Star. — London, England, 1811-05-24 00:00:00

those who - we bad clams tirlfel le 11 f ar disentangled as Intro, re so to af .ole accounts ,„ e o f settling w ith t hem. that Lite Honoura 1, at such a moment, should press.a itlem o f this description on the House—which, hy t „',le m ;nd of the public a g ainst the le g ality w ou have-the probable tffect of de- g Ite'itSt the 1 ,1 4 ,1 which had been laid down foe re the the.ore. .And com promising with the ,et , ter sum p su ms t•of. which, he trusted, for Li , sakes, they would accept. The present, Ted, a most improper period, to try any nient. It would be more consistent with jut. ,Inter any m otion of this description, until the ~t o was erected—And, it it were found not to an „filen some other plan might be proposed. The .1 of the lionolirithle Gentleman should, he t , he pot off till next Session, on the same , as influenced the House to reject the Bill wa s I 'rely vibmitted to them - and, it he would ~,rply with the s ugge.4itiiii, he trusted the House &pose of it in the same manner they had dis , t that Bill. The only effect it could have, ihe to throw cold water on the . subscription, even t its filling. The H onourable Gentleman, , • would withdraw his motion, and not pro . 0 divide the House upon it—as, from motives . t . c e as well as generosity, he was sure they must Wet% wan 'MOM TIM SUMPITIMST VIP - weight, As to the sitnation of Catholic soldiers, when 'serving in this country, he could only say, that he thou&ht there was in the Bill, as it stood, sufficient to protect them in all the privileges they enjoyed while in Ireland: He recollected that a distinct clause on this subject had formetly been proposed by a . Right Hon. Gentleman "(Mr. Fox), but who acquiesced in withdrawing it, on receiving such an explanation as he had now given. Mr. ELLIOTT explained , Mr. WHITBREAD said, in talking of the Ca tholic Soldiers, he had wished to observe a distinction between privilege and indulgence. Colonel BASTARD maintained, that the Militia 1. was originally intended to be a check on the Army.' That was now c ompletely lost sight oft arc a, instead of being a check, they were now made the instmtnent of increasing the Army. If, however, there was now ro constitutional regard for the Militia, nor any jea lousy of the Army, there should at least be some re gard to good faith. If the Militia had done all that the Country wanted of them, and Ministers wished to put an end to that species of force, why not do so openly and fairly ? To talk of an option was to de ceive, for, by the Bill, all the regiments must go in rotation. For his own part, he would wither serve a campaign in Spain or Portugal, wheie he migot do acceptable service, than go to Ireland, where he could I e of no service whatever. The question was then put, when the Bill was read a second rime, and ordered to be committed . ior Mon d ty.—Adjourned. r it out. la TA YLOR then withdrew hi; motion. .i. ENDLIsiI AND IRISH SM. A. ei. RYDER moved the second reading of. the 'di s h and Irish Militia Interchange Bill. c lone) STANLEY said, it would drive a consi, ale number of Gentlemen of landed property r the service, and would breed ill-will between the --es and men. Ile had once before gone to Ireland hi; o wn will, but it the Bill should pass into e ! e would not go again. He believed he spoke -ientiments of many of the Militia Officers. He A as an Amendment, that the Bill should be i 3 second time this day three months. e,.IVILLIAM ELLIOT opposed thellill, which r eJ would create a great deal mt dissatisfaction in e:litia. It would bring into the army a spirit of .ie) r iiian, and would foment patties in a regiment, ..it:c,ive of military discipline. No exigence could ly the present measure. eii PARNELL felt it to be his duty to oppose Din. Lard A. HAMILTON objected to the Bill, in as re it would go `still farther to prevent qualified rens from accepting of commissions in the Militia. eadual decrease in qualified Officers had been go. on year after year, and the present Bill would go veep off all those below the rank of Field Officers. n ncrly ballotted mea bore a