Star.
London, England, 1817-10-17 00:00:00

FLANDERS M4IL.

BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 11.
The following piece has just appeased in this city :
ea afesiEfotioa of the Ensli:h Monopoly, or the wishes ofl
tie:Belgians realized.—The great question of oath nal
and commercial interest, which has long employed
the patriots of all countries, is on the eve of being '
saved ; in Belgium nothing is wanting but to will ;
aril what the genius of Napoleon could realize only
in part, notwithstanding all his power and extraordi-
nary measures, which were often injurious to com-
merce, the Belgians will attain, by a means very
simple in principle, and very easy in its execution.
. . . . Honour and glory to the Ghent Patriots,
and to the Founders of the Society established in the
City of Ghent, for the encouragement of the National
Islanufactines of the Kingdom of the Netherlards !
. . . They have recognized importance for
ti:e preservation of our establishments, and they have
adopted this means as the only remedy to be opposed
to the enemies of the National industry. . . .
" The impulse is given ; it is sufficient to perse.
sire, and the persons who are interested in the im-
portation of foreign goods, which is so injurious to
our commerce, will soon be sensible of the necessity
of submitting to a measure which is acknowledged
to be indispensable for the support and advantage of
our manufactories, the productions of which, meet-
ihg with customers, will shortly attain the highest
degree rd pro perity
" To effect this, and to paralyze the disastroas
effects of the system of introducing foreign merchan-
dise, and p irticularly articles of English manufac-
ture, which are snore directly in competition with
ours, it will. be proper to give the entire preference
to the produce in our manufactories, and to follow
in this respect the example of our neighbours, adopt.
ing the same means, Is right of reprisal, in respect
to every thing which dues not make a part of our
national indosts y.
(The author observes, that on the marriage of the
Princess Charlotte, her whole household was ordered
to be dressed in English manufactures, and that her
Royal Highness's dressmakers were forbidden to
employ any thing foreign, wider pain of losing her
custom; and that the l'since Regent desired those
who apptlhed at his Coot t to be dressed in articles
of English in inufacture.)
" Let us imitate this example; let us impose on
out selves a slight sactifice for the public good. Let
us hope that the Government will see the necessity of
seconding the efforts, and the wishes of the Belgian
patriots let us cease to be tributaries to a nation so
exclusive, 6,, jealous, and so interested in the annihi-
lation of our manufactures. • Let us be penetrated
with this great truth, and the declared enemies of
foreign industry will soon pet ceive all the effects of
it. It is the only means to oppose to the system
which is destructive of our commerce, and the sole
measure to be adopted to prevent the ruin of our
manufactories, and to succeed in shaking off the yoke
of the English monopoly. (Signed)
4. Oracle, October ill." D- the Elder.
The pea n who carried off the statue of Mannekin
Pis has be.- • ..nce interrogated. His name is An-
'‘.lllV Licas. aged N.
c Editor ~f the Philanthropist has appealed to
tee Sorry* Tribunal against the sentence passed
upon him by the Correctional Tribunal, on the
action for calumny brougheagainst him by one M.
Ilowth
Hopes are enteztained that Louvain will have,
-:k. Liege, a Professorship ot the French language,
a:!ti 1. 'snob on the principal modern languages, which
will complete the circle of all the human sciences
taught at this ancient and celebrated University.
BRUSSELS. OCTOBER 12.
They wr.te Iron. 'foot nay some derails of the short
stay of the Prii,ce .41 ()rause ano his august consort
in that ancient city, shim can boast so many days
of glory and fidelity to its Sovereigns. The Prince,
as ',ion as he arrived, hastened to visit several of the
maitsafacilaies, as those of marble and gilt Wooer,
porcelain and carpet, whets he gave considerable
oracts for his own use ; Among them was that of
complete armee of gilt china f .1 SO persons.

1 kiE i?,VENINti SMit.

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nuimy. ocrommt 17. 1817.
PRICE OF :'I OCK+ THIS DAY ATTwiI.VE O'CLOCK
Keduced Coal. eta—Cons. for Nay. 35-111
4 per. Cent. 914—Navy,107i see—lndia Beads, 105 107
tad equtr UN, .474. W 3114. pr.

