Star. — London, England, 1820-12-19 00:00:00

.. • gII . 1 I I 4 _ - • IN° STAR. I • ' • \ ,LONDON. • • ,-•• TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1820. THE FUNDS. PRICE Olt STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 5 per Ct. Reduced 69 1 ,6 1 / 4 I,,Es-81} per Ct. 78% 4 per Cent. 87% 1 / 4 —Long Anns. nothing done India Bonds 255. 245. pre. Exchequer Bills par, Is. dis. Cons. for Acct. 70% % %. Every post brings us advices of some new defeat sustained by the " life and fortune" faction in their attempt to impose upon their SOVEREIGN, by getting up Addresses, in support of Ministers, pretending to proceed from the inhabitants at large of counties, towns, and districts, when, in reality, they are at di rect variance with the sentiments which the inha bitants at large are known to entertain. At Peterborough, the Magistrates (the Rev. Dr. STRONG and the Rev. JOHN JACESON SEREGOLD), ventured on convening a Public Meeting of the In habitants, in the hope of being able to carry an Ad dress, which they had prepared, in the Usual style of ultra-loyal extravagance, ascribing everything (the wet weather scarcely excepted) to" the madness of the Peo ple !" The Meeting was more numerous and indiscri minate than the Reverend Magistrates probably ex pected; and, to complete their dismay, they found themselves unexpectedly favoured with the presence of the worthy and independent Member for the County, Lord MILTON, who, in spite of a petty attempt at opposition, was called to the Chair. Need we state the result? The clerico-magisterial banding was kicked out of doors, and an Address adopted, which, after vindicating in manly terms the character of the inhabitants, for " inviolable attachment and uninter• rupted fidelity to his MaJerry's person and his illus trious House," states, that they "lament, in common with many millions of his MAJESTY'S loyal subjects, the agitation excited throughout the country by the conduct of his MAJESTY'S Ministers, in introducing the late Bill of Pains and Penalties into the House of Lords, and farther imploring his MAJESTY net to consider their present ardent and unfeigned expres sions of loyalty and attachment to his Sacred Person, and to our invaluable Constitution, as in anywise implying an approval of these measures." • At Manchester there have been two sorts of Meet ings, both to Address his MAJESTY; one a Public Meeting, at the Manor Court Room, where every person might attend, and the other a private one, at the Police Office, where little more than a hundred persons could gain admission. At the ?alba Meet ing the Address, unanimously agreed to, expresses the deep and unfeigned concern of the Meeting that, in the first year of his reign, his Mutant's Ministers should have "precipitated an investigation by which public opinion has been so much outraged, public tranquillity so much hazarded, and the loss endan gered of any portion of that strong and affectionate, but rational attachment to our political institutions, which constitutes their best safeguard, and the greaten glory of the Ruler of a free People." The Address of the Private—Police ()Ace Meeting or Junta—which, with a decency and modesty quite characteristic of a certain class of Gentlemen in Man chester, actually purports to be that of " the Borough k ree es and Constables of Manchester and Salford; tog er with THE Magistrates, Clergy, Merchants, 7'ra ers, and Householders, of thes..42inons and their bicinities ;" this private, smuggled, piece of impos ture, carefully avoids saying a word in opposi tion to the sentiments of the other Meeting, respect- 1 ing the prosecution of her MAJESTY, but treats his MAJESTY with a most furious tirade against the whole body of his loving subjects, abusing them as " base and seditious," gg wicked and audacious," gg avowed and inveterate enemies of the State r as indulging in 66 frenzied clamours," 46 opprobrious calumnies," 44 domineering insolence and licentious ness r as, in short, in a state of absolute 44 delirium!" Is it possible that the men with have penned such frantic nonsense can seriously imagine that it is ac ceptable to his hlastsnt's ears to hear his People thus foully and falsely reviled? Is it possible they can hope for a moment's success to their effrontery, in attempting to palm such stuff on the Kum and the Public as the genuine sentiments of 44 the Mer chants, Traders, and Householders" of Manchester and Salford? We give full credence to the Man chester Gazette, when it states, that this Address "was notoriously in opposition wan overwhelming majority of our population." The People are not to be led astray with a name ; —they see, that with loyalty in their mouths, these men are endeavouring to extinguish loyalty. They will approve themselves the true friends of the Throne by aiding in an endeavour to remove