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THE LONDON JOURNALS. zyritAcTs FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, March 18, 1823. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] it - appears very evident that the Duc d'Angon lOne has set off for the army ; but we know that it, is doubted, in a very high quarter, ivhether he is gone to check the insubordination that begins to show itself in the French army of the Pyrenees, or to commence hostilities. We have good reasons for stating that the French Government are seriously alarmed at the language ' tilled, and the feelings very prevalent in, the troops they have destined to attack Spain. Its ltoyal flightless the Duke of . Clarence has, we learn, been appointed to succeed Earl St. Vincent, as General of Marines.—(lbid.) In the Debate last night on the third reading of the Nationl Debt Reduction, the injury sus , tained by the country from the complicated ope rations of Government with respect to the public debt, was satisfactorily demonstrated by Mr. Hume. No answer was returned to his state ment, for it admits of none. Mr. Tierney again expressed himself favourable to a remission of taxes, in preference to devoting three millions to the paying off debt.---(lbid.) DrOIOtINO POST.] Fresh accounts were received yesterday re specting the attempt made by Count Amarante to extend the blessings of insurrection to Por tugal. Those accounts, however, are contained in private letters, which, being generally written, in such cases, under the influence of fear or inte rest, are not the purest sources of intelligence--- They seldom embody more than the rumours of the moment, when those rumours bear their most exaggerated character; and they ar9 frequently more calculated to deceive than to enlighten as toile real nature of the events which are not passing under the immediate observation of their writers. The advices newly received are ef this description. They are of a late date; the lst inst., but may come from Oporto, which is en tirely free from disturbance and danger, and are given by individuals who have' therefore no other means of judging of the state of things than •the representations which reach them from others. But even under these circumstances appearances are not very alarming. Only two insignificant places are mentioned as having welcomed the Rebels and declared in favour of 'C. an absolute monarchy,"and though much alarm is expressed, it is admitted that the force of the Insurgent Chief is not known. It is announced on the other hand, that active measures had been taken by the authorities a t Oporto to quell time insurrection, and that all the troops that could he, safely dispensed with bad been sent to strike a decisive blow before any serious progress could be made by the insur gents. It is highly probable, therefore, that this skilful diversion on the part.of the Ultras to pre. vent Portugal from joining in the defence of the Peninsula, will not prove.successful l and that the ,enemies of order will he, soon compelled.to lay down their arms, or to seek in flight a refuge from the punishment due to those who betray their country. ee4 [ris TIMES`.] The crews from the Peninsula,. which reaches t& the 6th instant, is of an interesting character. In it we read the measures taken by the Spanish Government to oppose or elude the force of the Preach invasion. All its acts seem to us to' be rational„--to evince sincerity on the part of the people, if not on the part of the King,—and to be as well calculated• to produce a happy result as any that miglit be devised under existing cir cumstances, The King himself sends a message —Hive were to say, is made to send a message, to the Cortes, the expression would indicate his treachery and imbecility rather than re prove the just control that is exercised over hitirt': the object of the message, however, is to inform the Cortes that be , means to remove to Seville on the invasion taking place ; and due preparations are made for his migration. A Committee of the Cortes, with the President at its head, :s to mingle with the immediate Offi cers of the Crown, and report upon all the we.- sures adopted in the course of the removal. And now would we wish Louis XVIII. and his Coun sellors to look around them as calmly as they can, and ask themselves whether the policy they have adopted promises that speedy arrangement of Spanish affairs which they boasted it would produce ; or whether, on the contrary, it does Hot threaten the absolute dissolution of society to the, Peninsula, and to the rest of Europe the re newal of those troubles from which it has so re eently escaped. rmonNlNn nEttALll.] At half-pasi twelve o'clock last night, Mr. Wallace's Warehousing Bill was read a second time . it is a Bill to the effect, thatoll descrip. emu* of Foreign Manufactured Goods (with the exception of Linens) are to be admitted into England, free of duty, in warehouses purposely built, or rented, by the Government, to be put in conpetition with English manufactures, so that the foreign customers of England may have the greater facility of freighting their homeward bound ships with foreign mauufactmed goods, should the latter he cheaper than Englkb manu factured goods. 