Star. — London, England, 1818-06-06 00:00:00

. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1818. THE FUNDS. PRICK Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK : Reduced 78i—Cons. shut—for Opening 7911 Si per Cents. 884--4 per Cent. 961 i Navy Anns. shut—lndia Bonds 90 92 pr. Exch. Bills 17 21 pr.--Ornnium pre. POSTPONEMENT OF THE PROROGATION. The Prorogation of Parliament had been decidedly fiazd by the Ministerial arrangements, to take place this day, and up to a late hour in the forenoon all the usual preparations were in progress for the PRINCE RzGENT's going in person to prorogue the House. In consequence, however, of what unexpectedly took place in the House of Commons last night with re %vet to the Alien Bill, it has hien found indispensably necessary to continue sitting for two or three days longer, The circumstance which has occasioned this de lay, our Readers will see fully explained in our Parlia mentary Report. It will be recollected that a clause was introduced into the Alien Bill by the Lords, in vzlidating the effect of an old Scotch law, by which it was enacted, that the purchasers of Stock in the Bank of Scotland, should be deemed naturalized. The introduction of this clause being of a nature re. lating to the money concerns of the subject, was last night objected to in the Commons, as 'an infringe ment of tier peculiar privilege to originate all mo ney measures, and the &MAUR concurring in this opinion, the amendment was accordingly unani mously rejected, and a conference appointed to be held this day with the Lords on the subject.— Ministers had thus no other alternative left, than ei her to aband.in the measure of an Alien Bill alto geher until the meeting of a new Parliament, or to postpone, as they have done, the Prorogation for a few days longer, in order to give time to bring in and carry through a new Bill. It is expected in the Ministerial circles, that the new Bill, whatever may be the opposition with which it is met, will ix pushed through all its stages in !louses, before Thursday next, so as to allow the Prorogation to take place on that day, and the Dissolution to appear in next Saturday's Gazette. Our Readers will do us the justice to take note. th-t: but for this unexpected interruption, the Proro gation by taking place to-day, would have happened on the cxact day which we were the first, several week's ago, to announce. Yr.terday the.PniNce REGENT held a Court and Levee at Carlton Hon:re, for the purpose chiefly of re ceiving the congratulations of the Nobility and Gen try or. the marriage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE.— Tha assemblage was more than usually numerous, upwards of one thousand persons being present. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE went in state, and was formally iltroduced_by the Dukes of YORK, CLARENCE, and GrsoucesTen. The Foreign Ambassadors and Mini s' en weie almost all_ present : also the Duke of LEIN ST al, Cy? Marquis WeLLEst.sr a 'he Earls of CAR LISLE and OEYORD, Lord COLCHESTER, and Lord Moarirru. Military and Naval Officers formed, as usual, the great majority.—The following had the honour of being presented: Sir Francis Deranges, Sheriff of London and Middlnex. Sir George Aldorson, Sheriff of London and Middlesex. Governor Farquhar, on his return to thz. Mauritius, on leave of absence. Colonel Lee, A.D.C. to Fl.;id-Marshal Palafox, ea his return from Spain, by the Duke of Sari Carlos. William Rae Wilson, Esq. by Lieutenant-General Wetherell,' Comptrolla of the Household of his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, on his return from abroad. Mr. W. Edward Foley, on his return from the Continent. Lieutenant Bulkoley, 2d Life Guards, on his appointment. Mr. W. Flower, by his father, Alderman Sir Charles 11.,, wet. Mr. Derby Coventry, by the Earl of Coventry. ,jr. W. Osborne. of Melchet Park, by the Lord in waiting. Captair. FAiow es, R. N. on his being appointed Companion of the Bath. Mr. W. Edmonstone, by his father, Sir Charles Edmonstone. Caktain IViiir:ay, by Lord James