Star.
London, England, 1813-06-08 00:00:00

FAMILY BREWING.

NEEDHAM, RAWLINS, and Co. Patentees of
the PORTABLE FAMILY BREWING MACHINE,'
respectfully inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that in
consequence of the Fire in Skinner-street, they have removed to
their premises, No 225, (bear the Hay-market) Piccadilly;
where they line to be honoured with a continuance of that IN
beral patronage they have hitherto experienced.
This Machine combines the Fire-place, Coppers, Marsh Tun,
Under Back, Hop Back, and Working Tun, in one Utensil;
which is compact, durable, and convenient, and worked by a
method simple and certain in its operation. 1
The Mzc •:ne is made of various dimensions, suitable to small
Sarnilies, or the most extensive establishments.

N. R. and Co. have the pleasure of saying, they have most re-
spectable testimonials, and can give references to Gentlemen in
Town and Country, who have had • experience of the utility of
the invention.

Sold by Cie Patentees, No. 425, Piccadilly, London; and
No. 10 K'ine-street, Bristol ; also by the principal Furnishing
Ironmongers in the United Kingdom.
R and Co brew in the Machine for public inspection,
every"l uesdai, in London and Bristol.

AROMATIC SPIRIT of VINEGAR, (the mi.
gkat Invention of Mr. tIENII.Y, and brought by his
eineesstve Improvements to the highest perfection) continues to
be prepared and sold by Messn. Ht Nee, Manufacturing Chr-
junta, Manchester.

Tir $ agreeable perfumed Liquor which is composed of highly
concentrated Vinegar, joined with the most pleuant Aromatics
afad efficacious Antiseptics, may be kept uni npaired in any
Climate and for any length of time. its pung-tr. (*)ur adapts
it for afft•rdit g relief in Headache, Paintings, ; and renders
It pecoitarly grateful and refreshing in crowtkd ttiorap, in p 1 ices
of public resort, and in the apartments of the sick. It counter-
acts, Asa, the lotection of Contagious Diseases.
As many spurious trod inferior preparations are sold under the
same and sin lar names, the public :re requested to observe, as
the only proof of its bring genuine, that the eam s of Messrs.
Henry, Manchester, are engraved on the stamp.
The Aromatic SOH} of Vinegar in bottles' price 2c. 94. each,
stamp included, is sold wholesale and retail by Bayley and Blew,
Cockspur-street, (the only Agents in London authorised by the
Proprietors;) 'when may be had, Sponge Boxes of Gold, Sliver,
Carnelian, Crystal, &c.
1160 11SURT'S CALCINED MAGNESIA, in b•-•tkt a t 2s. ltd.
and larger with glass stops ens at 4s. id. cash; their 'wines bring
so the stamps.

AMERICAN PAPERS.
BALTIMORE, APRIL IS.
We are happy to have it in our power to state,
that by arrangements made by Major-General Smith,
the General will be enabled to render his system of
defence commensurate with the public zeal, activity,
and patriotism.

RICHMOND, APRIL Is.
On Friday, more troops were under arms, than
Richmond has seen since the war of the revolution.
A large detachment is on its way to Norfolk.

WASHINGTON, APRIL. 17.

By letters from Norfolk of the 12th inst. we learn,
that the day before, a pretty severe gale having blown
from the east, the Baltimore schooner Flight, Cap-
tain Kelly, 35 drys front Bourcleaux, with a valuable
cargo, passed the British squadron about four o'clock
in the morning. One of the 74's dispatched four
boats after her, three with a Lieutenant and 30 men
each, one with a Midshipmen and 14 men. The pilot
ran the vessel on the Horse-shoe, where she went to
pieces. They got out the crew and passengers, con-
sisting of 35 persons. The gale had increased so
much, that the boats could not get back to the ship,
and were obliged to put before the wind. The smaller
boat came up to the frigate Constellation, the crew
almost perished. The revenue cutter of Norfolk
took the other three barges, and seat the prisoners to
Hampton.
One of the British tenders sunk the other day off
Willoughby's Point, on the Ripraps.

-THE EVENING STAR

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LONDON.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1813.
Warr TUE.: MT.—Holiday at the Stock Exchange.

