Star. — London, England, 1819-05-14 00:00:00

NO , V i . • y t I 1 Ai 7 - THE .iV.141.114G a ;~ t= - ; •. 7: 3 7 !•" . .. _ LOISIDON. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1819. VIE FUNDS. /RIC/ OP STDCICX TIME DAT AT ONII 4 O . CLCCK : Bank Stock 237 2361 2571 257 3 per Tent. Reduced 71i 74 71 3 perCcnt. Consols ?ilia 51 -p er Cent.7Bii , Der Cent. 891,1 5 per Cent. Navy latif Bank Long Annuities 14 Imperial 3 per Cent. Anus. 64 India Stock 218—India Bonds 5117 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 8 9 premium Endorse.l 6 premium . Consols for Acct. 711 fa Mr. GRENIELL'S Motion for a Committee to con sider of the expediency of appropsiiting the Sinking . Fund in part of any Loau to be raised in the present year for the Public Service, came last night wader the consideration of the House of Commons, and was, we regret eia say, negatived by a considerable maloritT., . !The motion was.oppoied by the CIERNEIRILOR of th* ExcuXQUIR ; and if the question had depeoded l upon facts and argument, weak indeed would have been his apposition. Nothing, he wai pleased to say, could be more inexpedient than to interfere, by a • specific Act of the Legislature,- with the discie tiooary power vested by former Acts in the Com missioners, to 'subscribe, when they see proper, for any part of a Loan wanted for the Public Service.— But how does he prove this inexpediency ? Is it by the fact, that though the Commissioners are invested with this discretionary power, they have never once thought fit to • exercise it? Is it by their own Re port, of which we wok particular nctice in our Paper of Wednesday, in which they avow distinctly, that had they, in 1817, exerted that discretion wisely, they would have saved to the country upwards of two millions of money? However plausible in theory this discretionary power may be, it has manifestly been of no use in practice. It has, in fact, sunk into a perfoct nullity ; and it was pre cisely in order to give a practical ef‘ciency to the prir.ciple of economy which it recognizes, in order to prevent the country from losing as many, . millions on the Loan of this year as it lost on the Loan of 1815, as well as on the Loans of formeri years, that Mr. GRES:ELL called for a Committee to consider of the measures best.to be adopted for effect.i ting that which the Commississioners, with the dis- , cretionary power of doing, have never yet done, and seem not inclined to do. It must be allowed, however, that Mr. Vaustr- TART acts quite consistently in maintaining the suffi ciency o£ this never exerted power, since we find-him going on afterwards to contend that it would ac tually be of great disadvantage were the Commis • sooners to purchase any part of the Loan. The money, hitells us, which is brought into •the market by the Sinking Fund, operates most advantageously in keep ing up the price of the Funds, and thus enabling Government when they want to borrow, to obtain more real cash for the nominal stock created.— But what does Mr. RICARDO, a gentleman whose au thority on this subject is much less questionable, say' in 'answer to this sapient observation—" He was to tally at a loss to discover what advantage could re. suit from the present system, when it was considered that the Commissioners and the Sellers had the save sum in the market at the sane time." It is wonderful, indeed, how any man, or set of men, can be carried allay by so palpable a delusion ; and truly painful to think that any part of the resources of an impove rished•and distressed country should be sacrificed to an arithmetical absurdity, in opposition to the plainest dictates of expedience and common sense. The ATTORNEY-GEN:RAL moved last night for leave to bring in a Bill to reduce the offence for' entering into the service of Foreign Belligerents with whom we may be in a state of neutrality, from fe