Star. — London, England, 1817-05-20 00:00:00

na te e haw the Crown could he expected to reward ta gic services in Parliament, in the case of persons ktar';‘,l to the Opposition ; though he could Oct be 0. nu iervalne such services, especially When ;,reolleCtid how long Mr. Burke was in Oppisi i-,n. H e wnndereo why il.e HonoUrable Ilarooet fir Fiancis Isui.lett) ovoid nu t concur with them sal-CC off.one grievance, vt least a grievance which . ..4hecn so et:eel-411y complained of ia all th e the different pat tl'it The country. He re. ~,ire.: !:is opinion till the Committee, with regitict to t k e limit or the !Lind, but he had no heat in opinion in favour of the principle Oreoni ~ras ati an which had been sanctioned by 41%144'6 sod man y o her great men. ker.l ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, in letting t: ,,:nt on a former occasion to a Bill whicli con. a clause for compensations ; had not thereby % to his approbation to the princi pld coitipensa • He thought no compensation dUe to the offices posed to be abolished. They were misapplied, ;ad naJ always been misapplied, and never could be .. !or :i.‘Ls'ects for the patronage of the Crown. He or.c.'Tred with an observation which had been al. tai made, that as there was. so large a Fund as wow at the disposal of the Crown, there could tlnci need whatever for compensations. lie wished. rt House to consider whether circumstances did not 0 3 upon them to contract the means of expenditure •;:. INC!) as possible. Would it satisfy the country toLito, that, because a set of useless offices were asoli,hed, compensations were provided as substi tees He must object to the measure, especially as c e Grown already possessed ample funds for the re sard public services. sir. JOHN SMYTH did not think it necessary to ilttaLl his consisteitcy on account of any votelte had Fien on a former Bill. He did not regard the cons. v itiations which might be given under the present n eoure as establishing the principle that pecuniary ; .'Marl was the object of public services. He could ;It conceive that any pecuniary remuneration was a tn. iideration with those wl , o filled great offices of S;.ite. How could the value of such services be , ensured by money ? Great Public Officers devote hole of their time by day and by night to the put;lic service, and it WAS difficult to say how such - could be sufficiently rewarded. Oa these ga ids, wiihout considering money as a reWari for savices, he should vote for the Bit . ' ' Mr. DOUGLAS objected to the whole - of the Bills tad the principle on which they proceded, which sent to denude the Crown of the means which it ogla to possess of rewarding public services.' The consequence of these Bills must be to make every carry with him into office the charicter of a pen ,ner. Measures of this description had been ,t 1 much too far. Public men had thought it ne cessary to offer up part of their salaries as a sacrifice t, popular prejudice, though they must know that it uab d delusion to suppose any benefit could be deri v.ll from that proceeding. He did not think that best way of obtaining theconfidence of the country. The House then divided—Ayes, 105—Noes, 45 Majority, 60.—The Billw.s then read a third time. Ibe hilditerranean Trade Bit' was lUltunittcd, and ordered a b.: read a third rinse on Thursday. T! Report of the Saving Banks' Bill MIS brought up, and the Bill we, ordered to be grad a third dale WI Wednesday. Tan Nes, fuundland Marriage BM, was, after a few obaerva nuns by Nit.. Govseuttr and M. W. bairn', read a second tem and .edeeest to be reported. House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, when die NUUMillig MUM were voted—XVl,ooo for the employ meet of alarms at ham; seitt,uoo fur bills drawn from New South iSdns Mr. HUSKIISSON moved for leave to bring in a Bill to make mchuabilion a carriage road to Mitibank Penkentluy. Ile ulna Orders of the Day Were then dapoted of, and the Hama adjeorood at Eleven o'Cluek. THE EVENING STAR.. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1817. HITE OF STOCK; THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s Reclined Tlt{--Cau. Mo. 721—D0. for Acc. 72i 4 per Cent. toil —Navy, tOsti—.Lelia Book •1 pro. hastier, 8.11, 84. 