Star.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

- NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

CO(JNTY OF GLOUCESTER. •-• r

The following Officers, who served in the Expeditlon.to Vie! • MINISTERS. •
Polar Seas, have been promoted to the rank of Lieutenants, viz. ADDRESS TO THE KING TO DISMISS
—Messrs. EILIIIEN, NIAS, and Deatty, of the Hecht: and i Saturday last. one of the most numerous and
Mesus. SIENE and Rena, of the Griper. Mr. Frantz and Mr. spectable Meetings of the County of Gloucester which
Br:MILEY, the Assistant Surgeons in the Expedition, have been -
promoted to the rank of Sur;ieoits. has been held rot several years tcok place at the Shire-
The Rebecca, SHAW, from Oporto for Dublin, was lost the hall, Gloucester, thr the purpose of taking into consi-
19th instant, at Cromnite, near Dingle. About nineteen pipes deration the propriety of petitioning his MAJESTY to
and thirty-nine hogsheads of wine saved. dismiss from Ins councils for ever his present tin—
Fathweru, DEC. C9.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Lady Arabella
worthy =Mini tors. This Meeting was originally sought,
packetovith a Mail for Lisbon.
Cowes, Dec. 31.—Arrived the Helena, Trlaltzlozzas from through Requisition to the High Sheriff, Sir E. B.
Tetra Virgo, leaky. SANDYS, signed by several Noblemen and Gentlemen
Potersmoent, Dth.3l.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Mary Anne, of rank in the county ; bat that °lacer having re •
from Salem, 1.14 from Cowes. Came into harbour, the London
fused to convent a County Mcetia,l, the present was
uansport, from Spithead.
• DEAL, Dee. 31.—Wind N. F.—Part of the cargo of the Duke called by eleven Magistrates of the first rank and sta-
of Cambridge, STLIVART, wrecked off BruadstArs on Friday Lion, according to the form prescribed by the 60,11
(consisting of wine, brandy, &c.) has been washed on shore here George ill. c. 6.
and at Sandwich, and has been secured. At one o'clock, the great area of the Shire-hall,
Lim:root., Dec. 30.—The Hercules, Cosa, sailed from hence
for New York this morning, and is on shore on Burbo-honk. which is an eleant and spacious edifice, was filled
g
Ilesisaave, Dee. ZO.—Part of the, upper counter of a vessel by freeholders of the county. On the platform a ere
has been picked up on the rocks to the; westward of this harbour, the following Gentlemen of the county. Lord Duct
F.
with the name " Marntion" thereon. was prevented from attending by a severe At of the
cussost.liousx, Dec. so.—eihips Cleared Outwards: Pro-
The Honourable Messrs. MoaTox, tsvo of his
aress,l,4 Hoodoos ; Inglis, for Italia ; Fortitude, for Barbs- gout.
does; Diana, for 1 Limburg!' ; New Harmony, for Dublin ; bier- Lordship's sons, were present ; also—
gates, .or Limerick ; Jeune Laore, for Honfieur ; M./quay, for Lord Sherburne:, Sir B. W. Guise, Sir C. B. Cudrington,
Ostend; 3largaret, for Antwerp; Aurora, for Venice; Royal
Colonel Berkeley, Colonel Kinscute, Major-General Guise, M.
George, fur India; Lavinia, for the Brazils.
Colchester, Esq. Colonel Webb, M.P. 1). Ricardo, Esq. M.P
T. Smith, Esq. E. Sheppard, F.sq. R. Canning, Esq. C. 11:
Hanford, Esq. Joseph Prise, Esq. 11. Hicks, Esq. 11. hicks,
Esq. S. Austin, Esq. W. H. Hyett, Esq. Rev. E. Jones, Rev.
James Commune, Rev. J. B. Chester, T. Wynniatt, Esq. C.
Ricardo, F.sq.
And several others of equal respectability.
Lord SHEttnontiE took the Chair, amid the ap-
plause oldie Meeting. His Lordship read the Re-
quisition originally presented to the High Sheriff, as
well as that signedby the County hlagiarates, is pur-
,iiance of which the Meeting was called.
