The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-09 00:00:00

To sink the &Li per stone of Elb.

Beef 4s. od. to ss. zd. Mutton 4s. od. to ss. 4d. Veal
cs. od to 7s. od. Pork ss. od. to 7s. od. Lamb os. od. to
os. cd.

Beasts 950. Sheep 4,500. Calves Igo. Pigs 120.
SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET.
Hay 51. os. od. to 91. gs. od. Straw 2.1.-10 S. od. to 31.
os. od. Clover 61. os. cd., to col. os. od.

CORN•EXCHAI`.,IGE, NOV. g.—This
.day the Mar-
ket has but few arrivals of- Wheat, bitt rolerahlz
quantities on hand, and the sales again maintain late
prices ; Rye rather% cheaper ; Barley, with. Malt,
at little variatibu ; White Pease ,liketise ; but fvw
Beans ofthe two kinds, New Ticks 355. to 4vs. er
quarter, 'Old as per currency; the supplies of 0 +ts
are inconsiderable, and this trade also quoted at
little fluctuation--; Flouo continues at late prices.

Wheat . 7.)s a Sss a 955.
Fine di(v) - loos a 1044
Rye tr.ew) -36 s a 4Os
barley - - 30's a 46s
Malt - 765 a 82s
White Pease -62 S a 68s
Grey ditto - -46 s a .cas
Beans; -52 s a 57$

Tick Beans - -44 s a5O
vats -245,27 s a 3z;
Po!arid ditto 34s a 37s
Pot toe ditto" - ' 39t a- s
Raise Seed . - 461 a t I
1- ilia Front' iS a 9,5
Secivids • So a So

• POETRY.
-

HORACE, SOOK I. ODE 6. IMITATED.
ADDRESSED
MOST RESPECTFULLY TO THE BIGHT MON. LORI)

VISCOUNT WELLINGTON.

Clitt'ring in all the pomp of war,
t rown'd with thy valour's meed, success,
My timid Muse dec4nes to soar
On epic wings thy worth t'express.

Weakly could she stern Diomed
Depid, as putting Gods to flight
Or Achilles, by anger led,
Daring brave Heraor to the fight.

Still less could she in verse engage.
Leaving.the fabled lore aside ;
The war to sine that thou dost wage,
To humble fell Napoleon's priele.

* Let Croker, in immortal verse,
To future dynasties proclaim
Thy viaories o'er invaders fierce,
Worthy of Wellesley's honour'd name.

To Talavera's direful fray
Boldly he strung his classic lyre,
And sung of that terrific day
In strains replete with heav'nly fire.

Let him thy European deeds.
And battles in the Orient fought,
Sing with that strength which but procc2d;
From minds with inspiration fraught.

And let him,‘favour'd by the Muse,
Touch with a master's hand the string,

.rosouud the recent, glorious news,
And o 1 blood.stain'd Bnzaco sing.

Where Albion's ensigns proudly wav'd
Triumphant o'er superior force,
And many a hardy Gaul enstav'd,
Became that day a ghastly corse.

The task my Musc tilore:londly seeks,
And suits her tranquil temper best,
Is to record what eanclour.spcaks—
Ihe virtues of thy manly breast.

True there are some—a worthless-few
Who envious,of thy just renown,
Would blasi_thy wreath to baleful rue,
•Anti on thy patriot triumphs frown. .

But Viese are 13ritalt:'s Korn and shame,
The refuse of a,generous Isle;
That, proud of, Wellesley's hard.earn'd tante,
Hail with applauSe his splendid toil.

In private life rever'd, belov'd,•
In public by the good ador'd,
may'st thou; Chief, be victor prov'd,
'Till peace is to our Land restor'd. •

* Tohn Wilson Croker, Esq. M. P. SectetarV'to the Ad-
miralty, Author of that admirable Poem " the Battles of
Talavero," and other justly esteemed produelions.
ROSIBEC.
Charing cross, pa. 27, tZto.

