Star.
London, England, 1821-07-03 00:00:00

MATCH RENEWED.

The match which was run over Epsom Course on the day of
the Oaks this year, between Mr. Theobald's poney, Mat-o'-th.-
Mint, and Mr. Farrel's MangA Wurzel, is again made to be run
over Epsom Course, on the Bth of August, for 100 gs. h.ft. Three
two-mile heats.

RACE FOR THREE HUNDRED GUINEAS,
I3etween the Guildford and Royston Tonics.
This match, which excited much sporting interest, took place
on Saturday, on Nettlebed Flats, in Buckinghamshire, over a
mile circle. The match was to trot six miles, and to carry seven
stone each. The miles were done as follows :
THE la ILDTORD TONEY. I SKR ROYSTON PONEIT.
min.

Ist -
2d -
5d -
4th -
sth -
2th -

WC.
- so
- 41
- 58
- 56

- 3

lit -
2d -
3d -
4th -
sth -
6th -

- 3

• 49
• 46
• J 4
• 2
- 20
• 50

- 3
- 4

4

SO

The ponies started from different ends of the rule, and both
were backed to do the six miles in 25 minutes. It was a fine
race, and the winner was sold on thr ground for 80 guineas.
BUNTINGFORD HUNT RACF.S, THVIUMAY, JuNe 28.
Sweepstakes of logs each, for mares; heats, two miles.—Five
Subscribers.

Mr. Forsyth's Clara - -
Mr. Rogers's ch. m. - -
Captain Jones's Maybark -
Mr. Gorman's Penelope - -
Even on the winner.

Plate of Litt.

1 1
t., 5
5 2
4 dr

Captain Jones's Maxwell - - - . I I
Mr. Fraser's 'Mountebank - - . 2 2
Three bolted out of the Course.—Even on Mountebank.
Mr. Jones's Amelia, Bst. 41b. beat Mr. Meredith's Blnecoat-
boy, Bst. 21b. Fifty guineas.
- -

GUILDFORD RACES, Twasbar, Jou 28.

Isis ,Ilajesty's Plate of 100 Guineas, for any horse, Ste.
Mr. King's Tybalt, 4-yrs old
Captain Wyndham'S b. h. 5-yrs old - - - 2dr
Mr. Brown's Marksman, aged - - - sdr
Mr Stevens's Fonmun, 4-yrs old - - - 4dr
Mr. Farrell's Picaro, 4-yrs old - - - - sdr
_ _ _

. •
The Town Plate of £so.—Two-mile heats.
Mr. Wetherell's ehesnut filly Elizabeth, 4 yrs old 4 2 1 1
Mr. Cay's Atom, 3 yrs old • - - - 5 1 2
Mr. Stevens's Fonmon
Three others started.
GUILDFORD RACES, Fnioar, JCS! 29.
The Members' Plate of 3E50 for aU ages, Two-mile heats.
Mr. Thresher's b. e. Carbon, by Wan, 4 yr 3 old - 1 1
Mr. Brown's br. h. Marksman, aged - S 2
Mr. Field's b. g. Phillip, 5 yrs old V 3

iday evening a young Lady was

killed in Oxford-street, by the Wheels of a cuff. iclepassiti over
her head, which was literally crushed to pieces, and presented
a dreadful spectacle. She was crossing the street at the time.
SLAUGHTER OF THE KING'S HOUNDS.—SOTHE time
since the KING'S stag-hounds were sent to Brighton
for the purpose of washing them in the sea. Since
their arrival they have been almost daily immersed
in the brine of ocean, and on account of the growing
symptoms of hydrophobia, were often kept in the
water until they were nearly exhausted, to render the
remedy effective, and, on one occasion, one hound
was drowned in the process of this treatment, and
one or two others had been with difficulty recovered.
But all would not do—the evil apprehended a few
days ago began se unequivocally to shew itself, that
it became dangerous to enter the kennel. This matter
of course, was duly reported, and an order in conse-
quence arrived from the Marquis CORNWALLIS, the
Master of the Stag-hounds, for the whole of the pack
to be destroyed without further delay, and which
order was carried into instantaneous effect—four-
and- twenty couple of the most valuable and best-
trained dogs were presently breathless. They were
dispatched by the whipper-in and feeder ; the hunts-
man, SHARP, could not witness the slaughter; his
tears evince the agony he feels at their loss; the voice
of every dog was known to him—he could almost
hold a conversation with them, and every command
from his lips would be separately, or collectively. as
required, obeyed, so high was the training condition I
to which he had brought them. The inefficacy cf''
sea-water immersions, in cases cf canine madness, is
thus amply proved.
DUEL PREVENILD.—Tuesday evening a meeting
was to have taken place at the Fifteen Aci es, in the
Fi:cenix Park, Dublin, between R—D
IY,q. and It—g—t, of the half-pay, in con-
sequence of a dispute at a late dinner in the Four
Courts Marshalsea. Tlie hour fixed upon for this
dread rencontre was seven o'cleck, but information
Laving been' given at the Head Police-Office, and
horn thence transmitted to the Usher's Quay Divi-
sion, the ground was previously occupied by a posse of
peace others, who, upon the arrival of the first-named
Gentleman, rendered him innocuous by seizing the
instruments of death with which he was provided.
lie and his friend (including a young surgeon) were
subwquently conveyed to the office in a hackney-
cuat.h, and entered into sumacs to Leep the peace.

