Star. — London, England, 1816-11-05 00:00:00

~~~ ~-' 'Tr 1 . f • t i I I. ' • .~~ no keduied to three . ‘d oats work in . pre! noironly about ten any high-tided re ow it is possiltli,thaest s inner or sinecure. pi.. in in and his family, at the p resent p rice of rovisions, c al siervrt themselves bn Ss. a.week t Fitrihe!, I in sy say, it is beynnd the power of c ontradiction , that there is not in Glasgow three shopkeeper!, or warehousemen , out of ten, that are clearing their.ex. poises.' The distress complained of is therefore niut clofined to the working classes, but is felt general 7 all over the kingdom it is not ideal only, but is real and personal, and deserves the most instant ale serious attention of the Prince Regent and Legiment s ture. But it may be asked, what can Govern do to relieve the ge neral distress, when they them selves are in distress to collect sufficient tare. to . pay the interest of the National Debt, the ordinary charges of, the State, the Standing Army, the Placemen and Pensioners ? I wo uld, however, beg leave to reit t' em, Retrench, Gentlemen, retrench abolish all useless sitt ec ere places and pension s ; disleand a bun? re duce the i died thousaud of the standing army li n e -. terest of the National D ebt I give the people a and equal Representation in Porlioment ; and again I wroth! say, .Retr ench every possible expenditure, and, he 'Vases, before it be too late I—before despe - r aims drives :he People to madness. With the great C inner of British Liberty in our !mods, wr say, pay Gentiemen give us our rights. tiaction Bth of that. Charter* declares —4 4 that the Electron of Man. basal Parliament ought 'to Le free." Section 13th r toclaiins—" that VI redress of all grievances, and f r the amending , streng thenin g , and preserving o t f j, ;( we L Parliaments ought to be h eld frequently ;" m t e aucieut custom in the good days of our forefa t.:crs was annually ; and by another grand Charter o stained at the succession of the House of Hanover, Article:7th, it is procl.einrd as with a voice of thun der against the inroads of cot ruption, that 4 4 no per. son, who•lias any office under the King, Of receives a peasion from the Crown, shall be capable of serv ing as it Member of the House of Commons." Now, Gentlemen, it is said to be nctorious plat places in that House are bought and sold like cattle at a mar ket, and that it swarms with placernen and pensioners. We therefore beg, we pray, we entreat the Prince Regent iMmediately. to assemble ilk Parlisment, and t..) sweep ant ot the House of Commons all these pen sibners, for by the Act of Settlement they ought not to be there. Let the House be tilled up with Itepte. :rotative: freely and fairly chosen by the People. You know the Constitutional Government of this country is con - ipotesi ot King. Lord`, and Commons. The Kleg possesses his full them of power and he fts lice the Bishops and Poers constitute the House ot Lords, so they are completely represer.tcd. The House oh Commons should consequently contain a tree and goal representation of all the taxable Hoist. it Aden in the Kingdom. It should be in tact the fair and manly image of tire people. . It is notorious, however, that a few wealthy indi viluals, called the rotten borough faction, send a majority of (what they call) Representatives, to that Houle. "I t 'llis want of a proper representation is the isikapaacioual grievance, and the, fatal source of all per wee tot rmaintaiet that it es mare than probable, he/ this country possessed a proper representation in Parliament, both the American and French wars, read each a mass of misery, debt, and taxation, might Wire been avoided, and this country , at this da y , might have been free, &turishing , and happy. One paring proof of the want of a proper representation twee be lotted in this very city, which, with its sub nabs, cattalos epopolation of one hundred and twenty t4itleartd; now. except a small number, called the Magistrates and Council. who are a self-elected body, Ant one of the whole one hundred and twenty thou sand has any more to say in choosing a M ember of Parliament than they have in ehomang ; the Dey of • Algiers, the Emperor of Morocco, or the Grand 'fork. The House of Commons may be compared to a fertile piece of land that a. man inclosed with sills, and planted therein the choicest trees, fruits, end dowers; but if he neglects yearly to prune, clean, nod cultivate the garden, it will soon be so overrun with weeds and vermin, as totally to ruin all his for m• r labour and expense. So this House, although sheltered with the best of charters, unless annually re newed by the free snerages of the people, will, instead of a blessing, be only a rank nuisance to the country. —From all that has been . said, it may be observed, that, seeing the great negotiator, Lord Castlereagh, hue been so busily employed in settling the claims of the legitimate Sovereigns as totally