Star. — London, England, 1817-02-17 00:00:00

I -~- --- - - ST. DAVID'S DAY. ADDRESS TO THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALE!. DWA RD El TON, Stock-Broker, has the p1ea .1.7/ sure to announce to his Countrymen. Natives of this ANCIENT PRINCIPALI'I Y. That he bat succeeded In bis endeavours to have the Lottery drawn on the FlRfir OF MARCH. In honour of the Tu:eler Saint of W.des. E. FYTON flatters himself be 'ball have the satisfavion of di,tributing the numerous Prizes with which the unprecedented Scheme fur eo small a Lott. ry abounds, amongst his Fellow Cans bro.Britons, whom be invites to his fortunate Office, 2, Curnhill, whore their Orders for Tickets and Shares w•il he respectfully received, by the only Welchman engaged to distribute the fa vours of Fortune. :• ---- P-112LIAMENTARV BUM ESS. Tlll5 DAY.—Further consideration of the Repast on the Mak Duty Kill; Exchequer Sill. Bill, third time; Committee ollinp ply and Way. and Means. Notices—Lord Milton, Motion re lative to t h e war Salary of the Secretaries of the Admitaky ; Mr. Teed, Motion reeoecting the Pensions of the Widows of Naval Officers; Mr. Canning, Motion relative to Nast-India Slipping; S r G. Warrender, Vote of Seamen in Committee of Supply. To-moaeow.—Wootton Bassett Election Ballot, at half-past three o'clock. Notices—Sir M. W. Ridley, Address for Reduc tion of the number of Lords of the Admiralty; Sir S. Romilly. to present a Petition relative to the Conduct of the Magistrate► of the Power Division in granting Licrises. Weoseasosv.—Mr. M. A. Taylor, 818 for effectual Repairs of the Pavements; Mr. Gretifell, Motion respecting Existing Contracts and Pecuniary Transactions of the Public wkh the Bank of England; Lord A Hamilton, Account of Speck payable for Bat.k Notes, dared before ling. Tuuasciay.—Rozhester Election Ballot, at three o'clock; Mr. Caleraft, Committee on rak Duty Laws, and inconveniences thereof; Mr. Bennett, Motion regarding the appointment Mr. Henke on the Civil List Establishment; Sir E. Beydgea, Bib to altar the Law of Parish gettlenwnts, la so far at relates to she Right of Cow Pasturing; Mr. Wm. Courtenay, Bill refiard lag Orand Jury Presentments in Ireland. . Fatmey.--Saving Banks Bill, to be read i second times Mr. Curwen, to move for a Committer oa the Poor Laws and the State of the Laboaring Poor. FRENCH PAPk./IS. PARIS. FEBRUARY IS. The King said to the Deputations of the Chambers yesterday, when they presented to him the Addresses on the removal of the Allied Troops—" This day is the happiest of my life, since it shears me the Aurora of the happiness of France." comma NOTE—RELATIVE TO THs,Dth!tuouclON OF HE ARMY OF OCCUPATION. " The Courts of Austria, England. Prussia, and Russia, having taken into consitiVf' i ltion the desire manifested by his Most Christian bfajw to see the Army of Occuptioa diminished, and in. a proportio. n sic manner the charges which its presence on the /reach territory requites, have authorized the under signed to make to his Excellency the Duke of Riche. lieu, President of the Council of Ministers, and Se cretary of State in the Department of Foreign Af fairs, the following communication : 41 At the moment when the King, restored to his throne, and put in possession of his legitimate and _ constitutional authority, sought, in concert with the other Powers, the most efficacious means of consoli dating internal order in France, and to associate his kingdom with the system of good understanding and general pacification. interrupted by troubles, which have been scarce put an end to, it was ascertained that the temporary presence of an allied army was ' absolutely necessary, both to secure Europe against . the consequences of agitations which were threatened • to be renewed. and to offer to the Royal Authority an opportunity of exercising in tranquillity its bene ficent influence, and to strengthen itself by the attach ment and submission of all Frenchmen. .4 The solicitude of his Most Christian Majesty to render this indispensible expedient the least burden. some to his subjects, and the wisdom which directed the Allied Sovereigns in all the arrangensents.which were stipulated at this period, led them to foresee with one common accord the circumstances under laid: the diminution of the Army of Occupation might' take place, without weakening the motives or injur ing the great interests, which had rendered its pre- !WIC! necessary. .a The undersigned feel a real satisfaction in retra cing these conditions: they consisted in the consolida tion (email:meal) of the legislative tlyn'aiti, and in the success of the efforts and cares of his Most Chris tian Majesty to keep down the factidus, dissipaie er rors, soothe and allay angry passioni.. and iblite all Frenchmen around the throne by the sarietelshes and the mme interests. 