The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN SHIPPING.

The British Press cavils at the paragraph under
this head, which we inserted last week, and indulges
in very self-complacent visions of the folly betrayed by
those foreigners who order British woollens, which they
have purchased here, to be shipped in vessels charging the
lowest freights. The theoretical argument by which our
contemporary, so much to his own gratification, para-
doxically confutes the clearest conclusions of common
woes, lavadled on indisputable facts, is a good specimen of
the shool of free trade to which he belongs. Nothing, for-
sooth, but " ignorance," or " fake ideas of the change in
our Navigation Laws," or an " ebullition of wild 'ceole-
dew, similar to that of 1824-26, in this country,' could
lain foreknew so stipulate that they should receive their
merchandise by the cheapest mode of conveyance! Now,
this is precisely the cuckoo note of Mr. Macculloch and
Mr. Huskieson, when practical men, who felt by those
most sensitive tests of sound policy, their pockets, the:
ruinous offeezi of. wonomical philosophy, complain( d of the
evil. Every disaster is referred to the profound igno-
rance of merchants and manufacturers respecting their
own interests and their own business, which ignorance
is the result of their not having fallen asleep over
Mr. Macculloch's stupid reveries, and not having be-
lieved in Mr. Hisskisson's commercial infallibility ! We
envy not, nor shall we ;rival, the ambition of the British
Press, in aspiring to this conceited contempt of experience
and reason. It is enough for us to learn and state a simple
fact, which, despite all attempts to expliin away its force,
proves, beyond question, the injury done to British ship-
ping by the new reciprocity system. Nor Is the importance
of the fact lemteneti by reminding us and the Continental
merzhants of what we and they were perfectly cognizant—
namely, that foreign ships might always have been em-
ployed in exporting British productions from this country,
as they are at present. Our contemporary forgets, or sup-
presses, the equally well-established truth, that foreign
ships until taken under Mr. Huskisson's patronage, could
not be cinpliyed in importing foreign produce into Eng-
land, but on most disadvantageous and discouraging con-
ditions. Hence, comparatively few of them were ever to be
found in the ports of Great Britain, and these from only
comparatively few of the Continental States. However,
therefore, our foreign customers might have wished to
avail themselves of cheap freights, it was generally im-
practicable, and only to be accosuplished by a delay and
inconvenience in wailing for Continental vessels, more than
counterbalancing the higher charges in British bottoms.
Thanks to the learned and liberal President of the Board
of Trade, the case is now reversed. Our harbours are
crowded with the ships of all other countries, while our
own are laid up to rot, and the means, as well as the
motive, thus deity at hand, for making stipulations as
beneficial to foreign merchants and mariners, as they are
fatal to the very existence of the British shipping interests.
The correctness of this explanation, the fact we stated in
our last publication demonstrated. Till now the stipula-
tions alluded to were not made—boot, in consequence
of the " Reciprocity Innovation," they are made, at
present, and acted on ! The British Press, however,
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demands

Sir Herbert Taylor, Military Secretary to the Dnke of
York, transacted business yesterday morning with his Royal
Highness, at the residence of the Duke of Rutland, in
Arlington-street.
The l)tichess of Clarence, accompanied by a young
German Princess, a relative of the Duchess, who accom-
panied her Royal Highness on her return from the Contr:
nent, left her seat at Bushy Park yesterday morning, and
paid a visit to the Duchess of Kent, at her apartments in I
the King's Palace, at Kensingran. Their Royal High-
nesses, together with the Princesses Victoria and Peodore,
partook of a dejeune about two o'clock. The Duchess of
Clarence also visited the Princess Sophia, at her apartments
in the Palace, and afterwards returned to Bushy to dinner,
accompanied by her risiter.
Mr. Secretary Peel arrived at• his residence in Privy-
, gardens about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the
teat of his father, Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Park, Stal-
-1 fordshire.
A Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held yester-
day, at the Treaeogy Chambers.

condemned to • punishment which the law declares
• sentence not reversed by a subsequent judgment,
serve in the Continuos' Guard. Prisoners
snag not be called upon during their continanent.
The force of the Communal Guards is calculated at two men for
every 100 souls, and the time of service is live years.
From the speech of the /Minister of Finance, on Introducing the
Budget, which is now published at full length, we find that thy first
subdivision of the annual budget for the following ye .r is
13,313,473 Boring, being an excess of 2,391,936 above that of 11326.
The second subdivision of the budget is 5,736.936 florins; last year
it was 7,660,995: so that this part of the budget shows a diminu-
tion of 1,404,036 florins.
We observe that a part of the augmentation is caused by the
allotment this year, for the tint time, of 308,000 florins for the ex-
penses of the Catholic worship in the northern provinces, whence it
appears that the Catholics in those provinces will not have to disk
charge in future the expense of their public worship, which they
have hitherto been obliged to do. Thus our institutions are be-
coming complete; equality established in feet conformably to the
right of protection granted equally to all, recording to the prin.
&vies of eternal justice and of equal liberty to all religious profes-
sions, insured by the fundamental low.

Mr. Maeready, the tragedian, arrived at New Yotk on
the 28th ult., after a passage of 26 days from Liverpool.
Mr. Kean, the tragedian, has recovered from his late ill-
ness. He played Sir Odor Orerreach, at Quebec, on the
18th of September.—New York Paper. '
TALNA.—It is very certain that M. de Jouy, since be
says so, must have heard with both his ears Telma crying
out three times that he wished to die like Voltaire; but it is
very certain also, according to all accounts, that Telma
never said it three times, not even once.—VEtoik.

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may ask, " Well, if so, what is that to ?—the Preced(g) iTnghlawleseer„,:4l
lowness of freights is an inducement to buy, and what the a substitute.
shipowners lose, your manufacturers will gain." To this (h) The brother of hi
we answer, that the trading community of Yorkshire are Communal Guards. 0
neither so short-sighted, so ignorantly selfish, or so vilely liable;
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denationalized, as to set a trifling and transitory advantage, In
There are some other
such ea the above &gimes, against the maintenance of our houses, firemen, &c. in ti
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country, of Ablipi Mai' supremacy is the vital guarantee. r=t.irreisitutions.
We have ourselves ascertained these to be the sentiments 4. Persons condemned
of all chutes tem. Thl—resillt of 'every inquiry we have slithrnoouNepridona admitted made is, that the people of this district feel a profound
and anxious solicitude for the preservation of the great and .liable to serve shall not b
of e
ancient bulwarks of the kingdom—its " wooden The force
walls"— every 100 souls, andcan Conn
and are ready to support the shipping interests in their just From the speech the i
of th
demands for ample protection. We also venture to assert, Budget, which is now pia
that this will be found to be the deliberate opinion of the subdivision of the inn
rest of the nation, as well as of the County of York.-- 13,313,473 Swim!, being
Leeds Intelligences. . The second subdivision c
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