At the present crisis, when the re-occupation of
Hamburgh by the French has excited in the minds of
many very great apprehensions as to the consequences,
we are persuaded we shall render the public a real
service, by exhibiting a brief view of the advantages
which Great Britain has derived from the Continen-
tal System of BOXAPARTE.
It is now generally admitted, that the singular sys-
tem projected by the French Emperor, for the pur-
pose of gradually undermining the financial resources
of Gteat Britain, ha 7. been frustrated ; we may,
therefore, without affecting to state any theoretical
notion fur believing that that system was founded
on erroneous conceptions of the nature of our
national strength, and the true basis of our finan-
cial stability, call the attention of our Readers to
matters of historical fact, in order to prove that
this country, instead of suffering injury, has derived
essential advantages from the scheme.
The Continental System had a twofold direction :
it was intended to subvert, in the first place, the pros-
pet4ty of our internal manufactures, and, in the se-
cond, our Colonial wealth. 13y its operation against
the manufactures, it was calculated that it would
produce such a stagnation at least, if not a frustra-
tion of all that vast fund of re .enue arising from the
export of commodities on which other countries de-
pended, as would deprive the Government of the
means of supporting the Navy and Army actually
existing ; and by its operation against our Colonial
prosperity, it was calculated that it would occasion
such a diminution in the demand for Colonial pro-
duce, that the number of ships employed, on acconnt
of the trade of the Colonies, would no longer be able
to furnish such a supply of sailors, as was necess ,ry
to keep the Navy at that maximum which it had at-
tained.

It will he remembered, that on the very :3n) on
which the battle of Trafalgar was fought, BON PA ttTE
declared, as he surveyed the garrison of Ulm, de-
filing as prisoners before him, that it was ,6 ships,
colonies, and commerce" that he wanted. It may
therefore be said, that on that day the Continental
System was first distinctly promulgated—at least,
this is certain, that the effect of that system was ex-
pected to be destructive to the ships, commerce, and
colonies of Great Britain, and thereby to facilitate
the acquisition of them to France. We have, there-
fore, to consider the effect of this famous system,
both as it has affected our internal state and our co-
lonial dependencies ; and here it is necessary to keep
in view what was the general political appearance
(if we may use the expression) which Great Britain
exhibited at the zra alluded to. At thit time the
Naval force of this country was every thing and com-
plete, affording to the world the most perfect exam-
ple of organised discipline, spirit, and science ; but
the military force of the country exhibited something
very different. The elements of discipline, spirit, and
science existed in it, but were not so organised as to
act simultaneously. The consequence of this was,
that the pride and rancour of the enemy, exasperated
by the achievements of the British Navy, overlooked,
in his calculations for reducing this branch of our
power, the advantages that would accrue to the Bri-
tish army from his endeavours to destroy the corn-
merce whi,:li he considered to be the element and sub-
sistence of the maritime power of England. But
mark the effect of his measures against our commer-
cial prosperity. While it lessened the demand for
our manirfactures, it reduced the demand for la-
bourers, and the men, who, were thrown idle in tits
manufacturing towns, by the operation of the Berlin
and Milan Decrees, augmented the ranks of the army
to such a degree as to enable the country to send
abroad a greater force than she had ever before done,
and to practice operations of war on la• nd. in the Pe-
ninsuli," on a scale, and with a degree of success, thit

t

Was not supposed any longer' obp in herpower. The
very artisans and manufacturers who were expected
to starve by the effect of the Continental System,
have, individually andpersonally, punished the agents
and instruments of that system at Salamanca, and

