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London, England, 1820-12-15 00:00:00

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
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To the memorable defeats sustained by the parti-
sans of Ministers in the Cities of Gloucester and He-

reford, we have to-day to add two instances of dis-
comfiture equally remarkable, which have occurred
at Glasgow, and at Hanley, in Staffordshire.
The precautions taken at Glasgow were certainly
well adapted for attaining the object in view; namely,
to get up such an Address as should only em-
body the sentiments of the small knot of individuals
in that City, who are pleased to consider themselves
as the exclusively loyal, but to get it up in such a
manner that it might pass off (such things have been
before), as the Address of the Inhabitants of Glasgow
at large. The Meeting was called by circular, which
it was thought had been addressed only to the most
flaming of the exclusive Loyalists ; but the matter
took wind, and, instead of seeing himself surrounded
by the select party on which he had counted, the
LORD Paovosr, on entering the Town Hall, found it
filled with an indiscriminate assemblage of Citizens.
The object which had brought so many uabiddea
guests, was the honest one of making the Address
in reality what it pretended to be—the Address of
the Glasgow Public. The Meeting was convened in
the Hail belonging to the community, and the LORD
PROVOST was in the Chair, as the head of that com-
munity. Is it conceivable, therefore, that the Public
could consider this as the Meeting of a few friends,,
or of a private company ? Even so, however, the
LORD PROVOST was pleased to declare it ; and pre-
cipitately leaving the Chair, he took refuge, with his
loyal parchment and specially-invited few, in a re-
tired room of the Hotel adjoining, whence (unless
some returning sense of shame shall prevent an act
of so much effrontery) the Address may, perchance,
yet find its way to Carlton Palace, as the free and
spontaneous homage of the Citizens of Glasgow, in
Public Meeting assembled.
Nor was this all. The LORD PRovosr, not contenti
with refusing to allow the inhabitants at large to join
in the proposed loyal Address to their SovenEtoz;
gave them his absolute commands, on their peril to
sepatate instantly, as if he knew (how disloyal art as-
sumption !) that it would be displeasing to the Ktxa
to know what any part of his People think of the,
measures of his Government. All this, too, from a
Gentleman who is said to have recently declared, at
a Public Board, that " any Chief Magistrate who
made himself a party in politics, disgraced himself,
and was unworthy of his situation."

The proceedings at Hanley were of rather a more
decisive character. The ultra-loyal faction of that 1
district went at the thing boldly. They called an I
open and Public Meeting of the Inhabitants, and
the consequence was what may be invariably ex-
pected, when the question as to the conduct of his
Majesty's Government is brought to the fair test of
public opinion.
A " Loyal" Address, which had been prepared,
ascribing all the evils of the country to de perverse
and wicked dispositions of the People, disappeared,
nobody could tell how; and another, laying the I
blame where it truly lies, at the door of the Cabinet
Council, was carried without a division ! The ob-
servations of W. RIDGWAY, Esq. on the occasion,
which our Readers wills find in our report of the
proceedings, are particularly deserving of attention.
—Adverting to the antiquated cant of the Constitu-
tion being in danger from the People, and to die
Courtly heresy of imagining that it can ever be in
jeopardy from the acts of those Ministers whose spe-
cial duty it is to watch over and preserve it, he aptly
enquires—" What is meant by the word Constitution?
If a Minister commences an expensive and disastrous
war, by interfering with the internal politics of
another nation, we are told it is to preserve the
Constitution! If a Noble Lord is found traffick-
ing for seats in the House of Commons, as nom-
rieus as the sun at noon-day, it is to preserve the
Constitution ! If measures are adopted to restrict
the Liberty of the Press, and the expression of pri-
vate opinion, it is to preserve the Constitution !
If a suspension of certain laws takes place, subject-
ing every Englishman at the caprice of the person
in official situation, without any statement of his
offence, to be taken from his home and family, and
be incarcerated for an unlimited period, without being
brought to trial, or having afterwards any means of
obtaining legal redress, it is to preserve the Constitu-
tion ! On this principle, any object of Ministers
might be said to be intended to preserve the Consti-
tution ; even though they might be particularly well
calculated to subvert and destroy it."
We believe we may also add to the list of Minis-

