Star. — London, England, 1813-02-18 00:00:00

I --~- pep tally to tome to in immediate deeisioti iXI the qtfistinn. The subject had been long before them, alid nothing new could be mid on it. The question ltid been, indeed, exhausted t but he thought it im portant to call the attention of the Court to the ens.- tiOtls they had made in behalf of their rights, collec- MeV and individually. They now presented them telves as Petitioners merely, unsupported by Minis ters, but resting solely on the justice of their cause. Yet he hoped Parliament would be too wise to listen to the clamours which had been raised against the Company by a few individuals. However, as his Ma -1 je - stes Government had thought fit to join those indi-1 isisluals ) it became the Company to resist the intended incroachment on their rights by every means in their lower. Neither ought they to be surprised at the oudness of the clamour, On former occasions it had teen quite as loud ' • and vet the fi rmness of the Court bf Directors had th en triumphed over the empty de klamations of the Orators of the Out-ports, unsup ported as it now was by any thing like facts, or proofs. It had been said, that the free trade of the Portuguese when they had possessions in India, was a proof of the advantage of an open trade with that country. But on the contrary, in his opinion, the downfall of the influence of that Power in India was to be dated from the enormities practised by individuals in the Portu guese trade. The opinions of Dr. A. Smith had been quoted against the Company ; but although 40 years ago that Gentleman wrote on abstract principles of political economy, when the political importance of the Company was of no moment, compared with what it was now; it did not follow that, were A. Smith alive now, he should still hold the same opinions. The opinion of Mr. Burke ~ w well as the other great States men, was in favour o f Company. His words were, that 14 he felt indispensible reluctance to change any Government upon theoretical opinions, however plau sible. He had seen Merchants with the talents and powers of great Statesmen, and Statesmen who were only fitted to have become pedlars." Such an opi nion, from so great a man, was to be prized, espe cially as it came from him at a time when he was shaking their whole establishment by the thunders of his eloquence. If the trade were thrown open, no at tention would be paid to the comforts or sufferings of the natives of India by the individual trader, who could feel no interest in promoting their happiness ; and the English would, in consequence, be soon swept from the face of the Peninsula, as the Portuguese had been. It was highly injudicious in Ministers :o listen to the clamours of the Out-ports, and particularly at , such a time as the present. Yet these were the Mi nisters who boasted, that they trod in the footsteps of the immortal Pitt ; men who, while they opened the flood-gates of commerce, wished to impose a mono poly on religion, and an embargo on conscience ! vb.', while they listened to the unfounded clamours. of the Out-ports, turned a deaf ear on the claims of millions of our fellow subjects in Ireland. He saw no reason fur protracting the decision on this question ;1 if they did, their conduct to their opponents must ap pear indecisive and vacillating. Mr. K. SMITH opposed any further delay incoming to a decision on this question. Mr. R. JACKSON seconded the motion for an ad journment till Tuesday. The Chairman (after another Petition for pecu niary relief had been read) said, that in addition to the 5e300,000 worth of bullion, which had lately ar rived froni India, they had advices of £700,000 more . being about to be sent. Mr. Hume wished to know if that arose from a surplus of the revenue of India, or was sent home to answer bills drawn in this country ? The CHAIRMAN said, not for bills drawn in this country ; and be was happy to be able to state, that the surplus of the revenue of India, during the last year, was £1,500,000. r. HUME had no doubt his Majesty's Ministers had no disposition whatsoever to withhold from the Company any advantage to which they could ad vance a feasible claim but if his opinion was of any weight, they ought not to specify in their Petition what they would accept and what they would reject. It ought to be a maxim with Petitioners to refuse nothing.