Star.
London, England, 1831-08-19 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1831.

outraged the distress of the people by an insolent
pride, you went to sit on the steps of the throne,
and invested with the worldly purple, you have
usurped dignities which were not for you. Thy
master said, " VOrgiVe;" and when the words of
peace were on your lips, hatred and unforgiving
vengeance conspired in the inmost recesses of your
hearts for the ruin of your enemies. Even in your
sacrilegious error you have armed the civil law
with the sword of death, to punish that which you
can As insult offered to the interest of GOD, thus
vest ig yourselves the dispensers of his justice,
theilliters of his supreme power. He forbade
yott 4.41 put the light under the bushel," artd.it is
with Ignorance and superstition that you" luive
founded your empire. He ordered you to be sober,
aNI your sacitrgotal intemperance has become a
vulgar proveib ! Gentle manners, which were thy
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repliceTEfeoviess, !Mob,
hyglicsiey, yomexclairo diet your h..
racer is disowned! That religion, cle,
mourning, groans languishing- and forsaken.—
Metief GOD ! fulfil worthily the sublime mission
which has been entrusted to you, search • in the re-
ligion of which you are the Ministers, for the cou-
rage and strength to subdue your passions, abjure
your fatal error, shun all bondage, and in the acts
of whatever power preach for the union and peace
of the citizens ; present to us an example of dis-
interestedness, of Christian humility, of submision
to the laws ; be our brethren and not our enemies,
our fathers and not our tyrants ; and then you will
be surrounded by the veneration of the people.
The people only ceased to love you, the moment
when you bartered against the goods of the earth,
these of Heaven which you had promised to virtue.
The greatest outrage which you could have com-
mitted against religion, was to borrow her cloak
to covet,
identify yoi
conjunction .
which history
will no minors
people mote
which *xi

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of it ; rell
priests.

ing down .. in leyierwasee,
the people did not want to profane liacred thhigs,
but to throw down the symbols of odious dominion,
to destroy the theatres of great political outrage.
In destroying the episcopal palate, the people evi-
dently wanted to take vengeance on the intolerable
pride of the bishops. No, whatever you may say,
it was not against religion that we raised our bar-
ricades. Liberty is not atheism. Liberty, reli-
gion, equally contribute to the happiness of man :
they are the eternal and only basis of the social
edifice. It was against superstition, against poli-
tical and sacerdotal fanaticism, that we armed our-
selves. Religion we shall have, but Religion in
its sublime nakedness, disincumbered of the laws
and ridiculous practices, which is your work, and
which degrades it. We want it pure, simple, ce-
lestial, such as it was stamped upon the heart of
man by the hand of the Creator—such as the
divine authority of the Gospel explains it to us.
The reign of prejudice is passed. Time has blown
upon the illusion which surrounded your myste-
rious authority, and reform is henceforth a want :
It will be the fruit of your intolerance. It will be
attained without farther convulsion. It is for
liberty that this new miracle is reserved.—L'Avise
de Toulon.

EXPEDIENCY OF PERMITTING FOREIGN
SUGAR TO BB REFINED IN THIS COUNTRY

FOR EXPORTATION.

The Vice-President of the Board of Trade has recently
given notice in Parliament of the intention of government
to renew " the Act 10 Geo. IV. c. 49, for allowing sugar to
be taken out of warehouse to be refined." The object is to
permit the sugar of Cuba and Brasil to be used by the re.
finers in this country at the same duty as that paid en Bri-
tish plantation sugar, provided the price paid for such fo-
reign sugar does not exceed the Gazette average price of
plantation sugar ; trid upon the stipulation that there shall
be exported, receiving the same drawbacks, quantities of re-
fined and bastard sugar, and treacle, equal to what is esti-
mated to be produced in the refinery of plantation sugar of
the medium quality of the whole importation from the West
India Colonies.

