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astonishing Evolutions on the Slack Rope.
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Leader of the Band for the Ballet, Mr. Rooke.
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Tower, and Descend enveloped In Showers of Fire.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 11, MI6.

following are a few extract, from the French Papers
last received.

[Front L'Etuik, dated Sunday, July 9.1

Conrr„ Jrxr. 13.

Letters from Cerigo, of lath !Ilay, state that the Spezziota are
evacuating their island. to concentrate their means of defence at
Ilydra, and that the son of !Melillo has taken refuge at Cerigo.
It is said that eleven members pf the Greek government, including
daurocordato. are in prison.
Accounts from Prevesa of June Ist inform us, that the vanguard
of Use ttssraskier has been beaten at Attica, and that an officer of
Lis army has art wad at Prevega, and announces that the General
is falling back upon AI issolonghi and Lepanto.
Immediately after the arrival of a courier, despatched from Paris
to General Ponsoiby, the Cord High Commissioner, pro ternpore,
his Pace Henry despatched the Naiad frigate, Captain Spencer, to
Trieste, baring on board Cul. Bathurst, sent on a ogliiol3 to

Vienna. This morning the Marquis Paulucci arrived here from
Trieste, on board a ship of the line of 74 guns.
The Duke of Richelieu and his travelling companions en still
here.
PARTS, JULY 8.
The Augsburg Gazelle says, " A letter from Trieste, of June
21, says that news has been received there, by a private letter from
Malta of the 7th of the same month, of the arrival in that island
of a vessel laden with warlike stores, sent from England by Lord
Cochrane, whose speedy arrival it is said to have announced,"
The Comerier Francais goes farther ; it announces thearrival of
Lord Cochrane at Malta, with a squadron composed of seventeen
vessels, five of which are steam boats.
We believe we may deny the truth of such a piece of news ;
every body knows the Proclamation of the King of England, which
enforces the provisions of the laws against the conveyance of am-
munition for the service of the Belligerent Powers, towards whom
Great Britain has promised to observe neutrality.
How can the Courrirr Francais suppose that the vessels of Lord
Cochrane could enter so freely an English port?
During the whole of the last Session the Opposition Journals
reproached the French Ministry with having observed a strict
neutrality in the affairs of Greece. Now their tactics are changed—
they announce that all the French vessels fit for sea, and all those
that were on the coast of Spain, have sailed fur the levant, for the
purpose of seconding the Commissioners, who are going to cause
the Duke of Nemours to be crowned King of Greece.
One would say that those Journals take pleasure in laughing at
their readers. /
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The accouths from Italy say, that while the weather here in so
hot and dry, the temperature of Naples; is at 14 deg. of Reauniur,
and the atmosphere rainy, as in November. The rains had so
senile-CI the rivers, that a man of the environs of Naples was
drowned on the 19th, in attempting to cross one. Several persons
have been killed by lightning in the province of Capitanstai On
the 14th, several shocks ofan earthquake welt felt, stdifferent times
in the day, in Calabria Ultra Seconds- A . shock was also felt at
Milan on the 24th, at twenty-five minutappast one.
FrEwctr Fu x ns.—Pa a is, .1 tr LY 11.—Five per Cents. opened at
9nt. 75c.. closed at 98f. 83c.; Three per Cents. 65f. 90c. ; Bank
Mock 2.012 f. 50c.; Rentes de Napier/ 72f. 90e. ; Royal Spanish
Loan 441E—Exchanze on London. one month, 25f. 55c. ; three
months,2sf. 15c.—C'ours Arithorliync.

