Star. — London, England, 1817-06-04 00:00:00

.1 :e declared, that although there were rnary witness ;, i n the list who might not be called. yet that not ie was named to whom the ability of proving some ic t was not ascribed. In the progress of the trials :m ight be necessary to prove facts, which, accord ig to previous calculation, would not be requird; .4,1 .a hat would be said of the Law OCR:ers of the :o wn if they were not provided with the ability to e ...brsh every fact essential to their case ? Mr. Ct.RWEN would not willingly take upon iself any further responsibility, after what had ! Alen from the Right Honourable Gentleman. He hashAppy, however, that he had brought the subject , C .•,-e :h e House, from what had transpired, and ..:h,:rew his Motion. NEW WRITS. :•1'; Writs were moved for the University of Or -1..J, in the room of the Right Honourable Charles I :,bott, called to the aurae of Peers ; for Limerick. the room of Colonel Vereker. removed to the Irish p e erage, by the title or Lord Viscount G;,rt. sir WILLIAM CURTIS, after a slight allusion to the continued indisposition of one of his respected rrNragues, moved for a new writ for the return of a Member to serve as a Representative of the City of London, in the room of Hervey Combe, Esq. who Lad accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—Qtderrd. Mr. PONSONBY said, he leafed :he was too late make remarks on the motion fora Writ for Li merick to be of avail ; but he understood that there considerable doubt as to the validity of Colonel Tereker's Peerage. Such being the case, he thought the Writ ought not to have been moved. _ Alter some conversation as to the mode that should be pursued, The SPEAKER said, the difficulty was of easy randy, as he had omitted to put the motion on that Writ. The omission was his, and he trusted the Hite would pardon the ovetsight, it having been sccasioned by the litick succession of motions for new Writs —( Hear, hear.) Mr. PEEL then withdrew the motion for that writ. STATE OF TUC COUNTRY. Lord• CASTLEREAGH presented a Message from the Prince Regent, stating, that his Royal High vess had directed to be laid before the House Papers and Documents respecting the continuation of the Practices, Meetings, and Combinations, of which i t had been deemed - necessary to save information to Puliament at the commencement of the present Se:- ice; proceedings that still continued to be carried to in such a manner, and to such an wan, as to endasger the peace of these realms. His Royal Highness recommends the House to take such cir cumstances into their immediate consideration. His Lordship then gave notice, that on Thursday he zotild move that such grai;iuus Message be talstat i4to consideration. VtNSION To TUE LAM Lord CASTLEREAGH presented atiothet ties age trout the Prince Regent, vileuch declared. that iu consideration of the eminent set vices of the Right Hon. Charles Abbott, as Speaker of that House, his Royal Highness, acting in the name and on the be t& of his Majesty, had created that indivldual a Dam ; by the title of Charles, Baron of Colchester ; bis. Royal Highness desired the House to enable him to make some suitable provision for Lord Col chester and his heirs male, such provision as that Ilion should deem just and reasonable. His Lord ship then gave notice; that on Thursday he ihatild more the Thanks of that Honse to their late Speaker. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, that the House do resolve itself into a Corri entes on ThursdAy neat, on the Prince Regent's Message, for - some suitable provision for their late Speaker. Mr. C. WYNN observred, that he had heard the Message from the Throne with feelings of great sur• pose and unfeigned regret. In the Commons House of Parliament the aervites of Lord Colchester were performed, and it was there and there only his well wand remuneration should originate—(Crier of /fear, ken). Why was the usual practice in this instance departed - front He regretted that such an unex pected procedure had not allowed him the opportu- M of referring to the precedents of that House.— &Stile; all did reeollett the course pursued in the mord Speaker Onslow—a case perfectly in point, ofol where the remuneration originated in an Address has that House to the Throne--(Heor, hear).