Murray. Minor Coyle?, 60th Regiment, on his promotion, by General Sir C:Ctiyler. Captain. It. N. on his return from abroad. Sir Charles desVoeux, by the Lord in waiting. I::.: or Itaitt, on his return front Ireland. Jadge K.nr, of the Ceurts of King's Bench and the Admi ralty at 4haebec, and one of his Majesty's Executive Council, the Province of Lower Canada, to take leave. fdr.W. B. Lawley, on his marriage, by Lord Braybrooke. Mr. Serjeant Marshall, on his appointment, as one of the of the Chester Circuit. Doctor Gull;fo., Itnyal Hone Guards, by Lord F. Bentinck. Rear-Admiral Camp 01, by the Lord in waiting. Colonel Sir W. Rofe, by the Lord in waiting. Nicholas Wilcox Candy, Esq. on his marriage with Frances, the only sister of Richard Stafford Cooke, Esq. Mc. John Foley, by Lord Gage. Mr. Richard Dawkins ' Auditor-General in the Peninsula, on his return from Portugal. Mr. Marl:ham, of Ilecca, Yorkshire, by Mr. Osborn Markham. Mr. Edward Strettell, late Advocate-General in Bengal, by Lard Viscount Carleton. Mr. George Reid, of the 2d Life Guards, on his appointment, by the Lord in Waiting. Sir G. derningham, on his return from abroad. Mr. Cosby, of the 3d Guards, on his return, by Lord Hill. . • Sir James Wynne De Buthe,on his return fion; the Contine Ibbetson . , by Lord 13rosinimv, on his return from abroad. Antrobut, on his marriage, by the Hon. liugh Lindsey. Before the Court, a Council was held, at which the Speech for closing the Session was taken into consideration. ' Yesterday, at noon, his Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke MICHAEL, landed at Dover, from the ROYA I. SOVEREIGN yacht, under a royal salute from the Heights Battery. The GRAND DUKE was received pn hii landing at the Ship Inn Stairs by his Excel. lency Count Lcivcs, Colonel FORD, and Lieutenant tO!ollel MARLEY, attended by a Guard of Honour ; and after partaking of some refreshment set off for 'London, • Thursday evening the fluke and Duchess of GLOUCETMt gave a mad tuner to the Duke and lu P4c.nis c4lfflan> o2 , 011 4 i House. ..... sAtAp... P. - - FRENCH PAPER The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this morn -1 ing.—We pass l over other matters of comparatively small importance, to notice the gratifying fact that the promised Constitution for the Kingdom of Ba varia has at length been officially promulgated. " AUGSBURG, MAY Is. " The 19th of May will be celebrated for ever in the annals of our Kingdom. The Bavarians have re ceived, on this memorable day, the pledge of their independence as a people—they have laid the funda mental basis of their prosperity. All the Public Au thorities having assembled in the Palace of the Go vernment., the President of the Circle of the Upper Danube published the Constitutional Charter, and received, in the name of the Kim), the oath of fide lity from all the Functionaries. " The assembly repaired afterwards to the Churches of the two Confessions, to render thanks to the SII• PRF.SIB BEING, and to implore his protection in favour of our King, who, by the new Constitution, secures the interests of the whole people united under his sceptre, guarantees to all liberty of conscience, equa lity in the eye of law, a just repartition of taxes, the same right to advancement and to honours, and a national representation composed of all classes of citizens liable to the burdens of the State. A cir cumstance which adds much to the solemnity of this day is that it is the anniversary of thebirth of the King." Another account gives part of the Charter itself. The following summary of its provisions re extract from the preamble; " The present Act, which has been preceded by long and mature deliberations, and communicated .to our Council of State, is the work of our will, as free as irrevocable. Our people will find in it the best proof of our paternal sentiments—Liberty of con science, with the most scrupulous distinction between what pertains to the State and what to the Church, with equal protection for both ; liberty of opinion, with legal restrictions against abuse ; the equal right of all