Star. — London, England, 1819-03-02 00:00:00

r k, • r •. throng, but who found what is according to the Fancy termed " the milling system" quite unavaging y in so closely packed a multitude. One of these per► sons, a black man, had his eyes swelled (we cannot say, according to the common phrase, blackened) by blows from some persons near. him. A man who hoisted a banner, with the name of Ml. Lamb in.' scribed upon it, received very rough usage, and had both his banner and clothes torn to pieces in a mo ment. This led to a warm contest between the par tisans of both parties, which was carried on by push ir.g and thumping without intermission, until the - close of the poll. - The presence of regular pugilists seemed to excite general indignation, and kept alive a tendency to disquietude, if not actual tumult, which was certainly not observable on any previous day of the Election.—At four o'clock the numbers were— Mr. Lamb Mr. Hobhoute Major Cartwright Mr. HosuousE then told the crowd that they had this day gained about one hundred on the poll, and be was confident, notwithstanding the majority which still remained to his opponent, that there was time enough-Lthat there were numbers enough, and inde pendence enough, amens the Electors of Westmin ster, to secure his triumph yet. He was sorry to re .mark, thin is addition to the inconvenic,cel thrown in their way by the unfavourable btate.of. the %yea ther, hi.; friends had had others to encounter, that were still more formidable, from the .means rwrieci ... 'to by his antagonist to prevent his voters froth coming pp to . the A Gentleman, who was then by his side, Mr. :%lanby, cif Wimp°le-street, had been put- 7 hued by several nicn—one of them carrying a hank:- Mt:ln his hand—and shouting " LaYntifir ircr!" lie had further to state, that two men, whohad yen tired to shoat " liothouae for era," had been at 'tacked by.the op p osite party. The cry of " Down t'aern," was immediately heard, and they Were acetdingly beaten down and were then bleeding at Con - Jaime-room. fie charged this on those who had recently aetesed his friends of outrage, and he had on his mind a Artn conviction, that before the eight was out, murder would be committed by same of their party. He should make it a point to prove before a Court of Law, that these men of whom he had spoken were regulaily hired ruffians, He would prove who they were, whence they came, where they had been hired, and that they had belonged to the party of his antagonist, who had had the effrontery to ste in the hills which he had circulated that day, that -his voters would have free access to the poll from Henrietta-street. He wished to know when cry Lad not had free access to the hustings? This erns an old trick. It was that to which Sir Murray'! Maxwell had had recourse at a time when a hired bani of rain% with Caleb Baldwin at their head, were parluling the streets and cOmmiuing the greatest I , v;olences against the Electors. He did not know that Mr. Lamb was acquainted with these cireumttnneet,! b.:t if he were to speak to those who did the dirty put of the Election for him on the su b ject, he world soon be informed of the truth. It was singu lar that such measures should be resorted to by those vino bad accused.them of doing Such things. But that he was afraid some accident might happen; he would designate by name those who had been en gaged in the proceedings he had described. Con duct like theirs, he con:ended, produced those popu lar excesses against which they were so ready to de-, claim. Ile then Commented at sonic length on a statement which had appeared in a i corning Paper respecting tl;p support he (Mr. Ilobtiouse) had 're ceived from the Whi7s, which statement'he asserted! to be totally false. • He denied that the Whigs, •as a l party, had done any thing in his favour, and ap pealed to Mr. Lambton, if he (Mr. Lambton) and, General Tergosson, had not waited on him frankly to! state, !that under existing circumstances it would mot be in their power to give him that !assistance which' they once had it in-conteinplation to afford. Mr. LASIBTON confirmed this statement. Mr. Hosnouse then appealed to Mr. Lambton, if a private communication had not been made to him on the-same subject. Mr. Lasirros; answered in the affirmative. • Mt. I Idimoose then contended, that to the Whigs, as a petty, he was not indebted for any of the sup , p.n: which he bad received ; and he threw back on liter to whom he had alluded, whazever had be:l. imputed to him, and charged him with having vitiv..e7 that whicli was false and malicious. As he could,not obtain a free' heariug, frcm the tumult • sch:::h prevailed, he would cor.clude, by requesting his friend; to let everr breach of the peace committed b. 2 clrArgeable on. their opponents, a - r.d he exhorted thelq w trust to justice (for justice they should have) for redress, as he would not sec them trampled upon • by hired