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THRATAIR•ROYAL; LINUItY-LA NR.
THIN EVENING, THURSDAY, Nov. 2i.
his Majesty's servants will perform (10th time) a sew
Musical Comedy, is two acts, called
MAID oR WIFE?
Or, THE DECEIVER DECEIVED.
The prineip .1 Characters by Mr. Elliatun, Mr. Harley,
Miss Smithies, sad Miss Copeland.
After which

THE 661tONATION.
The Procession commences from IVestmisster
&rood Scene, the Interior of the Ablwy.—The Third,
marl latrodnetory Sten►, is which Mr. Knight will introduce
a wets Cootie Song, entitled," The Kilt( and the Coronation,
Old England ■nd the People."—The Fourth Scene, the Hill,
in the course of which the Grand Entre of the Champion.

To conclude with the favourite Musical Evtravagansa, called
GIOVANNI IN LONDON.
Don Gi i, ftlioltese Vrstriv ; Leporello, Mr. Harley;
Mr. Florentine Fiiiickin, Mr. Darisard. Mrs. Leporello,
Mies Cubits ; Miss Coustaatla Quasi/tie, Miss Furey ;
i. Fan, Msg. Bland.
To-ntorrow, the Tragedy of Harslet : Hamlet, Mr. Kean.
• Os Saturday, Maid err Wife)—with The Connotive.
Out Teeiday, t►e Tragedy of De Montfort : De Mostly'',
Mr. Kra..

THEATRIN-ROY AL. COVRNT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, Nov. 22,
will be acted the Play of
THE STRANGER.
The Stranger, Mr. Yining ' • Curiae Winieraen, Mr. Con.
nor; Baron Swinton, Mr. Egerton; Tobias, Mr. Chapman;
Solomon, Mr. Emery ; Peter, Mr. Meadows. Mrs. Haller,
Miss Bakewell (her t.I appearance us this stage); Coon.
tea Wissieriten, Mrs. Franca ; Annette, Mrs. Liston; Clau-
dine, Miss Rearmost ; Charlotte, Mrs. Gibbs.
After which the Operatic Drams of
THE LIBERTINE.
Don han, Mr. Coosor; Don Peilro, Mr. Chapman; Don
Octavio, Mr. Pyne; Leporello, Mr. Meadows; Maaeou,
Mr. Doraset. Donna Leonora' Miss Love; Donna Eleira,
Mrs. Fisch; Zerlina, Miss M. Tree.
Places fur the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Brandon, at Ike
Box.ollice, Hart-street, from Ten till Four.
A Private Box may be had fur the season, or nightly, of
Mr. Brandon, at the Beix.olSee.
TU./Morrow, the Opera of The Exile, and The Blind Boy.
On Saturday, Ths Exile—The Rendezvous—and Tom
Thumb the Great.
Ors Moeda, Mr. Macrendy will appear in the Tragedy of
Virginius.
Ou Tuesday, Shakspeare's Play of The Two Gentlemen of
Tempo.

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
N EWCAST LE-S.FREET, S rico: D.
illS EVENING, 'NW ItSDAY, Nov. 22,
sod sill further nosier, will tte presented a sew Bur-
ka', its lines Acts, called
ZORAYDA ;
OR, SCENES IN FASHIONABLE LIFE.
The principal characters hy Mr. Ozher►y, Mr. Power, Mr.
Biker, Mr. G. Smith, Mr. Howard, Mr. Yale, Mr. H. Bakr►,
Mr. Hininiond. Miss S. Bouth, Miss Walpole, Miss E.
Scott, Mrs. Pram., sud Miss Bemire.
Mitt which, a new nurses/atlas of Fro, called
LIFE IN LONDON.

TONI, Mr. Reker; Jerry Hsolboru, Mr. Oxlacrry ; Old
Mawitiorio, Mr. Pilfers; Logic, Mr. Vale; Niches% Mr.
Ilanimund; Shuffle, Mr. Power; Floss, Mr. Elliott;
Mr. Tayleure; Goldfinch, Mr. Strickland ; Frady Byrne,
Mr. G. Smith. See, Miss Walpole; Mrs. Nab; Mrs. Pearce;
Baty, Mrs. Maxwell.
To conclude with a Tragiral Tragedy, called
RUMFUSKIN, KING OF BYTIINYPHORBIA..

itssofuAiu, Mr. 11. Baker; &idealisms, Mr. Vslbers;
tourairatora. M . Osberry and Taylesre; Jemmy
Flu term, Mr G. Smith. Griskiuds, Miss Neste,; Scree-
bifida, Mrs. Pearce.
lie Solitaire. a Melo-Drama, will speedily be produced,
With weer Music, Dimes, unit Decuratious. The cbsracters
by Mr. U. Juksaism, Mr. Baker, Mr. Puwer, Mr. Elliott
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?Jr. Vale, Miss S. Baud), and Mrs. Pearce.

RICH 1211EF.L, WITH £5,000 FOR THE RISK OF
FORTY SHILLINGS ON TUC lien or DECEMBER.
UAZ ARD and CO. Contractors. respect fully
announr.e that all Purchasers bete/ems the 204 h
November mad 11th December, will he allowed to rears
their Tickets or Shales all a eery mall reduction of price,
after taking the Closure of the N. xt Day of Dtairistr. 11th
December, by which the risk of loss a reduced to the fel-
-1,,,,jug (Mimi sums, era—
Whole Ticket
Half I 5 0
Quarter
Eighth
Sixteenth
The Wheel is very rick, sad contains—
Prize 0f........ Y 30,000
3
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1
500
3
4
Beside% other Prises of 1001. 501. Ste. Ste. sod not Two
titaak• 1.. • Prise ; all to be Draws to not Days, 11th sad
20th Uremia....
Tickets and Shares are liielliss at HAZARD and Co.'s
flr.tsuale Offices, Frost Gate Royal Eachauge ; 20, Cure.
bill ; and 324, Oxford street ; where Sc.cases, with full par.
oculars, are deli...ere:l gratis.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
The PRINCE REGEN r PUBLIC-HOUSE sail WINE-
VA (.1 LTS, King-street, Woolwich, Kent (peremptorily),
by Mr. T. WHALE, en the Premises, on TUESDAY,
the 27th November, at Twelve tr'Cluck, by direction of
the Executor of the late Mr. Cheeks Ware, deceased;
THE valuable and beneficial LEASE, u.td im-
mediate Pusseasion, for a Term of Eleven Years un-
expired from Christmas next, at a low Reset, of thuor very
desirable, aewlyeteetrd, beirk•httilt Premises, eligibly and
commairdiugly situated as above, contiguous to the back
entrance of the Mariue Barracks, with good Sinbliug and
Skittle grosoid, and the advantage of a Right of Passage-way
irk) St. Mary.street, a very populous and respectable Neigh-
bourhood, which must ensure au extensive amid lucrative
Business, in every branch, a ills proper attention.
May lie viewed Five Days preceding the Sale, and Particu-
lars had on the Premises; at she King's Arm., Knit road;
sod of the Auctioneer, 17, Clunk•laue, Quceu•strret, Cheap-
side.

(Coneladed from err Paper of yesterday.)

