Star. — London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

1' ; i ; ; I 1. . 1 1,1 1 ' .141 I lli i I 1 9 , 1 . I li t I I ' 6 k : 1 TILE REVENUE. The Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue for the (Quarter ended the sth of April, 1819, and the sth of April, 1820, is as follows: 1119. I - 1820. Customs ..... Excise 5,377,878 Stamps 1,570,75 7. ...rott-Office *Apo) ..Assessed Taxes , 855,916 Laud 'rases 75,2,43 - Total £10,481,916 The Increase on divers he: ter just ended is The Decrease, on others Customs X1,960,703 Excise - 5)878,535 Stamp! 1,455,224 Past-Office ~... 341,080 Assessed Taxes 873,716 Land Taxes . Miscellaneous.., 48,860 T0taL.....X10,7050147 in the guar- X. 1.37 .BD6 ... 316,565 Increase ' 221,331 CHARGE OF CONSOLIDATED FUND TO AFAIL 5, 1820. Ex4%i:quer Annuities South Sea Company Bank on thair Capital Dividends • National Debt Civil i e lst Pensions Impaial Amenities *• * Ocher Chartres . 4623,750 • 155,456 89,12.5 5,946,078 3,055,348 63,824 63,656 9,173 55,590 ••• 00000 Total Charge £ 9,480,000 Surylus • 770,617 £10, 4 257,617 TIM EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1820. . THE FUNDS. !MICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON& O'CLOCK Bank Stack 217 V. 218 3 per Cent. Reduced 67% 68 ex. div. 3 per Cent. Consols 68% $A A 14 per Cent. 76% ex. div. 4 per Ceiv. 86 1 / 4 Vs 1 / 4 ex. div, 5 per Cent. Navy 104 1 ,4 Bard: Long Annuities 1713-16 ex. div. Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 68 India Bonds 16s. 18s. pr. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 3s. 2s. 4s. pre. Commercial 4s. discount Consols for Account 68 A q %, According to a statement in the Courier, given above, the increase of the Revenue for the Quarter ending the sth instant, compared with last year, including the proceeds of the new Taxes, is only £'221,331: This is less than was expected. On the 18th of March. we stated, from good authority, that the Revenue was increasing, and at that time it was expected the amount of increase would have approximated to half a million by the end of the Quarter. But yesterday, by au othcialtrick, to which that prtnended Ministerial Journal, the Courier, was the ready pander, we were led, with some of the other Papers, to I, ; :ve tLe mrplus on the Consolidated', Fund, viz. as the increase. The object of this attempt to decti:e the Public for four-and-tWenty • hours—the de:eption could last no longer —was, we have no doubt, connected with some nefarious Stock e,ambling of efiicial underlings. On our error in the amount of the excess, the Times of this morn;lig, vier stating that we had copied th paragraph i 11le Courier, " with gratuladons on the improvenient, as if i: were substantially true," offers us "a word of advice," namely, never " to insert any thing from the Courier without the expression of Tome doubt as to :its truth, and more especially if the article copied had the air and appearance of coming from the T:-easury ; for, it being long ago found out, at the Bureaux there, that the Courier did not of himself mind what he said, Ministers' cared as little what they sent him for insertion, being certain that his general character would relieve them • from the imputation of misrepiesentation or false hood; but more especially since Mr. VANSITTART decried the Courier as undeserving of credit, that de graded Journal has been obliged to feed upon the veriest garbage of office, tossed down to it by the lowest clerks, and probably door-keepers." We take the " word of advice" in goad part from our contemporary, as being really well meant ; nor need we add, that he cannot entertain a greater con tempt for the pretended authority of the Courier dean we do, or of its indiscretion on occasions when it ought to display a little prudence, were it really desirous to promote either the cause of morality or of good order; and on this very subject we would, from "a principle of liberality," offer in return «a word of advice" to our monitor. On every occasion on which the Press can negatively serve the cause of virtue, by abstaining from publishing what can only tend to the propagation of immorality and pernicious principles, the Courier is ever anxious to disseminate the poison, under the pretext of *hewing the base character of the men from whom such productions could first emanate. Wit ness the Trial of C4IRLI&E, on which occasion the • Courier, with great industry, gave circulation to all the vile blasphemies which necessarily were brought before the Jury, in support of the prosecution.. But,' to come nearer to the present moment—no later than yesterday, the Courier look care to republish the vile incendiary Proclamation that had been posted at Glasgow—a publication which no person who wishes well to society, and'allows himself a moment to reflect, would wish to see disseminated. We abstained; from principle, from giving it currency, and shall still keep our columns uncontaminated with such a foul pro duction ; but our monitor has thought fit to give this very article a place in his columns this moruing.