Star.
London, England, 1812-04-09 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9.
PRICE OF S THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCIC
Bank Stock 323—India Stock Mt 1711-41tands OIL I, pm
a per C'. Font. 10r rponry 9}—Do. 13r ace. 64
I per Ct. Reduced ssf 59—..4 ler cent.
5 per Ct. uut —5 per Lt. Scrip ti ore.
Long Anne. t S. 7- If:AS—Etch.. Bali St. CL
Ye•terday the Bank bepn pay:n; to the Public the Three m,
Cents. tour per Cents. Long A:::lus.Lets and o.her Dividends
payable this quarter.

The Anco frigate railed yesterday from Pon._
mouth, with Mr. LISTON the Ambassador, and su
on board, for Cons' atr.inople.

The POICTIEI/S man of w:lr has arrived at Ply.
mouth, and brings cor.firmation of L'Orient 'TM,
drop having got safe into Brest ; and it is stated that
they carried in several pries with them.

The extracts which we hare given to-day from the
Spanish Papers, received by the Cadiz Nail of yes.
terday, afford cheering prospects of what may be ea.
petted from the new order of things in the Peninsula.
The Constitution is spoken of in tile highest terms at
apjrobation; and the acts of the neer Regency ban
given universal satisfaction.
General Eeto has arrived at Cadiz, from Monte
Video, on board the INIIGINIA, and luiligs with hire
54,000 dol'ars,' as an additional grant fr m the Ce!o.
nits to the mother country. Suttee, whose departure
from the lines before Cadiz we noticed yesterday, hrs
proceeded in the first instance tweeds Seville,. eith
Six thousand men, but his ultimate destination eas
supposed to be Dadajoz, to join Mertmoe:, in cr.st
he should attempt to relieve it. Five thousand Frtch
had aiso proceeded to Xeres ; but net for the purpose
et continuing there, as that place SCJS more than am
ocher distressed for want of provisions. Cadiz had
equally felt tl:e scarcity of bread ; and the irhati.
tarts were under some alarm f rr future cow a quencre
when, on the '2sth, ;ust before the packet sailed, a
little fleet of American ships arrived in the Bay, al;
;mien with flour ; and the article which had pre-
viously.been very high, was then otte.ed bit eig:iteen
dollars per barrel. What will BOhAPARTE viN totLis?
General LtSCY, it is said at Castiz, has increased
his force considerably in Catalonia, where he was car-
rying on the most active warfare. General B.u.tas-
kisw, with 10,000 men, was expected on t'ez oppo.
site side of the water, to make an effort for the 144-
Ivg of ale siege of Cadiz, which WAS believed to be
no very difficult task, so reduced was the besieging
army by the detachments sent away to different
quarters.

General DOYLE had lately gone out with'a party
for the purpose (.1 riconiwitring the enemy, and was
said to have obtained all the information he wished.
The French have no troops at Ayamunte. Some
people from the Government of Cadiz had recently
been there, for the purpose of making artatagemeau
for the embarkation of some cavalry expected flat
Lord WELLINGTON'S army, to joie BALLANi ULU. WIIO
was entirely destitute cf that description of farce.
In addition to the tidings from Cadiz, letters were
also received from Alicant, to the latter end of Fe.
bruary. They all tend to prove that the enemy tore
suffering greatly from the want of provisions. Mr.
TUPPER, we are surprised to learn, has been ordered
from Alicant by the Governor, and had Arrived from
thence, at Cadiz.

Though Britain, under the blessing of Provides@lo
has had the happiness to escape the direct defi•lalsol4
of the Gallic revolutiontiry mania, it cannot be gat
nied that we have indirectly sustained material sto•
jury from the concus.aun with wli;ca it was Act a.
pitied. Indeed, the tempest ha. not yet comptetely
subsided. ft is true that the howling detattaucm
which threatened to submerge all the instimuoos aE
civilization has somewhat abated ; but it %111 be long
bcfore the disturbed elements of national ibtacoune
and reciprocity find their just equilibrium.
In fact., the political frame et the cot.dized worn
has undergone so complete a change, that tlaose old
parts of the machine which have resisted the stock,
have had their motion more or 1::ss 'maned, and.
of course, have ceased to operate with their luftaer
lacility. The necessity of adaptati:At and meliora-
tion is imposed upon them ; nor is it a lght task that
in consequence devolves upon those Mho siloold
direct the movenients.

NVe siy that it is no longer a matter of choice• hot
of necessity, that changes, adapted to the altered
circumstances of the world, should be made in our
own s)s.em ; and sound wisdom demand. that our
motet and physical c..crgies should be eniployed
to
influence the direction ot that toireut which we coll'
not stem.
To what does Britain owe die present deranged
state ot her manufacturing, comma:A.ll,2nd cold
s) stems, but to the very circumst..nces 10 whitb "
have ailuded, and to winch we wish to call the attetr•
Lion of the pubic, and particularly those who boo
the direction of our national affairs. Can =lsle'
zr.ent be necessary to sliest, that legulatiuns and re'
s.ratnts, which were framed f.r another state at doer
than hat now prevails in the world, shall be J
ed, moditieJ, or entirely abrogated. The MP"!
Lion is so selt-evident, that we must aratbe
continu ince less to any biledo-Per!.ian qqalitY tf Ihri°
laws, than to want of due consider:ratio* WO

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