Star.
London, England, 1830-03-04 00:00:00

WORCESTER COUNTY MEETING.

Tuesday a Meeting was convened in the Guildhall,
Worcester, by JOHN SCOTT, Esq. High Shale; pursuant to two
requisitions, calling upon him so to do in consequence of the pee.
veiling distress. One requisiden was signed by 240, and the other
by 100 fteehoiden. The latter was couched in the following am.
Bede language :
" To the High Sheriff of the County of Worcester—We, the
undersigned, having heard with astonishment the' intimation con.
mined in his Majesty's speech to Parliament, that the existing
distress is only partial (thus showing a degree .of ignorance in his
Majesty's Government as to the true state of the country), and
knowing, as we do, that It is:general, unprecedented, and most cop.
paling, do hereby request you to call a meeting of the freeholders
and other inhabitants of the county, to take into considasden the
causes of such distress, and to adopt such measures fee allandag
the same as the Meeting shall then think expedient."
The High Sheriff, on opening the business, reminded bps brake ,
Ansholders that they wee not assembled as legislators, but foe the
purpose of petitioning Parliament. He trusted the discussion
would be conducted with temper, moderation, and candour, and that
every gentleman would be fairly and impartially heard. Their
motto ought to be " au& &harem pattern."
Colonel LYaox, the member foe the city of Worcester,
said he always made it a point to collect the opinions of his
constituents, whose interests he endeavoured to promote to
the best of his judgment. He would beg of the agricultural
interests not to be led away by the panacea of Reform. ALI
all events, if they agreed to petition for reform, he hoped
there would be two petitions. Then was a great ay for reform
during the distress of 1817, and.# was said in the petitions that it
could not be removed without reform ; but what was the fact, they
had since risen to a state of great prosperity.—(Loud ales of no,
no.) He begged they would; bar him—he referred to the years
1823, 24, and 25, when agriculture and commerce were in a high
state of prosperity. He was perfectly aware of the existing dia.'
trees; he felt for it, and he hoped no one would think he underratedi
its extent.

The Rev. Mr. P,CARIOW said be felt that great distress pre.
railed, and he had therefore attended the meeting to sign his name
to a petition, stating their grievances, and praying for; that relief
they so urgently required.
Mr. RICHAID Sr owls a (the Banker) mid, they were assembled
1 00 a great constitutional question, and for the purpose of aireising
a great constitudenal right. He was actuated by no party feeling
in coming down there to propose certain resolutions. He had no
wish to arraign the present ministers—he did not wish to see them
displaced, but he wished calmly and quietly to call theft attention
to the state of the country, and to open their eyes to the mistake
they had made, in declaring the distress to be partial when it
was general, unprecedented and overwhebning.—(Cheers.) He
had no wish to curry favour with the present administrfion,
but it was with pain he differed from them. The Speaker pm.
melded to eulogise thlir conduct as to the Catholic Bill, and
was cheered at this part of his speech most enthtudastically.
It was painfttl to differ from such Ministers, but be would not de-
sert his duty as an Englishman. Their gallant City Member had
called on them not to be led away by reform, but be would ail un
them not to be led ;way by the gallant Colonel, whose speech. "sly
went to prove that it was for want of reform that the prosperity of
IMO had so anon passed away. The measures which had destroyed
it would never have been passed by a reformed Parliament. Where.
ever he went, he found penury and distress prevailing, and one gene-
ral groan was heard Min one end of the country to the other,
praying for redress. The first resolution he had to move wetedd
give a fiat denial to the partial distress statement. The next
would rate an opinion of the causes of the distress. This he eon•
fessed was a subject which he approached with difficulty, because
he might be supposed to be personally interested in assigning one
of the causes.=.[The speaker here entered into the currency ques.
don at great length, for the purpose of showing that it was one of
the causes of the existing distress.}—He had no objection, he aald,
to a gold standard but contended that the present standard was not
an equitable one, as it gave an advantage to the creditor over the
debtor. Great talk, he said, bed been made about keeping faith.with
the public creditor; but he wished to know why faith was not also to
be kept with the debtor. In 13211 Lord Goderich, then Mr. Robin.
son, boasted of the prosperity of the nation, and at its being fixed an
a rock; but in five months afterwards the rock disappeared, and
it was then attempted to make the world believe that this national
rock of prosperity had been run away with by some halt desert
country bankers, who had extended their issues beyond their FRI.
taL The remedies he had to propose went—first, an inqifry
and next, that the house should reform itself. Mr. Canning had
said, the return to a metallic currency would put a sovereign in
the pocket and a fowl in the pot of every poor man. He wished to
ask them if such had been the cue ? He wished to see that predic-
tion verified, for he felt sure, if England were to stand, it could only
be by a well fed, well employed, well taught, and then, be was sure,
a grateful people. (Loud cheers.) Then. indeed, prosperity would
be dealt out through the ancient portals of the Constitution. He
was convinced, if they bad a reformed House of Commons, there
would be mare intelligence infused, and fewer blunders committed.
He hoped he should not be arraigned for what he was going to say,
by the Attorney-General, but he could not help stating, that" the
Duke of Wellington had made a great mistake when, in reply to
Earl Stanhope's suggestion of a silver standard, he observed that the
standard was the same as in 1797. Now, the feet was. in that reit,
coined silver to any amount was a lepl tender, and Lord Ikats.
had ace observed, that the oedema debt might be paid in ossicsa•