FOREIGN TRADE.
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THIRD It EPORT.

The ►estrictions upon the trade with India, the effects of
which are stated to be injurious, ■re of three ih,criptiusis :
First, The resiriciion imposed by the Act 53.1 Gee. 3,
e. 155, sect. 13, tin the size of ♦essels clearing out fitins a
port is the Unstril kingdom for any port within the limits of
the charter, or entering at a purl is the Uuiard Kiagdutu
from a poet wilt's.. those lnnits.
Set sadly, The metric' iun of the Barre Act, seer 11, whereby
British vessels are restrainer from priweediug directly to ally
port is ludia, except a principal settlement, without a ape.
Mal licence.

Thirdly, The restriction• imposed by former Arlo, and
only partially modified Ly the 333 section of the Art of bdd
Geo. 3, ou the resort of persons to India, mid their rest-
deme there, fur commercial or other lariat purposes.
Some difference automats' exists as to the grounds noon
which the linsitatiou of the trade between the United Kiog-
duos and ludic, to vessels of the hordes of 350 tons or up-
wards, was adoptedibl 1813.
The Ant proposition fur imposing • limitation of this de-
scription, appeals to have proceeded from the East India
Cowpa•y ii. these terms:—" No private ship to be per-
mitted to sail rillter from Great &Maio to India, or from
India to Great Britain, of. a leis hoiden t►an four
huadred loin." In the utmenatioiss made upon this
proposition by the then President of the Board of Commis-
' Moons, by whom the isegimialiuo with the Company was
conducted, it was said to he " •rderstood, that this proposi-
tion is Wended urns a principle of guartliog @gams( the dan-
gers to which vessels of less burden than 400 tuna would be
exposed ea • voyage to the East Indies, and also of prowl&
isi fur the security of the , which might be Minted
by permitting insportatious iu smaller vessels;' but Lord
Melville expressed himself nut satisfied of the necessity of
the restrietioa.
In the reply on the part of the Company, the reason iris-
log from the da•grr of smuggling vas adopted, and these
additional remotes were amigsied; that by allowing ship of
400 tons to Forage to the trade, sufficient facility would be
afforded to the more respaclairls house, of business desirous
of entering " a• I ..... mashie commercial intercourse
wills hobs," to the exclusauu sit " characters not soffmnatly
responsible," disposed to esigige iu " speculatiolis of mere
chance uutwarti, and smuggling homeward"—that the target,

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THURSIMit, NOVEMBER 2g
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treeseli would keep alive the impression amegegime ?taken
of the East of the mnperiortiyof bow
chilly to that of the ihaartlame, " ale poigette very aka
vessels to aid, froos /As' ports of ate Rog/ sad that the
larger weasels would be maw respetieir Serrrd, better
provided with medical atisedasee, tttsd inempesear* aishuit
sea rirk.
In the tardier progress of the nevociation, it was urged by
the Company, that the Couimeny's commercial voiles upon
which their ability to bear their part in the system of Indian
administration mainly ilepenaled, *mild be materially affected
by the illicit insportatios of Tea; which might be expected
In oersr, if vessels "unlimited in number and sine" were
permitted to come to the nimt-ports, and to resort to the no-
melons Eastern Islands, where tea from China sight easily
be proctored.
Lied Beekingitarishlw, islado had evereeded to the slice of

President of the Jodie Board, eapromeg, is trupkbt.
nion of his Majesty'. Government, that the • sloes
with regard to sasiiggling terse no least math • 011 se
the part pf the Cutapaisyi led that that • ht Itgesbeisted
by various regulations, .deli as "the
bathtub's of the trade to vessels of
This is all that is to he found, immlifiebrlilllealing the
question of tonnage, in the papers of the negociation; but
it appears that the Court of Directors and the Court of Pro.
priethrs combatted throughout the negoetatioa to urge the
danger of sniuggling in British ports, as a matter of deep
interest to them, as well as to the State.
Your Committee have no hesitation in giving it as their
opiois,e, that these appreheasiuns of extensive smuggling
were very greatly exaggerated,and that nothing has occurred
since the opesiag of the trade which warrants the suspicion
of any such consequence baying occurred from that measure;
nor have they say ream* to believe, that the habitation of
the teenage is in airy degree necessary to peeves; that cue.
sequence. If lea has been smuggled to any considerable.
extent, it has been owing to the formation of depots of te•
as the coasts of Holland or France, by foreigners, who are
wider no limitation whatever as to the size or destination of
their ships.
The Court of Directors indeed appear to have entirely
lost sight of the apprehensioe of sneugglieg, even as ems.
&meted with the question of bonnet, for the restriction, in
that respect, is sow stated by Mr. Charles Grant, whom si-
tuation its the Company is sufileiestly known to the Hari
to have " proceeded estirely front an appreheasion, that if
numerous small vessels were introduced into the trade of
EaMeru larks, depredations might ensue upon the natives of
the Eastern Islands."—" In any other respect," says Mr.
Grant, " it is of no sort of consequence to the Compaay."
This impressive, Mr. Groot thiuks, " is probably that of
the body of Directors at large."—" The limitation of ton•
nage," be egoist says, " was from a humane political
reason."
The narrative which your Committee have given of the
introduction of the limitation of tonnage into the arrange-
ment of 1813, while it peewee, on the one band, to show,
that having been adopted at the urgeut request of the Com-
pany, that limitation must be considered a. a part of the
compact with the Company, to which the faith of Parliament
stands pledged, clearly shows, on the other, that the grounds
upon which that pledge was required by the Company, have
ceased to exist.

Upon the general principle, that no restriction upon com-
merce ought to be imposed or retained, for which there is
not a clear and undoubted necessity, your Committee
would, but for the agreement with the Company, have no
hesitation in recommending the repeal or the 13th section of
the efiet of 1813, even if is hod umbrae show■ to he prac.
tically iewouvenierit ; but it Is represented by merchants
actually engaged is the ladlaw trade, sad others well ac-
quainted with Asiatic ports, as creative $ imatetial itspedi-
meat to our cononcicial iulercuu►se, especially wills the
islands of ohs East Indian Archipelago, and with those
countries of Easteret Asia, with which Great Britain has
hitherto bad little or no eommuoication. Your Committee
&refer from holding out an expectation, that the sanglaioe
hopes, cute, tained by some, of a rapid sod great estrusio■
of traffic with Stain, Cocteau Chios, t►e Persian sod Arabi•st
Gulf., or even the !rasters Islands, will be realized to their
full extent ; but it is wodemable, that the chasers of such
extension are, is some Earl, wantonly thrown sway, while
British traders are deprived of any of the facilities of avail-
ing themarl►ra of them, which the natural course of thins
allows, sad which are ill the power of all other 'tattoos.
The apprehension now stated, of Jamey to the natives of
the Eastern lamed', front the access of smaller settee* which
would nut arise from larger vessels, appears to be quite
visionary. If there is retie°a fur apprehatudiug elsager, it is
talker to the Britiab traders from the piratical Malaya; but
against this danger, those who engage in the trade may he
expected, fur their men sakes, to take sufficient precautious,
sad to employ suede ships only as ca■ be safely, as well as
profitably, isavigated.
Upon this subject of the tonnage, there has been one mi.-
commotion, to which your Committee find it necessary to
advert. Many traders have supposed, that no British vessel
of less than 350 tuns burden could legally trade, or be found,
to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. It is very im-
portant that it should Le known, that the restriction im-
posed by the law applies only to ships clearing out Gum a
British port, or catering at a British port, fur or from a
port to the eastward of the Cape. Such is the distinct enact-
ment of the Art of 1813, coufirmed by subsequeut Acts, but
never (Mewled t. _

