Star. — London, England, 1822-03-02 00:00:00

tin ccl ULM V/1 pa au IF.CI --- - , OM& that he was Algal le tilf this had nude to. hint yetimp he_ might lad, in ' Was diked ups a greet num..- With respect to the ittadon . 'peered upon it coati that of Mr. Fennel, gempears in aetivessiployment. Wiry et had largo hinnies, and their mention entitled them to ex , a gratefel return from their country. He could not believe the.Gentlelheo and People of Ragland wield say that they *re not in a situation to remunerate their deserving public wr yest& Again, he would say, he wished that those who talked • seSuch of high salaries had the responsibility of neestes those whose allowances were pared down. The Hoe. Gentleman had said that the Treasurer of the Navy was overpaid. In the first e, the same salary had been attached to the same situation e ls years. Ile amid state cases to the Ws. :Oindsinan which Treasurers of the Navy were at stud pecuniary la& Thom who held the lice couM not make a tide to an acre of land, or sell one acre of property; but with al the disadvantages of the oMee, he would ember that the Hese blhenid Vote away his salary, than'tbst twenty-live per est. Sankt be taken from the adaries.of those who were depending upon small salaries .in his olfice—(Hear. hear.) *Br. ELIaCE said; that no salary w ou ld Indoor him to accept * shaiden of the Right Hon. Gentleman, ceopled with its elirdilsw ' .Me. BENNET felt for the difficulties in which his Bight Bee. Friend was placed. But there were many other cases of commiseration, as well as those stated by his Right Hon. Friend. He was not pleased with the plan either of.lo or 25 per cent. being deducteddront *dal salaries. In 1813, when to per cent. was taken far a tax out of the incomes of these persons, nothing was said of the hardship imposed en them; but now th at it was proposed to take 10 per cent. for the People, though by the fall in the price of provisions and all necessaries of life they had an advantage of 25 or 30 per cent. we heard nothing but tirades as the inhumanity of the proposition. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY expected that the eon sideration of such a proposition as the Honourable Member for Aberdeen submitted would have been delayed until bis Right Hon. Friend had opened to the House his new revision of offices. It was impossible, at a slight view, to ascertain the precise scale of reduction • at least he must be allowed to say, that the consi deration had lieen a most laborious task with his Majesty's Go verntnent for some months past. It was the intention of his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) to have submitted his plan of revision on last Tuesday evening; other business of importance, however, interfered; bat that question stood for Tuesday next. Ile put it to the Honourable Members whether it was not more expedient to keep their minds open on that question, until his Right Honourable Friend had laid his plan before the House? The only consideration at present was, whether the discussion on the other Estimates should stand still till after that debate? Lord A LTHORPE said, he rose not to enter on the discus sion of the present question at that moment, but to recommend the postponement of the discussion till after the discussion on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion. The Army Estimates stood for hlonday ; their discussion would take up the attention of the house that night. 'there could, therefore, be nu great delay in postponing the Navy Estimates until Tuesday. Under that impression he begged to move an adjournment—(Cleat). J hlr. 11U Si E concurred in the motion for Adjournment, and to. plied generally to the speeches directed against his motion in the course of the debate. The retrenchment proposed by Ministers could neither relieve the pressing die rest nor satisfy the just demands of the country. The Right lion. Gentleman (Mrs Ro binson) had spoken of the wounds Inflicted on his feelings, in communicating to the Gentlemen in his Office the unwelcome int: Iligence that their services would no longer be required, or that their emoluments would be reduced ; but had he Ho feelings for the people who paid these salaries, and suffered more severe privations? Ile (Mr. Hume) did not yield to the Right Ho nourable Gentleman in his sympathy for reduced public servants with diminished income.; but his sympathy was not exclu sively confined to the Government Offices--(llear, bear, heat). He felt for the ruined farmer, the disuessed manufactiger, the people burdened with toes. le landlord v..alleaut rent, and the labourer without wages. With sech a picture of the public mi *ivy before them, Ministers were guilty of a dee:fiction of their public duty, if they did not increase the means of relief by all the retrenchments in their power. They ought to come down to the House with a proposition to reduce the Civil List 25 per cent.