Star.
London, England, 1816-07-02 00:00:00

ROCUISTICIt iLECTION.

Mr. CROKER moved for leave to present a Pe-
tition from certain Freemen of the City of Rochester,
complaining of the undue return oil Barnett, Esq.
Ou being brought up and read, it was found to con-
tain accusations of bribery and corruption against the
Gentleman returned. It stated, that many persons
who had no right to vote, were received on the Poll
Books, while others who had come to vote for Sir T.
Thompson, were not allowed to do so, in consequence
of which, J. Barnett, Esq. had been returned by a
mlority of two, one of which was that of the May%
himself. It concluded with praying the iaterposition
of the House. The Petition being ordered to lie on
the Table,
Mr. CROKEIi. moved, that this Petition be taken
into consideration on the Ist day of August next.
The SPEAKER explained, that it was necessary
to iamb the Commissioners, that they must enter
into recognisance* to renew their Petition within four
cis): after the meeting of the. next Session of Par-
liament.
ACTION armful A SPANISN SLAVS SHIP, AND A SRI•
• TISH SHIP OF WAS.

Mr. WILBERFORCE wished to be informed by
any of the Gentlemen opposite, whether any official
account had been received of an action between a
Spanish Slave Ship and Si British Ship of War ? •
Mr. CROKER thought, that it was not to be ex-
pected, that Spanish Slave Ships would be over soli-
oilas to attack British Ships of War. There had, how-
ever, gccurred an insmnce of this kind, and an ac-
count rad been received of it.
Mr. WILBERFORCE asked if there could be
any objection to produce this account?
Mr. CROKER wished the account should not be
moved for in the absence of his• Noble Friend, who
alone was able to state what impediment; it might
throw in the way of t►e negotiation which was now

gang on upon the subject. fie, Himself, could hot
say that some public inconvenience might not arise
from the production of the document. while he fore-
saw no advantage to be obtained from it. as no pro-
ceeding could take place upon the subject this Session.
After a desultory cotiversgtion between Mr. W.
SMITH, Mr. limo:EN and Mr. WILBERFORCE, in fa-
veur of the production of the piper, and Mr. MAR-
RYATT, Mr. HUSRIS7<IN, and Mr. CHOKER against,
Mr. WlLllettiroßCE, who bad persisted in hiving the
question put, consented to withdraw the motion.
• CROWN ESTATES AT BERBICR.
Mr. BARHAM, after some observations on the
mismanagement of the Crown Property at Berbice,
which had proved a loss to the country. moved for
accounts of the expenditures under the Cron in that
island, as well as an account of all the sales that had
taken place, and the several produces ari,ing from the
sales of such estates in the Dutch Colanies.

Mr. W. SMITH said he should be happy to see
every account of these establishments brought for.
ward. He trusted the•merits or denmits of the Com-
missioners would not be weighed Ly the expenses of
the Colony.
• Mr. MA R R YArr observed, that it was the ne-
glect of those Commissioners rendered a new account
necessary. There was not a uord about money in
the whole of their returns. 'the nthrtality of the
slaves at Berbice had averaged seven per cent. At
Grenada, where the number of slaves was tour times
as great as at Berbice, the rain occasioned by insur.
rections and other calamities had been repaired, and
several thousand pounds had been paid into the Trea-
sury, while from Berbice not a farthing had been
paid, but on the contrary, one set of estates had drawn
' considerable sums from the Treasury.
Mr. BARHAM, adverting to the alleged mor.
tality at Berbice, contrasted to the mot Laity at Ja-
maica, where the managers of estates had been so
much decried for their cruelty, and where it was only
either a little above or below two per cent.— He con-
tended that the Crown Estates in question, if they
had been properly managed, ought to have produced
more than simooo a-year.

debate then tool a desultory and warm turn,
particularly between Mr. W. Slims and Mr. BROWNE.
The latter Gentleman adverted to an observation of
the former, which he understood to accuse him of
availing himself of the last day of the Session to
bring forward this subject, reminded the House that
he Ltd moved for these paperi as I,,ng agd as the
27th of Fi.hritiry, and they were not produced till
after the Ewer rucess, when they were in such a
state that it was impossible to make head or tail of
them.

