Star. — London, England, 1819-08-04 00:00:00

I t 1? ' I I liIT ~' iI EVENING STAR . . LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS Tms DAY AT ONE O'CLCCK Bank Stock. 232 3 per Cent. Reduced 7111 i - 3 per Cent. Consols 71t 71 t 71 3 per Cent. 81-4 per Cent. 90iif 5 per Cent. Navy 1041 i Bank Loi.g. Annuities 191 3-16 India Bonds 10 9 11 pre. - Exchequer Pills (2d.) 2 3 1 pre. Commercial 24 22 discount ~nnium 4 n pre. msols for Acct. 71it f 71 t. ,sre are happy to find that we are not left without s orters in the efforts we have been making to :arise the public attention to the present distresses of the working classes, and the remedies called for by the citcumstances in which the whole community has for some time been placed. Veg.:3-day a respectable Daily Paper (the Morning Post) inserted in its co. lumps the observations we had offered on Monday, •on the propriety and necessity of a Public Meeting being called in the City, to lay the foundation of a well digested plan for establishing a NATIONAL FUND, for the immediate aid of the unemplo: . ed, to be aided by Collections and Charity Sermons throughout the Kingdom : and tin; mot ning, another Paper of great respectability (Tito limes), has inserted from our columns of yesterday, the letter signed " A Ma niffezctitrer," ca the injustice and impolicy of forcing goods into the market at prices unich rob the workmen et . .he wages necessary even for their bare sustenance. The public press can do much to rectify the mistaken views which have too long been main tained by some who would yet pass fur economists of the first character ; and we doubt not that the dif ferent Editors will shew the same honest zeal which has actuated them generally on every occasion that concerns the cause of humanity, and the vital inte rests of the most industriaas and best informed work ing population upon the face of the earth : for such we hold to be that important class by whose manual industry the manufacturing superiority of this king dom has been icarc„. and upheld. We are hal.py to laarn, by accounts which have been received frc.n Prince of Wales' Island, dated Ist March, 1819, that Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES, Go vernor of 13en,:oolen, had succeeded in making en gagements with the Native Authorities for the estab iv.ment of a British Factory at Singapore, the ancient iti.ne capital of the Malays. Our Readers are aware of the strenuous exertions made by the Dutch, since their recent restoration to power in the Indian Seas, not only to exclude us from all commerce in the Malayan Archipelago, but even to obstruct our China trade. They had already made the most sapid strides in a system of territorial ac quisition from the Native Powers; and not satisfied with declaring themselves sovereigns of all Borneo and the whole of the Islands, were about to become complete masters of the Indian Seas, when Sir STAM FORD RAFFLES, with a provident vigilance for Bri tish interests which deserves the highest praise, called the attention of the Government at home to the ne cessity of counteracting their designs, and, under the sanction, as we presiune, of Government, proceeded to open negotiations with such of the Native Powers as yet maintained their independence, for permission to establish Factories at such points as might prevent the Dutch from effecting, by their territorial in fluence, our utter exclusion from the trade of these seas. The Settlement which he has now succeeded in negotiating is one which cannot be long in develop ing its great importance. Singapore is situated at the South end of the Peninsula of Malacca, opposite to the Island of Sumatra, and to the Eastward of the Port of Malacca. It possesses one of the finest har bours in the Archipelago, and its 'relative situation is such as to combine the greatest maritime advantages. It will be a commercial station for communication with the China ships passing either through the Straits of Sunda or Malacca, completely outflank Malacca, and intercept its trade, in the same manner as Malacca has already intercepted that of Prince Edward's Island. In short, unless the natural course of things is greatly thwarted by want of adequate and liberal encouragement from home, of which we cannot permit ourselves to entertain any apprehen sion, there can be little doubt of Singapore becoming ere long as general an emporium for the Eastern trade as either Malacca or Prince of Wales's Island have ever yet been. The Dutch never had any factory at Singapore, but they had formerly one at Rhio, a port in the ad jacent island or