Star.
London, England, 1812-09-21 00:00:00

GOLD AND BANK NOTES.

Gold is now selling at five guineas an onnce
paid for in Bank of England paper, but if paid fir
guineas the price is reS. 17s. 10 td. per ounce. At
this rate 65 or 66 guineas ate worth one hundred
pounds in Bank of England paper ; and yet there
are persons whn insist that the latter has suffered no
depreciation.
The sophistry employed. in this argument is troll
contemptible. What is a bank note but • promos
to pay the bearers certain quantity of gold? Ed
the promise been shaped into the form of a correct
coin [guineas] instead of nominal money, [pounchl
the common sense of mankind would have guar
dd
them against the pilfering effects of a system which
if not checked by the strong-hand of power, must*
evitably, and at no very distant period, ruin thego
vernment and the country.
The CHANCELLOR of the Exottenuatt intinued
lately, in the House of Commons, that energetic saw
sures•of Finance must be resorted to, to meet the de'
mands upon the national purse. Can it be othervid
if the present swindling system Is permitted to or
tintre ? In fact, from the present state of our Pr
menu, Government are paying fur all their con
30 per cent. above the coin price—in other words,
this time a small fraction above two-thirds of 11$
null amount of the taxes, would be equal to
demands upon the treasury, if the fabricators of p
money were compelled to act justly towards
public.
Are cur !tillers such miserable arithmetic's)" d
not to see this ?—so ignorant of the elements cf
tical economy as not to feel the cause of o:eir
embarrassments ?—No ! No ! We cannot think
contemptibly of their ii tellerts,
whatever may
from their-lips. Are they ignorant of the paper p
of bullion ? Are not their own agents at this m°
buying up silver coin at the rate of six sag!
nit thence per ounce, in place of five shillin pawl
pence, to enable them topay the army io th..,tr,,T,„ to
—For *hose benefit is this extra price PaN„cr' of
enrich men who issue paper with a lie ePonrre
it—a fallacious promise to pay the bearer c" 7.;
sum of Money. Carry one of these ploir ' i
£lOO back to the Office wherci it issued, diem
re!
the money and they give yin what ?—MoneY
'
• five new-made lies for 4E20, or 100 smaller es id
20 shillings each.
be taxed SO per cent. above the real expend. 14i;
-Is it equitable?. Is it politic that the publire:r_
enrich private individuals ? Meet ale. bi4ta
fortitude, or it wig destroy You!!

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We havesetn stetttr from en Meer in the-71st
Regiment, dated Llerena, on the 18th August. lie
describes Soutr's army as being then within emit
leagues of that of General HILL, to which the 71st
regiment is attached, and acids, that an action *as
considered inevitable.
An E xpedition, tinder Admiral FREEMANTLEb con-
sisting of about 5090 men, which lately sailed from ,
Malta, has arrived at Lissa, in the Adriatic.
I
at three o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT, The 24 battalion of the Gth Regiment is ordered
by the Duke of CUMBERLAND, took an for Fortugal•
carriage to Richmond and back. I There are to be twa additional troops to the Royal
.of marriage was signed at Fredericks. Horse Guards (Blue), previous to their going on ser-
; 22d August, between the Princess Jutaa. vice. The '2d battalion of the 81st is ordered to join
a Denmark, and Prince FREDERIC Louts of the Ist battalion in Portugal.
Phillipstahl. 4 The Royal Horse Guards (Blue) have their head.
vednesday last was held the anniversary quarters now at Itumferd, and their eentouneenta ex.
Whiehwood Forest, Oxfordshire, called tend as near the metropolis as Hampstead, previous
:air r the weather being very fine, at- to their being inspected, before going on foreign
most numerous and brilliant assemblage , service.
v.-amongst whom were, the Duke of • The MELPOMENE sailed on Friday from Porti- ,
it; Lord F. A. Sprit watt and family, mouth for the Nore, As take a part of the Guards to
ADEIT and family, sm. &c. I Spain.
promised new Opera at the Lyceum Theatre,
Several regiments in Ireland age ordered for Spain.
The dress of the 10th Hussars (the Reciter's regi-
ment) of Mr. Cons, is postponed fora few : ment) is to be blue and gold, without facings.
account of the absence from town of the i Major GARDINER, of the 6th Foot, is appointed an
:RANCELLOR, whose leave must be obtained 'MAIM Adjutant-General on the Staff of Great
• be performed. Britain.
Theatre of Drury-lane, which appeani Rear-Admiral COCKBURN will sail from Portsmouth
to be larger than the Theatre of Co- for Cadiz, the Moment the wind is fair. ' The Matte-
is calculated to containless, by about IDonoucte 74, Captain ItObS, bearing his flag, went
latter. t down to St. Helen's on Friday, wi h the convoy for
staircase at Drury-lane Theatre, is spoken Lisbon and the Mediterranean. Lieutenant-General
curious specimen of building yet ex. W. STEWART goes out to Lisbon with the detach-
it appears to support itself without any ments that have embarked in Ar present fleet.
external aid. . Lieutenant Davis, of the Wrgston Militia, was
The following is a pretty correct List of the Thee- lately tried in Jamaica for sending an excuse of indis-
trice! Staff, under Which the ensuing Campaign will position to his Commandmg Officer, Colonel M•Do-
e opened on the boards of New Drury : • NALD, by a priSate WllO WAS on duty. The Court-
Mrs. Jordan, Miss Smith, Miss Duncan, Mn Mountain, . martial found Lieutenant DAVIS guilty of Contra.