The calamities into which this country has repeatedly
fallen in consequence of over-production, have been owing
to causes which lie much deeper than any of those partial
circumstances to which they have generally been ascribed.
Nothing can be more evident than the fact that all commo-
dities derive their real value from their capability of mi-
nistering to the necessities of man; and although there are
some commodities of little use, which derive an artificial
value from their rarity, while there are others of indis-
pensable use, which are of no value, on account of their
abundance ; yet necessaries must be considered as the
only true measures of value, because things possessing only
artificial value can never acquire any importance, but as
a means of procuring necessaries in exchange for them, or
as luxuries, after men arc in full possession of all necessa-
ries ; so that the abundance of necessaries, in fact, causes
and increases the value of all other commodities. As this
view is new, it may require some farther explanation.
Water is the most necessary and the most abundant pro-
duct of nature; but it is of no exchangeable value, at
least in this country. If water, however, were scarce,
gold would be of less value ; because a large quantity of
it would be given for an indispensable necessary, and con-
sequently the person possessing a certain quantity of the
precious metal would be incapable of procuring so large
a quantity of other commodities. The value, there-
fore, of a certain quantity of gold would be diminished
by the sum necessarily expended on an article which now
costs nothing,. The same is the case when necessaries of
any sort increase in price. The abundance of necessaries
must therefore be considered as essential to national wealth.
Now it appears to us, that the distresses which have over-
taken this country diave at isen from an undue share of labour
bestowed upon comparative superfluities,under the common
idea that if a certain quantity of gold were given for that
labour, the workmen engaged in manufacturing these luxu-
ries must necessarily be beneficially employed. In conse-
quence of this circumstance, too great a portion of our
population has been thrown into the manufactory ; while
the Corn Laws, by indulging the supineness of the farmer,
have prevented agriculture from making any progress to be
compared with that of our manufactures. It is obvious,
therefore, that the produce of the manufactures being in-
creased, while that of agriculture has remained almost
stationary, the former species of produce must necessa-
rily have suffered a depreciation as compared with the
latter. It appears clear, for these reasons, that the only
relief to be expected in our present circumstances, is by an
importation of foreign grain in the mean time, and by the
gradual employment of a greater proportion of the skill,
capital, and industry, of the country,in increasing the agri-
cultural part of our national wealth. These subjects
from their very nature are obscure, and can only be tho-
roughly understood by their practical applications. We
yesterday suggested one such application of the principle
here laid down, and we could suggest several others ; but
the necessary imperfection of projects formed without pre-
vious experiments, and the little attention generally paid to
anything in the shape of a scheme, prevent us from enter-
ing into any details of this nature. We content ourselves
at present with re-stating our principle, in hopes that it
may meet some eye capable of appreciating its conse-
quences, and able perhaps to put it partially to the test of
experience. We assert, then, that the principal cause of
the distress in this country is the comparative backward-
ness of our agriculture as compared with our manufactures.

Among a number of Parliamentary Papers issued yes-
terday, we observe the East India Annual Accounts for
the years ending on the 30th April, 1822, 1823, 18g4, with
the estimate for 1523. The net surplus on these years was
as follows:

1812 . . . . X 1,946,719
1826 - - 2,1142,2.48
1824 . - . . 86.974
In the year 1823 it was estimated that there would be
a net charge of 749,891/.—lt is not at all difficult to
account for the extraordinary expenses of the last two ,
years, as they have obviously arisen from the war at Bhurt-
pore and in Ava ; but we cannot avoid taking notice of the
concurrert effect of this expenditure in producing the late
commercial crisis here. The money expended in these
wars was necessarily withdrawn from the commercial
capital employed in the Indian trade ; and it is notorious
that the bank at Calcutta was obliged last year to discon-
tinue its discounts for private accommodation, in conse-
quence of the amount expended in discounting Government
paper. It is obvious, therefore, that the remittances to this
country must have been very considerably diminished ; and
the importanceof the Indian trade renders it easy to perceive
how great the effect of such an absorption of capital must
have been upon our affairs at home. Nothing, in short, but
the imperative necessity which is proved to have existed for
undertaking these wars could have justified Government
in hazsrding consegnences so much to be deprecated. The
necessity of the war is proved in the most convincing man-
ner by another document relative to the island of' Shapooree,
the bone of contention between us and the Monarch of
Ava. This document is of too great length for our columns.
I The island itself is of no importance ; but it became so fkom