Several Bills were brought up from the Commons.
Lord DACRE pot off till next Session his minion on the
Bankrupt Laws Amendment Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice, that early in the
next Session of Parliament, he should introduce a Dill for the
Amendment of the Bankrupt Laws.
Several Petitions were presented, praying for a revision of the
Criminal Laws. _ _

The Sheerness Lands Bill was read a third time, and passed.

NAVAL AND MILITARY REDUCTIONS.
The Earl. of DARNLEY regretted the want of
weight he possessed in the House, especially when
they were at the close of a Session distinguished by
nothing but apathy on the par t of most Noble Lords
towards entering much into public affairs. The I
other Home had been a splendid example to the con-1
trary ; for they had been occupied night after night,
and week after week, in discussing that subject of
economy, which he had now, for the first time, to bring
before the House. He most admit, that Ministers had
never denied the propriety of a system of economy;
but they had never gone far enough ; and his object
in bringing this question forward was, to impress
upon their Lordships, that notwithstanding the ap-
parent prosperity and flourishing state of our reve-
nues and manufactures, all this was fallacious, and
that they must go to the root of the evil, by inter-
posing the remedy of much greater retrenchment.
For this purpose, he should propose, that, as heredi-
tary advisers of the Crown, they should address his
Majesty to carry that economy into effect. There
might have been no defalcation of any extent in the
revenue, because farmers had paid their taxes out
of capitals ; but he considered it would be utterly im-
possible for them to go on for another year in the
same way. The Agricultural Horse Tax had been
repealed; but that would harass the revenue, with-
out doing any particular benefit to the farmer, be-
cause it would not take more than 24 per cent. off
the rent of land throughout the kingdom. If agri-
culture should fail them, they would lose the main
spring of all their prosperity. He did not ask their
Lordships to go into tedious details of economy, by
thousands, but he thought they might by millions.
The first was a reduction in the Navy, which he
would not have proposed had he thought our safety
in any danger from a renewal of hostilities. We had
73 sail of the line fit for service ; nine sail building,
and 67 frigates also fit for service. This was suffi-,
cient force to meet any supposable difficulty or dan-
ger. Now he would ask whether it was necessary
to order 10 sail of the line to be built, 22 to be re-
paired, 15 frigates to be built, and 36 to be re-
paired ? He had heard that it was in contempla-
tion to remove altogether the Naval yard at Dept-
ford, which he (the Earl of Darnley) thought a
very good measure, because it would be a saving of
£149,321. For building vessels in the Thames a sum
of £821,000 had been expended; and he thought that
lac least £500,000 might be immediately struck off.
We had done in former wars extremely well without
the necessity of a Basin or Dock-yard at Sheerness, on
which £1,200,000 had been expended, and £280,000
during the present year. In the Naval Department
alone, he had not the least doubt but that a sum of
£BOO,OOO could be saved. With regard to the Army,
considerable retrenchments might be made. The ex-
pense of the Horse and Foot Guards amounted to
£315,000. When the finances were so distressed, he
could not see why the King should be surrounded byl
such a number of household troops ; and, therefore,
he thought a reduction ofTbo,ooo might be effected,!
without interfering with the splendour of the Crown.
In the Cavalry, a saving of £1'20,000 was practica-
ble; and, upon the whole establishment of the Army,
it was not too much to say that two millions sterling
might be saved. Even if it was reduced but one-
tenth, the saving to the Public would be £200,000.
There was another item, the necessity of which he
could not comprehend; he saw no reason why they
should go on multiplying Barracks throughout the
kingdom: £260,500 was to be laid out for this pur-
pose; of this £lOO,OOO might be saved. The Com-
missariat might be reduced one-fifth, and the Army
Extraordinaries one-tenth, which would ma ke a saving
of £700,000. With respect to the Ordnance Depart-
ment, he doubted whether he could propose any re-

