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I . On the chore Which authoriA person holding 500 acres of land to appoint gamekeeper', c o l o nel WOOD opposed it. He considered this multiplication of gamekeepers would be very objectionable; he believed the doing so would much increase the number of poachers, for he verily be lieved almost every gamekeeper was a poacher—(No, no). Gentle. inc h might say No, no, but he would say Yes, yes. He believed more than half the game sent illegally to London was sent by gaturkepe:ll—(Hear, hear, hear). If this clause was to pass, there was pot a small holder of 500 acres who would not appoint his gamekeeper ;ihat gamekeeper would generally be his son, and thus a good farmer would be spoiled. After some observations from Mr. S. WOZTLIT, Mr. Moxer, and Colonel Davies, the Clause was agreed to. On the clause which was intended to regulate Who and under what circumstances snares might be set, Colonel DAVIES wished to have an amendment introduced into this clause; namely—that no person should set a snare within a less distance than 100 acres of any game preserve. Sir I SHELLEY supported this amendment. Sir J. SEBRIG HT could not agree to this amendment. He thought every poor man, even supposing his garden to be close to a preserve, ought to have a right to snare any game which came on his property. Mr. PEEL was in favour of the amendment. Colonel DAVIES said a few words in explanation. Mr. SYKES was in favour of the amendment. After some further conversation, the amendment was negatived, and the clause agreed to. Mr. S. WORTLEY said, as the Bill at present stood, night poachers, for a third offence, were liable to transportation. But it might happen that a poacher might be guilty of violence towards the person apprehending him, and in such a ease, he would now propose a clause, providing that, for the first offence, if accompanied with violence, the offender should be liable to transportation, if the Court thought fit. This clause, after a few observations, was adopted.—Several other verbal amendments were Made, and the Committee having gone through the Bill, the House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received. The other Orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned at nate-PAST ONE. . THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 96k, i, for the Account, and went up to 96i ; for Money 96k, at which price they remain steady. FOREIGN FUNDS. The prices of most of the Foreign Securities remain steady, with little doing. _ _ _ Corm Prices:—New Spaisisb 16i 17, Ohl In to f r Russian 97i I, Chilian 86, Austrian Scrip 461, Mexican 10 to }, Greek 1 to dis. Alliance Shares 13k, New Prussian 99i. Old 98a, Portu guese 81, New Colombian Scrip 2} to Old Colombian 91i to 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. Vlsatu, DI/Am 29.—Metalliques 94 5-16. Bk. Sh. 1018. Ill.4acx 30.---Metalliques 95 Bk. Sh. 1024. e. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 24.514 % 1 4 ex. div. 3 per tent. Reduced 95 1 h 1 4 ex. div. 3 per Cent. Consols 9614 3 4 1 / 8 3 1 / 2 per Cents. 10214 % ex. div. 4 per Cents. Old 100 1 / 8 Y g ex. div. 4 per Cents. New 10814 Ye 14 4 per Cents Assented 102 1 / 2 102 ex. div. Bank Long Anns. 23 3-16 IA ex. div. India Bonds 80s. 775. Fat eque 1;111:. (ELMO) 465. 495. 445. 475. Do. Small 46 . . 495. 445. 475. Bank for Acct. 25 0 14 1 / 2 —lndia for Ace* 300 1 / 4 Consols for Acct. 963/4 % Vs. Last night the Alien Bill was read a third time, and passed the House of Commons, in open defiance of the splendid orations of Colonel PALMER and Mr. Dsmagatr, and notwithstanding there was not a single word said in its favour. The gallant Colonel marshalled argu guments, or assertions, with as much precision as he could have marshalled the " Tenth," had he still re mained in that unfortunate Corps. He quoted SHAS. SPEARE as glibly as Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and gave with peculiar emphasis that very rare passage—As Who steals my purse steals trash," &c. The discovery of this obsolete passage in SHAKSPEARE is nothing to what the researches of the gallant Colonel achieved. He found out, forsooth I that this country is in danger, and, like a true patriot, he could look to nothing but the means to save her. Then comes SHAKSPEARE again ; but we defy Mr. HORACE Twiss, notwithstanding the knowledge he must have acquired in forming his verbal index—yes, we defy him to guess the passage which the Honourable Member, like Dr. Prolix, with infinite promptitude, quoted in support of his pattiotism.