Star. — London, England, 1821-01-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. r st net of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at Trieste, dated the logo •—" It is now b lowin g a heavy pie from the N.K. Oth • As ;onion brig has cut away her roasts; two Austrian brigs been driven out to sea; and a Turkish sacedwa, from Ivdra iegged towards the Old Lazaretto, and is in danger." Iv Barr, 130 ms, from Swansea to Youghal, is totally Tramore Bay. as &taw, bo u nd to Sligo, put back to Quebec, 2 4 th Ilse ' No on ber with d am age, having been on shore on Red Island. , The Concord, RALE% arrived at Dartmouth, spoke the Dove, aloar pord, from Newfoundland, disinasted, and part of her ads drown overboard. , The Fl ora , Ogres, from London, arrived In the Texel on the isnot, with loss of ambers and cables, and leaky. permeate, Jam. 15.—Arrived the Lord Wellington, Hn.x, pax Madras for London, sailed 15th August, and from the ear llth November. The Perseverance and Ocean had left c a pe sonw days previous. She &poke, on theist Septem kg-- 54. N. long. 82. 50. W. the Comet, from Liver to Calcutta; on the 2d ditto, the Hope, Etta?, from Lon daa far Madras; on the 14th ditto, in Lit. 4. 19. S. long. H. E. , k Lady Kenaway, from London for Madras ; and on the 20th Thamber, In lat. 12. 49. N. long. 26. 12. the Medway, from SailaDd* POIISHOCTII,Jaw.I6.—Arrived the following outward-bound gips:--11ie Janus, Ilercirinsow ; George, Deana; Mariana, g l om; Clifton, Smut ; William and Alfred, DRYSDALE ; Ca ardoide, Caner; C as tlereagh , VIDAL ; Essex, ROBERTSON ; p RISSIXI, JONSSON; Jane, Gs/toots; Neptune, Amor.ost ; Mar aret, JOES ; Preston, R I CHARDSON; Nottingham, BROZER; Ou &roaming, limn; Ada, Waal); Britannia, Ramo; and Con. Dad, RAANDfORD.—Put back, the Royal George, Tortior.—Ar rind hi; Majesty's ship Him, from a cruize.—Wind DIAL, JAS. i W.N. W.—Arrived and remain the DitZbeth, SWINSURN, from Buenos Ayres; Mohawk, Tlow gums, from Virginia; Ds Vryheid, Roams, from Amsterdam C r Surinam • and Jan Cornelis, Dtivr, from ditto for Batavia. Came down and the River and remain, the General Kyd, NAIRSI. for *nal and China ; Lady Lushington, Scow for m a dras ; Moffatt, ALDHAM, for ditto and Calcutta • M ary, Bsicch for Jamaica ; John , Povet.rwEtt, for ditto ; Calcutta; G u wysa, and Spring, --, for the South Seas ; Benjamin, Ames, for New York ; Starling, Douotas, for Rio Janeiro; Harriet, Hosswiu.i, for Genoa; Titus, Neu., for Malta; and wr en' others, names not known. Hammen, JAS. 16:—Arrived the Princess Charlotte packet, with a Mail from Holland. She brings intelligence that the River is full of ice, but ships may reach Cuxhaven with the wind it west. The buoys in the Elbe are all gone. Cow* JAN. 16....itrrived yesterday, 'the Farquharson, Cstacesuaes ; Inglis, Boa...note; and Marquis Camden, Las sso, from London for Bombay and China. Doviorru, Lutuaar ls.—arrived-the Lady Ridley, Weis, ham London for New South Wales. Dons, JANUARY 16.—The Dutch ship Providencia, DERREAYs from Croirett, went on shore hut night, near Dungeness, and went to pieces: crew saved. Riaaoass, houses 16.—Arrived the Ilindostan' WILLIAM• $ll4 from the East Indies for L ondon. She has landed her poisengers here. GCSINSEY, JAYCARY I.s.—Arrived the Williams, Wuxiams, bin Trieste, with part of her cargo thrown overboard. Craton-house, Jaw. 16.—Ships Entered Inwards: The Julie, fern Calais; la Caroline, from Caen; Lively, from Memel; Marinette, from Dublin ; Hardy, from Havre ; Adele, from Dyke; Trelawnty, from Demerara; Triton, from New. fousdbnd ; Aurora, from Sligo; Vestal, from Qottenburgh ; aid Europa, from Jamaica.—Entered Outwards: The Joseph ad Ann, for ,Flushing; George , for Lisbon; William, for Aitnable, for Rouen; Berbiee, for Leghorn; and Bice of Waterloo, for Ostend.—Cleared Outwards: The John, fir Belfast ; Hors, for Antwerp; Thomas, for Dublin ; Mar fee Charleston ; Perseverance, for Bilbou ; Roger, for Cork. dasiven--At Gibraltar, the Union, De Gruchy, from Jersey. At Rt. Michael's, Naiad, --, from Cork Henry, CundY. from Plymouth; Flying Fish, from London; and Elizabeth and Grace, him Bristol. At Fayal (leaky), Martha, Swadland, from Li. verpooL At the Mauritius, Ward, Brown , from London. At lismbef, Camden, Johnso n, from London. At the Cape of Cased Hope, Scotia and British Colony, from London; and Borah, Edwards, from Bengal, after being on shore. Upwards of fifty Addresses will be presented to kr MAJESTY on Monday next, from various Towns, Parishes, Trades, &c. &c. The LORD MAYOR and the Sheriffs will go in state, attended by a large Deputation of the Livery. There will also be a Deputation from Westminster, and se 'feral others from the