Star.
London, England, 1812-04-03 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGEIVCk.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING,
TltellsbAY, APRIL 2. *
Ld. G. H. Cavendish's sister to Black Diamond, fist. 41b. beat
Mr. 1/sodas's f Anaconda, pot. llb. Ab. El. 100gs.—Two to 1
on sister to Black Diamond.
The Third Class of Oatiatid Staitcs, of 50Gs. each, b. ft. D. L
D. of Rutland's Sorcery, 3) rt. 135r..51b. 1
Mr. Melliab's Beverley, syts. 7st Rub.
Ld. Oxford's, Victoria, aged, 9st. 9:b.
Mr. Lake's Britannia, syrs. Sst. 71b.
Two to I agst. Sorcery—Four to 1 agst. Bevertey--Ileven to
I apt. Victoria—Seven to 1 iou. Blitaunia.

An Account of tie Total Value of the Forged Note:
presented at the Bank of England for payment, and
refused, from being forged, for the eleven years, from
Ist January, ISO!, to 81st December, 1811 :
The Nominal Value c ( the Forged Notes presented
for Payrnert, and refused, within the Above. £101,661
mentioned period, is - -
Bank of March ge, I ens. . _ itaug, chi,' Cashier.
N. B. 'fhe above Return includes all forged Notes,
supposed to have been fabricatd on the Continent, and
presented within the aforesaid period.
Tuesday 14st, in conserwence of a requisition
,pre-
sented to the High Baild, signed by more than 000
cf the principal inhabitants of Birmingham, a respic-
table meeting of the merchants and manufacturers,
consisting of. not fewer than 700, was held at the
Royal Hotel in that town, " to take into considera-
tion the expediency of petitioning the Legislatufe on
the subject of the Orders in Council," when ten Re-
solutions, declarative rf the right and duty of British
subjects to discuss political qttestions, 4tui of the in-
justice and ruinous tendency of the Orders in Colin-
cil. were agreed to, and Petitions for their immediatd
revocation were ordered to be presented to both
Houses of Parliament:

BAltoN Ganman.—The niighbourbocid of Bays.
water, where this distinguisted-foreigner resided, had
been the scene of much curiosity and bustle previously
to Wednesday last. The attention of the passenger
was arrested by a placard affixed to a pole at the top
of the Baron's house, with the following words prin.
red in larg! characters :—‘, My house k My castle.
I lin under the protection of British law." A war:
rant from the Secretary of State's office for the ape
prehension of the BARON GERAMB had been itund on
Monday, but on what grotionls we do not hnoiv. Thy
Baron refused to surrender himself to the bearers of
the Secretary's warrant, and at length application
was made to the Police for assistance, to put the war-
rant into execution. Two officers accompanied ad
messengers to 'the Baron's house, to force an entrances
in the event of a refusal to inayenOrf, The pikers
forced the garden gate with hatcher, ap4l,!biiltiso.
ner resigned himself, on the officers awning him
they were not bailiffs,—We do not belie;,e th;st our
Readers will be much sutprized at the circumstance
of the arrest of this German Baron, whose suitiders
and whose manlier: have been so closely imitated by
our most illustrious Personages, and held up as a
model for Officers to adopt. .
Moas-Loss..-:Ttais day the market has_ not lastly freat an.
rivals of Wheat,. aad the remaining supplies but ineonslderats:e;
sales brisk at a small increase In price; some select Sue Dintsie
abcut 148 s per /*tarter —The same may be not,ced in lenity-.
Malt rather so—While Pun support the List sporation—Lcana
of each kindsoluewhat dearer—Therearetolerable .uppliesofoant
but Lath* a demand, stare dais article ire also quoted Whets' higher. Flour at Late prces.
CURRENT PEIOE! AS 0/41:1Elt: '
Wheat, 90.. 1111‘. 130 s. Bears cis& got;
Rye 72a
7 2a ditto,
78 32a Tisk dato (nnel spe.6se.
Ditto (fiat Old' 645. 6See
13.. 13tis.
Barley, CS. 70(.0d. Oats,' 40s. 431.
455.
Malt, 945. io2s: PiAatli ditto, 465. 47e.
White Peas, (Vo!ters) 86e: eet. ?trio* ditto, is.. 4As, oct Grey ditto, 60s. 645. Rape Seed, 4:490.
Fine Flour, tO.itrilOt.—Secoods, 100%. to 105 a.
SMITHFIELD—Apeit s. -
11aet as Rd to 6s sct Veal Te od to is ir4
Z aims 45a to 6s 411 Fait 48 tat to 7s 114
Lamb 7•. 6d. to Ss. Id.
pawls or CATTLE Ttllf riAll.
Beaks, about 710-4 beep Sod Lamb!, 6EO.
Caves, 110,--Pigs„ 230,
PRICE OP KAY AND STRAW IN aIITOPIFI.II.
Hay • 41 10s to 61 or New Clover ti Is to If Us
)4Fiv Hay at os to 01 Os Straw si 10, So al So

EAST !NDI4 MOAOPOLT.

