Star. — London, England, 1819-06-17 00:00:00

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IKIREION iNLIsTSIESI* CA STLEREAGH moved the Order of the taking into further consideration the Report :oreign Enlistment Bill. a few remarks From Sir It. WILSON, *ho m cd his detestation of the Bill, as ingendered irit inimical to liberty, the Amendments were s econd time, and the Bill appointed to be 'bird time on Monday next. INSOLVENT DEBTORS ACT. -louse having, upon the motion of Lord AL ?, resolved itself into a Committee on the In- Debtors Act, the Bill was discussed, clause and several added. ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the co confine all Debtors within the walls of the kle said -this was dealing out punishment in !lately, and that persons were as safe in the the Fleet or King's Bench as in prison. to this, the prisons were not large enough to t he prisoners for debt. r rertn WOOD took the opposite line of argu- Lnd supported the original clause. He called Commtuce to recollect the fact that had At in evidence, namely, that debtors often paid guineas a week , for .their lo Agin within the that wine kept carriages, lived in luxury, fre ' the Opera, and, after squandering, in every extravagance, the property of their creditors, led to be brought up to swear they were not ten pounds. Let there be more jails built, .it e had were not sufficient to hold the debtors. ATTORNEY GENERAL said in cases of it would be cruelty to deprive debtors of iefit. SOCICITOR GENERAL said that persons tight act in the manner described by the Alderman were not entitled to indulgence, mild not be discharged by the Court, if the facts ,tablished against them. LAMB said, that it wis nut unusual for confined within the Rules of the Fleet to ge Liles of the King's Bench, in order to have %linage of a good summer res'dence, and in er they returned to the Rules of the Fleet.— oef of the expenses intendant on persons liv 'lin the Rules of the. King's Bench, he might one living there on £3OO a year was idered by .he Marshal as a poor person. CItOKER said, that as it appeared to him 11 was one of indulgence to Debtors, and that House had the power to restrain the indul•• persons living within the Rules ought to have strictly enforced. A strict enforcement of the light cause the gaols to be filled, but it would lace a good effect for the honest creditor. ABERCROMBY thought, that as this clause, as the whole of the Bill, proceeded on the iple of giving an indulgence to Debtors, they to have a bona fide imprisonment before the igence was extended to them. Motion was then put and carried, that the should stand part of the Bill. variety of other Clauses were afterwards pro ` and agreed to. SOLICITOR-GENERAL proposed a Clause exempt persons, who should be indebted to the from the operation of the Act. ALTI - IORY could see no reason why Crown should be imprisoned fur a longer time than , Ile thought the clause would be an infringe on the liberty of the subject, and was averse to introduction into the Bill. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he considered lause was necessary, and felt confident that no proper use would be made of it. Mr. SCARLETT could not see why the same rct was not to be pursued with regard to the iwa debtor as with regard to any other. . CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob- A, that the greater part of the debtors to the in were such as had become so by commission : . :auds. The Crown would be exposed to great eAse if obliged to oppose their discharge. It therefore prove a means of encouraging the' ission of fraud, if it was not prevented by re ig the possibility of escape after its commission. l power would be used with lenity. SCARLETT conceived that this power ought be vested in the hands of the creditor. to CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, power would be, not of imprisoning, but of re g the debtor, and none could be so well ac- Iced with the nature of the case as the persons lorn the power would be entrusted. :. G. LAMB thought that there ought to be no Inction made between debtors io the Crown and te subject. Lord .9.LTHORP said, that though he was averse ';e clause, he should not object more to it. The ise was then agreed to. .ord ALTHORP proposed a new Clause, pro. ig that a part of the pay of such Naval or Mili- Officers, or Officers in the service of the India ipany, as well as a part of the revenue of such :ficed Clergymen as might avail themselves of the posed Act, should be appropriated to the payment tick debts. .ord PALMERSTON thought the clause neces• 7 9 to prevent persons in the Army from spending ley which they would receive from the Public. , Ir. G. LAMB