The Sun. — London, England, 1821-12-29 00:00:00

FOR. THE SUN. TO THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS WALLACE. Vice-President of the Board of Trade, &c. &c. &c. Six—l had the. honour of respectfully ad drissipg you on the 6th of Ott. last. • Tj object of that. communication, amongst other things, was to demonstrate - the impolicy or your New Bills, in so 'far as they went to repeal those salutary laws., established for the protection of our industry, &c. &c. for which we are indebt-' ed to the wisdom of our forefathers.. The great object of those protective laws was, or at least their practical result to a certain ex tent has been, to insure the prosperity of the British Empire, by protecting the industry of its people from injurious foreign competition,a policy very different from that of modern States.- men, whose ignorance of the practical effects of their own measures, and whose rage for specious theoretical innovations, have induced them to re verse the judicious system of our ancestors, and practically to protect the industry and commerce of foreign nations from the competition of Great Prifain ! To our ancient pretecting system, Sir, and to the principles on which it is founded, we are indebted for regulations which have set limits to the powers of our Rulers, and which, once gave protection to our industry; and to them we owe, in spite of natural impediments, our present and past superiority over our neighbours, in good go vernment, in manufactures, in commerce; in the extent and value of our shipping, our Colonies, our revenues, and in all the advantages for -which England has been so pre-eminently dis tinguished. That it is to are - se causes,' and not to any su periority which England or her people (without such laws) possess from nature over other na tions, that- we ought to attribute our past pro sperity; and that it is by the continued influence of the same causes only that our prosperity can be secured and perpetuated, I have already en deavoured to demonstrate, and I am always ready to establish, by principles, and by facts, which cannot be controverted. My sole object, however, being the public good, the immediate purpose I had in view in addressing you, Sir, was, at the hazard of exposing my own ignorance and errors (if my views shall be found to be fallacious, and my propositions erroneous), to invite you to a discussion of the merits and demerits of our East India Charter, of our Ame rican Treaties, of our Corn Laws, and of our ge neral imperfect and unproteeting system ; and I therefore offered to prove to you, that by the theoretical and delusive measures into which we have been betrayed, the. British Empire has been deprived of an annual gain of more than forty millions of pounds sterling during the last five years! Yet, notwithstanding the vast importance of the topics which my communication embraced, strange to say, neither answer, nor acknowledge ment of . its receipt, has been vouchsafed ? But, Sir, as I conceive the duty which every Englishman owes his country to be paramount to all other considerations, —as I am certain that the knowledge of the discoveries I have made, would, if properly applied, be of the utmost be nefit to the public interests ; and as I have not the honour to be a Member of the Legislature, autho rized to advocate, and to do justice to my coun , try's cause in Parliament (nor do I wish to be come a member of that honourable body if I can accomplish this great national object without that distiiictiOn), I willingly waive all personal feel ings respecting the contemptuous treatment which my suggestions have received at your hands, and with a view to the fair discussion of my discoveries and proposed measures, so as to bring them be fore the public, in order that their merits or, de merits may be thoroughly investigated, well un derstood, and approved or condemned by and during the period of the next SessiOn of Parlia, ment (for the duty I owe my country calls on me to publish this letter if it be not attended to), I offer, though the proposition is perhaps unusual, .but my object is at once to prove my sincerity, and the strong conviction with which I am hil -1 pressed, and at the same time to fix the attention of others by some extraordinary proceeding, I offer to enter into a bond to forfeit the sum of 1001., to you, your colleagues, or any lead er or leaders of your new theory of Com merce and Finance, if I do not substantially prove that the consequences of our East India Charter, independent of those arrangements by which the Company itself is benefited, are to pro tect foreign commerce from British competition, or, in other words, that a portion of the commerce of Great Britain is thus practically sacrificed for . the promotion of the commerce of Foreign States ; and that, as regards our American treaties, our Corn Laws, our manufacturing from