Star.
London, England, 1822-05-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

71? Marquis Wellington, from Bengal and St. Helena, is ar-
:i:ed oh' the Isle of Wight : sailed on the 24th of January, and
rr..ra St. Helena on the 7th of April. She-passed the Thomas
(•;.enville, MAIDCING, from Bengal.
FAt.sre•rn, MAT 27.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrived at this port,
.-Imr clean schooner Boston Packet, from St. Domingo;
Prince Regent packet, from the Leeward Islands; and his Ma-
,hip it,sesuozsg, from a cruise.
%las, 27.—Wind S.W....aArrived the Loyal Bri-
rz tr.:r*port, with part of the 61st Regiment ors board.--Sailed
lAmtion. the Neva, FAIQDHABIDD, from Jamaica; Stately,
Enr.Aa, from ditto; Vine, Wass, from Trinidad; Usk, Sarno.
from aro ; and Marquis Hastings, Fanramos, from Bengal.
Postsmotrru, MAT 28.—Wind W.S.W.--Arrived the Riga,
?)rites, from the Havannah.—Sailed the Providence, OUVIN
Madras and Bengal.
Dxat 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived last night and sailed
fir the !liver, the Thomas, litu.s, from St. Vincent's; Betsy and
&Oita, GAL:Away, from St. Domingo; Glutton, from
Honduras. Also this morning, Rulubarsoni CRVIESBANKS, from
China; Clarlrs, Mune, 44 days from Tobago; Cumberland,
Tare, and Ocean, Yountssa, from the South Seas; Bristow,
LE•ti, (torn New oth Wales; Stately, ILDGAII, from Jamaica;
Princess of Wales, Joussott, from Bahia ; Marquis of Hastings,
--, from Bengal; George, Diaper., from Cape Coast Castle;
}Lary, LANG, and Supply. Roasos. from tionduras ; Seneca'
firiA., from 'Tobago ; New Phoenix, I.EaroVIAST, from Trinidad.
C.ime down from the River and remain, Christopher, Exton!,
and Susan, —, for Quebec; Essex, 1111CLAT, for the Squib
Sts; Ceres, iNIATHEWS, for Rio Janeiro.

TRADE TO CHIAA.

room,
_ half-past
taking supported on the right
the Loan CIIANCRLLOR, and on the left by tho Duke
bir WitLutiarom.
Amen the company were noticed the ft llowlitg
*AMOIs Sod Gentlemen:
Lord Vlnsam 'Skin:oath, Right Ma. N. Vamittatt, M.P.
adoraillesr.aari Ilatewood, Lord Hotham, M.P. Sir
Mks !Left Vke Admiral Sir E. Harvey,
R.C.B. M.P. Sir Robert Vaughan, Bart. M.P. Mr Thom*
Dyke, Bart. Sir Robert Wisram, .Bart. Sir Marks Vlsrmeekl
Bart. Sir Jobe Gibbons, Bart. Right Hon. Sir Henry Reaseil,'
B. B. Wilbraham, Pal.
.M.P. Henry Blokes, Esq. *P.
The cloth being removed; Non Noble Demise Ras
sung; and as The King: and may he live long to en-
joy the fruits of the Peace which he has been the,
means of giving to Europe," was drank with four
times four.
Goa give the King was then sung; and " The Duke
of York and the Royal Family" having been toasted
with three times three—
The CHAIRMAN rose to give " The immortal mos
mory of the late Right lion. William Pitt." This
toast, he remarked, had already been proposed so
often 'though many successive years, that for him to
enlarge on it was as unnecessary as it would be pre-
sumptuous. He acknowledged himself to be one of
those who were convinced that the principles of the.
RiBht Hon. William Pitt had proved the salvation of
his country. Unaided by his abilities, we never could
have stemmed the torrent which threatened to over-
whelm the counzry thi ty years ago, nor could we
have triumphed over the numerous difficulties by
Which - chr Mr. Pitt had
sa-