'Mr. Robertson, Mr. Davenport, and MI Alderman Thompson,ohjected tothis Bill being read a second time at so late an hour. but Mr. Wallace would not flinch. There were then hot more than fifteen Members in the House, and the House of Commies consists of six hun. dred and fifty-eight Member's 1! ! Mr. Robertson said that his object in wishing the second-reading to be postponed was, that the Manufacturers of England ought to have proper time given t to consider how far theirinterests might be affected by the passing of such a Bilt. But it was of no nse to oppose Mr. Wallace, who, though only fifteen o 0 of six hundred and fifty-eight Mem hers were present, persisted - in having the Bin read a second time, notvrithstandtng the opposi , tion of three Gentlemen out of the 15 present. We hope that this Act may not, like the Marriage Act, want a comparatively total repeal the nextSes slim, 15 Members only, out of six hundred and fifty eight, are too few to be present at the second reading of a Bin, which, in our opinion, is in opposition to the interests of all the Manufac turing Establishments of the United Kingdom, except the Linen Manufactures—and the Linen Manufacture would have been included, had it not been for the opposition expected on the part of the Linen Board, and par consequence, the opposition on the part of the Irish -Members. We begin to think that a Reform is wanted, and that if the House of Commons is to consist of six hundred and fifty-eight members, or, in propor tion to the population of England, of a greater number, that it should be one of the rules of the Ilouse, that a much greater proportion than 15 out of 658, should be present to vote at any stage of a Bill. [BRITISH PRESS.] If the intelligence from Portugal, given in the COttriCr of last night, be true, the insurrection under Amarante in that country wears an alarm ing aspect,' and will cost a greater struggle than we hoped would be necessary to suppress it.— We have no fears of Its being ultimately extin guished, but it is melancholy to see domestic faction consuming in Spain and Portugal the re sources of both countries, at a period when they need all theirenergy and strength to repel the for• midable attack about to be made upon them from without. The fact is, bigotry was too strongly rooted, both in Spain and Portugal, to be grubbed up out of its soil and cleared away at once. An ignorant peasantry are always superstitious;' it is the study of the Monks and Clergy to keep them so, to preserve their own influence. The suppression of 250 monasteries in Spain, by one sweeping decree of the Cortes, threw numbers of these interested recluses among the people, with all their prejudices and feelings inflamed against the new order of things, and hence (with the in trigues and gold of France) the bands of factions that distract and desolate that country. In Portugal the changes have been slower and more deliberate; the wealth and power of the numerous clergy have been scarcely entrenched on at all, but freedom and free thinking are at war with their influence : both cannot exist together, and they therefore oppose the Constitution of that country also. The French papers of Saturday state that+the Duke of Angoulethe quitted Paris at nine o'clock on that morning for the army, and that the Duchess departed at ten for Villeneuve l'Etang. It is again asserted that the inflatecrChateitibriand's in fluence has finally triumphed,and that he becomes President of the Council of Ministers in the place of Villole, who retires. The Courier Francais announces that a subscription was raising at Lyons to purchase some testimonial of respect and admiration for M. Manuel. An account also states that Mequinenza, the only fortress in the possession of the Spanish Royalist Insurgents, had offered 'to capitulate on terms. O'Donnell, Abrea, and Quesada, particularly the latter, are busily employed in arraying the collection of vaga bonds assembled on the frontiers, called the Army of the Faith. O'Donnell and Abrea, it appenrs,are jealous of Quesada. Some good may arise to Spain from the private piques. -and.. quarrels of these traitors. A report • made by General Guille- Minot on the disaffected spirit of the French troops, is said