Foreign, in lieu of British India and Colonial cotton, and as regards the actual want of due and 4dequate tection to our agricultural,colonial, and shipping . interests, according to their value to the State respectively Sincluding the late alteration in the Timber duties and our inefficient protecting sys tem generally), that the consequences of the whole combined, cause to the British Empire a loss (including the loss or attainable gain) of more than forty millions pounds sterling per an num, and effect the deprivation of the profitable employment of more than one million of our peo ple, and of three 'hundred thousand tons of our shipping. I make this proposition, which you will admit is at least an evidence of my sincerity, with no . other reservation than that you, or your col leagues, &c. enter into a similar bond of forfei ture to me, if I do not prove my position; and that you admit, as a basis, oY data of calculation, — That the profitable employment of its people constitutes the • wealth and prosperity of the British Empire ; and, That we have within that Empire one million and more peo ple, either totallyor partially destitute of profitable employment. The multitude of our paupers, and the price of subsistence, as compared with the low price of labour, and the 'cost of production, as compared with the low prices of our markets, unanswerably and irresistibly , . prove the truth of • the latter proposition. As for the former, it. may justly be termed felf.evident i and will' receive, I am sure ; your readynssent, and that of every 'man who has at all observed and reflected on the actual or the theoretical circumstances of society. It would be desirable also to have, admitted, for the - sake of simplicity and brevity, That our Agriculture when protected (including mines and fis . .erics) is the root bl, and propelling power to, all our other branches of industry. That our carports are no more than the payments of our Foreign and Colonial articles of consumption, including those articles which we use, wear, circulate, and accu mulate or deposit within the British Empire for future con sumption ; and that while we have an excess of population (by which mean a portion of our population.altogether, or par tially; unprofitably employed or unemployed), we cannot im port and consume an article of foreign produce, the like of which article we can ours:Ayes produce, without positively depriving of profitable employment a' number of our people adequate to the production of such article within the British Empire, and absolutely abandoning or consigning them to poverty or erinic, and which causes a loss to the Empire of about SOL per man per annum. That we can only increase our consumption, or enlarge the markets for our products, by increasing the profitable employ ment of our people. Should, however, you, Sir, or your Colleagues, refuse to admit the truth of all or any part of this latter set of propositions,the admission of the for mer Will afford a sufficient basis for the investi gation, and will, with some additional trouble, enable the accuracy of the whole to, be triumph antly -established. • From similar motives and views, from a similar basis of calculation, and on similar conditions, offer to exchange with the same gentlemen as afore - said, - penal bonds for the following sums, viz. - - • FIRST. One hundred pounds, that I will prove that the Agri culture of the. British Empire, including its mines and fisheries, When protected, is not only , the root of, but the propellini , power to, all our beneficial industry. And,having establisheetms, it follows that when the root is in a state of decay, the branches can no longer enjoy prosperity than while the disease is passing from the root to the branches, • from previous successful Agri culture, or temporary exeitions, arising from ignorant spear- SECONDLY. One hundred pounds, that I possess a knowledge of a system of Commerce and Finance, that will, when com bined in practice, bring the mighty resources of the British Empire into action, so as to give profitable employment. to all our industrious people, to all our capital, and to all our present, or to an increasing shipping, and increase ultimately the reve nue.of the State, (including tithes and poor-rates, if required) to an amount equal to 120 millions sterling per annum, without injury to a single useful class of Society. THIP.M.Y. One hundred pounds, that I will prove that, if a proper system of Commerce and Finance had been adopted at the conclusion of the last war, when 1 first hinted it to Minis ters,. nearly the whole of our present supply of hemp, flax, cotton, tobacco, and rice, would have been now beneficially produced in British India, New South Wales, and our other Colonies, which would have caused a greater demand for, and sale and consumption of, British Manufactures, than we now possess in all the foreign