The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-14 00:00:00

A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.

THERE is not, perhaps, in the whole Ma-
teria Medics any one Remedy which so effectually
relieves the pain of a suffering Patient as the AMERICAN
SOOTHING SYRUP. Who can watch the writhing
tortures into which a lovely infant is often convulsed,
during the period of dentition, without feeling sympathy
for its sufferings? And who would hesitate to procure a
Remedy, when a remedy can be found, which is obvious
by the effectual relief afforded iu so many distressing cases
which are daily coming to the notice of Mrs. JOHNSON ?
Therefore Mothers ought never to be without the AME-
RICAN SOOTHING SYRUP in the Nursery ; for if a
Child awakes in the night with pain, by only rubbing the
gums with a few drops of the Syrup, it will immediately
open the pores, heal the gums, and thereby prevent fevers
and convulsions; for should it come in competition with
any other disorder, it often destroys the mother's brightest
hopes.—To be had, wholesale and retail, of Johnsen and
Co., 28, York-place, City-road ; and, by their appoint-
ment, of all principal Medicine Venders in Town and
Country, at 2s. 9d. per bottle.
N.B. None are genuine unless signed on the Stamp
with Mrs. Johnson's own hand-writing, as there are spu-
rious sotto,

COOMBE WOOD, NEAR KINGSTON, SURREY.
Capital Family Residence, with Offices, extensive Gar-
dens, Pleasure Grounds beautifully laid out, and Mea-
dow Land, nearly Sixty Acres.
TO BE LET FOR A TERM OF YEARS,
OR ON LEASE FOR LIVES,
By Mr. JOHN ROBINS,
(Of Warwick- house, Regent-street),
AVery commodious and desirable RESI-
DENCE, adapted for the accommodation of a
Nobleman or Family of the first distinction : the delightful
VILLA, at Coombe Wood, late in the occupation of the
Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool, deceased; bitu-
ate within ten miles of the metropolis. The M,nsion is
seated en a lawn, embracing most delightful and interest-
ing views in various directions, over a fine rich scenery of
country. 'The apartments are well arranged, of hand-
some proportions, with capital had chambers, and all re-
quisite domestic offices, well supplied with excellent water.
The out-offices comprise laendry, wash-house, carpenter's
house, stables for thirteca horses, two coach-houses, cart-
lodge, barns, cow-houses, granaries, dairy and scullery,
poultry houses, capital conservatories, beautiful lawn and
pleasure gardens, with extensive gravelled and terrace
walks, flower and kitchen gardens, &c. The whole nearly
Sixty Acres, a considerable proportion of which is rich
Meadow Land, beautifully ornamented with fine grown
timber trees, and forming a very delightful park-like ap-
pearance. . . . .

a To be viewed by tickets only, which, with particulars,
may be had of Mr. Robins, 170, Regent-s&et.

SAXONY.

A Valuable Estate near Dresden, Mansion or Chateau'
with numerous Offico, Farm House, and all necessary
Outbuildings, Rich Arable and Pasture Land ; the
whole containing between Six and Seven Hundred
Engl:sh Acres, with Field Sports upon an extensive
Scale.
TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
_ _

By Mr. JOHN ROBINS,
(Of Warwick-house, Regent-street),
A Valuable ESTATE in Saxony, near
Dresden, situated in a most delightful and highly
cultivated country, consisting of an extensive Mansion, or
Chateau, with numerous Offices, Farm-house, and all other
necessary Outbuildings, all nearly new, and most substan-
tially built, with between
SIX HUNDRED AND SEVEN HUNDRED ENGLISH

ACRES
Of rich Arable and Pasture Land, and including Meadows
and Wood Land ; a flock of One Thousand of the finest
Merino Sheep, or rather best Electoral Saxon Breed, and
Thirty-five Cows.
The price is very moderate, and the property will pro-
duce a larger Income than the Public Funds.
This property is well worth the attention of any family
desirous of residing on the Continent, either for the educa-
tion of their children, or fur those who are desirous of
combining economy with the comforts and station which
the possession of such an Estate will afford, as these ad-
vantagemaeystlaibelsh
here obtained
in Engnd
tainedatiaone.-fourth of the charge
of a similar
The complete new and elegant Furniture, suitable to
this establishment, may, or may not, be included in the
price, at the option of the purchaser.
The property commands all Field Sports, upon an ex-
tensive scale.

Particulars may !be had of Mr. Robins, No. 170, Re-
gen t-street,

MONOPOLY THE SCOURGE OF THE
lIIANY FOR THE GAIN OF A FEW.

