Star.
London, England, 1820-10-25 00:00:00

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• Yesterday a Meeting bf the Inhabitant Meta-
olden of the above place, was held in the Town
Halt, pursuant to a Requisition presented to - the
High Bailiff, to call a Meeting for the purpose of
considering the present alarming state of National
Affairs, and to take into consideration the propriety
of petitioning his Majesty to remove his - present
Ministers. At a little after twelve o'clock, the High
Sutliff took the Chair, and read the Requisition. The
Ball was crowded to excess.
. Mn S. Davis opened the business of the day. He
gave an account of the reasons which had induced
die Requisitionists to call the present Meeting, and
represented, in strong colours, the •alarming aspect
which the national affairs began to assume, and of
the necessity which existed with maid to the mid-
dling classes to step forward, and by the strong ma-
nifestation of their opinion against the proceedings
of his Majesty's Ministers obtain their dismissal, and,
by a change of measures, avert the fearful storm
which was gathering. The speaker concluded by sub-
mitting to the Meeting a series of Resolutions.
Mr. JOHN Ewes rose to second the Resolutions.
Before proceeding to the business of the day, he was
happy to state, that, by order of the High Bailiff,
every person was prohibited from entering the Hall,
except resident householders in the Borough; an or-
der which had been strictly enforced. He was glad
of this, as it would put to silence the clamour of cer-
tain public writers. For himself, he now begged
leave t., assure the Meeting, that this was The first
time in his life that he had ever signed an anti-nli.
nisterial Requisition—(Hear, hear,)—but he felt that
the present moment was one which called for the ex-
pression of public feeling. The conduct of Ministers
had been marked by various acts which shewed how
unfit they were for the public confidence and public
service---(Applause). He (Mr. Ellice) perceived such
an increasing irritation in the minds of all classes of
people, that, if a reformation did not soon take place,
a revolution would—(App!au.ee). He thought that
the Ministers ought to take the hint from the accu-
mulating difficulties, and retire. The speaker then
spoke of the insecurity of the Public Funds, and de-
clared that the National Debt could not stand unless
the interest was reduced. He called upon all who
had property which they wished to go down to their
children, or to serve as their solace in old age, to step
boldly forward and put a stop to the present system,
which was endangering all property. He declared
that all funded property, under the present system of
Government, had its foundation on a sand-bank, which
was daily giving from under it. This system could
only be averted by the powerful in property coming
forward, and by a load and general manifestation of
opinion cause their Sovereign to awake, souse himself;
land by a change of men and measures save the State.
A Resolution was then put, to tale effect that it was
the opinion of the Meeting that his Majesty's Minis-
ters had grossly misconducted themselves in the ex-
ercise of the power intrusted to them. It was put
and carried, there being but three dissentient hands
held up against it.
The second Resolution charged the Ministers with
having, by a total disregard of economy, by profu-
sion and waste in the expenditure, added to the bur-
dens of the manufacturing, agricultural, and labour-
ing classes of the community. It was carried unani-
mously; as was also the fourth Resolution, declaring
that Ministers were determined to sacrifice every
thing to preserve their places and power, for the gra-
tification of a precarious and unprincipled ambition.
Mr. A ItROWSMITH came forward, and spoke
against any Address being presented to his Majesty
in the present state of affairs, as highly premature.
If ever there was a time when the people ought to
remain perfectly quiescent, he thought it was the
present—(Loud cries of No, no). He was cf opinion
that they ought to remain quiescent until the Bill of
Pains and Penalties was committed for a third read-
ing, when every man in the kingdom ought to come
forward. The speaker then entered into an exami-
nation of the proceedings against the Queen, when he
was called to order, as travelling out of the business
of the Requisition.
Several other Resolutions, enumerating the mis-
conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, by whom the per-
sonal character of the Sovereign bad been degraded
—that the remedy for public evils would be a change
of Ministers and a Reform of Parliament, which Re-
-form, sooner or later, was inevitable—and that an
humble Petition should be presented to his Majesty,
calling upon him to remove his present Ministers, as
unworthy of their situations—were severally put and
carried.—The Address, which was almost an echo of
the Resolutions, was then read.
Mr. BuTtea said he wished to ma*a few obser-
vations before the question was put. Looking at the
present calamitous state of this once-fiourishing and
happy country, he thought it was no time for bandy-
ing compliments, and he should therefore make no
apology for occupying a short portion of their valu-
able time. The state of the country was truly alarm-,
ing, and all the habits of social intercourse, for which
the people of this country were once distinguished,
were now converted into a system of mutual -
age and distrust. He would yield to no man,egitia
ever exalted his rat*, in love of his country, in loy-
alty to the King, and in attachment to those princi-
ples which seated •his family upon the Throne. He
respected the institutions of his country; but, in the
same ratio as he venerated those institutions, he ab-
horred and detested the corruptions which had crept
into them—corruptions that contanainated not only
the sources of legislation, but the fuuutain of justice
itself. If any person entertained a doubt on this sub-
ject, let him look.to the manner in which a large majo-
rity of the House of Commons was constituted, and
then lay his hand on his heart and say whether he be-
lieves them to be faithful Representatives of the People.
Ile might exclaim, in the language of Sir George
Sreile, they are no more the Representatives of the
People of England than they are the Representatives
of the People of France—(Laughter and applause).—
This was a weighty consideration at all times, but
especially so when they were met to petition his Ma-
jesty to dismiss his Ministers. The system was ra-
dically corrupt and radically vicious ; nothing, there-
fore, would avail but a radical change of measures,
for a change of Ministers could' not save the coun-
try. The present Administration might be well,
characterised in the language of 'Sir William Draper
--i• They were an ignorant, mercenary, servile crew,
diligent in mischief, variable in principle, talkers for