Bintang, at the extremity of the Malay Peninsula. This factory was destroyed in 1795, and, ever since, Rhio has been under the inde pendent Sovereignty of the Sultan of Lingen. The Dutch are stated to be greatly annoyed at the success which has attended Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES in this negotiation ; and will, no doubt, use every effort to obstruct the projected Settlement. if British enterprise, however, is only allowed fair play in the competition, and that it is amply in the power of the '..British Government to secure for it, we have no fears whatever for the rank. Sir STAMPORD RAFFLES had been absent from his Government on the business of this Treaty about six months, and' at the date of these advices had again taken his leave of Bencoolen, intending to proceed.to 'Acheen, on the northern side of Sumatra, to arrange our political affairs and interests in that quarter. Accounts from Buenos Ayres to the middle of May reached us this morning. The following relates to the operations of Lord COCHRANE BUENOS AYRES, MAY 14. 4 , We have accounts by way of Chili that a South- Sea whaler had arrived at Charabuco, from Callao de Lima, bringing the intelligence of Vice-Admiral Lord Cochrane having entered the latter port on the 23d of February, during a dense fog, with the squa dron under his cofnmanit, and immediately opened a brisk fire against the shipping and batteries, which was returned and kept up for a couple of hours. The result was Lord Cochrane's carrying off a gun-boat, and doing great damage to the shipping which he was unable to cut out, owing to the chain fastenings. He afterwards cuptAted the Spanish merchant-ship Vittoria, from-Chili tar pima, laden with timber." Accounts have been received from Venezuela, con firming the defeat of a Spanish forte by a leader of the Independents, named Soriiitroxß. A letter from that Officer to General BOLIVAR, dated Sart tiago de Pore, April 15, 'says— " I have just completed the destruction of the Royalist army, which, in number 3,500 men, came from Santa Fe, for the purpose of joining MORILLO in Achaguas. None of them have escaped our arms. All are either dead or prisoners. To the cry of— , Veneer o' motir,' our troops, much inferior in num ber, charged with such firmness, that nothing could resist them. The artillery which they had in Salinas, and all their arms, baggage, and munitions, have fallen into our hands." A despatch from the Secretary of State of the Re public of Venezuela to the Plenipotentiary from that State in London, dated Angustura, May 28, which was received with the accounts of the above victory, contains the following particulars: At no period has the state of our cause been so flattering as at present : doubtless within this present year the terrible struggle between despotism and liberty will be terminated. By the accompanying manuscript and printed papers, you will learn the complete triumph of SANTANDER over the Spanish army which was marching from Santa Fe. A divi sion of 2,500 men, under General URDANETA, which composes part of the auxiliary English army, will disembark on the coast at the beginning of June, to proceed to Caraccas, while our President BOLIVAR marches from Varinas, in the direction of that ca lpital; and General PAEZ watches Montt.Lo, who is in Achaguas, on the Apure. The cities of Socorro, Tunja, and Pamplona, have sent to SANTANDIR their congratulations on the victory of Pore. That Commander now marches to occupy Santa Fe de Bogota. Wherever his army passes, it is received with enthusiasm. In a short while I expect to send you most satisfactory accounts of the happy progress of the arms of our Republic. The British who are in our service do much honour to our cause." American Papers, to the 6th July, arrived this morning. The following are extracts: - - FROM TDE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, JUNE 29. Captain Canaway, of the schooner Thomas Tenant, from St. Thomas's, states, that a short time before he sailed, a small privateer schooner, commanded by one Masser, belonging to Baltimore, had been taken by •an English 50 gun ship, and carried into Barbadoes. The First Lieutenant of the privateer•, after he was carried on board the ship, was tucked up, and had 50 lashes on his bare back, in conse quence of the depredations of these piratical cruizers upon the commerce of the Island. A Danish ship of war, hearing of the success of the English man of war, went out in pursuit of a small schooner which lay off Tortola, and took pos session of her by stratagem, and carried her into St. Thomas. They took the crew into safe keeping, and, not to be out-done by the English, they took the se cond in command within six miles of the place, and inflicted summary punishment on him. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MONTE-VIDEO, DATED APRIL 26. " General Aguir, one of General Artigas's prinei* pal Officers, who had been made prisoner by the . Portuguese, has made his escape from Monte-Video, collected a number to join him, and is committing all kind of depredations. It is expected the new Con stitution would be promulgated the 25th of May.—. As Artigas's friends were to share in the Govern ment, a declaration of war against Portugal would be immediately made, and the conquest of Monte- Video was expected." The failure of one of the greatest commercial houses at Baltimore (for £300,000) which has re cently taken place, has spread considerable uneasi ness among the manufacturers of the West Riding of Yorkshire, as well as at Manchester and other parts of L.lacashire, many of whom will be Consi derable losers by the event. Not a letter arrives from America that does not bring the most gloomy accounts of the state of trade, and the consequent distress experienced by the great body of the people throughout the Union.. The wages of labourers, and likewise of the MARVA employed in- -the various handicraft businesses, ha. experienced a reduction of nearly one half, yet even at this reduction, more than one-third of the work ing population are out of employment, and their numbers are daily augment - ed by the shoals of emi grants from all parts of Europe, but more particu larly from England and the sister kingdom. We have been favoured with the inspection of two letters from Philadelphia, of the Bth ult. one from New York of the 6th, and one from Charleston of an an tecedent date. These all breathe the same gloomy spirit as to the present unlooked-for and unexampled distress experienced by all ranks in America. The snfferings of the lower orders (in a country where no poor-rates are levied, 'and but few establishments provided fur their relief) are represented as most heart-rending; and many hundreds (the writer of one of the letters says thousands) of our unfortunate countrymen, who had disposed of their little all of property in this country, to enable them to cross the Atlantic, are now pennyless and unprotected, aad enduring the worst of privations in a strange land, subsisting on casual charity ; sighing and imploring to be sent back to their native land, but utterly de stitute of the means to accomplish their wishes. The change with respect to the state of affairs in America, seems greater than in any other quarter of the globe. Formerly it was the proud boast of the American-, " Bankrupts we have few ; and Beggars we have none." But, alas ! the scene is strangely reversed ; their streets are crowded with mendicants, and their principal commercial houses sinking rapidly to ruin. As a set-off to these dismal accounts, the letters above noticed, state the crops of all descriptions to be un usually large and fine—and the season, so far, to have been extremely healthy. Letters have been received from Rio Janeiro, reaching to the 29th of May. Matters are not quite so bad in that quarter as in North America and Eu rope; yet trade there is at present extremely dell, owing to an overstocked market, and the unsettled state of the country, on account of the uncertain issue of the eventful contest now carrying on. The Exchange, which had been at 69, 70, had fallen to 62i, but was again looking up to 63. Letters from Martinique and Guadaloupe repre sent the commerce of these islands to be in a state of extreme difficulty and embarrassment. The princi pal part of their specie had been shipped for France; and the payment of debts, in a great number of in stances, was considered entirely out of the question. Of the merchants residing in Martinique, not more than two or three were held to be really solvent. The trade of the islands, it was expected, would be thrown open, as the only means of saving the commercial interest from ruin. Advices from the Cape of Good Hope, dated May 10, were received yesterday. They communicate in formation of another irruption of the Caffres, who, by the last accounts, were suppposed to be com pletely repulsed, to the number of 30,000 men. They had crossed the river which divides their territory from that of the Cape, and were committing the most extensive depredations. Orders had been issued to compel the military service of the inhabitants of the adjoining district, and all the horses had been put into