Star.
London, England, 1822-05-04 00:00:00

destroctiort of the Sinking,
fension of it during the dist.
Mr. J. P. GRAN':argued,
ntractOrs ibbst he the loss
rte.. the Amendtrient,
Mt. JONES upported ~e Resolution.
elm whenever• it was proposed to f•-
tl,s. le!Lissioh would he er
rartial remissinaillfear).
• Mr. D. BROWN so;'
rent as calculated to Obis—
the country, and he -tberofore
f•
the original Malin&
Mr RENNET said, 'drat even before the diS-
-cussion of the subject, he bad had no doubt as to the
side on which thalion. Gentleman (Mr. D. Browne)
• vote. Many proposed reductions in the public
expenditure would have been carried in that-House,
had it not been for the Wight Hon. Gentleman,. and,
tho e who. like him*. universally voted for the mea-
sures of his Majesty ti Ministers. In his (Mr. Bennet's)
opinion, the whole of the Sinking Fund should be
applied for the relief of the Public. All that the
public creditor had a right to demand was the pay-
ment of his interest.—Strangers were then ordered
to withdraw, and the House divided—
For the original motion
For the Amendment • -
Majority - -
RANK CHARTER.
Mr. GRENPELL said, that at that late hour of
ett !1; ht he should not enter into a discussion of the
t.ltarter, unless called upon to do so by any ob-
servations relating to his motion. The discussion
ini,4ltt take place to more advantage at a future op-
pup:ay, and he therefore should merely move for
a cavy of the correspondence which had taken place
I,emzen his Majesty's Government and the Bank of
31::g respecting the proposed renewal of the
ILok Charter. . .
)h. LUSHINGTON trusted the Hon. Member
anald no; press his motion, .as the correspondence in
question would shortly be laid before the House by
fo,:Chitr.ccilor of the Exchequer, accompanied with
eveit es.,,htattion. •
. Gil ENFELL said, the subject was of too im-
port4ta a cattire to be delayed, and unless a better
rea•oa %tete offered to induce him to withdraw his
motion, he certainly should persist in it.
MOISES said, that the correspondence alluded
to consi,tea of only one letter, and that was already
bee the Public.
Mr. J. SMITH said, he had not faith enough to
believe that one letter was the only one which bad
pac.ed on the subject. He thought everything which
ht:ti. taken place in the course of this unprecedented
negnciation should be laid before the House.
Mr. MARRYATT said, that undoubtedly, if any
c•,: respondence bey ondthe letter referred to, had really
taken place, it might to be laid before the House.
The motion was then put and carried. •
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Mr. CANNTNO brought in the Bill for removing the dis-
qualifications affecting Catholic Peers. It was read a first time,
and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next.
Lord STANLEY moved the committal of the Warrant of
Attorneys Bill. The Noble Lord stated, that the object of the
liiil wa,, to prevent the operation a fraudulent and secret
Warrants of Attorney and Cognovits, by requiring them to be
registered.—The House being in a Committee,
Mr. Serjeant ONseme, Mr. WROTTESLEY, and Mr. J. SMITH,
spoke in favaur of the Bill, and observed that the Noble Lord
w:u entitled to the thanks of the country for having introduced it.
Mr. SYKES approved of the principle of the Bill; but feared
that, in its present shape, it would be defective in its execution.
Ile, linwevt,r, was desirous that the Bill should be tried as an.
at:d he trusted that its defects might be remedied by
a st:bszcin:nt Bill.
The liouse then resumed, and the Report of the Committee
was ordered to be taken into consideration on Friday next.
The second reading of the Warehousing• Bill was postponed
until Monday next, and that of the Coal Trade Bill until Friday
s.:'!:nh2ht.
The CILINCF.LLOR of the'EXCIIF.QUF.R moved the .
second reading of the Irish Countervailing Malt Duties Bill.
Mr. C. IlurculNSON opposed the Bill, which he thought
VAS intended m a convenience fur the Excise, rather than a be-
nefit to the Public.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER spoke a few
werds in favour of the llill, which was then read a second time,
and ordered to be committed on. Monday next.
The Malt Duties Repeal-Bill was read a tlqd time and passed.
Slr JOHN NEWPORT, after a few pretatory observations,
moved for a Committee to consider the propriety of altering the
present mode of Irish Grand Jury Presentimpts with respect
to Assessments on Land.—Ordered.
Sir R. WILSON moved for a Return of the Number and the
Names of the Aliens residing in this kingdom. so far as the same
could be made! out.
The other Orders of the Day, were then disposed of ; and at
ILlf-past Teu the House adjourned.

