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41.0 WOOLLEN AND LINEN DRAPERS, SOAP
MAKERS, Bce.

NVANTED for the Use of the HOUSE off' COR-
RECTION, in -COLD BATH FULDA, the following Ar-
ticles, viz.
8 Pieces of Grey Cloth.
6 Piece's of Duck, for Beds.
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6 Pieces of Davila,. .
12 Pleats M Check.
100 Yards of Russia Towelling.
.1 Piece of Blue Baize.
3 'Pieces of Flannel.
50 Yards of Canvas.
18 Dozen of Yellow Hose.
22 Dozen of Blue Hose. •
itlb. of Yellow Yarn.
61b. of Blue Yarn.
i2lb. of Whity Brown Thread. 2 No. se.
ISM. of Blue Thread.
60 9-4th Red Rugs. •
40 10-4th ditto. .
50 Pair of 10-4th Blankets.
60 Pieces of Tape.
6 Dozen of Blue Handkerchiefs.
1 Ton Salt.
15 Owts. of Yellow Soap.
5 Cwt. of Mottled Soap.
30 Dozen of Candles.
100 Gallons of Lamp Oil.
Any Person willing to Contract for the same or any of them,
may see Samples of the Articles wanted, by applying at the
Clerk's Office, House of Correction. The Committee will
meet there to receive Proposals (sealed up) on Tntssoar, the
12th instant, at One co'Clock, at which time the parties terdering
an peraonaljy to attend.:—Ready Money.
THOMAS STIRLING.

THE EVENING STAR.

SATURDAY, AUGUST -7, 1819.
• TIIE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY T ONE O'CLCCIE
per Cent. Reduced 72! •
3 'per Cent. Consols 711 ii
4 I,er Cent. 90ilf
5 per Cent. Navy 1.041),•1
Bank Long Annuities 19 3-16
India Bonds 11 pre.
tNclicquzr Bills (2d.) 1 pre. par
Omni= 41.1 i pre.
Consols fur Acct. 71

'We had no intcntion to pursue,*this day, the ques-
: Con which we have agitated, respecting the inade-
quate remunoration for labour which has for some
• time been paid in our Manufacturing Districts, pet-
; suaded that it is as necessary that proper intervals
should be allowed for the digestion of moral truths,
as it is for animal nutriments; nor do we mean this
day to prosecute the subject, but should feel ourselves.
culpable did we not notice the frank and manly man-
ner .in which The Morning Herald has noticed our
statements, acknowledging " the candour of our rea-
sonings, and the humanity of our views." We have
. not, 'however, yet Ewe know the Editor will not
overlook this wordy '-we have not yet convinced
him that he is in error: if we had, he says, (and

upon our honour we believe him,) he would avow it.
We ask no more ; and we are satisfied for the pre-
'...sent with what he has conceded in his concluding
paragraph on this most interesting question, when
(alluding to our recommendation to other Parishes
to follow the example of the Vestry at Hinckley, by
levying a rate to support those who may refuse to
work under adequate prices) he says—e, With this
mode of relief we are inclined to agree, and we rea-
dily acknowledge the humane and candid spirit in'
which our contemporary has treated this melancholy
• subject," Though The St.er and The Herald have
not yet come into the sane views respecting all the
bearings of this question, we cannot withhold the
same acknowledgment from our opponent ; and if
the question shall continue to be argued with the
same temper, the result cannot be otherwise than
beneficial to the best interests of the community.—
We must, however, without waiting for a future day,
put our contemporary right as to our quotation from
SMITH. His words are not 4, A man should," but
A man MUST' always live by his work, and his wages
must be at least sufficient to maintain him. They
MUST even, upon most occasions, be somewhat more;
otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up
a family, and the race of such workmen could not
)Ist beyond the first generation." (See Vol.l, p. 102,
9th Edition ; or page 110 of BUCHANAN'S Edition,
Edin. 1817.) We were therefore correct in our state-
ment that some Economists.-who pretend to quote
as axioms, particular sentences 'of SNITHi have not
done justice to his system. -They ought to exhibit
his doctrine entire—not garbled.
We have also to congratulate the Public on the at-
tention of another respectable contemporary (The
Morning Chronicle) having been drawn to this most
important subject. It is true we have, for the Pre-
sent, to rank this Paper among ow opponents on this
question ; but no matter, while it shall continue to'
be discussed with the same candour and temper that
pervades the article exhibited in that Paper this
morning. The arguments which this contemporary'
advances are precisdy those that have but too long
been implicitly received, without due examination,
of the:propriety of allowing the price of labour to
find its, own level; by which they mean, however,
when the statement is fully analysed, that no efforts
should be employed by the community, to prevent
any artificial depression. of wages below their proper
level. 'This is the real question to be discussed; nor
will ive lose sight of it—and we are satisfied that
the calm examination which it seems now beginning;
to receive, will, eventuallY,-bring to thcrelief of the
oppressed workmen, the entice intellect of the Public

Press, which, whatever ignorant or selfish indivi-
duals may assert, is ever-, decidedly friendly to: he
calls of Truth and Justice.
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The Paris Pairs of Wednesday arrived this fore-
noon.—The Km°, although said to be recovered
from his late attack of the gout, is still confined to
his chAmbers at St. Cloud.—Five per Cents. Tuesday,
71 fr.so c.
" In the general dearth, (says our Private Corres-
pondent), of news, the intelligence that apricots are
sold in the Paris market at sixteen a-penny, is as in-
teresting as any other."

