The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-06 00:00:00

It: ON FOK BUTTER AND CHEESE.
°I'AL HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN, AT GREENWICH,

May 29, 1820.
SUCH Persons as may be willing to Contract
fo
r supplying this Hospital with BUTTER and
.ESE, for Six or Twelve Months, may deliver in their
r4Posals to the Directors of the said Hospital, at this Place,
LITUADAY, the tutu of June visiting, at Eleven
~- 9`)ch in the Forepoon ; and in the mean time be furnished
Itt) forms of Proposals, and acquainted with further parti-
-414", by inquiring at the Steward's Office here.
I, ?I'll. No Proposal wiil be received after the hour aforesaid,
"1. 'till ally be attended to that are not agreeable to the said
1
41s; for unless the Parties personally attend.

To the PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK.
ripLAMES AND GENTLEMEN,
HE result of my Canvass imperiously calk
t °Pon me to make my best acknowledgments for the
4r/ favourable reception I have met with, and affords ms
most sanguine hopes of success. '
apt beg 'tare to renew my assurance, that in the event of my
;t4ining the object of my ambition, my time and best abilities
1 u."4/,I be devoted to the discharge of the Duties of a Director,
I teltst, that the repeated Testimonies I have received from
tht-'
Government in India, during a period of Thirty Yeats
st
ttice, will be a pledge for my future conduct.
4:the Eleoiou is fixed for Friday, the 9th instant, when the
‘eridance of those Friends who honour me with their sup-
tort will be thankfully acknowledged.
I have the lion Our to be,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient and faithful Servant,
CHARLES ELTON PREt..COTT.
June 1, 1920.
'n• Captain Prescott's Committee will meet daily at the
kio
les Head Tavern, in the Poultry, where every conimuni-
ktit,
11 will he thankfully received.

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FOR THE SUN.

TIMBER TRADE.

. Ma. EDITOR..--. 111 giving my humble approba-
tion to the pii.riotic sentiments contained in Bat-
TANNICLWS Letter of Saturday last in your excel-
lent Paper, as well as My admiration of (what
lam sorry to say I cannot imitate, namely) his
elegant style of writing, I take leave to add, on
the subject of Free or Foreign Trade, instead of
Colonial Trade, that if Reports abroad be true, a
portion-of the advocates for those Trades are well
meaning People, but are misled by ADAM SMITH'S
wild theories, as the Doctor never once contem-
plated in his system of political economy, our
enormous National Debt and Expenditure, nor our
excess of population, extensive, fertile, unculti-
vated Colonies, nor our excess of unemployed
Capital to enable us to do the whole justice ; for
according to his system the two former would go-
unpaid ; of the three latter, one would starve, and
the other two be useless to otir Empire.

Another portion of those advocates (as the story
goes), are speculating in Prussian Forest and Pros-
' sian Ships ; others (as the same story goes) are a
party truly Americau in principli, and who trump
up a thousand inconsistencies in order to make Bii-
tish America disgusted with the Mother Country,
in hopes that by our giving their Trade to Fo-
reigners, they will become discontented and throw
themselves into the arms of the United States for
protection. Now►, Mr. Editor, if these things
be true, I leave you, the Public, and the Legisla-
ture, to judge how necessary it will be to invei-
rigate the reasonableness, as well as the motives
of such parties before the least attention is paid
either to their advice or assertions; but I trust the
following observations and statement, will be suf-
ficient to convince every good Englishman of his
true interest on the occasion. As I am ready to
prove to all who will or can understand me, that
while we have an excess of population, the same
portion of land at home or in our Colonie3 unculti-
vated, and capable of producing such exotic ar►icles
as we may want, and an excess of Capital capable
of paying those people for producing such ar-
t ides at home or in our Colonies, a National
Debt and Expenditure, Clergy awl Poor to pay
Ihroligh the Taxes on Laud, and our general con-
sumption, that the payment of every article of
such Foreign production consumed here as can he
so produced as aforesbid, is a dead loss to the Na.,

