Star.
London, England, 1821-06-07 00:00:00

GRANT TO THE DUKE ON CLARENCE.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY stated that he
had a communication to make to the House on the,
part of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence,
sanctioned by his Majesty. But before he proceeded
further, he wished that the Resolution of the House
of the 16th April, 1818, should be read by the Clerk.
The Clerk read the Resolution, the purport of
which was, that it had been resolved by the Com-
mittee, that an additional allowance of £6,000 a-year
should• be granted out of the Consolidated Fund to'
his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, on his
marriage.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY proceeded :
His Royal Highness had, from motives highly cre-
ditable to himself, refused the grant then proposed,
as he was going abroad. But circumstances had
since changed, and he felt it necessary to accept of
the sum proposed to be given him. His Lordship,
therefore, proposed to submit the Resolution of April,
1818, to a Committee of the whole House on Friday
next. As this proposition had originated with the
Crown, he trusted that the House would agree with
him in thinking that his present notice was strictly in
accordance with the usual Parliamentary practice.
Mr. HUME begged to ask whether, this being a
now Parliament,•a specific Message from the Crown
ought not to have been sent down upon the subject?
He thought it ought also to be ascertained whether
his late Majesty had not left property behind him,
out of which his Royal Highness the Duke of Cla-
rence might be provided for, without saddling the
Consolidated Fund with a charge which it was unable
to bear ?

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY observed, that
questions of this nature would come more properly
under the consideration of the House when the ques-
tion was fairly before them. With respect to the other
objection, namely, a specific Message from the Crown,
it would be in the recollection of the House that the
provision for the late Princess of Wales had been
voted from £35,000 to £.50,000 a-year without any
such Message.
Mr. FORBES said, he had no objection to the pro-
posed grant, but he hoped the Noble Lord (London-
derry) would also propose the additional grant of
£6,000 a-year to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cumberland. When that grant was carried, he should
willingly vote for that now proposed—(Order!)
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY put it to the
Hon. Member, whether this was a proper time to
raise a question of this kind? .He trusted that no-
thing .would be urged which could tend to throw
upon his Majesty an imputation of a want of affec-
tion towards any branch of- the Royal Family—
' ( Hear, hear).—The cases of the two Royal Per-
sonages were totally different.
Mr. FORBES said, that they were both new ques-
tions. He repeated, that he would vote for the grant
to the Duke of Clarence, as soon as the grant to his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland had been
carried. He hoped that after what had recently
taken place they should hear no more about a refusal
of grants on the score of character and conduct.
Mr.N.CALVERT protested against its being sup-
posed that, as a. Prince of the Blood, any individual
had a right to a particular grant from that House.—
The grant must depend on the pleasure of. he House,
the consent of the Crown having been first signified.
The question that the House do resolve itself into
the Committee on Friday, was then put and agreed to.

ASIERII AN LOYALISTS.
Mr. W. COURTENAY moved for leave to bring
in a Bill to indemnify the American Loyalists, who
had lost their all in supporting • the interests and in-
stitutions of ,this country in America. He moved
that the House should resolve itselt into a Committee
to consider the claims of the unrequited Royalists.•
Sir SCROI'E 13. MORLAND seconded the mo-
tion, and said, that the pledges given by the Govern-
ment during the American war and at the peace, en-

