Star.
London, England, 1820-05-24 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Viscount Weymouth and his Lady, on Saturday, for France.
Sir William Wrazali, Bart. from the St. James's Hotel, Jer.
nayn-street, to Cheltenham.
From Reddish's lintel, Jermyn-etreet : Lord and Lady
Anson. to their seas, Shuckburgh, Staffordshire • the Earl of
Landaff; Viscount Strangford ; and the Hon. Ord Posvittt, to
his seat in Yorkshire.

Among the distinguished personages present at the
Opera last night, were—
Lord Mount Edgecumbe, S. Halifax, Esq. Lord Fitzharris,
Bethell; Esq. and Lady, Earl of Morley, Duke of Mon-
trose, Bon. Mr. French, ,Lord Arthur Hill, Lady Louisa
Ly-
gon, Sir H. and Lady Frances Wright Wilson, Sir W. Call,
Latouche, Esq. M.P. Ladies Petres, Lord Blantyre, Lord Bel-
fast, Sir Lumley St. George SkefSsigton, Lord Crarbourne, Sir
W. W. Wynn, Lord Lowther, Lord Petre, Sir John and Lady
Owen, blasterton Ure, F..sq. M.P. Lord Frederick Bentinck,
D. Magens, Esq. Si; J. Sidney York, Sir William and Lady
Codrington, Lord Winchelsea, Count and Ceur.tess St. Anto-
nio, Hon. Mr. 'Thompson, Mr. Wynn Bellasyse, Duchess of
Bnceledgh, Lord and Lady Shannon, his Grace the Doke of
Wellington, Marchioness of Salisbury, General nigh, Lord
Stair, Lady Harrowby, Lady Malcolm, Lady Fitzpatrick, Lady
Call, Lady Warwick, Prince and Prince Esterhawr, Lady
Talbot, Lady flaxen, Lady Stewart, Lady Langford, Lady De
Crespigny, !Ors. S. Turner, Mrs. Rothschild, Mrs. Bettie, Sir
J. and Lady Murray, bits. I 1 Baring, Load Aylesbury, fir
William Johnson, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Mr. Dingwell, Lady Hyde
Parker, Count Ziegler, Count Filminhurst, Mr. Lambert, Mr.
Lumly Skeflington, Lord Belgrarc, the Hon. Mr. Ilouverie, the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope, his Grace the Duke of Devon-
shire, Lady Holland, Miss Mishap, Sir Tlionas Fasqubar, and
Lady Dudley and Ward.

NATAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Bellona, Patchard, ?an on shore on IViarigUana Reef, on
the 6th ult. and was abandoned by the passengers and crew.
FALMOUTH, MAT 21.—Wirid S. S. she John and
William, HENSON, and the Regent, Bonn, for Waterford.
PLYMOUTH, MAT 22.—Sailed the Nancy, Svoanv, fur Quebec.
TORBAY, MAY 29.—Sailed last evening his Majesty's ship
EDEMA, and the INtskevon cutter, for Newfoundland ; and
several other outward-bound vessels.
l'orrsitourw, MAT 23.—Wind E.—Arrived the Hope, FLINT,
from the Downs for Madras and Bengal. Sailed the Huddart,
STOCK, for Quebec. Came into Harbour the Prince Christian
Auguste, Prrzason, from the Motherbank.
Drat., Max 2.3.—Wind N.E.—Sailed lag night, the Tanjore,
Divas, for Madras and Bengal. Came dawn from the River
and sailed, the Thomas and Mary transport, for Cork and Que-
bec ; Harmony, WOODALL, for Demerara ; Onyx, Mir.Ltn, for
Jamaica and Honduras; Amazon, EDWARDS, for Prince Ed-
ward's Island ; Cossack, M'Bearn for New York ; and the
Thomas, TATE, for the Cape of Good Hope. Remains in the
Downs, the Lady Borringdon, LIMING, for Bombay.
Hanwicrt, Mar 23.—Arrtved the Princess Charlotte packet,
from Cuxhaven; and Beaufoy packet, from Holland, each with
a Mail.

Livaaroot. Max 22.—Arrived the Ottoman, PLUM= ; and
Freundschaft, Bina, from Dantzic ; Ludwige Wilhelms, Hamm,
from Swinemunde ' • Mary Ann, Alt-Nitoe, from Ilanaburgh ;
Cossack, TUCCIA, from Randes ; and Milo, OXNARD, from
Charleston.

