Star. — London, England, 1820-12-23 00:00:00

tHE CHATHAM ADDRESS: - . TO THE EDITOR OF' THE STAR. CHATHAM, DECTJOHN. 11, 1840. Fin—A Meeting was held yesterday at the Mitre t.la. Chatham, for the purpose of addressing the and approving of the conduct of his present 31i,I;sters ; as also of making a violent and abusive attack on the Independent Press. The whole of these Loyal Addressers' are men in office—the Arch deacon of Rochester, the Clergy, the Officers of the Dock-Yard, Victualling-Office, and Ordnance-Office ; many of the Officers of the Navy, Marines, and dif ferent Corps who are stationed here—(who had no right to rote, not bring Parishioners). - Had they not hurried on the business (taking care to stop all discussion), they would have been de feated, for not one out of ten (who were present on the Government side) belonged to Chatham Parish. 1 will pledge my word that not a dozen individuals (exclusive of Government hirelings) will affix their signatures to that Address, because they can never sanction any Address which approves of the KING'S Ministers conduct towards the noble QUEEN. This, Sir, is the real truth, and a s I am anx i ous f or freetlont of " speech, and the freedom of the Press, which they are aiming to fetter, I shall be much obliged by your inserting this explanation in your valuable Paper, which the Tax-eaters may contra dict if they dare.—l am, Sir, your obedient Servant and constant Reader, _ • • to 41.• • ts. P.S. Since writing the above, a certain Colonel !•ac invited the Freemasons, of whom he is one, to si:;n a 1 ‘ Loyal Address to the K tso r and a number of soldiers belonging to that Society being under the Colonel's entire command, dare not refuse to sign it. THE HAMPSHIRE ADDRESS. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 21. Ye,terday afternoon, a Party Address to the Kiwo, improperly called by the Ministerial partizans " The Hampshire County Address," which had lain at public places in these towns eight days for signatures, was sent back to the Pitt Club at Winchester, whence it emanated, to be put into Courtly , hands, for pre sentaticn to his MAJZSTY. It obtained only 463 sig natures at Portsea, and 154 in Portsmouth ; a proof I to demonstration that the People are not with the KIN4 . S Ministers. The personal Address to his MA -3 nay, presented to him on board his yacht, about three months since, received 4,000 signatures in less than -b hours; and the affectionate and loyal Address since presented to the QUEEN had 12.000 signatures! But the present Address being considered as only one of the puny efforts abroad to support the Ministers in their places, met with the fate it merited ; for if the men and Officers in Government pay and employ ment, and the Officers on half-pay who signed, be subtracted from the total, it will leave a sorry few indeed of uninfluenced, independent signatures. The party with whom this Address originated at Win chester, sent copies of it to twenty-one other places in the County, where they have lain at Public Halls and Inns for signatures. But whatever may be the result at other places, under the circumstances, it is Nvorse than folly, at this time of day, to deny that the great mass of the People consider the measures of the present Ministry as 44 injurious to the best in terests of the country," and that, therefore, they ought not to be supported. A report has been in circulation some days that a Comely Meeting, having regard to the KING and Con. ngution, will be called, a Requisition to the Sheri having been signed by that patriot Peer. the Earl of CAEN A VON, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen of the first consideration in the country. ALRESPORD, DEC. 22.—1 f you want a specimen of the talent employed by the Loyalists, take the fol lowing estract from the Hampshire Address :—" The Nation only requires to be mused to a sense of the danger, in order to raUy round their King, their Re. ligion, and their Laws r PITERSFIELD, DILC. 21.