the necessity in which we were placed of resisting a settled plan
which the Burmese had formed against our Indian possessions
It is usual for some reasoners to calculate the value of the
territory which is in dispute, and to estimate the danger of
take aggression by that measure ; but it is obvious that the
principle is the same, whether displayed in a trifling case or
he an important one; and those who reason on this ground
show themselves as little acquainted with human nature, as
they are with the principles of national law and government.
Were we to argue on this principle continually, we might
submit to be stript piecemeal, and every new encroachment
might be thought too trifling to warrant resistance.
A Government submitting to such petty encroachments
could scarcely expect to maintain that respect at the Bur-
mese Court, which would be necessary to enable it
to protect the commercial interests of its subjects. Lord
AMHERST gives the following additional account of the
sacrifices to which we must have submitted, if we had
refused to engage in the Burmese war:—
In the tint place, we must have relinquished our claims to tha
forest land at the back of Ramon and Ourgunnea, which the Com-
pany's elephant hunters had frequented for years, as a part of the
British territory ; otherwise the opposition made by the Burmese,
and the repeated seizure and imprisonment of the servants belong-
ing to one of our public establishments, must necessarily have in.
duced frequent angry and irritating remonstrances on our part,
quite Incompatible with the permanent maintenance of friendly
relations.
Secondly, We must have tamely abandoned our right to an
.island which, however inconsiderable in size and actually unpro.
du tire, had nevertheless been often the subject of nodal in the
public proceedings, and stood recorded as a portion of the British
unitary. -e
Thirdly, We must have patiently endured the insult and wrong
offered to us in the attack and slaugliter of a patty of the Company's
troops. stationed on Shapooree, no less to preserve that which we
considered and had declared to be our undoubted right, than to
protect our peaceable subjects, in the vicinity, from murder and
piunder.
Fourthly, We must have witnetiiied, in passive silence, the pas-
sage of the Burmese across the natural mountain barrier, which so
distinctly separates the two empires, and their intrusion into the
plains of Bengal ; their subjugation of Cuellar --11 country, in its
population, language, instil Lions, and geographical position, es-
sentially a part of Bengal, and the legitimate Rajah of which then
actually resided under our protection ; and also the establishment
of their authority in Jyntia, another petty clrefahip, which had
long been intimately connected with, and was essentially a depen-
dent of. the British Government.
Finally, we must have tolerated, without the slightest resistance,
their occupation of a position which placed the richest part of the
district of Sylhet, and the sudder station itself, completely at their
mercy, in the then stale of our military force, which gave them the
command of the Soorma, as well as of the Barhampooter rivers;
and which, whatever number of troops we might have collected for
our defence, would infallibly have led to heavy loss of revenue, the
serious interruption of cultivation, and the permanent flight of
many of our Ryon from their homes, through the dread universally
inspired by the proximity of that sanguinary, barbarous, and un-
pitying race.
In explaining the motives which led him to de-
cide on the expedition to Rangoon, Lord AMHERST
affirms that the invasion of Chittegong was a pre-
viously concerted plan, and that the object of the
attack on Rangoon was to recall the troops destined to
act on the Cachar side. We cannot but approve of
this scheme, as an instance of a skilful and bold ma-
noeuvre, which proved eminently successful by causing
the Buudoolah immediately to halt, and finally to retteat
to Ara. We can scarcely anticipate any criticism on this
proceeding from those who lauded BONAPARTE'S tactics so
highly in the campaign of Paris, and indeed in all his
campaigns. It must be confessed that Sir A. CAMPBELL
has here profited by the example of our old enemy. The
whole plan of the campaign affords a most decisive proof
of the advantage of combining land and sea warfare. It
enabled us in this case to change a defensive war into an
offensive, and to remove the theatre of war to a more
favourable situation. We are happy to observe, from the
statement respecting the climate of Rangoon, that it is
" really not peculiarly unhealthy during the rainy season."
The sickness which prevailed in the army from July to
Nov. 1824, was the consequence of an epidemic fever, of a
casual, not of a local nature, and precisely the same fever
has since raged in Upper India.

