Star. — London, England, 1819-02-17 00:00:00

1 . ,t ,. to resolve itself into a Committee on the As. 5 ,. 1 ,1 Tax on Horses, gr. CCRIV.EN rose, and observed, that consider. 2 * hardship was experience.l in different parts of :he country, from the unequal operation of this tax, sccording to the present syste m. A f er a f e w other observations, the Home resolved :,- • ..lf into a Comm ittee, and the Report was ordered o be brought up on Monday next. gr. 13:10G DEN brought up the Report of the Committee „ N i l e to the , offerin g of Rewards fur the apprehension of livigie;Ortlered to lie on the table. ct s respecting Vt. LORING'S/SI brought up certain Pa? 0 &brio of the °Meets of the House of Commoas.—Ov iird to lie on the table. lb. LOSIlltiG roN brought up other Papers, relative to kit:Taber of Ships employed in the Nlrba!e Fishery.—Ordered ele g o th e table!--Adjournesi L. a quarter before Eight. —_.. - ------- ,_ a Tjl E EVENING STAR LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1819. THE FUNDS. ?nice OT STOCKS TlitS DAT AT OWE 13 . CLCCIC brA Stock 267 B—Exch. Bills (2d.)12 IQ 11 IS pr. 3Ter Cent. Reduced 7 7 at _c....16 1 7 614 ens. for Acc. 61-31 -?er Cent. 861 it 4 9er Cent. 961 5}—.5 per Ceht. Navy 1061 7 6f N. 14. Ans. 20i 5-161 —India Stook 229 1 , 9 tdia Bonds 71 63 pr.—Omnium Far, Fosiness commenced very heavy this morning, and little done. Consols cper.ed at 76-1, but several z eificial buyers mado their appearance, and ran tMal up to 77t. An immense quantity of the pawned ;:cck was then thrown upon the market, and Con fell to 76:;:. The Commissioners were serred by the JGbbers generally, in Reduced, It Lord C.V.IT.7REAGII stated last night, in the House of Common, that the Report of the Select Com mittee on the t7indscir Establishment would be pre sented to-day, and postponed his motion on the sub ject to Monday; when there will probably be an animated di.cussion, Mr. TIERNEY having given totice that he should divide the House upon the proposed grant to the Duke of YORK of 10,0001. a 7car, on his undertaking the custody of the KING'S person; or rather, upon this question—whether, if Cie sum of MOM. a-year is to be assigned to his Poyal Highness, it ought not to be taken out of the • Privy Purse? The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning, tot they contain little else than the report of another day's debate on the Bill for altering the term of the I bancial year. The proposition is, to make it run from July to July, instead as at present, from Feb raary to February ; connected with which is another, arising more conveniently than necessarily out of it, that the Chamber shall this Session vote the taxes for eighteen months, instead of twelve—that is, till July, 1820..-so as to get rid of the odd time between this sad the Ist of Jely next. The opposition Membees contend, that by the Charter the duration of the taxes r,3l.cteti to twelve months, and that it is there apt constitutionally in the power of the Chamber to vote them for a day beyond that period ; and that ffen were they to vote them for 18 months, as• proposed, , :teLieges would not be bound to submit to the De rn of the Legislature, but might legally contest its ilidity. In illustration of this principle, M. DE SAINT ALMA IRE made a happy reference to the case cf oar I lAMPDES, whose patriotic conduct, in obsti tately refusing, at the hazard of his whole fortune, pay an illegal tax of ten shillings, would, he said, be the noble example which all good Frenchmen might be expected to pursue. The debate having :gain continued till the usual hour of rising, was a Li:d time adjourned till Monday, when, it will pro• be concl-ded, as only five more Members have their names to speak upon it. The Funds keep llorly stationary. On Saturday they left off • 70 f. A Flanders Mail arrived this day and brings us Brussels Papers to the 11th instaiit. They are chiefly ccelPied with the Sittings of the Second Chamber. On the 10th, many Petitions relative to Customs and I:xcise wete referred to Committees. Like our 'ra Manufacturers, the different branches keep re. Itcrstrating against taxes on their respective pro- Lects: the Scap-makers oppose a Tax on Soap, and Popcse one on Potash ; which the Glass-makers op itte as calculated to injure the manufacture of Flint Vass. The Committee to whom this question had bra referred propose 15 per cent. and inferior rates 0: day on Flint and other Glass imported. On the 15th, Treaties concluded by his Majesty • the King of PIUMSIA ; the King of the Two St irs ; and two German Princes, on the reciprocal i':" l .ltion of the Droits d'Aubaine in their respective I.ites, were communicated to the Chamber. The Order of the Day was the discussion of the Project • Law, respecting sea letters and Turkish passes.