Star.
London, England, 1817-10-09 00:00:00

THE EVENIN(i STAR.

an tnere s t I krt t! it y energetic asehhhies
they will stop the evil in .is hiith.
The States of the province of Namur, km just
appointed Cor.unissioners to dt termine exactly the re.
lotion of Lie new weights and me sures of the king-
dom with those which were formerly in use ii every
I.commune of that pr• vince.

1.0 N DON.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, IBM .

PR ICF t. I tiCK 5 THIS DAY AT TWELVE. O'CLOCK s
Kr. ucr.: flint— Lon, b2i —llo. Oct 84i }_DD. Nov. 21111
4 per Cent. Oita —Navy, 1071 lurt—ltiabt Bonds I I ci 118 pia
Bank 1..31 ADD*. sLut—Eschtieuss bull % 16.. to ;i3s. pr.

At Tourney a society is forming for the support
and encouragement of the national industry, l►ke
those formed at Glietit, Louvain, and Brussels.
The must ancient citizen of this city has disap-
peared doling the night; it seemed as if some great
public calamity had happened—every body pressed
tome point—the women exclaimed, 4, What a pity,
it is a great loss !"—what was the matter I the little
brcinze statue, called the Mannekin-pis, had been car-
ried away from its• pedestal. A piece of a plough
found near the fountain, of which it was the ornament,
was probably used for the purpose. Ti.i statue was
by the celebrated Dugnernoy• It is hoped that tie
police w►ll recover it. In the reign of Louis XV.
the Fresich carried it away, but were o4liged to re-
store it by one of the articles of the treaty of peace.

