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that nothing had since occurred to shake it. Wheel a Committee of Inquiry on Epidemic Disorders,. in London, had sat last year, facts, however, had been produced which had increased the doubts of Govern ment. He was therefore convinced that there were strong grounds for acceding so the present inquiry. If it could be ascertained that k Plague was epide mic and not contagious, a geeat . service would be rendered to manlund. He therelbre hoped that House would not refuse the Committee. •Mr. WYNNE acknowledged the importance of the subject, but feared that the House was not qua lified for such an inquiry. Sir J. JACKSON said, that one of the main rea sons which had induced him to brin his Motion forward, was the statement made bef ore the Com mittee last year, by Dr. Roberts, who had been '24 years Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and who declared, that during that period, although no less than 600 beds were made up every year, he had not seen one instance in which fever had proved contagious. The Motion was then agreed to, and the Com mittee appointed. CT AWIIIII3 SOTS. Mr. BENNET, in rising to move for leave to bring in a Bill to Abolish the System of Climbing Boys, stated that the measure had last year been adopted at the unanimous recommendation of a Committee. It Ltd passed through the Commons with equal unani- Mity, but on" being carried to another House its pro. gross had been stopped, in consequence of a wish for a fuller inquiry. After the publications which bad since taken place, and the evidence produced, he trusted that no doubt could remain on the subject.. Ile would not enter into any description of the dis tress and misery of the poor children forced into that employment. They were all before the public, and to one could walk the streets without witnessing con tiuual instances of their wretchedness. As tothe diffi • • tufty of sweeping chimnies by other. neans, it was stated by the Reports on the subject, that out of 1000 chimnies there were only 10 which could not be swept with machines. But then there were other means of sweeping even those. There was one house, that ofl.oril Spencer, the chimnies of which had been represented as so difficult of access, as to render it impracticable to sweep them without the assistance of climbing boys. He had been applied to on the sub and had caused them all but one to be swept by the regular means. The last had afterwards been a1.,0 swept without climbing boys, and by a process whit the Inspector had not yet tried. Most, if not all, dGthe difficult chimnies were those of the opu lent, and he trusted that they would not put the small expense of 30s. for sweeping them in competition . with the distresses of so many children. One chim ney in the Tower, which was considered as impracti cable, had been swept. by a machine in one hour, whereas it had formerly occupied boys during five Lours, and, in one instance, an unfortunate sweep had been engaged at it for 28 hours. The only alteration hl.iCll he should propose in the present Bill, would b to extend the period for the total abolition of the chrnbing system to two years instead of one. Leave was then given to bring-in the 13111. NOTTMKOHAM ELTCTION. _ _ - Mr. BROIJGIiaI..).I, wishing to allow further op portur.ities fur consulting the Agent,..pnt off his mo tiur.repecting the Nottingham Election Petition till to-morrow. IRISH LIME C*LLIXTOILL Sir J. NEWPORT complained that the office of Collector of Excise for the County of Dublin had been ralined, though the Commissioners for Inquiring into Useless Offices had declared that it might be aboiiitach He, -therefor*, should move for Copies of . (be Patent of Appointment of Lambert, Esq. to the office of Collector of Excise for the County efl Dublin, and of the Warrant of Superannuation of his pi edecessor. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,' that a change had taken place in the mode of con ducting the business of that department, which bad rendered it necessary to continue Mr. Lambert in his Ace. Mr. PEEL, in order to throw more light- on the *object, should follow the motion of the Honourable Baronet, by one for an Account of the Amount of Duty received by the Collector of the County of Dublin, during the three years ending in January, 1818, distinguishing each year; and by the Collector of the City of Dublin, for the three years ending in January, 1819, also distinguishing the years. The two motions were ,then put; and agreed to successively. EVESHAM ELECTION. The Clerk of the Evesham Committee then entered tic I louse, and reported that the following Members had been chose:: by ballot, to try the merits of that Election : Albany Sala*, Rs+ the Right Honourable Stkrges Bourn, sibthorpe Esi. W. H. Ashurst, Eaq. A. Ramat Xaq. Walt;r Burrelt, Eq. A Campbell, Faq. R. Russell, Esq. It; iCacieb3u.e. ,I .1 A. Hill, bit J. Osborne, Net. Sir T. Visem.st Pollington, R. Grant, taq. - G:V. nor. £4.1.. 