Ministers have received accounts from Stafford-
shire relating to the discontented spirit which per-
vades the manufacturing classes in that extensive dis-
trict, of so unsatisfactory a nature, that they have
ordered Lord TALBOT to repair thither and join his
regiment immediately. His Lordship, who was pre-
-paring to visit the Continent, has in consequence beet{
obliged to give up his plan, and left town for Staf-
fordshite on Thursday evening.—Morning Chronicle.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM SIERRA LEONE, DEC. 4.
" Inclosed, I send you a correct account of the ex-
tent of the Slave Trade in the Heights of Benin and
Beafra, which I have from the first authority e
" Sailed from Calabar from July to November, 1820, one
hundred and one sail of slave vessels, fully laden, under Spanish,
I'oi-wows:2, and French colours; sixty-one during the present
year. Sailed from Bonny front July to November, 1820, 120
sail ; seventy this year.
" From 13embia and Cameroons the number could not be
exactly ascertained, but supposed to be on the same extensive'
scale. A great proportion of these slave vessels were of a large
class, carrying irom 12 to 28 gulls, and from 50 to 200 men each.
'lhe for.owing French ships were at anchor in the river Bunny
when his Majesty's ship Myrmidon left ;—Crig l'lsis, of Nantes :
brig Leger, of Nantes ; brig Prince, of Nantes; brig !'Active, ofij
Nantes; brig Eugene, of Havre; brig Alcide, of Nantes;
and schooner Fox, of Martinique. The four first had slaves on
bqard; the others have lately arrived, and were purchasing
their cargoes.
" I also learn that Ma, King of Sego, has concluded the war
he was for a length of time waging against the Foulahs in his
neighbourlioed, for the express purpose of going to rear with the
King of Karta.*
A letter from Norfolk, Virginia, dated March 20,1
says, We ire informed, by the arrival of the brig Das-
pntch from Havannah, that a file broke out in the
• übut bs at that place on the Ist inst. which destroyed
,:.no buildings; a Loge quantity of sugar teas also de-
stroyed. Two pirates have been shot at Matanzas,
and fifteen mote have been imprisoned. Part or
•the crew telonging to a boat fitted out at itegla,
has peen captured in the bay, by -a party of Spa-
nish soldiers, after killing six in the action. The
two men hot were a Captain and Lieutenant of a
t.clioollei that had burnt a vessel some time before off
Havanna!:

cs 4 to 69; Columbia* Oiolo;i„Ociv 861. •
STOCIE.IIXOfIANG IC, ONE O'CLOCK.
• Mr. Knox, of witted upon the Gentlemen or the
Stock Exchadnge, frooilhe Governor and
.Deputy Governor, to
acquaint them that Lord Liverpool wished to see the Ustoied
Interest, on the subject of the Annuity Business. Cowls im-
Inedlattly fell Ai. cent.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. •
Bank Stock 239'1,4-3 per Cent. Reduced 781/8.%
S per Cent. Consols 79 78% 791/4 78%
31/2 per Cent. 8854-4 per Cent. 94%
5 per Cent. Navy Anna. 102% 14 - •
Bank Long Annuitiet 19% 13-16' • '
India Bonds 545. 535. prem. •
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, Is. ss. pr.
Do. Small 35. 75..pr.—Cons. for Acc. 791/s 1/4 78 N.

Our Readers will see, from an Advertisement in
another part of this day's Paper, that several of the
most eminent Merchants of the City have culled a
Public Meeting to be held on the distressed state of
Ireland. The cause of the poor starving peasantry is
now in good hands ; and, as none have stronger claims
on the humanity of the Public, we trust that its libe-
rality will be commensurate. The old proverb, Bis
dot qui bis cito, was never more applicable than on
the present occasion, for long before the million of
money voted by Parliament could be applied to the"
relief of the suffering Irish, hundreds of them must
inevitably perish, unless relieved by the more prompt
I aid of public charity.

