Star.
London, England, 1818-03-09 00:00:00

FROM SATURDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE.

We. Oaten, contains en order for the Court going' Into
leneroing yesterday, for di. late King of awittion ; to change
mourning on * 13th, and to go out of mourning On the 19th
instant. The Prince Regent has approved of the gth Regiment
of Foot hewing on its colours and appointments the words " Py-
renown and Orthes;" the 49th, the words " Albnera, Badajos,
Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Neville, Orthes, and Toulouse;
lee 64th, the words " St. Lucie and Surinam ;" 64th, the words,
• Peninsula, and Nive ;" and the 94th, the words, " Ciudad
Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Neville, Orthes, and
Toulouse."—His Royal Highness has permitted Captain I'.
Baker, Royal Navy, to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight
the Order of Wilhelm, of the 3d Class, conferred upon him
y the King of the Netherlands, and has approved of Mr. Har-
rington, as Russian Consul at the Cape of Good-Hope.
MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
WAR OFFICE, MARCH 6.

Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Pharaoh Harley, from
the half pay of the 40th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lkute-
mint, vice Dunne, who exchanges.
t Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Hugh Stafford
Northcote, from half-pay of the eth Light Dragoons to be
Captain of Troop, vice William Stirling, who exchanges,
receiving the difference.
h Ditto--Charles William Ryon, Gent. to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Dlimmack, who retires; and John Frederick
Sales Clarke, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Scott,
promoted.
I Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant George Lloyd, from
half-pay of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, viceJeffries Kings-
by, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
4th Ditto—Lieutenant Francis Dermot Daly, from the half ay
of the 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Charles ter-
mer, who exchanges, receiving the difference ; and Assistant-
Surgeon William Gardiner, from the enth Foot, to be Assis-
.

tut-Surgeon, ice v Hicksonedeceased.
,sth Regiment of Light Dragoons—William Elton, Gent. to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Lane, promoted.
lith Ditto—James Cannon, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice M`Doupil, promoted.
25th Ditto—William Gir_adowe, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Wadley, promoted in the 15th Light Dragoons;
and James SPDouall, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Amiel, promoted.
it Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Stoyte, from the half-
pay of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Bothantley, de-
ceased; Lieutenant Joseph Jeffries, from the half pay of the
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, deceased: Ensign
John Dixon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice endrick,
promoted ; Ensign Jas. Stoyte, from the half-pay be
Regi-
ment, to be Ensign, vice Grant, deceased; Alex. Graham,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice won; Surgeon
Robert Sandford, from the half-pay of the 834 Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice Roberts, whose appointment has sot taken place.
Bth Dinto—Lientenaut John Mallen, from the bailey the
49th Fat, to be Lieutenant, vice James Stephen
who exchanges, receiving the difference.
20th Ditto--Staff Hospital Assistant James Clarke, to be Assis-
tant Surgeon, vice Gardiner, appointed to the 4th Dragoons.
30th Ditto--Lieutenant John Steuart, from the half-pay of the
11th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert Naylor Rogers,
who exchanges, receiving the diferenrx.
32d Ditto--Lieutenant William Havelock, front the 43d Foot,
to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Hamel, who
retires.
,jtk Ditto—lieutenant James Reid, from the hAlf-pay of the
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Richard Hill, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference.
18th Ditto—Lieutenant John Heard, from the 55th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Armstrong, who exchanges.
63th Ditto-. Lieutenant Francis W. Armstrong, from the 48th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Heard,who exchanges.
58th Ditto--Ensign Campbell tobe Lieutenant, vice Rogers, de-
ceased; George litsroy, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Campbell.
58th Ditto--Quarter-M. ster George Macheeth, from the half-
pay ache 52d Foot, to be Quarter-Master, vice Nicholas
Ross, who exchanges.
69th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet James Eyre Muttiebury, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Weir, promoted.
!Mb Illtto--Ensign Pukeney Poole Sherburne, from the half-
pay of the Ist Foot, to be Ensign, vice John Penninger, who
exchanges.
13d Ditto—Gentkman Cadet Woodward, from the Royal Mi-
litary College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dixon, whose
appointment is not to take place.
15th Dittot—Fnsign William Conyngham George has been per-
mitted to resign his commission from 12th February, 1818.
118th Ditto—John Gibson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Smith, who retires.
60th Ditto--Lieutenant James M. NobleJ from the hilt pay of
the Regiment, to be Lieutenant, Tice ames Davidson, who

