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,AY, FEBRUARY V, 1815.

"MUCH OF ' MIS DAY Ai TWIII Vit O'CLOCK.
Revisited ti I—.e per Ct. oli—x per Ct. Wavy hott
Consols 64ft...f0r accoMist, ti44--Oissnions—
Rnk Law Anns. tEI 5 litchi—lioude 716 per.
Exchequer Bah la. Us. prem.
today is wiling-day Pi di. per Cent. Clonsolo.—the
fol-
bwiug Emits shot on Flulay Siturdirt nest: 3 p.P Cent
Reduced and 4 per Cent. Coos. on Friday; Long Annuities on
,Seturd4y, For the Dtvtdkuti.

CAPTURE OF TiE AMERICAN FORT ST. MARY

ON THE coAsT OF EAS FLORIDA.
Admiral CoCEßuittes ezpeditii►n, f r the success
of which some groundlets apprehensi►ms were re-
cently entertained, has at length been heard of. The
gallant Admiral has commenced his career by the
capture of St. Mary's, a considerable American fort,
situated at the mouth of a river of that name on the
,c4N4t.,of East Florida. The achievement was at-
tained with inconsiderable ln•: on the part of the
Britislt : the following are all the particulars which
have as yet been received of this event s— •
COVE OF CORK, FEBRUARY 15.

Reporter Mk*, Three o'Cloelt.
INTELLIGENCE rums FLORIDA.---Me have just
plecrivsectshe following letter by a vessel which. has
arrived at Covet it is from an Officer on board ths!
WIWI from which it is dated :
44- His Majesty's ship *Ceylon, alr St. Mary's,
List Florida, Hob lanitary, int S.
' "We have just boarded a brig going to Cork, and
I embmce'the opportunity of informing you, that we
are oif Ws, with Admir..l CocKIUIN's squadron.
.6 Three days ago we landed a force of about MO
men, and next morning attacked and took St. Mary's,
with hardly any opposition.
14 I expect we' shall be very successful on this
coast. The Admiral threatens to attack New York."

Since yesterday we have received the Paris Papers
of Friday. They contain a long note or remon-
strance to Congress from the French Minister Tat.-
LEYLAND, on the subject of Poland, (a copy of which
appeared in the STAR Of the 13th inst.) It is a mild
and temperate appeal to the Rood sense of the Plenipo-
tentiaries agaigst any attempt at again partitioning
that country. It will of course be declared an lode.
prudent kingdom. With respect to Saxony, it ap-
pears that the King recovers the sovereignty of a
small part of his kingriom, but as he receives it un-
conditionally, that is to say; without being permitted
to remonstrate against or challenge the decision of
Congress, the important point is recognised, that he
was fairly taken prisoner at Leipsic with arms in his
hand, and that therefore his territories were to all in-
tents and purposes conquered Provinces. • His pride
is thus completely mortified s and his seal in the
cause ot. reov Amur% has met ha- severest le ward- in.
humiliation and disgrace during the rest of his reign.

Two Dutch Mails arrived this morning : the intel.
ligence they convey is a mare echo of the contents of
the French Papers. The arrangement of the leading
points which oecupied die attention of Congress his
been mode known throughout Holland, although
not officially, and has diffused universal joy.

The subject of the Gan Laws underwent anothet
discussion last night, in the House of Commons, on
the question for receiving the Report of the Resolu-
tions of the Committee, which was carried by a ma•
jority of 235 to 38.

We have examined with much attention the argu-
ments that have been brought forward in support of
the proposed advance of the prohibitory price of
Corn ; and the more we have investigated, the more
we are convinced of the impolicy and injustice of the
measure, and the futility of all the arguments that
have been advanced to enforce its propriety. We
have but little hope of producing any effect in that
quarter where alone it could be useful, by any thing
we can advance ; but knowing by experience the
power of truth, and convinced that it is a duty we
ewe to the community, we will continue to raise our
feeble voice while the least possibility remains of its
producing the smallest effect.

