Star. — London, England, 1830-02-04 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Kiwi's dinner party, given after the holding of the Court on Tuesday, at his Palace at Windsor, con sisted of the Cabinet Ministers, and some of the fficers of the Household. The Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. Secretary PEEL left the Palace and returned to town at a late hour on Tuesday night. Earl BATHURST, the Earl of ROSSLYN, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and Sir GEORGE MURRAY, Slept at the Palace, and came to town yesterday morning. Mr. W. SMITH, M.P. (the Chairman of the Com mittee of the Anti-Slavery Society,) Mr. By xvow, M.P. Mr. SPRING Rica, M.P. and Mr. MACAULIY, at tended yesterday at the Colonial Office, and held a con ference with Sir G. MURRAY. The French Ambassador had an interview yesterday with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office. The Right Hon. Sir GEonon HILL (the Vice Trea surer of Ireland) arrived in town on Tuesday night from Ireland. Sir GEORGE visited the Duke of WELLING 'row and the CII•NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yester— ay. d Mr. HERRIES entered en his official duties yesterday morning at the office of the Board of Trade ' and was en gaged there on o ffi cial business daring the day. The Earl of ABERDEEN, Viscount MiLv tux, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and the Cuaweat.Los of the Ex- CIISQUILit, had interviews yesterday with the Duke of WELLINGTON, at the Treasury. Viscount MELVILLE held a Levee, yesterday, at the Admiralty, which was numerously attended by Naval Officers. - Despatcbea were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office for Sir G. Dow. the lieutenant-Go►ernor '. of Gibraltar. The Russian Ambassador gave a grand dinner yes terday evening, ut Ashburnham House, to a numerous party. The Grand Parliamentary Dinners on the opening of the Session of Parliament were given yesterday evening. by the Duke of WELLINGTON, at Apaley House, as First Lord of the Treasury, to a large party of Members of the House of Peers; and by Mr. Secretary Past, as Ministerial Leader of the Lower House, to a numerous party of the House of Commons. The company of both parties went in full Court dress. After dinner, the Kix o's Speech, to be delivered ea the veiling of the Session of Parliament this day, was read by the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. Secretary Pisa to their respective parties. Among the company at the Duke of Wellington's party were the Lord Chancellor, the Dukes of Bucclough, Leeds, and Montrose; Marquesses of Hertford and Cleve land ; Earls of Chesterfield, Bathurst, Jersey, Roselyn; Viscount Melville • Lords Tenterden, Salton°, Wham ektlfe Maryborough, Hill, dm. The party at Mr. Secretary Psaes was composed of the Marquess of Graham, Earls Mountcbarles and Dar lington (Mover of the Address,) Viscounts Lowther and Castlereagh, Lords Eliot, G. Somerset, Strathaven Downes, Ashley, E. Somerset, F. Gower, the Lad Advocate of Scotland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honourable' Sir G. F. Hill, Sir G. Murray, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir J. Nicholls, Sir J. Becket, C. Ar buthnot, J. Calcmft, J. W. Croker, Sir H. Harding*, and J. C. Herries, the Speaker of the House of Com mons, the Attorney and Solicitor-Generale, the Solici tor-General for Ireland, Sir G. Clark, Sir H. Faso, Sir W. J. Hope, Sir B. Martin, Sir A. Grant, Hon. J. H. Townshend, Gen. Phipps , Colonel Trench, Messieurs. Planta, John Calvert, Ward (Seconder to the Address,) H. Twiss, Dawson, W. Peel, Stuart Wortley, George Bides, Spencer Percival, and T. P. Courtenay. A short correspondence has taken place between the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Sainsbury, a gentleman deeply interested in the security of Church property, in which his Grace, in answer to that gentleman's inquiries, assures him that he has no intention whatever of meddling with the Church Establishment, and that the reports to that effect which had been published in the newspapers see wholly groundless. The Hon. and Rev. James Somers Cocks, son of Earl Somers, will succeed to the Prebendal Stall of WorcesterCathed4l, vacant by the decease of Dr. Oakeley. Bifrons, the seat of Edward Taylor, Esq. near Can ts:bury, was purchased