sixpences. The ems was now quite different, for whin the new Wa-
age was bawd the King's proclamation declared it only to be • legal
tender to the amount of 40s. He appealed to the admit of that tows
whether the retail trade was not in a distressed state. It was said
they wanted to get the one and two-pound notes spin—they wanted
no such thing. A metallic standard was far better—what they
wanted was a fair adjustment of that staadsrd. The speaker
chided by moving the following resolutions:_ •
That this Meeting has bard with astonishment that his Majes
Ministers, at the opening of Parliament, declared the prismlie.
-
nese to be portial,-and that the retail tinders in the emery towns
IMO in a state of prosperity.
That nothing but the grossest and most adpable iguana et the
real ewe of die country could have Mama diem
inasmuch as this meeting knows and feels that die dletimea=
and imeossehmell ; that all interests-ere sothrthe M a most dean-
!N
itre, mad that rho rota,- trade In psedeabr la es
and depressed a situation as ft As at the priest
this mistime Ws it its duty to declare meet do*
only poems en wheat the enteral distress hes not yet
them who are lisvifnees thelwocesde of tense, aid teed
la die of dividends,. padeas, is aid ebb.
mom, is paper many, but now levied Iwo*
mew, mi . percent more vahwhie then the matey in wile
elf wok iL.
rook dimemmepled= of the present Meeting pest pint et the A&
tress et the theatry to attributed to thef`aisseadea ha the ems
wouldre—o mumps ahead without say inquiry as to the ether-il
byre se tbs kilaidaus clams etesty, sr se to the jail*
errs dthe nmemie:
Time dd. ifewpsaggeoves almwthig to a ormathis
but Is at mist the amid bed meth Pedimmthe
is pod. Wheat impethlie to be 11041
s elmeithall of pM cm* mayoral Itho Wks, sad las to be
espies& at the wW of the Wier, wmat qns the bed semithed Ia

this kingdom, till it was made so by the Act commonly known ell
Alt. Peers Act.

That It appears to this meeting that the inevitable efeet of adopt.
Mg the pument stn of value is to reduce all Abe plan if pen.
Zlia and Lbw generally. at least to the ancient kid whetwhetex-
' n MI, et the same dine leaving all the tenes, debts, and
if the country unreduced ; and this monk; is of opi.,
don that en emotion of this kind must have the Abet el doubling
the real with aid the real value of all taxes, delft" and *Up-
date—a trammilus which is net more alma end stro.
sinus in pr Ineljle den it is and and Moms in apeinden.
That the OM of asp*, this stmdsed was new emennyiateil
by Parliament Is drily pseud by whoma to the used
by the pepsins if the memen, it lemiftbsen alleged by
them that* abrades praised in the Wm elfmeasy would not be
more than 4 pm cent. whereas it is now admitted by all parties not
to be less this INI per cent.
That the fell Ilapet of this measure has not yet bass seedy hk, the
various paUlatkne which have been continually admideneed basing
prevented its into full operation; and that the apemen
now used by the advocates foe the measure modern its re-
consideration, are as fallacious as those originally used for Its
adoption.
That all classes of society are equally interested in the recant.
deration of this measure, the creditor, public and private, being
certain to be involved in the geoasl ruin which a continuation of
the present unjust, im tiablestardard must inevitably bring
upon the country at large.
That it is impossible such unjust and ruinous measures could have
passed the House of Commits had it consisted of what the coned.
guile° supposes it to soosist—the real representatives of the
people.
That it is a notorious feet, that a large proportion of the members
of that house are the mere nominees of Pests, and a majority obtain
their seats by purchase, and are not elected by the free voice of the
people, and that therefore it Is expedient there be an immediate and
thorough reform in the Commons House of Parliament.
That petitions, grounded on the above resolutions, be peeparel
and presented to both Houses of Parliament.