those other theatres in which the ancient military
superiority of England over France has been again
so splendidly exhibited. The history of mankind
does not afford so striking an example of Providen-
tial retributioih in giving to the remote and des-
pised victims of a distant tyranny, by a turn in the
current of human affairs, the power of directly aveng-
ing their own wrongs. To the Continental System
then we owe the restoration of our military character,
and as this character is essential, not only to the dig-
nity but to the preservation of the country, we think
that our Readers (taking into consideration that but
for the want of employment experienced by the ar-
tisans, the army abroad in the Peninsula and Sicily,
could not have been maintained so numerous) will
allow that see owe the restoration of our military character
to the Continental System.
It is not to be denied, that before this result came
to effect, much individual suffering was endured ;
but all political changes involve domestic calamity,
and perhaps no change of the same importance to any
country was ever effected with less. In this short
view, it is, therefore, unnecessary to consider the
moral part of the subject : it is altogether a political
question and must be judged by its political effects.
Intended to destroy our ships, colonies, and com-
merce, the Continental System has raised, consoli-
dated, and rendered efficient our Army. But it may
be alleged, that in doing this, it did not fail, in a
great degree, to produce those difficulties in our finan-
cial opulence which it was calculated it would do.
But, eveti in this respect, if it did not entirely fail, it
fell far short of the expectations of its projectors ; for
it enabled us to ascertain, that our greatness was not
so dependent on our commerce with the Continent as
was supposed : indeed, it became a very common and
popular opinion, that, so far from being dependent
on trade, Britain was independent of commerce. The
effect which the Continental System had on our
finances was scarcely more than to induce the Go-
vernment only to think of practising that frugality in
the public expenditure which had been so long and
so loudly called for. It is worthy of observation,
that since the retreat of the French from Moscow,
and during the whole of the present Session of Par-
liament, not one motion bas even been made for the
purpose of obtaining a reduction in the profuse ex-
penditure of the State. While the pressure of the
Continental System was felt, plans for reducing the
public disbursements were every where proposed :
now that the weight has ceased to oppress, we hear
of no such things, although the wisdom of economiz-
ing is as absolute as ever.—We may, however, infer,
that, in this point of view, it has not been without
advantage ; inasmuch as it has warned our statesmen
,that there does exist a possibility in political chances
that they may not be able to obtain such an affluence
of revenue as to justify improvident extravagance.
But the most decided advantage which we have
obtained from the Continental System has arisen in
our Colonial Department—that very branch of our
opulence against which the enmity of the enemy was
principally directed. It is not easy to understand the
full value of this advantage, unless we can form an
idea of what was the state of our colonies and colo-
nial trade previous to the battle of Trafalgar and the
surrender of Ulm. Before that zra, such had been
the demand for colonial produce, that the proprietors
of the plantations found it more profitable to import
into the colonies provisions for their negroes, than to
raise them on their own estates. The effect of this
was, that the colonies were almost entirely dependent
upon America And the mother country for their sus-
tenance ; such, indeed, was their degree of depen-
dence, that, could it have been possible for the Con-
tinent to have become shut to us, and the American
war to have been declared at the same instant, the
colonies must have been reduced to a degree of dis-
tress, for the mere necessaries of life to their inhabi-
tants, of which we can form no idea, nor of the con-
sequences that might have followed. But the requi-
site time for maturing the Continental System affor-
ded leisure, in a great degree, for the colonies to
prepare ; so that when its final effort was accom-
plished in rendering the Americans the last tool for
its completion, the colonies had become, in a consi-
derable measure, ready to meet the event; and the
American war could not have happened for them at
any period so little mischievous as at the time when
it took place. At the period of the American decla-
ration of war against this country, the colonies, long
expecting the event, had so far rendered themselves
independent of supplies from America, that the effect
of the declaration was only to raise the price of pro-
visions; and not, as would have been the case at an
earlier period, to fill the minds of the colonists with
apprehension of actual starvation. At no time before
the present, since the first planting of the colonies,
have they been in the practice of raising adequate
supplies for their own support within themselves.—
The effect, therefore, of the Continental System has
been, to induce our colonists to appropriate a part of
those means which were formerly employed in raising
those articles which are described under the general
name of Colonial Produce, to the providing of the
necessaries of life within themselves. This they were
enabled to do by finding a diminished demand for

colonial produce in Europe. It was no linger pt.l.
fitable for the planters to cultivate their estate: 03
speculation. They found that the quantity of cold,
vial produce already raised was fully equal to
demand that would have existed bad the Confine: 1
System not been promulgated ; and, consequet:,,
that it was too great for the demand of a diroilist44
market. It was therefore their interest, instead u
raising articles which they could not sell, to ray
those articles which they were previously obto
to buy.

