Star. — London, England, 1809-04-28 00:00:00

ulc course of last Session, • submitted to the House am increase of salary to the Puisne Judges, and to the Welch Judicature. It was his intention to have brought it forward, and to extend it to the Chief Jus tice, Common Pleas, and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He did not think it necessary to bring i t forward at an earlier period, as the principle was , o c l ear , and the operation so simple, that it could pro d u ce neither a length of discuoion, or any diffi c:lty of determination. He was happy, from what had dropped from the Noble Lord (Folkstone), that hv common consent the present Bill was confined to those objects only which it had originally in view._._. Though he would be sorry that the consideration of those offices which were saleable in the law depart rent, should be postponed for such a period as twelve mont h s , if the postponement operated upon the pro pa a dministration of justice, yet he could not see any inconvenience which would arise from continuing the present system another year. It was clear that justice ,could be as duly administered as ever. The Chief Instice would not possibly appoint an unfit officer in i, court, without subjecting himself to the severe citicism of the other Justices. He was indeed sur prised that the exception should exist as it did, but there was no harm to be apprehended frcvn conti nuing it another year. M r . THORNTON said, that by different reports, i t :i ppeared the sinecure places disposed of in this way would amount to 50,0001. ix-.)ich would form a hand some fund for remuneration of the Judges. Mr. ROSE said a few words on the inaccuracy of t2:ese reports. Mr. W. WYNNE was of opinion, that not only the interest of the Judges should be attended to in this Bill, but that of all other persons possessing the right of disposing of places. The House having gone into a Committee on the Bill, _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER introduced a new preamble, which was intended to obviate any inconveniences arising from a reference to the fcrmer Act. The CHAIRMAN then read one of the clauses, which was objected to by Lord Folkstone, who pro posed, that instead of the words " some offices," the wo:ds " all offices in all parts of his Majesty's domi nions," should be inserted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected to this generalizing amendment, as it• would take in even the dice of Clerk to the Bank; and in fact ali offices under private patronages. Mr. MAXWELL wished that the operation of the should extend to the offices in the disposal of the Keeper of the Signet for Scotland ; Sheriff's clerk and many others. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob sr..rved, that the Bill was extended to Scotland and Ireland, and the offices consequently therein. There 'vas also, in the Bill, n clause excepting its operation to all offices legally saleable before the Bill was made. If certain offices were not legally saleable they were of course included in tle Act. If they were legally saleable, it would be injustice to the persons holding them not to except theni. Mr. HORNER. concurred with his Noble Friend on th p:op:•lety of generalization. This statute did not include in its operations, he said, the principal situations which may be disposed of ; the words were "all offices under the superintendence, and controul." This he begged leave to say only operated on the in frior, without any provision as.to the superior offices. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER cnnceivcd that the several departments nocelisarily included the principal office, as well as the several de putations of that office. Lord FOLKSTONE said, that all the arguments of the Right Hon. Gentleman evinced the necess:Ly of general worc - Is in preference to those which were mentioned in the Bill. The clause was then read as originally worded. Lord MILTON and Lord FOLKSTONE were anxious that the provisions of the Bill should extend to the disposal of Offices by the Government of India. Mr. P. IVIOORE declared, that 20 years' experi ence had convinced him, that the administration of public affairs in India was more pure and disinterest ed than in any other part of the United Empire.