The projected visit of Lied CASTLZRIAGH to Dover
Castle bas been delayed, probably owing to business
which requited the attention of the Cabinet. On
Widitesday 4 Council, summoned by his Lordship,
met at halt-past two, and sat two hours. It WAS
attended by Lord CASTLIINZAGH. the Earl of LIVEN-
POOL, the CIIANCILLLOR Of EXCHZQUIR, Viscount
Stostouve, Earl BATHURST, and Mr. CANNING,.
And yesterday another Cabinet Council, summoned
by Lord CAATLERSAUIi, met at two o'clock at the
Foreign Office. The Earl of Liviatroot., previous
to his Attending the t; 'tined, had an audience of the
Panes Renato'. at Carlton House, at one, which
lasted near an hour ; the Noble Earl then proceeded
W the Foreign Office. The Council was attended
by the saute Ministers as that held on Wednesday,
except Viscount %MOUTH, who was prevented from
attend by indisposition. The Council sat till five,
g
and after it-broke u 1 the [Mgt WAS communicated
;o*. the Panics 4tostre at Carlton House.

. .
We underst,,od that the :stack on the Pastors 'of
Ginego was begun by A young Genevese Minister,
who ettended some of the religious meetings et Me-
Pars ago $ and who
dame liuticterues, about two
then wrote a letter to the general body of the Clergy
el Geneve, charging many of them with Arianiorn.
ti was this 'Cliff which product •d the .6 ReglerriFee,
alluded to in our Piper of yesterday, Probibilios arc
preaching on certain topics essentially connected with
"he ritneitallt Religion, especially as heretofore pro-

lensed at Geneva. A Scotch Cenaelnan who leaded
At Geneva in the beginning of this year took up ti-e
cause of the young Minister, and printed several re.
ligions tracts calculated to explain the Calvinist dec.
trines. He was succeeded by another Gentleman
(Mr. Dill 1111110141)) who has also addressed a letter
to the Pastors accusing them of having deviated
from the tenets cf their own Church. This letter
the Pastors laid before the Government of Geneva,
in the hype that Mr. Drtestmesto would be expelled
tram the territory ; but this step has not yet been
taken; and we should hope that this mode of settling
a controversy will never be resorted to in a city which
took such a leading pare in the dispute between Ca-
!laicism and Protestantism. Mr. DRVIIMOND has,
however, coesented for the present to suppress the
i publication of his letter ; but he continues at Geneva,
busily employed in triperintemling a faithful edition
of the Bible, to be circulated in opposition to that of
the Pastors, which is said to he mutilated and incur•.
rest in many important passages.

A Flanders Mail arrived at a late heir last night,
From which extracts are given in another column.

Their most prominent article is another eulogy on the
N•cn•cuniumjitiaa Club, by whose patriotism all English
commodities are to be excluded from the Netherlands.
The author alludes to the order given on the mar•

riage of the Princess Cunntorre, that the House•
huhl should be dressed in English manufactures; and

calls on his fellow-citizens to imitate this example, and

impose on themselves a slight sacrifice for the public
good. " Let us cease (says hr) to be tributaries to
a nation so txdarkg, so jealous, and so interested in
the annihilation of our manufActures." To this kind