natives to all ranks of the public service, and to all distinctions awarded to merit; the equality of the laws, and of citizens under the law; impartiality and promptitude in the administration of justice ; equality in the assessment and payment of imposts ; strict order in all parts of the public economy ; loyal measures to support public credit, and to gua rantee the means destined towards it ; the re-esta blishment of municipal corporations in all their rights of administering the affairs which immediately be long to them ; Estates-General formed of all classes of domiciled citizens, and invested with the right of giving counsel, of voting laws, of granting imposts, of expressing their wishes, of making remonstrances in the case of any violation of constitutional rights, of assisting in public assembly the deliberations of Go. vernment without paralyzing their energy—being, in short, a guarantee of the Constitution which ren ders all change impOssible, without, at the same time, excluding those ameliorations which experience may recommend. , " Such, Bavarians, are the principal features of . that Constitution winch, out of our full and free will, we confer upon you. Such are the principles of a King who looks only for happiness to himself and for glory to his throne in the happiness of his coun try and the love of his people." The French Funds have, as we anticipated, expe- rienced an extraordinary rise. On Tuesday they reached as high as 711. 60c. and left off at 71f. 10c. The notice of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S having arrived at l'Atis was, it seems, premature; but his Grace was confidently erpected at his hotel on Thurs day night. DE %Tll OF By the New-York Papers and Letters which we have received this moniing to the llth of May, we learn that a letter has been received by a respectable mercantile house in Philadelphia from Pcrt-au•Priace, dated the 13th April, communicating on authority said to be of the best description, the fact of C.MI - death. It will be singular sough this report prove true, that both the riv..l Sovereigns of Saint Domingo should have died within so short a period of each other. The circumstance is conjec tured in these papers to be favourable to the preten sions of France; but on what rational grounds we arc at a loss to perceive. The succession to the Throne of one part of the island will probably be quite as peaceable and certain a thing as we have seen the succession to the Presidency of the other. Intelligence has been received by the Emma, an East India ship that touched at Buenos Ayres, of the operations of the Republicans in that quarter down to the 11th of March. Every thing remains quiet there, nor is any apprehension entertained that the Spa niards will ever be able to resume their ancient as cendancy on the Rio de la Plata. The attention of the people of Buenos Ayres is at present wholly di rected to the new Republic of Chili, against which our Readers arc aware an expedition of considerable force was some time since dispatched from Lima, but of the agival of which no intelligence has been yet received. Among tiller papers which we have re ceived by this channel, is the Declaration of Indepen dence lately issued by this new Republic, in which they throw off for ever all allegiance to the Mother' Country. NAVAL INTSLLIGRNCE. By letters which have been received from Spain, 1 via Bonrdeaux, we learn that four large vessels under , the Buenos Ayres flag Lave made their appearance off Cape St. Vincent. Two of .thent are corvettes of thirty-six guns each. .. _ FALMOUTH, JUNE 8. Wind from W. to N. fine weather.—Arrived the Drummond, HATTON, from Norfolk in N days, for orders, Passed up Channel, the Marquis Welling ton, JOHNSON, from Ceylon. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE S. Wind S.E.