Dir. CHARLES HANFORD said he knew bat little of the currency
question. He was satisfied, however, of the existence of distress,
and of the necessity of reform—and be would therefore ascend the
resolutions. He respected the present ministry, and he hoped that
the Duke of Wellington would prove too good a general to
suffer himself to be ousted by the crafty old fox—they would
know who he meant--be could mean but one man—he meant the
Earl of Eldon.—(l•oud and long-continued hissing followed this
declaration.)
Mr. BERRY said he never thought he should have become a re-
former, but he bad become one from honest conviction. He eonsi.
deted the landlords ware ignorant of the state of their tenants. The
fact was, farmers were fit only for that pursuit, and hence they clung
to their farms, paying rent es long as they had any thing wherewith
to pay it with, to the neglect of all other obligations. He knew it
had been agitated on one extensive estate by the tenants, whether
they should not combine to pay no rent.
Sir CHRISTOPHER SMITH, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions,
said he could not sign for Parliamentary reform. The rat of the
resolutions he was willing to sign I and he hoped, therefore, Mr.
Spooner would consent to divide the topics into two petitions.
General ill ea wee had expected to have had particulars of local
distress stated in the petition. and not the mere affirmation of gene.
ral distress. He thought by stating their local wants they were
more likely to get redress.

Dr. Honest spoke to the great distress prevailing. but expressed
a wish to have the petition divided in the manner suggested by Sir
C. Smith.

Mr. SPOONZI in reply, declined separating the resolutions, on
the ground that no good reason had been shown for his so doing,
and he would not, therefore, do so for the mere purpose of catch-
ing a few stray votes.
The resolutions were submitted to the meeting by the High She-
riff, and were almost unanimously adopted, there not being more
than ball a doyen bands raised against
The petition, founded on the resolutions, was then read and
adopted, after which thanks were voted to the High Sheriff, and the
Mettles separated.

SPEECH OF THE KING OF FRANCE.

Received by Express this Morning.

" Ottirrt,sxxx,
" It is always with pleasure that I assemble round my theme the
Peers of the kingdom, and the Deputies of the Departments.
" Since the period of your last Sitting, important events have
established the peace of Europe, and the good understanding sub-
sisting between my allies and myself for the happiness of nations.

" The war in the East has terminated. The moderation of the
video, and the friendly interference of the other powers, by presser.
ing the Ottoman Empire from the evils which threatened it, have
maintained the balance of power, and consolidated the ancient vela.
Mons, of the different States.
44 Under the protection of the powers which agreed to the treaty
of the 6th July, Greece will rise independent from hi ruins; while
the epoice• of the Prince called to reign over it will an ificiently
evince the disinterested sad pacific views of the Sovereigns.
" lam engaged at this moment, in concert with my allies. in ne.
goclations, the object of which is to bring about a reconciliation
loecessary for the repose of •he Peninsula, between the Princes of
the House of Bragansa.
"In the midst of the important events with which the attention
of Europe was lately occupied, I was induced to suspend the Weds
of my just resentment against a Barbary Power ; but I cannot any
langer leave unpunished the insult offered to my flag. The repass.
don which I hope to obtain, in 'eddying the honour of France, will
also, I trust, turn out, by the aid of Pm:mil:Puce, to the general
advantage of Christendom.
" The accounts of the receipts and of the expenditure will be
submitted to you at the same time as the state of our wants and of
our resources for the year 1831. I have the FAL:action of seeing
that in spite of, the diminution which has taken place in the Neve.
ate of 11139, compared with that of the preceding year, it has ex•
called the estimate promulgated in the Budget.

" An operation which has lately taken place has shown sue.
dimly the interest at which loans have become negociable, and has,
st the same time, demonstrated the possibility of alleviating the
bar hens of the state. A law relative to the sinking fund will be
presented to you, and will be connected with a plan of repay.
ment or exchange, which, we confidently hope, will reconcile
what the tax-payer expects front oar solicitude, with the
justice and good will which is due to those of our subjects
who have placed their capital in the public funds. The measures
on which you will have to legislate, will have for their object to
'est* all those Interests. They will furnish the mesas of aiding,'
without additional sacrifices, and in a few years, the prosperity of
agriculture and commerce, the works of our fortresses, those of our
ports, sad also those which are being carried on our public roads,
and in the completion of our easels.

