Star. — London, England, 1819-02-04 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE &CLOCK per Cent. Reduced 78ftt —3 per Cent. Cons. 7711 Cons. for Acc. 78111- 7ti 2er Cent. 8711 4per Cent. 96i 96-5 per Cent. Navy 106/ 1051106 Fank Lg. Ans. 201 7-16—India Bonds 79 pre. sch. Bills (2d.) 12 5 pre. llAsz waited on the Gentlemen of the Stock >change this morning, and informed them, that the iank had refused to prolong the payments on the Nemption of the Omniurn. The subject of continuing the Suspension of Cash -, s ments came again into discussion last night, in s. House of Commons, in consequence of Mr. LIMIT )AVIES moving for leave to present a Petition from :tain individuals in Bristol, which had for its object, . 0 pray the House not to permit too speedy a'return 5 t ; 1 3 resumption of Cash Payments. The finite; rtponement of this salutary measure is allowed, on a n hand 3, to be a dreadful evil ; but the great ques-: tal l certainly is, whether greater evils would not*be ps ,;,:ced by a speedy return to Cash Payments ? o u r own opinion, after much thought on the ques ejn, is, that Cash Payments might be resumed' in a wc k with perfect safety, if the absurdity of main cuing two measures of value were first done away. ver and Gold never can, in the nature of things, be made to maintain the same relative value; and therefore one of them only should be adopted—and the preferable one of the two is Silver, as we have shewn in a preceding publication. Make this the standard for payments and the Bank may resume payMerz to•morrow, and Bank Notes and Silver will instantly acquire and maintain the same value ; for no person would melt Silver Coin at a ktss, which he must do when Notes and Coin are invariably at par. Nor need it follow that in this case the Bank should be restricted to payments in silver. They might 'toe the power given them to pay large demands in gold; at the market price of gold ; and this gold need of be coined (wLich is an expensive process) but stamped ingots-0:a is stamped to mark its standard neness.—Silver also, in stamped ingots, might be raployed in making large payments, and at the ster valne—that is, without. the senionge charged ~the coin. Nes the moment that such a system shall be :.x;+.ed the Bank will have nothing to apprehend fins:: any run upon them for the precious metals; f.sr it is obvious that no person would submit to the ~canvenience of receiving large payments in silver, rhea he could get them in thr mom portable form tf Bank-notes ; and it is equally obviuus that nn per , ..:11 would ever plague the Bank by improper de sands for gold when he could not possibly - procure higher price for it than the Bank Price,—ln a mid, we have here proposed a complete and infalli- Ie and practicable remedy for the present evil, and re hope it will obtain the serious attention of the, t'aancait.ou of the EXCLIECitreR and of the First Commercial Company in the Kingdom—the Bank of England. It is a plan that will bear the most f.orotigh investigation, and the more it is canvassed. tte more will its efficiency be established. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning, The Project of Law adopted by the Chamber of Deputias, for granting a national recompence to the Duke cf RiCerimm, was on Saturday presented to the Klan by a deputation of the Chamber. As wehave never at any time expressed a very fa vourable opinion of the Ministry of the puke of theamietr, the observations which we are about to Lake cn this act of the French Legislature, will riot n'adili be suspected of partiality. We have always thcught, that in his character as a statesman, the bake betrayed what might perhaps be deemed virtue Era as an individual—too constant a preference kr the interests of Russia, to the prejudice of those cf England. We have often had occasion to lament his igaorance of the real state of public opinion hi Prance, owing to an absence from it of more than eventy.five years, and the tender preference which he seemed to feel for the most despicable of all ray.ies in France—that of the Ultra-Royalists:— We me disposed to allow every credit to these . 