Star. — London, England, 1817-03-20 00:00:00

t!e tat those places that it was out of doors con. ,:ied would be affected by it, and not to impose , ew tax whatever. His object was to exempt , t.h offices or dwelling-houses connected with ware !, 4;es, for the sole purpose% of trade. t.ord COCHRANE WAS glad to And that the ob- •"•OUS construction lately put upon this tax was . _ !y to he abrogated. A great plain had prevailed over th , .l Metropolis on this stibjett, lest counting !louses Adjoining warehouses wcellil give operation to t!.e t:kx. . _ M. LUSHINGTON was aware that a different ,-7.ns:ructi-n hid been put in Scotian,' and England .ipan the Act. The object of the ner Bill would be u remove all doubts on that point. After .t few words from Lord COCURANO and Mr. usetuici ran, the Acts of the 43J and 49th of the ri ng , were ordered to be referred to a Committee. lON prevented a Return of the fh-awbacks r :xstiocr ripened. and several Accounts relative to the Dunes C rot as klce. an.. the quantity imported.—Ordtrul to 1k ra:dr, and .o be printed. Vt. I.th;IIING FOR wished to correct a misrepresentation' witst lie had said on a list min evening, relative to the Du . „on Ri:e. What he had then stated was, that on all Rice Ito. re! f om America the Dudes would be suptuded tiU the sth I, ieia. aid on Rice Imported from other quarters, the , rimed t.r susprn , ted till the end of the year isis. e va% ei . tore. bill was read it third time and passed._ %tr. I.Vt;()NI pftsented a l'etl•ion from certain Agrieelte i s and Woll-oraplers, praylog that all a..tl tional Duty might on the int p ott a.hai ut Foreign Ws:W.—Road, and trd to lie on toe toh:r. .. mooed 1.-ave to bring in a Rill, to . toitwes of the Pea , :e at the Qtitrrer se-sat o:5, to ascertain ::e Face to be taken by ClJrke auJ oib:r Officers of the . . :it stated, that :le t;litaineti Irav • t , ) bring in dm dill, .:: hot intend to move the secouki Ter•iing of it till after Vac rusehhig Cusrtrr 3essio:) , . .1 It N , words *rum Mr. Ova w c m an j another m em b er . f:AC Mn ion VIAI to, and the Bid brought in and read a ir , t riot.. t: was ordered t 3 br rea: a second time Oil the .1 tit h 11.1 90 1 1C ranted.— I he other Orden o: the Day were L . :en :ie }louse adjourned. 11,1 , ; 1 1 ,Vii.NING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1817. minor , !OM:II'MS DAY AT Ilia WE O'CLOCK s Wallet-4 shut-4.4en0. Ace. 70 , 14 per ern:. 4m-3 per Crest. NuvY, 9911 iuti Ni v: au. IN. ISunrie Si 3.1 pr CHINA. I.t!tert are said to have been received from 'the NlA:quit of HAT:LNG!, in which assurances are given that the Emperor of CILINA was perfectly satisfied with the explanation which had been given him of the cause and inten::on of the attack on the Nepaul territory. His Excellency had the precaution to give' the most explicit accoarit of the origin of the quarrel. and of the necessity that he was under to repel the auressions that those people were constantly making, bet which hitivg properly punished, and the principal instigator of the outrages being dead, there was no further approach to be made towards that district.— These letters were written before any knowledge of the indisposition of tlip EatnitOß to receive our Am -6'54(10 had reachetkalcutta ; and from this report, it was hoped that the treatment of our Minister had not originated in any jealousy which that hostile in cursion had excited. It is possible, however, that the Marquis of HASTINGS may have been deceived by the smooth language of the return made to his communication; and that, after all, the insult to our Ambassador had its rise in the suspicion excited by that Lostile expedition. The Journal which we published on Tuesday men tioned the dispatch of the LYRA a-head' of the At.