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le V ENING STAR, . • LON DON. AVEPNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1815. inticE OF s FOOLS THIS DAY Al' TWELVE ITCLOCK: goluced r t i-4 per Ct. t 4 841-5 per Ct. Navy 98t{ Comm; e4H—for account, dettt —Omnium li.. ik Long Amis. tG 5-Ititha—gen4 13e. les. pre. I.:, ; ; lr quer liilla Js. to prvet• --m...... We hive to-day received the Paris Papers of Sun d,cList. The story of MURAT having entered Rome in a hostile manner, is, as we suspected, a fabrication. NURAT'S policy seems to be to stick.close to Naples. ts'e are told that there are disturbances at Brunswick between the Duke and his subjects; but from Nate port we are also inclined to withhold our belief until better authenticated. Messieurs the French Jour nalists are very eager to sow discontents on paper in dl countries which have exchanged the yoke of' to. feigners and Frenchmen for the legitimate sway of their old Sovereigns. Their hostility to MURAT is the only exception from this Tule, but in this they she* themselves true Courtiers. The deposition of this fortunate military met' evidently a measure decided upon by the trench Cabinet. The Ex-Ring of SWEDEX has publiihed anoihei: strange Proclamation in the foreign Jourfais s uwe have given it a place for the amssement of our Readers. . The letters by the Freud. Mail mention the arri. ral of four A.merican vessels at different ports in Trance, from New York and Charleston, with cargoes of wow), rice, tobacco, lkc. ; one is called the Eclipse, from New York, another the Sine pa son. PARES, PEORUARY 12. Letters from Rome, dated on the 25th of January, inform us, that Lucien Bonaparte, rat-disaa Prince Ca no, had the insolence to give a grand Ball and Supper iu the Capital of the Christian World, on the ever memorable 21st of January. Th. French who were at Romc have been justly disgusted at this con• terapt for all proper feeling. MADRID, JANUARY 20. Wllin these few days, there has been a report of a marriage between the two Infants of Portugal and t::e King of Spain and his brother, Don CArlos. Fa t:ler &rnardo Diaz has set out to the Brazils to b:iag about this double alliance. It. is possible that the Court of• Spain wishes by these marriages to ware the co-operation of the Court of the Drazits In the attempts about to be made to recovet Buenos Ayres. .11 appears certain 'that the .Princ.e Regent, ZS' Portugal does not return to Eureyei.endihat Spain probably wishes to persuade him to betonis •sue to. the war which she wishes to - attitAst het.ittekjit.Coloszicis 'in the vicinity of the Brazils. Ps the oci tt r.band, it is said that M. Bardazi, Mi nister fions.tpain to the Court of Russia, had sug. Rested tile-idea of a marriage with a Grand Duchess of Russia ; but the Confessor of Ferdinand VII. has represented to his Master that he oral, greatly afraid lest this marriage . sliould introduce the Greek Scbi into Spain. We learn by letters from Valencia, that a Spanish ship of war has sailed for Algiers; with primettlis for the Regency. There can be no doubt tint these ?resents will instantly put an end to the piracies which the Algerines have already begun to exercise against all merchant ships under Spanish colours. BRUNSWICK, FEBRUARY I. Our Duke !:.it . demanded an extraordinary contri bution to as s ist the wants of the State, but the As sembly of States General has , refused to grant his rtysest, and several arrests have in eonsequence.taken ry Cis arbitrary act, the Prime has lost much of his popularity. He is very active, and has thrice changed his Ministers within the short period since his restoration. He is on bad terms with Prussia, for he has dismissed all the Prussians who held *Aces in his State, without granting them the smallest indem nity. The two sons of the Duke, who have been in England with their father since 1609, have returned here. LUBECK, JANUARY IL Russia and England are still the arbiters of the ►forth, but it is uncertain which side they hale tspoused. It is said that a misunderstanding has arisen between the Courts of London and St. Peters burgh. BASLE, MILWAILT & The Duke of Holstein.tuthe (ihnex.aing of Swe den) has determined to ♦isit the Holy Land, and already has he received the zecesnry permission' from the Grand Seignior. He has published the f 01. ., loying notification here in the French langdsge : We make known, by these presents, that the Ot-I t 01131113 Porte has given us permission to visit the holy city— .one of our wishes is thus accomplished ; for WIMP the object dearest to our heart since our youth, at!it:stt a time when we saw no chance of attaining it. litre had, nevertheless, a secret presentiment that Providence had intended that we should one day per form this pilgrimage. 