Star. — London, England, 1807-12-18 00:00:00

AMERICA • .CONGRESS...THII SENATE, NOV. 3. MT TIFFIN offered the following refolution Refolved—Sy the Senate and Houk of Aeprefenati•es .f the United Otani of America, in Conyers aiem►led. two thirds of both Hooks concurring, that t►e following fedion be thiamine& to the Legiflatures of the fevers' States; which, when ratified and moArmed by the Legiflatures of three.fourtbs of the faid States. hall be valid and binding, as a part of the Contlitution of the United States, in lieu of the aft redion of the 3d articisaiggeot The judicial Power of the United States fhall be vetted in one fupreme Court, and in fuch inferior Courts as the Conyers may, from time to time, ordain and ettablifla. The judges both of the fupreme and inferior Courts Rail hold their offices for years, that' be removed by the Prefident, on the addrefs of two-thirds of both Hooks of Coogrers requetting the fame, and eon, at fisted times, revive for their Cervices a compenrstioo, which 101 l not be dirninifbed during their continuance in office. Which was ordered to lie for conaderation. Mr. Myren'Lt. offered the follr'wing refolution litecolved--That a Committee be appointed wimp:ire whether iny.and what alterations are neeettiry to be Made is the laws refpedting infarredtions and violations of the public peace and au thority, u well as the laws repeding the co nfpiraeg or. enterprise • of private individuals againft foreign nations In amity with the United States, with leave to report by bill or otherviife. Which was ordered to lie for confideration. • PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOL O .,E OP LORDS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. At three o'clock this day the LORD CHRYIttt.LIR and lithe came down to the Houle. He, was imme diafelyjoined by Lords Mt/LORRY' and ARDEN, who had been for a Sort time previoufly in one of the ost.chambers. Their Lordfhips, being robed, took their feats as his Majefty's Commiffioners on the Bench in front of the Ihrone. Mr. (Iyaasts, Acing Mier of the Black Rod, was then lent to otdet the attendance of the Commons, , who, reprefented on this otcatioa by Mr. Drsow and the principal Clerks and Officers of the Honfe, as Mr. ST/LRCM/M t Mr. WHITT/U/4, &t. furihwith ap peared at the bar. His Majtay's Commiffion was then read, autheri fing the Lords within named, or any three br more 4111 them, to declare and notify the Royal Wi ll ''reafure for the further Prorogatinei of the prefent Parliament, until Thurfday the 3111 day of la. ',wary next, to be then holden, " and fit failhe ;patch of divers weighty and importait affairs,' and .requiring and commanding the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens and Bargelree, &c. to give their attendance at Wellminflee en the Paid day. After which the Loaf; CNANCILLOR ( , IS organ of the Commiffioners) addreired the Afftrnbly as tol lows : " My lords and Gentlemen, " By virtue of his Majefty's Commiffion under the Great Seal to us and other Lords diredtod, and now read, we do, in his Ma jetty's name, and in obedience •to his commands, prorogue this Parliament until Thurfday, the sift day of January next, to be then here hoiden and Gt ; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued tollurfday the sift day of January next." The Commons then withdrew to their own Hutlf:, and their Lordthips retired. A few minutesufter the Commiffioners had taken their feats, his Grace the AacHnisnor of Cam Tait• IVRY entered the Houle, in his robes, apparin;ly for the purpofe of fitting as one ; but the rcquifioe num ber being previoufly obtained, the Reverend Prelate withdrew. In the abtence of Mr. ROSE, Mr. E. Viziwtsz VC officiated as Reading Clerk to their Lord. Ships. • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER gB. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Confab, foe see. 6411--Redueed 63—Omuiun►, pre. Exchequer Sills, par to. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Sant Stock ss3l India Bonds, par is dlr. 3 per Cent. Red 634 63 Imp. 3 per Cent. 6a 3 per C. Conf Atm Mit Excheq. Dills, par so. se. pr. 4 per . Cent. kill Omnium s per Cent. Navy that City Lot. Ticket. 71. to. Long Ann. syi ss•a6tla Cunf. for acc: 64if EMIGRATION OF THE HOUSE OF BRAGANZA. This - event, however unexpeeed by many, has ittoally taken place. The Ann armed fhip from Gibraltar, withdifpatches, arrived at Plymouth on Wednefday. Qn the 3oth.ult. the fell in with the Portugnea Squadron, confiding of fire f..il of 'the line and.one frigate, having the ROYAL FAMILY on board. The fqnadron had left the l'agus on the day in which the Ann fell in'ssith it.—The French army, eonfifting of 43,000 men, entered Lifb.m the fume day. ' • • . It teems probable from the lakmentioned circum• Rance, that the retreat - if the* Tirttrat. FAMILY was with the knowledge ref the French Genetal. If nor, how,critical the moment at which they made their efeape ! The Ann was not informed of the deflination of • the Portuguefe fquadron, 'but there can hardly be a doubt that ultimately it will proceed to.the Brazils thoigh it is extremely probable that it may MI touch . at the Madeisas, or even at oßritifis poet, if its de • • parting has been with loch hide as ttilitive hindered . . their taking on board any of the capkirto.neceffary to • the comforts of fuch a voyage. - • -, . • What a leffon, if leffons were Rik wanting, does the prefent event hold out to thefe who dire& the affairs of nations ! It cannot be doubted that the •Portugtefe Government negotiated, temporifed, 'tit tered to fubmit to any terms the Ruler of Europe might demand from them as the price of forbearanCe, after the departure of the Britifh and their property! But this was an offence not to be forgiven. A com pliance with the calls of humanity, of honour, of snf. Ace, could not be expiated when likened to in favour of Englins fuhjels ; and yet we find men fo mad and infatueted as to make light of the threats, the pudice. sod the power of fo inveterate a foo! It is vain to attempt to palliate this charge, while soy means within the-reach of our :power remains un employed. u.norgaitir.4 to repel any and every at* tempt that may. in. raide r , not by France only. but, by the world in arms, to ovefwhelm. this country. The fealty which:every eitizenowes to the Rate, impels us to !peak our, nor (hall say' thing dew - se - , from performing the duty. It is high tune that party politics were facrificed to the public-weal.— ' Thole who negled the removing, or make light of I , continuing reftridions, which not only bind a great part of our phyfical firctigth in fetters, but render it neceilary to employ that which ought to be effedive in watching over men who are as loyal and-faithful fubjeds as thofe who (taped them—thofe men, we: fay, ought to confider that the queition , now at Kim Is not, What families (Btitifla or Iciih) fliall pads. ibe greateft agate of influence ; or, to (peak more sibliniy,•receire the greaten. Owe of the emoluthenti conflated with power—but, • Whether we (ball be ruled by our own Sivereign, and have.our national councili filled with our own countrymest, or, be brought under the yoke of the man who forces the' Royal Hoofs of Braganza to expatriate itfelf, fdr no crime, but for keeping good faith with this country. • Since writing the above. an est 214 r I i eAter frem Laboo ' has been !Landed tet us, and Which reached town this =ming. It Rates that the Ruflian s which lately entered the Tagus are filled with French And Spanith.foldiers ; that they are entirely at the difpofal of the French Commander ; that they are an. choted in fuel) a manner acrofs the Tagus as to of as batteries, thould any Btitith force attempt to enter that River; and that their upper works and decks have been covered with leather packed with emit, in -the fame manner as the inemot able Spanith floating batteries which were detlroyed by General Et.s.tor, at Gibraltar. The GlowLitt gun of 14 gem.; from .the fleet MT Cidiz, with difpatches, has arrived at Ply. mouth—(he fpnke the fquadron under Sir Smut! SMITH, cruizing off Lifb n. A velrel has arrived at Liverpool from America, after a very fhort paage, by which, innead of letters there was received in town yeflerday, thrtfol lowing intelligence from tlaneheller. Howevei pro bable the fall may be, it requires conliderablelaith to give credit to this article of circuitous and inter rupted imrtation : RRRRR CT OT A LETTR* 71011.11ANCIIIITZ1,DATCD DILCril• 1111.15. 