- tem, with a letter to the Governor of Pe-the-lc, in the Yellow Sea. In her way she took soundings, and also after the delivery of the letter. It is possible that one object of this mission was to gain astrono mical and hydrngraphical surveys of this sea. On ftoard the LTRA is an assemblage of Gentlemen skilled in every department of the Mathematical sci ences; and it this has been attained, the object of the Embassy cannot be conriiered as having been en tirely fruitless, even should it be confirmed that the Emperor refused to see Lord Aunaasv. It will be seen, however, in our Report of the Quarterly Ge neral Court of India Proprietors, that the Chairman' stated that no accounts have been received from his Lordship to confirm the report of the failure of the Mission ; and therefore it is still possible that the re ports from Canton may have arisen from impediments which might delay without entirely frustrating the object of the Embassy. It is understood that intelligence of a late date has been received from the interior of China by the Propaganda College at Rome; and that the few Missionaries still left in that Empire represent the Principal Mandarines as quite ready to throw off the yoke of despotism under which they and their predecessors have suffered the bastinado and decapi tation without trial for so many centuries. The late partial insurrections prove that this information is so far correct ; but the Missionaries have added, that the Presence of an European Power, capable of protect ing them, would make the revolt general—and, from -41 that is known of the character of the Chinese, with the presence of such auxiliaries it would be bloodless. is possible that the indiscretion of those Mani:t rines and Officers who exert themselves to procure in sults host the Court of Pekin to be poured upon the r eprese:amive of the British Sovereign, and acts of injustice towards our merchants, may succeed beyond even their wishes, and bring on a war between the two empires. Should this event occur, it is more than pro. b4ble that it would ultimately prove highly beneficial • ft) a large portion of the human race, by the intro duction among them of the benefits of European :—no slight blessing when the benefits of r'lg:ous instruction, which conquerors never contem. 1.: 4 e, but which Pnournersce contrives means to dis terninate over the earth, are contemplated as likely L follow any change which may take place in Chine. SOUTH AMLMICA. Had bet a tithe of the intelligence ptiblished by the Government of Old Spain resrectinl the progress of the war that has for some time been carrying on in her late Colonies, for the restoration of the Royal authority, been tare, there woald net, by this time, have been left a single insurgent in that extensive Continent. In fact, the Independents who have been so often annihilated, though sometimes worsted a little, are pursuing their object with ardour, and rre have no (10114 will be ultimately successful—in,spite cf the desertion of those who first urged them to the conflict and then left them as victims to the tender wicks of the compassionate and " Beloved Fen- DINAND." Letters dated the 27th of December, from New Orleans, confirm the report...mentioned in the Ame rican Papers, 'of an important battle having been fought between the Mexican Independents and the [top:lists. The action is said to have taken place on the rs,ad from Mexico to Vera Cruz, and in the neighbourhood of the strong position of Puente del Rey. Them a convoy going down under an escort of two thousand men, was attacked by the patriot General, GUADALLW VICTORIA, who, alter a smart action, captured a million of dollais, and made six hundred prisoners. The corps of Kentucky-men, armed with rifles, and who have for some time been flocking to join the Mexican standard, are LA to h greatly distinguished themselves on this occasion.— Their former leader, Colonel Gluzst.te, had ar rived with a large supply of arms, &c. and the Mexi. can Government, fur his services, had created him a Generaloi Division. Many of the American Officers and soldiers, oho served in the late war, have joined the Mexicans. Viceroy APODACA is completely shut up in the ca pital, and unable to send out an order to any distant quarter, without putting an army in motion. General GUADALILikt VICTOIUA t who commanded the action above mentioned, belongs to one of the first families f Meaico, and if not the brother, is a near relation to the Marquis of that name. I n the wh..ie of New Spain, the King's troops have no other ground than what they stand on, and nothing but the presence of an armed force prevents