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THI EVEN[ IG STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1819. THE FUNDS. I'ETCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O . CLCCE : 3 per Cent. Reduced 681 i 8 per Cent. Consols shut V I per Cent. 78f1-1. per Cent. 86 5 per &int. Navy slut Lail Long Annuities 181-16 India ''•ands 1 2 dis. hcluer Bills (2d.) 1 dis. par- Conn) ..mcial 35 discount omnli.:m dis. . Consols for Acct. 69111. The New Taxes acme again successively under the consideration of the House of Commons last night, and were all adopted by very considerable :INlajorities. The only modification obtained was, one in the additional Duty on Tea, of some importance to the poorer classes. Mr. WILSON, the City Mem- ber, moved that all Tea selling in the market (with out Duty included) at and under two shillings, should be exempted frum the increase of.. Duty, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acquiescing, a pro vision to this effect was adopted. The least Majority was on the proposed Duty on Foreign Wool. The Votes were—For the Duty, 106--Against it, 63 Majority, 43. MEETING ON HUNSLET MOOR. A full Report of the Proceedings at this Meeting appears in the Leeds Papers received this morning. We stated on Thursday, when giving exclusively a brief account of what had taken place, that we thought it would be a waste of our columns to give any detail of the speeches which were delivered on the occasion ; and on looking at the Report which the Orators themselves have sent fOrth of their effu sions; we think so still. Some passages of them are almost too daring and licentious for publication. The number of persons assembled is estimated to have been upwards of ten thousand. The Chairman (one WILLANS, a Printer, of Dewsbury), on reading the Declaration ultimately adopted by the Meeting, said, that it had received the unanimous approbation of Deputies from Manchester, Rochdale, Hudders field, Stockport, Blackburn, Wakefield, Macclesfield, and twenty other places. It states it to be their un alterable conviction, that nothing can redeem the country from the situation into which it had fallen but Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Election by Ballot ! The Deputies Trom each of these places also stated explicitly and individually to the Meeting, that such wem the principles universally approved by their Constituents. The conduct of the persons assembled was through out very orderly and peaceabie.—" We are far," says The Leeds Independent on this polar., ,‘ from harbouring any thought that the great body of the working classes are of themselves prdne to acts of outrage afid violence. On the conttary, we have the heartfelt satisfaction to bear our humble testimony to their patient endurance under privation—to their peaceable demeanour—to their firm and respectable veneration of those laws and institutions which have rendered this Empire (however severe may be the present pressure of temporary distress), the freest and the happiest country in the world. " But while we bear testimony to their puccable conduct, and while we cordially lament the evils to . which they have been subjected, we must frankly tell them that they are necessarily liable to become the dupes of designing men ; and that instead of adopting prudent measures for procuring the removal of their real grievances, they are rendering them selves the tools of a set of " villains, (we quote their own language) who would gladly employ them in the temporal destruction of their neighbours, and to the eternal perdition of their own souls !" We think the latter part of this quotation rather strongly put.' We are quite satisfied that the people are greatly deluded when they imagine that such things as Uniiersal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Election by Ballot, are to remedy all the grip• vous ills under which they undoubtedly I..bour ; but we are certainly not satisfied that these who are ac tive in putting this delusion upon them, have such incendiary and diabolical intentions as are here as cribed to them. Many things in the aspect of the buiiness incline us to think that these political Apos tles are themselves very sincere believers in the delu sion which they are labouring to propagate ; and that the worst we ought to ascribe to them is an excessive zeal to make others think ac sincerely in a foolish way as themselves. Nor ought we to be greatly amazed that men, who seem not altogether destitute of powers of reasoning, should be led away by such chimeras; since we have . high authority for it, that oppression maketh even the wise man mad." The sufferings of the working classes in the Northern Districts, arc at present great biy an d example; and, till a remedy be provided, in some way or other, we should not, perhaps, be fas ' tidiOtis in quarrelling with the language in which misery strives to make itself be heard. 