Star. — London, England, 1816-02-02 00:00:00

'(Hear, to this item, 'or That item, but by entering into a ge neral systematic view of such economical arrange. menus as were practicable in every public department, •whether civil, military, or . financi:d. Without this, it was utterly chimerical to talk of eventually keeping faith with the public creditor. Mr. TIERNEY.did not mean to detain the House by many observation:, but he wished to guard against anv misinterpretation of the assent which he was pre. pared to give to the address. He fully coincided that greater glory had, never been acquired, in The history of any age or country, than by the British Artily (hear), and he hoped he might add, though that now a-days was a topic somewhat overlooked, by the Bzisish Navy also. (Herr, heir.) But if the Noble Lord meant, to apply the word 44 glorious" to the other exertions of our countrymen, such as those of a pecuniary or a diplomatic kind, there he must pause before he gave his consent. There was one part of the Prince Regent's Speech, as delivered by the Commissioners, which he rejoiced in most hear. tily—it was that in which he recommended to the House all possible economy. His Royal Highness surely would not have given this advice to others, unless he meant to practise it himself (4 langh.)— This must belie all those reports that were , in circu lati.on, of a new increase of debt on the Civil List; and he hoped that no new application would be made this Session for the payment of arrears in that quarter: (R nod from the Chancellor of the Emile per). He was happy to understand, from the nod or the Right Hon. Gentleman, that nothing of this kind was to be expected. 'The Noble Lord opposite had poured out a tirade against his Honourable and Learned Friend, for what he called indulging in in vectives against - Ferdinand VII. The Noble Lord was mistaken, however, if he thought that any con federacy of Princes or Ministers should controul tbe , Members of that House 'in the free expression of their sentiments as to the conduct of Sovereigns...(lfeer, hear, hear). As long as this confederacy of Princes existed, which,.from some late occurrences, seemed to 'have for one of its objects to put down the liberty of the press and all freedom of sentiment, he for one should protest against the atrocity of Kings—(hear, hear.) And he begged that at the next diplomatic meeting which the Noble Lord might have with Princes Metternich and Hardenberg, he would ac quaint these persanages that there was at least one assembly in Europe where men were' determined to speak their minds on such subjects.—(hear, hear.) But while he thus approved of the Address generally,' he thought that nothing could be more fair than the Amendment of his Honourable Friend. He begged Gentlemen to consider what a mockery it was to lay Treatit s before the House for its discussion and sanc tion, when these very Treaties had been carried into full operation these two months, and when the House. could neither counteract nor controvert their opera tion. He charged Ministers with wilfully placing radiomen! in this tiditulons situation ; and that it Tit ver was their intention that Parliament should meet till tie 1.. tnt February-. rr this he had no less a. voucher than the Proclamation of - the Prince Regent himself ; and such was the zeal of Ministers to stave otf the meeting of Parliament, that they adjoUrned it fur 9t) days instead of 80, and thus *were en danger of potting an end to certain convenient pr:vileges— (Larigh)—till they were enabled by a new proclamii. ton to correct their oversight. He should ' , awe been vary, then, if an Amendment had 'tot been pose,t, directed against the principle of delayin.! ti'e opening of Par . li;noe• nt under such circumsunces. involved a constitutional principle,• and Parliament would net do their duty unless they mentioned it. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer had, accordirg to his own confession, passed a most unpleasant summer, the farmers had certainly done the same ; and there fore it was of importance that Parliament should have met at an early period, as there was always a general sort of feeling in the country, that while it was sitting, something might be done to remedy any evil that might affect the general interest.