great proportion to Skates in the Militia, now they were not as sine ten. It we were neither to leave officers nor men, ~his our constitutional force, in the old and con. rational form, it would be better at once to anni. i.ete it entirely. He begged to ask one question of `e Right Honourable Secretary ; the Officers in the .etia of this country were subject to the Income Tit ;in Ireland ther e was no such Tax. Now, he v'Sed to be informed if the Officers of the Irish Mi -1:4, who came to serve in this country, were to he tempted from this tax ; or it they were to come and eve here with 10 per cent. off their income ? Lord PALMERSTON thought that the onus of peen the present measure to be ehjectionable, lay et those who opposed it. He conceived the present vie one of the most important measures for the eintry that could be adopted, ;rid that the Uniow between this country and Ireland conld nut be esteem-\ ti complete till it was carried into effect. Even the etlitinnal security that it most afford to the two coun no against invasion was nothing compared with the ithalit.ige% arising from an interchange of commit. lic.ition and intercourse. Me WHITBREAD was convinced the effect of , the measure would he to take all country gentlemen tilt of the Militia. He should not, however, oppose An Anholt Mail arrived this morning: the British the Bill in its second reading ; but if clauses were not -I cenizers in the Baltic continue to annoy the Danes at mtrialuced in the Committee, protecting the Irish all points ; but these are not the only enem i e s aholic soldier in the exercise of his reli g ion in thisseem that e their (entry, and also protecting th e I rish Catholic Offi. trade has to contend with ; for it should ter in the free exercise of his religion as he would he i some French Privateers, fitted out in the Baltic, have protected in Ireland, and that, too, not by sufferance { been impudent enough , to seize and detain several miry, but as a matter of right, he should oppose ! ) Danish and Norwegian vessels. There can be no the Mil in its further stages. I. doubt that troops are in motion t owards the shores of Colonel ELLISON was of o p inion that the Union !ee l Ireland, of which he thought highly, should be the Baltic, from various parts of Europe, as will be 'I w n closer and closer by every tie of amity, affec• seen from the following extracts : ein and (-immunity of intercourse. The present mea- BANNS OF 'rHE MAINE, MAY e. ,or e , on this feeling, had his ent i re concurrence: He W e rea d. i n the Halle Gazette, that lately several felt, and he trusted every othe r Militia Officer would t detachments have marched for the c oasts of the Baltic.' wl, that, to the attainment of a o grand a national I (4)jeer, all personal, and therefore inferior, ob j ects of A division of the 7th Regiment of French Hunan, (c.neenience ought to yield. There should, in hill 1 who were in garrison at Magdeburg, marched on the ,pinion, he no more distinction between England indi 9th 1.; i memo, taking the route to the coasts of Bran. leeand than between Lincoln and York. Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH thought thelength 1 I a Westphalian enborg. The Ist and Bth regiments, cf the wa r h a d already rendered the Militia service 1 coming from Hildesheirn and Hanover, have taken 'theme, but the present measure would make it disel the same direction, as well as the 85th of French in.l Rusting. He did not know if Minister' were preps' 1 fantry, which set out on the 12th. On the 13th, the ei to do away qualifitations entirely, but he was SA. second division of hussars, joined to the hussars oil aeried that the present measure would go far to ren er that neceriary. the guard, also put themselves in motion. On the Colonel DUCKETT thought that here a tempo. 