Star. — London, England, 1817-04-17 00:00:00

PIRLIAMENratIir PROCEEDINGI. HOVER OP LORDS. APRIL. IC This bolog tit day to mbicb desk LaMar bad adjmnbed for die mon% tie LOCO CIANCSILIAIS INIIIIIM:Xitsellb an/ their Lordeldpe proceeded to the vamoctiso of bedew. Dyettli Divorce DUI mae mod a @mood limb mid ordered to' bo comodued. Lord LAUDERDALE moved so Mimeo to Ids Mold neat tit Primo Regent, era* , that ha washt IPkaaaal Devoe •Mu ve nue s Financial Room relative to Dee Pletbmal Debt sod Reves, dabs condo ?Mods, be leldbeforo lome.—Ordered. Pitt BATHURST pee sated the Copia; forreirty moved for e the Atte of the Colotstot Legislature or the Meet Indies, te epee,* the roglatettng of Slaves. Ordered* boblil as the table. LORD SIDIAOUTH'S CIRCULAS TO LOUR LIIIITIDIANT or canines. Earl GREY rose to move for a document, to the production bf which, be understood no objection would be made, viz. the ender Letter recently addressed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the Lords Lieutenant of Counties, relative to seditious or blasphemous publications.— The purport of this document was of so important a nature, lo vitally affecting the perional liberty of the subject, as well as his moat Valuable personal rights, that be was surprised that step bad been taken br the Noble Secretary upon such rounds, and without any intimation to Parbanwat. - There, mete two papers store, for which it was also his intention to move.— He understood, however, that there might be some difficulty . in_ producing th ese. For this reason , there, fore. u mAraigs_consequente of *s.thet. of the Pohl! YisermetYidmoetb, he yedl4 ant. i pteas the os EitZasoll, Tbeft. Porn were, the was bitchier Abe Law Officals' tortheinbject.to :which the . rifetted, and tbeit opinion there. on. 'On threat day of Iseetitig after the adjourn ' asst. ota Monday„ if that iris the day to which the Heuseahould rise, it was his intention .to bring the Subject under the notice of their Lordships: lie. ' than moved for a ep of the Letter addressed, &c. —Agreed to. It was also ordered, on the motion of Earl Gorr. that accounts - should beim - emitted of the bet produce ' - of the aerostat illiCulsolidded Food for the year '11410.4.7. AD/MUNI!' T. • Earl DARNLEY rose, to have an understanding • iv/bother public business :amid or should not come on before five o'clock? He was induced to do so from his having found the House adjourned, on the lest day of meeting. White five, whereby he, in COS.. mon with a Noble niend of his, had been prevented from snaking some observations to their Lordships en the motion of adjournment, respecting the subjects Of greet - WA* interest that were to come before tbe — None. He shouldtake that opportunity of obsery lag, that be trusted• the ratbohe Question, so hue. resting to the traequillity.Of the empire, would coved 'early before the House, and be had no dOubt that dm Noble Earl of Dottoughcaore. not then in his place, • would iuniail to bring it forward. TheZeri of LIVERPOOL could hatdly. be. r" •ez (he raid to allied hint opy information re • ativu to 'beset's, time of die meeting of the•flouse, which it had not been in she power of .* Noble Leal himself to have Collected trpia hisettendanee ea Padiamentary duty. The House bad beon'arring ed fot.sicaeyears with a rrifeteitA tiralmcticeebielelle of the Noble Members *emitted,: a id theerifilmil Speaker (the Lord Chancellor). - . mat Alan REIXIITItII BILL. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the. third reading of the Irish. Arms Regiitry Bill. • - Lord HOLLAND considered this . Bill Ats a sob. division of that extraordinary system introduced by Isis Majesty'iblinisters, in consequence, it was dB • • of - the extraordinary circumstanets and exigencies . of the times. He should not now enter into:is:au sea. ruination Of the tenons ce.pretectelor the adoption . of these coercive measures; but he felt it his duty to advise the Noble Lord, that die public might not so complete!, see ye urgent necessity of hastening this Nil 'through the present stage as the Noble Lord himself, particularly on this evening, when so few Members were LIVERPOOL The Earl of LIVERPOOL had no objection to let the reading of the flif the third time, stand over mita Monday. sf tbeNoble Baron thought it might be amended with any pubLe advantage. It was not his wish to litocipitate aty.vigorons measure through coy its lieges. "Minot the most urgent necessity. • The reading of she Bill was, 'therefoce, deferred mill Ideasiley ant. . thaw MACS 1111MVA1101 The Earl of LIVEItPOOL ,moved the third media& of dm Irish roaco'PrOsavatiost Bill This, bit said, he comidered so bels measure fraaght with dui atoik eidoir c i•Coaseoencts to the maintenauce of pea*, sad • 7order that country. -Mt Sart DARNLEY, Irmo vitiat•be U:ll knew of Intleataastois :ofia iphabiteam, W4600d *Ole 41111611.64 S . 