to forget procur ing for this country any proper commercial treaty, the people must look to themselves, they must peti tion and petition, and petition in an orderly manner and with perseverance. until they obtain their just rights, eihtil they obtain that grand 'rhodium of British liberty, a full and free representation in the Howse of Commons, far until that is obtained, we Lave an properteeurity for our persons . , our lives, or oar Govetitaent and the greet , Landed . Proprietors seeing the situation o f the ciiiinigrat the end of the war, in order to employ the mass if ope ratives thrown out of empleyent, should have begun some great national improvement, such as a-grand canal from one end of the Island to the other'; they ought also to have ordered into ctiltivation all the waste lauds of the kiogdom ; they should have re- built the cottages in the country, so that e.very. Man who could work and wished for it, might, at an easy rent, ' obtain a little cabin, an acre of land; with a cow's grass.--(Leird.and repaid 4101as:cr.) Lad I should trespass oft your patience, I shall finish at present by . earnestly admoni s hing and intreatiog this immense multitude to — set this doyen. great (-s -ample of due salvirdinatits, order, avd regularity. — Let t h e whole nation, whose eyes are now fixed urn toe, see that yon are net a rpbble, that you are not a swinish multitude, but that while you meet peaceably tt s petition for your . rights, you also know your duty , as good citizens. Mr. LA W° zdareltSed the Meetin i g .q a speec h t h at Was received with loud app cruses. ''A Gentleman handed apaper to the hustings, pro leogllg a vote of thanks to as independent Newspa pers, whicli, as well as the other . Resolutions, was eabd by acclamatioa.—lt was paPoied to read the itasoludons a second time ind consiatediesa a;rieakaft We tries ot there is no need for that, ants* •whatevey," suptlrseded the proposal . •- Mr: *4' Ls" to a neat speech, moved 4'U*. ' : ( • CORNWALL ._ • ' The County of Cornwall suet at Boutin en Tues day last. The Gentlemen who signed the itoquisi." tion, and who are known as the Friends of Naomi). tarY Reform, appeared at their post, surrounded by a very numerous and most respectable body of the Yeomanry. The Shire.hall was completely filled, and numbers. who could not get admittance, stood in the area between that and the Nisi Prius Court. Both the County Members were present. About one o'clock the High Sheriff took the Cflair, a nd opened the bleeting by reading the Requisition. Joust COLMAN R ASHLEIGH, Esq. in a most able and' argumentative speech, enlarged upon the topics em braced by the Resolutions, which he held in his hand, and which he concluded by moving. The interest excites by Mr. Rashleigh's observations, was evident by the profound attention of the Meeting, only interrupted by those bursts of applause, which, like electric sparks, were continually elicited from all present, by the convincing and energetic eloquence with which' he traced all our privations and sufferings to their true source t the corrupt influence eza by the Government over the majority of a Hem . of Commits, neither participating. the feelinge, nor es, pressing the sendments of the people, became licit chosen by them. E. W. W. PENBARVES, Esq. seconded the Resolu tions. in a concise bit impressive address. Wawa,' Perna, Esq. expressed his approbation of the sentiments contained in the Resolutions; and in the course of a luminous and very eloquent speech, read and commented on a statement respecting the transactions between the Bank of England and the Government, which was furnished by that truly in. dependent Cornishman, Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. and which contained the substance of the various and important observations made by him on these trans actions in the House of Commons. first eight Resolutions being read and put separately by the Sheriff, were passed unanimously. They stated that the late Petition to the House of Commons for economy had been disregarded; that the prayer of that Petition can be no longer opposed without danger to the Government and the nation ; that the abuses in the Government are to be traced to the defective representation of the people ; that a Petition be presented to the House of Commons for the reduction of civil and military establishments, the abolition of sinecures and unmerited pensions, a re form in the state of the representation according to the Constitution ; and that an Address be presented to the Prince Regent to assemble Parliament, and to recommend to them these considerations. The Address to the Prince Regent. which was moved by Mr. Rashleigh and seconded by Mr. Pen turves, was also adopted unanimously. E. J. GLYNN, Esq. moved that the Members for he County be requested to present the Petition to the Ilouse 01 Commons, and ,to support the prayer of it, in their places in the House ; and that the Sheri