Star. — London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

EVENING *STAR. LONDON. . .. • DECEMBEI4I, 1819. Till's FUNDS. s ruts DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Ve:iuced 67 671 CoilAoll shut -ri 1.0. •; , 1 1 „ Navy shut Annuitic per Cent. Anns. Con shot—Andia Bonds Is. dis. par . hill; ('SI.) ss. 3s. dis. Acct. 6811 :11 oiemos of the 1:u - 71m/um asserted C.:re er minims of the Revenue, a croside tl.e pds. We then stated the advance Ind ;;,a: t' e moticd tatn in the City rut con .c paci:.:e of the explanation r.a , this day have fallen . r te-half prr Cent.— ,ceount, were rsteed:v at 68a, and the Runs ) at that price; but this motning they have at that ptice title were more sellers • begin' r 100 IL With fearful anxiety to the true ; and it is very natural there should be r: tr,st cm be extracted from the Right rarly &hews, that " worse remains ~ As too well what is Parti , trentlry u.tp:, to but, crnuinty, if the two Chancellors had the Loan-holders, the in , 1 direct could not holy given. a t was given yesterday by Coln ‘v viper Stamp Duties Bill, aad to Seditious Libels Bill i and Par niei to the 15th of February. . ;:1 i.. the proceedings of the Coommis, :171.t.c.it of the Excitautige admitted the deficiency of the lieve vi, between the 10th of October and eccml,er, he meant upon the gross the New Taxes, besides the de. i,;, Revenue. The Revenue had also Jul'• to October, £1,150,000, making )0,0'..)0, since the sth July. According of the Finance Committee last year, lave hen an excess this year of five ,s for the prediction ! We have no ex !eing it realized, even in part. Os the -c must be a considerable defalcation, tors possibly prevent this. In fact, the )t a millstone about its neck, which will ab) ss of ruin, if means be trot taken to Pay the Debt at once, or it will destroy c questios well canvassed ; prepare the ;or the event, by patient but persevering ; and those who now dread eves to look al, will, ere long, be the loudest.to cry adoption of the measure. ion about paying off the National Debt misunderstood by some who write upon - - - them tells us, " nothing is more simple •rinciple. The Nation is called upon to .operty, like an individual, to release itself may be called a mortgage!' Wci have but in vain, to discover the meaning of nof the principle. " The Nation called what or who is intended . 37 the word is put in contrast with the word " indi rhe Swine, in our understarding of that )-I..ing that it cats sell, except the Crown ti.is is no part of the Atithvr's meaning. employ ten ni as they arc used in the evidently confound them. The hole, is nu,de up of hulvidatais ; and t doe by the Nation, as s community, -'dual owes a part proportioned to the of the general stock, vinether in lands When an individual, in atering and im- :state, and itraighting hi! fences, takes a cne field and adds it to atother, his pro w.l)- dim - ;niched. If a rran takes money hand pocket and pets it into his left, ; richer nor poorer. To onderstand the :1 ly. as to the paymen: of OUT immense N.ciln, the Nation mos be considered in ~?;e swiitidual endeavntring to arrange Cot. best possible maler- - altering his the bullion tbout his person in may be most earunodions for car ! ::use things may lie accomplished with. .la , ion or alienatior of property, rued sacrifice of capital" is required .:,,o : u. Y more, it the very nature of r-al of pflperty would be abse il:le in haying of our whole Debt.-- -.et even be scn indispensible necessity • ,i orp4al from one individual to an would take place, would be paying a • ; by individual., in the name of intert:J, • • T' c money herrowed from the present ~, s tead of paying the premium in the e of Texas. The Landholder—the • ' .•y kinl of property--pays now the • • !early, which he woold individually ,1 oon to pay ss his quota, should he be .• ; and wit!. this he pays his quota • of collection and management, be.ides hilt! by the dealers on every )s Excise or Custows—and necessarily laid upon these articles to pay for the use of extra capital, rendered neceSsiry by the payment of the duties in the first instance. • I As to paying off the Debt by economy and ti.. l trenchment, it would be just as rational to attempt with ten-spoons to return into a mill-dam the water that has once gone over the wheel. . We are advo cates for economy and retrenchment, not from anyd idea that the Debt itself can be thereby paid off, but because every unnecessary expenditure is, to a certain extent, an infliction of misery and privation on those who need support and sustenance—nay, more, on those who pay the whole Revenue, for the whole is