A Flanders Mail arrived at a late hour this fore-
noon, with Papers to the 4th instant.—They are filled'
with a long defence of the conduct of the KING OF
PRUSSIA towards Colonel MASSENBACII, of which it
is enough to say, that it does not contain one word
in defence of the principal feature of this discredit-
able transaction, namely, that Colonel M. was seized
by certain military emissaries of the KING or Pays-
sin, while resident within the territory of a State
over which that Sovereign had no jurisdiction—
namely, the Free City of Frankfort, and carried by
force of arms out of that territory. Had the Autho-
rities of Frankfort acted with as independent a spirit'
as those of Bonn have recently done in the case of
Profess Ors ARNDT and the two WALKERS, Colonel
MAssENßAcit would not now have been doomed to
languish out his life in a Prussian dungeon.

We have received Boston Papers of a date one
day later than those last announced.
Captain IlowAnn, arrived at Eastport from T
nadad, rrports that, just before he sailed four Eng-
lish ships had arrived in the Gulf of Paria full of
English troops; hound to Angustnra, for the purpose
of assisting the Revolutionists.
It is said to be beyond a doubt, that in all from
3000 to 4000 troops have arrived from England.
The Havanna Papers received at Boston, mention,
that ;a convoy had arrived at Vera Cruz from Mexico,
with four millions and a half of dollars, and an im-
j mcnse quantity of produce.

We subjoin an interesting comfnunication respect-
ing the recent transactions in Spain, extracted from
a private letter received from Bilboa (capital of Bis-
cay). dated July 2'2:
The proceedings against Don Onis, M. Pizarro,
and M. Casa Irujo, appear principally to 'have a re-
ference to the Treaty for the cession of the Floridas,
in which these diplomatists are said to have exceeded
the will of the King. The enemies of these Ministers
are endeavouring to give to this fault the colour of
treason. 'By the cession of the Floridas,' say they,
the party secretly favourable to the Insurgents, had
in view to give offence to England, and force her to
acknowledge the Governments of Buetkos. Ayres and
Chili.' This accusation is doubtless too severe ; but
if the Ministers have acted without orders or even
against the orders of the King, we should not be
astonished at the rigorous measures taken; against
them by a Sovereign who sees himself surrounded
on all hands with hidden obstacles and secret intrigues.
" There has been found at Cadiz at the house of
a merchant who has been arrested, some letters from
London, which announced beforehand the conspiracy
which was on the point of bursting out among the
troops of the Expedition. It is also known that the
English at Gibraltar received by express from Cadiz
most exaggerated accounts of the symptoms of that
insurrection ; already, according to these accounts,
the coops were in full march upon Madrid. At the
same time we see England shutting her eyes upon
the grand armament of General Devereux and the
embarkments of Colonel Macirone. It appears that
Count Adisbal has discovered manifest traces of fo-
reign intrigues. This General having seen that he
could not reckon on the disposition of either the

troops or their Officers, watched for some time the
movements of the disaffected, and even feigned to

enter into their views.
" When he had collected all the information which
he desired, there was observed towards the 7th of July
a particular stir in the citadel and among the troops:
more than 100 Officers were arrested during the night,
and these Chiefs being conducted to a place of sure
custody, it was very tasy for the General to disarm
and disband several. Regiments against which he had
suspicions. But these Corps have already been re-
organized ; the number of soldiers who had taken
share in the plot was extremely small. .
" The departure of the Expedition only waits the
arrival of news from America. If the Republic of
Buenos-Ayres continues to be distracted by parties,
the Expedition will probably go to the succour of
Morillo, who maintains his ground so gloriously in
the face of all the Insurgent Bands, of which the Isle
of Margaretta or Angostura is the rendezvous. The
somewhat more regular Army assembled by Mac-
gregor, Macirone, and Devereux, menaces the coasts
of Venezuela and New Grenada. How can Morillo,
with all his talent and his indefatigable courage, de-
fend a territory so extended against so many simul-
taneous attacks ?
" An arrangement is spOlen of between Spain and
Portugal, which will greatly facilitate the adminis-
tration of the Spanish Colonies. Spain is to cede the
Provinces upon the East bank of the Plata to the
Kingdom of Brazil, which is in exchange to cede to
Spain the Government of Rio Negro and all the

countries situated to the West of the River Madeira
and to the North of the River Amazon. The navi-
gation on the Plata and the Amazon will be common
to the two nations. Spain will establish at the mouth
of the Amazon a commercial and military port,
which will supersede Buenos Ayres, and serve as a
point of communication with Peru.
" They can go in three months from Lima to Ca-
diz, by the river Amazon. It is true that Spain, by
this exchange, would lose some thousands of subjects,
and only gain an immense uncultivated territory ;
but it would be amply indemnified by the facility
and promptitude given to its communications with
Lima, that central 'city so distinguished for its. un-
shaken fidelity. A more direct communication would
also be gained with Quito, where the Royal authority,
for these eight years past has never been disputed."