Vessels 'emboli under the authority of the Circuitous
Trade Act, " between all ports suit places within the limits
of the Company's charter;" vessels engaged tit trade be-
tween Malts or Gibraltar and the East Indies; vessels en-
gaged in trade under the Act receutly passed (or permit-
ting a trade with foreign ports; vessels from the Cape of
Goal Hope (unless !mite wu► goods from the eastward); iu
a word, all vessels nut proceeding from, or bound to, the
the United Kirigdom, are exempted from the rrrrr icliois of
tonnage.
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Phis fact illustrates the futility of any other reason assign.
ed for the restriction, than that which the Company now
appear to disclaim, the drover of ansaggliiig at humor. Dan-
ger, arising in the Eastern Islands, must be expected as much
front vessels trailing with the Mediterranean, or with any
(amigo port in Europe or Matelot, as from those winch
procee•l from England.
Your Committee, therefore, with every respect due to
whatever may be considered as compact with the Company,
think ii their duty to give at as their decided opiniou, that
there exista not with reference to the Stale, and their convic-
tion that there exists not in au, peculiar interest of the
Company, any stifficiert reason for the continuance of the
testriction.
Yunr Committee now advert to the provision of the 11th
sectioa of the Act of 1813, whereby 11 b vessels are re-
stricted from proceeding to auy of the ports of India, other
than the principal settlements.
Of the origin of this restriction, as well as of the necessity
which now exists for euntioniug it, yaw. Committee will give
the words of Mr. Grant %Yids respect to the admisaiusi
to the minor ports of the continent or India, the design of
that restriction was, to prevent the access of vessels to pieces
where there was nu Wroth authority un the spot, to prevent
the irregularities that might ensue; there may be still sonic
danger of this kind, but I do nut bold it to be of great ina.
poriauce, our do I think the Company attach auy great
importance to it."
Upon this subject of 'special licences, your Committee
have been inferential, 8111181 deriug the discusaiosis in which
Ai -a lola

• 350 tune, reffilleroi insesureureut, is considered as
equal to 400 sum.
t Except that the Order in Connell issued on t►e 24th of
September 1814, under the authority of the Act of Perliu-
metal, prohibit. the import/moo frum the Cape Mau the
United Kingdom, ut the produce of countries with's' the
limits of the cluster, in vends under 350 tens.

eh" lave been engaged, and subeeouently to the reception
of lie eindrisee of • Yr. Richards on this subject, *IAA will
be /rend in their minutes, t►e Court of Directors of the
Beat belie Company have come to a molettes, to comply
with ail the applications fo► special lieeatee which WWII thee
pending before them, or before the Board of Coasmissiemers.
This Resolution originated in the convictlee, metelosed by
the opiates of the tenet eintionst lawyers, that seders a fair
cowsineetieu of the several Acts, Btitielt vessel* seedier
snider the ordinary licence to one er taupe of the principal
settlements in India, sad having completed that outward
voyage, may rentals in India, with the right to tarry es
trade frets port to port in India (including the minor ports),
or any other trade within, as well as without the limits of
the charter; or may take is s homeward cargo, as well at a
minor port as at a principal settlement, The rights of the
British traders, indepeadent of a licence, being thus eaten
site, the Court of Directors have acted with II priiie.worthy
liberality, in not withholding from Moue the only additional
facility, which, osier the Acts, they might hove refitted to
---• Your Committee trust, that special liCelltre far
- reseed from a port of the (Jetted %tortoni to '
India, other than a principal satikoso at, will
be grauted in all instituted i■ which they are

soy port
hencefuri
desir.d.

Your Committee, however, think it right to observe, that
objection has been made tic she ailiiiisvion of British ships
into the coasting trade of India, grounded upon the injury
which may thereby be sustained by the India-built ships,
which are not ■doodled into the coating trade of this cues-
try, and have not the privileges of gement trade belungiug
to British vessels.
Upon this objection, your Committee will obverse, in the
first place, this in order to ri move she inequality and 'nig.-
het to which it refers, they would much more willingly re-
commend, thet the restriction imposed opus the ships of
India should be removed, than that Om hesitation should be
imposed upon She ships of Eaglaud; but, in fact, the in-
equality is not so great as has been supposed.
kdia•built ship, so far from being " precluded from car-
rying on the " direct trade In Europe," ■re by the express
terms of the Act 55 Geo. 111. c. 116, permitted to carry on
that trade, whether directly or circuitously, as It is Imam-
rised by the Acts of the 53.1 and 54th of the late Kieg. And
in the Act recentiy passed, fur permitting a trade with
Foreign ports, India built ships are also specially more.
heeded.

The third of the restriction•, of the operation whereof
your Committee have received a complaint, is that which has
bees imposed by repeated Acts, aad reenacted, with modi-
fications, by the Act of 1813, epos the resort of individual
British subjects to India, fur commercial, as well as other
lawful purposes.

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The restrictions imposed by the Legislature upon the resi-
dence of Europeans in India, form an important part of the
policy upon which the government of the British territories
in that country is conducted. Your Committee feel them-
selves precluded from entering into • discussion of this
policy. It is for them only to inquire, whether the partial
moctileations of it, which have been adopted by Parliament,
have been so adenini d as to give to British commerce
the utmost facilities which are consistent with the strict
misintennete of the principle itself. Your Committee, in-
deed, grid it difficult to pursue even this limited considera-
tion, without transgressing the bounds of their duty; and
they therefore think it sufficient to state, that the complaint
of the operatimi of this restriction is by no means general ;
and that there is no allegation of pattielity in the exercise
of the powers vested in the Court of Directorsomil Board
of Commissioners.
For • atonement of the practice adopted by these authori-
ties, in granting permission to persona to reside its India,
your Committee refer to Appendix F.; and they bare only
to add, that the provisions of the Act of Idl3, for prevent-
iug too large so jail,' of Europeans into India, is the Niel
specially excepted from the above.mentioned reservation is
the 1011, seetiou of that Act. Your Committee, therefore,
can only express their I desire, that no limitation will
be imposed upon the resii!ence of merchants and mercantile
■gents is India, which is rot it y for the security of
the Government, and the protection of the natives.
The Act of 1813 imposed souther restriction upon the
trade with India, which is not noticed by any of the wit-
remelt. sad which, it is therefore probable. has not been at-
tended wills any considerable inconvenience. The 10th
grown of that Act counties insportatious from places within
the limits of the Charter, to suds ports of the United Kine•
Juin " as shall be provided with warehouses, tugeiher with
wet ducks or basins, or such other securities as shall in the
judgineut of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the Lords
Cosumissirmers of the Treasury for the time briar, or any
three or more of them, ill Great Lrilaits and Ireland ►e-
spectivel , be lit auJ proper fur the is posit sod safe custody
of all such goods, wares and meichandise, sa well as fur the
collection of all duties payable thereon." 'I he ports which
have been accordingly made port• of importation, are Liver-
'poul, Hull, Gretssuek and Port Gime., Bristol sad Leith,
to which must be added the Port of Lursilon.