to. have the strongest foundation, and to be Much talked of at Paris. The war is every where most unpopular throughout France. Seventeen thousand Austrian troops have, it ap pears, for the present, evacuated Naples, having probably exhausted that country with , contri butions.. . • • • ' [NEW TIMEs.J There appeared in yesterday's Morning Chro nicle an article, which, we will frankly confess, completely puzzled us. It was headed "' Policy 'of England;" but whethe it was as a hoax on the Public, or was written by some candidate for apartments in. New Bedlam, or was a serious political speculation of the Editor's own, we are even yet at a loss to discover. The writer states, that a complete Revolution will 'Certainly take place in France within a few months from the present time. The great majority of French men, he says, are fully agreed upon this. — A Revolution they will have at all events ; but whether they will choose little master Buona parte for their liege Lord ; or will establish anew 44 the Republic One and Indivisible," with all its pleasing accompaniments of Bonnets Bauges, Mitrailludes, Noyades, &c. &c.; or Whether, finally, they will offer the Constitutional Crown to the race of the late virtuous and lamented Philip Egaliai—thes:e are' trilling points, upon which the said French People have not yet made up their sovereign minds.—Such being the present state of politics in France. The British Government is manifestly called upon to deter mine, without delay, what sort of Revolution it would be convenient and proper for theli'rench to be indulged with. If Mr. Canning and his associates do not immediately attend to this great branch of their public duties, one of two la mentable evils must necessarily ensue. Either the Emperor of Russia will prohibit Re volution altogether in France, which would be as bat! as banishing shillelahi from an Irish Wake ; or else the three amiable classes of Revolutionists will cut each, others' throats till they come to a stand-still: and so we shall have the Restoration of 1814 over again! These consequences the paragraph writer points out, with equal naivete and clearness ; and hav ing thus incontestably proved the British right of interference in the internal concerns of Fiance, he proceeds most luminously to shew how that right ought to be exercised.-- " There are four'great parties in France," says he. As to the first which is that of the lawful Government, since we are in alliance 'with that Government, we must of course declare our selves its deadly' enemies. The second is the party of the Napoleonists ;. but their opinions, it seems, have become, rather unfishionablq since " the. Child and Champion of Jacobinism" departed this_ life. The third party is that of the Jacobins themselyesoixtremely clever fellows; and most consistent in their attachment to the pretty practices of 1793 (such as cutting off the I heads of Kings, Queens, Poissardes, and Scaven-1 gers, with laudable impartiality), but unfortu nately the surviving Worthies of this class are too " few in number" to merit the'honour of our .-patronage, It follows, therefore, 44 as the night the day," that we are bound by all considera tions of honour and policy to draw the 8 - word at once for the purpose of making the Duke of Orleans King of France t! PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. EAST AND *EST INDIA TRADE. From the Glasgow Courier, Mardi 15.) The struggle between these two great•cominer cialsinterests is recommenced. IMportant in itself, the subject becomes much more so when we consider the mighty question it involves. On Wednesday next, the House of Commons goes into a committee to determine upon the reduction or continua tion of ss. per cwt. duty on Bast India Sugar, anticipated, if reduced, as a beginning to the trade. On the result of this question the vital interests of British commerce depends. It is useless to blink the question. The decision which may then be agreed to, must determine whether or not an integral por tion of the British Empire, Britons and their property, shall be sacrificed to the interests of foreigners subdued by our arms— whether or not one-seventh of the exports and imports'of Grea t ' Britain shall be sacrificed to one.fifteenth—one-eighth Put of her revenue be endangered or given up for one-sixtieth, and ,her whole navigation laws , and Colonial system be abrogated and destroyed. During the last nine months, the•assailants and opponents of the Wrest Indiei have not been idle. Pamphlets and publica , ;ions have been scattered so profusely over the country, that even to name them, would occupy a considerable portion of our Columns. Destitute of argument, at ,variance with facts, they betray the weakness of their cause, by