be requested to sign the Address to the Prince Regenk on behalf of the Meeting, and cause it to be presented to his Royal Highness. The motion was seconded by the Rev. Robert Walker. Sir WILLIAM LTMON expressed his readiness to comply with the wishes of the Meeting, being tulay impressed with a sense of the necessity of retrenchio sent and economy, and having, ever since he had the honour of being a Member of the House of Co.. mons. uniformly supported every motion for referring the state of the Representation to the consideration stCommittee of the House. This address was re. ceived with the warmest applause. J. H. TRZMAYNI. Esq. said, that whilst be was ready to present the Petition, and fully concurred in the necessity of economy, he felt himself bound in honour and fairness to declare, that he could net sup. port the whole of the prayer of it. Mr. GLYNN immediately came forward, and them' expressions of disapprobation, which had already commenced amongst the great body of the Meeting, were at once suppressed. Whilst he regretted the declaration they had just heard, he did justice to the honourable and manly manner in which Mr. Tee rnayne had conducted himself, and paid a handsome compliment to his independence. But, at the same time, he felt it his duty to request permission to with draw his former motion, for the purpose of amending it by substituting the name of the Hon. Thomas Brand, Member for Herttordshire, for that of Mr. Tremiyne (loud otplarre). The request was immedi ately complied %nth, and the motion so amended was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. GLYNN, seconded by the Rev. ROBRRT WALICIR, the mover and seconder of the . Resolutions, were requested to write to M r. Brind, and signify to him the wishes of the Mee4o. 9 'lke motion of-Tbaolia to Pascoe Greek! • for his elections to bring to light die transactions be tween the Bank of England and the Government, was made by the Rey. ROBERT WALKER, and se conded by Colonel Pam. It was adopted amidst the warmest testimonies of approbation. The motiou for advertising the Resolutions and the Address, and that respecting the signing the Petition, being put and Carried, Mr. GLYNN moved the Thanks of the Meeting to the Sheriff, for his able and impar tial conduct in thethair: Tbeination being leconded, was passed by acclamation. The Sheriff expressed his satisfaction at having met their approbation in the discharge of his duty, and dissolved the Meeting. Shortly after the /fleeting had concluded, a very numerous and respectable company sat down to an excellent dinner, at the King's Arms Hotel. Sir A. 0. hlotesWotern, the High Sheriff, was in the Chair, and was supported by Air WILLIAM Lassos, the mover and seconder of the Resolutions, Ste. Sic. J. H. TIM/Ain% Esq. also was present. After the cloth was removed, and the metal toasts of-6" The King—the Prince Regent--the Queen and the ROTA Family".-4 number et- cusistitetsanal sad 'patriotic toasts were given fmni -she Chair;_ sad by `several Gentlemen. About items o'clock sir , isiu'Lzsecor withdreW amidst the stairs of der coisPi `way, WbO paid the semi follow of aspect nod'ir the High ilheviff ess his leaviag t sine O'clock tbe.oompany Wei* - 11V) t•yr 7 - 7" t " 1, 4, rs. • % 1 A..... I nk st te •; • ... ' ' 4 ,' , 'AV' ' • g° Th 5A ;*:C s ; . ' • • i • .' ri ' .4. • • tiorfni- unisti. • 1 0-1_ ~• - It- J _ .t; 4 . ll Wius• aFr_ $ 14 1_,,,. sh , 1 1 , 7 , wren& MoM.lnrent nave less receilio in: 1 woe of' an 'attimpt „having Men made . by a i Americo!, presoused to be countenanced , 4 . Government.to effect the deliwance of Nor-1 011eilo from St. Helga*. The American vessel, il* Carpenter. fitted out.for Ibis purpose, has been taken. M. de. Richelieu has .ahead y comm unicated this W telligence to the Foreign Ministers reshiing at this Coen. I can learn nwfurther particulars for ,the present,.. . . ' i• ei The journal' suided the 'Adele ded du Re; his been suspended 011 day, and its princ i p al Editor sea _ into custody. " This faithfulltwad. to his Mi jesty..M. &keit, is one of those who followed the French Court to Ghent, and is said to have given many proofs of devotion to,, t. legitimate cause. the most recent of which is , having edited and circulated the incendiary pamphlet,.. which has been of late the object of so many articles in the profes sedly Ministetial Papers. and which has been gene rally ascribed to M. de Chateaubriand. His daughter' repaired this morning to the Tuilleries to implore the Royal protection in his favour. With what success h this appeal to his Majesty's justice or commiseration has been made, I know net. " Both Ministerialists end Ultras are equally con h fideat of bearing the palm in the contention in svbicit h they ate about to engage. The former rest their 'hopes en the support of Russia, on the one hand, and on that of the Moderes, whose election they have bees able to effect, on the other. The Ultras ground