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- - DISMISSAL OF SIR ROBERT WILiON FROM THE ARMY. . MEETING will take place at the City of London Tavern, Bi‘hoprgate-ureet, oe Thuisear, the 515th October instant, to tike into consideration the propriety of promoting the Subscription already opened to Indemnify Sir ROBERT WILSON, one of the Representatives for the Borough of Southwark, and to place him " above the reach of Ministerial Malice and Vengeance." The Chair will be taken at On* o'Clock precisely. SIR ROBERT WILSON.' THE COMMITTEE appointed by the Elect ors of Southwark to promote a SUBSCRIPTION to IN DEMNIFY Sir ROBER'r WILSON, and place.hins " above the reach of Ministerial Malice and Vengeance," beg Moe to an nounce to the Public that the following additional Subscriptions have been received: Amount lifdlubscriptions already advertised, £4,135 2 0 City of Worcester lust Sub- J. Allen, Esq. Hero scription t ford £2 0 0 Wm. fortes, Esq. .E 2 0 0 An Enemy tolujustice, J. Palmer - 1 1 0 Do ver 10 0 Quippe vehor fatis! 1 1 0 Jonathan Brandrett, A Lover of Fair Play 1 1 0 • Es q . 5 5 0 Date obolum Belisario 0 10 G John Horton,Chiswell- Dr. Steers - 010 6 street 1 1 0 An Enemy tOOppression 010 6 The Times Journal 25 0 0 --- Hardy - 010 6 John Walter, E.q. 25 0 0 Audi alteram partem 0 10 6 Benj. Ryland, Eliggles- Strike but hear - 010 6 wade 1 1 0 A Friend to the prin. Robert Chaloner, Esq. aides which placed M. P. 50 0 0 the !louse of Ha- Edward Waller, Esq, mover on the Throne Luton 5 5 0 of these Realms 1 1 0 W. Sharp Hutchinson, Six minor Subscriptions 1 6 6 Cripplegate 1 1 0 Tom and his Friend, Dy er 1 1 0 L. G. - 2 2 0 Thos. Wishart, Esq. 10 10 0 J.Wilson,Coburg•road, It. Conliffe,Esq. Black- Kent-road - 5 0 0 bu r n 50 0 Samuel Lake, Alfred- Sarah Blake .5 5 0 place,Bedford-square 220 An old Burdettite 50 0 It. G. - 21 0 0 C. 13. 1 0 0 Viscount Fl.rington 30 0 0 T. H. 1 0 0 An old Fosite - 5 0 0 Robert Hall 3 3 0 Ilia (.race the Duke I Col. Hughes,M.P. WO 0 0 of Somerset - 100 0 0 The very Rev. the George Goodwin, Esq. 50 0 Dean of St. Asaph 20 0 0 Subscriptions are received by the following Ilankieg-houses: Mesas. Marten, Stone, and Co. 60, Lombard-street ; Williams and Cu. Birchin-lane; Ladbroke and Co. Bank-buildings ; Ilan towered Co. Pall-Mall; and Sir John Finhorn and Co. Llorough Bank.-.-By Order of the Committee, ROBlill'r il AI. 1., Sec. Three Tuns Tavern, Oct. 20,1821. WESTMLVSTER SESSIONS, OCTOBER '2O. CHARGE OF RIOTING AT HONEY AND FRANCIS'S FUNERAL. Mr. WALFORD addressed the Chairman, and said, that he had yesterday applied to the Court to have the recognizances of two men, named John Fly and William Griffiths, estreated, they not having appeared, as they were bound to do by their recognizances, en tered into on the 28th August last, to answer a charge of riot at Knigbtshridge on the 26th of that month, and fur which a bill of indictment had been found against them. He now understood that one of the parties was forthcoming, and he should therefore content himself with applying to have the recogni zances of the other (John Fly) estreated. The pro secutors were ready to go to trial on the indictment against Griffiths, who was now in Court. William Griffiths was then put to the Bar and pleaded Not Guilty to the indictment, for riotously assembling at Knightsbridge on the 26th August last. Mr. WALFORD, in stating the case against him, entreated the Jury to discharge from their minds al together the previous accounts which they had heard of certain tumultuous transactions which had oc curred at Knightsbridge during the funeral of two men named Honey and Francis, who had been killed on the day of the late Queen's funeral. He said it was their duty alone to collect the facts from the evidence which would be laid before them, and not in any degree to suffer their minds to receive any bias from previous statements. A considerable assemblage of the humbler classes of the people had met on the evening of the 28th, at the fune ral in question, at Knightsbridge, in front of the bar racks of the regiment of Life Guards, against whom a good deal of irritation was said at that time to have been excited in the minds of the populace. The , rioters kept hooting and insulting the soldiers from without, and also throwing stones in a violent and dangerous manner over the barrack walli. At length the constables who were stationed within the barracks were directed, after the Riot Act had been read, to go forth among the mob, and shew them that warning had been given, by placards and whatever other means they could, to induce them to desist and retire home. While so doing, the prisoner was ob served to be particularly active; he was