Star. — London, England, 1817-08-19 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. - LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1817. PRICE OF STOCK.% THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s Reduced 80—Cuusols 72i 60—Coosols for Aug. 801 1 per Cent. 971 28-5 per Navy, 103.1 India Bonds 121 123 pr.—Exchequer Mk, 31s. 34.. pr. The Paris Papers of Friday arrived this morning, btu are quite barren of intelligence.—Funds. 14th August, 68 fr. 45 a. In spite of all the asseifions to the contrary, use ap. prebend that there is but too much truth in the ru mours that have fat some time been gaining ground, that though, to appearance, all ikpeace, and nothing .but the utmost good nature and perfect understanding prevails among the different rulers of thermion civi- Ezed part of the earth, yet in reality much jealousy exists at the present moment, and there are reasons to fear that the present harmony will ere king be dis turbed by the sinister views of some of the parties. It is already well known that the Court of Madrid applied to the British Cabinet some time ago, re questing that this country might lend her aid to sub due the South American provinces; and Wit our Ministers refused to interfere. We believe, however, that it is equally tine that some other Powers who were applied to at the same time did not kive a ne gativc ; but, on die contrary, that Russia in particubr has been induced to promise aid to FERDINAND in his war against the South Americans s and we hold it In be impossible that a Russian form can take a part in the wartare of the Western Hemisphere without this country interfering on one aide or other. If we are oompelled to take ap irt, will k be for the purpose of at the smug time defending the rights of mankind and opening up and securing new markets for our commerce ; or to assist in extending and building up a Power which may eventually be exerted against our interests ? We hold it impossible that the foreign power and influence of Russia can be extended, but at the risque of endangering the interests and just rights of others. Or rather that every increase of foreign power ac quired by Russia, must be accompanied with au equal abridgment and reduction of that of some other : .. . and in this view it is very possible that our Ministers may eventually feel themselves called upon to say to A LEXANDICH....." You have no more right to take an fictive part for FIRDINAND in the present dispute, than others to take a part against him. We are wil ling that po one should support his subjects against ; but we are also determined that no Power absll assist him in his struggle with {hem. If he cannot longer maintain his psteraal dominion over them, it Is the course of Nature that the children should form establishments for themselves." The Russian interferente has, it would appear, already begun to be put in action. By the Sand wich packet, from Brasil, we have received accounts from Rio Janeiro, stating, that a serious misunder standing had taken place between the Count de BALK, the Russian Minister, and the Portuguese Cabinet, in consequence of which the former bad demanded his passports for himself and all his suite, and had ac tually taken his passage in the packet on the eve of sailing. On recurring to the Post Office list of yes terday, we find they have all ',rived at Falmouth, though they are named as mere patsengers. The cause of this misunderstanding is not precisely known, though it was surmised to have originated in affairs telatieg to Spain, it being whispered air ut that the Russian Envoy had made orrone• strong remonstrances on behalf of FUNNAND VII. possibly in conseqieirea of the Portuguese aggression on the Montevideo's ter ritory. This was in some•Theatnre expected, fs by the last packet from the same quitter, We learn that a Russian Messenger bad arrived, who was sent off ie Petersburg') post.baste. ' 'fly the same packet we learn, that advice' had bees received at Rio Janeiro from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo. to the rth of May. By these it ap peers. they a Royalist Chef, Colonel SANCUIL still held out in Talcaguana, situated on the river Biobio, is the Province ut Conception, in Chili, with WO men. •He also had "with him the corvettes Vroganza and Sebastiana, and the brig Potrillo, all badly manned. General O'Hurciris had marched against