of declamation we have no objection ; nor have we
any, that the King of HOLLAND and the Prince of
°DAM& should issue lusters to their domestics
to dress in home manufactures. It is a fair
harmless trap fur popularity. NAPOLBOIf, whose
pains the author extols, with all his power, could
not persuade the consumers to pay three shillings
fur an article made by one person which they
could buy of better quality for two ftom another.
Nay, more, while crying down the nation
himself and his Empress wore English Manufactures :
and, we know it to be a fact, that, evenduring his Conti-
nental System, English muslins and stockings were ex-
hibited at the annual display of the products of French
ingenuity as French Manufactstres 1 It is politic in
Rulers to sacrifice a little to the clamours ot particu-
lar classes; but till these exclusionist: produce articles
as good and cheap as their rivals, they will not per-
suade the general consumers to give them a prefe-
rence. That they should is impossible in the nature
of things; for the customer wears nothing that is not
bought by the produce of his own labour ; and
however well he may wish his neighbour to prosper,
ke will not quit the cultivation ot his own garden to
have the satisfaction of digging gratuitously in his
neighbour's Held, for his neighbour's emolument.
While on the subject of commerce, we shall lay
before our R'aders some particulars respecting the
late Frankfort Fair, which appear in the 41(yearine
Zeimeg of the 6th instant.
" Our fair (say letters from Frankfort) began in a
manner which destroyed even the small expectations
that had been formed of it, and had s fatal influence
on business of every kind ; but alter a time the gloom
was dispelled by the rays of a milder sun, whose
powerful influence was felt various ways. But the
beneficent beams of that all-reviving planet, did not
particularly illumine our.paternal oak, but the chalky
cliffs of Albion. English goods (chiefly in commis-
sion) were in uncommon abundance, and so cheap
that the London prices were higher than those at the:
fair at Frankfort; and for this reason the German
cosmopolitism was exceedingly disposed to take a
these goods.
" Our inland manufactures were in cousiderabie
demand, but this was in some degree checked by the
prospects of the future, which are not the most bril-
ham. We say this particularly of the cloth manufac-
turers, who disposed of their goods very cheap, chiefly
in exchange for wool, watches, &c. by the kind help
of Jewish activity, and then listened with defected
countenance to the wool dealer, when he affirmed
that no abatement could be made in the prices of his
ill-woven and not sorted goods. For this reason
little business was done in the wool tuck except tho
above-mentioned barter ; and many manufacturers
seemed to ask themselves, whether it were better, by
continuing to manufacture, to accelerate the ruin of
their fortunes, or by ceasing, to save that which they
still possessed
a The exportation of cloths to America, the distri-
bution of goods in the magazines of factors in all
parts of the world, &c. all is not sufhcient to keep
the great manufacturers in full employ; the little,
ones are not by any means to be saved from ruin, as
long as England with iron hand presses on the exer-
tions of our commerce. If the tanner sold his lea-
ther for the consumption of the country, the manu-
facturer of inferior cloths, stockings, caps, and other
things absolutely necessary to the common laboorer,
we cannot draw any very favourable'conclusion from
this, in a city where, formerly, the amount of the
business done at the fair, was calculated at millions;
where there was scarcely room to lodge the concourse
of foreign merchants and manufacturers, and which
was a depot fur the colonial trails of Holland. The
!execs of the merchants' boOks are filled on the
debtor, side with transactions of former fairs, while

on the creditor side they chew a great maw% sorra:
incognita, and many tongue'd promise refers •p a fu-
ture fair which it is bard to believe in.
4, The friends of art found ample enjoyment in the
view of the collections of paintings exhibited by Mt.
ARTARIA, from Manheim, and Mr. SANQUIRINO.
from Milan. Among the pictures in the first was
particularly remarked a Holy Family, by ANDREA
DEL SARTO, of that masters best period ; a Cruel.
fixon, by VANDYZI ; a capital Cattle Piece, by the
inimitable PAUL POLLER; and a Landscape, by N.
Pomona. Mr. Sannununo possesies some paintings
which would shine in any gallery as jewels wf the
, first water—a most valuable Magdalen, by L. DA
VINCI ; the Baptism of Christ, by N. Poossna ; a fine I
Landscape, by Odium ; two delicious little pictures,
a Christ, and a Maria, by CARLE Donuts; a bean.
tiful Corregio, and a Madonna, with the infant Christ,
b 3 J. BALLINI ; which might be boldly passed off as
a work of RAPIIAEL, itc." _ _