'titled the parties to the fuU payment of their present
claim, which could not be 'refused without a breach
of faith and the grossest injustice.
Mr. BA RlNG,thought, that if this was a debt due
by the country, it should be paid as faithfully as any
other public creditor. But if this sum of £lOO,OOO
were paid to these Loyalists, the House must make
good another £lOO,OOO to the merchants. At the
same time he did not think this claim well founded.
For when compensation was made to the ether
Loyalists, it would have been gross injustice not to
have made a like compensation to the class of Loy-
alists now sought to be remunerated,.
Mr. W. WYNN supported the motion.
Mr. MONEY said, there never was a cage brought
before Parliament which displayed a stronger instance
of breach of public faith, than did this question re-
specting the claims of the American Loyalists. In
1783, Parliament, King. Lords, and Commons, gave-
them a pledge; the good faith of the country was then
pledged to them; and eves y future Parliament of
King, Lords, and Commons, was bound td redeem
that pledge. In a few years, not one of these unfor-
tunate individuals would be left to experience the jus-
tice of Parliament; to expedite that justice, he would
now give his most cordial support to the motion. ,
Mr. WILBERFORCE supported the claims of
these individuals—claims which had been pending
for nearly forty years, and which the House had, on
more than one occasion, recognized,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER de-
nied that the country was pledged to make full resti-
tution to these individuals. AU we were bound
.to
do, was to make these individuals as liberal a com-
pensation as thecountiy could afford. He considered
that the country had done this, and could at present
afford to do no more.
M:.W. SMITH contended, that the Proclamations
of our Government, and the language held by the
Commanders of our Army and Navy to these poor
persons, was such as to pledge the country to make
good to theta their losses as far as possible, In the
Estimates of the present year. he saw compensations
to the Army, Navy, and Ordnance, tetthe amount of
£130,000 annually; whilst the whole claim of these
unfortunate individuals, who had sacrificed everything
to this country, only amounted to £109,000 ; and the
only excuse set up for this act of injustice—this breach
'of public faith.and promise—was, that we-could not
afford it. Pay them to the utmost farthing of their
claims : we should still be indebted to them compen-
sation for days, months, and years of anxiety.
The House then divided—
Eor the Motion - -
Against it -

- 77
- 60

Majority
Mr. IJUSKISSON observed that his Majesty would
have no fund out of which ter make good this grant.
Mr. HUME said, the House would not address his
Majesty to 4ive money without pledging itself to en-
able his Majesty to comply with their request.
After a few words from Mr. WM. SMITII,

Mr. CREEVEY said, an Honourable Friend of his
(Mr. Peter Moore) had pledged himself not to suffer
public money to be disposed of after twelve o'clo:k.
His Friend being absent, he would now move, as an
Amendment, that the House•do now adjourn-(No,
no—Hear, hear).
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER urged
the inconvenience which would arise from adopting
this motion.

Mr. COUEsTENAY was anxious to meet the wishes
of the House: if the claims of these individuals could
be met in. any other way, he would not press the
Committee.

Mr. BANKS could not agree to voting public
money in so thin a House ; and if the question was
pressed, he would.vote for the adjournment.
Mr. P. MOORE, having entered the House, ob-
served, as the proposed adjournment might be incon-
venient, the present question might be adjourned, and
the House might proceed to the other Orders.
Mr. BARING thought the opinion of the House
could be taken on the next stage of this question.
Mr. CREEVEY had no wish to inconvenience the
House, but could not agree to grant money at this
late hour, let the proposition come from which side
it would.

Mr. COURTENAY then agreed to withdraw his
motion for the present.
Mr. CUR WEN postponed his motion for the repeal of the
Agricultural Horse Tax to Friday; and
Lord MI LTON has deferred his *notion for the repeal of the
Wool Tax till to-morrow.

Lord MILTON moved the second reading of the Yorkshire
Pell Bill.

Mr. DENMAN objected to the Motion.
Mr. S. BOURNE could see no reason, if the Bill was a good
one, why it should be confined to the County of York.
Lord MILTON stated, that he should not conceive the House
pledged to the Bill, though it should be allowed to pass the pre-
sent stage.
Mr. WYNN was of opinion, that if the Bill was a good one,
it should be extended to other Counties. At that hour it was
impossible to do justice to the subject. He should have no dr.
jection to the second reading, if the Bin should be allowed to
stand over to another Secsion.

Mr. BROUGHAM stated the County of York to be in a
different situation from others, as it in fact consisted of three
Counties.

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Lord MILTON bad no objection to postpone the measure,
if it was the wish of the House ; at the same time he hoped the
Bill would be 'allowed to go to the second reading.
The Bill was then read a second time, and committed for
Friday.
The other Orders were then disposed of, and at Half-past
Two the House adjourned. .
Mr. S. WORSEN, while strangers were excluded from the
gallery of the House of Commons, on Monday evening, with-
drew his notice of motion for the production of a Copy of the
Laybach Circular, which stood for Tucsday ; and he afterwards
gave notice, that he should bring forward such motion on Wed..
nesdsy, the 13th instant. The Hun. C. H. flurcen.sou We a
notice oq the books for the same day, and which will have pre-
cedence; viz. another motion regarding the State of Europe.
The House will adjourn from to-morrow till Wednesday next,
for the Whitsuntide recess.