Besides this immediate advantage to our Colnnii
system in rendering them so much independer.t,
other has been obtained, which eements, if we ta,
use the expression, their connexion with the moth,

country more closely and firmly than it was

Prior to the estAblishment of the Continental Si

our Colnties were so little, we may say,

upon

consumption of their

. r• • `,..Ar
was so small, compared with that of the Confine%
of Europe and America, that many in the Col*,
thought that it would be as much for their advatuagi
to be connected with my other country as si:
Great Britain, and many Among ourselves were is
of opinion that the Colonies were rather an imago.
11
brance than a resource to the mother country. sub
notions now can no longer have any existence ;IL:LT
rAtional mind. To counteract the diminished de.

mand which the shutting of the Continent had pro.
duced, Government wisely encouraged, by the redat.
tion of duties and other means, an extra consurogricia
of Colonial produce at hoine : and such has been the
effect, that the consumption now of this country of
rum, sugar, and coffee, is much greater than that .
all Europe besides. Thus has it become moreteces,
sary for the Colonies to cherish, foster, and endear
their connexion with us, than ever it was before; and
the effect also is, that by this increased consumptica
of Colonial produce, both as articles of food and as
ingredients for the distiller, it has 'awned our de.
pendence on foreign countries for supplies of grail,
and also reduced the necessity that we should other.
wise have had of drawing from China an undirni.
niched quantity of tea, for which, instead of paying
in our own manufactures, as we do the colonists, we
must have greatly added to the distress that has bees
so generally felt of the want of the precious metals,
by transporting them directly to Canton.
This pleasing, antigallican subject we shall speedily
resume, because we perceive that there is an intention
on the part of the enemy to re-establish the Conti.
nental System in a new form by the fruits expected
to be produced by that mass of diplomatic corrup.
tion commonly known by the name of a Congreu !
and our Readers may see that, happen what may,
and what we expect, it will not be any thing very
dreadful or very dangerous. We shall be no worse
than we have been, and the worst of our state hi.
therto, we see, was fruitful in general advantages.

Natitmal Inte!Firearm and Haying Jearnah to tbt
11th May, with private letters from Philadelpla:2,
reached town yesterday. The letters mention, that
the remainder of the American loan unsubscribed for,
to the amount, it is supposed, of about 11 millions a`
dollars, had been taken by three opulent individuals;
STEPHEN GIRARD, Mr. DAVID PARISH, and Mr.
JOHN JACOB Arrorr,lat with an alteration in the
cas-
ditions of the loan, making the interest nearly 7 per cent.

From the Letters and Papers recei►ed by the
Lisbon Mail on Saturday, we have been enabled to
collect more interesting matter than from the Corunna
Mail of yesterday. All the letters from the Army
concur in the active commencement of the campaign.
Four divisions of the Army had already crossed the
Douro in the direction of Braganza, with the ►iew
of turning the enemy's rights while the line of the
enemy's position upon that river was to be mo►ed
upon by the Spanish Army and the remaining di.i•
sions of the English, under the immediate command
of Lord WitLLINOTON.

Sir THOMAS GRAHAM was to proceed immediately
from head-quarters, to take the command of the
northern divisions above alluded to ; and his ulterior
movements were to be in the line of Benevente to
Burgos, for the reduction of which fortress, and for
passing the army over the different rivers, the weather
has been extremely favourable for the bringing up of
the necessary trains

We cannot learn that any separate command has
been yet assigned to General HILL; and we are ia-
dined to believe, that the Commander in Chief in•
tends profiting of the skill and experience of this gal.
lant Officer, by keeping him near his own person—
Lord WSLLINGTON reserving to himself the most i!
portant command,
" The first in danger, as the first in fame !"

The PRINCE REGENT gave audience to several c'
the Cabinet Ministers yesterday.
The Princess Cssasmort k: of Watts rode to Brorr
ton in her carriage.
Yesterday the Dnke of ATIVIL had an aud'enceci
the ratscs REGENT at Carlton House.
Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted miiitry
business with the Pittxcr. REGENT.
Yesterday the Duke of CAMBRIDGE vi.;:ted the
PRINCE Rrctsr.
Mr. WHITBREAD has benevolently resented a Hun.
dred Pound Share of Drury-lane Theatre to O.c eas
suing Benefit Night for the Theatrical Fund ; all-
Miss Mrtr.ox, never behindhand is acts of lie;a4.
send, has subscribed her Fifty Guineas ou the ra:ag
laudable occasion.

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