—This Address, set on foot by the C:ergy, Tax-gatherers, Placemen, and Excise men, in and near 1% hichester, was sent over to the Rev. Mr. Wailona, Mayor and Returning Officer of this rotten Borough, to get signatures, and has been laying t Tee days at the Townhall; but, much to the credit of the inhabitants, not one name has been ob t.tined. This morning, when the Bailiff went to take it away, to his astonishment the Address and con tents were lost, some unlucky fellow having entered during the night and stole it 1 SHEFFIELD ADDRESSERS. TO THE EDICOR OF THE STAR. Niel&ld, December 21, 1820. sit—The tltra-Loyalist: here have Leen playing ',I the same trick as their brethren at Manchester, and many other places, in order to obtain signatures t..) a Loyal Address to his MAJIRSTY. Several Re verend and L.ty Ultras last week called a Meeting, ;:t the Cutlers' Hall, in this town, which they porn pously designated as " A Meeting of the Master, Warden, Searcher, Assistants, and Commonalty, of the Company of Cutlers, within Hallamshire, the Town Collector and his Assistants, the Twelve Capi tal Burgesses,and Commonalty, and the Magistrates, (;entry, Clergy, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants ci tile Town and Neighbourhood of Sheffield." After this array of force, Mr. Editor, you will naturally expect a numerous list of names; but there were only twenty-seven who signed the Requisition, and about tvice that number attended the Meerhig. Unremit tmg exertions have been ever since making, and every means resorted to by the Clergy, and the other pa trons of the maaatre to procure signatures ; but such is the good sense anidiscrimination of the great bulk cl the enlightened population of this extensive and thickly inhabited town, that only about 300 signa tures have been obtained, and full two thirds of these by means which are too well understood to need de scribing. The following sample of this Loyal Ad tre.s will suffice: " It is with the deepest concern that we have wit tcfsed, is many instances, an unexampled licentious nes in the British preis ; the factious and seditious P:ouse of which, we are constrained to enumerate among the most prone causes of that infidelity and blasphemy, that insubordination and disaffection, we have beheld stalking, with such appalling fium one end of the kingdom to the Other," &v. is opposition to this fuissinc trash, a Requisition . . _ • . bas been prepied by a number of respectable inha bitants (staunch suppOrters of the Whig and inde pendent interests), for the purpose of calling a Public Meeting--not to congratulate and Amer—but to tell his MAJESTY some 'wholesome truth., and to implore him to. dismiss froth his presence and Councils for ever, his present Ministers and evil-adviserss who have brought the country into its present distreised and critical situation. This Requisition has already been most numerously signed; and when the Address is prepared, there is no doubt it will receive more thousands of real- independent, and unsolicited sig natures, than its precursor will hundreds. As your valuable Paper circulates so largely in this town, you will oblige many of your friends and constant 11 , ;aders, by giving place to the above. I am, Sir, your's obediently, w. P. LIVERPOOL., DECEMBER 20: A Requisition was this day presented to Mr. LEY LAND (the Mayor), very numerously and most re spectably signed. The object is a Meeting to consi der the propriety of addressing the King and the Queen upon the recent very extraordinary public occurrences. The Mayor received the Requisition in a manner that shewed he knew what was due to the calls of the Pet:ople at this important crisis, and promised to give early notice to the ltequisitionists of the day he should appoint for the Meeting. The names to the Requisition comprise all those who have taken any lead in politics, either amongst the Whigs-or the most earnest Reformers, and thereby exhibit aunction between those parties, which, con sidering th e unhappy discrepancies that have here existed between them, augurs much good to the great cause of the country, as that cause is opposed to the cause of the Ministers. The Loyal Address (as it is insolently termed) was got up at one of those Tavern Meetings, which, when they were resorted to by the truly loyal friends of the Constitution, were the butt of the coarse jokes of the Corporation-men. To hear the poor carpen ters and rope-makers, who have been compelled to sign it, complain, as they do w i t h out muc h reserve , of - the threat, direct and indirect, that have been used towards them, suf f iciently characterises this Loyal Address amongst the inhabitants of Liverpool. Some intimation of these threats, as I have heard, has been transmitted to the Board of Trade, that they may be posted to the credit of the threateners, to be balanced by certain facilities, &c. &c. and other et cateras pee nuns prrescribere longum erit. " INTENDED LIVE/MOT, MEETING.