—tt 1113 lot to be considered as a mere question of form ; itiavelved most serious comiierations. Was it fitting that the future Speakerisof the Commons House of ?aliment should look to the Throne for a recogni thoi of their merits, and for - the reward of their ser liees--(Heardwar) ? - Of those merits and services the Crown could constitutionally know nothing (Hoe. hear). No one could deny the right of the Crown to confer in almost every other instance dig- cities and rewards- for public services ; but with re %Pat to the services of the Speaker of that House, as they could be best appreciated there, the remunera• tins should originate in the House of Commons— (h est hear). Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the provision eras required to enable the individual to support the title with dignity, and not as a reward for services in t "r House. (Sows rigs: of duaispolvdiots asd &mist.) Mr. PONSONBY said, he could not withhold his a‘t,nisltment at the strange speech of the Noble Lord Vposlte. Indeed, what other feelings but astonish '''. the could pervade the House, when it saw the hie Lord endeavour to bring himself out of what 44seonmenly called a scrape, by the attempt to ex- Plein away that Message„( on the ground that it had reference to the services of Lord Colchester, as `Peeicer of the House of Commons. What said the leisage t Why, almost its very first words referred those very services, and to those alone. (icar.) l'ne Crown, constitutionally, had no right to take °fist of services in that House. It had no constitu• '': 11 1 means of information ; and without those 'Jeans the interference was not only a direct and Si. 64 " violation of the privileges of that House, but the proiciples of the Constitution. (Hear, hear.) ir hat the House may do on the Message, it was not uh Oo to assume, b u t it wou ld v i o l a t e i t s o wn right s , it did not mark its opinion of this curanielioarY and 11 °St dangerous innovation. —(Near, hear.) b ,Mr. H. SUMNER objected to th e mode which -44 beet. .4 0 p Le d. The CHANCELLOR o f t h e EXCHEQUER " ,c lan , '.. that no disrespect to the House had been cv oleati.iated t Mt. w YNN wished to be understood as cot:visits , • ing that the reward bad not originated in that goose —that it hid not resulted from an Address—(l,ear. hear.) By the Ministers' mode of proceeding, it ap. peered as if the House required to be put in mind of their late. Speaker —(/fear, hear, bear,)—and the pre: cedent which taught a Speaker to look to the Crown for his reward was.full of danger—(//ear, hear.) Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD trusted, for the honour of the individual concerned, that there would be no thought of meeting the motion with a negative, for then the question would assume the character of a struggle between that House and the Crown, as to which could best appreciate and reward the merits of a Soeaker—(H a u er , hear, from she Opposition Benches). the CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER begged to withdraw. his Motion. as the cunt se sug gested did not appear to meet the approbation of the House ; and added. that on 'Thursday he trusted he should be prepared with a Motion that would be more likely to meet their wishes—(Hear, hear). Th. Motion was accordingly withdrawn. Sir Fl ANCIS BURDE rr presented a Pethion from several Hoesch Ides residing in the line of the New Street from Carl ton-H se, consplaining of the grievatices they were subject to in t , r prnperty, under the Act. He moved that the Petition be reverted to the Committee. After a few words from Mr. C. Wrnme and Mr. Hosictssom the House divided—Ayes is—Noes st —Majority against re. letting the Petition to a Committee is. An account of the Rents of the Estates of Greenwich Hos pital for the last year was presented, and ordered to lie cm the table and to be printed • On the m.rii.t, that Mr. George Macpherson Grant should have leave of absence for six weeks on account of urgent private busmen., the House divided—Ayes LlS—Noes ii—Majuri..y 14. The Report of the Holyhead Reed Bill was presented, and ordered to be printed. The Report of the Committee on the Alnage Law was brought up, and leave was given to report to the House the evidence which bad been taken. Mr. SHAW p►esented a Petition from the Cork Manufac. turen and Cork