Star.
London, England, 1816-04-19 00:00:00

• AMERICAN PAPERS.

BOSTON, MARCH 11.

Slaws-Tumult —On the Ist instant Mr. Randolph.
expressed himself Melly incensed at the discovery
which itad been made of a clandestine traffic in
Slaves in the district of Columbia. He was per-
suaded that tine district in question had been con.
vented into a depot for the Slave-trade of the neigh.
.bonring States. He insist don the necessity of pre.
',Wing a, remedy for a practice so heinous and abo-
minable,•and avowed, that If the business was not
taken up with spirit by the anise, he would under.
talc, ithituself, and ferret rut of their hill:: the vil-
lains who carried it mt. The Committee which had
been appointed to make all due inqoiry into the affair,
were proceeding in their useful labours.
CONIMERCIAL , RWITICTIONS...-•••The General As-
pe.r.hly of New Bruns ick has passed ;4 law imposing
cut export duty of 20s. per ton on Plaster, if it be
landed north of Cape Cod. The policy or rather
object oftais measure,stly the Americans, is o!nrotts,

and Is meant to encourage the navigation of the Pro-
vince at the expense of Massachusetts, by engrossing
11:e eitpOrtation of Phster to •he Southern States.—
This measure seems to Inve excited numerous corn-

iilaints, and the result promises to be Petitions to
_Congress for redress. America does not profess to
led that distress in commerce which in Europe is so
generally complained of: on the contrary, the Papers
say, that the 'prosperity of the country continues to
pour her treasUres into the laps f their Planters and
Merchants; and whilst this is the case. the, Sciences

receive a proper share of attention.
RAW COTTON.—An estimate of Cotton imported
and consumed in England has been published in
"-America, from which it appears probable, that the
• consumption this year will not exceed 300,0:10 bales;
quantity on hand and imports, 595,000, and may be
420,0(X), leai,ing a surplus of 95,000, or 120,000
.British importations of Cotton are in the fol-
lowing proportions:--From the United States,

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125.0ii0 to 130,000 bales; from Brazil and Portugal,
120,000 to 1+5,000 bales; from the East Indies,

probably 50,0()0 bales; and freni all other parts,
75,000 bales. From this statement •it results, that
the demand for American Cotton in England will be
reduced from year to year—an argument in favour
of home manufactures to furnish a market for the
produce of the soil. Thirty-three thousand six hun.
dred and seventy bales of Cotton were exported irom
Siv !total; from October 1, 1815, to February 10,
1816 ; of which upwards of 20,000 went to Lurope,
principally to Eugland.
The American ?tapers, alter exalting in their
bright prospects of trade, turn their attemica with
equal satisfaction to the internal improvementiof the
country. The citizens of the Stine of New York,
they say, merit the high:st praise for the exertioas
they are making in the grand project of uniting the
waters Of the Western Lakes with the Hudson kiver.
Iu a commercial view, its effects promise to be vast
and extensive, and they calculate how moth cheaper
the productions of the
West will reach di% Eastern
States, and part of the middle States, through this
channel, than by the circuilons route of Quebed.—
The bhotiltactures of toe East would spread over the
Western Country by an easy and direct route.. It
will bring to the door of thousands, they say, a
market ibt the most valuable articles, which are now
not worth the transportation. It will tend .0 co:nu:Gt.'
t;ie 8: ateb. and rseder the Isom:rim of ilie Canada, of
much less importance to the United States.

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