Star.
London, England, 1817-10-15 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

Altrr the long and fruitless discussions-which took
place some time age in the Council of State, it is sow
said at Berlin that it has ►ee•n resolved, in order to
save from roil* the manufactures of the country, to
lay upon English manufactured goods an impost duty
of 30 per cent.

CRACOW. SEPTEMBER 17. .
On the 2d of this month the Commissioners of the
dime Coons, invested with full powers for the Orga-
nisation of our free city, exchanged the ratification'
of a convention, by virtue of which the three Courts
consent to an alteration of the 13th Article of the
Cps:imitation of the City of Cracow.

ARAU, SEPTEMBER ”.
The Narrator of St. Gall says, •" Oa the 14th of
this month, when the annual consecration took place
at Emaiedel, and at which the Papal Nuncio was pre-
sent. there was such a conflux of people to thus cele-
brated place of pilgri sage as was never before known.
fire number of 30,000 people, of whom 13,000 took
the sacrament, is thought to be a very moderate cal-
cilation. Crowds passed the o'ght io the eektibules

STOCKHOLM, sEPrEMbEtt so.
On the proposal of the Revisory of Vie St.rtes of
the Kingdom here assembled.. the government c fused
' the bureau of the Mal•t:•le Discount Bank to be
shut, and given public notice that sod; reti.arks had
be.-n brought forwod against tae Directors .is made
it necessary to di,pl.ce them, and tii take measures
to support pool.c cre lit, and lulfil the obli Nations of
the said Diic mot Office, tor allich im,,isrt nt end
his Majesty will spare no sacri&es. In :nis view titres
new Directors have been appointed, r.•t t .t•rthec
with one of the Plenipotentiaries n• the SidleS, Or-
dered an inventory to be taken ortst Discos'''. Office
at Malay*, and the sante to be administered till an
arrangement is niaJe with the Shareholders. who
are summoned for this purpose, and the bure.ru here
will be removed to the Blidc, and be openei again
o•morrow.

The dismissed Directors oho are accused of mit-
:management, are the Councillors otCommerce Nord-
laud and Bjnrkman, and M. J. Faikmann, all living
at Malmoe.
OCTOBER 4.—The confusion which arose when the
three Discount Offices privileged in Sweden, viz. that
of Gothenburg, that of the Gotha C nal, and that
of Malmoe (they took money upon bonds bearin
3 per cent. interest, and discininted at 6 per cent.
stopped paymmt, is very great among the mimic
men and the merchants. For the moment the greatest
pin of the money in erred! ition has disappeared,
and scarcity of cash and want of credit hate arisen,
which has depressed the course of Exchange.
A a:rya, Proclamation i.t the first summons the
grates of the Kingdom for a Diet to be held here oa
the 2ith of Nay -other.
BatioDEAUX, SEP CENT 2 C:t la.
thrum a Mercantole Latter..
Our intercourse with the Spanish ports Is becom'
ing more and mire extensive, and is sttpp nest
by the Glvernmenta of beat countries. For some
m ntlis back our trade with Spain has been visibly
favoured by the Court o! Madrid, so that the grie-
vances of which we had iormerly to complain are
now quite at an end. This is itscrihi!;!, osi tile one
hand, to the relations between our Court .ird that of
Madrid, which are at present very Itimidly ; bat, on
the other hand, it may be very well placid to the ac-
count of the present Spanish Ministry. who Are ender
vouring to restore the trade of the country to a state of
prosperity, and are striving to free it !rum the letters
in which it has hitherto been held by Englan.f. rt
is considered with sts as * matter' placed beyond all
doubt, that the former coonectiun bet wren Eagiald
and Spain is growing more and more cold every day,
and that the Spanish Government has convinced
itself how dangerous the approximation to the British
Trading Sytem has been to tier, so that it at present
seeks rather to attach itself to the Corainental Sys-
tem. The great object with the Madrid Court is the
recovery of its Colonies, and the attn.f.Wition of the
insurrection, which 11.,, hitherto been openly favoured
by North America, and secretly by England.
Spain looks only tut those Powers as her true friends
that have no interest in the erection of fire Sates in
South America, which is the Cabe with the European
Continental Powers. Hence she has oJvani.es
to Russia, drawn closer her ties with France, and
given up as much as possible her connection wi:h
England. That Spain will receive an ethic ent sup-
port from Russian and French fleets being sent to the
C lonics, is not, however, beliored. With us, how.
ever, there is not the smallest appearance of any such
The latest letter, received here from Marti-
nique and Guadaloope, confirm the accounts Opt
the Spanish troops in Venezuela xnd Caraccas have
lately gained gre.it advantages, and that the cause
of the insurgents there looks very ill, as has for some
time been the case in Mexico. Only in Burnes !tyres
and Chili the insurgents have the superiority, and
will in all Probability long keep it, it the Royalists do
not receive considerable reinforcements.