from the presence of the SOVEREIGN the men who have so egregiously failed in their duty to him. At a conjuncture like the present, he is an enemy and not the friend of the KING, who contributes in any manner to mislead him, with respect to the sew timents of the country, as to the conduct of his W. nisters ; and, therefore, while, like good subjects, we manifest our loyalty, it is essentially necessary, to prevent such manifestation from leading to false conclusions, that we should at the same time respect fully, bat boldly, convey to the Throne oar sense s. - the system pursued with regard to the Quamt...l True friendship often requires that unpalatable truths be told—that endeavours be made to undeceive when we see confidence misplaced 7 —for to encourage d gerous ' _ . delusion is not friendship but flattery. - A Requisition for a Meeting of the County of Gloucester, signed by Lords Ducts and Sammons% and sixty other names of the first respectabdity, has been presented to the High Sheriff; but that Gentle., man has given a refusal, on the ground that the Re quisition assumes, what he cannot admit, " that the late measures in Parliament against the Quails were illegal and unconstitutional." It Is not said whether the Requisitionists intend to bold a Meeting on their own responsibility. The High Sheriff of Ilerkshire has also given a refusal to the respectable 11equisition lbr a Meeting of that County ; but a Meeting has, notwithstanding, bow called by a sufficient number of Magistrates to give it the legality required by the recent Statutes. In Staffordshire there is a Requisition in circula tion, which will speedily be presented to the Sheriff, requesting him to call a Meeting " for the purpose of considering the best means of securing our glo rious Constitution equally against the dangerous de signs of the seditious and diSaffected on the one hand, and the encroachments and abuses. of Ministerial power on the °thee • In Scotland we are-glad to see thatthe People'are also bestirring themselves. We have no great hopes from anything in the shape of a County Meeting on the other side of the Tweed, bvt thete is one good thing about the Scotch County Meetings which we do not always see exemplified among ourselves—they are called by public advertise ment, in sufficient time to allow all to attend who chase—they meet publicly and openly—and whatever . may be the value of the sentiments which issue from them, they are at least the genuine and spontaneous offspring of those in whose name they are sent forth to the world. A Meeting of the N obility, Magistrates, and Freeholders, of the County of Edinburgh, is, we observe, appointed to take place on the 22d instant, for the purpose of considering the propriety of addressing his MAJESTY, on the present state of the Country. The County of Roxburgh is also to meet on the same day, for a similar purpose. The Courier has invented a now ingredient for the establishment of Me reign of terror. The names of all the " new comers" (the Ladies) who may pay' their respects to the Qum, are to be regularly noted, and " the whole to be kept regularly before the public eye!" His object cannot be mistaken. But he will fail in his aim :—the good and the Virtuous cannot be intimidated by the insinuated threat of any time server whatever. In what light would the admirers of this system view a threat to keep 44 before the public eye" a list of the visitors to Carlton-Hourc! and, more especially, an invitation to compare and contrast the two lists ? This would be called Radi- calism, with a vengeance—an attempt to we bhall not say what. Fools should never employ a weapon with two edges. Frankfort Papers to the 10th instant arrived yes- terday. They confirm the previous reports that the Congress at Troppau had broken up, and that its conferences were to be resumed at Vienna, on the arrival of the answer of the Neapolitan Government, which was expected about the 12th or 13th instant. Ii Was not supposed that the King of NAPLES would, at his advanced age, and at this season of the year, accept the invitation of the two Emperors M meet them at Laybach.