Cutter►, praying that the Lot additional duty on Cork might be repealed —Read. and ordered to lie oo the table I.ord /SINNING presented the Fourteen tb Report of the Com. inibsioners of the Caledonian Canal, which was ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. Sir JOHN NEW POR grist notice. that on Thursday he would move for leave to bring to a Bill to extend to Ireland the provisions of the Act for the Relief of Unitarians —Adiouneed. TO THE INDEPENDEN T LIVERY OE LONDON. Gen I - sestets, ENCOURAGED by your reiterated demonstra tions of esteem, I cannot hesitate to offer myself as a Can didate for the honour to retresod yep is PARLIAMENT, in conse quence of the Vacancy that has arisen from the Resignation of Toe' long-tried, estimable, and excellent Member, Mr. Alderman Comae. As Sheriff—as Alderman—and as Mayor—in expensive Of fices, and in arduous times—l have learnt your local interests and your municipal rights t—l have cheerfully made many nevi aces of fortune—time—anal health, but I have been abundantly rewarded by that kind approval which has attended rue at every I step, and wildcat emboldens sae to solicit your further and lode- pendent support. Known as I must be known, I am desirous to abs oin from pro- fessions which you cannot require; and I will only reassure you, that, if you how place me in the important situation to which I aspire, I will is that new situation continue to be what I have en; clamoured to be in the situations which I have hitherto occupied ; and .that firm bet temperate--unalleed equally with Factions as with Courts—undismayed alike by Clamotrt or by Power, I will devote all my energies to the promotion of your particular wel -1 fare, and to the restoration of our Country to every blessing which the best sod wisest of her Bons may meet ardently desire. •- And 1.., Oeadashos. ?war Annosi stabsost fier7snis - Manilas Howls, June s, ist?, MATTHEW WOOD. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. . WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1817. Lugo Gamuts 111. soane4ielisy at the Public ACM. This being the Anniversary of the Kuso's Birth. day, the Park and Tower Guns were fired at one o'clock, as usual. His MA./gyve is now in his 80th tear.. The Royal Approbation was yesterday given by Commission to the Election of the new SPZAKBIL A Message was afterwards brought down to the House, informing them of the gracious intention of the Peplos Recant. to confer on the late Spataca, now Baron Coteau:area, such provision as his long, faithful, and important services, should seem to merit. A measure of this kind, it was thought by several Members, should have been allowed to origi natb with the House, as the best judge of the merits of its own Speaker, and the only proper source of his remuneration ; and, after a sharp conversation, Minis ters found it necessary to concede the point, by with drawing the motion for taking the Message Into con sideration, and allowing the matter to drop for the present. The deferred Message relative to the continuance of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, was also last night communicated to both Houses—to the Peers by Lord SIDMOUTH, and to the Commons by Lord CASTLERIAGH. In the House of Lords the Message was immediately taken into consideration, and a Committee of Secrecy. consisting of the same Members as the last, with the exception of Lord Taspoi in plus of the Duke of Baseman, was ap pointad to examine the papers transmitted with the Message. and report its opinion thereon. In the Commons, the consideration of the Message was post poned till to-morrow. H. Hosnousa, Esq. one of the Welton of the TreasuryA is to succeed J. BetzErr, Esq. at the Home Department, the latter Gentleman succeeding Mr. U. Sutton at Judge Advocate. The Peerage at Colchester, which bas been so worthily conferred on the late excellent Spurn of the House of Commons, was last held by a branch of the ancient and respectable fatniy of Lucas, as a firevesup, and became extinct in 1728.—1 t was on the monument of °mot those Peers, Lucas. Viscount Colchester, that the eelebtatei inscription, referred to by ADDIlibiL. in one of his Numbers of the Spaafer. was recorded, via.