Mr. SMITH retorted, by remarking that tho'
flonourabie Gentleman's statements, who had spoken
against the Commissioners, were hill of mistakes.
The reas'll why there had born any loss at ail t‘a%,
that when these estate; were deiiv,red up to the par-
ties, the most valuable negroes were taken away from
tie Crown Estates to serve the private purp,ises of
the Governor.

Much further explanation ensued between Mossrs.
BARHAM, MAR.:ICATT, HORNE!t, BROWNS, GORDON,
and JAMBS GRANT, in the course uf which Mr. GOR-
DON observed, that the most decisive roofs of mis-
managemz..nt on the estates in question was, t'. it Out
of 12 O negroes there had only been four births iu
three years.
Mr. WILBERFORCE defended the Commis-
sioners, from the firm belief that if he and his friends
had not undertaken Ibis commission the whole of the
poor creatures (the slaves) would have been ester.
minuted in the course of fourteen years. The moment
the Gentleman they had sent out had begun to act
upon their instructions, the estates promised to afford
a great revenue to the Crown; and the fact would
turn out that they had not produced any thing to it
before.

Atter a few words from 'Mr. BROWNE, in reply,
who asserted, that the Government at home had suf.
fered the Governor to remain in the Colony, without
limy knowledge that there was any property whatever
in it, that niged to the Crown, the Accounts were
ordered.

Mr. WILBERFORCE then moved for a copy of
the Treasury Minute, of the 2Gth of March, Ibl l,
relative to the Crown Estates in lierbice.

Atter some observations from Mr. MARAYATT,
General Macaw., and Mr. W. SMITH, the motion
was agreed to.
Mr. W. SMITH then moved for " An account of
all monies received by the Treasury from the Berbice
Estates of the Crown, before the appointment of the
commission, and trout the time of the conquest
thereof."

This motion led to a renewal of the arguments on
both sides, the sehstance of which we have given
above, Mr. Manatvarr contending that the return
must evidently be a, nil," or else that the former ac-
count must have been incorrect or imperfect.
The House at length divideil—
The Gallery was then cleared for a division, but
the House did not divide, and the motion was with-
&awn. •
EXTENTS IN AID.

When strangers were re-adtnitted, Mr.W. SMITH
was addressing the Hoose on this subject. He had
turned his attention to it, not in consequence of indi.
vidual grievances, bet because he was sure the public
sustained much injury from the practices of which :fee
had complained. He, however, stated one case of
great hardship, in which the goods of a Mr. Smith
had been seized, as his person would have been, had
he not been from home ighea the Officers arrived.—
This, he further observill, bad been done at a time
%%hen the Plaintiffs held in their hands property to
the amount of £12,000. over which he had no con-
clout. They not only acted thus, but they attempted
to stop the Coal Works of the Defendant, which they
would have accomplished, but for the prudent and
manly resistanse of the other partner; and, had this
been done. 1500 men. would have been at once
thrown out of employ in a neighbourhood where
there were previously many persons ;at want of work.
He concluded by moving for a copy of the Affidavit
on which an Extant in Aid had been issued at the
suit of Messrs. Dalton and Co. against Mr. Joseph
Smith. of Cosely. near Bilston. in Staffordshire.
The motion was agreed to.

GAS LIGHT BILL.
A Message front the Lords announced their Lord-
ship' Assent to the Gas Light and Coke Bill, with
Atuendtnents, and requested to belornished with a
Copy of the Itepott of the•Belect Committee ou the

