Star.
London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY.

Jan. 2, J. and J. Wilson, Shrewsbury, drapers, at eleven, at
th,: Haven Inn, Shrewsbury. Jane 6, J. H, Payne, Bury St.
Edmund's, grocer, at five, at the Angel lan, Bury St. Ed-
mund's. lin. 11, W. Bingley, late of High Melton, Ytirk-
shire, corufactor, at eleven, at the King's Head inn, Barnsley.
Dec. Zo, It Leii;ll, late or Ilaslington, Cheshire, tanner, at
deven, at the 0111,e of Barker, Witton. Jan. 2, A. Par-
kinson and .1. Duckett, Alanchestcr, calico-priuters, at tw.a, at
the Bridgewater Arms Inn, 31enchester, J..n. 8, 1.. Matthews,
Chester, saddler, at seven, at the Office or Ur. John Find:lett,
(lesLer.

CERTIFICATES—Darriasza
T. Gawk:nil, Great Wincbesteraureet, merchant. D. T.
CIAle, Gerrard-street, Soho, !iceman. J. Fitzgerald, Vine-
street, Narrow-wall, tiotbet-merchant, 3. Mildley, Hillier-
stone, Statfurdshire, miller. it. Shirley, Bucklersbury, carpet-
manufacturer. W. lAnghurst, Tunbridge, ironmonger. W.
Winans, Sauth Shields, clothier. J. Morley, Ludgate-hill, li.
hen-draper. R. Chalker, North Walshatn, .Norfolk, scrivener..
JANVARY 2.-A. Stephenson, Olasl,ow -and Ingram.court,
Fenchurch-street, cattalo-manufacturer. G. Dart, Cheltenham,
stone-m:son. J. Paytte Norwich, botubazin-manufacturer.—
W. 1/eilv!rt, late of Overbury, Worcestershire, farmer.' J.
Pearse, Ptyr.louth Dock, saddler. J. B. Sharp, Queen-street,
Chsapside, ..slanchester-warehousetnen.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PA RTNRIISTITPS.
Turton and Ttlncy, Scrle.street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, wine-
merchants. Cane and Biel, Oxford-street, ham-dealers. 13al1
and Hid, Duck-lane, Wardour-strwt, cabinet-makers. Ca:t.
wtight and Johnston, Warwick-court, Ilcrlburn, commissim...
agents. Crowther arid Langley, Manchester, stone-atasons.—
Bradheld and llitchings, Oxford, plumbers. Bat4e and kir.
slrtsv,s 13irstal, Yorkshire, woolstaplers. J. and 11. Griffiths,
j Bristol, masons.

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' WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1820.

THE FUNDS. '
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
3 per Cent. Reduced 691/2 % %
3 per Cent. Cons. shut.-3i per Cent. 78%
4 per Cent. 87 % 1/8-5 per Cent. Navy shut.
Long Annuities 17 15-16 18
Imperial 3 per Cent. 68
India Bonds 245. 255. pr.
Exchequer Bills ls. dis. Is. pre.2s. dis.
Omnium 1 pr.--Cons. for Acct. 703 A 'h 3/4.

The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday have'
arrived in an inverted order—the latter yesterday,
and the former to-day.

The Duke DEORES, whose valet was said to have
attempted to assassinate him by exploding packets
of gunpowder between his mattresses while he slept,
died on Friday of the injuries he received on the
occasion.

The accounts received from the seat of the Allied
Councils, or the scene of warlike preparations, throw
no new light on the intentions of the assembled Sove-
reigns, or the probabilities of their engaging in a
war against the independence of Constitutional Go-
vernments. An article from Vienna, of the 28th
ult. states, that Count BELLEGARDE is appointed
Military Governor of the Lombardo-Venetian King-
dom, and in that capacity he is to have the direction
of the military movements against Naples—a cir-
cumstance which gives some reason to apprehend
hostilities. Indeed a war is said to be inevitable, unless
the King of NAPLES accepts of conditions of peace,
which Austria has transmitted as An ultimatum, and
which, it is added, the Carbonari and the Constitutional
Party- will not allow the Government to entertain.—
it is even a matter of doubt whether the Neapoli-
tan Government will condescend to receive this uhi.
matum at all, si,.,e the refusal of the Court of Vienna
to receive the Duke Di GALLO, may be considered as
having put an end to correspondence, and as re-
quiting, by way of proper retaliation, a similar re-
fusal to allow any Austrian Envoy to cross the Nea-
politan frontiers. An article from Naples, of the 20th
ult. states in fact, that " a German Prince, who had
arrived on the frontiers of the kingdom of Naples,
with a passport signed by Prince RUFFO (the Ex-Am-
bassador) at Vienna, had not been permitted to enter."
The Madrid Papers contain a Letter of the King
of SPAIN, addressed to the Permanent Deputation of
the Cortes, in which he enlarges on the sacrifice
which he mace to the public tranquillity, by dis-
missing, at their request, his Confessor and the Su-
perintendent of his Household. In this document he
protests that these individuals did not intermeddle
with politics.
At Malaga, Barcelona, and other maritime places
in Spain, as soon as the official information was ac-
quired of the sanction given by FERDINAND to the
new prohibitory Decree, British manufactured goods
rose in value 50 per cent.—and some articles, such
as tin plates and iron hoops, 100 per cent. It appears
by an official Report that, besides butter and cheese,
East India cotton goods, and saltpetre, will be
allowed entrance into Spain, but only if imported in
Spanish vessels.
The Diet of Wirtemberg assembled on the Ist in-
stant, when the Chamber of Deputies voted an Ad-
dress of Thanks to their Sovereign, for the present
which he had made them of a gold medal struck
upon the occasion of his concluding the Const::u-
tional Compact.