a few days ago by the Marquis of Conyngham. The National Repository in the King's-mews is now 'lased to the public, and will not be re-opened to general inspection till the ensuing month. Mr. Philipps delivered his Fifth Lecture on Vocal Music yesterday at the above Institution, and (notwith standing the extreme severity of the weather) to a an morons auditory, the greater portion of which was Ladle,. Mr. P.'s remarks on the prejudices among musical vir tuosi respecting Ancient Melodies were very amusing; and his observations on the manner in which collectors borrow from each other, and on Native Melodies gene rally, were much applauded. A notice has issued from the Clerk to the Justices Office, at Canterbury, announcing the prevalence of by drophebia in that city, and requiring that all dogs suffered to run in the streets be forthwith muzzled. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when W. G. Adam, Esq. was appointed Ma Company's standing counsel. A paragraph has been taking the rounds of the English and Irish newspapers stating that the Marquess of Watt meath had been arrested on an attachment issued out of the Ecelesiaateal Court for contempt incurred by his Lordship in not having paid certain costs which had been decreed against him in a suit recently pending between the Noble Marquess and his wife. The paragraph further stated that Lord Westmeath had pleaded his privily!s as a Peer to prevent the execution of the decree. We are authorised by his Lordship to state, that so far from any such plea having been set up, he distinctly waived his privileges, and that the whole story is a fabrication, no arrest, in fact, ever having taken place.—Evening Hoax was announced for Macheath, in the Beggar's Opera, in Dublin, on Friday night, but he did not ar rive ; and Dmitri a, who undertook the part at a short notice, acquitted himself with good effect. DOWTON'S Lockit was an admirable piece of acting; and Miss By YIELD, as Polly, sang all the beautiful airs allotted to her, exquisitely ; " Cease your funniv" was rap turously encored. The Duke and Duchess of NORTUUM usLAND visited the Theatre on Saturday evening; the performances were The Heir at Law and Charles the Twelfth. IlesErrEzisat IN KRERY.—Kerry has not at this moment a single Peer or Baronet resident within its • limits. The rents drawn annually out of Kerry amount to the enormous sum of 160,0001. which are lavished either on the Continent, or in the capital of Great Bri tain.— Tralee Mercury. REPRESINTATION OE CLOW HIL.—We understand that ETRE COOTE, Esq. son of the late General Sir EYRE CoOTE, and n to the Isis JOHN BAOH wara, of Marlfield, C. dl i ° s to succeed to the summon- *Miss of the borough of Cionmel, vacant by the resig nation of his father-in-law, J. IL MASSY DAwaox, raq• NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Brancepeth Castle, Whitfield, from Shields to London, is on shore In the Nam. near Harwich, full of water. The Elizabeth and Mary, Mitchell. of and from Shields to Lon don, was lost on the Heaps ea Saturday night. The Louisa Taylor, from Limerick, has been assisted into Whitstable, le aky, and with loss of anchors, having been on the Spaniard Sand. Dear, F. s.—Wind R.—An American ship from the River with the letters " P. C." on her lore-topsail, passed this afternoon. Pormarourn, Fn. s.—Wind N. R.—Arrived the Hickman, Fletcher, from Seville; Iris, Rempe, and Confinencia, Weber, from St. Übe's. Off the port, the Gehrcseder, Pent, from Batavia. Pr.vatoorn, Fn. .—Wind R.—Arrived the Thomas. Hillary, from St. John's, N.B. and Courier Gwatkin, from St. Domingo. Fu Rmours!, Feu 2.—Wind KWIC to N.R.—Off the port, the Card ine Augusta, Murrell, from New York. Ltexamox, Fru 2.—Arrived the America, —, from Savan nah ; Roston, Finlay, from Charleston ; and Alexander, .--, from St. John's, N.B. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. So perfectly retired and secluded is the mode of life which KEAN has observed since the resumption of his professional duties in London—his attention having for many weeks been sedulously devoted to the study of Henry V.