ruffiens. NT. LAND spoke, but it was impossible to bear dis. tinctly any thing that he said. lie was understood to lairgh at the solemn commencaneut of his oppo reitt's speech, to deny that whi,:h had been advanced, and to assert that the good humour of the people of Westminster, on account of the state of the poll, would in all probability take away every disposition to engage in excesses that would terminate in mut. der. The poll was to keep open but two days more; but if, instead of two, it we:e to be kept open for 12 days, so completely had public opinion in Westmin ster been changed, that he was convinced the exten sioa of the. poll would only make the more against his adversary. Mr. Ilohhouse had charged him with being a Whig. Mr. Hobhouse was any thing that would serve for the moment; and if he thought it :would answer his purpose on this occasion to become ' a Whig, 'a Whig he would declare himself to.morrow. • Mr. GALII'3ONES presented himself and seemed to address the crowd, but not a word of what he said could be heard, and he was compelled to retire. • Sir F. BURDETT would have adhered. to the Reso lution he had adopted on Saturday, but that he found Mr. Latnb had the means (which he failed not to use) of-giving the speeches which were not heard there to •the public through the daily press. Mr Lamb came before them under a variety of 'names ; be was, the friend of Sir Samuel Romilly, of Sir Samuelßotnilly's principles ; he was the friend of Mr. For, of this mid , of t h at , an d of almost every thing, and he was a friedd tat the poor He thought he ought ra th er to ..hare said be was the friend of poor's.rates, for he . .1.4 A m ade thee the means of disfranchising many of m ama , He, however, exhorted the Electors to To w ose tollttortow.whether they h a d pa id dub. rates or not, as he was confident 41 le votes they ten dered (whether they had paid their rates . or nor), would be admitted whenever the question came before a proper tribunal. Whatever eh. Mr. AA 2 Pb might be, he thought it would be seen from his con duct in this instance that he was no friend to freedom of Election. Westminster, however, he trusted would not be bullied out ofits independence by hired ruffians. This he described to be an old practice now revived by the Whigs, but he trusted the Westminster Elec tors had shewn too much spirit to make it probable that they would be subdued by, such opponents. He then replied to Mr. Lambton's comments on the Re port of the Westminster Committee, which he de fended. He denied that he had ever professed Whig principles-when he stood on the hustings at Brent ford as a Candidate for Middlesex, and he had never deserted Mr. Fox, as had been asserted, for be had never enlisted under his banner. Instead of doing this, he had denounced those who bad enlisted m either of the two regiments of Whigs and Tories; an& it was because he condemned the coalition of Mr. Fox and Lord Grenville when they came into power, that he had lost his seat for Middleset. 'Though the Administration had proved but of short duration, it in the first instance, eremised to. prove as permanent as any the:country had eier seen, and then it teas, if he had any selfish object to gain, that he might have pursued it with a prospect of suceess. 'But he had disdained to do so, and though he had 10-t his scat, he had cor.sidered it a great honour to have 1200 men vote fof him on that occasion. lie denied having decried Mr. Fox Na any occasion. He had not objected to a fair Canvass being carried on by persons of either sex. What he had complained of was, the practice of threatening tradesmen with the loss of their custom, if they did ''not oblige them and give their vote for a particular Candidate. His own conduct, he maintained, had been consistent through the whole of his political life, and he thought much injustice was done to Mr. Foi by his friends, who declared that he lad never been friendly to Par liamentary Reform,as his words on that subject were oh record, and he (Sir Francis Burdett) had heard him with - his min ears declare, that though "he had once.believed good might I it done without a Parlia mentary Reform, lie was now convinced that nothing Qf importance could be accomplished without that, and he would accept of rto situation, high or low, in any Administration, that did net countenance a Re form of the House of Commons." Ile had left Mr. Fox when heforsook the principles he had processed; and acting on the same principles that had ever regu lated his conduct, it was not impessible if the country should have a Whig *Administration, ;hat he should hereafter be found sitting and voting on the same benches with Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning.— The Whigs might thed again accuse him of irtcon sistency, and he thought it was the more likely' that he should expose himself to such a charge from them, when he recollected what their conduct had been while they were in power. Sir FRANCIS Buenryn then retired amid loud ap plauses;.and the meeting dispersed, after an attempt at a speech from Mr. Bowie. State of the Pull this day at One o'Clock For Mr. Liam - • - 4169 llr. Ilbsstorlsr - - - 5376 . ).Zr. Laws po:4d this marring 140-31 r. liosuoves . lo4 • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MairCH 2, 1819. T 1E TON& PRICE Or STOOK3 THU DAT AT OYE 0 CLCOK Bank Stock 26I—Bank Long Anns. 3 per Ct. Reduced 74{ 73j—Cons. 12f 73+ 73{ Cons. for 4c.741}- }74 73f-31 2er Ct. 52i 83-1 1 r,er Cent. 92if 91; o`-5 per Ct. Navy 10411041 India Stock '22l—lndia Bowls 13 I 0 ?re. Excllequer Bills ( J.) 8 10 dis.—Comm.Rcducecr4 The present state of the Money Market was pro bably the parent of a Motion made last night by Mr. CALLAGUAN, for an account of the amount of llank Notes and Bank Post Bills in •circuilation every day .since the 25th of-January to the present time. The CiLiNcit.noa of the Excitztatlot had no objection to the Motion, compliance wi:h which would tend to correct the gross exaggerations and iilisrepresentationt which are afloat on this subject. The CHANCE:U.:aI stated the importantlact, that the issues of the Bank have been higher since the 25th of January than they were before that period.—This fact is deserng of particular notice; for the present. embarrassments, being thus proved not attributable to the cause to which they have been wcribed, their origin must be sought for in the unfavouraLle result of commercial speculations. Need we state, that an unfortunate bar gain at any time in the home market is generally to to only one of the.parties-he other being commonly a gainer to the amount of the loss sustained b y the suTerer. By the country no loss whatever is 'sustained, for the. property still remains, its place of deposit alone being changed. But it is otherwise when the loss acernes from speculations in foreign markets. If goods be seat to South- America for which a return is made of onlj 75 per cent. the individual in the first instant* who shipped the goods, and the community ulti mately lose the difference of 25 per cent. and the smaller the return and the cheaper the produce ob tained in return at .the home market, the greater the loss to the community ras in the case of some of the F.llitindia speculations, which . did not nett 50 per cent. in India, and the return produce for which to this country must be sold at a farther loss of 50 per cent. making the, whole loss on the original spe culation 75 per cent. , • The immediate result Certain channels, in chpital, ,are not only , Iput must be left to run party cannot be induced, **ream to reach the • tar:wile by the fattier ondilberclal sbowevs—and hence, invariably, the distress that ever follows a run ,of upprofitable speculationb when the streams have emptied themselves on Ards* shares. For such ems, time, to suffer matters again to find their own level, is the only remedy. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning. The Chamber of Peers lad a public meeting en Friday, when they proceeded agreeably to the order of the day, to hear the developement of she propo sition made by Count BARTHELEMY, on the subject of the Election Law. tollllt BARTHILLEbiT then addresed the Assembly IBA brie, but animated speech, in which he pro , tasted that he was actuated by no other motive than 11 most sincere attachment to the Charter, in bringing 'bewail" the present proposal for a revision of the iystein of Elections. ge arraigned this system as faulty, chiefly in two particulars—first, in that it gives to men of inferior property the right of voting ; and second, in that it calls for too frequent an wet cite of the Elektion franchise, an evil which he ex plained, by stating, that when the place of a Deputy becomes vacant by death, or resignation, the Electors are obliged to proceed to a new election, a:trouble which•the Count thinks might be wisely saved, by electing at the same time with the principal Deputy, a sort of Vice-Deputy or Deputy in reserve, who might take the place of the principal, bn his death or re signation. The Chamber ordered the Count's speech to be printed; and a discussion then commenced on tl.e question whether 'the proposition should be taken into consideration ? • The Martinis DEssnwes, the Prime Minister, first declared himself for the negative, and avowed it to be the unanimous opinion of the Members of the Go vernment that any change in the Law of Elections at the present moment would be fraught with the utmost danger. The effect which had been produced by the mere agitation of this proposition was so& .cient to shew its perilous tendency. It had roused all parties, destroyed public confidence, and thrown the capital into a state of violent alarm which was rapidly extending itself through the departments.