Star.
London, England, 1814-03-25 00:00:00

HARWICH, MARCH 24.

No arrivals. Sailed the following transports, with
army clothing and ordnance stores, under convoy of
the HAsry gun-brig, for the Weser, viz. Apollo EE,
Isabella 3E, Mary JL, Triton EL, Jolly Bache-
lor JP, and the Elizabeth EE. Alb° sailed several
ships with merchandize for Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
Bremen, &c. &c.

The Dash, WriLsust, arrived at Diver yesterday
from the Havanna,' ; parted from the Jamaica Reet
in hit. A. long. 62.
The last London fleet for Jamaica arrived at
Kimzston cn the 24i1l of January, under convoy of
the Quers, Capt. Lard CoLvtu.E.

The following i% a list of the captures made by the
American frigate Essex, during her long and success•
till cruize in the Pacific Ocean last summer :
IAI 11:Kg or Ninsev E.—Me:presume, Y 7.1 tons, 11 men, 2
gnus; Purity, 973 ton:, 21 men, in gees; Georgians, 880 taus,
vi men, 6 guns; Atlantic, 331 tons, 94 men, 8 gun.; Greenwise,
338 tons, 2.5 men, itigurs ; Hector, stru tens, VS men, t I gum, ;
Catharine, frra tuns, lift sues, 6 guns; Rose, 8110 tons, 21 men,
8 guns.

Tae Neptune, ---, from Palermo and Gibraltar
to Lisbon, was abandoned by the crew on the 13.11
ult. near St. Jtdian's, and is supposed tr) he foundered.
The Mary Ann, BAILEY, bound to London, was
taken off the Burlings ; and agate oa the thhh
about 200 miles West of Oporto, by I'Llize French
schooner privateer, of our guns, which plundered
her, and. gave her up. She put back to Lisbon on the
15th instant.
Assistant-Surgeon J'ilkn, of the 7th West Intraa
giment, who was fully committed for trial for the
murder of SHEA, at Kingston, in November
last (as mated in a farmer Paper), has been acquitted
on the ground of insanity.
A dreadful tire broke out on the night of Fr;d:iy.
last, at Godmanchester, near Huntingdon, Owing ra
the carelessness, we understand, of a servant man,
who left a candle burning in a stable, where were
eight hums, seven of which were hurnt to Lleath, and
the eighth had its mine and tail burnt. The stable,
and
considerable barn a p
d joi
t,y wereofo
icdo nbceraoir,reLi wheat, the together with,
as
property of Mr. Kisby7
t CORN EXCHANGE., MARK-LANE, MARCH ci.

We have had a s!`ort sorpiy cf all gram inner Monday ; and
ohiwiiivaanding ,abie,h, the .ale of Wheat is rather heavy; y&1
our prices rent in as on that day. tiuley N Ys. i.er quaver
chcapei, and dull %ale at that decline. Beaus. being in At taa and%
are 2s. pre quarter higher. Oats are Is. per quarter Luster.
tng but ftw .rrtvalS ut %t►at attlriss. Itltstisre graiu sw .1.1t4"."`"1%

COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was': held
at Guildhall, which was very numerously attended.
REPORTsbe4IIB BREAD COMMITTEE.
Mr. Alderman Buten moved, that the printed Re-
port from the Bsead Committee, which was presented
to the Court last month, should be read.
The Report having been read accordingly,
The Worthy Aldermen said he now wished to call
the attention of Gentlemen to it. The Committee
from whom the Report came had been sitting for
upwards of five months. During that time, they
had been unremitting in their aaention to the subject
rr ferred to them, and if they had not fully attained
their object, that of Preventing imposition entirely, he
• • lireeed the public would ultimately derive consider-
able advantage from their labours. He concluded
by moving, " that the Court do agree with the Come,
mittee in their Report."
Mr. S. DIXON said he agreed most cordially with
many parts of the Report, but there were other parts
to which he never could give his anent. Indeed, he
had.never approved of that Court, or any ;;ther, in-
- terfering in the prices of provision, or attempting to
set a value on any man's commodity. In the course
of fifty years, during which period he had been en-
gaged in commercial concerns, he had never known.
such attempts succeed. He gave the Committee full
credit for their good intentions, so he did the Worthy
Alderman, their late Chief Magistrate, for his at.
tempt a- reforming the abuses which no doubt exis.
test on this subject; but however good the intention of
that s orthy Magistrate had been, he was persuaded his
judgment had been bad.—Mr. Dixon then proceeded
to comment at length on the Report, and the recom-
mendations it contained, amongst which was one re-
commending that the Corporation should purchase
the Corn Market—what good could result from such
a measure, he was at a loss to conceive. Another
subject adverted to in 'the Report was that of the
corn-grower not coming to market to dispose of his
own commodity : he (Mr. D ) would indeed be sur-
prised if he did, when it was considered that there
were few corn-glowers who did not reside more than
twenty miles from town, and how was it to be ex-
pected they could neglect their business at home to
come to town to attend the corn-mei ket. In his opi-
nion, the only step which could be adopted, that
avasuld be of any material service to the public, would
be to take off all restraints from the corn-dealer,
• flour.factor, and baker—to make the trade an open'
one, and by this means to introduce a competition
into the market. He would have the trade allowed
to fir their own price, as the butcher,. the tallow-
chandler, and others did. • If this was the, case, it
would become tire interest of every tradesman to sell
as cheap as he could, and the public would thus have
the benefit of competition. If some such recommen-
'dation as t!iis were introduced into 'the Report, it
should have his support, and he would now move as
an amendm-nt, " that it should be referred back to
the Committee for reconsideration."
Mr. Alderman WOOD seconded the motion. He
was convinced nothing would operate so much for
the benefit of the public as throwing the trade open.
"Mr. Alderman Scnoeuv felt himself called on to
• take this opportunity of answering a charge. which
had been thrown out against him, of not having
treated the Court of Aldermen with proper respect.
He denied the accusation altogether. He had al-
ways wished for the advice and assistance of the
Upper Court but at the time when it was imputed
to him that he should have called a Special Court,
he knew full well he should not have been able to get
a Court together. He was therefore obliged to act
on his own judgment. In all that he had done, he
. had been actuated by a desire to benefit the poor, to
whom bread was so essential an article of food, and
he was happy to say his conduct had been• approved
by many of the Aldermen, both' above and below the
Chair. He had laboured hard to get the fullest in-
formation on the subject ; out. of about 1700 bakers,
the number residing within tte bills of mortality, he
had personally seen upwards of 1200 ; three-fourths
of them had declared to him, that they were wholly
under the controul of the corn-factor or the miller ;
of the remaining 300, several of whom were men of
property, many were so well satisfied of the frauds
practised on their poorer brethren, that they declared
their determination, unless some alteration took
place in the system, to advance money themselves
for the building of mills which should be indepen-
. dent of the millers and corn-factors generally. He
, had also in the coarse of his enquiries discoVered that
gross frauds And evasions existed in making the re-
turns of quantities of flour bought and sold, these
frauds, he thought he could not, consistent with the
due discharge of his duty as Chief Magistrate pass over.
He was convinced the measure which would tend
most to do away imposition would be to throw open
the trade altogether.
Mr. JACKS had understood that the majority of thei
bakers were insolvent men ; they were, therefore,
likely to be under the controul of the factors and
millers. If the trade were thrown open, it would
rave the effect of inducing men of property to embark
in it, and the public would reap the benefit of their
being above the influence of designing individuals.
Mr. WAITUNIAN greatly approved of many parts of
the Report; and when he reflected on the momentous
object which the Committee had had to consider, he
• was astonished they had .done so much and erred so
little. He was, however, convinced nothing would
benefit the public so much as an open 'market and
free trade. He suggested to the worthy Mover of the
Amendment, whether it would not be desirable to
alter his Amendment, and insert these words: " that
the Report be referred back to the Committee to con-
t.:ter the propriety of recommending the doing away
the assize altogether."

Alter some further observations from Mr. Alderman
tIRCII, Mr. JACKS) Alderman Wool), and others,
Mr. DIXON. expressed his readiness to adopt the
Amendment suggested by Mr. Waithman, which was
accordingly put and a&reed to.
The Improvement Committee delivered in a Re-
port, for making a new Street from the West end of
Cheapside to Aldersgate-street, in lieu of the present
inconvenient passage for carriages, &c. through St:
Martin's-le-Grand, and for the erection of a new Post-
Office on part of the ground, which was read ; and,
after a Considerable discussi9n and debate, the consi-
deration thi.reof was, by a division, adjourned to the
next Court, The numbers being—For agreeing with
X9ott 37—Fur the Adjournment 38--Major ity 1.