The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

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to. sd. to 3c eirl. Mr. Price sold hi• Merino* wool

at 44. 4id. per lb. and 4s. was refused for &feriae
rather inferior quality.
•• At Koss Fair, on the 201 h last. Ityelarnlirind-

ed sold at 2.. I lid., and Merino cold at 4s. Id.

" Thetford F.ir was very fully attended, both.by
tellers and buyPrs, and business was transacted with
reat spirit, Nod the sales took place in the room.—
NIG Coke offered his wool at 3s. per pound, which
• - was imnrdiately accepted, hedecla wag that he should
not sell t.o low if it was net sold In the room. The
Roof of the prime flocks sold readily at the same
price, and some about a halfpenny less. We have
Ito account of the coarser wool.
• " The price of wool of the same quality in Suffolk
end F. es, it is expected, will be nearly the same.
But the account of the Wool bleetiugs have not yet
reached us.
" The Meeting at Dorchester, in Oxfordshire,
will nut take place' tilt the 29th. But I learn that
24. .14c1. per pound Is asked for the coarse sort of
Gloucester and Liiceater mixed, and 2s. lid. re-
fused,

or hest Southdown wool

- See no reasoo why o,
should not sell at least as high as it does in other
counties. viz. three shillings per pound, sod in pro-
portion for wool not equally fine. I am sorry to
find that some wool growers, contrary to agreement,
sell their wool before the fair, by which practice they
injure the sale in general, and seldom do themselves
any good.
" Some principal wool-staplers in London speak
• of a great demand for Southdown wool,. and appear
surprised at it, as the foreign 'wool is coming in very
fast ; and they affirm that 0,300,000 lbs. of foreign
• wool have been imported into London and Bristol.
• More the Ist of January last, and consequently con.
chide that wool will not coutinue to bear any advance
en the last year's prices, so that their opinion is,
• that British wool will, not retain its present price,
end I am disposed to agree in that opinion, if an on-
restricted importation of foreign wool should be con.
tinned."
• The Report having been read, the Meetingnnani.
imonsly requested that their Thanks might be given ten
• Lord Sheffield, for the valuable information he had •
afforded them.
As usual little business was doge in the Meeting-
room. It is much to be regretted that Such should
continue the case, when the contrary practice,
which has succeeded so well at Thetford, has been
freqeently end strongly recommended. Mr. Moon
offered his wool at 3.. per lb., which is moderate,
ootisidering that his wool is of the prime quality,
. end that the Southdown wool, which readily sold
elsewhere at that price, was derived from his flock.
it is supposed that a few sales afterwards took place,
end Wit inferior wools sold from 2s. Bd. to 2s. 10d.
Many of the very respectable wool-staplers who
usually attended the fair were present, among whom
were Mr. Dyer, Mr. Gardiner, Messrs. Drew and
Nonage, &c. &c.

• The following Is a correct accusal of the prestos prices of
apanish
E.treoseura. or Seville Wool, 31. 6d. to 4s. 3d. per lb.
Soria. ikon.- in (lit arartet:
liegovias, 41. 6,1. to 51. 3d. do.
Lt"nrstit, bc. 6d. to 6s 6d. do.
There are wit. Is in the .itarket of the latter dais. for "thick
ti. 94. ti regaled $ but the chief of thio claw of wool may be
bought at b,. 9d. to 6.. 31.

CONTINENTAL MANUFACTURES.
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SEQUEL OF THE ANSWER of HIS HIGHNESS PRINCE
• HARDENIIERO TO THE PETITION OF THE MANU-
FACTURERS OF THE PRUSSIAN PROVINCES ON
THE RHINE.

(C..oclteded from ottr Paper of ynterday.)
- " The possibility of maintaining foreign competi-
tion within such limits, that the advantages of it
would not be exceeded by the inconveniences, has
been scrupulously examined, with reference to the
bases of this knowledge. The difficulties that spring
- from the situation of the Prussian States, which are
dispersed over a vast space, and from the extent of
their frontiers, as well as the advantages that might
result from the notion of several States in a common
system of manefactures and commerce, must have
,been the better understood by the Government, in
proportion as they are founded ou relations easy to
be embraced.

" It is in constantly having regard to all these
considerations that we have conducted to matu►ity
a plan of which the King has recently ordered the
execution, sod conformably to which a line of Cu!.
toms will embrace the frontiers of the three western
provinces of the State—will assure a just preference
to national industry, by duties imposed in just pro.
portion on foreign products which may compete
v►ith ours—and will facilitate and protect the liberty
of commerce with the eastern provinces, by a rigor.
ous surveillance against the mixture of the products
of foreign manufacture. It is entirely in the spirit
of this plan to use reprisals against, or make returns
to, foreign Governments ; whether on account of the
restrictions that they shall impose on commerce, or
the facilities that they will grant to it ; and to en.
gage neighbouring States to smite themselves for men.
sures of common utility.
" I believe I ought, above all, make you observe,
how much more the prosperity of manufactures and
of commerce depends upon the spirit which animates
the individuals devoted to these two professions, than
on any particular measures taken by the Government.
There is a mode of conducting manufactures and
commerce, which may, for the moment, appear very
advantageous to individuals, but which bears, never-
theless, in itself a germ of ruin, which the power and
wisdom of Government cannot prevent from forcing
out of its way. Usually the operations of manufac-
tures are proportionally more perfect and advantage.
one, ae they are formed on a greater scale. This pro.
portion often induces the undertaking of enterprises
so extensive, that they are stopped only at the point
where the impossibility of sale puts limits to them.
" But those who see their enterprises stopped by
these natural limits, are not always just enough to
acknowledge that the competitors whose activity pro.
duces them, act upon the same views, and by the
same right as themselves ; and they are therefore often
tempted, in additiOn to means suitable and just to
obtain a superiority, to employ others for the pur-
pose, which are neither just nor adapted to their end,
and whose consequences recoil on their author, with-
out the State possessing power' to protect him from
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