—(llear).—The honour of the Crown did not require the costly extravagance with which it was supported; and, from all that he had hard of the heart of his hiajesty, he was convinced that he would be the first to propose retrenchment—that be would be the first to order a reduction In the trappings of the itoyal establishments—that he would be the first to propose a curtailment of useless splendour, if truth were allowed to reach his tar, and if he could see or learn the extet.t of his People's oaf rieg,—(ilear).—lle hoped that the Noble Marquis would ensue down on Tuesday with a proposition to reduce ?he Civil List at least 25 per cent. and all Government offices in propor tion. The House weuld neither add to its honour nor infiaence over the minds of the country, by turning a deaf ear to the cries of a distressed peuple, and sympathizing only with the servants of Government—(Hear). After the lion. Gentleman had concluded, the question was put for reporting progress, and asking leave to sit again, and the gal lery was cleared fur a division. During the time that strangers were excluded, five divisions took place as follow : First divisionErsr delay, 37—Against it, 107. Second division—To reduce the vote to £23,500—F0r it, 28— Against it, 99. Third divi-ion—To adjourn—For it, 23—Against it, 94. Fuu: th divi,iuu—To reduce to X274:oo—For it, 21—Against it, 97. _ . the estimates while there was sock a noise.—Mr. BROODEN.. ;I read the Reeohnion again. __,. 11r: HUME sass, and said It was quite dear, front the Coes meets which he held in Ms hand, that the reditcdona which were produced by his Majesty's Ministers were no reduction whatsoever, with reference to the prhielple which WU contended for hi the last Session. The House would, perhaps, observes in the kat part of the Estimates, a reduction of 7,6201. but in the latter part they would and superannuations to the amount of 4,e661. There was, in fact, no reduction in the amount of any one salary. There was a reduction of 4001. for stationery, and a few other items, which made the Estimates 2,6641. less titan It-was the preceding year. Novi in the last Session he was anxious that the House should consider the duties which the Navy Pay Office had to perform. On that occasion he read to them an extract from a Repast of the Finance Committee of 1917, which b 3.1 been laid on the table. In that Report, speaking of the regulasionof the Navy Pay Office, they say—" Tour Corn „mince trust that the investigation of this subject will lead to the adoption of some more simple and effectual. mode, being fully satisfied that any mode will be effectual in proportion to its simplicity and facility of execution." They went on to 5ay..... le But whatever system of examination be adopted, your Com mittee trust that the Estimates of the next year will exhibit a considerable diminution in the charges of the establishment of the Navy Pay-office. The duty of this department differs but little from that of an Ordinary banker ; and they are therefore perfectly satisfied. that the same number of persons, by which a sum of 22.000.0001. was received and paid in 1813, cannot be necessary for the receipt and payment of 6,000,0001. in DM." The House, if they attended to this extract from the Report on the table, would find that a reduction in the establishment was recommended in proportion to the reduction in duty. The House would I ecollect, that by the Pay Acts no money was kept in this Office. All that was done by the Navy Pay-office was to re ceive from the head of each of the other Offices a check, speci fying the amount of money every individual was- to receive in payment. In lieu of these checks the Navy Pay-office granted others of their own, which were presented at the Bank of Eng land, and there the demand was paid. He endeavoured to 'hew last Session that this mode of proceeding by check was unneces sary, and that the whole duty could be performed by half a dozen of clerks instead of five times that number. Here he wished to observe that he had heard, through the medium of the public Papers, of a Mr. Tweedie, of the Navy Pay-office, who, it was stated, had left this country while in possession of a beige *um of the public money—he lelieved to the amount of many thousands. Now, by the Act of Parliament, if the duties of that office were properly conducted, no individual could at any one time be in possession of such a sum ; and it was for those con nected with the office to say in what manner Mr. Tweetdie was enabled to leave the country possessed of public money to a large amount. Officers, who were of no use, were, he observed, still