Star.
London, England, 1820-02-09 00:00:00

THE FUND&

PRICEOF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'cLecit
3 per Cent. Reduced 69 1/4 687/s
$ per Cent. Consols 68% 5/8 V} %
per Cttt. 771/2 %
:.er Cent. 871/2 % 3/8
5 per Cent. Navy 1031/4 102778 103 .
Bank Long Annuities 18 1-16 1/4
Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 67 Y 8
India Bonds 14s. Iss. pr.
Exchegzier Bills (2W) 3s. 4s. 2s. 3s. pr.
• Omnium pr.
Consols for Acct. 681/2 5/8 %

The KTwe's health being so much better yesterday,
he received visits from his Royal Brothers, the Dukes
of YORK, CLARENCE, and SUSSEX. Prince LEoroto
also called at the King's Palace, in Pall-mall, to pay
his dutiful respects. The Palace was visited by in-
cessant inquirers during the day.
The following Bul:ain was issued this day :
" Carlton
falace, Half past Eleven, A. M.
" Februrry 9, IVO.
" The KING is almost free from complaint.
(Signed) " 11. HA I.FORD.
" NV. KNIGHTON.
" .M. J. TIERNEY."

We insert, this day, a Letter from the veteran
Agriculturalist, Dr.TRustER, to which we entreat the
attention of our Readers, as pi eliminary to other
Letters on a most important subject, the best means
:or increasing the agricultural produce of the king-
dom, furnishing labour for our numerous population,
and increasing the gains of our landholders and
farmers, at the same time that the prices of suste-
nance shall be reduced to the consumer. We have

•iten endeavoured to call the attention of the Public

to these important topics, and we are happy in having
our intentions seconded by so able an advocate, one
so well qualified to do justice to the subject.
• It is undeniable that cur present system is radically
wrong. We are aware that many impediments op-
pose themselves to any sudden alteration ; but it is
imponible but that benefit must result fiom a cool
and dispassionate examination; and, let us add, those
who would discourage it, must have their minds
. strangely warped by prejudice, or by mistaken views
of self interest. Can any thing be more palpable
• than the truth that, the greater the number of con-
sumers of any article, the greater must be the de-
mand, and the higher the prices for the ankles they
consume? In fact, it is a self.evident truism, and
yet we have men an:ong us who aim at improving
the condition of the Agriculturalists, by diminishing
the number of mouths that consume their products.
But, forsooth, our Pcors' Rates are oppressive ! Is
emigra:ion, which directly tends to impoverish the
farmer, by sending away his customers, a measure
calculated to prochicc riches to any class of the com-
marii:y ? The saying of »zeney adds nothing to the
riches of the community : nothing does this but la 7
ionr—productive labour. But labour you cannot
have without hands, and the more hands you have,
the greater is your means of creating riches.
It is complained, however, that employment can-

not be found for our labourers and workmen. This
complaint, when duly analyzed, amounts only to
this :—We have the means of creating wealth—the
only means by which wealth can be created, but we
are ignorant how to apply the means to the proper
end. What, then, should prudence dictate in this
case ? To destroy or banish the means ? This is
madness, not prudence ! Wisdom says—Look at
every part of your present system: ascertain where
an increase of hands can create an increase of pro-
duce, and apply in that quarter the labour necessary
to that increase of produce.

Your lands that are in culture may,.by a change
of system, be made to furnish employment to your
whole population, with ir.creased comforts and be-
nefits to the Agriculturalists. Away then with igno-
rant complainings and wasteful emigrations. If you
bad not land on which to employ your labourers—or
if already you had brought all your fields under

spade cature, you might, perhaps, have cause to be-
wail your lot ; but, on the contrary, you have great
cause to rejoice that this inexhaustible mine of em-
ployment, individual wealth, and general prosperity,
still remains to you, a possession of which no foreign
rival can bereave you.

The events in Spain occupy a great share of the
public attention at this moment—and the crisis is
really important. The occurrence or non-occurrence
of a 11!volution in the most degraded, but still one of
the greatest kingdoms of Europe, must fill a large
space in the eye of• Nations. To anticipate the re-
sult—that is, whether a Revolution will or will not
take place, but little stress, comparatively, is to be
laid upon the mere isolated aspett of the Insurgent
or Royalist troops. All depends upon the elements
of which the Nation is composed. If the great mass