Star.
London, England, 1817-01-31 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31. Isl 7. •
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Rodrorad —Cam ow 41114.—.C444, for ice.
4 par Coot. SOl-5 for Com. Hwy 11411
Es.eboloor Pak la& Ifs. pr...sisas Sos 6, SI& 975. pre.

In the debates on Wednesday night, Lord BA-
TIMM in the Peen, and Mr. C•ln11110 in the COM-
dions, distinctly stated that reductions bad been made,
since last Semi* in the public expenditure. and that
other reductions were in contemplation, as far as the
safety of the Empire would permit. This is as it
ought to be. Let Ministers only stew a firm deter-
mination to reduce !be apnoea of the Bate, and to
reform, as speedily as may be consistent with pru-
dence, every thing that can be considered as a devia-
tion from mad principles. and they bare nothing to
fear from the ekrwand elements of malesolent Wen.
We under mAiraii itli also intended to intiOdifike
such a ersteara,will, at least. prevent the sudden`
growth, irnot.the immediate reduction of ainecureit.
Ministers, tyre have been rightly informed, have re-
stdeed en a plsn which will in a. great degree free
'them from the unceasing solicitations of the raps-
eines herd which daily besieges them, and, on pre-
mace of giving support to Government, would fatten
on the very vitals of the country. In future, it is
said, no sinecure mill be granted without being sub.
intitted to Parliament. This will, indeed, be a radical
reform. All abuses stir from the controul of the
National purse being, directly orindirectly. too often
wrested from, or abandoned. by Parliament.
Hardly any but fools could bare aimed that the
state of die country, after terminating a war of such
unexampled importance as has, (or many years, oc-
cupied, almost exclosinly, the attention of Govern-
ment, would be foiled such as it was before attiring
'on the contest. And, on the other hand. none bet
those who can persuade themselves that the great
mama( the community are entirely void of common
understanding, will contend that the present situation
of the country is not alarming, or that it does not

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e for ate sated efforts and co-operation of an the
Willem, the energy, gni the patriotism, which the
Empire tan boast, to retrieve our circumstances.
If,the dictates of wisdom and prudence are to hate
their full effect, it will be necessary that those who
wish wake a proper view of the subject avoid and
oppose all unnecessary blending of topics which are
in themselves perfectly distinct, and which, by being
brought into the same discussion, only tend to divert
from the real question. For example—many people,
as often as the circumstances of the country are
spokea ef. instantly fly off to the origin and causes
end nedbe of conducting the past war. On that topic
.there are many, and quite opposite, opinions enter-
tained—but, whichever of these is right or whichever
is wrong, alters not the fact as to the preuat condition
of the country. The question ought simply to be :
In the circumstances in which we now find ourselves,
what would be the best practical means to remove
the present difficulties and distress ; and what, the
best adapted to insure the general welfare and pro-
sperity of the country ?
Here is simple field for discussion—and we add,
for the correction of error and the diffeion of truth.
To make ourselves perfectly understood—The nation
has incurred a great debt : will wrangles about the
causes or the propriety of the late war lessen that
debt, or pay any part of the interest ? When a man
finds himself imprisoned for debt, will the claim of
his creditor be lessened by his wife and him squab-
bling about which of them spent the money ?-13titad
is dear: will burning barns and corn-stacks make it
cheaper ?—Let the sober and temperate part of the
community (a great aad powerful majority) tale
unceasing pains to impress upon their mote ignorant
and passionate neighbours the necessity of discrimi-
nation. Let them not imagine because the 'kind
of illustrations we have offered are, it may be said,
absolute truisms, that therefore they are not of the
kind to be urged. It is for this very reason we have
selected them; for. palpable as they are, have we not
all seen them acted upon ?
But on the other hand let not those who ought to
be first in seeking out and applying remedies suited
to the public distress, persuade themselves, that, by
attempting to identity the great mass of the people
with such besotted and ignorant fools—or with the
turbulent, the seditious, and the traitorous, that they
will succeed in stifling their complaints. None but
men who are very ignorant of the real state of the
country, will venture so to traduce the great body of
the people, which is now suffering, and which im-
plores that s coastittstional remedy may be applied to
the present evils.

No tench Papers have arrived this morning ; but
we 'have extracted from those which came to hand
yesterday, and which the great length of our Parlia-
mentary Reports prevented as from noticing parti-
citlarly, every thing deserving of the least attention.

It 'will be seen by a Document from Hayti, of
which we have given an'abstract, that the French
bare as little probability of regaining that part of
St. Domingo by negociation as they had of subduing
it by Ergot.

The Panics Rum= left town yesterday, at two
o'clock, for Windsor. His Royal Highness called.at
Gloucester House, Piccadilly, and took the Duchess
with him on a visit to their Royal Mother.
The Report yesterday of the Physicians in atten-
dance upon the Duchess of CUMURLAND was as fol-
lows :—" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CUM-
, onatAnocontinues to go on well."
Yesterday morning, at half past eleven o'clock, the
Grand Duke NICHOLAS, attended by his suite, went
So Drury-lane Theatre. They were received by Mr.
Ran, the Manager, who conducted his Imperial
Highness over the interior of the building, and on the
roof of the Theatre, where an immense body of water
was set to work, to the great amazement of the
GRAND DUKE, who repeatedly expressed his asto-
nishment to Sir WILLIAM Covoszve. His Imperial
Highness took leave of the Manager, politely acknow-
ledging the high gratification lie had expetienced.—
The GRAND DUES and suite went from the Theatre
to inspect Mears brew-house.
Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at
GuildbaU, in consequence of the late outrage offered
to the Panics REMIT on his passage fiom the
House of Parliament on Tuesday last, and the Court
numinous), *freed to present an Address. expressing
their indignation at so atrocious an act I—and the
Sheriffs, attended by the Rensembrancer, were direc-
ted to wait upon his Royal Highness to know when
he would be pleased to receive the Court with the
same. No other business was transacted.

Issue or TRI NEw Com.—Each Binker, upon
giving a written undertaking to return the same va-
lue in old silver of the realm, yesterday received from
the Bank of-England an issue of the new Coin to the
amount of £1,200:
ss gnawed. 30th January, 1817. of the Master of his Majesty's
Mint, by the hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank
of England, ;100 in new silver Coinage, which we promise to
return in the same currency in the legal Cola of the Realm."

LIATH OF THC DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.—The
Duke of MARLBOROUGH, without much serious ill-
ness, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning.
His Grace is succeeded in his titles, &c. by his eldest
sou, the Marquis of BLANDFORD. The titles, besides
those of the Dukedom and Marquisate, are, Earl of
Sunderland and Earl of Marlborough, Baron Chur-
chill and Baron Spencer. The deceased died in the
80th year of his age. He bad for some time been in
a very infirm state, though he had experienced very
little severe indisposition. By the death of the late
Duke there becomes vacant a Blue Ribbon of the
Order of the Garter, the Lord Lieutenancy of Ox-
fordshire, the Rangership of Whichwood Forest, and
the High Stewdship of Oxford aful Woodstock.