Star.
London, England, 1821-02-27 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

The CHANCELLOR of the.EXCHEQUER moved
the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself
into a Committee of Supply for the purpose of post-
poning it.
Mr. HUME took this opportunity of saying, that
the consideration of the Army Estimates should be
postponed till they should have been at least ten days
in the hands of Members. No Member could, in so
short a time as between Friday and Monday, become
prepared to discuss the merits of those Estimates.—
He proposed that the Navy Estimates should be con-
sidered on Monday first, and the Army Estimates on
this day fortnight.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
'that there would be an obvious inconvenience in
postponing the Army Estimates beyond the day
zed for them. Some particulars he should be con-
tent to reserve, but the principal branch must be
submitted on Friday.
Mr. H. G. BENNETT said, they would not vote
the Army Estimates till they were at least a week in
the hands of the Members. The minority in that
House possessed means of resistance which would be
put in force—(Cheers).—The subject would not be so
readily got through as the Right Hon. Gentleman
seemed to suppose. A discussion might be continued
for days on the subject. He, for one, would not vote
the number of men b' many thousands--(Cheers)—
and Members on his side would resist such a vote to
the last extremity. At a time when complaints of in-
'supportable distress came from all classes of the peo-
ple, retrenchment must be carried to the utmost ex-
tent. " We wal," cautioned the Mon. Member, with
great energy—,, we will cut down the expenditure on
this head to the utmost: we cannot afford the present
establishiLteut, and we won't afford it"—Wear, head.
The CHANCELLOIt of the EXCHEQUER said,'
that to pacify the Hon. Member's temper, titfie would
be allowed tor considering the • subject. The Navy'
Estimates Would be taken, on Friday; and the Ord-
name on Monday.
Mr. RICARDO wished to know Whether a Papa
laid before the House coat:tined-all the Exchequei•

Bills issuesi from 1820 to 1821, and abase puts
chased by the Rank ?
The CHANCELLOR of the ENCHEQUER said;
that if the Bank had purchased any they would ap-
pear upon that account.
The Committees of Supply and Ways and Means
were postponed till Wednesday.
TRANSPORTATION OP OPPENDERS.
Oa the Order of the Day for the second wading
of the Transportation Bill,
Mr. BENNETT' said, the Government ought to
turn its attention to this subject, which had ceased
to be a punishment. It separated father from son,
and husband from wife. He bad his bureau covered
with letters asking from him the boon of trans-
portation. He complained that the method of trans-
portation was to send out a greater proportion of
men than women.
Mr. CLIVE said, the greater proportidn of effen-
ders were males. The utmost our jails were calcu-
lated to hold were 16,000; besides, the men were
better fitted for labour and agriculture.
Mr..BENNETT 'explained.
Mr. GOULBURN said, be bad stated on a forrner
occasion that the great cause of the licentiousness lir
New South Wales arose from the disproportion be-
tween the male and female convicts. Government
had done all in its power to avoid that evil.—The
Bill was then read a second time, and was ordered
to be reported to-morrow. •
The Nova Scotia Trade Bill went through a Com-
mittee.—Report to-morrow.
HULL POOR RATER.
On the motion of, Mr. SYKES, the Hull Poor
Rates Bill was ordered to be lead a second time this
day six months. This Bill is, consequently, thrown out.
The Annual Indemnity Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Report of the African Company's Officers'
Allowance was brought up and agreed to, and a Bill
ordered to be broughtin, pursuant to the Resolution.
COUNSEL IN CASES OF FELONY.
Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) moved for leave to
bring in a Bill to allow persons charged with Capital
Offences to defend themselves by Counsel. This
seemed so reasonable, that he wondered what argu-
ments could be used against it.
Mr. LOCKHART would give no opposition to
the introduction of the Bill ; but this had long been
the practice of the English law; and be did not think
the contrary would be beneficial. This would be a
most inconvenient mode if introduced at the Old
Bailey; where 400 or 500 criminals are often to be
tried in the course of one Session.
Mr. NOLAN said, this was an attempt to alter the
course of justice, and the mode of conducting the
prosecutions in the most humane system of jurispru-
dence that ever existed.
Mr. DENNIS BROWNE opposed the motion.
Mr. MARTIN (of Galway), cat reference to this
opposition from a countryman of his own, said, it
only verified the old saying, that " If you put an
Irishman on a spit, you'll always find another to turn
him round r—(Laughter).
The motion was then carried without a division.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Mr. WYVILL presented a Petition from the West
Riding of Yorkshire, praying for Parliamentary Re-
torn's. From, the great progress, be observed, which
this question had made in the country since last Ses-
sion, he had lithe doubt that sooner or later the Peti-
tioners would see their prayer granted—(Hear, Aear).
*or his own part, he woulds never support any Ad-
ministration which was not framed on the basis of
Parliamentary Reform—( Hear, Lear).
The Petition was ordered to be printed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. HUME moved for Accounts of the number of Clerks in
the Ordnance Department ; and the Land purchased for the uses
of that Department.—Ordered.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL brought in a Bill for further
facilitating the business of the Court of King's Bench, which
was read a first, and ordered to he read a second time en Friday.
Mr. HUME gave notice, that he should move, tomorrow,
for a Return of the Effective Force of the Militia at Ceylon and
the Cape of Good Hope.—Adjourned at Nine o'Clock.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
The Navy Estimates, under the three great heads of the Ser-
vice, amount to £6,382,789 lis. sd. The ordi ry Estimates
are divided into three parts: the first contains the Salaries and
contingent 'Expenses of the Admiralty, the Navy Pay, Navy,
and Victualling Offices, the Home and Foreign Yards, Ortfi.
nary Repairs of Ships in Harbour, &c. This part amounts to
£1,225,629 Is. W. The second part contains the Estimate of
Half--pay, Superannuation., and Pensions, granted to Officers of
his Majesty's Navy, Widows, and Bounties to Chaplains, &c.
This amounts to £1,152,996 las. 3d. The third pan contains
an Estimate of the Superannuation and Pensions granted to
Commissioners, Secretaries, Clerks, &c. amounting to the sum
of £105,973 16s. 6d. The total amount of these three branches
is £2,484,599 Ils. Sd. This Account is exclusive of the Esti-
mates for the Building and Repairs of Ships, and of the Esti.
matei of the Wages, Victuals, and Ordnance for 22,000 men,
the total active force to which our Navy has been reduced. The
Estimates for the Building, Repairs. etc. amount to £02,032,036.
and of the Wages, Victuals, die. to £1,866,150; making a total
amount of the Etimates for the service of the current year,
£6,582,789 II a. Sd. From this is to be deducted, amount of old
Stores, A 113,400. Leaving to be provided, .C 6,219020 Its. 54.