- 1 We would advise him, in future, when he sees any article of this kind brought forward in the Courier, on the pretext of exposing vice, first to ask himself, before copying it, whether its circulation does not promote the cause of immorality ? Since writing the preceding we have received a complete and accurate statement of the real compa rative produce of the Revenue in the Quarter just expired, compared with the corresponding Quarter of last year. The hour at which it seached us, pre vents the possibility of our giving the information to-dall, in the tabular form, with all the particulars, but the following are the general results ; Income of Consolidated Fund, for the Qst arter • ending sth April, 1919 8E11,093,042 S 5} Ending sth April, 1890 - - 11,090,839 12 10 i Thus the Revenue, including the amount ' received for the New Taxes, is leu in this Quarter than last year 2,206 10 7i The Charges on the Consolidated Fund were in the Quarter 1819 - - X 9,711,617 16 Si 1820 - - 9,500,000 0 0 In the former Quarter, the Civil List is put at X 257,000; in the latter, at X 63,824. 3s. 6d. In consequence of the death of King GZORGE the Consolidated Fund was not liable for the expense of the Civil List, subsequent to,his decease, but the expense is equally incurred, though . .not made' a charge on the Consolidated Fund. Mails arrived this morning from Holland and Flanders. The chief article of intelligence, in the Pa pers brought by them, is a detailed account of the expedition sent from Batavia, in September last, to reduce the Sultan of Palembang. 4 , .The difficulty," it is said, " of passing the bar with large vessels, and the delaying of the operations till the season was so fir advanced, may be considered as the chief cause of the failure of this expedition." The Moniteur and other Paris Papers of Tuesday, arrived this forenoon. The Chamber of Deputies were chiefly occupied on Monday with some matters of form, brought under their consideration by M. BENJ. CONSTANT. The accounts from Madrid are of a very satisfactory description. Orders have been sent to Gen. O'Dobioau to transmit an account to the Minister of War, day by day, of the state of the proceedings instituted against the authors of the melancholy catastrophe at Cadiz. The whole of the troops concerned in the bloody af fair have been ordered to leave the place. On the 16th, the battalion of Guides, 450 strong were sent to Xeres, and it was to be followei by the other corps in quick succession. As soon as the city was free of the litary, the Constitution was to be proclaimed. By a Decree of the 20th, the KruG has ordered all thv estates and revenues belonging to the suppressed In quisition to be applied to the extinction of the debts 1.1 the State. 4'rencb Five per Cents.—Monday, 73fr. 45c. We have received letters from Cadiz to the 17th, and from Madrid to the 23d ult. They abound with details of The massacre which took place at Cadiz on the 10th, but they furnish no clue that can enable us to judge who were the guilty dev i sers of the atrocious plot. MADRID, MARCH 22. The General Cortes have Leen' convened by De cree, in conformity to the enactments of the Consti tution, and they are to assemble on the Ist June. It appears full pdwers are given for the former Depu ties of the Ordinary and Extraordinary ones to .be re-elected, and by this means many difficulties will be removed. Besides proving the sincerity of the Government, this act secures the services of our most experienced and patriotic men, who will be the more valuable, because many of them who have been ab sent during the late interregnum will bring back all the information and experience they have obtained whilst abroad. MARCIA 23.