Star.
London, England, 1821-01-10 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PROCLAMATION'
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JUGGIIT, &C. ACTING 410121131011. AND COMMANDING M COW WS
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" Whereas it has appeared to me to be expedient and advisable
that a foil and permanent Seat of Magistracy should be esta-
blished in the district of Albany, in order that the inhabitants
of that district, including the new locations of the settlers from
England, may have the full benefit of every access to a Provin-
cial Court, and be visited annually by the regular Commission of.
Omit from the Worshipful the Court of Justice; I do, there-
fore, hereby give notice, that the Province of Ultenhage shall
heneeferward be limited and bounded on the East by the Ashes-
man's River; and that consequently the country to the east-
ward thereof, with the nevri*-acquired territory between the
Great Fish River and the Kieshanima, and including the Field-
Cornetcies of Upper and Under Bohemian's River, of Bru-
intje's Hoogte, and of Albany Proper, shall form the Province
of Albany, whose chief place and seat of Magistracy shall be the
town of Bathurst.
" The Court of Heemraden for this district will consist, "on
its formation, of the Heemraden resident, within the limits of
the subdrosidy of Graham's Town. But it is hereby further
made known, that these regulations shall not take effect mcii the
Ladirost, whom I shall appoint to the neW district, shall have
arrived at the seat of Magistracy, and taken upon him the duties
of his station: after which he is hereby authorized to make such
minute arrangements with the Laddrost of Uitenhage, concern-
ing their respective boundaries, as shall not have been provided
for by this notification.
" And that no person may plead ignorance thereof, this shall
be published and affixed as usuaL
Goo save Tim KING ! _ _

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" Given under my band and seal, at the Cape of Good Hope,
this 13th day of October, 1940.
(Signed) " IL S. DONKIN."

GIBRALTAR.

Extract of a letter, dated. Gibraltar, December 18:
" Yesterday (Sunday) was a scene of riot and confusion at St.
Roque, in this neighbourhood, on the occasion of electing a Cor-
ridor (Magistrate) and Town Council. The country people all
assembled in the morning In the Church, where it seems the
election takes place, wken an affray began between those and
the townsmen and Militia; knives, muskets, and bludgeons,
being the weapons. The former chased the BLilitia away, and
order was only restored by,a company of the Regiment of Ga.
lids, quartered in the neighbourhood, who came in. The casual-
I ties are one man killed and four wounded. There seems to be
a spirit now brooding among the lower orders in Spain, that
I may produce fatal consequences hereafter : they wear publicly
in their hats a green riband, with the inscription—' The Con-
-1 stitution or Death.'—According to the most recent accounts
from the coast of Barbary, a contest for the Sovereignty was
carrying on in the Empire of Morocco. The new candidate for
the Throne is Muley Ishmael, the son of the celebrated !Willey
Yezzeid, and nephew to the reigning Emperor. The struggle
was likely to be of short duration, as the Army had declared for
Muley Iblnnael, who had been.publicly proclaimed and crowned
in Fez, where he had taken up his residence. The old Emperor
had not, hosirever, been yet dispossessed of his power, so that
there were two Emperors—one at Fez, the other at Morocco.
An offieial announcement has been issued by our Governor, de-
claring the coast of Barbary free front the plague. The: dis-
turbed state of the country Is likely, however, for some time, to
throw impediments in the, way of commercial intercourse with
Morocco."

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1821.
THE FUNDS.
PRICK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Bank Stock 223-3 per Ct. Reduced 701/4 I/4 70
S per Cent. Cons. ex. div. 69141 s/s 3/5
Si per Cent. 791 A-4 per Cent. 87 ;A %
5 per Cent. Navy ex. div. 1004 %
Long Annuities 1814 3-16
India Stock ex. div. 224%—80nds 335. 345. pr.
Exchequer Bills 4s. 6s. pre.
Omnium 11/2 pre.
Cons. fur Acct. 71 1/8 70N.

For several years now—years of peace too—the
Manufactures of the Country have been in a most
depressed state. Our Landholders and Agricultu-
ralists—among whom will be found the most power-
ful part of our Law-makers—thought they had very
sagaciously contrived to avert from themselves, by
Corn Laws passed for the purpose, the distress under
which the country was labouring. The process ap-
peared very simple, easy, and efficacious; namely, to
contrive and enforce a system which would operate
to enhance the price of Corn. They forgot, or rather,
they despised the dictates of common sense, though
frequently pointed out to them in this and other
Jourmds:—they forgot that without money people
cannot buy bread ; or that, if their income be small,
they must buy the less, and dine the oftener with
" Duke Humphrey ;" or that, if the demands upon
their income be many, those which cannot be di-
verted being satisfied there would remain the less to
lay out on bread. All this was abundantly evident;
" but only fix by a law a minimum price," said they,
‘1 below which foreign corn shall not be importable,
and, as people cannot live without bread, we shall
obtain prices that will protect ourselves and our
property."
It is true that People cannot live without bread;
but it is equally true that the Government will
have its tastes and if the demands upon the in-
dustry of the country for the supply of the latter,
trench r deeply on the earnings of the labourers, as i
not to enable them to fill their bellies, the consump-
tion of cern must be diminished—not from choice,
but from necessity. What follows ? The farmers
must sell to enable them to pay their rents, and prices
fall. But, do the People get more bread?—Yes,
more for a given sum : but as the Revenue is running
a race with Industry and Distress, the increased de-
mands of the former absorb what should have been
expended in buying a fuller regular meal. The Re-
venue outruns every rival for a share of the produc-
tive powers of industry, leaving all other claimants
to get satisfied how they can. As to the Agricul-
turalists, they mistake the question entirely. Every
step they take, only lessens more and more the power
of the People to buy their products ; and could they
force their machinery to raise the price of corn ever
so high, they would, by the operation of the very
same mazhinerys increasle the demands upon them 'I

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