Star.
London, England, 1819-10-05 00:00:00

THi:FVENING STA R .

.LONDON.

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TUESDAV,-OCTOBER 3, 1819.

THE FUNDS.
ktIGE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE OXLOOK
I3ank Stock shut
3 per Cent. Reduced shut
3 per Cent. Consols 69f 70 69f
Si per Cent. shut—t r,er Cent. shut
5 per Cent. Navy 1031
India Bonds 8 9 pre.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 5 6 dis.
Omninm, Money, I+
India for Acct. 2244 •
Consols for Acct. 70+
The York County Meeting; which will doubtless
br held on the 20th instant, is looked forward to with
gre it anxiety. There is at present a rumour that the
Tories intend to opp,,,e the Resolutions— and we have
reason to believe that the report is too well founded,
if we may consider J. :es Ancrtrantn "DART
WORTLEY, and the House of liarewood, as belcaging
to that party. 'They are exerting all their influence
to counteract the object of the 'Requisitionists,
and it is certain they will either try their strength at
that :kleeting, or have a Meeting of their own.
The Requisition for the Cumberland County Meet-
ing has been most respectably signed, and the sig-
natures are daily increasing. Already it has the names
of Si:- F. VANE, :Messrs. BROUGDAM, DYKES, GRA-
BRoWNE, CURWEN, LAWSON, CRAKIINTIIORPE,
and of inaay other Gentlemen, including Clergymen
aA Magistrates.
In addition to the County Meetings already an-
nounced to our Readers, we have now to mention
one for NVestmoreland, at which the High Sheriff
will preside.
Indeed from every thing that transpires from the
neighbourhood in which was shed, " the blood of
war in time of peace," it is every day rendered more
imperative on all the sound friends of our happy
Constitution to step forward and prevent its being
endangered by the exercise of " a vigour beyond the
law." Doctrines entirely foreign and unknown to
the laws of England, are now broached in our Public
Courts, and even maintained by men who would yet
pass for sound lawyers ;—doctrines subversive of all
justice, and levelled at the birth-right of English.
men—a Free Press. For example, it has been prac-

tically maintained that a Coroner, in au open Court,
may examine men who are not before him as wit-
nesses, as to their objects and pursuits in life ? why
and wherefore they are present in Court—and ques-
tions of like import, which no Coroner has any more
right to put to Englishmen, in an open Court, than he
would if meeting them on the King's highway.—
The Court of Inquest is as open and patent to every
subject as the high-way; and no person on earth has
a right to put questions of any kind to those who en•
tei, or who may choose to take notes of what passes,
while such persons conduct themselves without im-
propriety. " But," forsooth, " a publication of any
pan of the proceedings, while the investigation is
pending, may tend to obstruct or defeat the ends of
Justice." Such doctrine, let it come from whom it
may, is unconstitutional< it is an absolute absurdity:
it proceeds on an assumption that what passes in an
open Court is yet private. The Court of Inquest
is, by Statute, declared to be an open Court. The
very emission of the evidence from the mouth of
the witness is a publication to all England; for
all England is virtually present in the Court.—
It is England that investigates the facts and weighs
tie pubtished evidence by its sworn Jury. The Report
of the evidence in a Newspaper is not the publication
of it. The Paper only circular; what was published
in the Court ; nor can the Coroner visit such a cir-
culation with his mighty vengeance, if the Report
be only a correct detail of *hat was emitted before
the Jury, o. passed in Me open Court. If the News-
paper mistates the facts, the Editor does so at his
own peril; but he is not bound to refrain from
stating truths to his Readers.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived at a late hour
this forenoon. Their domestic news is unimportant.
A Cadiz article of the 14th states, that the epidemy
h is been decidedly declared by the Physicians to have
made its appearance in that city. The communication
between the city and the bay has accordingly been in-
terrupted, as'well as that with Port St. Maria and its
environs. The rudder of every ship in the Roads has

beer. taken away, and no more passports are for the
present to be given either for sea or land. The mor-
tality in the isle of Leon had, on the 11th September,
increased to 40 in every 947 persons affected.—
French Five per Cents. Friday, 70fr. 95c.

Yesterday, Lord SIDMOIITII had an audience of the-
PIIINCE REGENT at Carlton House.
The Deputies from Venezuela, who lately arrived
in London, have been sent, we understand, for two
purposes: to procure the mediation of our Govern-
ment with that of Spain, to concur in the declara-
tion of Independence, and to offer any arrangement
of commercial intercourse which may be deemed ez-
fedient, as the inducement, and to negociate a Loan
if possible. If they do not succeed with our Govern-
ment, it is understood that they will proceed to
Yatk, where, there is no doubt, their cause will at
once be espoused, and we shall lose all the advantages
of the trade with these new ARlCliCall States.