Lion ; for it turns our people out of employtnent
to become debased, and to live on the Poor's-
rates, and which is principally paid by the Land.
It keeps our own land uncultivated, and gives
power and wealth to Foreign Empires in the same
ratio that it takes employment from our People,
and strength and wealth from our Empire. But
the most fallacious argument that is used is, that
by our taking Timber from Foreigners, they will
take our Manufactures in return, and of course
that is preferable to trading with our Colonies.—
Now, I will suppose, for argument sake, that all
Foreign and Colonial Timber which we consume
in this Country is paid for in British Manufac-
tures and, .-Ettlortial Produce ; if so, where is
the difference to the Manufacturer, and the
Coloniil Sugar Planter, if they sell to the
Foreigner or Colonist, provided they are
are paid, and their sale be in equal quantities ? I
say none ; but how stands the case with the
Landed Interest who have to maintaiu the People
turned out of employment by taking their Timber
from the Foreigner in lieu of from the Colonist ?
Again, bow stands the Nation which has lost
its own marine defenders, and bred the same
number to oppose us, lost its increasing power
and wealth, which it was creating in its Colo.
nies ; the value of its Capital, by the number of
ships turned ont of employment rotting, the loss
of employment to the Tradesmen and Labourers,
who built and kept those ,ships in a proper 'state
of repair ; the indirect Taxes which all those
People paid through their consumption of Taxed
and Excised Articles.

I believe the following to be something about
a correct statement, allowing the Foreign Timber
Trade to stand as it now does. The difference,.
in case we take ofT Duties from'Foreign Timber,
will be as follows in a National point of view :
It will cause us to purchase, in addition to
what we now do, about 400,000 Load of
Foreign Timber and Deals annually, at about
355. per luad. L. 700,000
It will at least turn 200,000 Ton of English ,
Shipping out of employment, and give an .
equal number of Foreign Shipping employ-
ment, the freight of which will be equal to
20s. per load. - - 400,000
It will turn ten thousand British Seamen out of
employment to live on the Poore Rates, and
be lost to their Country for ever, front
debasement of mind, at 201. each, per

annum. - - • - - 900,000
It is likely to cost us to destroy the Wealth and
Power our Foreign Timber Trade will arise
for Foreigners, through our fully, lay - 10,900,000

L. 11,300,000
But it may cost us 50 or 100 millions sterling.
It will raise.a Navy for Foreigners, to contend
with us, and we shall at some future period
have to raise a new Navy to contend with
them, the old Sailors being destroyed ; say
501. each, all things considered - -
The dead loss of two hundred thousand tons
of Britisb,Shipping, at 101. per ton
The throwing two .hundred thousand tons of
Shipping on the Market will cause a depreci-
ation in value of our Shipping, say 10 per
cent on twenty:millions - - •
The loss of wettltleand power to our Colonies
of all the cod of the Timber and Labour
equal to - • -
Shipwlights and other Tradesinedturned out
of emOoyment

L. 500,000.

2,000,000

2,000,000

400,000

100,000

16,900,000
Deduct from which about 50,0001. paid to the
United States for a part of Timber in its ori-
ginal state, about 4-5 t hi is paid for in Ma-
nufactures, and t-sth in cash - 50,000

Loss in National wealth and power - ;6,250,000
have in the above Statement calculated on
the Foreigner and Colonist both taking the cost
of the Timber in our Manufactures and Colonial
Produce ; but I am told the Foreigner takes one•
third in cash, and it is certain the Colonist takes
his payments all in Manufactures and Colonial
Produce.

Next, how stands the Landed Interest, for as
the Laws now are, although the Landed Pro-
prietors have no c(antroul over the Commercial
and Manufacturing Interest, and they are ran-
thinkingly despised by both, while the Land is
supporting them with food and raiment, and with
the meting of their traffic and adventure, still
those Gentlemen Adventurers never think of the
Landed Interest until their frolic is over, and
then if they arc successful, they return and be-
come Landholders; but if unsuccessful, come back
and make the Land maintain them out of the
Pours' Rates ; and the latter will be the case, if
the Foreign Trade prevails over the Colonial, and
the following is a pretty correct statement of
what the loss will he io the Landed Interest. .11
is, therefore, hi&tt time to nee the tolly of op-

posing the root of our prosperity, viz. the Land•
ed and Colonial interest.
The Landed Interest will have to pay as fol.
lows, per annum
To shout ten thousand Sailor Paupers; as
every calling is ftlll- and overflowing with
People, of course they cannot he. employed in
any other callinc, 10,000, at 201. each
Two Thousand Ship Owners and Tradesmen,
who used to own and work for the above-

L.100;DOC)

named Ships, at 401. each
Two Thousand Agricultural Labourers, turned
out of cmploy-that used to produce fond for
those Sailors, at 201. each
One Thousand Manufacturers, turned out of
employ, that used to Manufacture Raiment
for those Sailors and Tradesmen, at 201. each
Profits to the Land lost for want of the afore-
said Customers, say about

40,000

40,000

20,000

50,00 A

L .350,000

The above will be about the statement of loss
to the Landed Interest, should the Free Foreign
Trade Gentlemen succeed over the Colonial,
Trade. It is, therefore, high time that the Land.
ed Interest took their stand, as they, have to
pay the piper, as the vulgar saying is, whoever
has the pleasure of the dance, as they now rand ;
it is high time, I say, that they should have a►
vote in the appointment of the master of ►he cere-
monies, or their Lands may be called on in pay
the piper before they are aware the dance has
begun.

