Star. — London, England, 1819-01-15 00:00:00

11... sent, his election as SPEAEER, when their • were pleased to pronounce his Royal High.' ,►tIECE REGENTS approbation thereof, as le name and on the behalf of his MAJESTY. :..tsca :tnd Members attending him then :o their own Chamber, where the rest of the we believe, be occupied by the swearing in rs and the verification of their powers. (di no sfriall pia we observe, from the Pro mrnals, which come daily to hand, that ;orner of the country continuos to be canva , sed most unblushing activity, in favour of that Id ill-advised measure--the Priilion to raisr of Bread. It would seem, from the tone promoters assume, as if the very preserva inglish agriculture from ruin depended on s of their present attempt to raise the price to the staroation point ! But how far this the case the Public may form a sufficient on the simple fact, that although not less than 000 quarters of Wheat arts consumed iq this the quantity imported averages little more ,op quarters. It is this mighty quantity, 500,01 X) quarters of Wheat, which, if these t on emissaries may be believed, fills the the foreign grower at the expense of the zfish farmer, and is the whole cause in our Y country, of uncultivated farms' and unpaid Were this said wonderful quantity divided the whole number of occupiers of land in I, it would not afford more than -a quarter of them ; and it is for this quarter, ostensibly, occupici who puts his name to the Pal lake the price of Bread, would excite a in the minds of the people, which may be 1 with the most serious hazard to the general illity of the country. We say ostensibly—for, ng to what the Petitioners set forth, nothing icy from their intention than to obtain any store than merely to be allowed to supply us quantity of grain which we now receive !bica.:—namely, the 500,000 quarters. But Lca.lcts need scarcely to be told 4 that in their purpose goes .a very great deal far eat it goes even unto what we have, in of truth, termed the starvation point I , icci object they have in view is to exclude all 'petition of foreign grain in our markets till they ' be able to raise the price of our own native ice to just as high a point as it might be pos. to raise it widiont utterly starrin the people, and id which r. , irt it would, of course, be their eon care not to pass, least that grand retried) , against !ale monopoly—fmeign competition—should admittance. No--no—it is not the little quarter bet each whirl, they rant to add to their stocks; rite tiwy are fighting tor is to raise the millions limners which they already supply to double, te, and, if they could, quadruple the price they reccivP iinr them. Le average gum:thy of foreign imports is, as we r stared, a move trifle in comparison with the total isurnption cf the country ; but those who know thing of commercial competition, require not to rtforited that scarcely any quantity of foreign rr: is tGo small, when accompanied with the cer t ;:iat a hundred or a thousand times more than quantity can be had if required, to produce the i cf bringing the home-produce into the market r and reasonable price. sincerely hope, indeed we feel every conk .ace, that these measures of a self-interested and feeling faction, will meet with that ultimate dis temsture and disgrace which they so richly merit; at the same tune we must not omit pressing on ;se ':ho ate friends of the poor and oftheir coon 's prosperity, that it becomes them to leave no per effort unemployed on their part to counteract mischievous industry which they see displayed those who are the sworn enemies of both t and_ at the inhabitants of every town in the kingdom, ie sense and feeling of which are not monopolized these professional monopolizers, the dealers in flair and grain, ought immediately to follow the ex- Iznple rf Manchester and other manufacturing laces, by addressing Counter-petitions to Parliament, 'ra . :ing, that since the petitioners to raise the price of read will not rest content with the restrictions which ))hate already extorted from the Legislature, even tlx.se rw.rictions may be done away with, and that tie markets for Grain and other necessaries of ta7 be thrown entirely open, as all markets ought be, the trade of which is intended to be permanently bezeficiaL DTA and Flanders Mails arrived this morning. The Amsterdam Courant of the 11th and 12th of auary contains a very long Ordinance of the Com latiieners•General of the Netherlands at Batavia, 4 A:=kl the 28th August. This Ordinance imposes Let: Juties on all goods exported and imported in ett;land3 of Java and Madura. . I !'