Star. — London, England, 1818-07-28 00:00:00

9 ''. . 11 ,• , . i . . i \ , * i f , ' II .4 • .4. . . • . I . , I 4 t i 1. • i 1 . ; 1 1 • I 1 ' I 1 \ i 4 ' 1 , , 0 i lj , • i ‘i •.; • ,,,11 0 . ! , . , , .1' .. i • . f , 0. . 1 • i'.l 1 1 . .. 1 . L .., • -,.., i 1 1,1 , • I ; . i I ' . .i. '..'. • . 1 il ' I 1 :.1 :11 i 4 i • 'I 1P: .i • ' • .i. k . . 4i \ .:.. NORWICH UNION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE OFFlCE&—(Estahlished 1797). AT a SPECIAL MEETING of the BOARD of DIRECTORS, held the 25th day of July, 1818, the measures pursued, by the persons concerned in procuring the Meeting reported in the Newspapers to have been held at the George and Vulture Tavern, London, were maturvii consi dered, andir was unanimously resolved— ; Fins, That these measures are not such as would have been pursued by persons desirous only of having their lair claims considered and adjusted, the tendency of them being to cast general obloquy upon the Society, and to disparage it in the eyes of the Public thraughout the Kingdom. Second, That this Board has always entertained and attended to all proper applications made to it by claimants respecting losses, and by the Members generally, respecting the principles and concerns of the Society, and will continue so to do. Third, That this Board looks back with unfeigned satisfaction on the repeated testimonies which hare been borne by COmmit tees in various parts of •he Kingdom, and by the Members at large—to the promptitude, impartiality, and justice of its deci sions, and calls upon the numerous Connuittees, and on the Members generally, to declare their sentiment,. on these points. Fourth, That valuable assistance having b....di rendered to the Directors by the Committees established throtzhout the King dom for the investigation and adjustment of claims, this Board strongly reitOMMOMIS to the London Members the appointment of a Local*Committee, which may accord in numbers and re spectability with the extent of the Society's concerns in the Mu- Impair. By Older of the Board of Directors, SA:kit:EL 1110N01.1), Secretary fur the Country Department. NORWICH UNION FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. AT a numerous and highly respectable MEETING of the MEMBERS of this SOCIETY holding Policies to the amount of more than £500,000, held at the York Ilotel, on Monday, the 26th instant. pursuant to the requisition of the Secretary, Mr. Thomas Bignold. ....,..•. • a., .... 'l'HOll.►s BEN - 81,EY, Esq. In the ('hair. 'The following Resolution* were proposed, and unanimously adoptetl it. That a Cummittee be elected for the special purpose of Investigating the late cbargea made against the Norwich Union Fire and !Ai,: Office, at a meeting of Claimants at the George and Vulture Tavern, on the 23c10f July, and that they report to a General Meetinz of the Subscribers the result of this Lives tigation:_ . _ _ ‘2d. That thl follmving Gentlemen do form the Committee, and that five of their be a quorum . : CllllTlrrornsa 31aGfay, Esq. Alderman, College-hill. Inoaias Boissi.ce, Esq. 80lt -court, Eleetiltreet- Cu.saeas IllsOutaivoN, Esq. Blackheath. (iLonott Ilmiroan, Esq. Bedford-row. • S. N. B A Esq. Cornhiil. • &slit:lL 13106061& ? Esq. Lamb's Conduit-street. F A. Ceases., Esq. Battersea-rife. Joins J.L.sfoons, Esq. Kensington. JkstEs !hammy, Esq. Gower-street. Ffas.cis Kamst.r, Esq. I'hiliiot-lane. Jails 31tooterms, F.eq. Skinnenetteet. Ti, mAs Witsou, Esq. Charlotte-row, I%fasision-llous.. Juits Waismr, Esq. Henrietta -street, Covent-garden. (Signed) TIMMAS BENSLEY, Chairman. The Thanks of the Meeting were proposed, and unanimously passed, to the Chairman, for his kindness in taking the Chair, mut his impartiality in conducting the business of the day. THE EVENING STAR, LONDON. NEXT TUESDAY LOTTERY DRAWS.—TWO OF £30,000, TWO of .£2,000, 2,000 SOVEREIGNS, CLARET, EpRT, MADEIRA, GOLD.—Only 6,000 Tickets. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1818. tin: FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS Tlllb DAY AT TWELVE (*Loot : Reduced 77 }l—Cons. 7611 —for Opg. 76; 77 Si per Cams. 117 per Cent. 96ii . Navy 105}t--Lndia Bonds 93 95 prem. Ontniuna 1i die.