Star.
London, England, 1815-02-15 00:00:00

ROME. JANUARY 25.
A part of our garrison has received orders to
march towards Forli, We are ignorant how the
Austrians will act in these critical circumstances.

COBLENTZ, FEBRUARY 3.

The Rheniah lifer-€(96 publtshed in this seat of the
Prussian Government, contains an article which. is
designato encourage the friends of peace to hope
the best from the Congress. •• It is allowable," says
the writer, •s to regret the perverseness of the human
mind; the infatuation which, after such bitter expe-
rience, cannot resolve at once on what is good, but
waits till it is compelled by necessity; but error is our
lot, and he who meanly desponds is not worthy to
live in these extraordinary times. The idea of those
(which is unhappily spreading) is quite objectionable
who, because all is not speedily settled according to
their pre-conceived opinion, are dissatisfied with every
thing ; who, in every thing that passes see only the

lowest self-interest and the secret manoeuvres of cun-
ning rapacity ; who even regard the good which the
Congress has already produced by the general intro-
duction of the States as a mere stratagem to appease
by illusions the ferment of men's minds. Such an opi.
nion is as blameable and presumptuous as such con-
duct would be.
u Every one should chew here the justice which he
requires for himself; and, recollecting how it cost
him half his life before he could be master of himself,
not demand impossibilities, in such a complicated
businesh in it short time. The Princes have given
so many unequivocal proofs of good and honourable
dispositions, thatwoshould do so much honour to ho..
man nature, when things-donut seem to go forwards in:
the right way, as hotiO a rite it to the wiCked inters-,
tions. of map, but rather so an ill-founded paragasioo,
that good will he. tba result.. , nad:whir4, if sinierely
followed, really will lei& es the chit*, Itheeie 'by
other means. •
II Such important interests as ire here at stake are'
,not to be 'settled precipitately, •notein people's senti-
ments and mode of acting is such concerns, 'be
changed in a moment." The writer then proceeds, and
finds the cause of their embarrassments, in which
the Congress is, in the unexpectedness of the victory
which made the Allies precipitate the peace, by
which France obtained, in -seemingly unimportant ar-
ticks, great advantages, while they bound their owo
hands. Then also were made the C inventions with
the Princes of the Rhenish Confederation, and.with
Murat, which the world regards with astonishment.

Dispatches were last night received from Lord
CASTLISREAOH, dated Vienna, the Sd instant. His.
Lordsh►p is 'expected in town next Saturday or Sun.
day. He was to have left Vienna the 4th instisii.

wfriti;:wicivck:
• Liustoti rH, BUARY 14.
`r' Aiiiied the Prudentia, from Amelia Islands. The
`,jading. Castle packet, for the Brazils, has gone into
`Lhe Roadi.—Wind W.

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PLYMOU I H, FEBRUARY IS.

Came in his Majesty's ship Nom, from a cruize,
with loss of bowsprit ; CYRUS sloop of war, from the
Westward; HELICON, ROLLA' and GOLDFINCH SIOOINI
of war, from a cruize.

PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY 14.
Arrived the Pacific, EDWARDs; Garthladd, Howe;
Stills, ARMORY, and several other ships, name( un-
known, from the Downs ; and Liberty, ALDRIDOR,
from Havre. Sailed his Majesty's ships Atm. and
5A111144 for Cork, with a convoy, bound to the Ca-
naries and Coast of Africa ; also sailed the ZSPHYR
and SLANRY, for Cork. The whole of the outward-

bound have dropped down to St. Helen's Roads to
join their respective convoys for the West Indies,
Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, and will
sail early to-morrow morning. The East Indiamen
and ships bound to the Cape, South
,Seas, &c. will
also !ail to-morrow morning under coneoy of his
Majesty's ship Acsna.—Wind E. N. E.

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DEAL. FEBRUARY 14.
Came down from. the River, and sailed, the Prince
of Orange, SILK, for Bermula ; also sailed the whole
of the outward-bound, for Portsmouth. Arrived the
Perseus, &Wu, from Portsmouth.—Wind E.

