Star. — London, England, 1815-03-07 00:00:00

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OR ATORM had THEATRE ROY AI., COVENTACIARDEN. !stORROW, WEDNESDAY. iMARCH 8, Mill b e performed, A GRAND SELECTION, from the o , co .•iions of the most favourite Authors, nucient and modern. r gt Nliss Stephrtis will sing " Where ere you walk," " The tir'd," and (by desire) the Duetto " Together let is with Mr. 13rahatn. Miss Singleton, " With heroes and Geiglietti, "The snsiling dawn." Mrs. llahrson, Sprig, " By the waters of Babylon," composed b y 0 1 40 , • , olot the bright S era p hims," " 0 had I lutist's lyre," awl Dueito " The slaves beneath," with Mr. Braliam. Mr. 4 0 eris, 4 1 0 Lord in thee." Mr. Braham, " 0 come let us m n," a new song (first rinse)" My duty impels--I'm Skied )no king," composed by C. Smith; and "Alfred." And Signor e %ass:tor " Viva Enrico, " and (by desire) " Non plu andrai.s. „!1 selection win be introduced the 'trio "The Socksdisil • v.. the mountains," (.econd time) the Double Chorus " In ;T:3 Israel," cemprised by Mr. S. Wesley. Moaart's Onutd ;bale, from the °pent of " La Clensenita di Tito,* andp m ar k "stn."—At tie commencement of file Second Act will be„,poni. null, A Cureerui on the Organ by Mr. S. Wesley, oaths :ague irons Sebaotiau Barb. cn FRIDAY, by particular desire, the Sacred-Orstorlo of MlisSidsl4, sussuposed by G. F. HANDLL. • In which Mr. Ks LI.NIIII will perform. pr.rs to be opened at Six, and commence at Seven precisely 'that, in his opinion, the quarters loaf, operation, and such a price,•ought not to exceed Is, To bring this past of the subject more fully beftnii the House, he would move for accounts of the aieyage price of wheaten flour, and the ave rage price of the quarter loaf during the last ten years, •ag;hiCh he doubted not would show, that under no fair o;+'eration, the price being at 80s. that of the quartet% loaf hereafter should exceed a shilling. Thou . *" one other particular point to which he w0r54.4:41m the attention of their Lordships, namely, to a fide assertion which had been•made, including a grOss absurdity—that the object of those who ad vocated the pending measure, was to raise the price of corn permanently. He, for one, would declare in the face of their Lordships and the country, that if he thought or believed, that this or any other measure would have such a permacent effect, he wmdd tot support it. • On the Contrary, he in his tong:lett* -- believed the effect would be ultimately ten different. He would repeat, that if he thought it!wObld have the injurious effects alluded to, he cer• . should not vote for the measure. The Nnhle Earl concluded by moving lot 'accounts to the effect above stated, which were ordered to be laid heibre the House accordingly.—Adjourned. He hoped the Seesent Petitions would prove that this was not the mile of public clamour; there was Tin attempt on the flan of those who had acted on the occasion to iambi the public mind I on the contrary, it was a petition in which people of all sentiments had joined. Formerly, when the populace of Manches. ter had wished •to express their sentiments publict:., they could have tto opportunity; fur when a number of persons had signed a requisition for calling a pul..• lic meeting, Opractice had been, amongst a diffe rent class, to sign a counter-requisition, declaring that no such oseeting was necessary, and all caw was always diets• to get a greater number of sign:i tnres to the latter; the result was, Outt there was DO meeting called at all, and the pecp`c lied no °prof . tunity of expressing their sentiments. But it w.is animating to find that those who had hitherto :stn foremost in signing counter-requisitions were, en tins occasion, as active as the others in obtaiiiing a meet ing. He then alluded to the Vdrions pointed tac!i contained in the Petition, and thought it vras maw only necessary to give the subject due consideratitin, to be convinced that it went to undermine the public prosperity, and that the emigration of oar artis,ins to France would soon become more numerous &in ever. ~-' ` :FATE LO I LRY of only 15,000 Tickets, eon .) Wiling Three Prizes of £50,000 each. and Five of One atousand Guineas, the latter will be paid without deduction in ;OLD. HAZARD, BURNF, and Co. respectfully Worm the Public, i ll . the Lottery containing the above extraordinary Prizes will ',mince Drawing no the sth of Arms. Galt, and that Tickets . .j .hares are now on Sale at their (Mee, No. 93, Royal Ex.. !ar. e. 