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field market has lately overflowed its. boun- 
daries far beyond any former experience ; 
yet the sales were in proportion, and the pri- 
ces great; a true index of great national pros- 
perity : in the mean time, no want of food in 
the provinces; on the contrary, vast conse- 
quentaccession of employment and circula- 
tion ; a substantial answer to those, who, in 
‘these Jatter days, drivel about an overgrown 
metropolis. Good horses for the saddle 
and quick draught continue in great re- 
quest, and , beyond all doubt, will command 
extraordinary prices in the spring. In 
most counties, the farming labourers are 
fully employed, and might in probability 
be equally so.in all, ander a better system. 
‘Lhe Astrea of British prosperity is re- 
Political Affairs in December. 
[Jan. J, 
turning ; and, under an honest government, 
this country might ensure a state of plenty, 
of freedom, of universal influence and hap- 
piness, such as no nation of the earth, has 
hitherto experienced. 
Smithfield: —Beet, 3s. to 4s. 2d.—Mut- 
ton, 5s. to 4s, 2d.— Veal, 3s. 4d. to 5s. 4d. 
—Pork, 2s. 4d. to 5s. 4d.—Bacon, Bath, 
4s, 4d. to 4s. 8d,—Irish, 4s, 2d.—Raw fat, 
vs. Ida. 
Corn Exchange :—Qld Wheat, 54s. to 70s. 
—New 38s. to 63s.—Barley, 26s. to 36s. 
—Oats, 21s, to 31s.—London price of best 
bread, 9£d.—Hay, 65s. to 110s.—Clover 
do. 84s. to 150s. —Straw, 335, to 44s. 
Coals in the pool, 35s. to 45s. 9d. 
Middlesex; Dec. 22, 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN DECEMBER. 
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GREAT BRITAIN. 
RADE flourishes ; agriculture im- 
proves; stocks rise; and the 
absence of irritation has created a ge- 
eral apathy: on public topies. The 
feature of greatest novelty in our na- 
tional concerns, is the system of money- 
lending to foreign. governments, or- 
ganized, within a few years, by com- 
panies of Jews residing in Londen and 
foreign countries, who play into each 
others hands, and who, having no 
country, are regardless of the interests 
of all, Inithis manner above fifty mil- 
lions have been lent since 1818 to the 
different members of the Holy Alli- 
ance, to enable them to perpetrate 
aheir policy. Half this sum, at least, 
is British capital, advanced by rapa- 
cious money-lenders, in the prospect 
of getting 6 or 7 per cent. though on 
the faithless security of despots, ‘above 
the control of any law, but their own 
convenience. | Usage prevents their 
buying our ships of war, and raising 
troops in Britain; but, if they are ‘thus 
to be permitted to withdraw our ca- 
pital, obtain the sinews of war, and 
transfer the strength of the country to 
their own dominiongs—and ifayarice has 
no principle or public spirit, then the 
legislature ought to exert prudence 
enough to put an end to a system 
which, in every point of view, is so 
anti-national, pernicious, and dange- 
rous. Privately considered, it is a 
species of South Sea bubble, and must 
end in like manner; thousands have 
already been ruined by some of these 
loans, and other thousands are com- 
mnitted on these rotten and untangible 
securities for all they are worth, and 
often for more, 
UNITED STATES. 
The Speech of the jllustrious Pre- 
sident, James Monroe, on open- 
ing the 18th congress of the United 
States, has reached Europe; and, al- 
though in the succession of these noble 
documents we know not which to ad- 
mire the most, yet the last always 
appears to be the best, and the present 
one the finest of the series, in lan- 
guage, policy, and sentiments. - Man- 
kind at large must be so struck with 
the glorious example of the practical 
wisdom of these Presidents of a free 
Republic, that their despots, in pure 
shame, must take lessons from them,’ 
or be content to rank with the meanest 
things that can crawi the earth. We 
have been unable to make room for 
the lucid details of domestic finance, 
hut have given every passage of ge: 
neral interest to the European and 
the intellectual world. 
Fellow-Citizens of the Scnate, and House 
of Representalives.—Many important suly- 
jects will claim your attention during the 
present session, of which ¥ shall endeavour. 
to give, in ald of your deliberations, a jyst 
idea in this communication, I nndertake 
this duty with diffidence, from the vast ex- 
tent of the interests on which { lave to 
treat, and of their great imporfanee to 
every portion of our Union, I enter on 
it with zeal, from a thorough conviction 
that there never was a period, since the 
establishment of our revolution, when, 
regarding the condition of the civilized 
world, and its bearing on us, there was 
greater necessity for devotion in the pub- 
lic servants to their respective duties, or 
for virtue, patriotism, aud union, in our 
constituents. 
Meeting in you a Congress, I deem it 
proper to present this view of pablic¢ 
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