Star.
London, England, 1818-06-05 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JUNE S.

The Wheat trade was not so brisk to-day as on
Wednesday, having but few buyers at market, but
there is no alteration in price. Barley continues very
scarce, and higher prices were at ked for the little tl at
appeared this morning. Oats are 1 s. per quarter dearer,
and Beans and Peas fully support Monday's prices.
American Flour, from New Orleans, sweet and
sound, lately sold at Plymouth for 48s.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, 31

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Mutton ....4s tAf to 6t. od I
Lamb -t,. od. to
Beasts MO—Calves 260—Sheep and I Anil
DAY AND STRAW PER
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Cloves 6 to 1 lei 14-M rn .

48s. per barrel.
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. ,
ing which quite overpowered him.—(Herb his Lord-
ship wept for some time, and the meeting was much
affected.)—He had hoped to have laid a statement of
his case before them ere now, but they should have
it soon. When he had been imprisoned at that time
a message had been sent to him from the highest
authority, to assure him that if he would agree to
leave the kingdom, he should hate liberty im-
mediately: but sooner would he have lost his life
than left the kingdom on such terms—(alause).—
He now left the kingdom, however, in different cir-
cumstances, and for a different cause. He hoped
they would elect in his place a Member who would
do his duty, and who would take ever y opportunity
of stating in the House of Commons the real cha-
racter of that House. This was the only use of the
House of Commons at present, and the only object
they ought to have in view in returning a Represen-
tative. It was to proclaim to the Public the corrup-
tion and venality of that House—Opp/Ouse). He
should now conclude, by thanking them for their
long and generous support of him. their support of
him at the moment when persecution and perjury
had almost overwhelmed him, did them immortal
honour. He did not allude to himself individually,
but to the public tendency and effect of their con-
duct, in opposition to perjury, injustice, and perse-
cution—(great anllause). He could never forget
their kindness ; while he lived, he should be anxious
to shew his gratitude by serving them ; and when
the breath of life forsook his body, the last feeling of
his heart would be a feeling of gratitude to the Elea
tors of Westminster.
The Noble Lord withdrew evidently much affect.]
ed: and the Meeting continued for some time to
express the highest admiration and the strongest
attachment.
Mr. WALKER then came forward, and/observed
that the excellent speech of the Noble Lord preclud-
ed the necessity of any observations on his part, in
relation to the topics to which he had alluded. He
should therefore, in order not to retard the business
on which they were assembled, merely move a vote
of thanks to the Noble Lord, " for his steady con-
duct in supporting radical reform in the House of
Commons, his many services in the cause of human
freedom, and his magnanimity in declining the pre-
eminent honour of representing that City, when cir-
cumstances did not allow him any longer to fulfil
the duties of the station."

REPRESENTATIVES OF WESTMINSTER.
Yesterday a public meeting of the Electors of
Westminster was held at the Crown and Anchor, pur-
suant to advertisement, for the purpose of hearing
the farewell address of Lord COCHRANE, and of
considering who were fit and proper persons to be
returned as their Representatives. A little before one
o'clock, Mr. STURM Lord COCIIRANE and Mr.
HUNT, accompanied by their respective friends, en-

