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w k. r LONDON. ! I , . j i 1 COURT • iestehneikletrt ‘' . a • .41rMairikeitto a question of Privilege. In t,. early part of 1821, he had to bring a charge against a person who had obtained money fl.com an indivsdpal ‘ in order to procure for him a place of Deputy Ilea Coal Meter. Mr. Hicks said, he believed he mutt rise to move, that strangers should be ordered to withdravi—(CrieN of" No Ni!") Mr. SAVAGE said. in his opinion, the Court ottolla•I mon Council and the Citieens of London, had been' grossly insulted by that person. Another Member moved the Standing Order for the exclusion of strangers; and, persisting in it, they were obliged to withdraw. After being excluded an hour and a half they were again admitted. Alderman WA ITIMAN presented a Petition, as one to be presented to Parliament respecting the appro priation of the ground on which it is proposed to erect a new Post Office. Mr. Muni trusted thakwhen this ground shpuld be vested in the Crown, the Corporation .should be assured that a new Post Office would be speedily erected. His opinion was, that no such thing was in immediate contemplation ; and if not,,k would be proper to consult the Crown as to retracing their steps before a single brick was laid, and after 300,0001. had been already expended. He moved, 44 That the Petition should be printed, and taken into further consideration." Mr. DORNFORD seconded that motion, thinking no Post Office was intended to be built. Mr. J. Gamma' slid, this Ores a Jll6 from begin ning to end ; and was only done to get rid r.f the non-freemen out of that pan of the City.' 2 . • Alderman WAIT/14AX said, the objegt of this Pe tition had been agr.- to on the Report of IN Com mittee. The Corporation had now done its duty, and he beiesed, himself, that the Government would do its part.—The maim was uegatived ; and the Petition agreed to. THE EVENtS6 STAR. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 ISM COMISRO, or Se nm—Holiday at die Eau& Last night we had a Flanders Mail, bringing Brus• sell Papers to the 2341 inst. and at a late hour this morning we received German Papers to the 14th inst. The accounts they bring are very contradictory. On the one hand we are told that the Russian forces are nurching in such great numbers towards the Pruth as to indicate approaching hostilities; and, on the other, that Russia will occupy Moldavia and Walla• chin, in consequence of a convention with the Porte; this, perhaps, is a hint, that either by peace or war, the Emperor of Rt lf4LA if determined to have these Provinces. An article in the Algeueeine Zeibusg. of the 14th inst. states, on the authority of letters from the fron tiers of Moldavia, that a Firman of the Poite was published at J..ssy on the 24th of December, order ing the artillery to be sent back to Braila ; but com manding the Janissaries, on pain of punishment, to remain, and enjoining them to abstain from all out rages. The Janissaries, it is ad.fed, at first refused to suffer the artillery to be carried away, but after wards yielded to the mandate of the GRAND SEIGNIOR* An article in the Austrian Observer contains a new version of the taking of Tripolissa by the Greeks, as fallacious as those that have already ap peared in some of the Journals in this country, which Lave espoused the cause of the Turks against the Greeks. The Flanders Mail brings intelligence from Con stantinople of the 13th ult. at which time the capital was tranquil. The following are extracts from the German Pipers: .!. .4. ..: 41 1 k C 141 . MO N COUNCIL . 2.4 ._ EfOriXilt othrnon Council was held •• FROM TIIE FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA. DEC. u. On the 23d December, a Tartar brought to Jassy, from Constantinople, a Furman, which was published on the 24th. It ordered that all the artillery, except two cannon, should be sent back to Braila. At the same time the Janissaries were commanded to remain in Moldavia alone, and net to desert, otherwise they would be punished as runaways, and, above all, they were to refrain from committing any excesses. This order excited great dissatisfaction among the Janis saries : they openly declared that they would not let the artillery go away, and the greatest fears were entertained respecting the issue of this affair. The Boyars, who have emigrated, wait with impatience for news from Jassy of the 27th of December, which day is fixed for the departure of the artillery.