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London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

EVENING *STAR.

LONDON.

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DECEMBEI4I, 1819.
Till's FUNDS.

s ruts DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Ve:iuced 67 671

CoilAoll shut

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1.0.

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Navy shut
Annuitic
per Cent. Anns. Con
shot—Andia Bonds Is. dis. par .
hill; ('SI.) ss. 3s. dis.
Acct. 6811

:11 oiemos of the 1:u-71m/um asserted C.:re
er minims of the Revenue, a croside-
tl.e pds. We then stated the advance
Ind ;;,a: t' e moticd tatn in the City rut
con .c paci:.:e of the explanation
r.a, this day have fallen .rte-half prr Cent.—
,ceount, were rsteed:v at 68a, and the Runs
) at that price; but this motning they have
at that ptice title were more sellers

• begin' r 100 IL With fearful anxiety to the true
; and it is very natural there should be
r: tr,st cm be extracted from the Right
rarly &hews, that " worse remains
~As too well what is Parti,trentlry u.tp:, to
but, crnuinty, if the two Chancellors had
the Loan-holders, the in, 1 direct could not
holy given.

at was given yesterday by Coln-
‘v viper Stamp Duties Bill, aad to
Seditious Libels Bill i and Par-
niei to the 15th of February. .

;:1 i.. the proceedings of the Coommis,
:171.t.c.it of the Excitautige admitted

the deficiency of the lieve-
vi, between the 10th of October and
eccml,er, he meant upon the gross
the New Taxes, besides the de.
i,;, Revenue. The Revenue had also

Jul'• to October, £1,150,000, making
)0,0'..)0, since the sth July. According
of the Finance Committee last year,
lave hen an excess this year of five
,s for the prediction ! We have no ex-
!eing it realized, even in part. Os the
-c must be a considerable defalcation,
tors possibly prevent this. In fact, the
)t a millstone about its neck, which will
ab) ss of ruin, if means be trot taken to
Pay the Debt at once, or it will destroy
c questios well canvassed ; prepare the
;or the event, by patient but persevering
; and those who now dread eves to look
al, will, ere long, be the loudest.to cry
adoption of the measure.

ion about paying off the National Debt

misunderstood by some who write upon

- - -
them tells us, " nothing is more simple

•rinciple. The Nation is called upon to
.operty, like an individual, to release itself
may be called a mortgage!' Wci have
but in vain, to discover the meaning of
nof the principle. " The Nation called
what or who is intended .37 the word
is put in contrast with the word " indi-
rhe Swine, in our understarding of that
)-I..ing that it cats sell, except the Crown
ti.is is no part of the Atithvr's meaning.
employ ten ni as they arc used in the
evidently confound them. The
hole, is nu,de up of hulvidatais ; and
t doe by the Nation, as s community,
-'dual owes a part proportioned to the
of the general stock, vinether in lands
When an individual, in atering and im-

:state, and itraighting hi! fences, takes a
cne field and adds it to atother, his pro-
w.l)- dim-;niched. If a rran takes money
hand pocket and pets it into his left,
; richer nor poorer. To onderstand the
:1 ly. as to the paymen: of OUT immense
N.ciln, the Nation mos be considered in

~?;e swiitidual endeavntring to arrange

Cot. best possible maler-- altering his
the bullion tbout his person in
may be most earunodions for car-
! ::use things may lie accomplished with.
.la, ion or alienatior of property, rued
sacrifice of capital" is required
.:,,o : u. Y more, it the very nature of
r-al of pflperty would be abse-
il:le in haying of our whole Debt.--
-.et even be scn indispensible necessity
• ,i orp4al from one individual to an-
would take place, would be paying a
• ; by individual., in the name of intert:J,
• • T' c money herrowed from the present
~,stead of paying the premium in the
e of Texas. The Landholder—the
• ' .•y kinl of property--pays now the
• • !early, which he woold individually
,1 oon to pay ss his quota, should he be
.• ; and wit!. this he pays his quota
• of collection and management, be.ides
hilt! by the dealers on every
)s Excise or Custows—and necessarily

laid upon these articles to pay for the use of extra
capital, rendered neceSsiry by the payment of the
duties in the first instance. • I
As to paying off the Debt by economy and ti..l
trenchment, it would be just as rational to attempt
with ten-spoons to return into a mill-dam the water
that has once gone over the wheel. . We are advo-
cates for economy and retrenchment, not from anyd
idea that the Debt itself can be thereby paid off, but
because every unnecessary expenditure is, to a certain
extent, an infliction of misery and privation on those
who need support and sustenance—nay, more, on
those who pay the whole Revenue, for the whole is
ultimately paid by the labour of those who are pro-
ductively employe/1, and by none else. Let us have
economy, but let us not defer a change of system
which would imtantly restore the Nation to health
and vigour, and in its effects more than double the
real (not the nominal) wealth of the Kingdom.

