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ti . t. DEDICATEM,4Y PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY. The day were pulillibee, in Ivo. price los. id. SERMONS. —By the Rev.THOM AS BOYS, A.M. of Trinity College, Cambridge. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. This day was published, In Three Vols. 14010. price £l. 4s. in boards, VALERIUS.-A ROMAN STORY. " sit by the fire, and presume to know what's done Vibe Capitol."—Sitassrg.ms. Printed for T. CadeU, in the Strand ; and NV. Blackwood, Edusburgh. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 10. The Earl of EGREMONT presented a Petition from the Occupiers of Land in several parts of the County of Sussex, praying relief from Agricultural Distress. His Lordship at the same time expressed his hope that Parliament would not sepa rate until some measure was adopted for the removal of those , distresses, which were complained of all over the c ountr y . The Beer Duty Bill was read a third time and passed. PETITIONS AGAINST THE CATHOLICS. The following Petitions were presented against the Bill for removing the disabilities under which the Roman Catholics labour :—A Petition from Peckham, in the County of Surrey, by the Bishop of WINCHESTER; from the Borough of Tewkes bury, in Gloucestershire, by the Earl of COVENTRY ; from the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury, by the Archbishop Of CANTEREURT ; from St. John's, Leicestershire, by the LORD CHANCELLOR; from the Mayor and Aldermen of Winchester, by the Duke of WELLINGTON; front the "fown of Brighton, by the Earl of EGREMONT ; from the City of Bath, by the Marquis of CAMDEN; from the Dean and Prebendary of Winchester; the Parish of St. Mary , South wark, and St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, by the Bishop of Wurcitesvaa •' from the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Northamp ton , b y the Bishop of Prim DOROUGH ; front falstaffe ' in Oxfordshire, by the Bishop of Cuss :se; front three thousand Inhabitants of Exeter, by the Bishop of EXETER ; from St. Stephen's, Exeter, from the Inhabitants of Peterborough, and the Inhabitants of Saffron Waldon, in Essex, by Lord Botta • and from the Protestant Dissenters who were f or m e rly under the care of the Rev. Mr. Huntingdon, and the Protestant Dissenters of Grantham, by the Earl of SHATTLEMIRM Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. -- - The House met at three o'clock, for the purpose of balloting for the Committee on the Callington Election Petition. At fc.:r, however, the House being counted, it was found that there were but ninety Members present (100 are required in cases of Election enininittees by Ballot).---The House accordingly ad journed over till to-moirow. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1821. THE FUNDS. PRICES OF STOCKS Tills DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 223 1 / 2 -3 per Ct. Reduced 71 1 / 2 3 /s 3 per Cent. Cons. 72 1 /s 72 72 1 / 2 31,E per Cent. 867 s 4 per Cent. 8878 89 S per Cent. Navy 107 107% Long Anns. 18 5-16 % Imperial 3 per Cent. 71% Exchequer Bills, 6s. 4s. pr. Cons. for Acct. 72 1 / 2 72 72% 1/2. We beg to call the attention of the Public in ge neral, and particularly of his MAJES TY'S Ministers, to a simple and obvious mean of quieting the minds of many individuals who derive their income from the Public Funds, and of rendering complete justice both to Debtors and Cr editors of the National Debt, developed in a letter signed " Dmizos," given in another column, addressed to the Earl of Livastroot. The justice of the measure proposed is unques tionable. In fact, if we look at the history of all our Public Loans, we shall find that the Ways and Means for payit the interest were brought forward at the time of each Loan respectively, and that no other security Was held out to the lender but the pro duce of the Taxes imposed at the time, including any free surplus of former Taxes imposed for the same purpose ; and it is therefore evident, as stated by DIAIOS, that the idea entertained by some people, of the Lands of the Kingdom being pledged to the Public Creditors, is neither more nor less than ei nonsense." Nothing was pledged but the Taxes imposed, and if the produce of these Taxes be made over to Commissioners for the Public Creditors, and applied to the purpose for which they were imposed, these Creditors could have no just cause of com plaint. Such a measure would be attended with one immense advantage—the National Debt, and the Civil Establishment would be kept quite distinct ; the Taxes appropriated to each being applied to each respectively. But we will not enlarge in this place. Let the hint thrown out by DIKAIOS, and which is quite original, be duly weighed by our Financiers, and the Great National Council, and they will find it to be founded in substantial justice. The Nation would thus at once get rid of the Sinking Fund—that millstone which hangs about our necks— and it would be found that our expenditure is ac tually w ithin our income. We have received to-day the Paris Papers of Sun day. The following are extracts: PARIS, APRIL 7. The Junta of Turin purified itself on the 28th of last month, by the expulsion of all Members who were doubtful. Genoa and Savoy have united in the common cause with Piedmont. Savoy had hesitated to manifest herself at first, as a great number of in habitants would not pronounce their sentiments unless in case of a re-union with France ; but not being able to obtain this at present, they have joined the Pied montese. The President of the