Star. — London, England, 1820-12-15 00:00:00

'S Y. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1820. THE FUNDS. PISIICZ OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock 2221/4 14 3 per Cent. Reduced 69% 14 1,4 5 / 4 S per Cent. Cons. shut.-31 per Cent. 78% A 4 per Cent. 87 1 14 1 / 8 ..-5 per Ct. Navy shut. Long Annuities 18 17 15-16 Imperial 3 per Cent. 67 /8 India Bonds 255. 265. pr. Exchequer Bills par, 2s. dis. Cons. for Account 70%. To the memorable defeats sustained by the parti sans of Ministers in the Cities of Gloucester and He- reford, we have to-day to add two instances of dis comfiture equally remarkable, which have occurred at Glasgow, and at Hanley, in Staffordshire. The precautions taken at Glasgow were certainly well adapted for attaining the object in view; namely, to get up such an Address as should only em body the sentiments of the small knot of individuals in that City, who are pleased to consider themselves as the exclusively loyal, but to get it up in such a manner that it might pass off (such things have been before), as the Address of the Inhabitants of Glasgow at large. The Meeting was called by circular, which it was thought had been addressed only to the most flaming of the exclusive Loyalists ; but the matter took wind, and, instead of seeing himself surrounded by the select party on which he had counted, the LORD Paovosr, on entering the Town Hall, found it filled with an indiscriminate assemblage of Citizens. The object which had brought so many uabiddea guests, was the honest one of making the Address in reality what it pretended to be—the Address of the Glasgow Public. The Meeting was convened in the Hail belonging to the community, and the LORD PROVOST was in the Chair, as the head of that com munity. Is it conceivable, therefore, that the Public could consider this as the Meeting of a few friends,, or of a private company ? Even so, however, the LORD PROVOST was pleased to declare it ; and pre cipitately leaving the Chair, he took refuge, with his loyal parchment and specially-invited few, in a re tired room of the Hotel adjoining, whence (unless some returning sense of shame shall prevent an act of so much effrontery) the Address may, perchance, yet find its way to Carlton Palace, as the free and spontaneous homage of the Citizens of Glasgow, in Public Meeting assembled. Nor was this all. The LORD PRovosr, not content i with refusing to allow the inhabitants at large to join in the proposed loyal Address to their SovenEtoz; gave them his absolute commands, on their peril to sepatate instantly, as if he knew (how disloyal art as sumption !) that it would be displeasing to the Ktxa to know what any part of his People think of the , measures of his Government. All this, too, from a Gentleman who is said to have recently declared, at a Public Board, that " any Chief Magistrate who made himself a party in politics, disgraced himself, and was unworthy of his situation." The proceedings at Hanley were of rather a more decisive character. The ultra-loyal faction of that 1 district went at the thing boldly. They called an I open and Public Meeting of the Inhabitants, and the consequence was what may be invariably ex pected, when the question as to the conduct of his Majesty's Government is brought to the fair test of public opinion. A " Loyal" Address, which had been prepared, ascribing all the evils of the country to de perverse and wicked dispositions of the People, disappeared, nobody could tell how; and another, laying the I blame where it truly lies, at the door of the Cabinet Council, was carried without a division ! The ob servations of W. RIDGWAY, Esq. on the occasion, which our Readers will s find in our report of the proceedings, are particularly deserving of attention. —Adverting to the antiquated cant of the Constitu tion being in danger from the People, and to die Courtly heresy of imagining that it can ever be in jeopardy from the acts of those Ministers whose spe cial duty it is to watch over and preserve it, he aptly enquires—" What is meant by the word Constitution? If a Minister commences an expensive and disastrous war, by interfering with the internal politics of another nation, we are told it is to preserve the Constitution! If a Noble Lord is found traffick ing for seats in the House of Commons, as nom rieus as the sun at noon-day, it is to preserve the Constitution ! If measures are adopted to restrict the Liberty of the Press, and the expression of pri vate opinion, it is to preserve the Constitution ! If a suspension of certain laws takes place, subject ing every Englishman at the caprice of the person in official situation, without any statement of his offence, to be taken from his home and family, and be incarcerated for an unlimited period, without being brought to trial, or having afterwards any means of obtaining legal redress, it is to preserve the Constitu tion ! On this principle, any object of Ministers might be said to be intended to preserve the Consti tution ; even though they