— Speaking of England, he exclaimed, that in her cause he would say with Hotspur— " By Heaven, methinks it were an ea.ly leap " To pluck bright Honour from the pale-fac'd moon, " Or dive into the bottom of the deep, " Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 4 ' And pluck up drowned Honour by the lock,— " But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!" Now this is straightforward—it is in the Lieutenant Lismahago style of wooing, when, having rescued Miss rabitha Bramble from the file, he wants to put his love to the test of another element, and wishes that she were at the bottom of the sea, that he might " fish her up again."—Quitting SHAKBPEARE, the gallant Member scoured up his Latin, and told the House that Virlus sole Nobilitas was the motto of his heart, and " he hoped teo deeply written down to be erased by any temptation which the vanity of this world could offer." This hoping is but a sort of half virtue. Why not aver that the very words, with an English translation, were actually writ. ten on his bean, like Calais on that of Queen MARY, and challenge any man who denied it to search and satisfy himself. Then the Honouralbe Mernl)er talked .-oh, how he did talk—about fools, knaves, reforma tion of drunken regiments, justice, firmness, humanity, inmrnon sense, the structure of Governments, King FERDINAN* the brute creation, the Bible Society, General MUM, and . John Bull. But what has all this to do with the Allen Act? What indeed ! and we only quote the heads of the Honourable Mem 'tier's discourse, to thew how comprehensive it must have been. One or two observations are, however, :entitled to more attention. The gallant Colonel, after sighing for the fate of his poor country, is repre sented to have said that England, though once the greatest nation in the world, now stood 44 degraded, in raked, despised, a bankrupt in characterand in fortune, and, what was Worse, lost den to the sense of her own' dishonour." 0 wretched England, ill-fated Ciaina PAL- MER, to be doomed to witness your cuuntry's dishonour —the realm's decay. What avails our being at peace with all the world—we are g despised:' of what import• ante is our having prevented a general crusade against Spain, or kept in check the views of the Continental Powers on South America—we are degraded. Why prove to us that our taxes are reduced—that our Re venue improves, and that our superabundant wealth cannot find half employment in " home-born projects," as Launcelot Leatherhead, in BEN JoNsoN's Bartholo- sew Fait. says, since we are 44 bankrupt;" and all this we are assured we are by Colonel PALMER.— Why talk of a well-appointed Army, or a Navy, whose sails would at once unfold and waft her now sleeping thunders to every clime, when we are " insulted"—by the Dey of ALorzas, we presume. But admitting th at we are insulted, despised, and degraded (and who dare deny it when an Honourable M.P. asserts it), let us ascertain the cause of this humiliation ; happily the gallant Colonel .applies us with it. Speaking of the Continental Sovereigns, he sdiJ, how was it possible that these Powers " could be actuated by any more favourable sentiment than contempt for a Go vernment, which, whatever might be its own feeling was unable to controul the feelings of the nation!" Of all the proofs of weakness in a Government this is certainly the strangest : Some of the Continental Powers are called despots, because they place restraints on the press, but the British Government is accused of im becility because it does not con troul the feelings of the people; 44 Muffs and meerschams," as the Dandy Hussar in the new comedy exclaims, we never heard such a charge. Controul the feelings of an Eng- lishman, indeed, who, as Sir Anthony Absolute says, has a right to be in a passion if he pleases. Who ever heard of so monstrous a proposition ? But that the present Ministers neither wish to restrain public feeling or public speaking, is best proved by the pa tience with which they heard the Honourable Member last night. On Mr. DENMAN'S speech we have no room for re mark, nor does it need any—that of the gallant Colonel was novel—Mr. DENMAN'S, on the contrary, was a hash, and by no means a savoury one, of all the threadbare objections which have been made to the Alien Bill for the last twenty years. After such an op position, our Readers will not be surprised to learn that the Bill passed by a Majority of 64—the numbers be ing 111 for, and 47 against the Bill. German Papers to the/Lb inst.reached us this morning. —The Allgemeine Zeilung has the following article from Marseilles, dated ad of March. It confirms a statement we made nearly a month ago, of the com plaint made by the Ottoman Porte of Lord BY RON'S as sistance to the Greeks : " Letters from Pera, which