lony to misdemeanour, in the first instance, and only to make the second offence a felony. The new Bill is also to extend to persons entering the service of Co. lonies assuming to themselves the character of inde pendent. States, and is evidently intended to operate' against the efforts of the South Americans in their struggle with the Ninther Country. The Gallery was cleared for a,divisiun, but none took place, and bore was given to hying in the Bill. A Flanders Mail, bringing Journals and Letters to' the 10th, arrived this morning. Sand, the . assassin cf KurzEauE, died at Manheim on the 50th ultimo. The last word he uttered was Germania! _ _ But the most prominent part of the contents, in a political point of view, relates to the affairs of Sweden. A 'We have lately had occasion to advert to paragraphs • in various Contit . .:ntal Journali, intimating, in gene. rat terms, that the attention of the Northern Powers was occupied with a negotiation of the greatest im portance. We slow learn that the object of this ne gociatioti is to induce C:IMILE6 JOIN to quit the Throne of S.vedcr. An overtairc to this effect is said • to have beza maj: t , .) Lire., on the part both of the Emperor Atexantsart, and the King of PRUSSIA, coupled with an assurance from the former, in the event of his•co • mpliance, of Vi being appointed, to a Russian Government, Witb.a revenue of 6,000,000 of rubles. It isfurther asserted, ihat,iuthe correspondence on this subject, the King of Swains exhibited such a degree of intemperance towards the Prussian Sove vereign, as to have excited the warm dispkasure of the Emperor : who, it is added, had, at last, returned to the Swedish Monarch several letters unopened.- -In this stage of the business, thz mediation of the French Government, is supposed to have been soli cited by the King of SWEDEN, and it is asserted, that General HuLoT, (brother hf the widow of General MOREAU,) has proceeded from Paris for Petersburgh to intercede for him. Should it be resolved to oust him by violent means, it is conjectured that the difficulties which have arisen between Sweden and Denmark, on the subject of the Norwegian debts, will be used as the ostensible pretext of hostilities : but, in fact, when the mighty are determined on any contest, they are never at a loss for a pretext for quarrel. Accounts from Frankfort of the Ist instant, speaking of this subject, say For these two days past the most extraordinary reports have been in cir culation in this city relatively to the present Govern ment of Sweden: political arrangements are spoken • of as having been proposed, but which are stated to have been peremptorily, rejected." The letters from Sweden speak of a political agitation which appears to exist in the Cabinet of Stockholm. The KING frequently assembles the Council of State ; the Minis ter of Russia is invited less frequently than formerly by the Minister of ,Foreign Affairs. The measures taken for the defence of the kingdom are proceeding With activity. There is a plan for building an immense fortress in the very heart of Sweden. All this seems to indicate that the Government has some fears for the future. On the other hand, the family of the dethroned King is said to be soliciting the protection of a great Power for the young Prince GUSTAVUS. To people who allow themselves to think soberly, the prospect which these circumstances prescnt must appear portentous. if common gratitude, or even common honesty, could be supposed to influence the Councils of Sovereign's, we might suffer ourselves to sit easy as to the result. BEIINADOZTE was not ele-. vated w the throne of Sweden by the power of Bo- NAPARTZ ; he was not acknowledged by other Poten tates, under the inflaence of fears excited by the over wfielming terrors of the sword of an upstart tyrant. He was duly elected and called to the throne, in opposition to the views of BoNAPARTE, and lent his aid to over throw the colossal power of the self-created Emperor of France. What has been his erime? He was not born the son of a LaorrahrAnc ; but, like the original founders of the Empire of the Czars, of the Houses of Brandenburgh and Hapsburgh, and others whom we .might name, the .son of obscure parents. lIRLTSSELS. MAY 11. 