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;lb--1 144‘ '. - ''b • • 411. ‘ . Air o 1 11--, PARLIA Veit' VITOL &DINGS. . • Raltilir ddeans4ii t i7srermil yesterday in s Second MU [ —le esitsfof the information of than of our Readrrs whose copies were of the Fust Edition.] . HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 11. M three o'clock, the Loan errant:x.l4.os, the Archbishop of CAVIZISUkY, the Duke of %Putman's, the Earl of Ilan jinwar, and the E ar l of W a R T MOWSLAND appeared as his Mi. jaaty's Commissioners. The Usher of the Black Rod was then sent to command the attendance of the House of Commons. In $ few minutes the SPZAICER, accompanied by about sixty Mem bers, appeared at the Bar, when the Royal Assent was givei• to the Duke of Clarence's Provision Bill, the Appropriation Bill, the Lotteries Bill, and she Irish Court of Exchequer Re gulation Bill. PROROGATION. The following Speech, from the Throne, was then read by the LORD CHANCELLOR: 14 My Lords and Gentlemen, 44 We have it in command from his Majesty to in farm you, that the state of public business having enabled him to dispense with your attendance in Par liament, he'has determined to put an end to this Ses sion. His Majesty, however, cannot close it with• out expressing hi, satisfaction at the zeal and assiduity with which you have prosecuted the laborious and hn portant inquiries in which you have been engaged. " He has observe,s• with particular pleasare, the facility with which the restoration (.f a Metallic Curren.:y has been effected by the authority given to the Bank of England, to commence its Payments in Cash at an earlier period than had been determined by the last Parliament. a Ilk Majesty has commanded us to acquaint you, that he continues to receive from Foreign Powers, the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country. Gentkmen ?like House of Commons, 4, We are.commanded by his Majesty to return you his thanks, for the provision which you hate made for the public service. a Although the public expenditure has already undergone considerable reduction within the present year, his Majeity trusts he shall be enabled. by the continuance of peace, and of internal tranquillity, to make such further reductions as may satisfy the just expectations expressed by Parliament. His Majesty has commanded us to assure you of the gratification which he has derived from the provision which you have made for his Royal High ness the Duke of Clarence. " My Lords and Gentlemen, " It is with the greatest satisfaction that his Ma jesty has observed the quiet and good order which continue to prevail in those parts of the country which were not long since in a state of agitation. " His Majesty deeply laments the distress to which the Agricultural Interests, in many parts of the king dom, are still subject. " It will be his Majesty's most anxious desire, by a strict attention to public economy, to do all that depends upon him - , for the relief of the Country from its present difficulties; but you cannot fail to be sensible, that the success of all efforts for this pur pose will mainlydevend upon the continuance of domes tic tranquillity ; and his Majesty confidently relies on your utmost exertions in your several counties, in en forcing obedience to the laws, and in promoting har mony and concord amongst all descriptions of his Majesty's subjects." The Commons then retired, and their Lordships separated. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The interest excited by the motion of which Mr. Huse gave notice yesterday, respecting the presence of her MAJESTY at the Coronation, was manifested to-day by the number of persons who attended in all the passages leading to the lobby and gal lery. It was expected that the House would meet at one, and even before that hour several persons had come down with the view of getting admission. The House, however, did not meet till &few minutes before three o'clock. The gallery was opened at three (immediately after prayers), and the STEALER, having counted forty Members, took the Chair. There were then about eighty Members in the House, of whom the greater number appeared on the Ministerial side. As soon as the Srusza had taken the Chair, Mr. HUME rose to address the House, but gave way on being informed that a person from the Navy Prize-office waited without to present some Papers. This person (Mr. [Lis:cove, of the Navy Prize.office) then appeared at the bar, and presented a Return of the Fees paid on Navy Prize Accounts They were ordered to be laid on the table. As soon as Ili: was disposed of, Mr. HUME again presented himself to the atten tion of the House, in order to submit the motion of which he had given notice yesterday. He began by saying, that when he came to the House yesterday he was not aware of the intentions of his Majesty's Ministers with respect to her Majesty; and therefore, considering the question of vast importance to the country, he had given notice respecting it. The Hon. Member then