Star. — London, England, 1819-12-28 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1819. noir INxoczNrs.--lioliday at the Stock Exchange. I',"c have received, at a late hour this forenoon, Ne,v York Papers to the Ist December. They contain the I,llowing Extract from a Letter from St. Tho. Dias's, dated 29th October. We sincerely hope, that r!-.e dreadful intelligence conveyed in it, will prove to to either unfounded, or, at least, greatly exaggerated ; We have news of Barbadoes being completely demolished, and part of the island sunk, by a huiri one. ;Did earthquake, since the 21st October." The I'aris Papers of Thursday and Friday arrived v;:itetday afternoon, and tho4c of Saturday this r:orning. In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, the Deport was brought up of the Committee appointed to consider tie Project of Law for collecting provi sionally six twelfths of the direct Taxes, together with the whole of the indirect Taxes, until the Budget for the year is finally settled, and for granting a Vote of Credit to the Government to the extent of WO millions of francs. M. TEaNAUX, sen. the Re porter, dwelt with some seriousness on the inconve nience and hardship of being called upon year after Tear by the Government to vote provisional advances : . or the public service. For the present, nevertheless, 1 e admitted the necessity oldie case, Lut stated, that tle Committee were unanimously of opinion that the grant should be limited to four twelfths• of the direct Taxei instead of six ; and with this Amendment, they recommended the adoption of the Ministerial Project. The discussion on this Report was deferred till Friday ; and of the debate which took place on that day, the Papers received this morning ate full. M. de la BOURDONNAYS opened the discussion by zn animated speech in support of the reduction pro ched by the Committee. The question, he candidly vov.ed, was one which had no real concern with the finances. What the Chamber might refuse to-day, :.:cy could grant, upon maturer consideration, to morrow. The abject in giving less than the Minister ailed, was to shew the little confidence the Chamber dad in him—a" Here," say the Journals, " all eyes sue fixed on M. de Cetze"j --and to call the attention of the King to the necessity of at last entering into the necessary conditions of a Constitutional Mo. tarchy--of fortifying all its elements, by re-establish in their full plenitude, the prerogatives of the Clown and the privileges of the Peerage, and of de veloping, by stronger and more complete organic Iris, the Democratic part of the Representative 'IR System. 4- M. de BOULAYE deprecated the intermixture of po ee litical questions with a measure of mere Finance, in He endeavoured to show, from the example of pre ts ceding years, that four twelfths of the direct taxes r- would not suffice ; and on this grotind he moved for ns t.e ado' tics cf the project as it stood. )e M. Itilkcittx was strongly in favour of the reduc t, f')n. It had been allowed by men of all parties that t- this practice of anticipating the supplies, before the e, Chamber were in possession of any information on oe the subject, was a serious evil, and could not be too :con checked. The word confidence was not Par er The JII NI sr zft of FINANCES explained. General DEMARCAY, in a long speech, argued both lzgainst the Project of Law, and against the Amend ment I.le.posed by the Committee. He concluded moving, that instead of six-twelfths, the Chant t:er should vote only two-sixths. The Minister of the Interior (Count DE CAZE) made animated speech in support of the Project. He was perfectly willing to rest the question on the ground chosen by M. BOURDONNAYE, and to abide ty the issue as a proof of the degree of confidence vich the Chamber possessed in the Minis..ers. The true Government party, he remarked, was the ico• rr•trise party of the Nation, as it was well represented the Chamber: The wish of this party was, that Zs things are so, they should continue. The debate was afterwards kept up on the one tide by MM. DUPONT (de l'Eure), BEAusajoun, BEN• :kAIN CONSTANT, &c. and on the other by MM. CORNET d'INCOURT, COURVOISIER, PASQUIER, &C. General DEMARCAY withdrew his Amendment, ;ad the previous question being moved, in order to P.et rid of the recommendation of the Commission, it carried by an immense majority. The Articles of the Projet were then put to the vcte, and adopted seriatim. The vote was next taken on the Projet as a whole, **::en there appeared for it, 157; against it, 97; ma ttity in favour of Ministers, 40. bench 5 per Cents. Thursday. 