Mr. J. Cairn, a respectable firmer, who resided at Char-
well-House, Northamptonshire, was shot at last week, between
three and four o'clock in the afternoon, whilst cutting hay from
a rick : the shot shattered his arm in such a manner that am-
putation became necessary, and he is since dead. A man of the
name of Phillip Haynes has been committed to the County
Gaol, charged with the murder.
Discovery/ a Murder after the tepee of si.dent rears.—Tuesday
last, a man named James Matthews, who resides at St. Agnes,
Cornwall, was apprehended on the information of a person
named Symms Pryor, who resides at Redruth, and who charges
Matthews with the murder of a man named John Ja nes, who
was his (Matthews's) brother-in-law, sixteen years since. The
following circumstances have been stated by Pryor on oath, be.
fore the Rev. Hucu Rooms, one of the County Magistrates
In 1804, Pryor was employed as an assistant labourer, by Mat-
thews and James, at a mine called Crown Due Mille, near
Tavistoek, in Devonshire. One night, Pryor and James de-
seended by a windlass into a shaft of the mine, which was
about twenty-two-fathoms in depth. Whilst there, they bond
a hole for blasting, and Pryor was drawn up, by Nlattheviq.
James then laid the match to the train, and called oat to hie com-
rades to pull him up, as la usual. with miners on such occasions.
Matthews ,and Prycr wound up about live fathoms of the rope,
when Mittistrshrt go the'wht&na and desired Pivot. to do the
Num. Pryor refused," which Matthews threatened to hooch
his brains out if he did not. Pryor Spin leaned, when Mat-
thee) strut* bide oa the ht arm with a pick-hilt; which timid
him to-quit his bold, and James was precipitated to the bostant,
and bad his skull so dreadfully fractured that he died in two days
dim; Pryor told the facts to his brother, who was a smith on
thaminu, and to time other mat, but thief contrived to keep
him In a %man' room behind the smith's-shop until a Coroner's
Airy had returned a vettliet of ikeldittal heath. Ifr was then
induced to conceal the affair, on the ground that Matthews bad
a large family. Pryor had never seen Matthews from that time
to the present, bat itesaid that he was ab distrewd on neco.int
of to concealnwatv.that be could amprem the eir:utormice ao
tante Uatthews ins been committed to Baden J.il.

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THREE PRIZES OF A'lll,ooo. CONSOLS AND MONEY,
MUST BE DRAWN NEXT THURSDAY—PERHAPS
THREE MORE Ammo SAME DAY!!!
Inert —ln the Advertisement of an Estate fee Bale,
between Esher , advertised in the lima of yester-
day, kir" sth ofMarch" as the day of Sale, read • Inid of March."