clnction ; but he thought, that if Ministers were sin-
cere in their professions of economy, they might, by
the sale of certain lands and buildings, now of no
use, accomplish a reduction of £lOO,OOO in the Ord-
nance Department. The Miscellaneous Services were
estimated at two millions and a half; a reduction of
only ten per cent. would give £250,000. Ile next
came to the Civil List. It was true that Royalty
ought to be surrounded with splendour, when the
prosperity of the country permitted ; but, in times
of difficulty and distress, he knew of nothing which
could tend more to satisfy the people with their con-
dition, than to see an example of retrenclunent set
by the highest person in the State. Queen Anne had
made a sacrifice to the necessities of her people, and
it might be said of such acts, that
" They became
The throned Monarch better than his crown."

Ile did not mean to make any invidious allusion to
the approaching ceremony of the Coronation, or to
his Nl..jesty's intention of visiting any part of his do-
minions, hut the Civil List lie thought might be re-
duced £1.50,000. The expense of collecting the
Revenue might be diminished perhops half a million,
and the whine subject was well deserving of the most
serious consideration of Parliament. The Noble Lord
concluded by moving the following:
no 41 humble .Ichlres,, be prvc.•mrd ,o ?rly-

ing that he will be graciously'pleased to take into his immediate
and most serious consideration the difficulties and distri rises of
his faithful subjects, and especially of that very importark de-
scription of them whose wealth and subsistence more immediately
depend on Agriculture; and that Iris Majesty will be graciously
pleased to give such directions as to his Majesty's wisdom shall
seem expedient, to diminish the public expenditore•in all the
great Departments of the State, INA Civil and Military, as the
only effectual means cf permanently relieving those difficulties
anti distresses which, if not principally occasioned, are at least
materially aggravated by the pressure of accumulated taxation."
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, each of the topics
the Noble Lord bad touched on would require a
night of their Lordship's discussion. He did not be-
lieve that any Legislative measure would ever do
good to the Agricultural Interest; and his opinion
was, that they did harm, not good, by inquiries into
it. He affirmed, that Russia, Poland, America, and
other great corn countries, write in a state of greater
distress than us. He knew the disposition to glut
foreign markets with our manufactures ; but he knew
that the manufactures of this -country were, gene-
rally speaking, in a flourishing state. If they left
things to themselves, they would turn round, and
remedy themselves ; and therefore, consistently with
the safety of Government and the country, economy
was the safest remedy for our evils, brought on by
the long war. The Goverment had reduced the
expenditure £1,800,000 competed with that of last
year. But economy must be gradual, because they
could not drive old and industrious servants out of
employment. Every reduction that could be made,
consistent with our safety, ought to be resorted to.
He knew the reductions were already made and in
progress as respects the Navy. There must be wear
and tear, and therefore there must be repairs and
building constantly going on. The Noble Lord for-
got the expense of half-pay, and allowances attend-
ant on the reduction of the Army. With these ez•
planations, he was perfectly ready to agree to the
Address,samended . by assuring his Majesty, that
they viewed with satisfaction the reductions which
had already been made ; and praying that he would
order still further inquiries into the means of much
greater reduction.
Earl GROSVENOR gave a decided preference to
the original Address. This was not the first time the.
Noble Lord opposite had declared himself in favour
of economy; but they had waited till they were now
in the seventh year of peace, and yet even now they
were still told that they must look fors% and for re-
duction and economy. It was no consolation to us
to say that Poland, &c. was as distressed as us ; but
the Noble Earl. had forgotten to notice that con-
quered France was in a far more prosperous state
than us, her conquerors. He was surprised to hear
that there had been a saving of £1,800,000 when he
looked at the total amount of the debt of the coun-
try. The duty of Government should have attended
to economy long ago; and, if it were not imme-
diately resorted to, this country would be lost. We
appeared in a prosperous state ; but we were swal-
lowing the capital of industry, and nothing could
save us but economy. Nothing could destroy the
bold and independent spirit of the English ; but
wealth was as much as that the sinews of war, and
they ought to preserve that in case of a fresh rup-
ture. In the midst of these difficulties the public
distress could not fail to be aggravated by the man-
ner in which the public money was spent—by the
.gaudy shew now preparing. He was convinced that
the expenses of the Coronation would far exceed the
estimate at first stated; but this was not his greatest
objection. The ceremony was altogether unneces-
sary, on the only ground on which it could be justi-
fied in the present state of the Country. It conferred
no new rigiit—it imposed no new obligation on the
King or his People. By opening his Parliament and
performing all the functions of sovereignty, his Ma-
, jesty had taken the oaths to support the privileges cf
the nation ; and Parliament and the nation had taken
the oath of allegiance to him. This tendered the
ceremony a mere useless pageant ; but, in the pecu-
liarly unfortunate circumstances of the Court, the
Coronation was not only unnecessary but highly in-
judicious. Ministers, Um-dote, had net done their
duty by their Sovereign in not advising him against
it. He (Lord Grosvenor) vas one of those who had
thought that though the law had been clear against
the right of her Majesty to be crowned, and that
though her Coronation was merely a matter of grace
and favour depending on the discietion of her hus-
band to grant or refuse, yet, that the Coronation of
his Majesty would be an ill-advised And injudicious
measure, while she was not allowed to participate in
the ceremony*. His objection was much strengthened
if the law was in favour of her Majesty's claim, and
that the law was in her favour appeared probable._
The only example of a King having been crowned
to the exclusion of his Queen, when no religious
scruple interfered, was said to be that of Henry VII.
but it now appeared pretty evident that the solem-
nization of his marriage teok place after his core-
nation. But, setting aside any legal reasoning cr
reference to precedent, be must again declare that
the advice given in favour of a Coronation at the
'present moment was extremely injudicious. It was
a pageant which could only be acceptable to the
country when it was formed without drawback or
alloy—a pageant that should not be exhibited unless
it could call froth the public enthusiastic testimonies
of joy—uniess it could be viewed by the Churchman
with religions zeal and Christian benevolence—unles
the historian could describe it in terms of elequeat
eulogy—unless the Poet Laureat, catching his f nne
from• the popular enthusiasm, could celebrate it in
" thoughts that breathe and words that burn"—
, unless this was the case, the splendid shew ought not
to take place. The lice, the spit it, the charm of t!.:e
ceremony ((insisted in its harmony with the good
sense and sound feeling of thesentintry. When on
this subject, he could not but allude to a report which
he had heard—that all the troops from the neigh-
bourhood were to be called into the metropolis cn
the occasion, that his Majesty might be attended
with more nu tnerotts enards, and the scene be hemmed

