Star.
London, England, 1819-11-17 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

rnicE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O.ELEEE
3 per Cent. Reduced 66.1 it
3 per Cent. Coniols 67tif
31, per Cent. 7511
4. per Cent. 84“
.5 per Cent. Navy 102.11
Bank Long Annuities 17i 9-16
India Bond 7s. 65. pre.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) Is. 2s. dis.
Omnium 2i dis.
Consols for Acct. 67ii.

If we may credit the rumours at the Stock Ex-
change this morning, a mast extraordinary and,
unexpected discovery has been made. It appears
that Ministers have been so hard pressed for mo-
ney to pay the late Dividends, that they were
under the necessity of borrowing One Million,
through private channels, upon Exchequer Bills,
dated the 20th of October and November, 1819 ;
some of those Bills were this day purchased on
'Change for the first time, consequently they are now
sliding into circulation by degrees. As four months'
of over-due Exchequer Bills have not yet been '
vertised, some people imagine that this issue is to
provide for those 04-standing Bills.

The apprehensions which the prevalence of con-
tagious fever in so many foreign parts, have reason-
ably excited, has called forth the following precau-
tionary measure on the part of the Government of,
this Country: _ _ _

" Comil-Office, Whitehall, November 6.

" San—The Lords of kis Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Council having had under their consideration your letter, with
the inclosure therein referred to, by which it appears, that in
consequence of the Mayor of Liverpool having received informa-
tion that an alarming fever prevailed in the city of New York,
to such extent that a great part of the inhabitants have left the
place, for the safety of themselves and families, directions have
been given by the Collector at that Port, tb prevent any inter-
course with vessels arriving from New York, until the strictest
inquiries shall hive been made into the drcumstancm of the
voyages, and the health of the crews and passengers, I am di-
rected to acquaint you, for the information of the Commissioners
of his Majesty's Customs, that the Lords of the Council en-
tirely approve the measures of precaution taken by the Officers
of Liverpool on this occasion ; and are of opinion that the same
should be strictly observed, until further directions be given by
their Lordships. (Signed) " CHE WYND.
" To Grottos DELAVAUD, Esq."

" N. B. The Commissioners of Customs have transmitted
orders, in conformity, to Collectors and Comptrollers of the Out.
ports generally."

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Eail of LIVER-
POOL, Viscount CAerLEREAGII, and the CHANCEL-
' LOR of the Excutoren, had a meeting with Viscount
SID MOUTH, at the Secretary of State's Office for the
Home Department.
His Royal Highness the Duke of KENT entertained
a select Dinner Party at Kensington Palace, in cele-
bration of his Birth Day. The party consisted of
about twenty persons, among whom were--
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold of Saze Cobourg, General Wetherell, Captain
Conroy, Captain Parker, and other persons of distinction.
After dinner seveTal excellent Songs and Glees were
sung by professional Gentlemen. Mr. M'DERMOTT
(from Dublin), the celebrated performer on the union
pipes, first played God save the King, in so fine a
style as to delight the company. The Duke of KENT
called for Erin go Bragh, which M'DERMOTT exe-
cuted with the most touching pathos and effect. The
Duke of Sumac then called for the favourite old
Irish air, Gramachree Molly, which was also most
delightfully performed. Prince LEOPOLD desired
*Damson. to play a favourite Scotch air, The Birks
vr Invermay, which he immediately did with equally
fine effect, and ;he company expressed their highest
satisfaction at the whole of his performance.
Sir EDWARD 'HATCH/HILL, Bart. was yesterday
unanimously elected to succeed his lamented father
as Member of Parliament for the County of Kent.
In his Address to the Freeholders, the Honourable
Baronet observed that, " he had a right to say that
he was independent ; by than he meant, that he would
never act upon principles which were not in the
strictest sense of the word prompted by those feelings
which independence would dictate; and he trusted
that, whenever he came to render to them an ac-
count of his conduct, he should not alone elicit, but
deserve, their approbation. To preserve to the Crown
its prerogatives—to the Nobility their privileges—
and to secure to the People their rights, were the
true duties of an independent Representative. The
Honourable Gentleman concluded, by pledging him-
self to the utmost of his ability, to maintain those
principles ; and while he yielded to his Majesty's Mi-
nisters every expense which was necessary to the well-
being of the State, to exert every influence in his
power to prevent an unnecessary. expenditure of the
public money."—A rumour prevailed, that it was in-
tended to introduce a Loyal Declaration, relative to
the proceedings at Manchester ; a strong muster,
however, of the opponents of such a measure, it was
presumed, deterred those who might have contem-
plated such a side-wind operation, from carrying
their intention into effect.
Sir CHARM, MONCK has addressed a letter to 'a
Provincial Paper, in which he disclaims any concur-
rence in the Resolutions adopted at Alnwick Castle,
recommending the formation of corps of Yeomanry
Cavalry.—‘, I have many objections," he says, " to
the formation of Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry in time
ofpeace, when the purpose can .only be Military in-
terference in Civil Government. If I mention my
chief reason, it will be sufficient at present; namely,
thak 1 think that the laws of England, which affect
the personal freedom and safety of Englishmen, ought
to be executed upon them by persons who are in every
way subject* the same laws."