44 In directing our steps towards Jerusalem, we should consider it an eternal reproach not to inform the Christian world of our resolution, since we hope we shall be accompanied by some brethren of our Holy. ItAigion. We prnpose the following condi. tions to time who WWI to, join us in this holy jour ney: Vio /witty from triton the IliltiODS of Europe,, ten brethten to accompany Os 6) Jt lem , yiz, ;sr' Englishman. a Dane; ;,Spintird,. a, it:ear: 4441, an. • • • inhabitant of Holstein-Eutin (manning Sweden we b presume); a Hungarian, a DutchnisekiAni Italian, a, Russian, and it Swiss: • ad . • lit. Every person sh a ll b e Sti w iiiddli le frbm the diocese or consistory of his -4:.11i!l1y1 idfl ittiose the purity of his views. • ed. The pine of meeting shill be the thy of Tileste, and the period is fixed for the 24th of June next. 3d. Those who play on any instrument will do well to bring it with them, if it be portable. 4th. Every one must provide himself with four thouiand flo• tins of Augsburgh, or at least twelhonsand, to supply the preli miriary expenses of the Pilgrimage, and to form a general fund. sth. Ea-h shall have the right to bring with Mtn a man-ser• vaot, pmvi i.. 1 he is a Christian, and of good morals. 61h. lit ethren shall wear a black habit, which shall have Ito nmi it. ul extravagance or prodigality s they shall allow their beard to grow, as a proof of their manhood ; and they shall con sider it an honour to be called the" Black Brethren." The cos tume, as well u the rest of the equipments and fittings out, shall be definitively arranged at Trieste, where the Holy Conven tion shall be held. 7th. The costume of the domestics shall be gray end black, and shall also be settled at Trieste. Bth. The last day fop being admitted into the union of Black Brethren is the eith of June. Aegean *a it has elapsed the public shall be informed if the number ' a 9th. Those wire enter into this oder, eimal esske.k known in the Newspapers of their own copy t: Yd .tiles fa the Paper ribli.hed at Frankfort on the Malnep end they will inform us et the same time by letter, addressed under cover to the Editor fg the German Gazette of Frankfort.. " Done at Bale, this 27th of January, 1815, of the Ch.istian Era. • (Signed) " GUST Aces ADOLPHUS, Duke of Holstein Endo." This morning we received a supply of Brussels and Frankfort Papers, from which we make the fol lowing selections : ERLANGEN, FEBRUARY s. The Gazette of this place contains the frillowing extract from one of its correspondents in Vienna:— " In my next I shall at list be able to communicate to you several of the grand results, for . the affairs of Europe are finally zettled—those of Germany, on the other hand, seem to be protracted." BAYREUTH, FEBRUARY 1. Onr Gazette contains the following articles—" The Gazette called The Chronicle of the Courts: of Vienna, which is published at Frankenthal, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, and which has so frequently been criti. cised by almost all the French and German Journals for its want of veracity, has announced in its number of the 17th January, on the authority of pretended letters from V:istana,—" that the King of Prussia would receive, as indemnities, a population of 4200,000 in Poland, 400,000 in Saxony, Anspach, 13.iyreuth, and the countries it already occupies on the Rhine."—We are authorised to contradict this assertion as far as Anspich and Bayreuth are concerned, and to declare iy wholly false and without foundations" ROME. JANUARY 25. A part of our garrison has received orders to march towards Forli, We are ignorant how the Austrians will act in these critical circumstances. COBLENTZ, FEBRUARY 3. The Rheniah lifer-€(96 publtshed in this seat of the Prussian Government, contains an article which . is designato encourage the friends of peace to hope the best from the Congress. •• It is allowable," says the writer, •s to regret the perverseness of the human mind; the infatuation which, after such bitter expe rience, cannot resolve at once on what is good, but waits till it is compelled by necessity; but error is our lot, and he who meanly desponds is not worthy to live in these extraordinary times. The idea of those (which is unhappily spreading) is quite objectionable who, because all is not speedily settled according to their pre-conceived opinion, are dissatisfied with every thing ; who, in every thing that passes see only the lowest self-interest and the secret manoeuvres of cun ning rapacity ; who even regard the good which the Congress has already produced by the general intro duction of the States as a mere stratagem to appease by illusions the ferment of men's minds. Such an opi. nion is as blameable and presumptuous as such con duct would be. u Every one should chew here