tetial defeats, the proceedings which too* place
yesterday at the Meeting of the Ward of Cheap.
—A " Loyal" Address, ,of the mast unqualified
description, was indeed carried—but how ? It ,
was proposed, as an Amendment to the Address,
" That a paragraph should be added to it to the
effect that the Meeting could not avoid expressing'
their regret at the institution of the late proceedings
against his MAJESTY'S Consort, and the extreme gra-
tification they felt at their abandonment." This was
doing exactly what we yesterday pressed on the at-
tention of all Addressers—it was putting to the test
of an explicit vote the only question which is at issue
in the public mind—the only question, a decisive
opinion on which makes an Address of any value on
one side or the other—the question as to the conduct
of Ministers in the late prosecution of her MAassrt.
But was this Amendment allowed to be put ?
No. A majority of the Meeting were pleased to
decide—certainly not according to any obvious prin-
ciple of common sense—that it had nothing to do
with the subject about which they were assem-
bled. A mighty easy way, indeed, of getting rid
of a difficulty which their consciences, large as
they may be, were not able to grapple with I—,
If they think the Ministers did right in their per-
secution of her MAJESTY, why do they shrink from
saying so, openly and manfully? Why do they re-
fuse a plain answer to the question, when it is so
plainly put to them ? What other interpretation can
be put on their evasion and silence than that their
consciences would not allow them to answer the
question in the way they could wish ? Who
can doubt for a moment, that if they enter-
tained the least hope of a favourable decision, they
would not have willingly—aye, eagerly, have gone to
a vote on the question? Have we not a right, then,
to add even the loyalists of the Ward of Cheap to the
countless thousands who have proclaimed their opi-
nion, that his MAJESTY'S Ministers have lost the con-
fidence of the Country, and having lost that, they can
no longer be worthy the confidence of their Sovereign.

Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Cheshire
" An attempt was made in this County to address
the KING, but it was found imprudent, if not imprac-
ticable. I have lately been to Manchester, and, as
trade was better, all was quiet. Agriculture is dread-
fully depressed ; and, in oonsequence, Sir Joint Lei-
CESTER has just abated ten per cent. on his rents, in
addition to ten per cent. before. This, I believe, is
a general cause of distress and complaint throughout
the kingdom. The farmers cannot sell their cheese,
on which they depend to pay their rent, for mote
than 455. per cwt."
The following is an extract of a letter, dated 10th
November,brought by the Leeward Island Mail arrived
*morning:—" Since my last, in. whieb I informed
r.iu of the conference held between Moral° and Bo-
var, we have not received any particulars of the re-
sult of the above conference, therefore it is con-
cluded here, that it has not been of a favourable
issue, nor have we any other news from the Main."
The following is an extract of a letter from Cape
Town, St. Domingo, dated October 15, which con-
tains some additional particulars of the Revolution
that has taken place there :—" A rebellion bad been
in agitation nearly two months previously, by some
of the Chiefs, who took advantage of the King's ill-
ness, he being attacked by apoplexy, ad it was ex-
pected that he could not live long; but so prudently
and secretly had it been conducted, that no person
knew anything of it until the day that it broke out.
It, however, they say, broke out two days before it'
was intended, in consequence of an order sent by the
tyrant Christophe to murder all the strangers and
people of colour in the Cape here. It commenced
first at St. Mark. A Colonel of some Regiment,
well liked by his soldiers, had been sent, for some
small fault, to Sans Souci, the Royal Palace, and
had, as was very usual, been flogged to death. The
soldiers, hearing of this, immediately cut off the head
of the Governor of St. Mark, and killed several other
Chiefs. The troops sent from Sans Saud to quell the
revolt, immediately joined those under the Governor,
with cries of Vive la Liberte, Egalit?, Ind dence,'
&c. The tyrant, hearing of the disloyaltyie of his
troops, immediately shot himself. Thus fell one of
the most bloody of tyrants, never perhaps equalled
in the history of the human race."
We have received Papers direct from Madrid to
the Ist instant. The KING had entirely recovered
from his late indisposition. He had-made several ap-
pointments, which indicate a disposition to consult
the wishes of the People. In the list, we find the,
name of Rum% as Captain-General of Arragon. The
partizans of despotism, however, occasionally renew
their feeble efforts to excite disturbances in the capi-
tal and the provinces. Several of their emissaries
were arrested in Madrid in the night of the 26th ult.
as they were uttering seditious cries in the streets—
they were all'of the lowest class ; but the same night
some others are said to have been arrested, among,
whom were persons of a better class. At Leon, in
the night of the 20th ultimo, a party, consisting
of about ten or a dozen armed men, on horseback,
traversed the streets of that city, exclaiming, " Live
the King !"-46 Perish the Constitution !"—lt being
midnight, the Authorities were somewhat reins
in their duty, and the offenders escaped.
The noted Monk EscolQulaz, died a few days ago
at Ronda, in Andalusia. This man was tutor to the
present KING, whom he accompanied to Valencay,
when he was entrapped by BONAPARTIL ENCOIQUINZ
was the author of the troubles at Bayonne in 1808,
and became a great political leader ; but he died in
exile, completely abandoned by his pupil. A report
had reached Santander, by Ovessel from La Gtura,
of the defeat of Bocivaa by Monism), and-that the
lndependent.squadron in the Magdalena had, in con-
sequence, fallen into the hands of the Spaniards. It
is admitted, however, that none of the letters brought
by the vessel in question make any mention of these
supposed successes on the part of the Royal troops.
The Spanish Papers are filled with Addresses from
parts of the kingdom, expressive of the devotion
of the Authorities to the constitutional system.