tered the room.
Mr. STURCII being called to the Chair, briefly
stated-the objects for which the Meeting had been
called. He then paid the usual compliments to the
impartiality and independence of those• who heard
him, concluding with expressing his conviction, that
the Gentlemen who now attended were as well ac-
quainted with their rights, a Id as determined to de-
fend them, as any other body of Electors in the king-
dom. After a dissertation on what, in his opinion,
was mock-representation, and the necessity of free-
men preserving their rights, without which life is of
no value, he reminded the Electors that eleven years
had elapsed since they had made the attempt to
choose a Representative of their own, who was not a
servile tool of the Court, and return him free of ex-
pense; and from that hour to this, he had proved
himself so firm a friend to freedom, that it was im-
possible they could repent their choice. He had no
doubt that their choice would fall on Sir Francis
Burdett as one of their Representatives ; and though
he had no idea who or how many Gentlemen would
be this day nominated, as fit to be the successors of
the Noble Lord about to leave them, he hoped that
by their conduct this day, in affording an impartial
hearing to every person who wished to speak, that
the Electors of Westminster would prove that they
were no mob, as they had been called, but the en-
lightened friends of liberty, order, and peace.
Lord COCHRANE said, he had now only to thank
the Electors of Westminster for the honour of having
been so long their Representative in the Hriuse of
Commons. In that House he had uniformly endea-
voured to discharge his duty to them by advocating
a radical reforth. He was now convinced that no
exertions within that House would ever reform it. It
must be reformed from without ; it must be reformed
by the people—(Applause).—lf the approaching elec.:
Cons could make any change in the character of the
House, some hope might be indulged-that a radical
reform might be effected; but it was his perfect con-
viction that the House of Commons, returned by the
ensuing election, would be the same as that House
had been for many years back. Some changes of
Members might be made in populous towns, such as
Westminster, but those changes would not affect the
character of ,the House. He was therefore convinced,
that no Reform could be accomplished by any efforts
in the House. The only immediate hope of the coun-
try was, that the extravagant and oppressive mea-
sures of Government would lead to the last stage of
distress and degradation, when the people of this
country could no longer endure it—(Applause).—This
was the last time he should have the honour, at least
fer some time, of addressing them; and he must give
it as his solemn opinion, that any application to the
House of Commons, on the part of the people, was
vain. Had any petition from the people been ever
attended to by that House ii—(Applartse)—As long as
the people of England expected any good from the
House of Commons, they never would recover their
liberties. While they regarded that House as an as-
sembly that had any one good quality, and not as a
perfect sink of corruption, as it really was, they
were sure to be oppressed. They ought never to pe-
tition the House of Commons—(Applause).-I,al
them have their meetings and communicate their sen-
timents, but let them never petition that House. Two
nights_ ago he had had the honour of seconding a
Motion made by Sir Francis Burdett, a very high
honour he had held it, but there had not been another
man in the House to support that Motion. A News-
paper had taken occasion to misrepresent his speech
on that occasion, as if he had said he had been ruined
in mind and fortune. This was a calumny worthy
of those who had so long calumniated him. The
Electors of Westminster could never think him ruined
in fortune while he lived independently ; they could
never think him ruined in spirit while he resisted op-
pression. He was indeed about to leave his country
for some time.—(Here he became deeply affected,
and was loudly cheered).—They would excuse his
feelings; he was grieved—not to leave the builders of
churches ; they built them with money taken out of
other men's pockets—not to leave the pretenders to
Christianity ; for he knew them to be wicked men—
not to lea -e tax-gatherers and tax-eaters ; they were
the caterpillars and devouring locusts of the land
—not the hirers of spies to lead men into traps—not
the men who cut off the heads, and tore out the
bowels of Englishmen, in order to justify their own
oppressive measures—(lmmense a*ause)—but he was
grieved to leave the land in which were interred the
bones of his ancestors, of those who fought for the
liberty of their countrymen ; he was grieved to leave
his native country ; he was grieved to leave it op-
pressed and plundered by men without feeling and
without discretion (Long continued shouts ?f applause).
But when he left his country he left not the cause of
freedom. He had said that the House of Commons
must be reformed from without. Whether that re-
form began in England, or in any other part of the
world, was not of much importance. He should
never lose sight of that cause. Should they have
any occasion for his services, should they get the
long continued Members of the corrupt House turn-
ed out, as a man of discernment and vigour had
once before turned out a House of Commons ; should
they get the oppressors of their country doomed to
the same banishment as an illustrious tyrant of Eu-
rope ' • and should they get no other person to con-
duct them to their destination, he would soon come
back and most willingly conduct them to St. Helena
—(loud applauses). An honest House of Commons
would at once impeach the present oppressors of the
people, and get them condemned to the fate they so
justly merited—(great applause). In concluding, he
hoped he should be excused for alluding to his own
sufferings —(much cheering). The foulest conspiracy
had been formed against him ; it had been successful
by the perjury of witnesses, the corruption of Juries,
and the baseness of Judges ; he had thought the whole
Nvorld had forsaken him. At that moment the Elec-
thrs of Westminster had slicsvn a generosity of feel-

-- -
This Resolution was seconded and unanimously
adopted.
Mr. HARLEY now sprung precipitately on the
table, and in language of which we find it difficult
to give a correct or tolerable copy, proposed Mr.
Henry Hunt, as a fit and proper Representative of
the City of Westminster, in a resolution to that effect.
He admitted that Mr. Hunt had been certainly much
calumniated, but the malignity of his enemies was
despised by one who felt that he stood upon high
and honourable grounds.
This was followed by the loudest and most con-
fused vociferation.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 4.

