Star.
London, England, 1822-02-12 00:00:00

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LATE MAJESTY. QUEEN CAROLINE'S
EFFECTS.
%HAVE. ALL BEEIeaMOVED FROM
BRA NDENBURGH-HOUSE,
BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS,
And will be SOLD, by Mr. ROBINS, •
At Haul; on WNIMILIDAY, 40th Fz•ivaaa, inntaat,
And SETEI following Dais.

TUESr' Y. FEBRUARY 12, 1822.
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
A ➢aric prevails In the country in consequence of what fell
from the CIIANCELiOIL of the &COMMIS regarding the 5 per Cent.
Annuitivi. The orders received this morning for the treader of

this Stock are said to be greater than on any preceding day, and
the Batik presents a bustling appearance in consequence. The
parties selling are chiefly purchasing In tbe Long Annuities and
Reduced, which have advanced considerably. Consols have
c mtinued steady at their opening prices, via. 77i. The purchasers
in Foreign Stock arc said to increase.—Current prices:
Bank Stock 243 2421/2-3 per CL Reduced 78 7734
re t. 1/4:011s. 7714 /it % —3l/2 per Cent. 88% 141
4 per Cent. 98q,-5 per Cent. 106 105% Ag
Bank L nr Annuities 20 1.16 19 15-16
India Stock 241—India Bonds 775. 78s. pre.
Ext.liequer ,Ills of £l,OOO, ss. 6s.
Do. small 9s. 7s. pr.--‘ 'on.. tor ACCL 7714 %. • .
The following are the prices of the prbaclpil Semitic,
London to-day:
French Five per Cents.
Spanish ditto Bonds . -

- - . 89
58i
59
es
. . 87
. 112 i
6111

Ditto, the new Loan - . .
Prussian Five per Cent. Dods
Colombian Bonds
Danisb ditto - .
vapolitan Five per Cents. .

Last night 'AL. BRQDGIIAIf made his promised
Motion on the S:ate ..f the Country, in which he took
a very able and comprehensive view of the actual
situation of the agricultural and commercial inte-
rests. fle sheaved that the distress which existed
was owing to excessive taxation—that the only relief
was ia a reduction of the public expenditure.—
lle exposed., in many instances, the wanton ex-
travagance of Ministers, and how fallacious all their
plans of economy and retrenchment bad been.—
He declared that it was only by retrenching, and that
on such a scale as would be effectual, that we could
avoid the rock—the most dreadful on which a State
could be wrecked—national bankruptcy. The Mi-
nisters, he said, had but a choice of evils—between
insolvency and efficient retrenchment. He particu-
larly cautioned the house against any plan of relief
founded upon a shifting of the Taxes, or upon the
renewal of :he Property Tax, well kirco%ing fiom
vhat little beginnings that Tax attained such an
enormous inao.nitude. The Learned Gentleman con-
cluded an elovent sreech, which occupied three
hours and a half, with moving a Resolution, " that
it was the bounden duty of the House to consider
the distresses under s‘hich all classes of the commu-
nity, but particularly the labouring classes, struggled;
and to obtain for the suffering people of this realm
such a reduction of taxation as would relieve the
burdens by which they were at present borne down."
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, the only Nlini,ter
who spoke on the subject, acting on the general po-
licy of the Administration of which he forms so pro-
minent a member, of deferring the evil day as long
as possible, met the arguments of Mr. BROUGHAM
by moving the previous question, and entreating the
House to wait until Friday, 'when it would be seen
what his Majesty's Ministers intended for them.
—His Lordship was particularly uneasy lest he should
disclose any part of his plan, but notwithstanding his
anxiety in this respect, he let out enough to shew
that a reduction in the taxation formed no pan of it.
What the grand specific may be, we know not ; but
as the House seemed willing to respite his Lordship
until Friday, we shall not enter into any speculations
on the means by which Ministers propose so confi-
dently to relieve the country without diminishing
its burdens.

The Royal Assent was yesterday given, by Com-
mission, to the Irish Insurrection Bill, and to the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. The LORD Lteu-
TzwasT and every Magistrate of Ireland, is now,
therefore, vested with a power which involves an
awful responsibility, not to the British Government,
for we well know that Acts of Indemnity always
protect those who are employed to carry into effect
Ministerial measures, during a suspension of the con-
stitutional laws of the land ; but to Gon and their
country they are responsible for the exercise of an
authority, too great, we think, fur any persons to
possess, much less men who arc placed in situations
where their passions are •in danger of being inflamed,
and that calm discretion which ought always to
rein unlimited authority, likely to be forgotten.
Tnat the system of outrage, massacre, and ter-
rorism which has so long disgraced the sister coun-
try, should be terminated as speedily as possible
will not be denied : the only question is, how to ter-
minate it, so as to prevent as much as possible
its rectirieuce. Whether mere force alone will be
able to do this or not, will soon be tried ; for our-
selves, we believe it will or. The angry feelings
which have flowed horn ages of persecution ate not
likely to he appeased by an increase of severity, un-
accompatried as it is either by offers of future)