—Exchequer Billy 19 21 pr. The Public are waiting with a more • than ordinary degree of anxiety the result of the extraordinary step which the United States have taken, in the forcible occupation of the Spanish Fioridas. We hasc said, that it is an act for which they awe an explanation to the world: we would say =re— it is an act which the world cannot, without an utter sacrifice of those general principles Which bind nations together, suffer to pass, without an explaniition as Inaint as satisfactory. If the United States desire to maintain the relations of a civilized people with, the rest of the civilized 'meld, they must yield homage to those principles of right and justice in which the essence of all civi litation consists; and cannot, assuredly, be• allowed to make it a matter of option, whether they shall act as they please, or only act as they ought. Next to Spain herself, there is no State which has a more immediate interest in demanding such an expla nation than Great Britain. The annexation of the Flo ridas to the United States will effect an alteration in their relative strength to other Powers, which can be felt by none so nearly or so permanently as this coun try. The free navigation of the Gulf Stream is a facility essential to the trade and prosperity of our West-India Colonies, and that is a navigation which, if not entirely at the mercy, must always be greatly et the command of whatever power is in possession of the sea-line of the Floridan. In the hands of Spain, a distant and declining rower, the possession of this sea line has never been to us a matter of any serious annoyance, but sup posing it to be transferred to the United States, their aspiring character as a naval Power, the strong spirit of rivalry they have manifested towards this country, mad the ►uperior ease with which, in consequence of their immediate vicinage, they can turn the capabili— ties of the Ploridas to the greatest account against us, are all circumstances which must eOnguish any hope of its remaining as harmless in their hands as it has been in those of Spain. Nor is it merely on ac count of its sea line that the possession of the Floridas by the United States will be of consequence to them, and corresponding injury to us. The interior is rich in an article, of which Georgia and Carolina have now become nearly exhausted, and which the United States are in• essential want of for their growing navy. We allude to the article of live oak, which grows here in great perfection and abundance, :red which being of extraordinary size and almost in (Astruptible, is superior to every other sops of woo d ship-building. The frames of the seventy-fours burnt by Sir ALEXANDER COCIIR Ixs, were of this species of oak, and it is well known that the Ameri calk Government hive long set all their hopes of a future supply of this article on the svcibds of Florida. Interested as Great Britain thus is in demanding an explanation of the seizure of these territories, and incumbent as it is on . the United States to give it,"we, certainly have little hope that any explanation which it is in their power to make will be suffident to do' away the valid grounds of objection which, es :facie, exist against it. We all know how easily explanations in affairs of this sort are trumped up, to suit occasion, and how little real regard they generally deserve. it must have been as clear as noon-day to every person who has paid the least attention to the pioceedings of the American Government towards Spain for some years past, that it had formed the settled determination of attaching, per fits ant nefas, the Spanish Floridan to its dominion ; and as long as we are satisfied of this general fact, it is really of little use, except as it may serve to chmelope the greater flagrancy of the trans action, to enquire by what various artifice and in trigue it has contrived to get this object accomplish ed, and to obtain something like a semblance of justice for an act of deliberated robbery. The argument of the United States will, we are thoroughly persuaded, notwithstanding all the spe cious sophistry with which the American Executive may be ingenious enough to embellish it, resolve substantially into the shape in which it is thus put by a writer in the Washington Gazette of the 17th ultimo We want the Floral!, and must have them !" It has been hinted as a probable case, that the seizure of Pensacola may have been made by Genei al JVKSON without the authority of the American Ex ecutive, or from a misconstruction of its orders.