Star.
London, England, 1822-02-13 00:00:00

THE PALMERS.

A Correspondent who, under the signature of Elia,
enriches the London Magazine with several very inte-
resting articles, has, in the last Number of that po-
pular and ably-conducted Journal, commenced a se-
ries of Papers, on some of the " Old Actors," many
of whom, however, will still live in the remembrance
of our Readers : speaking of John and Robert Palmer,
he says:

" The elder Palmer (of stage-treading celebrity) commonly
played Sr Toby [Belch] ►n those days; but there is a solidity of
wit in the jests of that half-Falstaff which he did not quite fill
out. He was as much too chewy as Moody (who sometimes
took the part) was dry and sottish. In sock or buskin there was
an air of swaggering gentility about Jack Palmer. He was a
gentleman with a slight infusion of thefeettnan. Ills brother Bob
(of recenter memory) who was his shadow in everything while
he lived, and dwindled into less thah a shadow afterwards—was
a genikman with a little stronger infusion of the latter ingredient;
that was all. It is amazing how a little of the more or less
makes a difference in these things. When you saw Bobby in
the Duke's Servant (High Life below Stairs), you said, what a pity
such a pretty fellow was only a servant. When you saw Jack
figuring in Captain efts lade, you thought you could trace his pro-
motion to some lady of quality who fancied the handsome fel-
low in his top-knot, and had bought him a commission. There-
fore Jack in Dirk Anita was insuperable.
" Jack had two voices,—both plausible, hypocritical, and in-
sinuating ; but his secondary or supplemental voice still more de-
cisively histrionic than his common one. It was reserved for
the spectator ; and the dramatis persons were supposed to know
nothing at all about it. The lies of Young Wilding, and the sen-
timents in Jeeeph Sudisce, were thus marked out in a sort of
italics to the audience."

By Gibraltar Papers, which have been received to
the 22d ultimo, we learn that repeated attempts were
made in Valencia, from the Bth to the 11th, to dis-
turb again the public tranquillity; and although they
fortunately failed, owing to the energetic measures
adopted by the principal Authorities, and the effec-
tual support they received from the regulars com-
posing the garrison, great uneasiness seems to have
prevailed, at the latest date, among the peaceful parts
of the population. The principal towns of the pro..
wince of Murcia have informed Government that they
do not acknowledge the usurped and anticonstitu•'l
tional authority of the Civil Governor lately elected
by the inhabitants of their capital. The Superior
Board of Health for the Island of Majorca made it
known, on the Sd of December, that full forty days
had elapsed since the termination of the last case of
contagious levet in the Lasatet.:

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i Contrary winds have prevented the arrival of any great fur
lay of, grain for thejast sets days.. Silas, polwlthstanding, are
extremely heavy. Blob quality stipports itfprice, but a 4 Mae
of inferior corn ire full Ss. per quarter lower, and have fete
buyers at this decline.
In West India produci scarcely any business to doing. The
refiners' trade is very much depressed, ititi there is no demand for'
exportation. The stock on hand, however, being small, it Is to-
petted that prices will not decline until the urinal supplies matte
theta' appearance from the islands. The same may be said of
Coffee, for the stock of this article now on hand is also smalls In
Irish provisions no'business is doing.
Baltic produce maintains generally its value, - Hemp is stIII
saleable at €49 to £5O, and Tallow has reached 395. per cwt.
It would appear, by a letter from Cape Coast Castle, dated the
4th November, that the Portuguese continue to carry on, to a
very great extent, the Infamous Slave Trade. In the spate of
six weeks, previous to the Rh November, not fewer than of
their ships had passed to leeward to get slaves, and had been fur-
-1 nished with canoes for that purpose by the Dutch residents at
Elmira Castle.

The Spanish Cortes have modified their Tariff with regard to
the Isle of Cuba.—No Import Duty of any kind is to be levied
on national products brought to the Island from Spanish ports
and in Spanish bottoms. Foreign products are to pay but one
Import Duty of from 20 to 37i per cent. when brought in lb.
reign bottoms, and this duty is to be reduced by ooe-third if
they be brought in Spanish vessels. Foreign products so intro-
duced cannot be lawfully sent to Spanish ports where their im-
portation is prohibited. The products of Cuba shipped there
for Spanish ports, under the national flag, shaft pay no exporta-
tion duty, but only the administration duty mentioned in the ge-
neral Tariff. When shipped for foreign ports, six per cent. shall
be levied on their amount.

LivrorooL, Frs. 11.—The following is an extract of the Me-
morial unanimously adopted at a Public Meeting, where the late
Mayor, THOMAS LErLAND, F.sq. presided, previous to its trans-
mission to the Lords of the Treasury, signed by eleven hundred
of the most respectable Merchants, Bankers, &c. of the Port :
" 5o THI RIGHT HONOURABLE 711 R LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS

MAJESTY'S TILEASURY.
" The Memorial of the Merchants, Warehouse Proprietors,
and other Inhabitants of Liverpool, interested in the Commerce
and welfare of the Town, duly convened by the worshipful
Thomas Leyland, Esq. Mayor, in the Town Hall assembled,
"Sheweth, That your Memorialists have read with surprise and
concern, that part of the Ninth Report of the Commissioners of
Inquiry into Customs and Excise, in which it is recommended
to the Lords of the Treasury, to sanction the building of insulated
ranges of warehouses in the Port of Liverpool, with exclusive
privileges, such warehouses being intended to supersede the
stores now erected, which, unable to subsist under the compcti-
eion, would be gradually Abandoned ; the change of system, in-
volving in its consequences the revolution and injury of private
property to a very serious amount, being recommended upon the
plea of affording greater facilities to the Merchant, and more
complete security to the Revenue; that the Warehouses of Li-
verpool, amounting in value to two millions sterling, constitute
an important part of the property of the ir.habitants, and that
they are, in the present extent, more than adequate to the trade
of the port, notwithstanding the extraordinary•, but temporary
accumulation of foreign grain, and other merchandize, which
has lately taken place; ycur Memorialists, therefore, cannot con-
template without serious alarm the proposed introduction of a
system of monopoly, by the granting of peculiar pr.vileges.—
With reference to the security of the Revenue, they observe, in
the first place, that the warehouses in which bonded goods are
at present deposited have been fortified, under the immediate
directions of the Inspecting Officers, and have not been licensed
until declared to be sufficieasly secure."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

iALL'S, FEBRUARY ii.

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thing done.
LF.GER.