Star.
London, England, 1817-01-02 00:00:00

NAPAI. Mr/ L IGEN CE

FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 30.
Arrived the Lord Si.lm loth packet with Mails
from New York ; she sailed the 9th December. •

PORESMOUII4. JANUARY 1.
Arrived the following ships from the Downs :
Blucher, for Liverpool; Richard and Sibella, for
Barbadoes; Ddckenfield Hall, lin St. Vincent's;
and William, for Buenos Ayres.—Wind S.S.W.

DEAL, JANUARY I.
Came down from the River last evening the Van-
sittart, Bombay, and Richmond, for India; Canada,
for Bombay; and Porcupine, for Trieste.—Arrived
the Hipppolita, from North Shields for Jamaica.—
Wind S. W.

WEYMOUTH, JANUARY I.
Arrived the Yeoman from Sunderland, and •the,
Nymph from Guernsey, with loss .ot bulwarks, and
one man washed overboard
MARGATE, JANUARY I. •
-Arrived the Mars, OWEN, of Barmnoth. from
Campvero to London, with wheat, leaky, having
struck oa the Knock Sand.
CUS FOM-HOUSE, JANUARY I.
Sum ENTERED !Kw.% a os.—Tisc Princess of Wales, Fox, from
Ostend ; Grace, Kerr, Irons Buenos Ayres; Dart, Bedwell, from
Charente; Eliza, King, from the I.lc of France; Sophia,
from Holland ; Twee Gebroeders, Carst ; Vrien.:schap, Mole.
graeff; Uric Gebroetlets, Om; Drie Gebroetler., Daniels ; Bros-
derliefde, Cant; and Vrow Hetudnka, Kramer, Irons Amster-
,'am; Vrow hole, looker, from Rotterdam; and Vrow
Hendrika, Bolster, irom Harlingen.
Our waans —l'he Eliza, Bower, for Rotterdam ; Malvin*,
Barrett, for Gibraltar; Britannia, Fox, for Boordeas* ; Vrow
Frentje, Kanto, for Antwerp ; Ebenezer, Edmonds, for Ham.
burgh; and Perseverance, MoNabtv for Belfast.

THE ARMY:
The Inspecting Field Officers of Militia in Canada,
the provinces ot Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick,
have been struck off and placed upon half-pay.
The following reinforcements embarked at Dover
on Saturday and Monday last, to join the bead quar-
ters under his Grace the Duke of W stumacrosr, viz.
Cavalry, a reinforcement from the 2d and 3d Dra-
goon Guards, 7th Light Dragoons, 12th (Lancers),
and 18th (Hussars.)
The 46th Regiment is expected to leave New South
Wales for India, and is to be replaced by the 48th.
The 55th Regiment arrived at Guernsey, and re-
lieved the 32d, which we have already announced is
arrived at Gosport.
Part of the 2d Battalion of the 60th Regiment is
to be stationed at Harwich instead ot Chelsea.
The 7th Battalion of the 60th Regiment it is ex-
pected will be reduced.
A reinforcemant of the 75th embarked last week
at Deptford, to join its regiment at Corfu.
Tuesday se'nnight the depot of the 80th Regiment
arrived at Chatham from Canterbury.
The Invalid Establishment at York Hospital,
Chelsea, is ordered to be transferred to Chatham.
Captain BEAUSIOAUDT has commissioned the MA-
DAGASCAR frigatt, et Sheernes, : she is to be fitted out
for a troop ship, to carry out 200 Marine Artillery
to Canada.

