The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-09 00:00:00

PARLI AM ENTA RY PAPER.

An ACT to allow BRITISH GOODS to be EXPORTED di-
rect from this Country to the United States ,;1-* AMERICA,
spun the sane Terms as when exported to any Foreign

Country.

Ayirereas by a Convention of Commerce between Great
Britain ami the United States pf America, signed at London

ou the. Third Day of July One thousand hundred and
fifteen, in Article the Second it is provided, ainOts,st other
matters, that no higher or other Duties or Charges be im-
posed in either of the Two Countries on the Exportation of
any Articles to his Britannic Majesty's Territories in Europe,
or to the United States respectively, than such as are payable
on the Exportation of the like-Articles to any other. Foreign
Country: and whereas, by an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth
Year of his pi esent Majesty's reign, intituled An Act to carry
into effect a Convention of Commerce concluded between his
Majesty and the United States of America; it is enacted, that
upon the Exportation from the United Kingdom of any Goods,
Wares, or Merchandize, the growth, production, or manu-
facture of the said United Kingdom, or any of Isis Majesty's
Territories in Europe, direct to any of the Territories of the
United States ,of America, in any Ship or Vessel built in
the said States, or condemned as prize there, and being
owned by subjects of the said States, and whereof the Master
and three-fourths of the Mariners are also subjects of the
said States, no higher or other Duties shall be paid or payable
than such as are charged or imposed upon such Goods, Wares,
or Merchandize when exported in a British7buili Ship or
Vessel navigated and registered according to Law: And
Whereas it is expedient that the said United States of America
should be placed, with respect to the Duties on Goods,Wares,
and MerchandiZe of the produce of Great Britain exported
thither, on the sitine footing as when the same are exported
to any other Foreign Country whatever : fie- it therefore
enacted by time King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with

the advice and 'consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the Authority of the same, That from and after the Third
Day of July One thousand eight hundred andlifteen the same
Duties shall be paid or payable on the Exportation of all
.Goods, Wares, and Merchandize of the growth, produce, or
manufacture of Great Britain, exported direct from ihenc4 to
any Port or Place within the Territories of the United States
of America in British-built. Ships owned, registered, and na-
vigated according to Law, or in Ships built in the United
States of America, or condemned as prize: there, and being
owned by Subjects of the said States, and whereof tire Master
and three-fourths of the Mariners are also Subjects of the
said Stases, as are or shall be. payable on the like Exportation
to any other Foreign Country whatever.

11. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three
or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and di-
rected, in all cases where a greater Duty has been charged
and paid on the Exportation of any Goods, Wares, or Mer-
chandize of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of Great
Britain, to the United States in manner aforesaid, than has
been paid on Um Exportation to any other Foreign Country,
to cause the same to be repaid. '
111. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall con-
tinue in force so long as the Convention between his Ma-
jesty and the United States of America shall continue in force

DESTRUCTION of the BERLIN THEATRE•

BERLIN, JULY 29.—That fine building, the
Royal National Theatre‘in this city, is destroyed.
This forenoon between twelve and one, a fire.
suddenly broke out in the right wing., which spread
so rapidly, that in half an hour the whole building
was in flames. A violent wind blowing towards
the building of the Royal Commercial Estahlish-
ment, excited great alarm for that also, for a large
firebrand was carried to a part of it and had nearly
set fire to two of the houses. The keeper of the
Theatre has saved but a few of his effects. It
wat not possible to think of saving the wardrobe,.
the decorations, the library or the music, because
in the wing where the fire broke out there were
ten hogsheads of clarified oil, which it was also
impossible to bring away, and which kept up for
many hours a tremendous flame. We have to
thank the activity of the firemen and of the po-
lice, that the two Churches bet weep which the
Theatre stood, as well 'as the neighbouring houses,
did not also become the prey of the flames.
Burning coals carried hy the wind were found in
several distant streets. The damage is estimated
at above a million and a half (of crowns probably).
This terrible event rentin.is us of the burning of
St. Peter's Church. When the post set off the
lower story was Still burning, but the great danger
is over..

po3t4ible iniei ti 0719. it slates broticily, tiro '1 it
is beyond all doubt whatever, that the harvest will

hr iniirsitety more abil-dint theft that of the year
1810, 'for which a Public Thanksgiving was or.