— When the price of corn was falling so rapidly as it did in the course of last summer and autumn, and a very numerous class of people thrown into the greatest alarm, surely 'this was a sufficient intimation that Parliament should be convoked at an early period.— Accordingly it should have met in November last; but now we were told that for some reason or other, best known to Ministers themselves, it was natural we should not be here till the Ist of February. He would Venture to explain the reasons the House was always sure to meet early, if Ministers were in want of, nrtittey ; but if. not, it was equally sure to be post. poned as long as possible. • He predicted last Ses sion, when the vote of credit of ten millions was pro. posed, that it would enable them to stave off the meeting of Parliament till it suited their own conve-; nience; but he was not listened to. He hid never known an instance where Parliament met at striate a period as the Ist of. February, and it was still more ref:notch: o, le thus to shorten the Session, when hey. r was one, perhaps, that had so much birsineas betine it. With respect to the necessity of economy, gener'lly, he was happy to find that, at last, all patent the House were agreed; and the Chancellor of the Excheqner had promised that this economy shiadd c stend into all the details of the public service. This he was the more happy to hear, because, when a vote of ten millions for army extraordinaries *at last /tar proposed is a lump, he hiMself was scented at for barely asking to go into the details. He trusted also, that if committees • were appointed to examine into the ditUrent hr.:itches el expenditure, they wr,a td not be ciippled by hiatitquate powers,hut be ,enabled is , sift matters to the bottom.- The Nolile Lord had now confessed, very inconsistently with his former lan rw,r, that the country had been bloatedsby eipcodii ure, and t. ld us that at the retnrn of peace the c.rcelatien shru.•k in its dimensions, as was to be expected, He (Mt. Tieiney ).did not despond of the finances i.f tile country, but he' could 'not help taking a most I;l:antry view of out'.affairs. The Chancellor a the Exclicqu:.r smiled as usual whenever despon dency wa. 'motioned, It was to be hoped, however, that the shock which our financial system could not flit to receive would be broken by the union of all in the state to hear the pressure of common • difficulties, and in that respect this lenentrr had advantage over every other.—( Hear, hear.) not one who wished for the return of high for he thought it most unnaturalethat, in a peace. this country should be so mach insu lated from all others, that 'a guinea should not have gone farther here than a dollar in other countries. But amidst this shrinking of our circulating medium., there was great subject of alarm to the stockholder; for if you lessen the pecuniary means, the circulating medium of the country, one half, how were -you to pay the taxes to the Lull amount necessary to meet the claims of the public creditor ? The House was told that there was no defalcation of the public reve nue. True it was, the Taxes might yet keep up for a tittle ; but could the Chancellor of the Exchequer expect that there would not soon be a marked defal cation ? Private families, some from pride, a wish to support appearances and habit, were slow in curtailing their luxuries ; but the next quarter or two would speedily shew a change. But did the Chancellor of the Exchequer foresee all this at the titre of the dis cussions on the Bullion question, since his Noble Friend declares that the bloated state of our currency might have been expected to shrink on the return of peace? —He conjectured that the Right Hon. Gentleman would now be extremely glad, could he withdraw from the Journals that famous Resolution of his, that there was no difference between a guinea and a one pound note, since every man and woman who read those Journals, and know any thing of the matter, was now convinced that there was a real difference. He was happy to understand that there was no idea of touching the Sinking Fund. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be the last man to cheer this, or to take credit for it, as he himself had already taken seven millions from that deposit. If, however, the Sinking Fund is to be held. sacred, it may be fairly asked, what are you to .do to make all ends meet I This was a.question which called for their whole attention : at any rate, he trusted the House would not be forward in voting supplies, until they knew what was to be the utmott amount or , euresta hlishments.