— We can see no reasonable grounds for supposing that General JACKSON would venture on any such extraordinary stretch of power, although, indeed, we should not be surprised to find the American go vernment resorting to some such subterfuge or other, in the event of its conduct being taken up by the Powers of Europe in a light different from what it probably anticipates. On referring back to the PRESIDENT'S Speech at the opening of the last meeting of Congress, we find him declaring, that " orders had been given to the General in command against the Seminole Indians, not to enter Florida, unless it be in pursuit of the enemy, and in that case to respect the Spanish autho rity wherever it is maintained;" but there is in the language of this very prohibition enough to shew a double purpose concealed under it, which more than countenances all that General JACKSON has done, or I , may yet do, in pursuing the same coarse of masked invasion and conquest: We copy the following ti-um an American Paper. It shews &a: It is not on the South alone that we have reason to look with alarm so the spirit of conquest and separation, which distinguishes the people and Governmsmt of the kinked States, and which we need not say, must at all tunas Le one of the grsratest vices of a ltepnblican State: 6 REFORM IN CANADA. * The work of revolution appears to be going on in Canada; for we cannot believe that reformation, merely, is the ultimate object of Gourlay and his adherents. The right of self-government, enjoyed and exercised by the people of the United States, must be perfectly understood and properly appre !tiated by their Canadian neighbours. Indeed, priot I to the late war, a paper was published in Upper Ca nada by Mr. Wilcocks (who afterwards commanded a regiment of Canadian volunteers in our service), which openly advocated the principles of liberty and independence; and it would not have been published , unless it was patronized, nor patronized unless it was' approved. It is well known, further, that the people of Upper Canada would not have taken up arms against us, nor for their Sovereign, had they not been _betrayed by Hull, and coerced by military law. The Crown Lands in that country may be some tempta- 1 tion to attempt independence, as they also would be a rich fund for defraying the expenses of the contest. Their measures, however, will soon develop, their motives."—Trenton True American. The following is the only notice which has yet ap. peared respecting the line of conduct intended to be followed by Spain : ANstGo., MAY a vessel which arrived lost night ' from Porto Rico, we learn that an embargo has been laid upon aJ vessels at that bland, is contemplation of an approaching rupture with America." The Paris Papers of Saturday arrired this morn ing. Their contents are unimportant. The following is an catract from our Private Letter: " PARIS, JULY 25, 1818. On Tuesday General Canuel appeared at the Correctional Police. I told you he had fled. He re turned on Monday, ■ the express invitation of some persons of high rank. The Ultras of course were in 'the secret, and at an early hour the Court was filled with them ; yet the palliating remark of M. Dupin, that it was the first time a Lieutenant-General ap peared at the Correctional Police to demand repara tion for wounded honour, was very ill received.— ' How different the year 1818 from 1815. Then the Canuels, the Donnadieus, theDesultes, the La Fargues, and the Blasserilles, were all powerful, and they had fur their aulilialies the Prisons, Exile, and the Grand Trevose, br trhich powerful engines the assailants o their frme were speedily dispatched : ' Blest age" Ikut, ah, how ditareut from our own " The virtuous Donna,dieu gets the dirt broshed i off his coat, and has influence enough to be ofic►ally •withdrawn from the scene ; and poor Czinuel, the Immaculate Canuel, is obliged to beg a sentence in his favour from a Court like that of the Sitting Ma gistrates.at Bow -street, to whom he and his fellows look for a sentence, declaring them men of worth, not quarrelsome, not factious, not perfidious, not cowardly ; and which, consequently, must impose silence on all those who, with facts before them, pre sume to think otherwise. " Why is there not a Moliere to paint th,:se men in all their perfection? That M. Couture, the Ad vocate, should give into this ridicule is astonishing ; he is a mast of sense, of wit, and talent, and highly esteemed. What could he mean by the following phrase, uttered with the most grotesque gravity, in speaking of his client— , It would be discovered to, what men he belonged by the decency of his con duct and the dignity of his language.' What men, what class could he allude to ? The nobility, such language would ill befit. Was it then the Ultras? M. Couture is, I know, sarcastic, but I cannot con ' ceive that in this point he tried to mimic Potier (a famous burlesque actor of the Boulevards) though in fact he did it very happily. The Counsel and his client