ultimately paid by the labour of those who are pro ductively employe/1, and by none else. Let us have economy, but let us not defer a change of system which would imtantly restore the Nation to health and vigour, and in its effects more than double the real (not the nominal) wealth of the Kingdom. Those who have allowed themselves to be fright ened tut of their wits, by artificial alarms, may now rest in comparative quiet. Because of the salutary effect that may be expected from muzzling the Press, and from the other necessary encroachments that have been made on the liberties of Englishmen ? No ; but because it is not deemed necessary, at present, to fa• in 'cote other Bills of a similar, or even a more severe character. What, then, would be the use now, of marching and counteremarching to prepare for the suppression of pretended exs ected simultaneous risings oif the Radicals? or of unsolicited orders for Yeomanry to assemble for the protection of an Ex- Lord Lieutenant's premises, which had not been any way threatened ?—as was the case lately, when two Troops of Yeomanry Cav,..lry (composed principally of Earl FiTzwat.:axis tenants) were summoned from their beds, in, midnight, to meet in Wentworth P.:, k, where they remained from Monday, the 13th December, to the Thursday following—furnishing a tine alarmist paragraph for circulation through the Newspapers, of Earl Ferzwtwaras mansion having bee., threatened by the Radicals; with the additional falsehood, that his Lordship had applied for protec tion against the designs of these wicked men. There will be no more of this for. some time to come. We say so with some confidence, for these alarms have produced effects that werettot contemplated by those * who got the% up. Not only have some of their own noodles been so far imposed upon by the gravity, confidence, and accompaniments, with which they were circulated, as to withdraw their property from our own Stalks, and Invest them in the French and American Funds ; but many Foreigners, residing on the Continent.. taking all the alarm-tales for true, which they saw in the English (or quoted in the French from the English) Papers, sent orders to their Agents to sell out their Stock in our Funds, and in vest the proceeds in those of France. This being an evil not contemplated by those who called out, " the wolf ! —the wolf r orders have been issued to the understrappers to "lower the herr.," and change their note. The theme is now to be, the good that has resulted from the Acts, and the perfect quiet which they hail s• speedily restored to the Country. The Paris Papers from Sunday to Tuesday, inclu sive, arrived this forenoon. The most iuterestifig part bf their contents is an account of the proceedings before a Council of War, appointed to try the celebrated Savasty, Duke of Sovroo, for his conduct during the Hundred Days, and for which sentence of death had been formerly passed against him in his abser.ce. The General's present appearance to stand trial was a perfectly voluntary step of his own ; it was indeed so particu larly so, that whea refused passports to return to France for that purpose, 1,. had contrived, with the aid of a young English Officer (his name is not given) to find his way to Pais, and to demand a revision of the judgment which had eziled him from his native country. The result chews that he had not placed an unwarranted confidence in his innocence, and in the improved circumstances of the times. The Council of War have unanttnously found him Not Guilty, and ordered hies to be forthwith set at liberty. The proceeding's are too long to admit of any thing like a satisfactory abstract, within the limits we are obliged to prescribe to ourselves. One thing is pretty manifest to us-that BAVARY owes his acquittal mods more to the beneficial change which has taken place in the public feelieg in France within these four years; or, more properly speaking, to the change which public opinion has effected m the temper of the Government, than to any great difference be tween his case and that of others who have paid by their lives for their adherence to the cause of the Usurper. N. bole, Who advocated the defence Of the lieneral with great ability and eloquence, alluded to this circumstance very happily, in the conclusipn of his speech :—" As for myself," said he, 44 since it has been my lot, under PROVIDENCII, to have de. fended the first and the last of the individuals in scribed en a Fatal List, may the unanimous vote which, I trust, will acquit the latter, appease the manes of the fofter I May I see to-day an end put to pro cesses of revenge! May I never mere have occasion to lend