Star.
London, England, 1828-08-26 00:00:00

PUBLIC SINNZIL

It will he recollected that at a numerous and highly
respectable Public Meeting of Rate-payers of the town
df Birmingham, held on Friday, the 22d of Jane, last
year, the Mort BAILIFF in the Chair, the following,
Gentlemen were appointed a General Committee to
forward the objects of the Meeting in obtaining a Par.
liamentary Representation, and t 3 furnish to Members
of Parliament such local information and aid as might
be required :
The High Bailiff(George Mowed, Esq.) the Low Bailiff (J. T.
Lawtenee, Esq.) the Magistrates acting for the town of Birming-
ham—Messrs. Thomas Attwood, J. Y. Bedford. W. Blakeway,
Wm. Beak, George Barker, John Cope, R. W. Gem, S. Tertius
Gahm, Benjamin Guest, Rice Harris, Clement Instal, P. Al.
James Charles Jones, arks Lloyd, Thomas B. Lee, J. F. Led-
um, Uauiel Ledsam, J. L. Mellikt. R. T. Moore, George Nicholls,
Thomas Oiler, Joseph Parkes, James Pearson, Wm. Phipsan,
Joshua Scholefield, Charles Shaw, Timothy Smith, W. H. Stewart,
Thomas Small, ft. Smith, John Turner. T. Tyndall la& Taylor,
J. W. Unett, John Vale, Joseph Walker, and J. W. iVhateley.
Tile Committee having been recently informed that
Mr. "felatirsotr was at Leamington, held a General
Meeting on the Bth instant, converted by circular, when
was unanimously resolved to invite Mr. TENNYSON to
a public dinner, in Birmingham, as a mark of respect
far his disinterested Parliamentary exertions in the
Nouse of Commons, in behalf of the town, nn the East
Kettord Disfranchisement Bill. The invitation was'
accordingly conveyed to Mr. TENNYSON, through-the'
medium of the present High Bailiff, CnARLes Snaw,
Esq. Chairman of the Committee, and the following
answer was received, which the Committee has cons•
municated to the public :
" Laawswernx, Amager 11, MSS.
_ _ _

• Mr Demi have received your most obliging letter of
the 9th instant, communicating a resolution of the Committee at
Birmingham, and proposing to me, conformably to that resole/the,
the honour of a public dinner.
" An invitation so flattering in its nature is most gratifying to
my feelings. Although my bumble efforts on the subject to which
you refer failed to accomplish their,object, it affords me great gads-
faction to perceive that disappointrnem has not influenced the town
of Birmingham to measure the anxiety and sincerity of those efforts
by.the result. We must recollect, bovrever, that I shall have to
resume them in the next Session of Pardon:est, when, on every
account, it wiN be most desirable that I should still be found stand.
in, unequivocally and exclusively, upon public and independent
ground.
" To accept the compliment so kindly offered me could not, in-
deed, justify the charge already insinuated, that personal• views
actuate my conduct; but yet k might give some advantage to those
who would encourage such a .belief, and, at least. it might so identify
sue with the town, as to afford a pretence for imputing to me,
hereafter, the language of delegation er of local partiality, when. in
the discharge of my Parliamentary duty, I would rest your claims
upon the broad foundatioos of constitutional principle and national
Utility.
" It has, by other means, been effectually demonstrated that rr.
seen of all parties and political feelings at Birmingham, earnestly
desire representation in Parliament. The country is not only satielled
oldie urgent necessity from which this desire *primps. buts general
conviction prevails, that the peculiar and extensive interests con-
nected with your town, and now totally unrepresented, are so im-
portant to the kingdom at large as to require an early compliance
with your wishes upon every consideration of justice and eape•
dime. lam persuaded also, that if the Government should still,
for a time, exert its Influence to oppose your fair pretensions, it
mast, and will, very shortly yield to the paramount authority of
public opinion.
" With these impressions—swisiled that the present condition of
things is such as to promise a favourable issue at no distant period
—and alive to the danger that a misinterpretation of any sentiments
uttered at the proposed entertainment might seriously aired our
fume proceedings--it is impossible for me, by accepting thbinvita-
tisa, to allow such an exercise of !iodates towards tnyettif to em-
bine,* the cause in which we are engaged. Having thee explained
the grounds upon which, for the of that cause, I am compelled
to forego the high honour and gratification within my reach. I beg
you will accept for yourself, and convey to the other Gentlemen
from whom the idsitation has proceeded, my sincere assurance that
I shall ever remain deeply sensible of a distinction. usually destined
to celebrate the achievement of some great public benefit, but
which, by a generous impulse, has, in this instance, been awarded to
an attempt hitherto unsucceseful.
" I have the honour to be, my dear Sir,
" Your muck obliged and most obedient servant,
" CHARLES TENNYSON.
a To Charles Shaw, Esq. High Bailiff of Birmingisara."