1 So. pr. ~ ' Is the House of Commons last night dant ) ** , a Am conversation on the farther Suspension 4 j the Habeas Corpus Act, but nothing new trionpikipi,, Lord CAsTLEREAOII merely renewed the autwince, that Ministers considered the peace of the country required a prolongation of that rigotous measure. The Lottery Bill was read a third time and pass ed, but not without a most strenuous opposition, and a division. The second reading of the Bill for abolishing the Offic e of Chief Justice in Eyre, condemned as useless by the Finance Committee, mild some discussion. The debate afterwards took a •ery interesting turn, when the Bill for providing compensation for the holders of Sinecures came under discussion. Mr. Enomum made a very eloquent, and in many re• 'Peas a very fair, attack upon the Pension List, which he said this Bill would greatly increase. By the Mail which arrived from Hambnrgh this forenoon, we learn that the ice on the Neva broke up 02 the 21st of April, and in consequence at least 500 Muchantmen had arrived at Riga before the 26th. Cora began to experience an instant depression. Jammu BONAPARTE has purchased for 250,000 florins an estate at Erla, about two leagues from 7 tetna. SAvAity is said to be expected at Gram. BIBLE SOCIETY. The following Circular Letter to the Clergy in Hungary was issued on the 23d of Deceno . qm 4st : " Considering that the London Bible AsuscUon bu caused the establishments of several- affiliated Societies, particularly in Germany, and that several such Associations in the Imperial Hereditary Dcni 11'ons, particularly among the Protestants, have more 'lnmate connexion in view, his Sacred Majesty has illen graciously pleased to ordain that care be taken that . print e d C o pi es of the . Bible be not circulated RLau, o r at a l ow pr i ce, by such Foreign Associa tions and Societies in his Majesty's hereditary domi- ' I llons, nor the establishment of a Bible Association. he all/llva For the tett, his Sacred Majesty is gra ciously pleased to allow th.it the trade with Bibles, as with Ali other backs by Booksellers. sitould con tinue according to the Ordiaances publi►hed on this subject. " The Rnyal Government hereby publishes this his Majesty's rs , )lutinn. that the most punctual care may be taken to nhs.•rve it in every point. (;n•eu at Buda, this V 34 of December, hi the Assembly of tits Member, of the Royal litsogariso Goveraosest." FRENCH PAPERS. 'She:Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last haiistrrived.—The domestic intelligence which they contain is not of any interest. A pretended private letter, of the 15th instant, has brill published here, which states, that a plan to shoot the Princes, at a legless', by. certain Non.commissioned Officers, had been discovered at Versailles; but there is nothing in these papers which affords the least countenance to the report, nor from the quarter whence it comes do we attach any credit to it. The auxiliary Austrian army is at last preparing to quit the Neapolitan territories. The infantry are to return home by sea, and the cavalry and artillery by land, by the route of Rome and Bologra. The departure of these troops is regarded with great sa tisfaction by the Ne4politans, and will afford a very sensible relief to their burdens. The passage of some of the advanced corps through Rome has doubtless [wen the occasion of the idle rumour which was lately propagated, of the capital of the Holy S. e having been taken possession of by the Austrian. forces. The Spanish Insurgent privateer, are now extend ing their depredations to the very .11.4.1 of the uto- tber country. Several vessels Dave been fitted nut at Cadiz to cruize against them, but tlicy keep hover ing about the coast and seem afraid of vriatiring out to sea. It would-appear as it they were neither very well manned, nor their crews of the best spirit. —The Madrid Gazeue contains a proclamation, corn , plaining of the " scandalous desertion" prevailing in the marine department ; and in an article from F. neriffe, it is remarked with surprize, that insurgent privateers of the smallest size, are daily capturing the •Largest and best equippd ships of the KING/. In the mean time it would seem, as if the Spanish in- 1 surgeon, though at deadliest war with Old Spain, were not indisposed to espouse her quarrel with Por tugal—more we should suppose, however, from pre datory designs, than any thing else.