70 fr. 80 c. Friday, a Privy Council was held at Dublin Cas `, when the Baronies of Ballymoe, Downamore, , cyan, and Tyaquin, in the county of Galway, tirc, under the Act of the 54th of the King, de- Cared in a state of disturbance . . An extraordinary ttAblisliment of Police will accordingly bt formed in those Baronies,—The loyal inhabitants of the Ba. " :ies of Dunmore, Ballymoe, and Tyaquin, county iiialway, comprising a population of 100,000, have Ale:ea the:: services to Government, to act as Ca- to te a hei Ora Ise eIV re he of ,ve as ell his its valry or Infantry, to resist the illegal associations oP Ribhonmen, that have confederated themselves in that quarter. . THE ARMY. Last week, about one hundred effective men, be longing to the parishes of Queensferry and Dalmeny, made an offer to be trained and armed in such man• ner as Government might require. The patriotic example set by the inhabitants of the village of East Linton, was followed up by the whole parish, who, with very few exceptions, to the amount of 350, have inrolled themselves in support of the King and Constitution. Major-General SHANKS has called a Meeting of all the Half-pay Officers in Glasgow, Naval and Mi litary, to be held in the Town Hall, on Friday, the 31st of December, to take into consideration the propriety of forming themselves into a Corps or Com pany, and offering their services to Government. Tuesday, Lieutenant-General FYZAS entertained at dinner, at his House in Stephen -street, Dublin— General Sir George Beckwith, Major• General Lord and Lady Aylmer, Major-General Sir William and Lady Sheridan, Mr. Mills, Major Spottiswoode, Major Rogers, Capt. Miller, &e. MILITARY COURT-MARTIAL. The General Court-Mai tial, alluded to in a for mer Paper, assembled in the Court-Martial room, at the Government House, Plymouth, on Monday sennight, when Lieutenant-Colonel Host°, of the 55th Regiment, was tried on the following charge : " For being drunk on duty when parading the guards and picquets of the 55th Regiment, on or about the 9th of Octo ber last." The proceedings commenced by an address from the prosecutor, when witnesses were examined, in support of the charge, and the prosecution cloied : on which the Court 'adjourned till Wednesday, the VA inst. to give time for the Lieutenant-Colonel to prepare his defence.—On Wednesday, the Court as sembled, at ten o'clock, when an able defence was read to the Court for the Colonel, and witnesses were examined in proof of his innocence, after which a re , ly was read by the prosecutor, when the proceed ings closed, and the Court was cleared fot the Mem bers to form their opinions and sentence, to be sub mitted to his Royal Highness the Pat SCE RECANT. GENERAL D'LVEREUX EXPEDITION. (From The lkifasg Orronick.) BELFAST, DEC. 22 —On Sunday. the Nicholai Pa lowisch arrived in the Belfast Lough, from Dublin, bound for South America, and landed about one hundred men on the Bangor and Cultra shores. The account these men give is, that, after sailing from Dublin, they were put on short allowance, and were so clowded in the vessel, that they could not exist; that they requested of Colonel Power, either that they should get better treatment, or be sent on shore.-- The latter was complied with, the Colonel first ordering them to be stripped of their jackets, &c. Their story, however, is very improbable, and is, in many in stances, totally false, as we have ascertained from 41 km* aotarcca. Ye-sterday, Cot. Lyster waited on us with a letter he had received from Colonel Power, which is annexed, giving an account of the occur rence, and containing list of the provisions on board ; this he is readtto shew to any person who will call on him. The folloWing is the letter of Colonel POWZR " Oa board the Nicholai, Belfast Harbour, December 20, 1819. " My Dear Colooel—The disagreeable occurrences which have taken place since we left Dublin, induces me to send you this brief but true