Star.
London, England, 1816-11-02 00:00:00

FROM THE sixonizint ZEITUNO.
I.EIPZIC, OCTOBER to.
present Autumnal Fair affords new and me.
:holy prods of the depression of most of the coun.
of the European Continent. Seldom, perhaps.
such a mass of goods accumulated in so small a
and seldom has so much freight and carriage
paid in vain. In the principal streets of the
/all the houses ate covered with English firms.
hole families. ascendents, descendaats and toile-
, from the most distant manufacturing towns in
nand, have established themselves here. as it
seems, for a long time, with an econoruical but com•
household there are single houses, where you
six or seven magazines of English goods.—The
ish cloth manufactures, whose hopes, since France
ut against them, are entirely fixed on Germany,
ia, and Northern Italy. inundate the market in
Allay manner. What is brought from edict coon.
of Europe, except the French silks, which go
old, wonted, and unchanging course..by way of
‘zic to the North, is not to compare with these
lies ; however it may be distinguished for intrin-
Podness, particularly the German productions.
Polish Jews and other great purchasers will not
)y all kinds of arts, by the meanest offers, delays
concluding their bargains, &c. to depreis the prices
II mores the richest countries in Europe, France and
istria, by the internal sufficiency ti the productions,
by wise prohibitory laws, depend upon them-
'es, and as the rest of Europe is still bleeding with
'l:incurable wounds received in the war but now
ied, these can be no brisk demand except from
!Dia and North America for the immense overplus
European manufactures produced by the excess of
speculation and machinery. The prospects for the
first and most ancient manufacture in Germany, that
inen, are the most gloomy of all. While the
American market is shut against it by the increasing
of. ciattom for apparel and furniture, and by the
!ported= of Irish linens the manner in which the
^fish white goods are thrown away in Germany
Airs people to supply the deficiencies of their ward-
*ate with' calicoes instead of linen. The superficial
It of the times overlooks the little durability of
article; where, as has been proved in this fair, the
Ant of.a fine shirt can be produced for twenty good
Saxon.grosclien (shoot three thillings). If we consi-
. the moral influence of die linen manufacture in our
,erman household economy, we shall, without men.
tinning the injury is agriculture. &c. hardly want'
any other argument than the above destructive system.
The author proceeds to obset ye, that the sale of
wool is dull, which lie considers as an advantage,
it ,may serve to warn the Getman:. against too
much extending the breeding of sheep, in which it is
probable they would soon have to Maintain a Most
smequal competition with the Americans, all thelite
sccoUnis from North America- agreeing that the
breeding and improving the races of sheep succeeds
. a most astonishing manner in that country. The
Anglish and Flemish manufactures may be said to be
engaged in combat for life or death, since the Aus.
Wan, Prussian, Saxon, and other-German manulac.
tures have the advantage in the goodness of the aid.
Lies. The author laments that so many Germans
wage in this, trade, the Ain of the German in.
dustry, but which grows less and less profitable, on
mount of the continually fresh Supplies of goods,
each cheaper than the preceding. Notwithstanding
the consolinpisope that the overheat bow must soon
break, yet on the whole the sale of our hem menu-
factersi stagnates.
The Saxon, /cc. Manufacturers leave the fair with
the resolution of limiting their activity. The number
the distressed increase every moment .beyond all
belief; and in ()air Wholly to destroy the defence of
pholesorne laws against this hostile invasion, we must
And in, all public prints the chimera of the freedom of
Commerce defended, mid the order of nature, which
places first agriculture, then manufactures; and lastly
commerce, so reversed by the theories of the day,
that the interest of commei ce is put above all the rest,
manufsctures subordinate to this. and agriculture to
both ; which last 'may be contented with 'the-degree
...of liberty that the first chooses to allow it. It is clear
that the CerMan matificturere -Which hiss been able'
. to maintain themselves in such nn inundation., and
even to gain to decided superiority over Akio of fo-
reign countries„have lowed it for a long, Time. In
coloured printed ehintzewand cotton, the English
'have been forced to yield for the last three fairs to
those of France, Switzerland, and the Banks of the
Rhine. In .the present fair, the manufactory of Mr.
goicheaberger, of Kosmanos, in Roheniiii, has gained
'the prize, in the unanimous opinion d. all judges.
-......Th0ugh the goods are narrower, and eight or ten
per cent. dearer than the French, the whole great ma-
•gazine belonging to this manufactory was cleared at
the beginning of the fair. The merinos of the manu-
facture of Mr. Winkler, of Rochlitz, in Simony, bad
an equally decided advantage. both by the moderate
prices and the solidity of the goods. The impression
which the painting (not printing) of the couons of
Eosmanos, and the pet fhotion of the forms and co.
;lours ip the calicoes of this manufactory has
life alsonaives.
.:sally made, chews that w* begin in private
'AO throw off the tyranny of uniform. fashions and pat.
•terns on which thedominiolhof theinglish machines
is founded, , • . .
The Article concludes with iisfOreing the necessity
of laws in support of the German Manufacturer, and
lamenting that the phantom of treedom of trade should
be supported by German merchants and writers;
--a the .enlightened author of the ifilasigrusia. .1