him sail 2100 mcs, and left Messrs. I - IJLAnto and Quitevatew .t the bead of the I)irectorship: General SAN MAIMIN, on his way from Buenos Ayres, crossed the Andro Mountains en the 4th of May. and would be at Santiar c de 'Chili on the 8:b or 9th, as the passes were good. The Royalist army acting in Upper Peru, Lad made an uuespected movement or. Salta, which place they took. Soon afterwards the Patriots Verne up, and the Royalist General Soma retreated by Tarifa, where 1-. e was attacked and lost WU men, and a large part of his baggage. The Portuguese were ht possession of Coldnia, which operated trnfavour• ably against trade.. In Montevideo they were corn *tidy hemmed in, and so gloat was the Scarcity of previsions that a, theta bolideleiniffelliag for 56 dollars. Lord Asistrerr,arrived in tom yesterday morning, altd had immediate atidierfees BP' :briers :be paid rrticolfir visits to the Indfit Board and East India House. - Lord COMANX, whose departure for the Conti_ seat was lately announced, has arrived at Paris. idarguis CHOIAIoNDUT had a private audience of die Xing of Famica On . Friday last. Yesterday Lord and Lady tL1.EN17101.441 and faded/left tow* for Paris. POOR LAWS. The Report of the Committee of the )donee. of Lords no the Poor Laws has been submitted to our Readers. Wei)oped to have been 'able also to have laid the Report of the committee of the i konsinons on the same subject before them, but from its great length, amounting, with the evidence, to 170 folio pages, we despair of being able to accomplish it.— This, however, is the less neceesary, as the Com mittee, from the lateness of the period to which their labours were continued, avoided proposing any Le gislative enactments for the present. Indeed they confess, that the information on this intricate subject. is yet incomplete, the returns for 1815 not having been even looked at. Viewed as offering any re medy, the Report—we mean• no disrespect—is alto gether a bundle of confusion. In fact the Committee (and it is no wonder) seem to have been quite be wildered by the variety of misery, of assessment, of in. equality, and of rate of increase throughout the king dom. They speak its terms of high praise of the manage tent of the poor in Scotland, where the parishes have , very generally avoided having recourse to compul sory assessment. The funds for the poor are there, except in comparatively fees places, derived from charity, and are dispensed with that sound dis crimination, which is the ordinary transactions of life belongs to real benevolence ; and the Committee of the General Assembly state, that it is clear to them, that in almost all the country parishes where a regular assessment has been established, the wants of the poor. and the extent of the assessment, have gradually and progressively increased. The idea of equalizing the rate has been looked at by the Committee, but only in a cutlery manner. On the first view it was obvious that to make it Na tional, like the public taxes, would aggravate the evil intended to be remedied, “as it would be impos sible to devise adequate means to check the demands upon it." Indeed it would be no difficult matter to prove, that it would be an encouragement to parishes, as such, to increase, instead of lessening their expenditure for the parish poor: It would lead to a struggle for the largest share of the cowman plunder, because the more that should be obtained -from such a fund by any parish. the better it would be circumstanced compared with others; and this feeling being common to all, the whole property of the Nation would soon be absorbed by parish job-I hers. But though the rate cannot, in this way, be equalized, it does not follow that no approximation to equality of contribution should be attempted.