the Caul party. ear slisS:..p4Ple's only
A truly patriotic Minister wade it the first object of
his ambition 'too scatter plenty through i smiling
land:" but the histort of our, Ministers:instead of
being read in the prosperity of a grateful nation, was
d only in the calamities of a fantishhig popula-
tion. In hii opinion; it made little diffilreuce whe-'
tier the hard earnings of the people were wrung
(tom thins by a Torror a Whig Adtniniitration. He
Concluded by moving.as an amendment, that his
Majesty would be graciously pleased to give his con-
idenee to no man •who did not enjoy the unlimited
and undivided confidence of tlfupeople. .
Sir ROBERT WILSON opposetrthe Amendment, and
said that it was impossible to form an Administration
which should possess the entire confidence of the
People. But, if ever the manifestation of .general
opinion should induce his Majesty to change his Min
fosters, the dread of the same manifestation of opinion
would possess sufficient power to controul any new
Administration which he should choose to form.—
He thought it absurd to talk of remaining quiescent
during the present state of affairs. The Ministers
would pass the Bill beyond remedy, if not vigorously
opposed. He expressed his most hearty concurrence
with the Resolutions proposed, and declared that he
would support them to the utmost of his power and
abilities. The gallant General complained that the
motives of public men were frequently suspected by
some writers, and unfair constructions put upon them
even by writers who professed to be the champions
of public liberty, and who thus took every occasion
to throw the brand of discord amongst the friends of
freedom. He declared upon his honour that he bad
not been influenced by any other consideration than
the public good in all his public actions. He then
took a review of the proceedings against the Queen,
in the course of which he stated that he had it from
one of the Members of the Secret Committee that the
depositions laid before that body were totally differ-
ent from the parole evidence adduced at the Bar of
the House. Sir Robert commented with much force
on the various proceedings. He declared that it had
been said, that nothing should prevent the Ministers
from passing the Bill and degrading the Queen,
however innocent she might be, in order that she
might be got out of the country. Now this would be
an act of lawless violence, which never should, whilst
he had life, be carried into execution unresisted !
( Loud cheers). It was said that it was not necessary
that the Queen should be proved guilty in order to
be degraded. There were others, with equally wicked
designs, who, howev‘r, wished to cover their purposes
under the pretext of evidence and judicial forms,—
They, allowing that all the evidence against the
Queen has been disproved, that not a charge remains
unanswered, fix, however, on the statement of Lieu-
tenant Hownam, as to the sleeping in her clothes ia
a tent, within three feet of the steersman, on the deck
of a vessel, the crew of which was composed of a
description of persons amongst whom her Majesty's
safety, if left alone, could not be secure. It was
nothing with these supporters of the Bill that all the
other abominable falsehoods, of kissing on the deck,
of the bath scene, had not been established—it went
for nothing with them that her Majesty herself desired
that the awning should be altogether removed when
she found it impeded the motion of the vessel, and that
she was willing to remain at night on the deck exposed
to the inconveniencies of a Mediterranean atmosphere.
All these considerations lost their importance, be.
ea ise, though for six years there was not a proof to
establish an adulterous intercourse, her Majesty left
the stench and sultry heat of her cabin, to repose
ender an awning on the deck of a polacca—. (Cheers).
Yet on this one point the enemies of the Queen have
determined to fix the success of their Bill. The great
Marlborough- once said, that " politicians often con-
cluded treaties that were not worth the fife of a single
grenadier." He (Sir Robert) would ask those who
were thus determined, whether their object was worth
the life of a single citizen? And yet.if their Trea-
sury orders should command that Bill to.pass, in the
present feeling of the country, who did not believe
that such orders would be the death-warrant of thou-
sands?' It was for that reason that he implored that
Meeting to lead in the expression of the public voice
—( Loud and continued applause).
Mr. BUTLER asked "Si Robert Wilson whether
Lord Hutchinson had not been sent, over to Saint
Omer's by the Whigs to treat for them?
Sir Rosser NVILsow pledged his honour that that
event was contrary to the wish, and without the con-
currence, of the Whigs.
The Amendment proposed by Mr. Burt.za was
then put and negatived.
The Petition, as it originally stood, was afterwards
put, and carried unanimously.
Mr. S. Dews moved, that the Petition should be
presented to his Majesty on the first Levee day, by
the High Bailiff, attended by the two Members for
the Borough of Southwark.—The Resolution was
carried unanimously.
• Thanks were voted to the High Bailiff and to Sir
Rosser WiLsow, who returned thanks, when the
Meeting broke up.

