Star.
London, England, 1816-03-26 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TUESDA.Y, MARCH 26, 1816.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY A .1' 'I WELVE O'CLOCK:
Reduced (shut)—Coss. ma. 6041—tar acc. 601 it
4 per Cent. (ebet)-5 per Cent. 890—Boade par, la. pc.
Om*. pay. 161--Easb. fis. Is. tbs.

The discnssioas in the House _of Commons last
night were interesting, and the facts stated deserve
much attention. The principal topic was the Navy
Estimates, which for the peace establishment of 1816,
greatly exceed the War Estimates of 1804 and 1814,
two years taken at random. For 1816 the estimate
provides for 33,000 men : in 1804 we had to provide
for 100,000, and in 1814 for 140,000. It must there-
fore appear singular that the expense of 1816 should
greatly exceed both of them. How is the difference
absorbed?

It appears that we owe a part of the projected ex-
peaditure of the year to the supposed necessity of em.
pleying a military force, on a large scale, to suppress
smuggling. This outrage on the laws has never
been properly viewed by the public. All frauds of
this triad are direct robberies of a man's neighbour,
and should be punished as such. You may cure
smuggling without a st*nding army if you have only
virtue and boldness sufficient to attack it as you
ought. Make the offence felony. Hang the vender,
and transport the purchaser of contraband commo-
dities. Let the presence or absence of a regular per.
mit or certificate with the commodity condemn or
exculpate the patty.

Sunday night, at nine o'clock, a general meeting
of the Cabinet Ministers, Mr. LONG, and the Noble-
men and Gentlemen holding Offices under the Ad-
ministration, assemble] at Fife House, the residence
of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, where they continued in
deliberation for a considerable time. They adjour-
ned till yesterday at one o'clock, when they again
met at Fife House, and continued is till
three o'clock, at which meeting the Duke of YORK
was present.,
Saturday last a Meeting was held of the Catholic
Noblemen and Gentlemen of Ireland, at Dublin,
when it was resolved that Lord Dotiououaaciaz
should present their Petition to the House of Lords
•on tlyt subject of the Catholic Claims. Lord Dotiovem-
aorta has politely accepted of the (Am

FRENCH PAPERi

We have to-day received the P.
torday. The import Ant Itt!port on

ces which was to have been present(
been deferred on account of the illnesi

sums, the Finance Minister. Another
Generals (Duircut) is on hk trial.

PARIS, MARCH 2s.
A prisoner who seemed to be fl
was taken this morning to the prison

gerie. We are assured that it is
Davernet, who will be forthwith bri

Council of War bitting at Paris, in
Ordonn...nce of the 24th of idly.
Not a particle of the skeletal 01
Due d'Enghien WAS missing, with

ti.in of one of his fr,,nt teeth, wlii

broken by a muAeL.b.:il. Seventy,

found upon him, and all his trinket:
which proves that the grits d'.4rmes

ted, as usual, to strip their victim.

evidence taken beEte the Inq•.iest,

himself who pulled out one of his

place of execution, and offered it ,2 Is
cinder to
convey to a person whom he named. N„
however, would undertake the comin;siou.
Prince then exclailued with indignatir.n._,. wLati
cannot the grandson of the Great Conde find I,
Frenchman to execute his lest will ?"

He tLen steadfastly looked at the hole whicii
dug for his body, and turning to the ge0,4441,,
observed with a smile, " I am not afraid to dir;but
I am sorry that I am about to receive my death trot
the hands of Frenchmen." He then laid his tile!
hand firmly on his breast, and said twice with a tun;
and manly voice, " Tirez au recur," " Fire at 1.4
heart." All the witnesses concurred in sta:ing
the execrable monster Caulaincourt was pet,"
the execution.

To-morrow the Ministers will n3aTte a amrcunic..
lion to the Chambers respecting the mai riage of Its
Due de Berri with a Neapolitan Princess. A prop.'
sal will be at the same time made for a pension f:
the Household of the pa: tics.