'SECOND CHAMBER OF THE ETAT In the Sitting of the 6th, in the evening, the debates on the project of law for laying a duty on coffee, were closed, and the law finally agreed to by a ma jority of 53 to 33. In the Sitting of the 7th, the law respecting the organization of the Board of Councillors and Master- General of the Mint, was passed with only one dissenting voice. M. Kemper's motion to extend to the countries beyond the Meuse, the legislation on the rights of the chace, which prevails in the other Southern Provinces of the Kingdom, after a long debate, was rejected by 61 votes to 15. The Sitting of the 10th was chiefly occupied in hearing petitions. BRUSSELS, MAY L. One of our Journals has published a letter, dated Brussels, . May sth, from M. Latour Dupin, to his Excellency Baron de Nagel!, Minister of Foreign Affairs, &c. &c. In this letter the Ambassador com plains of the manner in which his Government and himself have been spoken of in the late tiial of Bu choz and his accomplices. His Excellency states, that it was or. the 6th of November, at eight in the evening, that he first saw or heard of Buchoz, and of the plot which he disclosed to hint ; that an hour after he went to the Attorney-General, and found that all was conformable to what the same Buchoi and Pouillot-Laura had already told that Officer; that the following day early he spoke to the Minister of Justice and to .Baron Nagel on the subject ; and , that, the affair being then put into a train for legal enquiry, he did not interfere hi any way, except to inform his Government of - what pa s sed, which made it necessary for him to see the person who first re vealed the plot; and for some days, he sent to the French Government, at the desire of the Government of the Netherlands, the information he received from Buchoz. Buchoz asked a reward for his services, which the Ambassador thought he deserved, but yet did not give him. When Pouillot and Buchoz were in prison, they applied to him for relief, and he gave them 10 francs per day, as he has often done to other perions; but he first applied officially to Baron Nagel, if there were any impropriety ? and was officially answered in the negative. Ile even withheld this relief when they ceased to be merely suspected and there were found to be grounds for accusation. If any Magistrate has inculpated him, he has disgraced his lawn cha- racter. His Excellenty demands from the justice of the Government a suitable reparation. Lanai have reached us from 'Trinidad, d*ed the 3J of April. They apnouncethelrrival in the Gulph of l'aria of the FrantiAnd Other transports, with the remainder or the Brifish untsers under Colonel Escatsst. They were instictlj to proceed to Mar garetta, to join the gve.clition_prepat ing there against the Main. The opportunity, it is said; wits never more favourable for putting itertnination to the con test. The main body of the Spanish troops, 'under General Moatia.o, is at least 500 miles from the sea-coast, entangled in the woods of A rauca, and cut off from all its principal communications by the In dependent forces. COMMERCIAL CONSPIRATORLIII the Court of' King's Bench this day, Woolf and the other indivi duals, found guilty at the last Sittings in Guildhall, of a conspiracy to defraud divers dealers in Scotch and Manchester goods, were brought up for judge ment, which was pronounced as follows :—Mosely Woolf to be irnprisoned two years in Newgate, and to pay a fine of £lO,OOO ; Louis Levi to be imprisoned two years in Ilchester Jail, and to pay a fine of £.5,000, and J. Kinneir to be imprisoned for two years in Gloucester Jail, but no fire.