statement of them. We sailed from Dooleary on Friday night last, about eleven o'clock. The saes appeared happy and contented until the following evening, when many of them (about the hour of six o'clock) rushed up from between desks, and cried out to be put on shore. I iestantly demanded their reasons for conduct so highly improper and unbecoming. Their reply was, that the ship was leaky and otherwise injured, and unfit to keep at sea they added, without being permitted of giving me time to reason with them, that they had their in formation from all the sailors, and which information, they said, must be true, as the sailors themselves had declared they would not remain on board longer, or work the ship farther, than the nearest port. I pacified them for • the night, by assuring them, that as many as wished to leave the ship should have liberty, and, if it was possible, an opportunity to do so the following day. Sunday morning they renewed their application: and as I made a promise that such men as wished it should be sent on shore, a signal was made for a boat, when shortly after a pilot-boat came alongside, into which between fifty and sixty men sot and pat of There were a great many of them miserably unsound, erne incurable wretches, who smuggled themselves into the boats at Dunleary, by taking advantpge of the lateness of the hour and darkness of the night, and who were never seen or inspected by any medical Gentleman. I must here inform you, that just at the period those fellows were about being sent on shore here' the sailors (almost to a Man) came aft to state to their Captain, that they would not remain in the ship any longer, in conse quence of which, instead of standing out to sea, we were obliged to come to anchor here. I send herewith a list of provisions of all descriptions on board, which I am confident is more than sufficient for three hundred men for three ntotiths, in order that should any of the infamous idle characters, whom I have sent en shore, be base enough to endeavour to spread reports injurious to me, by ill treatment of them, (the contrary of which I have so many vouchers to produce,) that you may be able to, and which I trust you will, publicly contradict them..--I am, &c." The Ktwo's landed property in the city of Chester, with the Manor of Handbridge, has recently been disposed of, for the sum of £27,516. - His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex honoured Mr. ELLICE, of Osterley, with his company on Thurs. day last, to enjoy a day's shooting. His Grace the Duke of DEVONSHIRE is entertain ing a large party of fashionables during the holidays, at his magnificent seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire. His Grace is likewise not unmindful of the lower orders at this inclement season; his hospitable mansion is alike open to all, in the true style of old English hospitality. We regret to have to record of Mr. C. Suffern., son of Mr. jags-alley, Royal Exchange. eimpasas going off to join his c fee Madras, while lying at lie boat is supposed to have been squall, and all on board, six .i NAVAL INTELLIGENCE: Fatatoott, Dogmata 25,--Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Al bion, itteraimin, from Pieta, in thirty-eight days.—Sated the Duke of Kent packet, with a mail far Lisbon ; also the Sally, LOURT, for Lispon ; and the William and Thomas, }lawns; for St. Michael a. Putnetty, Declasses. 26.—The sloop' Industry, from Cardiff to Whitehaven, is stranded, and it is feared *it no part of the cargo can be got at. Cows+, Dacinsust 27.-.--The names, 11We* New York, has brought up at Stokes Bay ; she landed several English mechanics, who kad not been able to find employment at New York. , Poarntouln, Dec. 27.—Wind SE.—Arrived the Burden, RICUALDSO74, from &. Andrew's, N.B. Ocean, 13/011416X, front' Finland ; Thorns. NORSAN, from New Y o rk ; a nd th e follow ing from the Downs--Northampton and Ocean, transports, for the Cape ; Abeona, Careica, Ida, Paestu's, and Alcyone, CHATILIN, for Jamaica • Woodlark, Menurrox for the filedi tertanean ; Isabella, L,ento for Demerara ; Delaferd, Yetis', for St. Vinc en t' s ; and Robert, for St. Sebastian. Sailed the Ste Godfrey Webster, John, Frinceu Charlotte, and Ida, for Ja maica • and Delaford, for St. Vi ncent ' s . The Aurora, CaveN, from narbadoes, drove from her anchorage this morning, and struck on the tail of the Arrow Bank, by which she unshipped her rudder, &c. DLit, Dec. 27.