—Arrived of the Wight, the Warrens 'and Ceres, from the South Seas ; Waterloo, fmm Bahia, sailed the 19th of March ; the Jack Tar, for Liverpool, sailed the 18th : left there the Ann, —, of Scarborough ; the Leeds, LtueoLm, and Duke of Wellington, CAN. The Lucy, CouLsoa, and Harriet, —, for Liverpool, sailed a few days before the Waterloo. The Jane, CROOKSHANK, was to sail the 22d of March, for England. Spoke in the Chops of the Channel, the Jack Tar; Ida, Pt.xs mOßE and Kingston, WARREN : the two last from Jamaica. The James, Uivenszorm, from L:verpes+l, out 113 days, had arrived out. Arrived the Hype rion, LASHLEY, for Calcutta; and Cornwall, HAB EIS, for Madras and Bengal. Passed by the Hiber nia, Leivivow, from Calcutta; Unison, SMELT, from Jamaica. Sailed his Majesty's ships TIBER and Hon, on a cruize, and Nearchus transport, for Plymot.th. DEAL, JUNE 5. Wind N. E..—Arrived and sailed for the River the Carnatic, BLANCHARD, from Bengal; Atlas, MAYNE, from China ; Albion , Baztran, from Burdea.ix ; PREvoYANTE store ship, from Plymouth. Caine down from the River and sailed, the Vestal, 131.-.-- rzawtes, for Quebec ; Cornwall, HARRIS, ft): Ma dras ; Speculation, LIDDLE, for Oporto ; Fame . MOORE, for St. Thomas's; Admiral Griffiths, WA L • EON. for Rio Janeiro. Arrived the ROYAL SOVE REIGN yacht, from Calais, having landed Duke MI CHAEL, of Russia, at Dover. DOVER, JUNE 5. Arrived last night the I.ord Duncan packet, with a Mail, from Ostend. Sailed this morhing the Chi chester packets Captain RUTTER, far Calais, with a Mail. Arrived this day the Susannah, Captain MOOl/ ; and Cumberland, Captain BLARE, with the suite and carriages of the Grand Duke MICHAEL.— Arrived this evening the Lady Jane James, Captain HAYWARD ; and a French packet, from Calais, with passengers. The wreck that has lain sunk in our Roads since the beginning of April last, was weighed this morning, by three Dock-yard lighters, and which have drifted with it near the shore by the South- Foreland. Wednesday last, the Royal Sovereign yacht, com manded by Commodore Owtx, sailed from the Downs for Brighton, in order to receive the Prince and Prin cess of Hass HOMBOURG. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 4. Arrived the Richard, M'Astruutt, from Honduras; sailed the 10th April—on the 3d May, in lat. 34.38. long. 59. spoke the brig Greenhow, —, from De merara for Quebec ; she had been boarded a few days before by a Buenos Ayres privateer. Arrived also the Jack Tar, MARTINDALE, from Bahia—on the 30th May, off Cape Clear, spoke the brig Mag daline, front Africa for London. RAMSGATE, JUNE S. The smack Nancy, of thiS place, has just landed an anchor, &c. belonging to one of the East India ships that passed yesterday, supposed the Caraatic. GRAVESEND, JUNE 5. Arrived the Niger, Bernard, from Jamaica; Cyrus, Davey, from Cape Horn; Hibernia, Lamb, from Oporto; Samuel, Soper, from St. Michael's; Thomas Grenville, Als. - igar, from Bengal; Vansittart, Dalrymple, from China; Dragon, Baker, from Ncrth Carolina; Albion, Baxter, from Bourdeaux ; Eliza, Capp, from Bayonne ; Isabella, Bishop, from ditto.—Sailed the Betsey. Frith, for Antigua, &c. ; Albino, Hall, for Archangel; Fox, Fox, for Ostend; Christina, Klok, for Rotterdam; Royal Eagle, Gibbs, for Lisbon ; Speedwell, Sibston, for Rotterdam ; and Pilot, —, for Hamburgh. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 3. Stets ENTYRID INIV•1113111,—ThOM1S, RUI4OO, from Memel; Union, Tlirurn, from Ostend ; Leipzig, Jordan, from Port-au- Print ; Dryad, Fall, from Grenada ; Harper, Landmom, from Oporto ; Lowther Castle, and Herefordshire, Massey, from China; Princess Charlotte, Gribble, from India; Venus, Baron, from Bourdeax..--Ocrwitax.s—The Dultz of Kent, Pound, for Rotterdam; George, Deeper, for Gibraltar; Hen rich, —, and Benjamin, Hope, for Dantzic ; Jane and Mary, Dcnhnlm, for Grand Canary ; Dcnain, for Rostock. Extract of a Letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated March I`2, 1818 John Palmer, we have the pleasure to inform you, arrived in our Roads on the 7th inst. all well. A desperate and atrocious mu tiny, of 10 (1 A ber foremast men out of the 15, had nearly proved destructive of. both ship and cargo, at sea, and of the lives of the Captain, Officers, and passengers, and such of the remaining crew %%Ito stood fa:C.