having recourse to a eon. , cealment of midi on the one side, and appeals to passion and prejudice on the other; the latter the usual weaponwith which interested opponents assail the West Indies. The importance of the British. West India Colonies, in a commercial, naval, financial, and political point of view to Great Britain, are too 'obvious for us to dwell upon, and the real magnitude of these are best sliewn by contrasting them with similar resources derived from the Eastern world. The following we add from Parliamentary returns and documents of the last and the present session. Exports to British. West Indies—official value average three years, ending 1021, from Great Britain. Export of British and Irish Articles, from Ireland direct, Foreign and Colonial, £4,584,338 5 273,178 13 289,530 12 Total exports, . - X 5,147,047 10 Exclusive of 1,3034401. 7s. to Foreign West Indies. Imports to Groat Britain from British Wrest Indies:— Average three years as above, - - X 0,082,086 12 into Ireland direct, - - . 416,223 11 Total imports, £8,498,310 3 Exclusive of 800,692/. 19s. in produce, from. Foreign West Indies, and all the bills, specie, and produce, for the great trade carried on with the Spanish settlements, amounting to 900,0001. exports, and 235,000 imports, in 1821. Exports to halo and China—official value. Average 3 years ending 1821, £2,553,429 16 Foreign and Colonial, - - 390,423 9 Total India and China, ' Deduct exports to China, viz. Goodi, 830,073 ; Specie, 354,389, - 1,185,062 0 Remains to India, Exports' to British West Indies, - £2,943,903 5 X1,7(313,1341 5 5,147,047 10 Excess over Exports to India - 3,378,206 5 white it must be remarked that of the exports to the British West Indies only about 1,2110,000/. (if so much) are for re-ex portation, while more than a half of the exports to India is for exportation to the Oriental Archipelago, the Red Sea and the Persian Oulph. In fact, during the last two years, niuch of what is included under the head exports to India, goes to Sin. capore. Imports into Britain from India China. Average. 3 years aiding 1112! - Deduct front China -• " 11,447,293 10 3,315,809 11 Remains for India' - . £4,183,483 7 Imports from British West Indies - 8,498,310 3 Excess ever imports from the East - £4,33-1,834 10 In must here be remarked, that most of the East India pro ductions are re.e . xperrted - from this country, while-three-fourths of the West Inata productions are consumed in it. Moreover, a great many of the articles iochided under the head India int. pert& are r iot the produce Of - that country. Nankeens' come front ;abina, (Toffee, from Arabia and. the Eastern Isles ; cleves 4 .Qtmatrion,:. Nutmegs, Mace, Pepper, to the amount of 150,0004 and Gums and Canes of all sorts come from Isles in the Archipelago, 'and with all which places - the peOple of Great Britain could, if allowed - trade direct, as the Americans do and are permitted to do. sugar imported into Great - Britain 1822 ,Csolts. Qr.. Lb: British Plantations - 3,303,808 I- -0 POreign Do. uncertified . 1.12,953 2 8 ' East India ann Cina 200,964 0 17 Cape of Good Hope . 10,406 316 Total . 3,643,127 2 2 Reventie derived from West India :produce. Neat Revenue, SuAur, Great Britain, 1822 £8,579,412 - Do. Ireland, - Do. 1821 • 672,424 Do. Great Britain, Rum .. - 1822 1,637,750 Do. /reland, Do. - . 1821 13,593 Do. Cdree Great Britain - 1022 352,463 Do. •Ireland 1821 13,385 Cocoa,_ Great Britain 1822 12,907 Do. Cotton, about - 1821 20,000 Annual Revenue - £6,201,033 The Revenue from East lrulia productions it is difficult to ascertain, but wc question if it exceeds .X 600,000, The Re. venue derived from Eastern productions, is chiefly raised from tea, a distinct trade from that to India. Tonnage to India And Outvrards. 1821 - 68,05 ' 1(122 - - 73,102 Tonnage in West India trade. _ YB2l - 217,7 44 outwards. 11123 . 230,030 do. Sugar importect c tVom India, by e ast India Company, since 17i19-33 years. '''*" ' 1,1172,9013 cwts. pritite cost * Gusty duty e tufty duty Fret/ 1 414d Demorage Chargeti Britain In wards. 70,1;47 0,015 £1,0117,723 4i; ;547 23,668 2,399,084 203,631' 1,579,903 cwt. cost Sales amount . " " - A:4,660,643 - .