The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-11 00:00:00

WHALE FISHERY.

On Tuesday evening, the following vessels ar-
rived at Hull, from the Davis Streights Whale
Fishery ; all full ships, via. :—The Ingrid, Web-
ster, 17 e hale), bbo butts of blubber ; Cato,
Wildee, 15 whales, 451) butts of blubber ; North
Briton, Plaxton, 14 whales, 380 butts of Web-
ber ; and the Venerable, Keilab, 174 whales,
550 butts of blubber.

The vessels left the fishery about the. Ist of
June : they bring an account of the success of
the undermentioned vessels belonging to
its.:—Leviathan 19 fish ; Lynx 16 or 17 ; Royal
George 16; Symmetry 16, one small; Mary and
Elizabeth 13 ; Maintop 14 ; Marquis of ilunt-
lay 14; Elizabeth 13; Thornton 3 or 4.—The
Catharine, Young, we are sorry to learn, was
lost upon Whaleftsh Island, on the 24th April ;
the crew, however, were saved.... Leith vessels s
Raids, a full ship ; Thomas and dun, 19; Wig.
heir and Awn 19; Rattler 10; Success 4....
Dawdewt Bons, a full ship; Estridge 11.—lier-
slick Nerfak 4.
The &mit, Captain Flornby, of Grithsby,
has arrived there, from Davis' Straits, with 12
tab (oae mall), is full ship; the Earl nacos.
berg, of that port, had got 8 fish.—The tier.
odes, of Aberdeen, has arrived with 11 fish, a
fall ship.—The l.ady Jane, of Newcastle, has
also arrived (damaged) with 8 Ash, about 120
togs of oil ; the Middkton, of that, port, had
get two fish.

The greet Tinioel through the lofty hill called
Stance*, over which the high road passes from
Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, to Manchester, and
which forms one of the great ch nu of hills
separate the counties of York and Lancaster, is at
lent* completed. II is several years since this
greet work of human labour and ingenuity
(which downs the third line of water communication
by which theme two great manufacturing counties
are now connected) was begun :—it has been
more than mice arrested in its progress, and in.
deed almost abandoned, partly (cool pecuniary
exhumation, and party from the great difiiculty of
the undertaking, arising from the extraordinary
depth of the tunnel beneath the surface, the
great quantity of water which required to be
l!rawa utf, and the looseness ,of some part of
the strata through which it passed. It is,
is truth, a stupendous work, and the sums
that have been lavished on it hare been so enor.
mous, that it is not verx easy to ascertain the
period of remuneration to the sabscrihers. The
great change which has taken place in the sommu.
vacation between Yorkshire and Lancashire, since
the period when even the horse road was not with.
out its difficulty, is a striking proof of the Werra/.
in manufactures of these counties.-- Wc do not use
the term prosperity—for it by no means follows
that that epithet, as connected with human
happiness, is the necessary consequence of an in-
crease of the manufacturing system. So long as
the nnwieldv *incline moves forward without ob.
stable—the only drawbacks on the general satis-
faction arising from the prosperity of our menu-
factures.—are the difficulty of obtaining the de-
-sired quantity of human labour, and the insubordi.
nation and discontent of the artisans, who, because
in three days they can earn what will maintain them
a week—generally at that period of their harvest—
finally resolve not to work at all, unless the price
of their labour is increased, to the final ruin of
those who comply with their demands. These
are some of the inconveniencies of prosperity ;
but when we seek to maintain our monopoly as
drapers and cutlers to the rest of mankind by war
—then begin to be felt the real consequences of the
prosperity—that is—the excessive production of
our manufactures----disquietude, loss, and bank-
ruptcy, to the master manufaeturer---reduction
of wages—want of employment..--advance iu
the necessaries of life---and famine to the era.
man--.To what period the commercial and ma-
eufacturing monopoly of Great Witold may
be protracted, it were fruitless to inquire ; but
from the scene which Manchester and other great
manifacturing towns have presented for the last
two years...it is by some thought to be within
the c.oinimss of possibility that the manufacturing
system, extended as it now is, may not be that
Mate of society most consonant with human hap-
piness. On the distresses of the labouring manu-
facturers.-.distresses certainly in many instances
arising from their on o improvWence,but all originat.
'tug with the system, it were superfluous to dilate,
they are nniversally known, and most extensively
felt, and their frequent recurrence may certainly be
expected, from the indefinite power of production
which the ingenuity and perseverance of the British
Riau ufacturers have at length attained.—To restrain
that which is confessedly a national inconveni-
Inv', is impossible.—lt cannot, however, be de-
Died, that an eatossion of the manufacturing sys-
tem is now in direct oppositioe to. every principle
of general policy.