The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-18 00:00:00

ed ?—No. They are compelled by law to purchase, bull-4,
repair, store, victual and man their ships in this country; their
materials are taxed from the keel to the truck on the masthead,
if they are necessitated to get stores on their voyages, they must
enter the same at the custom-house on arrival in Eng-
land, and pay the duties thereon. If there is to be a fair com-
petition, then all those Statittes and more should be repealed.
Are those laws to be repealed ? There is no mention
made of such an intention!! !-0 ye most just, most wise, and.
most righteous cosmopolite citizens ! 0 ye most illuminated
Philosophers of the liberal School—all the restrictions are to
remain in full force on the British Ship-owner, and ei.ery faci-'
lity given to the foreigner, and this ye call reciprocity, when it
is in evidence that the foreigners can sail their ships for less
than one half of the expences of the British !—This is the equal
balance of the new philosophy I—Still they are doomed as if in
mockery of their suffering to bw fresh burthens. It is well
known by those who have cahied these measures, that the
British seamen, under such restrictions, will decrease in num-
ber as the British Shipping decreases—the Ship-owner is there.
fore under the Apprentice Act made the Marine Re-
cruiting Serjeant to the State--to raise recruits for the Navy,
to protect the State ift emergency, they are therefore to rear,
pay, and ration those recruits out of their depreciated capitals.
This is another equal balance of the new Philosophy ! Still
they are told that their remonstrances have no foundation, that
they do not understand their own business, that to reduce their
employment, and to reduce their freights, to still further re-
duce their depreciated capital and send them to compete with
the barrren rocks of Sweden and Norway is to render them es-
sential service—if this is not mockery, the words are incom-
prehensible.—There is no desire in this to find fault nor to
influence, but to point out the absurd, the mischievous ten-
dency of this radical change in the system, and tl:e danger of
modern British policy. These may be strong assertions, but
the disease is dangerous and vital.
" We pour, unpleasant truths into the ear,
" Like nauseous drugs to the diseased, to work a cure."
And should the measures which are now brought forward be acted upon for ten years, the same scene of carnage, which took
place under the famous Blake and Van Trump will once more
decide the question of supremacy on the ocean. To avert the
necessity of such an appeal, is to maintain that supremacy, and
not in meanness barter such a treasure for the precarious sale
of a bale9f muslin overly other commodity. Trade may be good ;
it has its uses, and it may have its abuses. This is not the lan-
guage of a pretended philosopher nor philanthropist—it is the
plain language of one seaman to another, done with no other
view than to point out the evil tendency and folly•of giving em-
ployment to foreigners under the false idea of conciliation, which
decreases the employment of this hardy, brave, and much
neglected race of men, who are the first at all times called
into the service of the State, whenever either defensive or
offensive measures are necessary. I will end this with a
quotation which seems much in point--" To stand in the
old ways is not the precept of religion alone, but has
had the greatest weight with the wisest men both of
ancient and modern times not that antiquity abstractedly
considered is any more proof of the excellence of an institution,
than grey hairs are proofs of wisdom, or old age an assurance
of prudence ; but woe to the rash hand that would daringly
innovate on institutions planned and matured on the soundest
principles, by the best men of their day, to secure their prospe-
rity against evils of which they had themselves the bitter ex-
perience." Before a prudent Statesman will tamper with such'
institutions, additionally recommended and rendered venerable
by the happy experience of nearly two centuries, before he will
attempt a change in the principles in which they were laid, and
the substitution of others of a direct contrary tendency, he
should be satisfied with nothing short of demonstratton, that
the change cannot in any degree endanger or derange the public
welfare ; he.will act under the sacred injunctions and preserve
the fabric, and not subvert the system, nor remove thematerials
on which depend the future destinies of the British Empire.
Allow me, Sir, with the greatest respect, to subscribe myself
Your most obedient humble Servant,

