Star.
London, England, 1820-07-15 00:00:00

MISCELLANIES.

Mr. P. IIOORE said, that upon further honsideration, he
felt it proper to postpone the motion of which he had given no-
tice, with restect to an indemnity to Mr. Beckwith, &e.
Mr. CAI.% SILT, adverting to the Order which had been
made some days ago, for the production of the Report of the
Commissioners of Inquiry, with respect to the conduct of the
Solicitor of the Board of Oustoms, moved that this Paper should
be presented forthwith.
The motion was agreed to, after a few words from the Ctiats-
CFI.: on of the Eocene/arse.
Sir J. GRAHAM presented a Petition from the Solicitor for
P...11ew, praying that the Divorce Bill which had been read
a first time, should be read a second time to-morrow ; and that
the Petitioner might be Allowed to serve a notice upon Mrs.
Pellew's Solicitor, instead of being under the necessity of serving
it upon that Lady herself, who was at present in Pembrokeshire.
The prayer of the Petition was agreed to, after an examination
at the Bar of both the Petitioner and Mrs. Pellew's Solicitor.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that
leave be given to bri:ig in a Bill to regulate the negotiation of
l'ronlissory Notes and Bank Post Bills hi Ireland.
Sir G. HILL spoke in favour of the BM.
Mr. LOCKHART complained of the extreme laxity of the
Administration of the Bankrupt Laws, both in this country and
in Ireland.

&Ir. VESEY FITZGF.EALD tokk this opportunity of sta-
ting, that much of the distress in Ireland had arisen from issues
made by a house to an extent which its capital certainly did not
warrant. It was also in a great measure to he attributed to an
Act passed two years ago for transferring stock in the 5i and S
per cents. from Oka Britain to Ireland. Upwards of 6,000,000
of stock had been transferred to Ireland since that period.—
Either this Act should be repealed altogether, or the power of
transferring stock to this country should be given reciprocally to
Ireland. In questions affecting the public credit of a country,
alarm was always co-extensive with difficulty, •and frequently
went beyond it. Ile begged therefore Most earnestly to call the
artentior of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to this subject.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
Upon the motion of the Cstascet.r.oa of the EXCIIIQUILR, it
wcs ordered, that an tumble Address be presented to his Majesty,
preying him to confs:r some dignity of the Church upon the Rev.
W. F. Vane, Chaplain of the House. An Address to his Ma.
Testy, that he would he pleased. to grant £l2OO to Mr. Erogden
for his services as Chairman of the Committee of the wholZ
liouse,,and the other Sessional Addresses, were agreedto.
Lord PALMERSTON moved for a Return of the Number
of Officers promoted from Half-pay to Full-pay, not by exchange,
since the Ist of September, 1815.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice,
that on Blonday he should move that the House adjourn till
Friday next.—Adjourned.

TH 1 EVENING STAR.'
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Lt )NDON.

SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1820.
THE FUNDS
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 221
per Cent. Reduced 69% 14 14
5 per Cent. Cons. ex. div. 68% 5/s %
4 per Cent. 871/4
5 per Cent. ex. div. 102% 5/s
Long Annuities 18 1-16
Scrip 1%
Exchequer Bills, 4s. ss. prem.
Omnium Vs pre. .
Cons. for Opg. 70% 70

The House of Lords have refused to allow'the
QUEEN a List of the Witnesses to be adduced against
her ;: so that her MAJESTY, in a case reaching to
even worse than death—to loss of character, and
immeasurable degradation—is called upon to come
down on the 17th of August to meet and repel, ?fir-
hand, a charge which it has Liken years of ferreting
and collecting to get up—with * the particulars of
which, in all that regards time, and place, and cir-
cumstance, she may be utterly unacquainted; and
of the witnesses to be adduced in support of which
she knows nothing—not even their names and resi-
dences. Her MAJESTY is to be led blindfold to the
Bar ; at once the fillet is to Le removed from her
eyes, and she is then and there to behold, for the
first, time, the host 'of witnesses whonyher enemies

