Star. — London, England, 1816-10-22 00:00:00

~ rRIi'AM LET7'EAIS. 0 MILAN, OCTOBER a . " We have arrived here, after a tedious campaign • ing sort of journey from Paris ; the weather obsti. nately wet, the toads bad and 'deserted ; the produce of the harvest lying upon the ground, as far as we I: toad see on each side of our route, and every indi. vidual with whom we spoke predicting i famine. — Political feeling, as at Paris, appears either dormant+ or exhausted ; the people are tired of sensations and spectacle, and thus tolerably loyal from mere fatigue —they looked kith some interest at a few louis d'ors we had with us. They are rather more negligent than at- Yetis in removing the memorials of the late Governmeet. It was but. the day b More we crossed the Jura that the inscription of the pnluine Nalioleos hAd been clumsily plaistered over with mud, by wAy of ceisure ; W— took the R outer to reproduce the inscription—it is in the style of affected ft.ree and simplicity, which cheesictesises the revolution.' The architecture is open to the.same i Isiervation. 'the name of the architect was omittede—a circumstance too common under the regime of Bonaparte, Uperi arriving at Geneva we haled all the inns, hotels, lodgings, and cabins, deluged with English riches and English onset. the whoie circeit of the Lake appeals an English C .heny, and all Geneva wonders *hist stiAnge. revolution in tie State has driven so m my tt our. countrymen into rifle: . 1 Geneva has at prescat preeisely the air of an Lettish %yawing place—the lone coats, leungu'g figures, ant promenade .of equipage—the salsa I dons, the inquiries ef people who were tired of each other, and of theimelves, would almost make otie imenine that Cheltenhatu underwent a supernatural transportation, like the holy house i 1 Loretto, from its ancient Kite. The prices 4 all the necessaries and luxuries of life have risen immoderately, and the whole State is likely to remember for ages to come the prodigious influx of wealth from the wants and follies of our English travellers. 66 Lord Byron has been trightened away from his residence on the 'Ace, by the re-appearance of his country in the midst of these solitudes. The retreat of the noble Challis is in the minutest part of Italy A horse and garden, with the ()dui proportioned conveniences, cannot, 1 understand, he had miller 160 lenis• a year. • Geneva appeals to he hum in emit. 7v9, compared with its condition in 1789.. The democratic principle is still admitted, and every member of the community fornis put of the elective body. They elect a Common Council of State. %Wiese authmity is at the same time eoth legislative and executive—the neat vicions of all combittatiites, and of which oligarchical tyranny is the necessei y result. The palaces of the municipal Nobility have en air of strength and pride *loch was not tolerated in the patriciaes of andentßime. " I could not disc:lien - mu my short st ty whether any part of the Bonapertean regime bad been pre set ved. The Engliet are in high favour with the inn-keepers,. and now Geneva has become one vest inn throughout its three mile territory. If one could separate an English county from England—that is, trona her fleets, her armies, and her Cabinet, it would exactly resemble the Vaudois. In the general lac., of the • enery, and its-division by hedges, . I fancied I beheld attain English virtue, industry and indepen dence. The people are Protestants, as at Gene4a, but every creed, even Deism , is openly poolessed and eivaily. protected. The frerthipker of Sax liws in entity with the Calvinist of Geneva. By the bye. the historrut these Sex people must be cut ions.— Voltaire 'seated a Church fur them, but it seems to have been but once used—tor his own eccentric com. sbetaion. The grass is quite tall nd thick upon the steps, and the-people openly e a a merit of their', philosePhy. - This abaunce of religion is deeply to be regretted, but what a tunirast to the cathelicism 01 the Valois! " The Simplon, Wh;cit was generally covered with waggons, indii.try, and trade, is now passed over by none but English travellers. If Eaglisti spendthrifts continue to pursue this route much longer, the Vei turiers will soon be the 'hitters of the Republic What seems in the most flourishing state is religion, and at no gre tt expence. " We reckoned on the bridges as we went along shove eh* her: Dieux, distributed so as to serve for railing on each side,. as w It as tor the edification ot t ie people. They are all newly painted, and dated 1816. so that' the Cures wear to have been very sictive in the . discharge of their ministry. " The territories of the King of Sardinia some times aimed us in our route. We easily distinguished them by their appearance of heavier impositions. — The Dolianiers are the most respectable and the most hisolent of the inhebitants, We encountered them st every step, They might serve here as a sort of geographical index. o We met with nothing interesting till our arrival at MilJr, Irems which I date Ibis letter. Bad bread, taw fruit, wretched wine, sufficiently apprised us that the season had been as-bad in the North of Italy as in' England and France. The alienis nuaribus .E.tia: !kerne to have been reversed. As yet I have seen nothing here. You shall hear from tae by the Next post.