In their sewed Rrpwi, your Committee refvrreel to the
facilities seed privileges a trade with Indio, pussesved by
Foresaw EurupcJie aatioeis aud Americans.

TIN British possessioss iu the East .re nut subjected to
tie laws by which our Colonies in Ainslie.* and the West
Indies are genersily restrained front diem teaffie with tureigu
mamma, and by which tredve ships are prohibited bons ere
sorting to them.

'rim Act 37 Geo. 111. e. 117, empowers and directs the
Court of Directors of the East bolts Company, nail 17re ap-
probatiou of the Contenis.ioners fur the Affairs of laths,
" to frame ouch regulations for carrying on the trade to sod
from the British possessions in the East Indies, and the
ClMlMilltd pull States in amity with his Majraiy,as shall seen.
to (heal must cosulutive to the iuterest and prosperity of
the sail British puseessious iu India, and of the Bluish
empire."
'nee Regulations made ruder the authority of this Act,
and now to force, as to European nations, and the Commit-
time by +bleb she American trade is regulated, are already
belfuee the House.

Yore Coonsittee la lire also to advert to two points con-
nected wits the NavigatiotoLaws, as they affect India.

The 7th sect. of tbe-Act of 1813, eeferriug to the Act of
the Itill of Charles IL by which the produce of countries
withiu the liniiisuf the Charter can only be brought into
Eagised " from the place of production, or the usual putt
of shipmeta," provides that the produce of rsay country
within those limits, may be brought from any other country
alai situated within the limits.
The 57th Geo. 111, c. 95—reciting the several Acts of
Charles 11. William, Auue, ■od George I. w►ereby divers
prohibitions, regulations ■nd provisions have been enacted,
respecting the importation of guods su l commodities of the
growth, production, and smoinfacture of Europe, into soy
leads, kr. to his Majesty belonging, or in his possession, ia
Asia, Africa, or America; aud also respecting the transpur-
mhos of certain articles of the growth, production, or ma-
siufacture of British plautations in Asia, Africa, or Afar-
rica; and ilisd the said provisiuus hive heels commonly sup-
posed Nut to apply, aril have out in practice been applied,
aud that it is not expedseut that Ilse same should be applied,
to the trade of his Majesty's subjects to and from the East
Indies, enacts, that rustiness io those Ads, or in any other
Acts passed fur the like purposes, eontaiued, shall exteud to
expurtatiois or importation In British or Indian registered
vessels, of any goods whatever, within the limits of the
Company's c►a►ter, which, fur the purposes of this Act also,
are to include the Cape of Good Hope.
Your Committee hare hitherto excluded from their eon.
sideratiuu the trade with Chins, and have adverted list
slightly to the traffic, upon which the expectation of the
public has of late brew highly rowed, with the Islands of
the East laclian Archipelago.
The aacieut rostssopoly of the East India Company still
reamias, as to the trade with China, io full force mid effect ;
' ■od fur the protection of this monopoly, the Cutrpaoy silt

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vested with the eheiheive right of shipping or esf►vieg Its
nights the whole range of their chatfieringhl of importiogl
ft into the United Kitegdom.
The East India Company attach great sad jest importanrc
to Ibis monopoly, nod state that the profit. of their ti ado
with Chins coastituto the priuripal reloorce hum which
their dividend is yeriJ, and that thst trade is in fact the
main prop of their financial system, in w►ich the State hal
as interest neither inconsiderable nor very remote.
This monopoly than, as far as it is confirmed by Art a
Parliameat to the Company, is not a matter 4.1 discussion.
Whatever it may be advisable to it., whew the trt shall rm•
pire, your Committee are far at present from the intention,
of suggesting the surrender of that which is, to the Coma
miller, a valuable possession, sad rests us the falls of the
Legislature.
Different considerations, however, apply, 1., these
brooches of trade, from which his Afrjealy's suljeets at
large are precluded, by p.ivileges vested is the Company, of
which the Conipasy do sot avail themselves. Of this de-
scription, in the words of the Lords' CUAIMIIIieOI4 whose
Report has been referred In your Committer. ate, " The trade
its tea and other articles between Conlon end kiting', Etienne;
the tra trade within the limits of the Company's het err,
exclusive of the ports of the Chinese empire; and the grade
between Cancun, and the wastrel' shores of North sod South
America.


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The operation, upon the interests of the East India Com-
pany, of the admission of private trad-rs into those branches
of traffic, is not to he wirtsurcil solely by the 'Teri allies
such admission would have in reducing say prefits which
t►e Company now derive from the eirenitors supply ',ribose
countries with which they have 11.1 direct iNtereuorse. That
effict world p.obahly be very little; nor do the Court IS
Directors, as fir as your Committee are informed, attach
importance to it. But the ■pp:elicusiou by which they
profess themselves governed, to tenaciously adhering to
their monopoly, is equally applicable its all no aroma by
which the free resort of British meschants to CAISIUO is per-
mitted, whatever ray be the nature or drstivatiu■ of the
commodities in which they deal.
This apprehension appears to lie founded upon the IN lief,
that ender the circumstance. of an open trade, Jiiiputt
would arise between the British sailors and the Chinese,
whereby the anger of that jealous Governeuelit wou:d be
excited, of which the injurious effects world be felt by the
Company, at well as by the private traders, auJ even pat
in jeopardy the coniinnatice of the trade its, If.
It is also apprehended, that if tbe m irate merchants were
admitted into the tea trade, the tea putchased by the Com-
pany might experience a deterioration in quality, or to-
hancement in price, which would greatly affect the Com-
pany's profits.
That the first of these consequences his not furowed the
progressive increase of the American trade with Canton, is
attributed to as alleged difference of chatarti r and behavi-
our of the seamen of the two nations; a difference, of the
existence of which, your Committee are by no means sail.•
bed; •ad on this subject generally, they beg to refer the
House to the evidence of Mr. Drummond, a Member of the
House, and others who have been examined. It is however
clear, that the American trade has never, front this cause,
been impeded; •id equally tree, that never till recently, sail
then in articles of exportation only, have the interests of Ili..
East India Company stifferell by the ptosecutioit of that
trade. Nor can your Committee entertain the appreheosion
that greater danger will arise from the same extent of com-
merce transferred to, and condoeted by British "objects,
notwithstanding the different 'TOO in which, according to
an apprehension stated by one of the witueests, they inigtt
conduct the competition.
But it is here to be observed, that information has been
composnieeted to your Committee, by Mr. Groot. with lure
mission of the Court of Directors, which pieces the elicit
of the American trade upon that of the Company, at least as
lu the export of British mattufacturts, in an mitre!, sew
light.
The following is an extract of a lett. r,uf date so recent as
Ilse 20th of November, 1820, from the supes cat gai a at Can-
ton, to the Court of Directors:—
" The very alas ming inroad that is sow commenced by
Ameriese speculations, tutu a trade hitherto confined to the
Hon. Compaur. will, it is probable, soon place all et r•
lainty of calculation in its economy, at defiance. Betvie-s
three and 4,000 pieces of broad chilli have b►en imporle.l
ander the American hag, duvet from England, and ty the•
circuitous eiseiiturn of America, during the present yea-usi ;
pan. riot of these cloths, with the prices and teems or their
di.p..sal, will be forwarded by our superiuteudeut of on.
pools; a flambe► in the Thames packet.
." The American export trade, which has hitherto hero
chiefly cunfitod to Junors, put chased at a pommel, in Ante-
rice, or shipped by a circuitous voyage its Enclauil, Lishor,
and Gibraltar, has been eimaidereil as Aencrally untirrifiseb:e,
The Americans are flu-refine well cont. wird to avail their-
selves of a channel of remittance by s bitch they can rea.i e
the prime cost, and insniance of their investment ; and ate
consequently enabled to undeisell she II ...... tarahie Company.
by the absence of those heavy charges which do it.isata4cts
usually brae.
" The greatest evil, however, which we are led to snit -
pale frosts this encroachment, is, the death blow erkit rt
it its upon the monopoly hilhn to eejaeed by the ilunogr-
able Company ; it in not SU moils 161 .mount. as thee Ou-
t ensissiy of that amount, whirls the set, driest 11..cluaitua
in ♦mericeo cummerre rentlea• to•atly ibealculable ; ea•!
which at once converts • trade, 1.1111.rw e.,111.41.-.1 as sa
guile and secure, tutu a most uncertain suit Jasigesoua
culatiou."