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in wilhlrlfdiers. If this was 'true, he reckoned it an
insult on the People of this country. Could not his
Majesty proceed in safety from the Hall to the
Abbey, except through files of soldiers? Was a sus-
picion so repugnant to the feelings of Englishmen
to be entertained, as that his Majesty could not trust
himself among his People? that in being surrounded
by his subjects, he was surrounded with assassins and
cut-throats? He (Lord Grosvenor) would entreat his
Majesty's Ministers, if they thought they could not
celebrate the Coronation without bodies of troops, to
change their resolution altogether. But it was said
soldiers were necessary as a part of the pageant. If
so, let them be placed in the Hall and the Abbey ;
but let them not appear to guard the procession.—
The Noble Earl concluded by saying, that though
he would have preferred his Noble Friend's motion,
he would rather agree to the Amendment than have
no Address.
Lord MELVILLE said, that he should not notice
the question of whether the Queen should be crowned
or not, it was perfectly inapplicable to the present ques-
tion. The naval force furn►shed only 40 sail of the
line applicable to immediate service. Still he thought
that next year more reductions might be made in ad-
dition to what had been done this year, and yet the
establishment be kept up efficiently. it was never in-
tended to keep up the expenditure at Sheerness as it
had been done.
The Earl of CA RNARVON preferred the Motion
of his Noble Friend, because it was a most plain, in-
telligible, and manly statement. Here the Ministers
had become their own panegyrists; in the •other
House they had left that task to a friend. Ile agreed
the distress depended solely on the financial state of
the country, and not on the state of agriculture.—
They must revert to a more perfect resemblance to
the old standard of gold currency ; the agriculturists
could receive no substantial relief, except in some
measure for reducing largely the amount of our tax-
ation. If they did not resort to this, they would see
what would be the consequence of an impoverished
and degraded yeomanry, peasantry, and aristocracy.
It was to them that they could alone look for sub-
stantial support to the Crown, the Constitution, and
the Country. Still he had heard no plan of economy
which would in his opinion be adequate to our relief.
Lord CALTHORPE hoped, that after the satis-
factory promise of economy on the part of the Noble
Earl opposite, the Noble Mover would not press the
question to a division.
Earl DARNLEY replied ; and said, he was willing
to take the Noble Earl's amended Address, and he
hoped it would he an earnest of still greater reduction.
The amended Address was then agreed to without
a division.—Adjourned.