— !Vart 1/onEsmonr made along and eloquent speech, 1 •vhich he entered into historical details of the for splendour of the Marine; the Navigation and , • ramerce of the Netheilands:; and the best means restoring its former splendour, and extending the prnreerce of the counti y ; and augured much for f'ture prosperity from the foreign branches being • '-ginger confined to privileged and charmed com ranks, but open to the Citizens at lane. According to the latex oif:cial accounts to Go. 'emnrzet, now publi,lted from the Council Office, tie Plague is raging with gnat violence at Algiers ttlt: Tunis, A letter from Minorca or the 28th of `''comber, says, that a vessol had arrived there from 7 -nis, after a passage of eight days, bringing ac tozr.s that the deaths in that City amounted to above four hundred doily. The Master of the Vessel re.: of which was drawn out, and a hook put through it, ported that just before he sailed the deaths hadl whilst round the neck were the labels, ." Whig," increased to upwards of six hundred per disszi.. " Tory," and " Carlton House bred." It was car ried about in great state among the crowd in front of A Dutch frigate, arrived at Mahon from Algiers, the hustings for some time, and excited " thunders brings dispatchesup to the 13th of December, stating of applause." that fresh attacks of the plague had taken place in At last four o'clock arrived, and the poll was that city. The contagion was supposed to have been struck for the day, when the total numbers were— Alr. Hobhotue . 469 re-introducedsby the persons who accompanied the Mr. Lamb - - BEY of Constantinas with. the quarterly payments Major Cirtwright - 26 for the Algerine Government. It is added, that the This was received with another general shout, and deaths by the plague at Tunis, according to the offi- Mr. HODHOUSE stepped forward. cial returns from the Ist of November to the Ist of He began by again congratulating his friends that December, amounted to 1'2,117. their cause was still at the head of the poll; and he trusted it would so continue, in spite of every artifice resorted to by their opponents. He used the words " in spite of the arts of. their opponents," because he had then in his hand a proof of as extraordinary an artifice as had ever been resorted to in the history of contested elections. He then produced a paper, which he said had been issued from the Committee of his opponent, and contained sundry observations on the declaration which he (Mr. H.) had made at the hustings on Saturday last. If he was in error in saying . that it emanated from them, let them now dis avow it.—Mr. ft. then read several extracts from this paper. It purported to be an address to the Electors, and began by telling them, that the right of Suffrage in Westminster was almost universal. " This," said Mr. 11. 44 is false. Westminster con tains 168,00% inhabitants, and only 14,000 of these were entitled to vote. But it is not my intention to d a ell upon this mis-statement ; it is the calumny of the inference they have drawn from it of which I complain. They say, " now what does Mr. Hob house mean, by giving an equality of sea; age? Why, he tells you plainly, that when he is returned, he means to disfranchise the majority of the Electors of Westminster. ' The Nobleman, the private Gen= tleman, the rich shopkeeper, and the opulent mer chant, he would leave in possession of their right of suffrage; but the ingenious artizan, the poor house holder, and the humble labourer, he would disfran chise." How they have dared to assert these senti ments as mine, or how they can reconcile the so