— There were no , : any Offices but those in the Supreme Court of Judicature, which could possibly come within the purview of the Bill. The ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENE RALS maintained the justice, in case it should it be deemed expedient to extend the provisions of the Bill to India, as proposed by the Noble Lord, to en act, that the operation of the Bill should not take place until a sufficient time had been given for the Bill to be published in India. After a short discussion, in which Mr. YORKE, Mr. BnURNE, Lord CASTLEREAGH, and Mr. HORNER Participated, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, that he would consider the subject, and pre pare a clause to meet the ideas of the Noble Lords. Lord FOLKSTONE,for the purpose of facilitating the obtaining of evidence, proposed an amendment to t:ie clause, by which an offence against the Bill was constituted a misdemeanor. The amendment went to inflict a penalty of £2OO, .to be granted to the infor raer. He had the subsequent intention of proposing tnat the informer, if implicated in the transaction, should be indemnified on giving information. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob erved, that the effect of the proposition made by the Lord, if carried into effect, might frequently lie to put an informer, who had obtained an office by corrupt means, in possession of £2OO, and secure him in the office so obtained. Lord FOLKSTONE. withdrew his amendment on the clause extending the penalties of the Bill to those who gave more than the regulated price for Commis ...ions in the Army. • General LoFrus thought it unnecessary, as there was already a punishment adequate to the offence in the Office of the Commander in Chief. Mr. S. STANHOPE said, that it was well known (..at more than the regulated price had been, and was P - equently given, in spite of the existing regulations. He thought, Gentlemen who had purchased at that t. . gher rate, ought to be allowed to sell again at the arite rate they bought. ELLISON protested against this, as remu nerating those who had committed a breach of a kmvii law, aad taken more than what they declared upon their honour they did take. Mr. W. SMITH regietted that such a practice cle tours, increase Welch J b rou ght i tics, Con Excheque forwart clear, produce n c;:lty of c bad drop} comim those obje Though I those offic ment, shot months, per admin in,:onvenit present sy! would be Instice PVC court, CitiCiSlTl C prised tha there was twins it a: Mr. TF. it :ippeare. cvould am , some fund Mr. RC I:ese repo Mr. W. the interes this Bill, I right of di The lit Bill, The CI introduced obviate at to the fern The Cl- which wa: posed, tha wo:ds " nicns," sh The CI objected t( take in e•.• fact all oil Mr. Bill shoal, Keoper of ships, and The CF served. th: Ireland, a! 'vas also, t to all officl Ii certain • of co urse saleable, ii them not t Mr. HC on thz pro not incluc situations "all offices This he be! ferior, with Th 2 C 3 co'rceivcd included tl putations Lord Ft of the Rig of general mentioned The chat Lord M anxious th to the dispi Mr. P. ence had 4 public affa ed than in There were Court of Ju the purviet The A.' . l RALS m be deemed Bill to Ind act, that tl place until Bill to be i After a S, BrltlrtN) Participate The CI tated, tha pare a chat Lord PC the obtaini me clause, constituted inflict a pc raer. He mat the in should be i The CE th: Lor !Je to put a corrupt me !u the offic Lord Ft the clause who gave :,ions in the General was alread the Office Mr. S. t..at more trequently He thong t. : gher rats le rate EL rcrating t lam lmnlqu Mr. W. had existed, hnd that Officers Were in the habits of) making these declarations without considering them as dishonourable. He thought the only way to ob viate these clandestine bargains for more than the regulated price, was to ' aise it. HUSKJSSON, the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHE QUER, Mr. ROSE, and Mr. THORNTON, combated this opinion, an d supported the clause , whic h was agreed to. The remaining clauses were then gone through, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought up an additional clause, inflicting a fine upon persons adver