Star.
London, England, 1822-02-05 00:00:00

MEETING IN THE ASSEMBLY-ROOM.

As soon as the Meeting was declared to be at an
end, the greater portion of those who were present
went to the Assembly-room, in the Spread Eagle 11111.
Lord K INO was called to the Chair, amidst lout
cheers. Upon taking it, his Lordship aisured
Meeting that no man was more anxious than he was
for a Reform, and be would now sign a Requis;:ion
for the purpose of having a Meeting of the Com'AF
called upon the subject :whinier. He would recom-
mend that a Requisition to that effect be imincJiately
signed, and presented to the High Sheriff. He kne".
it would not becompliedl with that day, but never:!lc-
less it was as well to mark their opinion on the question.
A Requisition was immediately drawn up to die
following effect :
“ We, the undersigned Landowners, Freels (Qtrs. and 4)"`:"
piers of Land in the county of Surrey, do request
you will tali
an immediate Meeting of the County. for the purpose of "r".:;
dering the distressed state of Agriculture, and also for a Buforro
in Parliament."
This was signed, and Lord King and Mr. Lech
were deputed to wait upon and present it to the 1101
Sheriff.—After an absence of about a quarter of At%
hour, his Lordship returned, and informed the Meet-
ing that the High Sheriff had consented to cali the
Meeting for that day fortnight at the same h .Ill•
place.— Thanks were now voted to L'rd lei Mr.
H. G. Bennet, Mr. Leech, Mr. Hare Towilse.nJ,
Mr. Deni4on. Thanks were also moved to Cobbet!,
but there being general cries of " No, no," it was ao'
pressed. The Meeting then (at nearly five o'clock'
disfersed in the most orderly manner.

TILE EVENING. STAR.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. inn

STOCK =CHANGE, ONX O'CLOCK.

The principal bellows doing Is in jobbing transactions, and a•
foreign arrival has transpired to affect the Funds in any degree.
The whole of the parties are on ttp-toe as to the nature of his
lii~rtsrr's Speech, and they seem cautious of tither selling or
purchasing, but remain "with expectation big" until the sub-
stance of it be made known. Consols opened at 77f MI. and
arc now for the Account.—Very little business doing in
Foreign Securities.
Bank Stock 2421,E 242 1,4
S per Cent. Reduced 773/4 %
S per Cent. Cons. 77177 771,4
31,E per Ct. Ss% 44 %-4 per Ct.973/4 1/4 56
5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 1073/4 1/4 56
Bank Long Annuities 19 3/4 11-16
India Stock 241 14241—India Bonds 775. 795. pre.
New Annuities 76%
Exchequer Bills of Elmo, 7s. 10s. pre.
Cons. tor Acct. 773/4 1,4 1/4 34.

Milne Noblemen and Gentlemen of the highest
rank and most extensive property, are assembling in
their respective Counties, and de:laring with one
voice that the distressed state of the Agriculturists
only be relieved by a system of economy
ichment, and by a considerable reduction of the
the Ministers are seeking to avert the gotta
to burst upon their beads at the opening of
it, by one of the weakest and most con-
temptible expedients that ever was resorted to. If
there is any person who has believed that the pro-
fessions of Ministers for economy were sincere, the
Meeting held yesterday at Fife House must unde-
ceive him. Lord Livgarooi, it appears, thought
that the distress of the Agriculturists arose from a
of capital, and proposed a loan of five millions

, relieve them. His Lordship has in this instance,
at least, discovered himself to be a •ery shallow poli-

.ian, or he would have seen that the distress is much
deeper rooted than to be removed or even relieved
by such an expedient. The Agriculturists do not
complain that they have not money to till the
; but that its produce, owing to the heavy
Hi, is raised at such an expense, that its sale

not reimburse them : but were this even the

, the sum proposed by Lord LivnapooL, large
as it is, would afford ineffectual relief; and would
• be a suspension to the Farmer of less than half
taxes which be pays annually. If money, either
speculation or for cultivating the land, was ac-
`,y wanted by the Agriculturist, is Lord Ltvaa-
so little acquainted w ith the real situation of the
try as not to be aware of the facility with

sch money can at present be borrowed? If be was
Pate of this, did it never occur to him,:that when-
an advance of money to the Farmer promised
ttimately an advantageous result, individual specu-
would not be backward in affording it?