—(A laugh.) —if they could not get as much as they wished, they ought to take whatever they could get, and be thankful. The Honourable Proprietor then expressing his opinion that - a passage in the Petition, namely, "that it would be unjustifiable in the Company to become parties to a delusion, " was language unsuitable to P e ti t io ners , moved that ethers should be substituted. Mr. PAIERSON (a Director) stated, that the word " unjustifiable" was not in the Petition ; it was at first, but they had afterwards amended it. He wished to lchow how Mr. Hume had come by his knowledge of that circumstance? Mr. Hesse s iid he could not be guilty of so gross a bleach of private confidence as that would be. It was, however,-not impossible but it had come to the quarter from whence he (Mr. Hume) had received it—from the Hon. Director himself. Mr. PATERSON denied that any such thing could have been the case. The question of adjournment on both the Petitions Was then carried in the affirmative.—Adjourned. SURREY THEATRE.—This present Evening, To morrow, and Saturday, positively the only Nights ht4ore Easter of The 1 ifc and Death of ping Richard the 7hird, or the Battle of Bosworth Field; including also the- mattrial features of Th: iliskry of Jane Shore : This Evening, with the Melo-Drame of the Blind Boy; To.morrow, with Out of Place ; and, on Saturday, With Oti, or 7hice Finger'd Jack I—N. D. All letters addressed to Mr. Ews . TON must be post paid. TWENTY THOUSAND Po UN lls.—The Ticket No. drawn yesterday a Prize of Twenty Thousand Founds, (the only one in this Lottery) was sold at HAZAttD) BURNE, and Co's. Office, Royal Exchange, . One Halt, One Eighth, and Six Sixteenth. Shares. Fivit THOUSAND Pousns.—No. 2931, drawn this Thon.ing a Prize of £3OOO, was Sold and Registered by BRANSCUMB, No. 1, Holborn Bars, to a Club, tonsiAing of 25 Merubcrs, at the West-end of the town. TnousANo PouNos.—The Ticket No. 5533, dr•livn at seven o'clock yesterday evening a Prize of 42 000, Was shared by WLAB, in One Quarter, One I :i2hth, and Ten Sixteenths, and sold at his truly-for tunate Oita, 17, Ludgate -street, near St. whete t!.e holders may receive their money on demand. It 1411 be recollected, that in the kw little Lottery, the olgy Prise of AMMO shated o was also sold by WEB). gam•wwibe g ol ! w lematie t wilamimo s i m THE EVENING STAR.. LONDON, • THURSDAY, 'IEBRUARY 18, 1813. RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONI O'CLOC.KL Rod. 59I—COni. Self—Coos. for ac. 58}11-4 per Q. 7501 Spot Cent. gaff- - Bds. or. 70. dle.—lmp. Am* 157 f Zxcb. Ms Ss. Sit pr.—Onsohon it We are happy to learn, by a Gentleman lately ar rived from Denmark, that the British name is be coming popular in that kingdom, and the English Newspapers and Russian Bulletins are read with avidity. It appears that the influence of the French was so great as to prevent the appearance of the Rus sian accounts in the Danish publications, while those of France were regularly admitted. The Russian Ambassador remonstrated with the KING in petson, who declared his inability to grant him the privilege, but he observed, at the same time, that he could not object to the Ambassador's chewing them in his own house. The latter, in consequence, threw open an elegant apartment, furnished regularly with the Rus sian Bulletins and accounts of the F: each disasters, and all the English Newspapers. The crowds who daily attended were so great, that, to regul.tte their 'admission, officers were necessary at the doors, and the public joy was manifested at every arrival of news. We have before us the letter of a Military Friend at Lisbon, who gives a most animated description of the fetes at that capital, and of the reception of the Marquis of WELLINGTON. Never was a Member of the House of BRAGANZA received with more magni ficence by the Public Authorities, or with more en thusiastic warmth by the people. Our Readers and the public have, however, already had detailed ac counts of his Lordship's reception there and at Cadiz. are still more pleased with another part of our friend's letter, in which he says----if On my journey through the country, from our division to Lisbon, nothing could be more delightful than to see the al tered and improved state of the country, so lately desolate and left smoaking in ruins try a barbarous and ruthless enemy. That so great an improvement could have taken place, was hardly to be credited : no other country under Heaven could so quickly have recovered itself. Lord WELtaxoron, carrying the Army ( Portuguese as well as English) into Spain last year, and subsisting them in that coi,ury, has done wonders for Portugal. Now there appear inha bitants in a country that seemed to have been depo pulated; that which appeared in dreary waste, is now in cultivation ; houses are repaired, or rebuilt, that were burnt to the ground; and the eye is not now shocked by the sight of dead carcases—famished and sickly creatures, dying in every quarter.