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=____----- E EVENiNG STAR. LONDON. :URSDAY, JULY 8, 1819. THE FUNDS. - ITOCKs rtila DATA? OMB O'CLCCK ick 217 216} AL Reduced 671 f at. Consols 67i 67} ex. div. flt. 76/-4 per Cent. Ma i t. Navy 1011j1 cx. div. ag Annuities 17 13-161 a Cents. 102 1021 ads 4 10 pre.. T Bills (2d.) 2 4 2 pre. 11.; dis. or Acct. 68a. of Commons adjourned last night till :t is understood that the prorogation • about the middle of next week—pro- slay. ,atinuing the present Insolvent Debtors 611 three months after the co;nminien- next Session -of, Parliament, .was last , Lt into the House . of Commons, *ad ugh all its stages. -e.ss to the PRINCE Rtastcr was, on the Mr. W►LBERvoRCE, unanbriously 'agreed his Royal Highness again .to entreat wers to co-operate with •this Country. in abolish' the Slave Trade. Par.ers of Monday arrived this forenoon ;ic intelligence in them is unimportant: the foreign articles they contain, our at tracted with a painful degree of interest Is of the surrender which we mentioned is taken place of the fortress of Parga to A. The British garrison has been with _ 1 shameful to relate! the condition by l .ion of which our Ministers endeavoiffed to u [render, has not been fulfilled ! Motives of be urged for the abandonment of Parga ; lotive, founded in reason or common sense, tted for making that abandonment before deman6ed and agreed to be given paid down? The amount of the indemnity re been fixed by a joint Com Mission of Ar and not a Turki.,h soldier admitted till tre of it was pail.. The following is the account given of the details of this extra •ansaction: 0 =try, JUNE 1. :ortu nate city of Parga has at length yielded 17 ; it has bees occupied by Ali Vizir, in cf the Porte. All the inhabitants, men, lid children, to the number of between two :hous:md, have quitted, in tears, their n and wandering into the lonian Isles, irn w country. The sums which the Porte had Visir to indemnify the inhabitants for the movealie and immoveable, which they tndun, have not been paid over to them by as avaricious as he is cruel. This city, very strong, was the last possessiontof the Powers on the Continent of Greece. By of 1800 this city was placed under the ;tection of Russia and the Porte, as well as Isles. In several other posterior Treaties to the Porte, but these Treaties remained xi. When in 1815, a new Convention, cod- Paris on the sth of November, put the lands under the protection of England, the sewed his claims, and refused his concur- Parga were delivered up. England en. 1 for a long time, but without success, to cession, by the large sums which it de way of indemnification for the property tbabitanu of Parga. They were little ac. with the ambitious character of Ali Vicar, not a man to stick at any promise to disens• imself of the presence of the European little did they take into account the devo le Grand Seignior, who counts it his glory' brought under his sceptre an infidel city,, Id stood ont against ill his predecessors." igence has been received in Paris from Madrid id June. The report that Don Onis, the late to the United States, was to be called to fill of M. Casa Irujo, received daily confirms• le brigantine Volontaire arrived at Cadiz on from Vera Cruz and the Havannah, with tad public intelligence from all parts of metica ; but no particulars of this intelligence spired. The day before the arrival of the e, she had been obliged, when seven leagues Cape St. Vincent, to 'sustain .an obstinate )f three hours and a half with an Insurgent cf Buenos Ayres. The corsair was obliged to sheer off, leaving the Volontaire to get in a most crippled state, with the loss of killed and 18 wounded.