7 . ae have a:miled this preference to the goodness of heart, and his horror of revoluttonary principles ; het it must be allowed that this horror led him to things through a partial medium, and to adopt' nersures which cannot be regarded otherwise than rs serious errors in a Minister of State. From all el - vac considerations, we confess it was with pleasure re saw his resignation. But, at the same time, we be wanting in candour, did we not bear tes -1 t • -, ony of the high and chivalrous sentiment of ho *--7....44cit the Deice cez‘fseuiiy , its acirainistration, and, above all, to the ccurage isbich he freed himself from the trammels of :%e Ultras on several great occasions, whe❑ the vital iacrests of the country were clearly at stake. Of thisl the Duke of Runs may gave a splendid proof; when, in defiance of the opinions and solicitations of all those who called themselves his friends, he insisted en the necessity of the evacuation of the French territory. la this he was ably wooded by 1% Ds CAZIII. bqt the Dvii, by his position is Prime Minster, UMd the principal character, with a zeal and talent that impreised the Allied Soveriligns with a high opinion of his pattiotisin, diplomatic skill, and moral virtue: Very probably, no other Minister could have so com• pletely succeeded in the affair. It is for this cause then, the liberation of the French territory-that Fiance has been called upon to tes tify her satisfaction Ist st worthy manner. We should have supposed that there would scarcely have been a dissentient voice on the proposition, and must con fess ourselves surprised at theopposition which it en -I . . . countered in the Chamber of Deputies. The Mem bers who resisted the grant have repeatedly asserted, that if the evacuation had not taken place, the Nation would have risen on the Army of Occupation, and commenced a new Revolution—and our firm convic t4n is, that they were right in their conjecture. How the*. can they answer it to their consciences to refuse the testimonial of their approbation, to the conduct of a Minister who has saved, by their own confession, the country from a new RevolUtion ? The battle of Waterloo was perhaps of less importance to Britain, than the evacuation of the French territory has been to France ; and yet £200,000 was freely voted as a reward to the Duke of WELLINGTON, while for the greater service France would refuse a grant of merely, £l,OOO per ann. to the Duke of Rteitzusti. Su* a refusal is as mean as it is unjust. " M. CORNET DlNcouar alleged a very specious objection-4 , You say the State has been saved by the change of the Ministry, and that all would have been lost had the Duke of Richelieu and his col- leagues remained in office. And yet their successors arc the very men who come forward to propose na- tional rewards to those Ministers in disgrace, for the high and important services which they have ren dered to their country ! What an inconsistency r This argument is easily answered. The Duke of RICHELIEU, by his individual services, merited the reward proposed, and a much greater one. As to his ministry generally, it had the faults we have enu- mcratcd ; but no one is ignorant that the Duke of IttotELlEtt only followed, and did not give, the im pulse of ultra-royalism. Ile was misled by others in the Ministry, in whom he placed unlimited confidence, because he did not knew their secret machinations and ulterior views: he was, in fact, their dupe, but in re tiring to make way for others who were better ac quainted with the real state of things, he did so with a pure conscience, for. not even the enemies of his fame have ever presumed to accuse him of having had the least share in any intrigue or underhand trans action either to procure partizans or to ensure success to his projects. He could always say with the Poet: " My deeds are fair, and day shall see them all!" To such a Minister, therefore, who by the com moa consent of all parties lind rendered services of the first importance to his country, the nation waif ? , beyond all question, deeply indebted ;an &mins him an estate of f. 9.000 per annum, our own opinion is, that she has but very imperfectly acquitted her self of that debt. On the same day on syhich the project of law of which we have now been speaking was presented to the KING, it was also communicated by the Minister of Foreign Aff.sirs to the Chamher of