observed, that if there was one subject of more importance than another, it was that to which he was about to refer—one which was so in timately connected with the tranquillity of the coun try, and particularly of the Metropolis. He thought that it should be a paramount duty with Ministers not to leave the country in the state of irritation and agitation in which it was left at the prorogation last Session. We were now within eight days of the Coro nation, and as yet it was not known in what situa tion her Majesty was to be placed with regard to the approaching ceremony. Surely Ministers would not take upon themselves the hazard of leaving the country in this state of uncertainty; and still did he hope that they would not renew the agitation of the public mind by the exclusion of her Majesty; for he thought that nothing could at the present moment so effectually quiet the public mind as the participa tion by the Queen in the august ceremony which was about to take place. It was not without deep regret, though certainly without surprise, that he had heard of the decision of the Privy Council respecting her Majeay's claim to be crowned. The claim, he thought, had been clearly established by her Ma jesty%'s Counsel ; but it appeared that the Privy Coun cil were of a different opinion, and therso decided. Tile lion. Member then read the following extract from the Report of the Privy Council :—" Their Lordships do agree, humbly to report to your Ma jesty their opinions, that as it appears to them that the Queens-consort of this realm are not entitled of right to be crowned at any time, her Majesty the Queen is not entitled as of right to be crowned at the time specified in her Majesty's Memorials."—He did not mean to impugn this decision, b ut hi s own o pinion was, that her Majesty's claim had been fully substantiated, and that she had as good a right to be c:owned as the King. It was from this conviction that lie was induced to move an Address, that his Isll.3ty ruqi..t be graciously pleased to extend to her 6, Majesty the Queen a participation in the Coronation. • He was anxious that the House should bear in mind the declaration of a Noble Marquis (Londonderry) in that House, and also that of a Noble Lord in the other House of Parliament—that the fullest justice , would be done to her M ijesty in any claim which she might prefer. Justice now, he considered, de manded that her Majesty should be crowned. He would not now enter into any arguments in sup port of her Majesty's right to be crowned, because hi object was that the Address from the House sh'uld view it as a matter of the favour of the Crown. The House, from respect to the Royal Family, were, in his opinion, called upon to prevent, if possible, her Majesty from being insulted and degraded. She was now placed in a situation in which no Queen-consort of this country had ever been placed before. She was the cousin, as well as the wife, of the Sovereign ; and she was, independently of her character as Queen, a member of the House of Brunswick. Under such circumstances, she ought not to be suffered to be de graded in the face of the country. For the sake of the tranquillity of the country, he would implore the Mouse to consider this matter, as he felt satisfied that nothing could so effectually tranquillize the public mind as her Majesty's being allowed to take a part in the Coronation. So anxious was he for the preserva tion of the public peace, that for his own part he would willingly wave all question of her Majesty's right to be crowned, and receive it as a matter of the grace and favour of the King. If his Majesty should be advised to grant this, he was satisfied that it would be received with joy and gratitude throughout the country. If a contrary "system were adopted, he for one would protest against such an act of severity to wards her Majesty ; for, undoubtedly, the country would consider it as such, and as a following up of her former persecutions. His Majesty's Ministers had now an opportunity of filing their Sovereign in the affections of the People, by the advice which they might give ; but if they neglected that opportunity, their conduct would be looked upon by the Public as oppre,sive. He should again repeat, that we were now within eight days of the Coronation, and it was not yet known what treatment her Majesty had to expect, what part she had to take, or whether she was to be excluded from the ceremony even as a spectator. Such a situation of things ought not to continue ; and the Noble Lord (Londonderry) would allow him to say, that the present was an opportunity by which the injuries and oppressions already suffered by her Majesty, might be done away in a great measure.