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GENERAL ELECTION. THE ELECTORS of the Borough of PRESTON, in the County of Lancaster, take leave to inform the In habitants of the Kingdom at large, that although they possess right of Universal Suffrage, yet, in consequence of the lead ing Men of both Tory and Whig Partici having formed a most disgraceful Coalition, by which it was stipulated that each Party should return one Member, the Town of Preston has been re duced to the degraded state of a Rotten Borough; and, though' the Electors have thrice endeavoured to throw off the odious yoke, yet their efforts (every time more approaching success) save been hitherto paralized, owing to their pecuniary means being cramped, whilst the Purses of their opponents have been ob greedily opened to their disadvantage. They therefore re spectfully solicit Subscriptions from all those who are enemies of tyranny and oppression, to enable them to combat their Opponents with effect, at the ensuing Election. Subscriptions will be received by Henry Dennison, Esq. So licitor, Liverpool; Thomas Ainsworth, Esq. Solicitor, Man chester; and Mr. IL Blackhurst, Cannon-street, Preston. COALITION. PLUMPER AGAINST. Votes Polled in 11807 . . 1580 . . . toot 1818 . . 1638 . . . 1245 PARLIAMENT4RY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 28. The Royal Assent was declared by Commission to the Mutiny Bill, the Expiring Laws' Bill, Annual Indeinnity, the Irish Elections, the Liverpool Church, and to four other Bills, of a private or local de rscri ption. The Lords Commissioners on this occasion con sisted, with reference to the important procedure which was about to follow, of the extraordinary number of five Lords, namely, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the LORTI PRESIDENT (Earl Of HARROWBY), the LORD PRIVY SEAL (Earl of WESTMORELAND), and the Earl of LIVERPOOL. PROROGATION QF PARLIAMENT. The Commons, who attended to a considerable number, remaining at the Bar, an extraordinary Commission, authorising the Lords therein named, or any three or more of them, to declare his Ie- JESTYs Royal will and pleasure for Proroguing the Parliament, was then read. After which, The LORD CHANCELLOR, as organ of the Commissioners, read the following Address, and de livered the following Speech, on the part an 1 by command of his -MAJESTY, to both Houses of Par liament : " ✓!y lordsancl Gentlemen, a We are commanded by his Majesty to inform you, that it is a great disappointment to his Majesty, that on this first and solemn occasion he is prevented by indisposition from meeting you in person. " It would have been a consolation to his Majesty to eve ut terance in this l.lace to those feelings with which his Majesty and the Nation alike deplore the loss of a Sovereign, the com m,,n falter of all his people. " The King commands us to inform you, that in determining to call is ithout delay the new Parliament, his Majesty has been influenced by the consideration of what is most expedient for public business, as well as most conducive to general convenience. " Gentlemen of the House of Commons, " We are directed by his Majesty to thank you for the pro vision which you have made for the several branches of the Public Service from the commencement *of the present year, and during the interval which must elapse before a now Parliament can be assembled. " Lleds and Genlknten, 1 ' e are commanded to inform you, that in taking leave of the present Parliament, his Majesty cannot refrain from con veying to you his warmest assurances of the sense which his Majesty entertains of the important services which you have rendered the country. m Deeply as his. Majesty lamented that designs and practices such as those which you have been recently called upon to repress should have existed in this free and happy country, he cannot sufficiently commend the prudence and firmnass with which you directed your attention to the means of counter acting them. ' " If any doubt had remained as to the nature of those prin ciples by which the peace and happiness of the Nation were so seriously menaced, or of the excesses to which they were likely to lead, the flagrant and sanguinary Conspiracy which has lately been detected must open the eyes of the most credulous, and must vindicate to the whole world the justice and expediency of those measures to which you judged it necessary to resort, in defence of the laws and Constitution of the Kingdom." A Commi,sion for proroguing the Parliament was then read, when the LORD CHANCELLOR said : " My Lords and Gentleness, a By