Star.
London, England, 1816-07-27 00:00:00

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK;

And that his Royal Highness bte reveetfully requested to mite
THE CHAIR, a: a Meeting to he held G,r the above purpo.e,
and to 4a a time which may best suit toe convenience of his
Royal Higimees.
Real Highness having consented to telt. the Chair. a
PIIDLIC•MF.EIII,IO will lie held at the CI fY OF LONDON
TAVERN, llishopsiate.street. on MONDAY, the 19th of Jar
Instant, when the attendance in ii),•rions disposed to co-opera:,
in the views of tht: Association Is earnestly requested.

• •„• The Chair will be taken as floe o'Cloek.
W. G CARTER. &crew

DUTCH PAPERS.
BRUSSELS, JULY A.

The courier J.:om Lord Weliiogton, who arrived
at Cambray on the 17tti, is sa'd to have brought
word that his Grace Was to be ex.pected there on the
10,b of Atigtist. The same accounts say, that the
dispute between some •Enel-ish Officers at Cambray,
in which the French Civil, and the English Military
Authorities intettered; has been settled, by potting
7....0 h,,, 4,11 e most guilty into prison fer a tew days ;
for the iv., all is perfectly tranqiiil in the can-
-1 tonments of the riit,,Fit win;t of the Army of Occn.
;cation—the trUJp:, cot-Aiwa:l to observe the strictest
I discipline.
The French departmental legions of the Somnte
and Pas de Calais., have received their definitive or.
ganization, and tteir coh.urs have been solemnly
consecra.::•d at Amien; and Calais. A number of
I recruits have arrived in those towns, to be entolle.ll
I in the legions.
Ail the French postmasters on the frontiers have
!received posi:ive frders nut to suffer any newspaper,
printed in the Netherlands, t, pass the frontiers, upon
I pain of being dismissed from 'licit tiCce.
.ILLY 21.—T0-klay at noon there passed throttAh
I here three very magnificent and beautifully formed
carriages, each drawn by four fine hort,,a. One had
i on it the ;tors of the Netherlands, a ith the Et.gli,h
i inscription G. Prince Hereditary of Orange's chat int."
The carriages were tollowed by fourteen s: rddle.-
horses; the whole v.-ere conducted by English
i grooms, The carriages, which went to the l'idace
of Sacken, are fin. the Prince of Orange, and arc to
-I remain There till his arrival. .
I _ _ _ WAttgAw, JULY S., _ _

It is not only in our nrighbourhoost, but also in
other parts of the kinsOorn, than the bail has done
much damage. the nei.t;hbaurtiood of Cracow,
hail has talit.'n of eq. size of a hen's egg. The
tula has ovesfiuwed its banks in con,equence ot- the
cantinued raini, and dude great tt.tosage. It is said
our Emperor win go month to Moscow, and
that he oily be exp:cted he're about the end 11 Sep.
tember..

JULY es.

SECOND CHANILIEtt uE 'EtiE STATES-GENERAL.

Alter snnie preliminary business, the Pradent in-
formed the Oiamber, alit the co:rtiniied ex.imiliation
of the laws respecting the Indirect Tar.s, will pro-
bably require anne.er fortnight, and the law con.
cerniap; the current Coin revires AL() sAtie explatta.
tines ; and nothing else being beftne the Cha:nber,
he proposed to adjAurn the Assembly till the Gth of
August next, then to resume the th.liberations on
thou two subjects.

CHRISTIANA, JULY 6.
On the 29th ot June we had tl:e pleasure to see
the Crown Prince, and his son Oscar, •arrive here in
good health ; they were received with great joy,—.
The next day they were welcomed by a numerous
deputation from the Dal, at the head of which was
Bishop Soremer, who made a sii:table speech, which
was answered very graciously by the Crown Prince.
On the 6:h the two Princes went to the Diet, and
on closing it, made a speech, in which is the follow.
ing remarkable passage :
‘• Though Nature has refits-el the children cf. t..:
North the advarstages she gave to the natives of mil-
der climes, the bestoved on them the most precious
gilts—strength of sou!, and Wye c 4. liberty ; to lead
to this noble end, she appoia Led Tem rra nce, Labour,
and Industry, as guides ; and to (town i.er be:reels, •
she made th 1t internal voice sound in the hearts of the
children ot the North, which is re-echoed a thousand.
fold from the graves:, and the remembrance ot their
fathers, and which calls to than • Be poor, but jade-
pendent, honoured and respected !' May this voce
becOme sacred to you I —then will Liberty always find
heirs in the. North ; then will late: nab rack, and the
respect of foreigners, always be the inhethtnee of your
posterity, long after I diall have ceased to exist !" •
KONIGSBERA i W.:: to. •
The Prince and Princess at ()range arrived he.e
yes7erday, ar . were reeeivetlat the Palace by the
Civil anu Mi • ary Authoritie
et
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.DORDRECHT, MX 22.
On 1ake.11944.14. Caushaceres, who- has parsed
coneablovAmeteftlami came throuila this town ;
he sleptliKene night hen% and then continued his
journej In-: Brussels. Be we: accompanied by a
valet:dr-chasehre,,e secretary, and two servants. it
is reporoJ th•at•he is-going trona Brussels, to return
to Paris, havillg either received, or expecting, per.
inisitun atom t4e Frepel Government.
' ':1.- AMSIERDAM, JULY se.
' -rue accounts it our Courent or to-day, respecting
the state of thi. rive, s, are foots:rabic. i'he watery
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are every when: •• -.•,4.,

