. On Tuesday, Sbakspeere's Play of The Two Gentlemen of Veroos•. ~v gIINIE remarkable Properties of Mediriors Imre raped the atteolina of Mankind in all ages, and to 11w sagacity. iudisatry, and good fortune of toquirrra, the World is indebted for ass ay valuable Discoverers. Among these three are same which have maintained their claim to ilisiinction for a long period of time, and have eionneareled approbation as real additions to the general stuck: the CORDIAL BA LM of GILEAD lays claim in this dialler ions, Is au remedy has hetberte beau discovered which primes so generally beneficed iu disorders of the nervous system mid of the digestive organs. In trembling of the limbs, palpi lvtlow of 'he heart, vertigo. ffistuleoee, lowness of spews mod cerseral detolity, and is the syaspassass el a cold, bilious, and consumptive habit, its efficacy is very great. Whether steed to give relief to those who have reason to repent as MlCri. sive indulgence of the passions or the habit■ of fashimaable itfr, too grit stlrnttua in Masissess, or javealk ondiscres toots, that strike at the root of health soil vigour, it will be limed an invaluable bracer sad invigurasai. I 1 ul M IA Iry Mr Jl4lllllllll, 18, Gee ; Mr Sanger (tale Heron •uJ Cu.), 151), I isiieril.sieeei. Lundeen; M r.Ton 'nom. 4 . 11 . 31 1 3 ; noiii all Medicine Venders, in bottles. lime 111. 411141 ;31, cacia. < - LONDa, TUtS DA Just published, in twn Vol■. post 8.0. price I2s. boards, the Fifth Edition, NO FICTION; A NARRATIVE. Printrd for end 6.3141 by Francis 11'estler. 10, St.- tinnere-conri, Indirale-street ; 3n41 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Rrnwn, Paternoster row. Of whom may be had, just puhlished. In Iwo Vols. post two. price 12s. bawds, HAPPINESS; ■ Tale for the Grier and the Gay. REPORT ro THE TRADE WITH THE EAST INDIES AND CHINA• [Brought from She lards, Nay 7. 1841, end ordered to be printed by Use Howse of Commons ] REPORT. By the Linke Committees appointed a Select Committee to isolative iota the Mean of extending and wowing the Foreign Trade of the County', and to report to the Mouse; sod to wham were referred She Minutes of the I:eidetic, taken before the Beier? Committer appointed in' 46041.0141he5011em me %Aliment for the like pommel Med else the several Tetitirots, Papers. and Accounts which Wad been referred to that Committee; and also the Petitions permuted In the present Session of Parliament on the subject of Foreign Trade. ORDERED TO REPORT, Thai the Committee have met, and have proceeded in the inquiry, which had hers entered upon by the said Com mittee appoisited in the last Session of Par liamest, into the stale of British commerce with Asia, including as well that which is carried on with the territorial possessions of the Huessourable East India Company, as that with the inilepetsdent states in the same part of the globe. In the conduct of this inquiry, the Committee have not thought it pieces:are to direct their attention to the commer cial concerns of the East India Company, as administered by the Court of Directors with a view to the interests both political sad financial of their corporate body, further than was necessary to chimed:lie the present state and future pros. pects of free trade, as affected by existing regulations. This subject therefore °shinny divides itself, according to the varies. restrictions to which dif f erent descriptions of commerce in these regions are now subjected by law: that to the territorial possessions of the Company being tarried on by license only from the Company; that to other parts of southern Asia (China excepted), and to the islands of the Indian Ocean, by license from the Board of Control; that to Mos below entirely prohibited to all British vessels but Amain the actual employment of the East India Company; alid the whole trade confined to ships of a mister fixed amount of tonnage. The trade which is carried on by license with the territo ries of the Fast India CoMpany, is confined to the Presiden cies of Bombay, Madras, sod Calcutta, and the poet of Pe. naeg. Some iucunvenieuces and injury to individuals are stated to have arisen, where circumstances have made it de sirable to obange the destination of vessels