Star.
London, England, 1822-03-14 00:00:00

..„;.se flecretery,:wiso
Iteepir; bad WOOL it ins net,coislisent with the state—Si%
dountky, to keep up, where there were to few troops, a
erbice cost annually 11411008. The neat Account for whiefhlll.
wished was that, oaths louses built and . provided fit lid
Civil and Military 011 curs. Some of these, he was
to shew, were let for Meg ' purposes • and so the Huth V
see the propriety lit %gains hao the matter, and '
such of the bottom asUress Dot available• for riblit pftessi' to
1$ sad He.elieeefore moved for a _Return of the Isllllllll le
which the sum. of 55,0001. for ordinary expatira,./.441211- yawl
the head of beds and beddin&s, and 40,0001. forprdquiceiessailj
all voted in ale jeer IE2I, had been expended, Hating the *eft;
eel items; .ind the breathes of •expense under which they MI. • I
Mr. B.W AsO entered into an explanation of tier Op
which the'sums had been disposed of. but to give tile
lion which the Hon. Gentleman moved for, would hi
with verytAreat expetne, is titre labour muht be in the
ks
making olit. With regard to the houses no 'm
departmont.,ras allowed to let out one of them.
Mr. W f LAlOl' justified the establishment of Denterara.whero
the expeose► were necessary for the maintenance of the place as.
a military defence.
The first motion was agreed to with an amendment moved by,
Mr‘Waan—u as far u the saws could be made out."
Mr. HUMS next moved for accounts of the manner in which
the following sums had been disposed of-:-C15,000 for beds and
bedsteads' £40,000 for stores, £15,000 for contingencies; also
the several sums under the head of repairs; the number of
Kos to whom the £14,000 had been psid, under the bead of
Clerks of Works • accounts of the house-reot paid for all houses
belonging to-the Ordnance—these motions were agreed to.
Mr. numß again referted.to Demerara, and contended that
that colony should protect itself, and that Great Britain ought
not to contribute one shilling towards protecting Its sugar plan-
tations. He then moved for a Copy of the Estimates of the
Works to be done in Demerara, fur which 10,0001. had been voted:
Mr. GOU ',BURN said that the money bad been expended
in preventing the sea from washing away the town of Kingston,
in Demerara.
Mr. BEN NET contended that the colonies ought to protect
themselves, and he was sure they could do so, if they were pro-
perly governed.—The motion was then agreed to.

lighteeid 'iota:tuts have let stetipestfeeward to ex-
pose thellaiing of the Agrictthtirgliiis.l; Are the. at-
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tisaus of :Or; .90foltet, .rttft Viego‘ ,reduced to the
logrest scOliktollo tel:olPOT4iiir, to pay the landlords
exclusively, as irshasellandlordtwaraxeusallrpublic
•officers ? for such lithetbjetti and 111.*t of that outcry
that a system,ticlaitise of chlittMelifitow
—We pmitit44i*rti to this topic, *OR
.ttostt,
that we shall be supported in Our endeavours by all'
the liberal patt of the Press. In the meantime we
throw out for it text, that the end mid object of all
the stir about the fat farmers- having now less Port
and Punch than during the war,, is to increase the
price of the quartern loaf; and we• appeal to the

whole manufacturing interests of the kingdom whe-
ther the present rate of wages can admit of any in•
crease,without encroaching on the capital which they
employ ? We also draw theit:attention to this fact,
that the Agriculturalists are attempting to intimi-
date the Government and Legislature to grant
an undue preference to their particular interests.—
If the farmers are to go on with Petitions to get
the price of the quartern loaf raised, the artizans,
and the community at large, should look to them-
selves. and make it be felt that they have interests
as precious to the welare of the State as those of
the landlords—interests which, in a legislative point
of view, perhaps, deserve the preference; for the value
of all the property in land, depends, in a great mea-
sure, in this country, on the prosperity of the com-
mercial and manufacturing interests.