Peers, by whom it was ordered to be printed for distribution previous to its being taken under consideration. The opposi tion in the Peers is not expected to be of so formi dable a nature as that whirls has been experienced from the Deputies of the People. After the KING'S usual grand Levee on Sunday, ' the attendance on which was numerous and splendid,' several of the new Prefects of Departments were in ,troduced to his MAJESTY, and took the oaths. Lieutenant-General Eastour has been superseded in the command of the third Military Division, by Lieutenant-General Rego or. A new insurrection is said to have broken nut in the College of Louis le Grand. The object of the rebel boys is to obtain the pardon of those compa nions who have been expelled for their share in, tire former mutiny The Author of the Lefties Nor• muidts, advocates the cause of the revolters, and gives them the name of youNg citizen, seeing that there are no longer any learners in this age of uni versal It is mentioned by one of the Journals, as a singu lar coincidence, that the day of the year . WhVI Lows has chosen for his Corowtion, is the mine 4 1 that on which BONAPAILTS WAS crowned grhperor of the French. The sentence of the Cour Royale, remitting Ctn.. gi.Voa and Marine, to be tried before the Court of Al a as, finds that there are grounds for accusing the former for having attemptel to assassinate the Duke of IVELLtHoros, and the litter of having abetted 1 the assassination. • . w. The Emperor ALIZAWDER arrived at Petorshurzh on the 6th ultimo. The Empress-Mother was er-* pected daily. Two Royal marriages are said to im onitititapis, one L-4:meen the -1.1 - chdukt RATiliti c _Viyroy of Austrian Italy, and the Princess ClAlliettF, of Lucca, daughter of the late Queettof raid the other between the Archduke Pit.o.niii 0114 ! GARY and the Princess of Wiarimainc. The Journal de Geed remarks, that public , spirit has made an extraordinary progress in Germany-a that the light which was, for a long time, coon; mated in a few States, hai now been spread tar wicts*.and that Av o atria- alone- seems to rearsin stit• ttotiary in the Midst of the general movement Int• premed on the whole of Europe, Another Gentian Journal observes, with what degree of truth we will riot stop to inquire, that it is nbvi the universal wish of the people of Europe to be governed regularlythat Constitutions are found to be nothing but the order appropriated to the progress of civilization—that despotism is every where discredited, and must come to an end— that the wisest of Princes have recognized the force of national will, and resolved to conform themselves to it—and; that short as the time is since constitu tional order has been known in Europe, there are already more than 80 out of 150 millions (not reckoning Turkey) who partake of its blessings. The following tribute to the influence of the insti tutions of this Country in bringing about this great political and moral change, we have much pleasure in quoting : " The House of Commons in England has contributed to this result as much as the French Revolution. It is the liberty of speech which ;las destroyed the power of tyranny." BRIGHTON, FEBRUARY S. This day the .Pamcx REGENT . took exercise on Horseback in the Riding School before dinner. The Duchess of GLoocznwn has not appeared in public I to-day, owing to the uninviting state of the weather, .:--Viscount and Viscountess HAMPDIN, for Glynde place ; the Earl of WPSTMORLAND, Lord MIELVILLS, Count Ds FUNCHALL, and Mr. BuLtaa, for town. were the Pavilion departures of this morning.—The Royal dinner parties continue to be much more se lect than numerous the augmentation of company after dinner, by invitations, continues on a very se lect and limited scale. The Royal Band are now nightly in attendance, but they seldom play late. I'llE ARMY. Tuesday the Members appointed to investigate the I charges preferred against Lieutenant-Colonel HAY, of the 18th Hussars, by Lieutenant-Colonel Mutt- RAY, of the same regiment, again assembled at the Board of Claims, opposite the Admiralty, where, in addition to the evidence adduced the preceding day, were those of Alexander Forbes Forster, Serjeant- Paymaster to the 18th regiment of Hussars ; Mr. Martin, jun. of