country, all anxious to testify their attachment to the Qt./Ent by waiting upon her MAJESTY in person. The Brassfounders of the Metropolis are preparing a more splendid procession than that which accom: parried their forme Address to her MAJESTY. The Deputation will consist of about 700 persons, headed by six men in complete suits of armour, the others clad in half-armour, each individual bearing some emblematical device. A Deputation of the Coopers will also wait upon her MAJESTY on Monday, with an Address from that body. They will carry in procession a handsome gilt cask with suitable inscriptions: on one hoop there will be the figures 108—the never to be for gotten minority that voted in favour of her Ma Jearr. Deputations will also present Addresses from the Parish of St. Mary-la-bonne, Kensington, the Lon- don industrious classes, Glass-blowers, Carpenters, and Tin-plate-workers—the latter four carrying emblems of their several trades. Sir Humemon and Lady DAVY entertained a bril liant circle on Sunday evening, at their house in Lower Grosvenor-street. Mr. BAKER, Chairman to the Buckingham Aga. cultural Association, has replied, at some length, to the letter addressed to him by Lord NUGENT. He agrees with Lord NuGzar, that a revision of the Poor Laws is necessary, but on the subject of the Taxes, Mr. BAKER is at issue with his Lordship, re fusing his assent to the proposition, that any adequate reduction can be made consistently with an ability of discharging the National Debt. He defends the Ad ministration from the very serious charges made against them by Lord NUGENT. To the argument of his Lordship, grounded on the fact that no foreign corn (oats excepted), had arrived within the last 12 months, Mr. BAKER reports, that our granaries are, nevertheless, overloaded, and should prices arise to ever so small a degree of remuneration to the British POKE'', they would be instantly again depressed by the immense quantities, both under look in this coun try, and those on the other side, always in readiness for the occasion, with which our markets would be deluged. Mr. BAKER finally insists, that the right to legislative protection is perfectly equal between the manufacturer and the farmer. Thus it is, that the foolish " Protecting System," as it is called, is to be adhered to. When will our wise ones open their eyes to understand a self-evident proposition,—that the People can spend no more than they earn ? Make the price of living as high as you will, you cannot l et a shilling more. If their wages fall short of this, you must yourselves pay the difference in Poor Rates. Coss Recluses% Me a K.LANS, JAN. 17.—We have had but few Wink since Monday, and although the quantity of Wheat at Market is but small, the sales were heavy, except for prime simples. which support Monday's prices, but there was little or so demand for the inferior descriptions. Fine Barley being scarce, what few samples appeared this morning were readily disposed of, en as good terms as on Monday. Oats are rather dearer, in consequence of the scantiness of the supply. In Beam and Peas no akeration in prices, but the sale of each was very heavy. CAMBRIDGESIIIR7 MEETING. Yesterday, pursuant to Pahlic Requisition, pre sented to the High Sheriff, THOMAS BURGESS, Esq. a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of this County was held in the Market-place, to consider the propriety of addressing his Majesty to dismiss his present Ministers from his presence and Councils for ever. The Shire-hall was the place originally fixed for the Meeting, and long before twelve o'clock kit was crowded in every part. As it was found not sufficiently large to contain even the one-fourth of those who wished to be present, an adjournment to the Market-place (where a temporary platform had been erected in front of one of the houses, for the convenience of the speakers) was proposed, and im mediately agreed to. The Under Sheriff, Mr:Watts, (the High Sheriff being unable to attend), then proceeded to the tem porary balcony, and opened the business of the day by reading the Requisition which had been directed to his principal, calling on him "to convene a Meet of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Cambridge, for the purpose of considering of the propriety of presenting an Address to his Majesty, praying him to remove his present Ministers, who had, by various acts, and more especially by their late conduct in the proceedings against the Queen, which were contrary to every principle of justice, lost all claim to the confidence of the People."— " Gentlemen," said Mr. Wells, " before we proceed to the business of the day, it is my duty to read to yon a letter which has been received from your Noble Representative, Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne, apologizing for his absence.