--' The existing system of Elections ought to be judged of by its fruits ; and comparing the present Repre sentatives of the People, with those of formerperiods, he thought that they had as just a title to the appel lation of being a truly National Body, as. any which France had ever had the happiness to possess. The Chamber ordered the discourse of the iVi nister to be printed. The negative of the question was also sMprorted by the Duke de la Roccarroucautr, Ccunt Boni D'AN3LAS, Count DE Clary the buke and Count LANJUIN'AIS. Count de CASTELLANE spoke id &your of the pro position.• An amendment of the original proposition was proposed, as a sort of conciliatory measure, by the Niarqui4 de ',AULT TOLLENDAL, but combated by the Duke di linociLte, on the ground of its being irregular to deliberate on any thing but the original proposition—an opinion in which the Assembly ap pear to have concurred. Count LEMERCIER then moved an adjournment. • The question was, however, loudly called for, and the alfjourninent being put to the vote, was negatived. The sense of the Assembly was then taken on the original question, when, out of 104 Members who were present, there appeared—For taking the propo sitkon into consideration 91—Against it 60—Majority agamost Ministers 54. • The proposition was then remitted to the Bureaur, and the Chamber separated without any feed ad journment. • The Chamber of Deputies were to have a public meeting on Saturday, and were afterward* toresolve themselves into a Secret Committee, in which it was generally understood that the proposition Of M. LA- , in counteraction of that of Count BARTiII- . Lamy, would be taken into consideration. The Minister of War, Marshal Sr. CYR, is said to be so ill ;hat he is unable to bold his usual Levees. Were it not for the declaration of the Marquis Des 10.t-Le3, that the Ministers are unanimous op•the pre sent critical occasion, it might have been supposed that there was something political in his indisposi tion. All well disposed Frenchmen must be happy that there is not. - Letters fram the Levant announce that the Wacha , bites, notwithstanding their late reverses, have gain become more formidable than ever. A young heroine, daughter of the late unfortunate Chief WACHABI, who gave his name to his people, has pit herself at the head of the troops, , whom she animates by her courageous example. A pitched battle between her army and s that of the PAossA of Egypt was daily expected. Accohnts,from Venice, of the 10th Feb. state, that the plagne,whict had recently broken out in the neigh bourhood of that city, bas now wholly disappeared. The Budget of Bavaria has been laid before the States-General. The Receipts are estimated at . 39,250,197 •florias--the Espeadituw at 90,940,727 682,590 florins. Ex-King of Sweats, academical studies at Heidel to come to this cow . Oxford and Bdinburgh. Fri4y, 80 ft. • ~ r` PRIVATE LETTER. " PARIS, FEBRUARY 27. fi The form of the French Government is t o Representative; but in all its agents, reiati,ms, conduct, and ananner of proceeding, we di,cover that the representative form is merely a graft on the parent stock of despotism; and that each se:ll,l,d, its peculiar shoots, forming a very singular con r ; _ 4 and-at the same time a very painful one, to tne.ret of Constitutional liberty; for it is found, ca nation, that the shoots flora the ,graft are iilw a r i sickly when they are in the vicinity of the frant:le parent stock—they cannot, in fact, respite eat szle air, and the graft withers and dies t the one po 1,2 r lords it over the spot the other was Oestir.ed cupy.—But to drop the metaphor, the Charter j 4 been in exigence five years nearly, and it is. ' such a lapse of time, discovered that it has bec- a lated in every point ; that individlial liberv; n.::!;t:a totally insecure ; that a citizen might be ariet.:,:i.“N imprisoned illegally, detained months ;.. 1 1 years illegally, without being brought to ti ::11, %eta liberty without trial, and, finally, left without I medy!! But you will say, surely the Laisc. who have thus violated the Ki No's Charter a:nl t :- .; Constitution of the realm, are to be brought to ja. Lice? Oh, no; they are quit for a - lercricilic flan the Minister of Justice, who orders them not to act illegally in future; and this is all the linisler due to suffering humanity.' A Dutch Mail arrived last night. Acco;i;lts : z o m , Batavia of die .30th Judy,. published in Papers, state that the ct op of Tea L ing to accounts received at Batavia) was Ven derate in general, and in some quarters had eir,i;Lly fuiled ; and that much cotton remained in the 11...4.1 of the Chinese Merchants. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Poanuouns, Blaacu I.—Wind L—Arrived the ship ITai terloo, Dutch East ludiaman, from Batavia, hit. front I.;:tr. pool, for Antwerp; sailed - from Batavia the 13th Ati:ust,:r.l was a month at Liverpool to 4listrcsa. Sailed the wh2re of ti 4 Cowes, MARIO 14—Sailed this morning the Waterloo, Al saga, for India; the Ede:ander Barr, for Jamaica; sea. d:ie outward-bound. Arrived the iliedilton, Lireei.z., from Aate4- dam for Batavia, in fifty kmrs. ' Fausompu, Tasemtav N.W. to W.