from one of these parts to another, after their arrival in the East, in coase q the delay attendant upon obtaining a permission so from the local Governmeut. This indeed may be *Waled by übtaining licenses including the above.mossed ports Generally, which have been sometimes applied fur, mid da Ma appear to have been refused. Bat the system re goiritig licenses does not appear to be attended with any public 'benefit; and a fee is charged for each of them. A more material advantage might probably accrue to the fore loader, front being permitted to trade with other smaller ports no the coasts of Coromandel and Malabar, where Ibe Company have 'beady collectors of the customs established, who might effectimily counteract an illicit trade; whereby • wider field of adventure may be opened, and an edible:meal stimulus to commercial intercourse afforded to the native in. habitants. It would, however, be ne eeeee ry in this case to provide by regulations, which it could not be difficult to establish, against any abuse of this extension of privilege by British vessels carrying on the walling trade; in which there is every reason to believe they might successfully cum. pete with the native ships, which have hitherto been consider. eil as enjoying a monopoly of that trade, of which the East India Company could nut reasonably be expected to de prive their subjects, as lour as they are precluded from ear. eying till the direct trade to !Lampe in Inclian•huilt vessels. It must be observed, however, that the coastiag trade Is wow open to vessels of other nations, those of the United States not being excluded from it ; and instances having beau stated to the Committee, in which the Portuguese flag has been al. lowed to pass from one port to another carrying on trade, from which British European ships are excluded. The Committee cannot dismiss this branch of the subject without observing, dial although it is difficult, from the great fluctuation' which the free trade tie the penonseela of India hall experienced since it has beret admitted upon the terms of the renewed charter granted to the East India Com pany in 1813, to estimate fairly the precise amount of its is cr it must be admitted that its progress has he- . .is snch as to indicate, that neither a power tu purchase nor a disposition to use cornaMilities of F.ureepean manufacture are wanting in the natives of British India; whilst the mimeo: knowledge of the wants sail wishes of the inhabitant., acquired by a din et intercourse wills this country, would naturally lend to a still further augmented of our exports. The great th eir:toed renesumption cannot be sufficiently accounted fur by the demand of European residents, the member of whom dues soot materially silty; and it •ppears Yu have been much the greatest in articles calculated fur the (corral use tat the natives. Thal of the cotton manufactures of this country alone, is stated since: the first opening of the trade, to have been augmented from four to five-fuld. And the lisle of the natives for Such •ri icicle may not improbably have been created, in some instances, and eXtrenled in °there, by that very alai in the market, which has doubtless by its excess sod consequent lowering of prices, feeipecialy defeated the speculations captivate merchants. The value of the nieschau disc exported f Great Britain lu ludia, which amounted in the year 1815 to 870,1711. in the year 1819 its II to 3,052,7411 ; and although the market appears then to have been no far overstocked as In °erasion • demesouti rrrr tat' nearly oste•lo•lfire thrtexpores of the fully/wow year (1820), that dime. Notion appears to have taken place inure eis the article. lellend• eel far the consumption of Europeans them of natives; and the trade is now stated to the COM rrr i r tee, by the hest. orawased per sona, to lee reviving. When Ilw animent of youpolatuoil and the extent of eonntry sive r wh.ehtlw reensis ovum* of thear. sr. ticks is spread, are considered. it is obvious that every facility which Can, imeno•trielly with the political interests and sem ity of the t: eeeee pany's donnesiuus, Ire given to the 'wielde trader for the ilistribUtstm of his export+, by isocreas ing the number of points