Lord LIVERPOOL, when be had humiliated himself'
r:e far as to consult the London Merchants on the best
means of conducting the affairs of Government at
all important crisis, must have felt mortified at the
tion which his silly project met with. His
proposed that the five millions of Exchequer
is should be lent to the Farmers, through the
•;y of the Country Banks. The Gentlemen whom
consulted unhesitatingly pronounced the plan as
in the least calculated to render the service inti-
from it. They observed, that on all former
when such a measure had been adopted,
'ere was at least an apparent necessity for it; that
Trade was thea suffering from some peculiar
either caused by circumstances connected
the war in which we were engaged, or by a
of money, and the difficulty of procuring it,
on the most unexceptionable securities, at the
; that it both cues this mode of relief was
ited to the exigency, and it had been found effec-
tual; that at present the circumstances were quite
different, and instead of any scarcity of money being
felt, the complaint throughout the country generally,
was, the difficulty of employing or investing it, even
at a low interest—indeed, this state of things is

universally prevalent, and the London Bankeri are
so encumbered by deposits from their Country Cor-
respondents. that they have been obliged in all cases
to lower the rate of interest on their accounts, and
in some to discontinue the allowance of it entirely.
Such being the case, and that it is a true statement,
will not be denied, what relief can an issue of Exchea
Rau Bills afford?—Certainly not the slightest, for the
question is not where money is to be found ; but
whether the fanner, after he had expended the advance
of half a year's taxes, should still be enabled to go
on, much less to repay the loan ?
The Meeting at Fife House yesterday, however it
may have disappointed the Ministers, will 'be produc.
tiveof one good, that of discovering to the country
at large the intentions of their Rulers, who seem de-
termined to resort to every species of palliative or
subterfuge, rather than entertain the only project
Qiich can either afford any efficient relief or satisfy
the just demaads of the People. Nu sas the
Meetings have hitherto been, calling for econ
retrenchment, we trust, now that the Public must be
convinced that Ministers are determined to resist the
Call, that there will not be a county, city, or hamlet
in the United Kingdom, that will not re-echo the
uy, and appeal to the Monarch and to the other two
branches of the Legislature to interpose between
then, and a profligate Administration, and save the
country from that ruin with which it is threatened.

We received the French Papers of Friday and
Saturday last, this forenoon. They are almost u-
Llusively filled with the debates in the Chamber of
I)cputic,, on the Law Project for repressing offences

• of the Press, when the 9th, 10th, and 11th Ankles
were adopted.
A private letter from Park &tit si* ,teclock ae
Saturday evenings Kates, that accoants bald,*
ceived Troia Vienna, of the 24th January, brin a
confirmation of the report that the Own Samoging a
bad at last accepted the Russian Uld • It is
said in these advises that the European A
bad great difficulty in removing the prejudices eilkich
existed in the Divan against Prince Sum, and the
other Greeks who had sought refuge in the Russian
territories. Lord STAANGFOAD, however, assisted by
the new Reis Effendi and the European Ambassaders,e
urged so strongly to the Divan the 4reat impolicy of
involving the nation in a destructive war, 'forth,
mere purpose of gratifying a vindictive feeling
against a few individuals, that the Porte at last con-
sented to withdraw this part of the claim. As soon
as the GRAND SZIGITIOR bad relinquished the demand
for the delivery up of these individuals, the Divan,
apprehensive that he might change his mind, lost not
a moment in dispatching the answer of the Porte to
Petersburgh, for ratification. Such is the statement
of the private letter, but for the accuracy of the facts
we cannot vouch.

French runds.--Jan. SI, The per Cents. 86f. 9k.
Feb. 1,88 f. 10c. On Saturday, Feb. 2, the French
Five per Cents. closed at 881.50 c. being a rise of one
and a half per Cent. in three days.

A Flanders Mail arrived this forenoon, bringing
Brussels Papers of the Ist inst. The following are
extracts:—

WIDDIN, (BULGARIA), JANUARY 1.

