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for a Member was MO a• year by the existing Ix*
which did not require that he should possess be a
capital of £lOOO, he ous;ht not to be required to
mortgage his income for Lee years and A hat.: Int
the purpose of raising money to pay the expenses of
the hustings.
Mr. LAWSON also supported the Amendment:
He contended that the burden ought least of a:: to
be thrown upon the electors; that would be a grc,.-1
act of injustice, as well as a breach of a furklamenui
principle of the Constitution. The didiculty was to
steer clear of injustice to the returning officer as we'.l
as to the constituents: but the first was only an at
of private injustice, the other of public; and the to-t
ought not for a moment to be put in the scaie
the other. There was also some appearance of
justice in compelling an unsucce.;sfill canidate to
pay his share of the expense. It might be cens4le7:4
objectionable to make a criminal scar the ellarie
the erection of the scaffold on which his political in-
dependence, perhaps, was to he sacriti:ed; but if ;:e
were defeated, it was his misfortune—tire loser met
pay. In the good old times, before degeneracy had btSl
carried so far as at present, members were paid for
their attendance, and for their travelling expeuses;
but now kept Members were unknown, or at Iraq 6:
remuneration was of a different kind, although still
it v.as far different from the emelulients .of a I,
griping class of the communty, who fr.:—.,1011
taverns, and found their advanta::.e in paying a stn,
expense for the purposes of casual ev.ortioti, or ac,
•dentnl purchase—(pestiee.l 'f! _ ! lonout able
her opposite (Mr. Bennet) Ir_Traed now to 'se lei
lating in the spirit of idleness and epprellens:(.n. ,
wished to renew the old bill for three months, lseca
he would not give liimself the trouble, or (1;(1,
dare to undertake the task of proposing a ne v 1.

lie that had voted last night in the mquiricy,
plaining of postponements from year to year,
with singular inconsistency wished to bring in one
these temporary and ten►porizi.tg measures.
Mr. BENNET pressed upon die [louse the gl
ha► &hip of the sitalition of the High Bailiff; uhu
at this moment EaNJO out of pocket by his (Ace
. .

who, if this Bill were not carried, would be a

greater loser after the approaching election.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY contended, that the E
Bailiff ought not to be placed in a situation diUe
from that of all other returning Officers.
Mr. HUME insisted thn:, as.the Courts of L
were open to the High Bailiff to recover the atom
as a debt, no Bill was necessary.
A division then took place. Far the Amendm,
10—Against it 3'2. The Bill was accordingly
a third time, and passed.

The Cutlery Bill ‘37-as read a ,r..trild time. Committee
Bituiday. RESULT 01* THE BALLOT.
Mr. BROGDEN hroutrht up :he Report •-,f the Corm.
appointed to scruticize lists delivered in for Met*,
the Secret Committee en the 1. uk Itcitrairtion. It Wag

and the following appeared to be t.e u.intos for wkieh tlr
jcrity of Votes had been given :
Lord Castlerengh F. Robinson Sir John nchcil
The Chancellor of the Mr. GrcuftU Mr. Littletcn

Exchequer 11r. lirskissen Mr. Wilson
'.‘fr. Tierney Mr. isberc:orab7 Mr. Stuart Went
Mr. Canning Sir. Bankes Mr. Mannixe
Mr. Welksky Pole S'ir J. I:l:c:atesh Mr. Fran::Ltnt: Lclt
Mr. Lamb 3lr. Peel Mr. Ashu:st

'Sir John Newport
At the time the Report was breutht nr, the Ilousenvairr:
err Tty, and immeliately :iftir it laza bum 'cad the Bette
jourLed.

MEETING 47' FREEMASONS' T.lrrp.