A large number of the Honourable East India
Compan>'s troops, together with numerous detach-
ments of King's troops, belonging to the several regi-
ments of foot serving in India, were embarked at
Gravesend a few days back, under the superinten.
dance of Colonel MIDGEJA, embarking officer at Til-
bury. His Royal Highn:•ss the Commander in
Chief, has judiciously directed the depots of regiments
serving in the East Indies, to be assembled and sta-
tioned in Chatham Barracks, where the Honourable
East India Company's troops have been stationed for
a considerable time, and from whence they can be
embarked with the greatest convenience and facility.
The wisdom and superiority of this arrangement, be-
comes more evident at every embarkation. The
Company's ships are obliged to lay at Gravesend for
some time, and the troops being marched from Chat-
ham, are embarked at a few hours notice, and the
ships proceed on their voyage without any interrup-
tion or delay; whereas, when the troops were em-
barked at the Isle of Wight, the ships were obliged'
to come to an anchor at that place, and it frequently
happened during the time they were unavoidably
detained there, that a contrary wind arose, and pre-
vented them from proceeding on their voyage fur a
considerable time.

The Clerks discharged from the victualling Office
have been allowed six months' salary each by the
Commissioners.
A Letter from New Orleans, dated September 11,
says—" Large quai.tities of goods are purchasing
here to be shipped to Mata Gorda, to supply the
coast of the Gulph of Mexico, now all in possession
of the Patriots. Commodore Aury is at Mata Gorda :
he has with him 2,000 men. We are momentarily
expecting interesting news from that quarter. I am
desired to make inquiry if vessels, under the Mexican
Bag, with cargoes of produce, the growth of New
Spain, will be admitted into British ports ?"
By a Letter from New-York, of the 6th of Decem-
ber, we learn that a dreadful fire broke out in that
city on the night of the 4th, on the premises of Mr.
Hzwzi-r, a cabinet-maker, which totally consumed
them, and newly thirty other buildings. A number
,v 1 people were also seriously hunt.

LORD t'OckkAiri:

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Yesterday
a pretty numerous Meeting of the Elec-
toil of Westminster was held at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern in the Strand; to receive-the answer
of Lord Cottinnxt to the Address voted to him by
his constituents on tile 17th of last month.
Ab3ut haViriiit one o'clock Mak:- CAIITWRIbIIT
was called to i!te Ch lir, and the answer of Lord
CocintaNa, slated the '24th of December, wasordered
to be read. The answer (which was of extraordinary
I length) commenced with stating that the.protection
Int the Electors of Westminster, joined to the con-
sciousness of his inniicence, bad supported him
through a long series of persecutions, to which lie
had been exposed for so many years. The Noble
Lord then took a review of the events of his life,
from the action in Basque Roads down to the pre-
sent period, and commented on them at much length,
and with great freedom. He enlarged particularly
upon the circumstances of his trial for breaking out
of prison, and the sentence that had been afterwards
passed upon him -in the Court of King's Bench, ac-
companying the whole with very pointed remarks,
and which repeatedly called forth the loudest expres-
sions of applause from the Meeting. He (Lord
Cochrane) had been informed, that upon receiving
information that he had broke out of prison, a cep.
tain Noble Lord had said, let him be taken dead or
alive, otherwise I shall have a dagger at my breast ;
hut he (Lord Cochrane) though he would speak
daggers. would use none. After some observations
upon the House of Commons declining to interfere
in the case of the Lord Chief Justice of the King's
Bench, the Noble Lord concluded by expressions of
gratitude and attachment to his constituents, the in-
dependent Electors of Westminster.

The applause called forth by the answer having
subsided.