1141.1101,1141- tfie appregekias cps Mekong.. gay materiel reitigualetw to the mumaments of this hill. It row be vouch - MOM smisfaktoey wars tasked fat the peeve:ratios of the 'Alio puma ea the PaidostieriF the civil power alone, shim ew the now imitatedtutkatal intertentom of thus maliaary, Mimi Mien. brill to Muck ilse emaars* morstry. • •• Lord MLLAND, boa not the same milt* to ‘,411.11111.110.11es lid ideesid cot be proceeded io. this M. the coincided with his Noble Frien d the Bill was entitled io some favOurable - fame die CirCelliitallee of ill 'MIAS% adopted she name coostissitioaal Mods Of maintaiding mdse aid poser rieg the pablic tranquillity. Tho eel we. *ea read then laird time. !Upon dr Motive of Alm Lail of Live:monk the House dositodjuoesed until Iktoaday teat. • A..emiletis Oise was recently tried at Liveri. It was that et Woe:nations lodged against Mr. rightii who has of late delivered religious Lectures on WA_ tattoo priseiples m that twin, charging that thallium* waimwduly sogisuredler religious worship, mot alt ' • assail% him seals blasphemy. Wright Omit bid Dug site weeds , but Maintded that they were l i qba as invite* Ihr• Woman Onciples, which itiernelgeo g Lim Ilistaipelesßill t but • those, which wore-timety blophieww be positively doled he bad used. Be wet told, howeier, by the coort, Ilia this was a peat fee a Jury if) decide,' rid figas accordingly held to bail. AIrASVINDMI HOUSE. .Testerasy a Cajon was held at the now* at wideb ° V il eet the meat locum s and Beal 11111i118111 had been disposed o 6 The citAIIUIA. Moved, That the Resuitttinn of the Court of Directors, granting an annuity to Cap tain J. Ear* Paymaster of the Company's Depot, of £3OO per 11811001, be read. The Report set forth, drat his long services, great age; and extreme infir mity, were the grounds for recommending the allow. vice I which, after some discussion, in which Mr. Hume, Mr. Dixon, the CHAIRMAN, Mr. PATMON• and Mr. Euttairrose, took part, the question Was carried unanimously. - : P;IANDA1101 PAMIR.% The CHAIRMAN then called the attention of the Court to the Mandamus, directing the application of the Compifty's Fonda, without their consent, to the discharge of certain claims which had been in disprite: Mr. Howentu, in rising to give a hist.iry of thitt important subject, lautented that, from indispodtioa. it was not in his power to discharge his duty as he could. wish. The question was one of the utmost im portance to the interests of the Company, it being. whether the Proprietors .should concur is the princi ple. that the Board of Ceetrcinl bad a right to inter fere with their pecniniary arrangements, or, in words, to put its hand lota - the pockets of the Pro. ?Hews and take out their money I It was true - that the. Court of King's Bench had decided agi!inst them but. legal decisions. weAe Objeet •to revidoes and sometimes' to reverpts. The s&art bid deckleddpon the constrettion joe4 to . she'Act of. Parlidasent, bit ihe decision had prndocedthiseffect, that it the conttouling ragrffs4f the Beard into thd power of the 'ft apesy, by talking the FnEitrut p 1 hands. of the ' . Trustees . aisPornterflaj , 41W placing them at thc aibittary disposal of o over Wpm the Court had no coorrool, and thus render i iog all irOofs at kw unnecessary and ilapossible:—. The . Hotiourableatudeman then dilated on the ie.. petence-of, enanintity between dilfirsont branches al , a great-Establishaient, end the mutual respect they. ought to have tor ogre another; but eiperience had proved that . the Board of Cuetrool had. eternally aimed at encroichasentsi and there was no shield against