'The anneied Letter on the subject, from our Pri vate Corr-esprit:sat, will be Inund worthy of perusal; • LEEDS, JUNE 17. " Every thing here threatens us with a repetition of those scenes of turbulence and outrage which every feeling mind must deplore. The sufferings and pri vations of the working classes are, indeed, great in the extreme; but what relief can they obtain, or what possible good can accrue to them, in any shape, from associating themselves with wild theorists and declaimers, who are, in too many instances, hired to inflame, mislead, and betray them; and whose vi. sionary schemes, were it possible to put them in practice, would afford no relief to the many thou sands of starving artisans and labourers, now in want of employment. The language made use of by the speakers, at the Meeting on Monday, cannot be to lerated with any regard to the public peace; and I am informed that effectual measures ha;/e been con certed to stem the mischiefs that might be expected to result from such ebullitions of popular spirit, goaded to deiperatiou by distress on the one hand, and inflamed by violent harangues on the other. " It is useless to deny that matters wear a most sombre aspect, in this and every other Manufac turing District; nor is it possible to calculate on the mischief's likely to result from the frequent assem bling together of so many thousands of men, whose minds arc soured by disappointment, and who are nearly driven to desperation by privations almost be yond human endurance. " It is said the intended removal of the 6th Dra goon Guards from this quarter, has been given up for the present, and that more troops have been forthwith ordered into the district, to act as circum stances may require. Frcm what transpired at the Meeting on Mon day last, it would appear that the plans of the Uni versal-Suffrage-men are extremely well laid, as it came out; in the course of the proceedings, that. an active correspondence, by deputies, has for a long time been kept up, between all the Manufacturing Districts in the Kingdom. The tax on Foreign Wool has spread a universal gloom in this part of the kingdom ; but as the old adage says, it is an ill wind,' &c. so in this instance, , 1 a respectable merchant in this neighbourhood will net £6,000 by the impost, from an extensive specu lation in Foreign Wools, a short time since. , "Flie sales of Cloth,.at the Hall, in Bradford, were rather extensive, both this and the last market days ; but there was no looking up in prices, as the immense stocks of the Manufacturers will enable them to 'met the most extensive demands for some time to come." A Mail Arrived last night from Hamburgh, with Papers to the I 2th instant. An Ordinance has been issued at Hanover, in the name of his Royal Highnets the PntkcE nEGEST, announcing, that in consequence of a proposal by the States of the Kingdom for the encouragement of the East Friesland Herring Fishery, all herrings caught on the open North Sea by foreign vessels, and prepared in the Dutch fashion, namely, the Dutch, Scotch, and Bremen, and all other herrings of the,same quality as those superior sorts imported for consumption in the Kingdom, shall pay an in creased duty of one rix dollar per 100 lb. and all in ferior sorts, such as the Swedish-Norwegian, &c. shall pay an import duty of eight good groxten for 100 lb. as fixed on the Ist of June last year. It appears that considerable opposition has been made in the Bavarian, Chamber of Deputies to the grant of eight millions for the expenses of the contin gent required to be kept up by that country, as its ' part of the Army of the Germanic Confederation. l The lqinisters of Bavaria attempt to justify this de-, mind, by the stale pretext, that the Members of the Germanic Diet do not consider the state of the Con tinent to be sufficiently secure to warrant them in relieving any of the German Powers from any part of the number cf troops which the Diet has fixed they shall each contribute towards the Confederation. A Bookseller of Heidelberg, who is also a Member of the Baden Chamber of Demties, has made a mo tion in the Chamber to establish the Liberty of the Press in that Grand Duchy, which, we are glad to learn, was well received by the Deputies. Neither is it expected that the Government will raise any obsta cle to it, though the new Constitution granted by the Grand Duke is silent on the subject. Farther accounts frOm