—Eln this letter the Noble Lord expresses the extreme reluctance with which he had given up all hopes of being able to attend the Meeting ; but severe illness rendered him totally in capable of appearing. He hoped, however, that the Address which, had he been present, he would have proposed, would be ably supported by others. He was of opinion that it was by a legal and constitu tional expression of popular feeling and sentiment at great public meetings, that the country could alone be saved. He had applied for the Town-hall, as a proper place for holding the Meeting, but the Mayor had refused to comply with the request, without the consent of the Corporationl—Since that letter was received (continued the Under Sheriff) the Earl of Hardwicke has notified, that illness alone has pre vented his attendance. With respect to the refusal of the Town-hall, I have only to observe, that we have a Shire-hall, over which the Mayor has no power, but it is too small for the purposes of the Meeting : application was consequently made for the use of the Town-hall, but the Mayor had thought fit to deny the Requisitionists that boon."—(Groans). Lord Mote presented himself to the Meeting amidst loud cheers. He said be rose to address them under circumstances of considerable embarrassment. He was aware that, not being a resident at present in that county, he might be accused of presumption in venturing to address the Freeholders and Inhabi tants, on the present occasion—(No, no).—But, as he was present, the substitute, if they would allow him to say so, of their Noble Representative, whose pre sence was denied them in consequence of severe ill ness, he trusted they would hear him with patience, however inadequate he might be to the task, while he expressed those principles and opinions which he was confident would have been expressed with more vigour, energy, and ability, if the health of his Noble Friend had suffered him to attend—(Applause} Peshaps he would be heard with more favour by the Meeting, if he reminded them of a sort of claim he had on their indulgence, for having, some years ago, appeared before them for the purpose of recom mending to their support that Representative, whose manly, independent, and patriotic spiot, had led him, consistently, invariably, steadily, ald zealously to watch over and protect the best iifterests of the People of England —(Cheers —He had marked his conduct in Parliament, ande had seen him inva riably opposed to these unhappy measures which had driven this country to its present distressed and disastrous condition—( Applause). His Noble Friend had opposed, invariably, those mischievous measures, which, instead of leading to economy and retrench ment, supported a system of extravagance and pro fusion, and which necessarily led, as he and his friends had anticipated, to the present situation of the country, which all good men so deeply deplored —(Applause).—lf he were, on the present occasion, to go through all the various instances which he war in a situation to adduce, in which the Ministers of the Crown had rejected the advice of their COnsti tuents, had disregarded the Petitions, and neglected the interests of the People, he should weary their patience and exhaust their time. Ministers were but little aware of the situation in which they stood, when, in a spirit of extravagant profusion, they were indulging in an excessive expenditure, the ultimate re sult of which they could not anticipate. When they voted, and brought the House of Commons to agree in the decision that deteriorated paper was equivalent to sterling gold; and when they did not hesitate to bring forward a Bill, enacting that that paper should circulate in its deteriorated state, they little imagined that they were working mischief, the end and termi nation of which it was impossible to calculate.— Perhaps that might _be one of the most important engines now at work, by which the distress and misery under which all ranks and orders throughout the country were now suffering, had been produced. The agricultural interest was distressed—it was suf fering beyond calculation. The manufacturing in terest was also distressed—it was cramped and impo verished throughout the country. All this was the effect of the pernicious system that had been so long pursued ; and he would, he was sure, exhaust their patience, if he entered into a detail of the various measures, prejudicial to the happiness and interest of the empire, for which Ministers were wholly re sponsible—(Applause).—Nature was bountiful ; the country was rich in produce; but the population of the country, on the contrary, was poor and miserable —(Applause).