it, but in the firmness of the Executive Body of the Company. It was - not the case-of Major Hat that the Court was now called upon to consider, but whether Ilse Board of Controul should direct a. pay ment to Sins out of the Company's fends, beyond what the Proprietors thought him entitled to receive; and thus to decide, whether or not their funds were at the disposal of the Bard of Controul. He then entered into the details of the case. from which, it appeared, that at the time of the siege of Seringspa cam the British army was nearly in a state of famine, when Majes-Hart, who was (Nicer of the Govern ment, and-also a servant of the Company, bad im mense quantities of rice, which were his private pro perty, and which .be sold to the army, without stipu lating how and by whom he was to be paid. From sob wquent c ircn mstancei. he was dismissed from the Com pany's Service, and afterwards also dismissed from his military appniutesents by the Governor-General. He solicited. but without effect, to be brought to a court-inartial,- and afterwards transmitted lib case to rass Government, who, it up. It then epperied drat, in August, 1503. t . Z Directors sent out a .fetter to the Goitraor St' directing payment lobe made for the till hid e for the use-of.Bre army; and if the Governer had understood . the object of cite letter, the subject would have been htitrd.of no more: Out ittecame necessary to explain this letter in Au gust. 1807; and, instead of sendi ng it out, it was kept by the Board of Coutroul, till the 90th. el May. 1808, and Oleo returned finally altered: A Cone spoadence in consequence telt place, bet weed. the . and and the Court, and the Directors took Cons. sePe opinion on tI4 subject. This was that the Board of Cosmos' were nut authorized to direct the .Coek patsy to pay this debt; and Lord Melville, at * bead of the 'Board qt that time, 'did not interline; Front 1809 till June 25, 1812,.ne attic, was ta of the matter, but when Lord Buckinghamshire came to the Board. a correspondence was rene aed and cos. (maces held, but still without any proceedings All June 2S. 1514, when- are Board of Convent wrciifhi that they had taken the opinion of Coirosel, and Mee told that this was a matter for their superintendance. : The Directors again bad recourse to the opinion of -Sir Arthur Pigott, Sit Samuel - Romilly, and others, which were again in their favour; and. fortified by . these, they came to the Resolution not to send out - the paragraphs altered by the Board. It was tbei Intimated to them, that if they persisted in this teeter-; loth" the Board mule tate the necessary steps fee sending out the paragraphs itself.. The: Direstriti still refusi ng , the Coots of King's Beech was appi: .• to, and the rule trai'Madir absolute. • The Dirranifs , th es appued•re the pilerconokif; ithichelso-decidied i t l in favour of the Board wandilie Directors the* . raf ' • they het 150 Ylirll t NiOnieottil at fait iii- . . cie; the paragriphs:„.. 'they longer missed ] , * might all bare been ' us the }Nies Bead Pelewts. Prom these facts the annourable- Gentleman wainsli descanted on the efEcts daat might have beets pro dirced iu• India, had the Direet..rs resisted In the effects which could nos be thought on but with shy& daring alarm... 'kis , argued, that the appearance. ei schism- at home would coot. anarchy abroad.' induce every person who had * 'disputed clailw.le seek redress IromV7rernesent, instead of trottihe Company. The Directors, in resisting, bad doe. era riot. than their duty to preserve the property of the Company and their .chartered rights ;• and for Ilik. conduct the Court of Proprietors was calkd on Pah* tify their unanimous sfprobatioo. He thew a series of Resolutions agaipst the iaterfsfanli ef • ' Board of Commi s pad - thanked the Directors far their conduct. . Mr. Huila seconded the motion, and appmed ly of the conduct of the Court of Directors. oat wv.ee...dur same grounds as the preceding speaker—trasid the Beard of Contrast - from its um gin, and - siosemdedilliat •it bad. gutted a Similar *ease mithuoitY Wei teas findi of thicompany f eveo withli afoWouths, frig* its histitntionp in 1784; -111. though k was specifically intended that it should have mildew= whatever over the Treasury of the comp4S. - 1* Opted to the debticithe Nabob of Atk0t,.... 