In addition to these documents nn East India Afars,
we have received the annual account to the Ist May, 1826,
of the receipts and payments of the East India Company
in Great Britain, and the estimate for 1827. The balance
for last year in favour of the Company is 779,195/., and
the estimated balance in May, 1827, is 482,8621.

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CITI, MONDAY El/TWIN°.

There has been comparatively but little business done
to-day. Consols, after a dull heavy market, closed at 7/34
to 781 for the next Accaunt, and for August at
to 78::. The South American Stocks continue in the same
depressed state, Colombian being at 26, and Mexican at
424. It is not at all confirmed that the object of Mr.
Manning, in visiting his native country, is to negotiate a
Mexican loan; on the contrary, it is said to be wholly of
a private nature.
The letters from the distressed manufacturing districts,
of this morning, contain a most deplorable recital of the
increasing hardships to which they are exposed. Every
day adds to the number of workmen discharged by their
masters, in consequence of the want of means for
retaining them in their employ, and of the entire
stoppage of the works and closure of the doors of many
extensive and highly respectable manufactories. The
fears apprehended by the authorities, in consequence of
these large accessions to the numbers of those already re-
duced to almost absolute want, has, it is supposed, been
the consequence of further applications to his Majesty's
Government for protection; as we are informed that the
Guards have received a countermand of the order which
had been issued for their removal from that neighbourhood,
and our Portsmouth letter states that the .13d Regiment
has received a route for those districts.
We are informed that letters from Bengal, by the
Bussorah Merchant, which has passed up Channel,
statc that the British army in the Burmese territory was
suffering much from sickness when she left the coast.
Letters have been received from St. Petershurgh this
morning, detailing the particulars of ..the dreadful confla-
gration Which took place at Cronstadt on the 23d of June.
We are happy, however, to find, that by the timely as-
sistance of Captain Horton, and the Officers and men of
his Majesty's ship Glouce.ter, which was lying there,
after landing the Duke of Devonshire, the whole of the
merchant and other vessels lying in the port were towed
out of their perilous situation, without the loss of a single
ship. An extract from the letter of the Agent for Lloyd's
at Cronstadt will be read with interest.
CRONSTADT, JDNE 11 (2:1), 102fi.
It grieves me to acquaint you of one of tke most destructive fires
I have ever witnessed, and through which our ships, and the lighters
alongside of them, with goods on board, were exposed to the
greatest danger.
On the 9th (21st) inst., between four and five o'clock, a fire was
discovered on the deal wharfs (bordering on the harbour), amongst
a large parcel of chips, and which had accumulated for a consider.
able time; and as no fire or smoking is allowed on or near the spot,
no opinion can to funned as to how it firolt, out. The only con-
clusion that can be come to is, that self-ignition had taken place in
consequence of there being tarred and painted chips amidst the
general heap.
All the warehouses, which were built of wood, together with the
goods, deals, lathwood, masts, spars, &c. deposited on the whtrf,
tell a sacrifice to the flames, and not a vestige of property remains.
The amount of the loss cannot as yet be ascertained, and I am
unwilling to hazard a guess, which may be erroneous. The wind
blew from the Northward, directly over that part of the harbour
where the sh ps were, and threatened them with destruction. At
this juncture,a message was sent on board his Majesty's ship Glou-
cester, to give assistance, and which was allindeit in the handsomest
manner by J. S. Horton, Esq. the commander, who immediately
brought his boats, officers, steain-vessels,and men, to our aid in the
moment of peril. He then stationed himself' at the mole-head,
took command of the merchant vessels, and made such clever and
excellent arrangements, that the ships of all nations, anti the
lighters attached to them, were lowered and warped out with the
greatest rapidity, and by eleven at night the lest craft of any de-

scription was oot of danger. As soon as the ships were clear of the
harbour's mouth, they were taken up by the steam vessels, the
boats of the Gloucester, and by a number of Russian gun-hoots
which came from some distinction(' in the handsomest manner gave
every amisteoce in their power.
Towards the close of night it actually rained fire into the mole,
and many brands fell upon and flew over it, towards Cronstadt.
You wilt thence conclude how valuable was the assistance of Capt.
Horton, his officers, at d men, to the trade in general, and the
deep and lasting obligations they have conferred on the mercan-
tile and shipping interests.
As to my owes tuitions, and those of my people, I shall not in.
trude upon you ; but I must request to give publicity to the circum-
stances have detailed, as an act of justice to those who granted their
assistance.

