Star.
London, England, 1821-05-03 00:00:00

For the Motion
Against it
Majority -
COMMITTEE OP SUPPLY.

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Mr. BANK ES moved a sum of 1.:8,475 to the
Trustees of the British Museum.—Granted.

Lord PALiIERSTON moved a sum of £31,520
for Superannpdted Allowances in Great Britain.
Mr. HUME wished to know why a person in the
Military College should have been returned at £5OO
a-year, when he had been struck off ?
Lord PALMERSTON said, that perhaps the per-
sons at the College were not aware of the Officer hav-
ing been ;educed.
Mr. HUME asked who the individual was?

Lord PALMEItSTON said, it was Sir H. Douglas.
Sir H. HARDINGE said, Sir H. Douglas was a
very meritorious and scientific Officer, and had not
been ton highly remunerated by this allowance ib
addition to his half pay.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER spoke
to the same effect.

Mr. H. G. BENNETT was not satisfied with this
explanation of a considerable waste of public money.
Colonel DAVIES found no fault with Sir H.
Douglas ; but complained that he was made to form
part of the extravagant system of the present Govern-
ment. If Government wished to do its duty, it must re-
trace its steps, and alter and reform these allowances.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER con-
tended that Government had acted a perfectly fair
part by the meritorious Officers of the Army.
The question was then put and carried.
£8,864 was Voted for Irish Superannuations.
£35,000 for Exchequer Fees.
Mr. HUME thought, that all the Accounts should
be brought into one, by which they would be much
simplified, and a great saving would take place.—
Should no other Member take the subject up, he
should make a motion on the subject before the end
of the Session. He thought £35,000 too large a sum
to be paid to their own servant.
Sir C. LONG said, that the whole of the
chequer Fees had been regulated by Mr. Burke's Bill;
and the persons who held those offices were entitled
to Ahem by law. Arty information might be obtained
--fiy a motion on the subject.
Mr. HUME wished to know, if the Chancellor of
the Exchequer intended to bring the subject under
the notice of Parliament?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that as the Offices were already regulated boy law,
he saw no advantage from a reconsideration of the
subject. The Fees in the Exchequer were not such
is to admit of much reduction.

Mr. BENNETT thought, that a money grant
would be much preferable to the present.
Sir C. LONG said, that the abolition of fees in
the Customs had saddled the country with an ex-
pense of £.165,000.
£269,500 was voted for the Militia of Great Bri-
tain ; and 1:25,300 for the Militia of Ireland.
The House then resumed, and the Report was or-
dered to be received on Friday.
On the second reading of the Metropolis Police Bill,
Mr. BERNAL objected to certain provisions re-
specting the award to Officers.
Mr. BENT-EIT thought the Bill- not only ineifi-

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1821.
THE FUNDS.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK
Bank Stock 224-3 per Ct. Reduced 7154 A %
3 per Ct. Cons. 721% 54 1/2-3% per Ct. 81 A
4 per Ct. 89% %-5 per Ct. Navy 10814 34 y 4
Long Anns. 18 1/2—lndia Bonds 41s. 425. pre.
Exchequer Bills 3s. ss. pr.
Cons. fur Account, 72% A %.

We learn, by private accounts from Genoa, that
the sentences of death, under the new Military Com-
mission in Piedmont, have already been numerous.
Among the condemned are twelve of the principal
Members of the late Provisional Government, who
are, however, out of the reach of the cowardly cruelty
of their oppressors. Amongst them is Chevalier DAL
Posso, a man of high and acknowledged acquire-
ments, and who presided at the head of the Supreme
Court of Justice at Genoa for many years. Dr. Cm:-
yaw, the Editor of the Sub-Alpine Sentinel, is ano-
ther. As the vessel which conveyed them to Spain
weighed anchor, he observed, " the cause of Consti-
tutional freedom in Italy is for the moment physically'
lost, but it is morally gained."

VICTOR EMMANUEL has, it appears, positively re-
fused to resume the sceptre. Experience has already
convinced him of the dangerous insecurity of a
Throne, which, unsupported by a Peoples love, is
only fenced by foreign bayonets.
The Universities of Turin and Genoa are to be
abolished: this resolution is at least consistent with
the avowed object of destroying enlighted opinions is
Italy. to mute German influence, they must recal
the time when—

" A rugged wight, the worst of brutes was man,
On his own wretched kind he ruthless prey d;
The strongest still the weakest overran ;
In every counts? mighty robbers sway d,
And guile and ruffian force were all their trade!"
The latest accounts received at Genoa, from Na-
ples, state that all was quiet in that capital, but that
the Austrians had made little progress in their ad.
vances towards the South. The Members of the Par-
liament, who still considered themselves as possessect

of the right to dismiss pnblic affairs, notwithstanding
the prohibition of Austria, had taken up their residence
in the capital of Hither Calabria. The Austrians say
that-they have been thence dislodged, and that the pro,
vince of Hither Calabria is now in their possession;
but there has been no confirmation of this account.
The King of NaPt.r.s must believe everything settled,
as he has now left Florence, on his return home; and
the KING, though no genius, is jocularly said to know
the Neapolitans and the weather better than, any of his
subjects.