—The People, the suffering and goaded People of England. who had gallantly and patiently enduied all privations ? who had submitted to a long series of evils, in the hope of a better and more peaceful time, were wholly neglected and despised. They had honestly. temperately, and loyally stated their grievances to Parliament and Ministers. The Ministers had indeed received their Petitions, and heard their complaints; but they had disregarded them, they had rejected tbent, they bad despised them ; for they never deigned to notice them (Cheers). —This total disregard of the Petitions of the People, had led them to discontent—to, he would say, justifiable discontent —( A pplairse ).—That dis content Ministers were unable or unwilling to con troul by conciliatory methods, and they met it with the iron hand of power, with the instrument of ty ranny—he meant an increased military establishment —( Veers and hisse s ).—He was not one who thought that - the Government of the country could exist with out trigrongcontrouling power; but every object of controlling power could be effected by gaining the hearts of a free and willing People. When their af fections were gained, there was no need of harsh measures—there was no need of incurring a heavy expense in order to contronl a friendly and willing People. This was one of the great causes of the present distress, aggravated and increased, instead of decreasing expenditure—that expenditure might, per haps, have been rendered necessary by the measures of Ministers; but it would be totally unnecessary and nugatery, if they attended to the fair, manly, and honest demand of\the People of England— (Cheers). —With respect to Ministers, they appeared not to have been unmindful of their own interests, however careless they might be of those of the People. Whenever the question of Reform in Parliament (to which he had ever been attached) was mentioned in Parliament, they had rejected it with disdain. When ever they had been detected in practices subversive of.freedom of election, they had sheltered themselves under the notoriety of such practices; and their friends and adherents, if they could not save them from all censure, at all events shielded them from the punishment which they deserved—(Cheers and hisses).—lf those Gentlemen who did him the honour of directing their attention towards him by their hisses, would have the goodness hereafter to answer ,what he had asserted, to deny the facts which he had stated, to disprove, for instance, that Lord Castle reagh was, on the motion of Mr. Madocks, abso lutely convicted of selling seats in Parliament ; if they would deny the fact, and controvert his conclu sion, he would hear them with great patience, and treat them in a manner vet:) , different from that which they had manifested towards him—(Cheers). —He was stating that Ministers were not regardless of their own interests. They knew whence they derived their power—they knew it emanated from the Crown ; and, therefore, they spewed that they were constantly ready to lend themselves to the will of the Crown, particularly on a late occasion, which had excited the indignation of the People, and drawn forth the strongest expression of national sentiment and feeling from every part of England—(Cheers). — They well knew that the Queen was not a pleasur able object to the King ; and, knowing this, they con ceived that the best way of gaining favour in the eyes of his Majesty, was, to receive information fur nished by Hanoverian agents, by Italian spies, and unknown traducers--(Applause).—They adopted the communications of those persons as their own, and acted on them as theirs—( Applause).—He did not think it proper or necessary to gize any distinct opi nion on the matter they had brought before Parlia ment ; but this he would say, that a Bill of Pains and Penalties was contrary to the principles of justice, contrary to all legal analogies, and contrary to the fundamental principles of the British Constitution. He knew of no instance in history where a Bill of Pains and Penalties was resorted to, which ought not to be held out rather as a light to enable others to avoid danger in future, than as an example which ought to be looked up to and followed— (Cheers). —These were, however, the precedents on which Ministers relied—those very precedents which they ought most sedulously to have avoided. There fore he would contend, that the proceeding of Mi nisters, founded on such base evidence, their lending themselves to German diplomatists, their lending themselves with so much promptitude to the will of a Sovereign who had separated from his Consort, rendered them wholly unfit to continue in the situ ations which they at present held—(Cheers). —They ought not to be permitted henceforth to move in the same path of danger and of mischief in which they had been travelling for so many years—(Applause). Ministers who felt themselves under the necessity of resorting to the agency of Italian accusers and Ger man diplomatists, were unfit to guide the affairs of this country. They had beard, to their utter asto nishment, how far Ministers were now under—not the will of the people of England—but how far they were under the controul and despotism of foreign Go vernments--(Cheers and hisses).