continued. There was, for instance, a Treasurer of the Navy, but he had no money to keep (a laugh) for it was all lodged in the Bank. Instead of any reduction being made in the present year, com mensurate with the just expectations of the country, they had, in fact, only a reduction breve} , of superannuation. Individuals had retired on pensions who received as:1000 less than wheat ac tively employed, but no seeing was effected by a diminution of numbers. He would contend that the amount of expense les steed was not equivalent to what the country had a right to ex pect. He would now take the opportunity of stating his view of the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The 'tight Ho- nourable Gentleman had stated that it was iutended to impose a tax on individuals in office-5 per cent. on those who had small, and 10 per cent. on those who had large salaries. The country would not be immediately benefited by this reduction, because it appeared that the sums thus levied were to be thrown into a fund. and be supposed a new office would be created, for the pur pose of superintending favoured individual would perhaps be employed, at a salary of eight hundred or a thousand a year, for his labours in taking care of the fund I In stead of taking ..E5 per annum from this salary, and eilo from that, and throwing it into a fund, let them at once reduce the sa lary so that its diminution might be beneficial to the Public.— Thus, supposing a man had £6OO a year, let them at once reduce it to £540, and the reduction would then become plain and intelligible. The salaries and idiuwauces in this Office were established in the year 1815, and with the exception of the sa lary of the Treasurer of the Navy, which was reduced from four to three thousands pounds a year, no - other reduction, that h.; was aware of, had occurred since the peace—(Hear, Hear).—' In 1813, an individual received, he would say, £lOOO a-year, when wheat was 1001. a quarter, and he thzn paid ten per cent. Income Tax; he had, therefore, 4:900 per annum remeiring wherewith to support his Lenity. They h td now come to a time of peace, and wheat was at 505., a quarter ; and yet, with all his professiens of economy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not call on the House to reduce the amount of salaries es they ought to he reduced ; all he wished was to bring them back to ' the amount at which they stood in 1813. Ile would take ten per cent. from the amount of the war salaries, but that would give no relief to the Public, as it was placed in a separate fund; as the Income Tax formerly was. Besides, a person in the em ploy of Government received his J:1000 now, which was as muds as he received in 1815, when provisions were twice as dear as they were at present. When they considered the relative situa tion in which persons receiving public money now stood, as com pared with a former period, they would find that one who received 0001. a year could now afford a reduction of one-half, or at least one-fourth. The currency was raised in 'aide; and provisions were t educed one-half. Therefore, after a reduction s lone-fourth, ' the person who received one thousand pounds was better off by fifteen per cent. Was it the reduction of three extra clerks?— Was that all which the country had a right to expect? Was it to have salaries struck out of the Public Offices in order to be put into the dead weight which, we were told, they had no right to touch? Ile, therefore, proposed to reduce the whole amount of this vote 25 per cent. Ile did not mean that all should he reduced at this rate, or at the rate of 10 per cent. on the higher salaries and 5 per cent. on the lower, as proposed by the Right lion. Gentleman who bad suggested this mode of forming a fund to pay pensions and superanituations ; but he meant thar a reduction of '2 5 per cent. should be made upon the whole amount of salaries, hat that it should not he applied to the lower selerie, Fifth division—To agree to the vote of A'3l,3o4—For it, 21— Against it, 21.—The Committee then adjourned. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday. The other Orden of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. THE EVENING STAR. at all. Those who had high salcries_Ct;tld afford that reduction, and be in a better situation than Country Gentlemen in that &loose, or Gentlemen catryiug on trade. Th e Treasurer of the Davy, for instance, would be very well paid at .e• 3000 a year, in stead of £Z,OOO. As Ministers had not carried the Resolution of the House into effect, he implored the House to compel them now to make this reduction. Ile moved, that instead of £31,:104, Xti5,4CS be substituted. The . Amendment having been read, Nr. F. ROBINSON denied that the duty of the Treasurer of the Navy was similar to that of a Banker, for he had nut only to pay the demand, but to ascertain the right of the claimant, which was often a task requiring a severe scrutiny. A Banker bad nothing to du but to pay the draft which was offered, but the Treasurer of the Navy was liable to actions for refusing to pay in eases in which he Lit himself bound not to pay ; and in many instances such actions had been brought after his retire ment from office. The Treasurer of the Navy had also other duties to perform ; he had to pay widt.ws, orphans, and other pensioners at the outports. Ile had still another department, that which relates to Seamen's Wills ; so that it was absurd to say that the situation corresponded precisely with that of a Banker. The lion. Gentleman had said that nothing had been done in the way of reduction, but they had abolished three dis tinct branches, in each of which fourteen or fifteen persons had been dismissed, three or four having large salaries. The Hon. Gentleman had said that Ministers could claim no credit for that, as those offices were all useless; but he could solemnly declare, that so far from not having carried the reductions far enough, they were already carried so far as to create the greatest difficulty in transacting the business of his offics, and that nothing but the Resolutions of the House of Com mons could have induced him to make a reduction to such at extent. An allusion had been made to the case of Mr. Tweedie, as Cashier of the Navy Pay Office—( Hear, hear'), — The sums left in his bands were necessary to answer the bills presented for payment ; and, in estimating the loss sustained by the country, he would beg the House to consider what he could state fat a feet, that since the year 1786 four hundred =Ilion! of money had passed through the Navy Pay Office, and that out of that sum only £65,000 had been lost to the Public for a time, and 435,000 since recovered; so that the whole loss did not ex ceed ,e30,000--(Hear, hear).—But when, in addition to this, it was considered that a security of £4,000 was required on the part of the Officer, the difficulty of getting such security would suggest to them, that if the salaries were pared down the same security could not be obtained. As to the reduction of salaries, sheris were many persons who had served 30, 40, and even 50 ran, who must be affected by the operation. Be knew not w het the feelingsof the Hon. Gentleman might be, but he wished , Goo that he bad to communicate with the Gentlemen who% o c rviats wow &wowed with varier the Lit* nogiitions. lie ..." 11 1 ./.111 " P " I".• Y ' 9 1".""" , 7 etlVlrliV77^ - •—•••• • •• • • Mr. F.sßoatasow, the present Treasurer of this Navy, said, that he would rather ♦ote away his own salary than agree to reducing that of the persons under him; and he talked much of the distress occa sioned by dismissing subordinate clerks. Now, in the first place, it is well-known that the advocates for economy never wished the reductions and re-- trenchments to fall upon the inferior clerks, but on those who either filled useless offices, or received, overgrown salaries ; and, as to Mr. ROBINSON'S giving up his own situation of £3,000 a-year, which he de clares is so far from being too much, that pecuniary loss has often been sustained is it, why, then, the sa- crifice would not be much. If, however, we may judge from the persons who have filled that situation, and the fortunes they have accumulated, we should suspect that it H as still an office worth having. We this day give a List of the Minority of IGS who voted for the . tepea:i_ng the Salt Tat, on Thurs day. The Majority of 169, who voted for its continu ance, includes no fewer than SixTY-oNE PLACEbin The hi4lt Papers received this morning are hap pily more free from accounts of outrage than usual. Several Mee;ings have been held in the country, for the purpose of applying for the Insurrection Act to be put in force. icrlo.r9 • .s• • .• . . Tar A 130.• • -" the eh and nth eked at Sid ill. es bawd the Dodo Handy Wit, Detachments if the ',nth and fhb Ri l l. Gravesend in did nth Wt. on board the Indlienso; he Ilesubve. 4tst oast arrived at Chatham het lamb, fron t S eot . land; the Regiment will embark at Gravesend foe Madras, in a few days. The tat Battalion of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guard , ' arrived It Chatham on Illendni, to NSW* tb lat Battalion of the 3d Guards, vow in tyre Tower. Captain Caasaw's ampany of Ilnyal Sappers and Min ers marched on Monday from Chatham, to do duty at Portsino.gth. A Flanders Mail, bringing German Papers to the• 21st ultimo, reached us last night, .but their contents are unimportant. This forenoon we received a Dutch Mail bringing Papers to the 2 7th of February. The new Russian Tariff has not yet been published, but is expected shortly. There has been a dreadful storm at St. Pc tersburgh and at .Stc _kholm on the 3d of February, which has done much damage. • An 'article from flanover states, that his MA JESTY, on his next visit there, -will use the mine: al xvaters of Pyrmont, at lierrenhausen whither a suf ficient quantity will be brought. These Papers represent the cause of the Greeks in the Morea as favourable. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lzoves at c limata l_ maple, dated January 25: " The Turkish Beet, of at least, a portion of it, has sailed from the Dardanelles, with troops and provisions, supposed for the Morea. There is no account here of the proceedings of the Insurgent squadron." Fatuotrru Fir. 28.=—Wind S.—The Emulation, 51 ...ratneoa:2; for Newfoundland, did not sail yesterday, as reported; Pt-Tatou:oh Frs. 28.—Nitta S.E.—Arrived the Ezpedition, Jonas, from London fur Fayal. Sailed the Dwaar cutter, tor Cork • Royal Eagle, Goss; and Harris -t; CUISKI2:3, fur !f.;. ' .Mich ael's. PORTMOUTU, ALCM! 1.--Wind- S.W.—Arrived the !Oft', ,1 cutter, front Guernsey, with four of the crew of the lin!i•!I Army including the Master. The Ellen, BA iitoz, for has gone out of harbour and broUght up at Spithead. Covens, Manus I.—Arrived the 31ary, bna.tNr. from bier, in 59 days—was struck by a sea ors the Bth ult. which , 7. lied away her jolly-boat, bulwarks, and stauncheons, and her leaky. Drat., Ma rest .••••Willd S. W.—SJiled the Zodiac, llry:rp., for St. Helena; aad Adrian, for Bengal: the latta since put back. LIA 10.'104 MARCH I..—Arrived the Prince of Orange rackr, with a Mail from unhand. WIIITITi Frit. 28.-This morning, about four o'cloek. weather being very hazy and much 1.C.1, the Elizabeth, aorta, of Newcastle; and Barnwell, Boorst, of Sundeth; canto ashore within Whitby Ruck, and are expected to be crews atrial._ - - - NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. TEe French Papers and Letters of Wednesday last from Paris have been received : the latter give an account of a new attempt to excite disturbances at Saumur. A party, consisting of about fifty men, headed by a General BLIITHON, had appeared in Saumur, where they' hoisted the tricoloured flag, and manifested the most tumultuous conduct. They' were attacked by the municipal guard, and a conflict of some obst,nacy took place between them before they could be expelled. Severe! of Gen..Baernoses party were killed. Of the remainder the great e penion were apprehended and lodged in Their leader made his escape, but almost unaccom panied. This event, which, if the authority of the private letters may be relied on, was of no import ance, and only a temporary interruption to the tran quillity of Saumur,.had been made use of by a party. of speculators on the Paris Exchange, to cause a panic and induce sales of Stock. The rentes had ir consequence fallen more than one per Cent.—The Five per Cents. at three o'clock on Wednesday were 90 fr. GO c. and a further decline took place before the close of business to 90 fr. 20c. The loweSt price of the day was 90 fr. 5 c. The Gazelle de France and the Monilsur give the following account of the affair at Saumur : On Sunday last, the 24th instant, Gen. Berthon, accom pa uied by Delon, an Ex-Lieutenant of Artil lery, already inVolved in the process now going on before the Council of War at Thouars, left Thouars at the head of fifty armed men, wearing the tri•zoloured cockade, and marched on Saumur. " Arrived at the bridge of Monet, they were ar rested in their progress by the appearance of a detach ment of the military school of Saumur, who had mounted their horses on the felt report of this cri minal intention. The troop of General Banzitom in stantly fled towards Dime ; they were immediatly fol lowed, and orders were given to surround them on all points." The Quotblienne says, that this" troop of genuine . friends elf liberty" had committed great excesses at Thcuars before they marched on Saumur, and that one of the regiments of the Royal Guard at Orleans had been dispatched in pursuit of them. The French Journals contain a variety of conjec tures as to the affairs of Russia and Turkey, but they are not worth repeating. Samos, Frs. 28.—Arrived the Farmer's Adventure, SEC V , , from lierwick to Loudon, with her pumps choaked, and Mat: partly discharge to repair. Lrraarost, Frs. 28.—The Champirm, Lawn, from th!s port fur Boston, was spoken un the 15th inst. in lat. 49. 