To this information, Mr. Grant refers as she• big " tit. t
there hay been within a few years a sure. pin Pesoll sxi ort
woollens from this coutitiy, under the A16141'11'411 d td
Canton ; soil that the effects 4a that exp.). t are already
beeuming visible in the lolls' clung° of the le re. ding state f
this maitre," namely, site Cutworm:ly%. apur• of •oolle se.
If then the American trade with Chin., no lut.ger euuddi y
and subordinate to that of the ENKI.A. Cumptity, Sits notate I
met it in successful ►ivalry, she eventual' as tei it as the repine
of excluding British subjects !ruin the comp, titton, becunie
more and more questionable.
It matte.' nut whether the adventures f nos which II e
danger to the East India Cdiaipany is spnerM•ut.l.6l, ate re-
gular or surreptitious. lf, in point of tart, there trills 4
competition, whether Irmo Foretsisese, ur riven Engtishmi.
trading so Foreigners, by which the monopoly of the Cunt.
pany is threatened, it will be fur the Cutnpimy r
whether they will not rather pi rued beer fellow-subj. Co 4
openly and legally to participate in that rump, ittiou, than
to leave it uncontrolled in tlsit hands of furetgis us
tine traders.

Your Committee are aware, that this sew view of ti e
effect of the A Int fiC4l3 trader, has only recently b.eo t.l.rn;
and they are far (ram wishing the Company 1c act upon it
wlthuat .careful est imatiun of &Mans coon wares; ►ot it.. y
cannot but recollect the andoubitd fact, that adventures to
Chios is Annetta.) ships hate left the purt of London itself,
with the knowledge of the Court of Disecturr, also aduptast
so piocerdings against them.
lit thus /demos to the trade :tint on frum Eogliitd
under the American flag, your Committee are not to he no.
der►toml, as recomtarudiug an ioteifeei nee with that trod. ;
such a proceeding might hate au rrth•r effect ibis that .•(
wading the American to foreign cumuli irs fur the sulkies
export, which they no. procure in &island. They adsisses
the pee witted 'statelier of this trade as su Wootton's of II s
justness of their opinion, that tke time ta come alien it
State as well as the &titbit merthaut nay finely a-k the
Cumpaisy, tither to protect their -Indy - • ill.,
encroachment,
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•clintent, ur to relax it in favour of sucsi fella* rub~cc.a
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■rly erudite:.
e question of the China inunopetl, l a. reerentls a.•qu.r, J
instal iwyun+.u•e as cuistud.sed .0 teareusakiti ni.h it e
of the Else Indust' Arehepelsgo.
e solicitude to exploit ore, claque's of e entet.eicite. at..l
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tool leak Company, is the Easters Seas, has kd lb a ♦ery
iloateral eapeetatios of iaeressed sad valuable commercial
'stormier*, with lb. lolanda of that Archipelago, as well as
the fevers! cooasetes bordering epos it.

Upon the peiseipie which your Committee hove already
hid down, they moil not think am esimmtination or Oho
reseonablemre et ft* mutpeesatios memory to iodises then