Mr. WALKER begged leave to submit a Resolu-
tion to the Meeting, that Lord Cochrane, by the an-
swer he had returned, had justified the opinion the
Meeting had formed of him, and their admiration of
his character; and confirmed them in the well-
grounded -confidence that he would exert his best
energies to remove the wrongs and redress the grie-
vances of the country, arising from a corrupt repre-
sentation of the people, which could only be done
away by annual Parliaments, and a radical reform
in the Commons House of Parliament.
Mr. HICALEY seconded the Resolution, and, ad-
verting to the conduct of the High Bailiff in refusing
to c a Meeting. of the Electors, ascribed it to hid
advice, as no danger could have arisen from the
friends of Reform meeting in Palace-yard. Their
Noble Representative had suffered from the influence
of corruption, and the hydra must be destroyed,
otherwise (said the Speaker), it will destroy you.—
(Loud am/aure.) The speaker next alluded to the
Address of tete Corporation of London, and observed
that the Common Council had formerly been too
much the tools of the Ministers of the day, by the
support they had lent to the Pitt system, and to Pitt
principles. The system of placemen had been to
support a venal press, whose object it was to abuse
whatever was free and independent, and had termed
the Committee of the Electors of Westminster the
self-elected Committee. To be able to procure the
old Constitution, under which the country had
flourished and prospered, it was necessary to returp
to annual Parliaments, and to freedom of suffrage.—
, (Amieure.) Many who had formerly been under
the dominion of prejtidice began now to be.enlight-
' coed, and much had been done for the cause of Re.
form by the answer of the Prince Regent to the Ad-
dress of the City. He trusted the answer of Lord
Cochrane would not be garbled, as it would do much
to enlighten the people.—(Near, hear.) The Noble
Lord had checked the patrons of corruption at the
London Tavern, and he had no doubt would be pre-
' pared to follow up the blow. •
Mr. rARKINS proposed that a subscription should
be entered into to defray the expense of printing the
letter of Lord Cochrane, to which he was ready to
contribute ten guineas. This motion wis subse-
quently carried, with an additional clause embracing
a report of the proceedings of that day.
Mr. WeLcs strenuously supported the principles
of the proposed Resolution; bt,t suggested that they
would be pursuing a more practicable object, if they
were to confine their attention at present to a reform
by means of triennial Parliaments. (Dirapprotatiew.)
He did not desire that their pursuit should be limited
to the attainment of this measure ; but he considered
that it would be a considerable step to the accom-
plishment of their great ultimate-end—anneal Par-
liaments and universal suffrage. A great good was
not always to be obtained at once; but was generally
brought about by slow degrees and progressive
success.

Mr. WALKER said, that the present was the first
instance among the Electors of Westminster of a
dissent from the principle of annual Parliaments.—
When a person could vote at the age of twenty-one,
he could not see why three years should elapse before
he could again exercise his right of suffrage. In pri-
vate life how would a man like that three years
should expire before he bad an account rendtred to
him of the state of hit affairs The state of the
country was at present greatly distressed. He knew
a man who had come to town to borrow one hundred
pounds, having se9l to pay as the arrears of the
Property TAX, though he had, in fact, lost from five
to six hundred pounds. Not contented with di:-
training Ina cattle and farming implements, they had
come into his parlour, when the person in queetion
seized a gun, but when he looked round upon his
eight children, he laid it down, and the persons em-
ployed to distrain remained without.
Major CARTWIUGHT said, he had for the space of
forty years, attended to the state of Parliamentary
Repreientation, and saw not the slightest hope of any
change, unless the proposed change should be backed
by the voice of the people. Without the voice of
people being raised in favour of reform, it would be
as easy to pull the sun from the firmament, as to ef-
fect a change in the state of the representation. The
analogy alluded to, of the ultimate result of a gr.t.
dual progress, would not apply to the operations
of mind. He had himself issued three humiree
lams of petitions in favour of Parliamentary Reform,
and had no doubt there would be many more,
enough, indeedi to make the hair of the Borough.
mongers stand on end. (Loud applause•) When Mr.
Grey had made his motion for reform, there had;
only been 2i, petitions iu favour of it. But now h•

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did— liot doubt but theie would be 2400. The people
miitht as well have the selole ai the half of their
rights, anneal, as triennial Parliaments ; as nnt!);n7
WAI erai done 14 driblt•t;. and the work to b. dime
well, must be dane at once.

Both the Resolutions respecting the opiniln the
Meeting entertained ri Lord CoetritaAn and the prin-
ting his answer, aad the proceed:llgs or the 47,
were then put, ar•.d carried unanimmisly.
ThankS were then voted to Mkj
who, in reply, observed, that he was now too old to
chingeand the Meeting broke up.