Star. — London, England, 1810-05-18 00:00:00

AARTIN said, that however s . nur t h be felt to prefer his orig inal Resolution, still he vote for the Honourable GentleMen'e Arnett& If the Abolition of Sinecure officipe werOoepr i t hout A ny substitute it sh Arid colainlyllitie l ,port. But as the latter appeared to be indre bLe to the opinion of the Committee, as it was . , to have sore ;ping done in the way of reform, he would be always ready to receive ell *hat , I obtain, it he could not obtain .1l tle t he would even accept the Honourable Gen ; amendment, glad that so much good result from the discussion which he had thought sty to br 1g forward. The Honourable Gen: arguea with considerable force in support of in.,' Resolutions, contrasted with those Foe' e the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and con with observing, that in proposing ilObolition sure Offices, it could not be said that he was mg forward any new fangled doctrine, as that , I ion was in fact recommended by high authoritil i years ago, and indisputedly it was more than . ne cessary to accede to it under the present cir. l eenstances of the country. LONG maintained; that considering the de of y since his Ma jesty's ion, the , Prec ladce of th mone ro e Cwn had not, increased access from the glience ails disposal. He saw no advantage that result from the adoption of the original motion, }favorable Friend's amendment. Sinecures' in his judgment to be confined 'solely to civil ;, and therefore he combatted the idea of grant. el e a sinecure to Lord Wellington or Lord Nelson. lord ALTHO RP was an advocate fur the amend: • although his opinion w as r ath er ie favour o f f iginal Resolutions. He asserted, that the in ,ice of the Crown had increased, insomuch, that, order to preserve the balance of the Constitution; desirable that that influence should be reduced. the total abolition of sinecures would meet ippeobation. As a means of rewarding merito.: services, which was the alleged plea for the exis of these sinecures, he thought them peculiarly itable, and for two reasons ; first, because when teritorious service should recur which called for /aril, it was improbable that a sinecure office would vacant ; and, secondly, because it was improbable )uch office would be a fit reward for such service. , W. SMITH contended that the abuses in the Grants of Sinecure Places preponderated over any ad eitage which the Country could derive from their ivance, If the claims of the individuals on such favours were conferred by the Crown hid to undergo the decision of that House, there ex _ strong doubt whether they would be admitted ; indeed, it was problematical that if the persons about -- , infer them were aware of the necessity of subject them to the discussion, whether such a proposi would be at all made. The Honourable Member entered into a history of authorities upon the question, -I concluded with expressing his determination.to{ port the original Resolutions. qr. BASTARD declared it absolutely necessary the extended patronage of the Crown, and exten berthens of the people, to follow up the principle . retrenchment in every department of the State. — There was A ferment abroad ; and the surest way to disarni those actuated by improper hopes was to af ' reasonable indulgence to the great body of the people. 'the ferment existing had not a stronger source of supply in the thought, that whilst Commit - of that House were suggesting many plans . economical reform, as absolutely necessary, the House was in the uniform habit of not only not at tending, but of actually over-ruling their suggestions. concluded with observing, that even if the House tot inclined to be honest from principle, the time . now come when it should be so from necessity. Mr. WHAI.TON asserted that the influence of Crown had of late actually diminished. He .anded such diminution of the influence of the Crown upon the great increase of population, and the enor. mous increase of wealth, so very generally diffused throughout the various classes of society in this coon- He also instanced the great price at which lands were let, and which corn bore. Mr. WHITBREAD thought it very whimsical the Honourable Gentleman constantly-to consider sinecures as a part of -the Constitution. He did not )iv those sinecures to be given as a reward to mili tary merit—no—nor to naval merit. To what kind merit then Whys to the civil merit of himself and friends.