—There has not yet been a Public Meeting in this town since the ter mination of the prosecution against the QUEEN. The private cabal of interested partizans at the King's Arms, of which the London Courier boasts so much, has sent up its 'loyal' Address, signed by 3600 indi viduals out of a population of 100,000 ; and many of those persons, we can prove, were ordered by their employers to sign that Address, and to take their' sons, even as young as 14, to do the same! That the Courier should rejoice at such Ministerial support, is to us a gratifying proof of the decaying state of his party.—But a Piratic MEETING is now announced to be held at the Town Hall, on Wednesday next, for the purpose of voting a, truly lo'al Address to the KING, on the state of the country. It is convened by our independent and spirited Mayor ; in compliance with a Requisition, signed by nearly one hundred friends of freedom, whose rank and property, and known oppc,,ation to Ministers, will give to the pro ceedings of this important Meeting an interest which will excite attention throughout the country; and, what is more, the real sentiments of the town will be fairly and openly exhibited to his MAJESTY, under the sanction of the Municipal Authorities."—Liver pool Mercury, December 22. CLERKEN WELL MEETING.' Yesterday a very numerous and respectable Meet ing of the Inhabitant Householders of Clerkeawell Parish took place at the Workhouse;for the purpose of Addressing the King to dismiss his Ministers for ever, to place her Majesty's name in the Liturgy, &c. &c. Upwards of 100 Paraioners had sent in a Requisition to the Churchwardens, but those Gen tlemen refused to allow the Meeting to take place in the Church. The Overseers of the Parish were then applied to,..and the Workhouse was immediately offered for the accommodation of the large body of the Parishioners. In order to prevent the possibility of any disagree able consequences arising from the admission of strangers, several of the Rate Collectors of the Fairish stationed themselves at the door of the Work house, and refused to allow any to pass in who were not Parishioners. The Chairman (Jona Seim., Esq.) having stated the object of the Meeting, Mr. NICHOLSON stood up to propose the first Re solution. Englishmen, he said, inherited certain rights and privileges from their fathers, which it was no less their duty to hand down unimpaired to their children than it was to provide for their bodily wants.' Those rights had not only been invaded; but threat ened with annihilation; and a tide of corruption and public extravagance had flowed in upon the People, sweeping everything before it. If the voice of the Peo ple were not excited against the daring impetuosity of Ministers, the happiness and prosperity of the coun try would soon disappear. It bad been seen that the: general expression of the public feeling had scared away from the Queen those enemies who now began to tear, that the degradation they had sought, by false evidence, to fix upon her, was soon likely to become exclusively their own—(Loud applause).— The alarm had driven them to the contemptible ex pedient of setting their puppets to work in every hob' and corner, to get up what they miscalled " Loyal Addresses," and by such a miserable alliance, backed by the means of applying a corrupt influence, they expected to defend themselves against the publicly expressed feelings of a wronged and indignant popu lation. The Parish of Clerkenwell had not escaped, but was doomed to hear a Chairman and a few com fortable Gentlemen cooped up together in private, monopolize the loyalty of the Parish. The determina tion of those Gentlemen to confine themselves to a select party, was productive of a consequence perhaps but little expected by them—the determination of the great body of the Parishioners to meet publicly, and maintain their claim to the character of being loyal by . , , s ;: I sitiist IopAT ailsini tire King to get rid of a set of Men sap Were not caledlited to answer the purposes either of Goil or man! . ..:(I.:oudanitaii.se?. - Mr. Comair reprobated the practice pursued by de signing men, to make the King believe that a large portion of the People were disaffected. Mr. HAYES said, it ss'ai with mingled feelings of regret and Satisfaction he rooked at the large assem bly before.him—regret at the necessity there existed for passing a heavy censure upbn Ministers, and satis faction at the fact, that