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mete with St.Dominto amounted to 40,000,000 francs.
Clit) inbney.* • •
The extent of the British-possessions in India already!
forms au insinenie esbpirts. With respect usher Sasiturn(
territories, the same remark may be applied,th Engles*
which has already been made with •td.tannet to the,tultar
live situation of Portugal and the Brai4ss nainely,,thati
'her head was in:Europe, while her body-was in,Amesice.'
The disproportion of size between.England,and
is quite as striking as that of Portugal with the Brazi4.
England, indeed, is farther removed from ,her. Indian
colonies, and the Indian population is more numerous
in proportion, and, without exaggeration, it maybe cal.
culated at sixty millions. This mass requires to be
kept under subordination by a British force of 22,000
men, supported by native troops or seapoys, to, the
number of 120,000.; Thus India may be said to be
guarded for England by indigenous troops. Besides,
the English army in India has to defend the British
dominions against the incursions of neighbouring
and hostile Powers, and who,. in addition to the
dissentions which usually arise from proximity, may
_justly be supposed to be animated by a spirit of
hate against foreign domination. The very civilisa-
tion which England is carrying into her Indian pos-
sessions has a tendency to hasten their separation
from the Another country. The principal effect of ci-
vilisation is to establish reason in the unshackled exer-
cise of its rights, and to render it more susceptible and
more irritable. That which wounds deeply the man in
a civilised state, scarcely afflicts hint who has not yet
reached that point of ameliorated condition and im-
proved intelligence. Consequently, civilisation has a
tendency to restore everything to its right place, in
compliance with the dictates at reason....,
It is impossible to fix the period when this develope-
meat of character shall be made in the Continent of
India ; but natural causes, sufficiently powerful to pro-
duce the great change, have been in constant opera-
tion, and the ultimate event is therefore inevitable.
int what would England lose by this change?—
Nothing I—On the contrary, it is quite possible that she
would gain by the separation,in ceasing to be obliged
to provide for the defence f India. The profits de-
rived to England from her possession of India have
been rated too highly. They are of two kinds; Is:.
'The products of her sovereignty, and 2dly, those of her
commerce. The first, considering the expenses incur-
red by the Indian wars, are scarcely sufficient for the
maintenance of the establishment. In this way, there
fore, the possession of India appears more gratifying to
British vanity, than profitable to her coffers, and there
are many enlightened and patriotic men in England,
who heartily desire to see the period of Indian emanci-
pation arrive. But England finds a return in the suc-
cessful commerce which she has established in India,,
and on an immoveable basis, With the extension of civi-
lisaticin. Here is the point on which our attention must
be arrested. The territorial possession of India was ne-
cessary to found a commercial intercourse with her.
The progressive increase of this commerce will remove
die necessity of possession. Formerly, India took no-
thing, or next to nothing, from Europe, and it was the
old of the latter which opened the way before her.
e effect of Indian conquests has been to give to Eu-
rope the power of creating in the Indian population a
taste for the articles of European manbfacture, and
hence the importation of the precious metals has been
less essential. The commerce with India commenced
in the way of barter, or exchange, as everywhere else,
indeed, from a conformity of tastes. The more this con!.
fortuity is extended, the more likewise is the commerce
by exchange established; and as India is by its extent,
its population, and its wealth, the most opulent market
of the universe, it is evident that it is destined to be-
come of the greatest value and importance to Europe;
and more particularly to England, who will have ac-
quired completely the knowledge of all the demands of
that market; and who, indeed, more than any other
country, possesses the means of furnishing it with its
own productions to advantage. Thus the British corn-
• rce is by a sort of preference directed towards India.
Ages alone will give to America that numerous race of
people by which the soil of India is inhabited. Every
thing has still to be formed in America. With respect
to India, the great difficulty has been conquered, namely,
the introduction into that country of a settled taste for
European productions. England has completely tri-
umphed over this great obstacle. Her only business
now is to avail herself of the influence which she poe-
eesses in India, to extend the tastes and habits of Eu-
rope into those remote parts, which are at present igno-
rant of them, or now repulse them with disdain. When
this is fully accomplished, the territorial possession of
India will be of less consequence to England ; and she
may with safety resign her sovereignty over the coun-
try, when assured of the certainty of retaining the In-
dian markets, by preference, for the sale of her own
commodities.
With respect to the separation of India.from England,
the case will be precisely the same as in that of the
United States, when they asserted their independence of
the mother country. The whole population of those.
States had strongly imbibed a taste for British habits
and productions. The increase of illumination in the
public mind keeping pace with the augmentation in the
number of the inhabitants, brought about at length their
separation from the British Government ; and in spite of
every effort made, at so much expense, to prevent it,
and in the teeth of so many gloomy prognostications,
the result has been equally advantageous to either na-
tion. North America is at this day the most profitable
market to England, and that where she disposes of her
merchandize to the greatest advantage. On their side the
United States have, in the enjoyment of their independ-
ence, made far greater improvements in their condition
as a free nation than if they had continued in colonial
subservience. Both parties therefore have gained by ,
this separation. Thus, at some future day, both Spain
and Portugal will be convinced that they have also
gained, and not lost, by the asserted independence of
America and the Brazils. The loss of colonial sore-,
reignty is only injurious to the parent State when it is
accompanied by that of commerce ; but when the latter
is retained, the absolute domination over the colony
may withoot injury be resigned, and more particularly ,
in the instance of a people who cultivate the arts °fin•
dustry, and have still sufficient influence to introduce
their manufactures where their authority, as the ruling
power, has been rejected. These principles are quite
fixed, and clear : by frequent repetition the facts have
become universally known, and the minds of people,
even the most interested, have been gradually prepared
to receive without anger, and to witness without asto-