—They must surely have heard of combinations of Sovereigns against the liberties of the People of Europe—(Cheers).—Now, though it was not mentioned in the Address which had been placed in his hand (for, as he had before stated, he was only the substitute for their Noble Re presentative), and which he was about to move; still he regretted that the foreign relations of this country had not been alluded to. He regretted it on account of the doctrine maintained by the Holy Alliance. It was true the British. Ministers had not placed their signatures to that alliance; but they knew how inti mately connected, how nearly blended they were, with all the bad actions of that Alliance—(Cheers). —lf he entered into a detail, it would be painful for him to express the disgust and abhorrence he felt towardi many of the measures of the present Administration— especially their lending themselves to the prosecu tion, he might more properly say, the pei secution of her Majesty—(Cheers and hissing).—After doing that, he thought they had no right to hold a public and responsible situation in the Government of the ' country. On these grounds, added to the private affection he entertained for their Noble Representa tive, he stood forward to propose an Address to his Majesty; and, as he had before said, if there were any individuals in that Meeting who would boldly, manfully, and energetically state opposite opinions, and prove that his were wrong, he would most cheer , fully confess his error—(Applause). But he enter tained a confident hope that the Meeting, with the exception of those few individuals who had expressed their dissent, would carry, with acclamations, the Address which he now had the honour to propose. The UNDER SHERIFF read the Address, which, after pointing out the demerits of Ministers, prayed for their dismissal. Earl FITSWILLIAM next came forward, and was received with long-continued plaudits. His Lordship said he felt great pleasure in seconding the Address, which contained no sentiment that did not appear to him to be perfectly correct. The conduct of Minis- tees was wholly unjustifiable in many instances, and in none more so than , in the manner in which they treated the complaints of the People. Their miscon duct had produced considerable discontent through— out the country ; but, instead of endeavouring to allay it, by alleviating the burdens of the People, they bad recourse to a great additional military force, by which the public expenditure was increased when it. ought to be diminished. The charge of disloyalty and sedition, which had been so confidently made against the People, was founded on calumny, and calumny alone—(aseers).—The People of England had repeatedly petitioned—their Petitions had been neglected, and that this might generate discontent, he asimitted ; but he maintained it to be completely proved that there never was such discontent in exist ence as could justify a standing army of 30,000 men in time of peace. These were his sentiments : he spoke them fairly to his friends and fellow-country men, and feeling them to be well•founded, he would, acting under their influence, support the proposition of his Noble Friend—(Cheers). Mr. FORDHAM inveighed against the injustice of, the proceedings in the case of the Queen, and pointed out the absurdity, as well as cruelty, of delegating the anomalous powers of prosecutors, judges, and ju rors, to the same body. Still, however, assisted by the generous People of England, their noble Queen had triumphed !—she covered herself with glory, and her enemies with shame !--(Loud applause).