tising, or piocuring the advertisement of any office, &c. for the sale, &c. of places ; the pen a lty to be not more than 5001. or less than 501. Another clause making the keeping of such office for the sale of places, &c. a misdemeanor. The Report was ordered to be received on Monday next. The Report ofthe Committee of Supply was brought by Mr. Wharton, and the Irish Estimates, voted last night, agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half past 11 o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 28. PRICE OF STOCKS MIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Consols, for money, 67W—for May 6711—Onsnium 1 pre. Exchequer Bills, 12s. to I4s. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 244+ 24S 4 per Cent. 824 3 per Cent. Red. 66+ 5 per Cent. Navy 98i } 3 per Cent. Cons. 67i+ Long Ann. 18t ORDERS IN COUNCIL RESCINDED. Yesterday, at one o'clock, in consequence of a notification sent on Wednesday evening by Earl BATH unsr, President of the Board of Trade, to Mr. SANSON, Chairman of the American Committee, the latter, accompanied by Messrs. BARING, JACOBS, NV KENZIE, GI.7NNIE, MULLET, and several other respectable merchants, deeply interested in the com merce with the United States, waited on the Lords of Trade at the Treasury. At this conference it was announced, that the Orders in Council would be rescinded, as far as they relate to the American Republic ; and that this ar rangement should take date from the preceding day 26th April. It was at the same time decided, that the ports of France, Holland, Italy, and their Derenden cies, should be put into the most rigorous blockade. Under the last distinction are to be included, in Spain, the City or Barcelona, and the Bay of Rosas in the Mediterranean, and the Coast of the Bay of Biscay from Santander to Fonterabla. By this regulation the United States may trade without interruption from British cruizers, with all the ports of Russia, Norway, and Sweden, in the Northern Ocean ; with the whole circuit of the Baltic Sea ; with the British Isles ; with Spain from the Eastern extremity of Asturias to the Southern Bank of the Lobregat ; and, Italian and French ports ex cepted, with every harbour of the Mediterranean, from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Sea of Marmora. Licences will be granted to all the ports North of the Weser and South of the Eyder ; but we under, stand they are to be withheld with respect to the rest of the Contitient, excepting the havens of the Baltic. Another commercial arrangement of great tempo rary importance is, the indulgence to be given as to the shipping to be employed in the transport of Ameri can produce. These commodities may be imported in any ship however documented, from the Floridas, from the Western Isles, from Madeira, Lisbon and Cadiz, free of the duties under the Orders in Council, to the Ist of August next. The full particulars of these changes in our corn mercial system in regard to the United States, are to appear in the Gazette of Saturday next. Mr. PINCKNEY, we understand, him expressed his approbation of the adoption of these measures by our' Government ; and the Pacific is under sailing orders to convey the intelligence to America. The public will naturally be anxious to know what has induced Ministers to adopt a line of conduct re- I pecting America, so diametrically opposite to the po. licy hitherto maintained ; nor can it be doubted that some explanation will be given in Parliament. We, sincerely hope that it will be made apparent that none of the just tights of Britain have been conceded to America. The business will perhaps 'receive some explanation at a meeting of the American Committee, to be held this afternoon at the City of London Tavern. We this day lay before our Readers the substance cf a Treaty, concluded in January, between the Courts of Paris sod Ispahan. A reciprocal duty of 3 per cent. is imposed upon the importation of the commodities of France and Persia into the respective countries ; and an island, called Bareek (which we presume to be Bahren), is to be ceded to the former, on the important condition, that Georgia and every other part of the Persian territories should be aban doned by the Russians. After the long occupation