• Before the revolution, St. Domingo eaported annually 230,000
hogsheads of sugar; in 1823 only 13 hogsheads. The population
also has decreased from 300,060, to 300,000, and the inhabitants,
particularly on the Sissyish side, are fast relapsing into original
barbarism, and St. Domingo, from a garden, is become a desert.

nithment, the realisation of thiise prophetical declara-
tion.i, which, °oh *kW 7,9,11.4" :are: 0414414tCri tat
Aoolorigl• Or reVrii.4.l!ith *WI .
The- world. sis . -ominous: calcqlationsie
'-
mectiag tbe-,spirit: of.comosercial deals-To/hid% sPb-
;sists between the Unlited.States and.Eoglaiid. :The of-
cmial.tablirs ppblished ..respectiog the state of England
Sri *Milenolomallimisconception on this point henCe-
forth impossible.
„They, demonstrate most satisfactorily
the superfluity of Eriglond over America jolter com-
merce. In.the peas preceding, ,Eogland exported, for
European consumption,, tq the.ammint of £26,7011.503
61. Al stet llogl and to other, parts of ,the .wotice
4:15,208.333 6s. 8/1! whileffie American exportations:
into Europe amounted only tnA166,166 Os. 4d. and
to other parts-£6,260,000 ! The differenee, then,. be-
tween the amount of commercial transactions executed;
-by these two countries is very great; and as England'
enjoys the advantage of priority in commercial exig-
*ace, and as she is able to oppose improvement to im-
pingement, it will require a very long time, before
America shall be able to enter into effective competi-
tion with her. The superiority of the United. States
if recognised only in the Antilles or Caribbee Islands.
There the American merchant rules supreme, and has,
the decided pre-eminence over all other producers, for
he is able to furnish the provisions which those islanders
are interested in taking directly from America: but the
moment the question turns on the objects of industry,
that is, when it is considered whence manufactures
should be purchased, the superiority of England is in-
stantlt asserted ; and here, as elsewhere. the ready and
involuntary tribute is paid to the surpassing excellence
of her looms, and the productions-of the genius of her
people.—Such, and so great, it the-commercial and co-
lonial condition of England: it is the most sumptuous
edifice ever raised by the intelligence of man ! it is be-
fore our eyes—and the architect of the magnificent
structure is a country consisting of the smallest point.
lotion in' the universe. In beholding at once the vast
-production and the original deligner, the success and
the recompense of the enterprise, it is quite natural that
we should inquire whence the spririg—the cause and
momentum—have arisen, to enable such limited num-
bers to execute a work so prodigious and unexampled?
The answer is not difficult to be found. The whole seJ,
cret of British eminence and }Mash superiority over all
the other tuitions of the globe consists in the moral cba
racter of her wise institutions, and 'in the absence
every prejudice. When an institution Includes in its
original formation the seeds of error, no work is more
difficult than their eradication
Such is the source of the prosperity and of the power
of England. All her institution* are founded upon the
positive and fundamental laws of nature. She has dig-
embarrassed herself altogether from the shackles that
would have impeded her progress; and at length she
has reaped the rich harvest due to her superior industry
end illumination of intellect 1 .

( To O. continued.)