Yesterday the Members of the house of Comm
in Opposition to the present Administration di
together, to the number of one hundred aad lc;
at the Free. Masons' Tavern—Mr. TIIMNFX in
Chair. On the Right Honourable Gentleman's
being proposed by the Marquis cat TAvisroex,
addressed the company assembled to meet him
much feeling and eloquence. Ile declared, that
utmost object of his ambition had never been so i
a reward as that which had been conferred upon
in so gratifying a manner, by a body of Gentle]
who, for independence, character, and numbers,
never been surpassed by any political par:y at
period of our history. Mr. TIERNEY congratul
them sincerely on the rapid progress of public
nion, which had developed itself in a tone not
be misunderstood by their political adversaries:
also on the probability there appeared of that
nion being represented in the present House of Cc
mons more faithfully than in its predecessor.
The only return he could make to those who
bestowed on him such flattering marks of confidence
was to devote to their service the remainder of
strength and years—but any efforts of his woulc
unavailing, unless supported by their active co.eiNe.
ration, He firmly believed they had but one
mon object, the public good—and in the con
harmony and union which prevailed amongst
he anticipated the most certain means of ptomot;
that end. The Right Honourable Gentleman
eluded his speech amidst the loudest applause of
company. In the course of the evening, the folk'
ing toasts were given:
" The King."—" The PI ince Regent, and ycipetuity '
principles which raked his Family to the 'Throne.
• " The Navy, the Constitutional defence of the country,

" Arniy, and never may it. in in composition or
hers, prove dangerous to the Liberties of the Country."
"The Constitt.tional Rights of the People. May they
fectually asserted in the New l'arliament.'
" A real Retrenchment of the Public Expenditure-- Le
indemnity for the past, and security for the future.''
" The cause of Civil and Religious Liberty allover the Wald-.
" Our fellow-countrymen, of whatever Persuasion, wheat .2
honest Difference of Religious Opinion has excluded from tL4
Privileges of their Country."
" The Memory of Mr. Fox."
" The Memory of those great and good Men whom we /110
lost, and may their example animate those who survive to le•
on their principles in Parliament."
" A temperate but effectual Reform of all .Ibusel."
" May the spirit bur athed by the People at the General E•c•
tion, not evaporate in the house of Commons."
" Lords Grey, Lansdowne, and Holland, and those Pe, rst,t*
support our principles in the other House of Parliament.'
" City of 4 lons continuo
del:lay represented."
" The Liberty of the Preis."
" Trial by Jury, and the health of the Independent )1•
a the Bar of the three Kingdoms."
" Prosperity to Ireland."—" The Bishop of Norwich."
" The final Abolition of the Slave Trade."
" The Cause of Indei,endence in South An-erica."
" AU honest Elector. throughout the Lripi: e."
" Cuccess to the independxit visit of Scotland."
About eleven o'clock Mr. TIERNEY retired free
the Chair, after it had been resolved that Pin lizaie!.
tary Dinners, for !!embers of both Houses, sho'l
be held once a fortnight during the 3e4siew

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE &CLOCK
per Cent. Reduced 78ftt —3 per Cent. Cons. 7711
Cons. for Acc. 78111- 7ti 2er Cent. 8711
4per Cent. 96i 96-5 per Cent. Navy 106/ 1051106
Fank Lg. Ans. 2017-16—India Bonds 79 pre.
sch. Bills (2d.) 12 5 pre.

llAsz waited on the Gentlemen of the Stock
>change this morning, and informed them, that the
iank had refused to prolong the payments on the
Nemption of the Omniurn.

The subject of continuing the Suspension of Cash
-,sments came again into discussion last night, in
s. House of Commons, in consequence of Mr. LIMIT
)AVIES moving for leave to present a Petition from
:tain individuals in Bristol, which had for its object,
.0 pray the House not to permit too speedy a'return
5t ;13 resumption of Cash Payments. The finite;
rtponement of this salutary measure is allowed, on
an hand 3, to be a dreadful evil ; but the great ques-:
tall certainly is, whether greater evils would not*be
ps,;,:ced by a speedy return to Cash Payments ?
our own opinion, after much thought on the ques-
ejn, is, that Cash Payments might be resumed' in a
wck with perfect safety, if the absurdity of main-
cuing two measures of value were first done away.
ver and Gold never can, in the nature of things,
be made to maintain the same relative value; and
therefore one of them only should be adopted—and
the preferable one of the two is Silver, as we have
shewn in a preceding publication. Make this the
standard for payments and the Bank may resume
payMerz to•morrow, and Bank Notes and Silver
will instantly acquire and maintain the same value ;
for no person would melt Silver Coin at a ktss, which
he must do when Notes and Coin are invariably at par.

Nor need it follow that in this case the Bank should
be restricted to payments in silver. They might
'toe the power given them to pay large demands in
gold; at the market price of gold ; and this gold need
of be coined (wLich is an expensive process) but
stamped ingots-0:a is stamped to mark its standard
neness.—Silver also, in stamped ingots, might be
raployed in making large payments, and at the ster-
valne—that is, without. the senionge charged
~the coin.

