Star.
London, England, 1820-01-29 00:00:00

STUTGARD, JANUARY is.

Yesterday morning, after Divine Service, which
was performed in the presence of the King, and all
the Members of the States, his Majesty repaired to
the Hall of the Second Chamber, accompanied by
his. Ministers, his Privy Counsellors, the great Officers
oihis Court, his Aides-de-Camp, and,a deputation of
twenty-five Members of the States ; after the •Presi-
dent of the First Chamber, and all the Members of
the Assembly, had taken the oath, the King, seated
on his Throne, delivered a speech, which made the
most lively impression on the Assembly :
" It is with real joy," said his Majesty, " that I to.
day see, for the first time since the establishment of
the Constitution, my faithful States assembled around
me, called to deliberate with me on the welfare of the
country; I meet you with the sentiments cf confi-
dence, which unite me with my Wurtemburgers.
After the conclusion of the constitutional compact, I
have learned with real satisfaction, from all parts of
the country, that my sentiments ate repaid by the
most faithful attachment; it has everywhere been
expressed, in my presence, in the most open and
cordial manner.

" This spirit of unity and confidence, is a pledge of
the happy issue of your deliberations. Imbued with
a real and unalterable love for the country, you will
examine objects with coolness and impartiality-, and
with due regard to all the circumstances. I shall
always be disposed to listen to your requests and
wishes, the objects of which are the good of the coun-
try ;_ and, in my decisions, the happiness of my
people will be my sole guide. You will learn with
pleasure that my exertions to support the public
credit, have been attended with a favourable effect:
after a long series of years of war, after an unpa-
ralleled•starci;y, and now, in a season of abundance,
which becomes injurious to the land-owners, the
public burdens still require great sacrifices.
" Economy, in all the branches of Administration,
will always be a leading principle of my Govern-
ment. I consider it as my duty, as a Sovereign, to
set the example ; but wise econotay cannot produce
much effect at once, it must respect existing obliga-
tions--it must not become more injurious to the pub-
lic welfare than the burden which it is proposed to
remove. The satisfactory solution of this important
problem will be the work of a subsequent period,
rather than of the present ; for this reason, you will
be called upon to grant the Taxes for the current
year only. The existing system of completing the
army, the goad effects of which are already sensibly
felt, makes'a partial annual recruiting of it necessary.
" The War Minister will lay before you my pro-
posals on this head. They are founded on what is
required by the dignity and independence of the
State, and especially on my obligations as a Prince
of the Confederation, which L shall fulfil, like every
other, with scrupulous punctuality. The necessity
of a more uniform and therefore a more just distri-
bution of the public burdens in Wurtemburg, is ur-
gent, and deeply felt ; but at the same time one of
the points which it is difficult to accomplish. I de-
pend upon your judgment and patriotic zeal for pay-
ing especial attention to this important question."
His Majesty then recommended the Chamber to
draw up, and lay before him, without delay, a plan
roe the method of conducting the delkberations.—
" May they be directed," said his Majesty, " by the
spirii of our Constitution, the spirit of love and con-
fidence. Then you will give the fair example pf an
Assembly, which does not place itself in opposition
to the Government, as if there were diftrent•inte-,
rests to be defended ; but which; in the• generdus
spirit of ancient times, unites with its Prince, cont.-
dentially, to deliberate on what is required by cir-
cumstances and by the good of the people, and, after
an amicable agreement, returns borne, rewarded by
the approbation of their Sovereign, joyfully wel-
comed by their fellow-citizens, and regarded with
gratitude by all their contemporaries.. Then you
will act in conformity with your sacred duty,
and in the spirit of the oath which you have just
taken, according to that spirit • wish which I am
myself animated, and which never separates the in-
terest of the King from that of the 'Country. Then,
at length, my most ardent wish will be fulfilled, then
I shall be the happy father of a happy people."
The Prince of Hohenloc Ocktingea, President of
the Chamber, made an appropriate answer to his
Majesty's gracious speech.