—An Edict of the Emperor of AUSTRIA forbids the delivery of passports for Italy to literary men, artists, scholars, and other young persons, unless by the special permission of the Mi nisters for Ecclesiastical Affairs and of Public" In struction. The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday have arrived. The following are extracts: PARIS, DECEMBER 16. The King yesterday gave a private audience to M. Laine. His Majesty, in the afternoon, transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu. The King of Denmark has appointed the Count de Bourke to succeed the Count de Waltersdorff, as his Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris. The Gazette de France says—" Letters from Ma drid say, the King has issued a Decree, by which he suppresses the pension which he had granted to Don Alvarez de Toledo, still incorrigible in the perfidious and rebellious conduct which has given him an infa mous celebrity. This Spaniard has attempted to impose upon different Cabinets, particularly upon the Emperor of Russia, by the grossest Impostures. Since the arrest of the King's valet de chambre, Bussengol, nut a day has passed without new ar rests, which are founded, it is said, upon the decla rations made by that individual. The most incredu lous begin to be convinced of the existence of a plan, we will not say of counter-revolution, but of disor ganization and massacre—a plan set on foot by per. sons who knew the impossibility of its execution, but who believe they shall have attained their ob ject, if they can succeed in making it a topic of con versation at Troppau, that blood has been shed in Spain. Yes! blood must Sow, since the patience of Government is abused with so much obstinacy; but that blood will be legally and promptly shed ; and, far from being a loss, it will be a gain to the coun try. since with that blood it will acquire the tran quillity to which its true children are entitled." Don Villalba has addressed a - Proclamation to the garrison of Madrid, announcing to them, that he has succeeded General Vigodet, appointed a Council lor of Sate. This Proclamation contains the follow- . •••. VV •y_, ....*.M. ~. ...,, i_n_g pansy:o-u Soldiers, I will set you` the example. My sword shall be the first to shed the blood of trai tors ; and if my own son were of the number, my arm'should eat off his head. General Quiroga has a letter, addressed to General Riego, w , after saying that be ac- Zwith pleasure protestations of friendship cs h the latter had made in his apology, he de clares, that there never existed any difference between them. Upon the dissolution of the army of the Isle of Leon, it to agreed with Riego in con ceiving to be an ill - timed - measure; but he could net oppose it in his quality of a Deputy to the Cones, inasmuch as it was mot within the limits of the func tions of that body, but within those of the Exe cutive Power. He finishes with expressing a wish to clasp Riego in his arms. From this letter it further appears, that the Revolutionists had ap pointed Quiroga General-in-Chief - of the Liberating Army, as far back as the month of November, 1819; but that, having been arrested in consequence of sus picions entertained of him by the Government, he had in the first instance experienced considerable difficulty in escaping from prison, and was afterwards delayed by the bad state of the vads ; so that Riego had the honour of striking the first blow. Flys reit CzeTs.—Friday, 78f. SOc. DEFERRED STOCK, of Sept. 2, 1520, 94. f. 56e. EXCHANGE ON LONDON—One month, 25f. 50c.— Three months, 26f. SOc. VIENNA, DECEMBER I. It appears to be certain, that wording to the last decision of the Congress of Troppau, the Allied So vereigns will meet before the end of the year in a neighbouring town of Italy (it is sail Laybach), where they can more easily superintend the military operations, or continue the negotiations with the Go 'vernment of Naples. It is still stated that the King of the Two Sicilies has been invited to proceed to Laybach, to attend the Congress. According to the Constitution of the Cortes, which King Ferdinand has been compelled to accept, it is known that he can not quit his States without the consent of Parliament. The Emperor of Russia is expected here about the 15th. The foreign Ministers will immediately fol low his Imperial Majesty. General the Baron de Frimont preserves the com mand of the Expeditionary Army against Naples. A new convoy of ammunition, &c. has been for warded to him, and a new park of artillery has also set out for Italy. Bets of four to one are made here that war will commence before the Ist of January. AUGSBURG, DICEMBER 9. The most recent accounts from Vienna are all of a very pacific description. They no longer talk in that capital of making war upon Naples. The de monstrations made by the Austrian army assembled in Lombardy have ceased, and the troops have re• turned to their former cantonments. It is said that the Baron Frimont, who commands the army in chief, has quitted his head-quarters at Treviso, to proceed to Vienna, where he had been summoned by the Aulic Council of War. . The statement published in some of the Journals, that the Allied Sovereigns hai invited the King of ' , the Two Sicilies to proceed to La) bach, where a new Congress is to be formed, is regarded as very problematical. , . IRUN, DECEMBER s. It is stated from Madrid, that the real object of the journeLuf the Count de Torten to Paris is to negotiate a Treaty of Commerce with the French Govet nment. The. official Bulletins from the Doctors