doing with their professions of respect for you, conceiving that you could be gulled by such an artifice, I am at a loss to imagine. They were handed out of that Committee-room, and Mr. James Macdonald was in the Chair at the very time. ( Shame! shame ! ) ask' that Gentleman, then, the direct question,—lL it, Mr. Macdonald, the work of your Committee ?" Mr. MACDONALD: " I will answer you by and by." ( Yah! Shame I He too'nt answer. Go on, Hothouse.) Mr. HOSHOUSE then continued, that they (Mr. L.'s Committee), knew perfectly well that he was for the very largest possible extension, and had declared himself so unequivocally, that none but the wilfully blind could affect' to misunderstand him. He had put his opinions on paper, because he knew thcre was no other mode of dealing with his opponents, the Whigs. " Their chief•power consists,—and to de-, scribe it correctly, I must do it in rather coarse terms,l —.their chief power consists in telling infamous falsi 'ties."—(Some applause, with great disapprobation.)-- He asked, had he ever given cause to suspect that he had the intention of depriving them of any part of their political rights? The Whigs objected to his calling Reform an object paramount to every other; fir it was no longer so In their estimation. They had objected to his nomination in a room; but did they not bring there themselves that excellent young man, Lord John Russell, and did not they, when they saw the unanimity which prevailed itt his (Mr. H.'s) favour,—did not they, by the mouth of Mr. Wishart, withdraw his Lordship's claims, stating, that they did so because they would not create disunion ? Mr. H. concluded with again asserting, that he was not a party-man : and that if he went into the House of Commons, it would not be to do the work of this or that great man, but the work of the people only. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then advanced to address the Meeting. Mr. HUNT came forward- at the same time, and the Hon. Baronet gave way to him. Mr. HUNT then spoke : he contended Sir Francis bad no right to be heard, as he was not a candidate, before Mr. Lamb. Ile advised the populace not to listen to the former, and called upon the latter to speak first. • Mr. Lama came forward, but the tumult was so great that he could not obtain a hearing. Mr. HUNT again stepped out.—(Go it, Hunt! give it the Baronet! don't spare him! &c. followed in peals). The orator again, like Demosthenes on the sea-shore, out-roared the storm with the following sentences— " I want to put some questions, for your good, to Sir Francis. His political death is fast approaching. Will you submit to his assuming the Dictatorship any longer ? Major Cartwright has sent three questions. to be put to Sir Francis Burdett. Will you let me put them ?"—EThe uproar, however, continued with unabated violence, and after some time, Mr. Hunt passed up the outer bar, towards that part of the hustings where Sir Francis stood. In his way, he was assailed-with dreadful yellings ; he persisted, how ever, and stood brandishing his paper, containing Major Cartwright's questions ; and at length, not being able to obtain the least intermission in the cla mour, he again raised his voice, and read the ques tions in the midst of it. The ast tprestion asked, upon what ground Sir Francis concluded that Major Cartwright had no wish for a seat in Pirliameut, knowing, as he did, that the Major hail been a Can- - &date three times already ; namely, for Nottingham, Retford, and Boston ?—.2.dly, What were the Hon. Baronet's reasons for believing, that even with his support, and that of his Committee, it would be im possible to carry the election Of Major Cartwright for Westminster ?—f,dly, What are the statements in Cobbett's Register, which the Major, in his " Letter to the Electors of Westminster," countenanced, know ing them to be false ?