Star. — London, England, 1820-11-14 00:00:00

.G'_ Y ~ 311 E EVENING STAR. LONDON. TO-MORROW LOTTRRY BEGINS—TWO 0F . E20,n00 IN THE FIRST TEN MINUTES--FOUR OF 1E20,000, AND ONLY NW TICKETS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1820. THR FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS OAT AT ONE O . CLOC6 Bank Stock 217 21754 3 per Cent. Reduced 68 3 / 8 3 / 8 3 per Cent. Cons. 69 1 / 8 1 / 2 per Cent. 77 1 / 2 -4 f,er Cent. 86 1 / 2 3 / 8 $/ 8 5 per Cent. Navy 105% 106 10578 Long Annuities 17Y4 13.16 11-16 Imperial 3 per Cent. 66 Y 4 India Stock 222 1 / 2 —Bonds 265. 275. pre. Exchequer Bills 3s. ss. pre. Omnium 3 / 8 1,4 dis. Cons. for Acct. 69 1 / 8 1 / 2 3/8• The Stocks have met with a rise of three per Cent. during this Account, Consols being donc this morn ing at 69 3 / 4 for settling day. The alarm created by the recent Investigation has completely subsided in the country, in consequence of the result, and confi dence among the Monied Interest is again reinstated. Those persons who have been lately selling to an immense amount, have now become purchasers, and the general opinion is, that a further advance will take place; indeed, so confident are the Bulls, that many bets have been taken that Consols will be done at 73, on or before Christmas-day next. From what a gulf has the Kingdom escaped !—i it has yet, indeed, escaped it. Were any one to assert that the Government of tilt. IlAnovEnlANs, like that of the STUAItTS, has, for some years, been studious to become despotic, would it be more difficult, from the complexion of many public measures, to infer the fact, than it was from the measures of the ex pelled family ? We will not take upon us to answer this question, but content ourselves with reminding our countrymen, that the attempt of JAMES to raise money without the sanction of Parliament, was but a make-weight in the crimes charged against that Monarch. The real and fundamental cause of his ex pulsion was, the means employed, during his reign, to pollute the stream of Justice. We presume not to say that the present administration of Justice is at all to be compared to what it was under the infa mous JEFFERIES, the favourite Judge of JAMES; but we will venture to assert, that the plots which were the precursors to the bloody adjudications of Jar- FERIES were not supported by more abominable means than we have seen employed in our own time (even before the suborned and perjured witnesses were adduced against the QUEEN), to put down conspiracies hatched by the employers of Edwards and Co. whoever these employers may have been. —Now, with the circumstances before us of the Cato. greet Plot, and the character of the different wit nesses employed to give testimony against individuals' tried for High Treason, we would ask—ls there no thing in this which bears a semblance of a tendency to corrupt the administration of Justice? Should the force, however, of political prejudice induce some to shut their eyes to this, we appeal to , the QUEEN'S trial, and we ask, if there have not been doctrines, solemnly argued in that detestable and immoral proceeding, subversive of all confidence in the wonted purity of the Blitish Judicature ? We have seen, fur example, the QUEEN dishonoured by the omission of her name in the Liturgy ; and yet we have heard the Lotto CHANCELLOR, who was an abettor in that most unjust and scandalous proceed ing, grave 4 stating, with tears in his eyes too ! EWliat a touching sensibility 11—that the QUEEN was to have the benefit of what was once a Briton's birth right, namely, of being considered innocent until proved guilty ; and this, too, after the same person bad concurred in stigmatizing her, for months before, to the world, as a guilty person, although the speech to which we refer was that of the very first Judge who had it in his power to offer any opinion at all on her case. We ask, therefore, with such facts before us, whether there is not the greatest and best founded cause to fear that the young despot ism in this country, believed itself sufficiently strong to punish, to a certain degree, before trial, in order to insure a greater degree of credibility to the testimony intended to* be adduced to the tribu nal, however corrupt such testimony might be? Be. wren man and man we have no doubt that justice will yet be long impartially administered, but be tween the State and individuals we dare not trust ourselves to express what we fear was aimed at, and is not yet lost sight of, by the men who sought the destruction of the QUEEN Of ENGLAND. We cannot, therefore, refrain from still calling upon the country, from one end to the other, to address the House of Commons, as their natural guardians, loudly express ing their detestation of the deadly taint that has been given