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

TILLS DAY.
ELECTION BRIBERY.

Tilts morning Mr. SwAwn appeared to reed* the
Jud4ment of the Court for wilful and corrupt bri-
bery at the last Election for the Borough of Penrhyn,
in Cornwall.

The ATTORNEY-GZNYEAL moved the Judgment
of the Court.

Mr. Justice In?, before whom the defendant was
tried at the last Assizes for Cornwall, read his Report
of the trial.

Mr. SwAnn, being asked if he had any affidavits?
answered, " None." He then addressed the Court,
and said, he had attended to the Report read by the
Learned Judge, which he conceived to be correct.—
When on his trial, he had been deprived of the legal
assistance of a Gentleman he should have employed
had he not then become an Officer of the Crown.—
He then undertook his own defence, but was so much
agitated, and, so much oppressed with the heat of the
Court, that it overpowered him, and prevented his
making that defence which would have saved him
from the disgraceful situation in which he now stood.
It might be said, why then was, he a second time un-
dertaking his own cause ?—it was because, that as he
had no affidavits to offer, there was little necessity
fur Counsel; and the expensive contested elections
he had stood, and the prosecution of the House of
Commons, the former of which had cost him £7,000,
and the latter £1,200, had rendered it inconvenient

for him to meet any additional expenses. He enter-
tained a high sense of the magnitude of the offence
of which he was convicted ; an offence which
should meet with severe punisbment, as it tended
to bring' into contempt the House of Commons.—
He adverted to the fact, that he had been acquitted
on all the charges brought against him, by a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons ; and that he
would not then have been found guilty, had not
the Solicitor to the Treasury gone down to Cornwall
to collect evidence, and on that founded dm two
counts on which he had been convicted. He did not
wish to reflect on the late Attorney-General, whom
every person must respect : but former Attorney-
Generals thought they had executed the duties imposed
on them by the House of Commons,when they confined
the prosecutions to the Minutes of the Committee.--
He thought if their Lordships considered the cha-
ractei: of the evidence against him, they could not
think it founded on truth. Was it likely, that a Can-
didate should go to an Elector, as he was said to
have done to Peter Jenkins, and say, " If you will
tell me your mind I will tell you mine ?" No! the
truth was, when he went to this Wilkins, he was told
that, as he had voted for him at four Elections, and
received nothing, he had sworn to his wife not to
vote again unless I would give up the note 1.._
The fact was, that, unwilling to loska voter, he had
prevailed on Mr. Glasson not to put in force a debt
against Wilkins. He said corruption had raged at
Penrhyn fur more than a century; public breakfasts
were given when the price of a plumper was twenty-
four guineas; he had never given one of them break-
fasts, but had maintained the honest independence of
the town, and provided labour for them in the public'
works with which he had been connected. If he
had wished to be corrupt, he might for £5OO have
always secured his election. For eighteen years,
that he had been an active Member of Parliament,
he had never broken bread at the expense of his;
Country. Even the night before his trial, he could,
for £4OO, have secured the very note which procured
his convictica. Mr. Swann then stated, that as his
connexions were in the West-Indies, he had written
to the Attorney-General, to defer judgment until
Spring ; but the Learned Gentleman refused, and
immediately called. upon him to give security for his
appearing for judgment. Officers had been sent to
his house, who alarmed his family, rushed into his
bed-room, and treated him as if he had been a felon:
a traitor, a murderer. He then read a written tes-
timonial of the services he had rendered the town.of
Penrhyn and the County in general and declaring,
their belief that he was not guilty of the charge
which had been made against him by the persons who
had so largely partaken of his bounty. This was
signed by 150 respectable inhabitants. .
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied to the observa-
tions of Mr. Swann, and defended the conduct of the
officers of the Court.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in giving judgment, sh
remarked on the magnitude of the offence of which
the defendant, a member of the same profession as
his Lordship, and an active Magistrate, had been
convicted; he then passed on him the Judgment of
the Court, which was, that he, Mr. Swann, should be
confined in the King's Bench Prison, for the space
of One Year.