—(Hear, hear, from Lord Castlereagh.)— There should be •no voting of sums piecemeal for this department and the other department. The peace which the Noble Lord had concluded might be a very fine one ; but then, perhaps, after all we could not afford it. It was the fault of those who had so long postponed the meeting of Parliament, that the immediate operation and consequent ex penses of the Treaty were now beyond their reach.— Never had a Parliament met so late as the Ist of Fe bruary, with all that multiplicity of business that was before the present—business which it required *lithe temper of that House to discuss with moderation and fairness. He did not see how it would be possible to make the means of the country meet its expenditure, without the most diligent investigation and retrench ment. We were desired to derive comfort from the large exports of our mai.ufactures ; but whether that was a lou or gain could not be ascertained until we had known the returns. In the mean time, u his Hon. and Learned Friend had remarked, we had lost the home market, and that was the most p r ofi t . able of all. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, surely, under these circumstances, could not expect . that the produce of the taxes in future would rise to any thing like the old amount. Would his raimate of the stamps, for instance, which he gave last sum. mer, still sust.du itself ? Upon the whole, it appeared to him, that the best thins that could be dun. wouid be to appoint a Committee, similar to that of 1786, that might investigate, from the best sourceis what may be the probable produce of the taxes, and to fix by that estimate tire scale of our expenditure.— He feared that the returns of the probable amount I taxes, when given into the Hawse, would be mc.st appalling. But the course which he now recont. mended was followed by the Committee of 1786, just after the American war ; and a similar system ought to be pursued now. Sir GILBERT HEATHCQTE rose amidst ge neral cries of Question, and several Members left the House. He fe.t persuaded 'that a moment's reflection would convince all who heard him, that the joy which a restoration of tranquillity was naturally cal culated to produce, would be considerably diminished on learning the tcrms of the Treaty. It was a Treaty not only hostile to the spirit of liberty, and opposite to the principles of our invaluable constitution, but calculated to plunge, the country into the most disas trous situation ; and he could not but express sur prise, that any Officers of the Crown should have given their sanction to it. Since the battle of Waterloo, it would seem that every previous declara tion of the Allied Sovereigns Mad been violated.— He would not, however, then enter into the consi. deration of our foreion policy; but it could not be denied that our prospects were most gloomy. The situation of our affmirs at home demanded the moat prompt and serious investigation. He had no wish to see the French nation involved in new calamities, arising from intestine war ; but why Should we at tempt to interfere with their opinions . ? If 'fresh dis turbances arose, it would be better to leave the peo pleto themselves. He wished the Right Hon. Gen tleman could point out what benefits were likely to result from this Treaty. A statement had appeared in one of the public prints, in answer to a declaration which was said to have been made by Ministers themselves, and he was anxious to know whether such decl 'ration was authentic or not ?—(Laugh.) He did not care whether Gentlemen chose to an-wee his ques. Lion or not; but that letter contained such extraordinary asser tions, that he felt himself bound to notice them. It is there stated, that Ministers bad paid the utmost attention to the agri cultural interest—and that the *tato of distress in which that in trust was said to be plunged, was greatly enuerated."—Now, he believed it was a well known fact, that, en on average. she • . . _ . _ lands of this country bad been let on a ca lc ulation, that a quay-. ter of wheat would produce 45. Let the tioitse, keeping this fact in their minds, examine the last market recta, and see what that important article in the subsistence of man, now prodpeed l ' They would find, that it did not fetch more than fortyinght shillings per quarter. Many of the Lleutlemeu in that *louse were supported by the letting of their lands.