Star. — London, England, 1820-01-01 00:00:00

Thursday, the second• fortnight's dant* at the As sembly Room in Ipswich, was extremely well at• tended; upwards of 200 Ladies and Gentlemen I, N • , -,,. 4D. . FROM THE UPPER RHINE: The convocation of the Assembly of the States Wirtemberg for the 15th of January, 1820, has ein where been viewed with great pleasure, not only cause it is looked upon as the realising of the new Constitution, but chiefly because it quiets many prehensions that have been conceived ; it haying bee. generally reported, that an application bid been"' made to the . King, requesting him, not to call States together for the present, but to wait till _ termination t•f the conferences at Vienna. Hence people inferred, that some important changes were contemplated iu the Constitutions of the States of L South of Germany. All these reports, and the jail rences from them, are at once confuted by the script of the King of Wirtemberg ; and. for this rea• son chiefly, this event is considered as of great portance by the People of the States of Germany, It has given great pleasure at Stutgzrd that t king has summoned the Assembly to meet in that City, and not at Louisburg, as the Constitutional sembly did. The particular circumstances whit formerly caused other measures to be adopted, ha'. now ceased to exist; mutual confidence is established, and the most satisfactory result may be expected. It is said that important laws will be proposed the two Chambers ; they relate entirely to the int nal organization, that is, to the Finances, their ad; nistration in the strictest sense, and the Judicial pt. ceedings. It is said, that on the last point opinions are divided. ManfAtish for the publicity of Judicial proceedings, at least in criminal cases, and ate int. duction of the Trial by Jury. Others, particularly many able and experienced lawyers, are of a dif ferent opinion. It is, however, to be hoped that the. former opinion will prevail. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. 'SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1820. Naw Yaan's DAY.—aioliday a the Stock Exchange. The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore_ noon.—The Chamber of Peers had a public sitting on Tuesday. The Marquis de GARNIER, in the name of the Committee appointed to examine the Projet of Law for the provisional Collection of`part of the Re-• venue of next year, reported, that it was the unani mous opinion of the Committee that the Projet should be adopted without any amendment •r modification. No Member opposing this recommendation, the adop tion of the Projet was put to the vote, and carried by a majority of 138 to 9.—A Report was next brought up from the Committee of Petitions. Among those, on which the Reporter moved the order of the day, was one from a Sieur de VINCENS, who complained of the Law of the 16th January, 1816, which banished the Regicides, as being unconstitutional. The notice of this Petition produced a general movement of indig nation throughout the zssembly. Count de ST. ROMAN ascended the tribune, and, after an animated ha rangue, moved that the Petition should be torn in pieces. A Resolution for the printing of his speech was carried by acclamation. Count de LALLY-Tou- LLSDAL observed, that the laceration should be per; formed out of the walls of the assembly, in order to give it the character of a public execution. The Chamber adopsed this hitter suggestion, and decreed accordingly: It was then resolved, on the motion of Marshal Prince d'Eciostam, that it should in futtire be a standing instruction to the Committee of Peti tions, to take no notice whatever of any Petitions of a similar kind which may happen to comp before them. The Chamber of Deputies had also a Meeting on • Tuesday, but nothing of any public interest was transacted. Since the late change in the Ministry, a small di plomatic mystery has been discovered, which will, it is said, not a little embarrass the historians of the Marquis DESSOLLES, and Baron Louts, the late Mi nister of Finance. The Marquis of DESSOLLES, as Prime Minister, signed, it appears, on the 10th ot November, a Treaty, by which Prance recognized a claim of seven millions, which had, for twenty Sears past, been demanded in vain by the DEY of ALGIERS, and which had been rejected by all the antecedent