£4,072,668 • Loss - - - £=6117,975 By which it aears that Sugar costs in India about 255. per cwt. and landed to be produced at market, at war charges, ex. elusive of duties, at tiOs. per '6o*. ; above Od. per lb. instead of 2Ad. per lb. duty included, as Mr. Cropper, of Liverpool, would have the people of Great Britain believe he would sell to theni. This is like many other delusion", which interested and de signing men practise upon the" credulity of the people of this' country. • • As:large ships are only permitted to enter into this trade, it follows, that a sptlicient•quantity.of heat) , freight cannot al. ways he obtained, the consequence is, that such ships are obliged. to load with ballast equal to one third or their tonnage. If Sugar therefore Could be got so by sales to secure freight,' it would be of immens e a dvantage to those in that trade, though that advantage must be obtained at the expenee ,of the West Indies. To remedy this evil however, it is only necessary to * What is remarkable, the loss was greatest in those years as well as when Sugar bore the highest price, when it was at the lowest thus Loss in 1794 y ear s when Sugar was 025 , 050 I Do. in 1795 scarce, and supply not 11:1,945 Do: In 1800 equal to demand. 100,923 { Da- in Ixo6l Years of great depres- MAI Dn. in 11107 1- slim in price from Iler- 139,514 DroicimiennticifiryoBia, Ar laplinanod N. 7. 11 0 111 ) anDeCrecb• 68 :07 .....(pa ; lay open the trade to vessels of every site, and allow British subjects to compete in these places with the Americans. The trade to China must be kept separate. It is a close monopoly, not meant to be disturbed, and at any rate has no thing to do with India. From undeniable evidence, therefore, we have shown that the Revenue obtained from West India produce, is ten times as much as from East India pro , duce—the tonnage employed in the former- five times greater than in the latter—the exports in British manufactures three times as much, and the imports more than donble. The reduction of the duties on Sugar from India is not the way to benefit either Britain or India. The sugar produced in India should and might all be advantageously sold eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. From that point east to the centre of the Pacific Ocean, the limits of the East India Company's charter extend. An immense field for trade lies open there if permitted: The East India Company do not carry on this trade—they do not want to carry it on—they allow the Ameri cans to do so, but prevent British subjects, except in vessels of MO tons, from Great Britain direct to and from three or four ports in Hindostan. The absurdity of these restrictions the Legislature and the country have long seen and felt, as well as our intelligent merchants. The former have now taken up the business seriously, and insist that, with the exception of the Tea trade between Canton and Britain, all that space shall be laid open to British subjects in vessels f any size, and from or to any place they, please. This is the trade to look after—to be allowed to go from place to place in the east—to the east coast of Africa, the Red Sea, Arabia, the Persian Gulph, the Eastern Archipelago, Malacca, Cochin China, &c.—bartering and trading as the merchant sees meet, who will ultimately bring that which is most profitable and valuable to the Mother Country. This is the trade which is to benefit our Merchants. This is what will benefit the people of India and Great Britain, and injure no other part of our dominions. But this main point is always kept in the back ground, indeed altogether out of view. To permit this, however, the East India Company make two extraordinary demands, namely, that the East India Sugar should be admitted into the British market at the same duttes as. the West India Sugar, nay, at an ad valorem duty, and that all vessels built In India, or belonging to people there, shall be en tided to British Reg isters and have the same privileges as Bri tish ships, because, say they, both the people of India and Great Britain are, as British subjects, entitled to this. This is specious reasoning, but equally dangerous and unjust. , Upon the maintenance of our navigation laws depends our navalsupremacy, political power, influence and strength. Were East. India Shipping placed upon the same footing as British, then,we should see a large portion of our trade wrested from our native ship-owners, and vessels manned with Lascars and feeble Ilindoos, instead of British seamen entering our harbours. The former are ill calculated, in case of emergency, to man British fleets, or bear her naval thunder over the world. Policy and justic and safety alike command us to set our aces against such a concession. That the East Indies can be placed upon the same footing in the market of the Mother Country as the Weit Indies, can never be allowed till the principles of the Britisfi Constitution are changed, or introduced in toto into India. The West In dia-Colonies never had a monopoly of the home market. The Mother Country established that monopol y _ for her advantage and against the interests of Colonies. They were forced to send all their produce to her, and take all their supplies from her. The East Indies were never so situated. The market of the world