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State or t MetroP
lendicity in the vs. as also a en
of the Report made by the Committee on the L o
subject, in the last Session of Parliament. The 11f‘
senpers were informed, on the motion of Sir JAP4t,
Gitatltiva, that the Report made in the present Ss.,
sion would be communirated to their Lordships, „,
that to that part of the Message whch tefirred to
Report of last year, this House would return an ar,
steer by Messengers of their own.
On the motion of 1-101)E that the Howe
sliltild take into consideration the Lords' Amend.
ments to the Gas I..i..Tht Bill,
Mr. CAWTHORN moved that the Amendments
should b% taken into consideration on that day dun
months.—The Gallery w.ss cleared tc,r a division,
when there being but twelve Members pretern;:so
Adjournment necessarily took place.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JUNE '27.
Every thing announces that the august ceremocy
of die Coronation of his Majesty will take place
the course of the summer. Already persons area,
cupied about designs, according to which 'Au be
arranged the decorations of the Cathedral t,f Rleito
for that solemn occasion.

The King presided yesterday at a Council of xi.
nisters.

The Department of the Haute•Saone is desolated
by considerable overflows, in consetrience of abun.
dant and continual rains. The fields were under
water, and on the 20th -the water was as high as
three feet in several streets of Vesi:ul.

The Duke of Feltre, War. Minister, is indispose.
It is thought that his Excellency will he obliged to
pass some time at a watering place to re-establish
his health.

It is said that Marshal Suchet has had the honour
of a private interview with tie King, which Wed
more than an hour. The Marshal has been replaced
in active service.

ASSIZE COURT.

TRIAL OF THE SELF-S LIMED PATRIOTS OF Isle.

SITIINO OF 3'llll 27T11 OF JUSE.

This day the trial of thesepervions;twenty eight is
number, commenced uncrit the Presidency of M. kis
main Deseze. The two benches destined for pi.
soners being insufficient to contain all who were iO.
plicated in this trial, together with the gensd'arner
who guarded them, a third bench became necesary.
Amidst the ill-looking faces of the greater part of the
prisoners, some of them displayed an assurance vet/
unbecoming their situation, while others had an sir
of stupidity, which shewtd them to be men-
tern tools. The female Picard seemed to be vet),
penitent. _ _

After the reading of the act of accusation, No,;ch
lasted two hours and • a half, M. Vandeauvre, subst,.
tote f the Attorney-General, opened the vceed.
ings in a speech ot cons'sierable length. Among
other observations, be reniarked....." that our age had
s-en men spring up who moved only for cliTcs,
whom experience does not teach, whom clemency
cannot vanquish, and who act, speak, ,nd bieatbe
only for the ruin of their cowitry.. Vindicators et a
pretended laxity, which they prostituted to the mutt
odious despotism, these Patriots, as they call them.
selves, have never known any other liberty but the
power of doing mischief—have had no other god but
their own intetest. It is to that they have sacrificed,
and would 'again sacrifice every thing. It is high
time to put a period to their fury." He proceeded
to remark-14 that it could hardly be conceived that
so extensive an enterprise as that with which they
were charged could have originated with men desti-
tute of credit, the greater part of them in the most
abject poverty, and, in short, the very dregs ot the
people. A great crime ordinarily supposes a great
interest, and a man does not usually expose himself
to certain peril without some hope of a countervailing
success. Could the accused hope to succeed by
their own powers in a picket which went to nothing
less than to overturn the throne, and to shake France
from its very foundations ? Thuy must thee have
been merely instruments in the hands of more im.
portant personages. This was the observation which
naturally occurred when the plot was first discovered,
and it was difficult not to repeas it now."
After this speech, the thirty-two witnesses sum.
mooed on the cause were ordered to withdraw to
another room, and the prisoners were also removed,
with the exception of Pleignier, the currier, to whorl
the Judge proceeded to put a variety of question
as to the share he had in drawing up the Yroclama.
lion, &c.

Nothing of any interest transpired in the prisoner's
answers, which are given at length in the French
papers. The prisoner either was, or affected to be,
in a state of great feebleness both of body and milat.
The only novelty that appears, is a statement of the
prisoners having expressed a wish to one of his fel-
low-conspirators, thats Carnot, and Gonriex, one of
the editors of the Nria Janne, at Brussels, were is
Paris, because they were men of great deter nrinario'..
The Judge, in the course of the interrregatury, trta
occasion to rent Ark, that it was very extraordin-ri
that the female Picard should engage in politics,
husband having gained much by the King's Teton,
as he furnished boots to almost the whole of Lie
King's housenold troops.
Carbonnean, the next prisoner, was then interim
' gated by the Jii,!ge at considerable length, but n)-
thing of any interest transpired. Thus finished
' first diy's proceedings, and the Court rose at Eve
! o'clock.