" There is a rumour in the Diplomatic Circles, of
a curious fracas having taken place at Troppau, in
wl,ich one of the great Ministers insulted, or rather
assaulted Count METTERNICII. The Noble aggressor
left Troppan in consequence of the afF.tir, and is
expected forthwith to quit his mission."—Morning
Ch ron lac.
The following notices in the Paris Papers of Friday,
received this forenoon, may, we presume, be consi-
dered as illustrations of the preceding :
" VIENNA, Nov. 21.—Lord SrEwAnr, the British
Ambassador, who arrived here the night before last,
rill return no more to Troppan."—Moniteur.
66 AUGSBURG, NOV. 30.—At Vienna a new Ambas-
sador is immediately expected from England. We
arc assured that Lord STEWART will return, without
delay, to London."—Gazette de France.

Bombay Papers have been received to the 13th of
Atgust. They are extremely barren of intelligence.
The ceremony of proclaiming the Accession of his
present MAJESTY took place at Bombay on the 7th
of June, amidst a large assemblage of the natives,
together with the principal Officers and European
inhabitants of Bombay. Towards the close, however,
of these demonstrations of loyalty and dutiful affec-
tion, a considerable degree of alarm and agitation
was created by the explosion of a powder-chest on
ene of the batteries ; by which accident six European
artillerymen and two Lascars were killed, and one
Matross desperately wounded. Large fragments of
the gun-carriages were hurled to a distance from the
spot, and almost every house in the vicinity of the
.battery suffered from the concussion. His Majesty's
ship Carron, Captain TuaNEAnx, was totally lost on

the 6th of July, on the coast of Juggernaut: Lieu-
tenant SCONCE of the Royal Artillery, the Master,
and 19 of the crew, were: drowned ; the rest only
preserved their lives. Uniform tranquillity appears
to reign throughout the interior of Hindostan.

According to adv ices of a recent date from Chili,
the preparations for the expedition against Peru had
been completed, and it was expected that the troops
would be embarked without further delay. The naval
part, under the command of Lord COCHRANE, con-
sisted of eight vessels of war of various rates, and
fourteen transports ; the former mounting 236 guns,
and manned with 1,538 seamen, half of whom are
Englishmen. The transports, most of which were
armed, averaged nearly four hundred tons each.—
The troops destined for this enterprize consisted of
the following Regiments, viz. the Ist Casadores of
Coquimbo, the 2d, 4th, and sth Regiments of Chi-
lian Infantry, and the 7th, Bth, and I lth Infantry,
Horse Grenadiers, Horse Cacadores, and Company
of Cortes of the army of Buenos Ayres, to which
was attached a train of 28 pieces of artillery. The
effective force is stated at seven thousand five hundred.
General SAN MARTIN, the Commander-in-Chief, had
prepared a large cargo of Proclamations, addressed
separately to the various classes of the inhabitants of
Peru, including the native and Spanish troops serving
under the VICEROY. To induce the Indians to join his
standard, he proclaims the perpetual abolition of the
tribute to which they have been subjected ever since
the conquest of their country, and promises to make
every exertion to ameliorate their condition in other re-
spects, and to elevate them to the dignity of freemen.