Lora Enamors)); has declined signing his name to
the "Loyal Declaration," circulating in Devonshire;
and in a very manly letter which he has published in
vindication of his conduct, observes--" I cannot con-
sent to brand, as threatening the subversion of all
order and Government,' those Public Meetings which,
with very few exceptions, appear to have been called
according to the form prescribed by law, and with
.the lawful view of making a statement of grievances,
sad of petitioning for their redress; but least of all
prrld I do so at a time when, in consequence of recent
intents, Lie expression of that opinion must, as I con-
ceive, be construed into an *direct approval of he
manner in which one of these Meetings was dis-
persed, and into an implicit intention of supporting
some legislative measures for restricting the Right of
Petition in future."

-:

711 E ARMY.

The Duke of YoRIC held a Mil;tary
day, as Commander in-Chief, at his 0f ice
Horse Guard!.
RICHARD FOHNZADRR WiLSON, Esq. is about
raise a body of Yeomanry Cavalry, amongst his
tensive tenantry in Yorkshire, to act • •
in conitr
with the Yorkshire Hussars.
The men selected to form the battalions
valids In the Chester District, cone
there daily. About a thousand are
course of the present week.
Captain Balsas, the Receiving-OS
tester District, has, up to this period,
wards of 800 men. Those found unf
duty are paid and dismissed, and those
service are marched off, under an OF
ments of 50 men, to Plymouth,
desirous of forming these Battalions
Bible, have ordered an addition to the
to assist Surgeon SauerNut. in the
arduous duty, at Gloucester. For thi!
Surgeon Howni., M.D. is arrived
Surgeon Mont is hour* expected.
The Castle of Newcastle is now fitting
racks for Infantry.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE
Manchester,
Oilleare tithe I fah (King's Union,
Wert the following paragraph in Paper.
C _
Lieutenant-Colonel
The °Seers it the Illth Human have
from noticing tip taming paragraph, in a '—
Sheriff Parkins, thinking it dm to the individual
he should have emery opportunity olcorramin
described as srigismaiss with biw,
is Weil may I call k a _ ; for ,
by a plias* Mm- of the ldtli Hassan (the
lured Nohlenum now lighting la the Cause 1
America), teat wile engaged in restraining
manry, whereby be happily saved the lives
Individuals, his lames were ensanguined in
from the wounded bodies of the victims of mil.
They feel highly Indignant that the name
should appear in such a representation; and
their duty to make # known, that the Person
the above extract $o have made um of sack
longer in the May !-tad the opbdee Promuldited
dve to the coadact of the Teonsistry Cavalry -
itith of August, is tataßy at variance wi;b
Officers of the Iftit Hassan.

. • NAVAL INTELLIGE,
47KRSZT, Nova a= Ito—Arrival the
from Demerara foe London, with 4ss of rudder
Fatatoura, Novaltsas. 14.—Wind variable.-
Wty's ships Lit sad Det,aszty with seta;
Westward.

Ps.vmourin, Noviamsls.—Wind
11:tux...Apr, from Liverpool, got on shore this morn:n; e.
South-cut point of St. Nicholas's Wand,. but has be.co
with very little damage.
Runway, Novissara 16.—Arrived the ('hacks,
from London for Leghorn, with loos of anchor 3nd cable,
windlass paulls upset.
Htawson, Novratnta 16.—The EAGLE (Revenue mice,
brought into this port a lugger, with 500 tubs of sprice, stre
tea and tobacco, with 22 men, one of whom was kind 334
several wounded in the affray.
Posumourn, Nov. le.—Arrived the Stemshaw, Nuns-3,
from Quebec ; and his lklajesty's ship Hnin, from a cruiae
Soiled his Majesty's ship Owsrar Gummy/mt. for South Amero.
Wind N.N.W.

MAL, Nov. 16.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived and tared fc:;fte
River, the John and William, Macrt.ar, from Buenos 17.
eighty-four days • Cumberland, COATES' from Si. Andrew..
and Waterloo, COL:, from Havannah. Came down from •Lt
River, the Norfolk, Luny, and Margaret, Aura, for Mae.r..,,
therru, for Jamaica ; and Fortitude, PHEW, fur Nr;i:
Put back, the Wham and Alfred, for Antigua; Ann, fc:
males ; and Percival and Nautilus, for Grenada. The Ntrfc.i.
for Madras, and several more, are getting under weigh.