—(This news has this moment arrived : the cannon, fifteen in number, had been sent away, and nothi ng part i cu l ar had occurred.)—The excesses and extortions of the Turks are beyond description: if complaints are brought to the Commander at Jassy, Salish Puha, he weeps, summonses the guilty, takes from them the fruits of their plunder, and keeps it for himself. In Moldavia there are not above 10,000 or 12,000 men, and these are in and about Jassy. The rest of the Ottoman force is behind the Danube, the for tresses upon which, Braila, S listria , Ruschtschuk s &c. are placed in a state of defence. The head-quarters of the Seraskier Copan ()glom I are at Silistria. It seems, therefore, the Turks do not Wend seriously to defend Moldavia 40 Wallachia, which would indeed cost them very dear, if there' should be any war, as the Russians have assembled " main force near Tonsateu, at the mouth of the The Turkish troops in Moldavia are only vaticed corps, which will leave the country as .14 # kelt as the first gun is fired, bat will by that time completely exhaust, and at last lay it waste. It is even believed that the Turks, if they should retreat) will set fire to Jassy, the bodies of which are chiefly of wood. The !lonian troops between the Pruth and the Dniester were obliged, some days ago, to send all the wives of the officers sad soldiers back Over the Dniester. Oa the other hand, troops from the interior of Russia daily arrive in Bessenavia.— As they cannot all pass through Cbotym, two bridges of pontoons were laid down near Mogilew, but the ice carried them away ; but, as the weather is still very mild, and the drift ice has disappeared, the two bridges have been restored. The Pruth itself is strongly ockupied by infantry. The day before yes terday another detachment of 2,000 powder wag gons passed through Chotym, besides a large supply of Congreve rockets. The Russian General-in-Chief, Count Wittgenstein, had his head-quarters at Tulezin, on the left bank of the Dniester, bo l t it is positively stated that they will be transferred in a few days to Hischenow. In general everything seems to indi cate that the commencement of 'hostilities is not far distant. • VIENNA, JANUARY t tat nessfurnishes us with the following addi tional particulararelating to the taking of Tripolizza : " The capitulation was concluded or ratified by the Bey,of Maine, his brothel - , Caracuculi, Colocotroni, Anagosti, Giatraco, and Nikita. The Turks so fully depended on is, that, in .the space of two days, seve ral thousands of them left the place unmolested, and posted themselves near the Greek camp. On a sud den, ht6vever, it was known that Demetrius Ypsi lanti and General Gordon had secretly left the city ; and from that moment the breach of the capitulation, and all kinds of horrors were foreseen. An • On the. folloying day, that part of the Greeks that blockaded the city. on the road to Argos, with out acquainting their comrades, undertook an as ' sault, nude themselves' masters of a gate and a tower, and placed their colours on it, The rest of the be sieging troops, inspired only j the. apprehension of losing their share of the plunder, now penetrated into the city on all sides, and witliout opposition; and there soon commenced, within and *without the wall; a series of scenes unparalleled perhaps in the annals of human wickedness and cruelty. Mr. Gordon had arrived in the Morea with a large sum of money. He soon perceived what he had to espect from his new allies; but he is not the man se easily to give up what he has once undertaken, and o long as he entertained a faint hope, if not of doing good yet of hindering crimes, lie held out. He ac cepted the place of Quarter-Master-General uuder Demetrius Ypsilanti, who had been named Com mander-in-Chief by the leaders above mentioned, though he was little versed in the art of war, and had declared, after the taking of Malvasia, that he would not serve any longer. The same Chiefs, meantime, found means to take from Mr, Gordon all the money he had brought with him. Their want of necessaries of every kind was great. The collections made for them in foreign parts they had indeed heard of, but had never received anything of them ; and the little treasury of the Pacha of Tripolizza, which has been long exhausted, has certainly not enriched them.