—Wind R.S.F.—Arrived wed sailed for the RPM, the Underwood, Woon, from Demerara • and Highland Lad, Moose, from Qu e b ec . S a iled the Earl 13alearras, London, Thames, and Warren Hastings, for India. Letters from St. Petersburgh, to the 80th of No tembee, (N.S.) state, that the Emperor A IMANDSR, apprehensive that the morals of his people would be injured by their reading the account of Ceislile's Tried, had given directions to the Police to prevent the introduction of all the English Newspapers which contain it. The hurricane experienced at St. Petersburgh, had not, as had been anticipated, broken up the ice, at Cronstadt ; but, in consequence of a number of ships being detained there, bound for St. Petersburgh, and other situations, a channel had been cut in the ice, and they had proceeded on their voyages. Letters from Rio Janeiro state the arrival there of kis Majesty's ships SUPERB, VENGRUR, and HYPE RION, tinder the command of Commodore Sir Tno- WAS MASTERMAN HARDY, Bart. They sailed from I'lymouth on the 9th of September, and arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 24th of October, all well. The first stone of the new Pilot and Ballast Office, at Hull was laid last week, by the senior member of the nity House. In the course of the following • some persons tore up the foundation, and car ried off the inscriptions, probably expecting to find pieces of money deposited under it, but in this the depredators were disappointed. The HIGH BAILIFF of Birmingham in compliance with a Requisition, signed by nearly a hundred of the most respectable inhabitants, has appointed a Meeting of the Merchants, Manufacturers, and Traders of the Town, to be held on the 4th of January nest, for the purpose of considering of the propriety of Petitioning Parliament to inquire into the causes of the present deplorable situation of the manufacturing and labouring classes of the community, and into the best means of relieving it. A man of the name of Joseph Brandish, has been taken into custody at Birmingham, on a charge of 'edition. Watt:wart. the Chairmen of the Union So ciety of Birmingham, was on Tuesday last bailed for his appearance at the Sessions, to answer to an in dictment charging- him with being the author- of a seditious and inflammatory Address, lately posted in the streets of that town. Paisley being exclusively dependent on the Cotton Manufactures, the inhabitants are labouring under great distress. Unhappily for themselves, and the character of the town, they have lately manifested a , spirit of tumult and insubordination, little calcu lated to give them fresh claims on the sympathy of the wealthy orders. On Friday se'nnight, the Civil Authorities proceeded to seize a violent young Radical of the name of Henderson, a cutler, who was suspected to be active in preparing deadly wea pons of different descriptions ; and two formidable pikes being found in his workshop, he was obliged to give sufficient bail before he was liberated. — It appears a person of the name of Neil had been dis patched front the Paisley Union, to a Meeting of De legates held lately at Nottingham, and it was judged proper to examine him concerning the object of his mission. He was of course taken into custody. Wl.ile he was conveyed off for examination, a crowd as sembled, and stones and other dangerous missiles were thrown at the Police with desperate violence, and the prisoner was finally rescued ; but Neil sur rendered himself. The Civil Authorities having obtained information of two desperate characters who were very active in these disgraceful scenes, proceeded on Monday, with the aid of a small party of military, to take them into custody. When ar rived at the head of Max wellton street, an immense crowd collected in an instant, and their boldness in creasing with their numbers, they appeared deter mined to oppose the seizure of the offenders.