11-. e Malt and Pensions Duty Bill went through tt C9mmittee. Report to-morrow. EXCHEQUER DILLS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXtHVITIER Laving moved for the second reading of the Exch.- goer Bills' Bill, iig z Mr. ELLICE inquired, whethet, after a d had bent advertised for the payment of Exchequist " the Bank withheld any of those Bills la consat of as understanding with Government 1 , The. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER *c_l, that it sometimes happened, When Exchequer Mb had been advertised to be pai4en a certain day . , that the public might receive eitnir bills or money in tx. , change, the Bank continuing to hold over•some 14 t h os e bills, and when it did - so, those Government securities were not enumerated in the Returns. . Mr. ELLICE had put the question in ceitueguto* of what had fallen from the Right Honourable Gen tleman on a former oftadon. He had said, that out of eight millions the GOvernment had repaid fire to the &ink. That did.** appear by the present Re urns ; bqt if the palbmt had been made by Gauen meat, and the Banlitithheld Exchequer l then it was no payment at,ll. The CHANCELLORof the EXCHEQUER, when he had said that government had paid five out of z V eight millions to the Bank, meant, that the advances made by the Bank CO Ciowernment, tad been dimi nished by that sons: The twat testa were totally diferent, grill lid .toor•in the hasr interfere with each other. • The Bal was then rend s smond time, and ordered to be committed tomorrow. telOClSUAbtfltn. Mr. ELACILBUINA %musk ,in the Pripsh Pima O. Manufactory Sill.—Eqad eine dine. Mr. DOMINIC BROWNE yeesested a Peados fame ter: tain Landholdma of the county of Clare, against the Irish Grand Jury LitlL-.—Read, and laid on the table. • - Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented s Petition-fain tlia l Debt confined in York Castle, against as? s,:ftardoitit the preseaf'lttsol. vent Debtors Act.—Ret w and ftWoll the ftble_ • Mr. CURWEN, in presenthig a on Iwo •eUrtaln Pa rishes of the West Riding of the COW/ of York, pre an alteration in the Poor Ram; bore testimony to distress tithe people in those pent of the country.l.r Lion was ordered to lie on the table, sod to EeE At this time the Clerk of the LialiMlM • enteral the Haw and repotted that the folitte tiou had gar clabsen by ' ballot to try the merits of W. A. Roberts, Esq. the Hall. J. R. V: Wihoo, Fag. R. T. Wilmot, Esq. W. SdlbsLowncies t Bp. John Mitchell, Esq. Sir C. Morgan. Dart. _ rahala Egerten, Eeq. William Rickman. Esq. Samuel Walker, Esq. Simnel Scott, Seq. William Leake, Esq. William Stewart, Esq. Sir AMR Mackintosh, William Hoboes, Eeq. Mr. MELLISH brought in a DM to alter and adagio the Parish Church of St. George the Martyr.—Reid a let e. Mr. P. MOORE 'obtained leave to bring in a EIS to light with Gas the Parishes of St. Mardis; St. Paul, Covart-tordalt and others in Westminster • together with that of Marpla. bonne, in litacilese‘ ; and dirist Church, in Surrey. Lord CASTLEREAGH presented additional Papers %- orating the 'lndemnities which Trance was to patio-eke Allied Powers.—Laid on the tabic.—Adjohrnrd.- • THE EVENING . STAR.' LONDON. •••••1•M•011=16 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICZ Of STOCKS THIS VAT AT OMB O . CLOCIC : 3 per Cent. Reduced 77M—Chns.,76Hil Cons. for Acc. 7647 4—si per Cent. iMitit 4 per Cent. 951 6 SH-5 per Cent Navy 1054 61 8 K. Long Ans. 2.oii—lndia Bonds 76 78 pr. South-Sea Stock ---, —Old Annuities Exclieq. Bills (21) 10 18 pr.—Oinnium 4 dis. Tt is reported in the City, that the Minister is aboat to Fund Exchequer Bills. The Jews are selling millions of Stock and buying Exchequer Bills in expectation of that event. The premium on these has, in consequence, advanced alittle. A very singular motion. was List n ight made in the Douse of-Commons, viz. for a Select Committee to inquire into the truth of the doctrine of Contagion i r e the Plague—keeping in view the inconvenience of the quarantine laws, which are unnecessarily strict if the Plague is epidemic and not contagious. We hope with. Mr. Wystr, that the Houie will pause Wore it ventures to legislate, should the Anti-nontagionisti succeed in making out even a plauSible case. ShOttlir the quarantine laws be abolished, we think the Mal thusitet would soon be gratified with a powerful check to an overgrown population ; the only plape with which this felicity could be alloyed would be r that the blind Pestilence might, contrary to the pro visions of their system, visit the habitations of the Bich. hfr. DENNLTT moved for leave, which was granted, to bring in a Bill to abolish the system of employing climbing boys. The heart of the country goes with him in this measure. 'We would beg to suggest to him a remedy for the few only cases to which neither the machine no: the ball and brush have been found applicable—tamely, those flues which break re. peatedlrinto right angled elbows, presenting hori zontal portions.