markets ; at the same time it would have employed all our industrious peOple, shipping, and capital, standing in need of profitable employment, and would of course have had a direct and powerful tendency to banish beggary, pauperism, riots, disaffection, and crime, from the shores of our Empire, and have speedily doubled our Revenue, &c. FOURTHLY. One hundred pounds, that 1 establish that the comparative prices and qualities of products, are not questions for the consideration of Statesmen, but belong solely to traf— fickers, consumers, &c., and that their real and comparative value to the State forms, with respect to products, the only kgi tirnate object of the Statesman's consideration, or of legislation. FIFTIILy. Though rriy mind is not yet finally made up on this last point, yet I think I can venture the hazard of its esta blishment, that the cost of our products in this country has no thing to do with the contraction or extension of their export, or with the increase or diminution of their price and sale.in foreign markets. . I advance this proposition from the considera tion that we can only expOrt the payments of our consumption of foreign and colonial products, in cluded in which are articles in use and circula tion, aml the necessary or actual stock' in land; nor does the merchant calculate on the prots arising from exports singly, but' from exports and imports combined, as is proved by our present trade with India. For, Though at present we can sell our products in India at from 20 to 30 per cent. profit on the ex pences out, yet still, in consequence of our im provident and unproductive laws surrendering our home markets for India produce to the entry and - injurious competition of foreigners, without protecting duties, that trade, so rich and valu able in itself, is nearly as depressed, paralized, and unprofitable as if India did not afford a mar ket for the sale of a single article of our manu factures; and the British subjects concerned in that trade are equally ruined or ruining, while the foreigner is carrying off the rich fruits of our legislative ignorance an.d folly ! This fact demonstrates that all the fine things which we hear of foreigners competing with our manufactures in foreign markets is mere non sense. But though the increasing our own consump tion of foreign products would immediately have the effect of increasing our exports, still, if their (the foreign) products displaqe the products of the British Empire, our aggregate industry would be decreased in a much greater ratio than our ex ports to foreign countries would be increased; and, if this be admitted, it proves that often when we take the activity of our cotton manufactures as a criterion of national prosperity, it is quite the reverse; for our cotton manufacturers may be employed in manufacturing payments for imports of foreign products, of less real value, and at a greater cost in our products, than the same (fo reign) articles could have been produced at with in the British Empire, and that thus they have dis placed at least as muCh,or rather much more, of the products.of British industry, or from some other portion of the British Empire. In other words, every man so omployed in manufacturing payments for articles of foreign produce which might be produced from our own territory, is the means of depriving perhaps three of his own countrymen, in some part of the Empire, of their employment, of keeping that part of the Empire to this extent in a demoralizilg state, and of depriving our ma nufacturer of three customers, whom a wise system of commerce and finance would have enabled ad vantageously to consume our manufactures, the cotton manufacture itself, amongst the rest !!! If after all the pains I have taken, I should fail in bringing parties forward to discuss fairly with me these subjects, (and discussion is all request), I hope to be more fortunate than I have hitherto been, in at least getting myself called to give evidence before Committees ou Agriculture, Trade, and Finance, in order that I may by that means have an opportunity of re futing those wild theories which now govern our Statesmen, and which are rapidly drying up the resources of our beautiful empire.