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1 R~ El 11 Ai • I r Nov. 1, 1819. i 1 • . rt. • 1- i s 4 • TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sea—The prevailing distress and dissatisfaction has induced same judicious and benevolent friends to their country to be of amnion, that a Public Meeting of Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, to devise means of employing the unoccupied Poor, would eminently contribute to tranquillize the public mind. ..The several Meetings in Ayrshire, Wilts, Renfrewshire, and Derby, may be mentioned. But a prominent example exhibited by the weight and influence a the County of Middlesex, it is thought could not fail of being followed universally. re the winter sets in ' demonstrations in spade husbandry might be commenced. The happy effects of exciting a confidencein the. good intentions of the rich towards the industrious classes are doubtless incalculable. Gratitude would take place of distrust, and that spirit.of idleness, which has probably, not without lesson, been reflected on, will gradually cease. In the above cause your assistance Would be very valuable. A line, addressed to No. 63, Paternoster-row, will be esteem ed a favour. lisave the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient Svrvant, BENJ. WILLS. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1819. KsNa Wu.LAsc Lawnsts.—Holiday at the Bank. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon. The following are extracts ; PARIS, OCTOBER 11. The King heard Mass to-day in his apartments. His Majesty afterwards gave audience to the Spanish and Neapolitan Ministers, &c. and transacted business with the Minister of the Interior. We learn by the Belgian Journals, that the Duke of Richelieu arrived on the 29th ult. at Amsterdam. Prince Talleyrand is expected in Paris to-morrow. IM:kDRID, OCTOBER 21. ?tit I 1 ii , i i. ~. :• • 1, I 'V i. t ; ARRIVAL OF THE Queen.—To-day, at.a quarter past one o'clock, her Majesty, our Queen, made her entry into this capital, accompanied by her august Spouse, and their Highnesses the Infants of Spain, amid the loud acclamations of an innumerable con course of faithful subjects, who impatiently awaited her arrival. The people took the horses from the car riage of the Queen at the gate of Atocha, and a troop of young persons, clothed in an elegant costume, drew it to the Palace, while another troop preceded it, dancing, as they advanced, to the sound of joyful music. The Queen appeared extremely gratified with these demonstrations of attachment, and evince,: in her salutations, all that affability and goodness which public fame had previously ascribed to her. The arrival of the august party was announced by salutes of artillery and the ringing of all the bells. The Yellow Fever continues to make progress at Cadiz and at Port St. Marie. The number of deaths diminishes at the Isle of Leon, but tkere is little dif ference in the sanatary state of this place since the last Bulletin. The following are the latest reports :—Died, at Cadiz, on the 13th, 102 persons out of 11,160 sick ; 14th, 105 out of 11,488 s on the I.sth there were 11,723 sick. At Port St. Marie there died on the 11th, 17 persons out of 609 sick ; on the 12th, 18 out of 6.52 ; the 13th, 11 out of 723. At San Fer nando, the deaths on the 10th were 18 out of 113 sick ; the 11th, 14 out of 112 ; the 12th, 17 out of 145. Yesterday, Prince LaoeoLD visited the Duke and Duchess of KENT, at Kensington Palace. Lord CATHCART, the British Ambassador to the Court of Russia, left St. Petersburgh 4th October. The Earl of STAMVORD is arrived at his seat, Enville Hall, Staffordshire, from Dunham Massey, Cheshire. Lady Louisa Mammas is arrived at her house in Pall-mall, from her seat in Surrey. Lord G. H. CAVENDISH has left his seat, Latimers, Bucks, for Newmarket, Lord Alziaotialle is returned to town, from the Earl COWPER'S seat, Pansanger, Herts. JOHN SMITH, Esq. arrived yesterday at the Claren don Hotel, Bond-street, from a tour. JOHN SMITH BARRY, Esq. has left town for his seat in. Cheshire. Madame DE Gerais has at length terminated her literary career, by the publication of a most inte resting Historical Romance, entitled Petrarque d losurf, which was this day published, at Cotsuitu's, 00nduit-street. Tua KING'S Acoessrow.