—Let a chain (like a stout jack-chain) be introduced and remain in all such chimnies, hooked on at top and coming down within reach of the opining into the chamber. This will; when once introduced, always furnish the means for attachinga :tape of sufficient length to sweep the chimney by meats of a brush attached to it. By the accounts received yesterday from South America we learn, that General SAN MARTIN ar rived at Santiago de Chili on the nth October, and immediately proceeded to give activity tothe prepa rations for the attack on Lima. Lord COCinutza was hourly expected. Accounts from the Main are of varietal dates to nearly the close of November. Frost Trinidad tkle r are to tie 7th of becember. • General boaireit Faa , returned to. Angostura, where he was an the 20th. of November. General BEIIKLYDEZ was left in cons. nand of the operations before Cumana. Penis goer villas had beaten the Royalists on three different 'points. CIDENO had dislodged the Spaniards from Tarralva, where they had 400 men. The Govern , Meat was engaged in drawing up a Manifesto and Pops* against any attempt at mediation, into which 444 might be able to induce the Allied Powers. k isinutaded to express, a filed determination, net to hoes to any overturn which have not for object the recognition of Venezuela as a free and independent-1 State, The bee provinces of New Grenada had been invited to send their Deputies to the new Coeval, of which the number of Reptamotetiver is to be thirty-five. . • . . Extract of . a letter dated Triniatd,.rieetrober 0:—. " It u reported, on apparently very stied authority, l that Barcelona hasteen taken by MONAlliti t and the Spaniards, it is said, lost 400 ibis thy* Butotes• squadron, it is asserted, has iakep;44,:finqßpouthlt: brig lately commanded by - CiAnoter., ..Tbt Spoof* corvette, Chilean, lately eetataaaillad•ra the gag ef Pavia, we bear has been boarded and captured by Avai,:irbo-161 in the 'action.! . • . • iltritACT 140*4;*AVTIOliral xprilp! raolti MADRID, 'DATED JANUARY 29. • . 4 1 While endeavoutt are made to impose on Europe And America, wish respect to the real situation or Spain by pretending that it has at least found tran- L aad *tidy under the double yoke of King Ferdinand nd the Inquisition, events come and throw a gloomy terrible light round the abps towards which this A-fated country is verging. Whatever care may be taken to conceal the detail of the horrible scenes of which the city of Valencia has recently been the 'theatre, they are proved beyond dispute, by the offi- Adel document of which I send you a copy. It is the literal Proclamation which General Elio i the Cover 4sor of the Province, ordered to be printed on the day of execution. It sounds like the roaring of a ti ger gloating over its prey, and afraid of seeing the least particle of it escape. Even the King and his Ministers disapprove of such ferocious language, and intend, it is said, to deprive of his office, the man who has dared to use it. 1 , TO fat MOSTINT natAsyrmirs or vAttrictw, DRAWN SOLDIZU AND 11110211,1115 IN waits! Suffer not yourselves toted any pity at the spectacle which 'has this day been presented to your Utellilbed eyes. but consider the enormity of the crimes which brought these monsters to daub and the shame of the scaffold. Their conspiracy tended to no less than the subversien of the Monarchy, HP the destruc tion of our laws, to the muhiplication of veageanceand by causing ri►ess of blood to flow. They wished to cover the Spanish people with sternal disgrace, by exposing yon to appear she accomplices of their atrocious schemes. But they thought fit to execute them without your assis tance; they knew that they tong nut rec►on, either on the in habitants ',this city, or on the garriion : scarcely did they feel sulkiest hardihood to trust to their own arms: they invited to their aid assassins by profession : they attempted to open the prisons, and set tier tbegreatest.critninals,ia order to,.perpetrate the most heinous crimes with the co-operation of such auxilia ries.'—[ fow do you know that, and why, if you did know; it, did you not prevent it PaovtosNce, which watches over you, makes use of means (probably the channel of erefeedon) with supplying you with the power of exterminating tot MIMIC, of the throne, ofxbe laws, and of Religion (perhaps the Inquiiition), and the disturbers of Spain : It has enabled us to surprise and to conxict the thirteen monsters whoa you have seen expire this morning.'—{ Why not put proofs In the glisce of all this declamation against t►e dead';--' Inhabitantsof Valeneli, these traitors are not . the Only ones wha exist among you : they ,have partisans and satellites in the midst of veiny part of the nation.'--{'What! had the plot extended Calker ? Why, if the people are so satisfied with the Government Loyal Inhabitants, SoWen worthy of Spain, you who Lave in all times been models of fidelity to the King, of wilniiisslon to the laws of your fathers—you whose indignation and laudable zeal are striking proofs of your hatred of these monstois, de nounce 'bent all to me, and I will annihilate tkeni.'