the justice which he requires for himself; and, recollecting how it cost him half his life before he could be master of himself, not demand impossibilities, in such a complicated businesh in it short time. The Princes have given so many unequivocal proofs of good and honourable dispositions, thatwoshould do so much honour to ho.. man nature, when things-donut seem to go forwards in: the right way, as hotiO a rite it to the wiCked inters-, tions. of map, but rather so an ill-founded paragasioo, that good will he. tba result.. , nad:whir4, if sinierely followed, really will lei& es the chit*, Itheeie 'by other means. • II Such important interests as ire here at stake are' ,not to be 'settled precipitately, •notein people's senti ments and mode of acting is such concerns, 'be changed in a moment." The writer then proceeds, and finds the cause of their embarrassments, in which the Congress is, in the unexpectedness of the victory which made the Allies precipitate the peace, by which France obtained, in -seemingly unimportant ar ticks, great advantages, while they bound their owo hands. Then also were made the C inventions with the Princes of the Rhenish Confederation, and.with Murat, which the world regards with astonishment. Dispatches were last night received from Lord CASTLISREAOH, dated Vienna, the Sd instant. His . Lordsh►p is 'expected in town next Saturday or Sun. day. He was to have left Vienna the 4th instisii. wfriti;:wicivck: • Liustoti rH, BUARY 14. ` r ' Aiiiied the Prudentia, from Amelia Islands. The `,jading. Castle packet, for the Brazils, has gone into `Lhe Roadi.—Wind W. • ' PLYMOU I H, FEBRUARY IS. Came in his Majesty's ship Nom, from a cruize, with loss of bowsprit ; CYRUS sloop of war, from the Westward; HELICON, ROLLA ' and GOLDFINCH SIOOINI of war, from a cruize. PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY 14. Arrived the Pacific, EDWARDs; Garthladd, Howe; Stills, ARMORY, and several other ships, name( un known, from the Downs ; and Liberty, ALDRIDOR, from Havre. Sailed his Majesty's ships Atm. and 5A111144 for Cork, with a convoy, bound to the Ca naries and Coast of Africa ; also sailed the ZSPHYR and SLANRY, for Cork. The whole of the outward- bound have dropped down to St. Helen's Roads to join their respective convoys for the West Indies, Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, and will sail early to-morrow morning. The East Indiamen and ships bound to the Cape, South ,Seas, &c. will also !ail to-morrow morning under coneoy of his Majesty's ship Acsna.—Wind E. N. E. • DEAL. FEBRUARY 14. Came down from . the River, and sailed, the Prince of Orange, SILK, for Bermula ; also sailed the whole of the outward-bound, for Portsmouth. Arrived the Perseus, &Wu, from Portsmouth.—Wind E. The Perseverance, Winter,arrived at Portsmouth from . Buenos Ayres, threw nine guns and pari of her cargo overboard, and shipped much water, in heavy gales at W. and S.W. on the Utah and 29th The Elizabeth Mary, Goodfellow, was well off Madeira the 28th December, having separated from his Majesty's ship Valiant and her Beet on the 10th, in a violent gale. The Isabella, from the Havannab, was taken In December by a privateer, and carried into Wilminzton. The fortitude, Galloway, from Greenock to Hamburgh, war stranded the 1 i t 6 uk. on the Island of itumm—crew saved. Marchioness of Wellesley. from London to Batavia, was taken of Pcrnambuco, sth December, by the Yankee puvateer. 1 Letters received this morn ing by a respectable [louse in the City, from Amelia Island in 30 days, make no mention whatsoever of the f a il ure o f our Expedition, against Louisiana. Sorne letters have reached us from South America, which remora all doubt as to the successful operations of the . Spaniards in the province of Chili, and add somz facts with which we were unacquainted. The troops composing the expedition from Lima, entered St. Jar, the capital, on the sth of October, when the insurgent authorities precipitately left the place, undertook a long and dangerous journey across the Cot dilleras, and sought refuse in Mendoza, which, however, they were ordered immediately to quit by the Governor, and nothing since has been heard re garding them. SOUTHWARK ELECTION. (Third Day.) -- At the close of the Poll the numbers were : For Mr. BARCLAY • 1418 Mr. W. I. BoRDITT 1163 PotinTst DAY.