Bland, Mrs. Glover, Miss /kw, mrs.Dickons, mrs.spariss, 'feeling the 77th section of the Militia Law, and
Orger, Miss Valency, and Mis Home, - though it recommended him to mercy, the penalty of
Bannister, Wroughton, Pope, Elliston, Johnstone, £lOO was strictly levied.
.night, Lovegrove, ChM my, .Rowell, Holland, Russel, "
An order has just been issued by Sir Jona il owl,
Terry, Smith, T. ?Ankh, Raymond, Phillips, Yyne,
Horne, and Palmer. the Commander if the Forces in Ireland, in which
r, Mr. Arnold; Stage Manager, .Mr. Raymond; the several General and commanding Officers of the
Mr. T. Dibdin. Army at large in that Country. are complimented
Mr. HotmAN and his daughter arrived at Halifax' upon the very excellent manner in which the good
4 Scotia, on the '2sth ultimo, after a passage of order and discipline, of the troops has been conuuct-
weeks. They were to proceed to New-York ell ; and remarking upon the system by which the
.Gdiately. discipline of the several regiments has been ciaaduct-
Friday last was the adjourned day for licencing ed with moderation and zealous superintendence, and
victuallers in Surrey. Five new public-houses i bestowing several well-merited encomiums on several
_ licensed in the per sh of Lambeth. 'The license liegiments who have conducted the discipline in their
of Vauxhall was finally refuel, after several hours respective corps u ithout severity; particularly ad.
consultation. The ground of the refusal was the late vesting to the case of corporal punishment, and
,masquerades. ~ . highly approving of the system which tends to pre-
AR PARKS.—The charming state of the weather yes- ,vent rather than punish crimes in our Army.
Yesterday afternoon a fracas happened in the Com-
terday, induced most of the fashionables in town to
walk in Hyde Park, which appeared sts numerously mercial Road, Whitechapel, which had nearly ended
Serjeata on the R .
in -a
fatal manlier. A Marine , Re
-
Amon as in some'ot the early months of the season.
. cruising service, endeavoured to secure a man he had
Among the most distinguished personages were :.
The Poi tuguese Ambassador Dowager Lady Jersey, bard enlisted, who attempted to get •t way, being seconded
sad Lady 2.11.. tun, Lord and Lady' Mark Kerr, Lary Le De by die mob ; the Sark:int, to oppose the great odds,
spencer, and Miss Spencer. Lady Portmore, Hon. Mrs. bun. , was induced to draw-his sword, which was wrested
Dope, Count Isrrysegui, Lord Darnley, Mr. Byng, Mrjur Collier, from him, and himself taken to the watch-house.—
Mr. Dame, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Coates, ace. &c. i The affair fortunately endtd without bloodshed.
St. James's Park was also attended by a crowd a Friday night a shocking occurrence took place at
company, and the mot n, which rose nearly full, ren-
Radstock. Corporal Green, who had been tot- same
dered the evening so pleasant, that many of the pro- time in Bath, with a recruiting party of Marines,
menaders prolonged their stay to a late hour. . went over to the above place, with the avowed pur-
A letter from Holland, gives, by way of comment pose of apprehending a deserter ; but called on :i ne-
on the French accounts of the high spires of their speetab:e young woman of the name of Smith, to re-
armies in Russia, and the luxuriant abundance of. new his addresses, which had formerly been rejected
their supplies, the following extract of a letter from 'by her parents. They walked out together in the
a Dutch conscript to his mother in Amsterdam : neighbouring lane, when the villaiu, in a tit of des-
* I cannot better inform you of our situation here peration, took out a double-barrelled pistol, the con.
than by referring. you to Sr. Paul's Ist Epistle to the tents of one of. which he disch..rged at the unfortu.
.Carrinthians, chap. iv. vet. 11. which runs as follows : nate young woman, and with the other shot himself
even unto the present hour, we both hunger, and through the head. He died on the spot, but his in-
least, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no tended victim survives, and hopes are entertained of
attain dwelling place." her ultimate recovery. A woman, in passing through
Letters from Jamaica mention that PETION had ad- the lane, heard the man exclaim, 64 in that case we
vexed to Cape Francois with 19.,000 men, and that s ill both die together." She had not eroceetled above
Ikeseat of Iris late rival's power had quietly submitted a hundred yards, when the reports tf the pistol in.
