Star. — London, England, 1816-12-21 00:00:00

Trettup•ed, tally rise zassage to and from itilmit is gill open, and the post goes and returns regularly. DANTZ!C,..DECEMBER 3. Our Corn Tr.ide becomes more brisk. Since the .last post day about 500 lasts (4 wheat hare been sold at various prices up to 860 ; a good deal of rye hits been sold at 430 nth ins, and it teen:a that arlicle Win rise still more. Tht is wholly c:vere,l with ic.., but a thaw 1141 i set its to.day. Some :hips that roe taking in Wheat, twelve their cargoes by Nod. ,s.i) !levet thAt a YOUNG LADY has been 1 carried by her GUARDIAN to semi di..tant part, or other wise placed under improper restraint, with a view to overcome icr reit aance to itti mere ted marria3e.—Any communication Itlely to asiikt the ends of julitice, will be thankfully nceived &Neigh the medium of this Paper ; and it . knowledge of this Adver:is.ntt•ta should teach the young Lady, she will remember the " mark nutter the name," anal ti..d wine manna of n. Acing tie particelars of her situation known to her Correspon4e..t, %ha. since the receipt of her last letter, Laf dune every thing .t ettible. 'lO TH EDU OR OF THE s CAR. QIR-It would be difficult indeed fur we to cxprt•ss ►1.+77 the amotlishrnetit I felt, it:, seeing a letter, %igned " S. N'tt• LIAM*, " to Ti , 34s t.f to-I%ly, sueotiouing utc to terms that it trition.uin me to p* u;tooticed liaviug *mired his personal ba y (if it were Over endangered) by aii appl cat,on t.i the Laws, 1 bliould havt. comt ive.l tt.i• per. sn43 moot have tested m his lit curity, without 1A) Nail% both lowed and me oil the public, by .aying to fore their eye my pri vate and dinneatie aJH mans. As to his opinions he Ii• welcome to enjoy them, as it is not my purpose ao itsl,l.efe With theist I have no w sh fur a paper controversy wi It him; and the in tent of this letter Os 1 am thus dragged before the publ c) is to recitst they wiil su,peud the:r opinion on this subjtet pll the law s of toy catii:try shall have dealt d hetween 1 am, Sir, &e &c. EDWARD FINCH, Lieut. Ist Li:e Guards. liytle•Park Barr.o.k., Drc ...M. 11416. Mk. ELIA OR. A LETTER h tying A ppeirt:d in s' The Times" of yesterday morning, big:PA " S. Williams," in which tobinuataon is thrown out by the wti er, that he believes it riser war Lieut. hock', internam) to meet hint honourably. In jut.. tee to the latter Gentleman, I feel my. IF cal'ed on to state, that nut hit.g but the greatest ingitnory on Mr. W.'s p.irt, in rendering every search atter him Fruitless, could have saved Mtn from re alvlng an h .m..utabo: me.iiage through me, front lieut. Finch, and I know that he ust d every exis.ton to prevent a knowledge of his Address reacti.ig Lieutenant Fl NCH, even through his friends. It must, however, be a sufficient sarikilg proof of Mr. W.'s valour, to wound the fcelitags of a man whom he has boiand over to keep the peace. ItOtillAtT WM. hIEADE. I rim's Nutet, Bend-street. T E V.E Nl\ C 4 STA it. N DON. SATURDAY, DECLNIBER 21, IHI6. IL; : 1 1 AL 07 ST. 7'!tur:.l!i.s.—lioiidJ7 at the Back, Exctseiuer, acid South-Sca A HonlittrAlt Mail arrived last night, and this morning Ive received some additiodal Dutch and Gt•rtnatt Papers. The affairs 01 Germany, though they present no. e,ing of a boisterous character, are well deserving or Cie attehtien of Statesmen and Politicians. The Diet o' Frankfort, as might be expected, proceeds tat slowly. The different D!puties, whenever any thing is pioposed, and out that it will be necessary to smi the proposition to their respective Courts. That it, they have not toll powers to conclude on any mea - sum which may affect the future policy of any of the S:itcs. The plain matter of fact is this : the respective rulers when their very existence was at stake— when they had nothing before their eyes but the Sear of dissolution—of political annihilation, were willing to benefit by the exertions of their people, and large -in their promises of reformation. They were sincere at the moment : so much so that, could the arrangemnts have then been perfected, they would readily have consented to any Constitution, however liberal. Fortunately for them the excesses of the common enemy bad been such as to rouse tie people of every country in defence of the common rights of all, And there was an universal feeling of th e necessity of instantly employing all their energies to vanquish the foe wh• aimed at the subjugation of very country. Reform of abuses was deferred on an onderstinding founded on assurances that Repre sentative Governntents would be established, should success crown the exertions of the nations joined in arms, from mutual emancipation and deliverance from foreign subjugation. _ _ ve ra ts m aw. ever.A l