was always open to them. The Act Charles H. cap. 10, restricting the West India trade, says expressly, that " it might be for the sole benefit of our own Navigation and People," and because, says Act Ch. 11., cap. 15th, " those Plantations beyond the seas are inhabited and peopled by the subjects of Great Britain ;" they are, therefore, as clearly, and as strongly as;Acts of Parliament can make them, entitled to protection over every other conntry not established upon similar principles, as the British agricul. turista are over foreigners. Mr. Cropper, indeed, ridicules Acts of Parliament as confirming vitae rights and privileges to this portion of our Empire, hut still Acts of Parliament are the only security that is held by any of us for any property whatever. The distinction between a West Indian and an .East Indian is immense, and all in favour of the former. When the first British settlers went to the West Indies, they carried with them, and had confirmed 'to them, the unalienable rights of British subjects, that their laws and taxes could only be made, and raised by their own consent, through their representatives. The conquered colonies, such as Jamaica, Grenada, St. 'Yin cent's, and Tobago, where there were many, persons not Bri tish born subjects at their conquest, had, when these places were confirmed to the British Crown, the same privileges eon firmed to them by special charter. A West Indian Colonist retains and holds all the proud privileges and distinctions of Britons. Not so in the East Indies. The moment any Bri- tish subject places his foot in India he loses—he surrenders up every privilege for which his country and his countrymen' are so' eminently distinguished, and he, becomes to an intents and purposes, a subject to despotism, to laws and. regulations which he has no voice in framing, but which he must neverthe less implicitly obey.- Ills privileges and the privileges of the people, of the country, he goes to, never can be the same, there fore, in the eye of British justice and policy—and till the East Indians can rail the Great Seal of Britain, from the Charter of the Weerindia ',Colonies, they must remain without the claims of these colonies, to the support, protection and favour of the Mother Country. When all other weapons fail, and when any act of injustice is meditated against the West India Colonies, the usual weapon had recourse to, is to raise a prejudice against th e m , by a cla moor about their produce being raised by slaves, while that of India is raised by ,freemen . To s uc h a length has this been carried of late, that numbers in Britain have renounced the use-of West India Sugar for that imported from India. For the African Institution, who have nothing to lose by thepro.. ceeding, to raise a hue and cry - against the West Indians, on account. of their cultivating their produce by slaves, as the laws of England,' no secret, command and permit them e occasions -in us no surpise, but: for the champions of the Last India Sugar trade and India to do so, really excites our wonder, our astonishment, and our indignation in no or dinary degree. It is with pain we are compelled to notice this part ofthe subject, but when these advocates audaciously de mand an extinction of the rights of British subjects upon th e 'grounds already pointed out justice requires that the falsehood of these statements, and their system pf tyranny and sisvery, should be publicly exposed. It is notorious that a great Mass of the population of India are Slaves—Slaves to Slaves, and that this is more particularly the case in those parts of India where the Sugar is produced. These Slaves, says Dr. Buchanan (officially employed by the Marquis - WellesleY) " are severely treated." Their diminutive stature and squalid appearance, *hew' evidently a want of nourishment. There can be no comparison between their condition and that of the Slaves in the West Indies. They are the absolute property of their masters, and not attached to the soil. They are often compelled todwell in places appro. priated for. Cattle, at a distance from the abode of free. men, for these'poor creatures are considered too impure to be permitted to appear in the house of their Devaru or Lord--the allowance in rice, clothes and Money for a male slave annually is equal to 21. fla. lid. and for women fis.ld,--old people re ceive two-thirds of the above allowance accordiog to the duty they can perform. A male slave about 90 years old costs 2/. 