--eA4ieu." . . 44 MILAN. O We frund Milaa.uot less English than Geneva. English emigrant's (so they are called) arrive every bestir. The hlatquis of Sligo and the Dowager lilArchioni ss have been there lately. 1; ill somewhat strange that this place should be selected by either the tconomizieg or sight-luving phut of the comm. !thy. Our Cesuntrymen are nu where mote out of costume; and for economy, they might as well have retired into any, pail of the country us England. — What a figure du thtislreatres present I—bad per . Ibvttiers. bad compasitidds. badly attended.—lmagine itOr Punch dramatized, iiitd produced upon the boards of C o oreat-garden or Orurydane. This is their co. Medi... What a melancholy disparity between the picture and the fram-ebetween the theatre and the piece I The Scala, the Asst Opera house, at least in the North of Italy, is oceufied every evening by aard.players, talkers, and Austrian soldiers, w ee neither talked, played, nor linderstood. In soother itiutitrysthis might be taken for temporary despoil dericy % but here.„.4 is disposed to think, it is habi tual. • i The people have [Derr' quiet way of being de lighted, and Would probably be greatly disconcerted lty too much pleasure. The late changes in the state sa ieurope have operated but little Isere. The ;roe cepa& of Lombardy seems to rest, quietly enoeg: spun the head of Francis. The mat that led into the Fonts Bottifitte still 'tan& unAnished and wholly neglected. All the welrkreettef Milan appear to be einployed upon the Cathedral the ripens, niubt be 'inns/stout, and even oppressiVe, in a country like this ; but it is an ecclesiastical' exploit, which, from its very perfection, we should pardon the Inquisition. It is an unrivalled, a unique chef Amore of Gothic grandeur and embellishment —without it, there would be a great desideratum in the history and code of Gothic architecture. The wept of the Cathedral present the most dramatic scene in the world—all gradations thrown, masqueradelike, together, in the stroreeq and most grotesque relief. 44 We had an opportunity of witnessing a display of Italian improvisation—what a scene to an ama teur ul burlesque I The subject was a Snit of theory of 'the birth of the angels, which the minstrel deli vered with the most rapid tune, the most whimsical gestures, hut, above all, a ludicrous , scrlemaity of grimace, which belongs only to an Italian and an iinprovisatore. The whole scene was such as could cot tail to excite merriment even in a cl,wotee.— There are thousands of those people, and still room for thousands more. The Italians delight in these languid pleatures, which cast them neither physical nor mental exercise, and SO easily procured. The historical recollections of ancient R...ine and national vanity ate the only sprieigs ca.yhie of exci'ing this degenerate race. What must have ban tkeir feel ings when they beheld the ;toles. the scenes, the monument ) the very men—in !act, buth animate and inanim.oe nature, suddenly start lip before them in the costume of ancient Rome. it Llid produce a .: great effect. The people do not venture to name ;Bonaparte—they talk of Deauharnois with affection, 'even to enthusiasm. a"I'lle size of the Theatre is immense, but not massive—their ships, and chariots, and Romanized grooms, produce but little impression upon a wan., ger. A pompons proclamation has appeared, an nouncing a !ose-races in which will be exkibittd a superb display of ancient skill. It will probably be more gratilying to the Italian than to the English part of the population. They will believe that every :king is pertectly Roman and perfectly excellent, be• cause they are told so—just as they believe them selves descendarits.ot the Romans. not of the Goths, merely because they were told so by Bonaparte." OCTUEER 17. The Elections at Vet will s exhibited a scene in which blonsiair ts itnesscd himself the discomfiture of his party. M. Bertier de Sauvigny, a candidate of that party, bciug inivised to anticipate a defeat, by ielingitishing his pretensions, as he was designated among those k;ainst whom the whole influence of Government was to be directed, appiied to the Pre