Nes the moment that such a system shall be
:.x;+.ed the Bank will have nothing to apprehend
fins:: any run upon them for the precious metals;
f.sr it is obvious that no person would submit to the
~canvenience of receiving large payments in silver,
rhea he could get them in thr mom portable form
tf Bank-notes ; and it is equally obviuus that nn per,
..:11 would ever plague the Bank by improper de-
sands for gold when he could not possibly-procure
higher price for it than the Bank Price,—ln a

mid, we have here proposed a complete and infalli-
Ie and practicable remedy for the present evil, and
re hope it will obtain the serious attention of the,
t'aancait.ou of the EXCLIECitreR and of the First
Commercial Company in the Kingdom—the Bank
of England. It is a plan that will bear the most
f.orotigh investigation, and the more it is canvassed.
tte more will its efficiency be established.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning,
The Project of Law adopted by the Chamber of
Deputias, for granting a national recompence to the
Duke cf RiCerimm, was on Saturday presented to
the Klan by a deputation of the Chamber.
As wehave never at any time expressed a very fa-
vourable opinion of the Ministry of the puke of
theamietr, the observations which we are about to
Lake cn this act of the French Legislature, will riot
n'adili be suspected of partiality. We have always
thcught, that in his character as a statesman, the
bake betrayed what might perhaps be deemed virtue
Era as an individual—too constant a preference
kr the interests of Russia, to the prejudice of those
cf England. We have often had occasion to lament
his igaorance of the real state of public opinion hi
Prance, owing to an absence from it of more than
eventy.five years, and the tender preference which
he seemed to feel for the most despicable of all
ray.ies in France—that of the Ultra-Royalists:—
We me disposed to allow every credit to these
.7.ae have a:miled this preference to the goodness of
heart, and his horror of revoluttonary principles;
het it must be allowed that this horror led him to
things through a partial medium, and to adopt'
nersures which cannot be regarded otherwise than
rs serious errors in a Minister of State. From all
el-vac considerations, we confess it was with pleasure
re saw his resignation. But, at the same time, we
be wanting in candour, did we not bear tes-
-1
t •-,ony of the high and chivalrous sentiment of ho-
*--7....44cit the Deice cez‘fseuiiy ,
its acirainistration, and, above all, to the ccurage
isbich he freed himself from the trammels of
:%e Ultras on several great occasions, whe❑ the vital
iacrests of the country were clearly at stake. Of thisl
the Duke of Runs may gave a splendid proof; when, in
defiance of the opinions and solicitations of all those
who called themselves his friends, he insisted en the
necessity of the evacuation of the French territory.
la this he was ably wooded by 1% Ds CAZIII. bqt

the Dvii, by his position is Prime Minster, UMd
the principal character, with a zeal and talent that
impreised the Allied Soveriligns with a high opinion
of his pattiotisin, diplomatic skill, and moral virtue:
Very probably, no other Minister could have so com•
pletely succeeded in the affair.
It is for this cause then, the liberation of the French
territory-that Fiance has been called upon to tes-
tify her satisfaction Ist st worthy manner. We should
have supposed that there would scarcely have been
a dissentient voice on the proposition, and must con-
fess ourselves surprised at theopposition which it en-I
. . .

countered in the Chamber of Deputies. The Mem-
bers who resisted the grant have repeatedly asserted,
that if the evacuation had not taken place, the Nation
would have risen on the Army of Occupation, and
commenced a new Revolution—and our firm convic-
t4n is, that they were right in their conjecture. How
the*. can they answer it to their consciences to refuse
the testimonial of their approbation, to the conduct
of a Minister who has saved, by their own confession,

the country from a new RevolUtion ? The battle of
Waterloo was perhaps of less importance to Britain,

than the evacuation of the French territory has been
to France ; and yet £200,000 was freely voted as a
reward to the Duke of WELLINGTON, while for the
greater service France would refuse a grant of merely,
£l,OOO per ann. to the Duke of Rteitzusti. Su*

a refusal is as mean as it is unjust. "
M. CORNET DlNcouar alleged a very specious
objection-4, You say the State has been saved by
the change of the Ministry, and that all would have
been lost had the Duke of Richelieu and his col-

leagues remained in office. And yet their successors
arc the very men who come forward to propose na-