of dia Li' 00 1 Poi l e cb A le C drift , s hore' which Iv 11.,1! The effects that might have been anticipated from this union of sentiment, and of physical power, spee dily followed—the common . enemy was humbled in the dust by the willing efforts and sacrifices of the People. For a moment their Rulers exhibited symp tarns of gratitude: their promises were repeated, and the people expected to be admitted to participate in tee management of their own affairs. Like bad men, who in a state of sickness promise a great reformation should they be restored to health, bat who, when they get well, forget all that they had Purposed, and return to their fotmer vicious courses, the Rulers, too generally, believing themselves now steure,seem to have changed their views. They have fond out that, either their promises were too liberal, or their people had given to them too enlarged a con struction : that subjects cannot form a correct opinion respecting the measurts which would be most benefi cial to the Community. Every where the people Prrmised themselves a Constitution approaching more; or less to that of Great Britain, but the respective fabrics are yet to rear, and every where throughout Europe the people are discontented. Is the spirit of prophecy wanted to predict the elosequences that must result if the Rulers of Europe shall persist in this folly ? No, no. Every one but 9teroselves can see it. Either there will be civil wars m put cular States—or some overgrown Power, 4 eking advantage of the general . discontent, will Again sow the seeds of revolutionary ferment &cough korope, and involve the whole in a general war. ay the return of honesty and good sense save the eriltied :lonia from this calamity! pAptitd. This Morning we received the Paris Paper! of Tuesday and Wednesday. On Monday the Coih mittee appointed to muffin, the Budget Made their Report. It was ordered to be printed, and the dis cussion upon it was to take place on Wednesday.— An English Paper published at Pails (Gedignani't Ahrsenser), ILLS fallen into a «ingular rnistake : the Elitor has connected the struggle which lately took pl.ite in Canada between Lord SELKIRK and a rival Company of Colonists, into the breaking-out of a war between America and Great Britain I The Journal des Abash in a long argumentative article, end-avours to do away the prejudice excited among the French people against the English Carn pimy, which hi.s contracted to supply Paris with w.ttcr. It does not appear to be true that the project has been abandoned, or that the 'rot) pipes are to be to ade in France. The writer of the article seems to feel a malignant satisfaction assuring his readers that the English Company is about to expend thirty mil lioks of francs in the improvement of France.— They are not to receive any interest or profits for the first three years, i, e. until the works Ere coMd pieced : and finally, after a certain number of years, they cease to derive atcy annual revenue, and the Re servoirs, Aqueducts, Ste. become public property.— Would to HEAVEN," s.tys the writer of the article, " that all the Powers of Europe, to whom we have to pay monthly so heavy contributions, would lay out in the same way among us a portion of those pre. ctous Capitals." CHAMB?R OF DEPU ITTING OF DECEMBER 16. The ChAnther opened at a quarter p.►st ore. Prince Ilttutiuo, one of the Secietaties, read the primes verbal, which was adopted. Thirty-four petitions were referred to the Com. The Order of the May called for the Report of the Commission upon the Project presented by the Mi nister of Finance, in the Sitting of the 12th inst. Baron de YouGen:us ascended the tribune, and spoke as follows " Gentlemen, the Project of Law submitted to :our deliberation proposes to accord to Government the faculty of collecting provisionally the tour first twelfths of the t.irs, as it is established for 1816, and to Autilorize the continuation of the indirect taxes. " Tee Comniissian, Gentlemen, has charged me with the honour of laying before you the result of its labours. The land-tax is only voted for a year ; and the indirect contributions until the Ist of Februaiy, 1817. However great the zeal and activity of the Commist.on, it is impossible to hope that the law can be given in all its form klities, and its divisions pre. pared for collection, before the month of January.