at which hr may have the option of touching in pursuit of • market, cannot fail to promote a more ready and exleosive demand. If the restriction of nude to vessels of the harden of 350 lons and wpwarda, in all seas and eimearits 'Ohio, the limits tel the East India Company's charter, has miry leirdeney so check the operations of the pe*.vate trader Ili • diesel commerce wills the o'tt sss s oitnos (4 the E est lei• alga Company it raw hardly fail to pperaie still more cos as impedtmeal to his exert ory seekierg new chauesiels of commerce, or extending theme which already raise with other countries and islands in the some part of the globe. Bete a field, in • great measure new, sennlel Ie opened by • free ad mission to trade of vessels of a smaller hurries. It is stated to the Committee, by persons who have hems moss iaterestvd in forming • enema 'vain,' etymon the seikject,lhat to a trade with the Native. Powers in live Gulf of Persia, along Ilse Red Rea, 111141 on the eastern roast of Africa, as well as wish the Islands and cometrira so the *amused of eh. Company's dominions in Asia, small vesierls would he employed in pre. &mice to large, from the tontine or the eminent mu. the great 'slue aud snail bulk of souse of the articles, as sill as the , NOVEMBER 20; 1821 • description of markets where .rich trade would he refried ou. Some apprehension indeed has been tested to exist, diet vessels of that descriptioe inieht be 'spooled to fee- • quent depardatieus from 'prates also inh a t ih ube s t a.. B ut it Ilt;es nut appear that there is any (11.1 Terence in the rate of insnrauce alnired 'aim large and smell ships: if there is a risk, however. the private fermim' might safely be left to consider Le* far it applies to his pat 'irate' ease; while the Americas trade in those seas , which he es well in vessels below a. above the burden of 350 tone, is not stated at any time to have tuffered natierially from such dangers. It may be remarked, that although the naive goverunteels of India have been generally 'apprised to he unfavourable upon system le foreign commerce, uo retreat instanreuf such disposition has bees adduced ; the French, on the etbeetrary, are stated to have been remarkahly successful iu some re cent attempts to open a commercial istierconrse with Cucbin Mina; and the recent knowledge which 1124 been acquired lathe manswors and habits of the inhabtt lute in some of the Wags& of pie Malay race, leads le a much more favourable Impieties@ of their character sad aptitude fur civil and com mercial intercourse, than was previously eateriaiurd. The maletenasce of a free port eligibly sniveled amongst • the Indian islands under British protection, which lb. mega allude (dour establiohniewar in QM goatee of the globe may enable ns to support at much left yawns@ then any other nation, may be attended with the greatest benefit in cum-. merce snit eivilieation. The importance of such a station, and the quick pereeptinu of its advantages formed by the native traders in toot part of the globe, may be estimated by the rapid rise of the port of Sineapore daring die year that it has been in the posseesion of the British Government, and opened fur the purposes of general trade. The population, which had before scarcely amounted to 200 souls, in three mouths increased to not less then 3,000, and now exceeds 10,000 its the whole; while 173 sail of vessels, of different descriptions, arrived awl sailed in the course of the first two months. The commerce with China is circled on by the East Witt I Company. is whom the sole and exclusive right of trading with the portsof that empire, as well as the sole and ex clusive right of trading and fralicking in tea to and from all the islands and ports between the Cape .of Good Hope and Straits of 3lagellan, is row vested by law. The valise sod extent of this trade has nalssrally attracted the attention of the private merchant ; and although it could not he con templated that the East India Company would willingly re. 