44 The grand result desired and claimed by all Eu rope can neither be the work ot a moment, nor the effect of a single attempt. The Allied Powers have • watched with undivided attention, but not with asto nishment, the difference of opinion with respect to the prude of obtaining it; in this attitude they have ex - Feted from the superior wisdom of the King's measures. adapted to fix uncertainty, and to impress upon his administration a firm and regular step, not doubting that his Majesty knows how to associate with the dignity of the Throne and the rights of his Croitn, that magnanimity which, alter civil discotd,., assures and encourages' the weak, and by an enligb kited confidence excites the zeal of all other classes.' 44 Experience having already happily fulfilled, as much al the nature of things would permit, the hopes cif Europe on this subject; the Allied Sore. seigns, jealous of contributing to this grand work, and to make the nation enjoy all the blessings which the exertion and wisdom of the King prepares for it, do not hesitate to regard the present state of things as sufficient to enable them to make up their minds on the question which they have been called upon to decide. • 4 . The good faith'with which the Government of France hes fulfilled, up to this instant, all their en. garments towaids the Allies, and the care which it has taken to provide for the diffiuvnt services of the present year, by adding to the resources arising from the State, that of a credit, gualraatetidWionlittilidd French banking - houses, of the highest esieideritinn in Europe, has equally tended to remove shoe juudrr.i Acuities which might have irises cat the pain t a ka * , question proposed. sos These considerations were fortified at the same t i ne stse "Won which his Excellency, th e D u k e W • bag been invited to give on a n o bj ect of inch h lasponesce. e 4 • ybe rabte opinion, and the authority of a periaitage io eminent, have added to the motives al ready .mentiooed, all those which human prudence could collect to justify a measure demanded, and consented to. with the sentiments of a sincere and re ciprocal benevolence. " The Undersigned consequently find themselves authorised by their respective Courts to notify to his' Excellency the Duke of Richelieu— * 1. That thi reduction of the Angle of Occepatloa shall be effected e. That It shall be 50,000 men on the whole army. " S. That it shall be proportioned to the force daub Conde. genet that is to say, one fifth part of cash corps d'artnea 4. 4. 1 hat it shall take place from the Ist of April. 44 5. 1 bat from that day the E0.).000 redoes daily furnished for the Army of Occupation by the French Ouvet nmrnt, shall be reduced to 160,400, wiihout however, diminishing the 50,000 rations of provender for the bleses. " s. Lastly, that from the above date, France than besides enjoy an the advantages flowing from the aforesaid reduction, conformably to the existing Treaties and Conventions. " In communicating so striking a testimonial of the friendship and ciinfidence towards his Most Chris * in Majesty, on the part of their august Masters, the Undersigned must declare at the same time, to his Excellency the Duke of Richelieu, how much the principles of the Ministry over which he presides, and those principles which are peculiar to himself, have contributed to establish that mutual frankness which, dictated by justice, and the letter of misting Treaties, has known hitherto how to regulate so many delicate affairs, and to give for the future the most agreeable pledges of a definitive and satisfactory conclusion. " They seise this occasion to renew to the Doke de Richelieu the assurances of their high consideration. (Signed) " Baron VINCENT, Count GOLTZ, " CHARI.ES STUART, Posy) m 801100. 14 Park, February 10, 1117." CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, rEaßtrAitir It. The debate on the Budget was interrupted by the appearance of the Duke de aithelieu, who made the following. c ommunication: "reenZemen—The King has ordered us to comma aicate to you the result of the negociasions with which his Majesty is occupied to procure to France a relief from the burdens which the events of 1815 have laid upon her. For a long time his Majesty's love for his people had anticipated the wishes expressed in this Chamber. All his efforts, all his cares tended to this object, so desirable, so dear to his heart ; and his paternal solicitude has received tc-day its most ea rious recompence. " We have the satisfaction to announce to you that after the adoption of a law of finances or solid means of credit, proportioning the resources to the expenses and charges, will 'court the service of the current year ; the Army of Occupation will be diminished one-fifth, that is to say 50,000 men, and in propor i don also the charges which this filth hid required. tills Excellency was here interrupted by unanimous marks of approbation and shouts of rive k Rei 1] " We ought also to inform you, that according to explanations with the Ministers of the Allied Courts, the augmentation of pay which figures