111.. we were at .rat time enveloped. .41r. Pitt.
,rued his country by hi, talents while he lived,. and
by his principles when he was no more. He was
aware that attempts were, constantly making to de-
preciate the merit of Mr. Pitt, and to represent every
calamity to be the. necessary result of the principle,
on which, he had acted. But he would ask %hat
would have beets the, result, bad an opposite line of
policy been preferred • He was satisfied, as he .was
convinced'every man must be, who lOokedfairly on
the history of the past, that much as we had still to
contend with, we had much to exult.for. It was no-
torious
that Mr. Pitt had never wished to enter into
the late war, and bad only reluctantly done so, on the
sound principles of ne:essity rind self-preservation.
But being in it, he had thought it wisdom to perse-
vere with firmness and courage. The result was glo-
rious, but the danger being past, and the difficul-
ties overcome, our former perilous situation was hut
too frequently forgotten, and but imperfect justice
was dcne to the mei its of Mr. Pitt. He believed that
the fame of that statesman would rise much higher,
hereafter. If ever there was a man who had the in-
terest of his country at heart, it was Mr. Pitt; and if
ever there was a man who fell in the cause of hi,
country, it was Mr. Pitt—(Applause). Feeling as
they did, whom he had then the honour to address, he
was confident that they would feel it to be their duty
to unite with him to keep alive the memery of that
great man, and he had thetelore the fullest convic-
tion that they would think the toast which he had
proposed—" The immortal memory of William Pitt."
This toast was drank with three tithes three.
66 The Army and Navy of Great Britain," was
given with three times three. Rule, Britannia was
then sung! To this succeeded the Glee of the King
and the Church, u hich, as 'usual, was repeatedly in-
terrupted by the plaudits of the company.
The CHAIRMAN then ro,e to propose the health of
his Majesty's Ministers. In giving this toast he had
only to refer the company to the history of the period
during which they had administered, the affairs of
the country. A more arduous and a more brilliant
period was not to be found in our annals. They had
red us through a most tempestuous war to a glorious
peace. It was true that we had not as yet recovered
from the exertions demanded during the protracted
contest; but *if we continued to 'confide in them
in whom we had so long rdposed' our confidence—if
we were, in fact, true to ourselves, and were not mis-
led by factious declamations or idle theories, he was
sanguine- enough to hope, that at no distant period
we should recover, and gain the reward of all the sa-
crifices we have made in the cause of the best and
happiest Government which had ever been devised,
and under which, he believed, more securityi com--
fort, and liberty were to be enjoyed than bad ever
fallen to the lot of any other country. ' •
of his M. 's Ministers" having

In the STAR of yecteiday we gave ample details
tite interruption of our trade with China, in con-
,Npence of an affray between the crew of the TOPAZE
...d some Chinese, at Linten. Were the quarrel with
a Nation or a Government that could either be com-
:lied to respect us by the display of our force, or
:.,I.iced to trade with us by the sense of reciprocal
neirrts, we should entertain little fear of a reconci-
;...;ion; but the fact is, that they allow us to trade
%,-itit them by sufferance—that they look upon them-
selves as independent of our tornmerce—and that if
they give Iv; tea for our manufactures or our metals,
that we are to have the humility to consider them
ur masters, and the gratitude to regard them as our
beitiactms. Against such prejudices it is useless to
conte:.d, and all we can do is to reconcile them to
.lerests.
As soon as the unfortunate affray of the 23d of
December was made known, it is said, an Edict was
i:Kted, requiring the immediate departure from Macao
( f all Briti,h subjects. Several other letters or Edicts
-...2re also issued Ly the Vicera.y of Canton, full of re-
ittitions of the argument that the English RICHARD-
!mN's ship of war (as the TOPAZE is styled), having
been employed to convoy the trade, ought to he alto-
gether on the same footing as the Company's ships,
and that therefore the affair should not he regarded
between the two Gorei nrnents, but should be left
to the management of the Hong merchants. An offer
JS made to collect the Chinese present at the affray,
~1 give the English an opportunity of selecting
Case by whom any of them were wounded ; and, on
the other hand, it was required that one of the British
r:TCW shall he given up to be tried and punished, on
the ground that it is a general rule, in and out of
China that " he who kills a man shall forfeit his life."
This was the general substance of the answers to the
zpinitations of " the English Chief and his Col.
1-1:,,,ne5." The last of these Edicts, dated the 26th
ai January, concludes thus:
" I now hereby order the Hong merchants to enjoin my or.
d r, on the said Chief and his colleagues, and say, since the fo-
:tl;Terb in the skid ship of war of the said nation, within our
7r!•nry, caused the death of natives, the murderer or murderers
''!.) lulled the people is or are in the said ship of war, and,
ac-
to the laws of the Celestial Empire, it is incumbent to
forward the parties, try, judge, and punish them, at the
Atte where the crimes were committed. Since the said Naval
QUer knows this is an affair of importance, he ought, forthwith,
tz take the murdtrers and deliver them up, nor can he succeed
e: making pretests of returning home and•departing to the said