—es He was of a family of which .11 the sons 'were hi tow s and all the daughters girlies; I" DUTCH MAIL. Tl.e general meeting of the Bible Association of the Netherlaods; took place on the 2d instant at A m sterdam, and way well attended. Accounts from the North of France state, that notwithstanding the falling of the prices of corn in the Northern Departments, the distrest is still very great and troops of from twenty to forty persons, armed with sticks, knives, &c. rove about the country, and extort provisions and money tiom the farmers. The Duke of WslusoTONT is soon expected to re arm to Csmbray. A scene of great distress is witnessed in some parts of Holland—crowds of Germans seeking their way to Amsterdam, thence to emigrate to America, with out friends and without money. !'heir pilgrimage seems to have been altogether as ill digested as that of the Manchester missionaries, and many of them were actually bivouacking in the open fields. The greater part, ending that they were acting under a delusion, were induced to return from Wyk—but they Car only reach home by begging. The subjoined letter presents the only other intelli gence brought by the Mail of this morning : BRUSSELS, MAY G. Letters from France say,,that the Government has again given orders to be careful in the enlisting of men for the army. It is still generally observed that the old soldiers can not easily accustom them_ selves to be under the orders of Officers who have not commanded them before, and that they frequently express their dislike to it in a very unequivocal man. ner. This spirit cannot be changed except by time ; and it is, therefore, endeavoured to engage none hilt such as have not served before, with the exception of some Superior Officers, some of the most known of whom are employed from time to time, in order to maintain the military spirit in some degree. At almost all the Corn.maikets in these provinces, the prices of grain have fallen more or less within these few days. No French Papers have arrived this day. In their absence private letters, received by the last mail, fur nish some curious details, which may be. considered as *rongly indicating, on the part of those who should be the last to agitate the public mind, i dis position to carry certain points by popular ferment. Societies have been formed, which take the title of Missionaries. These, it appears, institute pilgrimages, and proceed with their followers to appointedislaces, where the Cross is set up, and where certain ceremo nies are performed. These pilgrimages take place at night, and in that awful hour, and by the light of torches, addresses are made to the pilgrims, vehe ment, menacing, terrifying. The object of some of these is stated to be denunciatory against the poi aessors of property belonging to the Church or the No bility. Theinterference for the latter is, however, consi dered as merely a cloak, while the real aim of the agitators is once more to put a parcel of idle priests in possession of the best and largest part Of the French soil. Could the Nobles be compensated for their losses, Justice would applaud the deed s but the idea of again making a childless priesthood the corporate heirs of the richest lands in France, never cats be countenanced by men of understanding. Even with respect to the Nobles, to attempt to restore things to the dales quo would be to invite fresh disturbances and another revolution. To these methods of agita dng the public mind are to be added the reports, succeeding each other with incessant activity, Ma , dye to BONAPARTE. Nothing is omitted to keep him alive in the public mind. At one time he has escaped. at another he is sure of the means of escaping; then the Allies are quarrelling amongst each other respec ting him, and Russia and Austria have presented a Note to the Court of London, requiring his transfer to Malta one day we have SANTINI and other emis. saries going about with secret messages to his parti. zans in the different towns ; the next, a large Ameri. can squadron is said to be hovering on the Southern shores of France with the Usurper actually on board. All these falsehoods serve to 'hew that there are many discontented spirits in France who are only re strained at present by the chains imposed upon them by the Allies. ABOLITION Or SLAVERY.