FROM SWEDEN, SEPTEMBER 11.
The system of exclusion which tie Government
has adopted since the beginning of the year, not-
withstanding the evident detriment to the prosperity
of the kingdom with which it is attended, at least fat
the present, is much approved of by a part of the
Swedish nation by ro means inconsiderable, who,
since the last rrvrAviion which effected the deposition
of Gustavus Adolphus, in coincidence with the C•In•
stitutional party in Norway,, aim at giving a purer
national independence to their country. This idea,
which in itself is beautifof enough, but which is car-
ried into execution here in a singular enough mance;
as national independence and reparation froin all
other nations arc sousidered as synoninious, has been
dexterously enough laid hofil of by the Crown Prince,
and he has on that account introduced into Sweden
a modified Napoleon Continental System, the prin-
ciples of which he was alriady obliged to carry into.
execution when he was a French Marshal, though, t -
prepossessed against it,
that time he was very much
—He bas too clear au understisudiug nut to see the
defects,
.nay, the insulhcitney, of that system ; bat
prudence advised its introduction, and he listened to
her without any private views in this respect. Pet-
baps, in few countries of the continent, are the pvi-
ple sister behind in every thing which is called in.
dustry; and a dignified domestic economy, as in Sive.
Jen, although the higher classes vie with the richest
and most cultivated nations in all the objects of
luxury, which have become real iiwcet%aries to them,
Prim this disproportion between their wants, and
what they can receive by the la:' s; has arisen the par.
91 a must:hos L)cem,uusx.impied, per:4,l4,

fi any other caintry of the world, and which tends
evideutly to corrupt and demoralize the mitinn.-
- if the Government. on the me hand, favours a sys-
tent which w Is fo-rit and ehe+ished under the French
-Revolution, they seek, in another respect. :o
iiiiitivaeasily to he comprehended.
to the views ~1 Gustavus 111. •I allude parzicularty to
she re-Introduction or the old French School, which,
' - since tt.e murder of Gustavus, his sunk very midi in
the general Ipirion g and tho President of the Swedish
Academy, , bad nearly succeeded in sup.
pressim. the Cosa/ Isarn4l, becanse it set
• itself against that object. and displayed more liberal
views. Swiden, rt is true. regained the liberty of the
• press by she Coast itution of lit*. after the nation bed'
been by a severe constraint deterred from every thing
like a more liberal scientific cultivation for several de-
canna, i-s, but this li•-erty was so much narrowed by
the Edict of the 16th July, 1812, that little only re-
strained, and since that time the legible remains ItAve
gradually disappeared. The. former Censorship has
not, it is IM*, been again introdoceel, but of
it, the Curt Chrticellot in sirockholm, and his genus
in all the towns of the kingdom, have elected them-
selves into the most arbitrary Censors, who, witht%ut
any rules publicly known, suppress whatever they
please, or rather whatever the Government chooses,
without assigning any grounds for their proceedings.
Hence almost all the public Papers, of which the
more interesting and free minded appeared atter the
termination if the period of constraint of Gustavus
Adolpt,us, have either been wholly suppressed. or
become quite insipid.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1817.
THE FUNDS.
prig: of Stocks this day rt twelve o'clock
Reduced 61 I-- Coos. 84 I—tins.1—tins. for Nov. 4}
4 per Cent. aB}—Nivy. .n 111 113 pre.
Exch. 1.:11k, 18r. to 335. pr. •