of these intruders, and the projects formed by the Court of Petersburgh on the shores of the Caspian Sea, with such terms, at an earlier period, France would have found it extremely difficult to comply ; but the whole is merely a pretext to establish a settle ment in this remote empire, to subserve the purposes of the ambition contemplated by BONAPARTE in the Oriental world. We need hardly remark . that this intelligence goes a great way towards discrediting en tirely the news reported to have been brought by the Sea Flower, of a Treaty of Amity having been con cluded between this cotmtry and Persia. THE ARMY. . . In the List of our General Officers in rartttgat given in the STAR of yesterday, we omitted Major- General Sir Wsr. ERSKINE, a cavalry officer, and the son of the late Sir Wig. ERSKINE, a very distinguished officer.—The Army under the command of the gal lant Sir ARTHI7T. WELLESLEY consists of Several Brigades of Artillery. 3d (or Priuce of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. • 4th (or Queen's Own) Dragoons. 13th, 14th, 16th, and 20th light Dragoons. Ist, 2d, and 3d Regiments of I.ight Dragoons of the King's German Legion. A Detachment of the Royal Wagg:n Train. A Brigade of the Foot Guards. 3d Foot, or Old Buff. 7th Foot, or Royal Fuzileers. 9th Foot. 11th, 14th, 26th (or Cameronlans), 27th (or Inni4illings) a Battalion, 2Sth, 29th, Slst (2d Bat.), .;3th, 40th, 41th, Goth (sth Bat.), 71st, 79th (or Cameral' Highlanders), 91st, 97th (or Queen's German)—and Four Regiments of the King's German Legion. There will be a further embarkation at Portsmouth immediately; several battalions of foot will be sent to Portugal, two brigades of cavalry, (one heavy and one light), besides the Hussar brigade, who go as soon as they are reported fit for service again. Another brigade of the German Legion will like- wise be sent out. • The men from the Welsh militia regimPits have most of them volunteered for the 23d and 96th. The 13th Foot has got a great many men : it is supposed that this fine regiment, which of late so much distinguished itself at Martinique, In ill get a 2d battalion. The 73d Highlanders have just obtained a 2d bat talion ; and the 77:11, (I.ord . Ci.AvEN's fine regiment) expects to get another battalion. This regiment is commanded by Colonel Wif irm.ocKE. Several wore corps are immediately.to be embarked for Portugal, and with them these able Officers— Generals THORNTON, DYOTT, PORTFIT, TIIEWLES, WA RDE, and ELWES. Colpnel KINGSCOTE'S regiment, the North Glou- cester Militia, are on their march from Little Hamp ton and Bognor Rocks to Bristol, to do duty over the French prisoners. The Volunteering is now nearly over ; and the mea sure has been very successful in England and like-! wise in Ireland, where the ranks of many corps which lately came home very tnin arc filled up, and several of them are reported again fit kr service. The ar dour was so great for some of the corps which have distinguished themselves in Portugal, Spain, and even at Martinique, that it was found necessary to restrain volunteering into them. The 7th, 13th, 23d, f;61.11, 1 40th, 4.2 d, 50th, 59d, 90th, 95th, and 96th, would 'have each of them got men to fill two or three batta lions. Letters from Lisbon, of the 9th instant, have been received in town : they contradict the report ()1 the French having advanced to Bad3joz, and describe the Portuguese as occupied with increased zeal in strengthing the fortifications of Lisbon, Elvas, and every other tenable point in the country. The Bri tish and Portuguese troops are i n hi g h s pi r i ts . •, Yesterday the Portuguese Aznhassador .left town for Portsmouth, to take leave of the Russian Admiral previous to the departure of the latter for St. Peters burgh. Intelligence was yesterday received from Lord GAMBIER'S fleet, that the French frigate Indienne had gone to pieces in a gale, and that one of the enemy's' /4.'s had sustained considerable damage from the same cause.. 