—'the two former priso ners to be kept in custody till their fines are paid. MARRIAGES IN Dion Ltve.—Yesterday morning, at a quarter before nine o'clock, the Earl of TEMPLE led to the hymeneal altar, Lady CAmeustx, the eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of BREADALBANE. The ceremony wasperformed at St. George's Church. The Noble Peer gave the Lady away ; and '4is youngest daughter officiared as the principal bride maid. The bride wore a superb dress composed of Brussels lace, and looked interesting and lovely.— There were present at the wedding— Marquis of Buckingham. Countess of Breadaltrane, Lord Glenorchy, Lord Nugent, Earl of Forteseue, Lady Elizabeth Lord.aud Lady Grenville, Right lion. Thomas Gren ville, Lady Elizabeth Gavine, General Campbell, Lady Jane Hay, Mr. Leigh, and Lady Hannah Thorpe. The parties re-assembled at Breadalbane House, in Park-lane, at eleven o'clock, and about noon they partook of a dejeune, with wines, ices, and confectio- ' nary. Shortly after, the new married couple pro ceeded, in a new travelling chariot, with four horfies and numerous outriders; on their way to Stowe, the magnificent chateau of the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM. The fortune given with the Lady is one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, to which will be added fifty thousand more on the birth of a son and heir. About a quarter past eleven, on the same day, the HOR. RICHARD NEVILLE (son of Lord BRAYBROOKE) was married to Lady JANE CORNWALLIE (daughter of the Marquis CORNWALLIS), at St. James's Church. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of LITCHFIELD and COVENTRT. The bride was superbly attired in a - Mechlin suit ; and the principal bride maid was Lady (3. LENNOX. There were preseit— The hiarquii and Marchioness Cornwallis, Duchess of Rich mond, Marquis and Marchioness of Handy, Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, Earl of Fortescue, Lady Mary Singleton, and Lord Swing. After the ceremony, the happy couple proceeded, in a splendid new eqq,ipage, to Audley End, in Essex. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM was present at both the weddings. Ai.emcses.—The tenth Ball took place on Wed nesday evening, at these elegant Rooms. The appli cation to the Ladies Patronesses for tickets were far beyond any former night this season ; but the number being limited, they could not be complied with. There were present nearly SOO persons of the first distinc ' don and fashion. Dancing was commenced a little before eleven o'clock by the following couples: Earl of Ussaince - - Lady G. FANZ, Count Csasma.ir - - Lady G. LI:241;0X. Lord G. Sommistre - - Lady Garr. Lord Moursint - Lady M. RYDZIt. Lord LOUGHIIOIIOOOII - Lady Ducar. Mr. H. Bats - Lady G. Coax. Lord STRATRAVXM - Miss CATON. • Earl of CLARE Lady M. Swazi. SONS OE THE CLERGY.—Yesterday the Anniversary Meeting of this excellent Institution was held in St. Paul's Church. Among the company present were several Noblemen, most of the Bishops, and the LORD MAYOR Sheriffs, &c. &c. An excellent Sermon was preached, and the Anthems were finely sung. .At five o'clock about 200 persons sat down to a sumptuous entertainment, his Royal Highness the Duke of SUS SEX, in the Chair. SCOTCH BOROUGII our Report of the proceedings on this subject in the House of Commons on the 6th inst. we stated that the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel STEWART had presented a Petition from the Burgh of New Galloway, praying for a Reform, and that the Honourable Member had observed that the Peti tioners seemed not to be aware of the Bill before the Home brqught in by the LORD ADVOCATE, otherwise 'they would not , have found it necessary to