Administrations, which had but very recently been evaded by the Duke de krone ' LIEU, but which France is now botipd, by this Treaty, to pay in money, by monthly instalments, beginning from the Ist of March next. DESSOLLES made the Treaty, and Louis lost no time, it is said, in providing the funds to carry into effect. if such be the facts of the case, there can be no doubt, as one of the Freoch Journals observes, that they in volve a very heavy degree of responsibility. " In the first place, an Act which disposes of a sum of money is clearly and formally comprehen ded in those 4cts, which, according to the Charter, establish a ground of accusation against Ministers. However Much Baron Lotus may be above every suspicion of concussion.; yet in a Representative Go vernment it is necessary to demand and to render an account of every thing. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Baron Lours will give some information as to the grounds of dila affair, since he ought to have knowa every thing Wore he countersigned an Ordi nance which disposed of this - bagatelle of seven millions. It may be hoped also, that.M. DrAsonngs, now perfectly restored to his taste for libel* ideas, will have so much condescension for public opinion, as to'explain the motives of a meraswe wl;pich seems at first sight to compromise the honour of France • and the dignity of the Crown." " We are not ignorant," adds the same writer," that present. Earl STANHOPEIS rendering the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, in Kent, very gay, by his parties at Chevening. The Hon. Colonel STANHOPS left town yesterday, to join the social circle. An intense frost has continued through (nit the week, which has rendered the footways of the streets, &c. very dangeroui. The fall of snow has lately been greater in France than within the recollection of the oldesrinhabitants. It was so heavy during the last week, as to impede in some parts the progress of the Mails and the com munication between Paris and Calais was for *sotne time interrupted. . - The following we extract from au American Paper: " One hundred thousand Spanish milled dollars have been travelling from Philadelphia to Boston, - and it has resounded , - through the Newspapers, from one end of the Continent to the other, as if it were a matter of moment. So far as'my knowledge extends of the actual practical use which is made of Spanish dollars in the United States, they are not considered as specie, but as merchandise; they command, almost invariably, a premium, and no one thinks of deposit ing them in the Bank at par as current specie. The great &din of specie, which it was feared by some -would swallow up all the happiness of Europe and of America, for the sake of obtaining the luxuries of Asia, both from Europe and America; the trade to India this year will be very small, compared to what it was last year. The great aim of merchants always is, and always must be, to take either goods or specie from the places they are least Anted, td the places where, being most wanted, they will give a greater price for the article. Specie, it has been .found, was mos; *anted at Lima, of course, it has • not been sent abroad." - The following is an extract of a letter, dated Ca diz, December 11:—" A circumstance which is just made public here, is the subject of general conversa tion, and has caused much discussion concerning the motives in which it has originated. An order has arrived from Madrid, commanding- that all vessels waiting in the harbour of this city, that are laden with merchandize of any description, shall quit it within six days. The conduct of the Spanish Government in taking this step, has been freely commented on, and its intentions severely arraigned, A few days must develope the whole affair ; in the mean time, I - give the following particulars in explanation. T he junta of merchants at this place, who have undertaken to superintend all the disbursements relative to the equip ment of the expedition, have received from the . Government, as security for the repayment of the sums of money they have found it - necessary to ad vance, a power of appropriating -to their use, the amount of all: Ditties received at Cadiz for the entry of merchandize, until their entire claims are liquidated. As the port has been shut for more than two