" You will ism likewise le weepy year attention with several
eases vastly. to the judicial Wes, M Eillimmt projects at admainis.
bathes, sod also with ease —awns hisalled to ameliorate the
coadhlon ci that part of the army Ada is now at baltpay.

44 I rimpathiee deeply in die aidep Akita keg iota deems
,winter Lee entailed on my people ; but &silty is era itedve—and

it is with greet satisfaction that 1 have man the pogrom woo
Inviehod upon iodise= fa all pens of the kingdom, and roden-
t/Ely in my pod dty of Paris.

" GINTLIXEN,
" The int desire of my Mut is es me Prance happy sad se.
`specs* developing all the riches et bee esU, and all the piths et
lee beltway ; and may I add, enjoying in peace insdatkos, the
bleaslag of which it is my Our puree to onsolidate. The Charier
boo placed the liberty of the osuntry under the ashpord of my
Crews, and them debts an sowed. My duty towards my people Is
imaimistib to thissit them mire to ray wromemes.
0 Pumas Or • Famics—Dsronts Or DZPAITXZNTI,
".I doubt not your anxiety to tact the pod which I am minlene
to amempilth. Yon will reject the peritlious thohniatisas whliii"
any ontleivour to preppie. If sulky neepeuvrai
flitedd else iip gem my pvetooteet obeiedes will I de let
erii to finesse, I shell fad the power of surnmendis them in Inv
riindos ti melon& the pall,. plan, In my Oa esoliksee in.
ay pis*, and la the in,. which they Iwo always ohm •to thole
lOW

PORTUGUESE REGENCY.

--- Frain tke Paguite du Portugal.

The regency of the kingdom of Portupl, 'duri4 the usurpation
of Don MOW, has been appointed by the Emperor Don Pedro, in
his quality of fither and llama' protector of the young Queen, his
daughter. This regency is composed of the Marquis de Palmella,
President ; of the Count de Villa Floe, and M. Guareiro, Members.

After haring beard the klarquis of Be:beans upon the state of
'the affairs of the Queen, the Emperor, convinced of the necessity of
making every exertion to accelerate the restoration of the throne of
Portugal, sent M. Masearenhas, a chevalier of high din.
tinetkm and great merit, with proper atlas to cause the re.
gency to set out foe Terceira, where it is to be installed, and to make
itself obeyed and acknowledged : and where it will publish a
manifesto to the Powers of Europe, making known to than by what
authority it is established, and at the nme time all measures will be
taken for mass in the: noble enterprise which the Emperor:of
Brasil has most at heart, that is to say, the restitution tithe rights
of hie august daughter.

We are informed by persons entitled to the highest credit, that
the Emperor does not himself decline anything that an contribute
to the expulsion of his rebel brother from the kingdom of Portugal,
and that be requires only that the regency nominated by him
shall go to put itself in the exercise of its functions, and show to
the powers of EUrope, that Don Miguel Is not in peaceable pone&
slob of the usurped kinglet"; that there exists a government es-
tablished by a legitimate aatiserity, which defends the rights of the
Queen, and which canbets agile the fame of the Usurper. The
government id letbe admewiedgetileglimem inEensil, and all ma.
tares will beilletted which may be easidimed proper for the re-es-
tablishment oldie Liskissasy in Portugal. Wentre informed that
the Emperor., is preparing himself Dr all the merlins which
the contest may require ; and that be will not desist from
an enterprise in which his own beam as well as the fortune
of his daughter are compromised. M. Masesrenhas, who has
been received by the ministers and other eminent personages with
the respect and distinction due to his high quality and character, is
charged by the Emperor with three important commissions, the
execution of which could not be commenced before the departure of
the two members of the Regency who were in this capital.
The Marquis Pelmells, who is the President, prepared imme-
diately fur his departure for the post of honour whither his duty
called him. It must be remembered that the Marquis has mai.
aced envy thing to the noble cause of Ms legitimate Queen ; he
has lost his immense property in Portugal; his heed is proscribed
there, and be is reduced to live, us well as his numerous family,
in the most moderate style. No man has lost more or evinced more
&voles than be; ever above all dist the injustice and calumny of
some of his countrymen would do to tarnish his virtues which his.
tory would piece alongside the most distinguished. It is the fate of
merit in misfortune to be a buts for the fury of all parties !

