Star. — London, England, 1818-10-27 00:00:00

,~ `. the Provincial Govemment. The supply which for the revenues of the Province was enormous was et cordNgly granted without inquiry, and as after wards turned out upon a very fallacious estimate submitted.to the House by the Lieutenant-Governor. While the enquiry subsequently entered into was going on, the Governor came down to the House, and in the following speech, the insulting irony of which - cannot bemistaken, put an end to the Session : 0 1 Honourable Goadetnes er tie Legislative Conseil and Gendenum of the House of Amentbir, a'The Session of the Provincial Legislature having been protracted by an unusual interruption of buss nets at its commencement, your lover absence front your Amos must be too greet a sacrifte for the objects which may remain to occupy your attention. I have therefore come to close the Session and permit you to return to your homes. In accepting, in the name of his Majesty, the supply for defraying the deficiency of the funds which have hitherto served to meet the charges of the admi nistration of justice and support of the civil govern ment. I have great satisfaction in acknowledging the readiness manifested to meet this exigence." have already detailed five of the objects under con sideration, but there was another of vital importance to the colony, and:of the utmost consequence to the mother country, viz. the improvement of the Navi gation' of the Saint Lawrence, for which purpose a bill was at the time in progress through the House. There woe also several bills for providing ways and means to meet the supply which having been amen ded by the Legislative Council had been introduced in a new shape in the Lower House, and were in pro gress when the House was prorogued. Yet these were the subjects so unimportant, when put in competi tion with the detention of the Members from their homes ! The House was prorogued Int the 7th of April, Sl7. Mr. Gourlay arrived in Upper Canada in June. He found the Province in a ferment, occasioned, as you have justly stated, by the prorogat,ion of the House while engaged in this Enquiry, and clamo rous on the subject of arrears of Pay, Grants of Land, and non-payment of compensation for losses. The discontent of the people was in no small degree aggravated by the contrast which their situation pre sented to that of some of their fellow-citizens who had,dtring the war, deserted to the enemy. The men who had acted the part of traitors to their King, they saw amply indemnified by an American Com pensation Act for every sacrifice they bad made, sql.ile the majority who had remained behind stead fast and ardent in their loyalty, were left to find the reward of that loyalty, in protracted suffering and contumelious neglect. Treason they beheld paid with the price of loyalty, and loyalty insulted by treatment due to treason alone. _ In this situation it was, that despairing of being able to obtain jtistice through any other medium, they adopted with avidity the plan proposed by Mr. Gour lay, of meeting in their respective Townships, and of chusing Delegates to act fur them in a General Con ♦ention, to consider of and represent their grievances. I am, Sir, your's, CA.II.BDIENBI3., • London, 22d Oct. 1318. AFFENDIX. OF DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED IN THE PRECEDING. No. L—NOTI GE. Lieutenant-Governor's Office, York, 10th Nov. ISIS. Ilis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased, under authority of hie Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, to appoint Commissioners to assemble at York the 2d day of January next, to receive Claims from his Maje sty ' s Subjects for Losses occasioned by the Enemy, his Majesty s Troop., or the Indians, in defence of the Province; all which Claims, properly authenticated, must be transmitted to the Liewtenant. Governor's Office More the 2d d.iy of February next, accompanied by a Certificate that the Claimant has received no Compensation whatever for any part of the Loss stated in his Claims. (Signed) Was. Maalox, Secretary. No. II.—REVENUE. Resolved—_at, That by the 6th George 11. chap. 15, the 4th George 111. chap. 15, 6th George 111. chip. 52, and 14th Geo. 111. chap. 88, certain Duties were impo.t..l and collected on cer tain articles itrmorted info this Province, and on Licenses to 80-12 i - 12i I Spirituous Liquors and %Voles. 2. That the Duties levied anal collected under the 14th Gco. 111. were, by the said Act, appropriated to defray the expense of the Administration of Justice and support of the Civil Go- vernment of the Province of Quebec. 5. That the Province of Upper Canada was, at the time of passing the said Act, an integral part of the Province of Quebec; arod that the said Duties art applicable to the same purposes within this Province, as within the late Province of Quebec, or I.ow Er Canada. 