" The health

ajesty'

c.a. nap
`• Let the Ilona merchants immediately communicate my or-
tl,rs to the Chief and the others, saying that their minds may be
•,:•rtectly quiet and they may, in the first place, reap to the
Foreign Factories, and, at the Stikine time, address themselves to
NANA Othcer of said country, telling and commanding him
u deliver up the foreign murderers, for he is not again permitted
h empty worth to annoy by statements. As for the rest, obey
fa.ra,r Edt,ts, and manage according to tcnour thereoL
" A SrliglA L liniCT.

" Taws Kuang, Ist year, lath Moon, and :Oth day."
It ts neliesed that the Chine'e have been influenced
is some tneasnre in this affair by their in their
extna:.d upo:1 the Americans in October last, when,
it will be recollected, a tureign sailor under that flag
given up for an alleged murder of a woman,
.tad atter a mock trial at Canto:;, v..ts a tr:lly tot-
aui IPA to death.

The CMAIIIYAU next gave the health-of a Noble-
man much attached to the principles of Mr. Pitt,who
hail been foand.by the,side-Of that.great man dering
the most difficult part of his career.- he Iseult the
President of the Club, the Sari- f Nsrewand.— The
toast having been drank with three times thiee, •
The Earl of HaatWoofs, its returning thanks, said,
though that Club was run down Ist a party club, fie
should ever consider himself highly' honoured 'by
being considered its President. 'Much' of what he
might have said had been anticipated by their Hon.
and worthy Chairman, and by the Lord Chancellor.
But he'would contend that, to judge of the merits of
Mr. Pitt, they ought to go back to the tittle inwhich
he lived, and then to go forward to • trace the *tilt
of his system, on those who were to folloi the pie
sent generation, to understand how much they oweo
to that great man. It was true the daver Of-theval
was now at an end, but other dangers, perhaps still
more formidable than those which presented thefts.
selves with an enemy in front, remained to be met.
He alluded to the insidious, undermining, liberal at-
tacks (as they were called) upon every' part • of our
institutions. He especially set forth the importance
of making an exertion to put down these, and with-
out such exertions, he would say it there, 'and he
would say it before the whole world, the country was
not safe—( Applause).
Lord Viscount SIDSIOEITH proposed "the health of
the Chait man, with three times three."--The toast
Was drank with loud acclainations.