— What are Parish rates but a sfstem of equalization applied to distinct portions of the community ? Is it inspouible or difficult to unite certain of these 'por tions, so as that the burthen may be sepal!, diffused oter wider districts t It would be impossible to appit this to a nation as one district ; because be the opera. , tion of different local authorities it would, as we have stated, kfecome a system of mutual plunder; but the parishes of a City or of a County might be united. and with great benefit to the nation. Let us take foe example London. Can any thing be more absurd or more unjust than that those who live on one side of any particular gutter should be compelled to pay a ten shilling rate, while those oo the other side of the same gutter ray a rate of only one *Ming and six pense in the pound I Will any one pretend to say that the parishes in and about London should not be united to Bach other pun? the Poor-rates, merely be cause it would be found impracticable to unite those of Penitence and Newcastle. Is it just that a few parishes, in which alone the labourers in the metro polis can find dwellings, owing to the high rent in other rich parishes, should be compelled to maintain' the largest portion of the poor—and these too. people whose labour, when employed, is for other parishes, as they only sleep and receive parish' relief in their own ? If you do not remedy as evil like 'ibis, and so much within your power, the inference will be that. you are not in earnest. Let not the general evil be perpetuated merely because you cannot at once devise a general remedy.--Gearealr are made ep of iterrice lam Apply local and district remedies in the mean time, without, however, losing sight of the extent of the malady. But why not attempt something for the reforma tion of the lower orders ! If there are otjjections to Mr. OWEN'S Plant why not endeavour to obviate, them, and make it less objectionable ? In some im portant points, we thick it has been misunderstood— perhaps wlUully misreprerented. For example _.his proposal to separate the children from their t arents-a -" Cruel f Monstrous l Unfeeling IP—Not quite so. Change the terms, and the wisdom of the measure' will be obvious. Separate the dee and :turd baler of cloth from those which have got ewe, eeeird, and ar e . hadenia: to the dinsphill. You mast either do this, or submit to have the whole reduced to the same fer menting state of putridity. But let not this be your ionlY labour ; open the wet bales, spread oui the goods !end dry them : some of them buy thus be preserved from destruction, and again joined to the remaining lased stock. Is there any thing It:intelligible in this? Is there any thing absurd in applying it. to the state of morals ? It is undeniable that many of the lairer orders are now in a state of the most gross ignorance, the will ing disciples of theft, - robbery, and every vice ruinous to society. Would it be an am of cruelty to separate Out innocent offspring from sncha source of costa. ruination, and to train them sr t tu incrtastrions mord habits t No; and we go farther—those whc say so must deliberately belie the climates of Their own understanding or else must themselves be of such demoralized habits cad modes of thinking, as to ren der them very unfit to be trusted with the education of their own offspring—if it be a matter of impor tance to the community to have the rising generation properly trained and instructed. But it is verylosaible that this part of Mr. OWEN'S plan may tiara been quite misunderstood by many. It does not appear to vs to be at all intended to cut off all communication littween the parents and chi!- ' dren ; but only that degree of communication which ' might defeat moral improvement.—lt is not a-sepa ration between parent and child that is intended, but between vice and innocence; for even the manage ment of the children will be tinder those inmates who from their moral habits may be worthy of so great a trust ; and of course those parents who are not dis qualified by vice and ignorance, would be made in struments for the general reformation i , f the aclults• and for preserving the.infants from contagion. Is then a system proposing such b. nefits to be scouted without examination, and discarded without even an attempt to try its effects ! Had Mr. OwEN said such and such is my plan—no other but mine will answer—l will support no other ;—I will hear of no alteration—no modification or change—no ad. ditioo ; I will be Dictator I an excuse might be iiitind for the virulence of some who oppose the plan is tate. But his conduct has been very different. .4 Let us see any practicable plan (bas been his lan guage), I care not from what quarter, or of what party or sect its author may be; which may be cal culated to re.onnralize the poor, train them to habits , of industry and correct motives of action, and I will give it every support in my power." He may, it is true, have miscalculated some of Lis means and their expected