—(The reason why I have not been called may be known to yourself.) I am sorry, however, to state, judging of the future by the past, that as the fatal conse. quences of our commercial and fi nancial po• licy, on the lives and fortunes of the people, dur • ing the last six, year's, have teen insufficient: convince our - Statesmen of -their errors, it is but too pt?obable that no attention will be paid to the communications of individuals, how ever accurate their views and salutary their sug gestions, until that period, still more fatal than the present or those that are past, shall have arrived, at which the state of our revenue shall prove that it continues progressively to fall off at a more rapid rate than it has hitherto done, and which _period cannot exceed much more than one year front the present. That the errors of our Statesmen principally arise from the ignorance of the facts that a sta tionary revenue is a sign or proof of decaying prosperity,—that the p'rofitable employment of our people constitutes the wealth and prosper:it,y of the State,—that the correct rule for ascertaining if our people are or are not profitably employed, is to compare our present amount of pauperism with that of past prosperous years, and the cost of subsistence with the price of labour, which will shew that at present one million or more of our people are either idle or unprofitably ern ployed,—that Agriculture is the root of, and pro pelling power to, our general industry,--,.that our exports are mere payments of our consumption, and, that we cannot carry commerce beyond the amount of such consumption, nor increase that consumption but by increasing our profitable employment,—that that can only be done by exe cuting our Own work with the industry of our own people,—that we cannot consume a foreign article, (the like of which we can produce our selves), while we have any part of our popula tion' unemployed, or employed unprofitably, without depriving of profitable employment that number of our people who have produced such ar, tide within theßritishEmpire,—tliat our imperfect system of Commerce and Finance thus deprives one ,million or more of our peopie of profitable employment, and the Nation of their earnings, amounting to forty millions of pounds sterling per annum,—and that by a wise and correct sys tem of commerce and finance, the mighty re sourees of our own Empire can be brought into full action, so as to give profitable employment to all our people, shipping, and capital, and to, increase our revenue in the same ratio. In ignorance of these facts, Statesmen have hi therto treated the communications and sugges tions of experienced practical men with contempt : ; and, I fear, they are likely to continue to do so, notwithstanding the cries and sufferings of a sinking public, until they shall, at length, be awakened, as by an explosion of thunder, from their fatal reverie, by the approaching, though to them unexpected, proof that their measures have caused the revenue to fall off beyond redemption. Sir, this is an alarming, but it is an inevitable, re sult ! The prediction is not less true dm it is frightful ; the crisis is at hand, or rather it has already passed ; and we are fast sinking under the last fatal symptoms of our mortal malady ! The cry of distress first arose from our neglect ing to protect our agricultural, colonial, and ship ping interest, and thence it has been prolonged in lengthened anguish and protracted woe from one extremity of the empire to the other. The adverse cloud which has arisen from our mistaken policy has extended itself over every part of our domi nions, and sheds its malign influence,without dis tinction, upon them all. It has traversed the Great South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and overshadows us with the same gloom in the East and in the West, in the extremities of our do minion, and in the heart and centre of our power. The ruin which commenced at home has already. overtaken us in our most distant possessions; and yet you are not aroused to a sense of your danger, and of the abyss on the brink of which you have placed the destinies of a hundred and fifty mil lions of people ! Sir, if you will afford me an opportunity of proving the accuracy of my premises, I would fain hope, even yet, that you may be awakened from your apathy, that you may still be induced to steer the vessel of the State from the hurricane which is at hand, and to change her course from that which is carrying her to destruction. Your present measures, be, assured, will lead . to ship wreck; while those which I recommend will in sure your safety in the fairest weather, and with the most prosperous gales. I undertake to solve all difficulties, and to re fute all objections, arising from my propositions. If you reject them, you will no doubt feel the propriety of doing so on the same satisfactory grounds as I have advanced mine. It, in the presumption of mistaken views, you refuse to examine, or examining, fail to destroy, the truth of my system, and afterwards persevere with your own, What must the world think of one who accepts office, and on whom, in a great mea sure, depends the future destinies of his country, if, while acting under erroneous views, he persists in repressing with contempt the public-spirited endeavours of practical and patriotic English men to advise and instruct him, or spurn from him the matured fruits of practical knowledge and extensive research ? You ought to know that in your public capacity a man is liable to be im pugned at the bar of public opinion