to the Judicature as between the Crown and the subject, by measures which, had their contrivers and supporters succeeded in their object, would have sub, vcrted entirely the British Constitution ; and praying the Housv to take into its most serious consideration the best means for preventing ;Ay future attempt to 'violate the laws, under the pretext offssiiensing justice, Let Parliament know how indignant the British Pen% pie feel, at having seen a fellow-subject—the highest, too, in the Empire--attempted to be sacrificed on tes tinsony procured by subornation, and the proofs of that subornation rejected till the sacrifice should be finished. In-a -word, now that all manner of evident perjuries have been not only endured,. but defended by the gravest statesmen, there is no species of audacity that wt do not expect to heat, unless, as we have said, the voice of public indignation be raised to such a pitch as to make truth triumph over the wicked cla mour of those whom the success of iniquity has made bold. We have heard already an individual in the House of Commons—we wish to forget his name— complain of the ability with which the oppression and persecution of the QUEEN was condemned by the Public Press, and argue, from that circum stance, that power should be employed against it We wonder if the poor fool never heard of Dom- TIAN, who banished all the literary men from Rome o that had any respect for truth, in order that posterity might not receive a true account of his government? Does he think, that the state of the British Empire is to be mended by acting on the maxims of DOlll - ? We hear also of other Senators reviling the people as rabble; and of others, whose names are familiar with the bloody vouchers of the Irish Re bellion, calling for penal proceedings, in open scorn of public opinion. What .may not be ap prehended from such men having political power, when we already see how much public justice is deteriorated ? Have we not seen a ferocious Yeo manry thanked for a massacre at Manchester ? In all the proceedings that led to the Revolution of 1688, was there any one transaction to be compared with this ? Have we not seen miscreants, employed in goading the People into open acts of insurrection, permitted to escape from Justice ?—nay, in corres pondence with those who connived at their escape! Does not this look like a corruption of Justice?— Does not this look like a machination to get occasion for new acts of power, by which the Government may become more and more irresponsible to the People ? We, therefore, again invoke the People to consider the hideous plague-spot that is now reddening and ripening on the spotless bosom of Justice, and to apply the remedy while there is yet time. The House of Commons will soon meet, and if the table is not covered with remonstrances against the course of domestic policy now pursued, the fate of the country is sealed ! Her sun is set, never to rise again ! A few streaks of glory may yet adorn the clouds of her twilight, but her day is past, and she must sink down into the slumber of that night which has so long invested the greatness and the virtues of Greece and Rome ! It may, perhaps, be said, that in thus calling on the People to express to their Representatives the ne cessity of raising a barrier against the invasions of des potism, we are encouraging that disrepute into which it is alleged that the House of Lords has fallen. But any such accusation we despise. None can more highly appreciate the utility of that branch of the Legislature than we do; but, at the same tittle, we see, in the change between the state of the present age, and the circumstances in which the Peers were when in the full possession of that ancient influence which conferred their present power, that they now possess no political influence but what rests on per sonal character, and on that small and narrow ad vantage which wealth confers ; for, in truth, the proudest of our Barons is now shrunk into com parative insignificance. A cotton-manufacturer, po pular among his workmen, would, in any struggle with the Crown (should this country be ever again visited with such a dreadful calamity), be found in possession of more real power than the most gorgeous Duke in the Peerage. As long as the existing system continues, and the Government finds it expedient to preserve a majority in the House of Commons, the Landed Proprietors must be deemed to pos sess great influence. But they are no longer what they were when their influence was measured by the number of their feudal retainers. Still, how ever, the House of Lords, as consisting of highly educated characters, men placed by fortune above pecuniary temptations, enlightened and bred for Legislation, must ever be greatly respected : but they will be no