COVENT-GARDEN EATIt ••••-. We so recently
noticed the Play of Cystbdine, the way in which it
was cast, the sympathy with which-it was received,
and the application made of some of its passages to
the conduct of the Qualm's prosecutors, that we caul
now state nothing more than that last night it was
acted with greater spirit, and received with more
rapturous approbation. The audience, as formerly,
made a running comment of applause on all those,
parts that referred to the villainy of ladtineo. When
this villain comes from the trunk in Intogen's bed-
room, there was a cry of " Ompteda! Ompteda !"
from some persons in the pit ; and his declaration,
at last, that —• He had belied a lady,
The Princess of this country,"
was received with innuense applause, and the waving
of hats and handkerchiefs.

• NEW SILVER COINAGE.—On the new coinage of
half-crowns to be' issued forthwith, the obverse, im-
pression is to bear the portraiture of his present MA-
assrir, with the inscription, 4, George MI. D.G. Bri-
•
isawar Rea. F. D." and on the reverse, the ensigns
armorial of the United Kitlgdom,, contained in a
shield surmounted by the Royal Crown, the Rose,
Thistle, and Shamrock, being placed round theshield'
with the word 44 Anse" and the date of the year,—'
and .the edge with ths /Taiping wictcia tkg kcias of
hiz late MAJEST Y: • ••• .v , as

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• "COURT OF KINGS BENCit, OCTOBER g 4,
DOLLY AND ANOTiiint t» anitmcike:
nil was an action to recover the afnount of a Is&
Hey of Insutithcf, itedell on the khip Seaman, bound
from Hull to aay pots of loading ih the Baltic. the
insurance was effected at the rate of two guipeas and,
a half per cent. in September, 1818. On the Sd of
October, the ship began to take in goods at Hull, for
Blsineur ; whence she was to proceed to DAntzic, and
afterwards to Pillau. On the 23d of October, the
vessel sailed from Hull for Blsineury where, on her
arrival, she unloaded part of her cat go. On the
15th of December she arrived at Dantzic, and also
unloaded goods. On the 19th of the same month,
she set sail for Pillau, and on her voyage thither,
was wrecked on the 21st.
The defence was, that although the insurance was
effected generally to any port of loading in the 1311-
tic, yet it appeared that no goods had been taken in
at the ports at which the vessel touched, but, on the
contrary, that goods had been unloaded.
The Court here suggested the propriety of putting
the particulars of the transaction into a case, as the
action turned wholly upon a question of law, viz.
Whether, in the case of an insurance effected on a.
vessel to touch at different ports, for the purpose of
loading, she was entitled to go to those ports, not
for the puipose of loading, but for the purpose of
discharging ?
The Counsel shoconferred together, and finally
agreed, that the pientiffs should have a verdict of
£5OO, subject to a case.