Notwithstanding the professions which Ministers
make, night after night, of their wish for every re-
duction that can be made, consistent with the public
interests, yet, with a pertinacity which is peculiar to
men in office, they contest every inch of ground with
these who. propose lopping off a few useless places.
In the case of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty,
they were indiscreet enough to push the question to a
vote, and were defeated. Last night, when Lord
NORMANAT moved that one of the Postmasters-Ge-
neral might he reduced, the Ministers, unable to
make any defence, relied on their numbers, and had
a majority tantamount to a defeat, an entire defeat,
so far as the principle and the feelings of the HOuse
of Commons were concerned.
Lord.NoustANav sheaved very clearly that there
was so little necessity for two Postmasters-General,
that one Nobleman (the Earl of CLANCARTY) held
that office in the years 1813 and 1814, when em-
ployed on a diplomatic mission to tl:e Continent; and
that Lord Cm ESTERFILLD, on being examined in 1797
before a Committee, and asked, in case of a '
ference of opinion between the two Postmasters
General, how it would be decided ? answered, that
no difference of the kind arose, but if any such had
arisen, he supposed that the junior officer would
give way to the senior.
It is rather curious to find how the question was
met last night. Mr. Romwson opposed the abolition
of the office, because he felt that no sufficient ground
bad been stated to induce the House to diminish the
influence of the Crown. To this it was well observed,
by Sir JOSEPH YORKE, that the influence or dignity
of the Crown, in a loyal and well-disposed country,
did not require to be bolstered up by half a dozen
useless offices. Mr. Peat. vindicated the two offices on
account of their antiquity : how many absurd and
iniquitous measures might be advocated on.the same
principle!

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY vindicated, the office
of Junior Postmaster-General as a necessary part of
" the machine of Government," which, it would ap-
pear from his Lordship's speech, is like a stop watch,
so nicely adjusted that the removal of a single pin will
entirely derange it. Mr. STUART WORTLEY gave a
more singular reason than any of the Ministers for
preserving the office, namely, that if he consented to
that reduction he might be asked to consent to some
other a very singular reason certainly for retaining
a useless office

The French Papers of Monday add little informa- '
tion as to the late disturbances. Eight of the most
active in uttering seditious cries have been transferred
to the hands of justice. It appears that the number
of persons arrested in Paris on the evening of Friday
last amounted to 230. Nothing further is stated IL-
, specting General BSRTHON and his band of insur-
gents. The silence of some of the French Journals,
and the obscure notices of this affair by others, affords
strong presumptive proof that there is something in
the aff.:ir which the Government wishes to conceal.

Private letters from PAris, dated on Monday even-
ing, mention the closing price of the Fite per Cent!.
on that day at 88fr. 50c. exclusive of the dividend
of 21r. 50c.

An extract of a letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, dated
March 5, says:—" Advises from Waisaw annoence
that an extraordinary courier has brought an order
to the Gvieral-in-Chief of the Russian Army of the
Wes►. to proceed without delay to the Southern Pro-
vinces of the Empire. It is armed, that on the
occasion of the-ensuing marriage of George IV. with
a Danish Princess, a treaty of alliance will be con-
cluded between England and tienmatk, in which

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so late a date as the accooats _ dying,' .the
parls•Journals. Cosint TOIRIVIOI on passittedllo•lo
Vittoria, on his way to Prance, was received with
Area enthusiasm by the Public Bodies there. At
'!lluitcia a list has been published of such persons N
awe to ke arrested* either for their share in the late
twilit, in' that city, or for the ardour in which they,
have declat4d their political opinions. Among those
already arrested is Don THOMAS JUAN &INMAN%
who being known as an enlightened =4 moderate pap
trios., his imprisonment has caused great surprise.
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Two Flanders Mails arrived this morning, bringing.
Brussels Papers to the 9th of March. They do not
contain a single article of the slightest importance,
unless an article from the Austrian Observer of the
20th ult. containing some speculations on the reverses
of the Greeks, can be considered as such. This Paper,
proverbial for its unauthenticated details, and its en-
mity to the cause of the Greeks, state that they have
abandoped Arta, and that CHOURSCHID PACIIA is ne-
gociating with several tribes, particularly the Suliots.
The account is, however, entirely silent as to the
death or capture of Au PACIIA, and only speaks of
his approaching fall . . ,

