The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-12 00:00:00

BROUGHT' AGAINST

THE COMMERCIAL INTEREST OF ITAMBVRtIi -Atio
BREMEN, IN THE "

Tim Puhliciste, of the 20th of December, 1R0,5,
Contains: the following Extract of a private Letter
-from Frankfort, dated Dec. 12 (21' Frimaite) :
" Since the Russian, Swedish, English, and Hano
Verian Troops, have been in possession of the shores
of the Elbe and the Weser, the English trade has
been again put upon its ancient footing. .The
English Metchants have availed themselves of this
opportunity to inundate once more the North of
,Germany with an immense quantity of goods from
their inanufadories.
" Not a day passes without the arrival of English
ahips, richly laden, at the mouth of these rivers, and
from thenee they proceed to Hamburgh and Bremen.
The merchants of these cities are. mostly Commis-
sioners for England, and men whose principal specu-
lations are confined to English goods. • The,se people
*a.eild numerous transports of these wares to their
'correspondents in different parts of Germany.—All
the roads, through Upper and Lower Saiony, are
how covered with carriages --transporting these goods,
and of which, for some time past, 'there bad been a
partial scarcity. The speculative spirit of our traders
is again revived, and acting; in its- HI force. The
tradiii-J interest of the Continent of Europe at large
Is now entirely overlooked, merely for the sake of
the sordid gain which arises from this branch of it.
" The North of Germany being in the possession of
Troops that are enemies to France, while it is favour-
'Able to these speculators, is a real calamity to the
'whole German Empire. •
"Tie English *.ferchants are not content
,merely
with transferring their goods to their-Commissioners
in Ellniburgh, Bremen, &c. but in those parts of
Germany, not in possession of the French Army,
They have also their.agents, by whose means they
keep up a comet:lion With a considerable part of the
Merchants in the interior, for the avowed purpose
of sending- them their goods. Thus they flatter
themselves with the hopes of increasing the sale of
their produds. The German Governments have
titherto donenothiug to put an end to these artifices
iaf trade, notwithstanding their own manufaaures are
Manifestly ditninishing, and specie has in a great
Measure disappeared.
• " They Write from Dresden, that the Saxon ma-
nufaanters.have• dared to make new-representations
to their Fleaor, with A view to induce him to lay
rest rßions upon • the: importation of English
goods. They have presedilecY. a' very .accurate state-
inert, supported by docunients ; all which tend
tb display, in strong colours, the :present ruined con-
dition of the SaxOn manufaaures, in consequence of
'English jrnportation.
- •rs This staet-nent the .Erector' has referred to the
lilterior -Department. Still it is to' be apprehended
that this step Will of the desired effed, and
" bate the same fate with all the former representa-
bens made fbr some years past upon the same sub
.' - The influence of guineas is omnipo-
tent, even in Saxony, where the. Ministry still wish
to be patriotic: , . •
" scarcity of provisibns increases in Saxony,
-and. in a considerable part of
idle North of Germany,
in a very alarming degree. Dissatisfadion prevails
among the people, who feel all the pressure of the
comijulsien they labour under; in furnishing an
Atiny With prOVisions, which, paid by the gold of
England, and. which Arlqi* it is Pretended, came
_there to defend these Centuries: In several Dis-
ties, the traces of insurteLtion may be seen ; and.
If the situation of affairs be not speedily altered, -We
manive to witness circumstances of which peOple
at present seem not to be aware." .

REMARES UPON THE FOREGOttO LETTEiI •
Whoever the fabricatOr of this letter from Fraittl=
fort may be, we can neither look upon him as a
German nor a Frenchman, as his compositiOn does
not exhibit either the honesty of the former, or the 1
liberality of the latter. Real or pretended doubts, • •
false views, insidious censure, and low cunning, are
the traits which ,expose the writer to • the severest
Imputations, for a want Of modesty and candour. It
is more the design of art, than the. chance of acci- •
dent in this writer, which baS led him to view, with
a jealous eye, the Merchants of Bremen and Ham- '
burgh at this critical junctures as generally consist
ing of English' Commissioners.
We can, however, answer this writer, by assuring
him, that the houses concerned in the English Ma-
nufadureS, 'the retail dealers excluded; do not ex-
ceed twenty houses of any note in Hamburgh.
India
cotton certainly is not to be tetloned among English
riufa 6tu res
We shall be. cautious not to deviate iii any degree •
from our purpose, 'so as to lead 'any person to a be-
lief that we- are descending to answer as complain=
ants, statements destituteof truth-, ,
The Hamburgh MerchantS, .in common With all
others who do not confine themtelves to one branch,'
are exclusively neither CoMmissioners for England,
France, nor any otherNatiOn ; but for every Foreign
Merchant without exception.; who may apply to
them in the regular way of trade.
Thus, previous to the Revolution, the Hamburgh
• Merchants were CoMMissionets for the French ; ,
because. at that time they received the greatest part
of their colonial produce, and principally coffee,
from Bourdeaux ; large quantities of silk from Lyons,
besides cloth from the manufactories -of France. But
• since France has lost its colonies, and since its ma-
nufadories are ruined, commissions on the part of
that nation have natdrally ceased, as well as the
• trade of Hamburgh with that country, excepting
• for wine, 'and the simple produds of the earth, as
-• fruits, &c.
Unless Hamburgh shoUld now give up its com-
merce, and its Merchants cease to employ their
capitals, and at once throw its gates open to
wretchednesS and misery, add even consent to ex.--
change its 'flourishing situation for the indigence of
idleness and inactivity, they must cease to indulge
any thing like friendship or partiality in their com-
mercial concerns, and to pursue their object to the
best advantage. Stuffs, which now begin to take
place of silks, were only to be had from England ;
colonial commodities the. same. Thus the Ham-
burghers were, in a manner, compelled to trade
with the English. Where would have been the ad=
vantage to France, if,. in this turn of affairs, the
lialuhurghers, and thet whole of the' Hal-male.