—Mr. Hunt, hiving read these questions, added, " I told you I would give way to none but a Candidate, and I'll never give way to the Hon. Baronet. Ile likes to come in the sunshine, and he skulks away in the thunder storm. I tell you that he is a political apostate, who has formed so many different opinions, that GOD only knows to what sect he belongs. Ile accuses Major Cartwright of falsehood, but he knows that the Major can, 'to use the beautiful language of Mr. Hobhouse, prove him guilty of infamousfaisities. Sir Francis ought to know that the delusion of 18 0 7 is gone by." 51n Hunt then retired, and .31t. Lassa once mom caaic•loi ward, and, *nicht is • i the most horrible uproar, said he could not have con: ceived it possible that.the admirers of Mr. Flobboute's eloquence could have been alarmed at his puny era forts td answer him: - After all the pompous promi ses, however, of the preceding day, he had not, on • this day's poll, a majority of fifty votes--(" Only forty-eight,' fi-oni the Huaings).—This was the way he meant to show theni they were tvithout a chance of success. The Honourable Baronet, as Mr. llt a a)- house had promised, had brought up his forces front " the populous parish of St. James," amounting in the whole to about 50 votes, so that this was all the result of the Honourable Baronet's extraordinary cx. ertions. He was glad, however, that the Baronet liUdglecen spared the mortification of seeing his Fro tega at the bottom of the poll; for he seemed to ex. perience infinite anxiety on his account. When he brought up the peptlous parish of St. James that morning, he took his stand on the hustings, and got the huzzas of only seven voices. This, however, did not diminish his appetite for popular applause, and he was now come again, and stood before the people of Westminster, unable to obtain a hearing. Mr. Hobhouse had produced a paper, to which he required an answer, and talked of 44 infamous falsities." For his part, he (Mr. Lamb) was not used to such lan guage ; but it was a common observation, that when people were losing their cause, they generally lost their temper also. „All he should say to the paper kn question at pi esent, was, that he thought the man who wrote it was fullrentitied to the £l,OOO which had been offered to any one who could make 1.4 r. Hobhouse's declaration intelligible. Mr. Honitotysz again came forward, but was in terrupted with cries of " Spoke, spoke e' and even tually retired to make way for Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, wl:o, as he came forward, was received with a loud and long shout of applause. Sir Francis, however, like his predecessors, was an noyed, throughout a very long speech, by a great number of noisy dissentients. ,He spoke of the cause of Reform, as the one to which his whole life had been devoted, and insisted that he never had deserted it for a moment. He proceeded to speak more at large on those points by which he perceived their minds were affected. He could not but congratu late them that no Court Candidate dare shew him self before them ; neither dare even he, the Coalition an Cdidate, who was equally the friend of the ins and the outs, come before them without a disguise. He knew that if he had declared for Radical Reform, he would have lighted the torch of discord among the Whigs, and they would ,have thought him no more a Whig than himself. So hee came there in disguise, and told them he was a Reformer on the principles, of Sir Samuel Romilly. But it wrs ahsurd to talk of being of the principles of a nail who is deceased, and whose principles, on that particular question, are 'no where recorded. Sir Francis then went into a general review of the dif ferent plans of extension of suffrage, and contended that no one had yet insisted on suffrage without any exception. The words Universal Suffrage, literally understood, meant no exception;—and ere was the advocate for this? He defended himself against the charge of having deserted Major Cartwright, and said that he had the greatest cause of complaint against the Major. lie then recurred to Mr. Lamb and the Whigs; and asked, what had the Whigs ever done for this country ? Even at the Revolution they betrayed the cause, and came in with a sham decla matory Act, called " the Bill of Rights," but which had more properly been called " the Bill of Wrongs." Their system, or that which they supported, had since filled the metropolis with military, so that not a street was to be found without its proportion of bayonets. They had also an ample