—( Why do ' maim them in this way, when you already know who they are? If you do not, you are accusing at random, and on the untislls of nbscure and anonymous information; yuu ate pronouncing clnderanation in secret, without kllowinp the parties to defend I : themseives.]••••• 6 Your happiness, your peace, are interested In this matter. While one traitor shall exist, do not expint any tranquillity In your houses. Until the erroneous slid per:deduct maxims of licentiousness shill be utterly extirpated, fathers, you will no loner have obedient children—husbands, you will have no longer tender and constant wives ; there will be no more friend ship—good faith will no longer preside over commercial bar galns—.the laws will lose all their vigour —the very memory of the social virtues will be effieed.'—(This picture is more accu rate than flattering.) • We s►a4l end by murdering one another. The son will kill his father and mother, If this picture terrifies you, or appears a mere chimera, cast yesittyes qt France ; and you will find all realized bj the history of ear own times. The principles which destroyed that Monarchy are the very same which are preached up by our enemies, and with whit they-seek to dtaw us to our ruin. (It is sot Preach principles, bet the insane follies of the Court of Modred which will destroy the Spanish Goverament,) • Hut be not a‘ Lid ; Goo, who protects our Catholic nation. has inspired it with the highest virtues ; and no one will succeed j In making It forget its duties to its King and its holy religion. For the preservation of that Religion, and for the defence of the Throne, Chiefs of tiled fidelity abound in our provinces. ' Valencia hoot without them. As soon as your General shall hare had breathing-time, you will see him at the head of men of worth. • Valencia, Jan. 60.2919. (IMO • ELIO.' -1 These sanguinary executions were preceded and followed by a Inultitude of arrests at Valencia and in the environs ; and by several condemnations to the fortress, that is, the sallies of Ceuta, on the coast of Africa, where they are so badly treated, that few in dividuals live two years. ".It appears that the proofs of the conspiracy were not very strong, for Ferdinand, who is not reproached with any taste for clemency, bad ordered a susp en _ Pan of the sentence, of .fleath ; but General Elio was so mach in haste, that the respite arrived too late. Among the thirteen capitally punished, twelve were shot with their backs turned, as is the case with traitors. The 13th, Coked Vidal, suffering under indisposition. wilialianieths Ise place of execution ,ou a trafialkiftiliangiakeillseing the chief. It is principally ems' the Oaten of the army, and among the higher tanks of society, that the disaffec don is fermenting, and that the King is reproached with the violation of all the promises which be had ,made on his return from France. " They cannot conceive how, after baring caressed Bonaparte, so far as to have requested to be adopted by him, be could show himself so inflexible against those who then made the most active exertions for the deliverance of their country ; or against those who, after his own example, yielded to necessity. Bat cansiderationsof this kind do not affect the lower orders, who are led by habits of submission, and en thrall giVen up to the inattNlC:t of the Clergy and the Monka..,:4oiteb is the muse why se many conspira cies, among othats those of a Mina, of a Porlier, of a Lacy, and lately that of Vidal, failed in their accom . plishment; and tutted to the destruction of their au thors. The nation is in great distress ; their povc- 7 overwhelming;his their want of money extreme; I R . : patience and resignation, are the predomina nt torts of the Spanish character; and unless eve:: s happen on which it is difficult to calculate, it is p c ,. sible that this deplorable state of things may conti• nue a long time. ' " Dee death of King Charles IV. has deprived :14 tents of one point of support, feeble and distant as it w,s, people, in case of a crisis, would have beets mere tlisp.,•„i toss their eyes towards him, since the death of bis they detested here, because they regarded the T.tace Peace, and all the calamities which he. brought upon her work, or rather as her crime. Ferdimmd letst:neat:; 1.01 the space of two months, the loss of his.•alfe, of and owner. His young Queen w a s alfiictzd xvith epilepsy, • k of the fits of this distemper which, so sudthad. : carr:. % kora. Scarcely are her funeral rites performed, when th e Maws are looking about for a Princess to succeed ber on s!.! throoe, and to give heirs to the Crown of Spain. The re ;s• -„, Ire Madrid are divided between an Austrian .Irchduches s Princess of Saxony. " It is mot generally suppcsed that an Austrian will }.