seen and heard hooting, and the constables would prove, that while they were endeavouring to clear the road, he called out to the people—" Stand, you cowards, stand!" For so doing they took him Into custody, and he was now to stand his trial for his part in the riot of that day. The Learned Counsel then laid down the law of the case as applicable to riots, and pointed out that any man waiting on the spot, and particularly if he be found exciting rioters to prolong tumult. after due notice of the Riot Act, had incurred the penalties of the law. The first witness was George Edward Diane, who said he was Headhorough of St. Mary's, Isling,ton. He bad been summoned by the High Constable of Westminster to assist in keeping the peace at KnightsH bridge and the vicinity on the 26th of August last. He went there accordingly, and was at some time of are day outside the barracks, and afterwards inside the walls. Mr. Conant, the Magistrate, was inside, and a large group of constables. A considerable snob was outside, making a great noise; they were hallooing and hooting very much, using abusive lan guage to the soldiers, and flinging stones at the bar rack windows and over the wall. They remained snaking this noise and throwing stones into the bar racks, and Mr. Conant read the Riot Act. Witness, .together with a number of others, was directed to go out, and apprise the mob that the Riot Act had been read ; and that, if they did not disperse, the military would be called out. Some dispersed when the pla card stating that the Riot Act had been read was held up by witness; but others seemed inclined to stop, and witness, with others, endeavoured to disperse dam with their staves. He perfectly well recollected seeing the prisoner among those who would not de part—Crlie dtlendant—" Yes, and you know you &true% me a violent blow with your staff."]—Witness admitted that he might have struck the defendant, for he pushed with his staff at all who remained.-- While so engaged, he heard the defendant call out &mud, you cowards; stand r he believed the wor4 'so spoken were addressed to the mob; but the defen dant, when taken into the barracks, said that he meant them for the constables. He refused to go hoini when required, saying that he was at home ; and that he lived at his mother's, near whose door he was standing. Mr. BARRY.—And was not that right? Did he not live at his mother's, at whose steps he was stand ing?—Witness replied, he did not know. That was what he said at the time. The CHAIRMAN.—Did he make any resistance at the time?—Witness—No, CHAIRMAN —Was your inducement to apprehend him the use of those worth by him, or his improper conduct otherwise?—Witness—Princi pally the words. Mr. BARRY slid he should not occupy the time of the Court by asking this witness any further questions. William Creagh, quite a youth, a jeweller, said he was a special constable stationed at the barracks. He saw the people riotous and !twang; the prisoner was hooting. Witness ordered hint to go on; he said he would not, as he was near his own house, and called out, " Stand, cowards, stand!" He went on very quietly when taken, nor did he make any resistance. He said he lived close by, at his mother's, and did not mean the expressions he used for the mob. Mr. WALFORD said that was his case. Mr. Benny said, that he was Counsel for the pri soner ; but that really he saw nothing in the case to render it necessary for him to address the Jury. There was no proof of the prisoner being riotous: he had denied at the time the application to the mob of the expressions he had used: he Made no resistance; and was actually carried away a prisoner because he would not quit his mother's door, where he lived. The Jury interrupted Mr. BARRY almost at the in stant he rose, and said he need not take any trouble, as they were quite satisfied upon the matter. The prisoner was immediately Acquitted. MILITARY INSUBORDINATION IN THE ME- TROPOLI& In the course of the day, some soldiers, chiefly of the Foot Gnat ds, were tried for ordinary assaults and petty thefts; and upon the Conviction of one of them for stealing a saucepan, The CHAIRMAN remarked upon the extraordinary fact, that nearly one-half of the prisoners at the Ses• sions were soldiers, who lived upon the bounty of the Public, and yet offered for their excuse for commit. ting disturbances upon that Public, that they were so drunk at the time that they knew not what they were doing—in other words, that they had money enough to spend in keeping themselves in such a state as to be useless and offensive. The Sessions, then, after some routine appeal busi ness, were adjourned. SPAIN. MADRID, OCTOBER 4. It having been observed that the inventors of false hoods endeavour to agitate the minds of the Public by the most ridiculous news and the most absurd re ports, we hasten to declare, that an extraordinary courier which arrived this night from Malaga, was dispatched by the National Chief of that province, for the sole purpose of bringing information that the whole province enjoyed the most complete health, and that the precautions of establishing a cordon, and cutting off the communication which had been or dered by the Commandant-General and by the Su preme Board of Health, at Grenada, were considered as premature. Omega 7.