— The change in the Lad produced no cessation in the prepar* the Grand Expedition, which were still with great activity. )11owing are some other articles of foreign VIENNA, JUNE 24. tches of great importance have arrived hers Several couriers were immediately dis- patched, after their arrival, but k has not transpirei what the objects are to which these d'spatches relate. BERLIN, JUNE 5. The King is now perfectly recovered, and his mud has not left the smallest mark. ST. PETERSBURGH, JUNE it The dispatch of couriers for Paris isinore frequent than ever ; three have set out within this week. Ge neral Hulot has arrived; he travels quite at his ease, and does not appear charged with any political business• The personal wish of the Emperor to reunite to the Kingdom of Poland 'all the ancient Polish Pro-1 vinces subjected to the Russian sceptre, encounters great opposition among the Russian Senators and Ministers. It is even said that the two Courts of Vienna and Berlin have made representations against this project, the execution of which could not fail to excite in the inhabitants of Galicia and the Grand! Duchy of Posen, a lively and just desire of being, reunited to their ancient country. lIERREWADSKLOSTF,R (SCANIA), JUNE 20, There was yesterday a grand mock combat; his , Royal Highnees the Prince Royal, commanded one corps, and General Bicernstierna that of the enemy. The Generals and Colonels of the troops who arel now assembled in the Plaia of Bonash, have re quested the King's presence at a banquet which they .are to give his Miiesty to-night in the camp. , , rH TIP r Rift OF $' f ; ,• ji le per Cent 5 per Coin o rr per Cent Dan k Lon; Ilish 5 pet 1:1,1;a. Bon fAchequei etnnium ' Conscls fo The lio;.:-•e londay; ill take •:; .A ;:lli rcpt ct ar force t .t of the T., brought as ed thiough :Address tiara f Mr. C , r aying h Power Ciaii to al T:10. Paris P '-e ,lotnestic among ell ntian is attr. tha .!av has I it I'.u•n. t. :awn, and, s! ;e stipulation the surn licy may be at what moti ;In be stated .•e. considerat r it was pai *amid have 1 itration, ant very piastre ecting acct Binary tram "The uncoil its destiny ; e name of .omen, and • nd three thoi ire soil, an lore a new c .•cnt to Ali Vi •toperty, mo .ight abandu Pacha, 25 all but ver hristian Pus ! - .:7 Treaty of 7:iited protect lonian Isl t was cedes. t .ncxecuted. luded at Pi lonian Island orte renew( once unless 1 eavoured fo: •ade this ct aded by ss the inhab tainted witl .17.0 was not .arrass himsl mops; as lit ion of the (1 o have bra hid had st Intelligent the 22d j i linker to t 'le place of ion _The b 6 1 / 1 , frot . 1 11cial and "':tb Ames •r transpin C. of Ca 7 7. hat of tl eez cf t;;e erld tc to port in :t! man kill ;71:st : . L a .ns f or r i i 'bon wi The folly telligence ^ .I spatchl 'Jun Italy, IRUN, JIJNII 2°. Within these two days two Couriers from Madrid have-passed through here; the first was xlestir.ed far London, the second to Dresden. libidos. Couriers to the gth of February, have ar rived. The following are extracts: . " The Epidemic still toodaues its ravages at Bombay, and has extended itself along the whole of the 'Malabar coast. At Aleppe it was very destructive at the date of our last accounts. " From the Eastsvaid we have obtained some articles of in telligence in addition to what we announced in our last from Manila. Amongst these we may mention that all the home ward-bound China ships had sailed for England, excepting the 'two' Bengal and China ships' which had not arrived at Macao on the 30th of December ; they were seer., however, to pass filalaccas Ir. China all was quiet. The Chinese were busily employed about rebuileing the fort that the Alceste bombarded with such effect. They are also building new ones in different parts of the river. "'he Dutch Authorities are said to have manifested the same hostility to British trade which their countrymen at home have done. All the vexations and extortions of the old system are re vived.' British trade is thwarted In every possible way. Native ships are compelled to carry the Dutch flag, and to be provided with Dutch certificates of passport. The old charges of cruelty against the natives are also revived. " The Dutch have retaken Palambim, in the Straits of Banea, and sent our troops which had possession of it, to Java. They have also scot a vessel and some troops to take Petah, in the Straits of Malacca, but the Queen of Quedah had previously taken possession of it, and the Dutch not finding themselves ' strong enough to attack it, returned to Malacca. " At Penang two expeditions wee preparing; one of which is destined to form a British settlement at Acheen—the destina tion of the other is not known. Sir Stamford Baffles was to accompany the former expedition. " The Dutch are taking possession of all the little places they formerly had to the eastward, and