• re . ferred, were it for no other purpose but to interest the Fic.:se Austria in the disputes between Spuia and Portugal. ft gined that if the Cabinet of Vienna inclined towards the Caul: of Rio moth. in the late differences, it was oo aorown of tic interest wilds it took in the Pincers whom it had even to :Iv Hereditary Prince of Brazil : and a hope is entertoned ez drle, that the balance may be turned in favour of Spain by a n milar marriage " You ere sensible that there rar. be no question here of Princess who is not a Catholic ; th:: i: the and indi,ptati.ll?. cowlick:la. The Inquisition, under whose orlers ev,ne tiw proceeds, would not permit it to be otherwiie. " A report is renewed, from time to time, of theat-rival of th,:. Duke of Wellington, as mediator, in the na:nl or 0.. e between us and our Colonies; but r.eitlitr the Nieg cc: it kg.„ sisters are anxious to sec any one cnmtni•-!nnAl for s . ae••. a in.:- , pose. They hope to do every thing and Ley I mediation." • We have no English ward for this. It scents to mean c:•ac the extortion or mhapplkation of money by a Minister The following statement, which appears in a Ge:- mats Papir, deserves, if correct, the serious attettio of the admirers of the German Dramatist : FRANKFORT, JANUARY!" ' The death of the Queen of Ntiirtemberg has 116. vered Germany from an o.:se,-ver placed there h 7 Russia, and Germans congratulate themselves -;;Ta an event which will have a great influence tlior, use existing Governments. The Diet met. The Meech of the President, Cr ;int Bush, was as insipid as all the rest made by hint and the other diplomatists here. Saveral pet'tions have been brought before the Diet, but n o r.e h a ve been decided upon ; and it appears that thiz astern ' blage of A mbassadorshas no other n'oject than to keep people in expectation of things which will never be realized. It is expected that a very liberal Constituton be introduced into Prussia, and above all, that the liberty of the Press will prevail to a great degree. The Prince Liechtenstein, an Austrian siii,ject, whose dominions arc in Nloravia, has introducc,i a Constitutional Government there, cornro , ed Clergy and Peasantry. This is the more extr,:co.-th nary, because this Prince's dominions are situated in a monarchy where nothing has been done as yet, either to enlighten or to introduce principles of liberality. The General States will meet in Bavaria. It is generally supposed that the discussions will not ter minate as quietly as the Government wishes, am! there is no doubt that several privileges of the stets will be retrenched, and partienlarly that the army will be considerably reduced. All the banished French in this neighbourhood have great hopes of returning soon to their native country. Kotzebue will soon leave Manheim, and return m Russia. He has lost his character so much, by hay ing degraded himself to be a spy upon his own coun trymen for Russia, that his departure is viewed by the Germans with pleasure. Some time back he re sided at Weimar, where he was employed as Chief of a System of Espionage upon all Germany. The in formation which he thus collected was formed into Reports, which he wrote in French, and gave to a German to copy, having first taken care to ascertain that he did understand that language. This conti nued for some time, until the Editor of the oppositica Journal of Weimar went in by chance to the apar.- ment of the copyist (with whom he was acquainted) , whom he found very busily employed. Admirity the beauty of the writing, he took up one of the ' tors, and perceived what the subject of it was. 1 tending ignorance, however, he asked what was nature of the contents? The copyist replied, that could not give him the information he desired, as did not understand French : that they were writ::: by M. Kotzebue, who for a long time had emploie. l him to copy them. The Editor then requested him to send him in • tune all letters which he received from M. Kotzebt e. which he complied with. Upon perusal they weir found to contain secret reports of espionage upon 64. ' many, and were for the purpose of being comma , • cated to the Emperor of Russia himself. In order' put a stop to this practice, and to manifest world the honourable nature of M. Kotzebue's ployment, the Editor published them. M. kotzei ur. enraged, commenced an action against him, in whic! - . however, he was cast, and was condemned to pay fine of 600 Louis, and to publicly beg pardon in I German Papers. Such is the true character 0: Man who has so long deceived the world. 7c• ; fe. L . onti. m. h ient o d 21:11 be e Kim Cob: of t%c to tir. ;7 a 13. of t:a of tS,-; W. a j+z:- 17... t. Lcy Ge- estio s ire b 7 date shim Ctions have sfe.ra- v keep ref be n at the cii a Is yet, les of It is DI ttr- , :di.;i• at the thoal native arn r hit - coin- ed by he re- ief 'he in- I into e to a :ertain conti• ()shim inte• d), nit ing he let- is the hat he as lie vrittee ) 1 0 ).e.! in II:• zebte. r wetr n Ge,;• r der tt , tote • !'s el Z6O. whic!'•• • P a Y in c- -o.f , I * • P ,1