THE LATE DUKE or KENT.

The inquiries of condolence upon the death of the
late Duke of Kawr, continued very numerous yes-
terday at Carlton-House, and the other Royal Esta-
blishments.

Prince Cosouno and the Duchess of KENT are
expected to arrive this evening at Kensington Palace,
orders having been received to prepare for their le•
ception. Similar orders have been received-At Mari-
borough.Hou.se. ,

ANNIVERSARY OF MR. FOX'S BIRTH-DA i,
AT THE ROYAL HOTEL, EDINBURGH.

Lord ERSKINZ, in the absence of the Duke ti
HAMILTON (who was expected, but was indisposed)
was requested to take the Chair. Nearly one. h n- '
dred most respectable Gentlemen being assembled, ..
Lord ERSK:NE, afer giving the health of lris /lb-
jesty,. which was drank in silence, and of the Princ't
Regent, which was drank with three times three,
said—" Gentlemen, before I announce to you th,-
next toast on your lit before me, viz. • The immo •
tal memory of Chan ies James Fox,' I must er..:,•
your to preface it with a few word-.. The kit.},
and flittering manner in which you hare receivr,
Me, by calling upon me to preside, in the absence f
your Noble Chairman, whose indisposition I vc
much lament, has placed me under a difficulty tL..
am not able to conceal. I feel much affected by .1.
' scene so new to me. It. is not as if I were at :Pi.
London Tavern or the Crown and Anchor, in En,,,-
land ; and, indeed, I never even presided there
this Anniversary, the Chair being always filled t;
some person of the highest distinction in that par. o,
the island. I expected only, besides, that you woufu
take-notice of me as a guest, and I thought it he•i
to, trust to the feelings of the occasion, in ieturnitia
you my thanks ; but it comes upon me rather al a. ni- '
ingly, and too much upon the sudden to be the ti: ~t,
and speaking also to strangers, to take the lead on
the subject of this. memorable day. Trusting, boo-
ever, to your:kindness and indulgence, I will sped.
as the moment dictates. Let me begin, then, voti,
expressing the high satisfaction I feel. in seeing-
around me so numerous and so respec:able a meet
ing as that which I have the honour to address, ;ma
it• greatly adds to it to be informed, that there are.
many in this great City, who, though not personally
present, are yet equally attached to the person and
principles of Mr. Fox ; some are prevented by their
high stations as Judges, a fit and well-considered dis-
qualification ; and there are others, amongst alarm,
most eminent and learned men, above all suspicion
of disaffection or coldness, who have thought, as I
have heard, that in the high tide of power and pre-
judice, our meetings for a while a ould appear insig-.
nificant, and had better be revived then it had
passed away. We are all, therefoie, or one mind,
and all good wishes are with us. For my 0 n part,
Gentlemen, subject to these exceptions, a hich ale in
their very nature only transitory, there can, in my .
opinion, be no better way of consec,ating avid per:
petuating sound political principles, than la) blend-
ing them with the memories of illustrious men, w ho
have maintained them owing • their lives; above air,'
when, like Mr. Fox, they have maintahred them 1
amidst great difficulties, and against Lorr-o)t c mi)i..
nations of power to overpower or undermine them
I find no fault with men, who, honestly lioldi.ig op-
posite opinions, celebrate annual') the mernor of
Mr. Pitt. Statesmen in office, an., the highest Ma-
gistrates, take the lead at those commemorations,
and they are joined by very many alio have derived
very solid personal benefits from his administration ;
advantages we have no means of bestowing, and who
may think that their country had flouit,hed in pro•
portion. I do not presume to question. any of them,
but surely, when so much rank and, power, and
riches, and influence of every descris, tion, is thus
thrown into the scale, to support principles and mea-
sures which we think dangerous and inimical to the
Constitution, as established at the Revolution, surely
it becomes the more incumbent upon us, who feel
the value of that auspicious era, of our liberties, to
use every practicable and useful effort to support the
principles which gave it birth. As to the effects and
consequences of the principles and measures we have
opposed, it is not difficult, though extremely painful,
to express them. We are bound in justice to believe
that they were not contemplated- by those who so
long and pertinaciously acted upon them, through-
out a calamitous and exhausting war, begun, as Mr.
Fox thought, without necessity or justice—persevered
in, after many opportunities lost, till the time was
gone by, for safe and permanent peace—and ending,
even after a kind of miracle, in our favour, at the
battle of Waterloo, iu a state of Europe far less fa--
vourable to our prosperity, than probably - would
have been its condition if we had left France, in the
beginning of her Revolution, to exhaust herself by
the contentions of desperate and conflicting factions,
or rather, more honestly and nobly, to haze given
her a friendly and generous assistance, to consolidate
her freedom, and to save her from the miseries which
-oppressed her ; and, if the other Nations of Europe,
guided by such an example, instead of uniting against
and combating that great but distracted coultrv, by
an unjust invasion of her territory, had prudently r&
mained in their own, in an attitude of self-defence,
and husbanding the means of it until they were at,
tacked—a period, I confidently maintain, which
would never have arrived—France might never have
sought to extend her dominion by foreign conquests,
,-it her own independence had not been wantonly in-
sulted, and, by an ill-timed conspiracy of nations,
put in hazard—( Long continued and loud applause).:
Against all this, Mr. Fox uniformly protested. The I
language of Scripture applies equally to all men—
' By their
.fiuits ye shall knot, them.' Now, what
are the fruits of the system we have opposed ? Our
country, the fincst upon the earth, the garden ta„ the
world,, the boasted scat of freedom and happiness,
has become a scene of the most conflicting priva-
tions to the great body of the People, producing in-
evitably proportional discontent. We are staggering
under a taxation beyond all example in the histery of
the world, arising from a debt of nearly a thousand
millions of money—not contracted, as has been as-
serted, under the pressure of inevitable conjunctures,
but incurred only to exasperate the evils against
I which we had to contend, and which' has left the
.1
States of Europe in conditions of advancing pros-
peritv, already beginning to rival us in our tom-
', merce and manutactures--contlitimis entirely ta--:

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stowed upon them' by 'Sur seasteful warfare upon the
Continent, whilst the landed property of England is, in
a manner, divided between the tat-gatherers and the
poor. and the Government. Good Gob ! Gentlemen, the
Government of England, instead of looking for sup-
port to the affections of the People, with the reins
thrown upon its neck by a libeial Parliament,
trusting to the certain consequences of indulgent
p wisdom, now requires, according to its own recent
il confession, to be bolstered up even against appre-
-1 hended dissolution, by recasting the laws, trusting
1 to penal parchments, instead of to tho hearts of free-
a men. as a safeguard against hatred and contempt.—•
1 I dm happy, nevertheless, to find my beloved native
' country in a state of tranquillity. and I trust that her
People will never seek t.) deliver themselves from
any system of government they may think unwise in
Parliament, by tumult and disobedience to the laws,
tut that all orders of them may support one another,
to insure good government, because, against an hei-
:test, harmonious, and peaceable union of all classes
'1
of the British People, no misgovernment can for any
. long continuance exist. Zealous exertions-by those
". who are in Parliament, supported by energetic, but
well-considered efforts in all other classes, might yet,
' I hope. rescue our country from difficulties, which
are banishing the People by spontaneous emigrations,
j %%hilst Government is seeking to vanish them by the
laws ! a state of things, which could not possibly have
.: taken place in a land blessed with so fertile a soil, so
:*.4 favourable a climate, and so excellent a Constitution,
nif some very unfortunate mistakes (to speak with no
._,., greater harshness) had not been committed by those,
p who have so long been trusted with the administration
ls 9 of our anirs, and who have had all the power which a
hi Parliament. implicitly confiding in them, could be-
Qstow ; a power, one would tln..ic, which might have
r'i been brought to a better account. But this melan-
r:i choly state of things has placed the Whigs of Eng-
land, the supporters of the principles of our Govern-
:l rne:.t as settled at the Revolution, in a new and more
ili di: icuit situation, which, however, they must not
4 s!;ti;.k from, but conduct themselves with iropar-
..iality and firmness. They had formerly only to op-
r; i.oce the overgrown influence of the Crown ; they
:.,i :lave now also to guard against the consequences
1
which it has produced on the minds of the multi-
rude.- We must not be angry at the People, because
. INP t;.i,ik tit many of them have mistaken the way
to be delivered from the abuses which we in common
. co•uplain of. If they are discontented with the
x ;,igi, or occasiL nally misled to distrust them, let
us continue to shew by our conduct,
_that our