FRENCH COMMERCIAL, DECREES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,

Great pains are now taking by Buonaparte to
inculcate a belief, that the rigorous enforcement of
his Decrees for the exclusion of colonial produce
and British manufactures from the Continent of

Europe will soOrreffect the downfall of this country.
The Meniteur says, " The system adopted by the
" Emperor is the surest means of conquering the
"English it stifles them in the midst of their
" wealth, it is the cause of all their bankruptcies."
.' The. Journal "de l'Empire says, '" Certainly, if in
" the next spring the Continental Powers, adopt the
" same measures, and they are executed with fide-

" lity,_ England will not be able to support this ge-
"'"« neral exclusion of her commerce;" and the same
sentiments are expressed in different words in most
of the French papers.
It is difficult to imagine-that the Editors of the
Paris Journals, who, to be qualified for their situa-
tions, must possess some knowledge of the interests
and, 'resources of this country, can believe that the
exclusion of Colonial produce 'and .British mann-
frititureS fr6m the. Continental markets, even were
it as completely effected;as Buonaparte can wish,
Zc ould annihilate • our commercial prosperity, or
cripple our 1-rational exertions. Such assertions
may, indeed, impose upon' the credulity of the
tat-lauds of Paris, . and reconcile them in some de.-
gree to the privations and miseries theysuffen under
the continuance of the'war, by holding out to them
a prospeCt of it;-speedy termination; they may.also
be •caleulated; pal-titularly 'during•l his gloomy month
of November, to ch.press the spir its of some of our
own countrymen, • who may not have the means of
aseertailing whether. these' confident predictiiins of
the enemy are or -are not well founded, It. rnAy
• therefore, be a task of somepublic utility, to set this
subject" in a proper point of view, through the me-
dium of your valuable paper:
.With respell to sugar, the annual average importa-
tion of that commodity from all. the. Colonies, the
produce of which is admitted:to the.horne consump.
• tinn of Great Britain,
,was prpved by the official re,
turns laid before the Distillery. Committee of the
House of Commons, in 1807, to be .::70,000
The.same•authetity SlieWs the regular consumption
of these kingdoms to he 200;000 !rds. and the dis-
tilleries now•coristune 50,000 more, leaving a dis-
posable surplus of only 20,000 lards; per annum.
This quantity is so inadequate to supply the demand
for expoitation, that since the substitution of sugar
for grain in the distilleries:, the glut .then on hand
has completely disappeared ; for the returns Of the
'est India Doelf Company prcive, that the quan-
tity in their warehouses, on, tke 16th of June last,
including Foreign as well as. British Plantation sugar,
was only 18,430 casks, equal to but five weeks con-
snmptiorh The crop of the present year has .been-•
unusually short,• and in donsequence of the aboli-
lion of tl,"trlave-trade, that of every subsequent,.
year .mitSrt-eontinue _to decrease more and More; so'.•
that in all probability we shall shortly be obliged to ,

admit the surrirs of Martinique and -GuaddlOupe into
home consumption, in Order to supply the deficient
growth a our own Colonies.
Buouaparte, in his rage, deals out his•bloi,vs. at
random, and often mis•es his aim. In, this-case
they tall not upon British subj,-cts, -hut .upon his
own subjects ; not upon British planters, but upon
French planters; upOn the inhabitants of Martini-
que and Gu4daloupe,- whose sugars . are excluded
from the home consumption of Gnat Britain, and,
can be sold for exportation , alone. Muscovado
sugars, and even the interior descriptions of clayed
sugar, the produce of. those colonies, will not now
sell for 30s. pt:l' cwt,; while the average price of
Muscovado sugar, the pr,-duce of the B7ltish colo=
is from 475. to 50s. Per cwt. exc:usice.of duty,
as appears by the weekly returns published in the
Gazette. ,Phis plain statement pre, es, that the
British planters are rendered completely independent
of the decrees of Buomsparte, by the wise and salu-
tarymeasure of substutning sugar for grain in the
distilleries; and that the only parties affected, by his
decrees are the planters of his own colonies. When
the capture of these colonies was announced, he.
boasted that they would be restored to him at a peace,
improved by, .British. possession, and enriched. by
British capital ; but if they' are restored to him
again, he will find. them destitute both of capital and
credit,
.and wined by the effect 'of his own mea-

sures.
With respect to'cotfee, the British Legislature has
judiciously' reduced the 'duty on the home con-
sumption of that article, if imported from the Bri-
tish Plantations, so-as to bring it into general use;
thus securing an exclusive market for 'their produce
.and, therefore, in, this instance, as in the former,
the restrictions imposed by Buonaparte upon the itn-
poriation of, it into the Continent, fill upon the
produce of the Foreign, not of the British Colonies ;•
and are felt by.the• Foreign, not by the British
Planter. '