may be depended upon, give the following information respecting the late diplo. matic transactions at Constantinople. I , The French Charge d'Affaires has remained in a manner wholly neutral in the late discussions with the Porte, and as he was not furnished with any full vowels, confined himself to the simple part of a diplomatic ob server. French influence cannot be effectual till the new Ambassador shall have arrived at Constantinople, and, acting upon general instructions, shall take such steps as he may judge necessary to interfere in the negocia 'ions. But he probably will not till the moment when he may act with effect, and will, very likely, take that part which has hitherto been assigned to Lord Strang ford, but which seems to be drawing to a close. For it is generally known at Pera, that the credit of the Bri tish Ambassador with the Grand Vizier and the Divan has greatly declined, and that he now has the greatest difficulties to struggle with, where he formerly found it easy to obtain everything. 44 This important change is justly ascribed to the opi nion (whether well or ill founded is indifferent) now entertained by the Divan and all the Turkish Officers of State, that the British Cabinet has lately become fa vourably disposed towards the Greeks. This opinion has caused the warm discussions with Lord Strangford, and in particular the bitter and cutting tone of the Turkish Ministers, of which the English Ambassador so much complains. The last dispute in which the No ble Lord was engaged with the Grand Vizier, and which, with all his diplomatic skill, he could not evade, related to the corps of troops formed at Missolonghi, under Lord Byron; the supplies of, arms and warlike stores sent to the Greeks from Malta, the lonian Islands—nay, even from England itself; the loans negociated in London for the aid of the Greeks, and other recent circumstances. —But this was not all : the distrust of the Turks being once roused, other circumstances, which had never been mentioned before, were brought forward—among others, the pretended plan of the English Cabinet to ob . tain the supremacy of the Morea and the adjacent islands ; the frequent visits of English Staff Officers and Engineers to the Peloponnesus, which they traversed in all directions, and took plans of the most important mi litary positions and maritime stations ; the presence of a considerable naval force at Malta and the lonian Islands ; the negociations of Captain Hamilton with .the chiefs of the Greek rebels, as the Turks esteem them, &c. Their ancient ill will towards Russia continues, and no recent event has been able to appease it. The arrival of the Russian Agent, M. Von Minziacky, flat tered the pride of the Turks, but it has not diminished their distrust of the Court of St. Petersburgh, and will hardly lead to the evacuation of Wallachia and Mol davia. Th.e mission of this Russian Agent is consi dered as fruitless, the influence of the Austrian Inter nuncio is not considerable enough for him to effect any change L. this respect." . , • Piedntontese audies to the Ist of April reached us this morning. They state that the King, desiring to bring the Code of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the greatest degree of perfection, created in the month of August last, five Commissions, each consisting of three Magistrates § and charged them to state s indepen dently of each other, the observations which from their experience and the exercise of their functions, they had been enabled to make, some on one part, some en an other part of the Code: These Commissioners having presented their several repot ts, his Majesty in the Coun cil of State, held on the 9th of Fe ruary last, was pleased to create a General Commission, which he has charged to present a plan for the improvement of the civil code, availing itself for this purpose of the labours of the abovementioned separate Commissioners. His Majesty has chosen seven Magistrates from the various Courts of Justice at Naples, to compose the Commission. His Majesty has anther ordered that the Minister Secretary of State for tie Department of Grace and Justice, shall be President of the Commission, allowing him in case of impediment to appoint one of the member s of the Commission to exercise his functions. We learn, on the autltters from Alexandria, of the 101 of February, that there is no foundation for the rumour which has been afloat, and occasioned some sensation in England, that the Pacha of Egypt had declared himself independer.t of the Ottoman Porte. ELOPEMENT IN lIIGII LIFE. Bnusset.s, APRIL 6.