— Besides Mr. Gordon, several French Officers who bad engaged under Demetrius Ypsilanti, have withdrawn since the murderous scenes at Tripolizza. the Ottorn tresses up &c. are pl The hz are at Sili !.1/ • awed se: which wo should be their 'noir Pruth. 1 au advaus J 1 FROM HUNGARY. J.11 4 11.7ARy 4. Accounts received from the Buckowina inform us " that in the Russian frontier towns the inhabit ants were forbiddest to give any information abroad of the marches of the troops. On the ether hand they write from Transylvania, that the Turks are really making all preparations to evacuate Moldavia."--- These accounts excite great sensation here, and some persons expect that we shall hear, within a week, that the Russians have passed the Pruth. Others doubt this. Some again believe the Russians will occupy Moldavia and Wallachia, in consequence of a Convention with the Porte ; yet Turkish reinforce ments arrived at Jassy on the 27th. The Havannah Packet, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday se'nnight, has brought letters from Haven nah to the 13th December, and from Vera Crux tol the 17th November. By these letters we learn that the Imperial Army of Mexico, which had taken pos session of Vera Crux in the month of September, had suffered so much from the yellow fever, and by de sertions caused by the dread of the fever, that only 100 invalids were left in the town. In consequence of this, Governor DAVILLA, who had retired to the Castle of San Juan, in the harbour, on the approach of the Imperialists, wrote to the Governor of Haven nah that be was about to leave the fortress, and take possession of the city of Vera Cruz. The opinion at Havannas was, that the Imperial Army would not again approach the coast, and the port would remain in possession of Old Spain. When. at the commencement of that system of murder and outrage which has since attained such an alarming height in Ireland; it was stated that the Yeomanry would be called out, we declared that this was the worst species of force which could be em ployed in quelling the disturbances. The Yeomanry of Ireland are peculiarly obnoxious to the peasantry ; is the north they are nearly all Orangemen, and in the south there is scarcely a Catholic admitted among them ; so that they are wholly, either by political o religious prejudices, not only totally alienated from the peasantry, but in hostile array against them. —Their coming into contact was always an neat meth to be dreaded ; and the fearful anticipations which were entertained have been too full/ realised. The fatal stair at Cork, of Ibhith we gave an ac count in the STAft of ytisterday; would scarcely have occurred if the party had been soldiers ; the pea- santry would have been lesi hostile, the yeomanry less vindictive. It appears that on an attempt made by the peasantry to rescue two men who bad been taken for keeping an illicit distillery, one or both of the prisoners was deliberately shot by the Yebritinry. —The act was as useless as it was cruel; and the pea santry, naturally exasperated, recommenced their law less attack. The Yeomang then fired upon them, and it is said that many were killed and wounded.