Star.
London, England, 1818-12-09 00:00:00

THE EVENINg STAR

LONDON:: ,

WEDNESIZAY, .DECEMEiEft
_9, 1818.
THE FUNDS.

TRICZ OF 3TOCKA THIS DAT AT TWILLVI O.CLOLIC:
S per Cent. Reduced 784-.A.per Cent. tatis. shut
Cons. for Account, 791.1-51, ±)er Cent. 83 881
4 2er Cent. 96 96i-5 per Cent. Navy shut
India Bonds 84 86 pre,Ornuitun 1 1 j prem.
Exchequer Bills 18 20 pre.

•The Stocks have remained steady this morning.
Consols for the Account commenced at 791, and
have not varied during the day. It is reported on
'Change that the Bank mean to call in the one and
two pound notes, amounting to five millions, for
which purpose three millions of silver is now ready
to issue, and two millions more is coining.- The
reason assigned for the Stocks falling on Monday,.
from sok to the present price, is said to be the want
of money in Scotland; a power having been received
from a Scotch Banker, in behalf of some Linen Es-
tablishments, on that day to sell half a million
of Stock.

The Pali; Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon.
The KING on Sunday transacted business succes-
sively with the Keeper of the Seals, the Minister of
Marine, the Duke of Ricitattau, and the Minister of
the Interior. At one o'clock, his MAJESTY gave a
private audience to Lord CASTLEREAGH, who was
accompanied by Sir CHARLES STZWART.
Saturday; the !tics ininatory processes of calumny
between General CAJiHRL, and Messrs. SAINNESILLE
and FABVIER came on for a first hearing before the
Tribunal of Cot rectional'Police. The subject of these
processes embraces (as our Readers are aware) the
political events which took place at Lyons, in, the
spring of 1817.
The position maintained by M. SAINNEVILLE, who
was Lieutenant-General of the Civil Police at Lyons
during that period, and for which he is charged with:
calumny by General CANCEL, who held at the same
time the military command of that district, is thus
stated in a justificatory writing, which M. SAINNIte.
vii.ta read at this audience to the Court I re-
peat, with a loud voice, that the events at Lyons were
prepared and conducted by incendiary agents. It was
by them, and them alone, that every thing was done.
It is very probable that they may have met with
some disposition to disaffection, but the conspiracy,
the chiefs, the appointments, every thing belonged 'I
to them."

M. DUPIN, as Counsel for M. Sainneville, was first
heard at considerable length in support of this repre-
sentation of the case given by his client. "My ad-
versary, (he said) has declared, that his plan is to
render a faithful account of all that passed in Lyons
and its environs, under the command of General
CANUILI. It cannot, Gentlemen, be more his object,
to do so than it is mine; and it will appear from the,
developerneuts which I shall lay before you, that the
movements which have been represented as a conspi-
racy, have been immediately excited by a race of spies,
known under the name of incendiary agents. I will
keep close to this great point, and I will justify the truth
of all the pnrticular facts advanced by my client (in
the pamphlet complained of as a libel). You will
then be convinced and all France with you, that the.
department of the Rhone has been most unworthily
calumniated, and that M. SAINNEVILLE has merited
well of his fellow•citizens in revealing the oppression
under which they have too long grined."
" It is important," exclaimed M. Duns, with
great force and eloquence in another part, " that such
facts should be exposed—for society that they may
be detested—for Government that they may be pu-
nished—for all citizens, in order to teach them to
detest the arbitrary, and to deplore the ruinous con-
sequences of civil wars—for public functionaries
themselves, that those whq may be tempted to an
abuse of power may be warned of its injustice."

M. Durtx commenced his history of the affairs at
Lyons by remarking, that things had in 1816 reach-1
ed a point that, in order to save France from the
fury of a party (the Ultras) who wished to rule it, it
was necessary that the Chamber of 1815 should be
dissolved. The Ordinance, for this purpose, of sth
September, was published, and that party saw that it
was undone. The people proceeded to new elections.
Those who regretted the Chamber of 1815, were de-
sirous by every possible effort to make the new
Chamber of the same complexion as the last. Com-
mittees and secret societies were organized in every
corner of France ; nothing was neglected to intimi-
date those who, disgusted by the liws of exception
which distinguished the epoch of 1815, were anxi-
ous, as friends to public liberty and the constitutional
monarchy, to rally around them. Rumours of a
pretended conspiracy which was to break out, espe-
cially at Lyons, were spread so opportunely, that ex-
actly on the day, namely, the 4th of October, 181 e,
when the Electoral College a Lyons was to assemble,
the principal Functionaries were, called together at
the House of the Prefect to consider 61 the measures
necessary to betaken, in consequence of the informa-
tion of most alarming plots being then on the-very
eve of execution.

" The good sense and patriotism of dte Prefect, M.
Chabrol, was fortuuately proof agsjpst the arts of

the rMists—he made a Report, La which he eg•
posed the real state of . the matter, and nothing re-
sulted from this first attempt to fabricate a plot, but
the disgrace of its prujectors.
" Based in this attempt on the credulity of the
Civil Authorities, the party had recourse to a new
system of revelations, which instead of being made
to them, were addressed to the Military Functionaries
of the Department. A second time; however, they
were destined to be defeated.