the inhabitants of the cities, in which the Spanish Authorities still keep op their power, from openly declaring in favour of the Inde pendents. Trade of every kind was at a stand, and for the last six years, not more than a twentieth of the usual supplies of European goods had been able to penetrate into the interior. When the ultramarine Provinces began their re. spective revolutions, through our encouragement, they were no longer able to pause—they were plunged into a dilcm:na that precluded the possibility of hesi tation. Under a deep and poignant sense of national wrongs, they resorted to the only alternative left them. Their present resistance, therefore, cannot be called an aggression, since it must rather be termed the result of long-suffering and necessary self-defence. Hence they will stand acquitted before HEAVEN and the world, and the murders, ravages, and conflagra tions, with which they purchase a just but dear bought independence, or rau.er freedom from shivery and oppression, will pat fall on their heads, but on those of their - oppressors. To us they op-ned their ports; to us they appealed from a variety of motives, and, u a return, we iflsulted them, by stiputAting, in our Treaty with FERDINAND, that it was " our wish they should return to their allegiance," or, in other words, that they should suffer the Inquisition, Tor ture, and Slave Trade, to be re-established among them, and their people again descend to a rank little above the brutes of the forest. Left, however, to their own energies, the South Americans have now borne up against the evils of their present contest for nearly seven years, and con sequently overcome most of the vain attempts of their decrepid enemies and their abettors. The accounts which reach us from every section of the New World are of a most cheering aspect, and evidently prove that the main object will be soon attained, by the total downfall of a Power that began in carnage and robbery, and that appears destined to end as it began. Then may we hope that the grand theatre of ch , ' Transatlantic World will be permanently opened to British enterptize : that every distinction will be made betneen the fervent wishes of the Nation, as they now exist, and the thcrt-sighted policy of its Rulers, and that our merchants and manufacturers will be enabled to avail themselves of those immense resources of traffic which such an event would unfoli, on a basis of reciprocal advantage, and in so ample a manner, as to reward them for the losses and privations they are now compelled to endure. - Yesterday morning the RUSSIAN 4-ISt3.ISRAD'IIt had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House. The Dc.ke of CUMBERLANDSitt:d the ltscomr. The Princess AUGUNTA visited the Duchess of Gnoccss . tzit at Gloucester H:ouse. Monday evening the Duke and Duchess of CLOC cssTzu honoured Drury-lane Theatre with their pre sence to see the new Tragedy of Monad. Tuesday evening the Princess 500 n.% of GLOtTES rtit huitoured the Opera with her presence. SSE WEEK'S AT LONGPS:—..IS is reported that the Sale of this Work has already been so great, that the pro fits arising from it have relieved the Author from a state of great embarrassment; and that he has pru dently retired to the Continent to avoid the disagree able consequences likely to ensue from his having so unceremoniossily, and with such effect, exhibited the follies and foibles of his most intimate acquaintance. t'RENCH PAPERS: The Pair's Papers of Sunday arrived last night and those of Monday this morning. Their contents are extremely uninteresting: The tolloiving are Extracts : PARIS, MARCH Ht. Formerly these existed in Paris two Societies for the relief of prisoners ; the object of of e was to re• lease persons confined for debt ; while the other gave them relief in prison. The Revolution destroyed these as.ociations. Some benevolent persor,s undertook to revive them abuut eight years ago, and since then they have procured liberty for 150 debtors, and re lieved 1200 persons. The Prefect of Lisle has issued orders that no ob stacle shall be opposed to the departure of persons of colour who wish to go to St. Dom;ngo or St. Thomas. HANOVEit, MARCH 2. The