Star. — London, England, 1817-11-26 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. WEDNESiLtY, NOVf.MTIER 26, 1817. PRICE Of 111CKS THIS DAY AT 'IAVELVE O'CLOCK Rcdueeil Rini—Cum 831•1—Far Opening, 841 4 per Cent. 9911-5 per Celt. Navy 1011 i Ica LA Long etptia. 21 I.l6—lndia Bonds 98 99 pr. Exchequer IhMs 19 Sri pr. Yesterday another Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the same Mt tubers as th it hell on Monday. with the addition Of Mr. BitACCIE BArtatTasr. The Council sat from taro till half-past five o'clock, an .1 it was understood at its rising that Anotimr would shortly be summoned. The circumstance of such a quick succession of Ca binet Meetings, at a period of the year when Hide, public business is transacting, has naturally given rise to a good deal of speculation, and even to some apprehensions. It was stated in our Paper yesterday, that immediately after the second of these Meetings, Lord CASTLEREAGH went to the Commander in Chief's Office, at the Horse Guards, where he remained for some time—whence it has been as a sort of matter of course, inferred, that the deliberations of the Council which 11:s Lordship had previously left, sew have hero of a vuarills nature. It is needless to say how woolly gratuitous this inference is, or to be at the pains of pointing on; how many are the matters not of a war. like nature, which might have led to this visit (per haps .:fttr all merely an incidental one) from the Foreign Secretary of Slate to the Commander in Chief. It may be just sufficient to remark, that a Council .t which neither the Master• General of the Ordnance, nor First Lord of the Admiralty, was presto:, is not the most likely to have ielatcd to any thing in the nature of usilitary preparations; and that in the case of any communication to the Commander in Chief on such a subject having to be made, the Secretary at War. and not the Secretary for Foreign Mails, is the Member of the Cabinet, on whom that duty would have probably devolved. The disputes between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, are among the most extraordinary transactions permitted within the au thority of regular Governments. A member of the former has arrived by a vessel now in the River, sent prisoner by the order of Lord Scutum; and imme diately the opportunity was afforded, he dispatched a messenger to the SECRITASY of STATIC'S Office, re quiring his liberation from that confinement, which he alledged to be unauthorized and unjust. The an swer from the public office was, that Ministers had nothing to do ih the affair, that if he had suffered soy maltreatment under the circumstances to which his application alluded, he might seek and obtain re. dress from those tribunals to which the offence should be properly referred. This person, it appeirs, was taken by order of Lord &axiom, on the banks of Red River, and thence transmitted to Hudson's Bay, with the view to render him amenable to those laws of, the &kids dominions which it is presumed he bad transgressed. The Commercial World have, for some days past, looted with anxiety to the determination of the French Goiernment on the question of admitting . Rums into France.. Nothing decisive bas yet reached Town direct from the French Capital, 'but we learnt late yesterday evening, that a letter had been re ceived from Hatre, dated on the 24d instant, men ticning that the Director of the Customs at that port bad joss received advices from Paris, stating, that Rum for the use of the Allied Troops would be ad mitted ; bat he could furnish no fhrther details to the merchants. We give this information exactly as 'it has reached us, and our Readers will form their own judgment how far the Havre letter is to be con ' aidertd as a reasonable ground for deciding on a . quebtion which may be of considerable interest to the parties concerned. Havre is a day's distance from • Paris by the Post ; and as the mail by Calais did not'' ,(rive yesterday in due coarse, a day at least must .'.apse before this point can be fully cleared up. another part of oar Paper we have extracted from as account of the Michaelmas Fair stLeipsic, some parts of it, in tarmacs to-Britiala.Caramimaa-Mbiat _ "~ will be found not without their sham of interest, and particalsrly gratifying to those of, oat Readers who have participated - in the sentimen is we have from Msste to time repressed, on the state of our Commer cial relations with other countries. to 'observe the parity of aompetitioa which seems, to have pre. - vatted at the Fair, between the British Factors and the dealers in native- or Continental wares.