14s. 70, with a wife he fetches double--children are sold at from Ha: 2ide le 21s. and in other places male slaves bring only front 9s• Gid. to 211 a. fld. and women half-price," from which it appears slaves are accounted one hundred times more valu able in the West Indies than in.the Dist. • Even what are called their free labourers are, according to Mills, a most wretched race. Their pay is only 2d. per day They are the slaves of Zemindars, Rajahs, and Nebel; and can hold no property.' Their masters 'can seize it when they please, and also to call upon them to labour at their 'pleasure. "fheir degradation is inhuman—the most groveling sub mission is imposed as a religious duty,'and he who attemptato instruct a servile man in the mode of expiating sin, is doomed to' one of their deepest hells I !" Such is the glorious system of liberty and freedom which reign and produce Sugar in India, and which is brought fat. ward as a contrast to blacken the character of the 'West Indies; and, as.ti 'reason, the chief reason, - why this country should commit an act of frio de 6, and 'violate all her engage ments. Of all men on earth those connected with India Would be silent, and never let the words, 'elav er y, tyr a n n y an d d espot i sm , or oppressio n, escape theit line. They will, if they act tither.. wise; provoke inquiry thiit cannot be adviintageous to diem or the* caose4 "We hold our Empire inlndia" said Warren Ilaatings, "by a thread ivhich the breath ofpublie opinion May break in a ,mement ; 1 ' and remembering this, we must protect with a more generous hand, those pans of our Empire nearer allied to us, held by , a more durable band,. which may remain longer ours, and which are, to say - the least of it, from their in ternal establishments, even more deserving our protection. It is a mistake or a deception to say, that the additional duty of ss. per cwt. laid upon East India Sugars, and now required to be taken off; was imposed as a• protecting duty to the West g t a Ad o t od o _ cloyed, or Indies. It indeed acts as suc h, b ut t h e f act i s, this additional c o lte r th v a e t nu w e lli as ch , has gone tits e h na rm7 dutyof raw w s imposed $a a process of a similar nature, was, is, and may be imported into this country from India. Our limits do, not permit us to extend our remarks further upon tine important subject, or to 'expose the sophistry ployeal by East Indian, advocates. The West India Planters form 3 part of the agricultural interests of Great Britain: the latter the question is of deep importance ; for, if the We* Indian Agriculturist isnot:to receive protection ap ins' the inr o*liietien of Produce which may justly he callid-Pareli‘n,,lmw ean'the British Agriculturist look for 'preteeticartiver Ike grow. era otlereign grain., Such demands as those we bare irteg- boned, come with a bad grace indeed from the lipit of thee who hold one of the most grievous monopolies that eve r e las C ed lit a commercial country. - We hare heard that it has been hinted to the West Indians from a certain quarter, that if they yield up the point of take the . the other aide will be satisfied and no Committee will place This is a confession of the injustice of the claim. The ac Indies stand upon a sure foundation. if they yield an inch 'they abandon that ground, and their ultimate Tula be consequence—better far for them to know the worst is ono and be prepared to meet it, than to be torn to pieces pesee.meal as is intendetl. LONDON MARKETS. penny to three PRICE OF BREAD The price of the alb. Loaf is stated at sad. by the full-p ba elf bakers. There are others of the tr ade who sell horns halfpence below that rate. IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK' English. Irish. Foreign, ---- Wh eat 4,8 25 .....--- .--- Barley - Alalt - .. O ats __,,, Rye........ ...... - Beaus . 760 ..—.... ..-- Peas - "-- Tuts - ..—... Red Clover (Foreign) Rapeseed Mustard -- am...... .....". F loor .. .. 205 ......._ ..-- Brank ~ - Floor io ---- 400 Linseed ----• ---.. ---- ------------• SEEDS, March 17. Ditto - • English 0..... White ditto 226 30s Ws—new, 401 521 ,is 58160 s Trefoi 32s 42.—fine, 564 6ai 6Ss 205305--(ine, --s 441 --4 per cwt. -, i '• • • Per cwt.... 11l 15s—fine 16s 18s 19s per Or' Riugrass ... iss 365--fisse, 4is 15s Carntway Seeds Coriander do 545,561 601 Spring Tares . !Os 12s 141. Cinque Fuin —s od :—.l Od --5 nr . 31s to 36i—fioe --5 P er ' . Rye-Grass ... l6s to Viv—neW, .28s 30s per tir Canary per qr —s 35s to 4010001 V. White !Mustard Seed Bi own ditto lOl to ilsOd 9, to 15s 00 Winter Ta Mile Seed res 1 21 to 44 o 30s Oti pit . qr. . ~ 2 2510 s 2 61 281. per Ls"' Turnip Seeds. 1 usli. Linseed —6 Od 61 to 7s 6a P e ' ' , —l--finc, —1•••-s Per NEW GA ' Z'E AND LEADBNHALL • By site Carcase. pa to 46 ga Beef Mutton •• 2s 4d to 3s 4d I Veal ... . . 