'the Fifth and Fifteenth Blanks on the First Day, and i'. ith, Twentieth, and Thirtieth, on the Second Day, will .:;11entitled to One 'f housard Guineas In Geld; which ‘i ill be paid at the above Office iu Specie, without any de. ..c1:0:1 whatever. GOLDEN LOTTERY ! TIIREE PRIZES OF THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS! ' MA°, Five of 1,000 Coitus/is cub, wbielt will be PAID IN GOLD, Without deducticn, as soon as drawn. IBi SH returns his grkiteful thanks to the Public . throughout the kingdom for their distinguished favours, 4 having con: ratted wub Government for the ensulag Lottery, le feels pleasure in announcing the following Scheme, which not s ir pcosesses the attractive and unpiecedented noway of 'lltree Thin) 'thousand Pound Prizes, but as a grateful tribute of ree lect to tjte Public, he has made arrangements that the Five ?tins of One Thousand Guineas each, shall be paid in Gold as etas as drawn without aoy deduction, whether they are sold in ' herr . , or shares, at either of bis Offices, No. 4, Coati nut, o! I,Cuaxi:;•...Closs, or at any other Office In the Kingdom. SCHEME. Prizes of 3990,1X0 are X 60,000 10,000 ... 3opoo 3,030 6,250 SCO 500 ... 2,400 200 ... 1,400 • 100 ......... 1000 50' ......... 1,550 .. 15 ...—.... 45 1 000 -- —.•:.. ' 11,clo Tickets. it 200,01111'• 0 . 1 .0 , -dr,pwria 410,000 will receive 4410,000 wee :-.• :..ncl.drawn ,61 0,000 wllliveeive MOBSIOII i''r, 1'144 1 bird-drawn £lo',ooo will receive ,60,000 monk . Making 'three Prizes of £30,000 each. sth Blank will receive 1, 000 Guineas in Gold! tint Day /IStb Blank will receive 1,000 Guineas in Gold' 110th Blank will receive 1,000 Guineas in Gold ! E;cund Day 20th Blank will receive I,eoo Guineas in Gold! Stith Blank will receive I,oo4lGuinea, in Gold ! Begins Drawing Sth APRIL. Tickets and Shives are now on Sale by BISH, the Contractor, At 4, CORN II I LI.. or 9, CILARING-C11043, who Sold The Two last k30,(.00 Prizes, and Fifteen Capital Prize, in the last I .mtery. ••• ••• ••• ••• •••.. •• • W 00... NO •..w PARLMMENT'ARr PRUGEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH G. Criontel were Iliad in continuation, and finally, touching the In.!) Appeal Cause of " Jackson v. !ones." Judgtnent post -1.1 the Irish Cause of " Stackpoole v. Stackpoole," Counsel were partly beard. To proceed again on Wednesday. Aft. r a sbiat temporary adjournment, the House resumed. '1 he Earl of sHAFFESBURY presented a Petition from Ox ford aumist the Insolvent Debton' Bill. Ordered to ilc .on the 1.14. Mr. Tatiustmt, from the Irish Secretary of States Office, trecented an Account of the Importation of Corn, Meal, Flour, &c. from Ireland into this comma", from the year 1007, t , 'sr as the same could be made up, disdagalshiog the quad. nes imported each year, &c. Ordered to he on the Table. k.at I of DERBY presented a Petition from several per. 9 41., whose names were thereunto subscribed, being ship buil der., and herons cur,nected its that trade, of the town and port of Liverpool, against certain regulation which prevail in the els e of ships built in Asia, with respect to ship dodos toooalet &c. and p ra yi ng t h at t h e same may be remedied. Ordered to lit on the 'fable. Two I , l:we Bin, were brought up from the Commons, and 'resented by Mr. J. Purr and hit. EVIIITOW, and reads tee time. CORN LAWS. The Earl of SHAFTESI3U'AY presented a Ped , 'inn from Kingston-upon.lhames and its yiciuilei against any alteration being made in die Corn. La wa; Eati STANHOPE said, he had a great number cf Petitions, numerously signed, to present to their Lordships, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. One of these, he said, was signed by between nine and 10,000 persons. A second was signed by about the same number. Another by between seven and hOOO, and so forward. All were signed in a very short space of time. Would that Howie of Parlia ment, in which they weir emphatically told the other I ::ght, they should attend to the wishes of the people Scotland, in the case of the Trial by Jury, refuse to attend to the wishes so generally and unequivo. c4lly expressed ? He hoped the House would keep in that sentiment, and attend to the wishes of persons nut of doors, on a subject to which, he trusted, their Lordships would feel it their duty to pay particular ''.:ention, and one that interests the individuals `''Ply. He cordially agreed in the opinion expressed "Y tome, and these not only distressed laborious per. 1 !" 1 9 ti n g e by many in a most respectable line, that cha propoied tO be Made, would make their . t . re* It bad c ondition much worse, that they may be „ N ''d to tall " out of the frYing•pan, into the fire."— v.) 1 .• •11.$ subject, he should wish their Lordships would i "' into serous consideration those principles which t hAti laid clown,.and in the conscious confidence of "`Pp' )t gi‘en to their Lordships last year for a new . 11, (411ing the system with respect to thou engaged 3,0 - 0 in pursuits of agriculture. He did &it:believe is system so mischievous as to augment in any way the direct taxes of that nature and description could have been devised ; it was, in fait, taxing.the people upon compound interest. 'lf their Lord hips would proceed rightly, in so important a case, they would go into a consideration of silutt principles the revenue ought to be raised, and to record those principles.— These were his sentiments upon points which lie trusted their Lord hips would duly reflect upon, and ere it may be too late, take them into their eainebt consideration. The Noble Earl then presented his Petitions. The first was from the Churchwardens, Overseers, and Governors of the Poor, ind Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Matthewieth9l-green. Thz see . wed y , between ' nine and 10,000 UM the mix of St. 