might be particularly well calculated to subvert and destroy it." We believe we may also add to the list of Minis- tetial defeats, the proceedings which too* place yesterday at the Meeting of the Ward of Cheap. —A " Loyal" Address, , of the mast unqualified description, was indeed carried—but how ? It , was proposed, as an Amendment to the Address, " That a paragraph should be added to it to the effect that the Meeting could not avoid expressing' their regret at the institution of the late proceedings against his MAJESTY'S Consort, and the extreme gra tification they felt at their abandonment." This was doing exactly what we yesterday pressed on the at tention of all Addressers—it was putting to the test of an explicit vote the only question which is at issue in the public mind—the only question, a decisive opinion on which makes an Address of any value on one side or the other—the question as to the conduct of Ministers in the late prosecution of her MAassrt. But was this Amendment allowed to be put ? No. A majority of the Meeting were pleased to decide—certainly not according to any obvious prin ciple of common sense—that it had nothing to do with the subject about which they were assem bled. A mighty easy way, indeed, of getting rid of a difficulty which their consciences, large as they may be, were not able to grapple with I—, If they think the Ministers did right in their per secution of her MAJESTY, why do they shrink from saying so, openly and manfully? Why do they re fuse a plain answer to the question, when it is so plainly put to them ? What other interpretation can be put on their evasion and silence than that their consciences would not allow them to answer the question in the way they could wish ? Who can doubt for a moment, that if they enter tained the least hope of a favourable decision, they would not have willingly—aye, eagerly, have gone to a vote on the question? Have we not a right, then, to add even the loyalists of the Ward of Cheap to the countless thousands who have proclaimed their opi nion, that his MAJESTY'S Ministers have lost the con fidence of the Country, and having lost that, they can no longer be worthy the confidence of their Sovereign. Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Cheshire " An attempt was made in this County to address the KING, but it was found imprudent, if not imprac ticable. I have lately been to Manchester, and, as trade was better, all was quiet. Agriculture is dread fully depressed ; and, in oonsequence, Sir Joint Lei- CESTER has just abated ten per cent. on his rents, in addition to ten per cent. before. This, I believe, is a general cause of distress and complaint throughout the kingdom. The farmers cannot sell their cheese, on which they depend to pay their rent, for mote than 455. per cwt." The following is an extract of a letter, dated 10th November,brought by the Leeward Island Mail arrived *morning:—" Since my last, in. whieb I informed r.iu of the conference held between Moral° and Bo var, we have not received any particulars of the re sult of the above conference, therefore it is con cluded here, that it has not been of a favourable issue, nor have we any other news from the Main." The following is an extract of a letter from Cape Town, St. Domingo, dated October 15, which con tains some additional particulars of the Revolution that has taken place there :—" A rebellion bad been in agitation nearly two months previously, by some of the Chiefs, who took advantage of the King's ill ness, he being attacked by apoplexy, ad it was ex pected that he could not live long; but so prudently and secretly had it been conducted, that no person knew anything of it until the day that it broke out. It, however, they say, broke out two days before it' was intended, in consequence of an order sent by the tyrant Christophe to murder all the strangers and people of colour in the Cape here. It commenced first at St. Mark. A Colonel of some Regiment, well liked by his soldiers, had been sent, for some small fault, to Sans Souci, the Royal Palace, and had, as was very usual, been flogged to death. The soldiers, hearing of this, immediately cut off the head of the Governor of St. Mark, and killed several other Chiefs. The troops sent from Sans Saud to quell the revolt, immediately joined those under the Governor, with cries of Vive la Liberte, Egalit?, In d dence,' &c. The tyrant, hearing of the disloya ltyie of his troops, immediately shot himself. Thus fell one of the most bloody of tyrants, never perhaps equalled in the history of the human race." We have received Papers direct from Madrid to the Ist instant. The KING had entirely recovered from his late indisposition. He had-made several ap pointments, which indicate a disposition to consult the wishes of the People. In the list, we find the, name of Rum% as Captain-General of Arragon. The partizans of despotism, however, occasionally renew their feeble efforts to excite disturbances in the capi tal and the provinces. Several of their emissaries were arrested in Madrid in the night of the 26th ult. as they were uttering seditious cries in the streets— they were all'of the lowest class ; but the same night some others are said to have been arrested, among, whom were persons of a better class. At Leon, in the night of the 20th ultimo, a party, consisting of about ten or a dozen armed men, on horseback, traversed the streets of that city, exclaiming, " Live the King !"