Ise a* of
impeded. ; ITetimehb.ht teem* to skew that the restriethmes
were simeeessary, without as redness, to the agree of ed.
at/AO h 110 40eive4 &ear.
Bat iw the. wend trim* the quietism le esillevital At-
ill se wsweb at IYs dbfiewlties whirls, weeeedlog tit Ae
oriel bear et welt ieforeeed persone4 &baked o* extends* of
ltestish trade wasair the Asiertiakleseds, raise is grestatis-
ask f oar she makapoly a the Chloe trade ; the rilimilikt
re *both de* set at this meant teat solely with Plebe.
111 PM.
its emtsistioa betimes the Chico melepely sod the free
trade to the Ikaterst Island. aid Cathie Claes, depend.
011.11., 'epos the feet, of Whieb there it sboadiot evakaer,
shot she paodocis of thee, battik, Showeh very eels.
able, err wet switelsio to toy assesspeoss market, or in.
sired to oaf etbee trairselve matte' thaw that of Chios.
Mikis* thewilise, there appears to *amour she Mateyo
a eoamdthible drams% capable of much emission, for Bri-
tish masutertswee (especial)y cotton goods, iron and steel,
tapper add wesolieem), Ole esticient returns ens be procured
fbe thew *elides, eshierwite the. by way of China, or per.
stop of Beogal, with a view to re-eaportatiou to Chios,
where the eiland pledgee may be enhanced for twerehandioe
reportesie to Korot" The exporiatime, therefore, of our
etiousefsethees en these islands is greatly impeded by the wall
of • return, which 'within hat a peronistas to seek it al
Comfort eau emote.
`foto. Conentinee fief theoserkes complied to etheerve,
the the ohjettion of the Compass, to pertaining to ash.
reseed H Is enders an iniereuterse with Cameo', is equally
impedirable to obis as to airy Wort purpose of such later-
al**, : and that they eremite press wpm. the Company more
steeisely in this Waymire 1h is the others, the propriety of
deporting from the retaliation which they appear to have
adopted' I. adhere to their compact to respect of the China
ettethoetity.
Your eommilift however trust that the operation which a
retention of the China mousipuly would have in facilitating
our intertotose with the Cosner Islands, will eater largely
into the consideration of the Company, when they make
Mkt ievlrw of the stale of she &Allah trade at Canton, to
table% the proceeds of the American trade will probably atom
compel them.
In the correspondence which took place in the laid year,
bet. em the Prenident of the hubs Board, and the Chair-
roes of the East India Company, a modification of the char-
bold privileges of the Compel was proposed, which it was
iseiired troth) have some, at least, of the effects of an opening
cf she Chins trade, without incurring the danger attending
rtes.reoutt of English venels to Canton. Thin proposal was,
Chet 'British sej•rts should be permitted to lake its tea at a
tml iM Ilse East 11444 Archipelago, and to bring It, not to
the tlidtvil Kingdom, hut to foreign Europe, under the au-
rhos sty of she Bill then to contemplation ; for Ibis purpose It
e euggested, that the Company might form a depot of lea
It Prior* of Wales Inland, or some port is the Atchipelogo;
i.e that tea might be brought to such intenueiliate port, with
either. Chien Oudot?, by the ordinary country trade. The
Cote of Directors declined a morpheme with ibis sugges-
t:ow, for reasons which arc seared in their letter of the 7th
Jour, 1040 ; mid though your Committee cannot admit the
force of she whole of those reasonings, yet, as the matter de-
eatiray upon 'the argisicscence of she Cuospauy, it is
verfeleely worth while to iuouile whether a measure of this
eerier+ would provide for the British manufactures exported,
the dessir*d retest cargo.
Another modification which has suggested itself is, to ad.
mit lertosh traders to Canton, with a prohibition heat deals
bug in tea, and from importing tufo the Coifed Yiagslom.
Tbi• sugrestion involves all the objeci ions fuseoded apses
the appeelwosion of danger fium the miacooduet of oar oes.
men, but does not, except through the Inrs's+,o( illicit holies
iuteifere with the Company's profitable monopoly. Hot
lour Comatitice ere is, the aoggestion so little of advastrogr,
that if there really exists any ink in acting upon it, they do
out thiak it sufficient to warted its being incurred.
The rely measures which ran be adopted, without the
cotospery's rourterreene, with a view to the ratension and
e•cority of the Island trade, are, the occupation of a conve-
wittier port, to be administered by es lacer of the Crows;
ostablialtroeut 14 a Bristol' consulate in Java, or is some
ether ii tit situation ; sod each arrangemetes with the
sitletherlood Goveromeot, as may ensure to British subjects
canieress, tiepin 'goal or lair terms, to the possessions of
the Govertient set, and AN Iltlrriirirleil intercourse with inde-
.prodeat native states. Yoe Commtnee have been inform-
ed that these arrangements with the Netherland Genet mono
Maw bete moaner of ergociation; and until the result of that
nitigweistino shell have horn communicated to she Muse,
-.lisor Committee think it proper to abstain from any further
datessios of the sultjert.
The House will hod in the evidence some information
respecting the for tide. A trade is, furs from North Aun-
ties to China, has bees, tarried um extensively by subjects of
• the tend 'Sews, sod to a small three by British subjects
trading under lieetice fium the Lie India Company ; laud
• new oriiffic Of this ileseripitou opens itself through the
thicovery of the lands of South Shetland, citithoard of
C•pe Hone. 'rinse were discovered Its the latter end of
.1416, by a pers is of she slater of Smith, uu his retorts voy-
•stre tom V.il Paraiso to Buenos Aises. A very valuable
dear ri pt ion of seal skins is procured in great quantities from
Sottsb Shetland, which are likely to prove au elide of ad-
vantageous :lathe in the China market. lit no part of the
fur tt,4le his the Company ever e•gaged, and it is to be
!piped then they sal be induced to lake moth measures as
may pr, vent nos premising brsucti of It from &Mug •lio-
gethi r into the hands of other natious, wlso bare eilieady
*Au.. to embark is, it.
Another channel of commercial intercourse with China

b.. hero pmuicil out lu your Cumanitite, which is rut only
•alisable .0 itatlf, but imi•ortant as illustrating the possibi-
loy of extruding the demand of British manufactures in
it• e Chinese pros lucre, if that cheap and pleutiful supply
cau be purvisleJ, which cam hardly be expiated but (ions the
enterprise of individuals.
Is apps.. that a trade of barter bad been for matey years
retried or Marrero some uteri:haute of Illoacuw and a few
Sartividuals of Chinese Tariary. In !SOW the two Govern.
roseate wined their attention to this traffic, asd made it the
subjitt of a bled of cutnisseicial treaty. Since 1811, a va-
riety of British niauufacturee have f I their way to
Kiachus, whist) is the scat of this rising.traffic ; and in the
lard year no inconsiderable quantity of British woollen cloth,
cissablets, sine handlerclaieti, atorlitio, coil Manchester
geode, in company with foreign European produce, were
hartcsid at Kiachla, for teas and Mt er products of Chime.
It appears, however. that the difficulty of thus introducing
vamissfacturis into China, through Ru.aia, is in.
creavitig y a et/reanimate which, coupled with the evidence
which the partial Gucci,. of that circa I illUd traffic affords, of
C.. value of the . proviticsal soothe. of China, ought to .ti-
mutate that Cu... try to every measure by •which a more
toady sad ditect satriatutoo wills that great empire may be
warrior plialied.
to covietediag Ibis Wiwi, your Committer have anti lo
rogue, in regilrd to the trade with ludia, to the observations
aoheeb they have, already made oat she iueviiediency of con-
tinuing risiriciion upsu the tonnage of vessel., %fit
rag be dose -away without tnte.feriwg with Ilse rights of the
Emit lathe Company: cod to repeat the expression of their
hope cad eolifidreice, that she oilier re•tricsioas which the
Of AIM of 1813 imposes, may he pot its force by the Court
by the Commiswionere for the Affairs of
India, with a flin•111151 re [Wilt CI iUth rf tbe lueouvenienee'of
all ceogineresal remise-thou, mut the toreeveny of alleviating
lb. oporaloms of ii, 101144.1T1 it 111111111114.1 he removed.
As to Chrce, it es•vanirresioary for them to deprecate, be.
mums the Meow would avaavvaty Never route/wit/ate, any
tithe's,* by aistawrity of Parliawieut wills • (be sosiuopuly
mewed by Lois to she East lisiiia G•mpaisy. ,

• tier lei; ter, pro par n erroeliePeUd iks• desirsble,
preskostyssi fouslievatlyo Ist piddle bids, interre.
isms with tbAt Is. awls et !het:Maw Wade. *bleb is artmilly
esusducted by the Cymru's', sud eoushtutts