Reports were made, both by a military commis-
sion formed of General CANUEL and General MA-
itiNnouNg, and by the Prefect M. CHABROL, from
both of which it clearly appeared, that the pre-
tended conspiracy was altogether fictitious, and
that it had no existence but in the imagination,
of those who wanted to overturn the Ministry. The
same sort of tactics were, however, set to work, and
with a success too deplorable to make out a third
conspiracy. In February, 1817, Lyons was agitated
with alarms, and delivered up to a system cf the
most arbitrary measures under pretexts the most un-
founded and ridiculous.

M. DUNN then proceeded to state various parti-
cular instances of the oppressions committed during
this period ; and which he engages to establish by
the clearest evidence—some of which are truly re-
volttng. The tocsin, through the acts of the hired
incendiaries, was sounded in a number of Com-
munes ; but out of eleven five'only took any part in
the troubles that were excited ; and the whole nurr-
ber of misguided people collected at any one time, did
not exceed 250, in which number all were not sedi-
tious, but brought to the spot from curiosity. A
few individuals suffered, and in the twinkling of
an eye the whole rebellion was at an end.—
Numbers, who afterwards delivered themselves up
voluntarily, confiding in the protection of the laws,
were judged, condemned, and executed by mere
Orders of Me Div. Some were even hurried to exe-
cution without. being even in prison, interrogated,
or judged ! Th 2 people, in short, were given up to all
the horrors cf military law—executed with a barba-
rity which was a disgrace to the rhilitarYlharacter !
• The further hearing of the cause was appointed for
Saturday next.

By a fresh arrival from Quebec, we have received
copies of Resolutions agreed to at Public Meetings,
in some of the most populous towns of Upper Canada,
and of Petitions addressed to Sir P. MAITLAND, the
new Governor of that province, complaining in strong
terms of the offensive passages in his Excellency's
late speech at the opening of the House of Assembly.
The following Petition from the township of Ernest
Town is perhaps most deserving of attention :

"" To his Excellency Major-General Sir P. Matzsayn,E.C.ll.
Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, &c.
"The Petition of the undersigned Inlaabitantkof the township
of Ernest Town.

" Humbly sbewctb—That the undersigned inhabitants of
Ernest Town, have perused with deep regret, that part of your
Excellency's speech to the Parliament of Upper Canada, wherein
it is said,' you will, I doubt not, feel a just indignation at the at-
tempts made to excite discontent and organize sedition, &c.' and
it is with shame, as well as regret, that they have perceived that
the Commacs House of Assembly have not only confirmed these
sentimati, but descended to launch out wanton and invidious
reflections against an innocu.t individuate

"The undersigned do not deny that discontent exists, but they
speak with a determination which is =alterable, In' saying, that
there has been much cause for discontent. As to sedition, the
very Mee is groundless ; yet if it did exist, the Courts of Law arc
open for its prosecution. They have seen an individual prose-
cuted by the present Ministry, under the plea of promoting se-
dition, and libelling Government; but twice has this individual
been honourably acquitted, and far are they from thinking that
any new statute Is necesssary to circumscribe the liberty of tie
subject.
" The undersigned wish to see no organization, save that of
the regularly Co.istityted Authorities, If these wo.ild perform
their duty ; but they have witnessed their present Parliamentary
Representatives the third time in Session, without even the ap-
pearance of beneficial result.
_ . . .

" Twice did these Representdtives propose an enquiry into
the state of the Piovince—twice were they unanimously dis-
missed in the midst of weighty considerations—and, twice have

,
they returned only to display grovelling sentiments and tempo-
rising acts. The late organization of the people never had but
one object, that of enquiry, and the appointment of a Commis-
sion to go home to England with a Petition to the Throne, that
• the same may be nude effectual. The accomplishment of this
object constitutes the most earnest desire of the undersigned,
and if this object is not speedily obtained through the snanlJ en-
deavours of the present Parliament, they most fervently pray
that your Excellency will forthwith dissolve it, and issue writs
for the usembling,of men, who may represent more faithfully.
the wishes, and more ably perform the business of their Coosa-

Yesterday the Duke of YoaK transacted military
business with the PRINCE REGRET at Carlton House.
His Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT devoted a
portion of the morning of Thursday to a contempla-
tion of his afflicted and venerable Parent—he was at-
tended by Sir H. HALTOM). Our beloved Monarch
was of course, unconscious of the presence of his son ;
but the REGENT derived the greatest consolation in
ascertai ring that his revered Father received every
comfort and attention that might tooth the calamity
with which he is visited. We understand, that the
PRINCE REGENT has signified his intention to carry
into effect many of the plans of his MAJESTY for the
,improvement of Windsor Castle. We rejoice in the
intelligence, as the alterations projected were in the
best taste; and their incomplete execution is greatly
to be deplored by every admirer of this monument
of ancient magnificence.
Yesterday, Achievements, with the Royal Arms,
&e. were put up over the principal entrance to St.
James's Palace, opposite St. Jarmes's-street, and in
the front of the Queen's Palace, over the entrance to
the grand hail, under the direction and superinten-
dence of Sir GEORGE NAYLER. Aebievemens have
also been put up in the front of ‘Vinttci Ca.4lc and
Frog more I I o4t.e.