effects ; but he has called for the aid of others—and shall it be said that none but Mr. Owing can be found willing to turn their attention to the subject, and to lend their powers to the perfecting of a elan which aims at so much good to mankind ? No, we do not think that this will be the case. We have seen a poor man, the son of a common soldier, devise, and, by perseverance, bring to perfection, and introduce into general adoption, a plan for giving education to those who can be in' duced to accept the profered blessing ; and we may hope that Mr. OWEN% plan (however it may be mo. dified) for insuring the education of the poor, in spite of their own reluriaitty, will yet receive the support of the real friends of humanity. • Mr. Pang Etc was on. Tuesday last elected Member for the County of Wicklow. in the room of the late much regretted Mr. PONSONRY. The Friends of Reform, in Dublin, held a Meeting on Thursday, in D'Aacsx's Tavern. It was rather tfiin, and consisted of seven members only. The object was to ascertain Sir FRANCIS Buanarr's intentions in regard to the proffered Dinner to be given to him by this Association. We understand that Sir Fat►ama did not give any direct answer to the invitation, bat he authorised a Gentleman to express his sentiments, which amounted to a refual of the intended honour. We bays also learned that a list is making up of dose who are considered respectable persons for a Dinner Party, to which Sir FRANCIS Will be invited.—DuMs Journal Friday, Mr. MIMI. the publisher of some disgust ing Parodies, was arrested, by the authority of three Judges' warrants, and conveyed to the Ring's Bench Prison. It is understood he will be tried on the charge of blasphemy, some time in November next. Thomas Baton, one of the alleged ring-leaders in plotting the Derbyshire insurrection, and his son Joie, against both of whom an indictment for high ,treason was found at 'the last Ass'zes,, were, after a long and diligent search by the Derby Police 01E . cers. taken at St. lye's, in Huntingdonshire; under a Judge's warrant on Friday last, and, on the fol lowing day, lodged in the county gaol at Derby. It is well worthy of remark, that no former Lottery was ever known to contain so few Numbers as the present (2,9 W) ; and when it is consideted that there are Two Pt izes of W 20.000, and that an opportunity of gaining g 1•0,009 is offered to Adventurers, by purchasing Two Tickets of the same Number, the rapid Sale which they. have already experienced is not at all astonishing. It must prove a subject of great exultation to Mr. SIVICWRIGHT, that the present moderate Prices of Lottery Tickets and Shares owe their origin to the rumple set in his Contract, and there needs no better proof of the estimation in which his plans were held by the Public, than the simple fact, that they pur. cbased wady Twit, iu may Tickets as were sold io the late Contracts. The Small Lottery to be Drawn lOth Starr saart contains only 2 9JO Numbers, with Two Prix. aof Avo.ooo Sterlins I From Mr. Sive watsarr's popalarity, it VOSS 411114 at superfluous to invite the. Public to his Offices. Sunday afternoon the firm funeral passed along Wa terloo-bridge : it was a walking one, from the Surrey side of the Thames. The carriage gates were thrown open in order to let the procession pass, and the no velty of the circumstance drew an unusual crowd of persons to the spot. - No toll, of course, was paid. Miss O'Nuu. has been dangerously ill at Boulogne, where she later arrived for the benefit of bar health, but is now better. EIieLISU PRONZIADZYCIIieI day evening the novelty allied the Slwalskry was ar ranged in a new form ; it has assorted a most plea sing Character. A.spacUus walk, bounded by fresh trees, and posseuing the agreeable quality of b e i n g perfectly cool, terminates in a beautiful Chinese building, from which are suspended variegated lan terns. The freqataters of this promenade appeared highly delighted with the change.—The Atterpiece of the Padlock, which was revived on Saturday, was repeated last night with great success, after the new land deservedly popular Opera of the Perlidll Ilswerr. Mr. Auteuil is entitled to much praise for theustice which he does tt the talents of native coMposits. • NII4L LVTELLICZNOB. ExtraZt of a letter from the Agent to Lunn'f. Buenos Ayres, dated May 15: " Sailed the private vessel Of war Liberty, alias St* r:s la Chasabuco, on a cruise; she mounts so run , and 1 1 5 . r.ze. It is understood she in the first instance goes round :o e!t;:i." " Ma I7.