It is notorious, that at the present moment the slave trade
to Cubs and Brazil is carried on to an unexampled extent,
unchecked by any sense of moral obligation, and in defiance
of the most solemn treaties. As a great principle, there.
fore, it is respectfully submitted to Parliament and the Bri-
tish nation, that if they have regard for consistency, justice,
1 or humanity, they will not sanction any measure which must
encourage the slave trade, increase the growth of foreign
sugar, and thereby injure the British Colonies.
ft is Well known that the foreign cultivators complain of,
their want of capital to ptosecute their business to the extent
*high they desire. Hence their anxiety to open extensive
connexions with England, and to ship their produce to the
British market. The conveniences of ready sale, the facill. '
ties of credit, the many accommodations which ate given by
our merchants, are eagerly coveted by the foreign planters,
and it is openly avowed that money weuld be lent
to them, and sunk in their plantations and slaves,
for the express purpzse of causing their sugar to be con.
signed to England. Besides the increase of slaves which this
supply of capital would give, there is no doubt thit
were a permanent connexion established with England. other
causes would operate to increase the gtow.h of foreign sit
gar : a better mode of management would by introduced,
especially in Brazil; new machinery would be erected more
extensive works established ; and, in all probability, many
thousand negroes now employed in raising cotton, would be
placed on sugar plantations. It is thus clear to demonstra-
tion that, under such circumstances, the increase in the
growth of foreign sugar must proceed with accelerated ra-
pidity : and can' any thing else than ruin be the final lot of
the British Colonies?
In the IVest India papers, printed by order of the
House of Commons, last session of parliament,
it appears that the cost f r raising sugar for con.
gingen( expenditure alone in the British Colonies,
is per cwt. 181. Bd.
Tn the Ftweign Colonist 104: 21d.
rhe return required for cspital invested in the Bri.
fish Colonies is - 21)4. Pd.
In the Foriigb Colonies
The coat of rearing :a slave in tbc British Colonies, at.
cordinuto the West India papers printed by order
of the House of Commons, is ... - Lei
The cost of purchasing and transporting a slave from

Africa to Cuba or Brazil, inclusive of the slave
trader's profit, Is C 45
The British Colonies, therefore, now languishing and suf.
feting beyond all former precedent, cannot escape • great
convulsion if their sugar Is brought into actual cornett in the
British market with foreign sugar ; because, if foreign sugar
supply the export trade from Orest Britain, as speedily it
most do. according to the facts just stated, cultivatinn in the
British Colonies must be proportionately superseded, and so
large • portion of each of the Colonies must be abandoetal as
so render it importible for the remainder to bear the axpeinses
of their establishments and their local taxation and govern.
We have already nearly destroyed the refining nail e of
Hantburgh and Bremen, and reduced the quantity,as the
former pert alone, from 20,000 tons to 8,000 or 19.02011.-:
Further we novot go without a monstrous demoted& of
prim, as is tinfieesableat from the fact that etrovotven,
rather than 6sawnos the competition with klaneptrs, pre-
fer sending the Ungar to places where thaiiirare
The lombri. to Hamburg% and Brown in the year end-
ing 6th Joinery,
1838 was 231,969 ewe:4l42CA Smiler.
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PrucE SEVENPENIIE.

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It thus appears derobuitxport is pretty equable. and that
We cannot advantageously carry slrecogopetition further..
But as the surplus has. increased • ti consequence ottlsB
increased importation of Mauritius Sugar, we are obliged to
export more largely to other quarters, and we accordingly
ship to places where duties are paid.
The Export to Italy; in the year ending Lth January,
1828 was 81,457 cwt.
1829 .. 112,423 ..
1830 ... 1,14,111118
1831 .. 11404 ..
According to all reeelved•ptiaciples relative to the cost of
production, prices in England should conform to the state
of our own colonies. If a deitient aop.occur, would any
person deny that prices in Ragland should advance, to in.
demnify, in some dem; astr planters; but such advance
never can take place,: if we permit foreige sugar to be re-
fined. We are theft brought into constant collision with the
Continent; and, be the emp ever so deficient, the sugar of
Jamaica must sell at-the same price as the sugar of Brasil.
In the great debate which took place some yaws back, on
the angst question, it wail acknowledged by Mr. Ricardo
and. Mr. klusklasses, that the surplus was an evil, and that
unfestunste that the British planters were
collision with the 'lave traders. What
denounce an evil, but that it ought
sever it is practicable. But no, ex-
ert have a surplus,—keep up a con_
shave ttoder,—never let the British
prosperity—if a deficient crop take
•hair misfortune, by throwing in in.
and Brazil sugar.
what point of view we examine the
the rime conclusion,--the British

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-.0.1111 Cabe sod Brazil,—and whoa
io coutast, the former meet
taken in conjunction with the
other points detailed, must, it is conceived, induce pulls-
mint not to renew the bill for refusing Foreign sugar. The
Let Indians are aggvieved as well as the West Ind:ans.
By the late Act, the sugar of Cuba and Brazil was placed
en a more favourable tooting than East India sugar. The
fanner, when sold at prices not exceeding the Gazette aver-
age price of plantation sugar, was admitted at Plantation
duty; end the only disadvantage to which it we subject
was, the obligation to capon the estimated product in the
refinery of bastard sugar and treacle, which might occasion
a lots of Is 6d to 2s per cwt. on the treacle.
When the.late bill was origitbdly proposed, it was ex-
pressly owed that it was introduced Si an experiment. It
is surely proper to enquire if that experiment has been sa-
tisfactory in Ice results, end all members of the House of
Commons are entreated, it they entertain doubts on the sub-
jtct, to give the benefit of that doubt to those 'soliciting
examination, and to vote for a committee of enquiry, as the
safest, fairest, and most satisfactory mode of arrangement to
all parties.

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