share of that perniciors -sytaem of Bank paper to answer for; but if he \vete t) detail all the mischiefs of Whiggism, or the glo ries, as Mr. Lamb would say, he should detain them till midnight. The Whigs in place were like the Tc ries out of place, and Ralph the Historian had desig• nated them as the "two thieves between whom England is crucified." On his retiring, Sir Francis Burdett was greeted with very general applause. Mr. MACDONALD then came forward, and expressed his surprise and indignation that Mr. Hobhouse and his friends had retired withcaat giving an opportunity of answering the attack which had been made on Mr. ,„Lamb's Committee. He thought when he heard him begin to talk of infamous falsehoods, that he was al luding to the report of that Committee, by which he had been brought forward. But. if Mr. Hobhouse meant to insinuate that the raper which he had pro duced originated with him, he would hurl back.the falsehood in his teeth. That paper, it was true, had found its way into Mr. Lamb's Committee, and had been read there with great interest, as he had no doubt it would he by all Westtninster ; and he could not but feel obliged to him for giving it the publi city he had done, by coming to talk about it, The noise and ups oar continuing all the time Mr. M. was speaking, he retired imn.e.llately after the above remarks; and Mr. Gale Junes, according to his ancient custom, mounted the rostrum for the finale, in which he dipped deeply into Grecian and Roman History, &c. After which the Meeting quietly dispersed. RTli DAY. State of the Poll this day at one o'clock : Mr. llosihnss . - 540 Mr. LAMII 49t Major CaIINVIIIGII/ Ea • Friday, Mr: TYLER, Bookseller, of Cow-Cross St. West Smithfield, was arrested on a Judge's V;arrana, for selling Paine's Age of Reason. A young French traveller, nephew of Court Mot- Lteu, Ex-Minister, has succeeded in reaching Tom buctoo by way of Senegal. Ilisofamily has just re ceived a letter from him, in v,hich he annon-Ices h:s safe arrival in that celebrxed town, hitherto unkncwa to Europeans, and %.Itiell the vnfortunate MvNQo ,PARK twice vainly attempted to reach. C O RN-EXCHANGE, MA RK-LA NE, FEBRETART 17. Our Market continues abundantly supi,lied ith , T 1 Crain, fol which the demand is very trifling, a! d what little Wheat was disposed of this morning was 'rather on lower terms than on Monday. The $.113(y trade is expeedingly dull, and although lower price were asked by full 2s. per quarter than were (*stair.. 'ed on Monday, scarce a sale could be e ff ecte d._ Beans, Peas, and Oats, are also cheaper, the supply of each being large, and vcry sew buyers. ::' ~~ i , „ t I I 1‘ ; I , NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 14.—Wind N.N.W. Sailed some outward-bound vessels and coasters. COWES, FEBRUARY 16.—Wind S.S.W. Arrived the Amity, Gray, from London for Batavia ; Lloyds, M , Ptieesorr, for Cork and St. Helena ; Wellington, from Shields for the Cape of Good Hope. PORTSMOUTH FEBRUARY 16.—Wind S.W. It blew hard all this day, but is now more moderate.. Arrived the General Kyd, Windsor, Atlas, Streat ham, Lord Wellington, Stakesby, Bombay, and Here fordshire, from London for India ; and a number of outward-bound vessels.. The ships which sailed on the 14th instant are most of them put back. DEAL, FEBRUARY 16.—Wind S.W. fresh breezes rain.. Remain as per last, Five o'clock P.M. Soveral vessels are coming in with signals for pilots, and proceeding for the River—particulars tiAnown. Dovee, FEBRUARY 16.—Arrived last night the King George and Chichester packets, from Calais, with passengers ; also l'Antigone French packet, with the three Mails which were due. Arrived this morns ing the Lord Duncan packet, Captain PASCOE, from Ostend, with a Mail and passengers. Arrived this evening the Lord Duncan packet, Captain HAMIL TON, with passengers, from Calais ; and the Vigilant, Captain BUSHELL, from Boulogne. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 15.—Sailed the Stockton, LANGLEY, for Calcutta; and some others outward bound. LystusroTow, FEBRUARY 16.—None of the ships with the troops on board, for the West Indies, which sailed on Sunday last, have come back, but the wind is still S.S.W. and blows hard. Arrived the Sappho, STEWARD, from London for Madras. LIVERPOOL, FEB.ls.