Food and clothing may be said to be the two
great wants of mankind, and which give birth to
almost every effort of body and mind. Society
depends more on the first for existence and com-
fort than on the other, aid it besomes every
Government which studies the general interests
of all, to permit the people over whom they
rule to have at the lowest possible price the
most abundant supply of the first necessary of
life. That country wherein both food and
clothing are the most abundant and consequently
the most moderate, coupled with industry and
the means of industry, will be found to be the
most prosperous and happy. Therefore food,
from is primary importance, ought to be both in
its production and import, the most free of all
mercantile commodities.

If Government were to be justified in grant-
ing protection or exclusive privileges to any of
its subjects, it surely would be to those who
produce that article of consumption which the ,
population could most easily dispense with ; but
our policy has been so much the opposite of this,
that much of the capital of the country has been
sunk in the most ruinous and unproductive.
manner, not only in the poor and barren lands
of Britain, but also in our colonies. This has
been so much the case, that the best intentioned
and most enlightened minds of the present day
scarcely dare venture to carry into execution the
most plain and intelligible measures of relief.
Every proposed change is met by hosts of oppo-
nents who insist on matters being kept as they
are, or set up a claim for remuneration on the
plea of having made investments on the faith of
existing laws.
It was formerly the policy of Government by
prohibitory duties on imports to shelter slid pro-
tect from foreign competition almost every branch
of our trade and agriculture, in order, we pre-
sume,
that the productive powers of the country
might be established and extended. This po-
licy might have been very wise when both trade
and agriculture were struggling for an equality
with those of other nations, but now that our
position is so much altered, that our limited land
cannot, but at a ruinous expense, raise sufficient
food for the wants of our extensive and still ex-
tending population, and also that our mechanical
art and knowledge of manufactures have out-
stripped agricultural productiveness so far as not
only to supply every want of our increased
people, but also nearly all the wants of the civi-
lized world ; is it not evident, that in this new
position in which we are, however wise the former
policy of Government might be, it may now be
most mischievous.