A file of American Papers have been received this
morning, but not of alater date than those of yesterday
INFORMATION TO MRRCHANTS.—We learn (says.
the Baltimore Patriot), that instructions have been
given to the Officers of the Customs to reject all cer-
tificates of goods landed in foreign ports, where a
Consul of the United States is resident, and which
come without the verification required by law under
his signature, as well as invoices of goods paying ad
valorem duty, no certificates of foreign Officers beifig
of any validity.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LAGUIRA, JANUARY 13.
General La Torre sailed a few days since for Coro,
.with 600 men.; and I think it will be a Quixotic expe-
dition. On the 3d of January, General Paez marched
from Caraccas for the lines in Valencia; the priva-
teers and boats have dropped down the river, and it
is expected Puerto Cavello will soon be taken.
EXTRACT OP A LETTER FDOM PORTO BiLL:O, DEC. 8.
The city of Plaza is short of all kind of provisions;
there is not a single barrel of flour in the place, and
the last sold at forty dollars per barrel.

Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Lord MAST..
moitoustin, at bis house in Savillegow.
Tuesday the Duke of Yoas held a Levee at his Office in the
Horse Guards, which Wks attended by Sir Wu.ualt Cotteanve,
General Fans, and upwards of twenty Officers, together with
several elt-gsntly-dressed Ladies.
The Marquis of HUN 11.1* won the cup at the late Melton
Coursing :llratu g.
MORE SUCCESS AT lIAZ‘RWS!!—No. 7,839, drawn
this day a Prize of Twenty' Thousand Pounds, was Sold in
Shares by Hazaan and Co. who also Sold In Shares No. 467,
drawn a Prize of Twenty Thousand Pounds in the first day of
drawing, last Tuesday fortnigh'.
Dcrt..—A meeting tskik place yesterday morning in the Re-
gent's Park, between a Mr. T—s and a Captain After
the first fire the secomrs interfered, and the parties were re
conciled. Captain 11. was slightly wounded in the left hand.—
The dispute originated at the Opera House on Tuesday night.
Deonnzna Etscrios.—At.the final close of the poll on Satur-
day, the numbers were :
For Mr. Siff=