proposed a clause to allow a Trial airy, in disputed cases, under certain limitations. ALLEN opposed the clause, as tendieg to pro. ig imprisonment of the debtor, for none but a rich fitor could have the power f taking advantage (hear, hear.) Lord ALTHORP highly valued the Trial by Jury, could net see what utility it would prove to the .ent Bill. The clause was then rejected. CIIOKER said, that it was his intention to >pose a clause, by way of rider to the Bill, for the Tote of legalizing the payment to the officers, ich had hitherto been made by an order from Irca.ury. .11derman WOOD proposed a Clause for ob• r•; A•signees, in a summary way, under the autho of 1112 Insolvents' Court, to pay into a Banker's, banefit of the creditors of Insolvents, any sums ;vi,iends paid into them on account of the insol estate ; and also a Clause for hearing within • f London the cases of Insolvents imprisoned - tate ; both of which Clauses were adopted, r .:Oña the:l3ol twang pi* thrOtigh, die Chairman left the Cbair, dad was ordered to report on Fridays In anti:v*4o a snggession frhln Mr. CROKR94 that, this .BiR should be extended to Ireland, Mr. LESLIE FOSTER said, that it was requisite to bring in a separate Bill for that purpose, but he pledged himself that there should be as few Altera dolts as possible. The House then resumed, and the Report was received. The Report of the Irish Distilleries' Bill, after a few words frail) Mr. SitAw Mr. C. Htrrenutsost, and Mt. V. FITUIELALD, was postponed till Friday. The Report of the Silk Manufacturers' Bill was brought up and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Friday. The Assessed Taxes Composition Bill went through a Com mittee, the Report of which was ordered to be received on Frit:l;y next. The Pembroke Doek-rnarket Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Tuesday neat. Mr. BILOGDER brought ug the Report of the Lottery Bill; which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Friday. The llouse.went into a Committee on the Glass Duties Bill, in which certain Resolutions were agreed to, the Report of which Was ordered to be received on Friday. Mr. LYTTLETON presented a Petition from the Solicitors of Bristol, praying that persons not professional, might not be allowed to practice as Cooverancers.—Laid on the table. Mr. BROODEN brought up the Report of the Settlement Laws Amendment Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill or dered to be read a third time on Friday. The Bermuda Trade Bill was read a third time and passed. The Report of the Navy Prize Money' Bill was brought up and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Friday. In a Committee, certain Resolutions were agreed to, for sit ing compensation for Fees abolished in the Irish Court of Chancery.. The Salt Duties Bill went through a Committee, the Report of which was ordered to be received on Friday. Mr. SHAW moved that the sum of £4,000 should be sub stituted for £2,000, which was originally proposed. After a' conversation, in which Mr. L FOSTER, Mr. C. HUTCHINSON, Mr. SHAW Mr. Daooori , Mr. BROUGHAM, and Mr. W. SMITH, par ticipated, the original Resolution was agreed to, The House resumed, and the Report of the Committee was ordered to be received on Friday. . . Mr. SI lAW gave notice, that if, on Monday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not be prepared to go on with the Still Fine Bill, he would move that the further consideration of it should be postponed till that day six months. Mr. LUSH INGTON brought bra Bill to allow the Impor tation of Tobacco from the East Indies; a Bill to impose au ad ditional Excise Duty on Tobacco in Ireland; a Bill to make further regulations with respect to Packets proceeding to the King's Plantations ; a Bill for suffering recoveries from Estates held in ancient demesne ; a Bill to regulate the Bask Advances, and also the purchase of Public Securities by the Bank : and a Bill for the regulation of the right of voting in 'Parish Vestries : these were severally read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday.—Adjourned at Half-past Twelve till Friday, THE EVENING' STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICY OD STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O . CLCCK I Bank Stock 2191 219 3 per Cent. Reduced 671 681 68 S per Cent. Consols shut 31 per Cent. 751 761-4 per Cent. 8611 5 per Cent. Navy shut Bank Long Annuities 171 15-16 India Bonds 2 4 dis. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 1 2 dis. Omnium 1 Of 1 discount Consols for Acct. 680 69 681. Business has been very brisk this morning. Con sols have risen to 69i, and Omnium is I I discount. The Commissioners were served in Reduced at 68f, by the Jobbers generally. In the House of Commons last night, Mr. PEEL obtained leave to bring in a Bill of a most important description—namely, to regulate the advances of the Bank to Government. The provisions of the pro posed measure are—that a specific Act of Pasha ' meat shall be required to authorize any advance of the Bank to Government—that a written application from the FIRST LORD of the TREASURY and CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to the Bank shall be made relative to the particular terms of the advance—that the conditions of such intended advance shall be sub mitted to Parliament—and that within fourteen days after the commencement of each Session of Parlia ment, an account should be laid before it of all Go vernment securities in the hands of the Batik. The Newspaper Reporter who on the preceding evening was ordered into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms, for a breach of the privileges of the House, was discharged, after being reprimanded by the SPEAKER, and paying his fees. The intelligence of the capture of Portobello ap pears to have produced very unfavourable impres sions at Jamaica. The merchants of that island are said to look upon it as an event which must, ulti mately, prove a death-blow to its commercial inte rests. How this can happen, however, they are not pleased to inform us ; and for ourselves, we entertain no apprehensions of the kind. The eaterprize of Sir GREGOR MACGREGOR may, certainly, whilst in pro gress, occasion a suspension of the traffic in use to be carried on by way of the isthmus of Darien, be tween the Spanish ports in the Pacific and Jamaica ; but the complete success of the enter prize will, we are persuaded, abundantly compensate for this evil, by putting an end to Spanish monopoly and man sion, and giving a wider range and increased acti vity to the commerce of this region of the globe. The fact however is, that since the route by Cape Born has become familiar to navigators, the trade across the Isthmus has been greatly on the decline, land is now nothing to what it once was. The Governor of Carthagena had been solicited by the Commander at Portobello to send him a rein forcement of ..iOO men; but the troops at Carthagena mere in so mutinous a state, that the application could not be complied with. The garrison of Portobello consisted of 466 men, whites, .mulatoes, and blacks. After the evacuation, a number of them are said td have returned and joined General MAcortiecon. It does dot appear that there were any killed on either side. The Royalists kept at too respectable a distance for musketry to have any effect.. After firing one volley, General MACORBOOR'S party charged ; but before they could give the Dons a taste of the bayonet, the latter took to their heels and got by a bye-road into the fort of St. Juan, whence they af terwards made their escape to Panama. It is stated in, private communications, that all the specie and more valuable articles contained in Porto hello were embarked on.board his Britannic Majesty's ship PARTHIAN, then lying off the town, on the night previous to General MACGRP.GOR'S taking possession. The military stores captured were, however, very considerable. The following Return is said to exhibit only a part of them : 113 Guns, different calibre, (from 24 to 6 pounders,) a con siderable proportion of which are brass, also three brass ten inch mortars. 1,460 Barrels of Gunpontdet. 19,626 hound Shot, different Bizet; besides a quantity of Grape, Bar, Landgrage, and DoUble-headed. ' 2,640 Shah-2E1,760 Ball Cartridges -360 Muskets. • An immense quantity of Spunges, Hammers, &c. and En trenching Tools, and various Stores. The vessels and other seizable property left had not, at the time the accounts came away, been brought to adjudication, and no conjecture is offered as to their amount. On the 12th of April, two days after the capture, an Officer of the PARTIIIAN was sent to Porto Bello. He found all quiet, and the inhabitants were return ing in great numbers, no instance of plunder having been permitted. A Mr. LOPEZ, a native of Cartha gena, had been appointed Governor, and the Mer chants appeared not dissatisfied with the change which had taken place. Sir GREGOR MACGREGOR did not intend, it is said, to proceed to Panama until he had communicated with Lord COCIIRANE from the South Sea, whose force consisted of nearly forty armed vessels of diffe rent descriptions. A considerable reinforcement, un der Commodore AURY, was daily expected. Accounts were yesterday received at LLOYD'S, of several valuable Captures having been made by the Independent Cruizers in the South Seas. A Gentleman has, We understand, arrived in Lon don, with a commission