15th and 17th they were •followed by some detach. ray evil was to be endured, when likely to produce ments, having with them the field-pieces, some bowie t permanent geod. . sers and warlike Stares. ' It. is estimated that about Mr. C. W. WYNNE objected to the present Bill, 8000 men have marched for Brandenburg. as giving to his Majesty the right of sending a whole 1 DAQEN, MAY 9 . ie.:emetic over to Ireland without any officer what- I • ..: , t. above a serjeant ;in whic h case, he asked, could ln his Majesty's public notice given to - day , the p ate it any longer be considered as a regiment of militia ? ticulars ofwhich we shall give tomorrow,is mentioned' —lt this species of force was only to retain the name, I. an engagement that took place off Koegshaven when I , and to lcse the essence, all the advantages resulting ; the 2d Lieutenant, Christian Frederic Klinck, of the trim it must fall to the ground. The alternative was ; navy, on the 29th of last month, with three gun-boats, by this Bill put to every Officer in the Militia, either I' Till Qn t o I re land when called on, or to resign. He attacked two English cutters, and af&r fighting them must protest against this measure as being the last : an hour and a half, sunk one of the said cutters, and step in the conversion of the militia force of the , beat the other off in such a damaged condition, that it country into one of a very description. i be m ay reasonably supposed he afterwards went also Mr. Secretary RYDER said it mi g ht be a satisfae- to the bottom. The Lieutenant recaptured from the t;sn to the House to be in formed, that he had already 7 t cciv eit offers from several Militia Regiments to go .enemy the Norwegian transport schooner, No. 40. i Ireland, and he hoped there was not a single rev- ' which they had taken on the 21st April,‘on her Toy.' theist that would object to *go when the option was age to Denmarka. took two English long-boats, and taon to them. He was sorry to hear an Honourable I 1 a Norwegian boat , b oth with the anchors wbkh the ‘..,i Aeman .( Colonel Stanley) who had deseived 10 c utters had cut sway, with about 60 fathom of cable , 1,1 : l i l y o f his country, 4 . say t h at h e would not go with tis I - w i n - le nt to Ireland. He hoped that Hon. Gentle. I the flag of the Cutter, 2 English naval officers, man would not persevere in his determination ; at all ' 2 m ites , and 30 seamen, and enjoying at the same 4-vents, that he would not endeavour to extend it to ' time the pleasure of seeing themselves followed by 6 'F F,\T F. ?.%. I N(4 STA R. LONDON. FRIDAY, MAID 24. PRICE. fl sTOCKS THIS DAY A`r ONE O'CLOCK. Cons. money 641 a —for account 641 3 pey Cent. Reduced 631-4 'ter Cent. 741 .5 per Cent.. Navy 96f—Excheq. par to 3s. prem. Bonds i 6.. pre.—Omniunt -1 pre. SECOND EDITION. STAR-OFFICE, HALF PAST TWO. After this Paper was at press, a Telegraphic Com munication was received at the Admiralty, announcing the arrival at PlymNlth of a Messenger, with official j dispatch.s from Lord WELLINGTON, confirming; to the fullot extent, the accounts already received, by way of Bristol, of the Defeat of MASSENA in his at ' tempt to relieve Almrida. The Messenger with this agreeable intelligence is now on his way to Town, and may be hourly expected ; and we shall, from time to time, during the whole of this afternoon, stop the press to insert every communication, on this im portant subject, that can gratify or intetest our nu merous Readers. In the mean time, a Letter has been sent into the City to the LOUD MAYOR and to Lloyd's Coffee house, with this important intelligence. Since writing the above, we understand that the fog is so thick in some parts, that. the Telegraphs have been at a stand for this hour or two past. The intel ligence discernible in the first instance wasas follows: A Ship from Lisbon—the BristOl news is true." Some reports, - however, state, that the number of killed. and wounded of the French army is 7000 ! . . . cutters have, in the whole, taken $0 Digit shipi in 1 the course of the winter, off Kongshamn, and in the vicinity of that place. COPENI4AOttt. MAY 4. • Accordihg to private letters front,S mate. in Zig& lish brig eruizing before Gottenburgh, was attacked by a division of our gun-boats from Norway and slink, after having made an obstinate resistance. The brig was named the Swallow. rr.vm= • , MAY IL Arrived the Fancy hired cutter from Basque Roads, --The bils 'frigate sailed last. evening to cruize olf Brest..