'impish so important a privilege, an earnest desire has been expressed that the British free trader might he permitted, even previous to the expiration of the charter, to embark in those branches of the trade, which the Company neither carries on itself, nor appears to be immediately interested itr ; and in which the only competition to he enconitered by the British merchant would be that writhe foreign trader. Of this description may he considered the trade in tea and other articles between Canton and foreign Europe; the tea trade within the limits of the Company's charter, esclustve of the ports of the Chisese empire; and the trade between Canton and the western shores of North and South America. The hopes entertained by merchants and others, who have the best mesas of information, of benefit to commerce from such an extension of its freedom, as well as the appetite. sinus, felt by persons of great experience in the directiou of I the affairs sail in the service of the East itidia Company, of the risk with which such an extension may be m e wl e d t o their political and commercial interests i will be found folly staled in the ',ideate and docummits euatsiard in the Appendix. On the one band it is confidently stated, that the low rate of British freight, asid other advantages possessed by the British merchantmen, would enable the British free trader to ester into ass immediate and oaccessfel competition with those of other cooutries, and more particularly of Ills United Stoma, H whom these branches of commerce have been carried on for some years past, with of progressive increase and prosperity; that thus a portion of Europe might be supplied with tea by the British trader; that the export of furs from America, which aow lake, place, even from the British territories in American vessels, would be carried on by British shipping; and that, at all (twenty, that portion of the Eastern trod., which is carried on by the export of British manufactures in American entitle, wonlil fall into the hands of the British merchant, with greater op portunities of extending it, afforded by • more direct inter course. And, on the other baud, it is stated to afford rea sonable ground fur alarm, that the seamen, who would be admitted under such circutusionces to the port of Canton, might probably he of a character so different from that of the seamen employed ou board the vessels of the United States, and be subject to a discipline so inferior to that which pre. rails on bo•rt' of the larger description of vessels empleyed in the service of the East India Company, that dispute.; might take place and excesses be occasioned which might produce fatal consequences, by awakening the jealcossy or exciting the anger of the Chinese Government. It is also apprehended that the admission of sew compe titors info the market might lead to some ibteriorotion in quality, or enbsneement in the prices of teas, which air now regulated by arrangements made previously to their economic into the market, between the servants of the Company and the Hong merchants, who enjoy • monopoly of the sale of that article. To what extent such hopes or such apprebeesion , might be realized in the progress of a trade which has Inver yet been pu•rmitted to exist, it is difficult perhaps to form su ac. curate judgment. The most unieral, and indeed the only means of firming one, most be derived from the circumstances and progress of the foreign independent trade, and more especially that of the vessels of the Culled Slates with the port of Canton. Thal !fade, although carried on in vessels of ■eprly the eame description that would probably be em ployed hg the British merchants, has runlinned to flourish without being productive of injurious consequences, either to Iraile in general, or that of the Ent India Company in p irtirular. It is stated, that it would not have dune so, had it not berm the protection end other advautsges derived front the establishment of the Company's fac tory al Canton ; but Ito salisfsetory reason has been ainisiga ed why the British free trader should nut derive the same be nefit front its countenance and protection, to which he cc,. saltily would not be lees eatitldd. It must also be oliterred, that t►e circumstance which has priaerpally liven relied spun as constituline the difference between the character of the American and British OtalPfel, narriel,, the former haviag slime is the profits of the voyage, applies only to that pun- huh (not a large true) of their trade with Canton which is employed in the export of furs from North Asnerics, and might be I specter' to apply in the sante degree, as far as respects that portion of track, to British vessel., if permitted to enrage it it. It is admitted idea, that all danger ari■ing from dispute* is greatly diminished, if mil entirely removed, by the •bolitiosi of the custom which permistril seamen to go at particular periods, in large bodies, and amity nu control, to enjoy liberty date MI shore at Canton. 