months ; owing to the prevalence of the yellow fever, the number of vessels collected there, and waiting to unload. is considerable; and the uties they will have to pay must amount to a large sum. The privilege of appropriation, on the part of the Junta of Cadiz, is confined to that port only; and the duties paid by vessels repairing to any other place of entry in the Spanish dominions would immediately find their way to the Treasury at Madrid. The wants of the Government have therefore given rise to the suspicion that the sole motive of this order is tO•alie nate or suspend the rights possessed by the Junta of Cadiz. The vessels that leave this port in Wm quence of the order from Madrid will in all proba bility repair to Algesiras, as being the nearest place of entry. • A very short space of time will determine whether the suspicion is well founded tir not, the Junta having applied to the Court of Madrid for permission *to appoint a Commissary at Algesiras, to receive the duties there in their behalf, in the same manner as at Cadiz.--If the permission is granted, the suspicions are withoat foundation ; if it is refused, no one can doubt the policy that has dic tated the proceeding. The dread of renewing the in: fection has been assigned, indeed, as a possible cause for this step ; but as the merchant vessels are knoyn to be quite free from the disorder, it is insufficient to explain it; besides, that objection would lie to Their visiting any other ports of Spain which are not in terdicted:" The Underwood, - Captain' Worm, artlffq in the Downs, from Demerare t brings advice, to • the Ist ult. by which it appears, that the colony still conti nues very siekly, and, that the•mortality, not only among the whites, but the coloured and black po pulation had been very cpiisiderable. The weather, at the above period, Was, however, ruing cooler, and great hopes were entertained, thatin a few weeks the sickness would cease. ' • yellers through life were apparently equally well pleased, and not less busy, in theenjoyment of sliding. About three o'clock, two girls going to one of the public works ; on the south side of the river, preferred ossing it on the ice. When about a third of the :way, the ice gave way, and they sunk ; fortunately, it was not very deep—bur their struggles to get out were becoming rather ineffectual, when a young man *Mit to their assistance, and with some difficulty reached the shore with them. At one time the three were almost wholly upder water. EAST GRINSTEAD, DSCEILMER 31. A report has been circulated of late, that serious disturbances have taken place in the parishes of .11artfield and Withybam, in Sussex, but it is quite unfounded, and has arkin from the following circum itance.:.--A very serious misunderstanding has oc curred between the farmers of the above parishes and the gamekeepers of the Duchess of DORSET : the, two parties having been on very bad terms for a long while, the gamekeepers proceeded to shoot some of the lurchers, and other poaching dogs, belonging to, the farmers, which brought on very violent quarrels ; and nearly the whole neighbourhood taking up the' cause of the farmers, whom they regarded as greatly oppressed, the gamekeepers had recourse to the plan of bringidg the affair before the Magistrates, in the form of Informations, on the charge of keeping an unlawful 'breed of dogs. An accidental circum stance, which tended greatly to increase the alarm, vias, that a detachment of the 3d Regiment of Guards suddenly appeared in the village of Hartfield, where they were billeted, on their way" to Pcosmogth, and this circumstance was immediately construedlntce the.arritsal of military for the preservation of the peace. ' But though this accidental arrival of sofdiery has made consiliprable noise in the neighbouring villages, the inhabitiuts of Hartfield and Withylam are quite aware of its being onl) accidental, and the affray alluded to has subided, it having been determined upon to refer the disputed point to Lord WRIT WORTH, on his return from Naples. -A . Meeting-of Gentlemen has been held it Liver pool (Gisoitos WILLIAMB,Esq. in the Chair), at which it was agreed to address Mr. Hostiousz, declaring their sentiments against the legality of the House of Commons committing to prison, unless " in cases of direct obstruction." On the