—A Lisbon let ter, dated the 26th ultimo, quoted in the Paris Papers, states, that a Portuguese ship, the Sao-Joao Protec tor, very richly laden, from Bahia, had been cap tured by a Spanish Insurgent privateer, when about fifty leagues from the mouth of the Tagus. The Commissioners sent out to negotiate with Parton respecting the interests of the French Govern ment in his part of St. Domingo, have just returned from their mission.' The sable President and his Council insisted, as an indispensable preliminary to any negotiation, that the independence of the Colony should be acknowledged ; and the powers of the Commissioners not extending this length, the con ference was broken off and nothing effected. The friends of liberty 'in Europe see with much concern the turn which matters are taking in Wir temberg. Toe attention of all Germany has been fixed on the late political deliberations in that king dom, in the hope of finding in the Constitution ex pected to result from them, a model, in the imitation of which all the other States of Germany might find their happiness and security. It was anticipated that it would be a Constitution alike assorted to the spirit of the times and to the actual state of the people— one which would sufficiently moderate the authority of the Sovereign, and at the same time ensure a rea sonable degree of liberty to the subject. But all these hopes have been deceived. The States of Wirtem berg, indifferent to every consideration of primary interest, content themselfes with insisting on the pre servation of a set of antiquated privileges, which are wholly incompatible with the integral power and pro sperity of the kingdom, • and which have no analogy to any thing in the political institutions of other Stases. What then remains for the King to do, but that sfter having employed every means of concilia. tion in vain, he should dissolve the States, proclaim the Constitotios he has framed, and put it immedi 'ately in force, by ordering the election of a new House of Representatives ? In a remoter part of Europe the cause of liberty presents rather a more favourable aspect. The Go vernor of Courland bad submitted to the Authorities of the different arondisements, a plan for the entire emancipation of the peasants, and the result of the deliberations upon it is, that there have been 279 votes for its adoption, and only l 2 against it. A Commission has been named by the Governor-Gene ral to take measures for putting the emancipation into immediate effect. --- French Funds, 16th May-66 fr. 25 e. Letters from,Cadiz mention that the whole of the Spanish Navy has put to sea! The ship Asia, fri gate Venganza, and brig Cazador, had lelt Cadiz, and entered the Straits of Gibraltar, with a view to visit the Bay of Algesiras, there take on board stores, and afterwards proceed up the Mediterranean, some say to act against the Algerines, and others on a se cret service. _ _ Yesterday being the QUEEN'S birli or natal day, when her MAJESTY completed her I.' o year, the day was observed, as usual, in a private manner, by the Royal Family, another day being appointed at the beginning of the year for a Gala Court, for the en ,couragement of trade. In the morning, the King's Equerries, and other Officers of State and the Royal lipmfhold, waited upon the QUEEN, to pay their pcgponal,rpspects of congratulation upon the return' of the. day at the Palace. The Dukes of Youct CLARENCE, Sussax, and Gun:came, and the Priq cessSpettra of Gtovcasran, paid, their dutiful a spects at the Quua's Palace, as did the Duchess of Guaucafirra, although at considerable inconvenience to herself, from the still remaining ill effects of her late severe indisposition. A number of the Nobility and persons of distinction called respectfully to leave their names upon the occasion. In the evening the Patna REGENT had a numerous party at Carlton House4t which the Princess Euzaurn and others of the Royal Family mite present. NATAL LVTRI.LIGEKCE. rtir TUNISIAN PIRATT.S. The folbwing letter nn this subje,t ,cached us by the Mail of this morning " RAMSGATE, MAY It " TO THE COI roils OF 1111. SE-Aa. " GENirtAmeN—ln addition to the infatuation I sent yesterday respecting the Tunisian pirate vessels, I have now to inform you, they prove to be b.