The CHAIRMAN; in returning . thanks, again ex-
pressed his admiration of the principles of Mr. Pitt;
and held the honour he had just received to be pecu-
liarly enhanced, coming, as it did, from the friends
and admirers of MG Pitt.
The Pi otestant Ascendancy" was drank with
three times three.
The LORD CHANCELLOR begged to be allowed to
give his favourite toast—" Prosperity and Perpetuity
to the Pitt Club.". •
The toast wasTeceiiied with shoats of approbation;
after which the Unit CHANCELLeR, the Duke of
WELLINGTON, and the other Members of the do.
vetnment retired.
" The immortal memory of King George the Third"
was drank in silence.
Mr. Actinism begged to give a toast. He called
upon the Meeting to drink the health of an individual
who was most firmly attached to the principles' of
Mr Pitt. and who had constantly attended the meet-
ings of the Club, when his residence in town would
permit. He had battled in the cal.:e in his own
county, and had never flinched, never shirked the
principles which he had once avowed. He begged
to give, in his individual capacity, their worthy
Chairman. " Mr. Cartwright," time Member for North-
ampton. This toast was drank with three times three.
The CHAIRMAN was so little prepared for the insi•
dious attack just made on him, that he was unpre-
pared to reply--(4 laugh).—He begged to thank
them, and to propose the health of the thunder of the
Society, " Mr. Acheson."—The health of Mt. Ache-
son was drank with three times three.
Mr. Aenzsos had not anticipated the returns
which would be made by the Chairman. He declared
himself largely repaid for any exertions which he had
made towards the organization of the Pitt Club, by
the notice which he had gained from persons of the
best consideration and best principles in the country.
He hoped the members of that Institution would ever
me found ready to rally round the Throne, and that
the flirout, in return, would always be ready to
maintain-the rights of the People.
The CHAIRMAN then gave 64 Lord Hopetoun, and
the Pitt Club of Scotland. . •
The toast having been drankAvith three times three,
The EMI of GLg'sGOw returned thanks for the ho-
nour rendered to the. Pitt Club of Scotland, bore tes-
timony to the enthusia;m with which the day was ho-
noured there, and rendered an elegant tribute to the
virtues and talents of Mr. Pitt.
The standing toasts were then successively given.
Several convivial and national sentiments were added,
and the evening, which) hai been enlivened with
songs and glees by Messr!..HAWBS, DIGNUM, BRoAD-
HURST, LEST, TERRAIL TAYLOR, and other vocalists,
closed in the most perfect bar mOny.

been drank with three times three ; It is understood, that in consequence of the tem-
The LORD CHANCELLOR returned thanks as well porary absence of Earl GREY from his attendance in
on behalf tit those of his Majesty's Ministers who the Hou:e of Lords on account of the death, of his
were present, as on that of those who were absent, mother, it is the intention of the Duke of •PORTLAND
and who had desired him to express their regret tot to move that the second reaoing of the Catholic Bill,
their being absent on this occasion. He was sure which was fixed for Friday next, should be put off to
that he spoke the sentiments of their hearts, when he soma futuie day..
said, that if they deserved the honour they had re- .
Ends-
ceived, it was because they had acted on the send- The Duke of BEDFORD is arrived at his seat,
leigh Cottage, on the banks of the Tamar. On Tues-
ments of that great man whose birth was the subject
day se !might, THOMAS ROBINS, Esq. Porireeve of
of that day's commemoration—(Applause).—He re-
minded them of the difficulties in which the. country Tavistock. accompanied by WILLIAM BRAY, Esq.
WILLIAM GILL, Esq. in a chaise and four, and fifty
bad been plunged in the course of the late war, and
Gentlemen on horseback, went in procession to his
of the manner in which it had been vanquished by
Grace's seat, to congratulate him on his late escape
the unconquerable spit it of Mr. Pitt. When it was
asked what they had gained by the principles of Mr. in his duel with the Duke of BUCKINGHAM.-
Pitt, his answer was—they had gained all that they AFFAIR 01 HoNouß.—Wednesday evening, the
had saved. Old as he was, he rejoiced that, in con- 15th instant; a meeting took place on the North
Strand, Limerick, between Captain PROFERT, of the,
sequence of the measures recommended by Mr. Pitt,
it was his to yield obedience to a gracious British SEdward Protherne, and Captain JONES, of the Hope.
o-
They were placed on the wound by their respective
vereign, who respected the law of GoD and the law
of the country. Had a different course been put- friends, .Ind were proceeding to fire, at the distance
sued, we might now have been under the yoke of a' of three paces, when the Mayor, fortunately for both
foreign tyrant. Britons under the yoke of a foreign parties, as they must inevitably have fallen, from the
preliminary arrangements, being informed of the eh--
tyrant 1 whose only God was ambition—whose only
law despotic power! It was impossible for any one cumstance, went to the spot iwsufficient time to pre-
to be so blind, as not to see that the distress which I vent the affair ten:nitrating-fatally. • -The parties were
taken into custody immediately, and bound over to
we now experienced-was the necessary consequence
preserve the*
peace.. By the. interference of mutual
of the exertions which we had made; but tho e prin-
']
friends, the difference, which was .about a freight,'
ciples which had saved us from the external dangers
which once menaced us, would eventually triumph I was subsequently adjusted-to their entire satisfaction.
over the difficulties with which we had still to con- W. M. Boarnwice, at present a prisoner in Glas.
tend. In conclusion, he remarked, that the religion gow jail, accused of stealing papers and letters from
of the country was safe, and he firmly believed that the &Mind Printing-office, Glitsgoet, has been k-
it would remain so; but he begged to caution those dieted to stand trial at Edinburgh, onidonday, the
%chi) loved thc Constitution, nut to suffer themselves 10th of June. • •• •