both failed in their attempt to get the cause put off, on pretence of seized papers ; they have all been given up to him, containing (as I before stated) nothing important. " Yesterday Cannel was sent to prison. As to the fate that awaits him, it would be cruel to anticipate it. It is altogether a singular case. Cannel is ac cused of being the author of the Conspiracy at Lyons ; he is imprisoned on a charge of organizing a similar one at Paris, and his accusers are in disgrace at Court for having accused him." A Dutch Mail arrived this foreuoon. The follow ing are extracts : BRUSSELS, JULY t 2. The fortifications on the southern frontiers are pro secuting with great diligence ; the ramparts of Ypres, Tournay, Mons, Ath, Charleroi, and Namur, will be very far advanced before autumn. Dinant will I be a great fortress, and more important as being op posite Givot. It is thought that Arlon, in Luxem burg, will be strengthened. The engineers must de- , termine what are the places which must be strength , ened, since the loss of Landau, Marienburg, and Philippeville, to restore the triple line of Vauban to its original strength ; they are also to consider of means of restoring the fortresses which are so greatly dilapidated. The increase of the French Army is confined to the voluntary enrolment, which goes on toler.sbly, well ; but this is fax froth being sufficient to make the army complete to the peace establishment, for which reason it is supposed that the usual levy will take place after the harvest. No account of the state of the,QuEsx's health ar rived from Kew yesterday. The Bulletin of this morn ing states, that " Her MAJESTY continues in much the same state as she has been fur some days past." The illness of her MAJESTY is a total decay of nature, and a daily increasing morbidity in all those parts, the energy, Or at least the regular motion of which, is necessary to the functions of life. What usually occurs in this disease, and which is always the last stage of it, has some time since commenced in her MAJESTY. A quantity a water has already accu mulated in the chest and stomach, The Duchess of CAMERIDGit'S birth-day was cele brated at Kew on Saturday. Most of the Royal Family, besides her own relations, were present. Her Royal Highness is 21 years of age. The Landgrave of 11.11SSZ CAsssa came to town yesterday from Kew, in order to proceed ily way of Harwich to Helvoetsluys. This day being the Anniversary of the memorable Battle of Talafera, the Guards on duty, in comme moration of the signal event, wore sprigs of laurel in their caps. The Ktxo of PRUSSIA has ordered the Army to go into mourning for three days, for the latel'ield-Mar hall KALKRRUT/I. The old Gateway leading into Scotland-yard has been enlarged, and a very handsome arch is now formed. This is a great improvement, and when the old shabby buildings and lime-sheds at the bottom, which have so long deformed the banks of the river, are pulled down, a noble and striking view of St. Paul's will be opened from Whitehall through the new archway. It already attracts the notice of the numerous passengers. Sixty-seven, fever patients were admitted on Thurs day into one of the hospitals belonging to the House of Industry, Dublin : the other hospitals are also fully occupied. The Manchester Papers state, that the refractory Spinners have not yet returned to their work. Tran quillity, however, is perfectly restored at Stockport. On Thursday Henry Peters and Mark Betts, two gun-forgers at Birmingham, were convicted of com bining to raise their wages, and sentenced to two months hard labour in the House of Correction. PAats.--Among the papers found in the cabinet of a suspected Conspirator, the following, from its enig matical nature, excited for a time strong sensations : % Cordons-20 Divisions-2 Columns of 30,000 strong--New Sovereigns already divided —Quar tered--drawn 4th Bth Moon—Stores--Bourdeaux— Madeira—OpOrto. On comparing it with some bills circulated by a man in a green coat, it appeared to be merely an abstract of the present Lotter" Scheme of 8,000 Tickets, with 20 Capitals, 2 of L 30,000, &c. aid the Prizes of New Sovereigns, divided into shares of quarters, &e.—o be drawn Tl:emnni . , 4th August, with store of (1017, Port, .tad . 1 1,4,:is a. NAVAL IN7ELLIGENC The Harmony, WISHAIir, ifOre rived off liasibourae. The Dexterity, GEARY, of Peterhead, a on Tuesday last, from the Greenland vti with 13 fish, supposed to boil 100 tuns ft INSURGVIT PRlyi The Gl2sgow, HUNTS!! arrived in th e Jamaica, was boa r d e d the 12th ult. of an armed schooner, with a blue and wl flag, and another schooner in conipa n . white flag with an Eagle and Stars, aka dared of sails, a spar, a barrel of pork, lung of rum. " CADIZ " Arrived on the Ist instant the X. S.