Star.
London, England, 1817-05-20 00:00:00

na tee haw the Crown could he expected to reward
tagic services in Parliament, in the case of persons
ktar';‘,l to the Opposition ; though he could Oct be
0. nu iervalne such services, especially When
;,reolleCtid how long Mr. Burke was in Oppisi-
i-,n. He wnndereo why il.e HonoUrable Ilarooet
fir Fiancis Isui.lett) ovoid nut concur with them
sal-CC off.one grievance, vt least a grievance which
...4hecn so et:eel-411y complained of ia all the
the different pat tl'it The country. He re.
~,ire.: !:is opinion till the Committee, with regitict to
tke limit or the !Lind, but he had no heat in
opinion in favour of the principle Oreoni
~rasatian which had been sanctioned by 41%144'6
sod many o her great men.
ker.l ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, in letting
t:,,:nt on a former occasion to a Bill whicli con.
a clause for compensations; had not thereby
%to his approbation to the princi pld coitipensa-
•
He thought no compensation dUe to the offices
posed to be abolished. They were misapplied,
;ad naJ always been misapplied, and never could be
..!or:i.‘Ls'ects for the patronage of the Crown. He
or.c.'Tred with an observation which had been al.
tai made, that as there was. so large a Fund as
wow at the disposal of the Crown, there could
tlnci need whatever for compensations. lie wished.
rt House to consider whether circumstances did not
03 upon them to contract the means of expenditure
•;:. INC!) as possible. Would it satisfy the country
toLito, that, because a set of useless offices were
asoli,hed, compensations were provided as substi-
tees He must object to the measure, especially as
ce Grown already possessed ample funds for the re-
sard public services.
sir. JOHN SMYTH did not think it necessary to
ilttaLl his consisteitcy on account of any votelte had
Fien on a former Bill. He did not regard the cons.
vitiations which might be given under the present
neoure as establishing the principle that pecuniary
;.'Marl was the object of public services. He could
;It conceive that any pecuniary remuneration was a
tn. iideration with those wl,o filled great offices of
S;.ite. How could the value of such services be
,ensured by money ? Great Public Officers devote
hole of their time by day and by night to the
put;lic service, and it WAS difficult to say how such
- could be sufficiently rewarded. Oa these
ga ids, wiihout considering money as a reWari for
savices, he should vote for the Bit. ' '
Mr. DOUGLAS objected to the whole-of the Bills
tad the principle on which they proceded, which
sent to denude the Crown of the means which it

ogla to possess of rewarding public services.' The
consequence of these Bills must be to make every
carry with him into office the charicter of a pen-
,ner. Measures of this description had been
,t 1 much too far. Public men had thought it ne-
cessary to offer up part of their salaries as a sacrifice
t, popular prejudice, though they must know that it
uab d delusion to suppose any benefit could be deri-
v.ll from that proceeding. He did not think that
best way of obtaining theconfidence of the country.
The House then divided—Ayes, 105—Noes, 45
Majority, 60.—The Billw.s then read a third time.

Ibe hilditerranean Trade Bit' was lUltunittcd, and ordered
a b.: read a third rinse on Thursday.
T! Report of the Saving Banks' Bill MIS brought up, and
the Bill we, ordered to be grad a third dale WI Wednesday.
Tan Nes, fuundland Marriage BM, was, after a few obaerva-
nuns by Nit.. Govseuttr and M. W. bairn', read a second
tem and .edeeest to be reported.
House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, when
die NUUMillig MUM were voted—XVl,ooo for the employ meet of
alarms at ham; seitt,uoo fur bills drawn from New South
iSdns

Mr. HUSKIISSON moved for leave to bring in a Bill to make
mchuabilion a carriage road to Mitibank Penkentluy.
Ile ulna Orders of the Day Were then dapoted of, and the
Hama adjeorood at Eleven o'Cluek.

THE EVENING STAR..

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1817.
HITE OF STOCK; THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Reclined Tlt{--Cau. Mo. 721—D0. for Acc. 72i
4 per Cent. toil—Navy, tOsti—.Lelia Book •1 pro.
hastier, 8.11, 84. 1 So. pr.

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' Is the House of Commons last night dant)**
,a
Am conversation on the farther Suspension 4 jthe
Habeas Corpus Act, but nothing new trionpikipi,,
Lord CAsTLEREAOII merely renewed the autwince,
that Ministers considered the peace of the country
required a prolongation of that rigotous measure.
The Lottery Bill was read a third time and pass-
ed, but not without a most strenuous opposition, and
a division.

The second reading of the Bill for abolishing the
Office of Chief Justice in Eyre, condemned as useless
by the Finance Committee, mild some discussion.
The debate afterwards took a •ery interesting turn,
when the Bill for providing compensation for the
holders of Sinecures came under discussion. Mr.
Enomum made a very eloquent, and in many re•
'Peas a very fair, attack upon the Pension List, which
he said this Bill would greatly increase.