--(acqr, &Ai). — 'l hey must, therefore, have been deprived of half the** in comes, when wheat, instead of AS,vai sold at Oils. per quarter. Every person employed in agricultural pursuits wts thus depnired of a moiety of that sum on which they had countett,• and where lands were,rented, if the tenants, ip consequence 9,f the deproS . con of price, could not pay the stipulated sum, the landlord must auffer.—The distresses .ot the agncultural interest exaggerated! Could suin an assertion be suppaned In the face of fact be had stated ? Surely the distresses of that class who lost one half: el whir they bad to subsist on could nut be depicted in coloks to gloomy! Those who were deprived of halt their salaries might well be said to be deeply dititrmsed I If the Honourahle Gentlemen opposite were deprived of shalt the salaries slier pow' received for attending to sk..4llaiss of the country, be wars sure LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1816. PINIIIISATION Of Tit VIRGIN isialllre-mliaittilly at the Bank. Letters from Paris of the date of Monday evening state, THAT THE FRENCH GOyERNHENT HAS SUSPI/4DED THE CIRCULATION or ENGLISH JOURNALS IN FRANCE!! We have given a full account of the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament last night. In the House of Lords, Lord Gasamt.a expressed his high satisfaction at the terms of the Peace which had been concluded, and no amendment to the Address was therefore contemplated by his Lordship, or moved by any of those Noble Lords who are generally sup.' posed to be of similar political sentiments. In the House of Commons, the Address was mast eloquently moved by Sir THOMAS ACKLAND. Mr. 'BRAND moved an amendment, to the effect of pledg ing the House to take into its early consideration the State of the Country, but the amendment was nega tived. Oa the diyision the numbers were— For the Amendment 2S—Against it 90. Majority 67. Not the least important part of tke whole discussion was that in which Lord CASTLZREACM intimated the intention of Ministers to continue the Income Tax, but.at the reduced rate alive per Cent. The Funds declined nearly a half per cent. ester- day, in expectation of the PRINCE REGENT'S Speech announcing a large expenditure for the year. This morning they have rallied again, on the Public being made acquainted with the favourable complexion of the debates of last night, and the encouraging ten dency of the Speech: 5 per cent. Consols are again 621. A Flanders Mail arrived last night, from which it. appears that Brussels is full of refugees from France. CAMSACERES has hired a house there. The Arch duke bum, who is now in England, is mentioned as the intended Viceroy of Lombardy and Venice. The French Spy, SCUULIIIWITIR, is still confined at Wesel. We have this day received German Papers to late atm. An article from Vienna of the 11th ult. no tices some rumours circulated in . the Continenta papers calculated to induce a belief that England, by a secret article in the Treaty respecting the lonian Islands, has engaged never to oppose the enterprises of Russia against the Potty', and consequently to ex-, cite alarms throughout the Austrian States. ig It is, however, certain," says the letter alluded to, • 4 that in the Treaty in question there is no secret article . whatever. How could it be supposed that England would sign such an. article ?".'.. 4 4 The PORTE was even invited to adhere to the Treaty." Preparations are now making at Strasburg for the trial of 'General GRUYERE by a Special Court. ftlar dal for the part he acted in circulating the Procla mations of BONAPARTE on his return from Elba. Sir RODENT WILSON underwent his final interroga tory on Thursday last. In all his examinations he has continued to answer every question not calculated to criminate himself. He is now allowed to see his , Counsel, but he has not yet bees liberated on bail ; nor is he allowed to see any of his friends, except Mrs, Wasson. Messrs. Utica and HuTcutNsos ate al. lowed to see their friends. Sir RODENT has addressed the following letter to M. Pozzo m Boson° : 44 Of LA FOAM JAN. 23,1816. Mit mut Sta—l bare been informed that a Paper, inter. mined on its maim to me, has been considered as the original manuscript of a Report attributed to yourself ; and further, that I brie been accused as being the author, or concerned in th.