— If such an act'of signal vengeance was intended to in timidate the peasantry, we fear it will be found quite abortive; and that, on the contrary, it will rather ran the flame it was intended to quench, and excite a more rancorous and more deadly revenge. Gibraltar Papers to the 4th instant have been re ceived. They contain nothing of importance. It is stated in one of them that a free intercourse is now re-established between the Provinces of Murcia and Grenada 014 the one hand, and that of Malaga and the Cities or towns of Barcelona, Tortosa, Asco, and Las Aquila:, on the other. A private letter from Paris, dated January 21, states, that a very serious disturbance bad broken out at Brest, and that shots had been exchanged between the garrison and the people, who endeavoured to gain posseskm of the Chateau, but failed. The following is an extract of a private letter to a respectable merchant in the City, dated Philadelphia, December 29:—" I have to inform you that a gene ral revision and correction of the duties imposed open foreign nierchandize seems to be hinted at ; many of the articles, which pay but 15 per cent. ad valorem, ought in justice as well as policy, to pay 25 per cent. which is the duty paid on the principal articles of woollen and cotton manufacture ; the same is applicable to some of the articles 20 per cent. ad valorem; and a correction of the existing duties, with a view to an increase of the public revenue, could not fail to effect that object to the extent of nearly 1,000,000 dollars annually. It is highly i ro. ,bable that an increase of duty on some of tho , e mo des might eventually cause a reduction of the Reve nue, but this can only take place where similar arti- clef are manufactured in the country ; in that event, domestic manufactures will have been fostered, and the general ability of the community to contribute to the public exigencies will proportionably increase:" EXTRACT Ol A LETTER IROI:IIIAVANNAD, DEC. 10. " On the 30th of November we had a terrible de luge. I was in bed in a room considerably elevated born the ground, and being awakened by the noise of the heavy rain, found the water had entirely co vered the floor. For two days I could not leave my house. It is feared much havock has been made in the sugar plantations; and it is said the canes are so much injuied, as to ruin the prospect of the next crop. As to the coffee, all that had not been gathered from the trees has been inundated, and s?read over the ground. The steam-boat Robert Fulton arrived heic the day the Alonzo sailed, and laid off for the pur pose of landing her passengers; but permission being infused, she was compelled to go in and enter." The daughter of Inept, BONAPARTE, mentioned some time since as staving embarked for America, has arrived at Philadelphia. Yesterday Lord and Lady GWEDER entertained a select party of fashionables, at their residence, Pic cadilly Terrace. /. Mrs. Cou vs, on Tuesday last, again enlivened the county jail o Staffordshire, by giving the prisoners, nearly 250 i 'number, a plentiful dinner of roast beef, plum-pudding, a half-quartern loaf, and a quart of ale to each. The Earl and Countess BATHURST entertain a dis tinguished party this day, at their house in Cleat Stanhope-street. Yesterday Count CARAMAN entertained a party of distinguished foreigners, at his residence in Portland place. In the evening his Excellency had a concert. By the Returns of the Expense of the Poor in Eng land and Wales, it appears, that, for law expenses only, in the year 1819, more money was paid than the whole expenditure for the KING, his Court, Mi nisters, Judges, Ambassadors, the Princes, and all the State Pensioners added together. The whole expenses of the Poor amount to a sum equal to the revenue of the Emperor of Russia, who maintains an army of a million of soldiers, and to more than twice the ex penses of the Government of the United States. Monday, a Wardmote was held at the church of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, Old Fish -street, before the Right Worshipful William VI.IIASLES, Alderman, for the election of a Common Councilmm for the Ward of Queenhithe, is the room of JO/IN CATTLZY. Esq. when Mr. TUOMAS HATIIWAY was duly elected, with only one dissentient voice. Fasnaatcx Tuosspsox, Esq. has resigned the situation of Deputy and Auditor of Accounts in the Chief Rementhr.incer's Office in Ireland. An Irish Paper mentions that Mr. COULBURS would leave Dublin for London in the course of this week, to attend his official duties. Tuesday Mr. PLUNK ETT was sworn in his Majesty's Attomey-General for Ireland.