Brighton ; and Mr. Ridge, jun. of Chichester. The Court was occupied yesterday in examining evidence in support of the charges; when it appeared that Mr. Martin, a Quaker, of Brighton, who had been summoned to produce his books, in. stead of doing so, sent his son, to say that he should not trust his locnks out of his own house; and young Mr. Martin informed the Court, that his father had. also instructed him to ask how they were to be re imbursed the expenses of the journey ? The Court reprimanded him; a peremptory summons was issued for the attendance of his father, and the Court after -1 wards adjourned over this day till to-morrow, to give time for his arrival. The .prosecutioa is a.. petted to close to-morrow, and the Court will again' adjourn to Monday, when Colonel HAY will enter on his defence. NAVAL INTEI.LI9ENCE. FALMOUTII, FEBRUARY I.—Wind W; in some outward-bound vessels and coasters.. Sailed his Majesty's ships Sea writ'? andHaftett en icruixei PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARYS.—Wind S. to ' rived the London transport, from London ;Borodino, Crown, Integrity, and Fox transports, from Cork; and some outward-bound vessels and - coasters. DEAL, FEBRUARY S.—Wind South.—Came down from the River last night and sailed, the St. Mary, for Jamaica; Moreland , - for ditto; Nestor, TIIEA K ER, for Madeira and Bengal; Arms for Odessa; Alice, for Barcelona; George, for Berbice; Ann, for Ha vannah. Sailed his Majesty's ship ALERT, for Sheerness. DOVER, FEBRUARY 3.—Arrived off this port, the Elizabeth Hill, BRITTON, from Leghorn, in 23 days ; and Alexander, of Aberdeen, CUMMINGS, from Mar seilles for London. COWES. FEBRUARY 3.—W4nd S. W.—Arrived the Charles. (RAVES, from Boston, in 25 days, for or ders ; on the 17th ult. within two degrees of the Banks of Newfoundland, fell in with the brig Nelson, TAY. LOR, from Cork to Boston, in a sinking state, from which she saved 23 men, women, and children, and landed them here. The Captain, crew, and passen gers, were ill with the scurvy and dysentry, but Captain GRAVES was fortunate enough in getting them safe on board his vessel by two at a time, while the sea was making 2 fair breach over the Nelson, and he supposes she sunk soon 'after. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 2.—The Bounty, TRUMLY, from Strangford for Liverpool, is on shore at Cnstletown. LOBO 'MUER RY, JAN. SO.—The William Pitt, Hux- Tert,• from Galway to Liverpool, Is• totally lost at . Evcslaenhead—Mate drowned. • The Agn;Dow,itrr,, l a regular trader from this port 'to tivi . rpool; Ss di. shore at Red Bay,. near Glenarze.• . Cutreeis firialisAVOnbov , FlLltaVitrYl.=i4keetV 4 Shvilirdi sfa • Hawait, , lroto Copenhagen.; Doke of Alrel,tingtow, , Nos he I. Valiant,ftaans, feoriNtirfvedialid and Elizabeth, Wake, front Stickluilm. Cleatidoutwardsilli Nil , visa, Cooper, for liavannah; • the Wow Ermigina: tram,* Rotterdam; Emetic., Kiriltove, for . Antweril...3artir; ' Splits, for Cadiz ; /fey, Gibb, fbr Haroliorgb ; Woos, Tompsop; for ditto ;•Twine. Shout, for ditto ; firttegada, Jackson:for do. Atlas, Mayne, for China ; Herefordshire, nor, for . {or :King-, atonHorguaatte, for Honduras ; and to Dana Scuts, Cobalt, far.pievre. ~ .. Fssatousase Aim -The ,CountessOksweisterClas; lila!, and the lion. Mr. and Lady Chatlette.Pindar, . in'Port , Istanwptaie, front Brighton; Mrs. Plesdnileisliad.Fsially, In Melba& street, front ditto ; the Earl and Coangua ot.March, Haroiseis le Despeneer, the Hon. Messrs. Pelhdia, the Idarqiilis and Marchioness of tifford, the Marquis hioriese of Coign/tuns,' Lord and Lady Gyen!ine, Ear l; St. ~ DBATA OF THE COUNTESS .07'ATELOWE;-- . OE the HAI. of January, died, at the Hague, .in her . 