We have one or two remarks to offer on the sub-
ject of the Addresses which are now pouring in from
all quarters of the country—some to the KING, many
to the QUEEN. The fact is not to be concealed, that
there is a rivalry between them, and that the Ad-
dresses to the KING arc got up for no other purpose
on earth, but to serve by way of set-off to the
Addresses to his illustrious and suffering Consort.—
Now let as see what this set-off amounts to. All the
Addresses to her MAJESTY congratulate her on the
failUre of the of Pains and Penalties ; the most
of them because it was unconstitutional and oppres-
sive, and the very tenderest because, tinder all cir-
cumstances, it was a most inexpedient and un-
wise measure. Where is the set-off to this?—
Where, in all the Addresses to the KING, can we find
a single word approving of the introduction of the
Bill of Pains and Penalties? We have looked in
vain for any such approval, or anything which
can even be tortured into such a meaning. Again :
all the Addresses to her MAJESTY, congratulate
her on the vindication of her innocence—on its
being established that she has done nothing which
ought to deprive her of the love and protection of her
husband, and of the share belonging to her in his
Royal state and dignity. What set-off have we here ?
Do any of the Addresses of his MAJESTY congratulate
him on his wife being proved guilty, and on its being
nevertheless decreed that she shall still remain his wife?
No ; that would be too much fur even Corporation
servility. In short, there is not one material view of
the case to be found is the Addresses to her MA-:
JESTY, which is negatived in those to the KING ; and
for what earthly purpose, therefore, the latter are got,
• we are at a loss to conceive. The silence which all the
Addresses to his MAJESTY preserve on the only topics
which agitate public opinion, and which alone make'
addressing of any use or meaning, is to us the clearest
proof that the sentiments of England are as one on the
character of the proceeding by which it has been re-
cently visited as if with a plague or pestilence.—
The puppets of office may go on till they are tired
adding to the heap of fulsome, unmeaning generali-
ties, which they dignify with the.name of Loyal Ad-
dresses and Declarations ; but they will never take a
feather's weight away from the unanimous judgment
which the independent part of the Nation has pro-
nounced on the transaction.

The Papers which afFect to consider themselves as
the exclusively honest and loyal, while they are in
reality, labouring with all their might to banish every
thing like Old English honesty and loyalty from the
land, have made the notable discovery, that the ma-
jor part of the Press is under the domination of the
mob—the very rabble!—Marvellous indeed ! The
respectable part of the Press, to borrow the compli-
ment of Lord CASTLEREAGH, on a recent occasion,
fenced in and protected by taxes and high duties in
such a manner, as to have its circulation nearly con-
fined to the opulent and middle classes of society,
disregards their sentiments, and attends to ne4thing
but the wishes of a rabble contemptible in numbers
as in intellect !

All this is certainly very strange, but we are re-
quired nevertheless to believe it. We are required
to believe that the People of England, whose intre-
pidity has hitherto been as unquestioned as their in-
telligence, suffer themselves to lie prostrate at the
feet of an ignorant and contemptible rabble,—and
that through fear of this rabble, they purchase News-
papers breathing sentiments which they not only do
not approve, but hold in absolute abhorrence.
People of a plain way of thinking can hardly help
feeling somewhat startled at these contradictions and
paradoxes. They might be apt to believe, indeed, that
there is some constraint on the Liberty of the Press ;
a constraint which the supporters of Ministers feel
extremely inconvenient, They are, no doubt, at

liberty to support Ministers, but they thereby lose
their readers. Now, the support of Ministers is often
not without its advantages, but, to have readers, is
also a good thing ; and, unfortunately, the former
and the latter are somewhat irreconcileable at the
present moment. The Press, therefore, "is not free"
—it is under constraint.

To this they must come at last, in spite of all their
Corporation Addresses, all their shuffling and equivo-
cation. The secret cannot be concealed. Their false-
hoods cut the throats of each other. The influence of
which they complain is the influence of the property,
the intelligence, and the industry of England, which
laugh all their hypocrisy, all their hollow subterfuges
to scorn. The People of England have from the be-
ginning set themselves against the base artifices re-
sorted to by Ministers, and the lawless measures which
their dastardly subserviency induced them to adopt.
The People of England are of an open, brave, and
generous disposition—they hate hypocrisy—they hate
cowardice—they hate cruelty—and, above all, they
hate cruelty and cowardice when they see them exer-
cised against a sex whom we are bound to protect and
cherish. With religion and morality in their mouths,
Ministers were seen by the People of England open-
ing the flood-gates of profligacy and immorality—
poisoning without remorse, and for the dirtiest of pur- '
poses, the most pitiful self-interest, the unsuspecting
minds of our youth. They saw them squandering the
resources of a suffering people in the purchase of the
vile means for effecting their vile objects. Their ve-
riest creatures are ashamed of their conduct; and
while they come forward at the word of command
with the hacknied expression of venal loyalty, they
are careful to declare that they leave out of the ques-
tion the conduct of Ministers—the conduct of the very
men whom their addresses are meant to support.