have marshalled in array against her.—Her
JESTY' may instantly discover them to be individuals
whose evidence she could sbew to be utterly un-
worthy of belief ; but the means of :hewing so, she
may not have at hand ; the proofs may be on the
other side of the Alps—no possible exertion may be
able to procure them on the instant: Yet to trial
roust her Majesty go; and all the filth and falsehood
which witnesses, not, perhaps, to be believed on their
oaths, may vomit fortlCagainst England's Queen, is
to go forth to the world, as the evidence of honest and
uabought men, speaking without the least fear:, fa-
our, or affection !
how is this? Have the Committee of Precedents

reported that such has been the practice in former
periods of our history ? No. The Report of the
Committee proved nothing of the kind—it proved
nothing, in fact, either one way or other. Lord Ll-
vErtrooz. candidly allowed that this was a case which
vould admit of no precedents, and that if it were

consistent with substantial justice, a list of witnesses.
ought to be granted.—And why is it not consistent
with substantial justice ? Because, said his Lordship,
it might give the accused the power of acting by.
intimidation. It might be the means of stopping
Justice in her course—of preventing their being able
to- bring their witnesses fair a‘id free into Court."—
Intimidation %Thal the deserted (by all that call

themselves Great), the persecuted, the unfortunate
QULEN Canouxn, have it In her power to intimidate
witnesses who are backed by the whole weight of the
most powerful Government is Europe! Most in-
credible supposition !
The late outrage on the cargo of Italians imported
at Dover, was, no doubt, in his Lordship's mind,

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when he talked so, and indeed we have, in a subse-'
quent speech by Lord LAUDERDALE, Who supported
the refusal of the list of witnesses, a distinct avowal
that " it is to prevent the possibility of a still greater
forfeiture of the national honour," than that which had
occurred at Dover, that the list is refused. The out-
rage alluded4o is one which 'none but. the bas,est Of
mankind could wish to defend, aod it adds another
to the many lamentable illustrations which we are
every day receiving of the injury- none by all ex-
cesses of the populace, even to the cause they mean
most to befriend. But bow does this outrage bear
on the QUEEN'S demand fora list of witnesses ?
Her MAJESTY wants to know the names of the
witnesses against her, their occupations in life, and
the places where they last resided on the Continent,-
in order that she may send to these places, to inquire
among their acquaintances and neighbours what sort
of persons they are?—what characters they bear?,
how they have lived, aLd continue to live? &c.—
Her MAJESTY, be it remarked, (we crave the parti-
cular attention of our Readers to this point), does not
desire to know where the witnesses are to be lodged,
while here, but wfi ere they resided when at home? How
then could a mere list of the names, professions, and
foreign or native residences of these witnesses enable
her MAJESTY, if so disposed (which, gross as it is,.
must be taken to be the supposition of Lord LlVER-
pooL)—how, we say, could such a list enable her
MAJESTY to poiut them out as objects of popular
intimidation here? •

Although her MAJESTY had had such a list before
the affair at Dover, it could have had no possible
influence, either in causing or preventing that out-
rage: Nor, suppose she had now that list, and sup-
pose every witness against her were at this moment
in the Metropolis, could a mere knowledge of their
foreign residences enable her to trace and point
them out here, as objects for a repetition of the like
outrage. It is a mere waste of words, in short, to
dwell on the supposition. To intimidate would be
impossible; to have time and fitting opportunity to
inquire into the character of the witnesses, is all that
her MAJESTY demands ; and this it is which has been
denied to her.