A King's Messenger arrived at the Secretary of State's
Office for Foreign Affairs on Sunday night, with despatches
from the Right Honourable Stratford Canning, our Aro-
baseador at Constantinople.
His Majesty's brig Swinger arrived at Portsmouth on
the Sth inst., bringing despatches for the Colonial Depart-
ment, and for the Admiralty, from Commodore Bullen,
commanding his Majesty's ships on the coast of Africa,
clown to the 29th May; and having on board Mr. IVel-
lington, one of the Commissioners of Inquiry at Sierra
Leone, whose health had been in such an alarming state as
to render necessary his immediate removal from that
noxious climate, which the Commodore humanely ReCOlll.
plashed by sending home the Swinger with him. We are
happy to learn that Mr. Wellington has reached England,
and that his health is improving. The squadron had been
tolerably healthy, but numerous deaths had taken place
among the military, as well as civilians, at Sierra Leone,
the Gambia, and on the Gold Coast. We subjoin an in-
teresting private letter, which we have received from a
Gentleman at Sierra Leone, dated the 29th May :
" I am awry 'to inform you that this miserable place has takelli
PO serious a hold of Mr. Wellington, one of the Cotranissionters off
Inquiry, that a Medical Board sat on his health this day ; and '
unless he be removed instantly, certain death must be the conse-
quence. The Commodore, therefore, with the humanity which
distinguished him, has, I understand, ordered the Swinger home
with him, sod we shall be gratified to learn that lie reaches Old
Rngbini.
" The infamy of the proceedings of this diabolical Colony beg-
gars description. Not content with the mad and unprovoked at-
tack male on the Sherborough people, you will hardly believe it,
that tney sent some troops a shot time since to burn a miserable
native village. In the first attack by the General, lie himself, his
Brigade-Major, with several men, were killed—or died or lever;
and the Leven, who had as rashly gone to assist, lost three mid-
shipmen and seamen ; amongst the former, the eldest son of the
Commodore, a very fine promising youth. In the last attack none
we e killed, but a fine young man, of the liberated African depart-
ment, was with some others badly wounded.
" Twenty-three or four of the soldiers who lately reached this
hotbed of disease in the Romney, are already dead, besides two or
three women. This too before the rains, which are only now about
to commence. _ _

The Commodore keeps the squadron very much at sea, and I
understand that It is very healthy ; but on shore here, the ("amble,
and Gold Coast, the deaths are sadly frequent. As long as this
hole is governed by a military man, who has troops at his nud, the
Colony will he in a constant state of warfare. Send out a Civil
Governor—keep your faith with the natives—treat them with kind-
ness, and settle any difference by • palaver, as they call it;—
do this, and all will go on well. But the native nations will not
be driven by fusty of arms."
The Calcutta Government Gazette, of the 13th February,
announces that despatches bad been received from Captain
Burney, our Envoy to Siam, announcing his arrival at
Bankoken, the 4th December, and the gracious and friendly
reception which he received. The best results may be ex-
pected from this embassy.
Despatches have been received at-Calcutta from Captain
Burney, Envoy at Siam, announcing his arrival at Bin-
kok on the 4th of December. He had his first audience
of the King of Siam on the 16th Dec. and experienced a
gracious and friendly reception.
On the 12th Feb. the Enterprise steam-packet left Cal-
cutta for Itanogon, having on board Mr. Crawford, who
goes as third Member of the existing Commission, and
Joint Civil Commissioner. If the war continues, he is to
take charge of the Delta of Pegu, with the districts of
Bassein and Manahan.