- 46 Perish the Constitution !"—lt being midnight, the Authorities were somewhat reins in their duty, and the offenders escaped. The noted Monk EscolQulaz, died a few days ago at Ronda, in Andalusia. This man was tutor to the present KING, whom he accompanied to Valencay, when he was entrapped by BONAPARTIL ENCOIQUINZ was the author of the troubles at Bayonne in 1808, and became a great political leader ; but he died in exile, completely abandoned by his pupil. A report had reached Santander, by Ovessel from La Gtura, of the defeat of Bocivaa by Monism), and-that the lndependent.squadron in the Magdalena had, in con sequence, fallen into the hands of the Spaniards. It is admitted, however, that none of the letters brought by the vessel in question make any mention of these supposed successes on the part of the Royal troops. The Spanish Papers are filled with Addresses from parts of the kingdom, expressive of the devotion of the Authorities to the constitutional system. THE DUCHESS or - CL ARENCE. The following is a copy of the favourabie Bulletin issued yesterday, respecting the state of the Duchess of CLetazuca,and the infant Princess &misuse : " King's Palace St. James's D e cember £4. Twelve o Clock. Our Report of her Royal Highness the Duchess of OA woe continues favourable, and also of the infant Princess '''grAbsem ? tiled) " H NRY HALPORD. 114 R7'IGHTO) " WILLIAM _NIG IN. " ANDREW HALLIDAY." The Duke of Sussex sent by ten o'clock to make his affectionate inquiries after his sister and niece. The Princess SOPHIA called to make her inquiries. The Princess SOPHIA MATILDA, Baron JUST, the ' Hanoverian Minister, and the Spanish Ambassador, were among the persons of distinction who called.— Among the distinguished throng who called in the course of the day, were several of the Cabinet Minis ters, Mr. Justice BEST, the Judge of the Admiralty. The whole of the numerous inquirers appeared highly delighted with the continued flattering account of the Duchess and the Princess, and they remained in the same state up to eight o'clock yesterday evening. The answer to numerous enquiries this morning at St. James's Palace, Is, that " Her ROYAL HIGH xEss has passed a tranquil night, and that the Infant Princess is very well." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Porroacorrn, Dec. 14.—Wind N. E—Arrived the Recovery, For say, from Batavia; Louisa, WALVIS, and Helena, Gee -111. from London.—Put back the Zephyr, Cox, with loos of sails. Sailed the Westmoreland, Perron, for New South Wales ; and Louisa, Wairez, for Grenada. Dela, Deeessees 14.—Wind N.E —The Prince George, PAIMIII4 from Jamaica, has lost an anchor and able; and seve ral others, names not known. The Huddart, Arrurrox, from Quebec, his lost an anchor, and is now riding near the shore, off Sandon Castle. The Endeavour, Moaa.ar, from Shields for Guernsey, got on the Goodwin Sand last evening, Boated off, drove into the Downs, and sunk: the Master and one man saved ; the remainder have perished. Put back, the George and Mary, from Hull, and has gone round the South Foreland.— Passed by, the Lively, Mrecnerae from New Providence, for Ramsgate harbour. FALMOUTH, Dec. 12.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Swiftsure packet, with Mails from the Islands, sailed from St. Thomas's en the 10th of November; and Otter, SA:always, from Cadiz. The following Packets are now in the Roads, wind-bound : Siemer, for Lisbon ; Blucher, for the Med iterranean --- terranean • Lady Wellington, for America; Nocten, for Jamaica; and !Ulnae:- ter, for the Brazils. Szezzens, Dec. 14.—Arrived the Ocean, Ln.t.rxcrox, from Toughs' for London, much damaged, having been on shore on the Spaniard Sand, and has four feet water in her hold ; and the Gosforth, Awn, from London for Newcastle, with loss of an anchor. Doves, Dec. 14. —Arrived the Thomas and Hannah, Berme, from Exeter; she has slipped her anchor and cable, in conse quence of her windlass upsetting; the anchor and sable have since been picked up. Cowes, Dec. 14.—Arrived the Jane, Caucasus, from London, to take troops to Jamaica. Currox-Houal, Dec. 14.