Star.
London, England, 1819-12-01 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1819.

Talbot
needle-street
William 'Masse
December 6 and 24. as
thii George Ir.n, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Attorbies, Messrs.
Marriott, Brooksbank, and Barn, Gray's Inn-square; or Mr.
Brown, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Mattbiaa March and Jonathan Shute, Gosport, merchants, De-
-le, at three, 17, at eleven, and January 11, at twelve,
at ice Dalphin Inn, Gosport. Attoroies, Mr. Hewson, Gos-
port; or Messrs. Dyne and Son, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Join Saunderson, of Sutton, and Thomas Masters, of Patton,
liedidr,ishile, corn-factors, December 0, at five, 10, and Ja-
ti, at ten, at the Sun Inn, Biggleswade. Attornies,
hir. Ltrc se i, Biggleswade; or Messrs. Egan and Waterman,
Essex-street, Strand.
Ilinjin Clark, Birmingham, tarps g- December
un
10, 11, and January 11, at twelve, at the Stork Tavern, Bir-1
Ennakarn. Attornies, Mr. Edmunds Exchequer Office of
Pleas, Lincoln's Inn ; or Mr. Mole, Birmingham.
Dwage Wells, Hadleigh, Suffolk, clothetsalesman, December
11, 12, and January.ll, at four, at the Castle Inn, St. Peter
of -alancroit, Norwich. Attornits, Mr. Nelson, Barnard's
lan Holborn ; or Messrs. Taylor and Hales, Norwich.
Jwipk Goodier, Knutsford, Cheshire, victualler, December 14,
15, and January 11, at two, at the Albion Hotel, Manches-
ter. Attornies'Law,
Mr. Piccadilly, Manchester; or Messrs.
eidlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
novas liublutd, jun. Coventry, silkman, December 10, 11,
At-
and January 11, at eleven, at the Castle Inn, Coventry. At-
tsreks, Messrs. Woodcock and Twist, Coventry..
hates Lee, King-street, Cbeepaide, wirehouseman, December
1, 14, and January 11, at ten, at CitaiklhalL Attorney, Mr.
Farren, Threadneedle-street.
Pickard Holtoyd, Halifax, jeweller, December 8, at five 9,
and January 11, at ten, at the Office of Mr. Norris, Halifax.
Attornies, Messrs. Morton and Williamson, Gray's Inn-
spare ; or Mr. Norris, Halifax.
John Hancock, Limehouse.hole-stairs, mast-maker, December
ts, and January 11, at one, at Guildhall.- Attorney,
:.ir. Shelton, Old' Dailey.
litray Johnson, Waldron, Sussex, tanner, December 17, 18,
and January 11, at ten, at the White Hart Ins, Lewes. At-
traits' Mr. bell, Lewes; or Messrs. Palmer and France,
'aedford-row.
35:1 Bradley, Jewin-street, silk-manufacturer, December 7,
11, and January 11, at ten, at Guildhall. Anomie', Messrs.
Price, Williams, and White, Old4quare, Lincoln's Inn.
Sannael Griniwooj, Bum, Suffolk, merchant, December 13,
at six, 14, and January 11, at eleven, at the Goldin Lion
7111, Ipswich. Attoraies Messrs. Brame and Notcutt,
. .pavich ; or Mr. Nelson, Barnard's Inn, Holborn.
1%14 Dixie, stn. and jun. Joseph Dixie, and Beojarrdn Dizie,
Falcon-square, iron-founders, December 7, 14, -and Jaianuy
11, 4 ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Mesas. Stevens asd
Wood, Little St. Thomas Apostle.
Joseph Ifir.t, Tower-street, cotton-broker, December 11, IS,'
and January 11, at tea, at Guildhall. Attorniii, Mr. Ka-
thaw, Mal,chester ; or Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Temple.
Willum Bout!, a 1,4 Isaac Brandon, King's-head-ceurt, Barbi-
can, kl•m, rchants, December 14, 18, and January 11, at
twelve, a: Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Hamilton, Tavistock-.
Pow, (',vent-garden.
Sabra 111yeis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, linen-draper, December
28, 4w, at eleven, and January 11, at seven, at the Turk's
Bead inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Attornies, Mr. Hartley,
New Bridge-street; or Mr. Forster, Nevrcastle-upon-Tyne.
J'An Ibrtlmer, syn. and jun. and Joseph Mortimer, Mend,
Yorkshire, worsted-spinners; December 20, at six, 21, and
January 11, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, Mediae. At-
t)rides, Mesas. Wiglesworth and Croaky, Gray's Inn-square;
or Mr. Cadsey, Halifax. •