Madrid impute the present deplorable state of the Spanish Navy chiefly to the offensive and defensive alliance which Cirantes X. concluded with the Republic of France. It was then in a very-respectable condition, but was annihilated by the invasion and subsequent usurpation of BONA rAnTE. At this time, there is not timber sufficient in the arsenal to build four ships of the lif:e, The native forests arc consumed, and the resources to be found in the cedars of the Island of Cuba are of no utility, as the Independent privateers infest those seas so much, that it would be difficult to convey away any considerable cargoes of timber from thence. The repair of the Russian vessels has considerably retar ded the sailing of the Gland Expedition; and it may '.be said, that the armament of a squadron has lately cost more trouble, labour,. and embarrassment, to Spain, than would have sufficed, twenty years ago, to • send fifty ships of the line and thirty frigates from 1 her ports. lIAMJIURGD EXCHANDE ON LONDON. i June 8 - 34-8 34-11 1 June 11 S 4-6 51-9. THE SPANISH .EXPEDITION. It is how quite certain that the Sigutisb Expedition which has been for so many months under prepara tion at Cadiz, will not at any rate sail until the be gsnning of September. The Commissioners appointed by FERDINAND VII. to undertake the management of it, have given instructions to their Agents in London, to contract for five thousand carbines, which are intended for the use of the Cavali y to be shipped on board the armament; and it is supposed that the Government at Madrid have cletermint.d to increase the number of horse regiments, rod have, in consequence, ordered this additional quantity of arms which are to be of the very best descriptiou.— The Commissioners, owing to the postponement of the departure of the expedition, do not require they should reach Cadiz before the end of August. NEW GRANADAN INDEPENDENCE ACT. In the bland of St. Andrews, of the Tiovince of Carthagena, Ind territory of New Granada, on e I 4th of April, 1819, in the 9th year of Independence, and the first of its restoration, his Excellency the Citizen Governor of the Province of Cal thagena, and sole delegate of the General Government of New Granada, Don JUAN ELIAS LOPEZ, being in his own residence, his Excellency the Generatin-Chief of the auxiliary army, Citizen Garcon 14Gnr.uon, presented himself with a numerous suite of Officers, and various other individuals of all classes. After 'the requisite ceremonies, his Excellency the Gover nor, addressing the Assembly, delivered the follow ing discourse : " Illustrious compatriots, you well know the mournful Lis_ tory of the evacuation bf Cartbagena. On that great occasion, I had the honour to depart with political authority. having retired to the Island of Jamaica, and always planning, with other fellow-countrymen, the means of recovering independence, we entered into a correspondence with the Envoy of New Granada at the British Court, Citizen Jose Maria del Real, dirccted to that end. At that time, the meritorious Gener:i I'Grtegor, that darling son of Southern America, offered his services to that Envoy. They were accepted ; put in execution; and in a short while was prepared the military expedition which you now behold, the remainder of whith will yet come to unite will, us for the annihilation of the Spanish Government.— A s Governor of one of the principal provinces of New Granada, and as the sole Delegste of the General Government, I was in vited to reassume political authority. I could not deny myself to so just a demerel, and having joined this Expedition, we di rected our course to this celebrated island, for the purpose of concerting our plan of operations. Already we have the satis faction to tread our native soil ; already we are in the territory of New Granada ; and already may the Government be for mally se-established, and our indepeudent flag return to wave on her sea and on the fortresses. You, fellow-countrymen, illustrious citizens, will form that Government with the most free and spontaneous voice. You may accept it, for I may not exact this, and may now proceed to the august ceremony of re cognizing it, that that simple act may he the signal of its re-esta- Nishment, and that this may form an epoch in the fasti of our history." This short and energetic harangue being concluded, his Excellency General M'Gregor took the appro priate oath in the prescribed form, at which moment the army and the squadron fired salvoes of musketry and artillery. Soon afterwards were presented by his Excellency bodies of Officers to perform the same act of recognition of the Government on the part of the army and