— When the "party were marching off with the pri soners they were insulted with hissing and hooting, and pelted with stones, and every species of rabble annoyance was poured upon them. At one time the military halted, and manoeuvred as if about to act in 'their own defence, and the mob, with their usual celerity, scampered off in all directions. After some farther trouble, the prisoners were lodged in safety, and the party was'sent off to seize some gun-barrels which the Radical Henderson lodged in a neighbour's. The articles were found, and they and the owner of the house were taken to the Police Office. After un dergoing an examination, this person and others were liberated, but the instruments were retained. In these scenes several panes of glass were broken, but ' owing to the lenity of the Magistrates, and the pa tience and steady good temper of the military, sio. thing of a serious nature happened: ; A Meeting of the Heritors, Hiruseholders, and In. habitants, of the Town and Parish of Irvine, was held at Irvine last week, for the purpose of considering the diStressed state of the Operative Manufacturer* and the most efficient means of affording them relief It hiving been proposed, that a subscription should be entered into for the purpose of providing ernplorpli e public work, a subscriptise : . d the mehurcholy death mart for than la sonic pirblic wick, a sillscriptiso lr. T. Srursns, of Sweet- was accordingly begun, and we are happy to say , !. This young Gentle- akftut.o6o have already been subscribed, and a con- s hi p , t h e sa me .- si sum more is.. expecurdi A subscription the Motherbapk,.. l urpose was, ralutd,os Irvine about two b een upset by as whicbAimeqpprquk cif 4CIOO was sub- in number, perished. scn r . anei wiNas alriad7 4441 upended. IS ALL'S, DECEMBER E. ■l. g 0 to 1 apt LOck 20 to 1 apt Br. to Whiaket 20 to 1 asst Sailor 20 to 1 apt Cat 013. 70 to I apt Duke of Rutland I 9to 1 agst Bride HUNTING. The Prince Regent'a Stag Hounds meet on Friday, at Maid enhead Thicket. —The East Essex Fox Hounds meet on Thurs. ' day, at the Grifln, Danbury.—Tht Crouton Hounds (Cant bridrskire) meet on Friday, at Aiengtesi Bridge.-411r. Mo berly s Hounds meet on Thursday, at the Fut, Kasten ; Satur day, at Riddiesdown.—Mr. Joilifte's Hounds meet on Thurs day, at Platt's Green ; Saturday, at Hermitage.—The i'teckley Hounds meet te-snOrrow, at Holcot Bridge..—The Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet on Friday, at Whistley Wood.—The Oakley Hounds-meet on Thursday, at Chicheley; Saturday, at Milton MiU.—The Quorn Hounds meet on Thursday, at Kit tieby; Saturday, at Rempstone.—Sir Bellingham -Graham's Hounds meet on Friday, at Rally Burrows; Saturday, at Man stoke Castle. , • Mr. Maarte's (Sussex) Harriers had a novel chace 22 *ed aesday last. They threw off on Fink Hill, and found a hare; when coming to a check, whilst endeavouring to giin the Mats fox dashed out of a furze bush, and led them over several brooks much Hooded by the late rains, towards the mat ea seining the shore he was headed by two fishernmacend totvcdd the dogs ascended the cliff, 25 feet high, and regained the Mk front which he once more descended into a crevice of the cliff, end thus saved his life, after a sharp run of 12 miles. - ' A greyhound, belonging to Kr. Hatt., of Stavertob, fa Worthamptonshire, rm Tuesday last, started t brace of hante, Ikons one farm, they both took the same direction, followed by thedog, who soon caught one of them, and after clearing a Mk, a hedge, and turning the otter five or six times, with the fit in his mouth, caught it, and both were found dead at hldeei GREAT DRIVING MATCH. Captain Weariest/Am undertook his match yesterday, to drive two horses in harness, which should be his own property, 48 miles in four hours. He bad renewed the match by paying twenty guineas, in the slippery weather last week, to perform any time before the Ist of January. The match was i Wormed over a six-mile piece of ground, with good turnings. The first horse did his 12 miles in half a 'idolize within the hour, and the 24 miles was done in 50 seconds under the two hours. The second horse was about ten seconds over the two hours at the 24 miles, which was a win. STATE OF IRELAND. (From a Dublin Paper of Thursday last.) We feel happy in being enabled to state, that the Ribbonmen, in the counties of Clare and Roscommon, have discontinued their proceedings, and, it is hoped, that tranquillity in these districts wig be restored.