Star. — London, England, 1817-01-06 00:00:00

TEE ARMr. Ist detachthent of the 38th Regiment, from iarracks, is arrived at Bristol, on its route Wales. ►y the Depot of the 25th Regiment, with le of their baggage, marched from Winches i,ou for Northampton Cavalry Barra:lts. 48th Regiment, under orders for New South are at Cork, at which port they will embark. achment of the 58th hare embarked at Cork Tsle of Wight. I nderstand that orders have been transmitted BAtrack Board, to the Barrack Masters ,ut the kingdom, to report the state of the under their charge, distinguishing those fit fur the reception.of troops. CARLISLE MEETING. Meeting at Carlisle on the Ist instant passed we mentioned on Siturday, without the least ince. The morning was very rainy, which _ lessened the number who attended. The place of meeting was a field called the Weary Holme, near the city, where a hustings was erected for the speakers. One of the Carlisle Papers speaks of the assemblage as consisting only of a few, and another says they were about 3000. The Carlisle Journal (the Editor of which, Mr. Joule, was one of the speak ers) gives the proceedings with suitable gravity. The Carlisle Patriot takes another •iew 41 the business, and represents the whole as being very farcical. One of the Speakers, he says, sometimes forgot where he was speaking and the occasion of his harangue, call ing his hearers "My Dear Fellow Sinners I" We copy the Speeches from the Callus Journal: Mr. JAMES WCADDAIII spoke to the following pur porti—" Fellow Countrymen ! lam pleased in ad drtsiing you on that highly important business—a Reform in Parliament, and particularly as it is the hinge upon which our happiness or misery is turned. The distresses of our country have arrived at that pitch, that they have encompassed every class of so. elm, as with the sword of the demon of destroe. tiou, and these call aloud for the interference of chose to is of in be whose right it is to be a constitutional check ou the ruling powers. Is it asked where this distress pre sails? I will answer him by another question. Where has its sweeping devastation no been experienced, even to the very dreg' of bitterness ? The manufac turers are now reduced to that necessity, that the greater part of their work-people are discharged ; and those few who are still retained have the bare means of keeping soul and body together. The merchants have lost their customers, and shopkeepers' ledgers are without entry t bills expected, and no money to discharge them. What trouble than this can be greater to an honest mind ?—( Apirlaur4—But what tongue can express the distress et the lower class? •--Here is misery to the extreme, where there are fa milies,perhaps four or five children,surrouneling a fire less grate, with nothing in their bellies and • bide on their backs; their mothers striving in vain to pacify them with promises which she cannot perform. Not withstanding these grievances, we are termed rebels and enemies to the public peace, by Patriot:, falsely so called; but these are the rebels and enemies to the public peace, who assert that our Prince will pause regard to' our petition, thus stigeafizing• him as I hard-hearted, barbarous, inhuman being, who has no feeling for those who keep him in his exalted station. But we will hot believe that he can refuse to listen to petitions of his loyal subjects. Let us therefore petition to have that cause which e has produced this ge-• mat distress removed , --tbe corruption of Parliament. Let as petition for lost rights. [The speaker, after strenously exhartistg the people to peaceable conduct, and cautioning them strongly against any acts ot violence or indiscreetness, which he observed could only tend to throw odium on theteause, concluded a pathetic address by Saying)—Let us then petition ; yes, let us petition as long as We see an honest man with a threadbare coat, and a rogue holding a pea aloo!"