—Ships Entered Inwards :—Bri tannia, from Malaga; Sarah, from Aldborough; Charente, from Bayonne; George, from St. John's ; Trader, from Lisbon ' • Latona, from St. John's; Marianna, from Mena ; Grantham, from Demerara; Aurora, from Whoa ; Charles, from Trieste; , Asia, from Havannah ; Retrieve, from Quebec; Waterloo,' from Harlingen; Aurora, from Quebec; Duscombe, from Fiume • Briton, from Mogadore ; Perseverance ; from Smyrna. Entered Outwards: . Dominico, for Trinidad; William Shand, for Jamaica ; Thomas, for Dublin; Petersbargh Packet, for Boar . dean; Harriet, for Leghorn; Merchant's Friend, for Palermo- Asseena—At Whitehavas, the Sally, from Mirarni chi ; and Ann, Skillen, from Oporto. At Innen, Nancy, Keys, from Richebucto. At 9t John's (N. B.), John and Thomas, Baxter; and Isabella,. Stanton, from Liverpool. At Passamaquoddy, Protector, Lonna, front Liverpool. At the Havannah, John, Rizon, from Mais ga. As Revel (and sailed for Petersburgh on the 13th ult.), faster, Skimmells, from Hull. Yesterday,Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audience of his MAJESTY, at his Palace, in Pall-mall. Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Mounion entertained a select party, in Grosvenor-square. THE GRAND FRACAS.— The extraordinary scene at Troppau has given rise to the curiosity of the Public to learn all the particulars of the fracas. Report says, that on the first representations made by the Austrian Court to the British Government, for co- operation and pecuniary assistance in suppressing the revolutionary movement in Naples, the answer was so far favourable, that though we could not afford them any pecuniary aid, they might rely on our countenance in their exertions to maintain the existing order of things, and to bring back the Nea politans to their former obedience. But when the ferment which Ministers had excited in this country, by -their unconstitutional proceeding against the Qualm, had rendered their own situations in office precarious, and when questions were put to them by patriotic Members in the House of Peers, on the subject of their interference in foreign disputes, they found it dangerous to persevere in this course, and they sent new and contradictory instructions to Lord STEW A RT. Upon these he acted, to the utter astonish ment of the Allied Potentates and Ministers assembled at Troppau. They could scarcely credit the new tone that the British Ambassador had taken, and the Prince de METTERNICH held , a conference with his Lordship on the subject. Warm words arose at this interview, on an expression of the Prince as to the truth of the instructions, which produced a challenge from Lord BrzwArr. This challenge the Austrian Prince submitted to the assembled Council, who de cided that he ought not to meet him. Upon this being made known to the Noble Lord, that he might compel the Austrian Minister to fight, he insulted him by a blow. This also the old Nestor bore, and the assembled Ministers wrote a declaration, which they all signed, that they could not again meet Lord STEWART in Council. These documents are ...said to have been transmitted by his 'stratum. MA JESTY to be laid before our Kum—and it is said, as a matter of course, that Lord STEWART is - recalled. This is the substance of the report, current in the diplomatic circles, and which we hive had trans mitted to us by a Correspondent from Paris ; but - we cannot pledge ourselves for the entire accuracy of the narrative. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY. ODDS ON RACES TO 00ML 14 to 1 apt Gustavus ts to 1 apt Sock 16 to 1 apt Parasol JO to 1 apt Charm is to 1 apt bro. to Andrew SD to 1 apt aay other. 18 to 1 apt Truth aaa. 6to 1 apt My Lady Itsto 1 apt Badly • 14 to 1 apt Breese 4 to 2 apt Mina S to 1 apt Morel I S to 1 'apt Parasol WARD OF CHEAP MEETING. Yesterday, a Wardmote of the Inhabitants of tilt Ward of Cheap was held at the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry, for the purpose of taking Into consi deration the propriety of passing a loyal, dutiful, and affectionate Address to his MAJESTY. The Meeting was highly numerous and respectable. Aideinran ROTHWELL in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the day ty reading the Requisition, which had only been handed to him on Saturday, when he immediately called tl:e Meeting, as he should always conceive it his duty to do when required by a respectable number of his czz.- stituents, however opposite to his sentiments, as made it i point never to suffer his own private npi. nions to interfere with those of his constituents. li t first intimation of the former Meeting had beeq re• ceived by him whilst sitting at his breakfast, at Hali fax, and he must say, that he had been extremely gratified with the conduct of the Ward in steppin forward as they had done upon that occasion. 