in the Budget of this year, for a sum of twenty-five millions, will not take effect until a more distant period. Unhap pily, however, this second facility for the payment of the augmentation of pay of the Army of Occupa tion will not give France the enjoyment of a dimi nution of our present burdens. The .extraordinary high price of previsions countergbalances the advan tage of the delay thus granted to us, with the in creaset expense of the rations which we must furnish. The Government will publish theaccount of the if- Terence between the actual expense of this year and that which the Budget, now under your considera tion, contains. The payment of the indentaity for the war will also undergo this year some modification, which, without going astray from treaties, wiH greatly facilitate our payments. " Let us enjoy, Gentlemen, the happy ameliora tion which the wisdom and foresight of the King have prepared. for us; we nwe it to the persevering firm- 1 neu d our Sovereign in making the laws be equally I respected by all cl ass es of his subjects. We owe it to our fidelity to fulfil all our engagements, to our public arrangements to contribute to their fulfilment, to the courageous resignation of the French people, and to the security inspired by the concord of the three branches of the. Legislature. 1 " The amelioration is also due, Gentlemen, to the, elevated character of the Minister; of the Allied Powers, the faithful interpreters of the dispositions of their Sovereigns for France, and of the sentiments of France towards them; to the noble disinterestedness of the Allied Generals, wbo, after the example of their illustrious Chief, coofide much more in French loyalty than in the number of their soldiers. " A modification, so favourable to Treaties which promised so much severky, is of happy promise for France it presages for Europe a long peace, which will perpetuate among the people the uniciowhich pre tails among Sovereigns." The Duke de Mai - lies &needed from the Tribune amid shoots of revs b Rei. A Member then moved for a Secret Committee of the whok Chamber, to prepare an Address to tbs. E.g. Aimed to. A similar communication was made by the Duke' of Richelieu to the Chamber of Peers, where it was feeeived in a similar manner. ALOlltal, DECEMBEIL 17. , • The fortifications and batteries which suffered are repaired ; 2O gun-boats and a brig are well equipped, and will once more sail in IV or 15 days to re-com mence their usual cruises. Formerly they gave the name of slaves to their prisoners: now they call them prisoners of war i but ibis change, unhappily, has not ameliorated the sad position of these unfortunate beings. The Dey is an active and enterprising man : he is also very brave. The foreign Consuls who are most in favour here are those of Dearnark and awe ' den. We Hee in a profound state of ignorOara of w h at passes so Europe ; and we only receive from time to time some Journals front France. _._._. The Goseile de Freese states with as much gravity, u', it it believed the scary, that the cold was so eicessive at Moscow, is the mouths of November ,god December, as to give Mee to a ciremmisace of which the inhabitants of that city knew no ample. Thousands of bears from the inosataias and totems withim a circuit of 200 leagnp , crowded Mitt bearing coui.try. and presented thmoselves is even at the gams of that city. Their number spout the g reat e st terror, and the troops of the garrison !marched out with cannon to chase them lt. They killed above 00, and the rest disgeteed, amdfseba bly regained their 'guests. STAR. THE Evssitto" - LONDON. MONpAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1817. PRICE OF ItTOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE erCLOCIC Reduced 6641—Coss. In°. 64 66—Cons. for ace. 63j 66 4 per Cint. ssif —,5 per Gem. Nan al Ezilsogow Bills, I is. Its. pt— lndia 80.. , 265. 471. pre. Yesterday we received the French Papers of Wed nesday and Thursday last. In the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, the Duke of RICHELIEU interrupted the adjourned discussion on the Budget by a communi cation al very considerable importance from his MA-.' JUTS , . He stated that an official Note had been re ceived From the Ministers of the four Allied Powers, intimating the consent of their tespective Courts to a reduction of one-fifth of the Army of Observation. and that, as expressed in the Note, (a transcript of which we have given in a preceding column) the Allied Powers had been induced to this step from an earnest desire - to behold the French nation in the enjoyment of 64 all those blessings which the exertions and wisdom of the KING had prepared for it, and from a full conviction that 44 the exist ing state of affairs" was so far improved, the re- I stored= of the legitimate dynasty and of inter nal order and hammy already so well consoli dated, as to permit the reduction being made with every safety. The reduction of one-fifth