1807 : " A Gentleman of refpc6ability arrived about four o'clock this afternoon, at the Bridgewater Arms, after} very quick patfage. from America, vie Liverpool. he brings an account later by fette• ral days than any hitherto received in this country; ■s Wes plisse, at the Sitting of Congrefs when the Debate took place regarding the Difputes exifting between America, this Country, and France ; and that they declared IN FAVOUR Or TYR Etecialau MT A LARGE MAJORITY." IWe have very Rrong reafons for thinking, that the reports of a want of cnhefion in the component parts of the prefent Adminitlration have not been without foundation, and &at a reparation is on the point of taking place. The cattle of it, when fully known, will, we are of opinion (more erpecially when corn . - bined with the difmillal of the late Adminifiration), create no fmall degree of furprize in the country at la•ge. One cattle of the raffling divifions of the Cabinet, which are now •too prominent to be longer con. cealed, is generally reported to be, the contrary fentiments of Mr. CANNING and Lord Hawass BURY with • repel% to America—Lord Flswies. 'way is Rated to be for the Mil enfot cement of the Navigation Laws, and of courfe for the total exclu. firm of the Americans from all trade with the Britifh Colonies. The Board of Controul. it is .likewife• ' • underftood, have remonarated againt the claim of the Aineticans to tire the filial% ports in the Eaft ladies ; and the Board of Directors have exPrefled their apprehenlions that the progrefs o►f the Ameri: can trade to China mull eventually injure the trade of the Eafl India Company, and of coutfe the reve nue of the Country. DU - patches from Lord COLUICGWOOD Were re• ceived vellerday, brought by the Infolent hoop. His Loydlhip was cruizing eff - 1 - o.Arrn with lc ight f a il o f the line, and bl••cking up the Fsencli tqoadron..- Rear Admiral TooaaanaoucH wait liikst s rsrs !if f .ippk, to procure fopplies, and the Wroorost: Carrta And to taw of 98 guns, had proceeded 4.. s Gibraltar •to rch . .—General Morns had left Sicily with ab,int 9 or somoo troops. Further Difpaches were received this morning from the Mediterranean, brought by the Aaaow ilsop to Plymouth lute nn Wednefday. We underhand that Earl Camino, Lord HAWE lii• SUET, Lnrd Mistoaava, and Mr. Secretary C•Ii" 'll . lllG ' will this day wait on his MAJESTY at Winchirr. IS is fuppored that it is intended to hold • a Council there, and it is laid, that, to,fave bis•Mayarrr the fatigue of cooling frequently to town, a. etinfiderable par; 'of the pubria Wands. will , in future be iraufatied , at WindfOr. s. 0 . . A Council:fat Yefteiday at Lord Mulgraver, Office in the Admiralty, for the examination of pilot's, who . are to 'be einployed upon another new expedition.— A gnat number of pilots attended. Mete was much Wile at the'Adfitirilry yesterday. . . Difpatches, received yesterday, from the The), silted the 16th intL. announce the.capture of revere French privateers, , ' .. • - • " - 1 Monday Infirects . .ls9 and sop: recruits joined the7 l at : Cantcehttry; andlon. Sync!. day about the Tonic ogmbet i snarcbcd from thence to join the Royal Pctih 1 ilz in a Dever. • . . • THE LINA. The &Land Report of the Committee on thePublie Impesditure„ which was ordered to be printed in . laßi had for its objet, an elucidation of the assuagement of , the publif debt by the Bank. This RePort, which .is entit'ed to the attention of our . Readers, emamences by an isveßigation of the profit derived by the Bak from the management of the Public Debt. The following Bataan. sews the inereafe of the debt, and of the charges of manage. mint : Debt Charges*, - • 'Unredeemed Management. sth Jan. t 7116 £2 2 4401424 £ z 00.546 . ---•••••• (797 $72.194444 • 115.54 . 