from Lord COCHRANE, to raise an aid of four hundred seamen. In this we are persuaded he will find no difficulty. The Foreign Enlistment Bill, even if passed, is not to take effect till the Ist of August; so that there will be time enough to complete the levy without coming under its operation. We have received this morning, Boston Papers to the 25th of May. The following are some additional particulars of the Negro Conspiracy, which, we mentioned a few days ago, had been detected in Georgia : " NEGRO INSURRECTION. " Accounts from Georgia state, that a plan has been set on foot by the Negroes of Augusta and the neighbouring plantations, to set fire to the city and destroy the inhabitants : they were to assemble at Beach Island, and from thence to sally forth. While the city was under patrole of its inhabitants, a Mr. Robert Russell, neglecting to answer the hail of one of the guards, was shot through the body, and im mediately expired. . , . Two of the Black Conspirators have been tried ' and found guilty, and sentenced to death ; four others remain to be tried. In the investigation the Court has evinced an examplary patience, and a determi nation to sift to the bottom a conspiracy which for atrociousness can only be surpassed by that of St. Domingo. The poor ignorant wretch who has been convicted and sentenced, WAS the originator, and had the plan only in part been executed, it must have been attended with serious consequences, although there could hate been no ultimate chance of success. We understand they intended to have taken posses s ion of the shipping of Savannah, and to attack that town, and that Florida or St. Domingo was their ultimate destination." When the Republicans of Georgia talk of the sur. passing atrociousness of this attempt of their negro slaves to effect their emancipation, it would be well for them to bestow an eye of revision on their laws as affecting these poor people, the exclusiveness and severity of which must be revolting to every humane mind. In one of the Statutes of this free State, we meet with the following disgraceful provisions—" It shall not be lawful for any free person of colour to come into this State, and each and every person or persons offending herein, shall be liable to be arrested, kc. and on failure to pay 100 dollars, shall be sold by auction as slaves." Again, " It is provided that every will, testament, deed, or contract, intended to effect the manumission of a Slave, or to allow him to labour free from the controul of his Master, shall be utterly void."—Can it be very atrocious ira persons possessed of the feelings of human nature to emancipate themselves from such abominable thraldom as this ? Accounts have been received at New York, by a vessel from the Sandwich Islands, that a Russian frigate, which it left there, hid beat uu the 4.thi4t California, which,m4cording to the repoft Itiii. sian Captain, had beau ceded by Spain to Russia. The frigate was expected at Macao, whence it pro ceeds to Manilla: Mr. W. D. ROBINSON, the American Gentleman whose imprisonment among the Spaniards is well known to the Public, is said to have effected his escape and arrived at Gibraltar. The Paris Papers of Monday have arrived this forenoon, but, as those of Monday usually do, cone min little important in the way of information.—The Ktsc was expected to be able to attend service at the chapel of the Tuilleries, on Sunday, on occasion of the Fete-Dieu, but his MAJiarry heard Mass in his apartments. The Ministers of Marine, Finance, and Foreign Affairs, had afterwards audiences of his MA• JESTY.—A Petersburgh article says, that some per sons of distinction believe that the Emperor ALEC ANDER will make another grand journey , in the course of this summer, in order to confer with his august Allies on the present state of Europe.—A courier from the Swedish Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, • arrived at -Stockholm with dispatches on the 27th ultimo. The departure of CHARLES Jonw, for the camp at Scania, is stated to have been fixed for the 2d instant. MEETING ON lIUNSLET MOOR. Previous invitations for that purpose having been circulated through the Manufacturing Districts in Yorkshire, a most numerous assemblage of unem ployed Workmen met on Monday, tin Hunslet Moor. near Leeds. A stage for the speakers had been pre viously erected, and several persons addressed, the meeting; but not in language calculated to induce patience and good conduct under their present dis. tresses. The great theme dwelt upon was the ne cessity of Parliamentary Reform, Annual Parlia ments, Universal Suffrage, and Election by Ballot. To attempt to detail any of their speeches, would be a waste of our columns, and of the tinie of, our Readers. Some of them were highly inflamma tory ; and so well pleased were the speakers and the hearer, that it was near ten o'clock at night before the assemblage dispersed, after passing several Resolutions as preliminary to a " Declaration to be signed by all who are determined not to become pas sive slaves," and to be transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Commons " for the information of all whom it may concern." The only point on which we can congratulate the public respecting this Meeting is, that they separated without any mischief: but, we are sorry to add, not till they had passed a resolution to meet again on the same Moor on Monday next. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Fatatoons, JUNK 14.—Wind West.—Orders have been re ceived for the sailing of the Jamaica and American packets, but the Brazil packet is detained until the 16th. DOVER, Jess W.—Sailed this day the Princess Charlotte packet, Captain HALLANDS, for Ostend, with a mail and pas sengers; also the King George, Captain llzseea, and Lord Duncan packet, Captain Hammes, for Calais, with passeng ers. Arrived this afternoon the King Geoste packet, Captain l KlN,;, and Desire French packet, from Calais, with passengers. Dem, Jung 10.—Wind North.—Sailed the Orient, REYNOLDS, for Bombay ; Huesuren, Duos, for Surinam • Argo, JACKSON, for Hazannah ; Betsey, Farm, for Antigua; Bolden , Baswem, fir New York ; Marys, Halms, for Oporto; and Henry, Lowest, for Quebec. Ha awicn, June 16.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Auckland packet, for Holland, and Eclipse packet, for Cuxhaven, both with Mails. Powritstount, Jung 16.—Wind W. N. W.—Passed by for Lon don the Piggott, Tuonx, from Tobago. On the 30th May, in lat.. 37. 41. lung. 46. 1, fell in with the American schooner Alyr. tie, of Bucksport, with lumber, water-logged, mainmast gone, and no person dti board. On the 7th June, in lat. 46. 37. long. 39. spoke the Ajax, of Shields, from Dublin to Quebec, aU well, out 16 days; and on the 13th June, in let. 49. 36, long, 9. 30. spoke the American shp Islington, fr..m Liverpool, for Phila delphia, out six days, all well.—Sailed the Wellington, Paist.ty, for At. Vincent's ; Gainsborough, Mawr, for Gibraltar ; and Zephyr transport, for Guernsey. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and the Duke of WELLINGTON had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. Tuesday se'nnight, in the important question be tween the Earl of FIFE and Sir JAMF.S DUFF and others, the Trustees of the late Lord FIFE, the Se cond Division of the Court of Session, in Scotland, have unanimously reduced and set aside the Trust died and Deed of Entail, executed by the late JAMES Earl of FIFE. By this decision the present Earl suc ceeds to an estate of nearly twenty thousand pounds sterling per annum. Figs.—This morning, at half past one o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive workshops of Mr. Hssasos, a plumber and glazier, in King-street, St. James's-square, which entirely con sumed the premises, and damaged part of the dwelling house. Heroes Hotel was also damaged. From the quantity of com bustible matter, such as turpentine, &c. which was on the pre mises where the fire originated, great fear was entertained for the surrounding buildings ; but by the speedy arrival of a number of engines, and a good supply of water, the flames were extinguished by four o'clock. A few days since, as Mr. CARTHEW, of Margate, and some friends, were smoking their pipes in a room exposed to the sun, their attention was drawn to the table by some smoke proceeding from the green cloth by which it was covered, and on examination it proved to be on fire : a decanter of water standing on the table, acting as a lens, had concentrated the rays of the sun, and actually set the cloth in a blaze ; and there is little doubt if there had been no one present, but that further mischief would have entsued. The party afterwards availed themselves of this curious discovery to light their pipes! G. WEBB, Stock-broker, 9, Cornhill, and 17, laid gate-street, deems it right to apprize his Friends and the Public, that the recent fall in the Funds doe s not.affect, prejudicially, the present State Lottery, as it contains no Stock Prizes; for although there are only 7950 Tickets, the Two Grand Prizes of 30,000 i. and the rest of the Capitals, will all be paid in Ster ling Money, and according to the present price of Stocks, each of these princely Capitals is equal to 45,0001. 3 per Cent. Consols. NEXT T HURS . whole Lottery will be decided. WE8 8 . 3 n fDo e i t i r u l t y .eO Ott s, Cul hh 11. turd Ludgate-street. 1 , . t i . i I ! . •I , i t , 1 1 t 1 • , t