— He would not trespass fatther on the attention of the House; as he was anxious to bear the sentiments of the Noble Marquis upon this subject. He could assure him, before he sat down, that his object in bringing forward the present Motion, was not to sow any discontent in the country, but, on the contrary, to remove that which already existed on this subject, and to prevent the recurrence of the agitation into which the country was thrown last year. The Noble Lord (Londonderry) had said on a former occasion, that his object would be to come at the truth of all that had been alleged respecting her Majesty. The Noble Lord had found himself thwarted in the charges which had been brought against her, and he ought , therefore not to advise a perseverance in measures which would be generally considered as a continu ance of persecution. No further attacks ought to be allowed upon her Majesty, nor should any further attempts be suffered to degrade her. He begged again to say, that he was not now maintaining the question of her Majesty's right to be crowned (though upon the question of her right he had no doubt): all he was disposed to maintain at present was its expe diency ; and that his Majesty should not be advised to let slip such an opportunity as the present of en dearing himself to his subjects. The Honourable Member concluded by That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, pray.. ing that be will be graciously pleased to issue his Royal Procla mation for the Coronation of her Majesty; thereby consulting the true dignity of the Crown, the tranquillity of the Metropolis, and the general expectations of the People." The Honourable Member had but just commenced the reading of this Resolution, when the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod was heard knocking at the door, and as he was concluding it, be was called to order by the SPEAKER, who reminded him of the presence of that Officer. Mr. HUME immediately took his seat, and the Deputy Usher informed the House, that his Majesty's Commissioners for giving the Royal Assent to several Bills, and also for the Prorogation of this Parliament, attended in the House of Peers, whither the attendance of the SPEAKER was required. The SPEAKER, accompanied by most of the Mem bers present, immediately repaired to the House of Peers. On his return, the Right Hon. Gentleman stood at the table, and having stated that he had heard the Speech of his Majesty delivered by the Commissioners, he read a copy of it ; after which the Members separated. Sydney Gazettes have been received to the 3d of, February inclusive. On the 23d January, a General Meeting of the Emancipated Colonists was held, pur suant to Requisition, at the Court-House, Sydney, at which, amongst others, they agreed unanimously to the following Resolutions : 2. That, frow the first establishment of this Colony, in 178% up to a late period (April, 1893). it has been held and acted upon, that persons arriving in this Colony under sentence of transportation, and afterwards obtaining their pardon, either by service of the term, absolute or conditional pardon, might and could acquire and possess landed and other property, and enjoy all the civil rights of free citizens. " 3. That by a late determination of the Court of King's Bench in England, and acted upon lately in the Courts of Civil Judicature in this Colony, whereby it has declared that condi tional and absolute pardons granted by the Governors of this Colony are of no effect to the parties holding them, in restoring them to the legal enjoyment or exercise of any civil right, until their names shall have been inserted in some general pardon, under the Great Seal of England ; the vital interests of the eman cipated Colonists are exposed to infinite prejudice and danger, and their restoration to their rights, as citizens, protracted be yond the period that either justice or policy can require. " 4. That this state of the law, in its consequences, affects not only the liberty, property, and civil rights, of the emancipated Colonists, but also a very considerable part of the property of the emigrant Colonists, because the titles to a considerable portion of the landed property, and the possession of a large portion of the personal property now possessed by emigrant Colonists, have been derived through and from emancipated Colonists.** They also agreed to address the Throne, and pe tition Parliament upon the subject, to appoint an agent to convey their Petitions to, and to conduct all matters in England, relative to them and their gene ral interests ; and to appoint a standing Committee to collect subscriptions, defray expenses, etc. Up• wards of £l,OOO was subscribed in a few minutes. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1821. ME FUNDS. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONC O'CLOCK Bank Stock 232% 233 3 per Cent. Reduced 77 1 /s 76 3 77 1 / 8 S per Cent. Consols 76% 1 / 4 % 3% per Cent. 87 1 AI-4 per Cent. 95% 1 / 2 Navy 109% 1 / 2 —Long Anns. 19 7-16 9-16 India Stock 234%—India Bonds 555. 565. pr. Exchequer Bills. 