Star.
London, England, 1817-07-22 00:00:00

EMT INDIES.

We have this day received a file of Calcutta Pa.
pers. The following is from the Caksitia Jouraal,
February 10 :—" We learn that a French Governor
had arrived and received possession of Cheenan-
dagore, the former French settlement, 30 miles above
Calcutta ; Pondicherry, 100 miles below Madrass,
on the Coromandel. had also been delivered to the
French Authorities ; but the territory ceded with those
places scarcely surpassed the diameter of .three miles
around which the British had such a line of bounda-
ries that the French possessions of the East are merely
nominal, every article imported into them and ex-
ported from them, being subject to the English Co-
mpany's duties." •
Articles at Calcutta appear to have risen to nearly
double their former prices.

In another column we have given, from tee Ghent
Journal of the 18th, another German diatribe against
England. From a perusal of this article, could any
one be found ignorant of the history cf Europe for
' the last quarter of a century, or of its present state,
he would be induced to believe, that at this moment
Britain is at war with all the world ; spreading the
havoc and desolation of war over the face of the earth ;
oppressing the weak, and tyrannizing over the help.
less; rubbing the defenceless, and setting the dictates
of justice at defiance.
' g, Europe (says this writer) is under this yoke of
England—a yoke more real than that of NAPOLEON,
though invested with less humiliating forms." Poor
man ! has he forgot the fate of Plush the German
bookseller ? Is he not afraid to utter such truths,
under 44 a yoke more real than that of NoroczoN ?"
Or rather, does not his own personal safety, while
he utters such slanders, belie his assertions ?—. Eng.
land went to war to enrich herself with the spoils of
other countries, whose colonies she seized—but for
this the Continental system would have ruined hero
What would now have been the state of thesecountries
had England not gone to war ? In whose hands
would their colonies have now been ?—Who has now
got the greater part of the very colonies conquered
by England ? Would these now have had them,
had they once fallen under the ken real yule of Napo-
leon 7—But so England would haw bens ruined by the
continental system, but for these conquests l" lizre
the author exposes his sore. The ruin of England
has ever been the prim:son evoke of all the actions of
NAPOLEON and his adherents. ,$ The ruin of Eng-
land would have been accomplished 1" and was this
necessary for the welfare of Europe ? Who was to
have been benefited by this ruin ? Only 'NAPOLEON,
and those whose hopes have been blasted by his
overthrow.

This scribbler has all the will, but not the talent,
to excite re;rets for the subversion of the Corsican
dynasty. He might have had more discretion than
to pit NAPOLEON against England. The Continental
Powers know well the difference between the two.
They have not yet forgot his military executions, his
robberies, confiscations, requisitions, and exactions.
Nor will they ever forget his daring insolence in com-
pelling their Sovereigns and Nobles to dance atten-
dance on His Greatness like so many lacqueys.
But England braved all his threats, all his assaults,
all his efforts to ruin and subjugate her. Nay morel
she had the temerity to interpose her mighty fortitude
And perseverance for the emancipation of Europe—
and, what is more galling to this writer, she suc-
ceeded This is an act never to be forgiven by the
vagabond Napoleonists who, spewed out from the
soil of France, vent their impotent spleen against the
country and people by whom their idol has been

overthrown, and themselves bafßed, defeated, and
covered with contempt.

Scold away, ye despicable reptiles—nod by your
abuse of the liberty of the Press—a liberty for which
you are indebted to the enlightened policy of Eng-
land, give more evidence daily, how greatly ye are
fallen—how completely ye are mortified !
You talk of the rights of Nations ! What would
you substitute for the practical illustration which
Englind has given of the respect that is due to
than 3—Your Milan and Berlin Decrees 3—Do you
hope to persuade the world that military subjugation
is preferable to commercial enterprize and the bles-
sings of social intercourse, accompanied with the mu-
tual benefits of protected industry.—Yes, for we like
to vex you, by reminding you of truth.—England
has beaten and foiled you and your idol in arms—
she surpasses you in ingenuity and industry. ;t is for
the interest of other nations to trade with her, and
while it is for their interest to do so they will do it
whether the NAPOLXON scribblers like it or not. Excel
us in manufactures—undersell us in the markets of
Europe, and those who cannot, by all your elo-
quence, be persuaded to give you fifteen-pence for
what the English are willing to sell for st shilling,
will then become your customers, in spite of their
net spread from Heligoland to Jersey—from Gibral-
tar to Malta, and the lonian Isles—from the Cape to
India—over New Holland, Asia, and America.

At the usual hour yesterday at which we get our
returns from the Corn Exchange, Wheat, as we,
stated, had risen two shillings per quarter, but at the
close of the day, we find that Flour bad fallen five
shillings per sack.

The PRINCE Racismr had a select party to dinner
yestardayi at Carlton How,g.