Sir W. Guise, the County Member, opened the
busii.ess of the day. He thought the present a um-
nieht of sufficient consequence to call for the avowal
of every man's opinion who had the good of his coun-
try at heart. They were all, unhappily, too much I
aware of the present crisis of public affairs; they must
have all seen, with the deepest regret, the recent oc-
currences which agitated the Country ; they must
have seen, with the most melancholy feelings, the im-
proper and uncalled-for introdiktion into Parliament
of eliminatory evidence against the Queen, which
would not be admissible in any Court of Justice
throughout the Kingdom—(l-kar, hear). Equally
repulsive tp the feelings of the Nation was the pro-
duction of witnesses from distant countries, under cir-
cumstances, and connected with previous arrange-
ments, of so suspicious a character, as to justify the
opinion which prevailed, that these witnesses had been
suborned to give evidence. These proceedings, so
utterly at variance with the habits and institutions
of this country, had created great uneasiness and
general agitation—(Hear). There was of late, and
there still continued to be, great distress throughout
the country; it was the duty tif Ministers at such a
time not to exasperate public feeling, but to endea-
vour, as far as their means extended, to alleviate pub-
lic distress, and to allay public discontent. As, how-
ever, the constitutional and responsible Advisers of
the King had neglected this important part of their
duty, it became the bounden duty of men of weight
in the country to assist the People in making known
ti.eir real situation to his Majesty, in a moderate, a
, toper, and legal manner. If the teal opinions and
.hsttesses of the People once reached the Royal ear,
he had the utmost confidence in the disposition of his
Majesty to relieve his faithful People—(Hear). It was,
therefore, of the fir .t importance that the County of
,iloucester should come forward thus openly and pol-
itely to express its sentiments. He concluded by
moving the Address, which entreated the King to
dismiss his pi e-ent Ministers, whose system of foreign
and domestic politics had entailed so many evils on
the Nation, and was alike derogatory to the power
and dignity of the Crown, and destructive of the
tights and best interests of the People. It also re-
commended, that with a change of Ministers, there
should be likewise a change of measures—(Applause).
Mr. CoLcilesven seconded this motion. lie con-
curred in expressing the hope, that when this Ad-
dress was laid at the foot of the. it would not
only produce the desired effect, but also that the ex-
ample of this County would be followed by the others
throughout the Empire, until the unequivocal ex-
pression of public feeling was completely demon-
strated—( Great applause).--Ile cordially hoped
that his Majesty could dismiss from his Councils a
set of men, who, lather than quit the profits and
emoluments of office, preferred embroiling the coun-
try in civil conflict, and risking the dignity and se-
curity of the Throne, by the introduction of a prose-
cution against the Queen, after such a measure had
been deprecated bitthe House of Commons, and de-
clared by that body to be " derogatory from the dig-
nity of the Crown, and injurious to the best rights
and interests of the Empire"—(Loud applause).
The Address was then unanimously adopted by
the Meeting.
Mr. RICARDO came forward, ana was received
with masks of approbation. He said that he was,
sure this Meeting felt as he did, respecting the con-1
duct pursued on a late occasion in the House of Peers,
by the Noble Chairman and by Lord. Ducie—(Loud
cheers)—The County, be was sure, could feel but one'
sentiment upon that conduct : it was entitled to their
fullest and most unqualified approbation—(liciterated
cheers).—These Noble Lords bad, in an independent'
and manly manner, opposed his Majesty's Ministers
during the prosecution of the Queen. It became dal
County to express their opinion of the conduct of the
Noble Lords who had acted in so independent a man-
ner, and his object at present was to propose to the*
a vote of thanks—(Hear, hear!).—He would take
this opportunity of declaring his hearty approbation)
of the terms of the Address, as well as those used b 7
the Gentlemci, who hag spoken upon it. Indeed,
he had anything in the way of complaint to urge
cavil with, with, it was, that the Address had not gone as
far as it ought to !Dime gone; for it appeared to him,
that many of the evils of which they complained
were to be traced to the present constitution of tie
House of Commons—(Applause).—lf that House
fairly and fully represented, as it ought, the People
at large,. the country would not now have to deplore
such an accumulation of wrongs--(Afplause). It would
have been 'quite impossible for Ministers to have pur-
sued a career so diametrically opposite to the gene-
raLopiuion, of the country—(Great applause) The

THE ARMY.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
WAIL-OFFICE, DECEMBER 29, 1820.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Frederick Lloyd,
from the half-piy of the 21st Light Dragoons, to be Cornet,
vice Kennedy, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons.
