Star. — London, England, 1811-03-15 00:00:00

. - -T - -s-~-- LMMJNI'A AbölWJv. .nomialkon...ll6l. ; 31 / 4 • ; I ilotlSt OF LORDS, MARCH 7he LORD CHANCELLOR being detained at the Conn& 1 Carlton Houee (as we understood) did not come down to the House till past Asc. After prlyers were read, the routine and private business be fine the House was disposed of for the day. Oh the Motion of the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, eer ten additional documents Motive to the Weirs of India, were ordered to be Laid before the House: The Mutiny Bill evai; on the motion of Lord WALSING HAMO read a second tithe, and committed fur fo-morrow ; as -Was also the Marine Mutiny Bill. Mr. Allnut, from the Conitnissioners of the Thames Naviga tion, presented an Account of the Receipts and Disbursements bf that Corporation, for the year 11110, which was ordered to he bn the tables.-41tOurned till to-marrow. ROUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock, and there being only thirty-five Members present, an adjournment of course Cook place. THE EvgfoNG STAR. LONDON - . FRINLY; MAReti 1,14 #RICE Or STOCKS tHIS DAY - At 0 O'CLOCK • S per Cetit. Cons. money, 650—for adopt` eff. . P.educed shut--4 per Cent. shut-4 jpit Utmteratet 33t. Ezetzeq. A7U 9s. to I Is. prem.—Booth, 254. pint. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. per Cent. Red. shut India Bonds 255. 941. S per Cent. Cons. 6.5 ii Imp. Ann. - - 41'per Cam. shot Etc. Bills, se. 11a. preni. per Cent. Navy 97f OmniuM 511 India Stock Cons. for ace. esti the Partin of yesterday announces his MAJWTY to be in the same state in which he has been during the last few daft, which our Readers will recollect, was of a most favourable and gratifying description. His MAJESTY walked out yesterday both before and after dinner. In his latter walk his Miursrr was accompanied by General GARTH, with whom he con versed mpst cheerfully. General MANNERs, who had been in attendance upon the KING for several days, returned to town yesterday, and gives the most fa vourable account of his MAJESTY'S state, in every • iespect. Cadit Papets to the 17th ult. have tome to hand, but their contents are of little importance. They rnenticn some petty skirmishes, in all of which the guerillas seem to have had the advantage. The followiug is an extract from a Private Letter brought by the Anholt bags of yesterday : " GOTTENBURGH, MARCH 4. " Here is tui ethbargo or sequestration laid upon any ships whatever, nor do I apprehend any thing of the kind will take place, excepting at one port. Rumour says; that Konigsburgh is occupied by the Douaniers, and that these vagabonds are sending ; all the goods that arrived by the last fleet to Magde turgh, as the Prussian Government cannot pay the Contributions levied by France." It is said in some of the letters by these bags, that some parties of the Dcmaniers had entered b'weden. There cannot be the smallest foundation for this as sertion, as we are assured by a Gentleman who has lately arrived from that country► The idea we be lieve, could not be entertained for a moment by any person at all acquainted with the temper of the Swe. dish people, or by any one possessing lode' knowledge of the peculiar character of the shores of that country, which must render these inspectors wholly inefficient, 'l'lle Konigsburgh Letters, as well as those from Sr.. Petersburgh, are silent as to any probability of War between Russia and France. Whether this re- Serve should be attributed to the vigilande of the Police, to the indifference of the natives, or to the ignorance of the fact, we cannot determine. We have a few letters by the same opportunity from Norway, which kingdom, notwithstanding what has been alledged, is as near to a condition of tran quillity as wretchedness and penury will allow. The paper of the Danish Government was in so little credit, that to the value of £3OO in that form was given for £lOO in a negotiable shape on this country. A letter from Metnel, dated February 1, says, " Tn regard to tra:' the Russian Government has rather hecom. more lenient, and the vessels with Swedish nnd American papers have been declared free.— Hemp has got up, in expectation of orders from Eng. land. Should your Government, however, refuse granting licences for the importation of Russian articles, the consequences will prove vory fatal to Rug - - sia, and might produce a change in the politics of that country in favour of England. The price of hemp in Riga, is 21 silver roubles per 8 lb. The Al berts dollars have been called in, and the silver rou bles have been issued all over Russia." the eamir.ittee of Lords to whom it has been re ferred to consider in what way the business of the Court of ChAncery may be expedited, sat on Tuesday last. Ws understand they are unanimously of opinion, that the LORD CIIANCRLLOR should continue to be the Speakerof the House of Lords; as it is of the last jib portance that Appeals from the Courtsbelow should be laid before the highest authority in the taw. It is not in this viay, therefore, that the LORD CRANCRLLOR £3lll be assisted---but the Idea, which we alluded to some time ago, is entertained favourably, namely, that he should have the aid of two Masters , if-the Rolls—one I of whom will have the tide of Vice-Chancellor, with higher functions than the other, who will still have the name of Master of the Rolls; but, between them, the Loan CHANCELLOR would be eased of a considera ble part of his most fatiguing duty. - - - >_ ^ btlll.lY. . *HOWE& T'AMC 01 THE caramel hit tittaten, /lUD AT THE PRIVATE THEATHEIFISHAMBLEATREBT, OW FRIDAY) HAMS 8. Sir EbWARD BELLEW, Bart. in the Chair. The Secretary read the Resolution entered into at the last Meeting of the General Committee, for the purpose of calling an Aggregate Meeting. . Mr. O'CONNELL then stated that he intended to move a dutiful and loyal Address to his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales !— , e I shall not consume the time of this Meeting, by entering into an expla nation of our motives for presenting the Address-- and I feel it would be a reproach to induce any argu ment to justify a measure so anxiously wished for by the Catholics of Ireland. We owe it to his Royal Highness, to express, with heartfelt gratitude, our unfeigned thanks for the many favours and benefits conferred on us by his revered Father, to whom we are perhaps indebted for the privilege of meeting here :this day.—[Here Mt. O'Connell took a summary view of the political state and incapacities of the Ca. tholics at the Accession of his Majesty to the Throve.] When, he said, they were excluded from every situa tion of trust, honour, and emolument—when the then existing laws sanctioned the breach of every hewer able principle— when there was hardly a grievance of degradation that man could be subject to, that the laws did not inflict on the Catholics of keland. Thus ood the abominable code at the period of his Majes ty's accession, and such hardships and, slavery did it Impose, that the mind cannot contemplate on it with r out recoiling with horror and disgust. By adverting to this period of our history, he did not wish to excite religious distinctions—he did not wish to rekindle hatred and animosity among his countrymen. His motives were widely different—they were to lay be fore the Meeting the obligations we owed to his Ma jesty for the many privileges which the Catholics at present enjoy. Though we continue a degraded race, lin our native land—though we still suffer as we do the exclusion from every situation of honour and of emo lument, yet to the kind interposition of his Royal Highness the Prince bf Wales be looked forward for the full and speedy extinction of our slavery. The past conduct of his Royal Highness assures us, that those disabilities which distinguishes the Catholics from the Protestant can no longer continue. Through life, on every constitutional question, he has given the nation a convincing proof of the liberality of his enlight timed mind. He has selected the friends and companions of his private life from among the most able statesmen that England ever produced. Who can forget, that Charles James Fox was the bosom friend of the Prince of Wales ? (Hear, hear.)Who can forget it, that the P. of Wales expressed his anxious desire, that the constitu tional principles of thatimmortal patriot, should be im pressed on the mind of his infant daughter? Among the confidential friends of the Prince, let it be recollected, that the Mitchinson familyhold a distinguished place. And here permit me to remind you, that if there be any class of people, that owe that great and good family a special debt, it is the Catholics of Ireland. He had almost omitted to mention the name of his illustrious countryman, Mr. Sheridan, who has long participated in the friendship of his Royal Highness ; but he was ashamed for trespassing so long on an occasion like the present, where he found himself incapable of describing the grateful feelings of the Catholic people to his Royal Highness, to whom they were attached by every princip of loyalty and 'of gratitude. He lamented that Zough the mis. guided folly of our rulers, the country had already suffered too much. It had been involved in deep calamity ever since the baneful measure of Union had been forced upon distracted Ireland—( Herr, hear.) At that calamitous period the argument made use of by the Parliament of England for withholding from the Prince his undoubted right, was, that by ap pointing him Regent, they preferred him to William Pitt. The offence given to the Ministry of the present times, seems to be, that the people prefer his Royal Highness to the usurper Perceval. It is observable that the moment the Regent wasappointed, W.W.Pole set off for Ireland, to misrepresent the Catholics, and excite discord. He (Mr. P.) seemed to fear, that in the liberal mind of the Prince, something would be found that would drive faction out of its fastness. --He took the most decisive measures that his little mind could suggest.. Although a General Commit tee of the Catholics of Ireland had been established for almost eighty years, he had the audacity to issue his proclamation declaring that it was an illegal as sembly, and that the meeting was guilty of a high misdemeanour. He thus thought proper to pronounce s entence without going to trial—without the interpo sition of any Judge. He said he acted under the advice of a Judge who is not a