—(Hear, hear.) Since the appoiniment . Mr. Yorke, indeed, sinecures had fallen into dis epute : a Secretaty for Ireland declared a few nights ice lie would not take one ; and a Colonel, who spoke under the Gallery, made a similar declaration. - a reward for his civil merit it was, he supposed; it Lind Liverpool had accepted the Lord Warden ct the Cinque Ports. No wonder men who were without those places, declared they would not dis eece themselves by their acceptance. . They were siformly given rather as a mark of Court favour, an a reward of efficient services. Mr. Pereeival, for stance, now accepted the emoluments of three ifices—He begged pardon • he really had only just heard that the Right Hon. Gentleman had declined, I a Minute of the Treasury, receivingeeite emolu ments of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer ; he had not been before informed of the fact, and there. fore it was not to be wondered at that he had made the mistake. The option of such emoluments ought not, however, to be left to any man, and in his opi nion, a s well for their integral impropriety as for their Ntely incurred disgrace, si necures themselves ought to lie altogether abolished. To prove the gross mite uTlication of those sinecures, Mr. Yorke had got 4`2700 a year, and Lord Wellington only received ..t2OOO. Thus it was Court favourites were rewarded, even above those whom Ministers themselves decided to have merit. He wished before he sat down, to tally to disapprove of the distinction which the Learned gentleman who spoke last, seemed to make 'between the King and the people ; ;hey were one and indivisible, and the King's best interests depended on and sprung from the people. • Mr. LONG said a few words against the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER warmly denied that any real advantage would be gahied to the people by the abolition of such places. —lie also begged to assure the late speaker, that his respected friend, the Lord of the Admiralty, than whom no man was more respectable, had also signi fied his intention, without any ostentatious object , not to take the sum of £2OOO granted to the First Lord of the Admiralty, during the Administtatiou of Lord Melville, as the heed of that eontesded against leaving** WI tbe lintiee , to judge of Obi coin pensations to be.grainlidfo l t tervicei. Were theY to atmiNate the grtitte dee.thlg had Made ? He FXteivkdocit. 'A gridltin Oration too, if not othei itise Objectionable, Was etrialli valid with anoviginal grant. He was ,clearly of 'Optima, that the wealth inCinfl . nonce of tbe people had 'increased in. a sWi greater co degree than the influence Of the Craven. Lord MILTON had Mk* observation which be was anxious to make. A Smecnre when once granted must be conferred anew, whether there was or was not a deserving petson ready to receive it. This was riot the case with a pension. As to the influence of the Crown, he thought it had incteased in a very rapid degree. He was not a person whose sentiments citild be suspected ; but he would rather consent to be:: plundered Of his property than to give up his liber rties. He thought this one of those otherwise indif rferent titopositions, by which it was possible, by agree ing telt; separate those who felt *ell-grounded discontent, fiom those who pretended to feel so. The motion, therefore, had his support. Mr. CANNING could not agree that the splendour that surrounded the Throne should be dispensed with. Not only did he mean the decent splendour which every man must attee ought to attend upon a Throne, but even that gorgeous splendour, which some persons might think an unnecessary accompaniment of Roy alty. That rash innovator, who would wish, with unhallowed hands, to break into the secrets of that splendour, that he might discover how far it might ' with safety be abridged, would, he was satisfied, too Soon discover the folly of his attempt. - At the same time that he felt in this manner, he could not agree that every superfluous arid unnecessary practice ought to be defended on the ground that it was an integral part of the Monarchy ; that they must be supposed to be so interwoven with it as to be incapable of being shaken off; that, in fact, it could not be touched without danger to its vital parts. He could not go this length, but rater agreed with his Honourable Friend (Mr. Bankes) in his proposition, being at the same time decidedly of opinion, that compensations should be granted, at least tendered, in every instance. I Mr. PETER MOORE was of opinion the present motion did not by any means go far enough. He was for the direct abolition of every sinecure office, as called for, and indeed indispensably necessary in the present state of the country. This was his opinion, and he could not agree to any thing like a drawback upon it. A systematic plan seemed to have been adopted, nt.t to let the complaints of the people reach 'the ear of.the Sovereign, and in this situation of things peculiar attention ought to be paid that the people were not unnecessarily but thened. The Gallery was then cleared, and on a division, Mr. Bankes' motion was negatived, the numbers being —For the motion, 93.—Against it, 99.—Majority against the motion, 6. Mr. MARTIN, on strangers being re-admitted into the Gallery, consented that his Resolutions on the same subject should be negatived, and those of Mr. Perceval agreed to, it being understood that they should have liberty to discuss the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Resolution's on bringing up the Report. The other Orders were disposed of.