Star.
London, England, 1821-11-27 00:00:00

THE STA R.

LON DON.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1821.
PRICES OF srocas Tills DAY AT OWL O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 2391/2-3 per Cent. Reduced 77% 1/8
3 per Cent. Cons. 78 1/4-51/2 per Cent. 873/4
4 per Cent. 96% 78
5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 1107 b %
Bank. Long Annuities 19 9-16 •
India Bonds 665. 675. prem.
Excheq. Bills £lOOO, Is. 2s. pre. par
Ditto (Small) par, 4s. pre.
Cons. for Acct. IS 1/13 77%.

How little we hear now of Radicalism, in spite of
the efforts of some injudicious time-servers to keep np
the alarm ? How comes this ? In fact kind Pao-
VIDENCE has so overruled everything regarding the
supply of provisions that the industrious poor may
new—after long starvation—fill their hungry bellies
with wholesome food. Peace, it has been commonly
observed, always brings Plenty in its train, in spite
of every effort to maintain the enhanced prices occa-
sioned by the wastes of a state of warfare. It is not
many months since our labouring population were in
the most distressing circumstances, being unable, by
their utmost industry, to obtain a supply of the ne-
cessaries of lift —A most unnatural state of things;
for the labourer must ever be worthy of his hire ;
and his wages, according to all sound economists,
should ever be equal to more than his bare mainte-
nance. Can it excite surprise that, in such circum-
stances they should have been loud in their complaints?
Now, however, the outcry is in another quarter. The
farmers cannot obtain prices for their produce suffi-
cient to enable them to pay their rents; the income
of their landlords suffers a proportionate diminution;
and in many instances the lattercannot induce tenants
to occupy their farms, but are obliged to take them
into their own hands. This, to be sure, is very dis-
tressing, but the landholders have never yet, with all
the evils that press upon them, experienced the pains
of absolute hunger, as thouEar.ds were compelled to
do when they were wallowing in luxuries.
But .how come the pike of provisions to be so
llow ? They are not lower than they ought to be,
the supply being now greater than the mouths to be
filled can consume, owing, as we have said, to the
waste of war being terminated. But if the prices be
so low now, what would they have been reduced to if
the doctrines of MALTIIUS and his admirers had keen
practically pursued to the extent which these wiseacres
—to be consistent with themselves—must have car-
tied them, if they had the power? According to
them, the mouths that were crying to be filled some
time ago, had no right to be supplied. Let this be
kept in recollection, and along with this let it be also
observed, that these very mouths have become regu-
lar consumers—and in great quantities too—of the
abundant supplies now brought to market. But for
these consumers the prices, which are now thought
so inadequate, would be much lower than they are.
Blind infatuated men! to imagine that your own
wealth could be increased by a diminution of the
number of consumers.
These men complain alsosssand it will not be de-
nied that they have much reason to complain—of
the weight of taxes by which they are pressed down,
at the same time that their incomes are so much di-
minished. But let diem estimate, if they can, how
much more heavily the zases would press upon them,
but for the consumption of taxed articles by the very
class which at one time, if they could, certain men
would willingly have seen extirpated from the face
Of our whole soil. The evils of which our agricul-
turalists complain are partial and light compared to
those which were endured by the community when
they found no reason to be dissatisfied.
That state of things which dispenses happiness to
the greatest number of individuals, is ever the best for
a community genet ally. This is an undeniable axiom
in political economy ; and, taking this view of our
present circumstances, we must hold that the country
is in a much better condition, than it was no very
long time ago, when our labouring classes were
in such a state of destitution as to leave them a
ready prey to the machinations of evil-minded men.
Let people generally be only able, by their industry.
to supply their own wants, and they will never listen,
for a moment, to those who. would make them in-
struments of mischief. But let them be subjected to
such a state of privation as was experienced when
our corn was high, and the wages of labour inade-
quate, and no casuistry will suffice to keep them quiet.
It is not in the nature of things that men can sub-
mit, without a murmur, to privations and want,
when willing to labour, and surrounded with plenty.
In such circumstances they know there must be
something radically wrong, and nothing can be more
natural than that they should seek for a radical re-
medy, however ignorant they may be both of the real
causes of their suffering and the proper means for
obtaining relief from their sufferings.—ln one word,
Radicalisat—tbat convenient term, so often in the
mouths of the real enemies of the country, has been
cut up root and branch, by our return to rational and
moderate prices for the necessaries of life.

CONFIRMATION OF THE FALL OF LIMA..

LLOYD'S, NOVENIBF.R 27:1421.

The Baltic Merchant arrived in the Downs yester-
day from Valparaiso, from whence she sailed on the
18th August, and brings a confirmation of the fall
of Lima. General SAN MARTIN eMered that city
on the 12th of July.

PRIVATE LETTERS.
" Lima was entered by General SAN MARTIN and
his Staff on the 12th July, the gates having been
thrown open to him by the inhabitants, and their in-
dependence declared."
Another letter states—" An Army of the Inde-
pendents is now marching against Quito."