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1821.
THE FUNDS.
PR t t Of STOCKS THIS DAT AT 0141 O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 2271/4-3 per Ct. Reduced 73% 4 3/4 %
3 per Ct. Cons. 73►/a 72%-3i per Cent.B3% 3/4
4p.. Cox . 91% 92 913/4
S per Ct. Navy 1063/4 3/4 7/ 34 %
Long Annuities 19 1-16 19
India Stock 2301/4—lndia Bonds 411.425. pr.
Exchequer Bills 4s. ss. 3s. pr.
Consols for Acct. 733 73 731 A 72%.

The Vienna Official Gazette of the 13th February, I
has given to the world the Manifesto or Declaration
by which the Emperor of AUSTRIA seeks to justify
his conduct in the invasion of Naples, or rather we
should say, in commencing a new crusade against
the liberty of nations. We recommend this Decla-
ration, which will be found in another part of our
Paper, to particular attention. Every sentence of it
drops in pieces at the touch of argument, or presents
a palpable and wicked perversion of well• known facts.
It commences with a sort of historical exposition
of the existence and objects of the sect of Car-
bonari, who are said to have been for many years
dangerous to the peace of the Italian Peninsula,
and to whose machinations the recent Revolution
in Naples is pretended to be wholly owing.—.
44 It diffused," we are told, “ restless activity, a dis-
position of hostility to the Government, and app-
donate longing for innovation among all dada of a
hitherto quiet and contented people." Here, at least,
we have it acknowledged that the sect became at
last synonymous with the nation, and that the pas-
sionate longing for innovation, in other words, a
desire for the improvement of their political condi-
tion, did prevail among all classes of the Neapolitans.
.That such a desire should exist, may seem strange
to the Allies, and they may seek for a solution in the
wonder-working sect of Carbonari ; but to those who
know what man is and has been, it will not be ne-
cessary to seek the cause in one of the various shapes
in which the effect is manifested. Taking it for
granted that secret societies existed to a great extent
ifs the kingdom of Naples, their rapid rise and pro-
gress is of itself a sufficient proof of the existence
of the spirit which renders despotic government no
longer endurable. It was
.this spirit, spreading, as
the Declaration states, to all classes, which made the
Revolution so rapid and yet so peaceful.
But the sect, we are assured, notwithstanding 4
had made proselyialt of the Neapolitan Nation en
masse, would have 4, fallen into oblivion and insigni-
ficance, if the events in Spain bad not given it new
enetgy." This. surely, is not only a direct insult to
the existing- Spanish Government, but a hostile dis-
avowal of it; and it is evident, from the expression,
that the Neapolitans are fighting the battle of Spa-
nish as well as Neapolitan independence. It appears
to us, therefore, pretty clear that the Spaniards must
soon be involved in the contest—nor can we well see
how, if the war be protracted, England can long keep
out of it.

The events connected with the proclamation of
the Spanish Constitution at Naples are, then, grossly
perverted, in order to furnish some excuse to the
Ktwo of NAPLES for a violation of his oaths. The
sum of this excuse is, that his MAJESTY swore and
forswore for the sake of peace and quiet! He gave

a .4 sunnentasy assent," and " Lore the whole in silence."
But wherris there the least proof of any force, inti-
- midation, or controul having been employed upon this
aged and unhappy Sovereign? In a speech which was
delivered in the Neapolitan Parliament, by the De
putt' POICRIO, and of which we gave our Readers a
sketch at the time, he shewed most. clearly, that, as
far as external appearances went, nothing could be
snore solemn and unreserved than the assent which
his MAJIISTY gave to the Constitution. So far
from bearing " the whole in silence," be appeared
publicly, on several occasions, proclaiming his
sanction in the face of day, and calling Heaven to
witness the sincerity of his vows. M. Pouts() pointed
out one instance, among others referred to, in
which the KING had even gone out of his way to de-
fend the Constitution adopted in Naples, and to de-
clare himself its special protector.
His Austrian MAJZSTY declares, that in this state of
thingshis sense of duty obliged him to interfere. But it
is curious to observe how falsehood contradicts itself.
When," says the Declaration, 44 the KING came
Laybach, he soon found that it would be vain to
ground a proposal on a condition absolutely rejected
by the Soveastexa," (the continuance of the existing
order of things). Is not this a clear admission that
the Klan of Names went to Laybach, resolved to
support the existing Constitution, and was forced to
relinquish it by the " absolute" rejection of the 80.
vaastose? They were resolved to put force upon
the Kum, and they were therefore resolved to and
that force had been put upon him by his People.
The passage of the Declaration which alludes to
the part which England and France have taken is