— The inhabitants of the baronies of Dunmore, "Bally- Tore, and Tyaquin, county of Galway, comprising a population of 100,000, have tendered their services to Government, to act as Cavalry or Infantry, to re sist the illegal associations or Ribbonmen that have confederated themselves in that quarter. In the King's County some disturbances have oc curred. We have had occasion before to refer to this county ; and, since our last allusion to it, some cir cumstances have come to our knowledge to which, until they received the stamp of official authority, we did not deem it necessary to Allude. In the Queen's County, some circumstances of an unllleasant nature have taken place, in Mary borough. We have heard a few particulars, but they have reached.our office in a shape so equivocal, that we deem it only prudent to suspend their pub lication. We_ regret to say, that in Westmeath, a similar tumultuarj spirit prevails. It is, indeed, true, and we state de circumstance with very great reluctance in the words of a Correspondent at Mullingar, that " on Monday evening, the 20th instant, as Benjamin Cox and his soh, were returning to Shingles from Ballymore, in this county, after driving and selling cattle, for non-payment of rent, due by the tenants holding the lands of Newtown, they were way-laid and fired on from behind a hedge, and, melancholy to relate, two balls were lodged in Cox's arm and shoulder ; and a poor man, who accompanied his party, was so dreadfully wounded in the neck, by a" second shot, that his life is despaired of." We have also to state, on the authority of another eommunicatioin that the horrible system of houghing lad killing cattle is beginning to appear in some parts of the county. Seven cows belonging to a widow Lady, in the neighbourhood of Mullingar, were killed, the fat taken away, and the bodies left behind. On another farm, in the same neighbourhood, four sheep have been killed on the same night. In Kilkenny, too, the abominable-system has ap peared._ Five cows and six breeding ewes, the pro petty of Mr. Joan MARUM, brother to the titular - Bishop of Ossonv, have been toughed and killed. The Magistrates and Landholders of the Barony of Galmoy, in which the outrage was committed, have offered a reward for the discovery of the perpetrator. We have been informed, by a highly respectable resident Gentleman, that the Baronies of Eliogarty and Kilnemanagh, County of Tipperary, are at pre sent much disturbed by fellows going in search of fire-arms, and posting notices to " assassinate any person taking ground over Ifnother's heat!." He states the following as a few of the outrages :—" Some nights ago a pistol was stolen from the house of the Rein W. E. Lloyd, at Holycross Glebe. Mr. Lloyd, of Mount Friscoe's, wood-rangeri had his mustets taken by an armed banditti. A man, named Fehan, Steward to Captain Gason, was deprived of his arms —as were also a Mr. Cahill and a Mr. James Lan der, all residing in these Baronies. The three guns and two powder-horns, taken from Mr. Lenegan's Office, joining his dwelling-house, in his inclosed yard, and Mr. Lloyd's pistol, were restored through the exertions of Major Wilson, late Chief Magistrate of Police, who still resides at Thurles." .‘-!, The Society for Promoting the Enlargement.and Building of Churches has recently received two axe. as donations of £5OO In consequence of the death of the Earl of aims row, the . Lord Lieutenancy of Ayillhire and a Gteeu Ribbon have become vacant: We regret to 'announce the death of the Reverend Geoitot Hits., Principal of St. Mary's College, 8t: And'rew's. This Gentleman was long one of dr. chief ornaments of the Church Of Stociand, and was distiuguislied for his manly and inniressive eloquence, hot6.in_the pitlpit and the General Assembly. ;ThsViscountess catudousis continues to practia. the same sysietu of old .E'nglish hosphali, as usual, Thij-Akfotir - i4 l I ?rlOoteerf of , dote, now int, *lli girtsp* } §ir Felt,. l lo rit tklar. ti rm wad . _ . to .. 16. . .t :t . t-. 50P 6 49, . 1 P. . 1 . ! -- ,-, ". :le • -.241; ,m 744., y I V BETTING AT TATTER: 10 to 1 apt Mr. Plane's gr.e. 14 to 1 asst Piadarea 16 to 1 apt Bristle 17 to 1 apt Brother to l3lueher 111 to 1 agat Kestrel SPORTING INDELLIGENCE. 4 .1 . . ...... (