they are in expectation of 15,000 mar% troops from Europe." Mercantile letters received from Palermo, and other ports in the Mediterranean, to the Bth of June, give the same gloomy accounts, as to the state of trade, 'as those from most other parts of Europe and Ame rica. They however contain the most gratifying ac counts of the abundance of the crops of every de scription of grain and fruit s which arc said to be great and luxuriant beyond all former precedent. It appears by the American Papers that Commo dore PERRY was about to proceed in the ft igate John Adams on a secret mission, to which the Journals at tach considerable interest; One of them, the Ameri can, of the 7th June, speaking of the Commodore's departure, says We learn from unquestionable authority that this mission has no cofinection with the reported cession of Cuba to Great Britain, and that it will not affect the commercial interests of the country." LEEDS, JULY 6. Yesterday evening the Requisitionists for Reform waited upon the Mayor of this town, pursuant to previous appointment, for his Worship's answer to their application ; when he gave them some most wholesome advice, and pointed out the inutility of the proposed meeting, and , the impossibility that it could tend to toy good putposa ; that it was, in fact, more likely to prove highly injurious to them, and dangerous to the community at large. He said he had given their request the most attentive considera tion, and should be most happy if it were in his power to afford relief and assistance to the numerous unem ployed workmen ; but after the most mature delibe ration with his brother Magistrates, his duty to the, public at large forced him to refuse calling the re quired Meeting. In consequence of the above refusal, the Requisi tionists, it is said, intend calling the Meeting them selves; but no day is yet fixed. Rumour says it will not be until after the Parliamentary recess. We take the earliest opportunity to correct a mistake into which we were led by a paragraph In the Leeds /Mei/evident. to specting the unfounded rumour circulated two . weeks ago, of s' Reform Meeting having been held at Dewsbuty. The runt*r did not originate in the Leeds Mercury. Tuesday and yesterday, Prince LIOPOLD gave en tertainments at Marlborough-house. Yesterday the Marquis of LANSDOWE entertained a select party of distinction at Lansdown House. THE REVENUE. • . . itre yesterday laid before the Public the stetemen . of the produce of the Quarteias Revenue, comparing it with the produce of the corresponding Quarter, to nether with a statement of the Year's Revenue end ing sth July, 1819, comparing it with the Year's Re venue ending on the sth of July, 1818. The follow ing are some further details: It appears that the Total Produce of Customs, for the Year 1818, ending sth July, was - X 10,000,379 Ancl.for the rear 1819, ending sth July - ' 1u,499,407 Excess in favour of 1819 499,026 Total Produce of Excite; 1818 - - - 91,179,114 1819 - - - 53,186,166 Excess of 181 9 - - 2,007,034 In the Stamp Duties there is a decrease in the year of £13.5,501 In the Yost Office an increase of £68,000. In the Assessed and Land Taxes an increase of between 20 and £7.0,000. In the Miscellaneous a decrease in the year of £197,092. The increase in the whole year is 1x,5518,046; but deducting the decrease on the two articles specified, amounting to X 3351,663, the total increase on the year is, as we stated yesterday, £ 2 , 2 66,368, and on the quarter just ended £422,893. In the Excise Duties an increase hes taken p!ace in every article except Coffee, Soap, add Wine. In the article cfikßeer the increase is upwards of £200,000 ; in Bricks and Tiles about £80,000; in Glass above £llO,OOO ; in Hops above £200,000; in Malt above £720,000 ; in Printgd Goods above £llO,OOO ; in British and Foreign Spirits nearly £400,000 ; in Tea nearly 'EIC0,000; in Tobacco and Snuff above £50,000; making, as stated above, a total increase in the year of above £2,000,000. From tbe, general depression and stagnation in agriculture, trade, and commerce, many are at a loss to account for the increase in the last Quartet's Re. , reissue, _particularly in the Customs, looking to the &Ming off which has evidently taken place For sorr e time past in all commercial business. The cause of this increase is not fiom a natural increase in the prosperity of the count, y (for all accounts say the contrary), but it arises from the new Taxes which Ministers are about to lay upon us, and which are generally to take place fiom the sth inst. Up to a late period in. the Quarter the Revenue had decreased, this the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acknow ledged in his place in the House of Commons ; the revival took , place in the latter part of the Quarter.