Star.
London, England, 1820-12-01 00:00:00

ever immeasurable the modesty of Sir HuuntitY
I:imself may consider that distance, it so happens
that, in point of fact, no two names better deserve to
be named together. In the days of NEWTON, the
Philosophers of the old school were as slow to ac-
knowledge the merits of NEWTON as some envious'
men in our own times are to do justice to the
science and intelligence of Sir HUMPHRY DAVltegi-
Posterity has vindicated the memory of the former,
and Posterity will enumerate, with gratitude, the
many discoveries given to the, world by the zealous
and persevering labours of the latter ; nor will Ms
memory suffer by comparison even with a NEWTON,
if the value of their respective discoveries be mea-
sined by practical benefits actually conferred on the
human race.
We might here enumerate Sir HUMPHRY'S Elet-
tro•Galvanic discoveries,and the decomposition of the
alkalies and earths—discoveries by no means to be
placed in the class of dry speculations ; but, on the
contrary, promising incalculable practical results to
the manufactures and labours, and consequently the
conveniences, comforts, and enjoyments of mankind
but we have neither room nor time at present to no-
tice these, and therefore sum up all that we mean to
say at present of the individual whose merits excite
the envy of little minds, by bringing to the recollec-
tion of the Public the disco Very of the Safety-lamp.
Ought people to talk lightly of a man of whom the
late Professor PLAYFAIR, one of the greatest Philo-
scplicrs of the present age, expressively said, in an
article in the Edinburgh Review, .on the discovery of',
the Safety-lamp, that (we quote from memory) if
BACON were to come again to the world, and ask,
what advances had been made since his time in Ex-
perimental Philosophy, it would be sufficient to pre-
sent to him the. Lamp of DAVY, as the greatest pre-
sent which science ever made to humanity?

THE EVEN ING• STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1820.
THE FUND&
PRI( E Of STOCKS VHS DAT AT 01.1 E O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 2191/2 219
3 per Cent. Reduced 69 68 78 69
3 per Cent. Cons. 69% Va 3/4
3} per Cent. 78 77%_i4 per Ct. 861/2 3/4 1/8
5 per Cent. Navy 105% 78 5/8
Long Annuities 17 13-16—India Bonds 255. pr.
Exchequer Bills par, 2s. Is. pre.—Omnium par.
Cons. for Acct. 701/2 6978 70.

1. ,

#

DISMISSAL OF MINIST P.S.
COURT OF COMMON •COUNCIL
This day a Court was held, in consequence or a
Requisition, to consider the propriety of presenting
an Address to the KING, upon the present situation
of Public Affairs, humbly praying his MAJ&STT to
dismiss from his presence and Councils the present
Ministers.

The Requisition included several other topics, the
most remarkable of which was the following :
" That the Representatives of the City be instructed
to oppose any grant of money out of the Civil List,
whenever applied for by Ministers, until her Majesty
is assigned a residence suitable to her rank, and there
is given to her a recompense for past injuries, and
her name is restored to the Liturgy."
The LORD MAYOR stated that the Court had waited
upon the Queen with the Address of Congratulation
upon the defeat of her enemies, and received a most
gracious Answer.
The Answer was then read by the RECORDER, with
great emphasis. It was ordered to be inserted upon
the Journals.

While the RECORDER was reading the Answer,
the whole Court rose, with the exception of Alder-
men Leighton and Christopher Smith, and Mr. Birch
(brother to the Alderman) and Mr. Conway.

Mr. SAVAGE noticed the disrespect with which the
Lord Mayor was treated; but his Lordship said, it
was not customary for the Aldermen upon all occa-
sions of this kind to rise.

The Cripplegate Petition was presented.
Mr. Elms gave an historical account of Bills of
Pains and Penalties, and reprobated the invariable
course pursued by Ministers, during the Regency and
the present reign. He concluded by moving, that
the Petition for Cripplegate, which was against Mi•
nisters, should be taken into consideration on the next
day of meeting.
After some discussion, the Petition was entered on
the Minutes.

ST. ANNE'S, SOHO.