—We have to congratulate the friends of humanity on the following Result:6(mi, which were passed by the Congress of the United States of America on the 11th of: Febtuary, 1817 : nor can we for a moment doubt that our own Go vernment will not afford every facility to the plan pro. posed by the United States " Resolved by the Senate mad House of Representatives of the Visited States of America in Congress assembled, that the Presi dent be, and be is hereby authorised, to consult and negiiriate with all the Governments where Ministers of the United butes are, or shall he, accredited, on the means of effecting an entire and immediate Abobtloo of the •fraffic in Slaves : and also to enter Into a Convention with the Government of Great Brita-ti for receiving into the Colony of Sierra Leone, such A( the free people of colour of the United States, as, with their own consent, shad be carried thither, stipulating limb terms, as shall be gum( beeettisi to the Colonists, while A promutes the peaceful line rests of Great Britain and the United States: and should this proposition not be accepted, then tis obtain from Great Britain and the other Maritime Powers, a stipulation or a formal decla ration to the sante effect, guaranteeing a-perm-meat% neutrality for any Calmly of free people of colour. which at the eapeu.e and under the auspices of the United States, shall biestataulard oa the African coast. " Resolved, '1 hat adequate provision shall hereafter be made to delay any necessary expenser which nay tic incurred . In t0...t -rying tke preceding itesolutioc into effect. SOUTH AIIRRICA,—A leper from Curacoa, dated March fi4, says, " BOLIVAR in action imitates the tiger : he has de stroyed his fleet, to inspire his troops, aided by the marine, with desperate enthusiasm. General lira:, the Royalist, has been completely beaten in the Vari. mu actions with the Patriots, and retreated by way Oilmen', making his escape to Laguira or Cauca'. BOUVAR has pledged himself to the army, that in twenty days the Flag the United Provi! Ce 3 will wave from Cieelicai t 4.) Cora. He sec;: era vOuttc:eri daily." N.IVAL IN7' LLIGENCB. . . ~ . rm.mott I'H, JUNE 1. No arrivals to-day. .`;,filed the Lady Arabelli packet, with a MAL for Lisbon.—Wind ..: ariablei light air;, fide weather. P AtTSMOUTH, Y.:NIE 9. Y~ arrival ;. • Sailed Olt RthAtio sloop of war di cruir..—Wind :3 S.W. DEAL. JUNE S. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Lang, &ATM; and belaford, Youvc, from St. Vincent's ; Mon mouth, HAywocio, iroril Jamaica; and Berwick, Costrrow, (torn Barbadoet, with several others names unknown. Came dawn fr the River, the Grant; for Ceylon; Lord Sidmouth, fc": Bombay; and Thalia; fur the Isle, of France. Pitt hack f%y con nary winds, the Eliza, REngeLnclN, hkittnki to Cdcutta. CitAVESEND. JUNE '. i.rtived the Alhom, .rom the Clot of Good Fiore • his Majesty's s'ilp Fa7ourite, iren.. ;he EAU ; Math., Keine, front KI•onel; Barbara an Ann, Hurtwict ; Anoa Rebecca, Spill ; and Motcow, Dob,on, from Itsbon ; Ic Airle, fluebon; from Havre; Margaret, Hughes, from S. S-hat an's ; Chriro. ptier, Smith, from St. Kite, ; wrier, Bowden, from Jamaica; and Mercator, Bly, from America —.Sailed the Hopewell, Smith, tor Barbadoes; Caroline, Sarjen:, Demarara ; London, Dun can, for 'Tobago; lemirna. Fraz rr. for Lthradarc Louisa, Dorp; and Deux soeuri, Smils, for Havre; Patriot, kianly, far Peters burgh ; Endeavour, Samuel, for Rove:dam. The Amity, Captain I t .tatc;;, hits r•ri-reil at Liverpool, from New York, in SI days: her ea:go conw , :s chiefly of floor, tur pentine, and CIS seed. The Robert and Ross, O'NEILL, f;cm Liverpool to Newry, with 15 hogsh,:ads of tobacco and coals, has been sunk by the crew off Lambay, after carry ing the tobacco on shore. The Warren Hastings India man, Captain - L AR sttss from Bengal, got on shore nn the Santis off Romney Store-house, about ten on Thursday night, in cony!. quegce, t: is said, of wrong soundings being given to the pilot by the man who hove the lecd s but two .Wilmer boats which were sailing in that direction on the look-out to assist vessels coming up the Channel, had the good fortune to get her off the Sends the next morning, without any damage whatever. Etc:l.-bands. Prom the annual account of the concern of this Company, made op to the IA rd M iy , 1.7117, it appears that the total amount of its territorial and commerci.d receipts dtitirg the yeari has been ,C 9,92! 