Star.
London, England, 1821-06-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

At four o'clock the Ser./mkt counted the House,
and there being only thirty-five Members present,
it adjourned.

Yesterday. Mr. NicitoLAl, an Italian courier, ar-
rived with dispatches, at the Foreign-Office, Down-
ing-st rect.
FATAL DUEL.--(Front the SWF..Id Mercury.)—'
We now present our Readers with a copy of a very
important document, which cannot fail, in a great
degree, to exculpate the unfortunate author of Mr.
CUDDLE'S death from the charge of " Wilful Murder."
It is an authentic copy of a declaration made by Mr.
CUDDLE on his de.ith-bed, in the presence of PHILIP
GELL, Esq. of Hoptes, and Mr. JOHN FLINT :
COPT or THE DRCLAXATION MUDS IT CUDDLE, OW HIS DRATIII-1101.

" The declaration of William Cuddle, of Wbuter, surgeon,
made before me, Philip Gell, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the County of Derby, this 22d day of May,
1821, who'saith that he was called upon by William Brittlebank,
of :Witmer, to tight a duel, and that he wished to avoid doing so.
That Edmund Spencer, of lialteweU, surgeon, came to him on
Tuesday the 22d of May inst. and told him that said William
Brittlebank and his brothers were in the garden waiting for him,
and that be, William Cuddle, must mike an
.apology or fight.
That he, William Cuddle, went to the garden, and refuted to
make an apology. That Edmund Spencer opened his coat and
chewed him two pistols, one of which he rook, and William
Brittlebank took the other. That. Edmund Spencer threw up
his bat as a signal, and they both fired their pistols as near
together as possible.
" Taken before me :his 22d of May, lset. •P. CELL."
" Witness the above &etas:iv:l. 1011 N FUNT."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. 1621.

VIE FUNDS.

PRICES OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE 0-I•l.•veN
Bank Stock 230'h-3 per Cent. Reda. 763/4 V 2 1/4
3 per Cent. Cons. shut-31h per Cent. 86
4 per Cent. 9-1% % -5/8-5 per Cent. shut
Long A nns. 19% Vs—lndia Bonds 465. 475. pr.
Exchequer Bills Is. !Is. Is. dis.
Cons. for Acct. 77% 5 1/2 3/4.

In expressing our sentiments on Mr. gCARI.F.TeS
Bill for establishing a maximum of Poors' Rates, we
stated yesterday that the substantial tendency of the
measure was to force all the able-bodied part of our
population.who cannot find work, to leave the king-
do*, and that it was to this extent, a Bill to depopulate
the country. We were certain that we stated
no more than the truth ; indeed, on a subject so
dangerously calculated for popular excitement, we
should have held ourselves extremely culpable, had
we hazarded any statement not perfectly and strictly
consistent with the real state of the case. A Morn-
ing Paper, which we regret to find advocating, for
the first time, the cause of power against the rights
of the People, after quoting our statement as to the
tendency of the Bill, does not offer any contradic-
I Lion to it ; but it asks." Well, what then ?“
Have we lived to hear such a question asked in
an English Journal laying claim to liberality of
sentiment and patriotism of intention? Thousands,
and tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of
the most able-bodied part of our population—for
it is at them exclusively the Bill strikes—are to
be driven out of the country, not because there is
any want of food and clothing in the country for
them in abundance, but because the resources of
their native soil are so arbitrarily appropriated,
and the whole frame of things so unnaturally dis-
jointed, that those who have obtained a controul over
the means of living, will not allow the able and wil-
ling to work the opportunity of earning their natu-
ral share in the bounty of HEAVEN.

All this is to take place, and we are coolly to be asked,
" Well, what then r Really it is too much to see one
of the dearest rights of men—the right of clinging to
the soil which gave them birth, and all the important
social interests which spring out of and are dependant
on a love of country thus cruelly sported with.—
The writer, indeed, commences his observations with
saying " we set the question of right entirely aside,"
an admission after which we might have spared our-
selves the trouble of remarking on anything that
follows.

A Lisbon Mail arrived this forenoon, with Papers
and letters to the 26th of May. The following are
extracts:

LISBON, MAY 115.

The Papers of last meek contain little but the ac,
count of the Sittings of the Cortes.
The Decree respecting the dismissal of the English
Officers is no., officially published : it is exactly in
the same terms as have already been made known.
The Cortes have discussed, in several successive
Sittings, the Law on the Liberty of the Press, in
twenty-eight Articles. Most of them were agreed to,
many occasioned warm debates, and several were
amended. The whole of the Law, with the amended
Articles, has been referred hack to the Committee, to
be drawn up conformably to the decision of the Cortes.
In the Sitting of the 24th, M. SERPA, on the part
of the Committee appointed to examine various
papers relative to the conduct of Portuguese Minis.
ten and Agents ia foreign Courts, read a• Report
from the Committee, stating, that the Government
having made the necessary communications to all, the
first who excused himself was the resident in Eng-
land, unless he received orders from his Majesty;
that the second was Jose Anselmo Correa, and then
others, who refused passports to vessels, and declared
the Portuguese ports in a state of blockade: that the
above Correa and others had published various papers,
&c. which were direct libels on the Nation, and might,
have done infinite mischief. The Committee thought
their conduct should be considered as treason to the
Nation; that they were in no manner authorised by
his Majesty; that their conduct merited punishment,
but that there was no law to which they could be
rendered amenable ; but that the Cortes ought to
censure their proceedings, and declare them incapa-
ble of being employed on Foreign Missions.
It was resolved that the Report should be printed,
and the paper on which it was founded, laid on the
table to be examined by the Deputies.

Ilamburgh Papers arrived this forenoon to the Ist'
of June. We select from them the following articles
of intelligence respecting the Greeks ; the accounts
are extremely conflicting :