By the Mail which arrived from Hambnrgh this
forenoon, we learn that the ice on the Neva broke up
02 the 21st of April, and in consequence at least 500
Muchantmen had arrived at Riga before the 26th.
Cora began to experience an instant depression.
Jammu BONAPARTE has purchased for 250,000
florins an estate at Erla, about two leagues from
7tetna. SAvAity is said to be expected at Gram.

BIBLE SOCIETY.
The following Circular Letter to the Clergy in
Hungary was issued on the 23d of Deceno.qm 4st :
" Considering that the London Bible AsuscUon
bu caused the establishments of several- affiliated
Societies, particularly in Germany, and that several
such Associations in the Imperial Hereditary Dcni-
11'ons, particularly among the Protestants, have more
'lnmate connexion in view, his Sacred Majesty has
illen graciously pleased to ordain that care be taken
that. printed Copies of the. Bible be not circulated
RLau, or at a low price, by such Foreign Associa-
tions and Societies in his Majesty's hereditary domi- '
Illons, nor the establishment of a Bible Association.

he all/llva For the tett, his Sacred Majesty is gra-
ciously pleased to allow th.it the trade with Bibles,
as with Ali other backs by Booksellers. sitould con-
tinue according to the Ordiaances publi►hed on this
subject.

" The Rnyal Government hereby publishes this
his Majesty's rs,)lutinn. that the most punctual care
may be taken to nhs.•rve it in every point.
(;n•eu at Buda, this V 34 of December, hi the Assembly
of tits Member, of the Royal litsogariso Goveraosest."

FRENCH PAPERS.
'She:Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last
haiistrrived.—The domestic intelligence which they
contain is not of any interest. A pretended private
letter, of the 15th instant, has brill published here,
which states, that a plan to shoot the Princes, at a
legless', by. certain Non.commissioned Officers, had
been discovered at Versailles; but there is nothing in
these papers which affords the least countenance to
the report, nor from the quarter whence it comes do
we attach any credit to it.

The auxiliary Austrian army is at last preparing
to quit the Neapolitan territories. The infantry are
to return home by sea, and the cavalry and artillery
by land, by the route of Rome and Bologra. The
departure of these troops is regarded with great sa-
tisfaction by the Ne4politans, and will afford a very
sensible relief to their burdens. The passage of some
of the advanced corps through Rome has doubtless
[wen the occasion of the idle rumour which was lately
propagated, of the capital of the Holy S. e having
been taken possession of by the Austrian. forces.
The Spanish Insurgent privateer, are now extend-
ing their depredations to the very .11.4.1 of the uto-

tber country. Several vessels Dave been fitted nut at

Cadiz to cruize against them, but tlicy keep hover-
ing about the coast and seem afraid of vriatiring
out to sea. It would-appear as it they were neither
very well manned, nor their crews of the best spirit.
—The Madrid Gazeue contains a proclamation, corn-
,
plaining of the " scandalous desertion" prevailing in
the marine department ; and in an article from F.
neriffe, it is remarked with surprize, that insurgent
privateers of the smallest size, are daily capturing
the •Largest and best equippd ships of the KING/. In
the mean time it would seem, as if the Spanish in-1
surgeon, though at deadliest war with Old Spain,
were not indisposed to espouse her quarrel with Por-
tugal—more we should suppose, however, from pre-
datory designs, than any thing else.—A Lisbon let-
ter, dated the 26th ultimo, quoted in the Paris Papers,
states, that a Portuguese ship, the Sao-Joao Protec-
tor, very richly laden, from Bahia, had been cap-
tured by a Spanish Insurgent privateer, when about
fifty leagues from the mouth of the Tagus.
The Commissioners sent out to negotiate with
Parton respecting the interests of the French Govern-
ment in his part of St. Domingo, have just returned
from their mission.' The sable President and his
Council insisted, as an indispensable preliminary to
any negotiation, that the independence of the Colony
should be acknowledged ; and the powers of the
Commissioners not extending this length, the con-
ference was broken off and nothing effected.
The friends of liberty 'in Europe see with much
concern the turn which matters are taking in Wir-
temberg. Toe attention of all Germany has been
fixed on the late political deliberations in that king-
dom, in the hope of finding in the Constitution ex-
pected to result from them, a model, in the imitation
of which all the other States of Germany might find
their happiness and security. It was anticipated that
it would be a Constitution alike assorted to the spirit
of the times and to the actual state of the people—
one which would sufficiently moderate the authority
of the Sovereign, and at the same time ensure a rea-
sonable degree of liberty to the subject. But all these
hopes have been deceived. The States of Wirtem-
berg, indifferent to every consideration of primary
interest, content themselfes with insisting on the pre-
servation of a set of antiquated privileges, which are
wholly incompatible with the integral power and pro-
sperity of the kingdom, • and which have no analogy
to any thing in the political institutions of other
Stases. What then remains for the King to do, but
that sfter having employed every means of concilia.
tion in vain, he should dissolve the States, proclaim
the Constitotios he has framed, and put it immedi
'ately in force, by ordering the election of a new
House of Representatives ?
In a remoter part of Europe the cause of liberty
presents rather a more favourable aspect. The Go-
vernor of Courland bad submitted to the Authorities
of the different arondisements, a plan for the entire
emancipation of the peasants, and the result of the
deliberations upon it is, that there have been 279
votes for its adoption, and only l 2 against it. A
Commission has been named by the Governor-Gene-
ral to take measures for putting the emancipation
into immediate effect.