3d Regiment of Light DragoonS--Robert Dent, Gent. to be
Cornet, by purchase, vicg Gulston, who retires.
12th Ditto—Cornet lion. John K. nnedy, from the Ist Dra-
goon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Frederick Thelluson, who
rt. rives on halt-pay of the :ISt LitLt Dragoons.
3d Regiment of :nt—Second Lieutenant Richard Nugent
Fverard, from the hall-pay of the Rifle Brigade, to be En-
sit;n. vice John Henry Browne, wilt) exchanges,
4th Ditto—Captain John llevenden, horn halt-pay of the 60th
F..ot, to lie Captain, vice W. B. C. Faigeli. who exchanges.
7th Ditto—Lieuten.t.t Jieepil Deane ihirate, from half-pay of
the Ist Foot Guards, to be Lt.:terrain, vice Charles de Lo-
rentz, who exchanges, receiving t;ie difference.
16th Ditto—Lieutenant Joint 'l.ietarlaile to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Paten, thc..-asetl; Ensign Alexander Duke
Hamilton, trom to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Aft:44l'6lle.
35th Ditto--Charl-:s ti:ownlnw Cumberland, Gent. to be En-
sign, by pinch:tie, %ice Hamilton, promoted in the 16th Foot.
45th DittO---Lieutenaist William Henry Butler, from the half-
pay of the 73d Foot, t.. be Lieutenant, vice Philip Stoptord
Cosby, whir exchanges.
80th Ditto—Lieutenant Hugh Macdougall, from half-pay of
the 40th Foot. to be (bat termaster,vice Thomas Smyth, who
retires op') halt-pay.
81at Ditto--Captain Robert Wanton Gordon, from half-pay of
the 6th Foot, to be Captain, vice Joseph Ginger, who ex-
chang-s, receiving the difference.
83d Ditto—Bit:Yr t Major Thomas Summerfield to be Major,
without purchas vice Napper, deceased; Lieutenant John
Shaw to be ptain, vice huoimerfield ; Lieutenant Joseph
Wynn, from the Cape Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice Shaw.
89th Ditto—lieutenant bent) Duncan Keith, from ball-pay of
the 69th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice John Goodwin, who
exchanges, receiving the difference.
Cape Corps—erjeant-Major John Blakeway to be Adjutant
(with the rank of Ensign), vice Wynn, appointed to the
83d Foot.
Colo.titi Company attached to the Quartermaster-General's lk-
partnient at the Mauritius—Second Lietitenant Charles
M• Kenzie Campbell, from half-pay of the Bourbon Itegi-
ni.A.t, to be Second Li. otenant, without purchase.
11Y-1401tA2DIni.
Deputy Storekeeper-General James Smith has been permit-
ted to re ,;u hit Commission.
siz.led by the Lord lieutenant of the County
of Essex.
Nathaniel Garlan,i, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
East Ess:x Joho James Strutt to be Captain,
vice Kir..y, restoed ; Fiske Goodeve Harrison, Esq. to be
di.to, vice (Vitra, deceased; Knsion John Snell to he Quar-
termaster (with rank of Lieutenant), vice Bland, resigned.
West Essex Militia—Horatio Vachell. F.sq. to be Captain, vice
Pillans, deceased ; Ensign Heury Bird to be Lieutenant, vice
Copping, deceased.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Cornwall.
'ith, or Pendennis Artillery Local Militia—William Wilmot
Corfield, Esq. to he Captain ; John Kendall, Gent. to be First
Lieutenant; Fredetick. Lovell Meraggart Williams, Gent. to
be Second Lieutenant.
North Cornwall Ilussars—Rd. Hicks, •G. nt. to be Lieutenant.
Cornwall Yeomanry Cavalry—Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart. to be
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant; Matthew Paul Moyle,
Gent. to be Co:net and assistant-Surgeon; Philip Vyvyan
Robinson, Gent. to be Adjutant.
23 Cornwall Yeomanry Cavalry—Lewis Charier Daubuz, jun.
Gent. to be Lieutenant ; George Treweeke to be Chaplain.
East Cornwall Cavalry—John Parkin, Gent. to be Lieutenant ;
John Smith, Gent. to be Cornet.