for ignorance as for high treason, and that the consequences of the one may prove to be not less fatal to the Em pire than those of the other. If there be no other fault, I am sure, Sir, you will excuse thelionest boldness and frank avowal of my sentiments, and which I conceive my coun try demands from me. If Ministers reject the suggestions of individuals, they would do well to consider that wise men often adopt 'that which ignorant and supercilious men have despised. Our present measures have reduced us to the most deplorable condition, a condition in which it would be better that we should be killed out right at once, than continue to languish amid in terminable sufferings; 'particularly so in the face of the fact that our beautiful Colonies are ready to give profitable employment to 200 millions of additional people, and invite us to their cultiva tion, which is only retarded by the unprotecting laws of our Legislature. I calculate that that part of the East India Char ter, which protects Foreign Industry from British competition, .(without doing the Company any - pod) is a loss to the British Empire of about 10 millions sterling per annum. Please to calcu late the benefit tlerlved to the Sta!'e from a sltigle peasant for a year at 14s. per week, and it ~t ill set you to rights it all your erroneous calcula tions. How is it possible for any Statesman of com mon sense to consider his measures as correct, while we have so many people and ships unemployed, and we stand in need of 200 millions of addi tional inhabitants, and 300 thousand tons of ship ping, to do our Empire justice. ludeed, I con ceive that not a fortune or life is lost, or a crime committed, through our people being deprived by our laws of profitable employment, but that those who made such laws _are the real criminals in the eyes of GOD. I understand that application is made, and great interest using with Government, to open the trade of our West Indies to foreigners ; I therefore beg leave to say that it would be better for Eng land to relinquish her sovereignty of the West Indies, than to permit foreigners to trade with them free of protecting duties, as we should then be 'obliged to pay for their protection for the benefit of foreigners ; another reason for so doing is, that the system of slavery, which we perpetuate there, is not only disgraceful to us as a nation of free people, and iu direct opposi tion to the spirit of our Constitution, but deprives of profitable employment the same number of free people as would produce the like, article at a cheaper rate in other portions of the. British Empire. Therefore, in lieu of the West India interest being protected from East Indian compe tition, the latter should be protected from the former. Yet, when every property of the British Empire is protected against foreign competition, according to its respective value to the State, I shall be able to point out a market for all our surplus West India produce ; still the West.ln dia interest ought not to he favoured, in our markets, above the East India interest. by pro tecting duties. The opening our West India ports to foreigners, although it would do no more for that interest than change their customem, without increasing their sales in the aggregate, still it would de- . • prive about 40,000 tons of British shipping, 4000 seamen, from 20 to 40,000 corn cultivators, wood cutters, manufacturers, &c. &c. of profit able employment; and the Empire of direct and indirect revenue, wealth and power to the amount of from 11 to 2,000,0001. sterling, and increase the charge in the poor's rates half a million per annum. While our present measures exist, we are, by our connection with the West Indies, losing on every hundred weight of sugar we consume, 10s., without receiving a single equi valent in return, beyond what our other colonies, or foreign countries, would give us. One negative advantage only may be derived from opening the West India ports to foreigners, namely, that it may tend to shake off their alle giance to this country some few years sooner than they otherwise would, and thereby release us from the burthen of supporting and defending them. I also beg leave to observe, that ii you do me the honour to attend a. public meeting of the se. veral - British Interests, at the City of Londot Tavern, on the assembling of Parliament, I will endeavour to convince you that our nationa distressei are not the consequences of war, nor o the extravagance of Ministers, nor of the amount of taxation, nor of.a depreciated currency, but of the mode of taxation, and a national ignoraNce of the mighty resources of the British Empire, and of that system of commerce and finance com bined, necessary to bring those mighty resources into action, (the former founded on principles of reciprocity, and. the latter on self-creating and self-supporting principles), so as to give all our