4. That the Duties levied or collected in Lower Canada, un der the above recited Acts, on articles consumed in Upper Ca nada, did amount, 141, thst year ending ilst December, 1814, to .£14,983 9 Ile I)itto, ditto 1811, to 9,776 6 10 Dim), ditto 1610, to 9,416 17 10 £34,176 14 7; Average of three years £11,392 4 10; S. Tkat Ut Duties levied under the said Acts in Upper Canada, araounool. the year coding 31ot Dezember, 1314, to 1548 4 0 l'ato, ditto 1815, 1,569 19 11 Ditto, ditto 1818, 1,322 14 8 Total ar3,ssB 1$ 7 Average of three years 41,179 15 10 6. That tile per a take allowed to the Receiver-Genera for the care of the Public Mnney For the years:tains 314 December, 1614, was X 300 0 0 Ditto, ditto - 1615, 1,336 10 0 Ditto, ditto 1616, 1,105 10 0 .11,1150 0 0 Y. That the total rams levied on articles consumed in Upper Canada, under British Acts of Parliament, Amounted in 1824, to - - £15,810 13 Ili In 1815, to - - - 11,346 6 9 In 1816, to - - - 10,849 IS AI s. That the Crown Revenue applicable ty the A.dadnietration of Justice, and support of the Civil Government in Upper Ca nada, was in • 1815, exclusive of fines and forfeitures—. Dudes as above stated • £15,629 14 0 Receiver-General's allowance in 1816 Duties as above - 300 0 0...15,939 14 0 11,346 6 9 Recelyer-General's allowance 1,366 10 0—...4a6e2 is g Appropriation for 1817 - 8,281 0 0 Dutits in 1917 - 10,849 19 6 1,195 10 0 2,225 0 0-411,540 0 6 I allowance Annual Grant Z 12,1160 13 3 9. That no Acoount of the Application of the said Sumo has tiler been laid before the Provincial Parliament. 10. That an Account of the Application of all Monies levied tad oollected on articles consumed in Upper Canada, ought an 'really to be submitted to the Provincial Parliament. • To understand this, it is aecesury to °hear", that in Upper Canada they never grant money till it ban been collected and paid into the Tremory. THE EVENING STAR. g:r Our Correspondent at Manchester may spare himself the trouble of sealing by letters in future, as for mine time past they have been regubrty opened before they resealed us. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1818. THE FUNDS. PRICE 01 STOOKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE cicr.ot4K Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced 7Gii. 3 per Cent. Consols 77H —for Acc. 77i. SI per Cent. 86i-4 per Cent. 954. 5 per Ct. Navy 107 ff —lndia Bonds 88 89 pre. Onmium 1 f dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 21 prem. We request the attention of our Readers to a letter on the affairs of Upper Canada, which they will find in our preceding columns, under the signature of " Canadiensis." We are obliged to our intelligent Correspondent for putting us right in some particu lars of which we had been only partially informed, as to the distracted state of that Province; and feel muck pleasure in being able to remedy the deficiency of our intelligence, by the very distinct, luminous, and complete exposition which his letter contains of the grievances complained of by this important part of our colonial possessions. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this forer.oor, : The Moniteur gives, in its unofficial part, a copy of the Convention concluded with the Allied Powers for the Occupation of France. It is an e-cact tran script of the copy already published in this country ; but, instead of one Treaty, to which all the Pleni potentiaries were parties, it appears that there were four separate Treaties, all of the same tenor, signed on the same day, at the same place, and at thc same moment, between France on the one hand, and Aus tria, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, on the other. The Duke of WELLtaoros and Lord Casrttaraton signed as the Plenipotentiaries for Great Britain. It is announced, in a demi-official manner, to be the intention of the French Ministry to present, in the ensuing session of the Legislature, a project of law on the composition of Juries. All Electors arc to be Jurymen of right ; so that there will be about one hundred thousand Jurymen for the whole of France, and not less than ten thousand for Paris. In making a greater number of the citizens thus participate in the honourable functions of Jurymen, it is justly ima gined, that the obligations which the office imposes will become less burdensome, and the institution be rendered more favourable to the accused, since the right of challenge will be more extended. The Ministry are said to be also occupied with the preparatiOn of a general Law upon the Press ; but some doubt is expressed as to whether delicts con.' netted with it are intended to be admitted to the benefit of trial by Jury. " Let us hope," says the Journal de