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orialil be the peeulier coamoseate of a refs:otitis tif
Moisopoly I. favour of British merclisate, while is the hoods
7:l3ll6oaers • *WO& treat' rimy Iterieia oithiret hiker,*
the Company-4h., mould seadilp admit that the Amps/ the
Comps", might call w t►em to abject to auy
eimerver. is either breach of their monopoly. Bride\ seb.
jet.** most, in each ease, he nut prohibited from reseetiai to
Cantos, mid from animates lieutsekes directly is soy
broods of the trade hi tea.
Doty after • twit onosideratioa of the irolojett, sad of the
evidesee takes ►y them, sod eossmeaiemil by the Lords,
year Committee rennet concur is ell the appreberiaisiee
w►ieb the East India Company sppsar so matortnio of the
eimorspreaeire of a partial relaxation of their naineopuly ; and
oa the other basil, they rotten, to she aubsiamee of ;he opt.
aims stated is the Report of the Committee of the Lards re-
ferred to them, that ender certain regulatioua calr•misted to
obviate the principal objeetios shat bre here mated, without
iaterfeviao; with t►e mosiopely of the British market enjoyed
by the East India Compaity, the British mercbaat might be
safely admitted to a participation in the direct trade with
the dominions of she Emperor of China : as the mine time
consideriag that the meanpoly, in its esiicteat farm, is
gemmed by law to the Company, they can only submit the
evidence, rod their observateuits upon it, so the Horse.
July 10, 1001.
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GIBRALTAR PAPERS.
OIRRALTAR. OCTOR4O9.
We are sorry to find that the accounts from
Malaga are still lea satisfactory than tho.e which
we yesterday gave of the state of she public health
in Cadiz. The sickness is reporteil to be fast
spreading all over the town.
At Marseilles, on the contrary, all apprehensions
art completely at en end. A letter of the 12th
instant states, that at that date there remained but
one convalescent in the Laztret. The lute regula-
tions are strictly enforced. Two vessels from the
coast of Spain, with a number of passengers, bad
been refused admittance. A Danish ship from the
same quarter, haring met with a similar denial.
and the number of builds left on board ('he muter
and three men only), being probably insufficient to
navigate her. she rail ashore at no great distance
from the harbour. The men were saved, sod the
ship was but, ned.
OCTOBER 31.
Deaths, or the yellow fever, at Fort St. Mary's,
fioin the illst to the 2311.0ctober, 22. Cases on
the last-mentioned day, 535.
Deaths, of the yellow fever, at Xeres, also from
the 21st to the 23.1, 6. Cases on the last-mention-
td day, 28.
Deaths. of the yellow fever, at San Luau de
Barameda, on the 21st and 23c1, 3. Cases on the
last-mentioned slay, ; besides 2 suspicious ones.
From Lebrijit, no later accounts than thase wl
-
have published.

WOVIIIIBIII 1.
MA LIMA, OCTOBER 244—We regret exceedingly
to say, that the fever in this place has broken out
with increased vigour, an.l there eppenrs no hope
of its being gat under at present. Trade coati.
nuts, of course, completely at a stand. ,s.
A printed return of the sick and deaths Ist ihe
Lersret, on the 27th, states the number of the
former to amount to 24 only, and that of the latter
to 3. According to the same paper, there were, at
that date, but live soaps, sous cases in Malaga.
The daily deaths at Tortola on the first ten days
of October, were from 60 to 70 ; and the total
number of victims to the 27th of the preceding
month, had amounted to 7,000.
Seventy individuals had been carried off by the
fever at Mequinenza, by the latest accounts; PI
continued on the sick list, and 24 were in a state of
convalescence.
At Ale°, seven had died out of eight, who had
caught the disorder.
In Aquila,. 5 had died from the 11th to the
19th, 14 were returned sick, and 5 considered as
convalescents.
The suspicious cases in the suburb of Seville, oo
the !Gill, amounted to 25. Both the patients .and
.the persons living in the same houses have been re-
moved to the I asret.

A false report having spread at Alcauez, on the
11th last month. that the militia 'wended .to plant
the Tree of Liberty iu the principal square, Mu
Town Council was compelled by the mob to die.
arm the g 6 individuals who composed the obnoxious
corps; which having conic to the civil Governor of
Arragun, hi. Excellency on the 17th informed the
Council, that satisfaction must be given to the
militia fur the affront they had received, in order
that they might continue to discharge the im-
portant duties laid upon them by the laws.

PARIS PAPERS.

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PARIS, NOVRIABIR Is.
Ye►terday the King entered into his 67th year.
(his Majesty received the congratulations of the
Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family on the
happy occasion.

The Prince Royal of Denmark, who is at pre-
sent in Paris, travels under the name of Count Ol-
denburg.

BULLETIN OF HEALTH.

The fears entertained for the safety of Dotter
13.i11y, in consequence of the statement in the Ca-
sette de F►ance, have vanished. The last.courirr
has brought two letters from him, one dated the 6 h
,Nottemher, addressed to her Highness Madame the

•••Princess Louise de Bourbon-Conde, Prioress of the
',estoblisbuient of the Temple, in which M. Bally
deseribea the disease as experienced by himself,
and gives the cures and regular clergy of Barerloco
AIM the praise their devotion deserves. He notices
'The arrival of two sister. of Saisste-Compille, sod
'attentions that the.one of them, who is not employed
at the lompital for females, attends private kooks.
The follow's% is tire &retool letter :
EXTRACT OW A LITTER PROM sucasons.
METRO, novsna's a.
Be confideat, my good !siestas ; I shaill•reiturn
to you. In eight tl.ys more I
shall be in Immo.

the eonreat of St. Jesome, which is iiiisata.l
~.a mtenniit of s mountaits. I shell mania the"
nineteen days. I four I shell be detained as long,
longer, at the lasaretto of Perthuis.
, of the Pyrenees informs me that he is pre.
ispaesaseam lee is there. l hes* Wee able
be write Impriollassee times Aerie; the muss of es,
Moms. I hope my hand wes steady lat Ice.st
made every exertion in my power; and I was the
NNW inclined to decries you with regard to my reel
tireation, r was persuaded that the papers would
hasten to publish my death. It was necessary to
contradict them while I had strength to do it.
" Adieu, young BAL.LY."
Tortes. is rut longer inhabited ; persons who at-
tempt to ester the city are immediately attacked
by the fever, sod die in a very short space or time.
PARIS, Nollitiellia 18.

On the authority of letters from Marseilles, an
alarm was excited that the yellow fever had been
declared to exist at Leghorn, sad, by way of diver-
sif)ing the rumour, it has recently been announced
that it was not the yellow fever, but the cholera
swims, which had been communicated to that post
by a ship from Batavia. Letters film Leghorn.
now before us, and which are of • very recent date,
notice the astonishment which them statements have
produced in that town, in which no contagious Ma-
lady exists; on the contrary, the state of health was
never better. We are happy to be enabled tti:con-
tradict these grievous reports, as a warning to put
the public on their guard against alarms of this
nature, which fear or malevolence propagate...-.
(Monilestr.)

Notwithstanding the alarm created by the pre-
tended discovery in the Bois de Boulogne, Ma-
dame, the governess of the children of Fromm, did
not deem it requisite to countermand their accus-
tomed promenade. Vlrheu her Royal iltglineso the
Duchess de Berri was informed of the resolution
of the governess, the august Princess said, " she
has acted perfectly right; the Duke de Board/au
ought never to recede (reerderi, not even at the
age of one year."—lGasetie de France.)
M. Jibot. Ex-Misibter of Marine in Spain, has
just arrived in Paris. It is affirmed that be is
charged to request some French ships of war to
scud to the Colonies.—/Ides../
IFUNDIr.

November 17—The per Ceotr. 99f. Kre.
Fseboaikatajoadoa et ibirtr dam, 291'.10 e.
Data as dime swab., 20f. 90 e.
asatLia, oerossi 29.

