Star.
London, England, 1820-02-29 00:00:00

PROROGATION QF PARLIAMENT.

The Commons, who attended to a considerable
number, remaining at the Bar, an extraordinary
Commission, authorising the Lords therein named,
or any three or more of them, to declare his
Ie-
JESTYs Royal will and pleasure for Proroguing the
Parliament, was then read. After which,

The LORD CHANCELLOR, as organ of the
Commissioners, read the following Address, and de-
livered the following Speech, on the part an 1 by
command of his -MAJESTY, to both Houses of Par-
liament :

" ✓!y lordsancl Gentlemen,

a We are commanded by his Majesty to inform you, that it
is a great disappointment to his Majesty, that on this first and
solemn occasion he is prevented by indisposition from meeting

you in person.

" It would have been a consolation to his Majesty to eve ut-
terance in this l.lace to those feelings with which his Majesty
and the Nation alike deplore the loss of a Sovereign, the com-
m,,n falter of all his people.
" The King commands us to inform you, that in determining
to call is ithout delay the new Parliament, his Majesty has been
influenced by the consideration of what is most expedient for
public business, as well as most conducive to general convenience.
" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

" We are directed by his Majesty to thank you for the pro-
vision which you have made for the several branches of the
Public Service from the commencement *of the present year, and
during the interval which must elapse before a now Parliament
can be assembled.
" Lleds and Genlknten,

1' e are commanded to inform you, that in taking leave of
the present Parliament, his Majesty cannot refrain from con-
veying to you his warmest assurances of the sense which his
Majesty entertains of the important services which you have
rendered the country.

m Deeply as his. Majesty lamented that designs and practices
such as those which you have been recently called upon to
repress should have existed in this free and happy country, he
cannot sufficiently commend the prudence and firmnass with
which you directed your attention to the means of counter-
acting them. '
" If any doubt had remained as to the nature of those prin-
ciples by which the peace and happiness of the Nation were so
seriously menaced, or of the excesses to which they were likely
to lead, the flagrant and sanguinary Conspiracy which has lately
been detected must open the eyes of the most credulous, and
must vindicate to the whole world the justice and expediency
of those measures to which you judged it necessary to resort, in
defence of the laws and Constitution of the Kingdom."

A Commi,sion for proroguing the Parliament was
then read, when the LORD CHANCELLOR said :

" My Lords and Gentleness,

a By virtue of his Majesty's Commission under the Great
Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in
his Majesty's name, and in obedience to Ms commands, prorogue
this Parliament to Monday, the 13th day of March nest, to be
then here holden ; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued
to Monday, the 13th day of March next."
The Commons 'then withdrew to their own House,
and their Lordships separated.

THE EVENING STAR.

,

re-a-

mander of the Ist division of the National Army, is-'
sued two Proclamations in this place, dattd 31st of
January and Ist instant, thanking the inhabitants fur,
the enthusiastic manner in which they received his
troops, with regulations respecting the trade. Pro-
-visions are to be free of duty. Monopoly of tobacco
has ceased, and it is to be admitted on paying one
real duty per pound. The pert of Algesiras is at
present blockaded by three ships of war. The first
division of the National troops is still here. (Mori-
NELL, with a small force of 1500 men, cavalry and
infantry, is arrived at St. Roque ; and the National
Army has been reinforced to 3500 men, but there is
at present no disposition to attack. The gates of
Cadiz were, on the 25th ult. at night, for some time
actually in possession of the National troops, who
were at length subdued, and a small number of
them taken prisoners and sent to Ceuta ; but few
lives were lost."

By the Leeward Island packet, we have received
Trinidad letters to the 10th January, and inclosures
from the Main, now called Columbia. Venezuela
and New Granada hive been constituted into one
State, under a new denomination, one of the most
important measures yet adopted, and which bids
fair to be attended with great prosperity. It is ex-
tremely gratifying to see the very liberal manner in
which the debts contracted by each State, respec-
tively, in obtaining supplies, have been acknowledged
and funded into one debt, and the plan of liquida-1
tion formed. This, no doubt, will afford great con-
solation to the sufferers in this country, who, under
trying circumstances, trusted to the faith and honour
of the Venezoelean Republic and its enterprising
Chief, by whom their services will never be forgotten.
General BOLIVAR arrived at Angostura on the
llth of December, amidst the general acclamations
of the people. He was not expected, and nothing
could exceed the enthusiasm of all classes on again
seeing among them the hero who, under appalling
difficulties, and in the face of a powerful and despe-
rate enemy, had, in a very few months, secured the
freedom of New Granada, and opened a new ara in
the annals of his own country. The rapidity with
which the Columbian Chief moves, is astonishing.—
After regulating various concerns of the State, at
the seat of Government, and, among others, addres-
sing a Proclamation to the Irish Legion, containing
such sentiments as must be gratifying to every Irish_
man, he left Angostura on the 21. th, to put the finish
to the grand work of the emancipation of Columbia.'
On the 21st of October, Colonel Pants entered Po-
payan, whence the Royalist General, C A LZADA, made
a precipitate retreat. The Independents were libe-
rating the other few points of the interior of New
Granada, in which the Royalists had taken refuge, as
fast as Gen. Bola VAR'S troops could march upon them.