will amount to 30,000 men; and the relief which it will give in point of expense to France will be 40,000 rations 4.41.1 y. But, most likely, to a high-spirited people, this sating will be nothing in estimation, compared with the solace which it must afford to their wounded pride to behold their country beginning to be freed from the presence of its conquerors. The Note contains an allusion to the subject of a I Foreign Loan, which is rather remarkable; and gives Ito the communication of the Note to the Chamber. at the present moment, when engaged in the discus sion of the very question, somewhat of a suspicious aspect. The fidelity, it states, with which the King's Government have fulfilled the engagements entered linto with the Allied Powers, and , the care which it has taken to ensure the supply of the different services for the current year by adding to the ordinary resoerees of the State " those of a ere& 64 guarastsed by the most respectable Foreia a* well a: 46 Noticed Boding Houses is Europe, have equally 44 removed those difficulties which might have ▪ been otherwise justly raised on the present gues s' tion." Is not this, in other words, to say, that had there been no Loan--or rather if there is to be no Loan—the reduction could not be consented to ? For it is also worthy of remark, that the Duke of . Iticuatiau, in his speech to the Chamber, states, that i; is only .4 eer the adoption of a Law of Finances," (that is the law presented by Ministers and how un der discussion in the Chamber), Etc. that' the Army of Occopation wal be diminished one-fifth." &c. In deed there can be no doubt whatever of the design in Ministers to influence the decision of the Chamber through the instrumentality of this Act of Grace on the part of the Allied Powers ; and of the Constitu tional propriety of this we leave those to judge, who know witk what jealousy any attempt of the kind would, in a similar case, be received by a British I House of Commons. The LIMO coatioues to improve in health. The e Stocks still keep up. They are at present as sigh as 60 fr. 65 e. The long-expected Report on the treasowable wool , ,spiry cies for which four individuals have been acne— mittid to the Tower, is to be made to both Houses by their respective Committees this day.—The prN inners are confined in separate apartments, with a sentinel over each of them. A yeoman attends upon them with their victuals. Every proper attention is paid to them, so that their personal comforts ate greater than they enjoyed when at liberty. The Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince LEOPOLD are expected in town in a day or two, from Claremont, previous to the QUEEN'S drawingloons, and to reside at Camelford House as a temporary residence, where , several beds have been put up for that purpose. The Duke of CLARENCE, we are extremely con milled to say, has had another severe attack of his astlinsatic complaint, and spasms in his stomach. Sir Hawar &tavola') was sent for from Windsor at an early hour on Wednesday morni, to attend his Royal , Highness at Bushy. On Saturday, we are happy to say, be was pronounced to be getting better. The pleasing intelligence was brou g ht to t h e Q UEEN . the PRINCE KLOENT, the Duchess of GLOUCEsTER, &C. No intelligence was received lat e l ast n i g h t . Si r HENRY HALFORD left London about seven o'clock, to atiend his Royal Highness. A letter from Naples, dated January 21, 1817, an nounces the arrival of Lord Caavan's yacht, the Louisa, on the 12th of January, from Marseilles. His Lordship's stay in Naples will be about two months, previous to fitting for the summer excursion in those seas. There are said to be 400 English families at N. pies- To-morrow his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke NICHOLAS is expected to leave London for New 'Market, to view the different studs, the celebrated -race-course, arc. His imperial Highness is TO 'sleep ' at the Palmer- lie is expected to return to London on Wednesday weak* attend the Queen's Drawing Room on Thateday, and on Friday hi s Imp e rial Highness is expected to leave•LOndon on a tour into the West of England. Accounts Isom Berth!. of the 2111th January, state, that•tbe Grand Duke Maim.** will return to that city Imai London about the end of this month. The lime of his marriage with the PriSICCSG CHARLOTTE 01 'XHOSA i tiac well; Seed. CAME LAWS. The Cone Laws, a subject to which Sir SAUVI ROSSILLY called the attention of the House of C.,T mons on Thursday, and which must soon ix " again the attention of Parliament, is one of mucll greater importance than some people can possibly imagine. The Game Laws, establishing an exclusiv e property in wild animals, are big with the most rious evils to the community, and call loudly f cr wl►at some people hate to hear—a radial Retort.