30. Inv. 15. She had experienced very heavy gales, a sloop was board:Li her for a supply of water. ANOTHXI 1-icrTait" NAME ,area—The wiad this day care round to the S. S. E. in conseluence of which the fulloWtot vessels have sailed for the United States, viz. The Magnet, Ann, Marla, Graham, Arethusa, Atlantic, and Merchant, for New York; Susan, ‘Vattacr, for Boston; Halcyon ' for ladelphia ; and the Lady Gailazin, for Savanraho— A rrived te Africa, from Savannah, in thirty days: the llamas, Forte from ditto, is off this port. i'he Jessie, awl, from 5» JJ! . .a'r, New Brunswick, arrived this day. iatr.srox, JAN. 48.---Captain WESTON who left II:- . The Privy Council held by. his MAJZITT at his Palace at Brighton on Thursday, commenced at six o'clock, which was attended by, in addition to the LORD Yammer; the Loan STZMA RD, the Marquis of CUOLMORRILRY, Lord Sr. Humes, Sir Dwaine Bwoasnuo, and Mr. Tnostrrse. An alteration in the pricked list of Sheriffs for the present year was sanctioned by the Kum in Council. Ills 'Mature gave an audience to the Earl of HARROWBII. Thursday, the remains of Mr. StOraav, who, during his life, traversed on foot a large portion of Europe, Asia, and Am• rica, were removed from his apannuints in Northumberland stteet, Strand, far interment, and wire attended to the grave by a number of his friends. HUNTING. The Cottestnore Hounds meet on Monday, at Arson ; and on Wednesday, at the Kennel. Earl Fitswililam's Hounds, Monday, at Thotnpson's Thorns; Wednesday. at Aversley Wood; and Friday, at Grbnoshaw• Lord Yarborough's Hounds, Mopday, at terby ; Wednesday, at Kettleby Thorp; Friday, at Norwoods; and Saturday, at the Kennel. The Earl of Searboieugk's Hounds, Monday, at Gateforth Toil-bar ; Wednesday, at Wadworth Friday, at the White Houses.. Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, Monday, at IFhkertan; Wed today, at the Green Mau; Thursday, at Kingthorpe ; Satur day, at Gate Burton. • 'The Gillingham. Fox-hounds, Tuesday, at Daklerby Ford; Thursday, at Putney; Saturday, at ?akin Wood. Mr. Marten Fox-hounds. M onday, at Stone's Gala ; That* day, at Own ; Saterdiy. at Jack Sough. . . • caunah on the 15th ultimo. reports ' that C a ptain MUMS, of I the schooner Upton, had his vessel and cargo destroyed ty: a piratical schooner, off Cape Antonio: Captain Pumas au.: his 11 crew were put on a desolate island near Cape Antonio, where . - they remained four days, without any subsistence, when they were taken off-by a Spani,h 'singer. Two other vessels %vete destroyed at the same time, one an English brig, the Captain ce which they hung at tho main-yard, and shot him—they Had the cook by splitting hi; head open with an axe. Azzanzzs, Fes. 24.—Put back the ship Graine, haying lost Capt. Scams, w::2 was washed overboard and drowned on the 24d instant. Horrost, (ListenaNutter), Fes. 26.—The Agnes, of Flushing, a very fine new cutter, armed for the purpose of smugglirg, was brought into Grimsby [Toads, on Friday last, by his Ma jesty's revenue cruizer STAG, Captain 1s Rams, commander.— This vigilant officer, after a chase of flue hours, off I Vhithy, succeeded, by superior management, in getting to windward of the prize, and coming within pistol shot, was on the eve of pouting in a broadside, when she struck. Her crew consists of ttl: men; she has nine port-holes on each side, and her cars originally consisted of 1500 tubs of grneva, the Freeer part of which she is supposed to have landed in the neighbourhood the place where the STAG fell in company with her. After the capture, dt tubs were pinked up, having been damn overheat 4 in the chase. . . . ' allied or bear eilli ' ' ' Wideb malty Eummittnat, End dill ioealled-for declaritisni ortte Re IMP of MO ... • Idm Ttialuittr of Navy, were .thrown array on the, Ist, In its fen wilds Ditadameas al db. nemW 17104(1ker Bourn , ,antra majority of 54 deelarad that tw o of o rmee d as t h e gia 6141.111Aef tilt frit wiNta st, " the lay Lords . of the Admiralty were useless, and Maas fee _ ,_ . I E • ' e sr. WOW who hat awed Irety- mate assionssa at 0 emeierposat. Neavutta.isaltsiewistos- that their offices should be abolished. Baeldasimisulaire bail DOI% sod tbdir servian gadded thswg""&" - Mr. F.sltoatusos. the present Treasurer of the _ Tlts tux Itrjgbaint LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. A very general panic prevailed this morning, from Ministers having been kft in the Minority last night, and large sales have been done in Consols for the Account at 78j, and for Money 78i. The Marker has since improved, and Consols are new 714 for the Account. A good deal of business has been doing is the Wavy 5 per Cents. 'Ake have got up to ifie.j. In L ong Annuities also, which close as Tuesday, much business has been doing. 3 per Cent. Consols 78 1 4 % 5 per Cent. 1029 yi ly e Bank Long Annuities 20 9-16 % Imperial 3 per Cents. 