The Paris Papers of Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, arrived this morning.
The Projects of Restriction which M. DE Can
bequeathed to his successors in office, are likely to
meet with more opposition than was probably anti-
cipated. The Commission appointed in the Chamber
of Peers to examine the Project for placing the Jour-
nals under censorship, have made a Report,, unani-
mously recommending its rejection. It is not only
at variance, they say truly, with all those principles of
Constitutional liberty which, a year ago, were deemed
by all the world incontestable,but puts in question the
possibility of a Representative Government existing in
France, inasmuch as a Representative Govern.ment
cannot exist without the Liberty of the Press. The
exercise of this political right, they add with equal
truth, is attended with inconveniences, some of which
are inevitable; but, at the same time, its advantages
are so great, so extensive, and of such vast influence,
that they are worth attaining, even at the expense of
considerable abuses—abuses the more easily to be tole.
rated, that no excess of the Press can escape the visi-
tation of the laws, when the laws are such as they
ought to be. A Censorship they declare is, in every
point under which they can view it, inadmissible,
being neither necessary nor expedient nor consti-
tutional.

The opinion thus given is of the more weight, that
it comes from a quarter where least was expected in
behalf of public liberty. If the Chamber of Peers
decide agreeably to the Report of their Commission,
there can be no doubt what the fate of the Bill will
be in the Chamber of Deputies, where the liberty of
the subject must naturally have more friends and
protectors than in the other House. The Reporter
in the Peers was the Duke DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT.

The Project for the Suspension of the Law equi-
valent to our Habeas Corpus Act, appears also to be
meeting witk strong opposition in the Chamber of
Deputies. The Commission to whom it has been re-
mitted have had a long and warm discussion on it.
M. RIVIERI is named Reporter.

Nothing transpires respecting the proceedings
against the assassin Lemuel. He has been a second
time examined at the Sonciergerie. One LACOMBE,
a Commissary of Police at Troyes, has been ar-
rested and sent to Paris, accused of having said, a
the time of the assassination, that he knew a great
blow was to be struck at Paris. These words., if
they are truly reported, seem to indicate some fore-
knowledge of the crime; but the general opinion of
the Parisian public, as far as we can collect from the
Journals, appears to be, that the assassin was single
in his iniquity.
The Funds km now recovered from the shock

which they experienced on this distressing event,
owing, doubtless, to the revival of the public con-
fidence. The Five per Cents. are stated in the
Journals to have left off on Friday at 75 fr.4o c. and
private accounts state, that they had reached as high
as 74 fr. 15 c. being five cents. higher than they were
at the time of the assassination.

The accounts from Spain in these Papers add little
information to what we have given above from other
sources. The Insurgents are stated to have been on
the 4th of February forced, after a brisk cannonade
from the gun-boats of Cadiz and the redoubt of St.
Ferdinand, to abandon their positions at Santi Banez
and Angulo. The redoubt of Saint Ferdinand is
said to be impregnable; ,it has fifty-one pieces of
artillery, and is defended by a Naval Captain of
tried loyalty, Don JOSEPH Pans° DE
The corps of Ritmo which went to Algesiras, it is
added, has fallen back on Viger, with the intention
of rejoining the troops in the Isle de Leon. The
Royalist Generals talk of cutting off this branch of
the insurrection, but, as before, it is all mere talk. '

LEEDS, FEBRUARY 27.

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.

My last would apprise you of the tumultuous pro.
ceedings at Dewsbury and the neighbouring town•
ships, and •f the committal of ten of the ringleaders,
to York Castle. It was hoped that this latter, aided
by the presence of the military, would have restored
tranquillity, at least for a time ; but, I am sorry to
say, the contrary has been the effect. Irritated at
the capture of their leaders, the Union men stew a
bolder front than ever, and openly declare they will
avenge themselves •n all who oppose them. In
spite of the presence of the military, and the utmost
vigilance of the Municipal Authorities, the " Union
Societies" increase.

The Manufacturing Districts are, in fact, in a
nest deplorable state ; and the Poor-rates are rising
to a height beyond the ability of persons in the minor
departments of trade to satisfy.—Pauperism and beg-
gary are everywhere taking the place of industry
and competency.

The Workhouse in this town (still the most opu-
lent and prosperous in the Manufacturing Districts),
is weekly besieged by an increased crowd of appli-
cants, most cf whom are compelled to wait in the
open air from two to seven hours, for their turn to
receive their miserable weekly pittances, which barely
suffice to support human nature with the coarsest
food. What adds to the distress of the Manufac-
turers is, the cessation of all demand for the usual
Spring fashions, either in the home or foreign mar-
kets ; and what little business. is transacted, is done
on credit or long bills.