—Freetuan's Journal. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Mensal, from a tour. The Countess of Carhompton and family, from Kent. Sir R. Woodford, Bart. from a tour. At Needham's Hotel, Westminster-brldge--Robert Hurst, Esq. M.P. from Horsham Park, Sussex; and the Rey. Mr. Rose, from Uckfield, Sussex. DEPARTURES. Lord Henniker, for Wetlimit= Bak Suffolk. Lord Hawke, for Yoefluid's. The Earl and Countess Cowper, for Brighton. Sr William Holum, Ban. for Susses. Prom the Hyde Park Hotel, Oxford-street—Mrs. and Miss Taylor, for Bath; 8. Teaste, Nag. for Woodstock; Capt. PI& nd Life Guards, foe Windsor; Capt. &ory, Mb Human; (rapt. Harness, R.N. for Bucks; George Grant, 2sq. for kis seat, near St. Alban's; Clarks Cockerell, Req. for Mitcham; Loftus Pottenham, Fat for Ireland ; D. Laiouch, Rai. for• his sest near Harrow. Zir THE ARMY. Tt is net deemed necessary to call oat the 'Militia for Inking and exercise this year.—The Regiments are reported to be in a very ellicient state; but the greater part of the men, hssing Ineatly completed their period of live years, will, is t h e e‘ur4o d the current year, be entitled to their discharge. NAVAL lATELLIGENCE. Nunes of the passengers per the Bombay Merchant, c e p t a u Orisons, which sailed from Bombay the ad September MajorZneral Huskies= ; Captain Hoare, 67th R eg i ment Mr. kit ; Dr. Gall, Captain Maughan, Lieutenants Pixie.. Mime, and Arrow; and Mr. Bell and Mr. Mayo, C en , p ,„•., service • Rev. Mr. Fletcher, Missionary ; Mr. Wood, 6sth melt ; bar& Dee Champs and family; Master Hall, and Ili Haim—When the Bombay Merchant sailed it war r e p onti i the his Excellency the Governor-General objected to the 1e , p0 4 increase of lice Bombay army of two regiments of infAntry a n d one of cavalry. The Atlantic, IBmsww, from Kingston for St. Leda, a a , kat on the North side of Jamaica. FALADOUTM, Jae. 23.—Wind S.C.W.—Arrived the Amami, from Oporto; Lord Nelson, GUM; and r, Carers, front Cork. PLTMOUTU, JAIL W.—Wind SW.—Arrived the Unity. m TIN, from Oporto; Liberty, WILSON from St. Mbril,i . % f London, with loss of anchors and cables, sad leaky ; r • Bosom, from St. Michael's for London, with loss of ;tn.::: and cables; Lark. Bea Povrrx, from Lisbon; and Two theta, Forma, from Figueira. The Torn Cod fell in %via, l a lat. 45. SS. long. 17.7.7. a brig waterlottged and defer ei : not ascertain her name ; she appeared fresh painted, with sides, and the sails cut from the yardi. and a !Iv:re-In-:A yi.. c John and Robert. front Quebec, Is abandoned a: scat crew rived at Nantes, having been picked up by a vessel front tinique. PORTSMOL'In, JAN. 24,—WInd W.--Arrived the G. , :cor.?• FsanstAnna, from the Downs for Madras and fiengaL Dem., JAN. 24.—Wind S. W.—Saileti and put back hgain. •• Duehe sof Athnl Fad Indiaman. Also pnt back tare Elect , lloantoott. for Philadelphia. Arrirtni and sailed far the lib... the kleanwell, Puru.trs, from Jamaica, under jury-tr.at:; Fancy, [Taimyr, from Oporto. HARWICH, Jaw. 24. Arrived the lady Nepema and of Orange packets, with l.iils trim I lol!and. HAW/GATE, Jaw. V.4.—.1n anchor of abnut C cr:t. wi h a',. • SO fathoms nine inch cit.tin cible, ia.-longini; to ;ht: has been landed here. DA*TMOUIU, Jas. 23.—Artived the Caroline, CnZ7NS Trieste for London, with loss of anchors aad ralt!::1, in tso 9th instant passed the Gut of Gibraltar with upw.ssis sail. Spoke on the 20th instant, in lat. su. :nog. s. Flying Fish, Runs, hunt Yarmouth to Naples, with thc her mainmast gone. 11111%P)L, J 24.—The Speculadon, Direct, from F arrived last night, and was carried into Pill, in this !l:ver, when Ihe tide rose this morning, she did not ri.e, and was 5.1.1 with Water. The Elizabeth, from C4mpeachy, spoke n. Ist January, 15 miles hoot Pico, the brig Lagom, or and from Gottenburgh (quite new), for New York, dismasted, zrisl f.rr men washed overboard; supposed she would get into Eryzl nest day. CusrousTionsa, JAN. 24.