CORN-EXCHANGII, MAYAR•LANI6 DECIDIEZA Ire
L censiderable quantity of Wheat and, Barley re-;
waived over from bicaday's supply, but we had no
!:ef.lt arrivals this morning, yet the sale of these
.;titles was exceedingly heavy, and rather lower
ums were submitted to, partic alarly for the inferior
:,.arziples, the demand for each being very trifling.--
Oat: are rather cheaper, having large arrivals, and but
.
fi buyen.—ln Lewis and Peas there h no alteration.

PARLIAMENTARY PRiICEEDINGS

HOUSE OF LORDS, NOVEMBER 50.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE, seeing a Noble Earl(Liver-
pool) in his place, wished to be informed if there was to be any
delay in- returning to Cash Payments, as he untierlitood that
such a report was in circulation?
The .E..rl of LIVERPOOL said, he could assure the Noble.
Lord, in answer to his question, that there was no intention's
whatever on the part of his Majesty's Government, to interfere
with the arrangement made by Parliament for the restttnition
.5f Cash Payments at the periods specified.
THE STATE OF THE NATION.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN rose to move for
a Select Committee to inquire into the State of
the Nation, and more especially of those which
were called the Distaobed Districts. Thiv appeared
to him to be the more nicesssary,.. whin he saw,
within a month, such an addition to the standing
force of the country made, which a hundred year
ago would not have been suffered to exist ; and when
he found nothing but measures of coercion proposed
in both Houses of Parliament. It would be a fatal
mistake in the House, or the Governments. to look
partially at the evils which surrounded the country ;
and to consider the events which tiao occurred, with-
out attending to the causes which had produced
them. No man could say, that violence should not
be put an end to by force, and sedition suppressed
by law. But the existing force and law ought tot*
used before Parliament was called upon to enact
more. They should not content themselves with know-
ing that seditious and blasphemous trash was publish-
ed and read ; the cause why it was se, should be found
out, or else the evil would still exist, though it per-
haps might outwardly appear to be crushed. It
was, therefore, most important for Parliament to
look whether distress was not the great and only
cause of such evils ; and be believed that it • could
easily be proved, that the principle called•Radicalisrn
existed in exact proportion to the distress existing in
those districts. He had a right to infer this, from
the agricultural parts of the country, being yet un-
tainted ; and from the spirit of Radicalism' haling
reached its height in the Cotton. Manufacturing Dis.
tricts of botbEngland and Scotland. He had accurate
information,.which sliewed that this unfortunate class
of labourers could nowhere earn more than ss,
a-week, even working all the hoars they could dtaw •
from sleep. 1n Maybole, in Ayrshire, and other
place's, where,the master manufacturers were poorer,
a man could get no more than 2s. 6d.-a
-week to sup-
port himself and family. This, of courte- ;alluded
work ; but it served to sbew •
Demagogues had to t
inflame the minds of
-4 frfpnw the king wort .
lingo:lA*of the world
that still. -et Ark< *wee
possibility of finding t
was also increased by.
the Poor Laws, the paper .tency, and the excel-.
sive spirit of speculation. The vast population, raised
try the demand created by Government dutiag the
war, had been now thrcwn back on the country al-
most without subsistence, let them labour how they
will. The distress of the country could not be
wondered at when it was considered that each in-
dividual had to support a bu:then double to that
of the population of the richest among all the
other nations of Europe. Could they then be asto-
nished that a population so circumstanced should lend
a ready ear to factious Demagogues ; or that they
were little scrupulous about the means proposed to
bring them relief?' It could not be wondered at
that a society so situated should feel alive to its own
distress; they ought rather to feel gratified that only
a small proportion 'of the People had suffered them-
selves to be cheated iato treason or disaffection. He
therefore appealed to their Lordships' humanity, which
he knew was no stranger to their Lordships bosoms,
in behalf of this distressed population. If they shewed
themselves indifferent to the situation of the mid-
dling and lower classes of the People, all the levies
of soldiers the), could make would be inadequate to
save the Constitution from ruin and destruction.—
:Several expedients had been proposed to alleviate
this distress; and among those was one whioh he had
,no very sanguine hopes fiord, though it might be
worthy of consideration, and that-was, to advance
temporary sums of money to encourage labour, and
to supply it to those who could net get it. There
were, however, two other points of a more extended
nature, well worthy their consideration. He hoped
that a rigid inquiry into, and an improved mode of
distributing the public funds might be found most,
Useful in the present times. Another view %941%,
to
take off duties on articles which had considerably
decreased in various districts; and by way of inns-
-1 tration, he would remark the article of tea, which
had decreased much 'in consumption, and was sub-
ject to moth smuggling, especially from America.—
Another point was, the establishment of favourable
Commercial Treaties, which the Regent's Government
had not yet succeeded in establishing. The timber.
trade with Norway had been neglected, to encourage
the growth of an inferior article in Canada, which
,prevented Notfay taking in return many of our ar-
cles of commerce. He mentioned these things with
a.view to their being tried; and if they should even
be unsuccessful, the attempt would sliew to oUr
Irving population, that Parliament left nothing
untried to afford them relief. But, above ail, he
thought they ought to inquire whether the laws re-
specting treason, sedition,. and public meetings, had
been firmly, uniformly, and fairly administered ?
He wished to know by what_unaccountable circunir
stance the Law Advisers of the Crown had suffered'
the most flagitious libels to be neglected to be prose-1
until they had assumed a systemiltic shape,
eincdhr
e,
it would be difficult now to get rid of? He
tha
ad two of these detestable Miele, not recently
published ; one a direct attack on peapesty, and the
an
other holding up the Prince Regent an object of
assassination. These most uremia libels *ore to
be found in The Medina, and he was eeneineed that

