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London, England, 1817-02-17 00:00:00

STAR.

THE Evssitto"

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LONDON.

MONpAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1817.
PRICE OF ItTOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE erCLOCIC
Reduced 6641—Coss. In°. 64 66—Cons. for ace. 63j 66
4 per Cint. ssif —,5 per Gem. Nan al
Ezilsogow Bills, I is. Its. pt—lndia 80.. , 265. 471. pre.

Yesterday we received the French Papers of Wed-
nesday and Thursday last.
In the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on
Tuesday, the Duke of RICHELIEU interrupted the
adjourned discussion on the Budget by a communi-
cation al very considerable importance from his MA-.'
JUTS,. He stated that an official Note had been re-
ceived From the Ministers of the four Allied Powers,
intimating the consent of their tespective Courts to
a reduction of one-fifth of the Army of Observation.
and that, as expressed in the Note, (a transcript of
which we have given in a preceding column) the
Allied Powers had been induced to this step from
an earnest desire -to behold the French nation in
the enjoyment of 64 all those blessings which the
exertions and wisdom of the KING had prepared
for it, and from a full conviction that 44 the exist-
ing state of affairs" was so far improved, the re-
I stored= of the legitimate dynasty and of inter-
nal order and hammy already so well consoli-
dated, as to permit the reduction being made with
every safety. The reduction of one-fifth will amount
to 30,000 men; and the relief which it will give in
point of expense to France will be 40,000 rations
4.41.1 y. But, most likely, to a high-spirited people,
this sating will be nothing in estimation, compared
with the solace which it must afford to their wounded
pride to behold their country beginning to be freed
from the presence of its conquerors.
The Note contains an allusion to the subject of a
I Foreign Loan, which is rather remarkable; and gives
Ito the communication of the Note to the Chamber.
at the present moment, when engaged in the discus-
sion of the very question, somewhat of a suspicious
aspect. The fidelity, it states, with which the King's
Government have fulfilled the engagements entered
linto with the Allied Powers, and, the care which it
has taken to ensure the supply of the different
services for the current year by adding to the
ordinary resoerees of the State " those of a ere&
64 guarastsed by the most respectable Foreia a* well a:
46 Noticed Boding Houses is Europe, have equally

44 removed those difficulties which might have
▪ been otherwise justly raised on the present gues-
s' tion." Is not this, in other words, to say, that
had there been no Loan--or rather if there is to be
no Loan—the reduction could not be consented to ?
For it is also worthy of remark, that the Duke of.
Iticuatiau, in his speech to the Chamber, states, that
i; is only .4 eer the adoption of a Law of Finances,"
(that is the law presented by Ministers and how un-
der discussion in the Chamber), Etc. that' the Army
of Occopation wal be diminished one-fifth." &c. In-
deed there can be no doubt whatever of the design
in Ministers to influence the decision of the Chamber
through the instrumentality of this Act of Grace on
the part of the Allied Powers ; and of the Constitu-
tional propriety of this we leave those to judge, who
know witk what jealousy any attempt of the kind
would, in a similar case, be received by a British I
House of Commons.

The LIMO coatioues to improve in health.
Thee Stocks still keep up. They are at present as
sigh as 60 fr. 65 e.

The long-expected Report on the treasowable wool,
,spiry cies for which four individuals have been acne—
mittid to the Tower, is to be made to both Houses
by their respective Committees this day.—The prN
inners are confined in separate apartments, with a
sentinel over each of them. A yeoman attends upon
them with their victuals. Every proper attention is
paid to them, so that their personal comforts ate
greater than they enjoyed when at liberty.

The Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince LEOPOLD are
expected in town in a day or two, from Claremont,
previous to the QUEEN'S drawingloons, and to reside
at Camelford House as a temporary residence, where,
several beds have been put up for that purpose.
The Duke of CLARENCE, we are extremely con-
milled to say, has had another severe attack of his
astlinsatic complaint, and spasms in his stomach. Sir
Hawar &tavola') was sent for from Windsor at an
early hour on Wednesday morni, to attend his
Royal, Highness at Bushy. On Saturday, we are
happy to say, be was pronounced to be getting better.
The pleasing intelligence was brought to the QUEEN.
the PRINCE KLOENT, the Duchess of GLOUCEsTER, &C.
No intelligence was received late last night. Sir
HENRY HALFORD left London about seven o'clock,
to atiend his Royal Highness.
A letter from Naples, dated January 21, 1817, an-
nounces the arrival of Lord Caavan's yacht, the
Louisa, on the 12th of January, from Marseilles. His
Lordship's stay in Naples will be about two months,
previous to fitting for the summer excursion in those
seas. There are said to be 400 English families at
N. pies-
To-morrow his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke
NICHOLAS is expected to leave London for New-
'Market, to view the different studs, the celebrated
-race-course, arc. His imperial Highness is TO 'sleep '
at the Palmer- lie is expected to return to London
on Wednesday weak* attend the Queen's Drawing
Room on Thateday, and on Friday his Imperial
Highness is expected to leave•LOndon on a tour into
the West of England.
Accounts Isom Berth!. of the 2111th January, state,
that•tbe Grand Duke Maim.** will return to that
city Imai London about the end of this month. The
lime of his marriage with the PriSICCSG CHARLOTTE 01
'XHOSA i tiac well; Seed.