The Requisition for a meeting of the Common
Council of the City, to whicliwe alluded on Thurs-
day, has been presented, numerously and respectably
signed, to the LORD MAYON, and his Lordship has
been plea►ed to appoint the Meeting to take place on
Monday next, at twelve o'clock. The object of this
Meeting, as our Readers have been apprized, is to
take into consideratiotl the propriety► of either ad-
dressing the KING, or of Petitioning both Houses of
ParliaMent against the proceeding adopted with re-
gard to her Kinprry ; and we have no doubt that
Meetings of a simliar description will be as general
throughout the country as is the feeling which has
prompted that in the City.
Extract of a Letter from a Correspondent at Bou-
logne, dated 14th July, 1820:
An Agent of the Government arrived in this
town on Sunday last. The object of his mission is to
prevent the other detachments of Italian witnesses
against the QUEEN (said to amount to about 300)
from proceeding to England, byconducting them all
to the Hague, whither the two former squadrons, we
learn, are now gone. What will the Dutch say to
all this? The French are indignant enough that the
Italians have been marched through this country."

The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore-
noon. They are almost wholly filled with the de-
bates our own Parliament on the question as in-
teresting almost to foreigners as to ourselves, respect-
ing the QUEEN ; and with the Report of a warm dis-.
cussion which took place in the Chamber of Depu-
ties on Tuesday, on a Petition complaining of the
machinations of a certain Secret Directing Committee,
which is said to be a sort of imperium is imperio in
the present political state of France. The Chamber
passed to the Order of the Day on the Petition.
Five per Cents. Tuesday, 79fr.

The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Address signed by six
thousand persons, was yesterday morning presented to
'the QUEIN. The following was her MAJasTiem most
gracious Answer :
" With greet iedsfaction I receive this Address from his
•Majesty' dutiful and loyal subjects, the inhabitants of New-
castlaupon-Tyne and its vicinity.
44 I accept with thanks, and return with sincerity, the affee-
I donate expression of your wishes towards myself, and towards
that Illustrious House from which I am descended; and the',
true honour of which, as it never has been, so it never shall be'
tarnished by me.
" Whatever I possess of wisdom, courage, and magnanimity.
has been fostered and strengthened by the example of this dis-
cerning, generous, and gallant nation, on whose unalterable at-
tachment to the principles of justice I firmly rely, under Dtvpix
Psonosser, for support under all my unmerited afflictions, and
for protection against the machinations and violences of all my
enemies."

The Lottery finally closed on the 12th instant, in,
which J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT, with their usual good
fortune, Sold in Shares, Ne. 9814, £20,000, and
No. 12,313, £lO,OOO, and •arious Minor Capitals.--
A New Lottery is expected to be contracted for in a
iew days: if J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT should happen to
be the Contractors, they trust to produce a Scheme
which shall be as •derservedly popular as any of those
which have met such superior approlaation.of the Pub.
lic, that in every instance whete they have been Con-
tractor), the Sale has nearly doubled each preceding
Contract—unlike the Scheme just concluded, in the
gaming and management of which they have simply
to state they had no concern whatever.

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THE ARMY.

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This morning, at nine o'clock, his Royal'Highaess.
the Duke of Yont, attended by the Duke of Wm."
LIIIGTON and several-General Officers, entered Hyde
Park, and reviewed the Ist and Sd battalions of the
Furst Regiment of Guards.. The Regiment received
the Duke with military honours : they afterwards
passed in line before the Duke in slow and .quick
time; formed again into line, and went through every
manoeuvre incident to a review, much to-the admira-
tion of a numerous crowd of spectators.—ln Park-
lane, a horse being frightened by the firing, reared
up, threw hip rider, and broke his arm.—At the ten-
clusion of the Review, the Duke and bis suite rode
through the ranks, and expressed great satisfaction at
the conduct and appearance of the men.
Friday se'unight, a small detachment of the HMI.
East India Company's Artillery and Infantry, under
the command of Major HAy and Captain SOMER..
mix, marched fmm Chatham to Gravesend, to em-
bark for India.

Wednesday se'nnighit the 22d Regiment of Light
Dragoons arrived at Chatham, after many years of
distinguished service in India. The Regiment will
be disbanded in the course of the present month.