the aid of my gown to brave men, who, during many years, have lent to their country the heroic succour of theii swords! " M. Dorm, in the course of his. defence, mentioned a carious-enough anecdote : When Louts had taken his bight to Ghent, the Ambassadors of Britain and Austria, imagining that the Duke of Rom() ) who bad been Minister of Police under BoNaPAnra, would, as a matter of course, instantly resume the same fbnctions, they applied to him on the 20th of March, for passports to leave the French territory. M. SAVA as answered, that he had no concern what ever with the business ; " Address yourselves," said he, " to M. d'Aanna, Minister of the King, to whom yon are accredited." The point in the defence which this anecdote went to establish was, that on the 20th of March, and previous to thed of March, SAVARY had not accepted of, or exercised any, political func tion on the second expulsion of the BOURBONS ; the Ordnance of the 24th July, 1814, which was alleged to have affected SA VARY, being confined to those wh3 had seized on power previous to the 23d March. ARNAULT, FRLIX DRSPORTIA, and HARaL, who were on the list of the thirt y.eight, but included in those recently recalled, have arrived in Paris. The Gazette do France says, that some grange re ports have been in circulation in Paris within these few days; it refrains from repeating them ; but adds, as certain, that an order had been given to put at the disposal of each post of the National Guard five hun dred ball cartridges. It is stated at the same time, as if in connection with these circumstances, that the individual arrested with so much mystery at Amster dam, is MERLIN DOtiAY. The cumber of P.eers had a Meeting on Monday, when the Projtet of Law passed in the Chamber of Deputies, fin• the provisionary collection of part of the Revenue of next year, was presented, and re mitted for examination to a Committee. The the in the Funds still continue. The Vive per Cents. left off on Mond.ty at 71 fr. SO c. Virginia Pacers arrived this morning, to the 40th November. They do not contain any news of im portance. We extract the following: faOm THE stitAlD, OF Novxmast 18. " It is said that Mr. SMYTH had made a peremp tory demand, on behalf of hi, Government, for a con siderable number of American prisoners, in Spanish prisovi`Tvlio did not enter into the Patriot service, but v ,re trepanned by designing Officers, under false pretences; and that he has required a statement of charges against others." LIHIEO CHANCELLOR, the Earl of LIVERPOOL, and Viscount CASTLEREAGH, had audiences of the PRINCE It EGENT yesterday, at Carlton-House. Mrs. AREUTHNOT had a large party yesterday evening, in Harley-street. Lord TEIGNMOUTH has had several elegant parties during the Holidays, at his house in Portman-square. Lady DAMPIERL welcomes in the New Year in grand style. A large party assembles this evening, at her Ladyship's house, in Welbcck-stieet. The Princess SoputA entertains the Poor, during the present inclement season, in tie neighbourhood of Blackheath. EnwAan FOLEY, Esq. of Stoke Edith Park, in: Herefordshire, according to annual custom, gave, do St. Thomas's Day, "a fine olt, o-tiolling about Mt stone, to the poor of the.parish of Edith ; and a pro portionate quantity of wheat, according to the num ber of their families; and sums of money to each of those who attended at his hospitable mansion froth the surrounding parishes. The Duke of WELLING-row has received intimation. from Mr. B. WATT, the architect, that all the ima provements in the Mansion at Strathfieldsay are now Completed. A proportion of the valuable china r► crived by his Grace from the Kings of PRUSSIA and Saxony, is gale down : as also the plate from Por tugal. The Dueness, the Marquis of Davit°, and tithe, blanches of the family, are waiting in expecta-. tion of the return of the illustrious Chieftain, who intends to keep open house during the Parliamentaiy l reces!. Considerable disturbances have agalibroken out in Syria. The Pacha of Drarbekin has been compelled to seek safety in flight. Tuesday afternoon one of the most numerous Ves tries assembled at Bethnal-Green Church, that has taken place since Easter last, for the purpose of au diting the Quarterly AccountS, and for taking into consideration the late Election of Tnoatas PE.DLEY, Esq. as one of the Treasurers of the Parish. The business commenced soon after four o'clock, and a strong contention took place between the two parties respecting the Chairman, the one maintaining the right Of the Rector to that situation, from a late decision in the Arches Court, confirmed in the King's Bench; the other insisting to the contrary, as Bethnal Green Parish was governed by a local Act of Parliament. It was at length determined that the Rector should take the Chair, without any prejudice• to the case, arid legal opinion be obtained previous to the next Vestry. The first business taken into consideration was the legality of Mr: PEDLRY's Election, when Mr. BROWN moved that it should be rescinded. A strong opposition took place, when the question was put to a shew of hands; but the CHAIRMAN declared he could not decide. A poll was demanded and acceded to, when the numbers were declared to be, for the motion, 201-s Against it, I29—Majority, 72.