The Perseverance, Winter,arrived at Portsmouth from. Buenos
Ayres, threw nine guns and pari of her cargo overboard, and
shipped much water, in heavy gales at W. and S.W. on the Utah
and 29th

The Elizabeth Mary, Goodfellow, was well off Madeira the
28th December, having separated from his Majesty's ship Valiant
and her Beet on the 10th, in a violent gale.
The Isabella, from the Havannab, was taken In December by
a privateer, and carried into Wilminzton.
The fortitude, Galloway, from Greenock to Hamburgh, war
stranded the 1 i t 6 uk. on the Island of itumm—crew saved.
Marchioness of Wellesley. from London to Batavia, was
taken of Pcrnambuco, sth December, by the Yankee puvateer.

1 Letters receivedthis morning by a respectable
[louse in the City, from Amelia Island in 30 days,
make no mention whatsoever of the failure of our
Expedition, against Louisiana.
Sorne letters have reached us from South America,
which remora all doubt as to the successful operations
of the. Spaniards in the province of Chili, and add
somz facts with which we were unacquainted. The
troops composing the expedition from Lima, entered
St. Jar, the capital, on the sth of October, when
the insurgent authorities precipitately left the place,
undertook a long and dangerous journey across the
Cot dilleras, and sought refuse in Mendoza, which,
however, they were ordered immediately to quit by
the Governor, and nothing since has been heard re-
garding them.
SOUTHWARK ELECTION. (Third Day.) -- At the
close of the Poll the numbers were :
For Mr. BARCLAY • 1418
Mr. W. I. BoRDITT 1163
PotinTst DAY.—State of the Poll this day, at 12.
for Mt. BARCLAY • 3481
Mr. W. J. Bustort-r

Whig SALt, MADDOX-STREM--Mr. ROBINS, in-
forms the Public, the SALK of WINE advertised to
be Sold To-monnow, at Mr. Coxes Rooms, Mad-
dor-street, Hanover-square is LINAVOHMELY NET-
PORED. —Warevk i•street, eleles-square, Feb. 15, 1815
Yesterday the LOnD MAYOR held a Court of Com-
mon Council at Guildhall, to consider the Report of
the Improvement Committee, relative to a conference
with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on the sub-
ject of improving St. Martin's-le-Grand, as connected
with thit erection of a new Post-Office, the plan of
which is in the Office of Wr,rks at Guildhall. The
Report being read, a very long deb.te ensued thereon,
and the question being at length put, that this Conn
do agree with the Committee in their report, the
Loan MAYOR declared the same to be carried in the
affirmative : and it was referred back to the said
Committee AO carry the same into execution. A Pe-
tition to Parliament having been prepared, was or-
dered to be presented by the Sheriffs, attended by the
Remembrancer.. A motion was made relativt to the
Bankrupt Laws. (See Advertisement in front of this
raper.) It was referved to Special Committee to
consider and report the 'Ware, duty, Stc. of.the office
of Clerk of the City Works, inid what alteration is
proper to be made therein.
A Meeting was yesterday held at Maidstone, con-
vened by the High Sheriff of the county of Kent, to
consider of the propriety of a Petition to Parliament,
on the present price of Corn. The Meeting was,
very numerously attended, but such was the general
burst of indignation expressed by the populace, that
not a word could be heard from any of the speakers.
Some clergymen appearing rather forward on the
occasion, caused' general aispleasure, and the cries
of fs Down with your rents 1" ig Down with your
tithes I" vociferated from all parts of the Meeting.
Many persons were in imminent danger from the
violence of the people. Some waggons, in which
the several speakers and their friends were assembled
Teredrawn through thetown by the people, and tossed
Into the Medway river, to the great tencir and ex-
thine danger of those that were in them. In the
inidst of the confusion the Meeting broke Up ; and
we *understand some.of those 'who called it adjourned
to the Bell Inn, with intention to, sign a Petition to
Parliament, though evidently in opposition to nine-
tenths of the Meeting called on the occasion.
- Yesterday being Falestin4 day, the whole artil-
lery of love was put into requisition. The Postmen
were converted into Cupids, and instead of letters
upon busing's, carried epistles fuU of flames, darts,
chains, and amorous declarations.
Besiasbrosses, the celebrated race-horse, died last
week at Mi. DininaLe
'h s breeding hovels, near Rich-
and, int Yorkshire, and Was buried under the mul-
berry, tree, in the front of the house. He was rising
44 years of she, and was lineally descended from the
laMous Arabian Childers.
A few days since, an Inquisition was taken at Deal,
tel the 1)44r of S. King, shot in the Downs last Wed-
nesday nig4t, whet', After a long investigation, the
Jury returned, a Verdict of Wilful Murder against
sonde Perictsi ti4knoivsk. ,

