Star. — 1820-12-27 (London, England)

THE EVENING STAR.  LONDON.  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1820.  Jonn's Dmr.--Holiday at the Bank.  The efforts of the enemies of the QUEEN; or, whichhas now become synonimpus, of- the friends of Ministers, to procure what they call "Loyal" Addresses, have only tended to rouse more effectually the energies of this loyal Empire to bring into public expressitn the genuine sentiments of .the great majority of the People, respecting the misdoings of those very Ministers whom the Ultras wished to serve by their  103 Ur effusions. But in no part of the Empire has the, conduct of Ministers had a more powerful effect in rousing the People from stupor and lethargy than in Scotland. Those, and those only, who are acquainted with the actual state to which Scotland had been sunk by. the Corporation-tyranny of a parcelof time-serving, self-elected lick-spittles, can form a proper estimate of the spirit now manifestid by-the for ly bullied and timid population of North Britain. great and deep indeed must have been the feelings excited by the attempts to destroy her MAJESTY, before they could have callei forth, on the North side Of the Tweed, any expression of public indignation against Ministers. Tl:e Tories in that part of the Irtngdom are filled with wrath, and—what is worse— with fear and trembling. They did not believe it possible, that any measure of insult and contempt to their fellow-citizens durst even be felt as an injury ; but that their fellow••citizens should presume to meet publicly—to complain—to address the QCEEN!a):e, to address that individual whom Ministers had charged with abominable crimes!—to pray the KING to dismiss his Ministers!!—their patrons—the men • whom they delighted to honour!—this was, indeed, a daring beyond what these men could have believed within the reach of possibility. So far as relates to Scotland, these proceedings are singular phenomena, nothing short of a prodigy.  " Anxious as we have been to see that Tory faction, which has so long thriven by its vampire practices, we really commiserate the Edinburgh Tories, when we look at the wretched and disgraceful plight to which they have reduce/ themselves. To be honourably beaten, even in their last strong hold, would have been nothing ; but to sink at once—for why should we mince the matter ?—to the level of blackguards ; to vent their spleen in calling names, forging letters and speeches, and resorting to all sorts of ribaldry, scurrility, anti malicious abuse—to send written and verbal threats to tradesmen and shopkeepers, for the purpose of keeping them back from a Meeting called by the greatest talent and highest character in the country—to seek even a semblance of strength from unwilling and constrained affrages—to shrink from nothing, in short, however mean or base, if it promise only to gratify a paltry and unmanly revenge —is to court degradation, to merit infamy !—Looking at their Fair their ' Have at 'ems.' their ' Raising the Winds,' their Political Courtships,' their ' Flay-bills,' their ' Addresses,' &c. we cannot doubt that there are many of these Tories, who, not content with Irani-fin practices, with misleading, inflaming, and treason-stirring, would willingly become assassins of persons es well as of characters, if their cowardice would allow them to feel as sate in using the stiletto as they think themselves in de_ stroying under the double disguise of law and patriotism. But having dropped the vizor which Connetly concealed their dark and loathsome features, they arc at present more to be pitied than abhorred. The single Tory, who at the meeting of last Saturday dashed forward to the front of the gall em with fatuous smile of self-complacency on his lips, to utter same frenzied amid beastly insults on the WLigs, and all who surrounded him, may be considered as exhibiting, in a condensed form, the present fr:.atic spirit of-his patty. Nothing but madness, indeed, could have spoken of that Meeting in the manner. in which even the least furious of the Tory journals has done. Every one who was present must have seen that the old Theatre in Coatis Rooms was filled with intelligent and welldressed people—with persons, in short, who, from character and property, and friends and connections, had a deep stake in the coutar."—(The See:imam.)  A Jamaica Mail arrived this forenoon.—An earthquake of unusual duration was felt at the Island of Antigua on the 17th of October, at eight o'clock in the evening, and a second shock was felt on the following morning. His Majesty's ship PARTTIIAN had brought to Kingston accounts of the Revolution at Hayti, from svbich we are enabled to add the following particulars: After the suicide of CIIRISTOPIIII, the few troops who remained with him took possession of the Palace of Sans Souci, which they script and plundered of every valuable article; they refused to bury CHRISTorne, and his body was left exposed in the read. On the 17th October, the revolt having become general among the troops and the people, eight of CIIRISTOPIIE'S Officers were killeA at Cape Henry. Among them were the PRINCE ROYAL, Prince JOACHIM, and Baron