—that it has been known but to his immediate friends, that for some days past this eminent tragedian has been labouring under severe indisposition ; against which, however, in his anxiety to avoid any interruption of that career which has been so anspicionsly,and so triumphantly, resumed, he has contended ; until, at length, an attack of confirmed gout, has rendered it impossible for him even to walk across his apartment, much lees to appear in public. Such, indeed, has been his solicitude to gratify the admirers of his great talents, and to prevent any dis , twilit to the public generally, that, although suf seriously on Monday evening, after the commence nest of Richard 111., be persisted in the performance of Ike character, and apparently with so much energy and vigour, that not one of the crowded audience assembled (*that occasion scald have been aware of the arduous straggle which their favourite was making—front the rise to the fall of the curtain—to uphold his own re putat►on, and to merit their just estimate of his genius. Oa Wednesday morning. however, he had not power Io walk ; sad. early in the afternooe. was reluctantly obliged to apprise the Manager that he was unable to perform, and his letter was accompanied by the certificate of his medical attendant. Mr. WALLACE, the acting Manager, took the earliest means of giving publicity So this communication, and hand-bills—of which we sub . _ a copy—were immediately placed on the most con spicuous parts of the Theatre, and distributed to the audience as they entered the House in the evening .' Wedseeday, February 3. 1830. 0 The Pallie is respeettelly ieferawd. that i• seeemeeele of severe indisposition. Mr. Kum it usable to appear so.uight. Tb. part at Oskar will be undertaking by W. WALLACE. ' (am or cairn/mom) ' I booby unify. that Mr. Imin was attar:led yesterday with a It of soofirmed put, wide! will, I very muck tau. unavoidably confine him to Ws resat for soma days to some. 1 GEORGIC BEAMAN, ' Member of the Royal College of Surpass Is ' Jaimarilmts Covisg - Prdeo, Pd+. 5,1850.' " Oa WA ELAM'S entry as the noble Moor, he was greeted with cheering plaudits ; but at the close of the first scene, loud cries of " Klux ! Kim! ! KEAN !" wen beard from every part of the house; upon which Mr. WA LLA CSC came forward and addressed the audience in nearly the following terms: " LADIII AYD GENTLUIIN,—I should much lament to find that the precautions which I have taken, and the orders which, as the director of this establishment, I bad given to the servants of the house to place notices of the lunavoidable change which has taken place in the per formance of this tragedy, in the most conspicuous situa tions, and o►er the seats of the money-takers, have failed of their effect, or have not been attended to. " In these bills it is stated that Mr. Keay is now la bouring under a severe attack of confirmed gout ; and I have truly and sincerely to regret that a more efficient representative of the character has not the honour of ap pearing before you. If it be your pleasure, I will now read to you the certificate of Mr. Keen's medical at tendant. —(No--no—ao.) "It may be vanity—but 1 should hope that, having for so many years enjoyed your favour in the responsible situation which I have held, I may, oa this occasion, experience your kind in dulgence." This address was received with marked approbation, and its close was followed by the warmest applause. Invidious comparisons are at all times the most unfair, and certainly the most illiberal, test of criticism ; and on an occasion like the present, they would be as uncalled for m unjust. In the present state of the drama, how ever, we know not where we should look for a more efficient or a more excellent substitute for him, who is, by the common consent of all discerning mind., regarded as the first Othello of the age,—than Mr. WALLACK. Kis performance of the character was full of passion and energy ; and was loudly and most deservedly applauded throughout. In consequence of the extreme severity of the weather, Mademoiselle Henriette Sontag left Paris on the 26th the Life Guards doing duty at the Horse Guards, are of January. She will reach Aix-la-Chapelle on the Ist now allowed to wear their cloaks and are relieved every of February, and sing at the theatre of that town on the boo, instead of remaining two hours as before. 3d, in the character of the Princess of Navarre, in Jean de Paris.