. Can Buonaparte be ignorant,
.that the exclusion
of
.British, ships and British tnanufaaures from the.
Continent of Europe is amply compensated by the
new ports opened -to our shipping, and the new
markets opened to our goods, in South America ;.
that the nvickufaaures of France, and of all the na-•
firms under tier control, aredlectually excluded from.
every foreign market by the;Orders in Council of
Great Britain, and their plaCe supplied by British
manufactures; or can he believe that he is likely to
succeed in exiisusting our resources, when the con-
sequence of hils own measures has been, that the
mines, ,of Alexia.? and • Peru ate pouring. their accu-
mulated treasurgs_iino our coffers ?
• These facts \may,serve to tranquilize the minds of
those wliV hairelaeuti alarmed by the denunciations
so confidently • pronounced in the French papers;
'Tfiey also starve to skew, that his 'Majesty's
Ministers live not been inattentive to the great 'in-
, (crests' of 1 the Empire':' but that, on the contrary,
by 'the wisdom of their measures, they have baffitd
the proje6ts of the enemy, and have retorted his
devices ill:on his own head. •• •
The bankruptcies that have lately taken place are
'Owing, not to the decay, but to the exuberance of
our coMmeice. ,• When a new field is opened to
mercantile enterprize, some speculations will be
made with and some withot7,! judgment ; too great
a quantity of some commocht, and an insufficient
supply of others, will be sent, out ; some articles
will be shipped that are, and sc that are not suited
to the taste of the inhabitants. In short, from these
end various other causes, some will make great
gains, and others experience heavy losses. The rage
1 for speculation, too, induces many men to adven-
ture beyond all due proportion to their capital ; and
then, in case of any disappointment in then- remit-
tances, or any check to that system of paper accom-
modation on which they depend, they become. in-
capable of fulfilling their engaements i bit to irp-
. pate these failures td the decline of our commerce is
as absurd as it would be to I:oring forward thedeath of
some of our Common Councilmen, after the Lord
Mayor'S feast; as a probf of•a faniine. A true esti-
mate of the commercial prosperity of a nation •may
be formed 'from the amount of its exports and irn-
ports, and from the state of its great trading
The imports' and exports of thiS country lia%e in-
creased beYond all former example :• Buonaparfe hai
not thought proper to publish thoseof France. In
the commercial cities of . this country, the harbour's
are filled with shipping, loading arid unloading;
new buildings are daily erecting .; the, streets are
crowded, and enlivened with thebusy hum of men :
every thing, in a word, wears theface of a6.tivity
and. prosperity. In those of France, dismantled '
hulks- are . rotting in the harbours; • the houses
are falling into ruin; grass grows in the streets;
and the stillness that prevails, is the silence of deso-
lation.

For some time past I have been inclined to think
that it4as the intention of Buonaparte, atter shut-
ting'up the present channels of intercourse 'between
-this country and the continent, to open new ones,
through his own ports; to supply all Europe thruugh
France; and to make this commerce the source of
an. immense revenue. Such an union of wealth and
power would have rendered him truly formidable !
But I rejoice to ling that his rage has got the better
of his policy ; and I contemplate with delight his
late oppressive,and outrageous decree, .for there is a
paint beyond which human endurance cannot be
pushed.. Boonaparte hoped, byrmaking hiinself
master of •Spaini to gain- possession of the whole
line `of coast horn the Mediterranean to the Baltic ;
but the atrocious perfidy which he employed, as the
means of accomplishing his cud, defeated his object,
and raised a spirit of resistance. and detestation
against • him, which, he will never be able to
subdue.

The same causes ever produce the same effeds ;
and I look for. similar good consequences in other ,
pants of Europe, fronkhis present outrageous pro-
ceedings. -Every new ad of violence and injustice
that .he commits, every new attack that he makes
upon the' peace and comfort of society, by his
un-
exampled' vexations, confiscations, and military ex-
ecutions, renders his tyranny the more insupport-
able, tends to unite mankind in one common. cause
against him, and accelerate his tall.

MERCATOR.