CORN LAWS.

'Another Meeting took place yesterday at Fife
House, Whitehall, with the Earl of Livzneool., on
the subject of the Corn Laws. Among the distin-
guished characters present were—Mr. BANK', Right
Honourable B. BATHURST, the Right Honourable
WILLIAM HUSKISSON, Lord LASCELLES, the Right
Honourable CHARLES LONG, Mr. LusitaxaroN, Str
JOHN NEWPORT, Mr. ARBUTHNOT, Mr. G. Rose, t 7
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Right Honourable
W. W. POLE, Mr. LONG WELLEsLEY, &C. &C. &c.
The Meeting did not break up till past three o'cl,)ck.
It was strenuously urged by the Country Gentlemen
present, that the high duty on importation should be
recommended to talce place when the average price
of corn 4111 rise to 80s. per quarter; and on this the
House is to be moved on Friday.
Neverlies there come before the House a question
of greaterimportance, or one on which the judgment
of well-inrqrmed and even well intentioned men, may
so easily be warped by an iaconscious operation of
selfiuterested motives. Our Landholders, like every
other class in the community, have evet endeavoured
to move the pressure of public bu!thens from their
own shoulders.

When ;he Income Tax was imposed, the Act was
prohibitory as to any compact, by which the tenadt
16;01 agrte to pay that tix. The object and scope
of the Act was, that every individual should himself
bear his own share of privation, and not throw it
upon another; but it is undeniable, that Vie L:ind-
holders contrived to evade the intention of ti.e Act,
by increasing the rents of their Leeds, for throe was
no law to prevent a man from kiting his land
to the person who would give the higl,e,t rent.
—ln the mean time the difficulty and expense of pro-
curing corn him the Co:.tinent, enabled the !some
grower to demand and obtain an excessise price,
thereby enabling him to pay an esc:...,:ye r..nt : nor
was this all—the high pr:ces en!endereci a gambling
disposition in the farmers, eccouragSr.g tlietn to
tend their concerns, and to outbid one another in the
prices they offered for nuts. The result was, that
rents were, ma the average, mere than doubled
throughout the kingdom ! !
And now what is the object for which the Land-
holders contend Neither more nor less than this:
that the present rents, which include in them the
extra sum laid on the farmers to cover the property
tax of the landlords, shall still continue to he paid
by the farmers, though the property tax is abandoned,
and the war taxes at an end. • Their whole argument
rests on the assumption that the farmers must con-
tinue to pay their present high rents; for all that
they maintain is, that if corn be suffered to fall below
a certain priceiit will belmftelsible for the farmers to
pay the high rents and increased' expenres occa-
sioned by the late long-contintred war.
64 Impossible for them to pay such rents !"—lt
ought to be rendered absolutely imposs4ile; for the
present rents are iniquitously high : nor is it true that
the late high prices of labour, and other expenses,
must necessarily continue. 11w fact is already other-
wise. In Hampshire, for instance, wages which went
eighteen shillings, have fallen to twelve shillings per
week; bricklayers', carpenters', smiths', and wheel-
wrights' bills are one•fourth lower : timber ttie same,
and still falling : cost of horses ene-third less : food
'for bones, and seed fur lands of courses on a level
with the price of corn.
What then is demanded of the public i—Neither
more nor less than this: that though relieved from
.the Property Tax, it shall still be continued to tit
;levied in the price of our bread, for the exclusive
benefit of the Landholders ! If we have no other
,alternative, we nnt,t say, that it wzadd be much
more equitable, as wcil oolitic, that it. should
..rather continue to be p..id to Govautu:nt for the exi-
gencies of the state.