--( Lea arilyilesue.) Mr. Gamow spoke as follows s-" Countrymen— The momentous crisis of our country has brought us here today ; the calamitous situation in which she is involved loudly calls upon us to use every coustitu• timid exertion to rescue her from that ruin which teems almost inevitable. Such is her distress, that the time is come when England expects every man to de his duty.' The system which hash produced this distress is but too well known ; 'ds the dreadful consequence of a long and unjust system of warfare with all its concomitants. And what is oor reward after this dreadful 23 Years tragedy ? Wbat are the "a t% of our fortitude and perseverance ? For what have our fathers,and brethren bled in the field ? To establish despotism abroad and distress at home I Need I shock your 'feelings with the horrors of the inquisition restored at the point of the British bayo net ! Da I need refer you to the fatal list ot bank tuFries, where you find your fathers and brethren, who moved in the comfortable circles of life, now '1 groaning under wretchedness and woe ? Do I need paint you to Agriculture, which was once one - of our glories, but now, by the iron hand of taxation, unable to reward our industry ? Shalt I refer you to Manti facture, which made Enclind the envy of the world i ? - -Behold, now, her artisans banished and wander. ing to and fro as vagrants ! Stating to an honest Quaker, the other day, my surprise that Major Cart "ght. that venerable old' man, should have spent a life as the cause of Reform, and have obtained so few friends until now : ' Aye, replied he, but 1 tell tha'tis bela'ts speaking now.'—(Sniks mead tows). — '6e mechanic,' starving and unable to'bear up his 4 1:1 any longer, sinks beneath his load. Here let th:. eye of pity look and see what corruption hash eirie ! The husband, by fatigue and . huoger, bowed to ti i e eart h ; hi s c l amorous c hild ren craving for . r id and none to give them ; the wife of his bosom and almost speechless, drops a tear of silence tllion her infant ! In such a moment the tax gatherer e l'u'rs, whose imperious demands exact the last penny! 1, this not a reality ?—(Crier of rt, yec).—ls this pic tu:c too highly coloured ?—( Cries of No, a,). —The' si .4 ere in whi c h I h ave mo ved for a number of' `ears, has given me access to every class of so-+ (.4 Y; and every where have I witnessed distress pre trcept with those that are fed upon the taxes. — corrupt Paper. called the Parieg, stated, that our '''"clues were all written, it not printed, and well got off by rote; that child of iniquity spOlte a truth, for every pallid -countenance behold is a letter, every cottage I visit is a syllable, every Gazette I read is a sentence of that story of woe which has brought us here to.day..-(Cries' of Year, Israel — The resolution which I have seconded declares, that such is the distress and misery which surround us, that we can no longer, if we would, be insensible to the causes which produce them. We have been told by the sons of corruption that our distress hath arisen in consequence of a sudden transition from war to peace. 'Do you believe it ?—(Crier of No, no ! frost every quarter.) You have been gravely told from the pulpit that it is a national judgment for national sins ; With a friend at Glasgow, I sincerely believe this to be a truth. I believe that we are suffering for the sins of apathy, negligence, and unconcern, which we have manifested for our best interests, by suffering our rights to be wrested from us by the iron hand of base c , Truption—rights for which our fathers bled— rights in which the patriot glories, the loss of which has caused all our woe !—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.) Let us them no longer be responsible to our country and our children, but use every constitutional measure to regain our rights. Countrymen I a time there was, " ere England's griefs began," when the Commons' House was the express image of the people ; but now we are bought and sold like bullocks at Smithfield. So notorious indeed is this traffic, that Mr. Abbot declared that it made the hairs bear the hat above his head. Here, then, is the source from whence the streams of corruption scraeg, that have deluged this once-happy country. This is the nest which hatched the pensioned host who, after destroying our re sources, now prey upon our vitals. We trusted our bark to the hands of those to pilot her to harbour, but they proved pirates. Can we then rely on the wisdom or faith of Parliament as it is? No We asked bread, and they gave us a stone, by voting so many thousands for a monument to commemorate that fatal day, Waterloo I We asked redress' and they gave us a scorpion, a standing army in the time of peace (Hear). We asked economy, they exacted ex travagance ! ( Hear, heir.) Let us then confine our object to a radical Reform; and when this is ob tained, we will trust our suffering cause, with confi dence, to " the wisdom of a reformed Parliament." Countrymen ! it gives me unexpected pleasure, that notwithstanding the exertions of corruption to thwart our object, to find so many hundreds of patriots, driven from their city rights, assembled here with one voice. Will you allow these evils to be entailed upon your children? (Reiterated crier of No, no, Never.) Will you ever cease to petition until the grand object of Parliamentary Reform be accomplished ?