—The , Quarterly Accounts were then entered into, and the Vestry did not adjourn until after ten at night. About the second year of the present KING'S reign, a man of the name of George King was convicted in Dublin of a capital felony. He drew up a memorial to the Ktwo, which he sent with the following lines : George King to King George sends his humble petition. Hoping King George will pity poor George King's condition; If King George to George King will grant a long day, George King for King George for ever will prsy The man was pardoned. Cov RN T 4..; A RORK TH tier Rit.—The representation of the Comedy oj' Errors and the new Pantomime drew a crowded audience to this 'Theatre yesterday evening. The new Pantomine went off with greater spirit than on the first night, owing to the change of !'rancho into that old and valued acquaintance, the Clown. GRIMALDI, it must be allowed, though he made agood squire to the Knight of La Mancha, is more at borne in his old cost Me. The adientores arc nearly the same, zr . 1.0 .;•,` O l I .n..; f , , I 1. Punt • fl • • Yat• I I •!" • ( • run r• •i% ; t rt r' • Val .1 .. he .'.' U. r. • • • !IA " h ' 'f seo y, Oleic !'as got tne fc ; ropes: :he ad 3estic cr.. -13 : 4,f tl pr , pro .•11;at ,„ rcd, • n •.11;' • ;'; a 3. -0 • ' I • t a 1 1 .• • •)t out ; • ' • •' • \ I • A ' • • Aurit Yesterday, the DAT of Yottx ttittssacted Military business with the PRINCIi RWINT, at Carlton-House. The party of the 80th Regiment,, which wets marched to Fort George Irmo Hull last summer, re ceived orders, on Saturday lan, to commence their route on the following day from Perth, by the coust road, and a) march two stages a day. NAVAL LVTELLIGENCE . • Frau Ours, Decrstass SM.-Mind N.E.— Arrived his Majesty's ship Ire, from Plymouth,with a detachment of the Roya I Veteran Battalion, fur Pendennis Garriso'n; also the Triumph, Straw; sailed from Calcutta, Ist August, front the Cape 49th October, end from off St. Helena lath November I and the Montague, Hamocir, from Newfoundland.—Sailed the Dort Corr, for litahla; iritannia, ETALS, for St. Kitt's; Providence, Weans.; Mayflower, PLUTON; and Sally, Low's, for Lisbon. Prorstours ' Decimate 29.—Wind N.--Arrived the Ann; Bates, from Loudon for St. Kitt's • Christian, Goes, from I.ott don for TCYLUIS ; and Sir Sidney Kitt's; Levey as, from arks. Poarinnoura, Deers:len 30.—Wind S.—Arrived his bff - jeary's ship CONWAY, from Plymouth; and Marina and Dirkje,ScrH sesoaas, from Dardt.—Came into harbotir, hie Majesty's ship ECARIA, to be paid off.—Sailed the Isabella, Farms, for D. , . tnerara ; and the Ocean transport for Bristol. WEYMOUTH, Dec. 30.—The schooner Echo, Janis, from the river Gambia, has been brought into the Lower Hole, having lost four of her crew timber passage, and the Captain, Mate, and one man, are now sickly. She is put ender quarantine. DAs. s.W.— , Sailed the Ihosicsa schooner to the Northward; and the Argus, Deal pilot cutter, on a tn:ize to the Westward. YARMOUTH, DEC. 30.—The Julia, Timms" of Hell; nom Newcastle for Plymouth, is totally loot on the Cross Sand—crew landed at Lowestoffe. Limmice, Dec. Es. Arrived the Born Fin, °ravens, frcsrs St. Übe's, with loss of bowsprit, pijgery, &e. Noarrt Silurian, Trte. 99.2. , •-Tbc Lady Sberbrook. - from kictou, in corning into the harbour, grit, upon the Herd 3itd. The clew are saved, and part 4,1 the cargo and materials will be saved, but the vessel is expected to beton b a wreck. GLASGOW, nECEMBER 28. On the night between, Prid:ty the 24th, and Satur day the 25th inst. A singular circumstance occurred at Garion Bridge toll-bar, on thercad between Ha- . milton and Dalserf. Four fellows of suspicious cha racter had spent the afternoon in drinking at the toll house, and deeming it more coneenienz, instead cf paying their reckoning, to attempt their esca by • rt the end window, which overhangs a considers! , cipice, three of them had already accomplished t eir purpose, and the fourth was just about to follow his companibns, when he was secured by the tollman and some assistants, and detained in the house.