—SZad Duke of Kent packet, with a Mail fur Lisbon ; and al 4u coasting vessels. Duet., Meacd I.—Wind S.S.E—Sailed this morrin,; tle 'whole of the outward-bound, on their respective voyarss. mains, the Severn frigate. Doves, Menu I.—Sailed the Exeter packet, for Ler.'....„ having repaired her damage. OCCIINSCY, Fes. 2i.—The 'Concordia has parted fr-m ?or anchors Ind gone s-shore do the rocks, anus is all to pit.re•—•!'e cargo is all lost, bat a part of the hull and a few marria:s Mstronn, Fu. El74—The brig Mary and Eliza, Vt'urse, ittr.l Oporto to Liverpool, put in here to stop a le.tk in her coon:, ch had been discovered at sea; is placed tuiderqu,:not!i;'.. r having a cargo on board that had been landed at Oporto, ir Napks. Campsites, Fag.l7.—The brig Levant, Unborn, from I pool to Whom which was os shore at Nerryort, cl this morning, wi thout taking any of her cargo out, znd stir seeded on her voyage--ber ht:11 dill not appear the Ilaawten, Maned I.—Wind S.E4—Arrived the Lady Neria Packet, from lielland; and Charlotte Packet, front Omen burgh—both with magi ; also the Eagle cutter, Lieut. l‘tatos, with two stsrugglere, 229 casks of spirits, aud eleven men. The SPEAKER'S Parliamentary Levees for the pre sent Session will commence upon Saturday next. The name of GEORGE LONGMAN, Esq. Member for Maidstone, was acci4ent'ally omitted in the Dl:lothy who voted against imposing ihe grant of C. 0,0(,) to the Duke Your: otv the Public. Sir RONALD Elam/son paired of on the division on the grant to the Duke cf YoRE. The election of a Member of Parliament fur the Borough of Bletchingley, in the room of GEORG& TENNYSON, Esq. who vacated his seat, took place ott Saturday, when the Marquis of TICHFIELD, son of the Duke of PORTLAND, was returned without opposition - The Spanish Government has engaged thirty trans ports from diWerent merchants of London, to form part of the expedition preparing at Cadiz, to carry out troops to South America. An advance of hire and pay for two months is Made immediatcir, and for one month more .when the vessel arrives it Insurances to any part of South America are effected at 7 or 8 per cent. 'Se. Dave's Day.—The 105th Anniversary of the Loyal So 'Fiety of Ancient Britons was celebrated yesterday with all it 3 accustomed splendour. The Governors, Subseribere, Steward', Ste. of the Welch Charity, met at the School in Gray's-Inu4ane at ten o'clock ; but the morning provint exceedingly unfavoura ble, was a great drawback from the pleasing sight. The clacker , , instead of, walking, went in carriages to St. James's Cfturc s l where Divine Service was performed in Welch by the Rev. T. As.asm.4 after which a most excellent Sermon wu preached by the Bishop of Guttman. At about six o'clock, nearly five 'hundred persons sat down to ao excellent dinner at the Free mason's Tavern, Lord Kamm in the Chair, and the eve nin g was passed in social conviviality. 'Mr. HENDERSON, ExciSE-OffiCet; who had been stationed at Gorthy Distillery, left Perth on Thurs6ly se'nnight, for Fife. Owing to the darkness of the night, he missed his way about two miles from Kirk aldy, and fell over a precipice in the neighbourhood of Wemyss Castle, upwards of thirty feet in height. His lifeless body was found next morning, by the howling of his dog, which remained close by the side of his master. We lament that an epidemic disease is spreading itself in Scotland, as appears by the following et' tracts from the provincial Papers :* Diagrams—We are sorry to state, that so great is the m taut, at .present in this town, front the prevailing fever, w al other causes, that no less tha t eeventy futserali.have taken pie Anse the commencemdat of the rtesent year ; a number trail alarming and unprecedented." town,oman—So great is the mortality at present An Air from the prevailing fever and ot catt her y : soh:a tbe number of graves dug here is very, great One week it amounted to ninety; which, at the average rate, produced £6 to each of the three grave diggers !—A sum ten times peat as the wages of many an industrious labourer. The toP: 14 1lsolmitt that ths paves are not dug to a proper depth, 0 . 14 _ they admetbetei mad open for days end nights, exposing = Sabra/ of wafture to the view of the idle." Oa the 17th alt. at lee haws la Dishy. of a daughter. Mn. W.l Pstotedand pubtbbed by Um. Kart, ri4te?.• 'lac% 'ample: Bar; suit is a destraraionaf ceadeata. florins; leaeing a deficit Of 682, whi c h flowed a g i ven flusa thi Prince GUIBTAVI7I4 11011 of the ly Wad below the *mai litail. t cessAisisdise kis academical rua dry. Theme who have pm. bolt is die osisise assustr, is acted, knowingly, to m a w sw f ofy t o Ilia hi*edweadas at 01 the old Atonal, be wog To• • Vtglick its. Of Cads: Fridi I I Irl I ~ ;~, ~f t