—Adjourned at half-past one THE EVENING S'l"Alt. LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 18. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s s per Cent Ci ns. for money 70:3 —ace. 7O 11. Reduced 70-4 per Cert. 8511-5 per Cent. Navy 1011. Excb. Bills, 3s. to 95. prem.—Ornnium 14 2 pre. We have the pleasure to state, that the Exchange of Prisoners between this country and France is now carried on, on a pretty extensive scale. Four cartels sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday evening for Mor laix, having near 300 French prisoners on board, many of whom had been in this country for several years.—The situation of the prisoners confined at the Royal Deptit on Dartmoor, has also been greatly ame liorated within the last few days : they have now li ' berty, in detachments, to breathe the fresh air outside the prison, to a certain distance. A large quantity of arms are now sending to the Spanish Patriots, but, we apprehend, not equal to the exigency : 8000 stand are destined for Galicia and 4GOO fcr Asturia ; but the number of men en rolled in these provinces, and in want of arms, is up wards of 100,000. The following letter ftom the South of Spain is three days later than the previous accounts : " CADIZ, MAY 4. " The desertions from the enemy are very numerous, and many of them enter this town, who give accounts of the situa tion and state of the enemy very satisfactory to us. They state the force of JOSEPH not to amount to more than 20,000, and the whole of these, in their hearts, entertain the greatest dislike to him. Provisions are scarre, and their clothing at present, irde• pendent of what they took in Seville, is very bad. We are snrry to hear that their treatment of the peaceable inhabitants of the province is cruel in the extreme. The whole of the mountail.3 are covered with armed peasantry.. Hostile operations on our part are talked of; but I doubt if it will be wise to move from our present situation ; it will be a very hazardous enterprise to retake Matagorda. The French are now improving and repairing the fortifications with the ut most celerity. • " The intelligence we obtain from Madrid only confirms us in the opinion we entertuined, and which indeed wanted no uw• firmation, of the barbarity of the French to the conquered people. The Spanish prisoners taken are frequently openly butchered; and oven the quiet inhabitants, who refrain from all offence, are made often severely to pay for what are called the crimes of their countrymen." Yesterday a deputation of merchants, and others, waited on the Lords of Trade, when the latter inti mated their intentions as to the granting of licences for shipping bound to the range of coats between the Emins and Boulogne, and between Dieppe and Nantz. They are to be granted to continue till the 10th No vember next. On the exportation of cotton and tin, I the deterMination of their Lordships is to be received on Mood?.y nett. The Board has some indulgencies in regard to certaip ports of Spain under trench administration. In the range of harbours from Gijon to St. Sebastian, it is allowed that neutral ships, laden with Spanish pro duce, way take their departure withoutmelestation. A i r . MAI se d to YOte If d withal r se 5 s eippo• • iccerable t i i st visla to h o cl as he' d nhi c old i.-ired, he an should resul is hi.; duty t e o nan arg: origin'.bis r so eluded with c f sinecure bringing fo' abolition w t hirty year , even necesi eu rnstances Mr. re iation in fl u ence of places gill could resu or bis 146 ought in it 0 6cers, an i rig a sines Lord A ; pent, althi the a ngina fl uen ee of in order to it was desi Therefore bis apcovt nears servi tence of t unsuitable the merit( reward, it be vacant that such Mr. W Grants of vantage Ai continuan whom sut first to ur iced stmt indeed, it p confer ing them tion woul ettered it and cone support I Mr. B for the e: ded hurt of retret There w disarni t ford reel people. source c tees of of ecot House tending He coil was tol wit not Mr. ' • the Crc founded upon th mous in • through try. HE were lei Mr. 1!1 the I • sinecure allow tl tarp mt of meri ► his frie of Mr. • ▪ r epute since 11 spoke As a that L ship c,l withou trace uniforl than a • instan 9 offices heard i. by a I *tents Pe had I fore ii the rr fe not,/ • gion, I .:ttel ) to be • arpli 1 427( r• A'2ol even to h: re tally • Lea 'hetv to and yf 1141 gan rest o wit t• fm to the 141.04 z. • 41111 Y 111. ,ar bloke, with Oettleds'etrrr6s sad Stoma, A headlands law ceasing, sod a fresh *elms apringing crowded all nil for Lbtko.—Arrived hit stoning in the Ai Morose 74, from olf Rochefort ; left our lees there, ANAL di days ago. 'The iIIOLIATIOASLII Mona was taking in water and prOshlios fir s lour months cruise.—Arrived also sif eh sloop, captured Some time *go by tit Moses corbel.; end the PillialaNT &kip of war, from of Portsmouth.—Sallad the Two sloop of war to the Eastward.