But neither the one nor the other ought to take.
place. It is lamentable to observe boa' co:rplerely
a mistaken interest has blinded the Jadgment. of
many wise man cn this qiiestion—a question if vital
importance to the welfare of the State and of the
general community. We say a mistakrn interest ;"
for it is as much for the real interest of the Land-
holders as of the Manufacturers of the Empire that
the price of sustenance Omuta be kept low. But alas
for the prospect before us ! It is the determined and
avowed purpose of some men to eutie.tvour to influ-
ence Parliament to enact laws with the declared in-
tention of raising and keeping np the price of bead I
—With all the respect we entertain for the wisdom,
nay for the integrity of our law-makers, we are u..a
without soling apprehensions, that on the p:‘:seut nc-
casionthey will become the instrunients id much evil;
for theit supposed interest is so deeply involved in the
Question., that we hold it almost impossible for theth
;o take a clear and unbiassed view of it.
Lord Gazavttas, we were happy to see, when
the :subject was agitated in the liouseof Peers ou
Monday, threw out a very necessary caution against
the danger of legislative interference on the siihj..ct.
At any rate Parliament should not be precipitate.
The ports will instantly be shut against importa-
tion for three months. Let the effect of this• be
seen before the House interfere. Without any
farther interference whatever they will see the
price of bread higher than it ever ought to be
in England. But if, in the interim, they interfere
farther, and raise the price at which Corn shall be
importable, we tremble at the consequences. The
ignorance manifested by some of our Legi,lators, on
questions of political economy, is lamentable.—
Quacking expedients, subversive of sound principles,
are always fraught with incalculable danger, esde-
daily when they affect the supplies of human suite-
nance.

The Landholders have, unhappily, taken up tl'e
idea that a fall in rents will be injurious to them, aid
tend to diminish the quantum of their comforts.--
Were it even true that this might be partially expected,
it is but equitable that adventitious benefits, arrsiog
out of the untoward circumstances of the community,
should not be perpetuated to them : but the proposi•
tion is false—b fall in the rents ; a reduction in .i.e
price of sustenance, will ultimately be as benefit i ti to
the Landholders as to any other class in the com-
munity.
CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE. FEB. Id,
We bad no flesh arrivals of Wheat this morning, and having
but few buyers, the trade was not brisk, but Monches prices
are fully supported. A tolerably large quantity of Barley re-
maned over from Mooday's market,
of
chief pert of wlncn It..s
been taken off today at a reduction of is. per quarter. In Psis,
SAM, and oath tbens is ao mamma.

me- - -
FROM LAT NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

An Order in Council continues for slit months the prohibition
of the exportation out of this kingdom. or catrytog ettastsvne,
Gunpowder or Saltpetre, er any sort of Arms or Ammunition, ex-
cept tinder the Order in Council of the 90th May, 1813, to the
Coast of Africa, wider the conditions contained in the said Order.
Another Order in Council continues for *ix months the prohibi•
tion of the transporting into any parts out of this kingdom of any
Pig-iron, Bar-iron. Hemp, Pitch, tar, Rosin, Turpeodsse, An-
chors, Cables, Cordage, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Oath,Oakum,
or "Aker Naval Stores, with the usual exceptions.