—Jonrnal des Debuts. Much anxiety is very naturally felt at the present Rio- There has been a steady demand this week for all kinds meat, lest the national wisdom, now travelling to the me of manufactured goods, with the exception of power tropolis from all parts of the country, should be frost- loom printing cloth, wh ich i s still in l imited request. A bitten on the road, and end in mortification. favourable impulse to trade, it is expected, will be expe- The Corporation of Dublin have deliberately resolved rienced when the disappearance of the frost shall enable to petition for the repeal of the Relief Bill. "We now , " the country buyers to make their purcbases.—Manches says the Dublin Morning Register, " with all the so- ter Chronicle. lemnity, and, indeed, all the anxiety suitable to such an ITALIAN TEMPTATIONII.•.-There are in Italy temp occasion, call upon the Editor of the Evening Packet, tations of all sorts and sizes, fur the man who is to state explicitly whether the Relief Bill, which so re- bitten with the rage for collecting. He who cannot markably absorbs the attention of the loyal Corporation compass a bass-relief by Thorwalsden may purchaes dDublin, is the Bill for the Relief of the Roman Ca- a begnuolo from the Scalpelini. He who shrinks &ilia, or that other very interesting class of the King's from even bidding for a picture may ruin himself Subjects, called Insolvent Debtors!' in prints ; and the lover of the arts, who must Notwithstanding the extreme inclemencyof the present abstain from porphyry vases, or antique gems, may weather, there are many members of the immunity to dabble in alabaster, cut shells, and mosaics. In whom it must be very beneficial, vie. coal-merchants, Rome, thanks to its comprehensive resources, you cloth-factors, furriers, gin-spinners, pepper-pounders, may be cheated at all rates, from a thousand pounds and post-horses. To the post-horses the cold weather to a scudo Romano. Bankers will sell you a Re alist be peculiarly desirable ; because, baying all the pbael, or a Correggio; and, for your security, make national wisdom to collect and bring up to town, they you place your own name, in your own hand-writing, most otherwise have had very warm work of it. on the back of— a duplicate copy over which this The French papers of Sunday and Monday are chiefly original has been stretched in the frame ; and idled with accounts of the breaking up of the ice along terra-cotta lamps, Greek, Roman, and Sicilian coins, their principal rivers, the Rhine, the Loire, the Saone, and are daily manufactured, for the consumption of those the Vienne. At Avignon, where the Rhone is broad, and strangers whose,.,, demands are a press° discreto. its currents strong, the Magistrates bad taken er e- Tbe rage for indiscriminate collection is in strict caution to prevent the loss of lives, and they s ued, proportion to the ignorance of the purchasers ; and the although tiro mikes of the great stone bridge were dealers in pictures,and antiques have fine sport with their swept away by the enormous blocks of ice w hi c h lima English visitors. Even in a very small way, it is "an down the river. On the banks of the Loire, at Odes" Wails thing" that ladies expend in curiosities which pelaumur, and Nantes, equal exertions were made, ami basil an sat eurisis, and in ornaments which are not orna lives and property were, in general, preserved. unintel.—New Monthly Magazine. : "pr: ,Astirev set Ike itivz .) ;144u HOUSE OF COMMONS. Fi V L O'CLOCK. The House baring adjourned after the reading of the Speech in the Lords, to four o'clock, the Members bedon to collect at half-past three. The SPEAKER took the chair exactly twenty minutes before four. Soon after, several new Members—among the rest Mr. O'CoNtrlLL—took the oaths and their selts. Mr. O'Cou NELL took his seat close by the Member for Montrose, on the third bench. There were about four hundred Members present. A number of new writs were moved for: that for Leo minster, to replace RowLsiv to STEPHENSON, seemed to exeite considerable attention. The Members next proceeded to give several notices of motions. That of the Marquis of BLANDFORD, for an enquiry into the State of the Representation cf the People was among the first. When the Noble Marquis rose, there was an audible murmur of applause in the gallery. Mr. SPRING RICE gave notice of a motion for an enquiry into the Church Establishment of Ireland. Mr. HUME also moved for various returns ; the whole having a tendency to his grand object of public economy. The KING'S Speech to both Houses was then read : it was heard with profound attention. At its conclusion, Lord DA 111.INOTON, who entered the house about four o'clock, addressed the Speaker. He rose i►► the fvill uniArin of a Colonel. The Noble Lord commenced by entering into an explanation of the motives which induced him, after having held a seat seventeen years in that House, to take his place on the Treasury benches. The next topic of the Noble Earl related to the changes which had t.