79 3 / 4 —lndio Stock 247 Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, Is. die. Is. pie. par Ditto small £5OO, par, Is. pro. Consols for Acct. 79 78 Ys 79;4 ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. In Foreign Securities there is very little doing, and they con tinuo steady at yesterday's prices. Ministers were last night defeated, if not in their strong hold, certainly in one which they have de-, fended most pertinaciously. The two lay Lords of the Admiralty, upon the retention of whom Minis ters hubg their existence, were last night, by a vete of the House of Commons, abolished! It was in vain that Sir Gsoass Cocicauttu declared seven Lords of the Admiralty necessary ; and that Sir Geo. WARRENDER assured the House that last year he had been obliged to return to London on the sth of Sep tember; and that the office of a Lord of the Admi ralty interfered with his private pursuits ; all would not do ; even the finesse of the Marquis of LoNDoli- DIARY, the, supplications of the CHANCBLLOIR of the COURT OF KING'S DENCIT. Yesterday an action was tried in this Court, brought by Mr. Protheroe, a Banker, at Newport, Monmoutl s'iire, against Mr. Frost, a shopkeeper, of the same place, fur a libel, in charting Mr. Protheroe with subornation of perjury and packing a jury when Iligh Sheriff. The damages were laid at £5,000, and ilia publication of the libel being proved, the Jury returned a skr diet for the plaintiff—Damages, £l,OOO. William Marsden, and others, against whom an informatica had been filed by the Attorney-General, for a comp:racy u. ink. port a large quantity of nor winica for home consumption, est. out paying the duty, were found guilty. OLD DAILEY,MARCH 1. William Tramp lew was indicted for publishing the Reps:hi:con, one of Carlisle's pamphlets, containing certain libels. Mr. Anotenes, for the prosecution, addressed the Jury, and stated the nature of the offensive publication. The prisoner, when called on for his defence, entreated the Jury to interfere between him and his prosecutors, (the Bridge street Association), who, he said, dared not shew their own faces, but had thrust forth Messrs. Sharp, Murray, and Co. to carry on their sanctimonious proceedings against opinions which they dared not to contend with in an open and manly min.:ter. The Jury, after consulting about twenty minutes, returned a verdict of Gasay. The prisoner was immediately sentenced to two years' im prisonment in Giltspur-street Compeer, and to enter into a re cognizance for life, himself in £5OO, and to be further impri soned until such recognizance be entered Into. David *towns, a Jew, stood indicted for =suiting, on the King's highway, a person named Atwood, and taking from his person a piece of ribbon, a seal, key, and ring, which were ap pended to the watch of the prosecutor, on the Ist of Februar, in the neighbourhood of Wbitechapel, in the middle of the day. The case against the prisoner was fully proved by the witnesses called to support the prosecution. The prisoner, iu his defence, called three persons, the one a Jew, advanced in years, and two women ; one of whom swore ' pesitlvely that the prisoner was in his company at the time the robbery was committed, a distance of half a mile from the spot. The two women swore positively that the prisoner was not the man who committed the robbery. Several persons gave the pri soner an excellent character. The Common Suazarr summed up the evidence, and the Jury immediately found the prisoner Gmby. The Common SOILIZANT ordered the three witnesses for the pri soner to be taken into custody, which being done, he committed them to Newgate, for gross and corrupt perjury. The prisoner was then called up for judgment, and sentenced to be transported for life. On leaving the bar the prisoner said, " Yon old --, I hem as you have given me judgment, you'll get the same." This morning, at ten minutes before four o'clock, a dreaJfilk fire broke out in the upper part of the house of Mr. BacisTea, eminent bookseller and publisher, No. 14, Paternoster-row. which consumed that, and his extensive warehouses behind, :o coining property to a large amount. It also damaged a part of that well-known house, Dolly's Deekteak-house, before it Was extinguished. At eleven o'clock it broke out again, and many engines arc now employed in the act of extinguishlpg it. Yin tunately all the inmates escaped, and no lives have been lost. On the 25d December, atWriachws, in the 20th year of his age, very much regretted, H. J. Loraine, Req. brother to Sr Charles Loraine, Bart. of Kirkharle r Northumberland, and En sip in the 4th Regiment. His remains were interred the fal lowing evenhig, in Si. Michael's church, with military honours. Wednesday, at the apartments spf Sir Richard Keats, at Green wlch Hospital, the Right lion. Sir John Harlan Warren, Bart. G.CH. Admiral of the White. LONVON ; rriuted Dad pubtisheil by _Lava Kam, rick-tt- Place, Tanpleaan • r: • I