Star.
London, England, 1827-12-11 00:00:00

MEETING OF COUNTRY BANKERS.

Wednesday list a considerable number of the princi-
pal Country Bankers assembled at the Old London
Tavern, to form a Committee, for the purpose of pro•
tecting their common interests, more especially in re
&recce to the endeavours of the Bank of England to
extend their monopoly by means of Branch Baok•. Sir
Jonas WItOTTSSLILY, BA't. M.P. •as unanimously re-
quested to take the Chair, and SOHN EA,STIVAPZ, Esq.
M. P. was also unanimously requested to continue has
services as Honorary Secretary. After some other
arrangements, the Chairman briefly edAressed the
Meeting, and invited Gentlemen to express their senti-
ments freely, in order that they might learn each other's
opinions upon the occasion of their assembling, and
that they might mature and embody them in their Re-
solutionv.
WI was: &arm. Esq. of Leeds, then read. is series
of Resolutions, which had been drawn up in order to
save the time of the Meeting.
Tire Resolutions were seconded by P. M. JAIIn, Esq.
,of Birmingham, who expiessed his wish that they should
be considered as materials fur discussion. rather than
hasty adJptinn. and particularly re:ommended the ex-
ercise of moderation at the outset of their proceedings,
being most consistent with the ju.tice of their cause,
it wool t be easy, he said, to increase in energy Blume
occasion might require.
Several miser Gentlemen al•o addressed the Moths&
amongst others, J. S. Hartford, Esq. and BMW?,
Esq. b••th of BriStol ; J ,seph Pot. B q. M.P.; J. J.
Guest, E q. M.P. Wru. R cid°, d, Esq. hI.P.; It chard
Spoeoet, Deane; J.rlsu Parker, Esq. of Cant dory;
William Mimic, Esq. of Settle; and Jiha Wright,
Esq. of Nottingham. The gen• sal sentiment was in
favour of moderate terms, whilst a determination
was expressed so seek redress by every eorst eu.
Lionel means. A select Ci.rnmittee of seventeen per-
-sons was appointed, to oh .m the resolutions were re-
ferred; t•ie meeting then adjourned to Friday. The
adjourned meeting was bald accordingly, when the
honourable Chair man said, that the resolutions which
he was about to sead had been carefully prepared, and
had been unanimously agreed by the Select Committee.
The Resolutions, fully expressive of the sentiments
of the Meeting, were then ordered to be transmitted
to Lord Viscs.unt GODERICH.

-Fools' A PHILADELPHIA PAPER or Nov. 21.—1 t i.
stated in the Partlaad Gazette that the Governor of
Maine has taken measures to aaaert nur rights with re-
gard to the land claimed by the British. What these
measures are is not basil, but as the Gazette alludes to
in apparent intention of the British to make a point of
legal possession by the exercise ut jurisdictions, one of
the measures may be supposed calculated to countervail
or neutralise this purpose.
A private communication from Putismouth infi.rms
us, that besides the Terror bomb, the following vessels.
• . 'met) ordered to be fitted out instantly:—The
E ephatit, largest -slue frigate; the Pallas, 46 ; the
Niemen, 28; the Athol, 28; and two sloops of war. So
pressing were the orders, that the Dock Yard men
wtnked all Sunday on the Terror bomb.—Veto 7 inn.
The RECORDER will make his Report to the KING in
Council at one o'clock on Thursday next, at St.Jarnea's
Palac
:IiAMBURGH. DEC. S. The Upper Elbe is now
Tweed with ice, and this morning people crossed it am fast troth
the Hoopt. The passage to Hat burgh is alto mierrtipterl,
Raat.su. Dec. 2.—Aecounts front Viefttla, of the
MEM*. tweeived by li.xprem, say, that the Ambassadors of the
Three Powers left Constantinople on the 151 h of November; se.-
qpnging to some, they departed by lea.
Accounts from Alexandi is have bet o received of the
15th Oefulmr. A convoy *ailed from that pnn with the vessels
&mud down the Mrditerranean on the 10th ; another convoy was
appointed for the 251 h. Intelligence bad been received at Alex-
andria that the Egyptian fleet was not permitted to sail ell the
expedition against Hydra ; it was also known that the blockade of
Navarin by the combined squadrons had been notified.
the Emperor of RUSSIA has conferred on Admiral
CGDRINGTON, as a mark of his admiration and gratitude for his vic-
tory at Netglirl, the Order of St. George of the Second Class; on
Admiral de Mawr the Order of Si, Alexander Newsky ; and on
Countliatnen, isbo is promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and
receives the unier of Sr. George of the Third Clain.
Toe Marquis of LANIIDOWN entertainal a distin-
guished Party at Dinner on Saturday, at Lansdown House, Ber-
keley-6quart% Among whom were, the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Lord and Lady Was. Bendock, Lady
Lyndhurst, Lord Dudley, hir..aad Ws. F. Lewis,lllt. Tierney, &c.
. Notwithstanding the French bi ckading squadron,
the Algelines find means to quit their port, and so tap—
;ure numbers of French vessels. It is reported, there-
fore, that an expedition is to be undertaken on a grand
scale, to seduce that Regency. A Let of 12 ships of.
the ling, according to she Constitatiozael, is to assem-
ble at Toulon, under the orders of Admiral Missiessy,
end au army of 2.5 or 30,000 men to be embarked un-
der the command of Maraiont (the Duke of Ragusa) to
besiege the plaice by land..