Turin Junta is named blarentini, a man of tact and great talents, who was formerly named as a Bishop by Napoleon, but was refused the Bull of institution by the Pope. It is said that the troops who followed the Prince of Carignano, have joined the rest of the Army. The l recruiting goes on with the greatest facility. A letter received the day before yesterday from Naples states, that some persons have been shot there, and that the Austrians have been astonished at the disappearance of the Neapolitan Army, and are en tirely ignot ant of what has become of it. Having found in the Office of the Ministry, the Returns of the immense materiel of the Army, they are not with out inquietude, and consequently keep a very strict look out, and send reconnoitring parties out daily in every direction, six or eight leagues from the city, who have never been able to discover any remains which would announce the destruction or dissolution of such an immense materiel. There has been a terrible disorder at the Stock Exchange amongst the jobbers. There has been no 'settling for the last month, and it is said that the dif ference to be paid will amount to about 20 millions• Letters from Bayonne, received yesterday, announce that the Cortes intend to raise 600,000 men to oppose the invasion of the Russians, should that event take place. PARIS, APRIL 8. Letters from Rome, dated the 27th ult. state that the King of Naples had entered his capital amidst the general acclamations of his subjects. The Duke of Genevois has arrived at Laybach. It is reported that the Emperor of Austria has offered the King of Sardinia a corps of 50,000 Then, provided with every necessary, and entirely at his disposal, though commanded by Austrian Generals. The Political Chiefs appointed by the Turin Junta, to govern the Piedmontese provinces, are for the most part advocates and physicians. Letters from Algesiras, dated March 17, state that the rebel Ibrahim Muley, the nephew of the King of Morocco, is daily snaking progress. From Tangier he proceeded to Tetuan, which he entered on the Ist of March, where he was well received by the people. Peace has been concluded between the Regencies of Algiers and Tunis. VIENNA, MARCH 29. The Austrian Observer contains an extract of r letter from Naples, dated the 13th, which furnishes the following interesting details : " You will have seen by my last letter that the Prince Regent had set off for the camp of Mignano, and that we impatiently expected the result of an attack which Pepe intended to make at Rieti, against the Austrian army. _ _ " The Prince, on the 9th, stopped at Capua, on ac. count of the bad weather, and announced his return hither on the 11th. On the night of the 9th there arrived at Capua one Ciarguelli, Adjutant of Pepe, with the news that he had retired to Antrodoco, and that, considering the desertion, which daily increased among the militia, he probably would not be able to maintain himself in that position. " General Carascosa, who received the same news by telegraph, ordered the evacuation of the post of St. Germano as soon as the advanced post of the Hungarians chewed themselves. The militia at St. Germano behaved as they had done in the Abbruzzi; and it was with great difficulty that the Prince's equi page was saved at Mignano. The militia and the legionary troops obeyed their Parliament in one point only—they destroyed everything they could not carry away. " When the news of the evacuation of Sora and St. Germano, and of the entire dissolution of the legionary regiments, arrived at Naples, the Parliament sent a Deputy to the Prince to entreat him to employ all the means yet in his power for the deliverance of his country. " The Prince, on the morning of the 10th, held a military council, in which theQuartermaster-General, Florestan Pepe, proposed to have his brother brought to a court martial, for having attacked the enemy without orders. " The Prince determined to go to Mignano, chiefly to communicate with General Carascosa; but he had scarcely quitted Capua when he met a troop of hus sars, which made him augur no good, and at the post of Torricello he found his equipage, and an Adju tant of General Carascosa, who advised him to go no further. " After this the Prince sent a messenger from Capua to Parliament, to inform it of the real state of things, and himself returned to Naples in the evening of the 10th. The news from the Abruzzi, and of the flight of the different regiments, was spread about every where on the morning of the Ilth. " ID the night a courier arrived from Carascosa, who demanded a conference with the Prince, who sent to the General at Aversa, Florestan Pepe, Col letta, and Fardella. - Florestan Pepe's advice was to dissolve the Parliament, and to wait the orders of the King. The next day he gave in his resignation.