If it were our opinion that every individual, who
supports the measure, was actuated only by interested
motives, we 'would at once be silent, for we cooktit
then have no rational hnpe of being heard by any
who have a voice in the question ; but giving many
of them credit for the sincerity of their professions—
nay more, believing that they are actually persuaded
that dear ors, lash wages to mechanics and labourers,
and an exoriitata value set on all articles of manufac-
ture, are for the general benefit of the community,
we still continue to think that possibly we may in-
duce some of them to examine, with more care, the
ground of their opinions, and to hesitate before they
entail upon their own families and upon theother
members of the community an evil, of the magnitude
of which they seem now ignorant.
It has long been an axiom with financiers that
two and IWO do not always make fear. It holds
equally true of rash I for excessive rents eventually
bring excessive expenditure.
But for a moment we shall take it for granted that
dear tarn is a likaise to any country. If so, why
for corn to be importable when the price is
Ws. ? Would not 160 s. bring double that
double the benefit to the community t And, ifthe
doctrine tie true, 200 s. or SOO& per quarter wet,

IstEl mime rapidly advance the prosperity of the mint
-try t for a II• high prptieting :price for corn will in?
entosa.the prige of those articles which the usanufae.
ludirprepirteetertis customers, the agriculturalists,"
and ionsequently the higher that price the more will
iht se for his manurattures ! —Those who argue thus
(and there are some to whose intell..ctual powers this
appears to be sound logic) should engrain, why dear
corn makti manufactures dear ? the qitestion is an-
wired ht their own proposition. But they ought at
the same time to enquire a little, how twirl hand,
the manufacturers could employ if they had lio other
markets for the produce of their workshops but the
agriculturalists of Britain. Now, it is very pus ink
that the landholders and farmers may be willoiT.,-as
customers, to pay high prices fur m inufactiired :a-
tides; butunless they can consume the entire ma:at-
-factures of the country, we apprehend they will find
it somewhat more difficult to persuade the fortign
consumer to come to our markets for d.ar gcods,
than to persuade the farmers of the truth of a self-
evident proposition, that under high rents they :raw
have a proportionably high priCe for their produc...
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amlt as it is 4, bad policy to depend on foreign na.
dons for subsistence," perhaps it may be equally bad
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policy to depend on foreign nations (or the consump-
tion of bur manufactures 1 Whether it may be good
iar'bad policy, the proposed law wing in its close-
.fleencei, be proved la be a prohibition against the
exportation of our manufactures to other nations. In
other words, the tide of the Bill will be found to he
a misnomer. It shoald be entitled, As Au to dimi-
nish the popufatiox of the Empire, that eve may never le
in danger of ma havin: a sujiatcy of Cora for the moult:
481 are so so.ntsme it 1 %Von—perhaps this may be
desirable. We have heard of an author who has un-
dertaken to prove that the population which ,4 has
increased and is increasing, ought to be diminished,"
and we have met with grave and learned men who
have subscribed to the soundness of this dogma ; but,
however true it may be io the abstract, that this re-_
form in. the body politic should be accomplished, we
-apprehend that it is not quite " the proper season for
the abolition" of procreation—neither of persetu nor
of mosey: because we have, as a nation, incurred a
debt whit.* can only be liquidated by the fruits of in-
dustry, and the quantum of this produce must de-
pend on the number of hands that can be produc-
tively employed.