taco. the
names cf thr* petselts frollt *ant..
TO THE 6DITOR rtiIITJON.
It is a painful alternative for mess of retired. luttitsto (Amide
themselves on public notice :bet the erg ney of the ease bunt/eights
all consideratioo. The people of this parish (Island-of duly) are
at this motnilit starving; one eon of the name of reneyan died
yesterday. Twomeee, of the nausea et Duffy and K thy, died a
few days ago: their deaths have been attended with drews,.
lances peculiarly heart-rending. The
.distress within this form
eight has risen to such a height as bailer 411 description ; and we
mint, without fear of contradictioo, that dte littlE spring bud.
near they have commenced they are now abandoning from tie.
Nifty mud weakness; •
• Thus circumstanced, me eareestly conjure and implere those
persons who .hitre_thedbetiontims 4 tise liberal subscriptions
made up by the silaassiludad lind evilly Armin Fogtish gown
to come forward and lettift atatement ; We pledge.
ourselves to prove evety pinkie of it; and is. also-pledge ore. •
selves to fOint oat handfed* et dying victims, who are et this in.
stant awaittng their criel fate with awful reeignetion, truly af.
ietting to those who:sr/items and cannot relieve them ; for we,
whose names arraffixed.to this, are the ettly persons of any con.
sideration belonging to this parish, with the exception of one
other, at present out of the country. The peril .tion escneds
1500 families, and our means are totally inadequate to relieve
such a number nt clahiutriu. We anxiously hope that this may
Meet the eye of our good and benevolent Lord lieutenant, or
his Secretary, and that they will order each inquiry to be made
as will rescue these unfortunate people from the horrible deosn
with which they are threatened • and we further explicitly de•
dare, that unless relief Is immediately afforded, numbers of them
must inevitably perish.
Signed—hi. h.' Mahon. P.P. H. Malone, R.C.C. Theobald
Bourk, Chas. O'Malley, Joseph Bourke, J.P.-day 22.

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Mr. CohiTwitorrr, the Member for Northampton, The dab* of Wact.tooroanrivily returned thanks
', Pre4deci. 'He entered the iv eat• room in which the for the hamar ha had rewired, and espreasedshis ad, v—' ti";;T.O7 e' """"sY "is caunti.`Ye Ulissls_._ •
the au ty , aye respectable signatures. each on-
party bad-assembled, at about halepast sia. On, mimtion of theediaraater and attachment to the prin-
serving Of credit, we this dilly skin d the deaths and
r taking the Chair he was supported on the 'right by ciples of Mr: Pitt. A . .
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