—(The M e eting with one voice exclaimed, Ws never will.) —Let, as then breathe our wishes to the throne, and com plain like men, like loyal subjects to our King, and lovers of our country ! And let history transmit to future ages, and our children tell when we ate no more, that ancient Carlisle, pensioned Carlisle, turned ever a political leaf on the first day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen." Mr. JERUIJAH JO/LIZ addressed the Meeting as follows : Fellow Friends and well-wishers to the interest of the cause which has now assembled us together—ln this season of distress it is matter of congratulation, that the labouring classes have ab stained from tumultuous proceedings, but have wisely preferred.the mode of petitioning for a redress of gritvantes s the former line of conduct would only hive retarded the great object we have in view, by giving an 'opportunity to evil rulers of establishing, by the force of cannon and of bayonets, a despotic power. A peaceable disposition I hail as a favourable symptom in the National Disease : and I am more convinced when, connected with this, the people, uninstigated by aught but their own want, which led them to en quire into the causeuninfluenced by that bane of society, party feeling—have returned to the charge with fresh edge. Let them but persevere; finally they man succeed—they will beat him by detail's, and force him to retire from the citadel of the constitutions It is contended, however, by the panders of corrup• tion, that 'wither is the Parliament corrupt, nor, if it were, would a popular Reform amend the condi tion of the country.—This is false : the jHouse itself avows that corruption has established her pestiferous abode in that House; and it is self-evident, needing no demonstration, that if the Members of the.Com mons' House were indeed the Stewards of the peo ple—men chosen by the people for the people—l say it is morally impossible that such men could have in. so many instances gone in direct opposition to their declared will. But insult must be added to injury. The people, after having been flayed by the lash of I taxation, from the crown of the head to the very soles of their feet, in great measure to bloat out with their drops of blood the pampered flesh of luxury, while 6 chill penury has worn' you to the bone; are vilified by those who ought to look up to you as to their mode of action—yes, vilified as turbulent, de . - laded, discontented in ; and your petitions, whea l seat up tot a redress of grievances and a restoration of your rights, treated with derision and c ontempt.—., ' On truth, fellow-men, on this unalterable basis is the foundation of Parliamentary Reform; and it only requires the people to be true to themselves and to the cause, and success is certain." ,The Meeting then dissolved, and tables were hid. frir affixing signatures . to a Petition to the Prince Regent. RRPORTRD APPRRHINSION Or THR YOUNGER WAT. SON. —A d v ices from Bourdeaux state, that the younger Watson, the supposed assassin of Mr. Platt, has beeii apprehended at Pavillac, a town on the river Gironde, abour 20 miles below Bourdeaux, to which city he was carried, and securely lodged in the Fort du Ha. The letter simply mensions the circumstance as a fact, ' but enters into no particulars or details tending to prove that the apprehended person is really Watson. He was without a passport, and, it is supposed, an swered the description g►ven of Watson in the English newspapers. The vessel from which he was taken was the Albion. The information. received has been laid before the LORD Mavon, who has made the ne cessary commun►cations on the subject to Govern ment. Another communication from the same guar ter' states, that the person apprehended at Pavillac has turned out not to be young Watson, but some man who had incurred suspicion from his want of proper