'lle worthy Alderman concluded by requesting of th e Meetin;, that they would treat respectfully those who might differ from them in sentiment. Mr. jAMER, in rising to move the first Resolution which would be submitted to the Meeting, oberved, that it was one which he had no doubt would be ac cepted unanimously, as it was a simple declaration of loyalty and attachment to the Throne and Consti tution which had been assented to by every perwn to wh ose he had shewn it, of whatever patty, whc ther Whig or Tory, without hesitation. He did not take-the lead in this business from any desire to ren der himself prominent, but he should never liesitale to present himself in times of imniinent.danger like the present. A class of persons, neither Wliigs nor Tories, had arisen of late, and sought every opportu nity of promoting discord and confusion by the most powerful endeavours, who had, he was convinced, only for their object the destruction of all property. Although the Legislature bad, very property, prohi bited them from meeting in large bodies, those men, however, were now about as active in mischief as ever, and it was necessary for the loyal to srep . for. ward to counteract their endeavours. With regard to another matter which had recently agitated the public mind, be conceived that the introduction c f it would be foreign to the matter before them, and it would tend to promote dissention, for he knew that loyal men had different views upon the subject.— Equally foreign to the matter upon which they met, .would be any discussion with relation to the conduct L of his Majesty's Ministers. They had been told, that the object of these Declarations was anything but loyalty. He should be glad if those Gentlemen would point out to them what was and what was not loyalty. It had been said of them, that they arrogated to them.. selves to be exclusively loyal. He protested against this charge as utterly unfounded. They did not, by their declarations, impute anything against those who did not choose to join in them. It had been ob jected, that Addresses of loyalty were superfluous, and that this was not the time for them. lithe loyal and well-disposed slept on their post in such direful times, the tide of disaffection would become so strong as to render it extremely dangercins for them to corns forward at any future period to declare their senti ments—(Hear, hear!).—The matter for their con sideration was merely a declaration of their attach ment to the Constitution, which would not inter fere with the political opinions which Gentlemen pre sent might hold. Looking at the matter, therefore, in this point of view, he would ask whether the Con stitution had not been attacked?—(Hear, hear). — The Constitution, they all knew, was composed of the three States—of King, Lords, and Commons. Now he would ask whether the sacred person of the King had not been insulted in most licentious libels, tending to bring him into hatred and contempt ? Whilst upon this subject, he would mention, that they would have had a very great many more sig natures to the late declaration of auschosent to his Majesty's person, if the Declaration had issued from a Wardmete, instead having been got up in the manner it was. These libels, holding up the person of the Sovereign to ridicule and contempt, tended seriously to endanger the Constitution; for the effect was the same, whether the Constitution was attacked through the Commons, or any other branch of it. Looking at the House of Lords as another branch of the Constitution, had it not been held up to con tempt, by calling the Members composing it the tools of Ministers? and it had been said but the other day, " that to call the House of Lords a Court of Law was a calumny." If this Court, which they had been taught to look up to as the last Court, or denier resort, in cases of. appeal, was thus to be held up to contempt, there would be no security for property. The House of Commons had been called corrupt, and be knew not what. It had been said that it would be a public benefit if the Members were led out of the House by the ears. He could not look upon these things without thinking a de claration of loyalty and attachment to the Consti tution, which was thus traduced, highly necessary. The speaker next adverted to a system of libelling, which had done considerable mischief; he meant libels under the form of carieatures--a system which seemed to him to be particularly injurious to the morality of the country. The speaker then adverted to the attacks which, he said, had been made upon the religion of the country. They saw, in an adjoin ing country, that in order to bring about Revolution, they first set about to destroy and sap the foundaticn of religion. Religion taught them their duty to su periors, and as long as the People were firm in their faith, property would be secure. The speaker nut adverted to the abuses which, be said, had been made of the Liberty of the Press. In doing this, he expressed that he was treading upon hazardous ground, and that he was exposing himself to great personal danger from that powerful engine. If the evils complained of did not derive their source from the Press, they were supported by the Press, which had been made an instrument of for the occasion. He next commented on the conduct of the Radicals, whose object, he was convinced, was to get their hands into their (" our pockets," the speaker said) pockets. It was a contest between poverty, restless ness, wantonness, and respectability. The orator observed, that he would rather incur censure by coming forward on such occasions, than shrink when in the midst of danger so imminent. 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