—. No more do we heat' et-0'164s pods being sold for a song, or of British Merchants having the wicked. ness to ruin themselves by their low prices, for•the sake of injuring their German rivals—No—they held up, vie are told. is their undamaged cointnodities at a high price, and thus induced many dealers to resort tn - Cnrtinental wares, (particularly, the French and: •'B4ll 6 l..erstlions) which were not inferior to the English in intrinsic value, and even surpassed them, in the glegajtoe of the pattern, sad to take advantage of the, oppmtimity offered them by snaking great purchases." • ....Thareasoning of this passage is pot to be sure to. • liereatly admired for its consistency ; bat the'main last-which it establishes is worth a. good deal. If it was the AO juice of the Bridal), commodities which 4.4 induced many dealers to retort to Continental wares," it is idle t because. manifestly false ) to add; that these Continental wares were, after all, not even inferior, buractually Muth superior to the dearer ar ticles of British manufacture. In the case as it really stands, there was nothing but what was perfectly just and right. The British merchants held up their goods at a high price, because if they could not com mand tbat price at L?i?sic, they could command it elsewhere, and the dealers who resorted to Continen tal wares, did so, simply because they could not af. ford to res , ,n to the better and dearer wares of Britain. Quebec Papers to ihe 19th of October have been received. These Papers are entirely absorbed in the consideration of the nature and importance of the difficulties under which the Newfoundl ind trade at the present InGment labours. Erroneous ideas are stated to have prevailed extensively with regard to the above . trade, and to the mode of conducting it. When first established, the Merchants and their immediate ser vants, were the only classes of people engaged in it. In process of time another class sprang up, consisting of servants and sailors who-had chosen to remain in the island after the period of their servitude had expired. It soon became apparent that the division of labour which took place in consequence, was best calculated to promote the success of the fishery. The merchant attended only to those parts of the business which were considered to be strictly commercial ; whilst, by an odd analogy, the other party, called Meru, were solely occupied in catching of fish. It is a mistaken idea, .re are told, to suppose that the fishery was prosecuted wholly by English merchants ; for, in fact, the great supplies could be procured through the medium of planter. only. In of the distresses of the trade, and of their principal causes, it is alleged, that durin g the late tear in Spain the island exported in one )edr 1,`M,000 quintals of fish, and now the exportation does net amount to mere than half that quantity. The population of the island I being at the same time little diminished, extreme dis tress could.noc tail to be the concevence, especially as the people depended wholly on the fruits of their labour for sapport. The loss of employment is to them the loss of the means of subsistence. The law less acts and dreadful outrages consequent on such a state of things are very little known beyond the limits of the island. The starving population became a lawless banditti. They broke open the merchants' stores, and carried off their property wholesale, seized the vessels which arrived with provisions, and in both cases set the police altogether at defiance. On some occasions, where subsistence could not otherwise be had, they proceeded with arms in their hands, de manding and enforcing a supply of provisions from the Sitting Magistrates. These and further details have been laid before Ministers, as proofs of the shucking situation of at fairs in that unhappy settlement. Next come under consideration the causes to which thediminut Inn of the demand for fish are to be ascribed. The Ist is, the I.e ivy duties imposed on that ar ticle throughout the Spanish dominions since the re. storation of the legitimate Sovereign—and those im posed by MURAT at Naples, and confirmed by the KING since his return. 2d. The increased duties on Newfoundland oil and seal-skins imposed in this country during the war with France, and not yet rescinded ; and the grant of large bounties to the Greenland and other Whale Fisheries, which bounties operate as a tax on the Newfoundland trade. Si. The unequal competition which it is obvious the British maintain with , thi French merchants in those ports of Spain and Italy to which both parties alwayi carry their fish for sate. The Frerich New. foundland tra.:e is fostered by their Government with the most anxious solicitude, and encouraged in every ways it is therefore manifestly impossible for the Bri tish to meet the French merchants ia the markets common to both, whilst the latter are free from those duties with which the