.e letters from Batavia are of the 12th September. inhabitants of Batavia have had an Exchange kit, which has long been greatly wanted. Great discontent is stated to exist in the Prussian te nturlo% o n account o f t h e Military COIISCI m laws noir in force are so extremely rigorous as 1.4 t even to allow of substitutes:—every one, be hi , k and situation what they may, must serve in per- In consequence, many rich families, w!tn hart: So3l' have the 'Prussian prosintes at the Rhine to b,~T,i>litln eve ac ting in the SPEA I lolle d to t by will, we genlbCr S It is With 1 Jour corner 4 , the mo r!. is and i ,;.Price of oi c h its pr', 0 of Eng the StiCee s S B rea d to th ilea, front ; i1,000,000 venal, th than 500,0( t h t n, of 50 aeration coffers of t - for Engli t ohappy r • ents! " among (hi i. England, to each (.1 that eery to r.; lirment in a mdc.l rd . ; ng i 3 r, rro f : 7. 1 -,;l‘t , a,: !lc:, • feu !..! id ter — IL the sr ir _The e, r; al timpetit n- should b to produce s ble to • beyond • iil tt,...at cat ,re of get adn ir, of ache. nd us the pri er. t f qua Oa sh, Bow re , Ve The ,ly !Lox st • (MUM se, lay thi be info )/1, :be :ir, that et he elect ice ;t a W e ors Brace, } Lafeel etimf.q. hat at tizse tr:'s prOpt the in bytb that ; the sf byd Nor arr,pl plan dive pia. ; the lets ng they try >use th e late Dole b lon. be., fled Pay- w as lAA" USIY tor d to :s t® Tel Ton etc I an a the b.; rpor. !ulo• tin when oral 1•4 a t i ,n4l l l v. • • - • settle in Belgium, where the taws 'Cat this stihjeCt tare much milder. ' GHENT, JA? UAR? 7. English Agents are said to be travelling along the coasts of the Baltic and the northern Provinces of Germany, to purchase 90,000 loads of timber for the service of the British navy. Eighty cubic feet are reckoned to a load, which, ut the lowest price, would make a sum of 3,600,000 rix dollars. An Antwerp Parer says, " A vessel, lately arrived at this port from Chir.a, and which touched at St. Helena for fresh water, has brought accounts of Bo naparte: he was said to be in a very bad state of health, so that the news of his death was every mo ment expected." ANTWERP, JANUARY 7. Within these two days the failure of the house of Mr. Van Auwenhuyzen has been made known on 'Change. It is said to be to a very large amount. Some false Bills of Exchange have appeared here, which are said to be drawn from Aix-la-Chapelle. In the course of last Month nearly 3,000 lasts of grain have been exported from this plaice—all to England. To-day a great deal of business is again doing in this article. New York Papers to the 16th ultimo arrived this morting. The New Evening Post of the 14th, contains a farther confirmation of the arrival of Lord Cocu- RANE oil' the Coast of Venezuela. It states that news had been brought by the ship Hippomenes, from Curacoa, that his Lordship had arrived from Eng land at Tortugas (not, we presume, the island of that name r.ear the North coast of St. Domingo, but an other island, -similarly called, about 4.8 miles to the west of Margarita, which bears the surname of Sal), with a 61, a 32, and two vessels of 20 guns each, to operate in conjunction with the Patriots ; and that be was to be followed by Sir GREGOR MACGREGOR, with a volunteer force of 30(X) men. General BOLI VAR, it is added, had come himself to Margarita, and was much elated at the prospect which he now had of attacking Cumana with so superior a force. It is affirmed, but we doubt much whether " with great probability of truth," that the long contested question between the United States and this country, relatiie