At the sitting of the Court, Lord EL LENBOROUGN
said, that the Judges had received an application
from a person of the name of Bruce, who had sought
some days ago, under a Habeas Corpus, to be dis-
charged from imprisonment. That motion had been
astfused ; but Mr. Bruce had now laid before the
Court a new fact, which might make some alteration
in the decision, viz. the depositing of certain Exche-
quer Bills in the hands of Bankers for the satisfaction
of various creditors. He had also alleged what his
Lordship was well convinced was a slander upon the
Bar, viz. that there was a comEination against him,
and that he could get no Counsel to appear on his
behalf, because on one occasion he had stood before
the Court in his own person. In consequence of this
assertion, their Lordships felt themselves called upon
to adopt some mode by which the matter could be
brought again before them, and that mode was to
request some Gentleman to put his name upon the
back of an affidavit, on which a Rule to chew cause
might be granted. Had Mr. Scarlett been present,
the Court would have selected him for that purpose,
as it could not of itself originate a motion, in order
that it might be freed from the long siege it had en-
duredupon this subject.
Mr. RAINS said, that, though Mr. Scarlett was not
now in Court, he would, probably be in his place to.
morrow.
Mr. TOPPING observed, that he could not pot his
name to the motion, as he had been Counsel against
Mr. Bruce.
Mr. CLARICE offered to do what the Court wished
upon the subject.
Mr. (URN ET added, that in former and better Jays
he had known Mr. Bruce, and should be happy to
render him any assistance.
Lord ELLBNIOBOUGH said, that the Court was
anxious that it should not again be pestered with ir-
relevant matters, and therefore it wished that Mr.
Bruce should not appear before them again in per-
son. On a future day it could be ascertained whether
he was or was not entitled to his discharge.
Mr. CLARK then endorsed the affidavit, and it
was handed to the proper officer.

THE. KING D. WECiENER.
The defendant has frequently been before the
Court for various libels upon Mr. Chippendall, an
Attorney. The last time he was brought up the mat-
ter was postponed for the purpose of having addi-
tional affidavits filed. Mr. Wegener was now again
placed on the door, on the motion of Mr. 'forma,
to receive judgment.
Mr. READER, on his behalf, applied that the mat-
ter should be postponed till next Term.
Mr. TOPPING complained that the affidavits filed
by the defendant were in truth new libels, and he
could not consent so a postponement, unless he en-
tered into security no further to persecute Mr. Chip-
pendall.— After some conversation, it was agreed
that the matter should be discussed nett Term, the
defendant undertaking, in the mean time, to write
no more letters to or of the prosecutor, under pain of
additional punishment.
THE KINO D. THE INHABITANTS OF GLOUCESTER.
Mr. WARREN sheaved cause against a Rule obtained
on a former day for a Writ of -Mandamus to be di-
rected to the Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester,
ordering them to admit George Lambert to the free•
dom of the city. It apprared that Gloucester sends
two Members to Parliament, and that persons who
have served an apprenticeship of seven years in the
city were entitled to be admitted to their freedom,
and to vote for the election of the Representatives of
the city. The applicant had served his apprentice.
ship, and had applied for his admission to his free-
dom, but it had been refused, and on thit refusal he
made his present application. The defence now set
up by the Corporation was, that Lambert was not en-
tided to his freedom, inasmuch as his indentures had
not been enrolled.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH, after hearing the Counsel on
both sides, suggested that this would be a proper
qua scion for the consideration of a Jury. This sug-
gestion was agreed to by the parties, and the Rule
was shaped accordingly.