subject of the Act for the prevention of Se ditious Meetings, &c. the Earl of STAMFORD and WARRINGTON, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, has re eeived the following letter, copies of which have been tranamiged 'to the Acting Magistrates : " Whitehall, December 94th, 1819. * MY Loan—ln transmitting to your Lordship the Act for *sore effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies, which has this day received the Royal Assent, and will take elect on the 4th of January, I think it iight to impress upon -Four Locli, and to 'request that your Lordship will impress apairtike strites acting within the County of Chester, the ex treme importance, that as soon as this Act comes into operation, It should be enforced with vigilance and activity, in all cases lisisere attempts may be made to hold Meetings or Assemblies, or to open Debating-roams, contrary to the provisions thereof. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " SI D MOUTH. and The pad of frAuroaa WAsantetom," A Meeting, which was attended by the Deputy- Lieutenants. the High Sheriff, and Magistrates, of the County of Nottingham, to the number of up •wards of forty, and the Mayor, and several of the Aldermen of the town of Nottislgham, took place at the Shire Hall, on Morday last (his Grace the Duke of NEVIC4STLE, Lord Lieutenant, in the Chair) ; when it was resolved to enforce, with promptitude and eneigy, the several Acts of Parliament recently passed for the prevention of Seditious. Meetings, and other practices, dangerous to the public peace. It was also considered adviseable for the Magistrates, is the several diyisons of she County, to assemble and enrol such a _number of Special Constables es they may deem necessary, to act either on horseback or on foot in aid of the Civil Pbwer. • Tuesday, the .Children of the Day and Sunda Schools of the parish of Bramford, to the number 123, partook of an excellent dinner, by a libe subscription among the parishioners and the inhabi• tants of Sproughtorm on which occasion the School 'room was tastefully decorated with various eve* greens, and appropriate inscriptions, and texts 'cif Scripture (beautifully written in every Species of pen manship by the master, Mr: T. CHAMBERLAIN), were isposed in various places. .4 • . Thuriday se'nnight, a cart was swiped . bill* trole, pa the Ke nt Road, which contained about 15001 ash, cherry, and other plants, recently pulled np, and suppoied to have been stolen in the neighbourhood of Pattford . —the party 'has heOlt tommittaktfot fa.asui:o 6ll at PUcal 4044 kl.sOday, next, I So- ' The cultivation of this Forest is again held a•means of providing for the Poor. This Fort parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, settled by Edv, the First on the Prince of Wales, and on all fut, eldest sons of the king, who were to have the tii of Dvkes of Cornwall. The improvement of tl tract of land has been often contemplated. It w proposed to the Council. of his Royal Highness, Mr. Robert Fraser, nearly thirty years ago, and, Company was formed -by the late Mr. Charles r' of which Lord Lauderdale was to take a part, \ a capital, by subscription, of £lOO,OOO, for dr provement of the Forest. i dividing and:allotting the ' a separate Parish. This Fraser, with the assistant Buller, and Sir John Anstruth, the Judge, Mr. Sanders, an e. read a first time, but on further believed the soil was so poor pay for . the expense of cult narrow tracts on the bank Since that time many made to turn it to use. building for the confinement was thought, might corn But little benefit was obtained measure, while the situation brious, from the perpetual - fog Several grams, for 99 years, have experimental agriculturalists, first 30 years, ancrafterwar , but theie grants have been When the Marquis of Scotland as Commander— _number of the most intelli posed to them, with the ness, to allot portions of bodies •of illighlanders w more bleak deserts of A Noble Marquis's report of which, he said, strongl , the Northern agriculturis. to them the benevolent intentions ness;—here was a most table land, situated in England, near to the gran( mouth, Sm. &c. instead of their taut and miserable climate, friendf, from all markets, lized society. The compan' with this description; but formation as to the soil and —What did Dartmoor What