- - Calculations of a wise foresight are among the duties of Government, and this foresight desires that for the interest of the Treasury and the taxed, the col lection be made regularly and without interruption. Even a momentary suspension of the receipts would be a calamity to the Treasury, and a crowd of taxes paid together would then be a calamity to the taxed. This same proposition was presented to the Chamber of 181.5, and unanimously adopted. The motives laid down at that time, are, and will be, the same in a like case ; and we tell you the same as the Com mission of 1815, that one of the salutary effects of the proposed law will be to give to the general coun cils and arrondissements, time to employ themselves in the repartition of the tax. We will add, that the interest of the taxed appears sufficiently guaranteed, when we consider the project presented as only tend ing to cause accounts to be paid. Nevertheless, Gentlemen, we ought not to conceal from you that we have seen with regret in the project of law, the doubling of patents upon which numerous reclama dons were presented during the year which is nearly passed. We should have wished that the increase which weighs so heavy upon an unfortunate class, could have been suspended until the time when you shall have adopted definitive resolutions upon the tax. 46 But, considering that the law proposed is only temporary, and that the payments exacted are, as we have already said, in the title of account; and that even in the case, should the wants of Govern ment impose on us the said necessity of adopting the double increase, an increase of 53 centimes upon the Departments which have not so much suffered, would assure to those less fortunate, an indemnity for the feeble advances which they could make, and that, in fine, Gentlemen, there would be the danger of mak ing them entertain delusive hopes, and that provi sionally, in the interim of our decisions upon the Budget, it is of consequence to give to Government the full latitude of its resources. Your Commission has unanimously agreed to propose to you to adopt the law such as presented. 6g Before concluding this report, permit us, Gen. demon, to have the honour of submitting one xe flection to you, which will perhaps appear not without interest : that these temporary laws, howsoever ne cessary, present always some inconvenience, above all in the affair of taxes. It is much to be desired that we could be free from them for the futere, which could only be obtained by an earlier convocation of the two Chambers: this measure, which will be easier when we shall have adopted a settled sptena.o. Finance, would undoubtedly produce numerous ad vantages ; it would not escape the exalted wisdom of the best of Kipgs, who desires all thq Which is irod, . • • . . . nieditties what is usefulj and to Yon in*. as adyintagepolnted outs is an acknowledged good." th* PRISIbIitIT---le The Report may be printed tr-day, and distributed tomorrow; if there is no re clamation to be made, I * will put to the vote, the postponement of the discussion to Wednesjay." From all sides—" yes —yes—yes" PRESIDENT- 4 i Then the discussion will be conti nued on Wednesday, and commence at 12 o'clock." Adjourned to Wednesday. PARIS, DECWEIER 17. We have just been informed by a Gentleman at Paris, who this day received a letter, dated October 7, from his brother (an Officer in the English 104th Regiment, gliattered at Montreal) that the Ameri cans have attacked and taken Fort William in Upper Canada, and a detachment of the 37th Regnt. whom ►hey sent into the United States as prisoners. The letter adds, that General Sir John Sherbrooke was mustering A force to dislodge the Americans from the fort. We have received accounts from Hanover, which mention the arrival of his Royal Highness the D.lke of Cambridge on the Ist instant. His Royal High ness went under the name of Count Hoya, and re fused all the fetes which were proposed on the ace lion. The next day all the Authorities proceeded to the Palace to make their court to his Highness. We have received accounts from Rome, where it seems Lord Oxford has at last safely arrived, after having narrowly escaped from the hands of the nu nitrous basiditti who infest the country. His Lord ship was stopped on the road near Viterbe,.pillaged of every thing, and lett on the high road in an al I most absolute state of nudity. One of his servants was mortally wounded. His Lordship has bad an audience of the Cardinal Secretary of State, and will be shortly presented to the Holy .Father. The Ambassador from France has freqUent inter. tiews with the Pope, but the affairs of FranCe with the Holy See are kept a profound secret. We learn that the King and Queen of Bavaria are about to pay a visit at Vienna to their daughter the Empress at Austria ; they will be preceded by their UM the Prince Royal. It is expected that the expedition for the Isle of Bourbon will set sail in a few days. PARIS, DECEMBER 18. The Duke of Wellington is expected here about the 25th : his stay will not be Ling. The Spanish Ambassador yesterday preened to his Majesty the