eichauges.
90th Ditto—f.ieutenant Richard Myddleton, from the I2th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Eager, wbo retires on the
half-pay of the 12th Foot, receiving the difference.
fifth Diuo--John'Sichols, Gent. to be Emign, by purchase,

vice Digby, wbo retires.
R.do Brigade—Lieutenant Robert Crawford, from the half-pay
of the 45th Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice Thos. Taylor
Wetsley, who exchanges, receiving the difference; Lieutenant
John Brockman, from the half-pay of the Seth Foot, to be
lino Lieutenant, vice William Campbell, who exchanges
'ork Chasseurs--Lieutenant Thomas Barclay Moody Suther-
land, from the half-pay of the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice Simeon Farrar, who exchanges.
OIOSTITAL craw.

Deputy Inspector William iiiynne Fraser, with temporary rank,
to be Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.
Hq.pital-Assistant David Williams, from half-pay, to be Hospi-
tal Assistant to the Forces, vice Bermingham, deceased.
Assistant-Surgeon Francis Sievwright, from tite halfspay of the
oth West India Regiment, to be Supernumerary Assistant-
Surgeon in the Fast Indies.
A,iissant-Surgeon Benjamin Campbell, from half-pay of the 4th
Yost, to be Saperoumerary Assist.-Surgeon in the East

at rMORANDVIII.
The C.onamlssion of Major Macdonald, of the 55th Foot, has
been antedated to the 18th Decembet, 1817, but he is not al-
lowed to receive any back pay.
The Commission of Captain Broughton, of the 9th Foot, has
been antedated to the Ist October, 1817, but he is not allowed
to receive any back pay.
The date of the Commission of Lieutenant John G. Baylee,
of the 87th Foot, is 22d April, 1817, and not the 20th Much,
7817, as stated in the Gazette of February 14, 1818.
Cuenroission in the Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry Ca-
valry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
llenry Mountiort, Gent. to be Cornet.
Commissions in the Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry Ca-
-

vitlzy, signed by the Vice_Lieute;ant of Staffonkhire:

Thottuu, 'Morris, Gent. to be Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Samuel Campbell Simpson, on the half-pay of the
Slid Lancers, to be ditto.
Merles GaMmore, Geol. to be Cornet.
itatxrt Darwin Vaughton, Gent. to be ditto.
B A VI( li. PTS.

41. Davies, jun. of Chorlton' Chesbire,farmer, dealer and chap-
it.an, to torn-render March 17, 15, and April 15, at one, at
she George Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Bird, Liver-
pool; or Mr. Chester, Staple-inn, London.
Cherie. l'ollitt, of Manchester, grocer, dealer and chapman,
April 4, at four, 6, at eleven, and 15, at four, at the Star
Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Mr. Law, Manchester; or
Messrs. Adlington and- Gregory, Bedford-row, London.
Uoly Parker, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, merchant, dealer and chap-
man, March 24, 25, and April 18, at twelve, at the Tontine
Inn, Sheffield. Atturnies, Mr. Durbeay, Sheffield ; or Messrs.
Darke, Church, and Doke, Chancery-lane, London.
George Moor, of Liverpool, merchant, dealer and chapman,
March 19, April 7, and 18, at one, at the George Inn, Li-
verpool. Anomie', Messrs. Crump and Lodge, Liverpool ;
or Mr. Bettye, Chancery-lane, London.
Nathaniel Dancey, of 'Bristol, linen-draper, dealer and chap-
Mar, March 25, 26, and April 18, at twel at the White
Lion Inn, Bristol. Attornies, Mr. Clarke, Bristol; or Messrs.
Jenkins, James, and Abbott, New Inn, Landon.
John Rycroft, of Idle, Calverley, Yorkshire, cloth-manufactu-
rer, March 24, at five, 25, and April 18, at ten, at the Now
Inn, Bradford. Atomics, Mr. Evans, Barton-garden, Lon-
don; or Mr. Crodey, Bradford, Yorkshire.
to Stubbs, of Long-acre, coach-plater, March 14, 21, and
April 18, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Ms. HA Fleet-
street.

LONDON.