weeds? Were , there nettles, or even thistles? -Noble Marquis catodidl any one of those spontaneous Harrow sheltered spots ;• and at a Moor on which there grew nor thistles, was not liken like It is very true, that the is a very bad sign of waste should, have been taken known that none of these . „grow in i. ..._ stantly wet; and it is equally well known that tams poor sour grasses cannot grew in a dry.. 4 Dartmoor is covered with the latter ' all of wwt.would not only disappear, were the Moor drab but, by rotting, would produce a kind of first man to the surface. It -is impossible to tell what wo be the first natural-products of the soil, were it. } perl y drained; only we know that they would quite different from those which now chew themsel' The first grand step towards the improvement of I extensive waste, should be several very large drai and this being. once commencedon a proper scale, agricultural Im pro v ements might instantly comme on Me inergin,ef the Moor—mever attemptin Openetrate farther dr faster towards the centre the drainage had effected a complete change on surface. By' such a process as .we now recomm there can be little.doubt that the larger portion . , artmoor might be brought into cultivation ; but must be a work of considerable time. - [ I) . • I The Union Societies of Huddersfield, Leeds, 1 and several other places, recently announced t intention of keeping a solemn fa s t on t hi s , t h e I day of January, 4 , to deplore the fallen LibeKtiei their Country. " We Mentioned yesterday the indications of a 'rival in the manufacturing trade which have octur. at PaisteY and Manchester. We are happy to le [father te4lay, that 0.. number of warehouses in GI gow have lately taken on a good many weave ! and, we understand, that more business has been di in printed roods within these ten days, than I been done for six Months before. .. . _ . . b /8 II 1 A ,i 4 w % I ~ 4 i 4 1 , 1 r r k ,I• ' . .-. • • . • - :. . . 10!(,.:-.`•*..'; • °•- ". • . . . .• . 1 \ . . . . • . . a good intelligeace with the liarbaeltie Powera , rerp.„A 0104ferOir. DECEM f. -;;;.:,.. :...- .r.t_ A .11. FINANCES OF .rar touivTA Y. ii 1 been one of the objects of hies ; but ayr „, ~. .-..,11,t_,..A. , • 4,•_,_ , - i _ .. pears tons, that the. terroreCotte"o ad perfectly ..c.... . ' was'lswbtt Lo`..,"td You, tOigig s. gazae#, a am ea Sy three f• •• , e•:. . . ‘'' 4 . she% • the tof total • •-i mmons, swig amount o e o cal. ;to EMIL. i ecounts have been printed by order of thellou, , _ lof established and consoliJated tbit Alasiketelligence,. elegant' ' d a half of.that., ph .e 4 -wh. ••5;ill '':' ix hl Tory .•., . . without its being =cc:Sari-for tatbeirsuileich friend- pistol 3t him, the ball of one of which,. ,dneere th Austrian and Portuguese Loans, as it stood- • 1 the funded Debt of Great Britain, inclucr .., I be- new ship by the petty presents which other-kates are inan frith of his head. The LiAt ; '. A Ist of February, orsth of January, in etch y. histht hat,be owfi,hithisnway for the nearest house, but before. . . _tha year /786,tik0he44614614,411•66" . \ use To mate to 'those marauders,' lf, then, at the ap- • . dl/4 any assistance could be procured the villains made these accounts it appears that .)t. total. Atllo • T 4: - F°;' )een .vest moment when an Anglo•Prenchasquadron nau their .escape. - 4 ',the unredeemc# Debt in 'die' yi.rr 1786, - )een. carried to Algiers the injunction in the name of the Afracas,uot very roilttlently seen in Scotland, t• • 0/10,131,11ir of which the toad - - . ...„ place hereon Saturday afternoon, about four o'cleck. tht • • [ the - Congress of Air-la-Chapelle, to cease all piracy, the French Minister thought it proper to admit a A young Gentleman was seized at the Croiet,'", i dually sibling to the year 1795, when the ill EM, 502,402. The -P6bhc • Debt thence uas • 1, once g some gesssers: he insisted on seeing' their and* deemed Debt amounted to £227,989,148- Fr4n were claim on the part of Algiers, which had been so ton , ;. rity : they paid ng,aetePtion to his:IRMA, anti • , : , zi.t loPkilf tium"cagandT hecrusyd t° ' • 1 ~,.'`-‘ the resisted, it is highly necessary that the Nation shouhl timed to drag hiiiset, he resisting and a.. .''V'' es•Ssr;and chi *lt r4ll i'f'"ull4ll.._ , ' 1819* '. 