--On the 25th tilt. our ' ven erable and a ffl icted Sovereign entered into the 60th year of his reign, a period longer that any of his Majesty's predecessors, in England and Scotland, oc cupied the throne. Henry 111. reigned in England 57 years, and James VI. in Scotland 58 years; but the former was only nine years of age when he suc ceeded to the monarchy, and the latter was an infant when, in consequence of the extorted resignation of mother, he became King, while George 111. was of legitimate age on his accession to the sovereignty of Creat Britain and Ireland. Of the Peers of Scotland at his Majesty's Accession, only the Duke of Gordon, born 1743, who inherited the title 1754, is alive. The twenty Judges of the Courts of Session and Ex chequer in Scotland have been exactly three times renewed during this reign ; the appointments to the Bench being stzty in number, 'exclusive of two pro m 'Lions of Puisne Judges to the President's Chair.— Ot the Members of the Faculty of Advocates at the Accession, four are alive, viz. Robert Craig, of Ric cartoun, and Robert Berry, both admitted in 1754 ; ar.d Sir Ilay Campbell, and James Ferguson, of Pit four, the pre , ent Member of Parliament for Aber deenshii e, both admitted in 1757. Of the Society of Writers to the Signet at the Accession, only one, Cor r.elius Elliot, of Woollee, is in existence. Of the Peers of England and Ireland, at the commencement of this Reign, five are alive, viz. the Earl, now Mar quis of Drogheda, the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Fitzwil barn, Viscobnt Netterville, and Viscount Dulkeley, - were under age at the Accession, with of the Marquis of Drogheda, now in and at the head oh the Generals ttf tbt, REFORM' IWEETIWITiiiT OILASGOW, sc. ' 6LAsoow,'MOODAT, ttOVEMBEE 1. The design of holding slinultanow Meetings On the first of November, though.sederally abandoned in England, has been persisted in by the Reformer's' in this part of the-country; According to announce ments which have appeared, there are to be no less' than five - Meetings to=day, within a circle of twelve miles round Glasgow—namely, at the Clay Know, end of the Gallowgate ; at Paisley, at Kilsyth, at Campie, "and at Airdrie. The Meeting here s en the Clay Know is expected to be very numerous, and every precaution has been taken by the Civil Autho rities to guard against any possible breach of the public peace. TWELVE O'CLOCK. A numerous Procession from the west end of the town, probably from Anderston, has-just passed the Cross, preceded by a band of music, and accompa nied with peveral flags. thecentre of the Prowl sion a Cap of Liberty was ea:Tied-alternately bytwo good-looking young women. As they passed down die Gallowgate they met a Squadron of the Hussite, coming up, when Loth parties passed each other in perfect good humour, and without the smallest ap parent trepidation even in the Heroines of Libetty. " TIMEX O'CLOCK. The Meeting has been hitherto conducted with the utmost tranquillity, and promises to terminate in the same manner. Eight Caps of Liberty, and about forty flags, have been displayed, several of which were carried to - the hustings by well-dressed females. The proceedings commenced with the bands playing " God sew the King," all those who bore a part in the business, and most of the surrounding spectators, standing uncovered. The Resolutions, carried by acclamation, and the speeches, were much the same as usual, and they are still going on. Immense crowds have been corning and going, and all the adjacent heights are covered, but as to the actual number of those who marched to the ground with flags, and formed the constituent part of the Meeting, the estimate varies from two to six thousand. The hustings might contain about' two hundred, one third of whom were women; a num ber of them had infants in their arms ; and it is ap prehended that some of the children have been hurt, in consequence of a momentary false alarm. Most of the flags were accompanied by music, of which one of the bands was completely dressed in very handsome tartans, and took their station on the front of the hustings. On passing the barracks, they played the " British Grenadiers." PAISLEY, NOVEMBER 1. Ten o'Clock, A. M. Some hundreds of the more respectable inhabitants have, within these few days, enrolled themselves as Special Constables, for aiding and assisting the Ma gistracy in the preservation of the public peace. Ac cording to report, the dress-makers are at