Mr. GALE JONES rose to second the motion, de-
claring, that there was nothing either in the public
principles or private conduct of Mr. Hunt to which
any just or rational objection could be raised. The
hostility which had been exerted against him had no
other cause, than that he went further and had more
courage than other men—(Loud clamour). He had
been called violent, because he addressed his fellow-1
citizens under the canopy of HEAVEN in the neigh-
bourhood of the Coldbath-fields Prison ; as if any
spectacle could be more apt for the occasion than the
sight of those dungeons where free men were im-
mured for their political offences. The representa-
tive whom they now required was not an ordinary
r man ;it was now no time to be squeamish—(a laugh).
They had lived too long on a milk and water diet ;
their health required generous wine, and they would
not be the worse for a glass of brandy—(loud ap-
plause). Mr. Hunt was known to be a bold and per-
severing man. (Here the orator was assailed by the
loudest and most discordant outcry that perhaps was
ever raised within four walls.) As he found his ene-
mies, or rather those of Mr. Hunt, intended to rely
on theit clamour, he was ready to put the contest on
that ground, and leave it to the issue to determine
which party had the loudest lungs, th
is l
ast At the adjourned Quarter Sessions for Somerset,
limbs, or the most determined spirit. This last ob- held at Ilchester, on Monday last, for the examination
servatiou increased the violence of the uproar in a of Insolvent Debtors applying under the several Acts
tenfold degree, and Mr. Jones was with difficulty of Parliament, the Petition of John Wills, late of
nsham, near
allowed to read one or two written Resolutions, in Key Bristol, sadler, for his discharge,
which he had embodied the high opinion he enter. was opposed by his creditoro on several grounds;
tuned of Mr. Hunt's talents and integrity. On his and it was certified by the Court that he was not en-
attempting to renew his general remarks, the disin- titled to the benefit thereof, under 53 Geo. 111. c.
elination to hear him again powerfully manifested 102. s. 38. which enacts, that no prisoner against
itself, and although he maintained his station for whom a Commission of Itankniptcy shall have is-
upwards of an hour, " sawing the air," and grinicu- sued, and shall remain in force, and who shall not have
lating with more than English vehemence, not a obtained a Certificate of his conformity to the several
single syllable could be heard. The Chairman inter- Statutes concerning Bankrupts, shall be entitled to be
posed his authority in vain, and, as a last resource, discharged from any debt proveable under such Com-
put it to the vote, whether Mr. Jones should be mission, unless he shall have been in prison five years
allowed to proceed or not. This he decided, perhaps I
neceding his application.
Masstot3-Ilorss.--Nesterday, rented Haywood, driver of the
with as much candour as accuracy, in the affimative, ;
£4cotkinchcargedountrvupboaTiks.auspotizciolidui
underwent
reajwilinuteaansErili coss.exp,
but the decision was vain. After another ineffectual tainint
exertion, aided by three swings of Mr. Hunt's hat ruination ; when the Luau Nlasoa
over his head, Mr. Jones reluctantly retired. sufficient to detain the man, and upon his procuring bail to the
amountday
of .ton
hesw,atsoli appeardi.chen called upon, which he did im-
The CHAIRMAN now declared, that as he found it n
impossible to preserve order, he felt it his duty to 1
1
_ _aatooftoeini.oTaiez.-.4doi nowt, who stands charged
with an attempt :to murder Jane Rogers, by cutting her throat
announce, that, as far as he was concerned, the meet- . i and wounding her on the bead and hands, was re. xamined. It
ill was at an end.
A general movement followed, and all the persons wnsastioLnx,Pect
tha:dianfroe from
reportwoniodfital:b
the surgeons at the last crane.
lohearttsenn d
heatnithaelsh esexand.
who originally called the meeting quitted the room. nation, but the report of yesterday stated
and in ahvery dangerous state.—The prisoner, who appeared it;
orse,
, mated
week. ,
During the disorder, Mr. Ilusr and his friends
took possession of the table. Several persons trades- a vicestteredda;:, a7ov.ung wreon.
voured to address the few who remained, but the spi- her father, a respe,tabk tradesman, residing lait II; ,a G -st T.l
s charged b
pit of hissing, laughing, groaning, and exhibiting all Dublin, under the following circumstances: The complainant
the other usual tokens of contempt, was too stront.,
, to stated, that five or six months ago the prisoner left her friends,'
be subdued. Mr. HUNT at length contrived to exalt alad'ewlarenent,7wihivoem Usihearosbtabt:d ofof crcubinage with one Captain
his person several inches above the level of the array to England. Complainant foUotweeillrerof 47a
view of oafbbscrlnginedg
before him, and being thus conspicuous, challenged , her to justice, but she was apprised of his arrival in town, and
to single combat an unlucky urchin, who, from the : set off immediately for Ireland. Lie followed her twice, and
farthest extremity of the room, threatened if he could ; tpii:iintim.heowu as fonewritea enough to traceh her
wh to her lodgings In
get at him to thrash the candidate. The boy made ; she tbgreatened to stab him if he divedla iurtn
die.t.angeheefeallsraesinsoan her,
his escape, when Mr. HCNr, espying others animated I He said, that he went in fear of his Life from her, as she once
by a similar spirit of hostility, immediately pointed I before held a pistol to the head of one of her brothers, who ens
them out tot he vindictive notice of the mob. The deavoured
prisonerto persuadsoefarhefrrto leave
om sh off her wicked course of life.
result was, that some doubtful and dangerous scut.- I she never saw any thing of hinheancodmp
The
that hme most tither filthier,
fling. took place, and several blows were given and pastor. The ecompliaant, on being questioned on this point,
received. Mr. HUNT waited patiently till tranquil- swore in the most direct terms, that she was the person whom
he always tookhL for his daughter, and that she could be identified
lily was restored, and then thanking his friends for
the honour they had done him, withdrew in an un- bail,m
vanpyonotwns.—h
she
arkgisn traiteed ordered the
she prisonerr to fired
coin-
observed manner to a private room, accompanied by ?bittern's daughter, and hid been fiCanfintd on eapt...3l'Lelarns
Mr. J. G. JONES. I charge of robbery before the Dublin Mai:ha:Ass.