Commissions in the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Cavalry'
signed by the Lcrd Lieutenant of the County Palatine 01
Lancaster. •
Richard Simpson, Esq. to he Captain; Richard Meadowcroft
Whitlow, Gent. to be Lieutenant.

The Lords of the Treasury have been pleased to
issue their warrants for bonding wine, brimstone,
cork, hemp undressed, iron in bars, kelp, mahogany,
pitch, rosin, staves, tallow, tar, timber, toto of tur.
pentine, oil of turpentine, wood, zaffre and corball,
at the port of Shoreham, which will be a very great
accommodation to the trade.
A letter from an Officer of his Majesty's ship Vico,
at St. Helena, dated November the 7th, 1820, says—
" Since our arrival here I have obtained a pass to
visit the new house at Longwood, which is preparing
fur the future residence of BONAPARTE, a short de-
scription of which follows :—lt is within 150 yards
of his former abode, and resembles an English gen-
tleman's seat, excepting that it is only one story high,
has two wings, and in the whole fifty-seven rooms ;'
the most handsome of which, 1 think, is the one ap-
propriated to his library. It will not be furnished,
until his removal into it, which, report says, will take
place in about two months. General BERTHA ND'S
house is scarcely twenty yards distant. The chance
of seeing BONAPARTE rarely happens. I learnt from a 1
person whoaccompanied me throughout the house,that
he rises very earl, takes exercise on his horse in the
most secluded spoyts, and afterwards works very hard
with a spade in his garden. He refuses to have
strangers introduced to him. On my way to Long,,__
wood, a place very sitnilar to the Devil's Punch-boil-1,
(on the road from Portsmouth to London) attracted
my notice : it is inlet ior in size, but is form very like.
St,. Helena abounds with valleys, interspersed with.
country-seats; it is fortified all round, and numerous
telegraph posts are planted, whereby vessels are de-
scried ninety miles distant. The watching regulations
are very strictly enforced; the ships of war row guard
every night, by a select parole. No American vessels
are allowed to anchor; and even those of other
nations ate hastened away immeitiately that their
••rs ate supplied."

Gentlettsan- concluded by proposing a vote o
thanks to Lords SL•erborre and Duck.
,The motion Was unanimously agteed- to, and fa-
timed by three cheers.
Mr. SNOWDEN suggested, that a similar compli-
ment should be paid to the Duke of Bedford, and
Lords Grey, 11rdland, ar•.d Carnarvoti •
Several voice; exclaimed, " And Lord Erskine."
This suggestion was instantly embodied in the
form of a motion, and
General Go isit, in seconding it, said that he wished
every other Noble Lord in the Ifoose of Peers had
fdlowed the high example of the distinguished Peers
whose names had been just mentioned. Had others
,equally obeyed the dictates of their conscience, in-
stead of yielding to undue influence, the Queen, in-
stead of having a majority of nine against her, would
have bad such fa triumphant number of voters in her
favour on the second reading ef the Bill, as would
have carried her triumphant through the whole pro-
cess. The 'notion was carried unanimously.
General t:ISE moved, that the Address be signed
by their Noble Chairman, on the part of the Meeting ;
and then, that it be presented to his Majesty by the
County Mernbers--(Applause). Carried unanimously.
Sir WILLIAM GUISE could not for a moment doubt
that tl:e Address of so loyal and respectable a body
would be received by the King in a suitable manner,
and attended to in tl.; way best suited to the nature
of the case. He had only to assure them that he
should take the Addres without delay to London,
and put it into the hands of his Majesty at the very
first Levee which the King should hold—(Cheers).
Colonel BERKELEY heart►ly concurred in all the
sentiments expressed in the Address. His object in
presenting himself to the Meeting now, was to move
a vote of thanks to Sir William Guise for proposing,
and to Mr. Colchester for seconding the Address,
which had received their unanimous approbation.—
This motion WAS also carried unanimously.
Mr. Wivroutt HARRIS concurred entirely in the
preceding business, and more particularly in that.
tribute of their respect which was so justly due to
their distinguished Chairman. They had conducted
themselves with the sense of dignity and character
which became men exercising one of the proudest
and dearest privileges yet reserved to Englishmen.