former are burdened. The Newfoundlanders naturally enough recommend the remission of all duties on goods_imported into the island, with the remission of all duties on the produce of Newfoundland and dependeliciesatc. as one mode of relieving chair distresses. Meanwhile they consider it impolitic and unfeeling I tbuQsivernmelit 40 not attend to their prayer. ,by assisting the removal of all persons whose efistress might render than unable to 'main in that haif fir undiedeenleenent ; an 2. what the consequences of their abiding on the island this winter, under their present circumstances, may be, it hi dreadful to contemplate. Merchants will never think of sending out supplies of provisions, while they knew that thousands of starving wretches are to be left on the island, who mast and wi'.l be fed if provisions are to be found on its surface, although they have not a shilling to pay for them. It follows, therefore, that all the population are in danger of being involved in one vortex of distress. This, it is asserted, is no common ease, in which an erroneous decision on the part of Government might be afterwards rectified, without any material evil ; but it is one which concerns the lives and properties of thousands.• At the commencement of -the ensuing wint e r, the Island will again be surrounded w.th an impenetrable barrier of ice ; and whether numerous or scanty, well stocked or destitute,' the population will be placed beyond the reach of human succour, and must be left to their inevitable late. Extract of i Letter from Quebec, dated'the 18th of October:--r' We are happy to Kate, that the par= tial alarm which existed in this City during the last week, respecting a Contagious Fever which was sais' to hats made its acpearrit in this city, is dissipated. Spme.cases of Typhus Fever certainly occurred somr time ago, but we have not lately heard of any new cases. On Monday mntning last, about three p. m. this city was visited with a thunder storm of unusual severity and duration, but we have not beard of its having done any material injury. Yesterday the ship Zephyr arrived here with 189 German settlers, men, women, and children : they will immediately proceed up the country to their plates of destination." Saturday afternoon Earl BAT:tut:sr went to Clare mont, on a visit to Prince LEOPOLD. IS was Mr. Duos, the King's Messenger, who went with the dispatches to the Princess at WALas, informing her of the death of her daughter. The Duke of DEvousurne leaves. Lord Cunt. vu.r.E's seat l'ix4ll Hall, near Li:chlield, for Chatts worth, Derbyshire. The Duke of BEAUFORT k returned to his seat, Worcester Lodge, from a todr. The Marquis,CAlMEN is gone on a visit to Lord BiIAYBRooK, At Ilia seat Audley-end, Essex. The Marquis SALISBURY left Hatfield on Mon day, for his seat Aldborough, Suffolk. The Marquis and Marchioness of Crtormotionev, Lady CHAKLOTTI CIint.MoNDILLEY, and Lord H. Cticr.soiNueLtv, leave town this day for Brighton. The Marquis of .1 -- lErtm.otto left town yesterday for Brighton. Eta BATHURST had a party to dinner yesterday. Tile Earl of CARIIAMPTON left town yesterday, liir his seat, Payne's.hill, Surrey. The Earl and Countess CRAVEN and family are arrived at tome, where they intend to reside during the winter. The Duke SAN CARLOS ii making preparations to do hor.our to the post his Excellency fills in this coun try. His Grace has brought over with him a vaut sum of money, and lodged it in our Funds, to en:.hle him to appear as the reprtsentative of FEIWINAND V I I. The noble mansion in Portland-place, lielonzing to the SHAFTESBURY Family, wherein Count FERNAN NUNEZ, his predecessor, appeared with so much eclat, and fo:merly ANDRIRMSI, BONAPARTE'S Ambassador, has been found too small for the Duke's establishment. A house opposite (No. 5) has been added. These arrangeFaents are only pro tempre, for we understand they are in treaty for the late Duke of QUEENSBERRY'S, to Piccadilly. The Duchess of SAN CARLOS has Utely arrived, and her four children, viz. three daugh ters and a son. The young Count is only seven years of age—the others are about ten, twelve, and fourteen, and are remarkably fine girls. The intended duel between Prince ADAM CZARTO• MINSKY sod General de PAZ, has been prevented by the arrest of the latter at Siegnita. We are glad of ' it : the General must have been a most unreasonable person to cab out a man but two days married. He might waited at least till the honey-moon was over. A requisition, signed by the most respectable Bur. gesses of Edinburgh, is about to be presented to the Dean of Guild, requesting him to convene a Genet's! Meeting of the Burgesses and Guild Brethren, to take the important question of Burgh Reform into their consideration. The only remains of the venerable and ancient Kirk of St. Johnston, the only venerable ruin in Perth, are, by the command of the Inspectors of Pub• ►ic Works, levelling with the ground. The Kirk 0 1 St. Johnston is supposed to be the most ancien t Church in Scotland built of stone. The late SPEAKER of the House of Commons has left to his successor one of the best and most splen did mansions in the metropolis. The stale part of it consists of a magnificent suit of apartments, all in the Gothic style, with appropriate furniture, from the designs ot Mr. Anprr himself. Mr. MANNERS SUT TUN bas now taken possession. WATERLOO MONVNENT.