—State of the Poll this day, at 12. for Mt. BARCLAY • 3481 Mr. W. J. Bustort-r Whig SALt, MADDOX-STREM--Mr. ROBINS, in forms the Public, the SALK of WINE advertised to be Sold To-monnow, at Mr. Coxes Rooms, Mad dor-street, Hanover-square is LINAVOHMELY NET PORED. —Warevk i•street, eleles-square, Feb. 15, 1815 Yesterday the LOnD MAYOR held a Court of Com mon Council at Guildhall, to consider the Report of the Improvement Committee, relative to a conference with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on the sub ject of improving St. Martin's-le-Grand, as connected with thit erection of a new Post-Office, the plan of which is in the Office of Wr,rks at Guildhall. The Report being read, a very long deb.te ensued thereon, and the question being at length put, that this Conn do agree with the Committee in their report, the Loan MAYOR declared the same to be carried in the affirmative : and it was referred back to the said Committee AO carry the same into execution. A Pe tition to Parliament having been prepared, was or dered to be presented by the Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer.. A motion was made relativt to the Bankrupt Laws. (See Advertisement in front of this raper.) It was referved to Special Committee to consider and report the 'Ware, duty, Stc. of.the office of Clerk of the City Works, inid what alteration is proper to be made therein. A Meeting was yesterday held at Maidstone, con vened by the High Sheriff of the county of Kent, to consider of the propriety of a Petition to Parliament, on the present price of Corn. The Meeting was, very numerously attended, but such was the general burst of indignation expressed by the populace, that not a word could be heard from any of the speakers. Some clergymen appearing rather forward on the occasion, caused' general aispleasure, and the cries of fs Down with your rents 1" ig Down with your tithes I" vociferated from all parts of the Meeting. Many persons were in imminent danger from the violence of the people. Some waggons, in which the several speakers and their friends were assembled Teredrawn through thetown by the people, and tossed Into the Medway river, to the great tencir and ex thine danger of those that were in them. In the inidst of the confusion the Meeting broke Up ; and we *understand some.of those 'who called it adjourned to the Bell Inn, with intention to, sign a Petition to Parliament, though evidently in opposition to nine tenths of the Meeting called on the occasion. - Yesterday being Falestin4 day, the whole artil lery of love was put into requisition. The Postmen were converted into Cupids, and instead of letters upon busing's, carried epistles fuU of flames, darts, chains, and amorous declarations. Besiasbrosses, the celebrated race-horse, died last week at Mi. DininaLe 'h s breeding hovels, near Rich and, int Yorkshire, and Was buried under the mul berry, tree, in the front of the house. He was rising 44 years of she, and was lineally descended from the laMous Arabian Childers. A few days since, an Inquisition was taken at Deal, tel the 1)44r of S. King, shot in the Downs last Wed nesday nig4t, whet', After a long investigation, the Jury returned, a Verdict of Wilful Murder against sonde Perictsi ti4knoivsk. , CORN LAWS. 'Another Meeting took place yesterday at Fife House, Whitehall, with the Earl of Livzneool., on the subject of the Corn Laws. Among the distin guished characters present were—Mr. BANK', Right Honourable B. BATHURST, the Right Honourable WILLIAM HUSKISSON, Lord LASCELLES, the Right Honourable CHARLES LONG, Mr. LusitaxaroN, Str JOHN NEWPORT, Mr. ARBUTHNOT, Mr. G. Rose, t 7 CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Right Honour able W. W. POLE, Mr. LONG WELLEsLEY, &C. &C. &c. The Meeting did not break up till past three o'cl , )ck. It was strenuously urged by the Country Gentlemen present, that the high duty on importation should be recommended to talce place when the average price of corn 4111 rise to 80s. per quarter; and on this the House is to be moved on Friday. Neverlies there come before the House a question of greaterimportance, or one on which the judgment of well-inrqrmed and even well intentioned men, may so easily be warped by an iaconscious operation of selfiuterested motives. Our Landholders, like every other class in the community, have evet endeavoured to move the pressure of public bu!thens from their own shoulders. When ;he Income Tax was imposed, the Act was prohibitory as to any compact, by which the tenadt 16;01 agrte to pay that tix. The object and scope of the Act was, that every individual should himself bear his own share of privation, and not throw it upon another; but it is undeniable, that Vie L:ind holders contrived to evade the intention of ti.e Act, by increasing the rents of their Leeds, for throe was no law to prevent a man from kiting his land to the person who would give the higl , e,t rent. —ln the mean time the difficulty and expense of pro curing corn him the Co:.tinent, enabled the !some grower to demand and obtain an excessise price, thereby enabling him to pay an esc:...,:ye r..nt : nor was this all—the high pr:ces en!endereci a gambling disposition in the