7 .- which qtf . metes" werircorn'pelled co I,s,y. loft su b , in 1150iiiistbsiest aids minnow to -free minims and stilt, *WO . all the bigt 1 Imewmadi out' did *Oft :Weed ammo. Rip .. R ' . i du* sitietit halaratii:lll 4944, ig bokfrog I die tanat to approve of 'VW residtinee of Threc tom. althofigb he differed frainlbeas as themode they had adopted. He dontanded, that laitead of actiag from themselves, tbershould have stAted the case to the whole Body of Proprietors-..have sent. the paragraphs to India, and then have appealed to Parliament. Mr. Lowell's; supported the motion, and gave the conduct bt the Directors his warmest approbation. • Mr. D. KIIIIIAISD contended the Act of 1784 was only framed to give the Minisaers of the Crown an influence over the affairs of the Company, whp would find that they had noorished a hydra that war now about to destroy them. He went at length into the case of Major Hart, and was several times called to order, on the ground that the merits of that case were no: then tinder discussion. In his opinion the Directori had nit gone far enough in their resistance; for had they persevered, and in consequent: been sent to prison, they would have been borne thither on the shoulders of the grateful Proprietors. Mr. hirer thought the speech of the Honourable Gentleman entirely against the motion. He justified the condoct:Of the Court Of Directors, which had been marked by firmness and temperance. It was highly improbable that this case would be taken as a precedent, but if sucil a one should apin occur, it would be the duty of shi•Companty to apply to Par liament borsht revisal of the clauses of the Act; as it neter could 'have been the intention of the Legisla ture to give the Board of Coetroul authority over the verse of the tampon,: ak"- j• 1 • After a 'brief reply filet Viff. How i arri% Ad:4*es , titer was pet and &Waif staidiniously. - •. „. • . CALCUI TA' OCTOBER 10. • . The Delhi tflchbors tornAdoton to the 18th oldie°, 0 Joliet) us that the intemperance of the sews, wath had produced so mach sickness amongst Eu ropeans and natives in the whole of the Upper'Pro winces, bad in the capital given rite to an epideMic frees. This was so prevalent that in almost every house one or two individuals were ill of it. It is as cribed to the long and unseasonable droughts. These 'do not seem to beve.extended to the central districts of ladobstan = as We NW informed by the Indore pa rrs. :that the faU:of rain was soeietinies so excessive auto prcient the Ministers of Holitar from Attending -thutiar. There is no news from that quarter.' *Moc k' nothiaS eonsolatnry from Jypcce—nothing bet dis tractioe in the Rajah's councils ; and poverty and desolation in his dominions...A party, which may be termed the Opposition, welt explained the unsettled state of the Rajah's politics in the following expoitu lotion with the Ministry s—” You are the prime mo yen and masters of the affairs of the State ; there is, however, no *Melioration of its cooditioo. Meer Khan p lunders and destiays its toles and villages ; co-day you negotiate with the DelhiAmbassadre, next day with Baboo Jee Sindheeto. There is no steadi ness or fined principle is your opinions and plains, Meanihile the.whole country runs to rein." The, Ministers denied their being to blamei and said it was impossible to keep the Rajah steady to any one' line of operation. Rajah Ilubadoor has seised Gobind and aieodaspoor. The dependants. of Rao* Rajah have forcibly entereed Sooruj, a distriet be/engine, to Jypore. Colossal Malttab4has has surrounded Rhombil m g . nod laid dose to emu neighbooriag torts. Meer - than . is • epgajed in forcibly levying • contributions. The Labor papers come down noisier than the sth ultimo, and take no notice of the escape of Sftah Shouja 00l Moolk from the Sikh territories. Ronleet had, however, obtained Iwo boxes of jewels, v i doed at half a lack of rupees seam the property of that Prince. The papers assert that &reject is sof faring severely from a disease.from which we should have supposed would have been secured, as well hif the ripe maturity of his years as by the high elevation of his station ; its torments have se e