Star.
London, England, 1817-04-15 00:00:00

STAX

THE EV

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TUESDAY. APRIL 18, 1817.
MICE OF SrOCIDI Thu DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK •
Caw 70 /...Do. for Ammo, 7slf—Rotlikod 70
S par Coo. navy, 1011-4 per Gat. sat
Itadrsierr MY MK 100. pr...Zotlersed do. 70. 10s. pr.
bollk Soma 10 perk

The business of the House of Commons has been
unexpectedly retarded for ten days, in coasequena
of the illness of the Beasts. All who are amiss-
tomed to respect worth and talent will regret the
cause which has rendered the adjournment of the
House necessary. It is-gratifying. however, to learn
that Mr. Ansnres indisposition is not likely tabs
long continuance. . <
The SPRACIII having expressed a hope in !thistles
that it would be in his powsr to resume his &fictions
by the end of the week, die CHANCELLOR optic fat,
sieoutOthought it desirable that the Right Honour:
able Gentleman should be indulged with a irialeye.
longer, as their sittings would at all .events beim
pended by the Birthday' d the Panics Ratite.:
'which will be marked' Srlth Ad doe ceretiatiegr ess#
splendour; aid is to be` 4elebrated on dse
instant, • being St. Oeorgei' Day, when
Knights of the several Orders will appose is their
Cothirsiat4 insignia. All the Household Officere
'also, will be in their new:sid magnificent Stant
Uniforms. Dinners wIU be givasi by the great oil-
ars of State, Msrquis ol Herfenan and
Lord Cmozawisitor. , Lord Carrustaann is w
entertain all the -Foreign Ministers, and the Bishop •
of Exam receives the Bench of Bthhops.

Within these few diys there has been a considera
ble bustle among the Officers of the Poit.Office
de-
partmeat, and which will probably not be terminated
without an investigation which may eventually prove
beneficial to the Revenue and to the public at large..
who has been in the Office for up-
wards or forty years, and for a easiderable period.
One of the Vice-Presidents, has given in his resigda—
tion in copses:once of sane- revisor supposed coun-
teraction which impeded the exercise of his dudes in
way:lsatisfactery to himself. 'The TreasurY has
been memorialised on the subject, and, we believe,
an investigation has *heady command.
We cannot speak with absolute certainty u to the
precise steps which led so Or*, but they were some-
what lib the following t Wee Standing;
in the Of wad, by an arrangement liftmen ass:
of Heads of the Office and.; Mr, trans-
lined fiollll the (Sept:tame of the former to that a+
she latter. Ha .was sty kraWar. 'in his attendant:4'
tfiat repestid.compliintswerwiniide by
which, as heentkWere treated with contempt. Oa'
enquiry, he • toun4 that the
,tom .0/ Mee person of
whom he complained was iny much esuipied witk
the superintendence of a.Newspaper concern—on
'slice for the vending of News-papers. Iu Out-
peace the Clerk was suspended, bat, to the surprise
of Mr. In eight or ten days, after the same
Clerk came and occupied bie.place at thedesk,-
biting a warrant for his re-instateinent 1
On farther inquiry, it was found that among the
partners of the Newspaper cams to which we been
alluded, there were woe *U tile name which formed
the ostensible name of the firm. This ciraueithnee,
with the return of the CIO to hifplace is tiny
not reckoned the most dacceints towards Mr.
induced Mm. to :edge, and to deinand as lam&
,tigatien.—Of coarse, &edifies:it proceedings Meath
be yet perfectly bola. Repoli, 'however, soft,
(though we will not believe 4 • nor *ill adY ems else,
till established by evidence, give credit to ft)* that it
appears, rem information since furnished- by the
Clerk biting, drat among the partners ol.the News.
paper beldam, repertod tti bee , been asikril a *le-
der a fictitioni Arm, were; Or are) some dentjeases
who from their high ofilcial.raak sad great iitoolu-
menu it the Office, ought act io have been found
acting. as privati tradere4hat A, •under, whatever
I:barmier, whether as piatpets, air by wbmkver oclikr
name they may have been 1410,.thipiefts, to the,
extent of many thousand posails-a-year, are re
italiely.we hope) so have both diiided among ibis)
Clerk whose titteduitil th..that concern vaned
his fiat disliked tries M;ogscial situation, receiving
only mere &gory for managing the Newspaper
concern. • .:r)

We will not dye onibtsblisinessai prempis nor
state all diet has reackiell ni tM adieet.for foar.
of eni mistake I sod omen ph•it Asa ham stated we '
beg oar Readers to moulder-merely as a rumour, al-'
together iacreitebie, till it dad% be established by evi-
chnits; . Intfat tbi bosiaisi is-now !whim the Lords
of the Tleasary, we caziaattorbrar preksingtira their
consideratioa the proprietrEkesitirely patting an end
totrading. in Newvar tot brienY of the Officer. or
Clerks of the. General Poet-Ace. ' no other Re-
mem department are tba`viiimii or seriaisti allowed
tai be traders—especially iii7artiChaccrigisecsed.with re-
veaws—end dillies the plainegtininciplas si radon*.
—Reopie so permitted nom,* wadd-be-asposed to
the temptation of seekhit.pelwate eiseipieneist fit Fe.
feresee to public reveao4 inid' m paintaf fact the
Itarentto has suffered,, 4'04 *g..4sAik.Tin tows
bas-taithe Clerks of *liait'ollwe being pereek
ted to seed. - News-papers 1013,k4est glare Tree if
raise, while all. other dbaihrtis l'-pereee Ire

'compelled to pay a h;gb postage. The conseque.c,
is what might be expected, they obtain s monnoni
hot the evils of the monopo'y afee t-ven
deeply--they charge so high tor the Pare,,. ;1,4t

oat of the Kingdom, comparatively speaking, can
afford to bay them. Were News-papers d
go post-free by the Packets, as by the inland M. 4.11,
the Stamp Office revenue would receive an increJib:e
increase annually.