—The Cones are constantly engaged in discussing the important plan for the new divisten of the Spanish territory. CADIZ, The Supreme Board of Health has just published another notice, of which this is the substance : The Board having been informed, by a communication from the Constitutional Alcade of St. Mary's, that there were some people ill whose symptoms were analogous to- the yellow fever, sent Commissioners to inquire into the fact, accompanied by two physicians, who, on inspecting those patients, unanimously de clared that there were yesterday above twenty per sons ill of a disorder, with the characteristics of the yellow fever, in the town, dispersed in various quar ters, and six in the Hospital of Observation. The Board has in consequence, in an extraordinary sitting, held this day, most strictly enjoined the municipality of Port St. Mary, to carry into effect the measures prescribed for such cases, in the instances of the 16th of August, 1816, and 26th July, 1818 ; and to follow the other regulations for preventing the spreading of the contagion. The Board, faithful to its principles of publishing the state of the health of the province, whether it be favourable or otherwise, resolved that the above should be communicated to all the other superior Boards, and to all whom it may concern, that they may take all necessary precautions for the ' preservation of the public health, which, the Board adds, has not yet suffered any diminution in the city of Cadiz, or the other towns within its jurisdiction. A communication from Villascea, of the '26th Sep tember, contradicts a statement that had been made in some Journals that the yellow fever had appeared in that town and its port of Salon. MURCIA, SEPTEMBER so. Some fears have been excited here by the death of a person of a disorder which seemed doubtful, but on inspection the faculty discovered the real nature of the disorder. The Board of Health takes this oppor tunity of declaring that this city enjoys the most per fect health, and adds the assurance, that if any un favourable change should take place, notice shall be immediately given. BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER :9. Report of the fever in the City, Barcelonetta, and the Hospital of the Seminary : Remaining New Cases Cured Deaths. Sept. 2. 4OO r . 120 15 .. 76 26 431 118 °6 62 r 461 69 13 62 18 r . 455, of whom 114 are convalescent. DI A DRID, OCTOBER 7. Every precaution is taken to pi event the introduc tion of the fever into this capital. The strictest re gulations are established at the gates, to prevent any persons or effects entering the city without the most accurate examination of their passports. It is also resolved to publish a regular statement of the deaths in tile hospitals of Midrid, in order to counteract the reports which malice or credulity may spread. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1821. THE FUNDS. PRICES OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock 240 1 / 2 -3 per Cent. Redu. 7744 Ys % 3 per Cent. Consols 78 1 4 % 1 ,4 4 per Cent. 9'3% N-5 per Cent. 111 1 h Lg. Ans. IV A—So. Sea Stock 87—India 11d5.73 Exch. Bills 6s. 4s. .ss. pr.—Do, (Small) 6c. 7s. pr. Cons. for Account 78% 79 78 N. Letters received this morning, from Buenos Ayres,' Mention that a battle was fought, previous to the 23d of May, between General SAN MARTIN and the Royalists, in which the latter N%as defeated with con siderable loss. An armistice took place after the en gagement between General SAN MARTIN and the 'Viceroy of Lima, for twenty days. Extract a letter from the Agents to LLons's at Buenos Ayres, dated August 12:—" An Armistice has been concluded between the Royalists =1 Gene ral SAN MARTIN." From the Agents at Valparaiso, gated July 4:— " Dispatches have been received by Sir THOMAS HARDY, from Captain HALL, of his Majesty's ship CONWAY, with intelligence of an Armistice between the Patriot Army and the Government of Lima." The following vessels have been captured by Lord COCHRANE'S squadron : The Colombia, and the Engham, and sent for Valparaiso. The Lord Cathcart, and sent to Arias. The Roberts, WINTON, to