3 .4......—.. deo . 376.05.110 i • 1704433 ‘......—. day 530.441414 56j,1118 Tiithe lift rum for management is to be added on account oldie Auftrian Loan - 3 68 7 Allowance towards the (spinets of the Hoofe 4000 Ortinil Allowance on 4,000,00:1. purchakd from the South Sea Company 111911 the balance's of PrOlic Monet in the hands of the Bank form the . next head of conlideration L.thcfe ate Hated as follows : Cuttoms, E.:cite and Stamps.'average bilance kept at the Bank, during three months, ending sth Jana. . ary, 1807 • - 457.000 , Pift Office ditto . - act o soo `Sundry other accounts, under the heads of Paymafter General of the Forces,Treafurer of the Navy. &a 1 ,33 1 974 Average account of Unclaimed Dividemis. during the year. t 8.7.6. deduding s 76,7 s 91 lent to Goat: noicut P on that account without interelt 964.455 Commifilooters '..r the Redudtion of the National Debt 1,488073 `EzeneOler Money, acenmutating for the payment of . DiviJends, ge amount - 6 167 ml i0,65y,890 To this ii to be sailed the rum remaining .on account of the Cotimininnete under the Convention with the United States of America 475.'329 Total LI 004,919 The Committee then (hew that the actual balances in ihe Bank, at four different !urine's of di; quarter, ending the sth Jdnuary, 1807, exceeded the average amnu:►t Titer calculAte the annual intereft upon thefe ba lances, at between 5 and 630,0001. being at the rate of 51. per cent which they confider to be not far from the amount of the profits arifing from this Coerce. The following is Rated as the amount of Bank notes (exclufive of el. and al. notes) in c.rculation at dif ferent periods ytk February 1795 ‘ 1 257 0 ,5 03 6th February 1196 I 5,515,c00 aft February 1106 11,816,770 aft February alloy - 11433,430 The Committee expre.ffes their full pet fualfon, that both balances and notes are, and mull neceffarily be, produttive of profit ; and proceed to obferve, that the bonus given to the proprietors of Bank flock, for fome fucceffive years, in addition to the dividends of 7 per cent.—the recent augmentation of the dividends 'to to per cent.—and the rife in the market price r , f the flock from 1721. per cent. (1800) to 2301. are firong circuinflances in confirmation of the large in create of the profits of the Bank ; that the extenfion either of loans to Government, or of dike:runs to merchants, or of both, is the neceffary effed of the augmentation of the Government depofits and that pit .is to the largenefs of there depofits that the in_ created profits ought to be referred. It is alto (fated that in the negotiation for the re newal of the charter in 1800, Mr. Pitt made a claim -on the part of the public fur a direit participation of i "Yhe'profits of the Bank, according to a fixed propor tion ; that the claim was ultimately agreed to, and 'the loan of 3,000.0001. to the public tor fix years without interek was the refult.. The balances al public money in the hands of the Bank were, at that time, of comparatively trifling amount. The laft agreement made with the Bank was in tBo6, when it was agreed to continue the loan of 3,000m001. during the war, at three per curt. thereby giving to the public 60,0001. per annum. This tranfaftion. it is obferved by the Committee, evinces that the agreement made in tBOO was not conlidered by either party as a bar agninli further participation whenever the incr cafe r , f the profits derived from the public and the circumflances of public affairs might upon fitirilar principles make filch a claim reafonable and expedient. The Report concludes by enumerating the advan tages which the public derive from the Bank, and beating teflimony to the favourable difpofition In often manilefled on the part of the Bauk towards the public fervice. This Report is the bafis of the new tranfaftion upon which the Treafury