--La Let ma and Aso.; TIWILA frigates are gone out of harbour to the Sound. COWES, MAY 17. The Wek-ladis feat sailed to-day Wider mayfly of the Too -1 lAA', Captain VASIOK. • .., PORTSMOUTH, MAY 17. Arrived his Majesty's Ship iLtvaty, from Cadiz (letters not iip).--Salled the Porr Miaow with the Thetis, Robert, Wol gar, Brothers, Trafalgar, and Agincourt transports, to take on hoard the corps of the Duke of Brunswick at Guernsey, and to carry them to Cork.—The Spanish, Portugal, and Mediterranean Beets remalm—Wind Westerly. DRAI., MAY 17. Arrived his Majesty's ships Buxom* and THEBAN, from tie Westward.—Came down front the River and sailed to the West- ward, the Governor Halket, WATSON, for Tobago; the kiano- ASAMION, for Jamaica; and the Hope, LIME, for Mont serrat.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Mentor, CoLatss, from Oporto.—Wind S. W. YARMOUTH, MAY 17. The otitarard-bound Gottenburgh convoy appeared off here yesterday, P. M. and, after being joined this morning by the Rear, 64 guns, end the merchant ships waiting, proceeded for their destination.—Sailed la FLacna corvette, with convoy for Heligoland; and the Paistaose and CRANTICLEIR, on a cruise. —Arrived the Atoxzo sloop of war, Barron/arr. and Viz in gun-brigs, from a erase ; and the Doke tatter.—Put in the Ann, Wert', from London, with general cargo, bound to Hdigo. land, the Supercargo having died on his passage from Londoes.-- Ships in the Roads, the R•RRUCK, GORGON, Maoxar, HAVOC[, and Roux—Vessels sent in, viz. by the Putter or WALK, cut. ter, a Danish sloop, N 0.25 ; by the Attn sloop, No. 12, from Dentnarl, with rye, bound to Christiausand; and, by the PAR. TNIAN, the Twee Gebroders, with potash, from Embden, bound to Amsterdam. Wind S.E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Claavesewn, MAT 17.—Arrived the Bows, Dickson, fill= trinidad ; Perseverance, Arnold, from Lisbon ; Wa nstead, Mor ton, from Jamaica ; and the Zephyr schooner, M' William, from Martinique.—Sailed the Diana, raison, for Antigua; and Mer- curb FraMpton, for Oporto. THE ARMY. We have this day received accounts from Surinam, which state that settlement to be in a very sickly state. The 16th and 64th Regiments of Foot have been gidatly reduced by deaths. The former is coming home almost a skeleton. Quarters are provided at Yarmouth for the-Local Militia, commanded by Colonel PEritE, who marched into Yarmouth yesterday. - The 2d battalion 89th regiment sailed from Guern- I sey oa the ]4th instant, for foreign service: it is com posed chiefly of fine young lads, and commanded by Mpjor GRANT. • • The Ayrshire militia. from Mosseiburgh, marched into Ayr barrracks on Saturday se'nnight, after an absence from their native county of nearly seven years. The four troops of the 6th dragoon guards, lately quartered at Newcastle, are on their march for Edin burgh. The PcNees Regiment of Light Dragoons (the Tenth) are on their march for Brighthelmstone. The Grace transport, arrived at Plymouth from Lisbon, has brought over part of the 23d light dra goons, several British officers, and 59 French priso ners. She brings intelligence that the British troops at Lisbon are in a very healthy state. We understand, that the SI'EAKER meets Sir FRAN- I CIS BURDETT'S action with a double plea the first being th 6 general issue, that he is not „..u:1:y of the trespass alleged in the declaration ; and the second, that the Court has no jurisdiction in the case. We believe there is no precedent for a Defendant's en tering a double plea, without special leave of the Court before which the action is brought. if our in formation should prove correct, the first question for the consideration of the Court of King's Bench, will relate to the SPEAKER'S right to assume a privilege of this description. Yesterday the Four-in-Hand Club had their Second Spring Meeting in Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square. The muster was a very thin one, owing no doubt, to the inclemency of the weather. Only five started at two o'clock precisely. MUNGo PARK.—By vessels arrived from Gorce and Sierra Leone, we are enabled to state, that so late as the month of March last considerable hopes were en tertained that the celebrated and enterprising Musdo PARK, so often reported to have . lost his life, was still alive. The ship Favourite, of London, Capt. TRUMAN, is arrived at Plymouth from Goree. Previous to the I departure of that vessel, information had been received j at Senegal by a native of the Mandingo ccuntry, who accompanied Mr. PARK as far into the interior as I Sego and Sansanding, that he was alive in the month of January. Colonel MAXWELL, the Governor of Se negal, had, in consequence of this infdrmation, di- rected that I a decked boat shonld immediately be fitted out to proceed up the River Senegal, for the purpose of giving assistance to Mr. PARK in his indefatigable exertions in exploring the Continent of Africa. This account is further corroborated by a letter, dated in March last, received by a vessel