amelioration of our superior Tribunals has been attended to since the almost certain decision that a superior Tribunal•of the Germaaic Confedera tion is no longer to exist, and that the Provincial Tribunals in all the Sovereign States of the Empire are to succeed to its functions. We expect here in a few days a part of the Hano verian army stationed in France, consisting of a squa dron of the Prince Regent's Hussars, the Grenadiers of Bremen, and a part of the Artillery. We are assured that the Editors of Vie Prussian Gazettes have been prohibited frcrn publis!iing any observations upon Prussian manufactures, as affected by the isrprtation of foreign rnerchandize. Some vident effusions appear to have given r,se to this prcbibition. MADRID, MARCH 4. The King of has, by I).cree, ordered the creation of a Consolidated Fund, wholly and irrevo. cably separate from the general treasury, as t security to the creditors of the State. It is to be call,d Public Credit," and is founded on the model of the French and English system of finance. There is no intelligence from the Colonies. The Queen enj good health, and her pregnancy goes on well. By a Decree of the 20th of last month, the seignoral privileges of fishing, enjoyed by many families, and by softie civil and eccl.•siastical corporations, have been abolished, for the purpose of encouraging sea faring men, and to induce them to register themselves as sailors. The free tight of fishery is granted along the whole coast of the kingdom, and the persons who might suffer by it have been duly indemnified. NAVAL lA7-3LLIGENCE. FALMOU IH, MARCH i 7. Armed the Active, Howes; and fovran, Cuxnr, from London; and the Alexander, supposed from the West Indies. Sailed the Walsinghant picket, with Mails for the BrAzils ; and Mary, Lownts, for Buenos Ayres.—Wind N. PORTSMOUIII. MARCH 19. Arrived the Walker transport, from Antigua. A Dutch man of war has arrived at St. Helen's, name unknown. —Wind N. W. DEAL MARCH 19. Came dnwn from the River and sailed the Para con. for the Isle of France; Sotyria, for Smyrna and Constantinople ; Peter Proctor, for Dominic I; Montgomery, for Ltlf,tst ; for Dublin ; and Balboa picket, for Arrived and sailed for the Aim the John, NEWTON, Irons Havre. HARWICH, FEBRUARY 19. Sailed the Earl of Leicester p .cket, for Holland ; and 13eaufoy packet, for Cuxhaven. - GRAVESEND, MARCH 19. Arrived toe Henrica-, Fersivreen,ier, trout Zuyder Zoa ; la Espoir, Warren., front Cable ; Providencia. Plainer, front Nor. tray; Minerva, Warner, from ditto; Venus, Purchase, front Dantec ; Brizannia, Bennett, from Waterford; Jane NPGrath, from ditto; Jong Henry, Fazmashe, front Rotterdam.—Sailed the ktatiley, Ward, tot Genoa; Criterion, Avery, for New York; Jong Carried", Waperiaar, fur Havre; Alexander, Andereon, for Da ta iw g; Gaien, Tracey, for Boston ; Ocean, Johnstone, tot Woodford, Brady, fur ditto; Neptune, Dawson, fur Toriola James Berridge, M•Niece, for Limerick ; Adriatic, Davison, f.sr Pillau ; Leda, Robson, for lianiburgh ; Thermurns, Dennis, for Rotterdam ; True Briton, Uu.rer, fur ditto; Jong 1 lertiotilie, De La Hug, for Antwerp; Scipio, Drummond, for Virginia. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 19. • SHIPS INTIM INW Nimble, M 317000, from Cork ; Hoffnung, Sewell, from Wo Gut ; Leeds and Liverpool packet, Smith, from Greenock; Convention, Beck, front Pillau; Jong. Jan, Boverkamp, from Worcum; De Fenian do Kende, from Asperade ; Justitla, Cook, from Norway; and Ulysses, —, from Gottenburgb. (Jul WARD 3. 1 he Sictly, Cupper, for Gibraltar; Brothorn bury, Pitcher, fur Madeira, Batavia, Bombay, and 4:Actor.' ; Rinpertir Alexander, Watt, for Madeira and New Prostitute; Visite:lt, Mkt', fur Names; Friends, Clark, for kW:tem. and Vettriburgh; Nautilus, Clark; and Industry, leitkin:on, for id slneur and Revel; America, IsPHeth, fur City Print, Virginia S ); Aloha°, Creaser; and Ho,4ewell,Collinson, for Flsineur; Iwo Mothers, R.tbson, for Peter.burgh; Alert, Paytt„ for Amsterdam and Rotterdam; Gallant, Blyth, for Hamhurgl.; Three Friends, • Witty, for Pillan, Konigsberg, and Fllnsig; Duke of York, Fryer, fur Rotterdam ; Fravelser, Hutchinson, for Madras, Bombay, and Bengal; al,u the Juno, Arthur, fur CALCUTTA. OCTOBER M.