Star.
London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

STOCKHOLM, AUGUST 14.

While the new organizition of the Land Farce is
completed, the augmentation and improvement of
the Swedish Marine gradually advance.
Since the ship of the line, Charles 111. was launch-
ed last year, another is building at Carlscrona, to be
called King Charles John. Six-large gun-boats were
finished ; and in Gothland, Deland, and at Calmar,
eighteen new vessels in all have been built for the
bavy. It is calculated that the galley fleet alone has
bvn increased by one-half since the last naval war.
We have, to man these vessels, 20,000 able and cx-
porionctA scamen.
limbleirgh Exchange on London, August (lith-
-3::. I.—J3. 7.

EAST INDIES,
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CALCUTTA, auneu •
It is the public property captured
it JavOod, Sas. been restored to Scindioh.
The Treaty with Jypore Rajah is in progress, and
expected to be concluded very shortly.
The Marquis of Hastings was at Sheughun-bridgr
on the 20th February, and intended to cross the
Jamna the following day. It is said his Lordship
intends today only two days at Cawnpore and a wiek
at Lucknow, and then proceed direct to Goruckpore.

. _
" Carty, Sumpter, Feb. Li, Ist S.
" General Watson's detachment is proceeding to-
wards Busseah to take forts ! Yesterday the whole
division of the army moved ground from Kunjowlie,
where we were detained, it was said, to observe how
Scindiah should feel under the punishment given to
one of his Sirdars by General Browne. His Lord-
ship and the main body moved towards the bridge,
(Shere Ghur) and will be speedily dispersed, and com-
fortably logged in cantonments. We marched to
Tolgong, a distance of ten miles—very long ones,
and today we reacted this. place, 11 more. On
leaying camp, the force consisted of one battalion Ist,
and one of the 26th Native Infantry, and a corps of
cavalry--but to-morrow, we shall move with the ad-
ditiim of the battering train and a battalion of the
,13th Native Infantry, which have been here for some
time. Omrah is the halting place—a distance of ten
miles, and 13 or 14 more of such marches, will bring
us before Kimlassa, which, they say, is the fort to be
'first attacked, and the strongest of the whole. I have
seen our route laid down -as far as this place, but no
fuither. But I know not when we shall fall in with
General Marshall aad his division."

COTTON'.
rFROM THE ASIATIC 611811981
Mirtspore Bazar, Feb. 1, 18t8.
Banda . - Ra. 113 0 per Durrah.
Rotchoura - - 110 3 ditto.
Furreala 1 9 6 ditto.
Ilatrua - 1 9 0 ditto.
'Dan - 1 8' 9 ditto.
In the market - 121,406 inaundi.
It is with regret w notice the enormous prices of
Cotton in the above market. In Calcutta we have
,not heard that sales have been effected.
. We had flattered ourselves with a hope of the de-
imand for this very important article of India com-
Meree, becoming from its cheapness permanently es-
tablished with our manufacturers in England, to the
exclusion of a very considerable portion of that im-
ported from America, but we now fear the hope will
prove fallacious. It would undoubtedly have taken
place could we have continued to supply the home
Markets, at a price not exceeding 9d. to 101. per lb.
which•the present rate of freight ought to enable the,
merchant to do, were the planter or speculator satis-
fied with a moderate compensation for his labour.
At the above price it was forcing itself on the ge-
neral
attention of the manufacturer, and would in
the course of a few years have called for a supply of
two or 300,000 bales per annum, but instead of our
encouraging this and fostering the trade now in its
infancy, such a check will be given this year by
heedless speculation, as will for a tame retard its pro-
gress to- maturity.
Notting short of moderate prices will ever accom-
plish what we so much desire i.e. to fee India in the
full possessioa of the British market. •i- • •
- This cannot lie expected unless a verreenaiderable
'difference- exists between the price of Bengal and
American Cotton, as the quality of every description
of the latter, both for length of staple and cleanness
has ever been superior, which occasions a natural
preference in its favour with the manufacturer, who
will not be induced to alter hit machinery in order
to adapt it to the use of Bengal short staple Cotton,
which at the present price would cost him almost as
much as the American can afford to supply him.
The deficiency of the American crop, to which we
attribute the high price of Bengal Cotton In Eng-
land, will for a time prove highly prejudicial to this
country, by raising the prices in Calcutta and adja-J
cent markets ; the consequence will be, that the •ma-
nufacturer, who may have partially altered his ma-
chinery, as well as him, who contemplated it, will
revert to the old system, and give the American
Cotton the, preference, as owing to the mixture of
&it, seed, and leaf, arising from negligence in ga-
thering the produce of this country, the waste is
tench greater, and will more than counterbalance a
trifling difference of price.
With regard to the China trade, we consider the
rice of Kutchoura to be perfectly prohibitory, and
unagine that during the present mania (which may
probably terminate in the same manner as the free-
'trading one) shipments to that quarter cannot with
prudence be effected, as we find 18 rupees per maund
an.tcrewed bales (which it would cost taking the ave-
tage price at Misapore of the Cottons usually sent
to China) to pay a freight of 17 rupees per bale,
would require 15 tale per pecul, a price never yet
beard of in China : in fact we incline to think sales
fit any price will be very heavy is Canton at the coin-
bueneement of the season. They were completely de-
tei'Ved the past year with regard to quantity, conse-
Anently. till they actually see the importation.will be
.'*try guarded.
- Since writing the above, we have carefully exa-',
!mined the export of Cotton from this port during the
past year, as well as the deliveries from the ware-
houses, as late as we are furnished with them. The
search has been attended with much gratification to
ourselves, and the statement we now lay before our
Readers, will we doubt not excite a similar feeling
in that portion of them, who are desirous of the
ul-
tilnate prosperity of a trade, which promises to be-
come so important not only to the interests of this
but to the mother country ; we allude to the supplies
of Cotton being drawn from British India, instead of
Foreign America, and rejoice to find the quantity so
very considerable exported to England from Cal-
cutta only, of the past year's crop, which the pro-
prietors will be enabled to dispose. of on reasonable
terms, gaining a fair mercantile profit.
• It would appear, by the latest Price Current from
England, that the weight of the exportation had not
been felt, in the home market, owing to the preva-
lence of easterly winds having prevented the ex-
pected arrivals, which cannot, we believe, to so large
an extent be there anticipated—say an average supply
of 13,100 balenper month during the last ten months,
which is 4000 bales per month, more than the ex-
:nand of July last,...at which period it seems tc, have
teached its acme. At high • paces, as the follay. tag