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1818.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Reduced shut—Cons. 781—Cons. for Ac. 781

4 per Cent. shut—Navy Annuities 105*
India Bonds 94 96 pr.—Exchequer Bills 13 19 pr.

ONZ O'CLOCK.

A fluctuation of i and I-half per Cent. took place thismorning
in the price of the Funds. Consols opened at 77 7-Bths for
money, and 78 for account; ►ut soon afterwards row to 78
1-Bth 1-4th for money, and 78 3-Bths 1-half for the accouct, at
which price they remain at this hour, and the Market is looking
upwards.

• The Indemnity Bill is intitled " An Act for Indem-
nifying Persons, who, since the 26th of January, 1817,
have acted in Apprehending, Imprisoning," &c.—The
26th of January, the day to which the retrospective
effect of the Act is extended, was the day preceding
the last Session of Parliament—that is, the day before
the gross and treasonable insult was offered to the
PRINCE REGENT, the perpetrators of which have
never been yet brought to justice, though a large re-
ward wis offered for the discovery of the person
who threw the stone at his ROYAL HintorEss. This
Act, then, instead of giving indemnity for acts done
during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,
which was not passed till the 4th of March, goes
back to acts done six weeks before. On this we shall
not dwell at present, farther than to remark, that Par-
liament do not appear to have had under their conside-
ration the transactions of these six weeks, and should
therefore be cautious how they commit themselves in
granting indemnity for actions of which they know no-
thing. This is the more recessary from the following
statement which appears in the Times of this morning,
of the truth or falsehood of which it is highly proper
Parliament should inform themselves before this Bill
receives the force of law.—Speaking of the violence
offered to our beloved PRINCE on the day of the
meeting of the last Session of Parliament, the paper
referred to says : —" We are assured by a Gentleman
of undoubted veracity and respectability, that, on the,
day of the opening of the last Session of Parliament,
he met Oliver at the entrance of the Horse-Guards, a
very short time before the PRINCE passed through on
his way to the House. They had no sooner saluted
each other, than Oliver, elevating his voice so as to
attract a very numerous group of the hy-standers,
poured forth a torrent of abuse upon the Government
in general, and his Royal Highness in particu-
lar. The Gentleman to whom we allude, surprised
at this conduct on the part of a man who had been
formerly most clamorous in his profession oflovahv,
exclaimed, " How muck you are changed since you
were a serjeant in theWhitechapel volunteers r To
this Mr. Oliver made no reply, but continued his
harangue. The gentleman parted from him, but
remarked, just as he was going away, that Oliver
and a little dark-complexioned man among the
crowd recognized each other as old acquaintances.
We are further assured, that Oliver, as a prelimi-
nary step to his being taken into the regular em-
ployment of the Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment, obtained a certificate of his loyal conduct,
front his former Commandant, Colonel HARD T,
lof the Whitechapel Volunteers. Colonel HARDY was
far from conceiving at the moment of his granting

this honourable testimonial, that it was to be used
for the base purpose of qualifying his old serjeant
to act as an accredited spy. But, to refer to the
former part of our statement, such was the conduct
of Oliver, on the day when the PRINCE REGENT
went to the House, against whom he may, there-
fore, with confidence, be asserted to have helped
at least to instigate the base attack which we, in
common with the great mass of our countrymen, re-
probated or deplored : and now we find Government
endeavouring to carry through a law for his protec-
tion, and which expressly takes its date, as it were
for the purpose, from the day before the attack took
place. We know not what the too heedless friends
of the Suspension and Indemnity Bills may think of
these facts ; but to all impartial persons, they must,
we think, appear monstrous."