• f.t. Weed= of that Paper. !' I disdain the imputation; but from motives of respect to the imperor, and of regard for yourself, I do declare u ; on my honour, that the Paper so intercepted, was a copy tha- I had sever even read, although borrowed by me to lend ; and, far. tber, that I never did bear even of the Report attributed to me, until it had been read by various Friends of mine, and ex tracts bad been given to take to England by those Who will, I am sure, declare the fact in Parliament, if necessary. '4 May I beg you to repel the calumny b this statement. " Very traly your\ " ROBERT WILSON, M. General. To his Kumleney Cruet Pea= di Bombes Ste. Ste. dtc." " it is reqnested that this Neter should be published in the English Papers, if not thought brper, to refute one the weal takiesite whYl The Cut* ipnt publishing a ping 4 :‘ Prison of Ls Fore% Jppuityle t " R. W." edi,ks • , . • • • . .- effit . . . diffisultiet, shoulsrtset4o4 '.-; • m with vigour, 'unless still the att fen we trial 4editn rthii, the sole basis of all our He was no pnblic - fl*iike—t e ' isar.)—lf t his, then, were to prices; for remain untenselied, Whence were we to look for the state of pea • means of aupplying our wants ? He would answer, laced from in economy alone !—(Hear, hcar).—not by objecting gone farthe s • - 9"7 7 5 7 7- r V .r- ' )-- - : 117 ~~ • . ;') • • • • '• - lOW vet, beg heel would be abeam' as the Treasury Bench. flu Honourable Baronet coachnisd by *spreads* kis hearty ailnturrence in the Amendment. ,` The cries of question wort then repeated, *sad strangers were Ordered to withdraw. After the Gallery was cleared, • Mr. ELLIOT said, if the question were to come to a division, be wished to state the grounds of his vote. With respect to the late meeting of Parliament, he thought it matter of such grave consideration, that it ought rather to be made a distinct and se• parate proposition ; especially in the want of more precise inforinatios. In regard to economy, no man in the House, or in the country, felt the necessity of it more than himself— but having declared hi- sentiments on the war so distinctly, be •should be sorry to And himself included in a vote, which might preclude him from following up that measure by every means that could contribute to its full accomplishment, and which was only to be retarded by matters of the meet imperious and abet). ' late necessity ; and he should be the more sorry, as the war ha which he had voted had been brought to so glorious a termination. The House then divided—Against the Amendment, 90—For it 23Mnjority. 67. Lord NUGENT gave notice, that on Wednesday week he would move a Resclutiout of the House, relative to the constitu tional question of keeping a standing Army in Prance, and of proroguing Parliament fir ao unusual p eriod during neg otiations for a 'treaty of Peace. Lord CAS ri.ERF.AGH wished to know, whether the Noble forward Lor d intended to bring that question before the Papers had been submitted to Parliament. Lord NUGENT replied, that he did.—Adjourned. THE EVENING STALL. TT! rut ARmr. RAMSGATE, JANUAR? SI. ' Arrived from Calais, the Samuel tram , chel, Lively, Resolution I st, Resolution 2d, Lion the Sd, Ann, Blucher, and Mary, { 11 6 4 orshich have brought over abOut 270 m ea l; d of the 'lst Life Guards and Royal Wa gge4T , with some waggons and forges : they vim a g immediately, and the ships sailed again for c, L , with the Union, Fomax, and Exchange r t ras 2 also for the same destination, to bring h oen 79 troops, horses, &c. Sailed for Ostend th e 1; 1 1 transport ; and arrived from that port t h e EZZ_II transport, with 110 sick and wounded sold: w 7 9 different regiments. FEBRUARY I.—Arrived this morning fr om c all the Jun() and Neptune, horse transpnrts, acid& bathed 50 men WO horses of the R oya l Guards (Blue). The whole of the horse; h i here yesterday. Niow INTALLIGENCL FALMOUTH, JANUARY 30. Arrived the Dutch galliot be Vrow Er GltoUT, from Rotterdam for Nantz ; the Bailie, ger Amelia, PriaßsoN, from Gibraltar for 0. hagen ; the John, BINGER, from Palermo t ot! : don, out forty days ; Eliza (No. 197), 141 1 the Chdrles (A E), Box, from Dover, witli k ' the 44th, 39th, 16th, and 12th Regimentsoo t r 4 also a light ship (name unknown).—No saili Wind S.S.E. fresh gales and fine. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 1. No arrivals or sailings.