present ac tively employed in preparing caps, scarfs, and flags, for the parade this day, which will be under the di rection of young men, surcharged . with political phrenzy, and religious infidelity, some of the older and more experienced Members of the Committee of Management, having resigned from disgust. . . all of whom m ti.e exception . . . % I:;s 90th year, Army. ' • 1 FIFESHIRE. For some time back advertisements have been in dustriously circulated throughout the Fact of Fife, by a few vicious characters in Anstruther, in con junction with sevtral others of a similar description in the towns adjacent, purporting that a Meeting of the Friends to Reform was to be held at the Cross of Aastruther upon the 15th ultimo, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to take into consideration the con duct of the Magistrates and Yeomanry at Manches ter, and to devise some plan to obtain a Parliamen tary Reform. From the great preparation of flags, &c. for the occasion, some anxiety was excited among the more peaceable inhabitants for the result : but between the momentous hour and four o'clock, only about a dozen individuals from distant places appeared, who, from their true characteristic appear ance, were generally received with bursts of laughter from those assembled as spectators; the consequence was, that the would-be-legislators never presented themselves, and were obliged to consign their en lightening orations to oblivion, and their flags to the bed-head, and disperse, after a serious quarrel between the secretary and the self chosen committee, about' the payment of his disbursements for posting adver tisements and making flags. Wednesday, a number of most respectable Gentle men met at Rodmin, in pursuance of the invitation inserted in our last publication, when it was found, that one hundred and fifey : floe respectable individuals, of all parties, had signified their desire to call a County Meeting, " to consider what measures it may be necessary to pursue, in order that such an inquiry may be instituted into the late transactions at Man chester, as shall satisfy the ends of justice, and ap. pease the irritated feelings of the People." In conse quence of these communications, a Requisition for a County Meeting was drawn up, and JOHN COLMAN RASULEIOII, and EDMOND JOHN GLYNN, Esqrs. were deputed to wait on the High Sheriff with it on Thurs day. That a Requisition so signed will be complied with, there can be no doubt :—the object of the.Re quisitionists is such as, we should conceive, most !fleet the approbation of every candid and indepen dent man, who values the Coustnutional liberties of his country.—West Briton. LIQUIDASION OF TFIE TO THE atorron of Ttr, STAR: " " Stec— I Feeling, as do, the tiuth of the proposi tion, I am anxious to *impress the National Debt is the only cause of our alt. the Coventry 7 Nation the a t i Distress. In thus 'speaking, however, of this Debt, I must beg to be understood as nut in the least doubt ing the validity of the claim of the Public Creditor. We owe the money : it was borrowed and expended under Parliamentary sanction : and, whether we may now think that it would have been better to have been the slaves of -NAPOLEON, or the allies of Louts—. whether, at the present day, we consider the Debt as necessarilycontracted, or otherwise, is perfectly im material to the question. Being, as it was, I say, con stitutionally incurred on the faith of the Country, the national honour is pledged, and this can only be re deemed by a full, fair, and faithful discharge of the Debt. I have already shewn in my former letters, that independently of the elpenses incurred for the maintenance of the Army, the Navy, the Ordnance,' and for carrying on the Government of the Country .that, exclusively of all this, forty millions of taxes are annually levied for the payment of the Interest of ate National Debt alone. I have also shewn, that the wages of the labourer in husbandry being the same now as when the Interest of the said Debt *mounted only to ten millions, the encreased pressure en the working classes must, of consequence, be' as four to one: the effect of which has been, that labour no longer insuring maintenance, the labourer has be iamne disheartened, and industry destroyed—that the increase of the Poor Rate was a natural consequence --that men no longer eat their bread by the sweat of their