POLICE

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• GUILDHALL
A dandy dressed young fellow, about 'Otani named Clinics
!G. Foster, apprentice to Mr. Smith, a llMS4amt• naam-bnis ma-
nufacturer of fancy articles In ornamented leather, was charged with
*lacy. The.prisener bad become connected with a set of amateur
performers, *Ma widnirew his mind 'Mother from basin*"
and Men out an boors of the night, till at length be absented
alaste44
lAmidf esetedy.• About three weeksago.bowevtr, his
MI6 lute tbeilsse,m analnynnaa MaMiat a alma i 1 a i asi it ,_ ___z _ _ _
an ids trresularicles. no enspiaboer arose es to has aweesery
Wednesday, When aid of the workmen employed by Mr ,
brought home a linen card case, upon width bit had been Odbi
an elegant border, nod delivered it at the counter, as usual. hitch.
ard, the foreman to Mr. Smith, knew that he had not given out
such an snick, and exhibited it in the manufactory, but nobody
knew anything about it. On opening it, however, it was found to
contain a number of cards, with Mr. C. G. Foster," engrave.
upon it; and it subsequently turned out that the prisswr had sent
it to be gilt, with directions to be returned personally to him; bait
the gilder being deaf, had not beard eke latter part of his hums.
dons. After giving a number of false accounts respecting it, be
was taken Into custody.
Mr. Smith now said, be had been so often robbed, he was deter-

• mined to prosecute this ease.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said, he never committed where he thought
a Jury would net coniict ; and he was afraid Mr. Smith would not
be able to identify the cant; or at all events to swear k had never
been sold. A long inquirf on this point followed, in which it ap-
peared only six dozen of the peculiar make of the one produced,
had been manufactured, and not one was entered in the books as
having been sold. To give time for more minute inquiry, the pri-
soner was remanded.

BOW-STREET.
LARKINS o. Sutuvax.---/Vggy dridliwin was brought stp an a war-
rant charging her *di having assaulted Biddy Larkins, against the
peace, &c. &c.—These Ladies are both handmaidens to Potnooa-•-:
or carriers of fruit in Covent-garden-market; and the complainant,.

Biddy Larkins, has the neisfiitone mine married, and to tide/ isei
husband so bandanna that us lady mess withstand the bade( him
at all, which nation of tier's leads hes into continual squabbles with
Pinar friends, and has given the Magistrates much trouble. In
the present instance, however, *pet was mon disposed of.
" Well, Biddy Larkins," said fit Ratomim, " What has Peggy
Sullivan done to you?"
44 Maar ismer Mawr I could het I woolen have her coming to
my ohm, and she tensed again end hate me for it," replied Biddy.
" What did you safe her for, Peggy?" said his Worship to Peggy
Sullivan, who is not more half the else of *either lady—" What
did you bate her for Pow?"
" Becoming's eo,jeolouor reeled P!ffff, with a bob author-
Tim poi lasesSfilt is WA. said his W•PralP'
" Nth an' /11 rgisiefd Pelt?. And AA did.
Tames Testsc.....awovery nuMerial pilots were settled at this
°Moe yesterday, wham to befeameitions against toll-oolleetors. It
I. well knows shat the lessees el the Iturpike-ptes round Load=
had extorted a great deal of moneyafrom the Public, preview to the
month of October last, when these extortions were put a stop to,.
by a decisive, of Sir lelbants, on the application of Mr. Cobbett.
'They were put a atop to; but, neither Mr. Cobbett nor Mr R.
Bougie had the power to came ge lessees to refund that which they
bad extorted. It was severally thought that nothing could be dope'
to any one rho had taken too muck tat% unless the application woos
made within three months of the time at taking it: It was, kw:
ever, determined yesterday, in the case of a gate-keeper inimmil
against by Mr. Gobbet.% junior, that. the three sapetigs did amt.
ply to these cases,' and that, at the least, Uwe is reliodielei Wain
a tagebseasenth. .
Another point of importance was also settled; namely. that, At
the offender be a lows, or a collector for a lease', the petz&nlll.B
positively, without arty discretion in the Magistrate. A ,
Henry &Ottani 'who took efid. instead of od. from Mr.
'Poynter, of Mimes, on the 14th of OCtober lest, was convicted in
the uoinitigatable penalty of 61. by hir. Musa aura., who was the
presidia; hiagistratc upon the occasion.
It is important that the Public should know, that an information
will be good se the end of a tweiventoath after the act committed;
and that, when the offender is a lessee, or the servant of a legate,
the Magistrate has no power S. istigios she jvenlsp. It should be un-
derstood by the Public, that Mr. Cobbett, junior, has undertaker
the prosecutions against the lessees and their servants, only because
they have refused to refund the money which they unjustly took
front the carters and gardeners in and Pear London.
• • •
HATTON:GARDEN. -
4ir. Brous, and Misty, his wife, were charged with uttering CM-
Owlet liner. When opprohunded, the man thaw iron his
nine butt shillings, which were picked up. Ageing the
showmen went into violent hysterics, at which the husband sr
refrigrievously Anted, but both were folly ceMosittod.
Pty, w. Benues,.and & and 11. Xamil,.thteidest WATT lbo
youngest only 10, were charged with breaking open a vault hciong-
-441 to a new building in Seyusouraslace New-rood, and stealing
quantity of carpenters' tools. The threeejder misusers wan Cali'
naued foe re-esiasuittatiou, and the younger to give 'videos".

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