— The speaker then proceeded to call the attention of the Meeting to the enormous standing army which was at present kept up, on which Ministers depended for support, be their actions what they might. If they had not been conscious that they had a large armed force in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, • they would not have dared to institute proceedings against the Queen. Mr. MEREST said, there never was, at any period of their history, a greater necessity for the People of this country to meet and speak their sentiments than at the present moment, threatened as they were by a total subversion of that Constitution which their fore fathers had purchased with their blood ! Ministers had, for the last fifteen months, been abridging that Constitution with mischievous activity. If they did not know it to be the fact, would any man have ima gined it possible that any set of Ministers could have proposed to the Commons House of Parliament to curtail the right of petitioning, that great palladium of our liberties—to contract the liberty of the Press ; and, in the fifth year of peace, to add 5,000 men to a great Standing Army? From all their actions, it ap peared, that the policy of the present Ministers was to govern the People of this country by military des potism and arbitrary power—(Cheers). Instead of endeavouring to put down any disaffection which might have existed in the country, by wise and libe ral measures, what had they done? They had agi tated the country from one end to the other and brought it to the brink of revolution, by introduc ing a Bill of Pains and Penalties, a proceeding en tirely unknown to the Constitution of this country. They directed that engine against a woman, and that woman a Queen, a descendant of the House of Bruns wick, and a relation of that family which was now seated on the Throne. When they reflected on this most atrocious conspiracy, founded in infamy, nur tured in corruption, and supported by perjury, there could be but one opinion with respect to those who countenanced it—namely, that they were unfit for power—(Applattse). When they saw ruin and deso lation staring them in the face ; when they saw the Manufacturer and the Agriculturist involved is one common ruin, they naturally asked to whom all this was owing? The answer must be, to his Majes-, ty's Ministers, who seemed to be as dead to the dan gers that surrounded the country, as they were to those that threatened the Crown—(Cheers). In loyalty to the Constitution, and attachment to the House of Brunswick, he would yield to no man. He would sacrifice everything that was dear to him in their de fence; but he should consider himself unworthy of the name of Englishman if he did not come boldly forward, on an occasion like the present, as far as he could, to shield his Sovereign from farther insult, and his country from inevitable ruin —(Cheers). The Rev. Mr. MABERLY said, he admired the purity of the female character, and he loved his Sovereign, and would sacrifice his life and property in his defence, and he prized liberty as highly as he did his life.— But though he loved his Sovereign, he could not at present express affection and attachment to him, when he knew that he had degraded the female cha racter. After expatiating on his Majesty's treatment of the Queen, and on several other topics, the Be,. Gentleman proceeded to read an Amended Address, the first line of which stated that the parties address ing " view with the_ greatest regret and abhorrence the conduct of your Majesty."—(Here a violent storm of disapprobation prevented the Rev. Gentleman from proceeding). The UNDER SHERIFF.—There never was a man more favourable to free discussion than the High She riff of Cambridge; but he is commissioned by the King, and he would disgrace his office and himself if he allowed any offensive language to be used to wards his Sovereign--(General C) eering).—Gentle men, you are quite conscious that the High Sheriff has an awful duty to perform towards his Sovereign, and I trust he will be protected in protecting that So vereign from insult—(Cheers). Mr. LITTLE opposed the Address. He defended Ithe conduct of Ministers, who, he affirmed, had never done anything since they came into power pi ejudicial to the interests of the King or of the People. They had terminated the late war most gloriously—they had raised the British name all over the world—they had given freedom to Europe, and had transported to a rock in the Atlantic, the Despot who would hive enslaved her for ever. In conclusion, the worthy Gen tleman said, " In holding up your hands for the Ad dress, you are literally holding them up against your Sovereign"—(Mach disapprobation). The UNDER SHERIFF.—" The High Sheriff of this County will never hear it said in his presence that any individual is hostile to his Sovereign. The Honourable Gentleman ought to explain words so offensive to us all." Mr. LITTLE said he did not mean the expression in the strict sense in which it was taken. The question was . then put, and carried affirma tively by an immense majority, not more than a dozen hands being held up against it. Ttbe Meeting, which consisted of about 2,000 persons, was then dissolved. I