—A sudden and most extra ordinary circumstance has occurred here this morning, which will afford conversation for a mouth to come. Miss B—cu —N, the daughter and sole heiress of a deceased Baronet, eloped yesterday morning from the house of her mother, Lady B—cu —w, in the Rue Royale. Not a trace of the fair fugitive has yet been disco vered, nor has she left the slightest trace which might lead to a knowledge of where she has gone to. It is supposed, however, that Mr. T. It —N, who is also missing, has been the companion of her flight. She was only 18 years of age. Her fortune is considerable, amounting, it is said, to .CBO,OOO. We do not know whether she is a ward of Chancery ; if she he, her elopement will no doubt give employment to the Gentlemen of the Long Robe. The Carlisle Patriot confirms this statement in the following no tice of the arrival of the happy pair at that place :—" Wednesday morning (7th inst.) a Mr. T. Robinson, of London,' (according to his card) arrived in this City, on his way to Gretna Green, with a handsome young English Lady, of high connection and great for tune, with whom he eloped, it is said, from Brussels, where she was residing ; but her name was studiously concealed. They were married at Gretna, in the usual summary form, returned to the Bush Inn here, and remained till yesterday morning (Friday, 9th inst.) when they set nut for London, having taken the whole of the inside of the mail coach to themselves!" THE ARMY. In the arrangements which have been made respecting the New Levy, it has been deemed expedient to direct that one-half of the recruits should be raised in Ireland, and the other half in Great Britain. The want of employ is more felt in the sister kingdom than in this country, the regulation, therefore, will afford relief to some hundreds of the necessitous, unemployed, and able-bodied men in that country. No returns have yet been received from the different Recruiting Parties In the United Kingdom, but it is confidently expected that the quota apportioned to Ireland will be raised sooner than the proportion which has been allotted to Great Britain. A detachment belonging to the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot, is ordered to embark on Thursday next, at Deptford, on board the Surrey transport, for conveyance to the Regiment, which is at present stationed at Portsmouth. On the arrival of the Sur rey at that station, the remainder of the 95th Regiment of Infan try will immediately embark on board that transport for Malta. NAVAL lATELLIGENCE. The Bellona, WATKINS, from Liverpool to Bristol, was driven on shore on Saturday, near Fishguard—cargo discharging. FALMOUTH, APRIL ii.—Wind N.—Sailed the Hind, LaViscoar, for Jersey. PLYMOUTH, Aram 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Active, Wzs 'LAKE, front Palermo in sixty days. PORTSMOUTH, Aritit 13.—Wind W. I.rrived the Pons .Elii, PARKER, from Newcastle for Plctou ; Messenger, PACE, from Ga lipoli; and the following vessels from the Downs; viz. —Golconda, EDWARDS, for Madras; Fortitude Increased, MANNING, for St. Kitt's; and Charles Tennyson, Bonen, for Montreal. Off the Isle of Wight, the Sophia, SuTroy, from Calcutta. DEAL, APRIL 1.2. Wind N.W. Arrives' the Good Friends, THOMAS, from the South Seas; Minerva, tuna Philadelphia; Hermes, Rosaiersoa, from Smyrna; Harriet, (iaassas, from Leg horn; John Esdaile, Daanarss, from Sicily; and Osbourn, —, from St. Lucia. Came down Irons the River and remain, the Denmark Hill, FOREMAN, for Van Dieman's Land; Jane, MiCtusr, for Charleston; Jack Tar, ANDERSON, for Jamaica; and Hopewell and Minerva, for Quebec. The homeward bound reported yester day have sailed for the River. His MAJESTY having been graciously pleased to re ceive from WILLIAM nAlt WILSON, Esq. a traveller already suffi ciently known to the Public, his Journies in Turkey,Greece, lonian Isles, Sicily, Spain. and France, these, we understand, will be pub lished by LONGMAN and Co. Paternoster-row, onThursday morning. The Duke of YORK transacted military bu s iness with the KING yesterday. Yesterday morning, at 1 lo'clock, the Earl and Countess of Laveerooe left town for Bath. Lnrd MELVILLE had a dinner party on Sunday, at the Aduairalty. The LORD MAYOR has adopted the plan of last year, of limiting the number of tickets for the Easter Ball, whereby the company will be more select and respectable, and the inconvenience so generally complained of in former years by the numerous and in. discriminate issue of tickets will be avoided. A few public-spirited individuals, accompanied by an Alderman of the City, on Saturday last raised a subscription among the bankers and inhabitants of Lombard-street, for the purpose of widening the entrance of that street next the Mansion-house, and