111 the COMAr of the last few years, the imports of the Usised Slates Tutu Chitin (compering sti a►enge of the years 1 5 94 - 5 . 1805 - 6 , 1806-7, wish an serrate of 18155.17, 1817.18, 18154-19, heiug the last years of which the Committee have received au account), appear uraily to have doubled. It is alleged, that the p►ioc+pal past of these imports consists of isolate mod other articles which the merchants in the United States have a greater facility in procuriag than those of other countoies ; there eau be no doubt, how ever, that articles of British manufacture are directly ex ported to (linos hum Ibis try by Americana; and it appears (tom ma ace t wrier/wed al the Cuiturn House, that the declared valor of those ■rticles exported to couutries within the limits of the F . -Rat India Company's rlerrter, it Auriga reorels, mid plummet' to be chiefly to Calolllll, VIP, in th e hail year. to amount of 1711,3.58/.; aril it affords souse lad's-Mimi of an Increnaillll taste for itch maurfactures in Cbsect, that ■u opinion prevails that tb, y are now iiite o d uc ,..l 'ay the northern pails of that ens• pia e, subject lo all the dr Is) and incutiveniente of transport by land throne' Komi' and the n had►, Kilian' and iis immediate mithhouilrouti tr the peat de pot, still whirl, appirirs recently to have experienced a run utterable increare. What portion of the teas an I other art id.* exported front chime, in vessels of the United States, to iltatieed for Alge ria,: and what fur European eueseniption, it is difficult peel eiaely to determine. Although iJoribis have been expressed, whetter the demaitil arising from the latter constitutes a per manent or a considerable portion of their trade, it may fairly be assumed that a memory opinion prevails in AlSef.C+l; at it M stated, in the report upon American enrieney,lsid fi'iet the Howse of 11epterentatives in 1819, "that the • t ex Paris in American vemels from the finite.' Mates and all other post., to China owl the Earl hiders, elm timidly be biti- Mated at mare their twelve millions of dollars, and it cannot be doubted that the sales of East ludi. artistic in Europe exceed that aliment. The value of earrellisndise from Cl.llllll aad India coiesenard annually in the Culled Shales, Is lookble renal to 5, 00 9. 00 d dulloa ; nod if this be so, the consumption of East India as Metes by the United States is paid Tw by the mere profit of the trade." • (ha the e)eoh. the Committee are Metier(' to the °Oaken, that regulations might be established at Canton, Aber by plating she free Senile of Caplos• ender the seperelteordance or a Camel, or iimertieg the principal sesvants of Ike Cain parry with some authority over the seamen engaged in the free trade, by which any apprebesision of isieunvenieoce might be removed; and without interfering with the monopoly of the British market enjoyed by the East India Company, the British merchaut might he safely admitted to a pea ticipitiou in a trade which has proved safe, lucrative, nod capable of great improvement In the hands of the foreign In the event of these obstacles. however, being considered insurmountable, the maintenance of the establishment at &sceptre, to which vessels fro cpsently ramie down from China Is five days, or of any other free port as advantageously situated, might, considering the readiness of the Chinese to engage actively by every means, direct and iudirect, in trade, prove highly advantageous to the interests of British rum oreree' if permitted to engage in the tea trade within the limits of the East India Company's charter, exclusive of the ports of the Chinese empire. The Committee cannot