brow—and that thus a prime principle is aban doned, and idleness encouraged, by giving that in alms which properlysbelongs to labour. When men become idle, they soon become worthless; and this, I nun afraid, has already proved true to a very alarming extent. In this manner have the poor been affected, by our encrease of Debt—the rich have been able to bear the additional burden of taxes with much less , inconvenience ; for they have, to meet the encreased demands made on them by the State, encreased also 'their income ; they have encreased, greatly increased their rents ; and, to enable the farmer to meet his encreased rent, they procured an encreased price for corn : not so the working classes—they had uo en crease of wages, although the price of the first neces sary of life was doubled, and their taxes quadrupled It While this Debt remains undiminished, the - usual blessings of peace are unfelt. An abundant harvest (and the present was, perhaps, hardly ever exceeded,). avails us nothing. Corn must be kept up, because rents must be kept up; and rents must be kept up to enable the landlord to pay his taxes : this is the pre cise situation of the Country ; and what hope have we of a change for the better, when, in the fourth year of peace, we are obliged, not only to submit to an encrease of taxes, but to see also that amusing bubble, the Sinking Fund, applied to other purposes than that for which it was originally destined? Sir, until some means are discovered for reducing this Debt, our situation must remain what it is—economy may assist in reducing the Expenditure for the Army and Ordnance, but what will economy do for the 'National Debt? All the economy we can employ will only keep us where we are : without eco nomy, we must increase our taxes—when we shall have economized to the utmost extent, by looking into, and paring down as closely as possible, the Barrack, the Store-keepers, the Commissariat, and the Ordnance Departments, we should find, that with . all this, we did nothing more than barely bold our ground—we should only have the satisfaction of not encreasing our taxes : high rents must still be de manded, to pay the Interest of the National Debt; the price of corn must, for the same reason, be kept up; the price of labour be still depressed; and the cries of the poor be still heard in our land. " The public voice is divided betwixt Economy and Reform. Now, putting the demagogues altoge ther aside, (considering their views to be totally dif ferent from the interests and wishes of the People,) take it, that the two parties are seeking the same end by different means ; one, desiring to procure an alle viation of suffering by the present Ministry—the other, hoping to obtain it more readily by a change : whether, however, by those who have at present the direction of the helm, or by new men, the People have a right to expect that something should be done for the immediate and substantial relief of the Coun try ; and this, I confess, I should prefer to see under.' taken by our present Ministers. Our experience has taught us that a change of men does not always pro duce a change of measures ; and, I im willing to be lieve, that if the present men had only a fair chance. they would honestly do every thing in their power to carry us through our difficulties. I see much to blame in them, but in others, I have seen more : it should be recollect too, that Ministers are often compelled to shew cotntenar.ce to acts which them selves disapprove ; and such, I have no doubt, was the case with respect to a late Royal Pension. It is, how ever, the fate of this Country, that its Ministers should but rarely have an opportunity of attending to the real interests of the Nation : they are certainly not treated fairly ; for, during the recess, when their minds ought to be fully occupied iu devising means of promounp, the national prosperity, they are altogether employed in contriving how best to defend their characters,' and preserve their places : and thus we see one Fes• sion of Parliament taken up in discussing the merits- of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act ; another, in Gering with the Bank to comrvl -it to debts; electioneering squabbles ek. - 1 • fourth bids fair to be e mp l oyed on- ge ge dy. Sir, it is in this way that, I sat laps treated fairly ; for ho w is it possible ,41 men should abstract theirkelre s