people profitable employment, and increase our revenue in the same ratio, without injury to any useful class of British society ; and that the loss to British Empirtl, through manufacturing from foreign, in lieu of British, Colonial, and Bri- tish India cotton, is equal. to about 20,000,000 sterling per annum, forming a part of which is losing the employment of about 300,000 tons of British shipping, with seamen in proportion. That our machinery deprives about 100,000 of our people of profitable employment, and in creases our paupers in the same ratio, and of course increases the burdens of the Landed Inte rest about two millions per annum ; cousequently such machinery should pay a tax equal to about the amount of the poor's rates which it creates. No man has a higher opinion of your private virtues., nor of• your well-meant patriotism, than myself ; my only regret is that I cannot think equally high of the effects of your former and fu ture intended public measures. Your very obedient. Servant, JOSEPH PINSE NT. 22, Birchin-lane, Dec. 20, 1821. • - EARTHQUAKE.—The shod.; of an earthquake was felt at 56 minutes past two o'clock r. NI. on the 17th ult. in Moldavia. It lasted several seconds, and was particularly violent at Jassy. At a quarter past three o'clock three other strong shocks were experienced in that city.. They succeeded each other at short intervals. Several houses and churches were damaged and a great number of chitnnies and cellars gave way.-- 2 --(French Paper.) QUEENSBURY LEASES.—The actions of 'reduc tion of the leases on the Queensberry estate, in which decrees have_ lately. been pronounced, con tained, besides the conclusions of reduction, conclusions against the tenants for violent .pro fits. The question was tried on Friday, before Lord Cringletie—Whether the tenants- were liable to the Duke in such violent profits, or bye-gone rents ? and if so, from what period the same behoved to be calculated ? The case was very ably argued by Mr. Jeffrey, for the Duke of Buccleugh ; and by Mr. Moncrieff, on the part of the tenants.—His Lordship gave it as his decided opinion, that the tenants on the Queensberry estate were not liable in violent profits or damages, prior to July, 1819, being the date of the decision of the House of Lords, In virtue of which these leases had been reduced ; but he held them liable subsequent to that de , cision.---(Pumfries Courier.) CORONER::,' INQ-U,E3T":I, YoSterilay an Inquest wasJield in the .12.63ifri of .Mary-la-bonne workhouse, en thebotly of a w-rnan, ng d Stay. It appeared the deceased was the sist.4r.of,a respictable Than and was formerly in affluent eire - uniStaticts ; - huvtlaing the fatter part of her life she was reduced, . the necessity of living in very obscure apartments in the neighbour hood of Dates street, Miry -la-bonne.. 'ln her youth it gppear.- ed, she had formed an unfortunate attachment t 9 s youpg,gen tleman, who, after every necessary:preparation 'hz-4-heen that.. for the marriage nuptials, forsook. her in _4n ,abrupt =sa ner. This seemed to have a tensible effect-UPon her - mind, and led her into a habit of drinking.• she.hail txerareglymtly seen about the streets very much intexibted. On Wednetday night she was observed in this situation, lying on tbe:paTement of the street with scarcely any clothes on her p:!-:son, and drip ping wet,. having been in the rain for a considetablelline.. shortly afterwards expired.—The examiningthc body of the deceased, had• no. doubt hit lie!' de'ith was . occa sioned by immoderate drinking of spirituous ii,quors.—ahe Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict, " That the deceased died_ through excessive drink4ig add the inelem4l,/ of the weather." Last night an Inquisition was held at the Craven Head. Tai vern, Drury-lane, before TITOMAS Lsq.. Coroner for Westminster, on the body of Thomas. Hawkins,, - 'teed 45 year 3, who was found dead at that house on Wedriesdapight last. ,It appeared that . the deceased was, on "Weihisda• ast, drinkidg nearly the whole of the day, and ; was very. tr i oc.rintoxicated in the evening. About stx:o'clOck a person named - Wilding went into the water-closet, amt stumbled over thedeceased,-Wio'lay on the floor ; he appeared to be suffocated by liquor, which run out of his mouth ; hawas:in a lifeless ,fate. He had been pO - in a good state of health. Verdict ," Died by ex s sive drihku!g." ' • ' An Inquisition was held yesterday before &ELL, F,sry., Coroner, at' the• Red -LiOn,Chandler-street, St. George's;" Fl?!::k. ver-square, :on the bod.y,of a married whin-A a, who result Jarnes's-street. ft appeared that on I'Vc , ,lneday evening the ceased wasfoUnd at the bottom of a fii,glit . orsteps: ;Atli Irechaad downwards. She appeared to have fallen headlong down s!airs -her head was bent under her bcisinii.: A .stirgeiin , who discovered ,a severe rnjury . on , back of the licad.of deceased, and he -as of opinion that the fall had bJ:ri the chiLf cause of her death. The deceased - was a r.;speitahle woman, but unfortunately gave way to a prOp2.iisity'Slie had for drinking ardent spirits. She had: drank. excessivelyl , , before she . rngt with the fatal accident. Verdict—" Accidental ileathby a fall when in a state of intoxication." An Inquisition was taken, on Tuesday last, .before Mr. UN Iv N, - the Coroner, at the .