74ih year, after a few days' illness; the Countess Do wager of3Aisturna, relict of FAZDEItiCIC CtIIaSTIAN, Earl :of Athlone, who died 'at Teddington, in , the year 1808. r• :Dawns), eueCourress os Rods--January SO, 'clisiel,. at Leslie House, •Fifeshire, H slam EVELYN, .Cottatess of .Rothes, and wife to Gooses Lents; 'Es4....by whom she has left five children. She has only sareived het father two years. The late Earl spit one &this shame Peen of Parliament for Scot = 7 t lastd:'• His titles descood to-her *lest son, . tow- in the /Ith year of his age. • PEDIttIARY g. Since the departure of Mr. HUNT, his Partisansi Who had collected from Bolton, Stockport, Ashton, and other neighbouring towns, hart returned to their respective homes and avocations, and all bee since re• mained tranquil, COMBINAITIOM. OF WORKMEN. It is now some months since a plan was suggested by one of the universal-suffrage-m en to raise, by a penny Subscription, a general fund throughout the King , dom for the purpose of obtaining Parliamentary Re form, in which it was suggested. that twelve hun dred thousand persons subscribing one penny per week, would produce a fund of two hundred and sixty thousand pounds per year," which in two yeats . would break up the factions of the country.". Since that time the same kind of idea. has been I taken up by certain classes of workmen ; and we stated, some time ago, that an extensive combination of workmen and mechanics in different branches, was organizing throughout the Kingdom. Their number, if we may credit the accounts we have been able to procure, amounts to 60,000, who subscribe one penny weekly to aid the purposes of their association, and have been making preparations for some time for a more extensive turn•ord in Lancashire, among the weavers, spinner's, and dyers, as soon as circumstan ces should enable them tQ make amore efficient stand than they formerly did.'. How far the verdicts ob.- tained against those who have so recently been tried ,in Lancashire, may operate as a check or incitement, in that quarter, it is impossible to say : but it were much to be wished that some efficient means could be found to preient the heart-burnings and mischief these frequent turn-outs occasion, as well to the em. ployer as the employed. Is TWELVE HOURS.—G. WEBB reminds his friards i that the present small but rich Lottery will be drawn in one day ; with only 6000 Tickets, the Scheme contains Two Capitals of £20,000, and several others cof 20001. 10001. &c. The whole of which will be de cided DeItTUESDAY (Feb. 9th.) WEBB'S Offices are at 9, Cornhill, and 17, Ludgate-street, where the commands of the Public are respectfully solicited. Recollect I—HAZARD and Co. sold the last Prize of £30,000 ever drawn, and all the 'fhb ty Thousand Puunds Prizes the Lottery before last.—llazA&Duad Co.'s Offices, 93, Royal Exchange r '26, Cornbill.; arid 324, Oxfordstree, corner of Swallow-sweet.--lisort TUESDAY, Two Prizes of t:20,000 must be drawn, as 'the Lottery of only 6000 Tickets, begins and finishes that day.—HAZARD and Co. have Agents in all the. principal County Towns. THE PUFF DIRECT.—We hail with the greatest satisfaction the near approach of the Drawing of the present much approved State Lottery, whici? will be decided in One Day, Naar TUESDAY, the 9th Inst. This Small Lottery, with only 6000 Tickets, coa 3ains Two Grand hizes of £20,000, which will no' doubt be sold by G. CARROLL, at his Fortunate Offices. N 0.19, Cornhill, and No. 26, Oxford-street. as in the last Lottery he Sold No, 2387, a Prize cf £30,000, and No. 7003, a Prize of .CEOOO, in Shares; making a larger Amount of Prizes Sold by him than by, any other Office Keeper. ' 'DREAMING TO SOME PURPOSE.—It is a cueous cir . - nee, but nevertheless a well.autheaticated fact, That No. 5535, drawn a Prize of £30,000 in the late Lottery, was bespoke by Bisu at the Bank, in con sequence of an order given by a person who had dreamt that it would be drawn a Capital Prize. As this person did not feel inclined to adventure o .tumsta largely as to take a whole Ticket, hl pumhasei ba a small Share, and the remainder was left for dispo sal to the Public. The Half'svas purchased b-r a Gentleman at Dartford, and the remainder went :n lesser :bares, to various individuals.. Al this. Nz:ns ber would in. all probability have lieen sold in a whole Ticket, but for the circumstance of the perscia who dreamt of it having bespoke it, thc Geatlernatt7 who thus became possessed of the half must no doubt feel much obligation to his SLEEPING PARTNER.. Covet* GAMblt': Tsmaram—Last night, after the interesting, piece. of The Point of Honour Mm. Cowutv's Farce of .Tito t the Dupe I was revived with Honour,. effect. Mr. Rising, in Ohl Deiky, wan the life of the piece, and obtained, .freouent and very considerable applause. Graceiss e as performed by taw-. cm, was most amusingly ridiculous ; and Jests imparted his usual spirit of stinky to the fortunate Grainger. Tim whole gave complete satisfaction, and the piece • to be repeated with success. Meansaoes Asmonv.