By an Act of last Session ungta cheques may
be drawn by persons residing fifteen mile:77Bton' the Disk where
Payable.
The number of slaves sold under execution for debt
h the bland of Jamaica. from 1808 to 1827, wu 23,681 aad
the price they brought wu £1,620,391.
Dispatches were received at the Foreign Office from
Lisbon, on Sunday morning, dated on the 9th instant.
They state that a British subject of the name of Mr.
HANGRAVZ Cosnam, concerning whose detention re.
psesentations had been sent from our Minister for
Foreign Affairs, had been tried and acquitted. Sir Jot a
M. Dovt.z and Lieutenant Youxo were upon their trial ;
but the result was nut known when the packet sailed..—
The dispatches announce the sailing of the expedition
against Madeira. It was going over the Bar on the 9th,
when the packet left the Tagus. As the fine Brazilian
frigate Isabel did not sail frosts Falmouth till the
the expedition from the Tagus would reach Madeira,
in all probability, berme her.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mau Antrim Tan DAL...Dublin I—Waterford I—Franca 1—
Hunburgb 1.
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Extract from the Agent to Lloyd.; at Gibraltar, dated Aortae 7.
" A person has arrived here to-day, who reports that he left
Mahon nine days ago, at which time that Wand, as well as Ma-
jam, were in the military possession of the French; that a consider.
able naval force was lying at Mahon, and a division of French
troops was expected from Cadiz."

His Majesty's ship Ferret has arrived at Jamaica from Cuba.
The Menai arrived at Lima sth April ; and sailed Stti for Val-
paraiso. The Rinaldo arrived at Jaemel from Falmouth Sethi, ant
at Jamaica 30th of June. The Forte arrived at Rio de Janeiro
front Monte Video, 7th Julie, and the Ganges from St. Catherine.,
11th June. The Redpole sailed from Rio de Janeiro for Monte
Video, 11th June.

The Euphernia, from Adra to Bristol, put into Cadiz on the
Sth instant in a very leaky state, and was run on shore to prevent
her sinking. Part of the cargo had been thrown overboard.
The Dee, Lamour, of and for Newcastle, from Hamburgh, sunk
to the westward of Heligoland. The Master drowned.
Arrived in the River the Matilda, &um:, Aurea, Romox,
Flora, Hama, and X L, Coss, from St. Peterburgh ; Hound,
Mazneases, from Riga; Konigsberg, Rob Roy, and Devotion,
from Dantzig ; John Gabe, Pdgraz, from Copenhagen; and
Crosby, Pace, from Hamburgh.
LtvaarooL, Ausurr 24.—Arrived the John and Thomas, Bait.
rms. and William, SHZATOII, front Quebec; and Nester, Time,
from Bay Chahar.
DIAL, Augurs 25.—Wind N.R.—Arrived from London the
Nestor, Lzsua, for JamaicaiPatience,..—., for the Cape; June,
Lott, for Alicant ; James, Wat.r.za, for Quebec; and Protector,
Wanig, for Bombay.
PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 25.—Wind N.W.l—Arrived the Sr Walter
Stott, Surroz;from Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Amos? 24.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Bastelo,
from Ferrol, with lon Portuguese refugees on board. Sailed the
Myrtle packet, for Mexico; and Sheldrake packet, for the Lee-
ward Islands.

PLYMOUTH, Attu. 23.—His Majesty's sloop Pylades, Commander
P. D. Has, came in daring Thursday night from the squadron off
the Lizard, having sprung her fore-top-mast. She left the squa-
dron about seven leagues to the westward of that headland, at
seven o'clock on Thursday evening, the Prince Regent maintaining
her lately acquired superiority over the Britannia, and the Pearl
holding the advantage of the sloops Pylades and Orestes. His
Majesty's sloop Jame (18) was this day coam►issioned by Lieute-
nant CHAIM SILICOOSI (1825), for foreign service. D. R. Um-
LTAIII, late of the Albion (at the back of Navarin), is appointed to
a division of the Kent Coast Blockade Service. Mr. S. H. Ussnaa,
Midshipman of the Galatea, is promoted to the rank of Lieute-
nant. Lieut. Rzontass Ileums is appointed to the Meteor bomb-
vessel, in the room of Lieutenant C. Hassan, promoted. The
squadron were all well off the Lizard yesterday.