General PEVEREVZ is actively employed in endea-
vouring to raise a loan of £90,000, for the Gove;:-.•
ments of New Grenada and Venezuela.

- The RICoaDER of LONDON is to make his 11(7,A
to the PRINCE REGENT on Saturday next, of the Cc:
viets in Newgaie under sentence of death; when is
expected the fate of Stela, in whose favour so mach
interest has been used, will be determined.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Mr. Lisros, afte:
his long and severe indisposition, resumed his pre-
fessioral duties last night, in the character of ki
Lasripkin, in GOLDSMITH'S Comedy of She Stoop
Conquer. The reception which this excellent and fa,
vourite actor received was such as must have been
highly gratifying to his feelings. He exerted litre
self to the utmost, although the symptoms cf
position were visibly perceptible in his appearance.—
The House, notwithstanding the unfav,urable state cf
the weather, was will attended.

Dual..--A meeting took place on Wednesday
morning, in a field near to Oswald House, I etweet
Mr. J. W— and Mr. H. both of Durham.
They were attended by Lieutenant-General W--,
as second to the former, and Mr. C— for the latter.
After exchanging two shots the parties separated.
Mr. S--'s first shot passed close to Mr. W-- head,
and the second tote his trowsers, but happily no per-
sonal injury was received by either of the parties.
Bestas.-.The match between Arbon and Misr was frl2'
good on llooday night, at Randall's. To fight for 100 Gain
a-alde, on the 23d of peeember. The whole of the stakes to be
depinited on the 41st. The battle to take place in a tweorr.foir
feet ring. Betting 6 end 6t04 on Melton. h'aisisan and Mon.
tight on the 26th of December : 6to 4 on Hudson.
COTTON MARK2Tr-LONDON, Nov. 14.—The de'
wand for cotton continues nearly suspended ; the
Maly purchases since last week consists of New Swats,
at 9d. and 9id. in bond, being the late sale prices at
the India-House; a few bales of Demerara cottcn,
fair to pretty good, 14d. to 15d.
I.lvEstrocn., Nov. 1300-Tbe late brisk demand for
-cottons had subsided in a measure on Saturday,
and the inquiry throughout this week has beet
limited; prices however remain without alteration.
GLasoow, Nov. 13.—The sales of Cotton ti
week amounted to 506 packages. Sea Islands .'
6id. to 2s. Bd.—Boweds 329, at 12id. to JS!d•---
Orleans 37, at 15d. to 161 d inferior SO,
ISd.—Deaterara and Berbice 52, at 15d. to 19d
Bengal 50, at Bld. to Bd.
CORN Excitaxaa, MARK-LANE, Nov. 17.-11'4'
have been but few arrivals since Monday ; yec whai
Wheat remained over from that day's supply w"
very heavy sale this morning, and only fine saute:-,
could be disposed of; but for which Monday's prize,
were obtained.—Fine Barley being scarce, is is.
quarter dearer; but there is no amendment in
price of inferior samples.—Oats, Peas, and llear,
fully support Monday's prices ; but the sales We::
rather heavy.

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a letter vnitters' by sk
dividual alluded to,tiz
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ling the infuriated Yu.
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if military execution
same of the Regius
and tberefore deer.:
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sock expressions, is o
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ivalry employed oa
*sentiments
;ENCE.
Catherine, WALLt.,
sf rudder and sal.
his
ievcral coasters, to
S. W.,-The Venuraos,
arc this morning on
d,
but has been get a 4
the i'hatks, Ilecrq
anchor and cab e,
,e (Revenue cutter) L'u
0 tubs of spriss, sere
whom wu killed ant
Sternshaw, Matsu.;
3ni7:l, from a cruise -
van, for South Amerca
rived and sai!ed foNse
, from Buenos 17.
Sp
from St. .inresv's.
Came down ftorn
•et, Aunt, for
ides PHEW., fur Neti:
Antigua; Ann, fc:
irszada. The hicrfc.i.
ins under weigh.
employed in enciel-
)o, for the Gove;:-.•
muela.
to make his RC; ::t
ay next, of the Cc:-
of death; when i:
ose favour so mach
termined.
-Mr. LISTON, afte:
, resumed his prc-
character of Tel;
Tly of She Stoopt;
his excellent and fs,
Is must have been
He exerted lir:•
symptoms c.f ir.L-
-n his appearance.—
mfa v curable stated