The thanks he had now to propose for their concur-
rence were to the eleven Magistrates who had cou-
venc:l the Muting alter theclligh Sheriff's refusal to
obey the Requisition, presented to him from some of
the principal personages of the county.•—(.4pplause)r—
They were more particularly called upon to thank
these Magistrates for coming forward in support of
the rights and privileges of the county, when the
High 'Sheriff interposed his authority to obstruct the
exercise of both, far as he had the power to act in
hostility to the avowed wish of the county—(Hear!).
Ile regretted that the High Sheriff had so far forgot-
ten his dutf. He (Mr. Harris) should have thought,
that an Englishman. exercising a highly important
and constitutional office, would hive been ashamed
to have recorded a refusal to a Requisition signed as
that had been, which their High Sheriff had disre-
garded—(Hear, hear!). •
The vote of thanks to the Magistrates who had
convened the Meeting was carried by acclamation.
Mr. \VD:roue Haunts then said he must take the
sense of the Meeting on the conduct of the High
Sheriff—(Hear, hear ! ).—When men of office did
wrong, those who were likely to be injured by their
misdeeds ought not to be afraid of expressing their
opinions, in the hope of deterring other official pet-
sons from pursuing similar misconduct—(Hear !).
He lamented the unpleasant situation in which the'
High Sheriff was at present placed. [Some voices
exclaimed, "Isit in the Kings Bench?") He had
too much feeling when a man was down to kick it
him, and should rather at any time extend the hand
of good fellowship to lift up a fallen adversary—
(Cheers).—But it *as quite impossible for them,
without utterly abandoning their duty, to overlook
the misconduct of Sir E. B. Sandys at such a crisis
as the present.
Several persons exclaimed, ;hat it was not worth
while to notice the conduct of. the High Sheriff,
which they ought rather to treat with contempt ;
while others (and the great majority) thought a
simple vote of censure necessary.
The vote of censure upon the High Sheriff was
then passed unanimously.
Sir WILLIAM GUISE then proposed, the thanks of
the Meeting to their. Noble Chairman, for his dig-
nified conduct in the Chair.
The motion was seconded by Colonel BERKELEY,
who said, that it was highly gratifying to the county
of Gloucester to have such Noble Lords a; their
Chairman resident among them, who were always
ready to stand forward for the preservation of the
best rights and interests of the people, and to guard
them from oppreision—(Cheers).
The CUAIRNI AN expressed his thanks for this mark
of their respectful attention, and the Meeting broke
up amid loud cheers.

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On Thursday left, Fnarcers JEFFREY, Esq. was in-
stalled Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Yesterday afternoon, between two and three *loll,
as a Gentleman was proceeding in his chaise along
Beech-street and Barbican, his chaise.coat was stole;
by a man who had been running behind lor some
distance; the roblsery, bowel cr, was observed by
several persons who were passing, and the thief was
immediately pursued. He ran up Prince's-street,
Barbican, and into Charles-street, where he dropped
.the coat at the corner of a court, which was not a
thoroughfare, and, being so closely pursued, he ran
into a house, and up stairs, took off his own hat and
coat, and came down stairs, with the utmost assur-
ance, to inquire whet the disturbance wit about? but,
though.so differently attired, lie was immediately re-
cognized and secured. The Gentleman to whom the
coat belonged arrived at. the mbrnent, and gave him
in charge to a constable, who conveyed him to the
Giltspur-street Compter.
Cove Eactrocor, Mesc-rtes, J.tx. I.—in consequence at the
severity of the frost and the stoppage of the navigation, very
little business has been done in our market this morping, and
the pekoe of all Groin may be considered nominally is on Fri-
day, eiclipt Oats, which article Is Is. per quarter lower, owing
to the magnitude of the arrivals.
SIMI! VIZI.° Masao?, JAN. i.--Beef, 3s. 6d. to 41. 10d. per
stone of Sibs. ; Mutton, Ss 6d. to 4s. 10d. Wel, Se. Od. to es. 00.
Pock, 41.64 to 55.10 d. Lamb, o*.oci. to Os.od.—Cettk at Mark. t
Beasts, ‘2.7,:k ; Calves, 1W ; Sheep and Lambe, 15,100; lip, V.Pt).
Hay, 31.105. to 41. es. Clovtr, 41. 4e. to 51. ss. Straw, tl. 125..
to 1/. 16s. .