►ken place among public men. We observed that in alluding to the Whigs and Tories, his Lordship desig nated them as factions. When we left the House at five o'clock, his Lordship had commenced a vehement eulogy on the civil and military character of the Duke of W F 1.- LINGTON. STAR OFFICE, HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK. Among the reports at the West-end, and about the House of Commons, it is said that Mr. BROUGiI Am is to be DEPUTY SPEAKER Of the lord!; and that Lord PALM E RBTON is to move an amendment to the Addreßs. CAPTAIN LINO U'S RUDDER. Parrs and Oasnavanows on the Dangers and Difficulties attending the Present Mode of Hinging Sates' Russia*. Together with a flesiriptlon of an Improved Patented Plan for removing the esisthig Inconveniences, and affording Ships the Means within themselves of Repairing and Reshipping their Rudders at Sea. With Diagrams, ace. By Ca►t. J. 61110 U: R.N. Noara and Co. This Journal having been the first to announce the im portant invention of Captain Linov , it is with great satisfaction we now call public attention to his pamphlet, which contains a concise but luminous explanation of the invention, illustrated with cases in point, which must carry conviction to the mind of all nautical men as to the efficacy of the author's plan. It is therefore with great justice that the Literary Gazette, in noticing the pam phlet, says, that it should be in the hand of every mariner. Convinced as we ourselves are, that a more valuable ser vice could not be rendered to our naval and mercantile marine, we proceed to make a few extracts from the author's illustrations : " In corroboration of the advantages which the prnposed rudder possesses owe- all others at present in use, I shall hrre give a few instances of accidents that have happened to some of liis Majesty's shim with this bold assertion, that had the pint's, and chain now proposed, been attached to their rudders, in most of the cases, they could have been hoisted on board, repaired, and re-hung, with the same facility and expedition as getting up yards and topmasts. " His Majesty's ship Hassell. 74, commanded by Sir James Sae mares, whilst at anchor off the island of St. Lucia, in 1712, struck violently on a sunken rock. which considerably damaged the stern frame. and knocked off the rudder, by breaking the pinata; the ship was towed into the Carenage. where it took ten days to re pair the injury; and her services, In consequence, were very nearly lost in the victory gained on the 12th of April. A diginguished dicer has declared, that, in this cue, the proposed plan would have proved of essential benefit to his Majesty's service. " In the autumn of 1794, the Culloden, of 74 goos e and Sampson, 14, with other ships, were moored at St. Helen's when a heavy gale ;tame on from N.S. R. Both ships struck the ground, and knocked ear their rudder*. The Sampson's rudder wok, and was lest. On board the Culkxien, a three and a half inch rope was hastily made fast to the upper tiller mortice, by which means it was hauled alongside, lashed there, and carried into Spitbead, the ship being sowed by a frigate. The injury here sustained was, that all the pintloe wen broken at the neck, and lodged in the goosing,. The 'kip was in consequence ordered into Portsmouth harbour to be &eked. Whilst waiting for a wind to go in, through the exertion of * die elicers,the geoglop were cleared by a nambine,a model of which wee left is Portsmouth-yard. Neither of these ships would have bad occasion to suave from their anchorage, or lose more than a few boars' time in again completing their rudder., had they been fitted ea the proposed plan. " Is 1804, the Africaine lust ►er rudder, was towed into Yar. smith Road*, and nearly wrecked in setting there. In