The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-10 00:00:00

GERMAN 'PA pnns.

WIRBADEN, 30.—The attempls anti ex-
vrtions of the proptietors of our German mann-
factories to get rid of the troublesome competi-
tion ~ith the Bnglish manufactures in the Ger-
man markets still continue,.and frequently .give
rise to the titbit singular itsi-ertions,

The tendency to excinde foteigntompetitors, and
thus to be lbie to presyritre. laws to the consumers,
and to sell to them inter for goods at'a high price
with less trouble than could be done without this
exclusion of foreigners, is, we know, general in
all countries where manufactories exist. It ani-
mates shoemakers and tailors in the smallest
tountry towns, as well astbe proprietor of the
greatest manufactory.
Nobody ever vet doubted but that this exclu-
sion of foreigners was advantageous and &sit able
for the manufacturer and artisan ; and that it is
the interest of manufacturers to persuade us that
their interest is the general interest of the State.
The arguments which are commonly employed by
them to produee•this conviction, such as tile in-
dependence of the State upon', foreign countries,
the keeping at home all the-money which goes
abroad for foreign productions, the support orthe
inhabitants, by employing 'bent in the manufac-
tories- of the country, have been repeated often
.enough, arid are' heard every where; but that the
consumer of the manufactures longs. for the exclu-
sion of foreign articles-front the market, that he
may pay a higher price for what be wants, this
assertion is new
fiud it expressed in plain words, in an ar-
ticle from Elberfeld, in No. '264 of the
Zeitung. • The writer, endeavouring to
controvert the assertion of the English raisers,

that a prohibition of the English inanutactures
in Germany cannot be thought of or executed,
because it would be inconsistent with the inte-
rest of the German peasantry and the Govern-
ments, says, " Twenty-five millions of men (in-
cluding Prussia) look rip to their Governments for
protection and deliverance in this respect," (name-
-IY, the exelOsion of English manufactures from the
German market's.) - • "
According to this, 25,000,000 Germans require
of their Governments to be protect'ell against the
liberty of buying better goods a; a lower price ;
or, in other worth, present putitiOns.to their Go-
aaseionents to pay a general tax on consumption
for the benefit -of some German manufacturing
towns, and proprietors of manufactories .
As far as nor knowledge extends, the general
voice. of 25 millions of people in -Germany has
not yet expressed itself to this effect. We hear,
indeed,, now and then complaints of too heavy
direct-and 'indirect taxes in Germany, and many
persons may look up to their Governments (Or
protection and "deliverance in this respect : but the
eyes of the people of Germany have not yet been
turned. towards their Governments, as the writer
of the letter from Elberteld adirins, with a peti-
tion to pay a new indirect tax for the advantage
of wir iminrifact es.—(Frankfort Gmnan Gazette,
Oct. 2, soted to be tplotcdfrant a Rhenish Paper)
I\Lidarne Krodener, says a Swiss Paper, is at
present in the town of Saeckingen, in Baden, six
leagues front Basle. Travellers pretend to have
isetreher last week iu the neighbourboodet Wald-
shut, but strictly watched by the Batten police.—
Iler finances seem to be iha bad condition, and
she herself to be abandoned by many of her truest
followers.. Her secretary, it is said, has been
obliged, for want of farther means of subsistence
in the train Of " the lady," to seek his fortune
elsewhere. It is stated, that Professor Lachenal
has returned to his native town with the remains
of his dilapidated fortune, to lament his creduli-
ty in retirement ; and that others have been
obliged to do the same : that an estate which Ma-
dame Krudener possessed in Germany has been
sold by her creditors for 80,000 florins, and that
another is on sale. However, she still keeps op
her connexions with her adherents and disciples
in Switzerland. _
FROM THE ELBE, SEPT. 4.—The frequent con-
ferences which the Crown Prince of Sweden Iraq
had for some weeks past with the Minister Von
Engstrom, and this last with the French Ambas-
sador at the-Swedish Court, excite a belief that
the Bourbon Courts may be at length disposed to
recognise the Crown Ptince of Sweden and his
male heirs, as the legitimate heirs of the Swedish
Throne. This prospect excites the more joy in
Sweden, as 'that country has always been closely
Connected with France, and in some measure feels
tinatural want of a friendly connexion with that
Power. The differences with England about the
visiting of Engl sh ships on the Swedish coast are
happily adjusted to the entire satisfaction of Great
Britain, so that the political horizon of Sweden
appears to become brighter than it
,was a few
:months ago.
Baussees, Majesty the King,
before he set out for the If-agile, resolved to em-
latoy, in 'active serVic-e-abovelSifOfficers, hitherto
aiii• half-pay. They are mostly destined for the
Colnial service.
•The expenee of the building of the new Royal
Palace, of which his Majesty has approved the
dal) is estimated at 3,000,000 lio•rins... An Eng-
• fish Cabinet Messenger front London,, a Courier
front Cambray, and another from: Paris, have
isrolight dispatelies for the British Minister here
Lord Claucarty.