•••• It is reported that the Commissioners for erecting this national structure have fixed upon St. James's Park. The canal there being filled up, a beautiful promenade may be formed round the edifice, which will thus be in the neigh bourhood of all our mesoimportant'places of resod, in the view ot two palaces, and immediately in the presence of the military parade, whence a great part of those issued, whose achievements it will couple mortar. A superb arch.being formed, where the ruins of St. James's Palace now stand, a road, as we learn, is intended to pass through the Park diagonally to Storey's Gate; and, as tha: gate has hitherto been appropriated to the use of the Royal Family, it will be a concession, not an exclusion, to make this road a privileged one for Peers. or Members of the two Houses, in their way to and from Parliament.— Through the arch, the Waterloo Monument will be visible from St. James's -street. Derite-LAMS.—The liessar's Opera was performed last night, with, it possible, increased eclat. Miss Bums:, whose vocal talents are certainly of the first order, continues to gain in public favour, and was rapturously applauded in all the sweet airs allotted to the part of Pally. 'The othei principal Etna - Mit eves *tassel successfully sustained by their respec. five representatives. Caned COVENT GARDEN....IIIO . Opera of the was , revived at this.Theatre last evening.. Mr. BRAHASS, in the air 4 4 When absent ;" and the duet with Miss STSPHENS was eminently successful. But it was in " No more by sorrow chased, lily heart," that he) triumphed ; this he executed with a degree of spirit, whfcl surprised and electrified the audience; it was of COOTS* rapturously encored. Miss STEPHENS was most happy in Floretta ; she not only displayed suc cessfully all the exquisite sweetness, variety and power of her voice in song. OF acted with uncommon sprightliness and :seisms. She marked and executed the comic shades with a degree of skill and effect which proved her highly interesting. Mr. Palmas' and Mr. EMERY performed.Whiassicedo and Peter with their usual ability, and Mr. BLANCHARD, one of the most pleasing ,and flatural actors on the Stage, was extremely interesting in the Margins. The house was crowded, and the Opera went tat with great Wed. MUNDIIII, we are sorry to hear, is again laid up by the gout. The new forthcoming Opera at Covent Garden Theatre is from the pea of Mr. DISINN, the music by &Aiwa and &woo. The former is to appear as the principal vocal character. ticattrox, NokE,VaR 2 Yesterday afternoon the l'atNcr. R EGET second excursion on hnrseback elon ! the %.V e .. I in con pany with Sir W. herPrL, Colow.l and tl:e Rev. Mr. 13Lostacito. Lr.rd was the only art isal this d.ly At hie The society of bis Royal llighnrss the Pki NcE GENT is eXtrernely confined; And within tl!e there is nothing which indicates A .!eviati , n) Iro n ; mournful recollection of All irreparable !00. • bind of the PRINCE REGr.NT Are :o•pialded frx present. It is expected that the PruNcr.krnEy reside at the Pavilion for three months : in of which period, it is prob Able that the Itnyol F. will occ.ishuhilly visit the l'eviiiun. T: deL, finishing the iAte improvumeiits at this ft, ;; •,! ,fence is Alt Tether Oiconveniont ; but er,lrj or ,,, is mAking to 10 , 11) tempor:try BA PI, rt . o IT I.:1118LP %L". The Quvr.rst did nit p 'run m her jours:oy ; lc as before. Although she left Windsor neariy ae sooner. it was almost six o's.l•:ck, yesterday ev , betore she arrived at her house is: Syds:ey.p4 Clse Quens and Princess lii.s2siserst a'e L 11.CilliirElt, Lady MELVILLE ; t,.: C A , st i cL. and Cahmel Dxsnitow. Her Maj e ,i i c •jved by his Royal 1-11gLness the Duke olCL a p j who had arrived siessily an hour Wort.; 42t1 sh e prated evidently fatigued by the journey, tot , , t was stepping Isom her cars sage tutu ti.e tie the , l oot i Aug l a the ;I'lo%lllla, and she would seri a l have Lasko, had not Isis Royal lligliaess hand to support her. General T.vittus arrived an hour Mier. I ler MAJE.TY'S return to Bath was matked by., rf th..se joylol aeclasitations, which reeled tar entrance. Site had, indeed, sigitiliA sire, that no