'Mari, Shore ditch. Pelt was from ?with or tt. Botolph With out, Aldgate. The next was from a number of persons of various descriptions, in the County .s.i,Kent. who cartes for ward on the occasion like true men of Kent. Another was from the Freemen and Inhabitants of the City of Rochester and its neighbourhood, also in the County of Kent. Another was from the Parish of St. Nicholas, Dept ford, also in the County of Kent, signed by between two and 3000 persons. A Petition from the Parish of St. John's, Wap ping ; one from certain Persons residing in and near the Old Artillery Grounds, and near the Tower of London ; and two Petitions from certain Parishes in the County of Wilts. These documents were severally ordered to lie on the Table. The Earl of DERBY presented a Petition from Great and Little Bolton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. His Lordship observed on the occasion, that he corn-, plied with the wishes of the subscribers in presenting the Petition ; yet he was far from agreeing in its prayer. His opinion of the measure now pending was, that it will be highly beneficial to the country, notwithstanding the unpopularity of the opinion he would state. The subject was one which appeared to be much misrepresented, misconceived, or misun derstood. The operation of the proposed Act, would, he thought, be productive of general advan tage. If he thought it would prove otherwise, he would be one of the last men in England to give any opposition to the wishes of the Petitioners. He regretted they saw the subject in such a light—but he saw it in a very different light, and he would act up to that which he felt to be his duty— (Hear, hear.) —The Petition, however, was one numerously and respectably signed, and therefore one, - he thought, proper to lie on their Lordships' table.--(Hsar.i 4 , r The - Duke of SUSSEIL stated. he. hadaYetrtioDl to present to their Lordships, praying also that no alteration may be made in the Corn Laws. In pre senting it. however, he wished to be understood as giving no opinion whatever upon the subject. When it - should be under discussion, he would equaily at tend to what may be said upon both sides of the question, and draw his conclus i ons therefrom, ac cording to the best of his judgment. At the same time, he would take this opportunity of saying, that from his present view of the subject, there appeared to him to be a necessity for some farther investigation,' and he must deprecate any thing like an attempt to hurry a question through the House of such primary consequence. He should act upon the princ;ple he had referred to, and would pledge himself no f urther. Ills Royal Highness then presented the Petition, which was from certain inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Hammersmith. Lord GRENVILLE presented a Petition to the same effect, from the Merchants, Cotton Manufactu rers and others, inhabitants of the town and neigh bourhood of Manchester and Salford, in the county of Lancaster. He felt it scarcely necessary to state , the degree of attention which should be paid to per-. sons of the description of the Petitioners. It was' signed by 52,000 persons. He would take the liberty to move its being read at length. Among other points the atitionera stated their convictioa, that the measure now in progress must naturally raise the prices of every other article of provisions. The next Petition presented by his Lordship teas I lk= the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, which he said was signed by more than.lB,ooo persons in a comparatively short space of time. One also from Christchurch, Surrey ; from the Town and Liberty of Troubridge, in the County of Wilts; from the BorOtigh, o plyn2outh ; from the Vrasleiliaisie . Of - Magma ; find from two places in tote county Or Leicester, all against any alteration in the Cali Lori. These Nations Were : ieeetally ordered to lie on the table. The tart of •DAIII4L EY addressed the House at some length upon the general subject unde r consi. deratiOn, which he seemed to think was still much Misconceived and misrepresented. He adverted to some farther information that would be necessary to illustrate certain points he had advanced in discuuion on a former evening, and for which he intended to move. He siould again beg leave to enter his pro., ' test against the use of any language, in or out of the House, which may, from mistaken zeal, tend in any degree to irritate those feelings which were already much misled on the subject. It was fortunate, after whale had observed against the first part of a stator meet, that the necessary effect of the. measure to tbi consumer would be, to advance the average price oil corn to 80s. that tie could refer to an important fa Which was so far decisi v e u p on the point, which wall 'that the price of the b est wheat that day at Mark. 'lane, had failed flee shillings per quarter. 