Paris, with a freedom of sentiment which we like to recognize, " that the Government, fall of confidence in the patriotism and intelligence of the Electors, will be the first to propose to the Chamber to confide to them the important trust of dec'.dirg on the abuses of the Press. Who can suppose that Citiaens invested 'with the right of choosing the De puties of France, the defenders of public and private interests, the ozgans of the national opinion—men who every day pronounce upon the liberty, the ho nour, and the life of citizens—have not sense enough to determine whether a work of the Press is or is not dangerous ?" The Elections throughout the Provinces are pro ceeding with a degree of celerity which does not seem indicative of much party contention. X Ca mit.La JOURDAY has been again returned as one of the Deputies for the Department of Ain; as have also MOM. MENAGER, CRICQ, ar.d DESPATY, for the Department of the Seine and Marne, which was un successfully contested against them by M. de la FAYETTE and his friends. The popular favour seems generally to incline towards the old Members. The news contained in these Papers from the quar ters of the Allied troops, is not of later date than that which we communicated yesterday, and does not present any feature of importance. Five per cents. Friday, 75 f. 25 c. The latest accounts from Rio Janeiro both as re lating to mercantile concerns and the progress of the Independent cause in Spanish America, are highly satisfactory. We subjoin an extract from a letter re-1 ceived by the last packet (the Lord Hobart) from the Agent of a respectable House, which may be of some service to our commercial Readers: RIO JANEIRO, AUGUST 22, lel& GEVTLEUTX—I am happy to inform you that the whole of your ertensive consignment has been disposed of, at prices beyond my expectations, and much above what you had commissioned me to ac cept. I hope my letter of the 18th ult. would reach you in safety, and that by the time this comes to hand, you will have dispatched me the goods therein named, together with any others you may deem cal culated for this market. With this you will get a remittance, covering the amount of your former con signment. It would have been sent sooner, but I waited the sailing of the packet, as affording a more safe conveyance than could be relied on by a pri vate vessel. " Trade has been very brisk here for some time past, and is daily acquiring new v7kour frQsn the success of the Independent cause. I shall not, holi e►er, presume to give you any account of the mili tary operations going on in the Spanish Provinces, : convinced that you will get more early and ample details through the medium of your own Newspapers. It is, however, pleasing to learn the high estimation in which Englishmen, and English manufactures, are every where held in this delightful quarter of the globe. " Whatever may be the result a the struggle is the more distant Provinces, it is next to impossible that the banks of la Plata can ever revert under the bigotted Government of Old Spain; matters are too irrevocably fixed for this. The times have totally changed, and the events of the few past years have wrought a complete revolution in mind as well as matter. No doubts whatever are entertained here of the complete and speedy triumph of the cause of In dependence through the whole of these fertile and valuable Provinces; and as soon as affairs become more tranquillized, they will open a rich field for European commerce and speculation—the extensive advantages of which, particularly as it regards our own manufactures, it is impossible to calculate. Thu• English goods, as I have already said, are preferred here to those at . any other country ; and British jects are treated with the greatest personal recpcct by all ranks. If our Ci,w,:rnment prudently perses ere in the line of conduct they have hitherto adopted, by abstaining from all interference between Spain and her Colonies, there is not the least doubt but the ascendency our commerce has already attained, will be much extended, and secured on too firm a basis to be shaken by any rival—if indeed it were possible for any other nation to enter the lists with us in this respect. am, however, d:gessing from my Purpose, by blending warlike and political observations, in a com munication intended to be purely commercial.