% It would be easy to shew that they are founded in injustice ; and we could demonstrate, were the fact one which we were persuaded would have any atigl l with men who prefer the sports of the field to ever y other consideration, that they operate to destroy, in tl►e miritls of the ignorant, all correct ideas of right and wrong, and to subvert those principles, with, t r t which no people can either be moral nor manifest coin. mon honesty, in those regards which are due to every species of property; and without which even b i l ts and bars can present but small security—while those articles which cannot be kept under lo:k and key must ultimately be held as fair game by the demora lized people. • We might easily prove that in the nature of thing, it is impossible that any individual can have an et. elusive personal right in roaming animals ; but the shorter way to convince certain individuals of the is justice of the Game Laws, will be by sheaving their impolicy and the injury resulting to the community and to themselves as members of the community by their operation. for the facts which we are ab( ut to state we are indebted to '• A plain Herd rd 11:e farmer." A Tenant belonging to B —a-, Esq. in the county of Hereford, was entitled, on quitting his farm, to ‘ 6 going crop of wheat," that is, to sow all the land which at that time was under fallow, if not amounting to more than one-third of the arable land belonging to the farm. In this ease one field was sown with wheat to the measure of 16 statute acres, which came up well, and in every way promising a productive crop : but, alas ! to the great irreparable loscor iho poor man, who had been at all the trouble and expense to obtain some breed for his family, on going to gather the produce for the barn, he (mind that his Landlord's Game had been before him Well—What of all this Does not every one know that the gams must eat ? Some do know it to their cost, but few are at all aware of the extent of the depredation, or the injury thence resulting to tine community. In the case before us the landlord's game were so numerous, so industrious, and vora cious, that the farmer, from his sixteen acres did not reap one sulitary bushel. though he had a right to expect 220—and would have reaped 220, but for the existence of the game laws. We wish to speak to the common sense of man. kind. We would address the cupidity of the mono polimrs of Game. How can your tenants pay high rents if you insist on retaining aright to bilks on then , without any board wages, an indeterminate number of voila mall cattle and fowl: —yout's ! no, not only must they maintain pwr's, but bid all the devourers of par ielghisers a hearty welcome. They are per mitted to shoot any unwinged biped that may pre- sume to rob them,--..any thing in the shape of a human being ; but, if the thief come in the shape of a hare or a partridge, they must not presume to disturb their repast on path of a seven years' visit to the land of the Kangaroos. Is the case we have stated a singular one ? No. Soom.ol our Readers—especially of those %thane . notat , tenacious of the right thus to plunder their tenants and to defraud the community of the just priscluce of the earth, know well that similar Casts are numerous. We could easily furnish many example; of game being preserved in such quantities as to de vow up the crops of_ the farmers. We could name some who have bein thus ruined yer, literally ruined! Ons.shis subject the Report of a Committee of last 1 Session is deserving of serious Attention. It recom mended that the game should become a part of the property of the land on which it might he leund. Were this enacted, it would enable the occupier of the had to bring the game, which is fed at his expos', to the open market, and to receive himself the valJe of it, to enable him to make up his rent ; instead of the price going, as at present, into the pockets sf the poachers. The quantity of the game maintained by the whole soil would never be allowed to increase 'to a degree that tends to produce even a scarcity of corn ; and that too at periods when every country is feeling the distress arising from short crops t such a degree that in some countries the people are actogy perishing for want. The sudden death of Lord ROM'S adds rr; more to the numerous instances of the transievc.: and instability of human life. His Lordship K conded the Address in answer to the Speech fr m the. Throne, when he spoke with a collectedness energy that made a corresponding impr,ssior. was then in the vigour of kis health—in the full flow of spirits,. in the flower of his years, and looked for- I ward with a confidence little short of certainly toil* attainment of an advanced and honourable age. Cut in less than one fortnight, his spirit fled this sub: lo ' nary existence for ever I The Noble Earl's sett took place almost immediately ou his reaching pewit , worth Castle, and is supposed to have arisen :No the bursting of a blood vessel. Well might it be 1. 1 i 4 " To Ida &adroit's how &ear &Wed is death. " The &tams &taw, but a gasp of bsesthr Li* and P l l •a