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DISTRESSES 'lf tio MOT MANUFACTURERS
of STAFFORDSHIRE.

We have been favoured with the perusal of two
. letters, one from the ariehbourhood of Allston, and
the other from that of B rmingham, addressed to a
respectable iron merchant in London, en the subject;
of the distresses under which the people employed in
the ironovorkt and collieries of those districts now
labour. The &hoeing extracts from these most:
affecting compositions exhibit a• picture of misery we.
really believe imptecedented in this country, and of
which very few of our Rados could have bad soy
conception': •
" Ceiselet, near filston, Staffordshire, lely
46. When 'some of our principal iron-works first
failed, the whole extent r f the consequent distress
• wet not immediately apparent. The po"r manufac.-
turers had many of them made a little money: this,
with the greatest frugality did not last long: when
eepended, they ran in debt wherever they could gain
credit ; and when they cnuld riot be trusted any
longer, they pawned or sold their furniture, article
after article, till they had nine to sell. When their
goods were gone, they were obliged to have recourse
to-their parishes and to begging.
" The perishes were overwhelmed by the numbers
applying for their aid, and could afford but little
comparative support. The community in general
.. (for commercial districts are usually generous) made
great efforts to relieve their necessities. For ray own
part, I determined that I would tare hinder, and
that my children and Lou.ehold should do se like-
wise, in order to admiuister to their wants; and it
• was my desire that no:ue worthy of relief should go
away from my house unrelieead. It is true the suc-
cour was but small; they asked for nothing but a
piece of bread, and bread for some time great num-
bens of them received : but I soon fie-Ind that my very
limited income, arising chieay front uncertain sources,
would not even furnish this scanty supply; and 1
was reduced to the necessity—to me a most painful
one—of confining my charity within much smaller
boundaries. Companies of five, or eight, or twelve
poor manufacturers, able and willing to work, have
been many times in the course of a day at-my door,
soliciting bread, and what has often cut me to the
heart, necessarily soliciting in vain. Multitudes went
through the country, offering to work at eon thins
merely for a little food, not even expecting wages,
and thus gained a little temporary employment and
subsistence ; hut still their u ives and children were
at home in the greatest possible distress.
" Within a small distance of my house is a large
ironwork; the machinery extends for nearly half a
mile ;it was a noble manufactory. I passed by it
one morning after its operations .were suspended, and
was exceedingly aitxted with the sight s a little be.
fore, it was all animetion and industry, affording the
honourable means of livelihood to many thousands of
my fellow-creatures : the 'Vow that now pervaded it
spokie inure eloquently and impressively to my heart
than any langnage could possibly do—it was the
silence of unm:ngled desolation. I visited a row of
houses occupied by the workmen : the doors were
used to be open, inviting the eye of the stranger to
glance as he M sot along at their neatness, cleanliness,
, and felicity ; groupes of healthful children were
accustomed to appear About the cottages, full of
merriment •rii joy, and tae inhabiotnts„ outing and
healthy, saluted you as you ie ent by. But the scene
was 1.1111C11:4bly C11:1111g?e. : it produced a mein iclioly
on my spirits that I did not lose fir a
.Coiesieerabie
period : the cottages were closed—the inhabitants
could not bear to have it knows that they were
stlippee of their little ornaments—no chili rto played
around the d :ors—the very plants trained up in their
windows had pined and died—one man only ap-
peared. emaciated and ghastly, a living spectre, as it
• the peaceful sepulchre had sent forth its inhabitants
to hilt with terror the abodes of the living.
46 When I have told these poor creatures that the
parish must filet them food Or- labour, they have re-
plied, • Sir, they cannot do either e and some who
have fared the best %then our meeufectories were
fleurishing around us, have said. I We would rather
die, Sir, than he dependent on the parish.'
" It is an uneswerable proof of the excellent dispo-
sition of these poor manufacturers, that although
there are many thousands of them in the most dis-
uessed condition imaginable, there is very little de-
predation in she country.
64 If it will aid you in your benevolent designs, I
will go through any part of our neighbourhood, from
house to house and give you a particular statement of
the circumstances of each family : the labour will be
to me a delightful remuneration ; doing good I have
long fount to be its own reward. I would devote
any portien of my time to procure you informatiun.
46 Some, I believe, have really died of starvation;
and in many cases, if not the immediate, it wasthe pri-
mary cause. An insufficiency of wholesome nourish-
menteehere they had been accustomed to great abun-
dance, produced dis'ases which terminated in disso-
lution. Even charity, Sir, has left some of our dis.
triets. She has given all she bad to give : the stream
of her benevolence is dried up, and nothing remains
but the grateful recollection of the channel through
which it fl rwed, or emotions of despair lest it should
never again be replenished. ..
44 I could send,yotunany individual case; that come
under my own personal knowledge. Not far from
my house, a respectable individual, possessed of ex.
erosive infoimation in the iron trade, who had been
a confidential foreman in a large concern, and lived
in much credit, has been for some time, with a wife
nod eisk children, destitute of sufficiency• of bread.
families, distinguished for their sobriety
Nod industry, ry, with five, six, seven, or eight children,
are in the same -disastrous circumstances : I have my-
self repeatedly saved a man, his wife, and six
siren, from absolute starvation, who were reduced to
eat the cabbageotelks, and the refuse of their little
cottage garden aetheunly food they could obtain.
,* Had 1 the pleasure, Sir, of being present at the
meeting of your honourable Society, I think I could
plead the cause of these poor manufacturers nIl my
strength would fail me, and 1 could plead no longer :
their great distresses have taken deep hold of my
bean. Shall she injured African readily laud a mule
evade of the most able and eloquent of our nation to.
defend his cause, and to secure his rights ; and shall
these be none to commiserate our perishing Pim-
whose ingenuity and industry bare spread
of. Britaiu thioughout the whole habitable