DE TASTET b. BORDENAIP.
This was an issue from the Court of Chancery, to
try whether the plaintiff, Mr. Firmin De Tastet was
a partner in the house of the defendant, under the-
firm. of Bees, Bordenaif, and Co. on the Ist of Ja-
nuary, 1810. The parties are uncle and nephew.
The most striking circumstance in the cause was,
that the uncle and nephew being both put into the
witness's box, swore in opposition to each other's tes-
timony, leaving no alternative to the Jury but to find,
by their verdict, that one or other of the parties had
deviated from -the truth.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in summing up the-evidence,
observed, that in commercial trahsactions thet e-might •
be one bargain between the parties, and ahother as
to the Public ; and in the present case, the plaintiff
might be really a partner, though not held out as
such to the world.

The Jury retired for an hour, and then returned a
special verdict, findinethat a partnership existed, but
that it was not a beneficial one for the plaintiff;
which is substantially in favour of the defendant.

The Synod of Aberdeen have appointed the seconJ
Wednesday of NOvember next to be observe) in all
the Churches and Chapels of ease within their bounds,
as a day of thanksgiving to Acsttourx GOD, for
the good harvest and plentiful crop.
By his Majesty's sloop Soine, arrived at Ports-
mouth from Jamaica, the most distressing accounts
of the mortality on board the different ships on that
station have been received. The &mute lost many
of her men, and the following Officers :—Lieutenant
G. S. Burnett ; Peter Duncan, Captain's Clerk ;
John Scott, Carpenter; Mr. Herbert, Boatswain;
Messrs. Stisted, Singer, and Beamich, Midshipmen ;
Mr."Clumes, Assistant Surgeon. The TAMAR, Cap-
tain Stowe, had lost a great number of her men, aka
also Lieutenant Blackford, and Mr. Leeds, Midship-
man. The 'Nu m{ had sailed for Halifax, and was
got quite healthy ; the EURYALUS, Captain Huskic-
son, was healthy; as were also all the (Aber ships of
the squadron when the SOPHIB
FOROZRY ON TUR ANDOVZR OLD BALK.—At the
close of Weyhill Fair, several notes of the An-
dover Old Bank were passed in Andover and the
neighbourhood, by a numerous pArty of villains,
who were fortunately detected soon after they had
commenced their operations. Many of the utterers
were taken into custody, and several escaped during
the night. Four of the prisoners are committed to
the County Gaol, and the others are remanded for
a further examination.

DARING OUTRAGE.—On Sunday evening, about
half-past five, as a Gentleman was proceeding through
Newcastle-street, Strand, on his way to a friend's
house to dinner, he was surrounded by a gang of
thieves, who,with the most inhuman violence, knocked
' him to the ground. They then attempted to rob
him of his watch, but the chair. breaking, they got
its appendages only, with which they ran precipitately
off. Some persons coming up immediately after,
had the Gentleman conveyed to a neighbouring
Surgeon's, where his head, which was shockingly
cut, was dresseg ; he was afterwards taken home in i
hackney-coach, where he now lies dangerously ill.
Bow-ariarr.—Yearday, a young man of decent
appearance, named Groves, was brought in custody
from St,. Martin's watch-house, under the following
novel circumstances:—The charge entered at the
watch-house was, that the defendant used ;Allem-
matory language. Serjeant Wilson, ofthe Ist Guards,
stated, that he went into a public-house in St. Mar-
tin's-lane, on Sunday evening, tad saw the prisoner
and others, who were talking of the Peninsula war.
The prisoner, in the course of conversation, said, that
the Ist Guards ran away at Bayonne. To this wit-
ness replied, that the Ist Guards were drawn off by
itilt the Duke, of Wellington, and replaced by another
tor. ps, and that they did not run away. The pri-
inner, in reply to this, declared that the Noble Duke
was a he , and a —, which was proved at Sa-
lamanca, ima he was going intct a detail of that
tle, when the witness went away, and reported
what he had heard to Captain Hunter, at the guard-
house, who ordered two drill Serjeants to " fetch the
fellow." They accordingly to the public-
house with the witness, and fought the prisoner be-
fore Captain Hunter, who sent for a Constable, and
had 'him conveyed to the watch-house.—Mr. BiRKLI,
0 And is this allr--Serjeant, " Yes, Sir.",--Mr. Bin*
NIX (with much surprise), " Why, Ssrjeant, you have
acted extremely wrong—you had no right to take
him up for this'—Wilson said, he thought it was his
duty. The prisoner, with great warmth, said, that
the complainant bad given him the lie, that they -
',tangled, and in the midst of it Wilson went our,
returned very shortly with two Serjeants, who
+ him ig the collar, tore his clothes, and dragged
.
..ut pt. Hunter... The case was dismissed.

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