Those who have allowed themselves to be fright-
ened tut of their wits, by artificial alarms, may now
rest in comparative quiet. Because of the salutary
effect that may be expected from muzzling the Press,
and from the other necessary encroachments that have
been made on the liberties of Englishmen ? No ; but
because it is not deemed necessary, at present, to fa•
in 'cote other Bills of a similar, or even a more severe
character. What, then, would be the use now, of
marching and counteremarching to prepare for the
suppression of pretended exs ected simultaneous
risings oif the Radicals? or of unsolicited orders for
Yeomanry to assemble for the protection of an Ex-
Lord Lieutenant's premises, which had not been any
way threatened ?—as was the case lately, when two
Troops of Yeomanry Cav,..lry (composed principally
of Earl FiTzwat.:axis tenants) were summoned
from their beds, in, midnight, to meet in Wentworth
P.:, k, where they remained from Monday, the 13th
December, to the Thursday following—furnishing a
tine alarmist paragraph for circulation through the
Newspapers, of Earl Ferzwtwaras mansion having
bee., threatened by the Radicals; with the additional
falsehood, that his Lordship had applied for protec-
tion against the designs of these wicked men. There
will be no more of this for. some time to come. We
say so with some confidence, for these alarms have
produced effects that werettot contemplated by those
*who got the% up. Not only have some of their own
noodles been so far imposed upon by the gravity,
confidence, and accompaniments, with which they
were circulated, as to withdraw their property from
our own Stalks, and Invest them in the French and
American Funds ; but many Foreigners, residing on
the Continent.. taking all the alarm-tales for true,
which they saw in the English (or quoted in the
French from the English) Papers, sent orders to their
Agents to sell out their Stock in our Funds, and in-
vest the proceeds in those of France. This being an
evil not contemplated by those who called out, " the
wolf ! —the wolf r orders have been issued to the
understrappers to "lower the herr.," and change
their note. The theme is now to be, the good that
has resulted from the Acts, and the perfect quiet
which they hail s• speedily restored to the Country.

The Paris Papers from Sunday to Tuesday, inclu-
sive, arrived this forenoon.
The most iuterestifig part bf their contents is an
account of the proceedings before a Council of War,
appointed to try the celebrated Savasty, Duke of
Sovroo, for his conduct during the Hundred Days,
and for which sentence of death had been formerly
passed against him in his abser.ce. The General's
present appearance to stand trial was a perfectly
voluntary step of his own ; it was indeed so particu-
larly so, that whea refused passports to return to
France for that purpose, 1,. had contrived, with the
aid of a young English Officer (his name is not given)
to find his way to Pais, and to demand a revision
of the judgment which had eziled him from his
native country. The result chews that he had not
placed an unwarranted confidence in his innocence,
and in the improved circumstances of the times. The
Council of War have unanttnously found him Not
Guilty, and ordered hies to be forthwith set at liberty.
The proceeding's are too long to admit of any thing
like a satisfactory abstract, within the limits we are
obliged to prescribe to ourselves. One thing is pretty
manifest to us-that BAVARY owes his acquittal
mods more to the beneficial change which has taken
place in the public feelieg in France within these four
years; or, more properly speaking, to the change
which public opinion has effected m the temper of
the Government, than to any great difference be-
tween his case and that of others who have paid by
their lives for their adherence to the cause of the
Usurper. N. bole, Who advocated the defence Of
the lieneral with great ability and eloquence, alluded
to this circumstance very happily, in the conclusipn
of his speech :—" As for myself," said he, 44 since it
has been my lot, under PROVIDENCII, to have de.
fended the first and the last of the individuals in-
scribed en a Fatal List, may the unanimous vote
which, I trust, will acquit the latter, appease the manes
of the fofter I May I see to-day an end put to pro-
cesses of revenge! May I never mere have occasion
to lend the aid of my gown to brave men, who,
during many years, have lent to their country the
heroic succour of theii swords!"
M. Dorm, in the course of his. defence, mentioned
a carious-enough anecdote : When Louts had taken
his bight to Ghent, the Ambassadors of Britain and

Austria, imagining that the Duke of Rom()) who
bad been Minister of Police under BoNaPAnra,
would, as a matter of course, instantly resume the
same fbnctions, they applied to him on the 20th
of March, for passports to leave the French territory.
M. SAVA as answered, that he had no concern what-
ever with the business ; " Address yourselves," said
he, " to M. d'Aanna, Minister of the King, to whom
yon are accredited." The point in the defence which
this anecdote went to establish was, that on the 20th
of March, and previous to thed of March, SAVARY
had not accepted of, or exercised any, political func-
tion on the second expulsion of the BOURBONS ; the
Ordnance of the 24th July, 1814, which was alleged
to have affected SA VARY, being confined to those
wh3 had seized on power previous to the 23d March.

ARNAULT, FRLIX DRSPORTIA, and HARaL, who
were on the list of the thirt y.eight, but included in
those recently recalled, have arrived in Paris.