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A private lett-I from Paris contains the followiig
' extraordinary information :
" PARIS, Half-past Five, June 27.
66 A horrible plan was laid to blow up with gun.
powder the Duke of Weiling:on, and the supelivr
Officers of the Ili itish Army now at Paris, as well as
' all the younger branches of the Royal Family who
honoured tile illustrious Field-Marshal with their
presence at his EA and Supper given on Tuesel,
the 25th instant, on account of the christening of
child of Mr. Harvey Aston. A number of persons
' are now in confinement, and important revelations
are said already to he made.
Sir R. Wilson has obtained permission to reside
'at the hotel of his lady during the time of her illneo,
which is supposed to be most serious. He is on pa•
role not to quit his apartment, but his friend, are
',snowed W see him."

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TtJESDAY, JULY 2; 1816.
ICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT I WELVE O'CLOCK
Pealed 6q4 —Cons. shut—for opening 649
4 pet Cent. 77H—S per Cent. Navy shut—;lionds 21. Ss. db.
Ourotas pay. —Exctircpar Hills, tia. 31. dia. •

We are sorry to say, that .the City this morning
was rbrown into much constvrnation, by the Banking-
muse of Messrs. Baum Stmsom, FREENt and Mac-
Isom Bartholomew lane, having stopped payment.
The following Circular has sent been sent round to
persons connected with the House :
" London, July 1,1818.

Sta —The unexampled difficulies of the times having ren-
dered it impossible to command those resources, which too liberal
in aid towards the pressure experienced by some of our Consti.
trents required, we have been compelled to adopt the distressing
tesolution of suspending our payments.
While we lament, most deeply, the inconvenience which
viii thus be occasioned to our friends by the temporary privation
of their funds, we are persuaded that the in .pection of our ac-
, coo will hi no respect shew us to have been unworthy of their
ocklenre—and, as men of honour, we eaa boldly assure you,
*icor properties are amply sufficient to liq•vitiate every claim
iithe us, if we shal meet the foi !warmlce of our claimants, and
kahowed to realize our Asses without d.e unlimited sacrifice
isilich hand) or precipitate measures must entail. In a few days
'coital' be prepared to submit more in detail the grounds ou
is lids we presume to ask your indulgence.
" We are, Sir, your most obedient servants,
" MINOS, SIMPSON, AND SO."

We have received the Paris Papers of Friday.
They contain the account of the first day's proceed-
jets on the case of the twenty-eight conspirators to
witom we alluded yesterday. These proceedings
oil:wain merely the speech of the opening Counsel and
a few interrogatories put to two ot the culprits, which
♦ere compAratiiely uninteresting.

Since the above was written, we have also received
the Paris Papers of Saturday a they contain the tol.
lowing articles
comfit EXTRADILDINARY OF SATURDAY AORNING.
The Ki .g yesterday transacted a considerable deal
of business with several of his Ministers.

Count Vaugiraud, at Guadaloupe, announces, by
aktter dated the sth of May. that Sir .lamas Leith
lead received orders to give up the Island to the
Trench Authorities, and that the Ports were Accord.
ugly opened to French vessels.

The Duke of Wellington 114 S gone to Cheltenham,
in England, but will return the first week in Augus:.

PARIS, JUNE 29.