Pisco. The Joseph, for VoL The Robert, Fuca, has been given up. The Paris Journals of Thursday and Priday last have arrived ; but, with the exception of some de tails respecting the contagion in'Spain, they possess little interest. Letters from Perpignan, of the Bth inst. give the most afflicting details of the progress of the malady in Catalonia. hi Barcelona it is increasing, and the num- ' ber of deaths from the 29th Septimber to the sth Oc tober exceeded 350 daily. Whole days were occu pied in carrying away the dead bodies; and every house was a place of desolation and mourning. The Authorities had decided that the inhabitants of Bar celona should quit the city to encamp in the vicinity. The children, under the age of twelve, generally escape the contagion, but they are nearly all become orphans. It bas been found necessary to close the churches, as the number of persons who constantly . _ attended contributed to extend the malady. To add to the honor of the scene, provisions are becoming scarce. In Tortosa the ravages of the disease are still more dreadful, nearly the whole of the men having fallen victims to it. It is stated, in the Austrian Observer, on the autho rity of an article from Trieste of the 24th September, that the Ottoman fleet hating quitted Rhodes, joined the squadron of the Viceroy of EGYPT, and that the two fleets had sailed for the Isle of Candia. It is also stated, on the same. authority, that the Greek fleets had entered the ports of Hydra and Spezia, to revictual and take in ammunition. An article in the Gazette de Num:burg states that, in addition to Monembasia, the town of Arta and the fort at Belvedera had been reduced by the Greeks, and that the troops of CA LAMATTA having joined those of YPSILANTI, the strong places have all been besieged by numerous corps and with success. Prince DEMETRIUS YPSILANTI has invited all the Generals commanding in the Peloponnesus to assem ble in a Congress, which was to be opened on the Ist September. Its object is to reconcile the differences which have arisen among the Greeks. On the same authority it is added that the Greeks have raised 28,000 men, of which.lo,ooo are well armed. The Generals estimate the whole of their troops at 80,000 men. A bulletin of the Ottoman army, encamped before Joanina, of the 19th of August, states that a fire broke out in the Castle of Lac, which consumed a great number of magazines. It is said that Passano, a celebrated Carbonari of Naples, is the matt who has raised the siege of Jon nina, by attacking the Turks at the head of a consi derable corps of Cephalonians. A private letter from Corfu, in the Constitutionnel, dated the 18th of September, states, that GOURCHILD PACHA had attacked the Suliots, five leagues from Joanina, and had been defeated, with the loss of more than a thousand men. French 5 per Cents. Thursday, 901 r. sc. Bank Stock, 1595. American Papers 0 the 2Gth September arrived this day: NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 25. Faou HAVANNAIS AND Maxzco.—An arrival at Charleston has furnished us with dates from Vera Cruz to the sth August.- On the 3d August General O'Donoju landed at Vera Cruz, and, after having taken the usual oath, assumed the reins of govern ment as Captain-General and Political Chief of the Kingdom of Mexico, the tide of Viceroy having been abolished by the Constitution. On the tame day he issued a Proclamation to the People; and on the4*,, lin a Public Address, he congratubted the troop and inhabitants on their having annihilated the cn e fr aft forces which had appeared before their walls--the greatest part of which, he observed, paid fo r t h. lt temerity with the loss of life or liherty.--o n the 934 ultimo a fleet of twenty merchantme n sailed from the Ilavannah for Cadiz, under convoy of two ' l oots of war. CHARIXSTON, sr.PTEMBER Captain Jehenne left St. Jago da Cuba on the 2 04 of August; informs, that tie tro ops composing die garrison of Bocca Chico had arrived at Cuba, as pi, soners of war. The capture of Bocca Chi ea ns „„ soon lead to the fall of Carthag ena, and t h e late? ' place is probably in possession of Bolivar, t ick ,. intorcement of troops which is supposed (0 b e l et; ., in America, have positively refused to t a k e part7_"l the war, and have been sent to Jam a i ca, *here they arrived on the 10th of August. Althooo l s h e ferences existing between the United St ates France have not yet been settled, American vessels continue to be admitted as formerly, into the col°, nial ports of Martinique and Guadaloupe, An article from St. John's, Newfoundland, of 26th of August, states, that the fishery, whi c h 1 74 been very unsuccessful at the commencement of t h t season, had become more favourable. A report had reached St. John's, that a • quarrel had taken place between the Americans aw some Nova Scotia fishermen, at Cape Charles, which fourteen men were killed. SLAVE TRADE.