—Numerous Letters from Cadiz have arrived by this post, and chiefly relate to the deplor able scenes which have occurred there. From them I have been able to collect, that on the 9th instant General Freyre and Staff left Port St. Mary's, and crossed over to Cadiz, where, being informed of the ardour with which a great number of the Officers of the Army and Navy, as well as people, demanded and were labouring for the promulgation of the Con stitution, and considering also it was useless any longer to oppose the general wish, he consented, and named the following day for the ceremony. In the afternoon of the 9th, a pyramidal stone was placed in the main square, and illuminations took place, all which were authorized both by Freyre and Admiral Villavicencio. The necessary orders were communi cated to the Army, hostilities were ordered to cease, and this change was notified to Colonel Quiroga, who was desired to send Officers of his own choice to Cadiz, in order to concert measures. Quiroga complied, and sent the Chief of his Staff, Don Felipe de Arco Aguero, and several Officers of Artillery. In the meantime, the Battalion of Guides, composed of four hundred men, formed a plot, with part of the Regiments Lealtad and America, with some Militia, to disturb the public rejoicing. With this view, at half-past ten on the 10th instant, when everything was ready for the ceremony, 'the Battalion of Leal tad was seen advancing up the Calls Amelia (Broad. street), sending small parties up the streets of Mur guia and Sardinillq, This was at the moment when the Guides had already reached the side of the square, part having come up the Veedor-street, and the rest by that of Fideo, At the same moment they moved on the square, and instantly opened a deadly fire on the assembled crowd, who seeing themselves so atro ciously assaulted, endeavoured to obtain arms from the Park (of artillery), but possession had already been taken of it, so that all were killed who literally could not get from the spot, and many who fell into the hauls of the Lealtad Regiment were robbed, and , some killed. DISTURBANCES IN SCOTLAND. • We are concerned to find, by the accounts we have received this morning from Glasgow and Paisley, that the panic of All Noels Das still continues, and threatens that City with mischief. A more wicked project was never attempted, and thy discretion and Ormness with which the Magistrates have taken pre cautions to avert the consequences, and punish the authors, deserve the thank of the Country, Extract of a Letter from Paisley, dated April 4, ' eleven o'clock, received this morning : el Inflammatory placards manufactured, we sup• pose, in England, were posted and dispersed here on Sunday last ; since which we have been in great alarm, not knowing what measures these infatuated men, who wish to dissolve all the ties 9f society, may re sort to. Through the whole of Sunday, the streets were crowded in an unusual degree for a Sabbath s _ and yesterday the numbers in the streets were very great. There have also been very considerable bo. dies or assemblages of people in the country al round, apparently concerting together how they should act. One of their measures was discovered to be, the seizure of the arms of the 350 Veterans, who had yesterday arrived, much fatigued, after a march of thirty-four miles, without intermission, and , which was' to have been accomplished by a general attack of these troops in their quarters, during the night. In one case, they succeeded in obtaining the arms from one of them, early in the morning; but to prevent the execution of this plan, the whole were kept together, under arms, during the night. " 1 understand that in the country many houses have been attacked and robbed of their arms last night; but I have the satisfaction to add, that at Mr. Robertson's, of Foxbar Bleachfield, about three miles from this, the attack was resisted successfully ; many Ishots were exchanged in the attack and defence, and the result is, that one of these Radicals was shot through the'heart, and died immediately, and from the quantity of blood found about the place after the robbers fled, there is little doubt but several of them must be severely wounded : this happened between eleven and twelve last night. To-day the town seems still in a very disturbed state. A party of the Hus sars have just been sent to escort the body of the dead traitor to town. The spirit of this town is in a bad state, and must in some way be checked, or more serious consequences will soon be felt." FROM THE GLASGOW COURIER OF TUESDAY. Many corps have been observed drilling in this neighbourhood for several nights past, and some of them even during the day. In some places strangers have taken posse ssion of smiths' shops, who imme diately fell to work in manufacturing pikes, &c. The times are perilous in the extreme. We do not exaggerate when we say there are, at this moment, 60,000 persons in this city and the surrounding towns and villages, who have struck work ; many of these, not a doubt remains, have been compelled to join this highly illegal combination by threats ; such an immense body cannot, however, long remain inac tive. If strong measures be not instantly resorted to, it is impossible to say when and where the mischief will end. An iron-foundery was last might broken into, in the Gallowgate, and a number of files, &c. carried