theirs on the countenance of England (into which delusion they are chiefly led by the spirit manifested of late in what is deemed our Government Paper). together with the numerous force they flatter them selves with having in the Chambers. Those Mem bers who keep aloof from those parties, constitute what is called le pariie Frastair, the French party, in contra-distinction with the two Court parties, who are denominated the Foreign Parties, from the nature of their support. The latter party is expected to be strengthened by a certain number of Members, who, on the one hand, bearing deadly enmity to the Ul tras, and, en the other, baying no faith in the stabi lity of. the Ministry, will coalesce with neither, but endeavour to become popular by embracing the pa triotic cause. " The candidates for the Presidency of the Lower Chamber are expected to be M. M. Bellart, Ravez, and M. de Serres, the Member for Alsace. M. Raver., though unknown in the political world, is said to be a man of talents. He is brought forward by M. Leine, who lately appointed him President of the Electoral College of the Gironde. " The opening of the Chamber is still fixed f.r the 4th of next month. It is, however, the opinion of well-informed persons, that it will be postponed for a few days, but that the postponement will, like last year. not be made known till the eve of the day i appointed. One of the first questions which the Ultras will call upon Ministers to submit to the House, will be that n h i tch gave rise to its prorogation last year, the restitution of the Lands of the Church. It is singular ap t the King, while expressing his dissent from that .measure by thus proroguing the Chamber, was at that very moment am:misting a Concordat at Rome. ; 000 of the leading articles of which was, that those Lands were to be restored to the Clergy. That they to be administered by the latter. who were to them as their unalienable property , a nd a cre to form a separate body in the State--a body which was se be - rpueseuted in the Legislature, though telosowledging, at the same time, the supremacy of a Foreign Chief. The re-establishment tit the Clergy, and the restitution of the Lands of the Church, is a question which will give rise to very animated dis. sussions is the two Rouses." - - 4 THE EVENING . STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1816. GUIPPOWDER PLOT. -- Hells, at the Bank, Essbetuer, and Soatb-Sea House% No Paris Papers could arrive this day, Saturday having been the day of All Saints, the Printing Offices were all shut up in Paris. A private letter received yesterday from that city, speaks of some attempt having lately been made, by an American vessel, to carry off BONAPARTIR from St. Helena. The vessel fitted out for the purpose was captured. • As the 'slay for opening approaChes, the fury of the Ultras seems to increase. Disappointed in the result of the Elections, and the unyielding firmness of the Constitutionalists, they now drop the mask which; thar bad assumed. They. no longer appose as the, watt supporters of the 'Nose, Oretendisafto a turbulent nation the example of obedience. • Bop cause power is denied them, they abandon' evert" principle of loyalty and of duty. They raise a: cry of alarm, which they vainly hope will disturb the tranquillity of the . Land. They stir up the still burning embers of rebellion, -call upon the People to rise in arms, and would once more in volve their Country in the blaze - ef Civil War.— Is this the conduct of true Patriots I—of men who have nothing but the interest of their Monarch and of their fellow.subjects in view ? Does not their Rosa at assume the most distorted and disgusting features of jacobinical frenzy ? What would be the fate of the KINO and of the country if they fall into the - hands of such revolutionary fanatics I ° Hitherto their audacity, always tinged with cowardice, has not proceeded beyond the circulation of seditious pamphlets, in which open rebellion is recommended as the only remedy which AM g‘ :eve the Kit frost hit Ilifeistirs 1" But they add, that the period is come WM* attempt must be made. This menace 111 4 aus for the peace. of Europe, were we nek.Pllllllo.:iif ilea total impotence of those by whom 'ht& They May clamour tileiF throw -• • • •ot t t • t o - .~c7 !f. ; Xis noi . sad portion's—Wl rwage 1 " p.nee. re ask an, ne sinecure placernan• how Zi. A .S . ; \ .)..A thini fto . , Ft . adopcod._, ?ut • • 1 4 orrili otscecktost 401 Rigid& were preuest. - D ock, was rectivist .homeof *robotic* *gr . , were beard at neatly it *al& 4i5c0n00„,,, , • 4,"--reer""Pr. • • tenigence • ter. sof CORNWA LL COLINTT inapro.; - b • l ow ( • , . . latitulp they wilt find no hind , , th . iib*j are equally disregarded- by the ivy a n d i e s people. the favoUr of their Savant:ion aloneisiiii them to momentary importance. From the they forfeited the one, they lost the other. Some Gertnan Papers arrived last. night, present nothing of a political complexion w.