—Wind South East, PLYMOUrH, JANUARY Arrived the Earl Moira, BAKER, from G I loupe ; tlke Virgin Mary, —, from Listms ; the Millikin, from Nova Scotia ; and rerasi ci other ships wind-hound.—Nothing sailed. DARTMOUTH, JANUARY 31. Came in the sloop Endraught, of and from lingen, for Lisbon, with loss of anchor aod ta i and other damage. DEAL, FEBRUARY a. Arrived yesterday, and sailed for the Rim Indian Chkt, WA - tg, from _Virginia ; and o down from the P..:/c: :he Emperor Alexander,Ca MAN ) for Bata • -main the whole of the awn bound that ca . .)wit yesterday ; also came& from the River, we Canada, RoruNiscx, for Gram RAMSGATE, FEBRUARY t. Arrived the Neptune DR. and Juno El ports, from Calais, with troops. %VATERFORD, JANUARY 27. Arrived the Joan transport from Bristol with' Sailed the HERON sloop of war on a cruise. PENZANCE, JANUARY 30. The stern of a boat, marked Bee, Pielliel," been taken op in Sinming Cpve, Land's End; the inside the boat is the name 46 Owen Levis' Wind S.S.E. blows hard. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. " PORTSMOUTR, Fcs.l, _ " Sta—Having perused with astonishment a pant/retitle Paper of the soth ult. respecting the services rendered lets oil Transport by the Chesterfielll Packet, on the 2lttof lk her last, we revest you will be pleased to contradict it,ali totally false.—We ate, Sir, your humble servants, •f C. (-wise riot+, Leal& Agent lot I naps " BENJ. WALESA, &lOC New York Papers reached us this morning 2d ult. They- cri:tain no intelligence of impott beyond the ordinory routine business in Con t ,m lative to passing Bills, kc. The American Go menc have very properly turned their attentio wards improvements in their internal affairs, vbi more likely to advance the interest of the State, seeking matters of quarrel with Great Britain. is also the prevailing sentiment .in the privately At length those of ourcontemporaries whorl to doubt the correctness of our statements reap s _ _ the Sovereignty of the City and Province of Ca rt having been ?fered to the Britir4 Crown, have OW the tact. It remains now to be seen, whetheri tender, which would put the Crown aid cousup possession of territories more extensive and tidal natural products than we lost by the North•Aaret revolution, will be accepted or rejected. The"' lion is a most important one in every point of re and will, we doubt not, receive much considerate Has FERDINAND himself any better title to the S. reignty ut South America than any other of Has he as good a right as that Power to whichi people themselves have offered it—whoseforenerb tul Sovereign, having lost his throne, has neverli yet restored Was not Ctusnuts IV. compelled' Bowirmara to renounce his throne to FEKOIP It so does not FERDINAND reign. even over Spiel a title vicious in i.s origin Can any arranger made under such circumstances be binding oil! Colonists ?—binding on the Powers of Europe t• question it very much. The Judges met in tht! King's Bench Tie Chamber yesterday morning, and chose she ti the Circuits as under : Noarosc.—Lord Ellenborougb and Mr. Baron Was& MIDLANDr--Lord Viet Justice Gibbs and Tdr. Noirruent.—Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Lag* Warrazt4.-Mr. Baron Graham and Mr blfottre rIT I / 4 . Jusuce Dampier and Mr. /lattice Dail^ Hour..—Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr Justice ----••• aIIEATRES.—Aktih flieittreS lacer night alit new Drama from the same source.—At Drufl7,, it was called Accusation ; or, The Family of Air and at Covent Garden, t he Port Folio, or tit Family; they are both copied from a Piece acted with uncommon eclat at Paris. We nave room to enter into their respective merits; &T i ll however, received with general applause, and nounced for repetition. CORN MARKET, MARK•LANE, FEBRUARY .... had scarce any Wheat kt market to-day, mand being. brisk, sales were readily effected st i advance of 2s. per quarter. Barley maintains 1 1 1 day's prices, but did not go off so freely as NZ day. Beans are Is. per quarter dearer. b oats, and other articles, there is no variation. dMITHFIELD MARAT, FEBRUARY IL • Beet 4s Od co Se 6d Veal 7. 01 t° Mutton 4s Od to Se 6d I Park 4. onto Beasts 680—Sheep and Lambs 3,140 —Carves too — rr. I Meadow Hay SI 15e to 41 Isa 1 Clover 41 Straw gel lOs to St 1.0.4DuN : Pri,e7l ayes. Kaarr, OW N publisked there; and at the Stu Offices IVO 111. - q: 'mt [Mr. 01