Star.
London, England, 1816-12-11 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE S 7 AR.

You have bad many excellent observations on the
Riots. You have it in your power to insist OR the
necessity of a great act of Legislation.
Twenty years ago, Mr. PiTt's Administration de.
terrnined, if possible, to defraud the subject of the
constitutional right of petitioning. For that purpose
they endeavoured to check, and to prevent, the Meet-
. ings of Counties, Towns and Parishes, which can
never be mischievous. because they are attended by
persons of character and respectability, who are
known and connected with each other, and who are
a check against intemperance and sedition. These
Meetings are a salutary branch of the Constitution ;
the Sedition Bills, therefore, were uust and tyranni-
cal. But they were disarmed of apart ot their sting
during their various stages in Parliament, and were
soon totally abolished.
The Legislature s!iould have totally prevented
those tumultuous Meetings, composed of—nobody
knows who—men, perhap not attached to this coon.
try—nay, possibly Americans and other aliens—who
cannot be supposed to convey the sells:. of the nation.
'the Legislature should do that gow ; they would be
supported, instead of being opposed as they were
then, by the whole country.
AN OLD CONSTITUTIONALIST.

EVENINii sTAR:

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1816.
PRICE, OF S THIS DAY Al TWELVE O'CLOCK
' Reduced tizi —Cons. mu. shut—Cons. for opg. 63}
4 per Cent. 78ii—.5 per Colt. Navy slim
Eicheq@er bills, Bs. I Is. pr.—lndia bonds 17s. In. pre.
Bank Lung Annuities

Last night at a late hour a Mail arrived from
Hamburgh with journals to the 4th instant. The
States of Hanover having presented a congratulatory
Address to the Duke of CAMBRIME, on his appoint-
ment to the situation of Governor General, a suitable
reply was made by his Royal Highness, who, we,
doubt not, will render essential services to that
country in the high office to which he has been called.
The Archduke LgOPOLD of Sicily is stated to have
nearly lost his eye-sight, at Vienna, by looking too
intently at the late partial eclipse of the sun. On the
shores of the Elbe aid the Neva, mild weather has
followed the late early frosts.

Letters received yesterday from Holland, on the
authenticity of which we can fully rely. state, that the
SOVEREIGN of the NETHERLANDS had withdrawn the
decree which had in contemplation to prohibit the
exportation of wheat, Ice. The prohibitory decree
had not been acted upon otherwise than by detaining
vessels two or three days which were ready to sail
for England with cargoes of cairn. To this assurance
of increased supp'y to our markets, we have to add
the statement of a worthy Magistrate, who has re.
cent), travelled through several counties, and who
assures us, that from his observation, the corn in
many places was more productive than in common
years. The ears indeed we►e smaller, but they were
more numerous. This Gentleman met, on his tour,
with a person who pretended to be sent round to pro.
cure intelligence for Government of the state of the
crops, but who took his information only from parties
interested in keeping up the prises of the markets,
and not from ocular inspection.

Letters from Cadiz, received by the Mail of yester.'
day, notice the arrival there of the Spanish merchant
ships, la Perla and la Cantabria, from Lima, with a
million of dollars on board, belonging to the Mer.
cant& interests. The safe arrival of these vessels,
which had ran so much risk from the abundance and
boldness of the Insurgent privateers, had tended a
little to raise the spirits of the people of Cadiz, and
on the strength of it, the Meraants are said to have
appropriated the sum of 200,000 dollars, for the
purpose of equipping out a more adequate force to
protect the national flag, now openly insulted in
every channel of Spanish enterprize.

The tear-dropping Mr. HUNT has addressed a letter
to the Loan MAYOR, to which, on account of the sin-
gular proposal which it contains, we have given,a
place in oar columns. His proposal, translated into
plain English, amounts to a request to the Loan
MAyon to find him two labourers to work throughout
the winter, without any other wages than their bare
uatenance. Even this offer, liberal as it is, we
verily believe we should never have heard of, had
not the benevolent Mr. HUNT been reminded that his
tear would neither fill the belly nor cl.,the the back of
the poor and the destitute. The answer of ,rite LORD
MAYOR is calculated to repress, if any thing could,
the ostentation of Mr. HUNT—he reminds him that in
his ewe neighbourhood he can find no difficulty in se-
'toting objects worthy of his philanthropic intentions.