„44 . the slightest notice. The bear hunt, given in',_ coltrmn, is the only article worthy 6f fanii : in, these •Faixtt, • A Mail from Hamburgh arrived tlalt moo* . Our Readers will perceive that the German wri tr i ; now that warlike events have passed away, h n i directed tbeir attention to the more useful sublttt4 statistics. Their researches are generally ' tr y ata, rately followed up, and cannot fail to be ;a tom uti to political cetionotnists. ODEVA, AUGUST 24, (0. S.) From the 22d of April to the 16th of this Mi t there have arrived here, in all, 464 mercbant*it which there were, under the Russian f1.g,196, trim) 70, French 10. English 172, 'Turkish 10, k STOCKHOLM, OC Rank is. VW* the docnesents telative to the fire ithi n k biote out, on the,Thl of April, in the warehaur the merchant P. W. Berg: at Gottenborgh, it app al l-. that Berg has been sentenced, by the Tribusal Gottenburgh, t 3 fine, and to make good the log ;ft but as there was no property to be found, tohardis. boor in a fortress. But as he could not be neigd of having himself caused the fire, the inquiry on point is delayed, as the incendiary may, perh a po i found out at a future time. Some effiars of Customs have been suspended' for three mon* at neglect. FROM THE MAYNE, OCTOBER 23. According w a statistical work in the papers al tta Academy of St. Petersborgh, the revenues of hi, in ;311, were 215 millions of rubles, the disbar* Tents 274 ; the Marine, in 1813, consisted of Vs - vessels, bearing 4,348 runs ; the established Greek" religion had 26,747 churches, besides many Musk series; there were besides in 1811, three millioss4 - a half of Catholics ; 1,400,000 Lutherans ; Reformed ; 9,000 Moravians; 5,000 Mennonite ' . 60,000 Armenians; 8,000,000 of Mahonietsof 300,000 votaries of the D.tlai Lama ;600,00041W of Fetishes, &c. The number of manufatorinvi . l in 1815, 3,233. • A. , The Committee chosen by the Ministers tons*. regulations for the relations of the Diet, and diet' nisters to the city of Frankfort, as well as for reps lating the solemnities for the opening 'of the Dirt. consists of the Hanoverian Minister; M. Mown, the Danish Minister Von Eyben, and Senator Side l of Bremen. • It*** intended at first to illuminate the civil Frankfint on the day of the opening of thellat,ket It innowaletermined to employ the sum intended fa that purpose, in relieving the poor. WARSAW, OCTOBER 111. As the Emperor returned from the Ball giv Princess Czestoryska, lie transacted business ill Cabinet from midnight till sit in the morning, 4 afterwards departed for St. Petersburgh, by way 1 Bialystock. Grodne, and Riga. General Coo Winzingerode set of for Bialystock en the 154* receive the EmPeror on his return. The Austrian General Count Walmodee, ea from'Vienna specially, •to notify the marriage of ti Emperor with the Princess of Bavaria. . The Polish troops have been for some days pit the much to return to their cantonments. It is affirmed that the Emperor may be mint here.for a longer time, in next June. Account all appearance the Diet will probably be called al thetAlsout that time, since the new Polish Code ash tains* drawing up, and other Public conceroal quire by the Constitution the confirmation by' Stamp of the Kingdom. —....i....i. :couPti= to owairt `Thursday prorogued the 2d of January. gentnissihners Were, the LORD CRANCELLOie MillPilkt SIDUOUTU, and Lord Sr. IiELENS. Tile l d_of Commons was represented by Messrs. Wog liyesterday!, ,filtelliLl.t.; RICKMAN. BELLAMY, HANsABD, DIC SON, BULL,IIAWES, and Jss., Officers beloogN elas Hinsseyeaterided by tlig•Diessergets• This being the Anniversary of the Popish %/7 racy, commonly called the Gunpowder Pint, ee Pau :'s Day, the Park and Tower galls were firs! the occasion; the Yeomen of the Guard, ati l ,' Majesty's seevanti at St. James's Palace, their customary gratuity of wine, it being rim day, and two barrels of strong . becr were liten" populace in front of the Admiralty. Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'clo4 . Duke and Duchess of CUSISTRLAND, and thews blishment, arrived from their house on Kett CA at St: James's Palace. for the season. Wednesday Earl Baniuusz received g putt curious plants by the EsTerfinizn, from t• ir .., France, which were on Friday sent toff to the B* l° Garden at Kew. as a present to het. MaJesm.„, At an audit at Atington•house, Hants, on 7: the tenants of the Margeis of BucKimatot W. per cent. deducted from their rents. COVENT-GARDEN Tersierne.—Kosaus 'Pe; lighted a numerous and elegant audience iast . with his truly great and incomparable per l of corklanut. He was in fine voice and 6 " — . 4 spirits, and may be said , if possible, to ha e ve: tended all his, former greatn ess and welled ai .was of course rapturously and universally en' throughout. The interesting orawrtain Braes Sawid succeeded, and swot offal • inliuite saki. • • a , ' • - I le+ -,1 . ,7 , T