longer so than they preserve their alleged moral and intellectual elevation. From the moment that they act so as to make the people sus- 1 pect them to be little better than mere adventurers for place and patronage, they may continue to talk of their privileges, but their power will be at an end; and the lass of their power will be so much gained by despotism. The Roman Senate, when its inde pendence was extinct, still met—to deify a TIBE RIUS, a NERO, and such monster!. The fallowing judicious and sapient Protest was entered on Saturday, at the Parliament Office, already signed by Lord SHEFFIEI4), who distinguished him self by his absence from the House of Lords during much of the time occupied in hearing evidence fin and against the Bill of Pains and Penalties; and by the puke of NOUVIUMPERLAND, the calibre of whose capacious credulity may be measured by his famous assertion respecting the hundred thousand armed Ra dicals who he knew were to rise between the Tyns and the Ware 1 It is left for the signatures of ig that large and respestabk body of independent Peers which supported the Ministers in carrying the Bill through '- 9.14 " Dissiartrom Because no ancient ground appears for the abandonment of the Bill founded on the charges against her Majesty the QUM, i which had undergone the most solemn , and accurate investiga tion; charges in which the morality of the country was deeply interested, and on which all the Peers, Spiritual and Temporal, who delivered their opinions, wkhvery few exceptions, declared their conviction of her guilt ; and the abaadoamett of Which a dereliction which may bring into disrespect not only the cha racter of our highest Court of Judicature, but that of the Nation itself. And it is with the greatest concern we observe the ex treme want of consideration for the Sovereign, by the derelic tion of proceedings so necessarily brought on, by which a wife. declared by the House of Peers to have been guilty of adulterous intercourse with a menial servant, and of a conduct the most depraved, is to remain his Queen Consort, thus lowering the dignity of the Crown and embarrassing the country with far greater difficulties than those which seem to have induced his Majesty's Government to relinquish the prosecution of the Bill." Query—Was the declaration of the Duke of Molt- TROSE, that he would never acknowledge the Illus trious Person on whom he sat as Accuser, Juror, and Judge, as his QUEEN, though the Bill of Pains and Penalties had been thrown out, treasonable or not ? The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night, and those of Saturday this forenoon. The Public of France are exclusively occupied with the Elections, the progress of which excite not a little ill-humour among the party of the Liberals. The following Deputies have been returned for the Departments and Arrondissements respectively stated; DEPARTMENT OF THE MAINE-ET-LOIRE. A: 13zaurazau.—M. Cerbron-Lavau. As Szottz.—M. Pilastre. DEPARTMENT OF THE SAO)IE-ET-LOIRE. AT MACOII%-•.M. 111eynard de Laveauz, Tsz-Lieut.-General. AT CHATAILLZL—M. Humboldt-Conte. As Cnazons.—M. de Tigard, Lieut.-GeneraL AT AVTUM—M. Billardet, Mayor. DEPARTMENT OF THE DRONE. As VALENCI-.-BL Olivier, President of the College. DEPARTMENT OF THE COTES DU NORD. AT DINAN--M. de la Moussaye, President of the College, Mi nister of the King at Stuttgard. DEPARTMENT OF ARDENNES. As Vounzas--M. Lefevre-Glneau, already named by the College of Mezieres. Intelligence of the second reading of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against the Queen of ENGLAND, had just reached the French capital. This event was considered decisive of its passing the Lords! An article from Frankfort, of the 2d of November, states, that a treaty has been concluded by the Bri tish Government with the Porte, which has offended the Emperor of RUSSIA, and may even influence the negotiations at Troppau. A courier from Vi enna stated, that on the 21st, 22d, 23d, and 24th ult. conferences had taken place at the house of Prince METTERNICH ;' all the Ministers of the great Powers were present ; but that it was not until the 25th that the two Emperors and the Prince of Pave- SIA had a meeting. Several commercial houses at Frankfort have received advices that the Committee, styled " European," formed of the Ministers of the five great Powers which had sat at Pa?is to consider the general affairs of Europe, was to be transferred to Vienna. Private letters from Madrid state, that the refusal of the King of SPAIN to sanction the suppression of the Monkish Institutions, would compromise the peace of the capital. The decree has been promul gated, in due form, as a law. This law has swept down 225 Convents, of which the Government has already taken possession on behalf of the public.