-Sal to their duty ; and nothing but the firm and sr.ir:ted conduct of her Commander, Cap rain G. SAUNDERS, seconded by eue exertions of lies Officers, the wei! ordered portion of her people, and the passengers, saved the property from piracy, and plunder, and their lives from murder. They were overpowered, after a severe struggle. We have fur ther, for the safety of the ship and cargo, and the lives on board ia harbour, applied to the proper authority of the colony for tiAat protection necessarily required; and nine of the 13 have accordingly been here im prisoned, to abide, the c6nsequences of their unjusti fiable ccnducc." Monday afternoon, Lieatenaat Fe IRMAN, on half pay, in the. Royal Navy, and who resided in Canter bury, was drowned while bathing in the river Stour. Saturday, the carriage of Colonel DicitaNs, of the Royal Eagincers, was overturned near Harwich, by wh:ch accident Mrs. Dicismis had her ccliar bone dislocated, artil the coachman was much bruised. The KING of-NAP/As has issued a Decree relnire to the coin of his realm. Its cbject professes tc be to supply the deficiencies of a Drench regulatica of 1814, Waereby the decimal system ciliates and cen- I times had been abolished, and the ancient coins re called with regard to silver; the geld coinage being left in its then existing slate. To remedy this incca , sistency the present ordinance . is published, one or two of the articles of which are very singular. It is al limed that silver should circulate somewhat under its blue,. and should not be subjected to the scale, ex cept evidently maimed or defaced : but while it raises the gold to a high standard, and permits the subjects of Naples to take it by the weight, it allows ficely of its being exported either in specie or melted. DELAYS IN CTIANCERY. lb THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. 41R--1 cannot help observing that many persons .19 mistaken in regard to the delays attributed to ;-, Court of Chancery, and to the upright Jodge whs presides in that Court. Very many cases Lave twee witti e u r z knowledge, where, owing to inf.tras Lie z con the protection of the Court is required preserve to .- their property until they all co w elay, in such cases, is unavoidable: the f cannot be distributed until that event take s p h y . but the infitms have the benefit of the accumeiesi,k,; their property.—ln other cases, owi ng se : h e'll:. gious spirit of some persons, questions arise which rc. quire attention, awl in which a hasty de c i,i, :anfoin destructive to the nghts of the parties. c sz th e t, , j l of Chancery therefore be blamed for taiaigiane, Att e necessary, to make its decrees so as to be Igndic,/, yl the parties, and prevent the delay and exix, r ., 4 appealing to a higher Court . The Lord Ck.ncrtitor may well exclaim, in the words so often qact-a the late Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, is Fiat J.urtlda, rust Calum." When it is considered that such a number cf cu lt are set down every Term to be heard btfom tM Lord Chancellor, the Vice-Chancehor, and the 71,, ter of the Rolls, it is surprising that to many are decided as we find upon utyury is the ea*. PCULICOLA. After the Meeting at the Crown and Anckc: 11. - zsday, had broke up. a number ofelectors rtri k a , and after some consideration it was agreed that F, FRANCIS BLIRDRTT and the Hon. DOUGLAS ICInS the banker of Pall-mall, were fit and proper perFc4 :o represent the City of Westminster. • Sir SAMUEL Routt.Ly has also been applied tc Ey several gentlemen and de most respectable n•atas. r-,en and inhabitants of Westminster, to rtincsrit t:',at city in the ensuing Parliament. A Meeting of the friends of Alderman TURPS 100 E place yesterday at the 14niden Tavern, Mr. BOYCE CooxrE in the chair, when the above Genii man was nominated as a fit person to become a Ca. didate for the representation of the City of Landcn. Yesterday being the Duke of Cumsationisßirti.. Jay, the Guard at St. James's Palace mounted cn the K two's duty with the State Colours; the Drum-..la jor wore his State Uniform. His