passports. It is known, that any person travelling ,in France without passports is deta►ned till he gives satisfactory explanations. This latter communication is ARA as to the amps of the apprehended individual. The 1-i•lsea B. to South Mond.t the whole ter Gam Toe 4b Wkles, ai A de for the Is We un by the throughto barracks that are The M over, as distill ball of course 111 ELAND. (From !be DOM% Evening Poe , 4 the 2(1 of Jeroary) RZIXICIION OF INICKPST ON THE FUNDS. " Reports are widely circulated, on creditable au thority, that the above-mentioned mea.'ure is now in the earnest contemplation ot Government, and that last week an interview to o k place at the Castle between Mr. Past., an the part of Government, and Mr. SNICYD, Deputy-Governor of the B ink of Ireland, accompanied by Messrs. Ca STHWAITIC and D'OLl van, Directors. " In the year 1782, when the Bill for the estab., lishment of the Bank of frelan,l received the sanction of the Irish Parliament, it was enacted, that the capi-1 tal of the Bank being 46K000, should consist of l l four per cent. debentures, convertibly into an an• flinty of 424,000 per annum. However, when the Government was in want of money, in the year 1797, Sir JOHN PARNELL, then Chancellor of the Irish Ex chequer, was obliged to come to terms with the B ink less advantar.,eons to the country, which were not only to extend the duration of the Bank charter, but to allow an increase of capital of 4500,000, which, with the former stock, amounted to 81,100,000, the whole to hear an interest of 5 per cent. exclusive of which, Government to be subject to an annuity of 418,125. being It per cent. on the new advance of £500,000, for a certain number of years, (which is now nearly expired) thereby increasing the annuity payable by the Government, from 4 7 24,000 per ann. to 473,125, which remained in that state until• 1803, when a further increase of the Bank capital took place, of which the sum of 41,250,000 was also vested in Government at 5 per cent. being a further increase of capital, as funded in Government Security, to 42,350.000, for which the Bank receives the annual sum of £135,635. Of this latter sum, 418,125, being the bonus of the advance of 1797, shortly falls in, and Government think it bat reasonable that the Bank should, in future, be satisfied with 4 per cent. on the capital, being a deduction of 1 per cent. Of course, when the 418,125 is deducted, the Bank will then receive 891,000 per annum, and the country be benefited 441,625 a year in future. " Such has been the subject of the conference as above, as we have been given to understand ; whether correct to the extent stated, we will not preaunse to say, bat if such be the case, we shall be happy to find so much taken from the public burden." A letter from Dublin, dated January 2d, says— " It is the opinion, not only of Mr. HAWTH .RN s the Chief Commissioner, but of Mr. PaIL, the Chief Secretary, that, at all hazards to the Revenue, the Distilleries should be stopped." The financial accounts of the Irish Treasury are armed, preparatory to the consolidation of the two Exchequers. The salaries of a great number of the officers of that department ceased from Tuesday, and tie statute for the consolidation makes no provisam 'for the great bcdy now discarded. Mr. VESEY z omahLD declines to accept the office of Vice-Tsea surer for Ireland, aid also retires without compen sat law. _ _ Two hundred and seventy families in the parishes of St. Mary and St. Giles, Colchester, were liberally supplied with twelve hundred weigl.t of meat, by the beaevolence of Mr. A. F. MILLER, of Christmas-eve ; and a comfortable and plentiful dinner was provided by Mr. HORATIO PRAKIIIN 00 Cbristatas•day, for the poor of the parish of All Saints. Saturday the Glee Club held their third meeting for the season, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. A young Lady of family, and who has derived every advantage from a most finished education, is about to make her appearance at Covent•garJen Theatre t her first part is to be Celia, in BEAUMONT and FLs•ftura's Play of The Ihenuntrour Lieuteaani ; ellexagider's Suceeteare. Goon Wisuts.