4s. 6s. prem. Consols for Account 78 77% 78 77 7 3 . We announced yesterday, in a Second Edition of our Paper, the Rejection'of the QUEEN'S Claim to par ticipate in the honours of the approaching Coronation, and the Prorogation of Parliament by Commission. The details of both events will be found at length in our columns of to-day. We are also enabled to lay before oar Readers the Reply of the Qtnitm to the decision of the Ps ivy Coun cil. Her MAJESTY states, that notwithstanding that decision, it is her intention to be present at the cere mony, and she therefore demands that a suitable place may be appointed for her. This is spirited ; nor do we see how her demand to be accommodated with a place, merely as a spectator of the solemnity, can with decency be refused. The Speech of the Km to Parliament, is not of a nature to invite much observation. It seems, of late years, to have become a rule, in productions of this sort, to make them as empty of all tan gible meaning as possible ; and, providing a suffi cient quantity of bad grammar and vulgar expres sion is thrown in, every other merit is disregarded. The Speech of yesterday is entitled to pre-eminence in both these respects ; we do not remember ever to have read a worse. It contains scarcely a single sen timent which was worth uttering ; and, as a piece of liteiary composition, would do no credit to the merest tyro. His MAJESTY has determined to "put an end to the present Session."— 44 H a (!) has obset ved with parti cular pleasure the facility with which the restoration to a metallic currency has been effected by—the autho rity given to the Bank of England to commence its payments in cash, at an earlier period than had been determined by the last Parliament"—a statement in which, Rom an obvious confusion of meaning, the re-abundance of the precious metals is sagaciously ascribed to the mere operation of an Act of Parlia ment. It would have been as wise to say, that his MAJESTY regretted the inauspicious turn which had been given to the weather by the Report of the Agricultural Committee. But it is unnecessary to multiply criticism on what is, in truth, beneath it. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon. The Gazette de France mentions, that one of those hawkers who go about the streets selling an Evening Paper published at Paris, was on Saturday night ac costed by some young people, who asked him whe ther he had got an account of the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies ? lie answered that he had not, but that he had got some interesting news—the Death of BONAPARTZ 1 At these words the young people fell on the poor man, and beat him severely with their canes. This is the only manifestation of the popular feeling respecting this event which has yet found its way into the Parisian Journals. An extract is given from a private letter from Madrid, dated 26th June, according to which the KING had, after some very threatening proceedings on the part of the Club de la Fontana, agreed to the convocation of the Extraordinary Cortes. The period at which they are to be convened had not, however, transpired ; report says, not sooner than the Ist of October. The King of WIRTEMBERG set out, on the 2d inst. from Stutgard for Spa, where the King of PRUSSIA and the king of the NETHERLANDS have also gone. Accounts from Denmark, of the 26th June, state that the Russian fleet, which had been precipitately fitted nut in the ports of the Baltic; had set sail for the Mediterranean. We have received, to-day, Papers direct from Madrid to the 28th of June. They contain the fol lowing details respecting the recent attempt to orga nize an extensive insurrection in Andalusia: MADRID, JUNE 26. Accounts from Cadiz, of the 16th, mention that dispatches have been received from Lieutenant-Colo nel P. Viver, commanding the detachment that is in pursuit of the insurgent Zaldivar. In the first, of 12th June, he states that he had received information of a band of 100 smugglers near Tarifa, and had not then been able to come up with them; but, in his dispatch of the following day, he states that he had proceeded with all the Local Militia of the district, and had taken 44 beasts of burden, 15 loads of tobacco, and 42 peasants, whom he detained as prisoners till he received the instructions of the Political Chief of the Province of Cadiz. Accounts from Seville, of the 19th, give the de tails of the conspiracy discovered in the Province of Andalusia. The plan of the conspirators seems to have been communicated to the Political Chief of Seville by a courier sent by the Minister of the Interior, who ar rived at Seville oa the I,sch, for the Police was ob s rye I to be very active. The Judges as.ernbled, ,and the Political Chief, with some troops, went to th e hotel in the street called Ancha de la Feria, w h ere he arrested Don Isidore Mir, Chief of a conspi racy supposed to be carrying on at Xeres, Cordova, and this city, and Don Juan Dato. These two perso ns : with their papers and effects, were conducted to t h e Convent of St. Antony, where the Battalion o f C at " . lonia is stationed. On being examined, Datu m a d e a very long deposition, In which he discovered th e nature and extent of the conspiracies in the th ree cities, their