to the right of Impressment, has been finally adjusted, on the basis of thr law of :he Republic, in regard to seamen. We think it scarcely Likely that oar Government should at the present moment, when there is nothing impelling it to the concession, have' agreed to surrender a, principle of so much impor tance, as that of its right o 1 searching neutral vessels in time of war for articles of contraband, of which there is no vrorse description than deserters and trai tors ; considering especially that the maintenance of this prir.ciple was almost the sole cause which led us into the late war with the United States, and that it .was a point which the Commissioners, who framed the Treaty of Ghent, werb obliged, after much &la cussion, to leave as they found it. Our friend Jona-. them, we have ne doubt, has in this instance, as ia many others, only favoured us with one of his day dreams. The proposition which bad been submitted to the Senate for an Address to the PRESIDENT, requesting a copy of the Correspondence relative to the cession of the Floridas to the United States, has been with drawn, and a motion substituted, simply request ing from the Executive, information on the state of the• pending negotiations with Spain. A re port is current, that a correspondence has been fcr some time going on between Mr. Secretary ADAMS and Don Louts de Osts, which has not led to any satisfactory result. The National Intelligencer expresses some "doubts" respecting the validity of the trial, and some regret at the precipitate execution of Messrs. ARIXTIINOT and Axsatirsa, by General JACKSON. The Editors very properly wish, that as the prisoners could not have escaped, the order for their execution bad beau suspended until the will of the PRESIDENT could have been known. The Committee on Military Affairs in Congress to whom this business was referred, have ccasidered it of so much national importance, that they have prayed to be discharged from the consi deration of it ; and a motion has been submitted fbr referring it to the Committee of Foreign Relations. It will be a difficult matter, we arc persuaded, for any -I Committee to report on it as they would wish. life Yesterday, at:twelve o'clock, a Cabiriet Council was held at Lord CASTIAM.E.AGH'S house, in St. James's-square, which was summon e d b y the Noble Viscount, and attended by-- The'Earl of Liverpool, Earl Harrowby. the Earl of West:- moreland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Viscount Sidmouth, Earl Bathurst, the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Canning, Mr. C. B. Bathurst, Mr. W. W. Pokb Mr. Ro binson, and Earl Mulgrave. The Council continued in deliberation till some time after two o'clock. Among the numerous Lords who yesterday took the oaths and their seats in the Upper House, we ; remarked the Earl of Hotatiovon, who has , jug!, succeeded. in establishing his claim to the title. toed 13Emaseorto also WAS present. Sunday, the dwelling-house of Major GRANT, of Azchterblair, in Strathspey, was burnt to the ground. No lives were lost, and the property was insured.. Oa the Friday in the Sbrewbury hunt week, the venerable father of the hunt, ar.d of the gallant Lord flu.L, with full five hundred sportsmen, wasin. the field. in the course. of the moruirg% three inees were killed by ere hounds in great style. 'lte.ball, -.xifat in the evening, was so • crou Lied, .that it was with di.fi:ulty space was obtained for the visitors. ~LriRA DPI , IN totPf: !!TRACT LETTEIt ci 4! ENOLISie TLAL V/Link iATEIS•DtCEMBER 12, 1816. • • " I am just arrived here, after a lotig passage if five weeks, during . which we encountered a terrible gale off Candio(Crete), and atn now safe under the hospitable roof of our Consul, Mr. LEE. The wea ther, notwithstanding the season of the year is so far advanced, is charming—just like AUgust in Englatid• The harbour is crowded with vessels Of all nations' there is plenty of every thing, and all the more ne cessary articles of provision are very cheap. " The Pacha, Aunint,Att EDEN Sours, of whose victorious exploits over the