GENERAL REDUCTION ow TAUS.—The necessity
and expediency of striking off a portion of the NA-
TIONAL DEBT is very ably argued in the Pamphleteer,
No. 36, just published—by which it is pro-ed that
the injury to the public Creditor will be very little
felt. The subject is expected to be brought under
consideration during this Session of Parliament. In
the same No. are published Bowles' Letters to Lord
Byron • B. Beaumont on the Criminal Code ; Corner()
'on Longevity; with several other dire Pamphlets.
The Carpet and Tartan Trades in Stirlingshire are
very brisk. The attempts to substitute cotton yarn
for worsted in the manufacture of carpets- failed
The cloth was soon soiled, and the colours lost then-
lustre. The experiment made at Aberdeen with
hemp was equally unsuccessful.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY. JUNE 7, 1821.
THE FUNDS.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONS O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 23023014-3 per Ct. Red.76l/4 Vs Vs 14
3 per Cent. Cons.shut-314 per Cent. 8634
4 per Cent. 9434 44 34-5 per Cent, :hat
Long•Anns. 191,4—India Bonds 483.505. pr.
Exch. Bills Is. pre. par—Cons. for Acct. 773/4 %
. A spirited conversation took place in the House of

Commons, last night, on the merits of the Constitu-
`''tional Association. A very forcible Petition from
- Mr. DOIIIY, one of the parties prosecuted by the
Association, gave rise to the discussion. Dr. Luau-
sworosa condemned their proceedings in the strong-
est terms, and was seconded by Mr. DENMAN ; whilst
the Society and its motives. met with no other de-
. fender than in Sir MATBSW CROLMRLEY, who said
a few words in its vindication. The worthy Mem-
ber's chief ground .of complaint against the licen-
tiousness of the times is, that he sees bad carica-
tures now-a-day's in the windows of shops, whereas,
when a youth, he had to go into shops to' sk for a
peep at such things!
The powers arrogated by thieAssOciition are such
as no men, however upright, enlightened, and impar-
tial, ought-to be entrusted with ie. si. free country.
The object, as observed by Dr. LuirmrGeow. evi-
dently is to destroy the Liberty of the Press under
the pretence of Loyalty.
Our Readers will not fail to recollect, that in 1818
theHouseofdrtmons came to Resolutions forgranting
an additingia £6,000 a-year to each of the Royal Dukes,
with the exception, of the Duke of ComsantaND, and
that the Duke of Ctattaracs then declined to accept
the proposed addition. It appears, however, that his
Royal 'rashness now views the subject in a different
light for the Marquis of LONDONDERRY last night
gave notice, that he would, on Friday next, move,
that the House should take into consideration the
Resolution of die House of 1818, relative to the
Grant then made to his Royal Highness, in common
with the rest of the Royal Family.

Well, what then r-It is admitted, say the ad-
vocates of Mr. Scaniarrr's Bill, that all the able-
bodied men who cannot find work in the country,
must be compelled by this Bill, if passed int, a law, to
leave it. But « what then?" One striking example
of the 44 what then?" has just come under our no-
tice. Our Readers, may remember, that at a former
period we avowed ourselves not to be of the number
of those who thought that the distresses of the Manu-
facturing and Agricultural classes were to be relieved
ky lessening the number of consunsers ; and who there-
fore contended, that to encourage the voluntary emi-
gration of the working classes, was in principle as
bad,as we now bold Mr. ScAntesis measure to be
for forting them to leave the country. There was
one Paper in a large manufacturing district, which
then took a very active part in urging the manufac-
tpring labourers to emigrate, and from this very
Paper we now quote the following lamentable example
of the fatal success of its labours, and of the sort of
consequence which would be sure to follow the enact-
ment of any such measure as that of Mr. SCA VAT T
" It is by no means gratifying to understand that a number of
our cotton weavers are turning their eyes to France. Nine
months ago several weaving families emigrated to ltouen, and
the aecounts transmitted by them have been such as to induce
a number of individuals to follow their example. Thirty men
left the Beroey Parish to-day on the same desdaation. In such
cases it is usually the best workmen that emigrate. We ought to
recollect how easy the introduction of the cotton trade was in
Scotland. Mechanics came to us from other countries, and
taught those who are now in their tern going away."—Glorgew
Qtroiiicis.
A rumour was last night in circulation in the west
end of the town, and has found its way into a Paper
of this morning, that Lord HARROWEY, Viscount
Mra.vitte, and Viscount Stnmount, had resigned.
Mr. CANNING was mentioned as the successor of
Lord.MaLvitte at the Admiralty. We have not
been able to discover any authority for the report ;
and need not say, that nothing could be less expected
at the present moment than such an event.