CAME LAWS.

The Cone Laws, a subject to which Sir SAUVI
ROSSILLY called the attention of the House of C.,T

mons on Thursday, and which must soon ix"
again the attention of Parliament, is one of mucll
greater importance than some people can possibly
imagine. The Game Laws, establishing an exclusive
property in wild animals, are big with the most
rious evils to the community, and call loudly fcr
wl►at some people hate to hear—a radial Retort.%
It would be easy to shew that they are founded in
injustice ; and we could demonstrate, were the fact
one which we were persuaded would have any atigll
with men who prefer the sports of the field to every
other consideration, that they operate to destroy, in
tl►e miritls of the ignorant, all correct ideas of right
and wrong, and to subvert those principles, with,trt
which no people can either be moral nor manifest coin.
mon honesty, in those regards which are due to every
species of property; and without which even bilts
and bars can present but small security—while those
articles which cannot be kept under lo:k and key
must ultimately be held as fair game by the demora-
lized people.

• We might easily prove that in the nature of thing,
it is impossible that any individual can have an et.
elusive personal right in roaming animals ; but the
shorter way to convince certain individuals of the is-
justice of the Game Laws, will be by sheaving their
impolicy and the injury resulting to the community
and to themselves as members of the community by
their operation. for the facts which we are ab(ut
to state we are indebted to '• A plain Herd rd 11:e
farmer."

A Tenant belonging to B—a-, Esq. in the
county of Hereford, was entitled, on quitting his
farm, to ‘6 going crop of wheat," that is, to sow all
the land which at that time was under fallow, if not
amounting to more than one-third of the arable land
belonging to the farm. In this ease one field was
sown with wheat to the measure of 16 statute acres,
which came up well, and in every way promising a
productive crop : but, alas ! to the great irreparable
loscor iho poor man, who had been at all the trouble
and expense to obtain some breed for his family, on
going to gather the produce for the barn, he (mind
that his Landlord's Game had been before him

Well—What of all this Does not every one
know that the gams must eat ? Some do know it to
their cost, but few are at all aware of the extent of
the depredation, or the injury thence resulting to tine
community. In the case before us the landlord's
game were so numerous, so industrious, and vora-
cious, that the farmer, from his sixteen acres did not
reap one sulitary bushel. though he had a right to
expect 220—and would have reaped 220, but for the
existence of the game laws.
We wish to speak to the common sense of man.
kind. We would address the cupidity of the mono-
polimrs of Game. How can your tenants pay high
rents if you insist on retaining aright to bilks on then ,
without any board wages, an indeterminate number
of voila mall cattle and fowl: —yout's ! no, not only
must they maintain pwr's, but bid all the devourers
of par ielghisers a hearty welcome. They are per-
mitted to shoot any unwinged biped that may pre-
sume to rob them,--..any thing in the shape of a human
being ; but, if the thief come in the shape of a hare
or a partridge, they must not presume to disturb
their repast on path of a seven years' visit to the land
of the Kangaroos.
Is the case we have stated a singular one ? No.
Soom.ol our Readers—especially of those %thane
.notat,tenacious of the right thus to plunder their
tenants and to defraud the community of the just
priscluce of the earth, know well that similar Casts are
numerous. We could easily furnish many example;
of game being preserved in such quantities as to de-
vow up the crops of_ the farmers. We could name
some who have bein thus ruined yer, literally ruined!

Ons.shis subject the Report of a Committee of last 1
Session is deserving of serious Attention. It recom-
mended that the game should become a part of the
property of the land on which it might he leund.
Were this enacted, it would enable the occupier of the
had to bring the game, which is fed at his expos',
to the open market, and to receive himself the valJe
of it, to enable him to make up his rent ; instead of
the price going, as at present, into the pockets sf
the poachers. The quantity of the game maintained
by the whole soil would never be allowed to increase
'to a degree that tends to produce even a scarcity of
corn ; and that too at periods when every country is
feeling the distress arising from short crops t such a
degree that in some countries the people are actogy
perishing for want.

The sudden death of Lord ROM'S adds rr;
more to the numerous instances of the transievc.:
and instability of human life. His Lordship K-
conded the Address in answer to the Speech fr m
the. Throne, when he spoke with a collectedness
energy that made a corresponding impr,ssior.
was then in the vigour of kis health—in the full flow
of spirits,. in the flower of his years, and looked for- I
ward with a confidence little short of certainly toil*
attainment of an advanced and honourable age. Cut
in less than one fortnight, his spirit fled this sub:lo'
nary existence for ever I The Noble Earl's sett
took place almost immediately ou his reaching pewit,
worth Castle, and is supposed to have arisen :No
the bursting of a blood vessel. Well might it be 1.1i4
" To Ida &adroit's how &ear &Wed is death.
" The &tams &taw, but a gasp of bsesthr

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lery consists of a
(put upon* half
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itsAl years corn-
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!voided ibis force at Portsmouth, Major W. au., ac.
are within this reduction.

AR f4S
The transports whicb sailed from
ihrrt time since with the 61st Regier
11. Jaraica on the 19th December, alr sr/.
py The reduction the Royal Artiller
firstch Lieutenant fr each Company
py), and the dissolution of onu entir
h. Colonel as soil
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