On the foregoing statement we cannot avoid one
or two remarks. Did the " Gentleman if undoubted
veracity and respectability" communicate, at the time,
the fact here stated, to the Ministers, or to any who,
from their office, could have instituted proceedings
to bring the delinquent to justice ? If he did not
what shall we say of him—in what light should we
consider him? It is absolutely necessary that this
question should be satisfactorily answered, because
one of two things is left open for base insinuation if
it be not answered ; far if his statement be true it
may be argued, that the reason for carrying back the
Indemnity so far was to cover not merely a spy
but a traitor. And with this some other links come
into the argument :—how is he to be protected
by the Act? and why ?—The Act, in the common
construction of language, cannot extend its protec-
tion directly to a person guilty of Treason—it can
only do so callaterally, by shuuing out enquiry as to
the persons by whom Oliver might have been insti-
gated or hired to excite, if not to perpetrate acts of
treason. Now such a .surmise is not to be borne for
a moment, on the statement of any individual, of
however " undoubted veracity and respectability,"
without positive proof of the truth of the premises.
The statement we conceive to involve in.k a charge of
the most diabolical description against Ministers—and
therefore a most gross libel ; for no person entitled to
credit, or to be considered "respectable," could have
known the fact which is now brought forward, and not
have endeavoured to bring the criminal to justice : it
follows, if we credit his statement nom, that we
must believe he then made the fact known to Mi-
nisters, and, as it is now brought forward as
connected with the retrospective operation of the
Indemnity Bill, that Ministers are desirous to prevent
the possibility of any farther investigation of the
event that took place on the first day of the last Ses-
sion !—a conclusion so horrible that we cannot enter-
tain it for a single moment, for it would amount to
this : that such a set of fiends could not be found
upon earth as the men who then formed and now
form the Administration of this country. This con-
clusion being altogether inadmissible, we have but
another left : that the whole statement of the
." gentleman of respectability" is fonnded in the
most deliberate and diabolical falsehood and malig-
nity. But, having been made, we contend, and the
Country we are confident will go with us, that the
Indemnity Bill should not go through another stage
till the statement and its motive are sifted to the bot-
tom, and its falsehood established on the most satis-
factory evidence.

THE KING'S HEALTH.—On Saturday her MAJESTY
held her monthly Council at Winds Br. The following
report was agreed upon and exhibited yesterday:
" WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 7.—}n, MAJESTY has passed the
last month in great tranquillity, and continues to enjoy a good
state of bodily health, but his Marasrv's disorder is unchanged."

During her MAJESTY'S absence in London, the
Archbishop of YORE, the Duke of MONTROSE, and
Sir WILLIAM GRANT, three Members of the Queen's
Council, have been in attendance on the Kixo.

Saturday the Duchess of GLOUCESTER spent the
day with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-house.
The Court went into mourning yesterday for his
late Majesty the KING of SWEDEN. The Court change
mourning on Sunday next, the 15th instant, and on
the Thursday following, the 19th instant, the Court.
go out of mourning.

Lord Viscount t.‘'inmourm gave a grand dinner on
Saturday last, at his house in Clifford-street, Saville-
row, to a portion of the Cabinet Ministers, and their
friends.
The SPEAKER of the House of Commons hail dinner
parties on Saturday and yesterday. The first was
attended by about 10. and the Litter by S 2 persons.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE, Ad-
miral of the British Fleet, arrived at the Crown
Hotel, Portsmouth, on Friday evening, to embark
his youngest son, ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE, (who
accompanied Him. as a Midshipman, on boar his
Majesty's ship SPARTAN, Captain WISE. His Royal
Highness dined with Lord HOWARD, of Effingham,
the Lieutenzat-Governor. Saturday morning, during
a heavy gale at W.S.W. with rain, his Royal High-
ness emu irked from the Dock-yard,-accompanied by
Sir GEoaue GREY, Captains ALEXANDER, WISE, and
HALL, and attended by the Civil Establishment of
the Dock-yard, to visit his Majesty's ship NELSON;
after which his Royal Highness went on board his
Majesty's ship VENGEUR, every part of which ship he'
minutely inspected, and then publicly expressed his
entire approbation of the very high order in which
he found her. Lieutenants BLAKE and WEEKES, R.N.
Lieutenant MASCALL, R.M. and Messrs. LIE and
I4IGNELL, had the honour of being introduced to his
Royal Highness, by Captain .ALEXANDER. After
leaving the VENORUR, his Royal Highness went on
board the ROYAL GEORGE yacht, the SPARTAN and
ROCIlk:FOIIT. His Royal Highness honoured Sir ED-
WARD THORNISROL'GIL with his company to dinner on
Saturday. Yesterday he returned to Bushey Park.

AMERICA.

We have received Boston Papers to
bruary, from which we subjoin the fullov
HOUSE OF REPRF.SENTATIVEs,

CASE Ok MR. MEADE.,
Mr. THIMBLE submitted for consider
lowing Resolution :

lizsusess—That the demand made by the P
United States upon the King of Spain fur the
chard M. Meade, a Citizen of the United St.i
confinement in the Castle of Santa Catalina, at
be supported and enforced, by vetting the rt.y.
thority to makc reprisals, in the event of .
Spain promptly to discharge the said 31ead

After some debate, a motion to lay ti.
on the table was agreed to new. con.