- 11 It is customar► at this period of the year," says a pleasant writer in the Journal des nektt, "to offer one's wishes, and mine I offer freely to all the world. I wish independence to all my friends, and places to all my sosistes. • wish Oa gout to the intriguing, the jaundice to the envi ous, sod the leprosy to calumniauns. • 44 I wish character to all our Deputies, good faith to all oar Maori, and toleration to all parties. • I wish to all warrior the retreat of Cintionatus, to all r ses the devotion of Alcestis, and to all raothers the del;ght of " I wish to certain husbands the path:wee of Sotrates, to beau dful damsels the shower of Dance, and to the SupeAtmendains of our Theatre., the continence of Scipio. " WWI Courtesans to display less of the Comedian, and Como dints to display less of the Courtesan. • I wish to stranger the sublime pleasure of seeing their own country again. ' K t wish to Ministers tong& of what is to come, and w all 1r renchinee oblivion oft'', past. " l wish to all meo in power a peaceful rest. " I wish philosdphy to all philosophers, devotion to aR devo tees, end judgment to all judges. • * I with a year 'of repose to physicians, a month of power to the ambitious, and a day of imprisonment to the enemies of liberty. 44 I with prosperity to E•rope, repose co France, tleasure to my Readers, and constancy to our frientio." Letters received yesterday from Charleston, of the 30th November, quote the price of superfine flour at fifteen dollars per barrel, rice six dollars per cwt. cotton (Upland) twenty-five cents. per pound. Few shipments would be made to Europe in consequence of the above high prices. The County of Fife has petitioned against distilla ' tion from corn. CORN EZCHANOR, JANUARY 6.—Although we had but a small supply of Wheat this morning from E. sex, and a• arrivals from any other part of our own coast, yet in consequence of the large supply of FO reign Wheat, and the mills being in general preven ted working on account of the floods, we had very little demand to-day, and prices are fu11 , 41. per quar ter cheaper tlian on this day week. Fine Barley being icarce, and much wanted, is 4s. per quarter dearer. Beans and Oats are 2s. per quarter lower, and very dull sale at that decline. In Peas and other articles there is no alteration. CURIMIT PRICIS All IINVZI: 2110116111. Tkk Ditto, 664. 725. Wheat, Kent and Bases, 014, I Oats, Potatoe,36l. 521. 109*. 1101. 114 s. Ditto, Poland, 20s. 434.001 Suffolk, 100 s. 112 s. Ditto, Feed, 15,. 421. Norfolk, 90s. 106 a. Rapeseed, .852 ,C 55 per last Rye, 654.705. Floor, 1006.1055. per *ack. Barley, 30s 74s lORZIGN• Malt, 90, 9.55. White Yeas, 70s. 711 s. boners, W ra b tt eat, o, ali Dai tic ite ß ie ed , , 1i 1 0 06 4. 1. 130 11 t . bps, Sta. I Hambnior Firemen. 106 s. 111, Grey Peas, 58s. 6Sa. Br a bant Red, 106 s. 1184 Goan Seas, 79*. 765. Rye, 00*. 004.. POLICE. MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOHNSON. THAttES POLICE OFFIC6.---Saturday Raiaa and Hatton were again brought op for examination. B fore they appeared at the bar, Mr. 11.1NNA!:1) ordered into the Office the King's evid.mci!, Gidlons, and addressed him in the following cianticr:--.. Giddons, when you brought forward this tremendous accusa tion against Hatton and Raines at Cle!kenwell, admonished you upon the importance of the erctim stance. 1 again call upon you to consider the etern..l responsihility which you take upon yourself, and en treat you, not to add to the other crimes of which you have been guilty, that of attempting to destroy inno cent men. At the same time, I call upon you, if the:e is troth in what you have deciared, not to suffix tear to influence you to the concealment of any tact connected with so atroci , us a case. It your evidence is false, it is not too late to retract. Do you or do you not persevere in saying that these two meu, Raices and Hatton, were the murderers of Lieute nant Johnson ?" Giddons— , . I do certainly." Mr. KlNNtnb--.You, on your oath, charge those two m:n with the robbery and murder of Lieutenant Johns•ln ?" Giticlons" I declare it before G^•n." Mr. KlNNann—. , How many were concerned " Giddons-- ,, Four men and one woman ; we met the woman at the Bricklayers' Arms." Raines and Hatton wile then conducted into the Office, and Mr. Kinnard continued tiie examination. Mr. KINNAtcn Have you any reason to suppose, Giddons, that the woman WAS acquainted with the premeditated plan ?" Giddons-6 , I do not think she was ; she was pick ed up by the man whose name we did not know, at the Bricklayers' Arms, at about eleven o'clock ; she accompanied us to the Swan, in the Kent