1 The explosion vessel used by Lord COCHRANE:, in the attack on the French fleet, was prepared under his Lordship's direction in the following manner:— About 1500 barrels of gitn.powder were started into puncheons, which were placed end upwards; upon the tops of these were placed between 300 and 400 shells, charged with fuses, and again, among and upon these were between 2 and 3060 hand-granades. The puncheons were fastened toeach other by cables wound round them, and jammed together with wedges ; and moistened sand was rammed down between these casks, so as to render the whole, from stem to stern, as solid as possible, that the resistance might render the explosion more violent. Lord COCHRANE had no sooner succeeded in his 'gallant enterprise against the enemy in Basque Roads, than he soon turned his attention to rescue the van quished from the devouring elements : and in bring ing away the people of the Ville de Varsovie, he would not allow even a dog to be abandoned, but took a crying, and now neglected little favourite up into his arms, and brought it away. It may be sup posed that lie has conveyed this fortunate little trophy into the bosom of his family, where it 'ought to be ever cherished as an instance of his generous care. But a still greater instance of his goodness was dis played in his humanity to a Captain of a French 74, who came to deliver his sword to Lord COCHRANE; lamenting that all he had in the world was' about to be destroyed by the conflagration of his ship. His Lordship instantly got into the boat with him, and pushed off, to assist his prisoner in retrieving some of his valuable loss ; but on passing by a 74, which was on fire, her loaded guns began to go off , a shot from wiiich killed the French Captain by Lord CocimaNE'S side, and so damaged the boat that sbe filled with water, and the rest of this party were nearly drowned. The Masquerade given by Lady BLACKET, on, Monday night, in Portman square, was of the most splendid kind we have witnessed for years. The large, and brilliant apartments were illuminated by a pro fusion of rich candelabras and chandeliers, and by 12 o'clock the rooms were compl7tely filled with nume-1 rous grotesque and well-supported characters, which added to the crowd of beautiful fetnales, sparkling in their diamonds, who were masked spectators . of the gay grotipes Masquefadersi . contributed to the -en, Chantment of the.sceneywhich. vtailippt up with un• abated spirit uata a late boar- on Tuesday morning., . . - U NAPAL INTELLIGENCE. - ' • PLYMOUTH, AND PLYMOUTH-DOCK, APRIL I have the pleasure to state, tharthe AREMIUSA or 38 guns, and la Niemen (the Am.3thyst's prize), safely arrived in our harbour this day : they experi enced very bad weather in the Bay of Biscay, which retarded their passage. The prize is a beautiful fri gate, and sails remarkably fast. Two other French prizes also came in this day, viz, the French sloop Renommee, laden with a valuable cargo of sugar, coffee, cotton, and . indigo, from Guadaloupe, bound to France, a month from the former place, captured on the 12th instant by the Naiad frigate of 38 guns ; also the French schooner Verite, from Corunna, bound to Bourdeaux, (last from Gijon, where she landed 20 passengers) captured by the Wild-boar—this prize was formerly the Spanish advice b"at Verdad, which fell into the hands of the French at Ferrol. • Also arrived the PLOVER, of 18 guns, from a cruize off the coast of Spain ; Morriston brig, from Swan sea.; sloop North Star, MOORE, from Wexford, for London; laden with provisions; put in here in dis tress, having been run foul of by a brig on the night of the 18th instant, which damaged her so much that • her crew could scarcely keep her above water ; the Hamburg!: galliot Hoopende Ziemen, from Bristol. —The SEAFLOWER brig, which brought the dispatches from the Cape, is come up harbour to be repaired. Sailed the PARTHIAN, of 18 guns, on a cruize. The THESEUS, of 71 guns, that arrived here yes terday, has brought over the crews of the vessels that were destroyed as fireships in Basque Roads ; by the account they bring, it appears as if the Ocean, of 120 guns, had been rendered unserviceable since the first attack, by three gun-brigs that approached her in such a situation as to shot her through, on the ebb tide, so that she filled on the Elrod. The EYDEREN sloop is appointed to convoy a fleet of merchantmen to the westward. The Ortense French frigate, of 44 guns, has been burnt at Rochefort, subsequent to the date of the official dispatches from thence. Half past Five.