1 his, he trusted, would have its due effects upon the ptiblic mind, which was' misled otr, more than 'One point connected with the subject. Of these wore the as. serted facts, that the quirt:ern log would rise, were the price at 80s. to ltid. or 18d. On this head, be 6 HOUSE OF COMMONS. This being the last day for receiving Private Petitions, the SPLA&t& entered the House precisely at a quarter past three, and formed a House immediately after prayers. After some Private Petitions hail been received, vast numbers were pre sented by different Members, from all parts of. the Kingdom, praying that no alteration be made in the Corn Laws. Amongst them were those front New Sarum, Gainsborough, Paisley, Lei cester, Ramsgate, Sudbury, Frome, 'Tooting, and the parish of 't John's Southerark. Others were presented, which, on ac count of t he great number .of signattires affixed to them, called forth a variety of observations. Several Petitions were presented from different parts of Ireland, in favoer of the Corn Bill. Mr. CALVERT, on presenting the Petition from the Borough of Southwark, observed, that the short ness of the time had only enAled 7500 inhabitants to sign it; but there was no doubt that the Petition, which would be prepared for another plsce, would be signed by more than three times that number. He took this opportunity of adding, that the object of this. Petition was not to entreat consideration whether 765. or 80s. were the fittest price, but decidedly to pray, 'that no alteration whatever be made in the Corn Laws. _ _ _ Mr. BARCLAY presented one from the Manor of Clapham, signed by 7,700 persons. Mr. BLACKBURN presented ten from different parts of Lancashire ; amongst them was the Petition from Manchester, which was signed by 54,000 inha bitants. On this being presented ; General GASCOIGNE took occasion to observe, that when he had commented on the unpopularity of this measure in Lancashire, an Honourable Member fee Latocaster had said, that the , people were rather friendly than adverse to it. He would only ask whe ther the many thousands of names signed to all the , Petitions from those parts, did not prove directly the 'contrary ? The Petition from Manchester was ordered to be read ; it set forth the unequivocal and unanimous opinion of the Petitioners that the Bill was the most unadvised and injudicious measure ever brought for ward : that they were convinced it would have the effect of raising the price of libour, and diminish the demand for our own manufactures. It alluded to the great improvements in the cotton machinery on the Continent, by which an impinant rivaiship would exist towards us, that could nut fail to undermine our manufactures, if this measure were passed into a law ; the Petitioners therefore viewed it with the greatest alarm, and prayed that it might be rescinded. Sir ROBERT PEEL said, that it was not with out some uneasiness he rose on this occasion. He thought the Petition must shew the unanimous opi nion entertained of the Bill in this large manufac turing town. He begged the House else to observe, that the Petition was not urged by any want of at tachment_ to the Government ; for during the most pressing periods of the war, the people of Manchester had abstained from all complaints, because they had hoped that the return of peace, whenever it might arrive, would cause a cessation of their burthens. He had witnessed their feelings on former occasions with great uneasiness, as they arose from a want of bread ; but when they were told that it would be injurious to publish their complaints, they submitted to their hard condition with' the most praiseworthy silence. He conilieved the present Bill as the most injurious and unprecedented measure which had occurred in his time, as it went to affect an immensely numerous and *yet body of people who had supported Government by their labour and' the advantages derived from its ekerctse. Was it then to be endured, that Ministers should lend themselves td such a measure? He would tell them that they had but one interest to consult, end that was, to support the labourer in manufac turing industry. Was it intended that we should for the future only live on the produce of our land ? If so, what would become of the resources from our ma nufactures, when our machinery should be lost ? He was persuaded our manufacturers would not sit still and see their trade frittered away and destroyed : they would go abroad and exert themselves where their labour would be properly appreciated and ena ble them to procure the necessaries of life. He, how ever, yet hoped, that as the injurious tendency of the measure must now' be evident, that it would not be suffered to procedd,but that Ministers would convince the anxious multitude that they were alive to their real and vital interests. The fact was, that the more the measure became known, the more generally it was execrated and condemned. The people were not to be cajoled by such arguments as that the Bill would give them cheap. bread ; they knew better ; titer knew the thing was impossible ; and considering the inevitable consequences