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Land that


no British Jury would withhold a verdict on such
infahnius, deliberate, and atrocious attacks in the'
institutions of 'the country; and he knew not how
the Law Officers of the Crown could account for not
having put the law in force in support of the
best institutions of the country. It might be that
a Jury might think little of a libel stating that
the reign of the Regent might be 'happier than
that of his father; or that Lord Castlereagh had
bribed' Mr. Canning ; but he would not believe that
twelve honest housekeepers would not sbew
their.in-
dignatiun when the Head of the Government was
held up as an object of assassination. With respect
to legS or illegal Meetings, attended by numbers
with banners with seditious mottoes, Government
ought to have given the Magistrates specific dim-
Mw legallyy totave prevented such Meetings ;
care sfrotild twe taken that. if ppnishineut
~ If it was to fall at all, on the leaders, and
not on those Who were -leas- He Wished to Iwo* why
Hunt was not arrested 'by the Manchester Magis-
trates either before or after'the Meeting ? The peo-
ple at Manchester having alistained from one Meet-
ing, because the Magistrates had published placards
forbidding it, had a right to suppose-that the Meet-
ing afterwards called was perfectly legal and proper,
until a similar prohibition was published. lit the
year 17.17, when a riot took place at Oxford, at
which no fires were lost, the House of Lords went
into a Committee iipon it, and called for papers and,
information. In the Porteous Riot, at Edinburgh,
the Lords called up to their Bar the most eminent
men in Scotland ; and was greater lenity to be shewa
to the Manchester Magistrates ? •r were they to be
treated with more indulgence than the first men in
the Northern part of the Island? The Noble Vis-
count (Sidmouth) had said, he was Oepared to con-
ciliate, but not to *concede. If the Noble Vi,count
meant, that he was not prepared to concede to the
People any part of the Constitution, he (the Marquis
of Lansdown) agreed with- him ; but he was pre-
pared to concede to the People a full and impartial-
inquiry Into all, their grievances ; aad therefore he
'ix-loved for a Select Committee to inquire into the
State of the Country, and more especially into the
execution of the Laws relating to Public Meetings.
The Marquis WI LLESLEY now rose, and
said, that after the able and eloquent speech of the
Noble Marquis who bad just sat down, he felt con-
siderable diffidence in offering any observations upon
the motion before their LOrdships. There was no one
l!whose opinions and' sentitnents upon questioni of
public interest were more entitled to respect .from-
the national councils. than the Noble Marquis ; and
'the more his hopes and'expectatioas had been raised
with regard to him, the triore did he -feel; that
htfrargunnents bad taken .aaroerri'- d a different
etsintei: Mohler' •.* to Detlia
clifeltduty of every Government, in times of convul-
sive 'ffisoider, and alarming events, to inquire into the
causes which produced them ; but much as he ,re-
speCted the judgment of the Noble Marquis' he must
'differ with him upon this subject; and tell him that
'the great and paramount duty to be performed, was
10 guard against the danger of the hour before any
,inquiry was made as to the cause that pioduced it—
(Wer, hear). It was not denied by the Noble Mar-
quis himself, that considerable danger existed, and
be admitted the fact, that violence was to 1 e put
down, by force; sedition, by law. Thus far he was