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For Mr. PM/40M - 307
Whereupon Mr. San-re was declared duly elected, chaired, and
carried in triumph through the principal streets. •
DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.—COUNTY LIMERICK.
—Last week, a party of armed insurgents visited se-
veral houses in the neighbourhood of Castlemahon,
near Newcastle, in search of two young women of
the name of Hassett, who were in the service of some
farmers. On ascertaining the house where one of the
girls lived, the door was broken in, and she was
dragged ot't on the road and violated by those mon-
sters ! It is, however, some consolation to the out-
raged laws, that three of these hOrtible ruffians were
apprehended on Wednesday night. A sister to one of
the young women was a witness on the Crown prose-
cutions, at the late Special Commission in Limerick.
Several houses have been attacked and their win-
dows demolished, in the counties of Limerick, Kerry,
Clare, and Kildare. A letter from Edenderry, in the
last-mentioned county, dated the sth instant, Says—
" Sunday night, a party. of rebels, within four milei
of us, attacked a public-house, to get at a farmer, of
the name of Hurst, in order to murder him ; after
some resistance, he got out at a back window, and
was pursued ; he leaped a ditch, and a servant-boy
who was with him took a pistol out of his hand, fired
at the pursuers, and shot one in the foot. The noise
brought the police tq the spot, and they .took six.pri-
soners, two of thern strong farmers, who were on
horseback, directing the business. They were pro-
ceeding to burn the house, when Hurst made his escape.
These men were committed to Naas jail yesterday.
At the Limerick Special Sessions, on the 2d inst.
five men were convicted under the Insurtection Act.
The Judge sentenced them to transportation, and
added I call upon the Magistrates to stand to
their posts, and to discharge their duty with firmness
and vigour." His Lordship then said, " Mr. Sheriff,
you have the cars in readiness to take the prisoner's
forthwith to be transported ?" 1 have, my Lord."
The prisoners were then bolted ; the streets were
crowded, the windows of the different houses were
full, the greatest demonstrations of sobbing, as if it
were a funeral, were manifested by the populace.—
One of the prisoners took off his hat and cheered the
populace. %There were twenty-four infantry and sig
cavalry in attendance.; and, the Whole shad the ap-
pearance of an execution.
It is reported in Ennis, that £4QOO.waS takes' fro.
the Rev. Mr. Parker,. of Ballyvally; to tits county of
Clare, on Monday night.
At the Rathkeale Special Bessioits; David Domini.
was found Guilty for being absent from his hal&
when the prisoner, arid. " Iluisk.=l324 Ws, it-ti
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, grid esertios, SSA Wafer kad ate this si
ma Maass, id •bassorippMmat limit& The he,
,ilikagbitissi mod ,Dassetiassi. Mid and Coidiseas Cassia;
Ad Oprffitrilit Ammar Bitadaaa, add sieve distiagaisbed
....h."081.5. OillAicillet!il!sliairkip front, two it* e'docki,..
raio 'simile' wig been nitinti het With a keen and penetraSse
ligniessiTios Debt of Wsturstowparesst of softie brisk att.
Iffilpsterday with oar sabecriptiaii peek of barriers. ' •
le asc..4 :
.101.10 1... 11d4/ AL IN7'ELIJGENCE. .
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. Itaatagnis,,Maaciett-.-illried SA Vr.-44144 the Rimes
igoi,p of war, ogi a cruise; and Jersey. DITI#LL. cur Jersey:
Paywours, Mason it.— Ind R.S.N.—Arrived the Louisa.
Li ffas, from °broker for Jersey.--Sailed the Maria, 3/numi,„
vox,. foe Cardiff and Mite; Retreads, -IPlasiv, for Tent-tires
and Tarantula, Wasson, for Booms Ayres.
)Imzetyouvu, Maus 13. Wind. .&L--Arrived she Mal-
vin*, arrssos from the Downs for the Mediterranean; and
Ads 's slip Bass, from dittci for Africk.—SaUed his via.
jesty's ship SALIM:MT, for Plymouth and Bermuda.
Hstwacs, Maaca IL—Sailed the Vansittaxt packet, with
!jails for Holland.
Rornsoozax Maus 13:—The Kidlap, Blazer, of Dart-
issith, from Messina, with oranges, got on shore els morning,
abase Aye o'clock, a little to the eastward of Salt Dean 6?.?, ix
the port of Newhaven, where she still remains. The into will
be landed.
DIAL' Mmtcn 13.—Wind South.—Sailed for the River, the
Lloyds, WARD from Honduras. Arrived and sailed for tts
River, the Maria, Casessirne, from St. Michael's ; andCarollre,
Cousnts
o'i from Newcastle for Lisbon. The latter remains.--
Sig Clock.—A light breeze has sprutig,up from the S.S.E. and
the .whole of the outward-bound are under weigh.—Sev.n
o'Clock.—The Mangles, Hooghly, and Palamt;sm, have rounded
the South Foreland.

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RAMSGATI, MARCIE 13.—Arrived, the Allies, Bissau, from
London fur Buenos Ayres, with loss of an anchor.
Cusrox-Ilousz, MARCH 13.—Entered Inwards;—The
front Tarragona ; Friends, and Commercial, from Odessa; Toct.
from Gibraltar; Blessing, from St. Michael's; Gosport, tram
Oporto; Mediterranean, from Sr. Thomas's ; and Auspicious,
(runt Cork.—Cleared Outwards:—The Florida, for .ilgiers ;
Trafalgar, for St. Mary's ; Fits Unique, for Rouen ; Aleasrldet
for Quebec ; Navigator, for Venicc; Cordelia, and
for Dublin; and Lovely Ano, fur Malta.

MEETING OF THE FIREEHOLDE•RS OF
MIDDLE.SEX.

This morning, a Meeting of the Freeholders of the County a
Middierez took place at the Mermaid Tavern, Haeltney,!o taka
into consideration the system of enormous Taxation, the pre
sent Distressed State of the Country, &c. A, twelve o'clocli :he
great room was nearly MIA by a numerous and respectable tiudy
of Freeholders. Amongst the Noblemen and Gentlemen pre,et:t
were—the Duke of Bedford, Lord John Russell, Sir F.
Messrs. Hobhouse, P. Moore, Whitbread, Lamb, Altlerrn::n
Wood, Ste. The Sheriff (Garrett) arrived at twelve. 'lnc num-
bet still increasing, much caution is used to prevent the h' proper
introduction of Non-freeholders into the room. Th:!
was just proceeding to business when our Reporter Lft the

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.