requisition, in order to equip a portion of them as cavalry, the species of force best calculated to repel the attacks of these dastardly but mischievous invaders The following is an extract of a letter, dated Irun, July 18: " Within the last two days there have passed through this city numerous Couriers from Madrid, proceeding to Paris and London. It is from them that we received the first intelligence of the insurrection which has broken out in a part of the army for the expedition assembled in the neighbourhood of Cadiz The particulars which have been rcceved from 31adrid on this subject draw a deplorable picture of the state of things, from which we are led to believe most t nhappy consequences will ensue. On the 13th instant, the followii g placard s‘ as stuck up in the square of the Sun, at Madrid A million of piastres is promised to any one who can find out what I as la.r:ome of the Viceroy of Peru, and the army of General Morino.' This paper was soon torn down, and the police was busily engaged in en ' deavouring to find out the author of it, which will be extremely difficult." The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon. The Duke of RICIIELIEU had on the preceding day a private audience of the KING, which lasted half an hour. The cause against Professor BAvAttx, of the School of Law, come on for trial on Saturday morn ing, and, after some preliminary proceedings, was adjourned till Monday. The Court was crowded to excess.—Five per Cents. Saturday, 71fr. 60c. Yesterday the PRINCE RECENT arrived at Carlton House from Hampton Court, and afterwards gave an audience to Viscount CASTLEREAUIt. Monday morning, Dr. WILsoN, Domestic Physi cian to the Duke and Duchess of KENT; and Mr. PETTIGREW, Surgeon to their Royal Highnesses, at tended at Kensington Palace, to Vaccinate the infant Princess. . _ . Wednesday, Earl FITZ WILLIAM arrived in York, in perfect health. WILTSHIRE ELECTION FOURTEENTH DAY.- 1 Vhen the Post left Salisbury yesterday, the final date of the Poll had not been decl tred, owing to the Sheriff having prolonged the time of closing to a later hour than usual. Mr. LONG ‘VELLESLEY, the Steward of the Salisbury faces for this year, has issued a notice, stating, that in consequence of the probabi- Jity of the Poll not closing thr.:e o'clock this day, the Races will not commence till four o'clock. I ~, M MIL measures for the maintenance of the Public THE DrSTUABED DISTRICT;', HUDDERSFIELD PUBLIC MrET7:-r. Atont!ay, AtTait :id, This day, pursuant to a previous public nei Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town and bourl.ood of Huddersfield, took place in a lam on Ald!:.onbury Bank, near the town. Thr was taken soon after one o'clock, and the re 9 being read, stated the Meeting to be come : the purpose of taking into their most serv o; calm consideration, the best means of obtai.ii lief from the pressing burdens under which til e labour, and the - Imq effectual means of sec , their Constitutional Rights in the Commons! of Parliament. With the exception of W it: , printer, of Dewsbury, none of the head s o f form party were present ; and the variou s h i , and speeches that were delivered, were m uc h, mediocrity : they were, howevet-, of a me re peace; cast than those of the other meetings in this di, The Declaration and Resolution were so to those of the last Hunslet Moor Meeting. would he a waste of room' o detail them. The si exhorted their countrymen to come b u ldly fo yet to conduct themselves with firmness and tion, and to form a National Union, on Consti grounds, to support the pillars of the Constit England.—lt Being a Saint's Day among thi orders, the weather being uncommonly fine, : unfortunate circumstance of so many du usani out of employ, in the immediate vicinity of , of meeting, caused a considerable assemblage ground, though not so great as might have ticipated, from the causes above enumerate. Meeting broke up about six o'clock, and the assembled dispersed quietly to thetr respectir BURY, (LANCASHIRE) A public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Br held on Friday last, to take into ccnsiderai state of the Parish, as connected with the ger pect of affairs at the present crisis. A numb( solutions, suitable for the occasion, were passe( we understand, express commiseration for tresses and sufferings of the labouring classes, nation at the practices of the Radical Ref& a determination to swear in special Constar take other necesary measures for preserving and good-order of the place. BOLTON (GREAT AND LITTL7). A numerous and highly respectable Meetii been held of