We this day publish the names of the Two 'Hun-
di ed and Sixteen Members who voted for Lord
NottmANsv's Motion to reduce one of the Postmasters-

General. The very appearance of such a list of
Gentlemen of the first importance in the Senate, op-
posing Ministers in an object to which they attached

so much importance as twice to hazard defeat and
disgrace in its support, might justly appal an Admi-
nistration that did not look for support so much in
the justice of its measures, as in its influence; but the
pertinacity which has characterized the present Minis-
ter; does not still desert them, or they would scar cely

have advised his MAJESTY to return such an Answer

to the Address of the Commons as was read last night.
It is true that his NIAJEsTY yields to the prayer of.

the House so far as saving the salary of one of the

Postmasters-General is concerned ; but the most im-
portant point, and that in which the principle is in-
volved, the abolition of the of is somewhat un-

graciously delayed until Ministers please to appoint a''
Commission of Inquit y, which, in its operations and
the cost of its Report, will, in all probability, absorb
at least one year's salary saved by discontinuing the
office. Surely his MAJESTY, who so graciously set
the example, at the beginning of the Session, of re-
linquishing a portion of his Civil List, cannot be
aware of the many useless offices Minister; still keep
up, under the pretence of suppaiting the influence of
the Crown, as if (as Sir JOSEPH YORKE observed) the
influence or dignity of the Clown required to be
bolstered up by half a dozen useless offices. But it
seems to be a principle with the present Ministers not
to give up the slightest portion of their patronage
unless compelled to it, and then to do it in as ungra-
cious a manner as possible.
One of the Morning Papers, pretty uniform in its'
adherence to Ministers in all questions on which they
are in unison among themselves, regrets the reduction
of one of the Postmasters-General, as a step towards
—what does the Reader think ?—why, towards Re-
publicanism ! The Editor certainly pays Republi-
canism a compliment he never intended, when he
gives as one of its features, the abolition of a useless
place, in which an affluent Nobleman receives a few
thousands annually out of diehard earnings of an indus-
trious and heavily taxed people. But, says this Editor,
the office is "not in the least of the nature of a sinecure."
Now, as it is' notorious that when Lord CLANCARTY,
a relative of Lord LONDONDERRY, held this office, he
was for two years together absent—not from Lom-
bard-greet only—not merely from London—but that
he was,' in fact, receiving another ample allowance
as Ambassador to the Netherlands, and even extended
his visit, where he was again well paid, on a diplo-
matic mission to Vienna. Now, unless the Editor of
The New Times can prove the übiquity of my Lord
CLANCARTY, we contend that his Lordship's office as
I Postmaster-General was, to all intents and purposes,

a sinecure.
But the Editor, besides discovering that abolishing
a useless office is a step towards Republicanism, and
that receiving an income without doing anything for
it is not a sinecure, has found out that Government
and its servants are the most productive class in so-
I •
evety. How he means to prove this we know not ;
but if he thinks that he will get a single person in the
world to believe it, he speculates. more largely on the
weakness and credulity of the Public than any one
that ever attempted to turn that weakness and cre-
dulity to advantage.

The French Papers (.4 Wednesday contain some
afflicting details of the destruction of property, by in •
otendiaries, in the Departikents of the Oise, Seine and

more lamen!able, 11034teep perished 49 the flames.
At Beaumont., seiverarfrolieiha'rebeen burnt. • •
A letter froth 4kincourtintdie 27th of April, ati,
o We live in a state of continual alarm; the audac4
ofthe brigands increases every day. They yesterchy
announced thrti•lbeetrthmtint of.Aincoort would*"
blunt on the Ist otMay. • The Mayors dog all "10
can to protect their. Communes. Patrols scout the'
country, and the inhabitants mount guard every night!'
• Threatening notices are placarded in various places
las frequently as those of Captain Rock in the sister',
kingdom ; but with this difference, that the Irish pro-
clamations have nothing politicalin thein,while those
in France, says one of the Freucl)-Vapers (the Gazette
de France), id contain outrages.against the person of
the Ictao so gross, that ont respect restrains us from
inserting them."
Armed bands.have lately been seen in the forests
in the vicinity of Bar sin. Aube, and the Authorities,
with-the gendarmerie, set out in search of them, but
they could not be found. Depots of arms are said
to have been discovered in the wood of Blinfay, in
the department of the Upper Marne; and outrage,
alarm, discontent, or uneasiness, appear to pervade
the whole of France.

The followirig are extracts :
.PARIS, MAY I.