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• . (Prom the 'Minas, Sunday Yeteepaper).
It kg Itinartable fact, that in the great outcry which a; r'::.
sent exist, about Agricultural Distress, the farmers of 570t1.r..1
tgke Qo part ; we believe there has not been a single Scottub
petition to either House of Parliament on the subject. The
Morning armlet:: had lately some very sensible remarks, tend-
ing to aim that the distress peculiar to the English farmer is, i:1
no small degree owing to the expensive and wasteful system
husbandry which be pursues, in spite of all that has been titre
by agricultural writers and societies, to correct and improve
habits. The County Herald of Friday last, furnishes a fz::
%Wats may be regarded as decides of the truth of this view t:
the case.' " An experhnent," we are told, " was lately trie.l in
order to ascertain the thifereoce between the working of t:ie
1
long mould-boarded plough (used within 25 miles of London ,
with four bqrses, a man and driver, and a common light Scotch
plough, with a pair of carriage horses and reins. The rest:::
turned out; that the pair of horses ploughed in six hours, oie
acre, nine inches deep by twenty, walking at the late of Pere
miles an hour; thefour hoists ploughed ias/f an acre, seikni::,..hee
deep by nine, stepping two miles an hour." Of tours;,
four horses with the heavy English plough can only do hay the
work of a pair of horses with the light Scotch plough, ch, le.l
than eight horses and two ploughs must be usually required br
some English farmers to perform what the Scotch do with two
horses and one plough. Here theu are six horses and our Vout.,
the expense,' which inizle positively semi, and whit& we vay :a
round numbers estimate thus:
Annual interest of £l4O, probable coat of six horses

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and plough -' - - - - .i's 0 0
Annual subsistence of horses, at 10s. per week each 1.5 d 0 0

£l6'2. 0 0
Now we can scarcely imagine but that the- loudest-tongued
complainer among the English farmers will allow that to save,
or, in other words, to have a present made to him of one tun-
dra( and sizey-hro POll nds per annum for every two ploughs he now
uses would be a very nice thing, and of quite as much avail in
relieving him from his difficulties as either the Malt Tax, or the
Salt Tax, or all the taxes put together. We bate net, at preser:,
any means of knowing bow widely the use of the mould-boarded
ploughiextends in England, and how many of the now distressed
agriculturists might be relieved by abandoning it ; but weave
a strong suspicion that it is extensively enough employed to form,
with other practices of dmilar extravagance, one of the most
important of the real causes of the existing Agricultural Distress.
May it not be a point deserving of Parliamentary inquiry, to as•
certain, in round numbers, how the tact really stands? flow
many suck ill-fashioned ploughs are used in England ? What
other wasteful practices exist which ought to be exploded ? What
the farmer tells us that he will be infallibly ruined If we do not
something or other to relieve him, can he think us either saucy
or unkind if we first ask him if he has done all that is in his
own power to svert such a crisis? You demand retrenchrreot
in the public expenditure,—have you done all that is practicable,
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fair, and reasonable in the way ok retrenching your own private
expense? You say the public service might be done fur this
and that less than it is at present: have you inquired at bow
much less your ow% private work might be executed ? Economy
is not mote an excellence and a duty in public than in private
life; and it must prevail equally, in both, bifore either the Bri-
tish farmers or the British people at large will be able to say that
they have a shilling to spare.
But, perhaps, we shall be told, that as, according to my Lord
Liverpool, too much corn on hand is the real cause of low prices
and unpaid rents, were every farmer, who can do with six hbrses
less than he now employs, to put them out of the way, it would
throw on the market the quantity of coca which these horses
consumed, and thus reduce prices still lower than ever. That
such would be the course of things we do not mean to deny ; but
the consummation is one which, for the sake of the suffering

poor of England, we should anticipate with unfeigned delight.
We shall never think bread cheap enough till every man, woman,
and child in the country can, with the wages allowed for hibocr.
purchase enough of it; and, at the present moment, we are well
convinced they can do no such thing. Raise these wages to their
proper level, and, as certain as day follows night, prises will
rise, and consumption increase, and the fanner of England agAiss
be thriving and contented. In this way,—and this alone, tbo
evil of falling prices, one of the greatest which can afflict a coun-
try, may be obviated : but let nu man be so foolish, so wicked,
so unchristian, as to attempt to interpose any unnecessary [D-
crease In the numbers of the brute creation, between man and that
abundance which a gracious Paovrnesct has designed for him.

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