virtue of his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in his Majesty's name, and in obedience to Ms commands, prorogue this Parliament to Monday, the 13th day of March nest, to be then here holden ; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Monday, the 13th day of March next." The Commons 'then withdrew to their own House, and their Lordships separated. THE EVENING STAR. , re-a - mander of the Ist division of the National Army, is-' sued two Proclamations in this place, dattd 31st of January and Ist instant, thanking the inhabitants fur , the enthusiastic manner in which they received his troops, with regulations respecting the trade. Pro -visions are to be free of duty. Monopoly of tobacco has ceased, and it is to be admitted on paying one real duty per pound. The pert of Algesiras is at present blockaded by three ships of war. The first division of the National troops is still here. (Mori- NELL, with a small force of 1500 men, cavalry and infantry, is arrived at St. Roque ; and the National Army has been reinforced to 3500 men, but there is at present no disposition to attack. The gates of Cadiz were, on the 25th ult. at night, for some time actually in possession of the National troops, who were at length subdued, and a small number of them taken prisoners and sent to Ceuta ; but few lives were lost." By the Leeward Island packet, we have received Trinidad letters to the 10th January, and inclosures from the Main, now called Columbia. Venezuela and New Granada hive been constituted into one State, under a new denomination, one of the most important measures yet adopted, and which bids fair to be attended with great prosperity. It is ex tremely gratifying to see the very liberal manner in which the debts contracted by each State, respec tively, in obtaining supplies, have been acknowledged and funded into one debt, and the plan of liquida-1 tion formed. This, no doubt, will afford great con solation to the sufferers in this country, who, under trying circumstances, trusted to the faith and honour of the Venezoelean Republic and its enterprising Chief, by whom their services will never be forgotten. General BOLIVAR arrived at Angostura on the llth of December, amidst the general acclamations of the people. He was not expected, and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of all classes on again seeing among them the hero who, under appalling difficulties, and in the face of a powerful and despe rate enemy, had, in a very few months, secured the freedom of New Granada, and opened a new ara in the annals of his own country. The rapidity with which the Columbian Chief moves, is astonishing.— After regulating various concerns of the State, at the seat of Government, and, among others, addres sing a Proclamation to the Irish Legion, containing such sentiments as must be gratifying to every Irish_ man, he left Angostura on the 21. th, to put the finish to the grand work of the emancipation of Columbia.' On the 21st of October, Colonel Pants entered Po payan, whence the Royalist General, C A LZADA, made a precipitate retreat. The Independents were libe rating the other few points of the interior of New Granada, in which the Royalists had taken refuge, as fast as Gen. Bola VAR'S troops could march upon them. The Paris Papers of Thursday, Friday, and Satur day, arrived this morning. The Projects of Restriction which M. DE Can bequeathed to his successors in office, are likely to meet with more opposition than was probably anti cipated. The Commission appointed in the Chamber of Peers to examine the Project for placing the Jour nals under censorship, have made a Report,, unani mously recommending its rejection. It is not only at variance, they say truly, with all those principles of Constitutional liberty which, a year ago, were deemed by all the world incontestable,but puts in question the possibility of a Representative Government existing in France, inasmuch as a Representative Govern . ment cannot exist without the Liberty of the Press. The exercise of this political right, they add with equal truth, is attended with inconveniences, some of which are inevitable; but, at the same time, its advantages are so great, so extensive, and of such vast influence, that they are worth attaining, even at the expense of considerable abuses—abuses the more easily to be tole. rated, that no excess of the Press can escape the visi tation of the laws, when the laws are such as they ought to be. A Censorship they declare is, in every point under which they can view it, inadmissible, being neither necessary