Star.
London, England, 1820-03-11 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

PR/CE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCE :
Bank Stock shut
3 per Cent. Reduced shut
3 per Cent. Consols 681/2
Sit per Cent. shut—t r,er Cent. shit
5 per Cent. Navy 103% 78
Bank Long Annuities shut
Irisk 5 per Cents. 105
India Bonds 14s. pr.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2s. dis. par, 2s. dis.
Consols for Account 6878.

A contention has taken place between The Timcs
and The Courier relative to the Civil List. The for-
mer asserts, on good authority, that Ministers interd

.to propose a great augmentation at a time when the
country is groaning with Taxes, and the latter de-
nies the assertion. It is proper that the truth >hould
be known to the Public, and the truth we believe to
be this :—The rents and droits of the Crown, at
the present time, exceed £l,6oo,ooo—in 1815 they
exceeded £1,700,000. The arrangement for the
Civil List, that is the sum which his late MAJESTY
accepted in lieu of the rents and droits of the
Crown was, at the close of the reign, about
£1,100,000. But the bargain was not binding on
his successors, so that his present MAJESTY has really
succeeded, if we may use a familiar phrase, to an
estate of a rental exceeding £1,600,000. It is his
right, and he holds it by as good law as the
Duke of DEVONSHIRE, or any other Nobleman, does
his lands. Whatever sum, therefore, less than this,
which his MAJESTY may be pleased to accept for the
Civil List, the balance will he as much a gift to the
Nation as that of the Marquis of CAMDEN'S sinecare.
Were his MAJESTY, and we throw it out for a hint to
his Ministers, to agree to repay the Nation the ad-
vances made on account of his debts when Prince or
WALES, he would do all that honour and justice can
require; and, in these times, we should rejoice to see
the Crown possessed of all its rights.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, which arrived
this forenoon, are chiefly filled with the report of
another day's discussion on the Project of Law re-
specting Individual Liberty.
The new Minister of the Interior made, in the
course of the debate, some interesting revelations to
spew the necessity of strengthening the hands of
Government. France, he said, had its Radicals as
well as England ; and it was against them that the
restrictive powers asked for were required. One
man, of the name of Lucet, had actually written to
the Magistrate appointed to investigate into the
affair of Lowel in these words

" I have learnt with pleasure the fate of the Duke of Bere ;
I wish the rest of the Royal Family had the same. Oh, how i:
envy the action of Lcuvel 1. May I one day have has courage l"

" This man," continued the Minister, " has bee-,
arrested, yet there is no law which is applicable •
his case, for it is merely that of an opinion, neithe:
printed nor published."
A motion was made for printing his Excellencl.'s
speech, on account of the important disclosures ::
contained, but it was negatived as contrary to usage.
The debate was afterwards adjourned a second tin:o.
Five per Cents. Tuesday, 74 fr. 75 c.

The Countess Dowager of pi RCOURT has been (--4
a visit to the Princess AucuurA, at Frogcnote, fo7
some time. The Hon. Mrs. EGEntoN has also been
on a eibit to her Royal Highuess, and has been hct
companion for some time.
A new Candidate, and one who promises to be vei
popular, has started for the suffrages of the People i :
the City—the Scheme of the new Lottery. We kno..
not, however, whether the £40,000, given by the Co‘.
tractors, in addition to the CgovertMlent Here.
nminctbring it within the operation of the Tret.::.