conceal from themselves, that in the present state of the law, no mat, rash bent tit or facility to free trade in this quarter of the globe can be obtained, with out infringing in a greeter or less degree upon the pi Milegi • vested in the East India Company, until the year 1834, when their presuint charter expires, and that their consent may be required ;11 any measures which rimy be oubinitted for that purpose to the considelation of Parliament. At the same time, considering that no prepositions here suggested are intended directly or indirectly to affect the monopoly en joyed by the Company of the home am het, to which the greatest importance is jestly attached, but that their object is confined to procuring for the British free trader an access to markets entirely new, or the means of fair competition with the foreign merchant is those which already exist, the Committee fret themselves justified in relying upon the fibs.- eslity lathe Court of Directors, upon the creamer's they have frequently evinced to the national prosperity, and the pre femme they may be expected to give to British over foreign commerce, fur a disposition to meet, as far as may be con sistent with their own essential iutercsis, the wishes of their fellow.sohjects, if saactioned by the wisdom and authority of Parliament. At all events there are some views of this subject to which the attention of Parliament may be immediately directed ; and the whole cannot fail I. deserve its consideratioa pre •ions to the reetwal of the East India Company's charter. The Committee hare been infurined try the mealtime of his Majesty's Government, who are 1111 . Mbefll of the Committee, hat LLB. was prepared to be submitted 111 Parliament is the course of the last Session, for extending the private trade between ladia and fureiga Europe; and that the iniroduc lion of Bach a Bill has only been postponed a coasegeeace of the inquiries depending in Parliament connected with Asiatic commerce. The currespoodesice which his taken place upon this subject, believes the Board of Trade and Board of Coatrol, is contained in the Appendix. - NAMES OF WITNESSES. EXAMINID IN sEssuom 1529. James Goddard, Esq.; John CraufurA, Esq.; Robert Morris, Esq. ; Alexaushr Robertson, Esq. M.P. ; John Forbes Mitettrll, Esq.; George Lyall, Esq.; C►arle. Eve rett, Esq.; Captain James Robert Oliver; Itubert Rickards, Eaq ; Edward Ellice, E.q. bI.P.; George Abercrombie Ru binson, Esq., C►ainoso of the Court or Directors of the East Ilona Company ; llsomas Reid, E•q., Deputy Chairman ditto; Marl... Greet, F..q.; Daniel Beale, Esq.; Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bail., M.P.; Captain James Hursburgb; Robert Stapler, Foq.; John Robert Piney, Emit ; Simuos, Esq ; Francis Hastings Toone, Esq. EXAMINED IN SESSION 1821. Charles Grass, E,q.; John Gladstone, Esq. M.P.; Wil liam Fairlie, Esq.; John Cloonouploer %Vaporing, Evil.; Jamas Drama di, Foq M.P.; Sir Thegmbolos Metcalfe, But.; James Thomas itobarts, Esq. FOREIGN TRADE OF THE COUNTRY. [Browyit Poo the House of Lords, June 26, 1821, and ordered to be printed by the House of Commons j SECOND REPORT (Relative to Ike Silk 111141 Wine Trade.) By 16e Lords' Couemitties appoinettl a Sv!eel Cornwiillee to inquire islo the weans of eitiessaliosK and seruring Ike Foreign Trade of the Country, awl to report to slit House. ORDIMCD TO RETORT, That since their Report upon the Commerce of Great Bri tain with Chins and the Cast !tidiest, the attention of the Committee has been principally direiti•al tu the manufacture of Silk in this country, as one which has, more than any oilier branch of maninieree, existed under the iufluetice of prohibi tions, duties, re l sirictiung, and drawbacks. It appears certain that, without some artificial support, this inauufatture could nut in former times have bees. in troduced sir maintained with any success ill Ibis country 1111/1 as lung as our principal supply was derived from a part of F.iirope so much nearer to Fiance as Italy, all compefi tiuw in own favourite branch of manufacture with the former country, which produces at the 1 , 4.11 e time so large a propurtiou of the Raw Silk which it consume:, must have appeared entirely hopeless; but now