while they yet had the liberty to speak, there were assembled together so many.un aer ch-cumstances highly Itvounible to the cause or, Liberty—(Applause). --There might have'been times when there existed a difficulty in finding ont What part of a Minister's conduct was deserving of anima& version ; but those times had long since depailed, tihd now the difficulty was to point out any act Of a ; nister that did not merit and meet with reprbb3tldne Some more discussion took place, in'which the Coal duct of Ministers, in excluding the name of her Ma jesty from the Liturgy, was severely condemned. The Resolutions and Address were carried imatii mously ; and, thanks having been voted.to the Chair man, the Meeting broke up. ASTROLOGY. aft11m..•.• ' •..1. THE STAB OF BRUNSW/Cr: see a brilliant Star ; o.v shine, The Star of Brunswick—CsaoLots! Shedding sweet influence far and wide; Our nation's glory, and our pride! When this, our brightest Star, appoars,, All hearts its genial influenve cheers; While Gnoaonan-Sinus, out of sight, Affords us scarce one ray of light; But with a gaartde aspect blights (Through its malefic satellites) Our ancient usages and rights; Tough we still hope 'twill form a Sri% Or, in a =rue aspect, shine With the benefit CA O.OILAMI ! Could we but see these Stars unite, Concentrating their rays of light, This would indeed our hopes raise high Of an auspicious destiny ; Though now surrounded with deep gloom, Portentous of some dreadful doom! Temple, Dec. 11th. ALFRED. NAPLES, DECEMBER 2. The news of the rejection of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against the brave Queen was received here with enthusiasm by all classes; and here, where her persecutors pretended that she had been treated with contempt and excluded from society, a fete was given yesterday in hono ur o f t h e event . I t was previously communicated to Sir William A , Cotirt, the British Minister, who accepted the invitation, but on the preceding day be was visited with a diplomatic head ache, and excused himself, and of course his diplo► i snatic brethren felt the epidemy, and did not attend, much to the annoyance of their gay Secretaries and Suites. However, the fete was prepared, and: ar ranged with much taste and order, and her Highness the Margravine of Anspach did die honours, as you will see by the invitation cards.* The dancing was animated, and continued to a late hour ; the refresh ments were of the best quality, and the music excel lent. The attention and unceasing politeness of Margravine were felt and acknowledged by the com pany. The ball was given at the grand hotel of the " Villa di Roma." Its walls touch the sea, and from the splendid balcony were seen Vesuvius, which fired away, in luminous activity, the . whole evening ; the fleet of English and French men of war anchored in fate ; and the various interesting scenery of this classical place. . The company wai respectable and numerous of the English ; several of the Bankers and Merchants were there, but none of the Englisij, who visit Sir William A'Court. Of the Neapolitans, French, and Spaniards, not a Prhice or Noble was absent ; the assemblage of beau tiful women was striking, and they dressed splen didly. Amongst them were-- Prince and Frincess Paterno, Duke and Duchess of Berwi c k and Alba, Marchese Bario and daughters, Duke and Duchess di Serra di Falco Prince Coll, Marquis and Marchese Ri va d'Ebro, Prince Lid. Princess Dentici, Princess Eboli, Prince and Princess Pignatelli, Duke Regina, Marquis La Gave Duke . di Rocca Romano Princess Caspo/i, Marquis Riven°, Duke and Duchess Naja, Duke and Duchess Capoli, Duke di Casserano, Prince and Princess Rufano Marquis Minatolo, Marqui s Gui lano, Duchess Calabrito, Duchess Careia, General Wm. Pepe, General Florestan Pepe, Duke di Casa Calenda, Duke di Co. rignano, Prime and Princess Belmonte, General Petrinello, Duke St. Teodoro, Duchess Florento, Marquis Cavakareta and daughters, Duke Diano, Duke Castro Nuvao. • BILLET. " Madame la Duckesae de Berwick est prie d'bonorer de sa presence le IMAM sera donne Vendredi 1 Dec. a hulk heures, a la Villa &llama, en honneur de sa Majeste la Reine d'Angleterre. —Son Altesse is Margravine d'Anspadi a bien roads' se charger d'en faire lea bonnears. Naples, le 27 Novembre, 1820." Mrs. ANN Rousg, a *idow Lady of fortune, of Upper Berkeley -street, was lately looking over a box full of papers, when'the lighted candle fell down and set fire to them, which communicated to her clothes, and in a momeat she was enveloped in flames ; her screams soon alarmed her servant, who ran tb her as sistance, but the whole of her clothes were com pletely burnt off her back, and her person was dread fully scorched, especially the shoulders. Two Medi cal Gentlemen attended, but their interference was of no avail, as she #as quite dead. She was eight• years of age.