min g l y Fate sweetened his disposition ; for we are told that at the initigation of an angry woman, he had confis cated the property of his •Denwen• and plated his person in coofieemest. • II , • ? i FRENCS P4PERS. STOCILHOLM, MARCH RR By what we learn, it appears that the King of Denmark has sold to the Prince Royal of Sweden, the title of Count of Laorwig, in Norway, fur the sum of 2,000,000 of Swedish forms. • . FRANKFORT, APRIL Z. M. de Lepel, Niiiiuer - of Hesse Cassef, is here in a singular -predicament. The relations bet n een bit Court and the Diet oblige him to see almost nobody, And live a very mites/ lice: • - .At the last diplomatic dinner, given by M. de 'Baal-Soh sulnstein to the fo 'reign Anibassadurs, M. de Lepel was the onlyope as barked. . " -:", `...'-- ' • . 4 . 17 .'" •• * • PA RI3AaRr fl, iF. •• • • "•-• ? "Plirrillictsrlieviilitle;l9l%hiip of Ghent, hi:bora' at• Paris for sevehi dttiiiitiL' - ' , Massena's • •apaigns of gating, Genoa, end Ri troli, having beep mentioned before the King, his Majesty obrerved, og You fofget Zericb, where the .Marshal had an independent command, and which does him more honour than all the rest." No one is better acquainted than Louis XVIII. with our late • mpaigns, and particulrely our victorious ones. A courier with dispatches, said to be voluminous and important, arrived three days since from Rome. These dispatches are, supposed to be the answer to these dispatched from Paris on the Bth of March by an extraordinary courier. . • The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris is ital occupied with the interesting trial of the person med Afaskevil, who has• been three years in prison. This an, it seems, had been employed inlBl 4by the Provisional Goveennzear,-on.a kind of mission to, recover the crown . jewels, which et was alleged BONA-, ravers, or some of his precious family, had stolen. to In his Quixotic career he met the Ex• Queen of War vunua, 'gnosis nolLfitorres wife, making all haste through Prance to obtain en asylum. Her trunks were literally bursting open 'with jewels,' gold and silver coinage, and other valuables, not belonging to the French, but to the WesphAlian nation. Upon these .14Aubreud seined, and" appropriated them - hintsith. Oa his arrival at Pans he sank the jewels in the Seine, where they were accidentally found by 'a Eshermaa. Maur-cod was taken np.immaliately e but 'COM some Clips or odleri sot. brought to trial Iva the other dkp..Pttuds 65 L 25A -r sys 4 ,pfaiNss. TO THE EDITOR 61 1 THE STAR. SlR—The' common safety valve Applied !o t'e boilers of engines, consisting of a plug precscd d • „ a lever, though Useful, is not int Ail bk, At•d ways secure or dArimpus at the will of the 1 : 4 ,„ ant, who, by overloading . it, tendert it the irr:-...„ iiisteid of the weakest part of the boiler. I ha" , • tied high pressure boilers. to which, wheno P ta a certain point, Pattath an' inverted ... 1 prom dimeosione, containing such a c ~ .. quicksilver as is required to confine the steno. v . 1 certain limits, bat which suffers it to blow tiff v: r. it attains such power as might endanger the lY•ii. I am aware thiehigh pressure engines Are peril•oui— contiersiogvogines are so sometimes— tLe ~ ,ercti,i,l valve ensures the safety of both. It sl: old he ;, t out of use attendant's reach.—Your's, &c. M. It t. I V' The above short but omit important a ecledVie•frierd, deserves the ft. T altruism) o! all ; • s wbo use feat itittri. It rineltiott wit , at th.q time c•scg,pd to the writer by the melancholy accident at Nos l e efficacy of the above simple rap.: !I•et.t ie un.lssubred. ;••••1 jecureillttezm-erginrs, Irtult tie ezploston.