in a few hours collected upwards of 2,0001. Tuesday afternoon, the body of a woman, the head nearly severed from the body, was found in her bed, Paisley Loan, Corbels, Glas gow, by two of her children, on their return home to dinner from a cotton work in that neighbourhood. Iler husband, James Devon, an Irishman, has been fully committed to take his trial fur the atrocious deed. The last time the poor woman was seen alive, she was sitting upon a small stool, at a distance from thehed where the corpse was afterwards found. It would appear that the murderer had come behind her, mid, in effecting his horrid purpose, had drawn a razor obliquely upwards with such strength that the wind pipe was completely severed, by a cut to the depth of two inches, and the tongue cut completely tin ouLlt ecee the root! The sight was most shocking. When told lie was committed to take his trial fur the murder, the culprit was gt: atly agitated. The folloiving very interestil ., g Works are just pub lislled by Mr. CoLnunN, New llurlington-street : I. Memoirs of Goethe, the celebrated Author of Werter, &e. written by himself, two vols. 2. The Highlanders, a Tale by the Author of the Hermit in London, Abroad, &c. three vols. 6. Godwin's History of the Commonwealth, !Ivo. 4. The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, by Lady Morgan, two vols. fe Sayings and Doings; or, Sketches from Life , th ree vols. 6. Co w per's Pri vate Correspontence, two vols. 7. Memoirs relative to the Duke d'Enghien, one vol. and 8. ffismondi s Histcry of the Literature of the South of Europe, with Notes by Roscoe, four vols. It should be impres s ed on the minds of 'all who value Fortune and. Independence, that Otte o t.e Three X 20,000 Prizes, on Tenney next, 90th April, it sure to be had for the trifling risk of E 3. 19s. otcr.v, the cost being ,P 25. 19s. and every Ticket that does not ohtain One of the Three £20,000, or Thirteen Capital Prizes, may have £9O returned on or before 29th April. Such a Chance was never offered before ; and is certain to cause as great scareity . of Whitle Tickets setoat the noili instant, as was so lately experienced, as there are only 986 remaining this 12th April. The risk of One Sixteenth is only 9s. and Sha:ca in proportion.— J. and J. Stvzwaeuur, Contractois.. OLD BAILEY-TILTS DAY. John Graves was put to the bar on an indictment charging him, on the Coroner's warrant, with killing and slaying James Partridge, On the 22d February. In the course of the evidence, it turned out that ,111 deceased had been extremely abusive, and had attempted to strike the prisoner, who until that did not attempt to resent the ill usage. The COMMON-SERJEANT recornmen.!ed an acquittal, and the Jury without any hesitation found the prisoner Not Guilty. Elizabeth Whetwell, a young woman, who bad lived 1 1 six years in the service of Mr. Thomas Elope, was put to the bar on an indictment charging her with steal n ; silver plate to the value of £l, the property of her m s te:, on the sth of April last. The prisoner offered the property to a gold rc:'n r for sale, whose suspicions being roused, he qt.etini.e I her as to how she came by it, and at length was ineu ed to detain the property and give in formation to her. mas:er. The facts were fully proved ; and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended her to mercy, on ac count of the to mer excellent character she bore. Yesterda; ,Strphen liarmun was indicted for receiving three 51. Ban :-notes, well knaw ing them•to have teen stolen by some evil-disposed person or persons unknown. There was another count, describing the property as pieces of stamped paper ; and another as pieces of paper only, of the value of 3d. aid part of a greater number. The notes in question were Fait of those which were stolen from the 13.41100 n cosch some time ago, when on their passage to Birmingha-n, to be re-issued by Messrs. Taylor and Lloyd, of Birmingham, after they had been taken up by Mess. s. Ilanbury and Co. of Lombard• street, where they had been made payable. The pri soner it appeared, went into three linen•drapers' shops on different days in Minch last; in the first he suc ceeded in paying off one of the notes in payment of a piece of linen; in the second he left the mute behind him, having thought prober to decamp while the pro prietor went out to make inquiries respecting it ; whilst the third attempt proved fatal ; for the shonnan having expressed his reluctance to take a country note from a stranger, but offered to send the goods he had cheap ened and his change to his residence, the prisoner took up the note in some agitation, and, saying he could get it changed in Covent-garden, where