A very respectable Meeting of the Inhabitants of
the Parish of St. Anne's, Soho, was held yesterday,
according to the appointment of H. WILLIAMS, Esq.
the Senior Churchwarden, in pursuance of a Requi-
sition presented to him by a great number of the re.
spectable Householders.
Soon after one o'clock, Mr. HOBHOUSE, M.P. for
Westminster, and Mr. PETER MOORE, arrived; and
on the motion of Mr. CROFT FISH, Mr. WILLIAMS
was called to the Chair.
Mr. C. Rot said, that letters had been written to
various Members of Parliament, requesting their
company this day, viz. their two Representatives, one
of whom had done them the honour to attend, the
Bon. G. Bennet, Mr. Buxton, Mr. P. Moore, Sir*G.
Noel, Mr. S. Whitbread, and Sir R. Wilson. The
only answer with which he should trouble them was
from Mr. flume. That Gentleman lamented his
inability to attend, as it was St. Andrew's Day, and
he had engaged to attend another Meeting at the
same hour.
The CHAIRMAN said another letter had just been.
received from Sir Gerard Noel, in which he stated
his inability to attend, but hiswillingness to take part
in the presentation of the Address, or in any other
way to further the objects of the Meeting.
A GENTLEMAN in the crowd suggested that, as
the Meeting was now crowded, and threatened soon
to be much too large for the Vestry-room, they
should adurn to the Church.
Mr. C. FISH said, that an application had been
made for the Church, but the Rector had refused
the use of it.
Mr. P. MOORE said;that the Rector had no exclu-
sive right to the Church—that the property was in
the Churchwardens, and, therefore, with Mr. Wil-
'liams's authority, they
might go to the Church, leav-
ing the pulpit to the obstinacy of the Rector.
Mr. PICKMAN doubted whether they had a right
to claim the Church without the authority of the two
Churchwardens, of whom only one was then pre-
sent ; he hoped;therefore, the Meeting would remain
satisfied with what Mr. Williams had done.
The Resolutions were then read, and the first was
moved by Mr. Fon, and seconded by Mr. Da VRRE,
to the following effect :
" Resolved--That this Meeting is decidedly of opinion-, that
not one of the foul charges against her Majesty had the smallest
foundation in truth, but that they were the result of a most
scandalous conspiracy which has, for years, been persevered in
with unparalleled malignancy."
Mr. P. Mooaz expressed his cordial concurrence
with this Resolution—the truth of which had been
proved by the late proceedings ; the whole world
having been ransacked to produce charges against
the Queen, and yet this mountain had not brought
forth even a mouse, but an absolute abortion. The
question before the Public had been, not as to the
guilt or innocence of the Queen, but whether the law
and the gospel should be trampled under feet at the
will of an individual?
The room being now quite full, and many persons
being on the outside of the door and on the staircase,
who complained that they could not hear, the ques-
tion was put that the Meeting do adjourn to the
Church-yard, which was agreed to.
In the Church-yard the first Resolution was again
put, and agreed to without a dissentient voice.
The second Resolution was moved by Mr. BEL.
LORD, and seconded by Mr. GREEN, and was carried
unanimously :
" That the Bill of Pains and Penalties was odious, unjust, il-
legal, and scandalous, equally disgraceful to those who prepared
and those who entertained it, and would, had it keen passed into
a law, have stamped eternal infamy upon this nation.'
•
Mr. HoanousE said, the Committee had put into
his hands a Resolution, in the substance of which he
cordially agreed, and which he was convinced would
meet with no opposition, viz.
" That we rejoice that so iniquitous a Bill has been defeated
by the spontaneous voice of a people, justly indignant at the
attempt to degrade the Queen and the People to a level with its
promoters." Now (continued Mr. Hstbhouse) after the expe-
rience of many months since the first attempt to in-