the Magis:rates of this Div: Boroughreeves and Corotahles, the Clergy, wardens, and other inhabitants of these toi their neighbourhood, at which a Declarai unanimously agreed to, stuting, that " the being seriously impressed with a sense of till which threatens the community from riled. practices of the disaffected, deem it . ;necessary to declare their determination to the Constitution of the Country, and to kith the local Authorities for the preservati public peace, and to call on their fellow , to join them in taking every measure which gency of the case may demand." BURNLEY. A Public Meeting was held at the Room here, on Saturday, of the Magistrates habitants of the Higher Division of the Blackburn, for the purpose of adopting this important crisis. It was very numerni tended, and a Declaration was unanimousl , to and signed, the substance of which was e, the same effect as that previously adopted Magistrates and Inhabitants of Bolton. 3LINCHESTER MEETING. The followiug Proclamation has been the New Bailey Court-House, dated Saturday, of July : " Wh#l-eas, it appears by an advertisement in the . Observer Paper of this day, that Piratic and !turn:. is convened for Monday, the 9:h August next, to be Area near St. Peter's Church, in Manchester : signed Magistrates, acting for the Counties P..l7tine of caster and Clw , hire, do hereby caution all persons ' AT THEIR PFRII. from attending such illegal Meeting. " Wit.t.taas HeLTOY, " J. Hou:E, " J. NORRIS, "It. MAMI!, " JOHN " TRAPPORD " W. Manatorr, " Rant " Tilos. Wn. Mrturozi, MANCHESTER FEMALE REFORMING 5e.7115 This MANCHESTER FEMALE EEFORMERIe ADDRESS TO 71: MOTHERS, SISTERS, AND DA t 1:1; S, OF THE 5L MIDDLING CLASSES OF SOCIETY. " DEAR SISTERS OF THE is with a spirit ful consideration and due respect that we are induced you upon the causes that hare compelled us to and the miserable partners of our woes. Bereft not • support the calls of nature require for existence ; but of sweet repose has long been a stranger to us. (Mr filled with horror and despair, fearfal on each ing, the light of lEEAVEN should present to us the corpse famished offspring or m arest kindred, which the of Death bath released from the grasp of the opprcsser Sabbath, which is set apart by the ;11-wise CREATOR for rest, we are compelled to employ in repairing the' month to cover the nakedness of cur forlorn and - lies. Every succeeding Right brings wlth it new terrors. we are sick of life, and weary of a world w:._ edness, tyranny, and injustice, have so long been reign amongst men. " Dear Shiers, we feel justified in stating, thg previve system of Government that we now live, ttu that hath overtaken us, must speedily be the lot of sy - l• for it is said in the word of Cos, Where the ex.s...t t'• will the eagles be also ; and this we have yrcvcd Sr 1.12 n, that the lazy autoughmongering eq!es of dcs!;; .11 Auputt 2d ;;19. public net; at ce ; a own a n d 46 W O. The Ch ait tr be conve ze d lost seri(J of obtai-t"i- which the : 4 ,, ans of sec, om mons R.a e of Wm.. head s of „ 1 ••• • . 4 ar:eus haranza, ittre much be•:_s e re mete pea cea ti s in this district, • were so sirni al ► Meeting. that it 11l :m. The si .„. aket3 buldly torn.; '• ness and modern. on Constitutor, he Constitution • among the '.or inly tine, and t '• . 4 y thc usands beic, :inity of the pia .l tsvmblage on ;ht have bee:: a • js numerated. I , and the re ~ respective has. RE.) .t tants of Bury consideration th the gereral • A cumber of ; rere passed, wh;.. . anion for th e 1 ng classes, in :al Reformers, ~ 1 Constables, .• •iw eserving; the • ht ac' LITTL7). to table Meeting . this Division, c Clery;y, Chu . these towns 6 w, . Declaration " the Mee:i !nse of the dav tm :he designs a it inhpensabl t nation to sup nd to co-°. • , reservation of fellow town:. ore which the r. ou d the Coma:mc agistrates and f the Hundred re dopting effect. , e Public Peace k. :y numerously - animously ag • t ch was exactly • y adopted by .• • i ton. 'LNG. ce been issued fr. , d Saturday, av :v 1 :nt in the • 3rd !turn:..; • " up lest, to bc held es tat ter : We, the '•; 7. a lee P.drtine of 111 persons :o" Meeting. urn HoutE, • I nom:, tArroan Tsartaa , Li sum Fit/cm: s. MING 5r.17 5 ,DREss TO TUE LIP TILE ISXHO NI pith a spirit of tee induced e, a to associste top' Bereft nut pe iateoce ; but for • li cs us. a:r • • CC' each returning'" or; tr: is c Wi . nti :here poem tw. its e i prig pro* en t I:cut the a c hegEt ni hA v d °tTeh; :d leP c cera c rrom r4t s :l":f t sitt' i 'O s it i o ..;ll3l : al .c, •t, It] 0. v r Th P e, : v r h o ficelot 4t‘ r I' 11