attending their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of CLARENCE and the Princess ELIZABETH having ceased to be issued, the answer to the enquirers yesterday, was—. The Duchess and the Princess ELIZABETH have both had a good night, and their Royal Highnesses are going on as well as possible." The Duke of SUSSEX, and other branches of the Royal Family, sent to make enquiries as usual. Among the en quirers were the Earl and Countess of BAIDGEWATER, the Bishop of LONDON, Archdeacon GODARD, the Duchess of LEINSTER, Sir E. NAGLE, Baron LANGS DORF, Mrs.L.DASIER, Lord St. HELEN'S, the CRAW CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and the Judge of the Admiralty. The Duchess of CLARENCI and the Royal Infant have both enjoyed a tranquil night, and are con tinuing well this morning. A considerable alteratiori has been made in the House of Lords since the proceedings against her MAJESTY. The temporary Galleries - have been re moved, and the Throne placed near the' wall, for the purpose of affording greater space to the Mem bers of the House of Commons. In the House of Common's, the seats have been raised eight inches higher, and several new Committee-rooms are to be created. Connected with these alterations, we may mention the preparation for the new Courts of Chan cery and King's Bench, which will be erected on the north side of the Hall, in a line with the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer. di Those persons throughout the colntry who have taken to themselves so much credit for persecuting Majesty, and striving to make it contemptible in the eyes of their countrymen, by affecting to give credit to the vile calumnies thrown out against the character of the Quers, are all at once bestirring themselves, or, in other words, the alarmists have thought proper to arouse themselves from the dormant and stupified state into which the triumph of her MAJESTY had thrown them, and are pouring in assurances of loyalty to his MAJESTY. The method chosen by those frightened Gentlemen to evince their anomalous loyalty, cer tainly forms a most curious feature of the times.— It consists chiefly of two main divisions : the first is to shew, by every possible means, their hatred and r contempt of his MAJESTY'S wife, and their determi nation not to be convinced of the falsehood of the charges against her, which have been more than dis proved. The second is to poison his MAJESTY'S mind, by representations of the state of the country, which are as groundless as they are false I What opinion must his MAJESTY form of the People over whom the ALMIGHTY has appointed him to govern, when he is informed by the pretended monopolists of all the loyalty of the country, that they chiefly , consist of traitors and blisphemers? Of a truth, we marvel not that his MAJESTY cannot consider himself safe unless surrounded by Sabres."—Seth Journal. ADDRESSES Ti rim QUREg Yesterday apin proved eminently favourable 1- 1 . processions ; the air was soft and mild, and, without sunshine, the sky was fair and cheering. All w as hilarity and good humour on the road to her I‘l.A. Janes dwelling, at Hammersmith. At half-past twelve o'clock, the Qualm entered tlie Long Gallery, which was then crowded almost to .1:1 overflow, and took her seat in the usual state on tl.e platform at the upper end of that beautiful room. The Ship-builders' Deputation was the first that proceeded through the Strand. It was a pedestriAn procession, consisting of 5,000 men, all neatly dressed, and wearing white favours and sprigs of laurel. They were highly respectable, extending altogether haff the length of the Strand. They carried a great variety of splendid banners, with suitable inscii2- tions, and also emblems characteristic of the serer.:l branches of their trades—models of ships in every stage of their building, &c. and the whole led by four persons mounted on white horses. Each De putation was preceded by a band of music. Crov.,:s of well-dressed femalesaccompanied them. The stan dard-bearers and models were admitted to the gal lery, and after the presentation of the Address, 1.1.• whole passed in review before her MAJESTY. Thy procession with the . Address of St. Ara,' , Westminster, was splendid and respectable. It co.. sisted of between twenty and thirty carriages ar , i four; the drivers in crimson satin; Deputation, male and female, with green silk flags, green and whi;e favours. Read by Mr. FTSCHE.—The Address from Farringdon-Without was carried up by a very re. spectableDeputation, headed by Sheriffs WA ITII SI A S and WILLIAMS in their state carriages.—A most nt merous and respectable Deputation of Ladies and Gentlemen, occupying upwards of twenty carriages, some with six; and some with four horses, accom. panied the Address from Islington.