of the measure, he hoped the House would no longer suffer it to exist. Mr. PHILLIPS was more and more convinced that no measure ever had been proposed, against which the manufacturing classes were so unanimous. Mr. CAWTHORN hrit:fly insisted, that the land ed.interest is the greatest surport of the country, and that which protects and provides for the poor. He was certain that there was - a great diversity of opi nion on the subject in Lancashire. This was denied by General GASCOION4 who re. peated his previous observations, and said the proofs of their truth were to be found in the 11S,000 signa tures and upwards from that county alone. Sir R. PEEL replied to an observation which fell from Mr. Cawthorn, respecting his not having an accurate knowledge of the opinions of the people of Lancashire, in consequence of his not having resided for some time in that county, by asserting, that al. though he had been partially absent from the county, he would have the Honourable Gentleman under stand that his great capital had been constantly em ployed in it, and had contributed to the support of the people, whose sentiments he could not but know as well as any man. PZATION FROM LONDON. Sir WILLIAtitCURTIS, on moving to present the Petition from London, observed, that it was a measure which otiginated in no party spirit, but one in which people every sect and description were unanimous. Whig and Tory, High Church and Low Church, Methodist and Dissenter of every per suasion, had come forward to express their opinion ; and he hoped, that though it was vet) , short in its number of names, yet, as it contained upwards of 40,0001 he hoped it would have its due weight, as it ought to have. Sir JAMES SHAW bore testimony to the great number ankisrliNftspectability of the pe!enns wl.a had attended the Meeting at the Mansion 11,•use. Mr. BARING declared his belief that it was the most numerous, respectable, and unanimous Meet• in that ever was held in the City of London. It might be said, in a few words, that the measure would substantially have no other e ffect than that of raising a considerable revenue from amongst the consumers of bread, for the purpose of keeping up the price of rents. Except for the dicussions which had been kept up in that House till two or three o'clock in the morning, the inhabitants of London would have had no opportunity of expressing their sentiments before the obnoxious measure had been precipitated throng its forms. But the voice of the people of Westmin ster had not yet been heard, though lie hoped their Petition would come in time. Neither had the opi nion of either of the Representatives of 'hat City yet been heard on the subject—(Hear, hear, hear!)—One of them, to be sure, was prevented from attending in his place; but as the other must before this time have heard of what was going on, at whatever dis tance he might be in the country, there could be no doubt but he at least must be now upon his road to attend and watch over the rights of his constituents. (Lend and loxpeentinned cheering.) Adverting to the Petitions from the country towns, the Hen. Member said, the fact was, that many Meetings had not yet been called, because the people could not persuade themselves that before now the measure would have been set aside. As this, however, WAS not likely to be the intention of its promoters, farther time ought to be given for their opinion to be expressed. F.r his own part, he should feel it his duty to resist every attempt to hurry the measure through the House, and should give it on every occasion his most decided opposition. Alderman ATKINS, correcting Sir William Cur tis, said, that so far from the signatures to the Peti. tion being only forty thousand, upwards of forty thousand had signed it on Saturday. He had on Friday night earnestly intreated the House to post pone the second reading of the Bill ; but the result was known. It really seemed as it the purpose of this precipitation was to prevent the Petition from re ceiving three times the number• of signatures that were already affixed to it.—(" No, no !" front dierne ma: of she Home.) He would insist, that the time had nut been sufficient to procure the sense . of the City; but he hoped the Petition, as it- was', wood induce the House to take into their most serious con sideration the consequences of pressing the measure. The Petition was then brought up by Sir William Curtis, who seemed much oppressed by its bulls, aid was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. JOHN SMITH presented four Petitionsfrom different places, one of which was signed, by 18,0 W names. The noise of a vast crowd pressing.into the gallery, and a continual conversation amongst the Members, prevented the names of many of the placth from being heard. ' Mr. METHUEN presented, four from different towns of Wiltshire, which were signed by the whole population of each place. Lord LASCEL LES presented amongst.others, the Petition from Leeds, which had 24,000 signature& Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, Coli presenting a Peti- - IL_. I