Wacliabites you will have heard, through the public journals, before this reaches you, arrived ire three days ago, with some of the chief prisoners taken in the last grand engagement. I had the honour, on the day following, of being admitted, in company with Mr. LEE, to an audience of his Highness, who gave us the most flattering re ception. He seems a man of about 45 years of age; has a very marked countenance, a quick ear, and a penetrating eye. The inquiries which he addressed to us on the political affairs of our own country, and of the other Powers of Europe, evinced a mind shrewd, intelligent, and, I may truly add, well in formed. He was particularly warm in his expres lions of respect and friendship for the British, who, next of course to the Great Ottoman Power, he looks upon as the first among the civilized nations of the world. " All the Europeans here illuminated their houses for two successive nights, in honour of his High• ness's visit. " The Wachabite prisoners of rank, whom he brought along with him, have been sent to Constan tinople, to be disposed of ; and the general opinion here is, that the unfortunate captives have nothing to hope for from the lenity of the GRAND SEIGNIOR. " All the English who happen to sojourn in this place, mess at the house of our Consul, Mr. LEE, as there is no possibility of getting accommodation else where, inns and hotels being conveniences wholly unknown in Alexandria. It is no more than a just tribute to add, that never did an English Consul better uphold the character of his country than Mr. LEE does, by the polite, generous, and unceasing attention which he shews to every English traveller who comes under his roof." COMMERCIAL. Mercantile Letters, of the 10th ultimo, have been received from Savannah, (via Liverpool), but they contain nothing worthy of particular notice. Their chief object is to solicit information as to the state of the markets on this side of the Atlantic, par ticularly Cotton, Tobacco, and other produce; aqd whether there are prospects of any increased demand for these articles. Prices there remained the same as at the close of October last (which were given in the STAR.) These letters repeat the fact of the mere weal thy Philters havng baled their Cotton, and lodged it in their stores, being determined to ship no more until they derived more favourable accounts of the state of the English markets. If they act under the supposition that any mates ial advance will take place in the price of the raw material, they will most cer tainly be disappointed, at least for some time to come; for the quantity already in the country was never known to be so great as at the present time, and large quantities are continually arriving from the East Indies, M.I.VCIIESTER, JANUARY 13. There is a great stir making among the Reformer here and at Stockport, in order to muster all their strength for the Public Meeting at this place, on Monday next. After the Meeting there is to be a grand dinner, at which HENRY HUNT, Esq. will pre side. The ostensible object of the Meeting is to Pe tition for a Repeal of the obnoxious Corn Bill : an ob ject in itself truly laudable and praiseworthy; but, from the known violent temper of the Bristol orator, and some others who are named as leaders on the occasion, the peaceable and well-disposed inhabitants jam apprehensive that mischief may ensue. The owners of the principal cotton-mills and other large works, intend taking measures to prevent their work people, particularly the juvenile part of them, from attending the Meeting in question. These precau tions are not adopted in any spirit of hostility to the peoples' right of petitioning, nor from any friendly feeling towards the Corn Bill; but merely on account . of the combustible nature of the materials of which it is apprehended the Meeting will be composed. The cause of Reform, or the right of Petition, can never derive any benefit from the intemperate harangues of such men as Mr. HUNT and his co- adjuto - rs. A Meeting, it is understood, will be convened, (as soon as dcconsm will permit) after the assembling