—An Inquest was held on the body-- Verdict " Accidental Death." An awful event happened on Saturday. the 16th instant, at Stamford. Mr. WILLIAM ASHBY, an emi nent saddler Lsome years ago resident at Boston), was thrown from his horse in the street called Scotgate, l and killed on the spot. He and hii son wero riding! out for a morning airing : the'horse which the father; rode was a spirited animal, and had vexed the rider by his• mettlesome tricks: galloping into the town, be stumbled opposite the Green Man public-house, and threw Mr. Asnny with such force as to fracture his skull in a dreadful 'manner. The unfOrtunate man, covered with blood, was lirmadiately taken into the public-house; but never spoke, and died in two minutes then AAA . , . Lord CousinAiint r , the new dovertior of Ceyloti; wasetpected in thit island Froth Englaad tibdut the latter end of the year: • The 20th. June, the 45th Regiment was statio ned at Kandy ; 73d Regiment at Trincomalee 4nd Point de Galle; 16th Regiment at Colombo; 83d.Regi4 meat, at Colombo and Ratnapoca-e ; Ist Ceylon Re. - irnent. at Kaatiy; 2d Ceylon Regiment at Colombo. By the list aceounts trim the Island of Ceylon, a General Court Martial was sitting at Kandy, for the trial of the Chief, who was supposed td be con. cerned in the attempt tai create Insutrectiob .41 the Colony; and oa which occtssioa the Mails going itcrost the Island, ftom Colombo to Trincomalee were inter , . cepted, and the bearers tkereif killed; . The trgnsports Lady Hamilton; LondBh, 0.4 roclitso, were at Trincomalee fthe Defence at Point de• Galle, in Ceylon.; Those ships took int the 16th RegiMent to that island, and were to sail fot England about tht end of Julyt •• . , ZOVAt : INtELLIGENCit- • The Majesty's xhipsEllti;vistes, Captain Ole 4 1 )n. G• RDV Its, arrived at Vastras,firoin ceylog;nitt lie tat of June, Isis Majestft ship LIANDIIII, of GO guns, bearing the flag of -Rear•Adroirair - SirMaair thicriwtion„ Bart. sailed frdna 'Frio; comalee, Ceylon, for hlidras, on the stlr of June, and arrived there a few days aften4arda. Perms:Sten, Disc. 21.--The three niela lately drowned off the Start belonged to his 31,ajesty's brig flarroos. The Fame, Owerri of Barmouth, from Charente fur Londcm, with a cargo of brandy, got on shore near Devil's Puint,, in coming out of 'Ls, maze, on Tuesday, and received so moat damage, that the will be compelled to discharge her cargo. The Wanderet, DUON 3 of this port, arrived at Dublin, from Messina, on the 7th instants The' Aurora, Praasrih, arrived at Malta the 27th October, from Plymouth. The Gleaner, Qs:stunt, arrived at Messina the 11th ultimo, from Leghorn. The ship Tame, of Guernsey, from Halifax, with rum, toffee, and sugar, and thirty passengers, ars rived at Fewey on Thursday last, in a very leaky condition : the crew and passengers were nearly exhausted, all on board ; male and female, having been incessantly employed at the pumps for several days. t .ptain F. Newcuataa, C.B. Lieutenants 'F. C. Festiva:), and E. W. Waal's, are appointed to the Saansosra- TAM, fitting at this port, and commissioned on Thursday ; as Is Captain &aaey to the navels, and Captain Goiania to the &moan, for the Jamaitastatirui. Dm., Dee. 22.—Wind W.N.W.—Came down froth the River, the Northumbrian, Lduson, for Batavia ; John Shand, Rees, for Jamaica ; William Penn, Baows, for Havannab; Speedy, HETHEATOILO, for St. Thomas's; and Ann, Lausiamoe, for Trieste. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Birkby. Bionics, from Honduras; George Daysh, EeeAa., from Seville; Clark, PLIIIIICE, and Quebec, Tovng4, &dm Quebec; and toe Juno, —, from Bremen for Port-au-Prince. Some of the outward-bound are getting under weigh. Ltvcacoot., Dec. 21.—The Ann, from this port for Cork, was on shore dear Roelare, Wexford. Arrived the PaVourit.e, SMITH, from Quebec, sailed 20th November, with about 29 mall of vessels. Ks' LRINII, Dec. la.—The William , Scotus, of Dunkirk, from Port-au-Prince, has pin-in here leaky, and it is supposed her cargo is damaged. Wer.roin, Doc. 18.