native of this country, and who is therefore ignorant of the Irish character. —He admitted that the Judge was an accomplished Gentleman and an able Lawyer; but Irishmen would not submit to be ruled by special pleadings and Eng lish technicality. But to return to the subject of the letter, it appears that it was the first act of his Royal Highness's Government in Ireland. It was the ill ad-1 vised measure of William Wellesley Pole, the Se cretary of all ages. We know it could not have' emanated from his Royal Highness. Here Mr. O'Connell animadverted on the =policy of the Go vernment of this country in suffering such an insult 'to five millions of Catholics to be the first act of his Royal Highness's Government in Ireland. —He would how call the attention of the Meeting to the Address. It had been laid before the Committee, and received its concurrence. It has received the ap: probation of a highly respectable character, Mr. John 'Keogh, whose state of health prevents his personal attendance on this occasion. It is plain and simples The obligations which are owing from the Catholics of Ireland to the Prince's fevered Father, our gracious Sovereign, constitute the first part of it. It offers as far as we can do to bring forward the hearts and flAands of the country in support of his Royal High. tress, and through whom we have been saved from having the torch of discord rekindling-the flames of disunion and anarchy from one part of Ireland to the other. He trusted there would not be a difference of opinion as to the Address, which he then read. Mr. Keogh seconded the Atldreu in a short speech. Mr. SHIQL complimented the meeting on the una nitnity - which prevailed, from which he drew an auspicious omen of Ireland's destiny. He congratu lated them oh the glorious example which was then set to them of surrounding the Throne with their at. fections—of approaching a most racial. Prince, not' 1 - e .. /dfl slaVeiAtig to thole 11!ttatet, bet al itslitlfett I ap pearitft 44 the presence, of an iffectionite Parent. — (Hear, heor!) He approved of that part of the ad dress which condoles} Wtth the Regent on the melan choly indisposition of his Royal Father; because it would chew to the 'world, to the utter confusion of their calumniating enemies, that they were grateful for the past—for the many acts of his benevolence. Can you doubt for a moment his peculiar regard for this People-400k to his household ? Irishmen are the confidential friends of his Royal Highness. Doubt not then with such a certain pledge ofhis regard. He looks for their address. By the restraints which have been placed on him, the constitution has been violated. Go, then, where a breach has been made in the fortification. Your homage will be a proof of your devotion to his service, flattering to his hopes, and auspicious to his reign. See the state he has been reduced to—he is obliged to retain Ministers who are obnoxious to him— even Wellesley Pole has compelled him to retain them .in his service. His Royal Highness is compelled to retain the man who ranks under the standard, where the motto is "No Popery." Let us tell the Prince that we behold with indignation the little Lilliputian threats that have been wound round him ; that wren resolved to protect his Royal Highness with our loyalty— with our everlasting support. ( Hear, hear, hear.) It will disabuse the People of England=it will chew them that, although their dominion has been steeped in our blood, that we can press it with cordial lave to our hearts. It will refute the base calumny that there is a French faction in Ireland. What—is it to be sup& posed that the man who once apostatised—who de nied the cross—who hurled the successor of St. Peter into a dungeon, would have abettors in this country? —Do you hear me, CatiKlics ?—Mr. SHEIL concluded by an eloquent and pathetic call for unanimity. ME. BOYLE supported the Address, the motion for which was then put and carried unanimously. Major GEORGE BRYAN—After a few animadver sions on the conduct of the Lord Lieutenant and Mr. Pole, moved as a Resolution.—" That a Petition be forthwith presented from the Meeting to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, praying that his Royal Hrghness would be graciously pleased to remove from the Government of Ireland his Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, and the Right Hon. W. W. Pole, who, by their recent conduct, have endeavoured , as far as in them lay, to impede the right of his Majesty's Ca tholic Irish subjects to Petition the Legislature for a redress of grievances." Mr. HUSSEY seconded the Resolution in a speech of some length. Sir PATRICK O'CoNNon gave hit decided dissent to the resolution. He panegyrzed the measures of the Duke of Richmond's administration, and spoke highly of his Grace's liberality to the Cato lics of Ireland He declared that he spoke the s , .ltinunts of the peo ple of Cork. He was frequently interrupted, and his voice was so inaudible that we cc. uld net collect what he said. Sir EDWARD BELLEW, after expressing his deter mination to maintain order, said—lt strikes me, Gen tlemen, as a matter worthy of serious consideration, whether we be competent to entertain this question. We here, according to this