—En. THE EVENING STA -t. • • • N DON. THUX&PAY,APRIL 1817. • PRICE OF irOCK4 giis Vs AY 4:1• IEOLOCKI Cu... 7144—D0. f* Accosisn, 71 I f —l.trotced ;Di} e tsiOr Veste.,Narh ICRi•--4p•ertiest. C•lf _ • FieberT 11. I be.42t.ir.maadweed du. 4e. 60. pr. '1 'fiats Andit4 eSS pFa l • PAINT' from India to the midJle of Octolrr 111..41 no mention of any of the reported movements iet or armies in the East, and we may therefore i.ticr the, so far as concerns . our interests is thAt quarter, theTe are no present appearances of oar being involved is any. military operations. The only thing tit At writs to end Anger our pacific relations, is the st.ce of I. don. the Capital of Hagan—tha: is the vaci latin4 politics of his Cabinet, and dtt rapacity of his Ge neral, Mau KHAN, who plunders and destroys tonns und vilttges in levying forted centriStutons on the 410 Yeteiday we laid Wore oar Readers the inaugural Speech of the new Paiatmorr of the United Stater. From tbt same files of American Papers we new preset a few extracts relat;ng to ••:t -SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS. The .Bolus arrived at Rhode Island frown tte Weer •Pliste, announces that Monte Video was clevly invested by land and wader, and was expected to fall, a the Buenos Ayrean Government took, no pet in tbe.contest. Money was scarce, and k was feared a paper !Ballad* .wastid be resorted to by the Conves% The Editor of the Deeseeratir Pear, announces the teeelpt of a letter froni an Officer connected with the ittenlutiqoary army, dated a:Thomas, February 6. The writer states— ; • _ _ a That Genera Bolivar wasambetify at the Maud of St. Mar. gitleta (off the Vageimehts coast): !hat he had declared the while Spenish Maine, from Auguatura to Porto Cavello, to skate of blockade, sad had astonished a Coors of Adntiralty st ,Iffergaritta. That he had under his controul, with Ada.tral Brien, about Moss amain, mostly Baltimore schooners, from one to i 6 guns; which were malting dreadful depretbdons os not only 6paoish vessels, but Dams. That one of them, jag Gus lisilasoie, under Imam Ayres . colours, and marmot by Americans, had captured a schooner from St. Thomas, and bad aetoldly hung up the Captain to the yard-arm, until his tome • billed out, to make hint reveal where his money, &c. was cm suled, and robbed him of 3000 dollars. That the leaders of de independents never consider country, bat are latent oa Ailing their pockets, and were ignorant said priest-ridden; that no in telligent foreigners, not even the Olostriotwiresch exiles, cue mist among them ; and that they are the most brutish, baths , rows and Ignorant people on earth. That one of the lodepeo dent Chiefs (Barachlo) who commanded at Laiuira, had ordertd berweea four and five hundred Royalists to be pat to daub; La finding shooting them too slow, he milixed them to be dal too and two, and piked; among them were may women and Oil tree. And that the Royalist, eureka the same or similar Ix 'rarities , towards the laderadists. That the streets of St. Ttc• max were Mod with soliketak :tresses sod cldldras from de Maine, whose busband, and dithers bed boss massacred, and who existed as the chiral of the *ad.* The letter-writer adds For the love of basaimity, forams* ad Americans not to iined• dk with this so called Independent lathe, which is geiog to or• able destruction ; antedate:l wattilek'Tsat disgraceful vexations await.. Many of rise !meth eilleKetto kith Mord them, hive left them in disgust; raannbif theeshifithotst a sous, and are my dying from poverty and want. A number Dave dial bele." The Batton Ailvirtiim of the 15th March, con• pins the following letter " ST. THOMAS, FEBRUARY I U A singular circumstance oceurteal some event; ago: the boats of a Danislvbrig.of war, lying lure, captured a pilot boat schooner (orabontlo tons, 40 men, and one gun), which they fodhdult anchor nor the Island. She proved to be one of Admiral Erior's squadron, regularly commisdoned, her papers in f ord order, and nothing like s‘ piracy can be roved against the crew, who are mostly English and Arc deans I yet they have been put in the Fort dnnge , '", and are daily examined. A Patriot is/flatiron. t.'' or five in number, some of them large ves:c?., ' now crnizing off the harbour." EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER OF 12TH FEr!z:'.l - Y. 66 General Bolivar and Admiral Brion !lave • dared a-rigorous blockade of the Main, to.ccrnmc: . : oftthe.lstb instant, and as they have the cogrrr-I at sea they will certainly carcute it. ire him. IC counts that Bolivar left Damelona, or o.l' part " t the country, the middle of last month; wit:i 7.5t1e r: 3000 men, vgainst Caraccat, but we haVe s.o !act accounts from him. The general opinion 1!;, will not immediately succeed, but it he acts with I' dace he may. sonic months 'Acme...The inderndr: t • . 1