Chevalier Fleyres, Colonel and Cap. taiu of the Walloon Guards of Spain, and Chevalier of several Orders. The case of Baranlun, for the transfer of certain funds by Bonaparte, during the Usurpation, was pfraded to-day. It will again be proceeded with on Thursday. COURIER EXTRAORDINARY OF WEDNESDAY MORNING. We are assured that Prince Talleyrand has re turned to Valengsy. The Royal Museum will be opened for certain on the first of January, 1817. The two regiments of Swiss Guards, whose service is to commence on the Ist of January, will arrive next Saturday. These troops will be placed in barracks at the Rue de Courbeau. A man and his wife have been suffocated by the fumes of charcoal at Alenson. COURIER EXTAAOADINAILY OF TUESDAY SIORNING. The day before yesterday the Duchess of lkrri left her apartments, fur the first time since her illness, and came from the Palace Elysee to the Thuilleries, passing through the Gardens. lier Royal Highness dined with the King. BRIGHTON, DECLAIDER 20. The PRINCE REGENT invariably devotes the early part of the day to State affairs and business, and afterwards takes exercise by walking on the Palace lawn, or on horseback, in the Riding School. His Royal Highness is in the happiest enjoyment of health and spirits. The number of persons who are supplied three days in every week, at the kitchen entrance of the Pavilion, with relief A in bread and provisions, amoants to more than a thousand, men, women and children ; and the PRINCE RaosNv has commanded, that some hundreds weight of prime beef undressed should each day be added to the distribution, with a double al= lowance of good things on Christmas Day. His Royal Highness's annual bounty of £lOO in bread and meat, to the poor of this place, is also this year to be increased to £250. At Chester a Meeting was held on Tuesday, to consider of the most effectual means of relieving the manufacturing and industrious poor. Earl Guostra NOR immediately subscribed .42,000, and his Lord ship's generous exampie was followed by almost all present. The Royal Marine Artillery, at Chatham, com manded by Sir R. WILLIAMS, is in be augmented to eight companies of 120 men each, and when formed will proceed to Deal, the Naval Hospital at that place being converted into barracks far their reception. Dom.—Yesterday morning, at seven o'cli.ck, meeting took place in the Regent's Park, near Chalk Farm, between Mr. of Kentish Town, and Major Dv in consequence of as altercation which took place at a coffee-house respecting a „young lady of great beauty and accomplishments, 'residing in the 'neighbourhood - of Kentish Town. The first fire, Mr. D.'s bullet passed near the blade-bone of his antagonist, carrying away with it part of the flesh. He was conveyed to Hampstead. The wound does not, it appears, assume a dangerous complexion, nor is it of a naturd likely to render long confinement ne cessary. Helium —The hounds of R. S. LLOYD, Esq. meet on Tuesday ant. at Edwardstone Park; cad on Friday. it Hiteham.Wood.—Etta day at tn. kitiAL FALMOUTH, bitftMßEß le. Arrived the Hanum g►ant brig from a crulie.....a ie , led the following packets with Mails :—tile Lady A.rabellst and Duke of Marihnrouzh, for Lisbon Prinr.•ess El;z.ihrth, for Gibraltar and 11441(a ; Mar chioness of (2 . ieeuhberry, America ; Laiy Wel. lingtou, for J4m.lica ; and Queen Charl••tte, for the Braz.l., ;—alst sailed the Barton, SAMPSON, for Ve. iiee ; ask: Lucy, CULLEN, f •r Trieste.—Wind N. ?on. i•smou JJ CEMGlilt. YO. Arrivcd his M ijesty's ship SYDNEY from New. founniand ; Vcnus, DitEw, from Amsterdam ; Charles Enbes, Mit.t.En ; and Agnes, Dome, from QuAcc Chapman, • DRAKE ; 1,E,) ; and Admiral Ganibiet,,Bnaicu, from iht Downs. Sailed he Shipley for New South Wales; and Noitthi for Grenada. T:.e Charles Foibet; sailed from Quebec: on the 10th of November—the Monarch, Dn,•oLAs, vr.is to sail the following day ; the Miry, l'Avuia and the Lord Swlfers v..me ready for a Tae Agnes lost an :,rschar nod cable in the tit"( r •S!. DEAL, DECLMIiEI t.O. Arrived the ALLRT sloop of w,ir trorn croize.— CAtOe do.vn from the River v: , sttrd,ty, :he vote sh:p f:.r St. He ; Sarah Chris tiana for St. ; And HTe, for Oporto.