marine; and on hoisting the Indepen dent flag, Lir as and acclamations in favour of liberty' resounded on every side, and each of those sho as sisted individually felicitated his Excellency the Go vernor. The Act being continued, his Excellency the Citizen Governor declared the Island of St. An drew free, and independent of all Spanish domina tion, and subject solely to the Itepublkan Govern ment of Carthagena, and to the General of the Uni ted Provinces of New Granada. Thus conclude) this august act, and his Excel lency the (ieneral in Chief of the Auxiliary Expedi tion signed the same in the presence of me, the Se cretary of State, who certify the same. JUAN ELIAS LOPEZ, Delegated Governor. GREGOR MeGREGOR, General in Chief. JOAQUIM VARGAS & BP.RGA, Sec. of State. Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT had a grand Din ner Party, at Carlton House. Among the company were, the Duke and Duchess of YORK, the Duke and' Duchess of 6 LOUCEStER, Prince LEOPOLD, the Pri n cess AUGUSTA, the Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER, the Duke of KENT, &c. In the (Ailing his Royal Highness had a numerous party. Thursday evening Prince ESTERRAZY gave a mag nificent Ball at Chandos House, Cavendish-square.— The spacious and elegant suite of apartments on the Drawing-room floor were most brilliantly illumina ted, and were decorated with numerous pots of the choicest flowers. The principal and.adjoining Draw ing-rooms were fitted up with great elegance for dancing ; the floors were beautifully chalked. The Hall and grand staircase were decorated with shrubs and flowers, interspersed with variegated lamps. The Supper was prepared in the grand Dining-parlour and Library, where tables were laid round each room, covered with every delicacy, and with s ines and-dessert of the rarest qualities. When one com pany had supred. the tables were replenished. There were present nearly one thousand persons of the first distinction, rank, and fashion, including his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, the Duke and Duchess of YORK, the Duke of KENT, Prince LEOPOLD, the Duke and Duclresof WELl.rnt:Tom, Dukeand Duchess' of RUTLAND, Dowager Duchess of RUTLAND, the Duke and Duchess of BEAUFORT, the Duchess of' litewmoNn, and the Ladies LENOX, the Duciless of ARGVLE, the Ladies P.I(4I::TS, &c. &c. According to the last census, the population of Naples amounts to 329,418. Fu n r___This morning, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in an uninhabited house, belonging to Mr. Goren, an eminent builder, at I;alston, i n a row (A new hoses orposite the Red Cow. It entirely con stuned the intei ;or, together with upwards of 4.0 finished and :i0 sash frames, together with the carper:tuts' tools, &c. Further mischici KA$ _aited by the tinbelyartjval of engines. TILE ARMY. Last week, upwards of 300 men of the Trirs::l Deput, marched from Fort Pin, Chatham, to Ctai wa where they are fo he discharged on pensions. Wtilnesday),e'nnight, a large draehrr.ent of i!: , 7 1 , lided troopt artived at the Depot, Cisathatn, from p 4 Mediterranean. • RoYAI, 51111TARY COLttbli The usual Half-yearly Public Examination toe ( Atte at the Royal Military Calleye, at Sandhu fe , previous w the sepAration of.theEstablishment fg l the Midsummer Vacation, and continues( for ts, days, the llth and 12th instant, before the Board 4 Commis , ioners of the Institution, viz.-- Yield:Marshal his Royal Richness tke /like of Krim General the Zarl of Itotrit.rs; Lieutenant-General Eir It. CUTEST, Bart. Licateriant-Ceneral Sir }L °AIRS, Hart. Lieututiant-Genrra/ the Hon. Sir A. Hon. C.C.B. Covetzo t Naor-Gentrai Sir Canaan )1I:ILIAT ' G.C.R. S:r .1: W. Gostrou, Bun. KCAL 31aster-Geser:il. Colonel Dunne, Lieutenant-Governor. Colonel Sir Ilow.tan Lk:cc:Las, Bart. /tApt eter-Ciner4 I::struction. After the Military Inspection of the Battalion 6 Gentlemen Cadetc, between shirty and forty of young (30,1tlemen appeared for examination in tix various branches of the Collegiate Instruction, a r .4 the following of that number passed a very guished ev.amination in the higher branches of them-40es, and a favourable report was maJe them] to his Royal Highness the Co:4IfANUER in et:it:2,74. Uxder Officer, - Wirdam Ditto, - Charlvt Brow,irigg. Ditto, - George N.!. Rowan. Vitro, - Alex. Butler Ditto, - Thomas Alunuty. Lance CufForal John Bocbky. Wybtauu Olpbert. _ . The follo•A ink; alto passed adistinguished ezave:. nation in the regular course of Studies, viz. Math,. matics, F.otiticatiAn, &c. sc. and were recommeridea t o hi s Royal liligiiness the COMMANDER inCtttkp Comniissiom: L:ndtr 0 4 1:er, . Ditto, • Ditto, Ditto, Lance Curporal - Ditto, Gcntlen , an C;td , l - John Foy. Edward C. &rah. Ales. Augostus Ansd l. James L. Clarke. Thomas Robinson. Charles Wood. The Board marked their approbatioirof the merit of the first four, by aw lading them Certificates of iLe first qualification. Besides these Gentlemen, other Classes acquitted themselves highly to their credit in Ezinun, i tie d upon History, French, German, Classics, and 1241- lisleCompoSition. r NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Faeztorru, Juire 18.