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.t*-". 44iffN ATICtIONS 'OF ENOI,IOO CIOODS.IN C84910'4".
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temuetutleatiaus the &ewe of Thursday last.l -
When In Frankfo4, a town in the heart ofOtr-
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"any, which has regained in independency by Ger.
Wristi turns; and 'obtained more than it ever before
Oriagedieed, English goadi to the value of millions are
sold, nrrather cast away hy public auction, under.
the sanction of that very Magistracy who owe it to
• -German satrifiees that they possess their uncontrolled
authority; viften• i hese measures, by st hich thousands
of German families, after the many severe trials to
Which they have Xlready been exposed. and thicOvery,l
general failure in the harvests of this year, are now
• t in the teginning of winter plunged into Misery, pro,
eced from that very town from which we acre inipa-
"tiendy expecting beneficial' resolutions from the Diet
: hffsriciur of German industry : what German artist
or Manufacturer can be blamed for beginning to
doubt whether there is any thing like public spirit or
common sympathy and, a feeling of honour in our
• nation ? .
Ltt no one say that we are exaggerating, that we
estimate too highly the ruinous consequences of these
auctions. . Hitherto the English wares have been
auttioned only ?rivaling by individuals•and in details
they sold, as we all know, for the most part, at a loss
of from 15 to SO per cent. below the regular price r
they went about with their patterns from house to
• .b .use thtottgli every corner of ,Germany and Europe
is general.; the opportunities afforded them at our
fairs and markets Was too narrow le arid for them,
they Overloaded their young German commissiou•
.'widen with goods on credit, and they offered them.
• at,priees which the just and conscientious German.
(manufacturer could not take. Unable to stand .at
cdospctitibn with people who would sell on any terms,
' • sire carried, back tour heroes in silence our excellent
: gdodt, which were thus driven by them from the.
markets ; few complaints were heard, from our re-
• specs for the freedom of trade, and a greater respect
for the warns of our British fellow-artlzans, and gra-
titude towards their country. But when these mann-
'faeturers, supported by German Authorities, begin
ibe auction' ystent owa large scale, when they knock.
:down immensemanes el goods under the sanction
of the Magistrates of the German federal city, at a
.loss of from SO to 40 per cent. we then consider our.l
selves entitled to ask.•if the salvation of the English
manufactures-irao be accomplished at the expense of
our total ruin I •• Why should we pay the Cltt/V4.
fancies of- foreign speculators with the depreciation
of our goods,. and• the ruin of our families i Why
• should our market, which has but just been restored to
us, •and•otir success:al, but justly alarmed indnstry,
be thrown into confusion for years, because (without
- supposing any hostile intention of -destroying that in.
dustry) such a measure is necessary for the relief of
the difficulties of a few foreigners.
A sale by auction is very different from other ways
-of trading. l'he proprietor of the goods is not here
the refire, but the Magistrate Who gives the permis-
sion. The auction is a ,public act entered into with
the public in general. No private mar., anctleast of
all a foreigner,has the right to this. The Magistraiy
- alone is entitled to treat with the public. The Ma-
sistrates-onght therefore to be-held responsible to the
public for the abuses at such auctions, and the more
so as from their separate occupations they art more
• Immediately connected with this bosiness. !, '•
• * Tht British Government may allow the ailettelnil
cf the. East India Company in London. At these
auctions the goods are not thrown away. No other
prodticer is thereby injured, as there is, generally
speaking, no competition for their Wares, and as all
conceivable purchasers are present at that great mart,
*so that the goods never can fall below their natural
.price. . It is (Phi otherwise with the auctions of Bri.
OA goods. in Frankfort : here, ewes at the fair, there
Is but a small portion of the German purchasers pee.
'seat, and these who are •present, know besides that
they can get the same English goods with much
greater conveniency: in every corner of Germany at
ele eery losiest prices ;* moreover, similar goods are
manufectured in Germany, in a very high degree of
perfection. The British. speculator mow consequently
foresee that he may consider himself fortunate, if he
comes off with a loss of 40 per:cent. below the nave-
1-al price; The great, object of the Gallon, puorhai,er
ii fdlose no time to getting rid of his poschaies.—
This new, inundation of English goods, therefore, is
pouring into Leipsic and the German Vain, width
are yet to come before the breaking in of winter, is
every where driving the productions of German in-
dustry out of the field, is ruining even the trade .of
the more solid British houses, and throwing into
.the
greatest einbarritainent the Ger Man venders ,of
- Itaglish goods on commission, who have older goods
tilt lurid. - ,
, We ilkiiht therefore exaggeratingorhen we affirm
OW efert one of diese auctions deprives thousands of
901111114 fetoiliee4tite very last ray of hope. Hoar-
, veer' this sew biiiifian only* hit individual manufac-
turers; the indristri of Germany will assert its rights.
Were it nor necessity; brit afibstile attempt to destroy*
our induptiy, which produced ibis throwing away
*stem, the consequence}, would inevitablereeoll on
the beataiii those airliuslioeld seek to contintse; uoder*
anothei fain. the European subjugation systi,
overturned with the glorious co-oPeration of England.
Whoever will take the trouble to examine into -what
bat been done in Satiny, the Netherlands, 'in SWit-
garland, Austria, the Countries on the Rhine, and
*fain Psiaisia under the most unfavourable choler:editing,
editing, Must feel himself :penetrated with the col-
- triteion that it feir beneficial regulations of thi Ger.:
wean-Diet, and a. foie year of peace, will be fully
• edilltieuttb elevate our old country Of :art above all
foreign*competition. . , .
- Alt Germany is ltinkinvvith the most anziotts ex-
pectation to the mariner in which the four free towns
of Gemini will twist me t themselves en the approach
lug transactioas of 9e Diet, se:pectin the freedom
of trade: 'ln gritituOe for what they owe to Ger.,
ninny, we have a right tUexpect from them' the moil
strenuous irffarts for thisprOsperny of our industry..
HOw much could they now of their oirairee will dot'
in' this great concern, they, who have, properly speak-
ing, the custody Of the gates of commercial Ger.'
many ? : Do not let them imagine they they are per
k, .. .
feconng asty.serirtce to the grist and immortal Bri-
ll* Nation, in 'keeping kin life foe a few months a
entellt mead Easliait :review,. .

PROM di OHAMAIN PIPER.