— DOVER, I)Eri:\D3:ji 20 Arrived the Fortuna, Ot.stst, from Malaga, tot Ostend, leaky, and is under quarantine. The vessel stranded during the storm en Sunda; morning, to the westward of llnrigenes., was ti.e Captai.A BOLTON, horn Mal!a tor Amsterdam, when one only, out (A a crew of s-ven pers..ns, wal cored. The cargo also is nearly all Ins:. R IMSGAI E, DECENH;ER to. The brig Camperdown, HILL, oti shore, neat the North Foreland, is gone to pieces—st , res bayed. YARMOUTH, DEC. to. In the gale on Sunday morning, about tour miles to the southward of the haven, the Ann, Cocitents master, laden with leather and glass, from Dunib.st. ton, run en shore, crew saved, but the Sesbei be:ng a wreck, it is feared the greater part of the cargo wiR be lost. Letters continue to pour in from all roasters re specting the late rots. but more particularly as they regard the young Watson, of whom, to a late period yesterday, no satisfactory account had been obtained. The communications on this subject directed to the Llito Mayon may be supposed to be pretty nume .mus. when it is known that the postage, yesterday alone, amounted to nearly el. It is hut right. however. to add, that marry of the ktters :tddrebsed to his Lordship have come Irt,m the nit r:siirctah!e individuals, Magistrates, and others. an! zea lously endeavouring to second the views of the Chief Magistrate upon the busuie.is of t!i? late rots Ole of the communie::tiont receiva..l pverday by the Loan 'al.tvort is from :'..lagistrate at 11:!nt;n,z ham, and forms a sort of crattnin.t:ion given by Mr. Wormer, tile City. M ir.hal. it %t •tri Bret the y”onl ; min, suppo:cd to be VV.itSan, is I; seen to enter two obscure public hout,%—the :we at Li , chfield, the other at IZuth.cl.:e—at both of whiCt places, as before, he made encpUry the latest London newspaPc:s. At one of t:ht-e places he was about to be detained, !Hy. yoting Wat son having been described as weativ g and the young man in question having on a pair of pan s..i.raog. he was suffered to proceed n his journey. The supposed fugitive touts toe to,ot 1.0 .1.0;•ti•r••••1, Pr, the Mayor and Magistrates of which place intelli gence of his route was immediately communicated. It had been stated that three men were brought to the London Hospital, iticensequence of woonds they received doting the riots in the City, on the List day of the Sp 'fields Meeting, and that one fell lw escape/ after his wound was dressed. A r.ward has been since offer , d for his apprehensien, and it was thought he would sort) be taken, in conseliierce of the nature of his wound, he having his thi:inu compli•tely off, and his hurl in other re,p •cts seriouily iejtned ; it is evident, therefore, he must he under thir care o t a suigeton. He declared, before he left the flospit that lie went ont that morning f 1111.! express purp ose Of shooting some person ; that lie WAti in a state nf starvation, and did not care for life. He had his pocket nearly full of lar,ze swan ,h-;t. Notw:thstand ine, however, strict search has been mide for him, he has not let been heard of. The oriel two are still in the Hospital, one of then had his thumb and foie-ling.r cut off, :sad a musket . ball was found in his hat, which is still in the posses sion of one of the Surgeons : he says his name is John Roberts, he has had no ftiend come to visit him ; he is now in a fair way of rec , ..eery. • John Reily, the third man, was woueded in the Wrist. His wound is rapidly healing without having recourse to amputatiin, as was at first apprehended. One or two persons have cord: t 3 see him in the Hospital. They both prove to be discharged sailors, and loose characters without families. accnunts received yeslerdAy hum Brixton, was, that Mr. PLATT WAS mucl bett..r. A report was confidently circulated at Chatham, on S itutilay, that the younger Watson h a d b een ap _ ellended on hoard the Swan cutter, where he Na; ssid to have entered as a sailor. l'he report, we be lieve, has proved to be unfounded. Watson, a few years back lived as an assistant to a respectable sor. geon at that place, who gives au unfp.vourible nion of his general character and conduct. Yesterday the owner of hickney-coaeh No. ISI. applied for a summons for the Rev. Mr. Parkes, who still refused to pay him IS,. for coach-hire, due to the complainant since the first Spatields Meeting, although Mr. Parkes promised before the Magistrates' to see him paid. Toe Magibtrates told the cOM.. plainant that the charge on the Ist iastant was dia. missed, but they recollected the Rev; Gen t l ea ,, A made himself responsible for the payment. It w.:s , therefore now a debt, and tLey had nothing to do w i t h it; but they advised the complainant to summons .him to the Court of Requests, where he would be sure to recover it. . _ _ A Gentleman gave as a reason the ether day, why he would not adventure in the present Lottery, th..s he dreamt he had got d,oneao,aalitheo w abhly you anle :1101104 and h that 1g isthevc ryreaso ( said n immediately, for should your Ticket be one of the first 500 Blanks, you will be entitled to Five and Twenty Guineas, and be thereby enabled to renew your chance for the Great CAPirals• 511044 they remain Undrawq, withont further expense, we, pet hain, ai,qu'is a Largormtune4 by being ihitachs! *