November, INS, aka Brazilian line-of-battle ship, Peden Primairo, struck on the Ake*lkea rocks, and broke some of the pinties, which, re. maligns is the goosing*, were with groat difficulty and injury to the *kip. got oat at Rio Janeiro, where there are no ducks. " It woxid be endives to particularise the nentber of ships that hew* been estirely irreched or exposed to Imminent danger, from net possessing the ready means of repairing their rudders at sea. His Majesty's ships Cooraneex, Solebay, Termagant, Forte, 010, Terror, Theseus, and Emerald, appear to form but a small portion .of else W. Ia 11111, the melancholy loss of the St. George, OS gum. whom fate involved t►at of the Defence, 74 (the former with W. sad the latter with 5 men, exclusive of Akers) is in a greaX measure to he attributed to the St. George losing her sadder, which in all human probability would have been saved by the pre. mat plats." Having completed his illustrations. the Author thus concludes: " From the foregoing facts it will be seen. that the proposed plan will enable a ship t• save her rudder when beaten off. and readily repair It in a manner the most efficient when thus saved, rendering unnecessary the conversion of valuable spars, and • lower cap, or lumbering a abip with a spare rudder and its fittings. " In cluing thus tanarks, it may be proper to add, that the proposed plan has been homer. d with the moat flattering teatime aka of approbation Irons several lacer' of high rank and long es pukes* in the naval profewlou, u well u by many competent 104** _ In the merchant service, whom I have had occasion to conduit. In ,4lkion to s►ese teatimonies, • West Indianan, bulk by Mews. Curling and Young. of Limehouse. Acted on my plan, is already at sea ; and several other ships. building and repairing on the banks of the Thames, and at the oat ports, are also on the same principle." When we first called the attention of our readers to this highly useful invention, we stated our conviction that it would not long escape the notice and encouragement of the Admiralty and Navy Boards. It is with sincere satisfaction, therefore, that we understand, measures are in progress for giving it a trial in one of his Majesty's ships. This fact, so creditable to those who preside over the great bulwark of British power, must be highly gratifying to the Gallant Author, and can hardly fail to lead to the general adoption of his plan. We close this brief notice, by once more offering our weed of praise and best thanks to those young Officers, who, like Captain Linou, after fighting the battles of their country during war, devote the leisure afforded by peace, to pursuits which will add greatly to the superiority of our Navy whenever it may again be called into action. MEETING AT LINCOLN. A Public Meeting was held me Monday at the Guildhall. Lin coln, for the purpose of taking into consideration the distressed suits of the country—ths MATO& in the Chair. Sir Kw,. Francis BROM/LID spoke at great lensth, and, in the course of his address, aid he was not an alarmist; he had seen the . . manufacturing interest distressed before, but agriculture was nou rishing; he bad seen agriculture distressed before, but manufac tures were itiurishing, now aU were distressed alike; and, to com plete the picture, there was a glut of unemployed capital in the metropolis. This might all suddenly pass off, and there might be sunshine; no man could prophecy in politics; but there cet tangly could not be any harm in a thorough inquiry. During the war all I seemed nourisidog ; he would trace the cause to the public trans action, since that period. The whole interval bad been a scene of feverish disorder; occasionally in a fever of temporary excite melt, and now in an ages fit. The list mischief consisted in the stsolitioo of silver as a payment. He did not wish to call in the present small silver, though below the standard ; he wished to see dollars of the full standard, payable, like the old Spanish dollar, over the world. He wished to see notes antler five pounds, nut as formerly, without security, but with ample security. Ano ther cause was the dimial.hed consumption of the agricultural classes. He detested monopoly in every shape, and bad, he feared, stood alone among the country gentry in refusing to sign the petitions; but no sound political economist could deny the right of a counter vailing duty. During the war Government expended more than n raised in taxation. Now owing to the Sinking Fund, it actual. raised more than it consun;ed. Ever since the peace capital bad bee. accumulating in Lotsdoo, and seeking Investment abroad, or in fan• tactic schemes. It was fashionable to talk of over-production, lapt th fact-was, that people consumed le.