is proceeding ; but we be ' Here that as yet no plan is fiaally fettled between the partief, as a proirotitian to he fubmitted to Parlia ment. We null that it will be the refult of an amicable arrangement. The Merchants connaled with the Ruffian trade met yellerday at Batfon's Coffee-houfe, porfitant to the rtgoifition which we mentioned on Tuefday 'After deliberating for tome time, a memorial was drawn up, and agreed to ; which was to be prefented to the Lot ds in Council this day. The objet of this memorial we have already defcribed•to be the releafe of• all the Ruffian (hips, &c. detained under the late embargo. Yellerday a meeting was alfo held of American Merchants to confult on the meafures to be taken on the prefent critical Rate of the trade between Great 'Britain and America. Nothing decilitre wit refolved, and this meeting adjourned al this day fennight. ' The Expedition fitting out at Portfmauth, under Vice Admiral Sir Cnaaiss CpTTOII and General Spamcai, will fail without delay ;'report nate', on to morrow. The naval part confilis of the following (hips, now lying at Spithead Mipotaur 74 olviee Ad.. Sir CELL COTTON • Captain NtAvs - . Spencer - 74 Hon. Captain STOP/Van „Bkunfarick - • 74 Captain Claarts Saturn - 74 Lord A. Sa v a/testae Antelope - so Captain GALwAT lfis - so ----0 Lautinanara Diumedc • - • _ - so -----.-. Dvataaasq. _ - _ Aod folic lisbt vegre.k. Coax EXCHANGR, MARIE LANE, Dar. t —The i fupply cf Wheat today is (bort, but the Idea are very Ault, and hardly fupport lilt prices--Bye rather dearer—Barley in plenty, and thmewhat lower— White Peas full. as high-and •Beans, of the two kinds, rather. cheaper •i-Oats are alfo in Ikon fupply, and kelp their pricc.-Flotir kikeeeife. car BUSINESS. V' Yellerday a Court of Common Conneil was h e ld at Guildhall, in the City, at which the Right Hon. the Loan MAYOR, feveral Aldermen, and tt grea t number of the Common Councilmen were i nde nt , Several petitions were heard, and determination s were made according to their refpative merits. A Report from the Coal and Corn Committee, re commending the temoval of the Corn Office, was read, agreed to, and ordered to be carried into es. ecution. The Chamberlain was direlted to pay off 40,3001. in Temple. Bar Bondi, on the sth of July next, and to give notice to the tefpeaive parties who are inte. felled. The Report of a Committee relative to the office of Common Hunt, together with the opinions of the Recorder, Common Serjeant, and Mr. Vaillant, thereon, were read. The report and opinions fisted the great antiquity of the office, adding, that S te Citizens of Lopdon had originally a right to hunt in tl e Royal Futeß►, for which purpofe the office of Common Hunt was originally instituted. The Cant• mittee, together with the City Law Officers and Connie!, declared their ennviftion that the Corpora tion had an undoubted tight to continue or abolifh any office within themfelves as they might deem es• pedients but at the fame time obferved, that offices of great antiquity were very feldem abolifhed,unles upon forte very (bong and fufficient ground. Mr. Jaces then moved, 4. That the office of Cern. gi o nl-I.l nt • be cvntioned, and that *e Loan MAYO' do proceed to fill up the fame at the nest Cout t." The motion being duly fcconded—upon the qucf. tion:being pur, . - Mr. MARRIOTT tefe to oppofe the motion, upon the ground rf the inutility of keeping an officer, at great eapence, after the funftinns nt the office bad ceafcd to eriß. He ther.fore moved an Amendment, putpor t:ng, that all the word• after the word" That," be expunged, for the pupae of inferting the wc,rds 4 . That the office 4Consmon Hunt be nowabolithed." The queflion was then put upon the Amendment; and, after a Ilintt entivellation between Mai.. Waithm4n, SAmliel Dix ,n, Harper, Griffiths. and Alderman Hunte., it w.is carried in the affirmative without a divificn. A frefh difciiffion then took place, u; in the general merits of the quefi n thus amended. Mr. CLARKS' N wiked to refer the cafe b , ck to the Committee of City Lands. to teport their opinion thereon. Mr. MARI!' TT f brerred. that the Citizens f Lnndnn had not for many 'ears paft been particu lady famous for their d:xtetity in hunting. If, in deed, tome officer were to be appointed, or revived. for the purpofe of attending at fellivals or convivial ; meetings, he fit uld think it to be more congenial to the feelings and practice of the Ci , izeas, and should give it his fupport ; but when a motion was made for filling up (*nett an office as that of Common Hunt. he conleffed that he felt himfeif confiderably fur prised at its introdutlion at the prefent day, and mutt give it his decided negative. Mr. JACKS was of opinion, that the continuance of the office was 'fret:dal to the honour and digni.y of the Corporation. Mr. WHEILE declared, that he timnght the office to be as effentially necetrrry as that of the Recorder of London—(g eneral laugh.) The quellion was then put, that the faid office be abolilhed, which was carried without a divifion. MILITIA. Mr. Alderman Shaw, in a long and well &gene& fpeech, brought forward a motion for allowing the two City Regiments to v. lunteer into the line, in the fame manner as the Militia have been allowed in the different counties—he was warmly and ably lap ported by Mr. Alderman Birch, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Jrcks, and oppofed by Mr. Waithman and Mr. Good behere ; when after a debate of fix hours, the Court became clamorous, and the queflion being loudly called for, there appeared only fix hands againn the mo i in. Mr. Alderman Wood propefed that a Spe cial Ci mmittee fhould b! named, confining of all the Aldermen prefent, with one Commoner •it of each Ward, which was immediately agreed ta. The tliwmarket Courting Meeting was whol:y impeded lull Monday on account f the irny. These were 63 brace nt high c , nditioned greyhounds, who all returned without a courfe. DR I.IIY-LANl.—raulketur was !aft ri. , ,ht repeated, with f)me few curtailments, which rendered it com paratively lefs objettionable than at firlt ; bat the whole Itrufrore of the Picce is radically bad, and fo the majority of the audieree, thinner than on Wed. acidity night, appeared to think. Cavalry Gaansw-h.The favourite comedy of 'obit attradest a very refpedable audience to this Theatre, and few pies of this nature, it mnft be cenfeffed, afford more rational or more plea. fent entertainment. It is inirollible to conceive the pasts of this piece better difp fed of than they are at Covent Garden. When fuch performers as Lewis. FAWCITT, EMU'S', and POPS, are petted ly in their element. and in a fituatilo to difplay their peculiar and charadesigic excellencies, what detightful eCed may not be expelled Mrs. Grass, in the fenlitive and fuffesing lifery, was extremely natural and interefling, and in her artkfs tale, drew down repeated plaudits. The clofe and gripit:g Mr:. Bru'gruddlery, was alto well re prefented, as ufual, by Mrs. DAVS t; roar ;—but the great novelty of the evening was Mr. HAIMMEITO/4, from the Dublin and Liverpool Theatres, (being his firft appearance at Covent Garden), in the ebarpder of D'nait Brulgruddery. This pert is fo inimitably played by Jon NSTgIN E l the en iginal Brulgradery, that it is extremely difficult for any one to follow him. Mr. HANSIERTOII, however, appeared to be well acquainted with the part, and by no means deficient in the brogue and peculiar manner that has been fuppofed neceffary to a petted reprefenration of the charatler. He certainly ditcovered very eonfiderable judgment and difetitnination, though lefs variety, perhaps, than might have been expelled. He was well received, and repeatedly applauded ; b tt, on the whole, we 413 not think Mr. W ADDY, who excels in feverel butt charadets, will fuffer any thing by the crimped( tn. Mr. H. is by birth an Littman, and therefore fufficieatly cor. ell in the brogue ; yet at prifent we cannot confider him otherwife than as a tolerable ftibnitute for the original Landlord of the Red Cow !