present such a Petition. We now find that our Reporter had altogether misapprehended what fell from the nourable Member. The Petition was not in favour of,•but decidedly opposed to all Borough Reform or Reform in Parliament, and the observation made upon it by the Honourable Member was this—That if financial improvement were the object of those who support Burgh Reform, they would look with more attention to the Lord Advocate's Bill, which has been brought in expressly to regulate the Burgh Finances. The Third Report of the Select Committee on the Road from London to Holyhead has been printed The Committee adopt, and strongly recommend, Mr. TEtroan's plan of a hangiag iron bridge across the Menai Strait. Each of the two principal piers will be 60 by 4.01 feet at high-water mark, having a foun dation of rock. Upon the summit of each of these will be erected a pyramid of cast metal, for the pi!r , pose of raising the cables from which the bridge is to be suspended. The bridge, which is to hang between these two points, will be 5‘2`.? feet long, and 30 feet wide; The . entire length of the bridge will be 5(39 feet. ~ The expense is estimated at 1:70,000. . The Husbandry Horse Tax for the year ending sth - April, 1819, ammuted to 1.:444.5,449. 13s. The Surchitrges during the same period amounted to no less thar. a.nurabe: seezi‘ . 6rcitt in proportion to the 111126%1Dt of t 1 Dut;,. THF. ARMY. Tuesday, the 80th Regi meat, comm an d r l by tin; tenasst .c a p one l Cooxsoß, stoned at 11141, was tnr viewed and inspected by Major-General Sir J „ i Bum, who was pleased, on tie occasion, t o his high approbation of their militer) app e „ atrt And steadiness in chi: kld, as also Uie oo:ic their Interior economy. NAVIL irrnr_ziashict. Th e A f 0rea5p0,........, from Hell for Quebec, was sil o) eSd April, _in lat. .49..22. luo • 27. 20. patient-ere all the General Dr.ck, arrived at from Clark*, The ship Water, 'Manua, arrived in the DwT, maica, was boarded on the 24 April by the Orinoco, cruizer belonglog to Admiral Batox's Squadron, C((pt bearing East, distant abqus twenty leagues —o•rerh.:4lo pen, and treated them politely. Livitaroet., Mar 12.—The Hannah, from Dritert: verpool, put into Port Rush on the 6th instant, in w as visions, kee—The Ocean, Dux, from St. John's, :fi r wick, to - Liverpool, was fallen in wish on the 17th ultt 43. 9. long. 51. 4G. water-loud, and abandoned by di ponsoursern, Mar 13.—Wind N.W.--Passed up Ch: brig Wellington, Nulty, ferun St. Vincent's —pawing( by a pilot-boat. Dear., MAL 13.—Wind N. W.—Arrived Ind sailed River the Rapid, 31uNDAT, from Sniyrna; Ocean, ' (late GRAY ' ) from Alexandria; Warre, Tirana, from , list Indian, Wtsusar, from Hull, fur Madras and fi«n sailed ; and a large fleet of colliers from the North and - down channel. Came down, from the River the Wilk Barsoxi, for Madras and Bengal; Swan, Lea, for Pt ward's Maud; Mentor, Bs:l4=r, for Oporto ; Lo r d r PuLt.ris, for Plymouth. The William Mills remai Downs with the Jzsra, the latter is ordered for the ' will sail immediately. Cuaroas-noesa, MAT S.—Entered Inwards—The Elizabeth, Brooks, from Lisbon; Fortitude, Shepperri, badoes • Fortitude, Smith, from St. Kitt's ; Richard , hoy, from Stangate Creek ; Deux Arab, Duchemairi Caen; New Union, Rose, front Calais; 'Martha, terford ; lihza, Wren, froth Ostend ; Mercy, Pea: Rio Janeiro; Waterloo, Mere, from the Cape of GI Pictou Morris, from Montserrat ; kliraLel, Mahe; bit. Vincent's. Entered Outwards—The George, Shy, for Bllfast Chrisde, for Rotterdam ; Favorite, Griffith, for Dubl Ronny, •for St. hlary's ; the Two Brothers, Benni Oporto; Martha and Johanna, Steenhoff, for Stockh( tune, &repack, for Ostend ; 3latilda, Brightman, fur Cleared Outwards—The Belle, Huntington, for NI Susannah, Peters, for Dublin; Burse, Hattisid, ler Liz St. Helena, Elliot, for Quebec ; Neptune, Stravack, for Hope, Potts, for Rotterdam; Rover, Williams, fur Liberty, Evans, for Sc. Petersburg; and Oscar, Por.sett, Lisbon. SPORTING INTELLIGEKCE. iTENVMARIC.F.T SECOND SPRING )lEETL TIM/MAY, MAY 13. The Jockey Club Plate of 50p. to be run for by horses party of Members of the Jockey Club ; 4-fr-e/' 7st. ilb. 5-yr-olds, Sit. 31b. 6-yr-olds, Ilst. 6st. 111 b. If. C. Lord Jersey's bay horse Cannon Ball; aged Mr. Cussans's chesaut eat Wouvernons, 4-yrs-old Mr. l'bornhill's chesnut colt Sant, 4-yrs-old 3 to 1 on Cannon Ban. Fifty Pounds for 3-yr-olds carrying 6st. sib. bat. 71b. 6-yr-olds and aged, Sat. 121 b. Wyndbam's grey colt, by liklddaw, &vet-0d Doke of Grafton's brown ask Vanguard, 3-yrs-cld Yt Neale's black colt, by Juniper, 4-yrs-eld Kr. Nash's bay filly. by Haphazard, 3-yrs-old • 3. Shelley's bay colt, by Como, Simold Mr. Crockford'a bwr filly Roo, 4.yroobt Mr. Goodisson's bay filly Belvidere, 3-yrs-old Mr. Rush's chesout filly Tetotuni, 3-yrs-old The Judge placed but two.-5 to 2 agst Mr. Wyndham Lard Sulfield's Glowworm. beat Lord Eseter's Cap. did, bet. 41b. oath. D. M. 100p.--5 to 4 apt OtOMINOIit. Lend G. IL Cavesdids's Allegro, beat Lord Poky- - at. 44b:oick. AL 300p.;-4 to 4 apt Allegro. Among the numernits bets on Mr. HUTCH' performance. there was al* of a novel chr Manchester, a Gentlemanlaving bet eight red herrings to a .'eg ofinuttoriagauutthe perform. Fusa.—Yesterday morning a Sre broke out tt Water Warehouse, in Dover-street, which entirelt that, and materially injured the two hopes adjoining. New Pusucotrorts.--We are requested that the following Works will be published COLBOON in the course C r the ensuing week' 1. The Vestriad ; or, The Opera : a Poem. By qt The Banquet, the lesert, itc.-2. The New RO I ventures of Julien Delmour, translated from the 'Prepd dame de Geniis, 4 vols. —3. Letters from a Lady of to her Niece, tile Duchess of •• • • wrist-u shortly aft riage.-4. The Irishwoman, a Comedy, by Lady Carl Second or Cu eluding Part of Dr. Watkins's Life of CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, MA' In addition to a considerable quantity Wheat that remained over 'from Wednesday there was a good supply fresh in this morn Suffolk, but having little or no demand, sales were made, and those at a decline per quarter from Mdnday's prices. Barley . unsaleable, although offered on lower terms. are Is. per quarter cheaper, and only-fine could be disposed of. In Bring and • Peas nothing doing, and prices nominaL SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAT i Beef 4s Od to Si 441 Veal 63 Id Illuttua ..5s Od to 66 oil Pork • Lamb 54 6d to la 6d. 'CATTLE AT • Beasts 370—Calvcs f•-00—Sheep• and Lambs 6.150.—J HAY AND STRAW - PER LOAD. Hay . .. le is tor I Straw- sel• lr Cirwee......6 OS to • 7 .15s I HAMS OS DIED Lately, Mr. James, the British Consul-General of the Mack Sea. • At Fort Wilhstn, nn the ith ultimo, asycl Alacdottalal of TuHoch, the oldest -branch of filiochit lluibh, of the lEqppoch family. A t on the 4th instant, Bridget Bonet .1-.11.r lit: r of the late Tilin David Hark; one of the that City. At the Manse of Newberg'', Fs*, on the Sth • Rev. Tlionws 6tewart, D. D. Minister pf that Pariiih- At Dumfries, on the 3d Lastant,irery asuldenty, Campbell, wife of Mr. Grade, Writer Dumfries. At Montrose, on the 2 1 / 4 1 instant, ..karraret Marjor y daughter of Andrew Bisset, Es. 4. Comptroller of site At Simmer, on the 24th ultimo, Mr. William chant there, aged .52. At Esher, Mrs. Hughes, wife of Captain Hught At Edinburgh, on- the 4th instr.et, Mr.. Marion wife of IJeutecant-Colone. -Lurie-cc, of the E. I. Oa the 44th ult. at Newt... 'a...tr. John M1:cl the Tyne Mercury. His retaa.rs •.-Pere ir.terred of his garden, agreeably to his or.T. re c. ittt : he had the intended slot of his grave Elam, sr, -- - . 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