!mince this iniquitous Bill, it was to be seen Who
Were the fine Mends of the laws, of the Constitu-
tion, of subordination, and who were the enemies of
the peace and prosperity of the Constitution. It was
the People alone who had gained the great and im-
mortal triumph in the cause of justice; it was the
People only who forced on the minds of those who
were at first reluctant to receive it, the salutary
truth ; on this case of illegal persecution against the
Queen, depended the security, according to law, of
every man's person and property. It was true that
there had been found persons (much to their credit)
to join the voice of the people in the House of Lords;
and in the other House there were some, among
whom he was an humble individual, who had made
an early attempt to stop the measure altogether.
But without the voice of the People all efforts would
have been unavailing. If they wantedany proof of
the Resolution, the appearance of the Metropolis yes-
terday was convincing as to its truth. It was im-
possible for any one who witnessed that vast assem-
blage of people to doubt what had been and was
(and would, he was convinced, continue to be), the
voice of the People. It was a satisfaction worth a
whole life to obtai", to see that magnificent assem-
blage, which proved that so often as the People were
left to their own means of preserving the peace, there
would be no breach of the peate--(App/ause).—They
were now so accustomed to see the Sovereign sur-
rounded by his Guards—to see every avenue through
which the true feeling of the Nation could reach him
stopped, that it was as novel as it was pleasing to
see the Queen without a single Ord to preserve the
peace—(Applause).—He would not say that it was
necessary for the protection of the other branch of
Royalty. Far from it. The People felt nothing
like disgust or distaste towards the King separately
from the acts of his Ministers—and he (Mr. H.) was
convinced that his Majesty would have no difficulty
in making himself as popular a King as any that ever
sat on the Throne. Only a ftw words spoken by him
would make all the Guards that usually accompanied
him to. Parliament unnecessary, and would make him
safe in an assemblage of his people, as grateful and
as enthusiastic as that which had yesterday sur-
rounded the Queen. It was his (Mr. H.'s) conviction,
that it was impossible that the present system could
continun..the present scheme of administration,
plunder) and proscription, could not go on—the
People must become the mere clods of the earth,
without animation, or the system must be subverted,
and on the ruins of it one of justice and freedom
erected. He alluded to a mistake in a respectable
part of the Press, The Morning Chronicle) in which
it was imputed to Lord William Russell and him-
self, that they had said, that they did not wish for
a change of Ministry. This was a mistake ;he had
said, that there was an absolute necessity for a change
of Ministry—(App/ause).--But in saying so, he had
II added, that no change of men could be of use with-
out a change of system t that without that change
no men could carry on the Government without find-
ing themselves in the same predicament as the pre-
sent Ministry. He was anxious to rectify this error;
because he felt it necessary that the People should
come forward to call for a change of men and sys-
tem ; without a change of system no honest men
could accept office; without it he was sure no honest
men could continue in office. It was impossible that
the People could continue to be oppressed without
any other answer to their complaints than dun.
geons, halters, and bayonets ; it was impossibly,
or this country must be sunk to the lowest pitch of
ruin and desolation—(Continued cries of Hear,hear).
There was no security for the governors or the go-
verned, without the formation of a National Council*
which should speak the opinions of the Nation—(Ap-
plause).—lt was not impossible now for any one to
say, beyond fear of contradiction, what the sentiments
of the Nation were. Hundreds of thousands, proba-
bly millions' of people, had spoken on the present oc-
casion, and yet there were persons found to say, that
the opinions of the People were not pronounced.—
These persons were bound then, on their own chewing,
to form some plan by which the opinion of the People
should be pronounced. The Meetings throughout the
country would be doing what would be useless, if,
while they demanded a change of Ministers, they did
not call for a change of their own Representation in
Parliament. Having alluded to what he saw out of
doors yesterday, he should tell them a little of what
he saw in-doors. -He felt it his duty to attend her
Majesty to St. Paul's, as he thought it at least the
duty of the Representatives of Westminster to meet
her Majesty at the entrance of the City. He attended
her Majesty also to Saint Paul's, but within that
Church he saw a feeling displayed very different
from what he had seen without. There the Hierax-
chy-•-he believed the same Right Reverend Prelate
who said the King could commit no folly, not even
say a foolish thing—(A laugh)—had been at work I
There the common accommodation of a carpet bad
been refused to her Majesty—(Shame! Shame!).--
The Lord Mayor,_ considering hew poor the Church
was (A laugh), offered out of the City funds, or (he
believed rather) out of his own, to provide a carpet.
But, no (the real object was, that her Majesty should
have no accommodation, and no oarpet was allowed
at,all—( Cries of Shame, shame! and marks of indig-
- nation).—So that it seems, at present, the anxious
wish of the higher Clergy to spew no sympathy with
the People.
The Resolution was moved, seconded, and agreed
to unanimously.
After which the Address was seconded by Mr.
PICKMAN, and agreed to.
Votes of Thanks to Mr. Hobhouse, Mr. Moore, and
H. Williams, Esq. the presiding Churchwarden, were
agreed to.—As also a Vote of Censure on the Rev.
Rector (Dr. Macleod), " For preaching political Ser-
mons, and not allowing his parishioners the use of
the Church to preach political doctrines themselves."
The Meeting then broke up.

Coxw PAMLICO!, MAIM-LANs, DISCEMIZS I.—Our Wheat
trade continues exceedingly heavy, even for the finest qualities,
for which Monday's prices were with difficulty obtained; but
the ordinary soi t 4 were offered at au abatement of 2s. per quar-
ter, without being able to effect sales at that decline. The supply
of Barley this week has been very large, and chiefly of infer*
quality, which description is full Is. cheaper, but prime picked
'ampler support Monday's prices. Oats are also ls. lower, and
saleb very dull at that reduction. In Beans and Peas no variador .
Surnartema MAUI?, Dec. 1.0.--Beef, tic Od. to 4s. 6d. per
stone of albs. ; Mutton, 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Veal, 41. 6d. to ss. 84.
Pork, 45.6 d. to ss.iod. Lamb, Os.od. to Os.od.—Gale at Maiket
Beasts, 540; calees,l3o ; Sheep and Lambs, 1,550 ; Pigs,22o.
Hay, 31.104. to 41. 4s. Clover, 41. 151. to 11. 154. Straw, 11. 124.
to 11. 165.