By Belgrade we hove received letters frem Coss
stantinople which come down to the 13th instants
They state that Asiatic troops arrive daily in that
capital, destined, it is affirmed, to make head
against au attack which the Janissaries are pre.
paring for. The affairs of the Greeks go on badly
in Cyprus and at Candia, where thousands of
Greeks have been put to death. At Constaoti-
movie, all the Greek natives of these islands have
been dragged from their dwellings, and manned
by order of the Graved Seignor. Happily, they
only found 116. Several Greeks, brought from
the provinces, have suffered the nine late. The
situation of the capital is any thing but satisfactory.

• U GSBURG,
Comme►cial letters Crum Comic
that the difficulties with respect to the purchase of
cargoes of grain are removed, and that they have
been paid for in ready money.
Accounts from Trieste of the tot of November
state, that several vessels from &rite, Corfu, and
Calamine, have confirmed the taking of Tripobizs, •
adding, that it bad been token by assault, end that;
the whole (wrist's) bad perished, with the exception •
of three Turkish chiefs, who were spared as hostages.
...The same vessels brought iutelligeuce that the
-Greek fleet hod attacked that of the Turks off
Cape Nivarino, on the 16 h of October, and that
twenty-one Turkish vessels had been captured, and
twelve settlers burnt. This statement, however, ap-
pears to want confirmation, s some letters attribute
the victory to the Turk,.
A letter dated Calsinats, the 27th September,
says, the place was taken by assault on the 23d,
and adds, " the action, which commenced et
eleven in the tnoruing, lasted outil night. The
Turks, driven from their entrenchments, shut
themselvts op in their houses, from which they
continued to lire upon the Greek., which
obliged the Mailiotes to set fire to s great number
of houses. Next day, as the Turks refused to
liateu to any ►ummons to surrender, the victors
were obliged to reduce them by fire end 11111Dae.
Our Chiefs have treated with di►tinet,on all OW

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stitinople announce

Ages and the other principal Tusks who have bc4n
made prisoners. There have been also found in
the city the harems of two l'achas of the Mores
iuo are now fighting under Chousrid, Pacha
of Epirus. The women found in them have been
treated with all the respect due to their sex and
condi►ion."

On Friday last, between twelve and one o'clock
at noon, during • tremendous heavy storm or lilltd
and rain, the mill of. Mr. Siaitist. Wit.tts, it
I, Stanton. in Suffolk, was blown down. ()tie of the
_pails first came 441. and itumedietely afterwards the
whole unsehille tell with a dreadful crash. ,FOrin-
'lately the miller had just left the Jodi. yet he had
nut get solar as to evade the taii.tree, which struck
I•and.tieng•linn some dtsturce. There are two other
mills in the parish, but although they felt the storm
severely, they suffered nu al sterna lujury.

LONDON,

TERMSDAY, NovEtheig. 44,

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We published yesterday. in the form or an ad-
vertisement, certain Resolutions adopted by the
GJoueeste► Agricultural Association, at a meeting
held in Gloucester on Ifiaturday last ; and also a
copy of a Petition, which it was determined it the
same meeting should be offered to Parliament in
the ensuing Session. The Resolutions complain in
bitter terms of the Report of the Select Committee
of the House of Coinnsoua, to whom the Petitions
of the agricultural body were in the last Session of
Parliament referred ; first, as it offered no prosprct
of relief to the distresses of the Petitioners—and,
secondly, as it admitted conclusions not warranted,
in the opinion of the Gloucester meeting, by the
evidence which was submitted to the Committee.
The Report we believe, indeed, was nearly as un-
fortunate us the old min in the fable, who, yielding
to the suggestion of every passenger, could ant
however succeed in sectoring the praises of any. It
was for the greater part drawn up with • •hew of
ability, bet it wattled that consistency of design
which could alone enable it to obtain the suffrages
of any considerable interest in the country. It
seemed as if there had been a division in the Coita-
-1 mittee, and that the contending panic* had coin-
promised their differences by •n agreement that the
Report should in sonic way or other give exrres..
aims and countenance to their conflicting opinions.
This, however, did not extend to the suggestion of
Any practical measures. The party who held those
"speculative opinions,' those " wild theories," of
which the Gloucester Association complain as
proving a total ignorance of " the first and greatest
principles of political economy," must in con-
sistency have urged that there was no means of
affording practical relief to the agricultural body
but by removing restrictions upon commerce, and
►ightening the oppressive burden of taxation ;
but with this the other party could never be brought
to concur, and as this point admitted no compeo-
mise, both agreed to pass it over without any notice.
Thus et happened that the Report recommended
no measure of relief, but left the country still to

the great ministerial panacea—time and patience.

Upon the subject of the complaints and de-
mands of the agricultural body we have so fre-
quently expressed our opinions, that we shall not
now trouble our readers by repeating them. We

think, however, that upon the subject of affording
further protection to the growers of corn, we may
submit this point to the fair consideration of the
agriculturists. What is your object in now seeking
for parliamentary assistance ? You complain that
you are compelled to purchase articles for your own
consumption at a monopoly price (which is perhaps
true), and that you are compelled to sell ut •' an

unequal competition with poorer countries." This
latter position seems not to be so correct. If the
Legislature were to repeal the existing Corn Law,
and in its place to enact that foreign corn shall be
wholly excluded from our market., what advantage
could such • provision effect ? The present law
operates as • complete and total exclusion of all
foreign corn until our domestic produce reaches
price which was considered, even by the apical-
twists iu Parliament, as a sufficient protection.
The prevent price of corn, however, le fur below the
maziassnis established by law ; how then could it be
supposed that a total exclusion could raise it ?
The harvests of the Contiuent no more affect the
present rates of our markets than if those harvests
had been blighted, or the produce of the Continent
had been insufficient for its own consumption.
This state of affairs could not be altered more bene-
ficially for the agricuhnrists by any formula of
words, and consequently it would be as unavailing,
even for the purposes of the landholders, that Par-
liament should make an alteration in the law, by
converting an exclusion in effect to an exclusion in

terms, as it would be necessarily displeasing to all

our continental Allies, and dispose them to retaliate
upon us in our most vulnerable point..
It is evident that if the power of Parliament

were able to raise the price of corn, wheat ought at
all times, under the existing law, to maintain a
price above 709., or rather bordering closely upon
flOs. a quarter. %Veilld not this price sufficiently
remunerate the Lamer for his labour and expenses?
Or if the Legislature were capable of raising it
still higher, would a price be required higher than
805. • quarter ? if this be really the object of tLe

agriculturists, it ought to be stated distinctly, that
Parliament and the country might be apprised of
the actual extent of their demands. It must be re-
collected that when the Corn Law was under con-
sideration iu Parliament, ell the practical farmers
admitted that even then Kw. a quarter was a good
remunerating price for wheat. Since that time the
Income Tax and the War Malt Duty were repealeds
as was lately the Husbandry Horse Tux. A malt
duty has, indeed, been must unwisely imposed.
but the tax placed at the same time with no loq
its/policy upon the importation of foreign wool,,
operated in a considerable degree to the advantage
of
,the
.agricultural body, as it proportionably
created the value of their wool in the market.
These ehOUlosisaces of special repeal brig cousi...

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tiered, there Might to be do doubt that 70a. s quar-
ter will now afford as high a remuneration to the
farmer, is Os..tare siippmed to grant at the period
or the eintetdient or the Corot Low.

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