ITwo Englishmen; accused of defrauding a Cos
trercial House at Bristol, have been arrested eel
13ourdeaux, on their way for emb,rkation to Arne
rica. Nearly all the money which they had star
was found upon them.
A letter from N.:ples, dated 21st February, sta.*
as foliows A part of the Eaglish hour wbe
were stationed at Genoa hAtte r: Teed in Calabria, to
be distributed among the Citahls ut ilia vanity.—
It is said that they will be paid by our G *annum
We do not know what has induced the English le
send troops there, fur the Austrians are cot m.k;r;
ae:y preparations to move, and there are too nay
kleign hoops there airezd)."

A Mail from II()liand arrived this morning, ad
brought a supply of German Papers, but they ten.
twin no news.

A Letter from Cobourg, dated 13th March, says,
" An English Courier arrived here a few Jays ag',
and brought to the Duchess Dowager of Counitc,
letters in the hand-writing of th, QUFEN fit ExcLANI
and her Royal Highness the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE d
WALU, respecting the marriage of Pulsar Lzototo,
her Son."

FALMOUTH, MARCH Ys.
_-- Arrived the Prince
Ernest packet, with a mail from Lisboa is II days.
DEAL, MARCH 25.--Saifed this morning, at eleven
A. M. with a .fine b:ceze tram N. E. the Sovereign,
Tcroa Barkworth, LYNNIt ; and Providence, MA.
lON, for St. Helena and Chi,ia. Remain in the
Downs, the Warren Hastings, LAIMIN18; and tit
Asia, l'autraisratstt, for Madras ind Bengal, waiting
for dm Marchioness of Ely coming down from the
River to accompany them to their destination.
is
RAMSOATS, MAUCH 25.--.lt has blJern a string
Igale from the Eastw..td ever since last evening. Tee.
transport Nestor, No. 626,s:tiled with the 37th Regs
Iwent for Ireland.

Tuesday, the 78th Regiment, under the comouri
of Captain Slate; and Wednesday, the depot of the
92d, commanded by Captain W.taitei, mare' eit
from Aberdeen. Both corps are ordered to Ecia.
burgh Castle.
At the late Stafford Assizes several Crlrers were
' convicted of rioting, in consequence ot their wars
being lowered. They were sentenced to three 4,4
' six month's' imprisonment.
Saturday John Goddard, convicted at Winchester
Assizes for abusing an infant, was executed at thatch!.
Of the earthquake, mentioned in our Paper of ye,
terday, the country Journal; furnish the follow{
further particulars :
" On Sunday last, the 17th instant, 23 minutes before et
o'clock (true time) a slight shock of an earthqualie w.. (JO
Derby and neighbourhood. '1 he shock was sd very short Iv
lion ; but sufficiently long to leave 1:o doubt on thetp.ild as lot°
reality of the pbenomerou. We lu.ve not !tend that it Mi
caused any injury, exceo the slight alarm whit.' 17 int occasiosti
for the moment to those who feh it. It was aux:trained Ws
noise similar to that of a rising tt:npest, a:.‘l e.: 'J.,' :be window
to shake violently and the doors that were ajar :o or,vr. .t 114
lustre, which burg in a gentleman's bleakfa.t•rnoni in t;:at t Ass,
was put in motion, and the chairs and tables %vac very perell•
tibly shaken. At Shipley-hall it caused the helisto rivq:, anitis
body of a Mangle, in one of the uner-roonvg, moved oti it' rot.
ion several feet. It was also ft:revived in the Curcha of All
Saints and St. Peter, in Derby, and caused in the latter
piece of plaster to fall from the roof two the body ova
Church: We have have not been able to a •ccrtain the event's
which the silo& was felt, but, as far as we have already hearth
it extended about 20 miles east and west at Derby, and apps'
to proceed in a direct lino from north to south. Ihe :ran:
perience of this dreadful phenomenon in various guar cr. ot r
earth, as weU in Spain, Portugal, and Madrira, as at ses,*
considered with this shock.% the North of England, seems
thy of the best attention of men ot science. The arivity end •
tensive connexion of pubterraneons fires mug have been, sa
prubably now is, very great."
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