—F.ntered Inwards:—The from Calais; Duke of Kent, from Guertisq; Grand S,ct from the South Seas; Speedwell, from St.ngate Creek; I':i .: of Waterloo, from Ostend ; Singleton, from Stanger Cr: . ; Traveller, from Liverpool; Elizabeth, from Cork ; and . ret. from Iletfast.—linterecl Outwards :—Tae St. Auto: . Ostend ; Maria, for New York ; Frederick, fur Jamaica ; I for Seville; and the Laurel, tor Dueros Ayres.—Cleare.l t wards :—The Ellen, for Jamaica ; Manly, for Demer.r..; Pierre, for Konen ; Otto, for Ghent ; Thertr.Lti4 for .1.. dam ; and the Unity., for Dublin. NEW COURTS OF LAW, WESTMINSTF.R-11A7.". This venerable fabric is now completely despoil:.' I all the trophies of the Coronation, which were bei, Lord GWYDVR, as Great Chamberlain of Er ;lc's!. Some i f the decorations fetched high prices, us rrc• morials of the evert in which rhey had been NVestminster is now open as formerly ; repairs are still carried on. The Law Court , not to be restored within the Hall, which, the exception of the stone staircases on excl... of the Hall.gate, will now be left enti:ely c:e 1.... The arrangements for the erection of the new Courts have already commenced. They will raised on spaces now unoccupied, or to be cleare.", a line with the stone buildings facing lima VII:; Chapel and St. Margaret's Church. The occuriers of Oliver's and the Exchequer Coffee-houses, of f...e large wine-cellars, and of some portions of the .tia- - .- ments in the stone buildings, have already been se- yet: by the Beard of Works with notices to quit as eativ as possible. The plans of the late 141r.'WysTr h. 'e been partially followed, but the whole are airati:_zel and revised by, and under the direction of fr.Sti A the architect, who is attached to the Board of Ma.,. Mr. SOARS 'S plans have frequently been under the consideration of the Lords of the Tieasury, as sisted by the advice of the several Judges, &c.— The design is, to erect four additional Courts—na ; el: , for the Lord Chancellor, the Vice- Chancellor, t. King's Bench Judges, and for the justification of The whole to be in line with the present Courts 't Common Pleas and Exchequer, without the we,te:n wall of the Hall, but having entrances leading 1:onl Westminster Hall, as well as from the open st:eA before the stone buildings. These alterations are to be begun after the conclusion of the present Term, and the Nisi Prius Sittings by which it will be followed ; :a the meantime, the requisite clearances will be made, such as getting out various occupants, &c. where tl.e preparations will not interfere with the proceedings. :a the existing Courts, and the comfort of the Judges— . exterior fronting St. Margaret's Church will finished so as to correspond and be uniform %%it:i the stone buildings already erected ; and the rani.. of buildings will terminate on the present site of Oii ver's Coffee-house. RIOTOUS ACTS OF TIIR WEAVERS IV —Tuesday morning (22d inst.) the Magistrates ut Bradford having received information that the we.tvers were coming there in the course of the day to the spring -looms, &c. the Gentlemen and all principal housekeepers were sworn in special c •A stables. Between three and four o'clock, accon:::: were brought that several hundreds were advancing, and within a mile of the town, and had begun to break some looms to pieces in the houses on the rotas • The Magistrates and constables immediately eic ceeded to the spot, when (the Riot Act being lea:1 they took into custody about thirty of the rioters . , and eventually dispersed the rest of the tnol+.— Eight, who were identified and sworn to as being the most active, were committed and sent off imme diately to Devizes Bridewell, to take their ttials at Salisbury Assizes; eight more were remanded for further examination the next morning ; and the rest were suffered to depart home, having entered into recognizatices to keep the peace for twelve month:, and to appear to answer the charge when called upon. In the evening, about 150 of the Wiltshire Ye miry. commanded by Jaws Bram, Esq. came unto the town to assist is the preitteation of the public peace ; and regular troops will be stationed in both the towns of Bradford and Trowbridge. K 1u ca Ur