of Parliament, at the requisition of some of the princi pal inhabitants of this populous and extensive town, praying the Legislature not to entertain or give countenance to the Agricultural Petition, which is still clandestinely travelling through the kingdom ; and has, I am sorry to say, met with many sup porters in the County of Lancaster—a county, which of all ahem owes the most to the extent and circu lation of its manufactures; against which the afore said Patition.aisas.a most vital and deadly blow. At, the Herefordshire Agriculturist Dinner, on Fri day last, the meeting was decidedly against the in tended Agricultural Petition to Parliament, for im posing high.pratecting duties on " Corn, meat, flour, rye, oats, peas, beam, barley, wool, flax, hemp► bides, tallow, - weds, butter, cheese, poultry, vege tables, atyles;• and pears," , sw.injorious to the con sancerts,-susl-'aitimincly ruinous -to the farns'ers and grt,m •re. 'ü ARS%I%t the. grand division of the egtment, ccimmanded b y ColOn:21 Pi axis, Marchtei into Tuam, on their route from Cork to. Castlebar; to relieve the 9•24llighlanderi; quartered there, which Regiment is °mitred for Cork, where they are to ern:. bark about the middle of next month for JaMarca. The remaining divisions df the 39th marched into Tuam. The 99d set out oti their mute on Friday and Saturday:. . NAVAL. INTELLIGENCE; PENZANCP, JANUARY Wind S.W.--strong gales and very thick weather: Sailed the Happy Ilmnrit, and the Edward, for Lon don bin, in con , ,equence of the heavy se.t outside, have both put back, having sprung their bowsprits. JANUARY 14. Wind S.W. to W.—lt has blown a heavy gale all day from S.W. to W. and at times tremendous squalls: The shipping at present are riding in safety, with yards and topniasts struck. A homeward-bound ship was lying to off St. Helen's this afternoon to pig her passengers on, shoe, but our vessel has not yet se; turned frdm her. DEAL, JANUARY 14. Wind r3.W, blows strong and thick weather. Came down from the River the Dunscombe, SLEIGH, for Curacoa ; Editha, ALLEN, for Buenos Ayres ; Cata lina ANDREWS, for Rio ' Janeiro, and remains in the Downs the outward-bound as before, appatently all well ; also, the Blucher, DOUGLAS, for Sierra Leone. Five o'clock—Wind S.W. blowing strong and squally weather. _ RAMSGATE, JANUARY 14. Came in the Ann,. T HEST, from Berbice to London, with loss cf sails ; Prince Royal, WARDLOW, from London to Rio Jarwi o, having cut from an anchor and cable in the. Dov ; and several others for shelter. MILFORD, JANUARY I. Arrived the Grantham, HOOD, from Demerara for London, with loss of sails and otherwise materially damaged, and lost three men overboard on the 25th December—out two months. JANUARY 12. The Otway, —, mentioned yesterday, has this day been hove into harbour, without much apparent damage. It is Just reported that a schooner, bound to Dublin with oranges, is wrecked about 10 leagues to the southward of this port. LIVERPOOL., JA,NUItRY t 3. The Diana,Cameron, from St. John's, New Brunswick, for Liverpool, was abandoned at sea the 10th December. in Lt. 4'. 30. long. SO. 13. waterlogged : the Captain and crew were picked up by the American brtg Helen, of Boston, after having hero 20 hours in the boat. The Louisa, from Liverpool to Kil lough, is totally lost in Dundrum Bay. The Messmate ' from Liverpool, for Killough, is on shc.c in Dandnim Bay. Toe Marbthland, Dilchbmn, from Limerick to Liverpool, is en .bore near llarrington, part of her cargo saved, the vessel much damaged. Arrived the Oglethorp, Jayne, from Savannat, sailed 15th December in company with the Nary, far Liver pool; and Spartan, fur 11.oire. On the 97:h D..cemlic:, in 1... 39. 30. long. 58. 