—A letter from an Officer of ti e Tartar frigate, dated Ascension, so far back as N ay 26th, says We have sent three Portuguese a t i one Spaniard into Sierra Leone, with 1000 slaves, There has been, to the immortal shame of POrtugi, Spain, and France, not less than 100 slave-ships Ithe neighbourhood of Ferdinando Po during thew twelve months. The mate and seven men of ti t George Canning, of Liverpool, have been cut Offal beheaded at Old Castlebar. DREADFUL HUHRICANE.—A destructive htirriCare took place in New Hampshire on the 9th of &pun. ber, the most violent that has ever been knows it New England. Persons' houses, trees, and rocks, were forced from their resting places into theair,asil made the mere playthings of the storm. At New London, the hurricane demolished ago mill, nine barns, and several dwelling-houses. Se veral orchards, and 350 acres of wood, were blvvi down. No lives were lost in New London; boa Warner, four persons were killed, and anumbenry severely wounded. At Kearsage Gore, the dwelling•house of Mt.& vary was demolished. He was carried off his fen some distance, and his head dashed to pieces agiot a stone. In Salisbury, several houses were sup away; and an infant was carried a distance ark). dred feet, and found alive under the bottom of a sleie. It is stated in the Albany Advertiser, that what was sold from the waggons in that place at 9s. 9d. per bushel. Extract of a letter from Pernambuco, Attgast2s: l a Saturday evening, the 21st ult. the General of this place, in passing the bridge of Boa Vista, in ampany with his private Secretary, and a merchantlatelyst rived from England, but a Portuguese, was fired at by a man concealed at the quay. The General's wounded In several places ; the merchant actor panying him was also wounded, both are, harm, in a fair way of recovery. The consequence of tL has been that more than 200 persons have been ip prehended, and are still confined in various prism it is said that Lisbon will be. their destination. at the Monday following a body was found floater the water, which was exhibited the whole day Si street, with a reward of 100,000 dollars to ay one who could give information. Government ssi pose this to be the person who fired at the Gentl, for on his firing he threw himself into the water, large pistol was found between his jacket and iris Two pieces of horse artillery and 50 foot, with I same number of cavalry, are guarding the houses which the Governor lies wounded." NORFOLK. The Board of Holds of Norfolk report one ski from malignant fever, on Saturday, the - 15th insuan two on Monday, the 17th ; and two on Tuesday,* 18th. They state that the number of new eases ai deaths has greatly diminished during the last week. VERA CRUZ. The New York Mercantile Advertiser states, tha a Gentleman of that city had received informs* that on the ith of August the Patriots made a vigor. ous assauk upon Vera Cruz, and succeeded ie ing an entrance within the walls at three /Mock the morning, but they were. repulsed with co wl& able loss, and retired at seven the same moniug. Havannah Papers up to the sth of August tot that, on the 3d of that month, General Don Ja . O'Donoju landed at Vera Crux, and, after ha n g taken the usual oath of office, assumed the re m, Government as Captain-General and Political NI of the Kingdom of Mexico, the title of PJ having been abolished by the Constitution. - - 01 . 1 same day he issued a Proclamation to the Mena people ? and on the 4th, in a public address, bee°. gratulated the troops and inhabitants on their bu r l annihilated the enemy's forces which had apPer l _ before their walls, " the greatest part of which, P observed, " paid for their temerity with the 10 " i life and liberty." CUR ACOA, AUGUST 11. The Governor has received official ;Ando from General La Torre, dated 29th July, of Lair having been declared in the same state of b lab !: as the harbours and coast of Maracaibo, Coro, PP Barcelona, and that all vessels attempting teem! Laguira, reckoning for 14 days from the date Torre's dispatch, will be considered good aal" ful prizes. COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC, AUGUST 11. No news of importance to communicate, WO that 1700 men who sailed not long ago from Feg! Cabello for Coro, have been completely defeated,: the latter place by the Patriots, Ind the Reb. could not re-embark more than th ree o r foaraP dyed men: an immense quantity of arms and WO nitiotrlell intutLe hands of the ludependeou• arri wit :hi! 114 i