—The Hnnourahle Com pany's ship L idy Campbell, Csioxin Mmiuuts, from England May lroh, and Nladeu a June 7th, entered the River yesterday niorning. _ _ S:r Anthony Buller, Miss Caro. !ine Buller, l.ouisa Mips E. 1. liathurst, Miss H. (.race, Clarks !Mier, E.. senior Merclia.it, W. F. Clark, Esti. ditto, Thomas Lewin, E.q. Liarri.ter, :r. A. Shaw, Writer, Mr. A, C. Huyer, ditto, Mr. Gemse iiariby, and Mr. Geurie Da Costa. Ir•!sterday a Court of Directors was held at the India House, w! en Captain J. E.. Juiinsom, was sworn in io the ct mmand of the Honourable Com pany's ship Union, destined to Madeira, 11.ngal, and liencoolen i and Captain J. Ross, to the Carmarthen, for 13iunbay. The CONQO sloop of war is arrived at Deptford. Several large cases, containing the natural produc tions of Africa, collected in the late expedition to thr Congo, have been sent to Str Joaxets BANKS, for the purpose of being assorted in their respective classes ; many of them are of a kind hitherto unknown, and the whole will shortly be submitted to the inspection of the public. The Rotterdam Packet, 1114DoNaLta master, from Rotterdam to Leith, for whose safety considerable apprehensions were entertained, arrived in Aberdeen bay on Friday night—eight days (Rom Aigo, a small harbour near the Nase of Norway, whither she had been driven, after being five weeks at sea during the most tempestuous weather, having ssileil from Hel vtietsluys on the •ISth January. Captain M'DONALD brings uo accounts of any other vessels. THE FUNDS. TO THt EDITOI. Nations siieculatioris hiving been offered on continued rise of the Funds, I beg to offer. sonde thoughts on the :object, Which seem to lute escaped general notice. It is one of the most undnubt.•d propositions of ADAM SMITH, that silpply follows demand, and the truth of this prn?o•,ition was never more unequivo cally proved thati by the state of the money market during the late war, when the demand of the Finance Minister for thirty and forty millions per annum, to be expended :n additii3n to the permanent revenue of th! country in carrying On that agar, was invariably answered. The savings of the public at large flowed with regularity, though by different channels, into the money market. where the wants of Government al: ways created a demand for them. It is probable in the three last years of the war, the Minister took more from tlm market than the actnal savings of the people; tilt residue, however, was supplied from V::: capital of the natinn, drawn from its legitimate ohj7cts 1-.7 the high premium offered: It is, no doub t , to thz ezpethinure ht this capital that we may trace a considerable potty in of our re. sent distress, materially diaiiiiishilig, as is has done, the means if emplaying and maintaining labourers. To return to the subject, however, the money market, dtholigh exhausted, was not deprived of any large portion of its animal suiplies, tt;lirh arc now therefore, as usual, flowing into it from the savings of certain clasws of the pimple. 6overnment no lon.e.:r requiring large loans, and arranyymenis not having been yer made for other: wise dispo , .:l:o; of the acc..mulation of money, it PIUK ii•zcessarily empinyed in the purchase rf annuities already created—hence the comiutted rise. of the Funds, a rise which will prob illy go en progressivrly for some tithe, until, in the natiiral court. (if things, a cessation of demand in the money market prodl , ces a coriespon.!ing diminution -1 supply; arid the low interest to he obtained from the inctea:•4! price cf annuities, will turn the money ; now employed Ia purchasing them, into other channels. The conse quence will be, should peace be continued, the complete re-estahlkhrnent of the capital already et. pended, and considetahle additions to it, which; it is to be hoped, will, in a short time, remove the evils the country is at present suffering with so much pa tience and magnanimity. F. Lord Fot.r.v continues tiangernnsly ill. His come plaint is an ii.r.drntn4tion on the diest. We understand th.ut the Grand Duke NICHOLAS will shortly be unitevl In a Sister ot the King of l'utusst.t ; and are further iniurmei, th.it the Dake of DEvousutute null receive the hand of Ltdy LUCK, widow of Sir Wlmelon Hust.,!cat. The Earl and Countess of CRAVE', who arrived at 144 1 .1,!s in loot try, temaitted there, on the 18th of rebut try, uh• n they and their family were in perfect health. Ti.ey were expectod to visit Rome in the Easter- week ; to return to Naples and to proceed to Sicily and Venice in (heir heantital and lest salting vessel. Thee tuid rati o voyages, it was a posed, would detain thetas .n 1 ,411.