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"8 the rule, Yet the manufactures of Eastern Prussia
“tinued to decline; whilst in Saxony, Westphalia, and
he Rhenish provinces industry grew up, and flourished
Fithoug protection. At the end of fifty years of the triai of
Frederick 8 system, such was the result. . . . The law of 26th
ul May, 1818, sets forth freedom of commerce as the fundaenta]
 Principle of the new system of customs; i} enacted
"hat as 4 rule the duty on foreign manufactures shall not
"Xeoed ten per cent. ad valorera according to the average
Priceg #2
“ Stettin, August Tth.—Took leave of Kate this morning
* the Hamburgh railway, and then started for Stettin at
Seven, in company with Mr. Swaine. The railway passes
rong, a poor sandy country thinly peopled, and with
light crops of grain. The exportation of corn was protibiteq
 this year from Prussia, also of potatoes in May;
"1 of the ministers stated in the Diet publicly that the
‘tte measure could be of no use, inasmuch as at that time,
1° potatoes could be sent out of the country with advantage,
bug advocating the law on the plea that it was necessary to
Tanquillize the people; the use of potatoes was also interlicteq
 in distilleries for three months, by which the food for
“ttle (the residue of the potatoes) was curtailed, and caused
Stat embarrassment to the proprietors, , . . In the even
"8 dined with about eighty or ninety persons, who assembled
*& day’s notice to meet me; the company sat at dinner for
early four hours ; speeches between each course; the orators
unched freely into politics.”
“ Stettin, August 8th.—The Baltic ports are in no way
*nefiteq by the manufacturing interests of the south and
‘he Rhenish provinces, and they are directly sacrificed by
: he Protective system. The few furnaces for making iron
a Silesia, and those on the Rhine, have imposed a tax upon
the Whole community, by laying a duty of 20s. a ton upon
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1847,
Ar. 43,