nor expedient nor consti tutional. The opinion thus given is of the more weight, that it comes from a quarter where least was expected in behalf of public liberty. If the Chamber of Peers decide agreeably to the Report of their Commission, there can be no doubt what the fate of the Bill will be in the Chamber of Deputies, where the liberty of the subject must naturally have more friends and protectors than in the other House. The Reporter in the Peers was the Duke DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT. The Project for the Suspension of the Law equi valent to our Habeas Corpus Act, appears also to be meeting witk strong opposition in the Chamber of Deputies. The Commission to whom it has been re mitted have had a long and warm discussion on it. M. RIVIERI is named Reporter. Nothing transpires respecting the proceedings against the assassin Lemuel. He has been a second time examined at the Sonciergerie. One LACOMBE, a Commissary of Police at Troyes, has been ar rested and sent to Paris, accused of having said, a the time of the assassination, that he knew a great blow was to be struck at Paris. These words . , if they are truly reported, seem to indicate some fore knowledge of the crime; but the general opinion of the Parisian public, as far as we can collect from the Journals, appears to be, that the assassin was single in his iniquity. The Funds km now recovered from the shock which they experienced on this distressing event, owing, doubtless, to the revival of the public con fidence. The Five per Cents. are stated in the Journals to have left off on Friday at 75 fr.4o c. and private accounts state, that they had reached as high as 74 fr. 15 c. being five cents. higher than they were at the time of the assassination. The accounts from Spain in these Papers add little information to what we have given above from other sources. The Insurgents are stated to have been on the 4th of February forced, after a brisk cannonade from the gun-boats of Cadiz and the redoubt of St. Ferdinand, to abandon their positions at Santi Banez and Angulo. The redoubt of Saint Ferdinand is said to be impregnable; ,it has fifty-one pieces of artillery, and is defended by a Naval Captain of tried loyalty, Don JOSEPH Pans° DE The corps of Ritmo which went to Algesiras, it is added, has fallen back on Viger, with the intention of rejoining the troops in the Isle de Leon. The Royalist Generals talk of cutting off this branch of the insurrection, but, as before, it is all mere talk. ' LEEDS, FEBRUARY 27. FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. My last would apprise you of the tumultuous pro. ceedings at Dewsbury and the neighbouring town• ships, and •f the committal of ten of the ringleaders, to York Castle. It was hoped that this latter, aided by the presence of the military, would have restored tranquillity, at least for a time ; but, I am sorry to say, the contrary has been the effect. Irritated at the capture of their leaders, the Union men stew a bolder front than ever, and openly declare they will avenge themselves •n all who oppose them. In spite of the presence of the military, and the utmost vigilance of the Municipal Authorities, the " Union Societies" increase. The Manufacturing Districts are, in fact, in a nest deplorable state ; and the Poor-rates are rising to a height beyond the ability of persons in the minor departments of trade to satisfy.—Pauperism and beg gary are everywhere taking the place of industry and competency. The Workhouse in this town (still the most opu lent and prosperous in the Manufacturing Districts), is weekly besieged by an increased crowd of appli cants, most cf whom are compelled to wait in the open air from two to seven hours, for their turn to receive their miserable weekly pittances, which barely suffice to support human nature with the coarsest food. What adds to the distress of the Manufac turers is, the cessation of all demand for the usual Spring fashions, either in the home or foreign mar kets ; and what little business. is transacted, is done on credit or long bills. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A few minutes after three o'clock the House was summoned to the House of Lords, when the SPEA x eft, and the few Members who were present, immediately left the House. The SPEAKER returned in about twenty minutes, attended by Lord CASTLEREAGH, and three or four Members, and taking .his station at the table of the House, and calling the Members round him, informed them that he had been to the House of Lords, where he had heard a most gracious Speech from his MA JESTY, delivered by Commission, of which, for the greater satisfaction of the House, he had procured a copy.