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Tn a great empire, every branch of the civil admi-
tistration requires the continual superintendance of a
. large and enlightened mind. It is idle to say, that Go-
vernment must not interfere with commerce at all :
ond it is no less so, to say, that all the details of coma
rnetlie must be directed by Government. The East-
Indian trade has long been subjected to a monopoly,
under various qualifications. The approaching termi-
nation
of the present Charter naturally leads to views
of a possible enlargement of the national advantages
from that commerce, by the admission of private ad-
venturers ; and this as naturally produces exaggerated
i leas of immediate benefit from a total abolition of the
monopoly. Notions of this kind have been circulated
of late, with great industry, and probably from very
laudable motives. The existing distresses of the ma-
nufacturing classes have seconded the impression of
much plausible reasoning on this topic ; and the result
of the whole has been to excite hopes, which, we fear,
will be eventually found as delusive, as they ate at pre-
sent fiattei.ag. That the restraints on the individual
rights •of free trade should be lessened, as far as is
consistent with the general good of the community,
must be the anxious desire of every reasonable politi-
cian—but that we should hastily resort to injudici-
ous and unappropriate remedies, for any tempo-
rary evil, is what every friend to his country would
wish to prevent. Commercial difficulties resemble
certain disorders •of the digestive system, which
are much more effectually relieved by a cau-
tious abstinence, than by a hasty repletion.
There are few things that the mercantile world
onght. so much to dread, as the spirit of specu-
Lition, which is generally excited in this country by the
sudden opening cf-a new channel of trade. Have we
furgot Buenos Ayres, and the Baltic ports ? or do we
nut consider how soon the depots of Malta and Heligo-

. land were overstocked ? not that we mean to condemn
—on the contrary, we highly approve, and strongly
recommend new attempts to excite the commercial
spirit of the country ; but the real problem, in such a
case, is, to hold the due balance between judicious ert-
terprise, and rash speculation. This is a problem to be
determined by Government, not merely by evidence of
what har been, under circumstances now In a great mea-
sure altered ; and still less by eager hopes or what may
be, in A state of things wholly untried ; but it demands
for ifs solution an accurate knowledge of existing facts,
and a deliberate calculation of probable chances ; it
requires that " resolution to preserve and inclination
to improve," which together constitute, in Burke's
opinion, the practical statesman. Let us look, then, a
little to the plain facts of the case.
The private trade, as it at present exists, is about
1E3,000,000 in annual amount ; that is, about three
eights of the whole trade to India and China : but it is
supposed by some persons, that on anew system it would
emirs ce a much larger field now occupied by the
AmeriCans. Is the American trade with India then
really very large?. By the official report of the Trea-
surer of the United States, tor the ye .r ending 30th
September, 1810, it appears that the exports of domes-
tic produce fn m that country to the Brush East Indies,
amounted in value only to 58,438 dollars, and of fo-
reign produce to 98,257. To the French and Dutch
colonies and all other parts of India, the domestic
were 41,229, and the foreign .50,6b6: and lastly to
China, the domestic were 201,U92, acid the foreign
118,387 ; so that the whole of this mighty competi.
tion, into which our merchants are so anxious to eh-
r, does not amount to £130,000 sterling-; and that
part of it, from which, by the acquisition of Java and
the Is'e of France, we are enabled to exclude the
Americans, is scarcely 460,000, including probably
a considerable portion of English produce. We need
not say, how insignificant a relief, such a trade, with
'all i.s chances of profit and loss, could afford to a
single manufacturing town in Britain. If we turn
again to the present state of the British trade with
India, we find the Directors asserting, that " as an
object of gain, it has gradually ceased to be of impor-
tance, either to the Company ox to individuals."—
This, perhaps, is somewhat too strongly expressed;
but the fact is, that, with the exception of tea, which
has remained pretty steady for the last twelve years,
the company's imports in that period has fallen near-
ly three.fourths, viz. from about five millions to little 1
more than a million and a quarter for the year.
These are, undoubtedly, strong facts, especially
when coupled together, to shew that a sudden and
considerable relief to our home trade cannnot be ex-
peered from any possible relaxation of ti.' Company's I
monopoly. Whether any and what relaxations might
eventually be useful, and to what extent it might be
safe to admit private adventurers, are questions of a
' vet y different complexion, which we propose to dis-
cuss hereafter.

' Two gashing gig drivers ran their vehicles against
each other on Wedt.esday, in Bcnd-street, and locked
their wheels together. Each blamed the other's want
of skill ; and after lashing their horses with much
fury, they proceeded to exercise their whips on each
other's shoulders, to the no little diversion of the
spectators. The horses were the only beings to be
pitied, for they received many of the stripes intended
for their respective drivers. At last, the wheel of
one gig flew cff, and the hero in the other drove
away triumphantly.
PEDESTRIANISM.—Tuesday morning, for a wager
of live pounds, a young man, a breeches-maker, of
the name of Wills, engaged to go on foot from Weal-
' miuster-bridge to Croydon, and back again, the dis-
vince being nineteen miles, in two hours. He started
at six o'clock, accompanied by several horsemen,
v.he* bets were against him three to two. He took
34 treshment twice on the road, and readied Croydon
a x minutes .before seven. Atter some refreshment,
he started again, and arrived at the starting post
in two minutes less than the time allowed, b'n dropped
down immediately with fatigue. He was taken home
by his friends in a coach.
ARIAL EiovasioT.--A letter from Naples, dated
February 21, says, " We have here many fears re-
specting tf,e fate of Madam Blanchard. Four days
have elapsed since her ascension, without any intelli-
gence wlyataver respecting her. The kingdom of
Naples is surrounded on three sides by the Mediarra-
beau and Adriatic Seas, and is not the most favour-
able ti these sort of enterprizes. We however hope,
that Madame Blanchard may have suffered no injury
in her forty-third ascension, and presume her balloon L
may have been carried into a distant country. 1