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NEW POST-OFFICE.

upon a garbled statement of facts; hut he had not
shewn how they were garbled, and he (Dr. Luthing-
ton) had read the whole of the official document,
with which he had been provided. He had, however,
not been quite so negligent as the Noble Lord had
suppOsed; for he had been told, on inquiry of those
who made the plate, that it had been ordered by the
Lord Chamberlain, but that the taste and judgment
of the present Queen had been consulted. It had
been truly remarked, that the conduct of the Queen,
at all times, was evidence at least that she considered
the plate her own: she had' not only packed it up,
but she had sent for it while upon the Continent;
and it was not too much to say; that she had ad-
ianced no claim which she did not think founded
in right and justice. It was observable, that no
doubt had been raised regarding it, until after the
calamity which visited his late Majesty had rendered
him incompetent to the duties of Government; and
he (Dr. Lushington) entertained no opinion more
conscientiously than this—that had it pleased Pao-
vttisHet have spared the faculties of his late Ma-
jesty, England would never have had to rue the in-
quiry'which was now hanging over it—(Cheers).—
it was not too much to suppose that the late King
would have extended, to the termination of his life,
that paternal protection which he had uniformly
shewn to her Majesty. The Noble Lord had alluded
to some conversation of the Earl of Aylesford ;.but,
in investigations of much less importance, hearsay
evidence was always looked upon as most unsatis-
factory. As to this misconduct charged against her
Majesty, he had hoped that the lion. Members for
I'mkshile and for Cork (Mr. S. Wortley and Mr.
Butchilson) would have had a little more consider-
ation arid feeling for the difficulties and embarrass-
ments of the Queen, and would not have taken this
opportunity of venting, in loud and uncalled-for
terms, :heir disavrobation. True it was her Ma-
jesty was not in want of immediate funds, but the
had no conveniences for horses nor carriages to sup-
port l:er state and dignity as Queen. Then, as to
her ap, earars:e in the public streets, everybody
knew that she was obliged to live in a house with
the blinds of all the windows down, or be exposed
to the gaze of all who chose to look in iipon her.—
Was it meant that, under these circumstances, she
should be an absolute prisoner, shut out even from
the light of day, for the sake of courting the fasti-
dious opinions 01. certain Hon. Membent?—(Chrers).
Such observations did no credit to the understandings
or to the teeliiv of the Ilonourable Gentlemen who
had rua:le them, and who thus shewed that they had
no sympathy with misfortune. Ile would not quarrel
with a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Huskisson) who
had -spoken of the precise powers of the Crown in
snaking presents : he was, perhaps, not competent to
dispute with him regarding it, and sure he was that
it would not be expected of Mr Majesty to be able to
define exactly the precise nature of the presents made
to her. He would take leave to say, that, in her Ma.
jesty's present calamitous situation, every act of ci n-
alderation and accommodation would be regarded by
the peoile of this country with approbation, and the
more so :he more it seemed to emanate from the
Throne itself. Ile would .not dwell longer on this
subject ; but he hoped he had succeeded in sheaving,
that, however mistaken or unadvised might have been
the conduct of her Counsel, her Majesty was in no
respect implicated in their indiscretion or ignorance ;
and be regretted that he had been at all called upon
to step forward in the absence of his Learnea Col-
leagues, who would have done more justice to the
cause lie had weakly espOused—(ileari hear).
. Lord CASTLEREAGH explained, that though
the notice of motion 'night have been sent and bore
date on Friday, it did not reach his office until Sa-
turday morning, nor his. hands until the evening.
His argument was, that as the House did not, at all
events, rise until Monday, notice of' motion for that
day might have been given on Saturday.
Mr. C. H. H UTC HINSON also explained,-observ-
ing that he did not suppose that the Ilonourable
Gentleman (Dr., Lushington) intentionally imputed
words to him which he had never spa ken. He had
never aspersed the Queen, or indicated any degree of
fastidiousness as to her conduct, and upon this point
he was in die recollection of the House. The whole
of his speech went to disapprove of the advice that
bad led to the intradoction of this question. He was
. persuaded that the Queen thought that she had a
right to the plate, but that supposed right had been
injudiciously enfors:ed. It was totally unfounded to
assert that he had said anything to asperse the Queen.
The question was then put, and the motion was
negatived without a division.

Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice, that to-morrow he
move the 4t..'ourt:nitnt until Alonclay Heat.

Sir WILLIAM CURTIS brought up the Report on the new
Post-office.
Mr. CA LVERT called the attention of the House to the case
of Mr. A. Brown, who had not received any compensation for
hi; freehold on the site of the new Post-office.
Mr. I'. IIIOORE also enforced the claim of this individual.

Sir W. CURTIS assured the house. that If any Honourable
`Member would in a Bill to testore the Gentleman to his
..j..st rights, that Bill he (Sir Wm. Curtis) would support.
Mr. C. CA IN FlItT said, that the Bill brought in by the City
o:. London 11:.ti been :mended with an expense of £1 9,('00. As
the claim of his friend was only .027,000, it would scarcely be
worth while to incur so large a cost. He (Mr. Calvert) meant
to bring iu no Bill ; bu• he would, in his turn, assure the worthy
Aide mai that 2 iy Bill brought in by him should have his (Mr.
COvert's) support.

The Report was then ordered to be printed, and the House
Adjourned at a qua-ter before Eight o'Clock.

Addresses to her Ma.;esty lyinglor signature at
Sunderland and Morpeth. At Nottingham the Fe-
maleshave joined in an Address of their own,to which
no less than 3,500 names have been already affixed.
The Jouraal de Paris of Thursday has the follow-
ing paragraph It is stated, that the Italian, BER-
GA24I, who is accused of adultery with the QUEEN 'of
ENGLAND, and who has been residing for a short time
at Paris, has set out for London."
The same Paper, of Friday, says—u The hilian,
BERGAMI, has certainly left Paris, but, according to
new information we have received, it is for Rome,
and not for London."

FORSYTH'S ITALY, (Edition of ]8 .)—GENOA.—
" Here is a manufacture of stilettos allowed by a
Government which punishes the persons that wear
them. During my short stay at Genoa, in the be-
ginning of 1802, three murders were committed in
the streets. An Assassin might he hired for 50 cire;
and, if taken, might be defended by hackney swearers
at 12 cire each

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1820.
THE FUNDS.•
Paisic-or STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK
S per Cent. Reduced 691/4 1/4 V 4
S per Cent. Cons. 681/2 % 5/8
$ per Cent. 771/2-4 per Cent. 871/4 1/4

5 per Cent. 102% Y 4
Long Annuities 18 1-16
Imperial S per Cent. Ann. 68Y4
Scrip 2 pre.—lndia Bonds 19s. 20s. pre.
Exchequer Bills, 4s. si. prem. .
Commercial 11 s. pre.
Cons. for August 29th, 691/8 69.

This is settling day for the Account, and the morn-
ing has been principally occupied in making up. Ac-
counts ; these are not very large, the price not hav-
ing fluctuated above one per Cent. during the Ac-
count, and no defaulter has been declared. It turns
out a !Fear Account, as Consols left off yesterday at
701/8, and arc this morning 70%, with 3/8 continua-
tion for the next Account. The holders of the 5 per
Cent. Scrip are anxious to get rid of that heavy
Stock, with a view to get a slice of the Russian
Loan, but which is not yet finally concluded,
Money is very scarce.