road, where we had a glass of rum, and was with us when the thing was proposed and adopted. I have never been at the Swan since that night. I remember we met a person or two after we lett the Swan, near Peckham lane, but we did not speak to them." Mr. KINNARD— i I shall now ask you a question of the greatest importance. Was the night on which 'the murder took place dark or motmloqiit?" Giddons —" The time is so distant, and the cir cumstances are so dr.:ailful, I cannot charge my me mory with that 1.1c,.11 Mr. SININIONS, 1 1Z chief Clerk, here observed. that that fact had b !en ascertained at the period of the inquest. Gittdoits then described the agreement between him and his ass)ciates. to rob the person whom they heard coming behind them; repeated the laoguage of Raines. and said, tnere Witi no hesitation on the part of any of them to commit the robbery. I , The place," said he, .‘ where we stopped Lieutenant Johnson, was at the left-hand sid of the road, near whith was a ditch. at the ter side of the ditch we. 9 a hedge. and inside was a field. I remember i; I. dirknot ace a gate to the field, 1)::t there might nave been one; and I believe there is stot:e new t: c spot where the murder was committed. 11 . ::eu I *as in the ditch, into which I had been knocked ny Lieu tenant Johnson, 1 heard the rest running, I r:Unit to , wards Deptford. In about a quarter of An hour they returned; I mean Raines and Hatton, and the other man whose name I did not know. The woman was not With them; and I never saw het since." The prisoner Hatton—.. 1 don't think you ever saw her." Gichions continued- 14 I was lying in the ditch when they came to me, and could not rise, from die blows I had received. Finding that I was helpless, they pulled me over the hank into the field, when they left me. It was past twelve o'clock, I think, and I must have staid in the field about two hours. When they left 'me, which was soon after they pulled me into the field, I heard no person pass along the read; my wrist was eery bad, but when I was at all able to move, I made an effort, and got over the hedge down the bank into the road. I then went straight lionie, but did not see the body of Lieutenant Johnson in my way. My wife let me in, she had no light, sod I washed my eye with water, and my wrist with vinegar, and dent to bed. The only reply I gave to her question Where 1 had been?' was. ' that I bad been drinking.' When I arose I told her I had been in a row, and had hurt my wrist ; my wife ptocored some stuff for my wrist from a drug. gist, after which I went to the Lower Water gate, and sat on a bench. The day before the mur der I was not at any work, but I cannot "say how long I had been unemployed. I worked about the time of which I speak occasionally in company with Hat ton, but I cannot say where Raines worked. I made a mistake in s aying that I saw the two prisoners the night after the murder, it was two nights, or pc! !labs three, afterwards. They carne to me, as I said he fore, accompanied by the thitd man, anu gave me the AZ. saying they were going :,. Nortiille;.t to 1. c k for work. I repeatedly asked Hatton what r: , .:ncy had been taken from Lieutenant Joliiison? but ihi.. only answer I received was, that ' I had get my share.'" Giddons then described the public-house cn L ciden.. hall-street, 'attire they had been dritir.in6, adding, " It is not now in existence." . . 1 - 111•NAIW.-" Had you any knives amongst you r' G:ddons...." I had no Inife, and I cannot say Whe ther any of the rest had any." Mr. KINNARD-•-" Had you nothing to eat from the time that you went to Leadenhall-street i" Giddons—" Mr. Kts:sAno—g , Have you heard of a little silver instrument amongst those concerned in the murder ?'' Giddons-- 4, 1 did hear of such a thing, but 1 know nothing of it." Mr. KiNNAttn--'s Do you know vehtther any one of yc ur associates wits wounded in the conflict ?" GiJdcns-- 44 Not one of those construed in de murder was wounded but myself." Mr. Simmons—" How did you learn any thing respecting the silver tube Giddons—" In a general conversation amongst thirty or forty people i heard it spoken of; but I never heard either of the prisoners say any thing about it." In answer to several other questions from Mr. KIN YARD, GidJuns said, that, to the best of his recol. lection, the day of the murder was either Thursday or F r iday. He was dressed in a blue jacket ad 4