Star.
London, England, 1819-12-04 00:00:00

SPAIN:

GIBRALTAR, NoVRAIRER
(IPZIVATe. 1.1Tr.h.)

" You may haveheard before thk of another change
stAlinixtry in Madrid. Don LOZANO TOI:KES, the
leader of the Cabinet, Minister of Grace and Justice,
was removed, with disgrace, on the lit instant, and,
on the 4.h, Don Imes, Minister of Finance, followed
him. The Minister of War was expected to go next
day, and the Minister of State not expected to re-
main long! Lokallo has been the great opponent of
the Flori.ht Treaty, and believed to be the chief cause
of allthe measures that have been adopted by his Go.
vernruent with regard to it. He it was who negociated
the marriage of the present Queen, from whom, of,
course, he expected the greatest support, and he was.
never.thought to be so firmly fixed in his station and
authority, as at the moment of his disgrace. He it
succeeded in his office; most completely in many re--
spects, by Don Mozo Itosa.tzs, Marquis of, Mata Flo.
rida. He was by profession a lawyer, and was made a
'Marquis and Minister of Finance by the present King.
He,avas a Member of the Cortes, and was appointed.
to carry the representation made and signed by him-
self and forty . others of that body,' ,requesting the
KING to dissolve the Cortes, and reign despotically.
In that memorial he said to the Kasie.--. You are
the supreme arbiter of the lives and property of your
vassals, and can do with both as you please
!'—ln
consequence of this representation, he has been known
ever since by the appellation of the King of the Per-.
sians. M. INtaz is succeeded by M. SALMON, uncle
to the late Minister of State. He was not charac-
terized by any peculiar traits of diplomatic cunning,
other than he imbibed from the contagion of his
great patron LOZANO, whose party he espoused, and
with which, of course, his fate was identified. His'
•successor is reputed to be a very good sort of a man,
but without the talents for bis office, or the moral
energies for maintaining his place in it. He was for-
merly Consul at Tangiers, and afterwards had the
direction of constructing. a Light-house, and other
public buildings, at Tanta, which are known to be
the only opportunities the KING has ever offered him
of acquiring any light .on the obstruse science of
finance."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

It- NEXT THURSDAY MORNING, TWO FIRST
PRIZES .C.21:1,0C0 EACH !!!—THE WHEEL CONTAINS
SIX PRIZES Or X 20,000, WHICH MAY ALL BE
DRAWN.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS TillS DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK
3 per Cent. Reduced 661 66
3 per Cent. Consols shut
. 4 per Cent. 83ii
5 per Cent. Navy shut
Bank Long Annuities 171 7-16
India Bonds Is. 2s. Is. dis.
Exchequer Bills (ld.) 4s. ss. dis.
Commercial 19s. discount
Consols for Acct. 67fitt.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore-
noon. They contain nothing of the least interest.—
The Chambers were not to meet for business till
Thursday.—Five per Cents. Tuesday, 67 fr. 75 c.

We have received this morning Charleston Papers
to the 25th October. The following are extracts :

•
HURRICANE AT ST. THOMAS'S
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
" ST. THOMAS'S, OCTOBER so.

" From five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon until
the same hour on Wednesday morning, it blew with
such a degree of.violence, that nothing could with-
stand its force. Men, women, and children, were to
be seen, bereft of shelter, with not a single article a
clothing to cover their nakedness, nor any thing to
sati,fy their hunger. Trees were torn up by the roots,
houses blown from their foundations, some of them
i Ito the sea. One house in particular, in which was the
Manager and several uegroes, was lifted from its basis
upwards of 20 feet high, but fortunately, on its descent,
it fell into a spot which had been originally a cellar,
and contained three or four feet of water, in conse-
quence of which those in the house sustained no in-
jury. An iron six-pounder, with iron carriage, was
blown from Fort Amsterdam half way to Fort Wil-
liam, a distance of about three quarters of a mile;
a cart, with an iron axletree, was blown from Governor
Rich's estate to Mr. Denekar's, almost a quarter of a
mile. Simpson's Bay was almost entirely destrOyed,
there remaininz in that town but five houses. One
of the buildings which was washed away by the sea,
contained 19 persons. In the middle of the original
town there is a channel left of about 30 feet in
breadth and seven feet deep. During the gale there
were three shocks of an earthquake, which is sup-
posed to have done equal damage as the wind or sea.
The privateer schooner Almeida, of nine guns,
GEOI:UE WILSON Commander; under the Venezuelan
flag, arrived at Norfolk on Sunday last from a cruize,
had a severe engagement with a Spanish ship, a
King's packet, of 16 guns, as we understand, and 136
nwn, including some troops which she was carrying
from Vera Cruz to Havannah. After an action of
tv:o Lour:, the Almeida was obliged to haul off.
" lly the schooner Tenant, arrived at Baltimore in
thirty nine (Li) s from Ca: thagena, we learn that Bo-
LIVA n's army was ss ithin twentf miles of that city.
k was expected the place would fall."