—A most im netrable fog came on here soon after sii.o'c SIN essral hoar: * . accompanied with a cold wind more resembling Je' nu try •thiu May.—Two more detained American vessels have been sent in by our cruizers dire are nowat tonciJerable number here, and the whole Of them, it is thought, will become DrOits of Admiralty. PORTSMOUTH, MAY U. Arrived his Majesty's ship WooLvartmz. with a convoy from Gibraltar, among them are 611 foili,w. ing transports. viz : June, Com:caul, Dri tannia, and ltose ; they are all under qu,irantine..-- Arrive.l. the blitiGtAlD t:igatc, from Ca.ira. his M tjesty's r.hips Oaiox, Marts, I)itli.ll3NOtAilbr, HANNMAL, and FISUIUAttIi, for tlie.Paltic ; r, IZ Arm, and S?v, with a conv , , - for the Downs. The THEBIAN ftiZitt.4 With the List tudia convoy; has put back to Spitheal—Wind S.W. 7.-7- %*l f . . . The intelligence received of late from Turkey, through the medium of the Continental journals, has worn rather a suspicious appeartitice, so far as the continuance of friendly dispositions towards this Cfßltt try was concerned. As we have been long accus torned to view almost every article of foreign intelli gence as being of French manufacture, we were un: willing to believe that the Porte had determined on any participation in the Napoleon commercial system, we regret to find, however, by letters from Malt a that measures have been adoptel by the Turkish government, which ought to call for a prompt and decided interference on the part of this country. The following is one of the communications alluded to : . a LA VALETI'A, AP.3111. 1. 11 Last November a mercantile house here shipped a considerable quantity of goods on board a Maltese vessel, with an Austrian Supercargo bound for Du. razzo. The goods were to he forwarded through Albania and Basnia into the Austrian provinces. On the arrival of the vessel, J. LEARD, Esq. the British Consul, applied to the Captain P.tcha for permishion to land and forward the goods on paying the usual' duties. This was granted ; but when the Austrian Supercargo was on the point of setting out, the goods I were sequestrated, and the Supercargo put in prison. I Mr. Leann was also arrested and confined. A Sew I days afterwards, a party of Janissaries came to de- ; mand, within '2l hours, 8300 sequins, as an indemni fication for expences incurred-in the Vice Admiralty Court of Malta by claiming some Albanian vessels detained by Maltese privateers. Mr. Las an was finally obliged to deliver to the Paella's officers, a quantity of merchandize estimated by themselves at aC7OOO, but which was much under the value of the goods, and was also forced to give a certificate that he bad voluntarily consigned the goods to the Paella. Another demand was then made for 4600 sequins on Mr. Lamm, the British Vice Consul, who was sent to prison, and threatened with being put in irons, if the money was not paid in six days. In the interval the Belle Pottle, Captain BRISBANE, appeared off the port, and demanded the British property and subjects. 'Otis demand was, however, disregarded, and the ' Consul and Vice Consul, were forced to make another consignment, and sign certificates that they had vo luntarily sold and delivered the goods.P DEAL, MAY ss. • &tiled the Nonce, 71, to join Motiral YOrNo. off Ensiling. Arrived, his Majesty's slops eikariLias and ZEritvrt, from a cruize. The Albrou7h cutter, of London, has been on shore off the South Forel:mi, but got - off without damage. Wind S.W. , SHEERNESS, MAY 23. Sailed the QUEEN CHARLOTTE, first rate, to the Downs, on her way toPlymouth ; also theGtotsraor man of war, a.nd ALAtt.l4 logger, to attead her to the Downs.—Arrived the Lydia and Ridder, DARREL, for orders, thorn Norway.—Wind W. This morning Mr. DRAKARD, the Printer of the ' Stamford News, was Inought up to the Court of King's Bench, in order to receive sentence fore Li: hel on the Army. The sentence of the Omit was, that the Defendant should pay a fine of ONO to the King, be imprisoned eighteen morehs in Lincoln jail, and afterwards enter into recognizance% by him self and sureties, to keep the peace, under a heavy penalty. ' Cott: 'r MARTIAL, CHELSEA COLLEGE, MAT tie... SEVENTH DAY.