plans, their ramifications, and the pe rms he knew to be implicated in them. At midnight the examination of Mir was be ta; who appeared to be a chief leader of the conspir acy . In fact, after imploring the benefit of the am nesty offered by his Majesty for himself and his aec om , plices in these infamous plots, refusing to confesse s any other condition, he disclosed everything relative to the conspiracy, and the persons engaged i n i t. k consequence of these depositions, many other pei. sons have been arrested. General Don Pedro Gri malest, as it seems, was to place himself at the h ead of the conspiracy, together with Brigadier-General Mir, with the titles of First and Second Commanders of the Army of the Faith. Their meetings were held at the abode of General Grimarest, who filth . % bed the money, but, as it seems, very sparingly, for the necessary expenses. Their plan was most absurd : they were to seize the horses of the Depot of a Regiment near the town of Borrac, to release the innocent prisoners confined at Xeres, which respectable force was to serve as the nucleus for that which they fancied they could as. semble. The Insurgent, Zahliv ar, engaged to rein fume this great army with a body of partisans and former companions of his at the time he commanded a party of Guerillas in the French war. All being done, which was to be accomplished w•ithoat money, for they had none, they were to proclaim the Xing absolute, to overturn the monumental stones of the Constitution, and come to Seville to join their com panions there. Several persons were arre s ted, and several fled, in search of whom the most active ma. sures are adopted. It is reported to-day (25), at Madrid that there ha been a terrible commotion at Valencia. To prevent all error, we think it our duty to say that we have be. fore us a Proclamation of the Captain General of dut province, in which he states that some malicious pa. sons, taking advantage of the night, discharged petard, which led some persons to believe that cas non had been fired from the Citadel, and that Gat. rd Elio was going to be set at liberty. Hence a great agitation naturally ensued, which, however, was happily calmed by the prudence and firmnesd the Political Chief and the other Authorities. The latest accounts from the lonian Islands state, that in the capital of Etolia fresh disorders had broken out, in consequence of the murder of the Pa triarch. The Turks were massacred, and all the Mosques and Synagogues burnt to the ground. At Salonica the Turks had cut the throats of the Mirt part of the rich merchants. All the islands of the Archipelago, except Tina and Scyros, have displayed the standard of the Cross, and the inter - course be tween Egypt and Constantinople was entirely cut of by the armaments of the Holy League of the Greeks. The following is ari extract of a letter from the Agent to LLotru's at Genoa, dated June SO: " The latest news in town from Constantinople is to the 31 instant, when that capaal was tranquil. The embargoes on A the cargoes of grain from the Black Sea continued, which wee paid for. The Islands of Hydra, Spezia, and Iperza, have fitted out upwards of seventy skips, armed with from sixteen to twenty guns each, which visit vessels in the Archipelago, and, it is sidd, seize on Turkish property. We have just received a letter from Palermo, dated the 14th inst. at which time an was quiet there. It adds, that Government had, within a few days, laid on tbs usual duty of fifteen tads on all foreign wheat." Bermuda Papers arrived this morning to the 4th of May. The following are extracts: ST. GEORGE'S (BERMUDA), APRIL f. 05. The details of the proceedings of the House of At. sembly have not transpired, but it is rumoured that several excellent Resolves of a Committee of the , whole House have been framed, with a Memorial to the King, praying his Majesty to remove his Enel. lency from the Government of this Colony. Copies both of the Resolves and the Memorial, we are it formed, have been submitted to his Excellency. 'The House adjcurned till ten o'clock on Monday next. MAY 2.—Since our last, we understand the Rossi of Assembly has received a Message from his Excel. lency the Governor, marked by the usual amicablet urbane, and conciliatory traits of temper, by which his Excellency is so justly characterised. We Yel hope, however, that the public business may be car' ried peaceably on. It is expected that the proceed. ings of the Colonial Legislature will shortly be big before the Public. Yesterday the Marquis of LONDONDERRY and ViP count MELVILLE had audiences of the Kis°. Letters from Constantinople of the 6th ult. aira' tion, that DANEst, the banker, has been put to death by order of the Porte, notwithstanding the pressing instances of Count Sraooi)NorF, the Russi. a Atnio" sador, to save him—a result which OM: have bet! the mere painful to that Alinister, as it is unslerstiti that the unfortunate DAtiast was sole!Y 9 remain in Coastaatiaople by the soma , ces cf . El ls protection. • tc b a