— The Cones have adopted the Decree of the War Minister, for fixing the Army—Establishment at 124,000 men, wi.h discretion to raise 12,000 Militia. A Frankfort article states, that news had been re ceived from Berlin which had caused a great sensa tion in that part of Germany. The Emperor ALEX ANDER is said to have withdrawn from the English the privilege which they have hitherto exclusively en joyed, of supplying Russia with clothing ; and to have conferred it on a Company of Prussian manu facturers. " This decision of the Russian Monarch," will, it is said, " give new life to the cloth manufac tures of Silesia and the other countries of Germany. It is calculated that England will lose by the change several millions:' A letter from Rome of the .29th ult. says—" Wit hin these few days the Austrian troops have aug mented considerably on the frontiers of the March of Ancona." French Five per Cents. Friday, 77 fr. 65 c. The Duke and Duchess of RICHMOND and family have left town for their seat, Malcolm, Suisex. The Duke and Duchess of ATHOL and family left town on Saturday, for their seat in Scotland. The Duke of GaavToN and his son, Lord CHARLES FITZROY, left town on Saturday for his Grace's seat, Euston Hall, Thetford. The Earl of CARNARVON has left town for his seat, High Clere, Berks. The Marquis and Marchioness CAMDEN and the Ladies PRATT have left town for their seat, the Wil derness, Kent. The Marquis and Marchioness, f BATH and family have left town for their seat, Long Ditton, Wilts. Lord and Lady G. H,CavENDIsH and family are arrived at purlingion How, Piccadilly, from their 'seat, Compton-place, Easthourn. Lord Naptag left town yesterday fpr his seat is Scotland. the second reading,"- 7 [Nsse ow be signed until the rising:oft* Hose' oK the . ll3d hut t H DlOVedi That the further tins of din be vd.. jonreed to this day six montbs. Which being objeetedetbil question was put thermals?: It was resolved in the affirmative. GUARDS' CLUB-HOUSE, NOV. 13. A paragraph having appeared in the Times News. paper, that the Guards Club-house, in St. James's. street, was 44 very splendidly illuminated" on Friday night last, we are requested by the Committee of that Club (in consequence of a General Meeting of its Members), to state, that the only lights displayed there were six fl a mbeaux, placed in the balaony by the Steward of the Club (unauthorised by the Com mittee), in order to prevent the windows being bruken by the mob.—A paragraph also having appeared ;.1 . several Newspapers, that the soldiers on duty at the House of Lords, on Friday last, cheered, on its beir. 4 announced that the Bill pending in that House sva., I withdrawn, we are requested , b y the same authe. city to state, that the paragraph in question h falit, and without any foundation wha tever. By Order of the Committee, J. AUSTIN, House Steward. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. I R Tuesday, was launched at Annan, a fine new sloop, beloret , N to Messrs. NSCHOLSOX and Co. called the" Henry Brot.gitsm. The William, of Whitehaven, is arrived at bliramichi ; sp on the 14th October, in lat. 45. 28. long. 54. 30. the Isal). 0 .1. , from Maryport to Bnektusb. The brig Queen Charlotte, Captain Flys., from Dumfries, a:- rived at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the I st Oct o be r. Tee brig Adeona , Captain WHITSMCAD, front Dumfries, arrived the:, on the same day ; and the ship Elizabeth, Captain TROMSO>, also from Dumfries, on the Sd October, all well. The James, Suzuvax, bound to Liakelly, sunk near Llanrra. dock, on the 9th instant. Cargo expected to be saved. The Friends, Davis, front London to Liverpool, put intc.: Portsmouth on Saturday, very leaky. Penance, Nov. 11.—Arrived the Avantura, SoMNER, front S. Übe's for Aalborg, with her rudder much damaged. Arrived off the port, yesterday, the John Barry, Etaaatsy, from Calcutta, last from the Cape of Good Hope. Fa Lawezo, Nov. 11.—Wind N. R.—Arrived the Hope's Anchor, PAus, from Longwood ; and Whitehall, Cluar.e, front Liverpool for St. Michael's. Arrived off the port, the Vritz..- lands Welwaren, Vrax, from Liverpool for Harlingen. DIAL, HOVERS/II 13.—Wind S. E.--Carne down from the River last night and this morning . , the Albion, Dayms, for Rio Janeiro; Comus, Humus, for America; Brilliant, CLARK, for St. Lune; Fanny, PSACOCK, for Naples; Bienfaiaant, PERNAIS, for Rotten • Hoopende Viper, VANDER PERO , f or 31arseilles ; Affable So phie, Km:, for Bourdeaux ; Heroine, IleaNaar. ; the James, POSTLETHWAITZ ; Emerald, Mocaz ; William Harris, Hostas ; Duke of Bedford, HALLIDAY • and Catharine Green, HOLLAND. for Jamaica; William Lushington, Scanlon, for St. Kitt's ; Mars, DAVRSHILL, for Montserrat; Smolensko, \Viir, for llavre; and the Marquis of Anglesea, Rzco, for Jamaica.