A Mail from Jamaica has arrived this forenoon,
with Papers to the 24th of April.

Accounts had been received from Panama, that
the ArDROMACHI frigate was daily looked for from
Callao, with the deposed Viceroy, PIZUELA ; and
that SAY Martin was advancing rapidly, with a
daily increasing army, towards the Capital.
The following is an extract of a letter from Cal.
lao, dated March 2.5:—" The Macedonian has re-
ceived on board the wounded of her boat's crew, six
in number, two having been killed ;one of the wounded
h not espected to live. Several of the Americans
who had been imprisoned on shore have been sent off
We are now allowed to receive cargo within about
half a mile of the shore, and to receive it from their
boats into ours, but no English or Americans are
allowed to land. The schooner Rampart is repair-
ing, and expected soon to sail:'
In the Kingston Gazette of the 21st April, there is
the following statement:

Previonsly to the sailing of the Albion from
Cuba, an American schooner, called the Franklin,
arrived at that port from New York. The Captain
states, that on the 13th inst. off Cape Maim, be fell

in with Commpdore Anry's squadron, consisting of
five sail of vessels, one of which fired two shots into
the Franklin, and brought her to. The Captain was
ordered on board, when be we: put into irons, and
the boat sent back for the passengers, baggage, and
letters. Commodore Aury ordered•everything to be
examined, and broke open all the letters. After de-
taining them three hours, they were again sent back
to the Franklin. Two Spanish schooners, their prizes,
were in company ; one of them had 300 slaves on
board. Commodore Aury was anxious to dispose of
the slaves to the Captain of the Franklin."

The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday arrived
this forenoon.

The French Funds have- continued rising all the
last week, and we learn by a private communication
that they advanced still further on Monday, the closing
price on that day being 87f. 60c.
A variety of particulars respecting the state of
Spain are given in letters from Madrid. A proposi-
tion is alleged to have been made by the Cortes, that
one Infant of Spain should proceed to Mexico, and
another to some part of South America, there to es-
tablish two free Monarchies, secured in their liberties
by national Representatives, and attached to the mo-
ther country by political principles as well as by com-
mercial treaties.
This project seems to be looked upon with some
favour at Madrid, as one from the execution of
which important advantages might be derived both
to Spain and to her quondam colonies. The same
plan may not, however, appear under the same
aspect to the inhabitants of -Buenos Ayres,Venezuela,
or Chili, as to those of the Spanish metropolis. The
consent of BOLIVAR and of the new Republics may'
not, perhaps, be so easily obtained. Morucio's ap-
pointment to the military command at Madrid con-
tinues to be unpopular ; but he seems to have assisted
greatly, by his firmness, in restoring tranquillity. A
warm discussion had commenced upon the projet de
loi on the finances; and, although the Ministry had
opposed it with all their might, the first clause was
carried by a large majority, enacting that tithes and
first fruits should be reduced to one half of their
actual amount.

Public offenders have been condemned in different
Provinces of Spain. At Burgos nine received sen-
tence of death, and several others were consigned to
less rigorous punishments. A Mtagt of 13adajoz, for
preaching against the Constitution, has been con-
demned to six years' imprisonment in irons at Ceuta.
The NeapolitanGetieral ROSSAROLLI has arrived at
Barcelona, having fled with his family from Messina,
on finding that events took an adverse turn ; and Ge-
neral Prez is at Madrid, where, adds the account, he
has received from the Spanish Government a pension
of 40,000 reels, or 10,000 francs per annum.
The Emperor ALRXANDER arrived at Warsaw on
the 19th of May. and left it next day for S:. Peters-
burgh, where he was expected to arrive on the 25th.
The Russian and Polish troops, who are marching
to form a cordon towards Moldavia, are intended to
prevent the Turks, in their pursuit of the Greek andl
Wallachian rebels, from violating the Russian terri-
tory. Besides, the EMPEROR has, by the Treaties of
Peace of Szistowa and of Bucharest, guaranteed
the immunities of the Principalities of Wallachia and
Moldavia. If the PORTS, therefore, after having sup-,
pressed the disturbances there, wishes to organize a
new Government, it is necessary it should be with
the consent and concurrence of Russia.