4i4' ' "it I infe- know what new commercial advantages it has gained crowd collecting4laiwas very well 'dtinsed;i6d -...0r -Great Jai. ' and- xrP".-. 3-' - - '-t. ,-I: ci ..I ` t',r ' Ite- which can justify such a concession." rea- feeling his awkwate iitug:iom becatti4 doperatirand EL.191400651.; •or *blob bei hork :tied , ''l../ ;In_ The ci-devaot Queen of SPAIN has latgly arrived, exerted all his strayed; agaitist the Oaken:. *le $89,63711;- . • 'die UnltieVred •/ ' ' :%- Pr. v.. 1 . c ... - -. c . •• * . ' is" *1 y. at Paris.—Five per Cents,. Tuesdai. 71 ff. . ~• , ... Tt do.. would have been ;or kte# bin; but tilt *s. =91,862 S. :-. irk.nd '• -..• . { ''. . • . . J ..; • the . - , • -.......• -2 sistance of a numbeiktf loners i tbe apytd,;l4 tke a/4110W i-, : total. .charge, 'WI !..: . i ;4, ;: .. i A . that Lord Synney and Miss Towsriarsoldt ' ' mean time, collectiheoundallebectthei3/44#4"i! cc- 'Bl°l4l 4,14 r" "5,749'298* • ': •• , .-:-: ;',. :fay. ii , • . As- ingtheir fashionable friends at Frognall, near Foots- easionally crying out...m.Widl done Ziosa7o- by r An oilloaf *Wait, cif 'the tom ' -r hick crag, in Ken:. The nian, after, faineant- it.teiruptiont -and a goad • Rank 14O.td410&_,_:111dik IkOt* ' iroi;'..: . :lave Earl WINCHILSEA is returned to town, to pass the deartif ill-usage, was at length ptrestriaMthe jail the.ibidellfosaistiliteawr thk igteet-petket-Li.! bed, holidays in South-street, Park-lane. • *bor. Mr. Mqinican inquired af alicAltsliensees- OM& doe SIUSIii ehli be stated' Irak* tielt6tar-fi"•SF; i-* 1• 4.Mi. led. Sir FREl:lmams-HARVEY BATHURST is entertainin • arrant?—he had none, but V.;; icing La ,rota on*. week elidiathe Nth of hiononhotstrAllik2494l 8. dto his friends at his villa, on Englefield Green. Of course the Gentleman was liberated inarnellinceli. of which ' ,745,850 are under 4fi-e :foe the wet''' ner- Weston House, Shipstone-on-Siour, the seat of the imi- Earl of CLONMILL, is the scene of much hospitality. , The frost bas been for several cloys ptiniy Jules. en. d'i.ng. the 7tb December, C 2 f 0.84690, -of orilierj ?4. ~, Yesterday there were occasiinaily slight sacs" chain's. i'n11.4190 *". °der " ; for it* week eadinit4ll4-11 pro- - Lady GEORGIANA MORPETH taluilithe lead among The-Clyde was frozen above the timber bridge, and, * Q2%418;220, of 'latch 0605/1,914•111-r•k•' ! Lions the fashiorrables in Queensberry-plate, Brighton. .. although covered with • snow, great numbers of under £5; and for the week ending the 2ss Decernhs icial Much hospitality prevails at Bean-Dysart; the sea skaiters were seen gliding nimbly along the glassy 194. ,650, of which £6,569,560,* are under £.5. aro- of the Marquis of ANGLESEY. . r _ • I -9_ A__ _— ..... ..1-.. • . ....11...-... 4.•••••••..), I;CAn" wars. onn2renthr onnall.? IVA • . ' surface of the river, while the more humble .• tea- . • ' FOREST OF DAR2'MOOR. • 1 ale was to take a part, wi a, of £lOO,OOO, for the ir. A Bill was prepared Le Forest, and forming it in, Bill was prepared by A; rice of the late Mr. Justi struther. It was signed I and Mr. Bray. The Bill w further consideration, it w so poor, that it would nev cultivation, except in sox iks of the Dart. y other attempts have be The erection of an immen tent of -.prisoners of war, ntribute to its improvemet btained from the expensi anon was found. to be instil al - fog in which it is involve ears, have been malt of it alists, at 6d. per acre for t rwards at trifling adpnc !eni generally reranquidied i of Hastings was resident Ler-in-Chief, he assembled atelligent farmers, and pl authority of his Royal Hill f this Forest to lite nuttier who were emigrating.. kmerica. We remember of this. interview, the re Ingly evinced the sagacity ists. The Noble Lord sum intentions of his Royal Hi extensive tract of eleva one of the finest counties grand naval station of P of their wandering to a c imate, away from all tb ets, and nearly from all ci npany were mightily plea! sut they proceeded to ask. and products of tliisElysitt - pioduce in its natural star here any whin:, or broom, ? To all thebequestioits-I ly owned that be never staneous products, except and the conclusion was, ti grew nnither heather, nett, ely to be worth cultivation he want of heath, whins t d' vaste land ; but another 2 along with thie. It is ese can „grow in a soil qually well known that • • -.4 • •• ~~-~-- ; kyi,.3~'~~ ' • t fr