off. If fire-arms was their object they were fortu nately disappointed, as these had previously been lodged in a place of safety. Tuesday, One a 'Clotk,—The streets are crowded, and some audacious insults have been offered to the Yeomanry of the adjoining counties. Last night, about twelve o'clock, nearly thirty Radicals went out from Paisley to Lounsdale, a mile South-west from the town, and demanded whatever fire-arms might be in the house. On being told there were no arms in it, they said they would go next to f mbar, a little to the westward. The pro prietor of Lounsdale told them, that if they did they would meet with a determined resistance, which they found to be the case, as the proprietor, after vainly giving them warning to retire, fired upon them, by which a young man, of the name of Comsami, was killed, and, tt is supposed, se% oral others were wounded, as blood was traced to some distance from the house.. The body was lying at Foxbar this morning, the party having retired after the first fire without carrying off the body. PAISLEY, APRIL. 3. Our working population are this day (pike idle; many are sauntering through the streets ; others are gone to the country, holding Meetings in the fields; and a good many are at Johnstone, where, with the aid of vast numbers from the surrounding villages, they are endeavouring to intimidate the workers at the different cotton-mills, so as they may also give up work. Most of the public works in the imme diate vicinity, through intimidation, gave up work at nine o'clock this morning. A large party of men and boys assembled this forenoon on the Sacel Hill, with two flags, and for several hours practised mili tary manoeuvres, by marching and forming into close column. From the situation chosen, and the public manner in which they went to work, there is no doubt their operations were only, at least chiefly, intended to cause alarm, and provoke an attempt to apprehend them, as they were distinctly seen from many parts of the town ; and in ease any attempt had been made against them, they were sure of a safe retreat, the hill being so high, that no force coming against them for that purpose could approach without giving them time to effect their escape. All has remained quiet to this hour (eight o'clock), and, in obedience to a Proclamation of the Magistrates, many of the inha bitants are leaving the streets. Since writing the above, we learn the menaces of the mob succeeded in causing all. the cotton-mills at Johnstoneito be shut FROM THE GLASGOW CHRONICLE OF TUESDAY. For five months past ibe keople of this place have been .eveyy now and then mesaced with projected risings of the Radicals. The Public Meetings, the Music and Caps of Liberty, Fins and Female Re. formers, caused no slight degree of terror in those unacquainted with the weakness of the mock-insur gents, Since an end was put by the Legislature to PublieMeetings, the leaders of the disaffected have had recourse to other modes of intimidation. Uncle: the manag ement of some itinerant Apostles of Anar chy from England, a Union Societies" were formed through most of the manufacturing districts; and from one-eightieth to one-hundredth part of the pe pulation was fcsolish enough to becerne Members.— Every adherent regularly contributes a sum to the funds of the Society. Weekly Meetings are held, and Delegates regularly organiaed to and from England to convey the necessary Instructions, that their bre thren through the whole kingdom may act at the same instant ! and pursue the measures most likely, in their insane apprehension, to insure success to their designs upon the Govererneec and property of the, country. The Delegates get from ss. to Ts. 6d. a day allowed for expenses, and have their families maintained in their absence. At their return, know• ing there can be no appeal from their testimony, they tell their credulous supporters grand stories of grow, ing strength and dreadful preparations. Thus the poor workmen, who are silly enough to listen to their tales, are whe edled out of part of their earnings, at a time when the whole are unhappily inadequate to the wants of their families. During the last eight days, a general rising of the Unions was currently talked of. It was said the members had provided pikes and other offensive weapons; attended nightly drillings, and had made every possible preparation for a deadly conflict. • Between Saturday night. and Sunday morning, A treasonable 4 ' Address to the Inhabitants ofGreat 13ii tain and Ireland," was posted on conspicuous place , . in this town and surrounding villages. It required all workmen to desist from labour after the first ot' April—a date which makes it net impossible that t::c poor