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1818.
Lenox BuseT.—lleliday at the Bank, Lachequer, and

South-fmta House.

Private accounts from India contain several in-
teresting statements which have not appeared in the
printed Journals or public dispatches. The accounts
relating to the conduct of the Dutch since their pos-
sessions in the Last were so impoliticly restored to
them, demand, and probably will obtain, the serious
attention of our Government.. In .he Lndian Archi-

pelago they have revived, unmitigated, those princi-
ples of exclusion by which their commercial policy
has ever been distinguished. They have closed all
the Eastern ports, obliged all the native vessels to
carry Dutch flags and Dutch papers. They ate
taking possession of all the ports, as Borneo, Sumatra,
&c. &c. so as to form the same system of arbitrary
exclusion they did before the last century, the bar-
barities of which, particularly those practised at Arn-
boyna, can never be forgotten. It was he4that, in
1621, they first tortured and then murdered the Eng-
lish, thereby engrossing the whole trade of the island
and also that of 'Banda. The same hostility and de:
termination to destroy all British trade in that quar-
ter is now open and avowed. They do all in their
power to lower and degrade the British name, to ar-
rest British merchants residing at Batavia, and, in
short, to harass and oppress them wherever they pre-
sent themselves.

Acting ;n such a manner to the subjects of that
Government to whose persevering labours, and, per-
haps, blameable liberality, they are indebted not
merely for their restoration to a participation in the
commerce of the East, but for their very existence,
as an independent people—acting thus towards a
country which possesses the means to vindicate its
own rights and redress its own wrongs, what can be
expected from tha Dutch in respect to the unhappy,
natives who are cursed with the presence of their
arms and their cupidity ? Such have already been
their oppression and injustice, that the natives in the
Moluccas, and in some parts of-Java, have risen in
arms against them ; and the mercileis tyrants, as the
speediest way to silence their complaints, are now
butchering them by thousands !
We have not the arrogance to dictate what should
be the conduct of England on an occalion like this,
To our assignment of these natives to " the tender
mercies of the wicked" are they indebted for their
present misery ; and without some restraint upon this
system of encroachment and aggression, the whole of
the Eastern trade will be lost. The Dutch are gra-
dually monopolizing and raising the price of all ar-
ticles the produce of the Archipelago, and are send-
ing ships on their own account to Bengal to sell cop-
per and tin, from Japan and Banca, to the nuin of
the British mining interest.
The impolicy of giving up these places to them
requires no farther illustration. Bat this is not all
that we have to complain of: in order to debar us
from all intercourse with the natives, they keep in
commission three line-of-battle ships, five frigates,
several sloops of war, and innumerable armed vessels;
in short, there is every thing but peace in that quarter.
The prices of Coloni4 produce at Java, in conse-
quence of these rest:Affirm% arias follow :—Coffee,
from 18 to 20 dollars; Pepper, 13 dollars; Sugar,
from nine to ten; which is three times the price they
were when that fine island was sunder the wise and
paternal government of Sir THOMAS S. 11 IFYLES.—
We are no advocates for war ; but we are not, there-
fore„ dispOsed to sacrifice the rights, interests, and
honour crf Abe country to- a rival nation. We have
been layiih to excess in our concessions to the Dutch ;
but whatever cause the country may have to repent
of its bounty, we do not propose to retract a particle
Of it: 'tit them hive all they have a right to by
virtue of their Treaty ; but do not let thenrinterfere
with the independence of the native ports, or restrict
our commerce at their pleasure.
The following is an Eitract from a Private Letter,
dated Ber.coolen, April 15, 1818:
" Our new Lieut.-Governor, Sir THOMAS S. RA rrz Lady,

and suite, arrived here on the 21st tilt. lie landed on the next
day, and tt,ok char ;e nt the Government to the uv.itl forms.
The great chatact, r which be acquired in JaVA had ex.7ited great
expectation, and has made his presence very weleouv!. The
manner in which this place has been r.eglected, calls for imrac-
diate change and revixion,;aud considerable reductions, I under-
stand, are in contemplation.
" On the arrival of the intelligence of the melzischoly death
of the Princess Cnautortra, the whole Settlement Went into
amounting; and on the 27th March, the Lientenant-Governor
samsnocell a general meeting of the Inhabitants, who fram ed
and signed Addresses to their Royal Highnesses the Palaceße-
, uz..sr and Prime LLOPOLD of Sax.:,- Cow,usto,.deplorir.: this ea-
ianimus er.srt, whie-h have :.b.„*.n transmitted to E47.,:t4nd T'Y
Captain gitcsixt.t., of the Itast Ipdia Cotr.pani's ship Nuethun.-