Letters from Bhurtpore mention a large quantity of
treasure as having been found—not less than 90 lacs of
rupees. The same letters speak of an enormous piece of
ordnance (102-pounder) which has be( n captured, as about
to be sent to England, to be presented to his Majesty.
Herbert, the deserter, at Bhurtpore, has been hanged,
pursuant to the sentence of the Court-martial, on the
morning of the 30th January.
We understand that the small-pox has been raging in
Cuth with unexampled virulence, and that there had been no
less than 700 victims to it in one disttict in the short period
of a month. The cholera had also m.,de its appearance in
the force encamped in the neighbourhood of lihooj; hut by
the last accounts had nearly disappeared, though it still
continued " to prevail in the surrounding villages."
A rivate letter from Utrecht, dated the 30th June,
states that a great number of persons have lately been itr-
plicated, in consequence of the imperfect manner in which
the Flanders fortifications have been reconstructed. The
affair has been prosecuted with great severity before a
Council of War at Utrecht. Gen. Hennequin has cut his
throat in prison, and the Commandant of Ostend has
blown his brains out in consequence. The letter adds
that a Lieutenant-General, seventy years of age, of great
merit, and lately sent on an important mission to the
Dutch Colcnics, has been implicated in this disgraceful
affair, in which the King is extremely anxious to punish
the delinquents, both on account of his hatred of all mal-
versation, and because an offer of the English to send
English engineers to assist in their construction had been
rejected. The King, therefore, considers himself respon-
sible to England for their insufficiency.
It is said that the improvement in steam navigation in-
troduced by Mr. Perkins has attracted the serious attention
of the Ministers, and that the Comet steam-vessel has been
placed at his disposal for the purpose of the experiment.
Mr. Perkins's plan consists in giving to steam-engines the
same propelling power by a comparatively small portion of
fuel, so small indeed, that steam navigation to the remotest
part of the world would become practicable, and vessels of
war might he fitted up with steam-engines without incon-
venience. Should the experiments made by order of Go-
vernment succeed, we may expect to see the whole system
of naval warfare materially altered.

Sere or 'FRADE.—Every thing is most gloomy. De-
pression, we trusted, had arrived at its lowest point, but
we found yesterday that it was not so. For manufactured
goods there is little (if any) demand. Cotton is a com-
plete drug in Glasgow. In Liverpool, our Correspondent
says, in a letter dated the 3d instant—The arrivals at the
close of last week and yesterday have quite staggered the
buyers, slid though the opinion was, "Amongst the genera-
lity of the trade, that prices could not advance, it is now
materially changed, and they say a decline is inevitable,
and, as such, will buy nothing. In colonial produce the
Glasgow tretle is not so bad. Our sugar. market has as-
twined rather X quiet appearance—partly waiting for the
sugar contained in the vessels (five or six) just arrived,
and partly owing to the trade being tolerably well supplied
for the present; the market is very firm, although the
sales since our last publication have been trifling.—Glaa-
grew Free Picas.
IRON TRADE.—At the Shropshire and Staffordshire
iron-inesters' quarter days, last week, the nominal prices
were the same as the previous quarter. The demand, how-
ever, was very limited, and the apprehension of a still
further reduction appeared to restrain the usual contracts
and purchases of the trade at their quarterly meetings.
Many furnaces have been blown out in %Vales and England
during the last quarter, and both the make and sale of
manufactured iron has been considerably lessened. A re-
duction of fifty per cent. has taken place on the average
prices of the present, comp.-ed with last year ; and the
price of coal has correspondingly declined. The trade,
however, on the whole, has certainly maintained itself, and
met the difficulties and distresses of the last two quarters
much better than was anticipated, and, compared with the
present situation of many of the staple manufactures of
the country, is comparatively well off. Wages have not
been reduced so much as was expected, and, perhaps, re-
quired by the state of the trade, but instead of further re-
duction, all the large establishments have reduced the
number employed, and limited the time of work. The
state of the hardware and metal trades of Birmingham and
the surrounding counties is, we regret to say, much de-
pressed the last few weeks, without any immediate pros-
pect of amendment.
Mr. John Champion, innkeeper, Padstow, hail a field
of barley cut within the last few days. The grain was quite
ripe and of exec lent quility.