Some men who would do themselves honour by following in the
steps of the Marquis Parnell*, have dared to accuse him of being a
poltroon. His late actions sufficiently show the infamy of the ac.
cusation. With him has set out the young Count d'Alva, as a
volunteer; he is gone to join several others of the young
men of the first mighty who have been for a long time at Terceira,
under the command of M. de Vim.* Ft.oa : he left his family in
Paris : his property has been seized in Portugal. When we see the
most respectable nobility of a country, and all the people of pro-
perty of every rank in a cause which the law calls legitimate, one
cannot restrain the indignation which must be excited by the vague
and ;calumnious scatsations of rebels and republicans, which an
English Minister has brought against these illus. rious men, who
have Teenaged the King and the Queen, whom the British Govern.
meet has meognised, sad recognises still.
The Government :of the Queen of Portugal, once established
Ist Terceira, there will be • rival to oppose to the Usurper of
Portugal ; a rival who, being always in action against
the usurpation, places this same Usurper in a state of war
with the legitimate power; and consequently removes him from the
ereognitioa of governments which cannot, in ease of neutrality, assist
with their recognition one of the belligerent parties. This would
happen did even the European Powers find themselves well disposed
I in timer of Don Miguel, which happily is not the case.
The first necessary effect of the establishment of the regency, is
the suspension of all negociation on the part of the agent of Don Ml.
guel an the subject of the recognition; the second is, the great en-
couraganent which this measure will give to the unfortunate Portu-
guese, who:gtnan ander the yokeof the usurper in Portugal. They
will see that the emperor does not abandon them : that he does not
tenet than that he will have nothing to do with his rebel brother:
and that be will make every exertion to achieve success as speedily
as possible in the enterprise of the restoration.
They will make every effort to assist their relatives in Terceira,
because they wW see there is one end, one object to which all the
measures are directed, and that the man who puts this machine in
motion is a powerful monarch, the father of their legitimate queen,
who will never rest until the Portuguese throne shall be restored to
his august daughter.

M. LAME is dangerously ill; should he die, France
would lose in him an eloquent orator and a vigorous op-
ponent of the Polignac ministry.—Figaro.
Madame CATALAN' ham arrived in Paris. The public
expect the pleasure of hearing that celebrated singer
in the concerts which Paganini is about to give.
One of our richest men lately offered to one of our
most distinguished singers a sum of 40,000 francs for a
single interview. The following is the answer which
the great man received : " If I Were to be sold. I might
have obtained long since an hundred times the amount of
the sum you offer me ; and if I wished to sell myself, I
would have sought some one who would have set a.
ibundred times greater value upon me than you do."—

Figaro .
It is said that the King of Denmark is about to give a
new constitution to his dominions, including a national
representation. It will be remembered that the Kings of
Denmark have been absolute sovereigns for nearly two
centuries, from the voluntary surrender of their privileges
by thetepresentadVei of the States.
In a German paper we End a letter of the celebrated
traveller Humboldt, stating that a magnetic cabinet,
which be had formed at Berlin, had been broken open
by thieves, and the instruments placed in it for the obser-
vation of the horary variations of the magnetic needle
stolen.
The application, or rather call, which the town off'
Cadiz made to the other provinces of Spain to contribute
according to their population and wealth to a grand expe-
dition beyond sea, has, according to the Courrier Fran-
cais, produced no effect.
The heads of the departmental administrations have
received from Governments circular which enjoins them
set le present for candidates .to ministerial places and
fiends= any citizen who shall have signed the Act of
Asissiadea for the Waal of the illegal impost.—Firar°.
A society has been formed at Paris for the publication
of cheap_treatises, Bulgier to the Society for the Diffusion
of Usetaiiirmowisirs in this country. It is called the
11,111 MI embraces amongst its members
= 3 tt 11ue
rha
lovers of freedom and pro-
moters of insineetisa in France. Its proposed publica-
tions will assent in 300 volumes, divided into three
aeries, each vanes NOW at two francs or 20d.
Viscount Melville held a levee yesterday at the Admi-
ralty, which was attesdeiliby a number of Naval Officers.
Mr. Lawrence and a Deputation from the Seger Re-
16eis steepled._
_ywiWik7 st tbe Office el the Board of
1%4,
.remk had a •res.“ with Mr. Hume, of the
Cesamml;:emilsome Gentlemen tithe Oirice.