tiered all over the country." Now by what pro-
cess of ratiocination or physical exp,,ritnen, it has
been enabled to arrive at this happy state of cer-

tainty we cannot even conjecture. - It asserts in-
deed, that "
,the alarin arrasior►ed by las► year's

scarcity caused more grotind .t u be sown atidplaia.

ed in all parts of the Empire than ever was,kn6tsn
to be in the memory of the oldest person liviog ;"
,but in the first place we Tiestion that fact ; and
secondly, it must be taken with the dear ,
tion that the mode of cultivation was cer!airly
very inferior last year, in many places, to what it
'had formerly been. There was less money ex-
pended,less labour employed, ess stock keitt,ard
of course less manure used. Notwithstanding all
this, the bounty of Providence leads us to hope t he t
the crop will be, all things considered, a favour•
able one ;
.but it is doing no service whatever to
raise expectations which are not likely. to be gra-
tified, and which by their disappointment will
cause a le-action of discontent and murtnuring
against the Government, whose beneficent clue
deserves .a very different return.—Again, this well

meaning, but ill jtviging writer, goes on to raise a
clamour against classes of people but too liable
to become the objects of ,popular suspicion and
violence. The corn-dealers ate first held up to

detestation as a rapacious crew, who 'have
accumulated vast hordes of grain which they
should have long ago sold at a low price ;
and it is asserted., that " the warehouses along
shore are crammed. with unsaleable commodity, on
which An immense loss must 'arise from fall

of price, as well as from its being perishable."—
The fact is utterly incredible. a thing may
have happened once or twice since the world be-
gan; but it is surely not likely to happen in a coml.
try where trade is so well undergood, anti is cart ied
on upon such enlightened pi inciples, as it is here:
in England. But if it were the case, surely this..
would be a sufficient and more than. a suflicknt.
punishment to the deluded Speculator, without'
inflaming the Public against him as their worst
enemy, when the tact is, that he is one of their
best friends. slid.dellien are as necessary a, 'ruin.
pike-roads; and as much and as unmeaning chi•
moor has been raised against the one as against
the other. It is quite certain that compel itton is
the proper and the only remedy for any attempt at
any extortionate profits on the part of Bakers as'
well as of other Tradesmen ; lint then it „Should •
he competition, in the fair and proper sense of the
word, acting upon individual choice and judg-
' mem ;
.competition " on the great scale" as it is
Called, we suspect to be something like confede-
racy, or combination. against Bakers ; and what
have Bakers done, as a body of men, that they
should be marked out for persecution More than
other tradesmen ?—ln this way all the com-
munity may be set together by the ears. To-day
the cry is against Bakers, to-morrow it may be.
against Tailors, the next day'against Lawyers,
then against Parsons. These unfounded and an-
reasonable outcries go to the entire disorganiza-
tion of all society. If an individual Trades-
man, of whatever class, deals unfairly by his
customers, let them go elsewhere. This will
soon bring him to his senses ; but if iddividnals
do not choose to avail themselves of the simple
and natural, and completely effectual safeguard
against fraud and extortion, do not let them call
in the aid of authority, or of force, or of a com-
bination which must be unfair, to obtain the same
end, in which after all they must be disappointed.
Here again we must quote that author, whom, in
all practical politics, we confess we deem to be
almost oracular, the great and excellent Burke.
" A greater and more ruinous mistake," says be,
" cannot be fallen into than that the trades of
agriculture and grazing (and he might have added
the dependent employment) can be conducted up-
on any other than the common principles of corn.
pierce ; namely, that the-Producer should be per-
!flitted, and even expected to look to all possible
profit, which, without fraud or violence, he can
make; to turn plenty or scarcity to the hest ad-
vantage he can; to keep back or bring forward
his commodities, at his pleasure ; to account to.
no one for his stock, or for his gain. On any
other terms he is the slave of the Consumer; and
that he should he so is no benefit to the consumer.
No slave was ever so beneficial to his master as a
free man, that deals with him on an 'equal foot-
ing, by coßvention, formed on the principles of
contending interests and compromised advantages.
The consumer, if lie were suffered, would in the
end always be the dupe of his own'tyr,tnny and
injustice."