30. was struck by lightning (without any mage to the spars), which communicated to the cargo in the be tween decks; immediately broke into the bold, and threw over board from 40 to Co bags of cotton, and by cutting-holes in the /Lek& and throwing water down, extingui , lied the Gm; Ocean, Morrison, from 'lcneriffe, sailed !Gth December. Two insur gent privateers (a brig and a schooner) were cruizing off Santa Cruz. • ArriviAl also the Briton, Richards, from Maranharn, sailed Bth December, with loss of bowsprit; Alen, Culvil:e, from Trieste, with loss of boats and bulwarks. CUSTOM-HOUSE. LON . IjON, JANUARY 14. lawattos—:Gooci Intem, Haiti; T.; itrodieri, Dinningten ; Nancy, Pugh ; Robert, Wrighton; AM, Oornly ; Albion, Rae, from Seville; Eclair, Morse , from Trieste ; Dispatch, Whirring haat, froth Alexandria; Alert, APDougall ; Nerina, Lauchian; and Baron, Owen, from Leghorn; Edward, Creusc, and Aid, Pots, from Lisbon ; Langford, Anthony, from Berhice ; the Laurel, Jones, from Palermo ; Trident, * Watson from ; Lord Wellington, Willi a mson, from Calcutta; L ord Wchin; seer, Hill, from Madras ; Atlantic, WI, from Jamaica ; Briton, Deightun, from Malta; the John and William, Deach, frc‘t Oporto; Commerce, Twed,l'.e, from Borrdimux. oi/react's—The Symmetry, Morgan, for Leghorn ; !feria, Gerdeys, for Lubeck; Pitt, Crosse, for St. Kitts; Fanny, for Leghorn. CLEARED ORTWARD3-..-FraliCif ar.d , Eliza, Storer, for Madeira; Sally, Morley, for Gibraltar ; Matilda, Wbiley, for Antwerp ; Paragon, Hide, for Gr..!lada. The Hero, from Limerick to Liverpool, is on shore near Scattery The Charlotte, A LL,.fi om Quebec to Liverpool, • was lost 13th ult. off Trepassey. The squally weather that prevailed for some days last week, encrea'ed on Sunday to a violent gale, in Glasgow, and occasioned a.v aria> , of accidents d , .irirg the night in that city. Very serious injury was dote to a Gentleman's house in Wellington-rlace. An adjoining chimney fell upon the roof, with a ter. rible crash, and carried every thing before it to the first floor. Two bed-room; were completely clettrol - ed ; and it was owing to the providential absence t t part of the family that the catastrophe was not at tended with a much more fatal result. One of the windows on the roof of the College was blown down, and in its descent broke off a portion of the project ing ornament on the front of that edifice. A consider able portion of the tiles on the roof of one of the build ings for the reception of Typhus patients, were forced off. There were a great number of smaller accidents. FLpitExcli MACARTIIY.— A • Fcourtla Edition of this interesting New Work of 'Lady MORGAN'S is just published.. A celebrated Critic makes the following observations on the ingenious and spirited writer : " Foremast in the ranks of those IN ho, have given to the novel, the historical character, must be placed the Author of Waverl j , and the writer now under review. If, in estimating the preten sions of these candidates for the civic wreath of literature, the palm of profundity and erudite attainment must be awarded to the former, that of a more needful political benevolence is indi.,- putably the right of the latter. Lady Morgan has not only national characteristics to delineate and . preserve; she has to combat against those partialities and prejudic s which still ol'e rate in society much, and in political institutions much utGre. This she has done in a series of aoveh which brings before cc in the most vivid portraiture, the manners and habits, the virttes and the prejudice.s of the various classes of the Irish nation ; and she has contrived to weave these grotesque but intcrestiog tuae , rials in threads of such ingenious intricacy that the read, r is irresistibly led forward, as through a magic maze, without being aware at the time, of the variety of valuable Janina/ion he is collecting by the way. CORN-EXCHANGE, MASK-LANE, JANUARY is. We are still without arrivalS from our own coast, owing to the continuance of adverse ; an.'„ n otwithstanding our Market is very scantily supplied with all Grain, yet the sales were ' heavy fur all de seri ptions at Monday's prices. SMITHFIELD MARKET, JAN. 15. Baal .......4s ed.cp Se 041 ..... 6% 041 to 7s od Mutton .. ..4s Gil - to 6s ed 1 Petit ..... 5a tid to G. ed Beasts 560—Calves 110—Slwep and Lambs 4900—Wigs 260. _I~ Flo ti t 1 ) 1 • 1 1 fa 1 i s i i II .4 1 :. 1 ''' r 1 i'il ... • IC ' 4 S 1 i . Y • 1 4 I I • . ? 1 I ' V • v... 1.1