— Upon Tobacco the duty is raised from 3s. 2d. to 4s. a pound ; the usual entries of this article are from 90 to 100,000Ibs. per week, but in the fortnight preceding the 9th June, the enormous quantity of 1,074,4621b5. was entered out of bond (in the port of London alone), for the purpose of saving the additional duty of 10d. per lb.; upon tobacco alone there is little doubt but at least 200,0001. was thus brought into the last quar ter's receipt. Upon Sugar, Rum, and Wine, it was also expected that an increase of duty would have taken place, and larger entries than usual were made in consequence. Upon Coffee the duty is increased from 725. up to 112 s. the cwt. upon Wool from 7s. I Id. to 565. the cwt. ; and upon a variety of other things the duty is iareised by the new Customs Consolidation Act from 10 to 50 per cent. and great quantities of most w the articles liable to an increase of duty have been taken out of bond and the old duties paid, in '•order to save the-advance ; and in this way the Reve nue has been increased within the last quarter, perhaps to an extent (including the increase upon hops, from the unusually great crop of last year), of not less than from £600,000 to £SOO,OOO ; if this had not been the case, the Revenue would undoubtedly have fallen off, from the existing distress and stagnation in trade and commerce; but the present and ensuing Quar ters must suffer in an equal degree, by so much having been forestalled or paid up in advance into the Quarter just ended. In alluding yesterday to the Report of the Corn- 1 mittee appaiftted to inquire into the state of the Cri minal Laws, we mentioned one consoling fact which it established :—that crimes of atrocious violence and inhumanity have been greatly diminished in this coun try. It appears from the Report that the number of convictions for murder, and executions, are as follow: COXVICTILD. lIECiiTED. From 1688 to 1718 1115 87 From 1755 to 1784..... . P . 67. • • 51 From 1784 to 1814.,............ 44 It also appears, from the same :return. that the number of convictions for murder inlondon, was— From the year 1754 to 1784 - - From the year 1784 to 1814 - And, in the years 1815, 1516, and 1817, only 9 Whereas, in the three preceding years it was 14 From calculation, it appears, that it is 500,000 to 1 against the murder of any individual in the Me tropolis. 1n the laws at present existing against tressoll, mar der, arson, and crimes of that description, it is the united opinion of Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH and. Sir, ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, that the punishment of death ought to be continued ; but that with reference to crimes unattended with atrocious or violent cir cumstances, the existence of that punishment is inks rious rather than beneficial to the community. _ It appears from the Scotch Papers, that the LORD PROVOST and several Officers of the Corporation of Edinburgh, have been compelled to attend the Com mittee of the House of Commons, on the affairs of the Scotch Burghs, in consequence of their having dis obeyed a previous order to transmit information on certain points connected with the pending enquiry. Deacon GILLESPIE protested against the determina tion of the Town Council to disobey the order allu ded to, as likely to lead to the step since taken by the Committee, and thus to occasion a great and unne cessary expence which the Committee were anxious to prevent. An Extraordinary Meeting of the Town Council was held on the 25th tilt. when the PROVOST informed them of the receipt of orders for the atter, dance forthwith before the Committee, of himself, the Dean of Guild, the Convener of the Trades, the Coitecior of Cess, the Collector of Shore-dues at Leith, and the