he was known, he went away. The shopman, however, followed him, and perceiving that he deviated from the direction of Co vent-garden, he went up to him, seized him, and in sisted upon his returning w ith him to the shop; upon which the prisoner put the note into his mouth, and swallowed it. He was finally given in custody to a police-officer. In each of these three places he had given a false name and address. He was found Guilty, but a point was reserved for the twelve Judges ; namely—Whether these notes, they having been paid and sati Pied by Messrs. Hanbury and Co. at the time they were stolen, were such documents or property as would, under the Statute, sustain the indictment. Wm. 11 hileheuel was indicted for stealing a quantity of plate in the dwelling-house of Samuel Pratt, his master. The prisoner was hired by the prosecutor, who is a trunk-maker, in New Bond-street, to act as porter and wait at table. The plate in question being missed, the prisoner was suspected of purloining it, and given into custody. He subsequently confessed that he had pawned it.—The Jury frund him Guilty. The prosecutor recommended him to mercy on ac count of his former good character. Mr. Justice PARK promised to forward the recommen dation ; but expressed a doubt that, in consequence of the nature of the case, it would be attended with any effect. There were other indictments against the prisoner, but the Court did not think it necessary to proceed upon them. William Gough, jur. was indicted for stealing a horse front his father, William Ge .gh, sens aho stated that he was a green grocer, and having left his horse and cart in Henrietta -street, on the morning of the Satur day mentioned in the indictment, whilst he went into Covent-garden to make his market, on his return he found that they had been taken away. He discovered his property on the following Monday, in the possession of a man named M'Daniel. A woman was called to prove that the prisoner had sold the horse to M'Daniel for 41. 19s. but having first stated herself to be Alt D aniel's wife, and afterwards his sister, her testimony re ceived no credit; and Mr. AILABII4 said he was strongly disposed to commit her rot perjury. The prisoner, in his thleace, said that he had origi nally bought the horse himself, and having left it with his father while he went to sea, he considered he had a right to treat it as his own upon his return home. The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal. CONCILIATION or ORANGEMEN Awn RIBBONMEN. LONDONDERRY ASSIZES ' APRIL 3—Mr. ROLL ESTON stated, that he had been informed this morning, and he felt great pleasure in making the communication, that the prisoners, of both the parties, to be tried for being concerned in the fatal riots in Maghera, in June last, had, in the prison, shaken hands, and were mutually willing, for the future, to abstain from all display of party feeling, and to live in good fellowship and neigh bourhood, and hoped that the Coutt would allow them to return home without being brought to trial. • He would put it as a suggestion to the Court, whether the discharge of the prisoners now might not tend as much to tranquillize the past of the county from whence they came as proceeding against them by trial? After some conversation beta een Justice Vasr• DLL EUR and the Counsel, the Clerk of the Crown calved over the names of both classes of prisoners. They min gled together in the dock, apparently good-natured. Counsellor DEERING (turning round, and addressing the prisoners in the deck), " Are you all willing to be good friends and neighbours, and to be fully reconciled?" PI isoners---" Yes, we ate. His LORDSHIP then in a most impressive manner ad dressed the prisoners, and concluded by stating, " In the hope that your professions are sincere, and that ycli will return home good friends and neighbours, and live in harmony and friendship, the Court consents t: at you now be discharged, on being bound over in lad. each of personal security, to al pear at the next Assizes if called upon." Counsellor SCHOALES, in a low tote, addressed a few words across the Bench to his Lordship. His Lortrosntr—. I am glad ycu mentioned it, Mr. Schoales. Prisoners, before you retire, let me admonish you, that the best mode of shewing the sincetity of what you have now promised, will be, on your return home, to abstain carefully from any expression of tr none of you have had a t:iumpli—you stood charged, and have mutually agreed to be reconciled.", In the evening, the inciiv4JU4ii of the two parties joined together in little harmonious circles, and, over the social glass, forgave and forgot their former aninsocties. !I L t itt 1 V