• Five Bells, Three Colt-street, Limehonse, on view of the body of Peter Mangle.-- : It appeared that the deceased' was a ballast-heaver, and that about five weeks. ago he had fallen out of ,a _ballast-lighter at. Blackwall reach, and was drowned. He was dragged for various times then and since, hut all efforts to find the body proved 'fruittets until Sunday morning last, when it was found at Dirk_.e's,slioV., Limehouse, adistance of fotir miles from where he was drowned. The body was in so putrid a state, _that he was idemifieti from his apparel. Verdiet—" Accidental Death." ExTaaottniNA RY Rpueuay.-,Thursday night a large party of young fa:k.; assern)led at thi house of Mr. Gaznoay, a builder, residing in Hertford-street, Fitzroy-square, to supper, after which they passed the night in dancing,.singing, card-playing, and other amusements ; t eleven o'clock, a young man knocked at the dotrOvhich was opened by'a servant ; he said he brought a cloak for his young mistress, as the night was cold. He was desired to sit down on a bench in the hall, ane• the servant left there, and went up stairs ; shortly afterwards a second emit arrived with a hackney coach, wile said he, was ordered to take his master and mistress The servant, who was not acquainted with the names of half the company, crediting what was told her, went up stairs again, and suf fered the two strangers to stand at the stair head to listen to the music and singing, with which they appeared highly delighted. Airs. GREGORY, being informed by her servant tin there were two young men below stairs waiting for some of the company, ordered her to give them their supper and plenty to drink, which was done accordingly. Thb villains then took 'the opportunity of completing_ their design. Thty stole four silver table spoons, a silver sauce boat, knives and forks, eight top coats, 'sever!! cloaks, shawls, pelisses, and hats, besides a nun ber of umbrellas, muffs,' tippets, and other ai tides, all of «hich they carried off in the coach which was in waiting, and the watchman shut the coach door and wished them a good nighchaving no suspicion of the robbery. The robbery was not 'discovered until the company were breaking up, when not a hat, coat, cloak, umbrella 7 could be found. The two strange servants were missing ; and, too • late, it - was discovered that they did not belong to any of the company. Price. 37140 d to 41s Ort —s Od to —s Oft COAL-MARKET, DEC. 23: Ships at Market. - Ships sold 44 Newcastle - - 10 , 1 91 Sunderland COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Dece.tmer 28. Amsterdam Ditto, at. Sight l2 8 Rotterdam l2 12 Antwerp l2 7 Hanthurgit 37 6 2# Us Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight 24 60 0 Us. , . Ditto - 25 90 2 Us. Llotiudeaux, ditto _. _.. Fvankfort oti the Pain Cadiz ttli:ceirr .3t; Effect lye • :36+ Effective lboa Barcelona Seville Gibraltar Leghorn • ' Gel ua . ..... Liv. 27 00 Nlalla tib -Naples 4O Palermo Lisbon j..)porto Rio.)stneiro Dublin .... 9 pe 00. BULLION. Portugal Gold, iu coin L.o 0 0 pet Oz. Foreign Gold iu liar, New bomb watts 0 41 4) New Dollar,' Silver in Bars. stand Arri: 4; 4 9i o 4 I l'ilitTll. - . .. On Wednesday, the 24th ins Lint, the Lady of A. 13 . remridAt, Esq., Chancery-lane, of a son. . On the 25th instant, the Lady of Abel Lea, Esq., Kidder. minster, of a daughter. te.' M AR R On Thursday last, •itt St. Dunstan's, Stpney, by the Rth Thomas Barneby, .M 3; Sherman Stimson, of. Oakhain, t o Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. ti in. Brown, of Jamaica-641m, Commer6al-road. Yesterday, at fit. Clement's Dane's, by the Rev. Theophill:g Williams, A. 8., Samuel Williams, Esq., solicitor,.,of , mouth, to Eliza, daughter of John Synies, Esq., of Loott street, Strand. (in Wednesday, the 2.eith instant, at Marylebone Church, Mr. Julius (Awn, of Charles-street, Nliddlcsex-hospital, to Miss Eve Berry, of King-street, Portman-srlisare. DIEI) On the morning of the 25th instant, aged 17 years, after a lingering illness of eight months, Frederick John J. Meals, eldest son of Mr. Geo. Mears, of Kennington-lane, Surrey. On the 25th inst., at his house in Upper Ranelagh-street, Pimlico, Mr, John Darby, late of Bankside, in his' Bth year. On the 27th inst., Joseph Woolle, Esq., solicitor, Basiflg hall-street, in 36th year of his age. Printed and Published, for the Puovaivrons, at the Sux OffICE ) 112 2 Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.