— Wishing to release their comrade, the three fellows manded from without that he should be restored • to them, Otherwise they would tame back ~ and wring • their hands in the blood of the fatnily." The toll , - man, however, bolted the door, and resolved to de tain the prisoner. They shortly after went away, but in consequence of the threat they had used, a • good many of the neighbours were requested to conic and guard tie house for the night. Two hours afte: - - wards, seven fellows, including the three above mentioned, some of them armed with muskets, came in order to effect their object, the release of the pri soner, and to take revenge for his detention. But the party that guarded the house being too strong for them, they, after dischargieg one shot, succeeded in surrounding and taking four prisoners, who were trn= mediately marched off under an escort to Hamilton jail, where they are at present detain:A. Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, as four men were going into Paisley, upon the Glasgow . risad, they were attacked near flarsbaw-gate, by a - gang of fel lows, eight or nine in number, who after wantonly knocking some of them down, and otherwise m.:b• treating them, encoumged their dog to attack one man, by which both his legs Weid cut and lacerated in a rnost shocking manner. A party of Iltisf.ars were dispatched from Paisley to apprehend them, but unfortunately they did nut succeed. Letters from Manchester, dated Tuesday last, ulsst state, tl:at large orders had been received there, and had occasioned employment to many hands; who have lately had little or nothing to do. Last week two very extensive warehouses in Pals ley took on a number of hands, and one of them sent to Polloksban s for plain weavers. It is generally expected that onr languishing manufactures will re vive considerably with then ew year. Friday week, a person app li eat the Queen's Head, in Dur ham, for a poet-chaise and four, to carry him to Baby Castle; whither hessid he was proceeding with important dispatches tor the EArl of DAIRUNGITOII. As soon as the chaise was 'ready he set out, accompanied by a female, decently attired, but not sf very genteel appetrance. On reaching Ruby, the stranger was informed that the Lord Lieutenant was at b.ewton-house, whi.. ther he followed. At Stair.drop he represented himself as the Duke vf Lancaster; and kis enviable consort, the Duchess, re g aled herselt with a glass of runt and water In the kitchen scf the mu! His Grace made an unsuccessful application to one of the Earl of Maxima:oes agents for a loan to defray his expenses en the road. Ile also requested permission to remain at the Castle till the re turn of its noble owner, which was of course refused. On his arrival at Newton-house, he found that lue assumed title failed to obtain hint an audience. In this dilemota the post-boys, who began to despair of receiving payment for their services, deemed 1 it prudent to bring the Duke and Duchess back to Durham, where they arrived is the course of Saturday. His Grace having ' no money, left his watch and rinbs, and the Dsukors bet tre.lf and dppct, as secarity to Mr. Psket, for the expenses ore journey which cooldrody haveheen under taken through follyor inatursy., Exicurrox.--This morning Thomas Wildish, for uttering forged £lO Notes of the Dover Bank, and John Booth, a letter-carrier to the General Post ! Otfice, for stealing a Bank of England Note out of a letter entrusted to his care, were executed at New gate. Booth was a fine your.g man, and much ie spected in the Post-Office. Great intercession was made to save him, but without effect. The uefor- . tunate culprits met their fate with fortitude, and died withotit a struggle.—A young woman, just at the time of their being turned off, said to be arelation of one of the sufferers, was seized with hysteric fits, and obliged to be conveyed hon e to her friends. COE N MARKET, _MA RE- L ANE, ECEM DER' 31. We had a very large quantity of .Grain at mar ket this mornirig , chiefly consistin g 0 what remained over from the arrivals of Monday and Wednesday ; but owing to the severity of the frost, and the stop page of the navigation, very few sales were effecteil, and prices of every article may be considered nomi nally as on Wednettiay. L t. SNIITHFIELD MARKET, DECEMBER M. 8eef...... 4s old to 5s lid Wal fts od to. .. 04 Mutton .. 4s .04 to 5s 6d Perk Beasts c I o—Sbeep and Lam 400--Caves9o--144s 0. h tn HAY AND sTit lorm p, LOAD 4 H a y AS Os to d 4 101 by ' ....ii lai to It ii Clovet• sOs to 4Of I CO 06 es Atos 0 .1.." • 4 • . • • la • , 1 1 ~~ ~ ~,.'