—The Court met .at half past ten ~ o'clock. Mr. Palmer corrected some data, which he gave in his, former evidence. Lieutenant Colonel. Jetinstonethen patio hisdefence,which was read by chit - JUDGE ADVOCATE It occupied one hour amid twenty • - minutes to read it. Mr. Atkins, Deputy Judge Ad. voiute of New South Wales, was next examined, as Was also Mr. M'Arthur, a Gentleman who went to the colony as an Qtficer in the 1021 regiment, in the year 1789, and in the year 1793 he commenced agri culturist, and from that time he had distributed 23,0(X) breeding cattle amongst the settler s. lli s pre. • sent stock consisted of 4CelO sheep, 900 horned cattle, Yesterday morning, at a quarter past twelve o'clock, and 5;) hogs, which were augmented from 7 cows his Menses , mounted his favourite white horse. Ado and 30 ewes. When he co :mewed this agricultural nis, and with the Princesses Aueusee and SOPHIA on system . , beef and mutten W ere from 3s. to 2s. 6a. per their nags, proceeded through the Little Windsor Pound ; an d he was now able to supply Government at Park, into the Great Park, where they rode till two. 9d. per pound. We forbear to enter farther into the eel. .Roaerer WARD, Esq. one of the Lords of the Ad. dents, at present, in compliance with the order of the mirelty, is appointed Clerk of the Otdnance, in the Court. Adjourned at three o'clock, until ten o'clock room of Mr. Cooeete.now Lord. SHAPTESEURT. • to-morrow morning. Yesterday a Meeting of the Electors of Sir FRANCIS I Yesterday a General Meeting of the Subscribers to BURDETT was held and dined together at the Crown Lueve's was held to take into consideration the re and Anchor Tavern. Soon alter the cloths were re. port of the Committee appointed " lie eIR111;111: into moved, Mr. WISHART rose, and having made a few the manner in which information has hitherto been introductory observations, proposed as a toast, conveyed to the Members of that House,-and pare.... " The Pride and the Hope of Westmittsttr, Sir F. Burdett." cuielly with refetence to that material informaties .. The Worthy Baronet then rose and addressed the received last year from the Baltic station." .. ... Assembly at considerable length. Alluding to the mmon, he thanked The Report was then lead ;it expressed the entire great object which they had in co them for the unknown at tee time , the unsolicited, 'satisfaction of the Committee with the Masters of the House,end acknowledged the persevering endeavours and voluntary honour which had been conferred upon . him, and declared that he should hold himself ten-fold .of Mr. JOHN BENNETT, JUR. Secretary to the Honse Committee, to procure every useful information for more guilty than any of these Members of the Legis . ' . Ware who had abandoned their professi o ns , if he the guidance of the Subscribers. could ever be tempted to swerve front that direct, ! The Committee concluded their report with stating., plain, and constitutional course in which he had hi- : that the House Cemmittee hed, during the es. ar 18i 0, therto trod. After many remarks on the necessity of received certain letters from Mr. CHAMPION, Secre. Parliamentary Reform, a measure which must in the tary to Admiral Sir JAMES Seumenez, then comman end _. prove not less advantageous to those weo R&M- ding in the Baltic, which had not been made public, nister the giivernment than to the people at large, he ane that they saw no' good grounds for the same hair. observed, that if the Government, blind no less to the log been kept back ; as, on examination of Mr, desires and the wants than to the rights and liberties CHAMPION, it was stated by that gentleman, teat lie of the people, should persevere in the adoption of would have had no objection to the whole of his let. measures founded on principles as hostile to the due tern being made public, as his sole object was to cein. prerogative of the throne, as to the privileges of the'. municate every possible information for the goad of nation, he trusted there was a sentiment in the coup-' trade in general. try which would at length bring those Ministers to a 1 After some obervationsifrom several Members, Mr 'state of retribution. He then proceeded to descant , HATHAWAY moved a vote of censure against die ter . • on the state of our representation, end exemplified by 1 mer Committee. vaiious happy illustrations, • the impossibility of in. 1 The Amendment was strongly opposed by several diming the Legislature, as at present constituted, to i Gentlemen, and particularly in two seey able speeches accede to that reform which, whether it was moderate from Mr. MA 'MYATT and Mr. 