►th corvettes, and it is not doubted arc the two vessels mentioned in your Harwich letter of the 16ih instant, as having brought to the Henry Fretliug Post-Office Packet, with a Mail from Holland, and several ether vessels, in which case they must have stolen past this unobset ved, prior in the time stated in my List. The Acme gun-brig escorted last night, front M.rgate (toads into the Downs, the Corsair that she captured, .ind the GAN:VW:DE Guard-ship, appointed to the Downs station, I find got under way, and pr)ce:ch.d down Channel yesterday afternoon, in quest of the other, which is supposed to have taken advantage of the easterly wind, and to be making the hest of his way home, having lost his consort. Should any far ther particulars come to my knowledge of this strange affair, I shall feel pleasure in communicating them to the public.—Being, Gentlemen, " Your most obedient servant, " FREDERICK PANTIN." Copy of another Letter received this morning at LLOYD'S, dated " DEAL, MAY 19. " The Turkish corvette Karabash, of 18 guns, Captain MAOANIMED Lau,►, of and from Tunis, on a cruize of about two months, arrived in the Downs this morning, with his Majesty's brig ALERT, and remain under quarantine. The Captain reports that he has not captured any vessel on his cruize. The ship and galliot reported yesterday, appear to have been taken by another corvette, the Capitania. The Masters of the vessels are prisoners on board the latter corvette, and the GAIVYMEDE frigate is still at sea in . quest of her." FALMOUTH, MAY 17. Sailed the Lord Sidmouth packet, with a mail for New-York and Halifax. Tile Ida, PAUMORE, from Jamaica, arrived off the Lizard yesterday, and pro. ceeded for London. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19, Arrived the Admiral Cockburn transport, from Jamaica.—Sailed the 16th March, and on the '2Bth was boarded off Cape Nicholas Mole (Island of St. Dom:ngo) by an Independent priv steer, of IS guns and 150 men ; she reported her name to he the Ame rican brig of war Boxer. On the '2f.hh of Apia, in lat. 41. 51. N. long. 27. !I '. W. she spoke the Ame rican ship Canton, from Liverpool for America. DEAL, MAY H). Came down from the River And sailed the Eliza beth, for the South Seas; and Neptune, for New foundland Arrived and remain with the two cap tured vessels, the AtAtarsloop of war, and a Moorish corvette, from Marvate Roads. r -t 1 I tagi l ~,a, dar • r far 1 i. ; tai 1 .trl I e t'i.os ore tke li ••• i Itstal Fasa Od r Le C !,i I ii'g• 1 t 6 FiT II : ; raps s r,l a -!or clu:' r NG' r 1611, • t • t • kart t ra H ; t lil ul I t i " r , nu to w:ii i t , eauti , l tees i tze 0 cad . Mr. dean vier prea4l 1 , COM!U ;t11.4C4 :It CO trii fld to S; ewes(' tae *1 • public goca r.tinl FUOIC Mr. end t sent calk COW( Man c o liter, • C.ITIC4 (Sr.'il t ) pop uab d v:.l ft '.::e be: The Nor, lee er 5.: re lle the Bill Tae; euni tr time an 1 tar tbe lull. (01211Cti la:l‘s Mr. 1 end mai lie' Haas: PICTE Re 41 ka ' In i . dim 1 • Huber ' Lord chat 1 requir ml a, bu a diet Th, offi ce by the The d when • holdet Eltout 3 Pects 416 By forme on d m titrct Corn J[n gains • Vie tn • Thi }Li ng 61 bu ca Soviet such • !lion s , juin ); been i lhat • Rcetie tior s ; Muhl, COWE', MAY 19. Arrived the Solon, Ilo . Dosott, from St. Dom;r.;:o, in 4f: days. Captain. HODGSON says, that althou , , , h Parson was i I, he was not dead, as some of the Newspapers had reported. HARWICH, MAY 19. Arrived the Lord Nelson packet, drum Holland, and Auckland picket Irons Cushaven, with mails. GRAVESEND, MAY 19. Arrived the grow Johame, Visker, and 'row Cornelia, Oversee. from Worcum; Coma, Proudlove, from Cette; Hero, '!'homes, from l'repanl, Ann, Allen, from Amsterdam ; Orpheus, Findlay, from Bombay ; Britannia, Swaged/. from Ostend; Favourite. ISavinden, from Rip; Elise, Wren, from Dieppe; Prince Blucher, Adams, front Flushing. Sailed the Royal Sovereign, Spence, for Quebec; rhornloy, Dunning. fur Genoa; Hope, Stockton, fur Brurs; Britannia, Jackson. for Flamburgh; Julie and Leopoidine, Mauch, for StrAl.und ; Apollo, Milberg, for Gottenburgh; Union, Robinson, and Jong Horn, Vermys, for Rutter/lam; Princess of Wales, Fox, for Ostend: . - , A luminous appearance was, a few nights ago, dissfivered in the Constellation of the Lion, which had the appearance of a very distant Com/. It can only be seen by a telescope