from Sierra Leone, from Dr. DOUGLAS, who writes as follows : " Permit me to lay before you some information respecting Mr. MUNGO PARK, which I was favoured with from au intelligent Mahomedan, whom I met at Gorce, and who had acted as a guide to Mr. PARK, from the time of his landing on the Conti nent of Africa to his embarkation on the Niger. He states, that the King of Seoo had shown much favour to Mr. PARK, and that the report of his assassination there was untrue. He had passed far along the Niger without any molestation whatever from the Natives. My informant could not recollect the date of his embarkation on the Niger, but thinks i, must be about three years I ago. Mr. Past had taken four months provisions for himself and two followers, with whom he intended to proceed to the eastward, and onwards as far as the Red Sea. Some travellers, Who had fallen in With this guide, informed him, that about two or three month subsequent to dr. PARK'S embarkation, he had been severely scorched in his breast by the bursting of a gun while firing at SLIM birds, but that he passed Tombuesoo in the night by water." uplipoo_ .. .t, MAY 16. RIOT AT THE 1142A+11.R. The exklest Willa Whom for some time carried oe between the managers of the Theatre and anonymous write:, In scorn- of the Papers in town; respecting admiision at half-trice. and the placards which had been posted up at the earners of the streets, many of which, on the rt of the half-price admission. were of a very inflammatory 844 violent description, very naturally led to an a xpectadoti that on the opening of the Theatre an attempt would be nude to hninde the 0. P. scenes of Covent Garden, led to obtain II v iolence a what the Managers refused to concede as anonymous ids. This expectation was dinndantly flal- Med ea Monday evening; but with the example of the systems. de opposition at Covent Garden, in which there was a tolerable addure et esedeis4 might have been expected that If. P.'s (balf-price vi*ois) of Liverpool would have acted on a plan, at .ifeest as well ellieleted to tenure success. Whether or no the Leedom clatesuf ireeeirrinized by wiser heeds, or executed by stalks' thetaMoille. iseceanot determine; but the violence of Monday eight we. pushed into a most disgraceful outrage, and disapprobation converted into riot. The house was filled at an early hour: few Ladies were present, having been pre. *may warned by the H. P. mottos and sentiments which had Tor se many pirevitnis days been plentifully chalked upon the walls in every part of the town. Nor indeed did there ap pear many friends of the Managers present, and those were principally crowded Into the boxes nearest the Stage. The H. Po were ha almost entire immersion of the field, and no sooner was the curtain drawn up than a general burst of indigna tion was raised from every quarter of the house, which in fact never ceased to the end of the performance. The Piny of Pizarro, and the farce of The Parse, or the Beervoiset Tar ; shared equal favour. Mrs. Glover met with no greaser die , tinction than the candiensuffer; all passed in dumb show, and not a monosyllable was heard from the stage. It was not, hose J - on she human ogee that the H. PA alone depended.— Taught by their precursors In the Stentorian art in the Metropc lie, every instrument which could compel the air into the loudest , and most dissonant sound. had been provided fur the cooteet, , post-horns, trumpets, eat-cells, rattles, &c. all joined in the con , tett, and to accommodate those who had not provided themselves • with these necessary appendages, penions with bundles of burns • under their arms went from seat to seat to distribute them. The placards were numerous, and were chiefly displayed from the boxes and pit bearing the inscriptions of" H P." and " Half rite Admission to this Theatre. " I in th is almost unvaried scene of uproar, fed incidents occur ; red. The Managers were frequently tailed upon, but defther of them came forward with arty proposal, or explanation A Gen tleman attempted to address the H. P.'s; but as soon as it was perceived that his address was unlikely to be favourable to their ' claims, it was silenced by three groans, and he was afterwards very rudely jostled in the pit. Between the acts the H. P. ora tors attempted to gain the ear of the audience; but appearing to be more expert at blowing a horn or a cat-call than at speech.fy lag, they bad not even the satisfaction of giving pleasure to their friends,and awe speedily hooted down. The H. P. acting sue. caiiied mach better ties die : amongst the principal ens were a netaber of fellaraeter id the upper babes , e z a l ; whom finding** dread hiseleaset to express the fell fete of their saddest% nary Wedgy palled a. their shoes, and by the item:adds dr the aka tt ipso the sides of the boxes at da length made ssoselvai oneeph. *bile 'the others seised the candles 'tithe dosditilers,esd,eildl sheracterhtic aversion to !Wit, threw them kto the pie. The H. P. dams