Radicals have been hoaxed ; and that they are nothing better than April fools! The Address further enjoined the prolongation of idleness until corruption is swept from the shore, and power recovered of ig giving consent to the laws." Thus the latter end of the commonwealth forgets the beginning; for what, at the outset, was to be gained by arms, and at the hazard of life, falls in the end to the unbellige rent recommendation of neglect of work. The pre cious production concludes with denouncing as traitors to the King, all who use arms in opposing the rege nerators of their country. The paper is not gi aced with any signature ; no rallying point is fixed for the insurgents; and the persons who want to create a re-, hellion, refuse to conciliate those whom they try to dupe by committing the smaller crime of sedition.— Similar Proclamations have been posted up in most of the manufacturing districts:within twenty miles of us, and are supposed to have extended to other parts of Scotland as well as to England ! In obedience to the easier commaeds of this f'ro clamation many of the weavers, sotto -spinners, ma chine-makers, founders, and colliers, working; but nobody obeyed the orders to eup arms and hazard life. Accounts are said to have been received that the workmen of Carlisle struck work yesterday, This is not improbable ; and it is possible that the same conduct. may be pursued in all the manufacturing distriCis. Every one will practise idleness, leaving the active part of the insurrection to therest. We shall meetion some of the idle stories circulated by the populace. The Radicals, they say, have great numbers of pikes, and are not without muskets,---. ! They have got four pieces of cannon. They have re. ; ceived very considerable sums of money as well as arms from persons unknown. They affirm, in utter ignorance, we dare say, of the 'character of Mr. Kin loch, that he has returned from the Continent, with a great number of Officers formerly in the pay of Bo naparte, who, disgusted with the Bourbons, and des. pairing of improvement at home, have come over for the purpose of heading the Radicals. Among the number is Marshal Macdonald—a descendant of the Stuarts, whom they intend to place upon the throne of his ancestors. French gold, they say, is circulating. —A French vessel has landed a cargo of arms and stores on the coast of Ayrshire, which has been in trusted to the Radicals in the interior. Such of the Regenerators as take the field are to get a franc and a half a-day, and their families are to be comfortably maintained during their absence. Their first camp is to be pitched on Cathkin Hills, and thither all the Radicals are to centre. The manufacture of guri. powder is going briskly on (probably under the di- rection of French chemists); and the easier practice of casting balls is not unfiequent. To shew the tendency of the populace to draw everything into service, the appearance of a beauti ful Aurora Borealis, about eleven o'clock last night, was accounteji portentous of the downfall. of the pre sent system. A person particularly sagacious re membered teeing the Northern lig h ts ve r y b r illi a nt before the emancipation of the United States! Our streets were yesterday thronger than usual, but there was no material disturbance ; and the salu tary Proclamation of the Magistrates ordering the lieges to keep at home after seven o'clock, was pretty strictly obeyed. The shops, on the same authority, were shut at six o'clock. The military force was considerably strengthened ; and, if warlike ends had been pursued, the insurrec tion would doubtless have experienced a very sum mary extinction. Yesterday morning, at four o'clocle t the whole of the troops in town were in readiness to act, those of the Garrison at the barracks, the Sharp-shooters, about 700 strong, in George's-square, Armed Association • in. St. Enoch-square, and the Recruiting parties and Glasgow Light Horse in St. Vincent -street. Some of the cavalry from the West country were exceedl ingly ill used by a number of blackguard boys and lads. They shewed great forbearance, Stime of our own Yeomanry Cavalry Were also; 'assailed. The streets were however clear about seven o'clock, and everything was afterwards unusually quiet. Patrols of hOsars were on duty in the town and subui bs.— The t r oops were in a state of readiness all last night, and the Sharp-shooters, &c. were again at their post this morning at four o'clOck. A party of them did duty last night at St. George Church . The Police- Office is also strongly guarded, and could even send out a respectable body, were it necessary. This morning every thing remains in the same state as yes tetday- 'The way artisans are idle, walking about