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French Funds, 16th May-66 fr. 25 e.

Letters from,Cadiz mention that the whole of the
Spanish Navy has put to sea! The ship Asia, fri-
gate Venganza, and brig Cazador, had lelt Cadiz,
and entered the Straits of Gibraltar, with a view to
visit the Bay of Algesiras, there take on board stores,
and afterwards proceed up the Mediterranean, some
say to act against the Algerines, and others on a se-
cret service. _ _

Yesterday being the QUEEN'S birli or natal day,
when her MAJESTY completed her I.'o year, the day
was observed, as usual, in a private manner, by the
Royal Family, another day being appointed at the
beginning of the year for a Gala Court, for the en-
,couragement of trade. In the morning, the King's
Equerries, and other Officers of State and the Royal
lipmfhold, waited upon the QUEEN, to pay their
pcgponal,rpspects of congratulation upon the return'
of the. day at the Palace. The Dukes of Youct
CLARENCE, Sussax, and Gun:came, and the Priq-
cessSpettra of Gtovcasran, paid, their dutiful a-
spects at the Quua's Palace, as did the Duchess of
Guaucafirra, although at considerable inconvenience
to herself, from the still remaining ill effects of her
late severe indisposition. A number of the Nobility
and persons of distinction called respectfully to leave
their names upon the occasion. In the evening the
Patna REGENT had a numerous party at Carlton
House4t which the Princess Euzaurn and others
of the Royal Family mite present.

NATAL LVTRI.LIGEKCE.

rtir TUNISIAN PIRATT.S.
The folbwing letter nn this subje,t ,cached us by
the Mail of this morning

" RAMSGATE, MAY It

" TO THE COI roils OF 1111. SE-Aa.

" GENirtAmeN—ln addition to the infatuation I
sent yesterday respecting the Tunisian pirate vessels,
I have now to inform you, they prove to be b.►th
corvettes, and it is not doubted arc the two vessels
mentioned in your Harwich letter of the 16ih instant,
as having brought to the Henry Fretliug Post-Office
Packet, with a Mail from Holland, and several ether
vessels, in which case they must have stolen past this
unobset ved, prior in the time stated in my List. The
Acme gun-brig escorted last night, front M.rgate
(toads into the Downs, the Corsair that she captured,
.ind the GAN:VW:DE Guard-ship, appointed to the
Downs station, I find got under way, and pr)ce:ch.d
down Channel yesterday afternoon, in quest of the
other, which is supposed to have taken advantage of
the easterly wind, and to be making the hest of his
way home, having lost his consort. Should any far-
ther particulars come to my knowledge of this strange
affair, I shall feel pleasure in communicating them
to the public.—Being, Gentlemen,
" Your most obedient servant,

" FREDERICK PANTIN."
Copy of another Letter received this morning at
LLOYD'S, dated

" DEAL, MAY 19.

" The Turkish corvette Karabash, of 18 guns,
Captain MAOANIMED Lau,►, of and from Tunis, on
a cruize of about two months, arrived in the Downs
this morning, with his Majesty's brig ALERT, and
remain under quarantine. The Captain reports that
he has not captured any vessel on his cruize. The
ship and galliot reported yesterday, appear to have
been taken by another corvette, the Capitania. The
Masters of the vessels are prisoners on board the latter
corvette, and the GAIVYMEDE frigate is still at sea in.
quest of her."

FALMOUTH, MAY 17.
Sailed the Lord Sidmouth packet, with a mail for
New-York and Halifax. Tile Ida, PAUMORE, from
Jamaica, arrived off the Lizard yesterday, and pro.
ceeded for London.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19,
Arrived the Admiral Cockburn transport, from
Jamaica.—Sailed the 16th March, and on the '2Bth
was boarded off Cape Nicholas Mole (Island of St.
Dom:ngo) by an Independent priv steer, of IS guns
and 150 men ; she reported her name to he the Ame-
rican brig of war Boxer. On the '2f.hh of Apia, in
lat. 41. 51. N. long. 27. !I '. W. she spoke the Ame-
rican ship Canton, from Liverpool for America.
DEAL, MAY H).
Came down from the River And sailed the Eliza-
beth, for the South Seas; and Neptune, for New-
foundland Arrived and remain with the two cap-
tured vessels, the AtAtarsloop of war, and a Moorish
corvette, from Marvate Roads.

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