that the mopply from our own possessions is. the East lodien is annually imploring in quality, and its quantity appears to he increasing ID nu almost unlimited extent, it may not be noreasonahle to ex pect that the skill of one artisaiir, the influence of our calm . tal, and the perfection of our snarl al, should be am sue: cesafully applitrl tit this as to other branches of manufacture in which we can wilts facility commaiol a cheap and certain toopply of the raw material. In fart, notwithstanding the heavy duty on the raw 'material, which has always attached more to "Ina than to airy other mauufactory of the same im portance, it has already been so far extruded, and has ac paired so moth consistency and value from the new situa tion in whirl" this change of circumstance has placed it, that the Committee consider its interests as peculiarly deserving the attention of the Legislature. Fur a long period the preparation of silk in Bengal was of the rudest kind, applicable here only to inferior purposes. and is. price bearing a pioportion to that of Silk of I about from one-third to one half. Towards the year 1770, the Italian mode of preparing Silk was first ititiodured iu that pot of the world; but the improvement was nut for • ttell,retl, by the House of Common*, to be prilittd, May 7i 1,21. 41k" - • ••• 01 . 0 0, 41141.:. ~~ A DELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Nor. 20, and during the Week, will be pretested • favourite Barletta, called LOVERS OF ALL SORTS; OR, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS. Mr. Court*ll, M►. W: Burroughs; Captain Telford, Mr. Callahan; Sammy. M►. Withering. Mrs. Rhubarb, MIS. Baker; Julia, Miss E. Pitt.; Jenny, Mrs. Waylert. After which n new Burletisoranslated from the French, called THE. MARRIED BACHELOR; OR, MAS:'CIt AND MAN. Sir Charles Cutout!, sir. W. Burroughs; Sharp, his •alet, Me. Wrench. Lady Correll, Miss E. Put; Grace, privately married to Sharp, Mrs. Baker. A Comte and Burlesque Ballet, caller! OPPOSII lON ; OR, THE RIVAL DANCING MASTERS. Monsieur Kick-dc-Mono, Maitre de Dante from Paris, Mr. Daly; Monsieur Pirouette, his Pupil, Mr. St Alhin; Mr. Shaffleshoe, Dancing Mauler from larirrh n, Mr. W. Kirby; Ralph Homespun, Mr. Walbouru. DAUM Homespun, Mr. Cooper ; Rosa, Miss Gas We. Tu conclude with a new Farcical Barletta, translated from the French, (mirth-A BRUNO ; OR. THE trULTA WS FAVOURITE. Sltithaleshatim, Mr. Daly; Ismael, Mr. Kerley; Shirr, Mr. Wrench; Plod, Mr. Wilkinson. Rosetta, Mrs. Bryan; Bar bara, Morales - mid. Oa Mobday nrxt will be produced, having hero a long time in preps. Wow, a new Alutoral Burletia. or Three Arta, entitled Trrea anA Jorry; or, Life in London. By the An. 'her sA litovuunt in Loudon, Monsieur T 01111411,, ice. Jae. with retire' , " o c w Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, i■ which the whole oreit‘th of use Company will be bruit:lit forward. OLYMPIC THF.ATRIE, N EWCASTLESTRKET, STRAND. TH'sEV EN I NG. TU EtiDA I', November 20, mid till further rimier, will be presented • new Dore iliac Acts, called ZOll AY DA ; OR, SCENES IN FASHIONARI.r. LIFE. Tbs. principal rharselers by Mr. Ostirrry, 'Mr. Power, Mr. Biker, Mr. G. Smith, Mr. Howuril, Mr. Yale, Mr. H. Baker, Mr. Iliminotal. Miss S. Meth, Mtas Walpole, Mira E. Scots, Miss Pearce, and Miss Healey. After which, • new Extravaganza of Fun, called LIFE IN LONDON. Tom, Mr. Raker; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. °sherry ; Old Hawthorn, Mr. Fillers; Logic, Mr. Vale; Niches'', Mr. Ilesaviond; Simile, Mr. Power; Floss, Mr. Elliott; Snags, :ilr.Tayletire ; Goldfinch, Mr. Sirickland; Paddy Byrne, Mr.O. Smith. Sue, Miss Walpole; Mrs. Nab, Mrs. Pearce ;• Ivy, Mrs. Maxwell. To conclude with a Tragical Tragedy. called RII6IIIJSKIN, KING OF BYTHNYPHORBIA. Romfuskin, Mr. H. Baker; Sententious, Mr. Ville's; Conspirators, Messrs. ()sherry and Taylettre; Jemmy Flues sn, Mr. G. Smith. Griskinda, Miss Healey; Sat:- binds, Mrs. Pearce. I.e Solitaire, a li:tele-Drama. will speedily he produced, with new Mneie, Dresses, and Decorations. The chsracters by Mr H. J.dinsitia, Mr. Baker, Mr. Power, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Vali-, Wk. S. Bauch , and Mrs. Pearce.