TbriDu!ce of 'Wellington yesterday visited the
Xing, and renia;ned half an hour with his Majesty.
The Council of Revision have rejected the appeal
of General Bonnaire and Lieutenant Mieton, the as-
sassins cf Colonel Gordon. Mieton will therefore be
41kotiund Borinairemnprisoned for ides

The occasion of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S visit
fe London is variously represented in the private
letters from Paris, and also in the political circles in
the Metroplis. By one set of reports his Grace's
health is said require the waters of Cheltenham,
and by another party k is said that the cense of his
visit is purely political. A third statement refers to
the discovery of a plot at Paris to blow up with gun-
powder his Grace and the principal English families
there on the occasion of a recent grand ball. The
latter report is almost ton absurd for belief.
Those best informed in the political circles, give
rather a different turn to the occasion of his Grace's
visit, and we regret to learn that time complexion
put upon this event by persons of tkis description,
is glean* in the extreme. They say, that Lord
SIDNIOLITH, as the head of the Home Department,
having written to his Grace for part of the British
army now in trance, to assist in keeping the peace in
the disturbed counties, the Dots, ever alive to the
best interestv of his country, has come personally to
'represent to the PutNcE REGENT and to Ministers,
that not a single British soldier can be spared from
his army in France, and that even additional force
is requisite to keep the disaffected of that unsettled
country in subjection.
Yesterday the Dale visited his sister, Lady ANNE
tiALMG SMITH, and in the course of the evening the
Duke and Duchess met the Marquis WELLESLEY and
a family party, at Mr. WELLESLEY POLE'S, to dinner.

A Mail from Flanders arrived today. The Dutch'
Papers brought by it contain the following intelli-
gence: 1

AN 1 V.'ERP. JUNE 23.

The following tar4T has just been published, ac-
cording to which, the Consuls in foreign ports, ex-
cepting tl:e ports of the Levart and the Mediterra-
osan, including Cadiz, are authorized to receive the
Ccosular fees, conformably to Lis Majesty's decree
of June 2, 1816 :

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for the exhibition an! countersigning of ships papers, on entry
and departirg, for the laet of two tons, five swim.
For passports delivered to Netball:tad sailors, the indigent ex-
Septed, two florins.
For a legalization—the cturpure and the rowel of the ship's
Kers, each two florins ten silvers.
For a list of the crew (role equitage) of a %esti from 25 to
60 late, two filrigis.
Ditto from 50 to 100 lasts, three florins.
Ditto from 100 to 150 latSti, biX
bittO from 150 to 200 last, aims floritill•
I)iltn bong Wm lasts and upwards, twelve florins.
Every last of two tone, calculated after the* certificate of
enblng, for the ceraficates of origin, and for as much as they,
r. dtmanded by slum interested, six &mins.
For Acts, Proces-Verbauzi Affidavits on Oath, for the lint
*f '6 tat/ hum, one Hain; the other pages, each twenty
_,""). ten Revers; but so that idle wbele may never anutuot to
lIIWIre fifteen Borba.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 26.
By letters from Lille we understand that seven)
:Irreugh State prisoeetb, whe were confined ht the

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Castle of Ham, have been set at liberty hi the
King's orders ; others are released, but placed for
the present under the surveillance of the Police.—
Several of the who are confined in the OA.
dels of. Lille and Arras, have been likewise released,
with the exhortation to be More prudent in future.—
They are ordered to return tO their homes, with the
assurance that their half pay shall be remitted to
theni very punctually.
For some years past, several persons distributed in-
cendiary letters in the Arrondissement of Hasselt
one of them, named \Meru, has at length been *r.
rested in the very fact; (flagrant delft) ;' he has con-
fessed every thing. and named three of his accom-
plices, who have been immeliately arrested.

Too often these letters have all the effect which
their wicked authors propose : the rich inhabitant of
the country, terrified by these threats, thinks he can-
not escape the burning of his property, except by de•

positing the sums which are demanded of him. But
even though the crime should not attain this end, it
is not the less punishable, since it troubles the repose
of the citizen, whom it obliges to-be always on his
guard. It is with reason that the law has pronounced
the severest penalties against it ; and no criminal of
this description can expect any.indulgence from the
courts of justice.
Mr. Thornton. the English Ambassador to Swe-
den. arrived at Liege on the 23d of this month, and
departed the neit day to proceed to his destination.