Yesterday was setting day for the October Acce.unts ; and,
front the immense quantity of Stock bought and sold during the
accounts with the great fluctuation. in price, eel/foal detaulca.
tiona were anti..ptied ; hut we art glad to state, that no such
event took place. At one o'clock, the usual time the forge
&sok taps the awful slams,, all was attention; but two minutes
previous the Lishange WAS a IiCSOC of conflation; and when no
defaulter was announced, ekes: was again the order of the day.
The accounts had most ly been settled, and carried over for Novem-
ber ; and we never remember a settling day pass over so smoothly.
This morning Con.ols opened at 83} f for money, and 84 f, for
the account ; they then fell to ttui for money, and 83 for account,
In a few mh.ute. they rose to 884 f Money, and Bs}, at which
price they -WO e .t twelve o'cluck.—Upwards of fifty names were
this morning pos upon the Coneniseienere Box, at the Stock

- -
Exchange, who had nor delivered their Stuck yesterday; If not
delivered by two o'clock to day It will be all bought in upon them.

From German Papers received last night we have
given extracts in our preceding columns, some of
ishich possess considerable interest.
Our commercial rivals on the Continent cherish
the remembrance of the Continental System, and, as
far as they can, endeavour to persuade themselves
that it is not extinct; that it is still secretly acting;
and thit it is to compensate them for all the evils ()c-
-ordoned by a long and wastefnl revolutionary war,
by wresting from Britain the superiority she has at-
geared in commerce I These pseudo economists mis-
take entirely the causes of British superiority. It is
not by mere-consnmption and prohibitory laws, that
they can succeed in supplanting British products.
Let them creel Britain in the industry of their chi.
tens, and then they will exclude her mannfactpres by
producing cheaper and better of their own: or, which
will come to the same thing, they will produce arti-
cles suited to British use, make us became purchasers,
and lessen if not annihilate the commercial balance
which they complain now presses so heavily upon
their inefustry..--But even this complaint itself is
grounded in ignorance; for this balance resulting
from oar being able to furnish certain commodities
dteaper than they could procure them without our
eftervention, furnishes evidence that, to the extent of
the difference between the two prices, upon the quan-
tity of British articles consumed, a waste of their
Own industry has been prevented. This fact is unde-
niable; for the consumer earned the price by his 'la
hour, and if he had been compelled to pay a higher
price he most have worked so much longer to procure
the money—or, if his time be fully occupied, he must
have denied himself some comfort to the extent of
the difference of the price.
It is very amusing to hear the Spaniards talk of
liberating their trade and industry from the finer: i„
Itthkh they haw hitherto ions held by England. 'There
are fetters which it will be much more difficult for
tbenz• to break; before they can hope for any thing
like the successful exercise of talent or industry—the
fetters.* a %minifying tyranny and superstition, under
which a nation, distinguished, at a period not very
/emote, for its talents, energy, and enterprise, has'
now sunk to nearly the lowest state of degradation.
Such a nation seems almost precluded from all pro-
ipect of regeneration, at lint for ages to come. 'lt
is an instructive.leison to a flee people to contem-
plate the rapid progress in the career of degradation
made by those nations which have been so unfortu.
hate as to be deprived of their liberties. With • the
ioss of her Cones began the calamities of Spain. In
like manner, Italy, though engaged in perpetual wars
and feuds before the extinction of her free States, ac-
cording to Gueciannnit, was Cultivated like a ear-
and now Rome
den to the very tops ache hills ;
Go-
self is surrounded byserts, and some of the Go-
vernments are even obliged to enter into regular trea-
ties with the banditti that infest the country. With
respect to Spain, tile destructive influence of her Go.
velment has been extended to itimense regions,