--- 1 [llere the writer specifies the various descriptions of goods that are best calculated for the South Ameri li - can market.] " It has been a mistaken notion with many mer chants and manufacturers in England, that goods of arty fabric, however inferior their quality, would find purchasers here: this is quite erroneous, and has proved highly detrimental in a general view. None but such as are firmly manufactured, and will bear the test of examination, find a ready market. The country was so completely deluged with inferior goods of every description, about two years ago, that the dealers will not now look at any thing of that description ; and those who have impr•.nlently specu lated in this respect will mzet the reward of their cu pidity. in the return of the grzater part of their.con signments." It is ascertan:s,l that A !;T:CA has now under his P.a . ; at least sixteen pi ivateers, almost all of which were fitted opt at Baltimore, and some of them have never been .I._ the settlement of Artigas, which is at Banda Oriental, rear Buenos Ayres. The prizes taken by thoza gruizers are never condemned, but unloaded at sea, or sent into ! , ye places, where vessels me sent by the owners to receive the property. These cargoes are entered in cur ports from S:. Thomas, St. Bartho lomew's, St. Croix, &c. It is supposed that the Por tuguese.have been robbed by these pirates of between four and five millions of dollars. Claremont, ♦s Lich has, by command of Prince Lro POLD, been on view between two and three months, five days a week, will, at the close of this month, be discontinued, and will in future only be shown three days a week, viz. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur days. Such tickets as arc still out for the five days a week will admit on those days. The Bishop of WATERFORD has, at this time, a large party of friends with him at the Palace in IVa terford ; amongst whom are the Earl and Countess of Mayo, the Bishop and Dean of OSSORY, and Miss FITZCLARE:SCE. The whole party, a few days ago, viited Dunmore, when Miss FITZCLARENCE and Miss FOWLER went dev..n in the diving-bell, 120 feet below the surface of the sea, accompanied by two young Gentlemen, where they continued 25 minutes, in the course of which time they sang several popu lar airs. Lord MACDONALD is arrived at his house in Wel beck-street, from his seat in Scotland. SIT JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. leaves town, to-morrow, for Edinburgh. General IVl , Ctota and family are arrived in town from a tour. The Right Hon. R. Pr.rt is arrived at his house in Great Stanhope-street, from his seat in Ireland. The Countess of Sttsry, Lady LETIIRRIDGE, the Hon. Mess MARSHY, Sir H. STRACHEY, Sir WILLIAM YOUNG, Sir C. POLE, Sir E. KNATCHBULL, and Gene ral LAYARD, have arrived at Bath. SIT WATKIN and Lady HARRIET WM. WYNN gave an elegant entertainment, yesterday, at their seat, Wynestay, Denbighshire, to all the neighbour ing Nobility and Gentry, it being Sir WATKIN'S birth-day, on which occasion their infant daughter was baptised. The sponsors were the Earl and Coun tess of Powts, and Lady WILLIAMS WYNN. At the last performance of Hercules Farms and The Critic, by the young Gentlemen of Reading School, the triennial visitors, the Vic& CHANCELLOR, Bishop of OXFORD, and the Master of St. JOHN'S, were pre sent, and expressed themselvs much gasified. The Comedy of the Green Man has been success fully got up at the Liverpool Theatre, under the di rection of DowroN l who plays the Green Man. The Waterford Theatre is about to be opened slider the direction of Mr. CLARCE, who has already engaged as dramatic stars Miss WALSTEIN, Miss STEPHENS, and MATHEWS. OtheVois about to be produced as an erPorian ,Fantortirte at the Circts of MX. FRANCOII:, at l'n'o. THE QUEEN: Yew, " No change has' taken pla ce in the Q L . L .... 1 The Physician s , appre h ens i ve of a relapse, in atteollaccb during the greater pan 0; • but the Royal Patient continued ins state of sleep till a late hour this morning. Her %.% however, does not appear to have derived the benefit from her repose. he remained Or r& the day free from pain, but excessively d •ch t i a His Royal Ilighness the Duke of y ou , from Oatlands, soon after ten o'clock, mk t nearly two hours with the Patscrq m D ari: stay, his Royal Highness accom;and !!)e Psi s in their morning visit to the lawn and ph and he then set out for his hou:e ia the St a l St. James's. " The PRINCEESES walked out several tlrs ? I wards in the course of the day, to inspect t: gross of the workmen, of whom l e et, veea are still employed, and will be so till afterc, I in completion of the improvemenu a'ire4dv " The PittNce REcrvr arrived at the I'2 after six o'clock, and immediately Eire z.: Sir FRANCIS MILLMAN, who then rnzde report on the s'a'c of her It'iTT. " His Royal aftermarjs re:: dinner with the Pri\cr,scs, r.rni departel past nine." 