— William Pepe appears to have been turned out. ' " The Parliament met yesterday in Secret Com mittee. The debates were very warm. Several Depu- 1 ties, who had hitherto kept silence, now raised their vnice on the approach of danger. They voted Ad dresses, one to the King , the other to the Prince' Regent. As they are not yet published, I cannot speak of them with certainty : I only know that they all turn on this captious argument—viz. That in everything which has yet been done, the Parliament thought it was acting according to the express wish' of the King. if they had been mistaken on that point, they were not inclined to make any resist ance, and were ready to obei bis orders.' The Prince was entreated to become a mediator between the King and the Nation. • "The Deputies, on leaving the Sitting, were, as usual, saluted with the acclamations of Liberty or Death !' They answered to the persons shouting, that it would be better for them, instead of prescribing laws to Parliament, to use all their endeavours to drive away the enemy. "The news of the disgraceful flight of the militia and of the regular troops, regarded as the bulwark of the Constitution and the strength of the armies of Generals Pepe and Carascosa, struck the Carbonari like a thunderbolt. The 4 Alta Vendita' assembled a few days ago. The Sitting was extremely stormy. It was determined to send out emissaries to procure information of the real state of affairs ; but the intel- ligence they brought is as yet unknown. It is cer tain, however, that during the night all the secret archives of the lodge were committed to the flames. The lodge desired the fort of St. Elmo to be deli vered up to them. The Supreme Committee of Five sent orders and circulars to all the brothers, in which they were instructed to destroy all those of the militia and regular troops who had fled. We believe that the number of these troops is too great to render the execution of this humane order easy. It is certain, however, that the inhabitants of the places through which they passed, have slaughtered a considerable number of them, in order to free themselves from their rapine and vandalism." Letters are in town from Bahia to the 14th Fe bruary,. which may be considered more recent from the Brazils than can be brought by the daily expected packet, which was to leave Rio Janeiro at the end of January. At the above date, Bahia was perfectly tranquil, and the inhabitants waiting with the ut most anxiety the KING'S determination on the sub ject of Portuguese affairs. Five vessels were loading with Brazil wood for England, on account of Go vernment, and, as it was thought, for the use of the diplomatic Agents in Europe. The exportation of the Pao da Rainha, as this dye-wood is called, is among the Crown privileges, but the shipments were usually made direct to Lisbon, with the exception of the period the French were in Portugal, when they were made direct to this country. The present alter ation of the destination is not, however, to be attri buted to the changes in the mother-country, but to the purposes to which the proceeds are to be applied. Letters have been received from Corfu, of the re cent date of the 12th ultimo, but they make no men tion whatever of any insurrection having taken place in the lonian Islands. In Albania, peace and tran quillity are far from being restored; yet the move ments there relate solely to the contest between the OTTOMAN PORTE and ALI PACHA, which has been too hastily supposed to have terminated. That enter prising Chieftain, in whom age seems to have abated nothing of his pristine vigour, has had the address to turn the Greeks, who joined the Turks on their first arrival, into open hostility against them. The apathy shewn by the Mussulmans, combined with the disre gard of their promises to the Greeks, had afforded Am an opportunity to turn the scale in his own favour, by leading the inhabitants to believe that they had more to expect under the rule of an enterprising Chief, than under the weak and tottering government of the Turks. The fortresses which Aci caused to be built in the mountains of Suli, have been yielded to such of the 'inhabitants as survived their dispersion and subsequent vicissitudes. From these fortresses having been joined by other Greeks, they were making frequent incur sions against the Turks in the low country, without, however, committing any depredations on the people. They paid for all articles which they consumed, and were acting under a system of order and discipline hitherto little known among these tribes. The Par guinotes, not conceiving it prudent in these circum stances to trust to the promises either of Act or of the PORTE, remained, for the greater part, in the lonian Islands. A private letter from Tunis, dated the 24th of March, announces the conclusion of Peace between the Regency of Tunis and Algiers. Yesterday morning, Prince ERNEST ITOITENLOE LANOENIOURO, cousin of the Duchess of CLARENCE, viewed the King's Palace, in Pall-mall ; afterwards his Serene Highness proceeded to the King's Palace at Pimlico, where he was introduced by the Duke of CLARENCE to the Princess AUGUSTA. The Royal Duke and the Princess accompanied the Duchess of CLARENCE in her carriage to the King's Palace at Kensington, to visit the Duchess of KENT. His Jewry has graciously sent a donation of One Hundred Guineas to the Covent-Garden Thea trical Fund, who this day celebrate, their Sixth An niversary Dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern. Twenty two aged and infirm Members are rescued from poverty by the benevolence of its supporters. His Royal Highness the Duke of Youtc, ever foremost in the cause of humanity, again presides at the Meet ing, surrounded by his Royal Highness the Duke of Su,sex, and a noble list of Vice-Presidents. We mentioned on Monday the arrest of the QUEEN'S courier at Lyons, and the seizure of his dispatches by the French Police. The courier alluded to was CA RLO FORTE. The dispatches, of which he was the bearer, are said to have been the papers necessary to effect the sale of her MAJESTY'S Italian property on thlLake of Como, &c. A most magnificent Silk Dress is now in the loom in Spitalfields, which is intended as a•present to her MAJESTY. It is expected to be superior to anything of the kind ever manufactured in this country. It will be presented to the Quers by a Deputation of the Master Weavers of SpitalfieLL. OF LIVERPOOL. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL MY LORD—At a time when the Finances of the Country are confessedly in a state of embarrassment, and when an opinion prevails that it will soon be im possible, under the existing system, to keep faith with the Public Creditor, your Lordship must be sensible, that it is of great importance to allay the fears aril the anxieties which such a state of things must neces sarily produce ; and which is so evidently calculated to weaken the natural allegiance and respect of the subject for the National Institutions. I would there fore ask, if it bas ever occurred to your Lordship, to consider what would be the effect to the Public Cre. ditor of giving the Revenue appropriated to the pay ment of the Dividends the nature of a Rental? I have certainly not met with the idea anywhere stated, but it seems to me worthy of consideration, and on that account I have presumed, in this manner, to address your Lordship. I will briefly attempt to place this notion in the point•of view in which I contemplate its operation. At present the Revenue may be described as ap. pmpriated to two distinct purposes: first, the suppo r t of the National Establishments; second, the payme nt of the Interest of the National Debt.—Why, my L e m, are these two branches always considered as one, when it is self-evident that no two things can be more obviously distinct ? Of the first I shall say nothing. The support of the National Establishments is the chief care of Govern. ment, and is paramount to every other financial con sideration. But for the second, I would entreat at- tention, in the way in which the subject has presented itself to my mind. It is a fact not to be disputed that there is no such thing as a Capital opposite to the amount of the Public Debt, although, in common parlance, it is said that the Kingdom is pledged to the Public Creditor. .A moment's reflection must convince every one that the idea of any such pledge is nonsense, and that the Kingdom is no longer pledged than suits its own convenience. But the Revenue of the kingdom is certainly pledged, to the amount of the Dividends, to pay the interest of that Debt, which is reckoned and valued by the Stocks.—Now, my Lord, suppose, merely for perspicuity, that the Interest of that Debt is forty millions annually, and that the total Revenue for it and the Public Establishments is sixty millions —I would propose that certain specific Taxes, say Sugar, the Assessment on Houses, or whichever tam might be agreed upon, should be set apart, at their present actual receipts, vested, in fact, in Trustees i for the purpose, as so much permanent REKT, to be appropriated to the payment of •the Interest on the National Debt. I would, in a word, take from the Public Revenue certain declared Taxes, equal, at the present time, to the amount of the Dividends, and give them up entirely to the Public Creditor, and say, this is to constitute the Fund for the future payment of your Dividends. If these Taxes exceed their present amend, tie surplus, after paying your Dividends, shall be it apart to form a fund to make up to you any dti• esency that may in future arise; but if there shaft , no surplus, and if these Taxes shall in future id under their present product, you are to look no ft ther to us.—They are your's: they are the RUM of that estate which is mortgaged to you:-at tie time we give it to you, it is equal to all that yoom claim. We only ask you to be subject in your is same from it to those vicissitudes to which all cdnr property, lands, h.-uses, and businesses are liable,- We only ask you to share in the fluctuations commas to the rest of the subjects, and not to oblige us, d all times, and under every change of circumstances. to be paying you at a certain fixed rate, even toile cost of double the value of the debt we owe you. Under such an arrangement as this, my Lord, the Public Creditor could have nothing tocomplainni the nation would practice no breach of faith; ad the country became, as it is hoped it will do, MC" and mote prosperous, it might even happen 601 such an arrangement the Public Creditor from time to time, receive a bonus from the stnylgs , fund. 1 shall not trouble your Lordship at grami length at present, and I have only to request consideration of the manifest benefit that GPO' ment would immediately derive from the plan. The particular Taxes set apart for the Public fta ditor would no longer be mixed up with that' venue requisite for the National Establishments --$4 the expense of these would come to be tvgnis td according to circumstances. have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble seno r , ARIL 9, 1521. • --- Extract of a letter from Cape Haytien, Januaty.ls The situation of this country is every day : choir - 4 and the inhabitants are, in general, very d i scontent 4 Considerable disturbances are excited every dap', Two or three of the Nobles, who were:at the hesd s l an insurrection to massacre the whites and mulaace have been apprehended and confined in prisms day and then released. No Court of Justice is established at the Cape." Dtm..—A meeting took place, early yes_ llo l morning, on Hounslow Heath, between two Ws: men. One of them was severely wounded in° pistol-arm, and fell without firing. He got . u p mediately, without assistance, and taking his Ph• in the left hand, put a question to his adversary receiving a satisfactory answer, .fired in the air. MedicalCicnileman extracted the ball GP 'beg