On another branch of Commerce. a•e meet with

some remarks in a Quebec Paper of the 21st of Au-
gust deserving of attention. Our Readers know that
it has been proposed to equalize in some measure the
duties paid on Baltic and on Quebec Timber. Dur-
ing the war we were threatened with being eat off
from our usual supply from the Baltic ; the duties on
Colonial Timber were then lowered, and in conse-
quence extensive establishments were set up in our
American possessions, and it has been proved that,
by due encouragement, a supply equal to all our
wants may be bad from that quarter,
46Tbis trade (says the Quebec Paper) sow barely supports Itself,
and the consequence of the new duty must be Its entire destruc-
dot ; for we have no other market than that of Great Britain—
we ere wet tesseitherie hew fey ether. We leave our readers to figure
to &fugitives what must, in the present state of the Trade of the
Colony, be the consequence to the country at large, of the sud-
dee loss of so great a propocdon of its capons. AU the eaten•
sive establishments made oil the faith of the permanency of the
polity alluded to, must perish, and will probably never be re-
estailished. Whenever there Is a good crop in Europe, we shall
have nothing to eapert but a few fors. Without exportaion, all
inquctation must soon cum, and the strongest link of connexion
' between this county and Great Britain be broken."

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this mnrrii.l.
As the period for the meeting of the Chambers
proaches, the Parisian Press begins again to teem
with brochures on the matters which are expected to
come before it, and the duties which the Members
will !lave to perform, in respect to their country and
their sovereign. The Journal dr Commerce has com-
menced the wordy strife by a laboured article on
the State of the Public Spirit, as affected by the
Represtntative System, in which a great shew of
liberality is vainly attempted to be made a cover
for the truly Ministerial spirit by which it is mani.
festly dictated. Toe object of the article, which
we have given at length in our preceding columns, is
to impress the people of France with the rare and
comfortable belief, that no people in the world possess
a more independent representative body than they
do—that no people were ever ruled by Ministers who
had less influence on the delegates of the people than
they have—that the• English Parliament, with all its
blasted independence, and all other Parliaments,
sink into nothing, when compared with the sincere, the
honest, the interruptible French Chamber of Deputies!
Our only wi►h, says the writer, was to establish " the
notable difference which esists between us and our
neighbours under one of the relations of the Consti-
tutional System I" Creek pod hake, et hake—lie-
Ilene you enjoy what you enjoy not. Such is the old
state trick which it appears the French Ministers want
to play off on the French people ; who will be easy of
belief indeed—much easier than we suppose them to
be, if they can be duped by any such palpable fiction.

The Duke of ANGOULZISZ set out on his tour to
the western ports on Monday. His Royal Highness
has intimated his desire to dispense with all fetes and
other ceremonies in the course of his journey.
No farther details have yet been received of the re.
ported Revolution at Algiers. The late journals and
letters from Marseilles de not mention any such event.
It is stated in an article from Vienna, that the
Poarr, desirous of giving to the Russian Government
the satisfaction which it requires, has ordered the
Servian Lord BIACHTA, who made CZVANY-GZORGES

to be beheaded. to be arrested and given up io Rus-
sia to receive the punishment he merits. It is be-
lieved. however. that BIACHTA will be acquainted
oith wild is passing in time to save himself by flight,

French 5 per cents. Oct. IS. 65 t. SO c.

The 9th of October was the Anniversary of the
Birth of his Royal Highness Monsmon, who was
born at Versailles 9th October, 1757. The King,
accompanied by his august brother and the Duchess
of AsmouLtioz, heard mass in the morning at the
Chapel of the Thuillertes. His Royal Highness
then proceeded to receive the congratulations of the
Grand Dignitaries of the State, the Grand Officers
of the Legion of Honour, the Ministers, Marshals, Bcc.
Alter the ordinary parade, the musicians of the
Gardes du Corps, of the National Guard, and of the
Royal French and Swiss Guard, stationed themselves
on the terrace and alternately executed the most
choice airs under the windows of his Highness, who,
accompanied by the Princesses, shewed ihiniself re-
peatedly at one of the windows, and was hailed with
the liveliest transports of enthusiasm by a great
crowd or people assembled in the garden.
The Duchess of As:commas, accompanied by the
Countess de BIRON, her Lady of Honour, were pre.
sent at the grand review on the 10th, in the Plain of
Villiets. The Duke, her august htHband, was, in
the course of the movements, thrown from his horse,
biat:fortnoatcly auiforid nothing SC6Oll$ from the
ac-
ciJent! •