views are misrepresented or mistaken. Let us be
ste,ii,st in our principles, and acting honestly,
v.e must in the end prevail. It is for the benefit
f the Public, that the acts of great bodies of pub-
lic -should he publicly canvassed. If they are
canvassed fairly, the wisest and the bcst may be
instiucted, and if they aie attacked with bit-
!er -ess, which may often be rather the effect of
honest jealousy and irritation than of malice, let us
1: eely forgive them ; the attack will only exalt us in
general opinion, when our honest exertions are, by
that very circumstance, brought into view. Gentle-
men, as to the ever-to-be-lamented Statesman whose
foots:eps we follow, and whose memory we now
commemoilte, it is impossible for any one to speak
of his exertions in Cie cause of public liberty, but
more especially for me, who almost daily was a wit-
ness to them for so very many years, without being
'.ost and overwhelmed by the multitude of the ob-
jects they embraced ; whilst my mind is at the same
moment drawn aside from them, by, if possible, the
superior character of his temper and qualifications
as a private man. Gentlemen, this is all that I can
say to you—l was born in the Old City of Edinburgh
only three days before, as I believe, this truly great
man was born at the other extremity of The island,
and I have always thought it one of the most fortu-
nate circumstances of my singularly chequered life,
that I came to know him, to honour him, and to
act with him as I did. My oWn time, Gentlemen,
is now list hastening to a conclusion, and its termi-
nation cannot be distant ; but, whenever it shall hap-
pen, I should desire to be remembered by no better
a tomb-stone than this—' fhomas Erskine, a friend
and companion of Charles James Fox:—Gentlemen, I
thank you very sincerely for your indulgent kindness
and patience."

Tic Noble Lord concluded with proposing to drink
to the " Immortal Memory of Charles James Fox,"
which was received w•iti: enthusiasm.

Many public-spirited sentiments were then given,
intermiied with just respect to the eminent support-
ers of the principles of Mr. Fox.
" Lord Holland, and may he live long to cherish the princi-
ples which have immortalized his Uncle."

" Earl Grey, and may eloquence, talents, and integrity, over-
bear apostacy and intrigue."
" Earl ititzwilliara, whose removal by the present Adminis-
tration adds fresh lustre to Lis character."

" Mr. Lambten, and sucsT:s to his exertions in precoring a
Reform in the Commons House of Parliament."—Thanks were
ably renamed by his Brother.
" The Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of
Albemarle, and all present or. that day at Norwich."
The Ear/ of Lauderdale," it being his birth-day, of whoa
Lord Erskine spoke in the warmest language of friendship.
" The Houses of Bedford and Devonshire, Hamilton and
Argyle, Leinster, Lansdown, Charlemont, and all the Whip
of the Unites Kingdom."