The Nevo York Price Current, of the
gives the names of 40 vessels that are
voyage to and from India, belonging t
Philadelphia alone.

The Election Bill is thrown out: the
single clause in it which went to nar.o
and means of con-uption ; its sole purl,'
be to spare the candidate's parse
offavostrs; to shorten thejoilykation of
to patch up a parsimonious return, ss
max baited his horses, and gave a dinse,
private table of a friend. All the u.ag,
and tangible bribery remain untouched
liberal extension of the elective franchi
rough system, has never even been I
ought to remain a matter of eternal ridi
1 successive efforts, professing to favour t
'Electiortf began and ended in a war a
and cockades!

Thursday evening the Countess of
her first Private Ball, at Dublin Castle.
two hundred personages were present.
Monday se'nnight the inhabitants o
and loyal town of Carrickfergus gav
entertainment to the Earl of BurAsr
ing his 21st year.
A very elegant and superb Ball was
day night in Somerset-place by the 110,
FRAZER, when the nobly proportimed
cent apartments put on all their attracL
commenced with quadrilles and closed
at three o'clock in the morning. Abir
of first-fate respectability were pre:er
were—

The Countess of Sefton and the Tadit4 \T
of Cardarvon and the Ladits llerhtrt ; Ho:

and Sir George Warm:der.
The Marchioness of C lIOLMONDEL
on Friday attended by about 100 fas;:i

PRINCE REGENT, Prince of

ANGLMYS, the Foreign Ministers..;;
A second dinner party was invited of
when the table displayed a matchiess

and silver plate, with flagons and ma
the sideboards

A Ball was given in Queen-sqn ire
CIIALL, on Friday night, which had n
recommend it. The company cons.ot
duals of almost every country. Ther
Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Italia
even Persians. All were delighted wi
lity, magnificence, and taste displayed
were Noblemen: they were irresistibly
observations upon the waltzing grout,

THE PA ex 5..--Yesterdar, it tieing
fine days of the season, the drive .r. 1.1
the town side of Hyde Park were tliniti
pang. The drive, in particular, eshibil
hours, an unbroken and extended line
some of them of considerable dash ;
there it was graced with a coronet.

KING'S THsesTitr.—There was a n
attendance on Saturday night to \\ it
sentation of Don Giotyzmni. It was
favourite Ballet of La Rctour du l's
was warmly applauded.

Ditunx-i.A;E.--The Tragedy of O
excellent little Comedy of Tiny Ife,
riage, were performed at this 'neat,
evening. The part of &halo is amoi
it be not the very best, of Mr. KEAN.S

His acting, through the whole of the
chcf-d'ceurre. Mr. MAYWOOD was lag,
ted hiMself with great ability. Miss
formed Lady Racket, in the aftcri.itce,
time, with the most eminent succ-ss.

A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT!.

BATHURST in a letter to Mr.
stated the ignorance of the lower orde
pie, to be such that they might easi;
upon by the hired Spies of the Seca
Mr. BATHURST says, that in Notting
supposed " a Provisional Governmea
general establishment of eating clubs!
Institution could not fail of having m
mirers among the starving Reforme
some of whom became so very uproar
of the plan, that they were taken up
for Treason.
There is at present confined in the j:
a woman named Sarah Cowley, aged
prisoned under an execution at the se
for 3001. There is little or no prc
aged creature escaping the walls of :
her life-time, and as might natural:
her staff is her only support.
Some of the Leith whale ships a

'VI:.

nished with harpoon guns, which ha
the Hull vessels for several years. 01
utility was tried in the second wet dc
a barrel, and the experiment fully ans
tion. The gun is mounted on the bo'
and the harpoon, with a line attache'
it, and will strike at the point blank o
30 fathoms ; by which means a t't b.l
when there is no chance of reaching
the dart with the hand.

The fecundity of pigs is universally
following instance is believed to be
Mr. Henry Mellersh, of Chichester, h.
he bred, and which has, in seven f.trr.
less than 166 pigs! vig. 22, 21, t? 5,
sow is admitted by amateurs to be
some; is of the Bantam species; an(
weigh 100 stone.