The conduct of the Neapolitan troops, i t sturen.
dering their country without a blow to the invader,
has surprised -the friends of liberty in the Sout'i
of
Europe, as much as it has done the People of Ens.
land. The inhabitants of Rome and of other parts
of Italy, whine the Neapolitan character for courage
has never been high, disbelieved at first all their de-
clarations of resistance. They continued, however, to
issue them so uniformly, and cypress them so fer-
vently, that the most incredulous supposed there
would be some severe fighting. Our Ambassador,
Sir W. A'Counr, laughed at first at the idea of the
Neapolitans making a stand ; but latterly he wrote
Ito a friend at Rome, that he had surrendered his pre-
conceived notions, and now believed they would (Lake
a bold resistance. The more sensible and liberal.
minded Austrians were equally possessed with the
idea of Neapolitan regeneration, and regretted that-
they had been sent on a service so perilous and so
unwelcome as that of endeavouring to overthrow the
free institutions of brave men—brave, because they
conceived they were free ; and about to be free, he.
cause they were brave.
Advices from Petersburgh, dated the 13th ult. re-
ceived in town by express, state that intelligence had
arrived there of orders having been issued for the
halt .of the Russian army. The exchange immediately
rose from 91/8 to 91/3—an improvement of 4 per Ceut.

In the arrangement made between the Governors
of the Bank of Ireland and Lord LIVERPOOL for an
increase to the capital of the Bank, it has been stipu.
lated, that the permission to establish Banking Com-
panies exceeding six partners, at the distance of not
less than fifty miles from Dublin, shall, during the
continuance of the present charter of the Bank of Ire.
land, not be construed to extend to such Companies
any privileges and immunities beyond those to whids
common partnerships are by law entitled ; except
that of suing or tieing sued in the name cf the Tres-
surer or Secretary, if they should be sufficiently nu-
merons to require such a privilege, and should be •
authorized by separate Acts of Parliament obtained
on -their own application, to avail themselves of it.
The half million which is to be added to the capital
of the Bank, and advanced. to Government at four
per cent. interest, is to be paid as follows:—The
Bank holds £1,500,000 Treasury Bills, which fall
due on the sth July next. Of this sum £1,000,000
is to be exchanged for new Treasury Bills, and
£500,000 given up, as -the consideiation for the in-
crease of capital, the difference between. English and
Irish currency being paid in cash to the Bank, as
their capital is expressed in Irish currency.

Yestetclay morning, at a quarter past eleven, Hs
MAJesry arrived at his Palace in Pa!Mall, in his
travelling carriage, from Brighton, escorted by a
party of Light Horse.
Lord and Lady Awsow, and Miss ANSON, arrived
on Tuesday at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-stmt,
from Shugborough, Staffordshire ; and in a few days
they intend leaving town for Switzerland.
Sir ROBERT and Lady'Llsrox are arrived at their
seat, in Scotland.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East-India House, when FRANCIS WARDEN, Esq. *at
appointed a Provisional Member of the Council at
Bombay.
The number of yearly licenses taken out by the
Bankers in Great Britain during the last year, was
849, being seventy less than during 1815.
Saturday, the silver bugle horn, given by the Royal
, Company of Archers, was shot for in Hope Park,
Edinburgh, and won by Captain HAY, R.N.
Monday se'linight, the gold medal given by the
Montrose Golf Club was played fcr on the Links
there, and won, after a very close and kee'n contest,
by Mr. JAMES LEIGHTON, town clerk,
The people who suffered by the fall of the timber
bridge at Glasgow, on the King's Birth-day, are all
doing well. The boy who received the contents of
an old pistol into the substance of the brain, is still
alive, and apparently doing well.
LONIAN Is t, NI s.—Extract of a letter, dated Venice.
April 19 Further arrests have taken place in the
lonian Islands. In addition to the individuals al-
ready mentioned, Signor Rossi, Justice of Peace;
Stravopodi, Major of Militia ; Sicuretto, who was Se-
cretary to the former British Governors (Generals
Oswald, Airey, and Campbell), with many others, are
now imprisoned at Corfu, for having signed a Petitioa
to the King of England, complaining or some of Sir T.
Maitland's proceedings, and explaining the means he
had employed to make them accept the Constitatice-
The Police-officers at Zante seized Signor Ilos4
while employed in collecting signatures to this Poi-
tion ; and this is the crime ! Are not the lonian's MEI
by their forced Constitution, invested with the rightm
petitioning the protecting Sovereign? And did not&
Thomas .Maitland's own agents, but a very few web
back, go about to procure signatures to a Memorial
to himself, in praise of his own measures? But such
, is the pitiable state to which these unfortunate isl,ncle
are now seduced! The fate of those under arrest
will not be determined until Sir Thomas Maitland
has communicated with Government, for which pur•
pose he is now proceeding to London ; but surely
his Excellency will nut be able to deceive the Mi-
"nisters relative to the real state of things there, be-
trayed as it is by the events which every day occur.
He is accompanied to England by Signor CapPr
doca, one of the Judges who condemned Martinengot
and whose object is, no doubt, to vindicate the pre'
=dings against him."

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