—The private ve'sel of war Cl:ace:um, until tilth ult. the following day she struck on the Cl and received so much damage, that she has since i•eets c:ndemn..i, Her owners are in trtaty for the British strip Courier, of prosaat aying at Ensinada." PORTSMOUTH, AUOUST ift. • Arrived his Majesty's 'tt:p Hors: from a eruite.—. Wind S. W. DEAL, A:*GUST IP. Arrived and !mica for the River the John, NMI. wia.‘, from Jamaica; Cobourg, HuTctliwnx, trorn Quebec; Rebecca, Row, from St. Thern.ti's ; Roue, CARPENTER. from Honduras ; and Bs itauni 4 Ft-tllll, Irons Gre ada. The Industry, HILLIER, in 6o o..ys front Cu• uoa, for Bremen, passed by the bock of the Goodwin sands yesterday, all well. S. • eral ot the outward-bound sailed this morning, but the wind has since b.cked to the Wests aro, dud they Ate tt ur ning. Came down from the R.ver the Waiter .ean, for Trieste ; :tnd the F-rtiou,le, for Lisb n. DOVER, AUGUs 38. Sailed last tight t!.e Len d Duncan pa, kt , Capten Pascoe. It•r Ostend, wit , . a Mail and teas tei.gtss.— Arrived from Calais 1..• night • tie Detet , with Passengers ; and the Princess Charktte Cap tain H LLANDi. from Ostt•l.J. Sided this day t'e Prince.s Augusta, Captain Lli.aas ; and the Catha rine, Captain BUSHELL, for C a th Passengers. Sailed his Majesty's cutter SWAN tls 4 ciuize. HARWICII, AUGUSI' is. Arrived the Preston bland, CUNSiNGIIAM. from Allow, for London ; and the Lay.niii, Bunsi, from Sunderland. for London—the fornstr with lasi of b )v d bpr it, anelor, and cable ; and the latter' with Inks of fore-mast and bowiptit4 YARMOUTH, AUGUiT 18. _ Arrived the William, Laws, from London, with e loss of fore-tap•mast at.d main-mas:, which were carried away, in a heavy squall, yester:lty, off the Buoy of the Spitway. The Trusty, Gftoou, from the Ninth, with coals, sunk yeturtlay in this harbour. GRAVESEND, 'AVG:7ST 8. . . Arrived the Amity, 1)evole, from Liatitirk ; Ocean, Drum mond; from famalca; Old Maid, Alaller, aid Fame, Smyth, ditto; Anne, Pontmoutb, from -cdly; Vro cra hl e ,G eorge„ f rom Amsterdacii; Mathews, Dawson, and Limes. from Petershurgh ; Valiant, Humphreys, from St Faluse; Jape, Der ridson,- from Prince Edward's Island; Eritanma, frau Os:end. Sailed the Britanc!a, Oldis, tor NtwfutindLuid ; Eliza beth Ann,Ridley, for Rotterdam. CUS'IOM-HOUSE. AUGUST IS. Swiss rstraso 11 , 4WA1Mi..... 111 C Susan and Ann, Joseph; ar4 Jane, French; Sarah. Wood; Sceptre, Barnet; Dolma+, Per-, and Fortune, Stratford, from Petersbargis ; Albion ' Patera, from Ostend; Ruckers, Soper, and t•arati Christiana, Young tiers Grenada; Alert, Browen, from Liebau ; Royal Sovereign, La ming, from Rotterdam; William Penn, Brown, from St. Vat ant's; Patton, Havington; Essex, Ranking, and /obit. Spencer, front Jamaica; Charier front Cadiz; Sam), .—, horn New York ; Atlas, Str.niton, tram Alelandria ; W, Ins,- ' ton Sedgwielt,lrent Calais; Crosby,, from Nti aq p r o.„ of lilraies, Robson, Scutt and Sarah, Frank, from Miran, owe. Ou I onion—The Apnea; tbontas, and Maria, Ire Pubtin ; glizabetb,Cooktley, for Neils at,J St Kites ; Hebei, Porter, for Calcutta; Lucy, Cullen, for Madeira and St. The...tales ; Lcrd Wellington, for Cadiz ; Mice, fo7 Norfolk, (Virgi nia), and Jamaica • Mary, Major, for littinhurgh; Ladd, for Rotterdam, an d Medina, Kennedy, fur Jamaica. By letters received from Canton, we learn that the remaining part of the wreck of the Hon. Company's ship amp:arose, that was burnt on the 12t1. Feb ruary, wag said on the 25th of the URIC month, for 19,500 dollars. A Court-martial, as usual in such cases, is to be held on Captain MAiwitu., for the loss of the Accrsrs frigate. The office of one of the Paymasters of the Forces has been abolished, and yesterday, for the first time,, Mr. Rostasort's name was omitted in the printed re. ccipts and lists issued from the Pay Otfice. Mr. Lotto is now sole Paymaster of the Forces. Tuesday the whole of the Royal Marine. belong. ing to the guard-ships at Portsmouth were landed, and reviewed on South sea Common. Mr. EDWARD GIDDY, Surgeon, of Penzance, hay. ing gone on board a vessel, near that place, to attend a patient, on Monday last, experienced no little dis appointment on finding, whew he proposed to return home, that the