—We gave on T. attempt made by a fellow named Saworr, named Somerville, on Saturday night last, and tattle, Newington. Yesterday, J. R. Union-Hall Police-Office, received inform::; ville was dying, and he thought it his dut , depositions of the dying woman, fot the y future proceedings against the fellow who our deed. Mrs. Elizabeth Somerville -- worthy Magistrate ; at periods she was but it was evidently with great pain, though sensible of hermebncholy situation. The r spars she mad; to the questions :—" I b , wound in my head ; I believe it was " fiicted the wounds 'I received in my sL sensibleat the time. David Sawy..rs was this *pr. I did not see 2117 1.)0 , d7 tbilt ITT xery violently, I have no reason -Al hear any body else who struck 'me the .1.-Thlt:fillagistratc did not think it roguish, 'tke to question the unfortunate woman ' okposition as briefly as possible, that she 'Rote than was absolutely -necessary. ' l tilfluil of the offender. .•:Ifince- cat:inate ton Wrsznasrra! ' sieonvox attended at Bow-strett, upon . etutad against him to the Waiters of liarrison liras ego.. Mr. HMO refused to proceed *Malty managed. Mr. MACIIMIGHTO4I - "meets to the Magistrate, and assured bit respect that he appeared before him with bonnet, bat because be was canvassing W dad to g ar himself in that dress as a candidate Dust estemieol—Janscs Good and George So to Ifitaborougfostreet Office, yesterday, by a f with.boingon their way, with loaded pistols, 'llte 4e6endants sae gentlemen's servants e.-- had i disputesbout a bet of five shillings, bate ldst to Good, the latter phallenged 1 1 and•put himself. in attitudes; but Smith I not snake Is bitikguard of himself, aud such an indiptity, he would meet him at f. demon; yesterday morning. The parties apet by appointment yesterday morning, v ja~n.an tailor for Smith, and a / l i g ht( The Constablehaving received infonnatioa take place, intercepted the heroes on d action, each-being prepared with a hone , which the **tads had borrowed. The the pistols in the air, and matted the defeo held in sureties in 40 each to keep thepcace sub)eets, and Mr. Fawn, the restrain their Knott-ininfilatmuilas: I S I I I r 4. 1 • 1 i • I A 'able effect. Mr. 7 14*irrat, -- e, and obtained .fre q uent us e as performed by taw-, i 1 l i 1; and Jests imparted his tate Grainger. Tiro whole ece will probably condtui a Tuesday aa recount of an . yen., to ma: dee 4 wnrays it last, near the Ili:FM:int I I S• J. R. CUAllliegif, l'sq. of roc:Tu.:ion that Alt:. • met.' '?` is &tryst'. go are! take IL* the purpose of gr.raoß:i: g 4 who committed the „truer . t, le was interrci.trtted hr the • as able to t...rawee qia. rit ts, ; though she wW. perr...tay It . . . The following are the NO. . „ 1 I believe I shall eke cf the '• ;' 1 as David Sawyers . whe iti.. skull, but I WAS quite in- • s .1 s was walking wide a.ft at else near us; lic thurattasd whatever to belluve.el...t it . e the blows on the kr...d." . ! ' i ' Mi ... . t., equishe for the ends rf . - .:a. a, . min farther, and took rha she might not bc.disturtt Y. .• /-, . The Officers are sti ::n i • ea!—Yesterday Mr. "t.7.sc.- .. pan a WaIMUL Wi . t . :. ' . . - .04 if Harrison's Coffee ilouee, proceed in an afF.ir so irt•e- . . ,t row made Ms aeknowletig- • r , 4 him' it was not from ...is- with a Highland plaid and . sag Westminster , and hats- • l candidate on the Matto." I d George Sough wore bros4s.t • day, by a constable, elm gLd . d pistols, to fight a slisti... I • tante out of places. litter.;ig thugs, which Smith is rah! to 4 aged him to fight a id: Crib, • . Smith replied that he slut td • ; and as he could not arc eh in at Chalk Farm as , a An- patties then rep:med, atd sling, with , their seconds. a. liught e At Razor for flts.d.- "nation e( what was about to * 'i an their way to the spot for horse pistol loaded with b. 41, The Co; sable disrbarmd the defendaits.— Thus ware 1 • therace to ad l , f.s "Oa:Asti', 1 asittnite,Ltted'tbdt it woi.ld II . ..,' e - ' ..... •