The motion of Dr. Lusurworow respecting the
Plate claimed by the QUEEN, came last night under
the consideration of the House of Commons. Lord
CASTLEREAGH succeeded in satisfying the House that
it had not been gifted to the CicrEN, butionly fur-
nished to her MAJESTY for her temporary use during
her residence in Kensington Palace : what the old
KING might do was no -rule for the present KING;
land on this point all the information that could be
given was to be found in the answer sent by the
I.ORD CHAMBERLAIN to Lady ANNE HAMILTON, in
which his Lordship states, that he laid the appli-
cation for the plate " bffOre . the KING," and that
His MAJESTY has not thought fit to give any order
for its removal from the Jewel-Office, where it has
been depcnited." The motion of Dr. LusurNaToo,
for Copies of the Correspondence on the subject, was
negatived without a division.
The Bank Notes Forgery Prevention Bill occasion-
ed some conversation in the House of Peers lait night.
The attempt to prevent Petitioners from being beard
against the Bill, must appear very singular. Lord
LIVERPOOL seta eti to imagine that Mr. Tu.Lotst
and the other Petitioners aimed at having the amt.
par:Aire merits of different plans examined. This,
however, is not the object of Mr. TILLOCH'S Petition :
the preamble to the Bill states, that " the Governor
and Conpany cf the Bank of 'England have, after
great consideration, iabcur, and expense, formed a
new plan for Printing Bank Notes, in wliich the
ground-w of k of each Ennk Note u ill be black or
coloured, or black and coloured line-work," with
certain words -4 upon a black, sable, or dark ground,
such ground containing white lines intersecting each
other," &c. rlr. TH.Locti says that. this allegation
is not true—that, on the contraty, the plan was
foamed by Lim, after much consideration, labour,
and expense (of Which be has never been reim-
bursed one farthing), and was by him laid before the
Bank in 1797; and this fact he intends to prove at
ithe Bar of the Hoase.

We lay before our Readers to-day a fuller account
of the latter part of' the pro;-_•edings of the Special
Court of Common Council, on the subject of the
pending Bill of Pains and Penalties, than the hour at
which the Meeting closed perinitted us to do ye3ter-
, day. We need scarcely say, that the object of the
Itesolutions has our best wishes ; and it is, therefore,
with the more regret that we feel called'upon to say
anything in the way of exception to the matter and
the manner of them. The matter we think a great
deal less cogent than ,it might have been, and the
manner more indecisive than there was any necessity
,for.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morn-
ing. Their contents, if we except the repetition of
our own accounts respecting the QUEEN, are void pf
interest. —Five per cents. Ft iday, 79 f. 25 c.

We have received this morning New York Papers
to the 16th of June, from which the following are
extracts:

NEW YORK, JUNE 16.
The following is the most correct information
from the Spanish Main :
" General Nlontillo arrived on the .4th at Vallie
Dupart, with 1000 British troops and 500 Creoles
that had joined him. He met at Abeden a body of
Indians, commanded by Amayc. On the 14th, in the
morning, he sent two Priests of St. John's to the vil-
lage of Molino, to inform the inhabitants that hii in-
tention was to liberate them from the Spanish Go-
vernment, and not to fight against them. These
Priests were stopped, and taken to the Royalist Chief.
When General Nlontillo heard of this, he marched
towards the town, upon which they surrendered,
sending the two Priests to inform the Republican
Chief that they were misinformed by the Spaniards
of Rio de la Hackie,. that Santa Fe was retaken by
the Royalists. Having given up their arms, they
took the oath of allegiance.

" General Montillo 'returned to Vallie - Dupart.

and Marched immediately to Chirseana, to form a
junction with the army of 4,000 men, commanded
by General Urdaneta, wtto was in Laguna Zapatoza.
The army of the yest was at Bauce, before Mon-
pox, and another division, was' on its march to
Maracaibo. The squadron .of Admiral Brion was
all in good order, lying at Rio •de la Hache, with
six months' provisions, and 5,000 stand of arms on
board. Colonel Padillo marched, on the 6th April,
past Rio de la Hache, with 400 Creoles and 1000
English troops, to join General Montillo."
We have accounts from Newburyport of the arri-
val at that place of the brig Tornaz, from Aux Cayes,
Captain Cooa, who states, that on the day he left
Aux Cayes there was a report that the City of Car-
raccas had been sunk by an earthquake. It was net
known what credit this report was entitled to.
Letters froth St. Thomas's, received the 15th June,
report that the Independents on the Spanish Main
have agreed to the propositions of the Cortes, and
have settled the differences between them.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ISLAND, JAN. 1 I.—The epide-
mic which for the last two years has committed
such fatal ravages throughout India, but from which
we of this Island have hitherto Frovidentially escaped,
has at lengtli, we grieve to announce, made its ap-
pearance amcngst us. During the last week the
deaths of more than fifty natives have been reported.