'the following Bulirti wa icwed this d. " K.w rea m , The QUEEN has Lad a good her MAJESTY has derived some sleep. "F. :.I I 1.1. !.1.1 N. 4 ' narAtt, The dispatches brought by the Hon. HOPE from India contain the most minim counts. With the exception of SCINDIAL anti States and Powers lately opposed to the &Xi:, rests had submitted to the policy and view; Marquis of HASTINGS. The olcer whole, these dispatches is not the son of the Earl nt Noron : he is cousin to the Earl of CRUIT' _ _ General Got:ROAM has, in a letter to a ct rary Journal, distinctly contradicted the mpor we mentioned yesterday, that he had receivr sent of 30,000 francs froni the Atcnduchess Louise, accompanied with an injunctive ra dress her Royal Highness any more on the n NAPOLEON'S sufferings at St. Helena. Messrs. Scant. Err and 'WARREN, tO elven of the County of Cork Election war refer r ed opinion, have given it agair.q the rc:urn cf Sheriff; in consequence cf wltich a Petition presented at the next meeting of Parliament. On the 4th ultimo, while an artillery ear Prescott, Upper Canada, was firing a saftiteis of the atrival of the Duke cl Monson, ore artillerymen was unfortunately killed. Herat rig home the charge, when it exploded, rid. to piece:. Friday night, as the workmen employed mg some shopping in Caryal-street, Binta were engaged under an arch, the foundatim fiery unsound, the walls bulged, whereby the a upon four men who were at work, and bets could be extricated, three of them were mice: the mud and water ; the fourth sea corrired Hospital, very much hurt. So unfortunately is society now irtfesterlyi denten of the haus ton, that in a Provincial! last Saturday, a linen-draper, advertising for ,prentice, gives the following caution:- - Ne the Dandy tribe need apply !! A celebrated Barrister of the present da: chiefly indebted for the affluence he now 1 his professional success, has chosen for the his carriage—" Causes produce eds." A Paris Paper contains a letter from one French Officers, who had joined the troops of ' Ayres, in Chili, stating that all of them ' turned, were returning, or intended to renn of them had lost their baggage. They are to have been dismissed a few hours after gained a complete victory over the Royalist BRA Yrn, who acted as Major-General to the Chili, intended to proceed to the United States. writer adds, that the French refugees were tuur regarded with suspicion, that the English Er policed the whole of the trade of South Ames that none of them would employ a Freachmi A private letter from Paris, dated October —" The elections commenced on :)lenday of the departments which have to elect Dept year. The crowd is immense, but the great quillity prevails, notwithstanding the :curl different parties in support of their favour' dates. We learn from Melun that the Lafayt was completely beaten yesterday in the corn of the isureau of that college. " Our funds maintain themselves, nowiti the sales which some of your countrymen are , of stock which they had purchased. " An which may cast light on a part internal situation, is under investigation at It relates to the recent agitation attempted n. of Britanny. Several former Chiefs of Baud been arrested there by judicial authority. on 7 of having participated in projects for troubl " Sonic Ecclesiastics have taken upon to declaim even in the pulpit against the Law. It is only by the severe application against this sort of offence that their exam' prevented from becoming contagious. It difficult for men to conduct themselves w some of the clergy have dune in differen France. Many of our old ecclesiastics minds still embittered by the evils they ha The younger clergy, who have in general q the loss er classes, arc very ignorant, and fore disposed to intolerance and Mint:cis an obscure centre in Paris they receive a tion, against which the efforts of even the and the Police arc often powerless and in While preaching in the name of a Gon they endeavour to ineame the hatred of 1 stead of calming them. Thus they num Teeter of religion, which ought to be one cipal supports of social order." • • tiOr ses r , Lbu ' Ind ket. • Lad rftei .IVE cl Is iri ag 'ind NA: 'ac t ,, _ r, .! eze , a of • ks stet . rrii tt's, Ab , t 4)1 k, 1 . • il • • • di im bulb dort t omi the . bar :14 I psi rid, of t , H A Mir . Co. e t or a se% rei t ss } la44 pas net stiiea • • Cr' nrle then to • t.lfi ! 11117 . e ge re of was dri 11c n rr eirilutas s ion t..einz cri e area c•. 3 Cote they Rated la us; :edude . 30,1 the ri•l Gs- re: 1 Nei the for an Ap• 1,01 • kstal e CI ar, T 4.0 0 rida. eniar. to a p e meow Sat, one cif cm of Bases ir..1)4 n lud re- gaw,' :um a 1 : are ria:ed a ; 7 they hai ood as. Ge. • tz, le arms o : tit , ites. the • P.; mirenally , to ad h °` s man. tr says, "1 • in sere! • ; paties th.s tee .aces[ t vitv • rite end, sec , retie jut!' ,t 4 orrp ithstancEn • " ire snalic 4 (s e 'n,6 part cf e at l'Ories 1.11! xi in a p tv Bands has on a cbar;;: bits theattels , Rem - kin', In of ale flpleca: , woui worse than •-I . nt parts ken Lave thes si tve st;iereJ A ;-un71:•• 11 tl 1 are " ism. I T I a bad do. to t