& What %could have been tie po. Rey of real statesmen under these circumstai.ces? They would have opened every possible ch noel for the investment of their idle capitil; they would have cleared out all the old channels, or even dug new ones • they would have encouraged enclosures a n d public works, in steadof Mexican Mines, the Swan River, and the Washing Com pany. On the same ground he approved of a real free to ale. He efas aware that the body of the Meeting would look to the subject of regulars. AU taxes were, of course, injurious, but be fairly owned that he did not consider them as in any way a cause of the preient distress, though, whatever that cause was, a remission, as bar as pcnaible, would be useful. Sir Edward then proposed a Fetitiorr, couched in rather strong terms, which, after alluding to the general distress, and offering ',aliens opinions as to the causes of it, men tioned a lumber of existing abuses, and cuocluded by imploring the Honourable House to place the state of the country, in all ice departments, under thorough inquiry, and to rel.': taxation as far as is practicable ; to enforce a most rigid economy without delay ; and, if necessary, to suspend the operation of the Sinking Fund until the energies of the nation shall have been restored. Mr. BIDFOILD, stn. then rose and proposed an amendment. He dwelt on the great cause of the national distress—taxation; and said that taxation was caused by the building chttrebe" and chapel', and the erection of palaces. He referred to whit lie bad heard delivered from those benches by the Hon. W. hlcnon, who pre dieted what would follow the extravagant expenditure of other times ; and when be said that there was not a tobacco-box in their pockets, nor a button on their coats but what would he taxed, as things went on, and that without retrenchment there must be revolution. He then proposed the fungous* petition as an amend ment to that of the Hon. Baronet : The petition commenced by stating— That your petitioners consider it their bounden duty to represent to your Honourable House the overwhelming distress which per vades the agricultural and manufacturing clamors ; and, that mil- es the present urgent distress be speedily relieved, ft must produce moat disastrous consequences, hazardous to the peace and safety of the kingdom at large. That the Cause, of the distress and the proper mode of redress are equally apparent ; end your petitioners beg to remind your piouourable Howe that your duty upon assembling in Parliament is to redress the grievances of the people previous to voting tile sopplies. That among the chief evils which require correction, your pail timers concur in representing the escesaive taxation which impedes the demand for labour : the mode by which the Church el !ms an undue portion of the produce of the soil ; the intricate and once.. tale system of law, which almost debars justice ' • and the unequal representation of the people, which obstructs the timely redress of grievances. Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable House to in. vestigate the state of the country, and to rectify, with firlespree and vigour, the innumerable abuses which affect its prosperity ; and, as a commencement, forthwith to repeal all the taxes upon mak and beet, and a greater part of the assessed taxes; thereby in some de grew, immediately relieving the distressed labourer and mechanic, and cresting among the people of that class and ourselves, patience and hope order tureen, privations. Mr. Mason seconded the petition of Mr. Bedford, as the most temperate petition of the two, and as least cakulated to inzharrass Ministers ; and it was carried by a great majiirity. Mr E. Baosenue then said the amendment would neuerglise the meeting , end after a few simile( observations, an adjoonsebrat took plow. NEWGATIL AND LIADENNALL—THIA DAY. Sy Ni. Comm.—Per m... 1 NU. 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