The Manufacturing Interest will lose all the
difference arising from Manufacturing for the same
!lumber of men in affluence and men in poverty,
which cannot amount to less than about 100,0001.
per ann. I also mean to contend, that American
Red Pine Timber is superior to any Fir Timber
that grows in the North of Europe, and it is con•
trary to Nature if the Yellow Pine is not also
better, for warm climates generally increase the
durability of Timber of the same species, and
British America is very far south of the north of
Europe.

It is said by some very well 'waning people,
that Ministers know what is best ror us ; my an-
swer to such good people is, that after giving
Ministers credit for the best of motives (for yoti
must know, I am a Tory in principle it I ain of
any party, and one of their best friends) still my
duty. to my Country, when in danger, is para-
mount to every other consideration. if the two last
Treaties with the United States of America, end
their late opposition to the Inquity into the State
of the Agricultural Interest be samples of their
future proceedings, I am one of the last in the
world that will give them credit for wisdom ; for
what fills the ports of Continental Europe, com-
paratively speaking, with American 'hips full of
East India and China cargoes, while our own,
vessels are rotting by the walls ? My answer is,.
the East India Charter. Again, what fills British
ports with American Shipping ? And what covers
our Newfoundland Criast with American Fisher-
men, while our own vessels are rotting, and
our fishermen starving for want of employment I
say, our late Treaties with America; and what keeps
our people idle, anti living on the Poors' Rates, and
Our Revenue tailing short ? I say, a want of pro-
tection to all property alike, and our taking front
Foreigners what our People and Colonies could
nroduce ; and I say further, without fear of con•
tradiCtion, that the above measures 'and circum-
stances deprive us of more revenue and national
wealth and power in one year titan all the pre-
sent and contemplated Duty on Timber will pay
us to twenty years. Therefore, I say, we ought
to pause before we entirely depend on the judg.
ment of Ministers, and they are bound to open
their ears to our advice, and call on us to prove
our assertions if they doubt them. if Revenue
on Timber be their only-object, that can be ac-
complished without ruining the Ship Owner and
driving the Sailor and Tradesman to the Pours'
Rates, and the Colonist to revolt, by laying art
additional duty of
.about .10s. per load on all Fo-
reign and-Colonial Timber, and 401, per 100 on
Deals.- This will preserve the English Carrying
Trade and the Colonists' prosperity ; hut if the
British AMerican Merchants were granted a mo.
nopoly of the Home Market for Timber, similar
to what dm West India Planters are, for their
produce, they would engage to take more Ma-
nufactures and pay more Revenue than are now
sold of the former, or received foe the latter for
Timber, as well as increase the wealth anti
power of our Empire ; and if they refuse to do
this, 1 will do it myself, and give proper secu-
rity for its performance.
I hope the Landed Interest will see their true
interest, in opposing every measure that will tend
to increase the Noors' Rates, and lessen the con.
sumption of native produce and indastry. At the
same time, I hope the Commercial. and Manufac.
Interest will see their true interest in pro.
snoring their own success through the protection
necessarily required for the root of their prosperity,
namely, Agriculture; for it really seems all par•
ties are going to destruction for want of know-
ing that all their true interest is dependent, in
giving health to the roots of their prosperity, in
order to enable them to throw nut their branches,
namely, Manufactures and Commerce, and em-
ploying our excess of population in our Colonies.

I remain,
A sincere Friend to my. Country,
And to all good Alen,
Your very obolient Servant,
J. P.
•

QUERV.--If half the money which our increase
eel Alloy cost us last year, hod in 1818 heel) Bp.
propriated to the encouragement of our unem-
ployed People to emigrate and settle in out Co-
lonies, and there consume our Nlanuf,+etures,
while producing a part of what we now buy trout
Foreigners, would there hare been ii,neces,,ily for
increasing Our 'Military Fotces ?---This requires the
setious conkideratiot' of «11 good Englishmen,