resolution, accuse the Duke of Richmond of having impeded the subject in the exercise of his right to Petition. I think it objec tionable, because it is a sentence of guilt passed upon him. I would submit to you, Gentlemen, to consi der whether this meeting be competent to arraign him, or to hear his defence. I think we should not hastily commit ourselves. Hitherto we have con ducted ourselves with great moderation, and have felt the beneficial effects of temperate firmness. Counsellor Finninterrupted the Chairman and stated, that it was the practice in England for the people to address the Throne for the removal of the whole Ad ministration—and then asked how it could be argued that the Catholics of Ireland were incompetent to pe tition for the dismissal of two men, whose conduct had rendered them obnoxious to the people. He instanced the case that occurred, when Lord Fitzwilliam had been recalled frnm the Irish Government, when the Youth of the College expressed their abhorrence of the secret machinations of the enemies of that revered Nobleman. He maintained that the Duke of Rich mond was particularly obnoxious to the Irish people, as forming a part of that Administration, which came into power on a pledge to exclude the Catholics from the Constitution. He inveighed against the undecided conduct of the Secretary on the late occasion. Sir E. Bettew said, that he supposed Mr. Finn had intended to speak to a point cf order, for other wise that he would not have suffered Sir Patrick O'- Connor to be interrupted. Lord SOUTISWELL deprecated the measure. It had been said that the Lord Lieutenant had appointed an obnoxious character to a seat in the Privy Council, but it was not proved. His Lordship spoke of the spirit of conciliation which had been discernible in Administration, and of the great reluctance which his Grace felt to place several districts under martial law. He alluded particularly to the state of the county of Limerick in 1808, when the - Magistrates had applied to Government to have it proclaimed— and that the answer of the Duke of Richmond was, that he would not issue a proclamation till the law had taken Its course. Mr. KEOGH opposed the whole Resolutions in an eloquent speech. He said that all the country gen tlemen were of a different opinion—all the most po pular men, who have merited and .obtained the con fidence of the people—all the popular men, in whom the people confide, were against the measure. But suppose you present this Address, what an answer can he make? If he should not dismiss the obnoxious persons, he mast either acknowledge his inability to protect you, or his disinclination to remove the per sons who have excited your resentment. Here are the horns of a dilemma. You force him to take a deci sive part, or perhaps the power which placed him in authority may dismiss him also. In what situation will you place his Royal Highness? You want no pro fessions of regard, for we know alr‘.-ady that he is our his friend. His Chief Secretary is an Irishman ; his household is filled with our countrymen, and we are sure of his intention whenever he shall obtain power to fulfil them. At present he does all the good he can for us. What good purpose can an address effect? We petition for the removal of the Lord Lieutenant —will Perceval appoint a better ? (Hear, hear.) If we make an appliiatton to the Prince, why do we stop h ere ?-...why not attack the whole Government ?" Here Major BRYWN said, " That the reason wby he did nit include the whole of the Ministers, was, that tite superior part of the Corernment bad disc. vowed the act." Mr. K. concluded by hoping that all argument would be heard, and by declaring he would give his most decided opposition to the Resolutions. After some further discussion, the resolutions were tidally voted. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Patna Regan held a Court at Carlton House. About half past one his Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Isi'Manost and General TURNER, his State Secretaries, General KEPPRI., his Equerry, and Colonel GRANT, his Aid de-Camp, left his apartments and proceeded to his audience-room, where his Royal Highness gave au. diences to Earl cA.MDiN, the LORD CHANCELLOR, • blir Mr. PIERCEVAL, an d ELLENBOROUCIL His Royal ' Highness after eld a Privy Council, which w a s attended by ( 'the above)-- The Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Mister-Oeneral of the Ordnance, the three Secretaries of Sute, the President of the Board of Contrast, the Commander-in. Chief, the Judge Advocate, the Judge of the Admiralty, the Lord Steward of his Majeuty's Huustliokl, and the Master of the Horse to the King. Viscount Chetwynd attended as Clerk of the Council. The Judge of the Admiralty made his report to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, of the trial of the English sailor convicted some time since at the Admiralty Sessions, lot being found on board a French ship. His Royal Highness held another Council, which was attended as above, with the exception of Mr. PRIMEVAL, and at which the Recorder of London made his report of the convicts capitally convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions, vie.