'Rowcaos-r ;on a show or not, was the reform called for by the laws of Eng i of hands, however, the motion of censure was carr i e d land, without the firm and unan i m ous ex p ression of ' in the affirmative. the wishes and feelings of the nation. The Honour. The motion for the appointment of a Committee of able Baronet then alluded to the conduct of the Prince 21 was afterwards put and carried ; and it was agreed Regent, which he considered a noble spetimenof con. that 12 Subscribers should be elected by ballot, from stitutional feeling, and furnishing a most favourable whom 21 were to be elected. The present House omen of his Royal Highness's repugnance to that Committee were proposed as part of the 44, but they odious and tyrannical influence of the borough tee. declined. tion, by whose predominating power the rights of the The Drawin: approaches, and time flies raphlfi', but Crown, not less than those of the People, were tramp. Tickets bell mire. rapidly than time flies, and scar. ' led on and destroyed. After.* variety of aniteadver- city prodaces dearness. Who then can hesiiete at siens on the extraordinary doctrine held by Lord El- embracing the present Moment for securing a Sieve , lenborough in the case respecting the expence of the in the golden pruspects which Fortune presents ? Westminster Election, he concluded by g ivin g the These undeniable truths, CARTER, No. 8, e liering. health of the Electors of Westminster. cross, thinks it his duty to impress on the public at- Major CARTWRIGHT congratulated the Meeting on tention, before Tuesday, June 4, when all the Lottery the increasing prevalence of the principles of Reform. will be Drawn. Mr. STCIU;H proposed the health of Lind Cochrane. CORONER'S INQUEST. —Yesterday, an Inquest was Sir F. Buttetre said he was commissioned by his held on the bodies of the unfortunate man and child, !Noble Friend to astute the Electors, that nothing but dug out of the ruins at the late accident in Great St. severe indisposition prevented him from attending.— Andrew's.street, Seven Dials. The Jury met at th e eThe Hon. Baronet pronounced a handsome panegyric seen of the Yorkshire Grey, in White Lion-sweet on the character and merits of the Noble Lord. The verdict was Accidental Deeth. The deceased After a very animated speech from Mr. Alderman man was an industrious mechanic, and the infant had 1 Wool), on the subject of granting the Guildhall to the Petitioners for Parliamentary Reform, and several room amid a thunder of applause.' The following were among the toasts : where rue body was yesterday conveyed. market this day has not many fresh arrivals of Wheat, but tolerable supplies on 66 m. Kl e e 'The;f pe nce 'E gon; an d hi s c onit i tet i m i hand, partly the late foreign, sales again very heavy, declaration, that the In nice I. trust dor the benefit of the Peole." " 'The People. 1 ' Sir Francis- ..ratchets." " The Lon. an d ' see r Ma e eepresentstier without rotten boroughs, Wince foreigners, and Leer withoot military eausetton." " "ilk And last prices hardly maiiiteine. I—B lacy in demand, its price—Malt at little fluctuation—them ire bot ew White Pease or Beans of the two kinds—. • . pats again in middling supply, and sales thereof been m A ta n k K en t t A o s n g. u — rse l .. he lts parents reside at Walworth, observations from Mr. Qum, the Chairman left the Liberty of the Preas—lt is tilts tlis air we breathe, tf we harts le erie we die." " kg/10m Liberty awl wrung Meow" at ostx lass, ennesicy—Floor continues at lets prices. r .; sd :;it anew , 41. , mit .r •-•s ,t ' 4.;il': 7 ~ •~ 1 . Nu