tional rewards to those Ministers in disgrace, for the
high and important services which they have ren-
dered to their country ! What an inconsistency r
This argument is easily answered. The Duke of
RICHELIEU, by his individual services, merited the
reward proposed, and a much greater one. As to
his ministry generally, it had the faults we have enu-

mcratcd ; but no one is ignorant that the Duke of
IttotELlEtt only followed, and did not give, the
im-
pulse of ultra-royalism. Ile was misled by others in
the Ministry, in whom he placed unlimited confidence,
because he did not knew their secret machinations and
ulterior views: he was, in fact, their dupe, but in re-
tiring to make way for others who were better ac-
quainted with the real state of things, he did so with
a pure conscience, for. not even the enemies of his
fame have ever presumed to accuse him of having
had the least share in any intrigue or underhand trans-
action either to procure partizans or to ensure success
to his projects. He could always say with the Poet:

" My deeds are fair, and day shall see them all!"

To such a Minister, therefore, who by the com-
moa consent of all parties lind rendered services of
the first importance to his country, the nation waif?,
beyond all question, deeply indebted ;an &mins
him an estate of f. 9.000 per annum, our own opinion
is, that she has but very imperfectly acquitted her-
self of that debt.

On the same day on syhich the project of law of
which we have now been speaking was presented to
the KING, it was also communicated by the Minister
of Foreign Aff.sirs to the Chamher of Peers, by whom
it was ordered to be printed for distribution previous
to its being taken under consideration. The opposi-
tion in the Peers is not expected to be of so formi-
dable a nature as that whirls has been experienced
from the Deputies of the People.
After the KING'S usual grand Levee on Sunday,
' the attendance on which was numerous and splendid,'
several of the new Prefects of Departments were in
,troduced to his MAJESTY, and took the oaths.
Lieutenant-General Eastour has been superseded
in the command of the third Military Division, by
Lieutenant-General Rego or.

A new insurrection is said to have broken nut in
the College of Louis le Grand. The object of the
rebel boys is to obtain the pardon of those compa-
nions who have been expelled for their share in, tire
former mutiny The Author of the Lefties Nor•
muidts, advocates the cause of the revolters, and
gives them the name of youNg citizen, seeing that
there are no longer any learners in this age of uni-
versal
It is mentioned by one of the Journals, as a singu-
lar coincidence, that the day of the year
.WhVI
Lows has chosen for his Corowtion, is the mine 41
that on which BONAPAILTS WAS crowned grhperor of
the French.

The sentence of the Cour Royale, remitting Ctn..
gi.Voa and Marine, to be tried before the Court of Al-
a as, finds that there are grounds for accusing the
former for having attemptel to assassinate the Duke
of IVELLtHoros, and the litter of having abetted
1 the assassination. • .

w.
The Emperor ALIZAWDER arrived at Petorshurzh
on the 6th ultimo. The Empress-Mother was er-*
pected daily.
Two Royal marriages are said to im onitititapis,
one L-4:meen the -1.1-chdukt RATilitic_Viyroy of
Austrian Italy, and the Princess ClAlliettF, of
Lucca, daughter of the late Queettof raid
the other between the Archduke Pit.o.niii 0114!
GARY and the Princess of Wiarimainc.
The Journal de Geed remarks, that public, spirit
has made an extraordinary progress in Germany-a-
that the light which was, for a long time, coon;
mated in a few States, hai now been spread tar
wicts*.and that Avoatria- alone- seems to rearsin stit•

ttotiary in the Midst of the general movement Int•
premed on the whole of Europe,
Another Gentian Journal observes, with what
degree of truth we will riot stop to inquire, that it
is nbvi the universal wish of the people of Europe
to be governed regularlythat Constitutions are
found to be nothing but the order appropriated
to the progress of civilization—that despotism is
every where discredited, and must come to an end—
that the wisest of Princes have recognized the force
of national will, and resolved to conform themselves
to it—and; that short as the time is since constitu-
tional order has been known in Europe, there are
already more than 80 out of 150 millions (not
reckoning Turkey) who partake of its blessings.
The following tribute to the influence of the insti-
tutions of this Country in bringing about this great
political and moral change, we have much pleasure
in quoting : " The House of Commons in England
has contributed to this result as much as the French
Revolution. It is the liberty of speech which ;las
destroyed the power of tyranny."