- r - Infinite merit is due to these (particularly the Anglo-Portuguese merchants) who distributed the generous subscription made in England for the suffering Portuguese, after MassENa's tett eat. Com mittees of them, as well as of the Clergy of the country, travelled about and ascertained the state And wants of each district and village: even now they continue to distribute salt fish and other articles of food, blankets, and farming utensils ; and I have witnessed how warmly grateful the Portuguese are to the Biitish. I hope the Russians may receive a portion of that relief which has done so much good to the people of this country, while it has raised in their minds the character of Englishmen to the highes t and proudest pitch." Our letters state, that the Marquis of WELLINGTON is making the most active preparations for another campaign, which will be very early—he will go into the field the moment the artillery and cavalry are in any kind of order. Our allies, the Portuguese and Spanish, are said likewise to be making the most active preparations, and the Spaniards seem now to be in earnest. Marshal BERESFORD has added con siderably to the strength of the Portuguese army ; levies are going on in every quarter. In the mean time, our own gallant fellows have got new cloath ' ing, and having been some time in comfortable gnar -1 ters, are only anxious to be again in contact with the enemy. The Marshal has greatly increased his popularity with the Portuguese, by a recent kind measure to ward the soldiers : he allows 200 men fronveach Por. tuguese regiment at a time to go on furlough to see their relations and friends. The regret is great and general throughout the kingdom of Portugal that the state of Marshal BE. RESIORD'S health should require his leaving them, even for a time. Their confidence in him as a leader is unbounded ; no other man could effect so much with them and their Government. The latest accounts from Spain state that the French troops are still committing horrible depreda tions in most places, indicative of their retiring; they have almost dilapidated the once-beautiful city of Sa lamanca, as well as Valladolid, Leon, and Penaranda. We have ourselves received letters, and we have seen others from Officers in Portugal which mention, with the generous feelings of English soldiers, that the disappointment was general that the Officers of the German Legion had not got the substantial advan tages held out to them. No set of men, they say, could have behaved better or with more heroism than the Ofliceis and soldiers of the German Legion have done in the Peninsula; their cavalry is an invaluable body of men, and their riflemen superior tO our own. Joining our Correspondents moat cordially in every lityiebtenetoraise irtitembi ee dui* *Ant fro*, we most uy that we differ most materially with them in their wishes nil ihib occasion : the permanent eda bOdyfitg of foreign ?mercenaries in a free state, has always foreboded the destruction of its liberties, and we should deplore any further invasion of the Consti. tution for this, be indeed any other purpose.—Let their services be rewarded, but let it be done in some constitutional way 4 they are entitled to every con sideration. AMERICAN STATES. The brig Spitfire, of and from Boston, prize to his Majesty's ship ACHATES, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, she is laden with cotton and tobacco for L'Orient, and left Boston on the 24th of January. By this vessel we have learnt that on the 13th of January, in the House of Representatives, the Com mittee of Commerce and Manufactures Reported on a Bill to lay additional duties on iron wire, imported. On the motion of Mr. Srow, a Resolution passed for instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to re port, with all convenient speed, such Bills as shall be considered necessary to provide means for the war by taxation—the basis of public credit was secured for the present year, and it was meant to apply to 1814. The temporary Army Bill, for 20 Regiments, for one year, was read a third time. Mr. KEA? spoke in favour of the war, and Mr. RANDOLPH against it, with much force and eloquence, upwards of three hours. The bill was adjourned without taking the q'iestion. Mr. CLAY seconded Mr. MACON'S bill to strike out one year, as the time of enlistment, and insert five ; approves of the war, and hopes peace may not be thought of till every inch of ground in Canada is taken from the British. It was known at Boston when the Spitfire sailed, that New-York was blockaded by his Majesty's ships ST. ostmGo, POICTIERS, DRAGON, MAIDSTONE, ACASTA, and SOPHIA. Several American vessels had been detained, and among others the schooner Sy rene, and ship Silences, of Charlestown ; and soap had returned, fearing to attempt to depart. General ARNISTRONG had received his commission as Secretary of War. Congress sat on the 14th inst. with closed doors, for two hours. A message was received from the Senate, with a bill which they had passed, for orga nizing the militia, that they may be called out, repel invasion, assist the Executive, and suppress insur- rection. The Spaniards complain loudly and justly of the infamous treatment and robbery of many individuals, by American privateers, on the Main. A New York paper of 2011: January says : I . c, We have a rumour from. the brig Caroline, thit the United States frigate Constitution, Commodore BAIN- BruDcE, had captured the British frigate /Ent's, Lord * TOWNSIIIIND, and a brig laden with coffee, which was in company." Mr. GALLATIN iS to be Secretary of State. General SMYTH had written a very lengthy apo logy to Congress for his conduct, while General of the Forces on the frontiers ; and that General POR nut had posted him as a coward. NAVAL 11V7ELLIGEA'CE. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 15. Arrived the Danish brig Anna Catharina, BOLT NEN, from St. Übe's, with salt. The Queen Char lotte Packet, with Mails for Lisbon, has gone into the Roads.—Wind W.S.W. heavy gales. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 16. Arrived his Majesty's ship SURVEILLARTE, from a cruize ; the ANDROMACHE frigate, from the coast of France; and the ACHATES sloop of war, with her prize, the American brig Spitfire, from Boston, with tobacco and cotton, bound to L'Orient.—Wind W. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 17. Arrived his Majesty's ship HERON, from a cruize, after seeing the Hanna and her convoy, for Lisbon, to a certain latitude.—Wind S.W. blows hard. ANOTHER LET TAR, SAME DATE. His Majesty's brig HERON, arrived this afternoon from a cruise, is now on shore on the Swash, in a perilous situation. There is every appearance of another dreadful night. The Trans was got off at high water last night. Came into harbour the ship Quebec, and the brig Sedulous, recaptures. DEAL, FEBRUARY 17. Came clown from the River the Windsor Castle, Donut, for China; Sinclair, FEAT, for Barbadoes ; Lloyd's, MACPHERSON, for Jamaica ; Active, TAY LOR, for St. Michael's; and his Majesty's ship PLO VER, from Sheerness.—Arrived his Majesty's ship DOLPHIN, from Gibraltar.—The outward-bound still remain wind-bound.—Wind S.W. COVE OF CORK, FEBRUARY Is. To-morrow seven companies of the Sd Garrison Battalion, commanded by Major BAYLEY, are to em bark on board his Majesty's ship Racutus, 44 guns, Capt. TAILEURE, and MELPO MENE , 38 g un s , Capt. FALCON, both fitted up for Troop ships. They will sail the first fair wind for Malta. The other three Companies, with Lieutenant-Co lonel NEDHAM, are to remain here till an opportu nity offers of their being conveyed to the place of their destination, no transport or any other vessel at present being ordered for that purpose. They are to be stationed at Camden and Carlisle.—The Third Garrison Battalion, are to be replaced by the West York Militia. His Majesty's ship AFRICA, of 64 guns, Captain BASTARD, and SYRILLE, Capt. UPTON, only waita fair wind to proCeed to Ports mouth, at which port the former ship will be paid off. to titan& di tat Pittirekii of WAkkie We ere i to Witness the tirtileuct aikt *Er* indny with which the subject of thil letter is treatett in sortie of the daily papers. hit fair 'to degitab the Subject by ranking it with the squabbles politics I The illustrious personages concerned shobbi not be involved in contests of this kind i to say the least of it, this is highly.indecorods. On one hick it is said, " Minbters are accused by the party of baying abandoned ikk Princess of Waters.—How j If she choir to take adeiee front the opponents of her Husband's GoVernMent, and if those oppmend counselled and drew up the attack neon the Puttee, the abut:. j , l donnsent is hers, not theirs. It I s h er act , and she and her 04 11, Ham are alone responsible." To this a Morning Paper replies as follows " The Peones! addressed her complaint directly id AO Throne, and not to any party. She addressed herself in dutiful 1 langnarte to the Painca RZOINT, and tranmitted it thioegh hit two first confidential serirants, making known to them •tt chi same time the contents, that they might not be taken by ter. 'A prize. She, no doubt, applied for Counsel, to some pi ofessionll j Member of Lincoln' s i nn , or t h e Temple ; but it :nrele velti not be Imputed to lead eitisers that they are patty rivtiers. tmt her Royal Highness must be well aware, that whatever opinion 6'4 received on the brief submitted to a Lawyer, or on the tot sid; cation held; she alone is answerable for the measure She ad,,peet This, however; we can Venture to assert, without the possilsility of contradiction, that her Royal Highness oveer spoke wrote to, or consulted any one Head or Member of Le party; fairly so called, on the subject of her intentions. No doubt front the perfect conviction in her own mind, that it *mad have tc a most irregular and improper con: se. It Is very true that one man may combine in his pursuits both a legal and political