s t i upon the business of the Country i n t a requires! to look the danger in . thef ac l idy proper remedies, when they are cr wooed by the most serious charge s ' themselves ? • • * • • • • What may be the course which MI I l odge ' know - not ; but that which to see them adopt, would be the meeting of Parliament, to move fr on the State of the Nation, and there into o the investigation, and to meet openly, fearlessly, and manfully. ar found, what I suspect it will, that a • Debt must be made, the whole talent will be drawn to the subject, a n d sol , be devised for effecting so very desir " In my first letter, I have prof this by a Lottery, to be drawn annual 500,000 Tickets, at £lOO a Ticket, millions worth of Prizes, would lea , millions to go in reduction of the N, is a great recommendation to this would actually be no Blanks ; the of the Tickets being applied daily in Debt, the taxes of the purchasers be proportionably lessened. 1 need recapitulate my former scheme; and that unless a better is proposed, I sh. adopted, convinced, as I am, that very considerably reduced, we shall noured nor respected abroad—nor can and security, nor be united and' With our -increase of D'bt, we alarming depression of morals : !c) l w a e tter must , we ret m ra us ce t lessen th esti th 9 e s f w a h rm ich er h ; ., I remain, Sir, y , o P be r . e seri t d u i e n n a e s t t n s o n n t, . Oc t o b e r 18, 1859.” THE AJIALY. The 10th, 91st, and 36th Regiments of at Malta. The 28th, 82d, and 75th Regiments Artillery and Engineers, are stationed at Corfs. A detachment of the 75th Regiment is - Ithaca, in Cephalonia, where Lieutenant-1 Bawl, of the 10th, acts as Governor. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Extract of a letter from a passenger on klulgraxe Castle, East-Indianian, dated tober 4, 1519: " We were chased by a privateer oa ThursilaT list, petted to have been overhauled, o hick, I believe, vented by the breeze which wad, luckily for us, ' it was one of Lord Cochrane's Beet. She points made us lie to; after having spoken, and learnt , and our destination, she -desired us to set sail again. very strict here, on 7.CCOUNA of our having the m spoken by the privateer. We bad difficelty in pc( vernor's consent to land : indeed we had to hoist t.. Hag ; but from she repreeentatioas of the Captain's shore, and his own word of honour, that oateer bearded, we at length received the of the Governor's =asset, which he did u without first giving Its a slight intimatise of his otabipe; , previously letting us know, by express, that if r c • put a boat ashore, he would fire at, and sink us." Fatatoutra, Itlovaamaa I.—WindEN.E—Arrived t. Norman, from Liverpool for Amsterdam, • h lou warks, bee. and the Harmony, Fiume, from London. Poars H u o. o u rrn cloanv , , e l4 f IrC:trlint harbouro Madelkira— t;lldullad W. ther N. Ellen,Guerndey Sailed the Estafette, Witsew for Dantzic. Dieu, Nova tans downi,, River and sailed, with the whole of the outward-hound, Dan Romney, &cant, for Jamaica ; the Sarah, Tuser• Bombay ; Angerstein i TMOIITION, for Madeira; the CAMPIIZLL and Dale, SUCIMP.IiE, for Jamaica; Levant, mous, for Berbice ; Martha, Naesxr , . for ILivaanah, Comet, STIWAIT , trout Hull for the South Seas. Lrvaaroot, Novi:aunt 2.—Arrived off this port the Cecelia, from flew York, sailed 20th September; • John, BILASSZY, ft oat Africa. Bamunotou, Noveassae I.—Arrived the Unity, front Faversham: she was ran on board of by a tars, Flambrp' Head, on Friday night, which car ied away mast : the Master, one man, and a boy, are miss:r-z -to have got on board the other vesseL 'lle Union, sox, from Dover, whirls run on shore near this place r ult. is got off and brought lr.to this harboc.r. DAVIS'S STRAITS. The following notices have b. en roceired frora " Captain I-Laweists, of the Eventorpe, and saw the laud to the east and west, w sjprOst Islands; open sea to the nortliw;al, no is ex opt berg were around; a swell from the w.:5tv....r.1, the zerth-west to south' and east, 34 pvr ; 1.••, weather, foggy at times ; thinks the country moree elms than last. year ; the land in the highest latitudeg app'" fertile and barer of snow than in the L.wcr Lt.tusle. " Captain BLYTH, of the Brunswick, went ran F..ther 74. 