of consideable magnifying power. Its plat* in the Heavens is about ItY N. N. E. of the sear Randur in the Geier du Lion. Sunday evening the Countess of WaSTUOKLAND arrived in town, from the Continent, after an absence of nearly three years. At a meeting of Hampshire Gentlemen, lately, at the Earl of Ltemteoot's, a proposal was submitted and agreed to by those who hid rights in the New Forest, to wave them in favour of the Duke of Wei: unoron, who wishes to have ten thousand acres for a park to surround his house. Lord Oxatitatte ejected by stratagem the Sheriff's officer who was put in possession of his house at Holly Hill. The bell was rung violently, and the officer stepping without the kitchen door, his Lcrd ship shut it against him, refused him re.admission, and threatened destruction to him, the Under Sheriff, and a whole mite of assistants, who afterwards de manded re-possession. His Lordship, to deter the officers, fired off a gun at one of the windows, and placed what apparently were bags of gunpowder at the windows and doors, with trains leading to them, and notices stuck up—o , Take notice, explosion bags are set within _thieves beware f" The High Sheriff, armed with legal advice from London, and a sufli. dent force, at length obtained entrance vi d wait, and found his Lordship in the library, who offering iso resistance, was permitted to depart. The trains , supposed to be- gunpowder, were found to be only powdered.tharcoal, and his gun at that time charged drily with powder. `I4r.IOIIISAT KERR, manufacturer, Glasgow, who has 'beet) confined in Edinburgh Castle, on a charge of treatoaable practices, since the 25th of March, has been liberated, and arrived in Glasgow on Wednes day night. Thin/mod, who was arraigned on Saturday last, for High Treason, came into the possession of pro perty to the amount of re 15,000, by his marriage with his first wits ; after which he was well kaown in the sporting world. Latterly his circumstances have been far from flourishing. The present Mrs. Thistlewood, an amiable woman, is the daughter of a tradesman in Yorkshire. THE ARMY. Tll. report of an intended reduction erti.ree mare 6att.tiions of Art Ilcry and a consideri e proportion of Liiiiiiesrs, has not, we find on eeq t y, any faun- Sdnday se'nnight the remainder of the 40th Rt:gi. meat arrived in Leith. from Calais, in Editha transport. They marched on WeJnesd .y morning through Edinburgh. on their :vim fo, U alow. Thor:day a detithinent of the 42.1 regiment. quitlercif at Gree,iock, lert that pla-e for Diblin. at:d hair been strcereled by a party of the 40th regi os;nt,"lately urriv t id !tom France. GOvernment are'4l-hinu t ly promoting the enrol. •at of Yeomanry Cavalry. and offering additional all,wances towards their expenses. Four Tr..ops ate about to be formed in Tedford , ..hire, viz. at Dun stable, 11.1,11.1 , 1 and Biggle,wade. Th e y are not to exercise till after linvcit. General Wtt.sos. the Gavel nor of Kingston, has obtained leave of absence to return to England, the climate having jointed hi. health. Genera Wur- DRINGTON was to proceed Irmo Montreal to King. btoll to r.lMve him.—Genetal BARNARD bas recently rr;vid in the United States trims Fr Itic_,e a id re ceived an appointment i n t h e corps of Eireirrem. A Board rif Engineers, of which he is President, has been it.b.itoted, fur the purpos- of making aurally% clients for the erection of fortilicationt. DRURY-L.INR I HE4TRE. The Tragedy of lide/giihd was last nizht revived at this Theatre, niter an interval of ten years, t' Intro. dike a new car.di/a . ... for public favniir to the Town in the persxt of Mr. 11 ,, NNEL TtioriNrast, who repre sented Cid:card, the Hero of the Piece. No charac ter could he more propitious f.:r a drl&i. Mr. l'tinaN . ToN looked indeed the hero his Spite is lofty and commanding; and in the progress of the part hefts. played all the great powers of a most fit i,he . l actor. Some of the noble sentiments which he Intel ed passed like an electrical dart through the whole assembly, and obtained three rounds of applause ; while in the scenes with Add.izithr, he was all softness, and shewel himself equally the husband and the lover. In the fifth Act he displayed such uncommon feeling and mellow softness of voice, that the whole audience were affected. Aver was