— T 404, 4 T. ift . lh .l inumbruk ilincbcl l. Le ff e e , ing i fee lit ; ltameary ailaddateri z. ihmese, ; T.agf.3oFweisoanonhvir;angSd: Edwards, . air stealing in dindlinvisunes; W. Oldham, for g iltser . OltsPer : W. PTltatineffar a highway robbery ; a n d , for privately wain k a shop ; when his 1 41 1 was Pleated to raafloa *ma during his pleasure. 5. war, Ci.jossme, ma J. Oar, foe issfOry ; 1.. lotta, and J. P. Csiidosa, eiallay essidosisor mallidowitting and stabbing, were not repeal. j, Mason. alias Mlus,. - mar itally convicted at tie last sswisa,lhe privately steeling in a shop, previous to duo Intreceived a ennditional pardon. . ADAIR was introduced to a private audience of his Royal Highness, by the Marquis Wrizman', upon his return from his Embassy to Constantinople; as was Mr. JiticioN, upon his return from America. Sit DAVID Dtmoas, the Commandet-in-Chief, had an audience of his Royal Highness upon military business. - Mr. blamtas Sorrow, the Judge Advocate, had an audience with his Royal Highness, and laid before him the proceedings of iome Courts Martial. Tuesday se'nnight, in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, Miss KENNY, of Mountmellick, obtained a verdict of F2OOO, against Mr. PATRICE DILLON, of Mullicash, near Naas, for a breach of promise of mar riage, and seduction. Among the last arrivals at Bath are— Countess of Westmorland, Dowager Countess of Roches, Lady Coghill, Lady James, Lady Vaughan , Lady Smith, 'Junket, Hon. Mr. Hare, Sir Wm. Fitord. Sir Stapleton Cotton, Admiral and Mrs. bertie, Colonel White, kieutehant Ciinnel Turban Rev. Mr. Mnanill, Rev. S. Howe, Rev. K. Collins, Rev. Mr. Laston, Captain and Mrs. Mite, Captain Saunders, Captairi Lye, Mrs. Davidson, Miss Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Parker. Several pedestrian matches are to take place in a few (Pays. A person is to be produced to go 6S miles in 12 successive hours, to start from the first milestone on the Deal road, and to tarn every mile-.--bets are 5 to 4 against the person. Another, between Mr. J. Ellis and Mr. W. Pierce, h to take place on Thurs. day the 21st inst. The parties are to go from the Artichoke, at Chatham, to Faversham, and return in the shortest spate of time, Ellis giving Pierce half an hour at starting. MELANCHOLY Acarimt.—As some of the Cadets were playing at the back of the Cadet Barracks, at Woolwich, on Tuesday evening last, one of them struck a bull that had the day before been driven from Smithfield Market, on its way to Chatham, and was possibly rendered furious by the cruel treatment which these poor animals are obliged to endure is being conveyed from one place to another. The blow so enraged him that he ran after one of the. ca. dets some distance, who finding the animal gain upon him, threw himself flat upon the ground, which com pletely prevented the bull from goring him. Disap pointed of his revenge, he immediately ran after mica ther cadet, of the name of ROGERS, and coming up to him before he was aware of the animal , he pred the poor youth in the lower part of the haelt, and drove his horn nearly through the body, tossing h:m at the same time some height above the grotind. The animal after this laid himself down close by p,-,or Rogers, and the other cadet immediately ran trr a. sistance. A gun was soon procured, and the attic: ..1 killed by firing twice at him. Rogers was then c in . veyed to the Cadet Hospital with very little In p: s of life.. He continu 'cl in great agony for some time, whet a mortification came on, and he died the next day.—What readers the circumstance more afflicting Is, that hp was a youth of great Promise, of most amiable disposition, extremely well-beloved by his brother-cadets and all who knew him, and would is a very short time have had his commission in the Royal Artillery. He was nephew to the banker and the poet of that name. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, MARCH 15.—There are several further arrivals of Wheat to-day, partly from Scotland, and sales rather give way in price-- The arrivals of ,Barley are again large, this week about 30,000 quarters, and sales at a further reduction in price—Malt heavy sale—White and Grey Pe-i , . and Beans of each sort, nearly at late prices—New Ticks 325. to 375.—01 d as per currency—Oats like wise arrived again in abundance ; second and interior qualities are cheaper—Flour continues at our late quotation. Norwich Cattle Market on Saturday was well sup plied with fat beef anJ fat mutton, and sales were heavy at a late hour. Beef of prime quality fetched 9s. 6d. per stone, and mutton 7td. per l'-". There was a good show of lean beasts, and sales were el fenced at about 6s. per stone. Hogs were plentiful and cheaper. There was a good :hew of cart-horst:Ft and for one 65gs. were asked. At the Corn Market on Saturday, Wheat was sold at 425. Barley 14s. to 15s. Oats 15s. and Beans 18s. per coomb. At Winnold Fair, Norfolk, on Monday se'nnight, cart colts were sold at higher prices than ever reinem bered. One London dealer, we hear, gave 41500 for 14 horses. Malay purchasers of young prime horses were obliged to return home with their money in their pot kets, owing to the short supply, and the avidity with which they were bought. a • 4;7 I