The Gazette do France says, that some grange re-
ports have been in circulation in Paris within these
few days; it refrains from repeating them ; but adds,
as certain, that an order had been given to put at the
disposal of each post of the National Guard five hun-
dred ball cartridges. It is stated at the same time,
as if in connection with these circumstances, that the
individual arrested with so much mystery at Amster-
dam, is MERLIN DOtiAY.

The cumber of P.eers had a Meeting on Monday,
when the Projtet of Law passed in the Chamber of
Deputies, fin• the provisionary collection of part of
the Revenue of next year, was presented, and re-
mitted for examination to a Committee.
The the in the Funds still continue. The Vive
per Cents. left off on Mond.ty at 71 fr. SO c.

Virginia Pacers arrived this morning, to the 40th
November. They do not contain any news of im-
portance. We extract the following:
faOm THE stitAlD, OF Novxmast 18.

" It is said that Mr. SMYTH had made a peremp-
tory demand, on behalf of hi, Government, for a con-
siderable number of American prisoners, in Spanish
prisovi`Tvlio did not enter into the Patriot service,
but v ,re trepanned by designing Officers, under false
pretences; and that he has required a statement of
charges against others."

LIHIEO CHANCELLOR, the Earl of LIVERPOOL,
and Viscount CASTLEREAGH, had audiences of the
PRINCE It EGENT yesterday, at Carlton-House.
Mrs. AREUTHNOT had a large party yesterday
evening, in Harley-street.
Lord TEIGNMOUTH has had several elegant parties
during the Holidays, at his house in Portman-square.
Lady DAMPIERL welcomes in the New Year in
grand style. A large party assembles this evening,
at her Ladyship's house, in Welbcck-stieet.
The Princess SoputA entertains the Poor, during
the present inclement season, in tie neighbourhood
of Blackheath.
EnwAan FOLEY, Esq. of Stoke Edith Park, in:
Herefordshire, according to annual custom, gave, do
St. Thomas's Day, "a fine olt, o-tiolling about Mt
stone, to the poor of the.parish of Edith ; and a pro-
portionate quantity of wheat, according to the num-
ber of their families; and sums of money to each of
those who attended at his hospitable mansion froth
the surrounding parishes.
The Duke of WELLING-row has received intimation.
from Mr. B. WATT, the architect, that all the ima
provements in the Mansion at Strathfieldsay are now
Completed. A proportion of the valuable china r►
crived by his Grace from the Kings of PRUSSIA and
Saxony, is gale down : as also the plate from Por-
tugal. The Dueness, the Marquis of Davit°, and
tithe, blanches of the family, are waiting in expecta-.
tion of the return of the illustrious Chieftain, who
intends to keep open house during the Parliamentaiyl
reces!.
Considerable disturbances have agalibroken out in
Syria. The Pacha of Drarbekin has been compelled
to seek safety in flight.
Tuesday afternoon one of the most numerous Ves-
tries assembled at Bethnal-Green Church, that has
taken place since Easter last, for the purpose of au-
diting the Quarterly AccountS, and for taking into
consideration the late Election of Tnoatas PE.DLEY,
Esq. as one of the Treasurers of the Parish. The
business commenced soon after four o'clock, and a
strong contention took place between the two parties
respecting the Chairman, the one maintaining the right
Of the Rector to that situation, from a late decision
in the Arches Court, confirmed in the King's Bench;
the other insisting to the contrary, as Bethnal Green
Parish was governed by a local Act of Parliament.
It was at length determined that the Rector should
take the Chair, without any prejudice• to the case,
arid legal opinion be obtained previous to the next
Vestry. The first business taken into consideration
was the legality of Mr: PEDLRY's Election, when Mr.
BROWN moved that it should be rescinded. A strong
opposition took place, when the question was put to
a shew of hands; but the CHAIRMAN declared he
could not decide. A poll was demanded and acceded
to, when the numbers were declared to be, for the
motion, 201-s Against it, I29—Majority, 72.—The,
Quarterly Accounts were then entered into, and the
Vestry did not adjourn until after ten at night.
About the second year of the present KING'S reign,
a man of the name of George King was convicted in
Dublin of a capital felony. He drew up a memorial
to the Ktwo, which he sent with the following lines :
George King to King George sends his humble petition.
Hoping King George will pity poor George King's condition;
If King George to George King will grant a long day,
George King for King George for ever will prsy
The man was pardoned.
Cov RN T 4..; A RORK TH tier Rit.—The representation
of the Comedy oj' Errors and the new Pantomime
drew a crowded audience to this 'Theatre yesterday
evening. The new Pantomine went off with greater
spirit than on the first night, owing to the change of
!'rancho into that old and valued acquaintance, the
Clown. GRIMALDI, it must be allowed, though he
made agood squire to the Knight of La Mancha, is
more at borne in his old cost Me. The adientores
arc nearly the same,

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