932 1 Is. 7d. ; that the payments out of this sam, including dividends (19 stock, ~red inte rest ori hood arid other debts, has amounted to A - 9,825,11G 2s. 91 leaving a surplus •:1 £lth.Bl6 Bs. 10d.:—that the terriotial and commercial debts of the Company amount .to ,C 13,591,651, but that it possesses assets to the valued ezten: cf £21.,`24,002, leaving a balance of assets in their favour £10,891,351. The PITT CLUB in Tcvn, consists at resent of one thousand three hundred and forty Members, bes , tlea having several Candiiates on the list for admis...ino. —The PITT CLUB of S.:otland, held at Edinburgh, consists of upward.; of seven hundred Members; but the number of Members of the Provincial Clubs in Great Britain has ty.t yet been correctly ascertained. Thursday, at the Levee, a loyal Address was pre sented to the PRINCC REGENT, from the. County of Merioneth, by the High Shetiff, Jolts; EvaNs, Erbistock Hall, Esq. attended by Sir ROBERP W. VAUGHAN, hart. and Sir Witzcncs W. WYNN, Luta upon which Occasion the Sheriff received the Inmost` of linightbood. • The Emperor of AUSTRIA has given the Regiment of Lindenau, not to the Prince of PARKA (young NAPA.R , I74), as reported, but to his son in-law, the PRINCE ROYAL of the- BRAZILS. Letters of lit April farm Ilavannah mention, that fresh and peremptory orders had been sent out there by the Spanish Governor to close the whole of the ports of the island of*Cuba against the importation of cotton goods of every denomination, or, in - other words, so prevent British trade in that quarter. Go. sfurnor ClaraUltCos, however, had not ventured to carry them into execution,• so great was the opposi. t ion of the inhabitants to this destructive send impolia tic measure. ltelminstrances were expected from the Corporate Bodies in the island, proving that Cub r never flourished but when the ports4emained open. Fina.—Monday evening, about half past sit o'clock, a most alarming fire broke out in an apart ment behind the Swan public house, in the parish of St. Thomas, adjacent to Exeter. The wind being high, and the buildings moilly thatched, the devour ing element spread itself with great rapidity ; it had reached several houses opposite the Seven Stars Inn, and threatened destruction to a great slumber — of buildings in that quarter. The utmost attention and alertness was observed by the inhabitants in general, and the inniskilling Dragoons, notwithstanding which several houses were burnt to the ground, and the :lames were extending to many others, when our 1C• counts came away. CORN EXCHANGE, JUNR 4.—We had no fresh ar rivals of Wheat this morning, boot there was a tole:: rably large quantity left over from Monday's sorer s which met heavy sale, having but few buyers at market to-day, yet the prices remain as on Monday:" There( was but little doing in Barley, Oats, and Beams • which articles support List day's prices. At the class of Monday's market, the price of Four was ada . vanced ss. per sack. OPENING OF THE GRANN Ilanroisio or THE &Unlit AND Fottiluv ACiIoVOL StiCIPTY, iiOltnit;(111-ROAD.--Tilis d ty being :he Anniversary of the Birth of our gracious Sovereign, the sjwcial Patron of this Institution, and who had so nlton erprvssed a with " that every child in his dominions ihould be taieght-to read ;" ( ho s particular day was expressly set a part for opening Ithis great school, capable of containing nearly 3,000 children : His Royal Highness the• Duke of Sussex entered the old school at eleven o'clock, attended by the Comm , ree, LORD Mayon, the American Mi.-. 4. ter and Charge d'Affaires,- air THOMAS Batt., the Tartar Chief, Colonel DowNIE, Doctor Hiotrt, ht peon-shurgh; Rae. WILsoN, Esq. Pub:es:or PttavotT of Geneva ; General FANNING, and a crowd of fo reigners from' . France, Sweden, Rbssia, ilrussia s and a number of elegant dressed females.—The boys and girls went through their several tasks and the relative evolutions with a reenarkahle preci. sion and rapidity. Hit Royal Highness aid CI II Meeting then walked to the new Sehot'l, a!!e•taftd by the girls and boys, which they entered in prozessica lc:ng posiosei• r from their old apartments, and on ta of their seats gave t h ree loud cheers to the pi.:. yet 4 1 his MAJF. , 4Y, 1,14C.:(1 at t! . : top of cash apartment. Ncyrt W4ll OWN: a snore st•;o:yonz ~iYectatlr. ; •.