militat y escort should attetil his, that her cittrance might be as ctlitt as possi , a l e , I pendently of this 'much as far MA ;CAW i itrrt WAS desired by the intiataitants of !lath, y e ! th, which the nation shares, has thrown a gloosa every l ace, and the arrival of these napes appe ired bi• scarcely noticed. soon after t h e arrival of her MAJ:.!;TY, . Patty Sat shown to &Mae'', and 411t.r.kat.i, early to rest. lslo con.p.ny had been the residence of her Al.t.lssTY remained in perfect silence, distinguished only by tvo Centinels of the 38th Regiment. During the journey from Windsor her alighted twice ; first at the King's Hcad fhatcham, where, whilst the lint .als were I changed, s'if partook of sandwidies, which h a d brought from Windsor; and again at the Cod at Marlborough, where the StafF of the Wilt Militia formed a Guard of Honour, and tat Band of that Regiment played several rat!nai as her MAJESTY partook of a very elegant prepared by Mr. COOPER, the landlord, who . floured by her MAJESTY'S personal common..', of his arrangement,. The la indlord of ti,e Hotel, at Speenhamland, had also made greet paratitin ; and, as the Royal carriages the house, a carpet was laid.on the pavement : however, all passed on without snipping; but MAJESTY directed some of her suite to express regret at the circumstance, and to say, that would visit that house on her return. THE LATE PRINCE-SS CIIARI,WIT. It having been stated in several Pipers that oinission of the name of tile Princess of Wm.; Depn.ittint of her d.tuAhter, toe 14te Ptincess LOT re, was altogether unprece dented, we now in chrect contritdicti , ot to this stattnielit, the inscriptions engraven on the (Ain pia's, Royal Highnesses the PriaceA AAILLIA, WllO in ENG ; the Princess AMELIA (his daughter) who died in Ibl 0 ; And of hib sister, the Duchess trf Bat_ Nswitx, who died in from a perusal of which, it w i ll be SUP, '`.at . of these inscriptions was there any mother: of those illustticus indivniu.4s ; consequently, the Deposit Lai LI our ! tie mod: oriented PitiNcEss was drawn up iii stria: solar to the established usage oir such msourithilucra. It may be at the same time voserved, that styles pronounced on the interments never the name of the mother, except in those cases the approximation or claim to the Crown Is through the maternal line, As in the c.se cif 01 GLOCCILiTEK, the son of Priocess (Alb QUREN) ANN by Prince GEORGE Denmark.. Dcro SIT M.— Illus:risiltux Prin:lpiiez Amelia Suyl mix Minx ssatu brcusi..x et l'Aentisitantt lietervt 5 licuartnim Francia et 11 b••ri.ix geg;.,defuacu' die OCUlbfIll• AUIIU MIJCCI.XXXVJ. AAUP Suit 76. POblTlPM.—lllustriulatz P;;;iitistz Antelis Fil:x et natu minims Auguttissitsi et P.,tetitisottni Gtur‘it Gratia liniatsataruais Regis hitt /J.:ttn+uti , , &r. Ob+h - . Nov,ntbris, Anno Domini MDeCt:X. Aitatt , sux ) 0 . DErustrusi.-11:ustri.:ssiatz Priaopi , cx Augurs li• renissigui Priscipit Guichni fereouaLub wict, et &antis Augus:lsiitut tot G,ucp Dri Gratia lirtta:itltrutst kris, Vatic' litteatort.,&• the viceattso tent%) Mattis,Assao ILDCCCXIII. k.XX Meetings are called almost all over the Kit.. for the purpose of addressing the PiiistE Prince I.eoeoLo on the lamented death et !t: Royal Highness Princess CliAnhoTri:. Prince I.EoPut.% alter a visit t.l the l'" GENT, at Brightoa, tueans to go ,!oan tci time to Weymouth. The practice of printing "..; tics of I:uyil 1: with black margins, as we have iicii u" melancholy occasion, was coninnen iu ..1J ti re that it was usual even to pi iht, in sm , II p.m. every intermediate leaf in bLick. fete these specimens now before us. Tk.: tile is— " Lulu-yam Lachryingiu, lir the of fear , if, the untimely livath of the fackmii..t7,l4e Prinz. London, pruned by Huantrey Luwale,, hill." --PAN:Alta:ll4s was the 1,11.1111 C giVetl I) • whose death gate flie to initem:r.lb:..: Dirges. THE PRINCEIW Cli A 'MOTT& —Oar lteatl:ls gratified to learn tii.t a vet y interesting W." just appeared, under the title ittt.o.; Life and Death of the Princes: Charlotte," DY WIN HAMILTON, a tirntlem.w cfliit,ecitay qt iur the undertaking, and whose Orli.og ". 1 places within his reach documents v....id' IN person could command. NT %e. 1 . '!' )! • • t. A („. • , ) krtk eE ''e 11 Int ro T !NI y,„ . rsENi . tbrp y 4 F. c 84 7 t‘ , 4 l , ry tT to etjTar.; h• IT eve 1-pLce, '1 WU CLAP.. zd sh e I lot, as brea r;vtd 4. 1 :ed lest net !ler, II + I K. pres.• re. ti,- p tiths ?, rJs :rt. in t;.e M.s.st siert : ;h bad Cistle e Watt ,, d d:'n ul • ant CV 410 'XitS greet r is approsc, lent : th• g ; but Ipress V , that It GilE. ti rr is that to ALAS 011 ht cess Cs 1, now an copies Ito th , wilt) ,\i,,JEs! di !.at mat 'l' ; and t it : much (It color. 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