Excellency the Loan lawman and :hi Countess TALBOT have arrived a the V:ce Ito Lodge, Dublin, flan' Mr. Lawsuit seat, bra Park, County Meath. Thursday se'nnight, the Marquis and Marchiosess of DoNtowt.t., Lord BELFAST, Sir STEPHEN MAL ARTNCR CHICHESTER, Esq. M.P. and party, mod at Coleraine, on their way to the Giant's Ca A letter from Hesse Hombourg, dated May !lo b says :—" It is now generally affirmed, that our 14'. loved Hereditary Prince will make his entry with Si august Consort, in the very beginning of next morn. Great preparations are already making to rcceire tFi new married couple in a suitable manner. Many alterations are making in the Palace; several Bata• lions of Landwehr will be under arms, and in ILe evening there will be a general illumination: We are fully authorized by the Drury Lane Con. pany to contradict the language said to have ben uttered by Mr. Dosirrox at the meeting of the Aral em the 30th, which certainly possessed all its Ctie pendence, but none of its vulgarity. His appeal to the Committee was firm, and in the tone of an T. 4. Tishman struggling for his right, or a Father defr..c• ing his family. It is likewise a mis-stateme:t as :4 the Duke of BEnsoars or the Earl of ESAU beii present. The eminent French houses in the City, stliit solicited their friends and acquaintance to othatiit the expected loan at Paris, have sent round Clinks: informing the subscribers, that the money they ai sranced as a deposit will be paid on demand, vdi , interest at the rate of S per cent. as the letters hem Paris are decisive that they can have no par: whz ever of the loan negotiated; it is entirely in ne hands of Frenchmen, and bears a premium of sis 4 per cent. It is stated, that the Loan for the px - - ment of the Allied Powers, when the Armies 0.11 leave France, will not be concluded till the cl o se the year. Petitions from the most ettinent pteplea Paris are stated to have been sent to the French )11• nister, praying that the next Loan, when regocia:ti, may also be reserved for the capitalists of France. FRANKLIN'S Lint EY HIMSELF.—The be pleased to hear that the Octavo Edition of thi inestimable piece of Biography may now biFociari What was said of the " Correspondence: may mut equal justice be applied to the Life of this ilts guished man. By its publication, the elevated etto cation of Franklin fur virtue, for knowledge, for pa bity, and for talent:, will suffer no dirnituelos, sire it bears ample testimony to the fertility of hi; min!. to the solidity of his judgment, to the justness or 1 ,4 views, to the amenity of his manners, and to bi:xr• dent desire for promoting the happiness of mr Yesterday an inquest was held at the Ca:ril l Head, Camden-street, Walworth, before Cough jEmsterr, Esq. Coroner far Surrey, on the hell Charles Smithey!, aged 22 years, a journcyrzi dresser, who worked for Mr. Dawson, hair-dreow in the Walworth-road. It appeared that the de. ceased, in company about half past four o'clock on Tuesclty nags* in Mill-goad, Lock's-fields ; being deceived as to we depth of water, and not being a swimmer, I . l e r." to rise no more. The boys hagered M me , late ly n . the Camden's Head (where the drags are kept) Jed for a cua gave the alarm ; the body was dragged_ with two boys, went to bate. us 9 tic: able time to no purpose. About young man dived and succeeded ill bringing ° P t ' t bcdy, but quite dead. The deo:abed W 2l t° have married to-morrow. Verdict—ACCideittal Da COUNTRY MARK ETS. 01 i s to UKIIILIDOP, June 4.—Wheat, per IDA C-- Raley, per piercer, 4o to 411e—Oati, 2 4 1 "I 399--1 " . " 485 to sur—Yeas, --a to --s—Rye, oOs to 0016 BA away June 4.—Whet, 6s. 64. to to oct—Bess , : o . 4 to to. od--:vetches, os od per kusitel.--Uarn , —Outs, Ws ed to Sos 04 per quarur—Urcao, i s us reck—Hour, 66. to 001 per sack. touciwki. •. —Tho ttzr° l B l l4 alf j -p. u .c ne k 4 roar le . Whale Pritecd . a Os i ti th • —el t ri Vribeg lei ' I. 4 1110:1011/ATII,Riae IMIDON BalDGEW "litel. Waling Aftratoes : 7 17 wiimile• AN 4 14141D0N Pthited as 4 re'lisim•l by I.tvrt -• Trl*l3Ar! h