which, tinder a infkiliberallway, woulj hid" OW
bited a very different degree ot prosperity frost that
which they exhibit sitahisllay. The inhabitants of
!these regions are now* endeatiebtsring to free them
Ilelves from the unnatural state of restraint in which
they have been held, and to benefit by an intercourse
with more cis .1 zeJ countries than Spain; and it re-
quites but little, acquaintance with the history'of iho
human race to predict what the result must be.
Prussia h is, it seems, agreed to impose a duty of 59
per cent. on the importation of Eng!ish manufacture,
and Denmark has also issued an Edict unfavoutable
to our trade. The example set by Prussia, will, we
have no doubt, be followed by several of the smaller
States of Germany. However much it is to be regretted,
that nations should have recourse to measures calcula-
ted to (mph waste of a certain portion of the industry
of their subjects respectively, the right of independent
States to tax foreign pr,:ducts is unquestionable, how-
ever impolitic the exercise of this power may be. • In
tact, the general system of internati‘mal commerce i”
yet very defective, not only as it regards our conti-
nental neighbours, but as connected with our own
practice. The different Gov, rnments continually
talk of giving protection to national industry ; but
they continually counteract the natural means. Mu-
tual, free, unrestrained commerf,e, is what they
should strive to establish. It is true that by the pre-
valence of such a system, some manufaCtures which
at present, like exotics. require unnatural heat to
, keep them in even a sickly existence, would he anni-
hilated, in every country ; but, on the otherehand,
those suited to the soil and circumstances would re-
ceive ii:cceased strength and vigour, ..ad give more
than an equivalent, in the increased demand for the
labours of mankind, and the certain recompense that
would thus be afforded to industry.

The folly exhibited respecting the circulation of
the products of human labour can only be equ.illed
by the iiitatuat on which now urges d►lltrent Courts I,
to iota-fere in matte's of Religion. The Kix° of
FRANCS is not the only—potentate who thinks it ne-
cessary for the welfare of the Throne that he should
in some way or other divide the S,Arereign ower
w►th the priesthood. Concoldats between the Pont
and different German States ( Hanover among others)
are no- negotiating at Rome! ! It such be the basis
on wh►cb the peace of -Europe is to rest, it requites
not the spirit of prophecy to predict that it will be of
but short duration I

Since writing the above, Ire have received a tar-
dier semi of Hatnburgh Papers to the ISth instant,
from which we subjoin the following extracts s

S I OCK HOLM, OCTOBER S.

The Bureau of the h1411116e DIIPCOUItt Bank, which
had been shut on 29th Septet:m.4 was (After the in-
ventory had been taken and Lite office removed to
the Bank), opened there for payment only one day
(October 1,1 when the same afternoon a rebolut.on
war taken in the Council of State, which appeaeo on
the 2d October in the merning„in the following
Royal Proclamation :
Wes Ctlattaas, fit. make known by these presents—When
after haring received alarming accounts of the embarrassment in
which the Malmo, lhurount e.stablithotent Is placed, in conse-
. queace of negligent adnmeistratiom, we were induce.; ,:t take
some particular measure. respecting ir, It **sour gracious '
ttnn by sipperting this israblishni.ut, to avert' a danger o tt.ch
threatened public and private cre.iti ; but as circuit...tact. • • eve
Once appeared which sufficiently peeve that • hts in.p .i tasit Laid
cannot be attained to a manner contormabie •••• ut.i wishes till
more efficacious means to restore fallen credit ca., be prepared by
the States of the Empire, who are convoked by our Lettsrs Pa-
' tent of this day, we have not, in the present state of things,
judged any pecuniary aid to the Mahuoe Discount bstablishment
by us ana the Crown to be advisable, as now not producing tLe
rirtet wlacla ufe were with reason led to expect." For the direc-
tion of all whom it may concern.
" Given In our Palace at Stockholm, Oct. 1, 1817.

(Maned)

CHAFLie

As a great marry persons who had placed their
money at 3 per cent. in the Discount Eqablishatenis,
crowded to them on the lst or October, and de-
manded payment, the officers of the Gotheoburgh
:And of the Gotha Canal Discount Establishments
here have been obliged to stop payment for the pre-
sent, which has caused unexpected but temporary
embarrassments. Orders have been dispatched twat..
rest de three Directors at Malmo., but it is said that
two of them are abroad. The following advertise-
' meat appears in the paper of today
By the large payments which have beat made le die last
three days in the Cot ha Canal Discount ildreitu at Stockholm
the Ukulele here find themselves obliged to suspend all pay'
'mews till the Bank accuset of the estabhsbnieet is escrea-cd.—

Ibe Directors I aye already humbly informed his Majesty of the
,circomstancr. and also the Commissioners in the Bank of the
Man,. of the Kingdom, and the Directors of the Gotha Canal
Dismount Estabhshment at Gottenburitis. As aeon u payments
r can be rscumnienced, notice will be given in the Journals."