Quebec l'apers have also arrived this morning to
the 28th of October, but their coutcnts are unirn-
purtaut.

YORKSHIRE.
.1

A Dcputatioa composed of the most respectable
Gentlemen connected with the Woollen Trade in
Leeds, Huddersfield, and other parts of Yorkshire,
are now on their way to London, for the purpose of
having an interview with Ministers, on Tuesday next,
•to point out the mischievous nature, and, if poisible,
to obtain a Repeal of the Wool Bill,- which passed last
Session, under the operation of which, our trade in
coarse woollen cloths has suffered most severely.
The tan on foreign wool, coupled with the heavy
duty on rapeseed, has nearly annihilated our trade in
the branches connected therewith, and has already
thrown a great portion of it into the hands of
foreigners, who heretofore sent us their raw materials,
and took back our manufactures in exchange.
By our accounts from Yorkshire, we learn that the
Radicals, so far from being damped in their zeal by
the Bills now hurrying through Parliament, have
pledged themselves to co-operate with their brethren
throughout the kingdom, and never to desist till a Re-
form in Parliament be obtained. Now this threatens
precisely that kind of mischief which the opposers of
the present Bills in Parliament have pointed out as
likely to result from their operation. Once prevent
the People from attending Public Meetings, where
their zeal and discontent discharges itself and evapo-
rates in speaking, and hearing, and resolving, and
you set them to work secretly, which never fails,
sooner or later, to endanger the public peace.
These Radicals have put forth another Address,
calling on all the true friend: of Reform to abstain
from the use of tea, coffee, spirits, malt liquor, and
every exciseable article which they can possibly avoid-
The town of Leeds was thrown into great alarm,
on Wednesday afternoon, by a report that several
hundreds of the refractory Colliers had surrounded,
and meant to destroy the premises of Mr. Fasrox.
(a large Coal-owner), at Haigh, six miles from that
place. A strong detachment of troops were ordered
out, &c. but there was happily no occasion for their
interference. The men had, it was true; gone to,
Haigh, but it was only to present a Petition to
tstiTos, which having done, they retired peaceably.
The Coal Masters in the West-Riding have issued
an Address to the Public on the present disputes be-
tween them and their workmen, from which it ap-
pears, that about six months ago the latter formed
" Union." binding themselves to the payment of
a weekly sum, for the purpose of raising a fond,
out of which to support any of their body, what
thrown out of work, under certain circumstances.'
—Judging their funds sufficient for their purpose,'
about three weeks since they sent in printed Lists
of Prices, and many anonymous and threatening
letters, to the Proprietors of several Collieries, and
avowed their determination to work no more at those
Collieries, unless all their teems were agreed to ; and
in consequence, about four hundred men voluntarily
threw themselves nut of work, trusting to being sup-
ported by the Union Fund ; thus violating all their
contracts, and stopping their masters' concerns.—
This step most imperiously called upon the Coal
Masters to act in unison. A compliance with the
Miners present demands would cause an advance in
the price, of two shillings to two shillings and sixpence
per ton, which, it is obvious, would amount almost
to a prohibition of working the inferior Coals, which
are used for steam-engines, lime-burning, &c. and
would bring incalculable distress upon the country,
The Coal-masters assert, that no large body of
workmen has so little reason to complain of the
times as the colliers, Their earnings, according to
prices now given, may be stated at from three to- five
shillings per day, and there are instances when a good
workman can gain from six to seven shillings per day,
clear of all deductions. According to the printed
Statement of Prices, sent in by the Union Committee,
the colliers would regularly earn from one shilling to
one shilling and three-pence per hour, whenever they
:hose to work.

It has been asked of the Coal Masters, why suspend
your works? 'Why not make examples of your men,
for entering into an unlawful combination to raise
wages? The answer is, that the punishment awarded
by the law for this offence would afford no relief, in-
asmuch as it would not dissolve the Union. All the

jails in the Riding could not contain one-third of the
Union-men, even If crowded to suffocation; and so
far is imprisonment from being considered as a pu-
nishment in this case, that it is viewed by these de-
luded men as a kind of,triumph; and in the instances
where it has been inflicted, hundreds of their compa-
nions have accompanied the prisoners to the jail with
bands of music, and cheering. After mature consi-
deration, there appeared no other method effectually
,to meet the evil, than for the Coal Masters at once
to suspend their works, until the men agreed to aban•
don the Union.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT
held a Court, at Carlten•house, which was attended by
The Lord President of tke Council, the Lord Privy Seal,
tbP First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for the
Colonial Department, the Master of the Mint, the Lord Chain-
bulge, the Ltrd Steward, the Viee-Chamberlain, ate.
His Royal Highness held a Privy Council, at-which
Lord Viscount LAsezu.ss was introduced, and sworn
in Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The PRINCE REGENT stye an audience to the Earl
BATHURST.
Yesterday, the, Dukes of Yoftit and CLA REIMS vi-
sited the Pfttsca REGENT.
The Duke and Duchess of BEDFORD are still at
Parr ; their Graces are nut expected home till after
Christmas.