The most perfect tranquillity prevails here: the
trade in wool (cotton), of Macedonia, is reviving,
An English merchant bas received from Salonichi,
the happy news, that the Pacha has restored to liberty
the Greeks lately made prisoner. The Bazaar was
again opened. and since that time no more murders
had been committed. The Monks of Mount Athos
pay a contribution of 400,000 piastres, in return fee,
which, they are freed from the visits of the Turks.,
This ransom was immediately distributed among the
rapacious troops of the Capidgi Pacba. The Astaire
troops are gradually returning ; some of them go to
the Servian frontiers ; but the greater part go to-
wards Thessaly. Entire tranquillity prevails also at
Sevres, in Macedonia.

TRURSTR, JANUARY ta.
The Greek fleet is for the most part in the ports of
Hydra, Spezzia, and Ipsara; and great exertions are
making to augment it. The Greek marine has al-
ready between four and five hundred vessels, large
and small. The Senate of Hydra, which is composed
of the chief merchants of Hydra and of the Deputies
from the Islands, and which is assembled at Hydra,
governs with energy, and with much more wisdom
than the Senate of-Calamata ; the supreme authority
of which is not recognized by the Narvachs, though
they maintain a friendly intercourse with it, for the
interest of the nation.

The Hydriots hare sent a division of 100 vessels
to the assistance of Candia, with eight or ten thou-
sand troops on board. The Greeks consider the pos-
session of the Island of Candia as very important,
in order to make it the central point of their naval
operations. The Senate of Hydra had sent a secret
agent to the Pacha of Egypt, to dissuade him from
attacking their island. Provisions are better paid
for by the Hydriots than ammunition. In all the
other Islands there is a great want of provisions, so
that there is reason to apprehend a famine.

A Jamaica Mail arrived this morning, bringing
Papers to the 18th December. The Legislature had
met, when the Session was opened by the Lieutenant-
Governor, to whom an Address was presented, ex-
pressing some alarm at the great number of discharged
black troops which were abroad in the Island, and
requesting that they might be collected together, at
Fort Augusta, or some other garrisoned fort, for the
immediate safety of the Island.
The Royal Gazette of the Ist December states that
two battles have been fought near Porto Cabello,
and a third in Guayaquil, in all of which the Inde-
pendents are reported to have been victorious, and
in the latter made 680 prisoners, with their arms,
baggage, and ammunition.
Circular letters were sent on Saturday last, by
Lcrd LIVERPOOL and the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, to the Governor and Deputy Governor of
the Bank, and some of the principal, Bankers, inviting
their attendance at Fife House at one o'clock, yester-
day. The Gentlemen so invited repaired thither at
the time named, when Lord LIVERPOOL, it is under-
stood, after a brief introduction, adverting to the
anxiety felt by the Government for the relief of the
agricultural interest, requested to 'be favoured with
their opinion—whether an issue of Exchequer Bills to
the extent of five millions, and applied by Govern-
ment as a loan to the country bankers, under reirla-
dons similar to those which were adopted in the issue
of bills for the relief of the commercial distress, would
enable the country bankers to advance money to
the farmers in the manner which they had usually
done previous to the decline in the value of agri•
cultural produce, so as to protect the farmer from
the consequence of a forced sale of his corn or live
stock ? The Gentlemen present had no hesitation in
wing a prompt answer to his Lordship's question,
ing unanimously of opinion, that the measure pro.
posed would be of no utility, inasmuch as the di&
culty was, not in the inadequate capital of the coun-
try bankers, of which great abundance existed, but in
the impossibility on the part of the farmer to offer
sufficient security. In the present state of the mar-
kets, they did not consider that either the crops or
live stock of the farmer could deserve that name.—
This being the sole object of the Interview, and Lord
Livaapoot. having no further questions to ask, the
meeting separated. The appointment for this chin-
ference, which was known in the City early in the
mooning, caused much expectation, because it was
supposed to relate to financial matters of far greater
importance. Sorbs intelligent merchants are of opi-
nion, that as the security of the farmers is deemed in-
sufficient for the country bankers, the Minister him-
self, having ascertained how abundantly they are
supplied with capital, will lend the Exchequer Bills,
under certain guarantees to the farmer, leaving them
to be purchased from him by the country aer,'
who could not, of course, object to advance his capi-
tal on the security of Government.

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