The evil consequences of such a state of
things are now apparent. We have a vast ma-
nufacturing power which might be doubled, and
made doubly more productive to the country if
we had permission to take those returns for
our exports which our people most want. We
could supply millions of foreigners who are not
half clothed, and who have plenty of food, and
to spare, while our intelligent and industrious
population are neither half employed nor half
fed. The old relative value between food and
clothing is now no longer in existence, the one
.being rather higher in price, and the other five
times less ; in other words, the country receives
the products of our manufacturers five times lower
in price than she did thirty years ago, whereas
she pays the agriculturists for their products
something more than formerly. So much for
the relative value amongst ourselves ; and when
we contrast the matter with other countries,
against whose commercial competition our work-
ing population have to struggle, we find that the
monopolised food of Britain is double the
price of the average of Europe, whilst unmo-
nopolised clothing is less than in any country
throughout the world.
But this protection to our landlords is not the'
only evil we have to complain of—our enter-
prising merchants and manufacturers meet on
every side with obstacles in their commerce
which deprive the people of this country of many
enjoyments—we allude principally to the mono-
poly of our East India and West India mer-
chants. Their fangs seem to he as firm and as
fast in the vitals of the country's comforti as those
of the agriculturist ; and the sooner this is more
generally known the better. If our manufac-
turers trade to the East with the products of our
industry, they must not exchange these for that
which the manufacturers of these products so
much consume, namely, tea, its import for this
country's consumpt being strictly monopolized
by the Hon. East India Company. If again
they send their manufactures to the West, and
sugar and coffee, the supply of
tse
fori.cr the our
specialo E
to countries within the tropics, they must avoid,
f
in exchange, both
merchant and planter. And if they look to the
great marketand the st
being
held Indiallorthern
eemanufacturing operatives('
states of America, they must equally avoid ex-
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changing, their nignufitettsre ii)r corn, the impor-
tation of which at moderate duties being preju-
dicial-to the interests of ourmonopolizing land-
lords, who say they cannot live without double
prices for food, and, of course, double rents. In
short, our merchants and manufacturers are con
fined in their commerce principally to the pre
cious metals and raw material for manufacture.
They have already nearly drained every
country with, which they trade of the first;
and as to raw material, it has been im-
ported in such abundance that the very none
of it is, to them, as unpleasant as physic.
Is it any wonder then that our manufactures
languish, and that our operatives in so many
instances are not only begging for employment,
but for food ; and that the great mass of the
people of manufacturing and commercial Britain
are sinking every day from low wages and par-
tial employment into poverty and want. They
truly feel that monopoly is the scourge of many
for the gain of a few.
Let u,s suppose that these restrictions were
done away ; that our trade and commerce were
free ; that Britein could consume sixty millions
quarters of corn annually, and that one-third or
twenty millions were imported in exchange for
our manufactures, and that a duty of ss. per
quarter was laid on such importation ; the fol-
lowing would then be the result :-
1. There would be a permanent revenue of
5,000,0001. annually, arising from the duty on
the import of corn.,
2. A cheapening of vegetable food fully .25
per cent., besides a greater abundance of animal
food from increased pasturage. -
S. Employment to man, thousand tons of
shipping, with all their et cetera's, in. carrying
grain.
4. An enlarged demand abroad for exportable
products, equal in value to our additional im-
ports, by which our commerce would be extended
nearly to one half more.
5. An increased demand for our -manuftwtur-
ing operatives.
6. The comforts of the population from low
tpie increased,
ricedfbod m
more
i additional
taxes, such as sugar, tea, coffee, Bze., would be
consumed, and thus a still further addition
aforeign producee employment
peanyitng wouldhigh
would be made to the receipts of the treasury.
These premises may be assailed by the land-
lord, who may say that in proportion as you in-
crease the import of food you throw out of em-
ployment part of the agricultural population,
whose labour would then be lost to the country
as well as the capital which has been invested in
those lands on which they are employed. All
this is true, but in reply we would say, their
labour and the capital are already lost to the
country, being wholly unprofitable waste—it is
equal in principle, but less in degree, as if the
landlords raised in this country the fruit of a
vineyard to make wine for the British market.
They may as well force cotton into hot beds to
supply the country with clothing as rsisa corn
from poor and barren soils at double cost to
supply us with food. The Landlord may state
another argument against :he measure, and bay
that the manufacturer would lose the demand of
the home market, which the additional agricul-
tural labour gives ;, but we would reply that that
would be compensated for by the additional fo-
reign demand, and, it is clear, that the country
generally would be the gainer, as, the same
quantity of manufacture that our agriculturists
'give to the people but two quarters of grain for,
the foreigners and our shipowners- would give
them three. Besides, we have yet to learn upon
what principles of justice or policy our landlords,
by their restrictive and prohibitory duties, exact
from the country, and particularly the manufac-
turing and commercial community, sixty shillings
for what the manufacturing and shipping inte-
rests could give for forty.
In the present deranged state of all the great
interests of the country, it is decidedly our
opinion that it is much better at once to sacri-
fice that capital which has been invested in culti-
vating bad soils, thus keeping up the value of
food at a remunerating price, than to fetter the
fair and legkimate exertion of our capital and
productive power. Britain must now be con-
sidered as more a manufacturing and commer-
cial than an agricultural country, as she is de-
pending more on the former for her importance
and comfort than on th© latter, and we would
therefore recommend to Government to look
well to the general interests of all, prospective
as well as present. Agricultare is exclusively
our own and never can leave us—commerce may.
The land is fixed—capital and invention are
fluctuating. Without manufactures and com-
merce, the land is of little value. The raw ma-
terial of which our manufactures are composed
is the production of foreign soils, and of course,
is as free to others as to us. Our power to sus-
tain the ascendancy in the commerce of the
world consists in the cheapness of our exportable
products : these, again, depend on low wages,
and on our mechauical power and art, neither of
which can we exclusively keep. Part these from
us, and what is Britain ?
Let then the Government look with earnest-
ness to the absolute necessity there is of increas-
ing the comforts of the people, and giving to our
capitalists, our manufacturers, and our merchants,
a wider field for their enterprise, by abolishing
all monopoly and restriction, else the latter may
turn their minds to a country where they are
much wanted and much courted—we mean
America. America even now, with a limited
population, makes us feel that she can manufac-
ture ; and what will she not do in twenty years
hence, with twenty millions of people, intelligent
and enterprising ? She is every day drawing away
from us our artisans and our art, and is zealously
preparing for the mighty:competition the two coun-
tries are destined to run, The world neither has
nor can give us a patent right in mechanism, and
every improvement which we make in machinery
that lessons or supersedes manual labour, is
doubly more advantageous to her. than to ins,
her wages of labour being double those of
Britain. She has within her vast dominion every
variety of soil and climate—physical power with-
out bounds—an increasing capital and Ropula-
inge facilitiesto)gu poh‘fiv:nra—l
transitn at own—national
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—and act may Britain.

An elderly gentleman, who recently married
a young wife, resident in a Cornish borough nut 100
miles from Fowey, having missed his faithful rib,:eroployed
the town-crier to recover his treasure, and that'worthi
corporate officer, with his metal flourish, described the
lady as being " lost, stolen, or strayed." Whether this_
?rya/ process restored the lady, 144' deponent :taiga net.