They labour under a lamentable privation or per-
veriiun of intellect, who cannot see that the Utopian
idea of independence, in any respect whatever, if
followed to its consequences, would destroy the whole
fabric of social intercourse. Man was not made to be
independent—he is placed in much butter circum-
stances—the necessities of every individual crimpels
him to receive the help of his neightnur, and to con-
„tribute in his turn tc supply his brother's waits. All
:ialershinges of this kind, %hen analysed, resolve
tbeniielves into barter. Tie intermedia of money
and bullion, not well understood by shallow poleti-
clans, serves t bewilder them. However many
hands the article which I dispose of may pass through,
before it reaches the consumer, and in however many
ways it may be paid fors however many other
ar-
tides may in this chain of communication have been
paid for by the prices repeatedly paid to each seller
of my commodity—l ultim ttely obtain for my article,
• /110.64 but the tea, the sugar, the silk, with which
others have parted to possess themselves of the fabric
which was seat.front my warehouse, or the corn sent
from jay fasiat.L. It by any bad management my
clntla or my tars .is sent to market, loaded with too
high 'an espense, I must be content to receive less
coffee,* or hemp, Acc. in return, or I must keep my
own commodities unsold ; for the foreign consumer
will give me no more of his produce for my article,
than could procure for him an equal quantity from
the rival trader of another nation.

They labour under a great mistake who imagine
that this country never exports corn but in the shape
of grain or of bread. It is actually exported in I.lrge
quantities in the shape of lima, broad cloth, and hard-
ware. Yes, look to it, ye short sighted politicians
Once destroy your manufacturer, the fabrication of
which employs many consumers of corn, and you
will find. by sad experience, that muslin sent from
Glasgow or Manchester was really corn exhorted from
Great Britah o I
Ovid it have been believed, if we had not the evi.
dence before our eyes, that propositions so plain as
almost to defy the possibility of illustration, should
be so little understood in England, in the Nineteenth
Century ! For the sake of your country, of your pos-
terity, of your own individual property ! pause a
little before you venture to entail such a calamity
upon the Empire as the proposed measure will
produce !

Yesterday the PRINCII RIVIENT took an airing on
horseback. The Duke of YORK transacted military'
business yesterday with the PniNet Reties r.
This day at twelve o'clock the remains of the late
unfortunate Duke of Doasrr passed through Town.
on its way to the Family Vault, at Knowles, in Kent.
The hearse was preceded by six horsemen, two and
two $ then the armorial bearings of the family, on a
rich silk flag; six horsemen, two and two; the crown
and "ctlshion ; the hearse and six horses, most ele-
gantlydressed with plumes and escutcheons ; eight
itttrling.coachr.a_n_d six, with ditto; then lollowed
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'ppm itrain Noblemens' carriages, among which
,r;. wad Lord Ltvitapout.'s, and several of the
: itt ‘.,m,,z
1 , ricee. The whole had a solemn and, magnificent
oft s
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SECOND EDITION.

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- • RIOTS IN THE BOROUGH.
W. regret to state that a most serious riot took
place this day in the Boroogh of Southwark. The
friends. of Mr. BARCLAY, the new Member, had, it
seems, announced their intention of chairing him al
this day, and by twelve o'clock the whole of the
Borough was in motion.
An immense crowd was of course collected at Sr.
Margaret's Hill, wli.re th • hustlngs stoo I, and where
die triumphal car was pri patrd fur Mr. Bantl.sy.
-z-No sooner, however, had Mr. BARCLAY'S c. r.
riage appeered with that Gentlemen in it, when
the populace assailed it with a shower of mud,
brick-bats, and sti nes, c *lV's nut " No Corn Laws"
N• Brewers," and 4. Down with the price of
Porter." The carriage was almost instantly broken
t•. pieces. Mr. BARCLAY and a friend had reel.
ously got out t but we are sorry to say, that in mi.
deavouting to escaspe, they were most severely
handled by the mob. Mr. BARCLAY is much hurt
in the face by blows, and Mr. Himont, jun. of West-
square, is severely cut in the legs.

S FAR-OFFICE, FOUR O'CLOCE:
The riot still continues : many windows have bein
broken, and a troop of the Life Gitsirdb has this 14.
man' gallopped across Westminster B i I; e to w d this
Civil Magistrates in quelling the disturhareis. Wik
cannot learn whether any live. have been Vet bi.t
many iv noes have Le:a ::rarely wcanlcieasb, a*.
populate. • :