Star.
London, England, 1817-10-10 00:00:00

GARMAN PAPERS.

WISBADEN, SEPTEMBER so.
The attempts and exertions of the proprietors of
our German manufactories to get rid of the trouble-
some competition with the English manufactures in
the German markets still continue, and frequently
give rise to the most singular assertions.
The tendency to exclude foreign competitors, and
thus to be able to prescribe laws to the consumers,'
sad to sell to them inferior goods at a high price with'
less trouble than could be done without this exclusion
of foreigners, is, we know, general in all countries
where manufactories exist. it a..imates shoemakers
and tellers in the smallest country town, as well as
Abe proprietor of the greatest manutactoryy
Nobody ever yet doubted but that this exclusion
of foreigners was advantageous and desirable for the
manufacturer and artisan ; and that it is the interest
of manufacturers to persuade us that their interest is
the general interest of the State. The arguments
which are commonly employed by them to produce
this conviction, such as the independence of the State
upon foreign countries, the keeping at home all the
(money which goes abroad for foreign productions,
litin
present se
the support of the inhabitants, by employing them in
the manufactories of the country, have been repeated
otter enough, and are beard every where; but that
the consumer of the manufactures longs for the
exclusion of foreign articles from the market, that be
may pay a higher-price for what he wants, this asser-
tion is new I
We find it expressed in plain words, in an article
from Elberfeld, in No. 264 of the Alleasisw ?.sung-.
The writer, endeavouring to controvert the assertion
of the English Papers, that a prohibition of the Eng-
lish manufactures in Germany cannot be thought of
or executed, because it would be inconsistent with
the interest of the German peasantry and of the Go-
vernment, says, 1e Twenty-five millions of men (in-
cluding Prussia) look up to their Governments for
protection and deliverance in this respect"--(namely,
die exclusion of English manufactures from the Ger-
man markets.)
According to this, 25,000,600 Germans require of
their Governments to be protected against the liberty
of
baying better
petitions othergotti)(dmssattoatilleoirwer
vopyriceren;moren,tsintopay
' a general tae on consumption for the benefit of some
words,
German manufacturing towns, and proprietors of
manufactories.
I
As far, as our knowledge extends, the general voice
of 25 millions of people in Germany has not yet el-
-1 'pressed itself to this effect.- We bear, indeed, now
and then, complaints of too heavy direct and indirect
• ltases its Germany, and many personi may look up
,Ito their Goiernments for protection and deliverance
, isuthis respect: but the eyes of the people of Ger-
many bass not yet been turned towards their Go-

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vernments, as the writer of the letter Irnm Elberfeld

affirms, 'with a petition to pat a new indirect tax for
the ativantair of our manufacturers.
Madame litudener, says a Swiss paper, is ;it Pre.
sent in the town of Savaingen, in Baden, six leagues
frcru Basle. Travellers pretend to have seen her hist
wtek in the neighlmorttond of Wald hut, hut strictly

watched by the Widen police. Her fil.inces seem to
he in a bad condition. and it herself to be abandwa

NI by many of her tru.st follow. rs. He•r Secrewry,
it is said, has been obliged, for want of inritier meAos
of subsistence in train of " the Lady," to seek
his fortune elsewhere. It is stecl, that Profebsnr
Lactien.4l has returned to his native town with the

remains of his dilapidated fortune, to lament his cte-
dulity in retirement ; and that others have been
to do the same : that an estate which Ma-
dame Kradener possessed in Germany, has been sold
by her creditors for 80,000 florins, and that another
is on sale. However, she still keeps up her coonezious