— Arrived and sailed for the River, the Margaret, Aura. front Bengal ; and Loyal Briton, Plumps, front Quebec. The Ca tharine Green, Mars, and Bromley, have sailed; and the re, minder will get away as soon as the ebb tide makes. HARWICH ' Nov. 13...-Arrived the Prince of Orange packet, with a Mail from Cuxhaven. Gasmoca, Nov. 10.—Wednesday night, the ship Mary and Betty, of Wexford, THOMAS Lammas., with corn, pigs, and sheep, on her voyage to Liverpool, was wrecked on the Marl, near Muclbegger. Of the crew and seven passengers, only three were saved. The Captain is among the number of those that perished. Cusrom-House, Novmasza 13.-Ships Entered Inwards : The Aid, from Memel; Liebe, from Human; Jonge Jurgun, from ditto; Flora, from Riga; Hercules, from ditto • Joseph and Ann, from Antwerp; Martin, from St. Petursburgh% Vrow Margaretta, from Tonderen ; Esta Maria, from ditto; Aurora, from ditto; Johannes, from ditto; Metta Catarina front tWyck ; Twende Lostre, from, Aalborg; William and 'James, `from Stettin ; Metton, from Riga ; Edward, from ditto; the Earl of Clancarty, front Rotterdam; Spring, from St. Peters burgh ; Harrier, from Hamburgh ; Minerva, from Riga ; and Ann, from 1 2 illau.—Entered Outwards :—The f3aiosborough, for Hamburgh; Commercial Packet, for Antwerp; Northum berland, for Batavia; Oporto, for Oporto • London Packet, for Limerick; Lang, for St. Vincent's • and Three Sisters, for Rotterdant.--Cleared Outwards :—The James Dunlop, for Nevis ; Kangaroo, for Genoa; Theodorus, for Amsterdam ; Ann, for Antwerp; Ceres, for Jamaica; Garland, for the Cap; o Good Rope; Anna, for Velparoiso; MirAsels, for St. Vu cent's; Goudvisch , for Amsterdam; Wilson, for Antwerp ; and Elen, for Hamburgh. Azuvzo—At Mario, the Hannah, Join, from London. At Cadiz, Matilda, Cumming, from London; Edward, from Liver pool; and Swan, from Waterford. At Gibraltar, Sophia, Hour r toun, from London ; Alert, Vicars, from Bristol; Mary Ann, Field ; Traveller, Nead ; and Two Brothers, Woolacm, from Liverpool • Blessing, Joysoy, from Newcastle ; Arcadian, Took, from Cork; and Ann, St. Croix, from Jersey. At port Jack son, Governor Migh, from the South Seas. At Havre, Chris tian the First, Roos ' front Christianstadt. At Fiume, Friend ship, Tyre:, from London ; and Eagle, Pratt, from Plymouth. VESSALS STOKEN WITH.—The Pomona, Stayers, with 750 bar rels of oil on board, off the Cape of Good hope; Catherine, front Monte Video to Liverpool, on the 14th ult. in lat. 13. long. 30. ' • and Lord Callingwood, from PerilailliMco to Liverpool, the 24tb, in lat. 34, long. 34. • The Lord Sidmouth, extra packet, atrived on Sun day night at Dover, from Calais, with Mr. Krous, the Messenger, Colonel BaowN, and two other per sons, who proceeded for London. The Earl and Countess of JERSEY have left town for their seat, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, The Marquis of HUNTLEY has left town. The Marquis and narchiones; CoanwaLLts have left town for their seat in Suffolk. The Earl of ABINGDON left his house in Dover. street yesterday for his seat, near Oxford. The Marquis and Marchioness of LA NSTIOWN and family left town this morning, for their seat s Bowood Park, Wilts. The company assembling at Mr. J, STEER'S, the Brown Cow, in Sheffield, admiring the patriotic con duct of Mr. DA LBY, the butcher, of Derby (who re cently transmitted a baron 9f beef to her MAJESTY), have sent him a present of a handsome set of butchers knives and a steel; for which that Gentleman has re turned thanks, in a sensible and humorous letter. si We understand that a Requisition is in progresr, for a Public Meeting, to congratulate his MAJESTY on the failure of this third Conspiracy against his Wife; and to pray that every one concerned therein may be brought to condign punishment, and ren dered for ever after incapable of holding office of honour or emolument in this kingdom;'-, The Bristol Mercury, Monday, November IS, ~ The Ministers justify themselves for abandoning the Bill after the third reading, by the too-well founded apprehension that it wppld hpe been lost 1.% in the Commens."—Neto Timm. LEwcs.—T e fate of the obnoxious, and, we be lieve, generall considered unconstitutional 13,11 against her MA ESTY, as announced by Lord LIVES' POOL in the House of Peers on Friday, was e.iii‘• on Saturday morning proclaimed here by the b ta tongue of Old Gabriel: the bells of the .everal churches were soon after IPA a ringing, a band of nub c paraded the streets, and many expre , sed their feelings on the very interesting occasion, by decorating their hats with laurels and white favours, as emblems o: Victory and Innocence. In short, the welcome Ili %i , was received here as a matter of' great joy and ex.ll - and a general illumination is to be the (An.- seirencs, •