-perfectly correct, and if the Noble Marquis said that
inquiry was -necessary as to the nature of the danger,
'and that this became an imperative duty, he (the
'Marquis Wellesley) would most readily accede
to the proposition. But the great and important
question this night, was not only with regard to vio-
lence to be put down, as it now existed, but with re-
gard to violence to be suppressed, which was in-
tended, though not yet offered ?—(Hear, (tear). This
was a duty which superseded every other, because it
was upon the prompt and active discharge of it, that
in times like the present, the safety of all our social
institutions depended; Were there no other cOnsi-
derations to claim the attention of the Legislature,
than the necessity of putting down violence, he
should be at issue upon that question with the Noble
Marquis. Whence, be would ask, had arisen the
necessity of their Lordships' meeting at this time, in
their own defence and that of the Constitution? Not
surely for the purpose of putting dovin violence which
had taken place, and-which might be punished with-
out their immediate interference? No, it was in order
to avert that danger with which they were menaced,
by a dark and determined project to subvert that
.fabric which- their ancestors had reared, and to de-
stroy that right of public security, in the exercise of
which they were at this moment assembled. It was
stated by the Noble Marquis, that distress was the
principal cause of -the disaffection which prevailed,
and that demagogues took advantage of it, to cor-
rupt and mislead the populace, without being di-
rected by any regular plan or fixed purpose. In this
latter part of the proposition, however, he was again
at issue with the Noble Marquis. He shOuld con-
tend that there was a :deep and well concerted plan
for the destruction of the Constitution; and though
it would now he wise to inquire into the nature of
the danger, it was certainly no time to investigate
the scheme by which it was intended to bring about
Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Vo-
ting by Ballot at- Elections, for nothing short of
this, it appeared, would satisfy the Radical Re-
formers. It was febeyond his acuteness to develops
the character and extent of this scheme, in its parti-
cular details; yet he would assert, from the fullest
.couviction,that those alsociated in it, sought to catry
it into execution, by any means, however atrocious..
The right of property was publicly questioned. and
the demolition of It must be the inevitable conse-
quence of the project which had been set on foot.—
The persons' implicated in this conspiracy;. said, if
Reform was granted by peaceable means, well and
good, but if-not, physical force must be resorted to,
fee, it all events, Radical Reform must be effected ;
for with them the favourite signal was, 4, Free Re-
.

ge Patllips, late sf Argyle street, weatnonater, mamma- r-- .
er in broom, from December ito January 8, at ten, at to. particular kinds of Work ; bu
iildisalL - what easy materials .rewteso E
BAaraitimrs. _ - I work upon-in their attempts to i
nas Abbot% Xsimmlisrmikimaissepor, to asoreador Ds- _,.... ~_____ This xi arose
slberss, itil:erb:res s=fsressrit4"idiai Wkitot rireirsoawood '7ltiriukesso as the whole carry.ini
hot Ise, Weimar. Attosoios. /In Spence, Thread; which created a fined capital, th
ecte-airett; or Mr. Firth, Waltelield. filled the markets without the I
Gam Dobson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, chemist and druggbt,
a vent for them. The distress v
otenher 6 and 24. at eleven, and January 11, at seven,- ac
the Pnnr Laws. the paper curre.