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• tuVEMN6 STAR:

FRIDAY. JULY 23, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONS O'CLOCK
S per Cent. Reduced 7001
3 per Cent. Ornteas 691 70 691
31 Iler Cent. 7911--4 per Cent. 8811
Bank LOng Annuities 18 13-16
Itrperial 9 per Cent. Anus. 694
India Bonds 9 6 pre.,_
Exchequer Bills (20 2 pre. par
.Commercial 27 discount
Omnium 14 91 pre.
Consols for Acct. 69j 701 70.

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• This day the second payment of the Loan was.
me of 10 per Cent. Seven millions are already
pitia ,up, and turned into Stock, and the holders
biro -benefited by holding it, as it remains at 2!
per :Cent. premium. Consols remain pretty steady
sgt..lo: A very proper determination had been
adopted by the Committee of the Stock Exchange,l
that of not permitting Clerks to Stock Brokrs,
to act upon their own account ; this resolution hai not
been abided by, and last account produced inumber
of those stripling defaulters, as they had brand to an
amount considerably beyond their means of settling.
In consequence an investigation took place yesterday,
and them' t of them are said to be expelled the
House. The total -amount of their speculations is
said to be poo,ooo.

It is impossible that any friend to mankind and to
his country can remain indifferent to the present con-
dition of the Labouring Classes throughout theXiag-
dom. From the best estimate thatcin be made, by
those who have applied their mind to the subject, and
hare actually traversed the greater part of Yorkshire
for the purpose of ascertaining the present state of
employment, it appears that from fifty to sixty thou-
sand men, women, and children. are out of work;
and that such of those who yet have work in weaving
calicoes earn only from four shillings to six shillings
a week. In Lancashire, from the best data that can
be obtained, about forty thousand persons are simi-
larly circumstanced; and, generally speaking, though-
t:fat all the Manufacturing Districts, the numbers
thrown out of employment are increasing every week,-
and the wages of those who still have work are very
inadequate to the maintenance of the people.
Palliatives are the resource of fools alone. Radical
eeMedies are what the wise will ever seek after Tor
eiils that threaten universal danger and ruin. To
trim sport all the unemployed, free of eipense, to fo-
retgn climist,Vere this practicable, would not, in our
dfthastiftmeses, remedy .the evil. On the coatraryi,
this bitild Only aggravale the sufferirie tdthoii felt
behind. The couptry 41eires, and must obtain from
the fruits of groctucisve industry, a supply for ,the
maintenance of the whole population, and a sum
equal to our public irittptonditure. Strictly speaking,
these two constitute .but one aggregate ; but for the
convenience of argument we separate them for the
present, for the purpose of shewing that every mouth
sent out of the country, every back that wears cloth,
every font that wears shoes, is so much of the effi-
cient sources of revenue annihilated. All indirect
taxes are raised upon consumption, and if the number
'consumers be lessened, while the sum to be raised
continues undiminished, the difference must
up by those who remain.
therefore evidently impolitic to seek, by any
to lessen our population : and to imagine that
by so doing, lessen the calls upon our in-
would betray an ignorance little short of in-
:y—and if acted on to any great extent as a sys-
ild bring its punishment in a shape and form
contemplated without dread.
Reader, have your circumstances hitherto been
to keep you above the misery and distress
Which the working classes are now suffering in
manufacturing districts ? Is it a desirable object—
worthy of some pains and exertion, to avert
which would affect your comfort ? If so, do
from this subject as one that does not con-
! Your prosperity, safety and comfort de-
ttirely on the degree of 'wisdom or folly which
pervade the public mind in considering of the
tmstances in which our country is now placed.
(Uic is a collection of individuals. You are
' if every individual shall put away the con-
sideration of the subject from himself, we are lost.
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- are the causes of our present distress? Why
our labouring classes be fed ? Is there any
scarcity in our land ? Have we beet visited' with
;ng, mildew, or famine? On the contaltrY,
has blessed us with abundant harvests, and
barn-yards and granaries are filled with *am*
of the fruits of the earth. Why then should
born on the soil, be suffered to starve
soil ? Are they unwilling to labour for
ipport; to put forth their power and strength
to the common stock by their industry ?
nothing could be more equimble than that
should be made to fbel the effects of their own
ggishness and idleness,; (or it is a Christian maxim,
.Pectlng the able bodies% that, " he that will not
• neither *hall he eat lout it is equally obvious
ut-traos Christians if you refuse to support
is willing to work, but for whom neither he

nor you can Ond employmenA, We "sy eak now of
Comanuaity. The Comm:laity, aging by its Guvoi
vernmelat a its head, is a great/ family, bound
supply the wants of all its children. Nothing call'
411seolif this obligation:
Butyhat can be done? 41te answer is sufficiently
Clarion's. Find einplosnent for all the children of
the Stete.--In weaving cloths and calicoes, for which
there is no markit? Certainly not. Employ them.
In that species of labour for the products of which
there is ae uateasing demand—in cultivating the soil:
• Are all the lands in the kingdom in such a state
a cultivation as to refuse farther improvement?'
ao. We have more than enough of uncultiva-
ted' land to employ every idle person in the king-
Ikon. What ! send away your people to improve fo-
feign lands, when you have thousands of acres lying
waste at home? Send away the'consumers of the very
commodities from which the revenue of the country
is produced! Reduce the strength of the couutrp,
when you should do every thing in your power •
crease it! This is the height of fully.— We shall take
anearlj opportunity to *turn to this subject.
A Dutch Mail arrived this forenoon, with Rapes
to the' 21st instant. They are filled with extracts
from American Papers received at-the Sarre, into
specting the reported cession of Cuba to Imglatuk
" Accounts from Spain," adds the Editor of diei
Hague Courant, " assert, indeed, that the whole re-
port of the cession of Cuba is a mere action ; but,
when we remember what was written about the ces-
sion of the Floridas, and
_what wasafterwards found,
to be true, we cannot wholly discredit the report."
The following are some other extracts: •
STUTTG A RD, JOLT la

The King has named three Committees, in conse-
quence of the approaching' Sessions of the States-
General, two of them to examine the Certificates of
Election and to open the Session, and the third to
negociate with the States. When Mr. Scott was
elected Deputy for Bobingen, his constituents gave
him a paper, containing their wishes respecting the
Assembly and the administration of the government,
in twelve articles, the principal of which are, that
the Assembly shall consist of, only one Chamber ;
that a general tax be laid on income; that the owners
of noble estates, and public officers, contribute ac-
cording to their ability ; that no tax be imposed
without the consent of the States ; that the adminis-
tration of affairs be simplified so that many offices
might be abolished, and the expense of the salaries
be diminished ; that the military establishment be
reduced and she pensions diminished; that several
indirect taxes be lessened ; that a permanent Com-
mittee of the States be formed, to guard the rights
of the people, &c.—The Deputy is requested to ac-
quaint the Deputation to be named, Qr the Bailliage
for this purpose, every two or three weeks, or oftener
if nccessary, with the progress of business; and also
to receive and offer the opinion of this Deputation.

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