cha: meter, but we trust that no Gentleman, consulted by her Royal Highness, is capable of degrading his profession by making the prejudh:es of the one mix with, or taint, the opinions of the other a But through whom could the Patucrss think of addressing; herself to the Throne, but the Ministers, her friends and josti. hers? To whom Could she turn her eyes in the hope of redress, under the Intimation of having the gloated degree of tormentor . with her daughter still more limited, but to those persons who, la less than a mouth of theirbeing invested with power, did advise his Mar s. STI to restore her to the banal of the Royal faintly ? Who were those persons ? " At the Cabinet Council of the Net April, 1007, there were presents • The Lord Chancellor (Eldon) Earl Bathurst The Lord President (Camden) Viscount Caniererigh Lord Privy Seal (Westmoreland) Lord Muknee Duke of Portland tit. Canoing Earl of Chatham Lord Havrkesbury " And in the minute then entered on thesecorsis, after elects; ring " that ble Royal Highness the PKINCE of 'a—Tates could not; consistently with his puhlic duty, have done otherwise than 14 before his MAI [STY the statement and examlna•loni submitted to him on the subject of the charget, 4 midi" After the mist dello; berate consideration of all the examinations, &c. they felt it neces. t.ary tb declare their decided concurrence in the clear and unani% mous opinion of the Commissioners, confirmed by the confidential servants of his Majesty, that the two main charges alleged against her Royal Highness were completely disproved; and they furthet submitted to his MAlarrt their unanimous opinion, that all the other particulars of conduct brought in accusation against hei Royal Highness, to which the character of criminality ern be at; cribed, were Ater =tisfactorily contradicted, or ran uron evi. dente of such a nature, and which was given under such eircum. trances, as rendered it, in the judgment of his MA's str, eon& dential servants, undeserting of credit." They therefore humbly submitted their opinion, that her Royal Highals shoLld forth. with be restored to his Royal Presence; and in a manner suitable to her rank and station. Aarr such a record, which was followed by her splendid In. troduction at Court, and into her box at the Opera, by the Doki of CUMBEIIIiA ND, her most xealoits ♦indicator, to wham, basil those persons, could she properly look for support; when tbresli . coed with new restrictions r May we not add, that such reasoning items, of both sides, to be somewhat gratuitous. Why should it be inferred, that because the Editors of Patty Pa/ pers, from the mere force of habit caa separate u question from the feelings of Party, that therefore ttd question can occur in which Ministers can act a dig: nified and impartial part In the reasoning befbre uy the Print which affects to defehd Ministers libels the* most grossly, charging theni (not by implitatiod merely, but almost in direct terms) with having abandoned the Prireess of WALE& How is it pots sible to anticipate what will be the result of the fret quent Cabinet meetings that take place on this brig. 1 ness? Is it decorous to take for granted,- that their decisions will be guided by any motives whatever but those of public and individual justice ? Some further extracts from the Path Papers re. ceived yesterday, will be found in the next page. The article arranging the external ceremonials of tilt procession of BONAPARTE to the Legislatiie BodTil bespeaks a terror on the p.irt of the Tyrant, which must flow from the discontented state of the public mind in Paris, and which has frequently burg forth since his return from his inglorious campaign. We should not be surprised to hear, that th e a Ides of March" were really to close the high aeskiny of this modern Cesar. HiaEt WINDS.—The high winds which have blown with impetuous fury for these ten d.tyt p..st, have been productive of serious injury to the buildings iri the metropol.s, as well as our maritime vessels at sea. The hurricane still continues; FlRE. — Sunday evening, a b out eight Vc.l ne., a destructive fire broke out in the fourth storey of Bi- shop's Land, north side of the High.street, Edit. burgh. On the first alarm, the engines belonging to the city and the different Insurance Offices were brought to the place, and also two engines from Leith, and one from Leith Fort. They were kept playing most of the night, and succeeded at last in keeping the fire confined to the tenement where it -I began. Water was rather scarte it first, out after. wards there was a plentiful supply for ail the'engines, fourteen in number. The three upper storeys And garret are totally destroyed, the sec.)nd and shop flat greatly injured, and the upper part of the tenement to the east was at one time on fire, but it was sows got under.