2 s 4 ... v;: 4 , Od Od to Ss 84 Pork ..... •' u`° Limb, 0 04 to Os Od. oNsctiirodaHylii:a.:: ST. JAMES'S HAY TbIARK.ET, March T 31 01 1 0 (1'1 11 Od to to 4 o l l o U s s o°d4 CStit°aTwtr'sl3l3lsosodt°lo4ls:u6:(3ll Straway 23 113 sosiss 000 dad ti SMITH :o:3 : 11 F llOO6 l. S E : o L ot ridLi v: : r as a gg g 1 1 , o , : s o t ; 1 , C N s f : u l s e c a o su w :r te e d x i i tl los Oil to 31 os Od--Averag" 101;3d 31 los thiWiltolls.E1C101151101:1E---1" Averag e ' ' 3 ,1 1 0 9 : o ° , l tto Ol Os oil to 01 Os od--Aceralo t$ 51 21 P 9 R ilipti l io C 4 sic i a E ak l ie :O ti s s F 61.4 : 1 d a H a4 O t : il iSs e s r K s ue : a C a ste it . ., 2ll l , ll l a4,2 a ,: t i c as. ll .2l l.ls ! B ,4,6la a o. ' 24slllllsris E ex a 313 s a3l 12s i Os Essrs,. 4s ait ' at ' Farnham. fi ne, 61 es to sl Second, 51 10, lu ~ (a RAW HllllJs. la It' " o . QS ' u. Best Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordniort ..; . eac h,. r. 0j 3s otl to as" se. M a r ket Ca" • os 0 4 to '' Middling*... Sta VII to its Intt Eng. 1 1 "" ..,1 SHEEP SKINS.' Bil 0 ..• • iS " Pollt4 ...,.. as 64 to 4s lid Sheatiing , '' . . l , 011!...,--- - Downs - -- Butts, 50 to 561bs per lb. -- '' 01 , 9,i Ditto, 54 to 6611 ts each .............. • • .. is j t) j f ... . 1 to °, Dressing Hides . ................. 19t, ieto [4' Coach' Ilitles : ........................ . 19 0 O Ad 111 PRlCE cach OF LEATHRR• . co to : 341 ii ...'' Crop Hides, SS to 401bs . for ' . ....ting ........ oid t tr : Ild- Ditto 45 . , . . 4 5 70 t : 0 5 O w l:: 1 . , ...................................... . ........... , 0 :401 : Calf Skins..z:6 to 401bs ............... • ' illiJ ''' Vel . to _i Ditto 50 to 701bs ... ." ,i4a , oti Small Seals ( Greenland ) ................. . 1 6,1 ° O O La riell4 it t o ............ ' . 160 " 3.1 ................. . . ii. , 9: 'Fanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hides ................. ••I • • 0..... ,,,,44 11 0 PRICES 01.' TA LIAM', SOAP, t"'r ~... 1 ,, 11 .•. • • Town Tallow 42s 6d —s Od Yellow 0 03 1": ... „ •,• " pit Yellow Russia '37s Od —s od 11lottIrd ........ ....' 7 ,04, White ditto .. —I oil •••••••s 0t: Curd .. ' .. .... •• • ''' 0 3 Spap ditto.... 35s Od ....4 Od Cirafes ..... .... .• • '' Melting Stuff 30s Od —s 04 Gaud Pre '' .. , 5 1jAi.l' Ditto Rough.. 19s Od —s Od ..,CoOP t ' ltr of 0 4 ' PRICE OF CANDLES, rnaNCIALLO," *w hit, 1 , Price of Candles, per dozen', Si 6 _:rd„ - oionefi -Tr / 6d per dozen allowed fur I . 1 Writ ---------- * ---------.°-r 1114.--- PRICE OF RAW FA ; l`. ' Stone 110- Nt Iter.)l> 4l allaa n " heat (as stated ‘ l. o:twt:,_rer tir ... Gut wenn n MARKET , M arCP 1 1 I2s ° Ne W per 1. )2. OLs°i:INSI Ml3AarilleicE:ll:::/,:b:i to 111 Wheat 09 lb Ili is ISCIPS , pe r 4 " ISt "00 •~ ) 19s to 1. is Pease, perilr' o; ditto.... 01 Os to 01 01 Price of 'fa, COA L RI( 1 Ships Ships at Market 75 Newcaitle 26 Sunderland IT Cinders 17. cold• P r ice. . •• • 361 6d• dli ........ 364 6,1 A 410. Ikliss" 14 ---------- '. 11..1,K,0::::,:fhasiDba:v: PluY i-ng re li t i t : : , ll .ragedy and come* at Bristol, and b us c o o ill a g un r o e . at_ .otapplauseher fishing b oatpersonation theirwhitherfishermanconveyed on Friday afterßoon, were c",, — ,,bel k a tremendous the youngest *son had - not I 1 gale of wind and snow, nn u f Oil- about lalt a mile from the shore,etg'td° IP tot oty ,0 0, Nomthe cliff ~,_ Possengers„illlgibtit'ciiirl'll''' blew t h e tat her ovr°ll,l. ;,itota boat, .a r nd all on board, must have. been Ono gt, lost rleitni ial i liarda and lowered- the sail, e/reiv tle. boat was righted, but theY -Ogr'reiveii der their sio . father no assistanc r e. Ile iv3s-P°,',olt t'' swimming a few - a 1 . theft -- o a minutes, art it , , , e a p t rise no lc more. The . corpse Was plot 4i/4 oaturda 1 . 3')and brought h„,„0,--(1/righfugo:...e0 ali• 4 ` f BIRTHS. , he Iley"i t On the 16tn inst., in Burton-er 11, Sunday m ' 'went, th e .lali c ro cii - IVaste Esq., of, a son. On Suorning lasi, the tadY d • _••••• son, of a son. „ r 1 O tt. DIED. ,a— I .. c otoT ~,..,„ington co, On. Sunday last, at hex house, n-r,,_`' :ire. fa' Margaret Holmes, in the 90th year 0 1 1 , a!,41), li s tol* ai r On the 15th inst. aged 117,Edward Eel”' 6 q of Middle Scotland-yard, Whitehall. te n, to t 4 . ..Ael, On Saturday inornmg last at Peterbere P 1 001." of her age, Mrs.:Thonaas Goodman. ~.,_ _ ber ve c n o r f tallot On Sunday night, the Itith inst. at 1 , 1 0 " ,_ hit ..( t a l t DWo7lLailLesitenaterdatnny7etnayi:erlaartit,teihaiooinsnfeglittioestaidegtiEedirn;:es3tv,;irrenrid. iitiicein.gftstl:on:seticau:c jrie , icil u ct4itri:, :I;iiionit,theirv3:::kviritiii , some !bends at a tavern and died on "' a st ion a a violent fit of laughter, excited. by Ole T. anecdote. _..........................................,..r....,0,'"'- _--,------"„ t he I , v t „, Printed and Published for tho J. IL ' Pnclralatafi's".' Office, N 0.112, Strand, V i