Treasurer of Trinity Hospital. Baillie Signit .thoved, that the Treasurer be authorised to pay to the Provost £lOO in advance, to defray the expencesof three Members of the Council to London ; and thit the' be authorized to draw from the funds of the-Good foil', the sum of 1.:300. This Resolution was :tenuously oppord by Deacons Lowe IE and • GILLESPIE, bat it was ultimately carried. One of the Ediabtrrgh Papers, after- stating that Provost M 4 l l (sarx has a sitlary,9l £lOOO a-year, and Conve ner DFut!oeld, one of #7.500 a-Trar;says-4 , M us t i t ! not tend to lower the respectability and dignity of the ltfaestritcy of the Capital of Scotland, that they should, sans cerensosie, consider it necessary to be supplred.in advance with the Burgh Funds, to pay ex ses incurred, solely because they chose to oppose reasonable demand of their fellow. citizens ?" _UM PHt ARMt Friday, the Royal tinlitheowshire 'Yeomanry Ca , valry, commanded by Major HAMILTON DONDAS, Were inspected at Linlithgow by - the Earl of Hort- TOUN, Lord Lieutenant of the County, who expres sed his high approbation of the general appearance and steadiness of the Corps. One of the privates of the 10th H ussars, who trail hurt at the Review of•the Regiment on Saturday se'nnight, at Portobello, near 'Edinburgh, is since dead, and was buried with military honours in the Canongate church-yard. F; pm the Halifax Paper e .7zotelo.—Tht remains of the British Colonel, WELLINGTON, and or a Lku tenant in his Regiment, who were killed in Beck mantewn, September 6, 1814, have been taken - up by the American Officers stationed at l'lattsburg, and deposited with the accuetomei military honours, in the village burying-ground, near the spot where the American and British Officers who fell cm the 11th of September, in the same year, were interred. NAVAL iNTELLIGDNCE; Mie Priticest Ilizabeth packet, with a Mail from Malta and Gibraltar, is arrived at Falntouth ; *glad from the former port 51st May, and from the.lauer 19th June: Poarsmotrrn, Juev 7.-/aPassed by for London the Blossom Wstr.wasote, from Leghorn, in seven weeks. The Ladit 14.*: mato% Witon, and Defence lersports, got pratique this morn ingi and left the nuarantitte gro for Spitheed.—Wind S. MAL, JoLv 7.—Wind S. W.- e down from the River, and sailed the Nicholan, CAIANT2, !Bermuda ; also bailed the a vic Asia, Moamest, for Bombay. HARWICH, JULY 7.—Wind S. S. W.—Sailed the Prince of Orange packet, for Holland, and Castlereagh packet, for Cur. haven, both with Mails. llaisroz, Jure 7.—Arrived the Clara, Tnostas, from Jamaica, and Pandora, Vicazav, from Newfoundland. Lsyssrom. JOLT 8 .-'- Arrived the Vulcan, Raab, from Saa vannah ; saile d ' 31st May—on the 7th June, in lat. 33. long. 72. spoke the Atlantic tram Jamaica fur Whitehaven : °a the 28th June in lat. 47. 30. long. 27. spoke the ship Barclay, from this port for Halifax, out 22 days. Dovzi, Juxt 7.—Sailed this day the Prineess Charlotte pita het, Captain llatiLaans, for Ostend, with a Mail and passengers; also the King George packet, Captain KM, Lady Jane James, Captain HAYWAKD, and Lady .Castlereagh, Captain Mows.l, for Calais, with passengers. • Cesrox-Hoese, Just 7.—Entered inwards—The Pavoarite, Power, from Rotterdam; the Dale, Seghrue, the London, Tura. ner, and Kingston, Sever, from Jamaica • Resolution, Pike, and . the Malta, Allen, from Antwerp.—Entered Outwards—The Louisa, Crever, for Bremen ; Lady, Francis, for Columbia • River; Active, Jefferies, for Gibraltar ; and the Joseph, Meatos, for Flusking.—Cleared Outwards-The Brititia, Jackson, for / Hamburgb ; James, Lawson, for Petersburgh ; Snipe, Swain, for St. Helena; Blucher, Brinkman, for Rostock ; Progress, Talbot, for Quebec ; Bee, Wishart, for Malta ; Paragon, Hare,. for Petersburgh ; and Arnett*, Collins; for Opt rte :the 8.