success, at an ertir?e, more ioniplete. FA! ittitiiiies were all manly a nd grace fgl-s-his voice, one. of tbe sweetest and most powerful we have ever -heard. He appeared, not the actor, bit the man himself ; and has at once convinced us, that Nature hai *stowed upon him the true requi sites for a superior actor—as figure, voice, and great mental endowments; and, without any trial, we are told, the Managers of Covent Garden have enlisted him into their Company. Seldom has the character of Aklgiiirs been better played. Mrs. BAnrcitv (for whose ben. the Piece was acted) gave full sc.pe to her great p axers, and Was often rhetred with much well merited applause.— Notwithstanding the wetness of the evening, the House was full in every part. Never did any modern Pl.y gain a greater ascen• dint) , over the feelings of :in audience than Tragedy ; and when the Comedy of the Colfitkrary was given out for this . vetting initead of a repetition rf iIdAAJ..LL was l..Ceind with univarsal disapprobv• tioa. Mr. TitoriN•rox, we understand, will repeat the character of Guircard, at the other Theatre. .. . The late Rev. RoBERT Tritwittrt, of 'Jesus Col. lege, Cambridge. has bequeathed tour thousand 5 p e e Cent. Navy' Stuck to that University. No less than one hundred children have perished in the stream at Reading, called Holy Brook, within the remembrance of one individual.. The inh.tb t are now, to their credit, erecthig a fence on it, banks. Saturday se'nnight the Golf Club's gold medal was played for in the Links, Aberdeen, awl gained by Lord KENNEDY, the Captain. BET TING A r TAT 1 E&SALL'S, MAY 19. • DUET. S td' I apt The Student. 9 to I apt 9te >t agst colt.by Oryitle, nut II to 1 4g.: Ilrot 11. s to Crisplm. of Montenoa. to I lg.: NI, rry lO4ket. to I net Mtr 4 eil. , 16 to 1 apt colt by D &c k AU -9,10 agst Du • 'Antacid's skews. colt, by *lint: I ' . 16 to 1 agst OAKS. Sto4 on Neva art the field-5 to I agst Tht• iitn4ent and Neva both winning. 11-DF-STRIAN MATCH ON. woastwoon SCRUBS. BAKER completed 41 mites un'Stinelly, and I. wrom only eft, although the former left off at llsalt-pase seven, and the latter not till eight, Yesterday (the 13th day) . ...VA TON Want: lat a queryer before four, Brew not till live; at tour in th. :i'ternooti they had both completed 38 miles. BA FR walks quite carte-sti, and converses for hours together with his ft iends. EA foN ever !Trak' to any body. Cot:IC-I'lCiinlst:. —According to annual custom, a main of cocks was fought during race, at C: ester. E;uly in the morning of the tint day's 1,•, rt, the fol lowing justly satirical invitation was fuuli 1 posted on the entrance to the cockpit : • " this is to give notice to all lovers of cruelty prnmorer% of misery, that tilt,' day will be provided tor tloir savage aintiouto.nt of cock•fightoi g , wilt h ca fail tit lire great delight to every breast divested of hunaanity ; and &olio.- less this pastime must be greatly approved tit who have neither reverencelor theDtis I nor benevolence for hiscreaterce.' Foxe: are become a leading artiste in our input% from France. The English Cabinet having been so often outwitted by the French politicians, an idea prevails among the friends tit the Chase th at t h e French Rtinordt are more cunn i ng and full of spert than our native breed. Last week not less than Potty. five ot these animals were landed at Newhaven, from France ! A woman in the neiglibliahond of Narbonne was safely delivered, on the 14th of Ap►il, of five chil dren, all of whom lived to be baptized. The quartern loaf is now nineteen-pence, a rise of one penny having taken pl Ice on Saturday, and a farther rise is in contemplation ; so that we may ex pect in a days the price of the Qiiartern Loaf ad , tanced to two shillings. We wish the farmer, the miller, and the baker, I full and fair proportion of profits; but seeing flit grittkt reduction that has taken placer() taxes, add the abatement of rents t•enerrarelv made by landlord 4 their tenants, we apprehend that, under all the circumstances of the case, the put lic have a right to expect btead under the preser:t price. Saturday, the Election fora Governor to the Pe nitentiary, at Millbank, in the room of Mr. SHEAR. MAN, resigned, took place; when Mr. H. RIDS, Clerk to MASBERLY, the army clothier, in Vepec 'Thames -street, w.ts appointed.