farmers, eccouragSr.g tlietn to tend their concerns, and to outbid one another in the prices they offered for nuts. The result was, that rents were, ma the average, mere than doubled throughout the kingdom ! ! And now what is the object for which the Land holders contend Neither more nor less than this: that the present rents, which include in them the extra sum laid on the farmers to cover the property tax of the landlords, shall still continue to he paid by the farmers, though the property tax is abandoned, and the war taxes at an end. • Their whole argument rests on the assumption that the farmers must con tinue to pay their present high rents; for all that they maintain is, that if corn be suffered to fall below a certain priceiit will belmftelsible for the farmers to pay the high rents and increased' expenres occa sioned by the late long-contintred war. 64 Impossible for them to pay such rents !"—lt ought to be rendered absolutely imposs4ile; for the present rents are iniquitously high : nor is it true that the late high prices of labour, and other expenses, must necessarily continue. 11w fact is already other wise. In Hampshire, for instance, wages which went eighteen shillings, have fallen to twelve shillings per week; bricklayers', carpenters', smiths', and wheel wrights' bills are one•fourth lower : timber ttie same, and still falling : cost of horses ene-third less : food 'for bones, and seed fur lands of course s on a level with the price of corn. What then is demanded of the public i—Neither more nor less than this: that though relieved from . the Property Tax, it shall still be continued to tit ;levied in the price of our bread, for the exclusive benefit of the Landholders ! If we have no other , alternative, we nnt,t say, that it wzadd be much more equitable, as wcil oolitic, that it. should . .rather continue to be p..id to Govautu:nt for the exi gencies of the state. But neither the one nor the other ought to take. place. It is lamentable to observe boa' co:rplerely a mistaken interest has blinded the Jadgment . of many wise man cn this qiiestion—a question if vital importance to the welfare of the State and of the general community. We say a mistakrn interest ;" for it is as much for the real interest of the Land holders as of the Manufacturers of the Empire that the price of sustenance Omuta be kept low. But alas for the prospect before us ! It is the determined and avowed purpose of some men to eutie.tvour to influ ence Parliament to enact laws with the declared in tention of raising and keeping np the price of bead I —With all the respect we entertain for the wisdom, nay for the integrity of our law-makers, we are u..a without soling apprehensions, that on the p:‘:seut nc casionthey will become the instrunients id much evil; for theit supposed interest is so deeply involved in the Question., that we hold it almost impossible for theth ;o take a clear and unbiassed view of it. Lord Gazavttas, we were happy to see, when the :subject was agitated in the liouseof Peers ou Monday, threw out a very necessary caution against the danger of legislative interference on the siihj..ct. At any rate Parliament should not be precipitate. The ports will instantly be shut against importa tion for three months. Let the effect of this• be seen before the House interfere. Without any farther interference whatever they will see the price of bread higher than it ever ought to be in England. But if, in the interim, they interfere farther, and raise the price at which Corn shall be importable, we tremble at the consequences. The ignorance manifested by some of our Legi,lators, on questions of political economy, is lamentable.— Quacking expedients, subversive of sound principles, are always fraught with incalculable danger, esde daily when they affect the supplies of human suite nance. The Landholders have, unhappily, taken up tl'e idea that a fall in rents will be injurious to them, aid tend to diminish the quantum of their comforts.-- Were it even true that this might be partially expected, it is but equitable that adventitious benefits, arrsiog out of the untoward circumstances of the community, should not be perpetuated to them : but the proposi• tion is false—b fall in the rents ; a reduction in .i.e price of sustenance, will ultimately be as benefit i ti to the Landholders as to any other class in the com munity. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE. FEB. Id, We bad no flesh arrivals of Wheat this morning, and having but few buyers, the trade was not brisk, but Monches prices are fully supported. A tolerably large quantity of Barley re maned over from Mooday's market, of chief pert of wlncn It..s been taken off today at a reduction of is. per quarter. In Psis, SAM, and oath tbens is ao mamma.