—Wind X.—Sailed the Lord Casaf. reagh packet, with Mails for the Brazils. Peintotrrn, Juwz 17.—Sailed the Lord Wellington, Opirt. szox, for Quebec ; and Olive Branch, Ltrres, for Lima. Ponvsuovvss, Joys 18.—Sailed the Malabar, AKomix, f r New South %Vales ; Castalia, RICYNOLDS. for Quebec; Recover., BEACON ' for the South Scas ; Orient, RETNOLTS, for Bomba!; and the Phceniz, JANSON, for Quebec.—Wand N. W. Cowes, Just 18.—Wind N. N. W.—Satied on a cruise Gibralter, The Falcon Yacht, 155 tons, the Bon. Caul: t A. PLLMAIS j the Lord of the Isles, 45 tons, Colonel Smola.; acrd Admiral Cornwallis, 2.2 tons, Captain S. C. Svmomns, fur the coast of Ireland.— Arrived the Ben Johnson transport, fro, London, for Quebec. _ _ Nownt Stoi;rl.9a, .Tews 16.—The Spring, Wstaxasta, of di port, got fcul of a ship in the River, and carried away her ous bowsprit and waist anchor. DEAL, Js'ce 18.—Wind N.E.—Came down from the Dm and sailed, the Atalanta, Wu.sox, for Jamaica; and Alows, PARI/1114, for Bourdeaux. DARWICU, JUNI 18. —Vriod N.F.—Arrived the Castlereist Packet, from Cuxhaven, and the Prince of Orange PLchrt, lacer Holland, with Mail•. Among the distinguishedforelners who, on Thurs day, appeared at the PRINCE REGENT'S Levee, was his Serene Highness Prince ERNEST of HEssE Per eirPsrune, General in the Russian service, who, by his skirl and intrepidity, greatly contributed to tae destruction of the French army under NAPOLEON, in his expedition to Moscow. His Serene Highness lost his left leg and thigh at the battle of the Borodiv.c. but this loss was so well supplied by the assistance cf ' an artificial leg, made by that ingenious Artist. WILLIAM SHAND, of St. Martin's-lane, that lr.< Highness walked into the Thawing-room with th. utmost ease and convenience. Prince Eurcrsr above ten Orders of the rnoa honourable distinctim, and his graeeful and military appeararice altngethc;, excited universal attention and approbation. lIAY-MARKET THEATRE.—Mr. KEAN last aigl:t performed the part of the Duke of Glo'ster,in Sumo rianx's Tragedy of Richard the Third, at this Thcs tre, at the request of his brethreit, the performcn lately acting at Drury-lane Theatre. Ile never played the part better, and a London aildience, for the first time, had the bpportunity of more closely admiring his great talents, by being placed nearer the stage than in the winter Theatres. He exerted himself ti the utmost,, and was rewarded throughout by most unbounded applause from a brilliant and crowded audience. The cheers continued for several minute!. The Tragedy was extremely well got up. Mr. RA!. as Richmond, and Mrs. GLOVRR, as the Om*, p!ayei in their best style. The hotise was crowde,i to execs!. So eagerly destrous was Mr. KEAN to accede to tl:c request cf his brethren, to give them the aid of Ys talents for a night; that as it was too late when he re ceived their letter to reply to it by that clay's pcnt,!)e mmediately set off frans Yarmouth to aotiry h is assent in person. ENOLisn OPERA House...—The charming Opera (: The Duenna was pet formed last night with re.: success. DOWTON was a'most excellent Isaac; Hou ' BOTHA M, from Bath, acquitted himself very ably the representative of Ferainand ; PLARMAN sung 0 airs of Don Carlos, ith the utmost reetness, tas!' and effect; Miss KELLY, in cor,seqaernce -of the disposition of MISS CAREW, took the part of • N% Tisch she performed to fl.e delight of the audienct and Miss STEPrrxxsost, as Louisa, ac4uitted hersel ith gr eat ability and complete success. M.lltltU D. . On Weilnrtjai, that 16th instant, at Ilor.ton, Cl.rffet 1 r: • Esq. of ; . ostall Priory; tb yet:it:eat daughter et Vitilhni Strickland, Bat. of Portton, aL tn * Tori%hire. On di, 7th iratat.t, John Kit", of itkirsood the liJand of TobJitu, and af.Araatton t o :Cats - rzt, only datt,•Titter of James. l'os't:, Fag. ot Carttee ratk,:" Port Claquw. Intn: At FAth-hurgh, au the ethtlistar.t,7oh4 tel.% sq.• Ptittwhin. 1.4.14 L.WN Vrinki.l pulblishedbiberifettiort, r:(At•• • Temitir-AllO • • , ie. r. r. lej to to te,4. saf. f.r )4 ! r , It Dt Dl%ll lvtt wt, EZSt :kr t, L1!!- W 45 ° I ' o, tit i In 104 e of Mr. the re ight LlS- bee- nos :1: t:r • t, .