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globe ? S:iall no friendly bane be extended to
away ask tears, and 49 prevent them from sipkusg
for ever under the inioppurtable pressure of 'amt•
mutated waifs t Forbid at honour, decency, frusta!
nity,, religion !" .•
The other letter with *hie!) we have been favoured
is d4ted—
Tibfilngton•house, nearillrmingh-tm, July 21
" I have not lost a moment in distributing youk
donation of £5 amongst some of the mist distressingl
cases in my neighbourhood; and although the
amount to each family was small, after dividiqg it
otnongst•npwards of thirty, yet it was so tirCly ac•
eeptable that streams of gratitude flowed froot tae
eyes of those who partook of it. Words cannot pic
cure the distress that prevails in this neighbourhood ;
and what is still worse, it is likely to increase rapidly.
Many of. ti.e iron-works, iron-stone-works, sod col-
lieries that have been hitherto kept at work, are on
the eve ol being stopped. Indeed hundreds of men
have had notice within the list fortnight to seek fresh
employment ; and there are already some thousands
who have
•been nut of work many months,. Evils;
upon charity and the household furniture which then.
late prosperity enabled them to provide., • But in
numberless instances these comforts have gradually
been disposed of to prevent starvation.
i‘ The liberal -awl humane persons, who have
hitherto been a great support to such wretche..l ob-
jects, find the case. so numerous, that their funds of
charity arc thereby completely exhausted ; avd the
.only resort the poor creatures have left is to go to
the fields, and from thence procure the best fond they
'can for themselves and children. The taste of bread
is almost forgotten to many of them. I hope you
will excuse my going into any further detail on the
subject of such distress; for 1 assure you, the suffer-
ing my mind to retrace what I have before wit-
nessed, without the ablity to relieve, is too much for
my ferlines " •

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, WIN 23.

By an Ordinance of the King the delay fixed by
the 39th Article of the Law on Custom' of the 28th
April last, and which exlkired on the Ist instant, to
make a declaration of cloths prohibited by the smd
article, as being of foreign manufacture, is reraewe.l,
:end enlarged to the Ist of September.
Letters from Philadelphia state, that the ex-Gene-
ral of Artillery, Lallemant, and a man named Dirac,
one of the Editors of the Nabs Jaaae, have strived
in that City. They also announce, that the notorious
&Band de Varennes, a Member of the Convention,
banished shortly after the fall of Robespierre, and
*boat Most people considered as dead, mitred from
Cayenne at New Yu* k on the 15th May last.
We are assured that Bernard (of Saintes) the Ex-
Conventionalist, has been wrecked oo the coast of
MadeirJ, with 26 persons.

Last morning Midame Mouton Duvernet, accom-
panied by her daughter, threw herself at the feet of
the King, to implore pardon for ker husband. His
Majesty anawerci, that he participated in her sorrow,
but that justice must take its course.
A Paper of this day menions that General Mouton
Duvernet has been condemned to death i but we do
nut consider this intelligence certain, at feast no of-
tici4l account Of the result has -yet been received.,
l'hi•re is more mison to suppose that the request ni
his wife had for is object to stop the judicial proceed•
ing against him if possible.

cooattries,
the glory o