—. The Coquette, of Liverpool, burd e n 479 tons, R. TAYL.OII master , bound from Liverpool to Ulu Coast of Africa, was totally, lost on the Banks near our Coast% on Saturday morning; anddat ('nineteen men, only two were eared. Clot of a most valuable cargo, connoting 6f tuns, tobacco, bale goat* gunpowder, arms, &c. nothing will be saved. Aups values which came onshore, was plu n d ere d, Nowar,Dsc.l9.—The Isabella, lissainv, bound to Preston, drove iVe'va4ter moorings on die rocks, and is full of watere r ' Caltlanding, den -VnL. ran Dec. 19.—The vision-which Was on shore at Mop Wales, is the Helena, Houma - , of Workington. She has to pimesi:and the crew have perished. --The hea l ' Nadu, Mnit Si the thannel on Sunday last—Crew say* • - Dbunsavtiii Domaine 1/.—This day ..presentkd Alma! - • , aivr the dreadful norm of. last night, bit hair Coast. t five O'clock m . yesterday aftemoon, a Din:gamma . sclallang e IPrtaiii itiawan aster,"with the sloop John and hf,o__ .ry,of ties port, Itaiss-Fealcalaa.co master, came 61 anchor Mt iiiilyrey, in this harbour. In the course of the night they patte4:froiniheir widow* when the 4c-banner went dOwn off the house in the Bitl4, mammy, and all hands perished. The not* John and Meryl( bit "the liar, and it is feared will go to pie ces; s i bs had one of b e t .crew w ashed over beard at sea. The sloop Friends, of Mary port, master's name unknown, Was driven do the bar in the night, when the crew, having taken to their boat, were all drowned. The body of one of the crew, named DAVID Davis, has been found under the Church-yard of Dungarvon. This morning, a ship is on her beam-ends, without any one on board, close to Helvich head; and a sloop went down within a few yards of her. Cusrox-floust Dee. 22,—Ships Enter e d I nwa rd s s Mary, from Calais; Ric hardi and Ann, from Stangate Creek ; Marga. retta, from Antwerp; Jeune Aure, from Caen; Hadrian, from Quebec; Flying Fish, from Oitend ; Prince Regent, from. Palermo; and Rosalind, from Charente.—Entered Outwards: Active, for Naples ; Marianne, for the Cape of G oo d H ope ; Albion, for Galloway; Lively, for Smyrna; Mariam], for NA.. au-Prince ; Commerce, for Rouen ; Heroes, for C.'slaii; and Waterloo, for the Cape of Good Hope.—Cleared Outward*: Queen, for Trieste; Earl of Belfast, for Belfast ; Venus, for Got. tenburgh; Caroline, for Oporto; Seerogel, for Havre • Froding ham, for Elsinore; Regent packet, for Limerick ; Prosperous, fur Calais; and Intrinsic, for Jamaica. • • The Board of Longitude have issued an order for the payment of £5,000 to Captain PARRY and his companions, for having reached the 110 deg. W 4 longitude in the Arctic Circle. It is said Captain PARRY is.to go out again in the Spring, and take Ik' more southerly direction. . . The CAMELBON, Captain Mrutisot, sailedArnam Woolwich, on Tuesday, with a preCiODE -Mg% 4 10.1 board, consisting of Mademoiselle ,De Moat (toy-disoO t Countess of Colombier), Theodore Atojocchi, and %eve• ral other foreigners of the same rank and charactee The CAMELEON proceeds to the Mediterranean, ante will land the cargo on the coast of Italy. The Cnstati LEON was one of the little squadron attenstant upon the Eisen on his late aquatik. excursions. Letters from St. Helena have arrived, fri the veva* date of the '7th of November, at which period licafik• eABTE enjoyed good health, although it has been re• ported for several weeks (on the authority of mikkei; both direct and indirect) that he was seriously incline posed; he is, however, frequently subject to fits of despondency, which last for some days together, when,he remains secluded as well from his friends as from visitors. The circuit to which the Ex-Bmperot• was fortherly limited, has recently been extended, and he is permitted to ride and walk in a space of not less than fourteen miles. The advice' add, that sevetal British Officer* had been allowed interviews, ' with him, and particularly General Dovicron, who continued in the company of BONA-PARTE for a long period. His Majesty's ships GLENDOWER and SHEA It% WATER arrived at Sr. Helena on the 23d of Octohev,' and sailed again on the 2d of November, for tbe.„. South American station.- The Between sloop of sailed, on the same day, for the Cape of Good Hope o . American merchant vessels frequent& arrived in offing, and the Masters.of them continued to fast a considerable degree of dissatisfaction on being ordered, by the British Admiral on the station, nos to approach too near sham I