The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-02 00:00:00

LEIPZIG, OCT. 10.--The present autumnal
fair affords new and melancholy proofs of the de-
pression of most of the countries of the European
Continent. Seldom, perhaps, was such a mass
of goods accumulated in so small a space, and
seldom has so much freight and carriage been paid
in vain. In the principal streets of the city all
the houses are covered with English firms. Whole
families, ascendants, descendants and collaterals,
from the most distant manufacturing towns
England, have established themselves here, it
seems, for a long time, with an economical hut
eomidete household ; there arc single houses
where you find six or seven magazines of English
goods.
Tie Flemish cloth manufacturers, whose hopes,
since France is shut against them, .are entirely
fixed on Germany, Russia, and Northern Italy
inundate the market in a similar manner. What
is brought from other countries of Europe (except
the French silks, which go their old, wonted, and
unchanging coutse by way of. Leipzig to t he North)
is not to be compared with those supplies, however
it may he distinguished for intrinsic goodness, par-
ticularly the German productions.
The Polish Jews and other great purchasers
will not fail by all kinds of arts, by the meanest
offers, delays in concluding their bargains, to
depress the prices still more. The richest cowl
tries in Europe, France, and Austria, by the in

ternal snlliciency of the productions, and by wise
prohihitory laws, depend upon themselves; and as
the rest of Europe is still bleeding with the ho-
nourable wounds received in the war, but now
ended, there can be no brisk demand, except front
Russia and North America, for the immen%e over-
phut of European manufactures produced by tire
excess of speculation and machinery. The prospects
fur the first and most ancient manufacture in Ger-
nnitty, that of linetLis the mast gl,,,muy of all, while
the American market is shut agiinst it, by the in-

rtelsing. rise of cottons for apparel and furniture
and by the importation of Irish Hutt); the man
ner in which the EnAlish white goods are throtet

away in Germany, tempts people to supply the de-
"ciencies of their wardrobes with calicoes instead
The superficial spirit of the times
overlooks the little durability of the article, where,
as has been proved in this fair, the effect of a fine
shirt can be produced for twenty good Saxon
Groschen (about three shillings.) If we eolibi"

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er the moral influence of the linen umnufactt,re i

our German household economy, we shall, with-
out mentiouing the injury to agriculture, &c.
hardly want any other arguments against the
shove destructive system. The author proceeds
to observe, that the sale of raw wool is dull, which

he considers as an advantage, as it may serve to
warn the Germans against too winch extending the
breeding of sheep, in which it is probable they
would soon have to maintain a most unequal
competition with the Americans, all the late
accounts from North America agreeing, that
the breeding and improving the races of sheep
succeeds in a. most astonishing manner in, that
country. The English and Flemish manufactures
tnay be said to be engaged in combat for life or
death, since the Austrian, Prussian, Saxon, and
other German manufactures have the advantage in
the goodness of the articles. The author laments

that so many Germans engage in this trade to the
rain of the German industry, but which grows
less and less profitable on account of the conti-
nually fresh supplies of gootts, each cheaper than
the preceding. Notwithstanding the consoling

hope, that the overhent bow must soon break,
yet, on the whole, the sale of our home manufac-

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titres stagnates.
The Saxon, &cmnannfacttirers leave the fair,
with the tesolution of limiting their activity.
The number of the distressed increase every mo.
ment, beyond all' belief ; and in order Wholly to
destroy t he' defence of, wholesome laws against
this hostile invasio`a, must And; in,all public
prints, the chimera of the freedom of, commerce
defended ; and the order of nature, rvhiett Places
first agriculture, then Mamfaeturia,-stntlastlr
commerce, so reversed theorieS of the day,'
that`the interests of commerce is put above all the
rest, manufactures subordin-ate to this, and agri-
culture to both, whichlast May be contenied with
the'degree of liberty that the first.clrooses'to allow
is"- clear that the Gerinan Mantifactures,
whtich.. have been Able to maintain thenrselves. in
such au inundation, and even to gain a decided ,