- year fronOtotne: Lott' and I.4dy JEIISLY weir at Naples iii Fehtuar • General Sir 1: it en , )1i Nl' G amt liniity have ar~ivej at Ann.ipai, in the Li s thisk, lions Porta aii-Prinre. From a statement of the Secretary of t!R Ticasury to Congress, it a pise.it s that tt e valor of the exports of the United States, the year end rg the 3ilth of September, !SIG, wa,eighty-Ine millions, nine him dred and twenty thousand, foar hundred and filty. , two dollars, (SI .920,4.52) of which, 64731,896 were of domestic materials, and 17,138,556 of foreign. The Spanialt Consul at Norfolk has notified gene. , rally to the met:thaw% in America, that the port of Vera Cruz had been thrown open tar the importation of all kinds of provisions in se , sels of all nations id amity with :paint that the duties continue. as here tofore, on all articles with the ...ix:l:Lion of flour i this freedom of tra le to continue t t ,:sx months, from the `22d of October list, but sit months more would be allowed from the time the cessition of it would be announced. Application s it is said, his bren made by the French to Mini s ters for issitin,c! the 111.141 orders to our settles ments, for Riviiiv beaky to the expedition under Mons. FusAtttitt, which consists of the UrAnie trig Ate ant corvette, About to sail tro!ri FrAtice to finish their sur. vey ot Nov I-1(41414h Ut et:urse, this request will be compile ii with ; mid, it is ;added, iliac Government have conic to the JettirtnitiAti..n ot undettAking A nail• lar enteiprie. Stort•Liv, between twa ;14.1 etroA t.'clock in the af• tampon, wile I the Pttrnio.to:nn, at Bah, was full of tashionablei, a 'lr. Fox, AtuentlA by several othrr Qaaker+,adJressed the cloy uly for tinny tints,; I',r which Mrs. Plowita.A GosoisY, a Quaketess, cum. menced .411 r..:- i its ; but was rev:tiled up ts by some Geademen 'l7kehtwoasis h avei b eepn - A person employed in a subwdinste si!u4tion oft the coat% no,ved by an evil or malignant spirit to attempt the gratidcatir,n of a voirfictiveleeling, l ate ly. preferred mal-ciiiiis, frivolous, i alit. vexatious Charges against an Odic.er of some rank ; but the tabalesskh av ing recently been turned, and the accused metamor phosed into the accuser, charges of rather a ser i ous nature urriter a o r n e n ti o w w L in iw a s m ta! l e ita o l f y. pr ,t e n p d ar w at i i i o l n b b e y , it is es. pecte.l, in a few days, in the hands of the proper pawns, :a the nrighbourlioud of Whitehall, —An o d r c d co er m ed pl o ic u e t n i f ,f t t i h ne e t k )f i i , g lx il d m o l n : , ec os t:s i e t r: s b u ut id a , be vo e lv n ed ni t a a c n t d o , :d a s co t n b s e p i rwalcilydeagaatrti.:: anpspeupatrisi,pr, front the basest motive', the interests of the Army at large are deep:) , co-cersied in the event. The oat seed has already ci , mmenced in different parts of the country, and will be p•eity general in the course of the ensuing week, with the best prospect Irmo the very favourable state of the iseallur, and consequently excellent condition of the Laud. PARISIAN PASIIIONII..—NearIy all the bats lately ezhi, the put liens of the I influents are of er.gyr ; some arc green, a pulling in the trunt, without Bowers ; wt.& others are 14 c colour, but ornamented with Awl and yellow wall 21.001011. large Neapolitan hat are of blended ntrur Aid bl,c, or • dre latter colour, with much %Ott e erntivial.ry, and a lei and blies intermingled, ahout three ut rack koi aisou. young lashicniables quilt starlet upda-wai.tcrials, with upper; but white Illyrr-WS, :WIN, WI::s a Wifki 1 , 11141.1. more IfrClUelltly rxhilittAl. Z Adi 4 j Mblted is . vt rt, with Ot COI rOn.. 'en* Ibe r rotirr!T tar `rap S M. :^u9 • I a Mark t• vile, art