—( See Lords.) He then read the Speech, signifying his MAJESTY'S pleasure that Parliament be prorogued till the 13th of March next. The House then separated. The trial of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, on the prose- 1 cution of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for writing and publishing the Letter to the Electors of West:master, on the affair of the 16th of August, at Manchester, is fixed for Thursday, the 16th of March, at Leicester; and the trial of Mr. HUNT and the other persons taken at Manchester, on a charge of conspiracy, is fixed for the Tuesday following, at York. LONDON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1820. THE FUNDS. • PUKE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONI O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 222 1 223 3 Per Cent. Reduced 68% 69 3 per Cent. Consols 683/ 3 /e 'A 3i.per Cent. 77 3 / 4 lh 4 per Cent. 87% 88 1 /s 87% 5 per Cent. Navy 105 3 /g 3 / 4 Bank Long Annuities 18 1 4 India Stock 213 214 India Bonds 13s : 14s. pr. South-Sea - Stock 75 3 / 4 76 Old Annuities 68% New Annuities 68 Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2s. pre. par, Is. pre. Endorsed 1 dis. Consols for Account 68% 3/4. Very little business has been done this morning. Consols for the Account opened at 63% 34, at which price they have remained steady. The abundance of money still continues ; and, from the little demand for discounts, the Stocks are expected to have a fur ther advance. Parliament was yesterday Prorogued by Commis sion, and the Dissolution is expected to appear in , this nights Gazette. The Writs for the new Parlia ment will not, however, we are informed, be sent off from the Post-Office till to-morrow night. The SPEAKER was afraid that they could not be all sealed in one day, and therefore it was properly resolved that they should go together by Wednesday's post. The new Parliament is expected to be summoned for the 21st of April. Letters from Gibraltar, dated the sth of February, state, that since the occupation of Algeiras by the Constitutional army, the port has been declared under blockade by the Spanish Government, and several men of war were then cruizing near it.— The Con titutionaliss continued to receive strong reinforcements by the junction of different divisions of the Royal army ; and their force in the Isle of Leon, and the neighbourhood of Gibraltar, was esti mated at 14,000 well-disciplined men. The Con stitutionalists declare that it is not their intention to make any attack, or commit violence against their countrymen ; but they are determined to defend themselves if necessary, and stand by each ether to the last. It appears that, although the forms of absolute re • bellion against the Government may be confined to the districts in the neighbourhood of Cadiz, the spi rit in which the insurrection of the troops originated has displayed itself in the very streets of Madrid.— The first time King FERDINAND was seen in public, since the commencement of the disturbances, he was received by the populace with hisses and groans.— Each succeeding account adds something to the force of the insurgent troops, and indicates the in creasing confidence and magnitude of their opera tions. The bridge on the San Pedro was said at first to have been broken down by the insur gents, to prevent a surprize from the Royal troops; but it is now•alleged to have been destroyed by the latter, on taking possession of Port St. Mary, to secure their own weakness against the " Constitu tional Army." It is further asserted, that the Insur_ gents have got upon the sank and rear of the enemy, and that the Royalists have declined a battle. It is announced, that the army of Qtrtßoca, instead of being obliged to surrender from a short supply of provisions or ammunition, have provisions for a year, and ammunition for " half a century." It is stated, that the force in the Isla de Leon, and in other places occupied by the Insurgents, is between fifteen and sixteen thousand men ; that they have four ships of war and fourteen gun-boats; and it is added, that another insurrection has broken-out in Almeria, on the coast of Grenada,- and, we believe, at least 100 miles horn Cadiz. The Insurgents, besides Proclamations and Ad dresses, have published, at San Fernando, a News paper, w'aicli is entitled the Patriotic Gazette at Me National Army. The first number appeared on the 25th of January. The editors are Don EVANIS?O SAN MIGUEL, and Don ANTONIO ALCALA GALIANO the latter is the nephew of the Admiral of the Royal fleet. It is to be continued periodically. The first number consists of eight pages ; 'it is filled with two long articles, the first of which is a series of observa tions "On the Legitimacy of the Insurrection." The second is called, " A Relation of the Occurrences in the glorious Insurrection of the National Army against Tyranny." This narrative does not differ in any important particulars from the accounts which we have given from private sources. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ALGESIRAS, DATED FEBRUARY Jr. Two thousand five hundred of the National troops entered here on the 31st ult.—they were well clothed, fed, and in the highest spirits, full of confi dence ; when they fell in with an inferior body of King's troopsohey did not make them prisoners, hut proposed they should join them ;—if they refused, they immediately gave them a passport and money ,to go home. RAPJIARL. DZ RIZGO I General Cow 1% NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PALIOIOIII, FI3III3AZY t6.—Wind N.X.E.--sArrived the Mars 1 garet, Gi.sx, from Patras, in fifty days. Sailed th e D y k e o f York packet, with Mails for Lisbon and the Islands. The sloop Aid, Wisr, put into Helford, In distress, having been blown out ' of St. Michael's on the lith ult. with loss of anchors, dm and . only a part of the cargo on board, which is damaged. Therms, were greatly fatigued, arid were supplied with water and pl.-revi sions on the edge of the Channel, by the Agnes, Lirsvv, from Liverpool to Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, FERROART 28.—Sailed the Pusey Hall, Hun, for Barbadoes. The Protection, Tvsos, has gone back to Cowes.—Wind N.E. Rawscays, FIaItICIVAT 28.—An anchor, iron stocked, weigbini about four and a half cwt. with about seventy fathoms of nine. inch cable, has been picked up and brought in here : supposed to belong to the Nancy, Limp', of Chichester. DIAL: FEIRVAILY 28.—Wind this morning for the River, the Constantia, MATSE, from Cork, and the rest of the homeward bound vessels. MILPORD, FERRI:ART 26.—The Bounty Hall, Rousts, front Bengal and Lime/ly, was brought in here by the Milford Pilots. very leaky : she had been at anchor outside of this harbour since the evening of the 24th inst. His MAJESTY has purchased the noble Mansion, at the farther extremity of Kew-Green, opposite the Royal Botanical Gardens, and late the property of HUNTRR, Esq. It is undergoing very extensive repairs. The Earl of HARRINGTON had a select party to dinner yesterday, at his house in the Stable-yard, St. James's. Lord CArri.saxwou gave an entertainment yes terday, to a large party of distinguished personages. Most of the Cabinet Ministers were present. The Dowager Countess of ESSEX had a card party Myesterday evening, at her house in Curzo n - street , ayfair. The Countess de Gaxv's fine growing timber, in the High Woods of Essex, have lately been much damaged by the trees having been despoiled of their branches. To such an extent have these depredations been committed, that it has become necessary to have the woods watched. Mr. HOBHOUSE was this morning still at Newgatts. The Crown Solicitor has given notice to Knight, and other persons committed to Lancaster Castle in December last, for High Treason, that it is not the intention of Government to prosecute them on that charge. Government, by the late Lottery contract, gains £4,750 more than by the preceding one of 20,000 Tickets, the contract for the last being £l4. ss. 10d. In the former £l4. Extract of a letter from St. Thomas's, dated Jan. 20, —" Subsequent to the defeat of General LA TORRE, General SOUBLETTE marched with his division to join General PAEZ, which he effected at th e com mencement of November,in Chagurama ; and from thence he immediately set out for Angostura, where he arrived on the 18th of November, leaving his di vision in charge of General PAIL; in order to com municate the orders of the President and General-in- Chief of the Armies, thus to effect the union of all the Patriotic forces; when they were to march, in one grand body, to destroy the small division of troops which MORILLO has yet under his command i - but it is supposed that General will not wait their at tack, but get into some strong bold OA the sea coast," - in P ond into Sd forn cove crap ern Gua lace •iFitt he deer in d whic so ni A arriv Foi ?Jaya Atari ?Jain ed on PridB of his Alc dins Wahl Sir /Enna and F Nom Xenir Atr Comr Kr. 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