( Pity:ft, from Marin, after being taken an off Cape St. Mary's by an Insurgent prix COICUNNA " Yesterday came in a Spanish chasse-i the crews of several Spanish coasting-vrne by an Insurgent ship privateer, in canal brig and a Chasse-mo.ree, which they ha, armed." ' PORTSMOUTH. JULY 27. Wind N.W.--Ilis Majesty's ships RACI SCOUT have dropped down to St. lieleu's. sum gun-brig has come into harbour to The specie has all been landed from hi ship RAYLIEMAN. Passed through to the the American brig Argo, —, fr om t h e DEAL, JULY e 7. Wind.West.—.Arrived the John, JACK SC maica for Newcastle, and sailed ; St. Ann! from ditto for London ; Mary, MOVE Ceylon. Came down from the River th FOSTIIR, for Jamaica, and remains in the I the Severn frigate, Pioneerschooner, Roya yacht, and 13rosbnurnbury, for Mattel= COWES, JUI.Y 47. Wind S.W.—Arrived the Good Friend from Havannah in ;Si days. She kit bank on the 27th of March last, havii.,l mouths out and home ; put in for Wen; ToPSII.IM, JULY so. - Arrived the Venus, E NON, bound to I lat. 31. N. lung. 32. W. she encountered vi Irom the westward ; she lost her main-toi and sustained damage in her hull, which to hear up fur this port. CR.tVESEND, JULY 27. Arrived the Success, Mercer, from Sierra la Lnwes,from Quebec; Mary, Motley, and Rug from Xliramicht; Friends, Huskies, and Airnwei Hunburgh; Verturuna, Meggs, from Nevis; Tts from Honduras; Ann, Goodwin ' from Oporto Barclay, front Riga; Hoffnung, Kraft, from hams, Reddock, from Pillau; ' Triton Legg, fro a few foreigners. Sailed tls Catharine, Holm; talus, Thompson, fur Hamburgh; Hoop, Smith, Leopold, Clispital, for Havre; Harrnonie, Verk terdatn; Harriett, Gradon, for the South Seas; Sharp, tur St. Pstersburgh. GENERAL ELEeTIONS. kTATE OF POLE IN IRkLANI Mean. CAIIIIM and COut.oroil have been reu County of We4ord. It was the fiercest and close. maintained in the County of Wexford, and the in The contcbts for the County of Galway, and the rick, are the only two not yet - COlaitf OF G•, . • ♦sox • 2491. J. Day - D. b. Daly - • ,WAY, Jt;Li 21. <hi. EGrtlu Orr or. __ ...._.- -...... Mr. Rice - - - 5.32 LIST OF THE SIXI aacr, Jinx 111. 1 Major Veeker 'ERN SCOTS PE s to. 4 Mu. as..L..fraw aw Duke of Rattnirgh - - - 48 Marquis of Queensberry - 54 ilfurquis ofrureclole - - 56 Marquis of Lothian - 57 Earl of Enid - - - 56 Earl of Kellie - - - - 54 1111 of Balcarras - - - 56 Roatery - - - 54 Those printed in liatt Ar 6014154 Lord Forbes - Lord Salto= - Lord Gray - . Lord Sinclair - Lord Cdrilk - - Lord Napier - Earl of Home - .1 are New-A:min CANDIDATES. Lord Reay - - -- Belhaven - UNsuceeserui Earl of Caithness - - - Selkirk - - 15 TIES FOLLOWINY HMIS PEASHEAI VUTTE IHE laJett iik!. r: Duke of no:burgh Marquis of Queensberry - Tweedale - Lothian Earl of Caithness - Cassilns - Moray - Home Kellie - Elgin •Finillater Northesk - 'talcums - March:lions - liosebery • ♦ Protest was entered by t 1 vote of the .Esirl of 1 - iusliater, qualified. ,LLY •ISISOID .1101.1riai US, SlCSlibi.l Ferri of Glasgow floprtoo Vibcouni Arbatlo: Lord Farb.; - Saltousi —Gray Sinciair Tori Allen - Iliantyra of < Napier - H.cal Eiiiiaiik Beihaysh —.-- Rona he Puri at itosebet Y =meat of his Ad The Honourable Captain Dooms, of third con of Lord DUNDAS, is elected for ty of Orkney, in opposition to the late M a majority of seven, at the most numerous Freeholders that ever assembled. While the populace were drawing emeo didates through Use streets of Inverkeithin turday, the 11th of July, a promising lA, of age, named Robert Cunninghatne, w, down, and the wheels of the carriage IN him. He was immediately carried home, at in great agony till the following Tuesday, expired. We understand that several of Mr. WORTH'S friends in Coventry, have subscril purpose of presenting him with an elegant value 100 guineas, as a testimony of their his personal worth, and to mark their apps his Parliamentary conduct. Irish Figure of Rhetoric by a Popular P "Let us remember, my friends, never to lori 'always in mind,that we are all carried down of time to be latukti at last in the aerate of e Mr. D. AINSWORTH has sold his bay colt (which won at Preston on the firs:. day), to of HAMILTON. Lord Fount sold Mind", after wineir year old Stakes at Newmarket, to the Gibtl7osl, Casciar.—The Grand Cricket Mitch at !lathe the Hatfield Club against the County a W. taVOia W !lab, b; en rum