Wes atithority. The garrison consisted only of SOO duced her to return, and was the first witness of this
OIL The treasure which CH RISTOPHY had amassed dreadful scene. a
the most unjust exactions, to the amount of seven OmMEMPOMMI•IipI.;=I.=•••• ~
as cif dollars, had fallen into his bands. Pee wee - A Danish flag of truce arrived at Heligoland on
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is said, had issued a Proclamation, declaring that the 7th ; several British who had been made prisoners
this money should be applied inestablishing the affairs were landed from her.
of the island. He was extremely popular. It was.ex- . 'lle Gazette, of Saturday, offers a reward of IE2OO •,
petted he would issue a Proclamation, recalling all the for tee discovery of the persons who aided the escape
kenier white inhabitants. Several vessels, filled with lof the French General MAUKINt and Iris brother,
passengers, had gone from Jamaica and St. Thomas's, ! Captain MA yaw, who absemedettlioni Abergavenny
meter the persuasion that they should be protected by ! on the Ist inst. in violation of their parole of honour. ;
the new government. Morn Nor, it is said, was the I The Candle states, that these prisoners are supposed 1
Ptiucipal fortress which held out against him. Ito have embarked at Deal, or its neighbourhood, on
t board a boat named the Star, Jonsi Lewis, Muster,
A letter from Heligoland, dated September 10,
lals--" The same rigorous system continues to be : te have been landed at Boulogne, about the eth inst. and
enforced on the opposite -coast, to prevent all inter- , It ii added, that the persons who aided their escape
sane with England, or the sale of British goods. are supposed to be same that aided in the escape of
tenet upon bureau has been established to accom.4 General LEveavitE from Cheltenham. Likewise a
elfish this object, and so organized as to be each a reward of 45°°' and his Majesty's pardon, for the
'boa upon the other, and to make every individual i discovery of the writer or writers of two anonymous
belonging to them interested in fulfilling his instruc-
threatening letters, addressed to GEORDS BELLAMY,
1 lions rigorously. Particular points are assigned on Esq. Mayor of Plymouth. The fiist letter, which is
coast, at Which every vessel or boat must rendez- '
the dived Dublin, August '27, is to this effect : " You
vout ; and shou
ld they put in at any, other place, she shall die soon ; nothing human can prevent your
l'ee'. meletellcoasiderea :`smuggler and the master death. The enemies or Ireland shall get a terrible
Ject to 1,.
-- shot. At Harnbur leenoparcel lor blow seen." The second letter, without date, pro-
perg 1
best been
whatever is allowed to be forwarded till it has lases to come from a person who had been concern.
inthe plot, which the ed •
t eec crammed, and received the seals of two or
officers of the Customs or Police ; and any cask and resolutely determined . upon ;" but who, having
m package shipped must be separately examined and repented, wishes, by the warning he gives, to pre.
Lurked. In Denmark e_
English47fate__,
elation has
to have become more favourable, In the beginning of July a severe shock of as earth-
e Nicholas Mole, which
DEnglishls" has lately been published, permitting ake was experienced at Cap
~,, sobjects who have resided three years on the
anie,
frontiers, to travel in any part of the country." A violent shock of an earthquake was felt !..t Do.
We further 1 •
earn from this island, that the entry min ica, on the morning of the Bth of July. The con-
save
assembled at the mouth of the German rivers cushion, at the commencement, was very strong, and
shoat
60 gun-boats, whi •
ch are constantly on the look. its apparent direction from the westward ; its &re-
' eel, manceuvrin •
1,4 ,
__,g, and advancing within 20 miles of dun about five
seconds.
.. gcund. Their shallow drawhtenabled A light shock
e. e— so near tine shore, that they
e appro. Aof Wednesday,
of an earthquake was felt between
were in no
them ' eight and nine-o'clock on the eveninf
the Sd first. at &Anton. Hovering asn, and several
veiseis
that
the
__ our cruisers. It was in these
'gager of capture from
thil naval Hanseatic youth who are drawn for other noise re-
villages in Nottinghamshire, hindering on the
eeascri done,. were to acquire the nicliicie River Trout. It was acconspanied with a
llauticid kanwLdg nts sembling a violent,tushios wind, oat continued. mme
seconds.

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morning the Priocesies Caiintorrs of
voustA, and SoPuLas took an airion
the Great Park. The Princesses
MARY went to Coomb Wood, to Lord
to dine, escorted by a party of the l'Oes
returned to Windsor at seven.
mg her MAJESTY and the Patscasses
service performed before them in the Cha.
Istle. The Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES
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bad divine sere
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Went CO St. GI
Yesterday,
fccompanied b
siring in his ca
A contract c
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Oa Wednes
fleeting in Wh
the Forest Fai
tracted a most
of company—;
MARLBORO t
Sir F ButunEr
The promise
from the pen in
days, on acco
LORD CHANCY./
before it can be
The New T
from the stage
lent-garden, 11
£3O, than the 1
The new sta
of as the most
hibited, as it aj
external aid.
The follow it
trical Staff, un
be opened on t
Mrs. Jordan,
:Mrs. Bland, Mrs.
/Ors. Orger, Miss
Masts. Bonds
Dowton, Knight,
De Camp, Terry,
lifarstiAl, Horne
Manager Manager, Mr.:
b""Pia, Mr. 1
Mr. HOLMAI
NOVA SCOtI.I,
seven weeks.
immediately.
Friday last
the victuallers
were licensed i