BRITANNICUS.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, June 17.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
S. Turner, Stock-Exchange Ca el-court, stock-broker.
BAN KR UP TS.
S. Gee, Cambridge, tinman, July 4,7, 29, at the Red Lion,
Cambridge. Solicitor, Mr. Nelson, Barnard's-inn, Holborn.
W. East, Newbury, coal-merchant, June 27, 28, July 29, at
the George and Pelican Inn, Speenhamland. Solicitors, Messrs.
Aldridge and Smith, Lincoln's-inn.
W. C. Pearse, Braintree, Esssex, grocer, June 21, 28, July
29, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basingball-street. Solicitors,
Messrs. Amory and Coles Throgmorton-street.
DIVIDENDS.
June 28, 11. Berthoud, Soho-square, bookseller—July 12,
W. C. Atmore, Wood-street, Mancliester-warehousenian—,
July 10, J. IVoakes, Hereford, upholsterer—July 12, J. Law.-
ton, Delp!), Yorkshire, innkeeper—July 17, H. Quilter,
Leicestey, victualler—July 12, S. F. Lettsom, Cannon-street,
tin-plate.rnanufacturer--July l 2; T. Stanton, Drury-lane,
cheesemonger—June 28, G. Richardson, Mecklenbu rgh-squ are,
and T. Yokes, Glocester-strect, Queen-square, merchants—July
8, J. Dicks, London-street, Tottenham-court-road, carpenter
--June 24, W. C. Keene, Marylebone-lane, farrier—July 26,
J. and W. Stirling, Copthall-court, merchants—July 9, E.
Pealson, Liverpool, merchant—June 21, J. Bytth, Paternoster..
row, bookseller—July 18, E. Bostock, Earl Shilton Leicester..
shire, bleacher—July 9, T. Windeatt, Tavistock, Devonshire,
fellmonger—July 16, T. Satterthwaite, Kendal, Westmorland,
tanner—July 9, D. Sargent, Whittlessey, Cambridgeshire,
money-scrivener—July 18, D. Jones,. Machytileth, Montgo-
meryshire, tanner—July '2l, J. Messenger, Loughborough,
Leicestershire, victualler.
CERTIFICATES, JULY 8.
G. Young, New Santm, grocer—F. Willats, Brewer-street,
Golden-square, cheesentonger—G. Blair, Lower Thames-street,
seedsman—R:Lyney, Fore-street, Limehouse, coal-merchant
—R. Manning, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, taVor—J. Green,
Great Yarmouth, brick-maker—H. A. Cooper, Stocklinch-Ot- - tersay, Somersetshire, dealer—J. S. Radford, Kingston-upon-
Hull, merchant—E. Edmonds, Newport, Monmouthshire,
draper.

- PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
G. Strongitharin, T. Jenks, and W. Ellis, Daw-End, Staf-
fordshire, lime-masters-.-J. Meir, Tunstall, and J. Taylor,
Newfi,eld, China Manufactures—E. and 31. Wilshere, Wool-
wich, eurriers —IL Knight and W. Smith, Maiden-lane, Wood.
street, wholesale haberdashers—W. Sheppard and J. W. Bar-
rier, Strand—J. and W. Clianibers-R. Sykes, and .1. and J.
Tyas, alirfield West-Mills, Yorkshire, fullers, so far as regards
Joseph Tyas, deceased—T. and IL srownbill, Salford, Lan-
cashire, brick makers—J. IL and E. Bradburn, Ormskirk,
Lancashire, common-carriers-IV. and G. J. Soward, Totten-
ham-court-road, builders—J. Rider and J. Hammond, Bristol,
braziers—.R. Manley and J. Mallison, Little Bolton, rope-
makers.

• COURSE OF' EXCHANGE, June 17.
A ante, dam • 12 9 C.F.
Ditto, at Sight l2 7
..-
Rotterdam ig IS
Antwerp
.12 9
Hamburgh 39 0 24 Us
Altana ..
Paris,3 Day's signt 9l 25 0 Us.
Ditto
Bourdeaux, ditto
Frankforton the Main
Madrid
Cadiz
35 Effective
Gilboa 364 Effective
Barcelona 854
Seville
Glbraltai
.
Leghorn
Geiaai .. . 484—Venice, Ital. Liv 26 10
Malta 45 —Naples 39
Palermo
Lisbon ....
Oporto .
Rio.kneiro
Dublin .

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47
. 9i Cork Ceytt

BULLION.

Portugal Gold, in Coin
Foreign Gold, in Bars
New Doubloons
New' Dollars
Silver in ii:irs. titondard

L.O 0 o pet OA*
3 17 ti
• . 0 0
0 4 9
0 4 II

' MARRIED.
On the 17th inv., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. J. T. Lloyd,
of
.Little Britain,- to Miss Little, niece of the late Edward
Pryce, Esq., of East-place, Vauxhall road, Lambeth.
On Tuesay, the 17th inst., at Hackney Church, Mr. John
Sutton, of Artillery-place, Finsbury square, to Ann, second
daughter of Robert Martin, late of Ilford Esq.

DIED.. ,
On'Monday evening, at her son-in-law's, Mr. P. W. Ave-
line's, at Camberwell, llrs. Ann Plucknett, relict of Wni:
Plucknett, Esq., and daughter of the late Thomas Pollard,
Esq., many years master Shipwright .in his Majesty's dock-.
yards.

On Sunday, the 15th inst., at the house of his son-in-law,
Robert Baxter Es q., 31, Winchester-row, Ne w-road,- Padding-
ton, John George Parkhurst, Esq , of Catesby-Abbey,,North-
amptonshire; in the 63d year of his age.
immussmoup.'

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