vessel being from the West Indies, he must go to Stangate to perform qu trantine, for which he accordinxly proceeded, leaving all his Penzance patients !rebind him. A private letter from Calais, dated the I.sth inst. says Monday last, an Englishman, who had been an Officer in the 15th Dragoons, and Aide de camp to the Duke of Cvstesatasl), was tried at Bou logne, and sentenced to the gallica. He is to be marched from thence, in a chain, with many others, to Paris, where he will be again tried on charges of robbery and'swindling. lie appears to have no friend. but a beautiful French woman, who, it is said, attends him as his servant, in male attire." A curious seiznre took place on Tuesday kit at Stonehonse, soon after the arrival of a vessel from Guernsey. A porter, carrying a bedstead from a shore boat, was.met on the beach by a Custom-hoose Officer, who, having asked the porter to whom it be longed, and received rather an unsatisfactory reply, thought it right to examine the bedstead. On doing so, he found that the posts and pillars were hollowed out, and contained several hundred pounds worth of lace, ingeniously concealed under slides. Wednesday Robert Grove and John Johnrm. two workmen at the metal mills, in the Dock-yard at Portsea, had an altercation on some subject. A‘..:er considerable reovocation on the part of Grove, J to - .son seized an iron ladle and gave Grove such a 12r , -,d- Cul blow on the head as to fracture his skull; hut what is must extraordinary, Grove continued at work until his face was so covered with blood that he could not. tee ;"he then deliberately washed himself arid walked to The surgery, where it was found aKeSSATT to remove part of the skull, which was forced in on .the brain. His resolution did not even then forsake him, and he submitted quietly to the formidable ope ration of trepanning without, further complaint than that the man holding him occasioually hurt his leg. which be said was an unnecessary pain. After seve. rat pieces of bone had been removed from the brain and his bead was dressed, he 'proposed walking home. Johnson, however, has been discharged from the yaild, and is in ga2l until the result of the acct. f dent is known. - • S Pi The osen•tinc of Eirtmont. di 33 years of age, Taken— 3 tt aken— 3 t, R rc It, tc 13 ta 13 tc 14 tc 15 to Pity-two hor 5 4t . 7 - 1 ' l'aer.-7 t In consequrn boring butcher General 1 - luspiu le,terday lensed im out. ra , 66 sass over, o the aide of his I the usual spot I place, wltish la. •our. He role course of the tug ar.d died of Coroner furl White, and an.- ith.ch ;as ~! uc Mansl tighter. Issued for His ap Yesterday, the Gentleirk by the follow Nemec. 3 Swift 2 I.taiPow 3 spitfire About ten in started from with [ether them frequen concourse of the river and much crow& starting the I other five the ceeded as tar dow, and bac off Cumbed lead as far as the Waterloo tamely favot the Camilla, distance, the distance befih presented to i The Sillies 11 ttrugh the ve.se tilte lour head-rn CAMBEKWI to ell c , nu was well nth , ' senile visitor' tasteful articl name of WA Itinerairs. cat. wi:1) a tractions of 0 u;on the .rd, itnitataut } a tile cocotte' the negligent out, two boy., Were .sleep iii alarmed, they those were tv eldest, about e potion to ese threw their ht stead tewa)d, eounterpene•i and crescentic( is the fl.mt s. htistsstors llu amused a (tetra' Itsaney, aunt alessantai e.. of Mt again re aced her mine)—agai sasices that ti.e p die Funds, and ; hands, and could of very gasifiers,' sentiment was oil idartsl herself to shoat her, that t who was present her stack, and tl such hoer, that the slut pint torts. lawn the evidem h I.ORD MA 10 Weft !L.( he tern of 111.bory, ri hien in let corm aktirerii Pet tar a. 4 stated t ha: wealthy, hat es laity o htr of uttering a It Vlut I.oacs MA rwy of all he hat tabula of the Jeri Mr. A LLEv ap tie subject of tlit orient tv•denee h to &jury.— he is Cl Mr ALLtv,ai lion of the High BOVI•b I liKEt.. town Witte ant :he house o: vitl ieirrerly tl.e bon then, of notes so flail been e striate ( kola's at a shop that be wan gone f•lowlsere Ise frac, ?II hoard the Co.i I lie Illecer arprr arms e WAo Kati had to. in Nall I Iluggage of Bar nt. Pttty. It tut Ind Lotions& (.1 Bristol 44 i ,hey were e: dn uinotteil t. r isi lbleaLsuitoco ?tars N aga , WJII e lt% • II years old, 112141 r. lhe pith the truperty of LI