befeirapessedly called for, a ring was ma .I for the performers but unhadmately the benches beirn woe with something more than wool,' the pit was immediate.y oho= red in a thud of dust, and the dancers obliged to for. 4 ;s,a an enter tihiment Which threatened to exchange evert other noise into that of a general sneeze and cough. The stage escaped *Mobs molestation, but a few throws were made at the pealeireners, all of whom escaped without any injury except Mr. DUSOROVE, who was cut in the lip by the stroke of a halfpenny piece, and bled co piously. While these pas were performing in the inside of the house, one of a more outrageous kind took place on th e outside. mi llet:ltalie-square was nearly filled with people; the greater num ber were quiet spectators ; but immediately la front of the Theatre a loose rabble, a little before . .thse o'clock, made an attack with stones upon the front doors and windows. The gin,' was rapidly demolished, and the shutters of the lower centre windovr broken to pieces. Some of the stouts failieg into the lobbies made the visage for near an hone, extremely dangerous, and others en tering the Salmis above, broke a 'Meth* ghstehandeifer, the peones of souse of the doors, end did other mischief. This rabble was at length dispersed by the police, and one man detected in the act of breaking the winetoWs, wa.. taken into custody. The audience within, if we may call that an audience where every man was a performer, remained in the theatre for near two hours after the curtain had dropped, the same uproar continuing, with an incessant cry for the appearance of the managers. This was diversified by occasional scuffles between the pittites and the friends of managers in the boxes. About twelve o'clock, the Mayor, attended with the police oincars, made his appearance in one of the boxes, and having addressed them on the impropriety of their conduct,_ desired them to disperse, and return home in the most peaceable manner, adding his determination to peeseree the peace of the town by all the power with which the law had invested hint. This firm declaration had the desired effect, and the theatre was cleared. Yesterday notice was issued from the Public Office, Town hall, cautioning the Public from a representation of similar out rages; and on the otker band the H. P:s hive posted placards, encouraging the party to persevere and to attend the theatre on Weduesday evening. On the question between the Managers and H. P:s we offer no opinion ; but whatever may be the merits of the claims of the latter, by such outrages as those committed on Monday night, their object neither will nor ought to be effected. They strongly call for the interference of the magistracy, who, we are happy to find, are taking active measures to prevent their recurrence.-- Liverpool Courier. ~.. We entertain serious doubts, that what has been stated in all the Papers of yesterday; regarding the abrogation of the Non-intercourse Act in the United States, is unfounded. We have before understood, that whenever a decisive judgment can be formed of the cessation of that law, a hundred vessels are ready to sail from the harbours of the Republic, which will give us direct and positive information on this impor tant subject. The circuitous channel through which the information is said to be received, is therefore al . most conclusive as to its nullity. LITERARY Furth.--;Wednesday last the 18th An niversary of that beneficent and useful institution, the Literary Fund, was celebrated at the Freemason's Ta vern. Owing to the absence of his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, the illustrious and munificent ( Patron of this Society, his Grace the Duke of So ! *ERSET presided, wbo was supported by several No. I blemen and Gentlemen, not less distinguished by thcir talents than their rank. Monday last a fire broke out in the brewhouse of Mr. Hazell, of Wattag e, which assumed a very alar ming appearance,and threatened destructionto several of the adjoining houses ; but in consequence .of the prompt arrival of the engines, assisted by the very active exertions of the French Officers on parole, and inhabitants of the town, we are happy to sayit was got under, without doing any very material iutury. . CORN EXCEANGE, MARK•LANt MAY 18—This day the supplies of Wheat are again short, a nd sales hi this trade are ra ther dearer—Barley and Malt nearly at last quotation very few White Peas—Beans of both sorts fully at last prices —New 'licks 445. to 50$. per quarter--Old as per currency—Oats are likewise in extreme short supply, and this trade is dearer.—Pricer of Flour at the last advance. GENtRAL CERRINCT Al ossmt. Wheat, 90s. 1001. 118 s. Beans, (old) 625. 611 s. Fine ditto, 120 s. 1245. Tick ditto (uld) 525. 581. Rye, 48s. 535. Oats 255. 28s. 335. Sys. 475. Od. Poland ditto, 35+ 38s. od. Met 785. Potatot ditto, 404 6d. White Peas (boilers) 635. 745. Rape Seed, 4:4. 531. Grey ditto 4gs. 535. Fine Fleur 938. 1 ii;Os.--Seconds 90b.1155. I