20. found a great quautitf of ice, more sad betvier :haze former years ; the season had been uncommoal;- seve:e and June, and much of the ice was formed then. " Captain Riau., of the Ingtia, went to 75. row were so son, ice viryheasy, 7, 10, and 12 feet thick; upon thoradb there was more ice than in former years. " Captain Oiteces, of the Andrew Marvel, r.sde fsherlill the South-east Bay, lat. 62. to 69. hrd rev, wi..ither, vi strong northerly gales; the ice increrscd nr.:ch dunes his 0/ by freezing, and the coming of fresh ice dc--:rt the S,taits; season was much severer than last year, b-.lt thinks the vs ter had been mild, the =titres having told ^im that the rerszrl there, -c arcvyr. aptain thermometer of ete the r MU several times broken up during the wino - r. " when C to the east and west ; thinks the east lard was z ccotineet,l! the west islands had a level from the southerare, c-srrrat alc. same direction ; there appeared to be a passage to the aorta abort Thomas, 4 0 inched . west, bat could not say how far it extended ; season vet' Ray ice formed in one night an inch thick In the middle et yet he think; the country clearer of ice thar. last year. " RIIAZZIL.—It appears that the highest latitude attaiaed IL any of the whale fishers was 77. 30. !rat probably a Lai' de ' r. tiun must be made from this, on account of the greater refr.g2.7 occasioned by the ice. I should judge from 40. to 50. longitudes of these ships is very uncertain, the Muter+ In-. 17 much occupied by the business of the voyage, to make the tr cessary observations; indeed few, if any of them, are csw lied for It. only by tfie account given to thsrov th nat' ofusual; ck a ic r e ol ai lloa f t o i u n n g d lee in . bu s t ununer it scents probable purothurdthi:tbeethe"wrninutc,"rinmwaserverri:d:o,lrl 11 also front the circumstance of the high Latitudes g bably account for the more sterile appearance of the laud in tmw tlt? of ice accumulates here, latitudes. It should be observed, that every year a gel a , l 4l : a s 68, 1 ttosegtos;ll°73w:etiviaenr, usual, ..I!;ta:hluquu.;•ll}.. !TY' tude of about an degrees. And this forms the imp , ,75 proceeding up the Straits, which can seldom be a "l i g , g o. bergs on a reef of rocks, stretchilcircgaasicornorsds the tt's7-siltsr:iuuntu'tneel•rtil(... unt il a late period of the year, and sumetimcs is ai:ort practicable." .70Z r se Ma arm ylm ll toth i ao.de . h i tvsul_easis : s :red: : am ; rtob n um'llaus desirable tade ' no4 l ,nt, ' u on , ns bein t ruly in Ices su6.cirn;la, er Pal Ty;n to deem' .bject e 'on o. 7 of very to refit Public which I co l d took F on the lly, an' isellradotanpthldeloraln:Ttedrnifttioa:anlelraccileOlf.'.... ols, fir statio 'orone who d , to , c sthe k e e r t s , National o w f h s e i s t h t. r sk i . ' ah :Yr i a ee c doa b e se c a 'll e f ca : r aee :n; o this plan, that s; the purchase.. empl , 1 need not, h. se; and I will on;/-. al, 4 hi, I shall hope t o / re , that until this tan re shall neither be e a —nor can we eif;.' , / and happy, at • 1.4 I , in ,we have snare?, d, s : to ad ,, ar . rece,thet% met or, ir. others,. Pm' Lich hay u; irate .be Sir, cots very ob Regiments of Fat Regiments of Fmk, fro stationed at Cons, st h Regiment is nor Lieutenant-Colonel m: 3orernor. ttr ve L.LIGENCE. passenger on beard man, dated Madeira, t • a er oa Thursday ban, a 1 it • • hick, I believe, was ally leckfly for us, then • ti et. She pointed her •- 'ken, and learnt who we as to set sail again. They T it having the misfortune . difficelty in procuring the • we had to hoist the • pas of the Captaia's Mende our, that no ose from tie ived the pleasurable iv • • he did not, kowerer,cor. faultiest of his oninipolrm 'press, slat if v. e taterptti I t, and sink us." td E.N.E.—Arrived the I,• kensterdaen, with loss of Fluzaa, from Labradore rind W. N. W.—Arrireti and the Crown transport, se Mersey, to repair •• • Danrzie. r . N. W.—Came down from ale of the outward-booed, • aicn ; the Sarah, Tutrta, r, fi,e Madeira; the Fresi for Jamaica . ; Levant, V, :stir, for I lavannah , a:4 the South Seas. rrived off this port the led 20th September; and Arrived the Unity, Stu sn board of by a large rend • :, which varied away iter d a boy, are mis,sinz—str• • veaseL 11,c Union, Its • Fore near this place on du ' is harbour. ,TRAITS rvceired fruris Day: ;6 Fels '.ventorpe, west, et !:e supr of ed tale arl, 110 iC!', except bogs the to •inmt set fill ,34 per !I:tux; irte rite the country more clea dis ighest latitudett appeared vat t„