A aateem—At Leith, the Isabella and Margaret, —; and
, Garland, Peacock, from Dantzic. At Dublin, Mayflower, Dub-
son, from Antigua ; and Flora, Schafer, from Memel. At
Cork, Nelson, Graham, from liourdeaux. At Malaga, William
and Mary, Haziewood, from London. In the Clyde, Alexan-
der, Simpson, from Nickerie. At Hamburgh, London, Hum-
bert, from London. At Leghorn, Margaret, Nairne, froth Lon-
don. At Cuxhaven, Ant, Barker; and Ann's Resolution, —,
from London. At Belfast, James, Smith, from Jamaica. Af
New Orleans, Edward Downes, Russell, from Belfast. At
Naples, Mary, Cunningham, from the Clyde. At Bremen,
Phoebus, Jackson, from London. At Stettin, Henrietta, Voltz,
from London. At Pillau, James, Wilson ; Carl Krechlow, —;
and Prospect, Ehnonds, from London. At Jamaica, John,
Popplewell, froondon. At Newcastle, Belsay Castle, —,
from Cullenberg ; Sisters, White, from Corsoer ; and Johanna
Dorothea, —, from Dantzic.

The good effects of our discussions en the subject
of Commercial Restraints are already rl'erceptible on
the Continent. The party of the anti-retaliators in
Germany, which, we are told, includes all the great
merchants of that country, and which is of opinion
that the Restrictions on Importation demanded by
the manufacturers, would rum both its trade and its
manufactures, could hardly fail to derive encou-
ragement from the support which the liberal system
has lately received among us. Accordingly we see,
from the German Papers, that a free trade is now
advocated both in the journals and in separate pub-
lications; and a work recently published by KUNIMER,
in Leipsic, against the retaliatory system, is spoken
of as possessing great merit.
In the Bremen Journal of the 15th inst. observations
on the State of the Country, in the speeches of Lords
GRENVILLE and LIVERPOOL, on the 28th ult. are
commented on, by an Advocate of Free Trade, with
some ability, and great severity. It had been ob-
served by Lord GRENVILLE, that the poor infatuated
people, who imagined they could relieve their distress
by overturning the Constitution, were objects of com-
passion rather than of punishment; and Lord LIVER-
POOL observed, that it was contrary to the interests
of the country to introduce any change into its agri-
cultural system. The German writer remarks, that
Lord GRENvILLE might have included, among his
infatuated people, many who ride in coaches, and
yet have no mere sense than the mechanics who
trudge on foot alongside of them ; men who suppose
that the unnatural height to which things were
raised during the monopoly of trade, can be made
permanent—who cannot, or will not conceive, that
when the cause ceases the effect must also cease.—
If the Corn Laws were repealed, he adds, the peo-
ple of England might receive from Germany and
France, where the cultivator can scarcely repay him-
self the expenses of cultivation, as much for one
pound sterling as he now pays three pounds for.—
" But then," he continues, " rents would also fall in
England, and the.interest of the capital invested on
land would be affected. And who possess these
estates and capitals? Truly not the poor working
classes who are calling out for bread, but the Repre-
sentatives of the Native and those who are connected
with or related to the Representatives of the Nation,
or persons in the same rank of life. The modifica-
tion of the Corn Laws would deprive many rich peo-
ple in England of a part of their wealth ; and, on the
other baud, procure bread to many poor people; and
the general result would be an infusion of fresh vi-
gour into the industry of the nation. But patience !
Man cannot arrest what the power of circumstances im-
feriously commands."
These observations are certainly harsh; but we
cannot expect, while we are ridiculing the absurdity
of the German monopolists, that the advocates of
free trade in that country shouldfeel much respect
for our agricultural monopolists. They naturally
consider our agricultural monopoly as the greatest
obstacle in the way of a beneficial trade. They can
only purchase the produce of our manufactures by
the produce of their manufactures, the chief of which,
if we may be allowed the term, is that of land.—
It is an axiom in political economy, that the wealth
and prosperity of a country are best promoted by its
purchasing the commodities of which it is in need
wherever it can obtain them cheapest; and as Ger-
many can produce corn cheaper than we can, and we
again can produce cottons, and woollens, and hard-
ware, cheaper than the Germans can, so long as this
state of things continues, it is our interest to buy
their cons, and theirs to buy our hardware arid cloth.
By interdicting their corn, we at the same time in-
terdict the sale of our own goods.. We thereby
abandon operations which we can carry on to advan-
tage, that we may extend operations beyond the limit
at which they can be carried on with profit. We
force the people of the Continent, against their will,
to abandon agriculture, and become manufactu-
rers. But if we would we cannot continue this unnatu-
ral state of things. The diminution of our foreign trade
necessarily diininishes the demand for agricultural
produce, and consequently cannot promote the culti- '
vation of land. The diminished consumption of Bir-
mingham, and our other manufacturing towns, suf-
ficiently accounts for the distress of the farmer ; and
it is folly to think that any protecting duties can re-
lieve him from a distress\ originating in such a cause.
It is not, therefore, the intere4 of the agricultur ;sts,
any mot c than it is the interest of the country in ge-
neral, that a state of things should be continued
which, while it prevents the manufacturer from de-
riVing a subsistence in return for his labour, from 1
other countries, rig rives bun also of the power of'
put rlhasing that subsistence at twilit.