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MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
The Prince Regent has even permission to Sir Mew Rase,'
!C.C.S. and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, to wear' the
signia of a Knight of the Portuguese Military OnlerisitheTower,
and Sword.
OFIICIL 01 01DNANCL,F111.11....M14114 411 r
the Military Department of the Ordnance—Second Assists*.
Surgeon John Thompson to be First Assistant Surgeon, vita
lisrgrave, placed on flalf-pay; Temporary Assistant •etitTe
Michoel l ntkhh to be Second Assistant-Surgeon, aid Thompson,
promoted.

SHERIFFS APPOINTED BY THE PRINCE REOMIT
FOR THE YEAR 1815.
Bedfordshire--Robert Hibbert, of East Hide. Esc
Berkshire—Ram Wills, of Huagerford Park, Esq.
Bueks--Thomas Del Aubrey, of Cbikot Havre, Esq. •
Cambridge and Hunthigdon—Knight Cook George Mitchell, of

Heusi(Ord Gracy, Esq.
Cheshire—John Isherwood, of Mari+le, Esq.
Cumberland—Wm. Ponsonby Johnston, of Walton House, Esq.
Derbyshire—Sir Henry Fitz herbert, of Tisslntioa, Bart '
Devonsbire—James Marwood Elm', of Church Stoke, Esq.
Dorsetsbire--George Smith, of Spettesbury, Esq.
Esscx—Luke Wm. Watford, of Little bardileld, Esq.
Glances ershire—Wts. Morris, of SevenbAtnpton' Es*
Hereto' dslare--Edward Thomas Foley, of Stoke Lab, Esq.
Hertfordshire—Andrew Reid. of Chipping Burner, Esq.

Kent—Robert Foote, of Chariton, Esq.
Leicestershine--k dWard FortiliamEof Quorndort, Esq.
I.incolnahlre--loseph Sivesey, of Baumber, Esq.
Monmouthshire--Samuel •Busaaquet, of Dingestow, Esq.
Norfolk—Thomas Thorsihill, of Riddlesworth, Esq.
Nortlioniptowhire--Leveson Vernon, of Stoke Bruern, Esq.
Northumberland—George Baker, of Stanton, Esq.
No:tinghantshire—John Smith Wright, of Watford, Esq.
Oxfordshire—Edward Fronds Coutoton, of Elkins, Esq.
Rutland—Samuel Barker, of Lyndon, Esq.
Sbropshire—FarMer Taylor, of Chids:Al, Esq.
lomersetshire—lebn Phelps, of Montacute, Esq.
StalFordshire..-Henry Crochet*, of Little Onn Hall, F.sq.
Colt"? of sougaloPutP—Hcory Rtsamisset, of Clauvilie Lodge,

Esq. _
Sullotk—Chariu Tyrell, of Gipping. Esq.
Surrey—James Laing, of Streatham, Esq.
Susses—Richard Watt Walker, of Miebelgrove, Esq.
Wanvicksbire—lames Woolky, of leknield House, F.N.
Wiltshire—George Eyre& of Bramsbaw, Esq.
Wercestenhire—Edward Mon, of Dudley, Esq.
Yorkshire—Witham Garfortb, of Wiggintrpe, Esq.
SOUTH WALES.
Carmarthen—George Mears, of Lansrephan Place, Esq.
resnproke--Morris William, of Cwingloyn, Esq.
Cardigan--Herbert Evans, of ifighnsead, lsq.
Glamorgan—William Take. of Cards,. Esq.
Bream—Hugh Pries. of Castle Madock, Esq.
Radnor—William Davis, of Cabalva, Esq.

NORTH WALES.
Bkrinneth—Lewd, Vaughan, of Pentuaen Davey, Esq.
Csruarroa--Williara Gritlydd Oakley, of bach) saint, Esq.
Anglesey-.•Robtrt Hughes, of Plasyn Llangoed, Esq.
INentgoniery—Pryer Jones, of Cohort, Esq.
Xiasibigh.-(Barka Griffith Wyusie, 14 Pewee Veelas, Esq.
Iliac—Sir Richard Brooke, of Hope Hall, Bert.
Corwandl.-ble Bye! Vyvyaa, of Trelowarreo, Bart.