Mr. CAMPBELL, of Carberry, proposed, " The
Memory of Mr. Horner," in a most just tribute to
his talents and virtues; and the Hon. Mr. Manta,
who supported Lord Erskine as Vice-President, did
ample justice to the memory of Mr. Henry Erskine.
Mr. CastraELL proposed—.
" The health of Mr. Fletcher, a warm and early assertor of
Borough Reform in Scotland."
"' The memories of great men, deceased, were not
orgot ten —Wash ington--Bir Samuel Romill y—Mr.
(lark of Eldon, the father of Mr. John Clark—
e
Lard Newton—Professor Millar, and many other
nni:tent men of Scotland.
4 Tile d.ty passsed with the utmost cordiality, and
company did not separate till past eleven o'clock.
The lion. Mr. lklaune proposed—
The health of the Chairman, and Trial by Jory."
Lord ERSKINE said, he had the good fortune to
'xilc.se, in so many instances, the atrocity and absur-
lay of that long-standing usurpation of the Courts
it.-gard to Libel, that the public mind became pre-
, ,area for reformation, particularly from what passed
the Dean of St. Asaph's car. He had, he said,
ourid the victims, and brought them to the altar;
;,it that withrt::- the power aid influence of Mr. For
Pailia74ent, the sac) :flee would ne-..er hare been
'ark and it was one of the ?tabled and most impoe-
i,! .;elvices he had rendered to his country !

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TAL INTELLIGENCE:. s • 7, -

IVArxxvoso,7Amraav !3.—Arrived the Indus;VAPITIMOILD
of Salem, from Canton, for Cowes. This vessel is the semad
that be arrived in this harbour direct from the East Indies,
.She had six months passage from China.

Ii rxsau,
JANUARY 24.—Tbe, Martin, of Wothington, front
St. Andrew's for Liverpool, put in here last night, in a heavy
gale from the S.S.W. She. was driven on the Bank, where she
beat very heavy, until she was got off by assistance, much da-
maged. The crew have been in want of provisions for the last
fourteen days. She met, on her voyage, the Sophia, of Bristol,
dismasted, waver-logged, and abandoned. Yesterday morning,
she saw about a dozen sail of vessels steeripg the same course as
the Martin, and, from the extreme halness of the night, it is
feared some of them have beets driven on shore to the West-
ward. The brig Anna, Musa, of Saltcoats, from St. John's
(New Brunswick), has been driven on shore in Duravorly Biy,
and if the weather moderates the vessel and cargo may be saved.
hltiroan, JANUARY 26.—Several guns have been heard front
the North, and a pilot has been sent off in that direction. The
pilot has since returned, but has found no vessel, and it is hoped
she has got into the Channel again.
FLYMOVIN, JANUARY 27.—Wind %V.—Arrived the FLY sloop
of war, Captain Corm, from Barbadoes, having on board the
body of Rear-Admiral Donau' Camrszi.i who died the 11th
November, on his passage from Tortola to Barbadoes. Also ar-
rived the Rose, Tama., from Cork, after being on shore in
}lnatome Bay, and got off by the assistance of the crew of a
Revenue cutter, after having received considerable damage.
PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 28.—Wind N.—Sailed the Jane,
it!'Gaarss, and Oak, —, for London; Lively, Ewtmo, for
Naples ; and Venus, FAZAJUD, for Havre. 1

Di 41.., JANUARY !B.—Wind N.—Sailed the Ajar, CLAIM, for
Madras and Bengal ; Denmark 'dill, Pam, for rentambeco;
Concord, Rey, for Trinidad; James, DENNISON, for Jamaica;
Harlesteta, BRIGHTMAN, for New Zealand; Greenwich, Heit-
man; Ann, Kess•; Emma GULLITTR ; and Mercury, Gee-
slin., for the South Seas; Neptune, Battens, for the Cape of
Good Hope; Achilles, 'lntnet.t., for Buenos Ayres; Manning,
STEWARD, for St. Andrew's ; and several more, partiodars un-
known.

lIIANCHESTER, JANUARY 27.