—Arrived the Blucher, PEAR.. SON, from Calcutta ; sailed 21st, and from the Sand Heads elSth September, in company with the Argo, for Liverpool, and Briton, for London. The Atlas, SHORT, from .London, arrived at S:. Helena 28th December. Also arrived here, the Shannon, KEN HALL, from Demerara—sailed 13th January, in com pany with the Anacreon, for Liverpool, and Sym metry, for Londop ; the I3erbice for Liverpool, was to sail ist 14 days. Also arrived, t he! Georgia, Symms, from Savannah—sailed 14th January, in company with the Jane, for Liverpool. SountWOLD, Fe.3.l6.—The John, Howes, of Yar mouth, fron Newcastle to Plymouth, with coals, got on the Barnard Sand, on Saturday last, and laid there eight hours, but was got off and brought into this port, leaky. • - WESTMINSTER ELECTION. THIRD DAY. - The business of the election recommenced yesterday morning as gloomily as the day itself. Not only the veal of party seemed damped, but even election cu riosity appeared exhausted, and the garden:stuff folk, throughout great part of the forenoon , were but little incommoded, - either by Tories, Whiks, Moderates, Radicals, or even by Universalists. No interest whatever either appeared to be given to the affair by a placard, pretty generally posted, which seemed to insinuate that a fourth Candidate was about to start, by advising the Electors not to throw away their votes on 4‘ the present unworthy Candidates." The whole, thing went on as dull.and as spiritless as though, to' use the simile of a worthy Radical, " as though the elements themselves had thrown a tvet blanket over it." Among the few voters who came to the poll, we observed the venerable Admiral Caldwell, supported to the hustings from his carriage, by two servants,' and after all ceremonies done, he very emphatically gave his vote for Mr. Lamb. At length, towards twelve o'clock, the sound of the fiddle and clarionet was heard in the distance; expectation stood on tip toe—the crowd began to thicken—and presently the dark-blue banner of the Burelettites was seen waving •,ver the heads of the worthy. parishioners of St. James's, s( me 50 or 60 strong (the corps de nverue promised by Mr. Hobhouse the day before), advanc ing to the scene of action, headed by Sir Francis and his aides-de-camp, to the old tune of " See the con. epieri,:g hero comes." The Baronet having led his followers to the attack, retreated into the interior of the hustings, and they passed on to the poll. Many of these gentlemen,however,it seems, had practised a kind of rwe de guerre, in marching under the purple ban ner, for no sooner were they safe at the poll-books, thin they went over to the enemy, and voted for Mr. Lamb ; or, in Parliamentary phrase, they rafted. Soon after this rush had subsided, the then state of the poll was declared, and appeered thus : Mr. Hobbouse - - - IC9 Mr. Lamb - - Gl the worthy Major - . a After this all was quiet again for along time. The calm was a deceitful one, however, and was only the prelude to an approaching stop m, as will be seen by the sequel. From two to three o'clock they began to ex hibit the usual ferment, and the . gentlemen without the bar indulged themselves freely in remarks on the different voters as they c::11:e up. Those of Mr. Lamb, for instance, were saluted with the epithet of a Sheep-face" and followed by imitations of the cry of that animal,: " Ban, baa," accompanied with peals of laughter, and shouts of derision. Those vf the other Candidates, however, escaped without much no. tice. At about half-past three, Sir Francis Burdett again appeared on the hustings with Mr. llobhouse, and they were received with a pretty general shout of applause. Nearly at the same rime, Mr. Lamb I appeared, accompanied by Mr. Macdonald, whilst Mr. Hunt, attended by his friends Bowie, Gale Jones, &c. took his usual station as the representative -of Major Cartwright. From this time till the close of the poll, the row was tremendous; and it was by no means diminished by V - e appearance, at this mo ment, of a kind of effigy of the human figure, hoifted on a pole, and having the head of a lamb the tongue