-y, Wishart, for Malta; Catherine, Holmar, for Cadiz; Ilercu;e, Beylar, for Havre ' • Atlas,, Staineland, for Hambur-h ; Favuu site, Griffiths, for Dublin: Neptune, Strannack, for Ostend. ' DISTRIBUTIt• ii OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Hope, for the Lark and fourteen gallons of spirits, the 10th instant, at the house of Mt. R. Glover, Portsmouth, and recalled there. THE COMET. This interesting phenomenon was again seen last night, but only for a short time between ten and eleven o'clock, the northern sky having been obscured by haze and clouds for the rest of the night. Comets have appeared in all ages of the world ; and from the Christian ara to this time about 500 have been observed. Amongst the ancients these bodies were always regarded as foretelling some grand event; and, even now, amongst the uninformed, they are regarded in the same light, being considered as prognosticators of evil. No time, in the annals of h historr, has been more remarkable than the present, century, and only. one century can be mentioned as having had so many large Comets in so short a period. The Comet made its appearance to the people of Dublin on Sunday night, about ten o'clock, and ex cited great attention. It is called in the Hibernian Journal " a beautiful blazing star in the planetary regions, with a long train in a perpendicular direc tion, having the appearance of a comet." The writes adds—" We are not aware that any of the learned astronomers of Europe have predicted the return of any comet at this particular period; therefore the circumstance appears the more extraordinary!" The CoMet continues to be noticed in the Parisian Journals, but hitherto without any of the observa• tions of astronomers, the Journalists contenting them. selves with presenting it as food for the gottip of wine-bibbeq, and literary milliners. The following is from the Journal des Defeats of Monday r " A Comet has appeared unexpectedly, without baring al• lowed tine to Messieurs, the Astronomers, sfa tersof Cerentenies to the Hawn:, to announce its arrival- Thii Is an incongruity which seems to demonstrate that this wandering star disdains the laws of celestial etiquette! Hence the good Parisians who were assembled yesterday upon the quays to pay their court to this new luminary:ll.ll:e testified some tears for the ennui which its appearance may portend. It is more reasonable to observe that with the appearance of this Comet, the temperature h;lt experienced a sadden change: to cold and rainy wektber, which has lasted for four weeks, has succeeded art excessive heat. it was the same. in IEI4 and the lovers of gofer! wine FEU recoliTst the year of the Coneet. To-day the Centegrade dielxkinntercht two o'clock, r. it. was 'V deg. 5t 0, and was still rising. Thiele the highest degree of brat which we have experienced /eV Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal and Madras, by the ship Princess Charlotte, were dosed at the East India House, and delivered to she Master of that ship: P4SIJOICMILS rsa PRINCE/Li Cummorm—For Bengal, Mr. As sistant-Surgeon Bannister; Ur. Thompson, Fri, Mariner; My. E. Brodie, Chaplain ; Mrs. Puson ; Messrs. Bishop, Dallas, Lawrenson ' and Bennett, Cadets. The volunteers which arrived at Liverpool from Ireland, destined for South America, sailed on Sa turday last from that port. Tuesday a fishing-boat belonging to Fisherroar, sunk in a gust of wind off Fife Ness, when a young man named REID was unfortunately drowned. Last week a sudden squall upset a boat, just as it left Sheerness Pier, in which were a woman, a child, and a boy, who were all drowned. It was occasioned, as is too often the case, by making the sail.fast to the '1 side of the boat. IPSWICH RACES.-1819. terimostr, JULY 8. Hs Majesty's Purse—One Ilundred Guineas. Major Wilson's ch. filly Shidami 3 yrs old - 2 1 1 Sir Charles Banbury's ch. reit, by Coatis, 3 yrs old 1 2dr Mr. Harridame's bay cult Fungus, by Tint& - 4 3 2 Mr. Jones's ch.. colt, by Soothsayer, ~ut of Wizard's dam, 3 yrs old - 3dr Before sternal., Major Wilion's filly the fayomite, aid the two first heats afforded most excellent sport. - - - PEDESTRIANISM. Tuesday, Horsy Ruack a tnan who sells fish in the neighbour. hood of Kennington and Newington, undertook to walk seven miles within an hour, carrying s(ilbs. weight of stones on his head which he performed in ten n.inutss undw the givo time. L ~! ~~ ~;. 1 I ; F, 1 . ...'i I : ' ' 1 •I ',. i ',.,. *. 1 1 It', I 1 - 1 i "I , 1 I. l', • + I . • I , I ! r i 1 . 1 , . ' I • • . . . . . ; . • ' i I i . , . • I.i, ! ! • ' I: I I . ; . 1 4 • 1 . . . . ~.; 1 1 i [ ' , ! I I . : I , I 1 ' 1 0 ! ' 1 I . i II 'J . f 1 ! I , "i i ,1 , • . - I. • i i 1:, 1 , 1 !. ;., ..., , . ; : ,, i . . -,4-