The AusMali Observer states the departure of M. de Tatis-
chef for Sr. Petersburgh, and assures us that the objeCt of his
mission i 3 fulfilled. If the Journalist had frankly explained the
object of this mission, we should have known what he meant;
but he. maintains upon this point a .complete diplomatic reserve.
It is known, however, that M. de Metternich has received very
important dispatches from Constantinople, the contents of which
have not transpired. The commercial letters are all for war,
and it is known how much on these occasions commerce is clear-
sighted. The finesses of diplomacy, or the sinuosities of policy,
warty deceive experienced tnep..whose intelligence is called into
action by great interests. It appears, therefore, very nearly de-
cided, that all the efforts of the Cabinet of Vienna for the main-
tenance of peace between Russia and Turkey have failed, through
the obstinacy of the Divan, and the fanaticism of the Turks.
French Funds, Aptil 30—Five per Cents. 87 fr. 60 c.—May 1,
opened at 87 f. 80 c.—highest, 87 f. 80 c.—closed, 87 f. 80 c.

Ay, ____
charigedi :quarters ividi'-the
Cumberland barracks, mid the latter. menpiribe Citadel.
Major D'Atrint's Royal Veteran 'Corripatit, *elf famed
from the Invalids at Fort Pitt, Chathitn, by
Commis commanding that gartisoisi era smelt In a fest days
• Sir AutomateCnatsrls,
for the Isle of Man, where it is to beroveneefty stationed.
Regimental Surgeons of the Lhie, Ocoee of the Royal Artil.
'lery; and Veterinary Surgeons, after iiittalarpeflods of setvlce,
receive the following rates of ply; wit. , • •
SURCIOXII or. AIM AID LOW.
After seven years service lfs. Id. per diem.
After twenty years ditto ' ltd. ditto.
virrinututar slmouters. • ' •
' After three years service . 10s. per diera
After ten ditto • ~y • • • nu • ditto
After twenty ditto -15 s. ditto
NAVAL .1
The Bacchus, Boatrevr, from Liverpool to Pritice EdWard's
Island, put into Scilly on the 46th tilt: With damage in her sails,
during the gale of the 21.a.asad 22d.ult.
FALMOUTH, Mar 2.—Wind E4,li.rArrivad the Lion, Rax,
from Ancona; the Dutch ship Speculation, PAETSRZ, from Aims
sterdam, to take on board the cargo of the ship De. Vreybeid,
condemned here; and Alert, CHAPMAN, from Gallipoli, in forty
days, fur orders.
PezzAscr, Mar 2'--The ship Ogle Castle, from Bombay,
landed passengers here yestetday, and stilt remains of this port
this morning.
PORTSMOUTH, M —AT 1.7-Wind E..—Arrived his Majesty's ship
PHA ryes, from a cruize.
DEAL, MAT \.F.—Came down, from the River
this afternoon and sailed, the Larkins, WILKINSON, for Madrts,
&c. Hope, FLINT, foe the Isle of France, &c. Mediator, WIL-
SON, to the westward ; and Lord Castlereagh, Pox, for Bout-
deaux.—Seven o'Clock : The [lope is lying to. ,
Jaasrv, Aran. 50.—Put back the Neptune, Cm-maim, for
Newfoundland, with loss of bowsprit, sails, bulwarks, and
mainmast damaged : part of her cargo is also damaged.
Ctivrilii:}louse, May 3.—Ships Entered Inwards.—'lire Prin.
'c4s Alexandrine, ficm Stettin ; Gustava, from Metnet; Land-
sturrn, from Pilhu ; Caledonia, from Riga ; Be'e, and Bever-
ley, from Ilamburgh ; 'row Gesina, from Antwerp ; Vrovr
Ellina, from Brussels.—Entered Outwards : Mount Stone, for
Messina ; Mediterranean, for Genoa ; Nitre, for Ostend; Hope,
fpr Bahia; Julie, for Calais; Ambler, for Rottertrum.
LATE DREADFUL GALE.—(From the Board of the
New England Coffte-House.)—Extract of a letter from
Cork, received this morning, containing the following
intelligence from Castletown, dated April 28th
" My silence on the following communication was in expecta-
tion of gaining some particular information on the loss of the
• Unity,sof Glasgow, and the Argo, of Whitehaven, on the shore
in thiv neighbourhood, during the night of the 21st inst. when. •
melancholy to relate' all on board both vessels perished, and the
hulls, &c. were dashed to pieces. The names were found upon
some pieces of the wreck washed on shore.
" Another vessel, suppored•to be the Fly, of Bristol, from the
fragments washed on shore, has also been lost, and• the crew
supposed to have been all lost."
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