A Mail (rim Flanders has arrived this mooing.
and has brought us Brussels Papers to the Stb. tee
slibjoined Extracts from which will be read with
more tha . ordinary interest. The Decl incion with
which we .re here presented of tie Principles 01 the
l'atri.asc Association for the supp rt of the Nitienal
Industry, iir, in other words, of the Association for
the Proscripti .11 of British filanulactures—hr that is
its real object—is plausible enough ; but at bt st no
more than plausible. For a etnerat freedom of com-
merce, we have been always forward to contend ;
nor is it possible to be more strongly impressed with
the impolicy of all restrictive regulations than we are ;
but the difference is great, we thick, between mere
restriction and utterinclusion—between counteract-
lag prohibitory duties by the imposition of similar
duties, and interdicting Absolutely the use of any of
the pcuoucis •of human ir.dusuy. Ev-ry country is
at hoer ty. to impose what duties it thinks proper on
theintroduction of foreign commodities. The wis-
dom of doing so may be questioned, certainly not
the right : but for any people to form and instigate
the spread of a combination such as is here proposed,
. against the use of the particular productions of ano-
Aber people, is not only not a measure of right, but a
deliberate conspiracy against the well-being of the
• general family of mankind.
BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 4.
PATRIOTIC AitIOCIATIoN rum THE SUPPQRT OP 'UM
NATIONAL INDIAITUT.
Psi:lapin of the Atrociation.—Liberty is the soul of
commerce an,, the first wants of industry ; and the
Society has no wishes but fur thus. A nation which
bad been 'wise or well governed enough to have en-
joyed at all times the advantages of the most exten-
sive liberty of commerce, would have profited by the
errors of all others, and its c3pitale being engaged
only in the most favourable manner, it could behold
with indifference all its neighbours fetter themselves
by prohibitions. But when the prohibitory system
has infected for ages, universal and national cum-
merce, and.has caused immense capitals to be em-
ployed in branches of industry whence they cannot
be withdrawn without destroying them, the return to
liberty ought to be only slow and gradual ; the means
to promote that :aura is, to turn the arms of the fo-
&yip prohibitory system against itself; and wisdom
prescribes gnat Otis struggle be Tendered as favourable
ten pessibie to the national tateresu of the inonsent.
The society proposes then nothing hostile towards
any nation, or any government; its sole view is to
cotiahat the hostile piolobitices of foreign countries
by swans adapted to this end, which however do not
.go beyond it, and do not themselves participate in
ties defects of the prohibitory system; it has in view
bet to tempt the civets which this system may have
itself produced in the interior, ao come .to the aid of
the national industry as it sow exists, to relieve the
-fmauulacturing clew, and. to seemed all the measures
which the Government or the constituted authorities
hue taken or shall take in future with the same views Weundeistand that the ()vim has been advised by
lad intentions. her physicians to drunk the waters, at Bath, and that,
(Here follow the regulations of the Society, which according.to.the present arrangements, her Mesesrr,
accompanied by Princess ELIZABSTH, will visit that
me in substance:sue engage for themselves, families,
and dependents, by their patriotism a place early in the ensuing :ninth, The Quaint,. we
sand their honour,
re happy to say, his no acute disorder; the waters
eent to buy, knowingly, either for their use or for the are recommended for their general utility, air tonics.
Purposes of commerce, any foreign manufactures of It has been stated, that the aceomehattesst of the Prin.
Sot, wool, or cotton, such as are manufactured in the ten Conni.orrs is expected to take place on Satur-
country ; and in all other articles to prefer those of day or Sunday se'nnight. The fact is, that the for-
the country to foreign. They.bwite all their cools-
dical Gentlemen employed by her Royal. Highness;
Wyreen to follow their example, and recommend the but . is s
as
iistongehPtPoseoads
.that the sumaton.: has been given,
establishments of local associations and committees in very good teme, and that the
to correspond with the Central Committee). This econachoesat is more likely to take place about the end
tut is dated Brussels, 30th September, 1817. of this month.
BRUSSELS, OCTOBER S. Yesterday the Earl of /Avelino'. and Viscount
C.aart.ractost had audiences of the PRINCE Ratner;
Whfie'rnany Governors of the Southern Provinces
at. Carlton Hauge. On Tuesday Count Mueslis
of the Kingdom have taken measures dictated
.by had an audience of his Royal Highness.
widen), in order to put an end to the manoeuvres of The Marquis of Hunne has lett Heady Lodge
the speculators in corn, which must necessarily cause to attend Aberdeen. races, after whichlis Lordship
&liaises tale% ihi-Seases .in ottr neighbourhood le.going yuii tour. .
are no more free than ourselves from shameful spa. The Earl of Rociamea trlils arrived at Isis father's,
illation upon public distress. - the Marquis of Cutnuoirtstse's seat, in Cheshire,
On the left bank of the Rhine the same complaints rw,m, Bath.
- me made ; -00 the sight bank of that river, several yesitehredsLyouanstesbserof bonnets iroa?isitnattornd fd.amplilcey
aanfirvoedm.
German States have taken precautions to bogie the Hatfield.
Beaty calculations of cupidity; in the Austrian The Karl of Jamie is retained to his seat, Mid.'
States, one has seen with •hoetor, men wretched Ogren Park, frOm Newmarket.
The E3TI Of WESTMEATH is daily expected in town
suough to destroy the precious fruits of the earth, to .R°
rr m his seat in Ireland.
throw into the rivers the produce of .the harvest ; Lord and Lady Ei.i.aaaoitouots and family are
unheard of and unparalleled crime ! . expected-to return to England the latter end of this
• its France, particularly in French Flanders, the its- month.
forLisiday CARDER*, sad Mr. Evans have 'left town
habitants have been guilty of dangerous excesses at
Dupes St. Vino: there has been a tumult, and the Lord EARDzirir has left his seat, Beteidere, for
person of Dunkirk has been obliged to march to Derbyshire.
sopptess it. Tranquillity is restored, and the price Sit CumAN and Lady Ann Sagan ate arrived at
of sofa has sensibly declined. According to the ac- Lord EANDLEY'S haute in Lower Grosvenor-street,
counts of some travellers, a circumstance took place fr om a tom.
Sir %MEM add Lady Hallam Wynn have left
which strews how dangerous a deluded maltittide is Liangeawio, for Winnestay, Denbighshire.
when it violateeits duty toesertise acts of vengeance. Mr. add Lady CAROLINE Cocas have left Lord
It is affirmed, that a Merchant who was pointed out soalante seat, Eastuor. f..:astfe, for. the Earl of HARD.
at a. menopOlist, was ;but up in a hogshead, and thus w_rcanst'a Wimpole. Cambridgeshire.
i.onines v ammo has left towa tor his in
waged along for 100). Dille, aud_that he was bruisedFasDtates: wissi Es* au Major usasai—ii7ar.
all over when hewn released IP° this strange Pn" rived yesterday at Blokes Howl, Jermykstreet, from
Soo. slot the Goeesnaneuts ace eserj when watchfuled their seat in Lincolnshire.

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