of fact as yet; for at the moment the price is rather falling than rising. Sugars, the produce of Guadaloupe, are admitted for home consumption iu this country, until the 1st of July next, by an | Order in Council Considerable exports of CORN continue to be made from this Country; but, it produces no effect on the market; owing to the stores in hand; and never having been regularly brought into the market. OILS have declined very much, and very rapidly; not less than 10l. to 121. per ton; and some more. The best, or Greenland, less than any other; but all kinds, more or less. Whalebone has kept pace with Oil : | if our readers will look back, two or three years, they will observe an enormous difference. There have been several large sales of FURS and SKINS, lately: So far as we can judge, the value must be considered as declining towards peace prices; but the condition of the article-on which the price mainly depends-we have not had an opportunity of verifying. Irish Provisions must be of prime quality to meet a brisk market: for prime beef the demand exceeds the present stock; India Pork is in request. Bacon exceed ingly heavy. Butter in fair demand; but the inferior qualities declining in price very fast. It is impossible to pass over the American Tariff of duties, without saying a few words on the principles which have guided the statesmen who arranged it. The first remark is, on the admission, free of duty, of articles of learning and science; books, philosophical instruments, &c.—Also, live stock of various kinds, including persons with their baggage, animals for breeding, &c.-bullion, for the purpose of coin, old metals, old clothes, rags, &c. and olive oil for mauufactures. This policy is deep and will prove effectual: it incites settlers of ability; it protects science, which is the root of all power and wealth. When America becomes a learned nation, it will become a great nation. Whatever other nations excel in, is charged by America, from fifteen to twentytwo per cent. ad valorem. This includes finens of all kinds: which ranking among necessaries, the American people will buy; but, if they can manufacture them cheaper and better at home, their labours receive in this instance, a protecting duty;-combining the advantage of the state. it might be supposed that America herself should carry the manufacture to perfection, And indeed, there must be some powerful cause in activity, which can compensate for all the expenses of shipping from a country to a distant dominion, consequently the native paying duties labour-re-shipping, and freight and duties back again to which add an additional duty of one third of the value. China, earthenware and stoneware, are included in this division; because America yields the raw material for these; and has made some progress in establishing the manufacture. This is a protecting duty, for the cheaper and coarser kinds. The elegancies of life, are included, on a different principle: this acts as a tax laid on those who are supposed able to pay it. If they will have foreign luxuries for the person, or the table, they must purchase them at a price in which the state participates. Works of wood, of leather, paper, &c. which yield no employment to native Americans, are rated at 35 per cent. Among the articles specifically taxed, glass rauks very high; fish, very high; woods; and some others. The obvious policy of the whole is, to encourage skill and energy, at home. How it may act on the manufactures of other European Countries we do not know; we conjecture that the Continent will be barely pleased with it. Britain will be able to meet the market as well as any, her difficulty does not lie so much in this Tariff as in the extent and amount of credit, given to individuals, unable or unworthy, to merit it. AGRICULTURAL REPORT, EssEx-All the former part of this month abounded with frequent rains, that the plainting of Beans and Peas are now on hand, and, on account of the season being so far advanced, is chiefly done by the Drill. For the same reason, our Wheat Plants look very indifferent; warm and dry weather is much wanted to improve their appearance. Young Clovers in places are much gone off and the winter Tares have visibly felt the effects of the cold weather. Ryegrass and other spring Seed make but a slow progress. The early Lambs are getting quite strong, and the latter ones will in all probability get on as fast. Lean Stock continues dull of sale, particularly Pigs; and the price of all farming stock is much reduced. The Income Tax being done away, and a few other taxes reduced, make the prospect of the Agriculturists Cotton manufactures are charged one third of their value; and 5 per cent. more than woollen manufactures. Because cotton being the native growth of America. I somewhat cheering. THE LITERARY PANORAMA, AND National Register : For MAY, 1816. NATIONAL and PARLIAMENTARY maxims as self-evident and unquestion Fotices, PROSPECTIVE and RETROSPECTIVE. (BRITISH & FOREIGN.) TREATIES. GENERAL TREATY Signed in Congress at Vienna, June 9, 1815. WITH THE ACTS THEREUNTO ANNEXED. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, BY COMMAND OF H. R. H. THE PRINCE REGENT, 1816. able, as paramount, constitutional, national, they bear with impatience whatever appears to oppose them, and they endeavour to reduce all things to the level of that horizon which coincides precisely with their elevation and station. While each endeavours to do this, and while states believe their interests, in certain particulars, are in diametrical opposition to the interests of others, there can be no tranquillity, no repose, among nations. The jealousies, and heartburnings, and rivalships, and pride of what is called national honour, and even patriotism itself, all combine to enforce an impetus on this side; while a re-action, urged by the same causes, no less strenuous, no less continued, maintains an energy on that side, which allows no rest, nor abatement of exertion, among those who find, or who fancy, that they are engaged. Politics among nations are like that ancient game, in which the ball was thrown up, to be contended for by rival parties, armed with short batts, wielded by powerful arms, each player striking THAT Angel which the Prophet saw standing on the sea, is well described as "a mighty Angel;"- ---no other could find a stable footing on support so fluctuating: He was commissioned to foretell the fates of nations and peoples-a theme not less incessantly changing, than the element on which he stood. In fact, the sea, itself, varies its appear-with all his strength, and whirling away ance not more frequently, than politics, and political associations. Not that the true and real interests of nations change with that interminable rapidity which misleads their Statesmen; but, because neither they themselves, as bodies politic, nor their rulers, as public officers, can at all times discriminate between the true and the apparent interest of their dominions. Swayed by the passions and the prejudices of the human mind, accustomed to consider such and such VOL. IV. No. 20. Lit. Pan. N. S. May 1. the prize to a distance proportioned to the force of his blow ;-after this prize, runs the whole mass of players, every soul intent on striking another blow, either to recover the ground lost, or to support the advantage gained, to drive the object to the gaol, and to win the game. such vicissitudes take place: the party If the game be well played, a dozen seemingly sure of success, at this mo ment, is, the next moment, the furthest H |