—A red flag is now flying at Maker Heights, and a 'signal made that three men of war are in the offing, but at too great a distance to dis,, cern what they are. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 47. • Arrived the Susannah, Es•rrr.r.; from the West In dies ; Dasher and Phxnix transports from the Downs. The whole of the fleet for the East-Indies have dropt down to St. Helen's.—Wind S.S.V. DEAL, APRIL 27. Arrived the Trompeuse sloop, from, and sailed again 'on: cruize off Dieppe ; arrived the Beagle sloop, from a cruize off Rochefort ; Bloodhound gun - brig, from a cruize off Boulogne.— Sailed the Royalist sloop, on a cruize off Boulogne. YARMOUTH, APRIL 27. Sailed the CHANTICLEER and EREBUS, with a fleet of merchant ships under their convoy for Gotten burgh.—Remain in the Roads the Roebuck, Brito mart, Ephira, Briseis, Vixen, and Havoc. Wind-B.W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST! GRAVESEND, APRIL 27.— , l'a3sed by the Union, Chambers, from Malta; and Draper, Gowen, from Belfast.—Sailed the Betsey, Thornhill, for Gottenburgh. The floods being so high and dangerous, boats are constantly on the road to convey passengers to Eton and Windsor. Wednesday morning the Windsor coach, belong ing to. Messrs. Lallywhite and Moody, overturned in the water, on Eton College Playfields, on its journey• to London ; the passengers, inside and out, not think ing it safe, had got into boats, and were conveyed through the water. The coachman received a severe ducking. . In consequence of the late falls of snow and rain, the floods have b-:en rising, for several days past, in the neighbourhood of Windsor. The meadows and fields are under water, and the play-grounds of Eton College. The carriages, hoWever, got over the tem porary bridge, which was built instead of the arch which was blown up at the great flood, till Tuesday, when the temporary bridge was not considered safe, an... the carriages were let through some fields belong ing to Eton College. On Tuesday evening, Mr. NEIGHBOUR, a farmer, near Windsor, was out with some friends for the evening.—On his return home he lost his way, the night being dark, and fell into the Thames, and yes. terday was found drowned, washed up in a ditch near his own house. CORN -MARKET, MARK-LANE, APRIL 28.—The sup plies of Wheat this day are short, but waiting arri vals, few sales are made, and those hardly at last prices—Barley and Malt likewise in short supply, al. little variation—White Peas rather cheaper—Beans of both sorts rather dearer—ln consequence of the licences for the further importation of Oats from Hol land being stopped, causes this trade at an advance of about 2s. per quarter—flour as our last. tIgNiII.AL CiiitaJUlCY ile ' VXdat.i , Whett, 68s. 804. 925. Beene 55a. -61s. Od. - 1 • 1 rine ditto, 955. 98s. • Tick ditto 465. 52g. Otis • Rye, 525. 58s. Oats, SOL S4s. 38s. Barley, 445. 50s. Od. Poland ditto, 40.1. 424. Od. Malt 725. 80s. Potatoe ditto to 495. 0d....,. White Peas (boilers), 9461045 Rape Seed, 6014 t 9 641.- Grey ditto, 48s. 535. Fine flour, eos. ii6s.--Seeonds, 755. 1101. •.. , ... The Ticket No. 12,510, drawn y es t er d ay ,b e i nc t h e third day of drawing, a Prize of .€2o,ooo,tvas divided into Sixteen Sixteenth . . by Sir JAMES Bitattiscosts and Co. Proprietors of the Lack y Offices, No. 11, Holborn, 37, Cornbill, 38, Haymarket,Piccgdill . , and No. 269, Strand, being one of the 1000 :1 lckets deposited at the Bank of England for the First-drawn Prize on the first day of drawing the Second Lottery for 1808, above £l5, which' was No. 3618, and divided into Sixteen Sixteenths, at the above truly • Lucky Offices, where likewise No. 18,535, tlrawn on the third clay a Prize of £5OO, was said in one Quarter, three Eletthe, and 5 x Sixteenths, which when acideo to the other Capitals sold by them in 120 shares in the present Lottery, makes uPwirds of ' £17,500, nameiy-- Ntx 12,610 ... ' idsomoo N 6.44004 ... 411,000 9,123 .. 20,C00 • 719 ... 500 18,977 ... 29,000 •, x,49,064 ~ ‘A,I . r,i . • t #op 4 . 12,767 ... 10,600 "18,535 , ... ' : '''' M • 4;.490 ... 5,000 ''SA i 8, the 0 rand Prise 94000 Titbits, widtsl ftill proportion of .2100, £65, hn. Eta. Ait,.,