—The Address from Middlesex was presented by the Sheriffs WA trii- MA N and WILLIAMS. This procession was also nit ,t respectable and-numerous: several private can iage,, with handsome liveries, gave a splendour to the scene. ADDRESS OF THE HIGHLANDERS. The most novel, aid by far the most striking, was that of the Highlanders residing in London, and de puted fromthe Highland Assembly. The summons was " Come every bill-plaid, and True heart that wears one r _ _ Their "gathering place," was the Crown and Anchor Tavern, and they were coming from an early hour— " All plaided and plum'd in their Tartan array." In the number were several Gentlemen of very high ranlkin the Army, and some connected with dist i r.• guished characters in the Senate and at the Bar.— They were all in full Highland dresses, each having a Tartan jacket and kilt, with the plaid in rich fohh lover the shoulder, hose, pouch, black velvet stock, tribute * o a f ne t bl blue," glowing e," affection d e corated an, ‘ l ei ge tb u t e h ro e t ` as ` e loyaltyag I e from plume' rom a , mixed with ostrich feathers. A sort of collar of white silk was worn over the plaid, and a large rosette (A white ribbon on the breast. The procession consisted of twelve landaus and four, all with white horses— the postillions having white small-clothes, waistcoat; and hats, with white cockades and buff jackets. The scene presented, when all were.assemble,, was, indeed, a scene to make a Highlander's heal swell with strong feeling. The powerful tones of the bag-pipe excited ideas and feelings in his mind asso ciated with all that is grand in moral courage, and all that is tender in domestic life. The strong im pression upon every mind of the immediate purpose in view—the recollection that they were about to proceed with their congratulations to the presence of the most magnanimous of Princesses—a Queen, ca lumniated and prosecuted, yet unspotted and trium phant; this feeling in every Highland breast gave indescribable pathos and meaning to the music of their native hills. It was joy mixed with sadness.— They thought of the days that were past, when her MAJESTY could indulge her fancy in all the brilliant and heart-delighting visions of affection and hope:— they thought of the bitter reverse which fate made irrevocable, and they sighed for their QUEEN; but they thou ght . again of the infamy, degradation, and misery, into which power, craft, and perjury would have plunged a virtuous and afflicted Quzzu, and they rejoiced in the unexampled escape of her MA JESTY. Such were the mixed emotions with which they proceded to offer congratulations to their QUEEN. Two Highland pipers sat in the first landau, and at half-past eleven o'clock, when the procession moved forward, a pibroch, a waked its wild voice anew," and ig fir'd their Highland blood with meickle glee." A large flag of silk plaid, *ith sky-blue streamers, was carried in the same landau. The spectacle was in every respect most interesting. The Tartan dress must have awakened many a scene of mist and mountain, glen and math, in the wearers, who evi dently wore their thoughts upon their faces, while kindled eyes flashed beneath the bonnets cocked upon their brows. The crowd assembled to see this pro cession was very large, and seemed to participate jordially in the feelings of the Highlanders. At Hyde Park-corner, Mr. and Mrs. Hums, is their private carriage, joined the procession, and fell into the line immediately behind the landau in which the Address was carried. They were greeted with the warmest cheers along the whole line of their march from the Crown and Anchor to Brandenburgh House. . They marched into the long gallery, with colours flying and pipes playing. When all were regularly arranged, and while the pipes played Stair tuba luee toe Wallace bled, her MAJESTY entered, and immediately turned round, and most graciously re cognized the Highlanders, who bowed with the pro foundest respect to the Quaies. Lord A. Hauttroy, Mr. P. MOOS; Mr.WAITAMAN and Mr. HOISHOUS4 were all present in full Court d resses. Mr. Hume, ia fall Court dress, introduced the Chairman and Mover of the Address. The Chairman presented the Ad dress to her MAJESTY, who was graciously pleased to have it read by the Mover in the Gaelic language. It was read with equal modesty and firmness. 'ibis was, perhaps, the first time that any King or Queen of this country listened to an Address in that ancient language. an tri d b h u " ir. Alderman WOOD then, by her MaaEsras I command, read the following Answer: " It is with unfeigned complacency that I accept this artless forAsse frn4thfblyakofetbbestoblitsetr:Ohiel: and d o t are hat nat tbr im i, f of ith t e :i s at b r l o ed ma lo n r n: 1 region where the spirits of departed warriors still speak in the ' winds, swim upon the clouds, or gleam upon the hills. 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