fect" to learn, if such were his instructions from Mi nisters. The Prefect, conceiving that all difficulty woo;:i be preclud d by confessing the truth, cummu nicated confidentially to M. Bettie: the twofold containing, on the one side, those individuals whose election was to be opposed, and, on the other, those whose election was to be remoter). But, no sooner had the Ultra viewed his name among the former, than, fired with indignation, he hastened to assemble those of his party, and suggested the usual ma noenvre of seceding from the elections, so as to pre vent their taking place. “ Unfortunately, however, in this instance, the Ultras had over rated their strength ; for neither was the mapeetivre, nor the escouragement 'given by Monsieur and his Aidole-Camps, who were awaiting the event in the Chateau, able to prevent die elections from proc•?eding,•and being carried in favour of the Constitutional party. In the Department of Jura, all the exertions of the Priesthood, who, among other means of influence, denied absolution to those who refused voting for their favourite candidates; —and of the Nobles, who resorted to violence and corrup tion, bare proved unavailing. A leading Ultra, presuming on bis exaggerated Royalism, as an ex cuse for impropriety of any kind, having repeatedly interrupted. the Presidatt, M. Jobez, in the cc'irse of h's speech to the Electors, was at length conducted out of the election-hall, by the officers on . duty.—At Dijon, toe electors being denied the representatives on whom they had fixed their choice, expressed their discontent with truly French levity, by dividing their votes upon a second trial, between the Allied Store: reigns under whose protection and influence the Royal Government had called them to this mockery of elec tion. lam assured that the Prince Regent had not to complain ot his share of suffeages. Effected as they may be, the result of these elec tions is dtatidedly to put the Ultras in the minority. Ministers reckon that having thrown out a certain r of Ultras, and added to the number of their own party in the last Chambor (all the . Members of which they have caused to be re.elected), they have secured an absolute majority. But if Ministers, col= lectively, are easy upon this point, .M. de Cezes, in• dividually, does not participate in that general feel ing of security. His ,department itself r will ha at upon the grounds stated in M. de Chateau: , briand's pamphlet ; that is, as being superfluous in 1 a Constitutional, Goyetptnenti and even as. being's equally dangeri.us to tl4 State and to the people. -7 This Minister 411 6e. also arraigned by the Ultra's! for misrepresenting the wishes ot the King in the Di., partments, cn the occasion of the elections. They accuse hips of baying. pilichiced dististbances in la Vendee, by statin it . tta be .is Majesty's wish, that the purchasers of National domains, and men of re— Solutionaiy origin, should be elected, in order to in spite confidence in the Charter ; they charge hi ts with corrupting the Jt•urnals by means of the incalculable sums he derive from the gaming-houses, prostitutes, and other impure and illegal sources; unlortunately while thus assailed by the Ultras, be will find little support in the opposite party ; and his colleagues in the Ministry inclining to separate their cause from his, it would' seem that, placed in this insulated si tuation, he must fall of necessity ; and he would so, were be not, on the other hand, sustained by a power both weaker and stronger than every otber—the King himself 1 To elude this intended impeachment, this royal favourite is said to have prevailed on bis master to prorogue the meeting of the Chambers, till the 1.5.11 of next month', in older that the Finance plan, which Would be then submitted to the House, may so en gage we attention of parties, 'as to &yet them, at 'feast for a time, from filtering upon the impeachment contemplation: Many 'persons - who have long been donfined by virtue of the ki tire nupeas, Dave been.li. berated within these few days." . j VERAMAI PAPERS. aminam...4* • • cons(); OCTOBER 14. Wehitte now had for Some days the happiness of having again in nut neighbourhood her Royal High, nets the Princess of Wiles, who is returned to her villa of Esle. after having spent four months in Sicily. after visiting the ruins of Carthage and Utica, near Tunis, and having made a journey to the linsphorus. Greece and Palestine. In all places which this august traveller honoured with her presence, %ha was received by the Gove:nmstnts with the most di, tinguidied re spect. xnd every where she eejeyed the tribute of general esteem. Every weere• the Princess' viewed :red collected valn4l.le Articles of the fine arts and antiy.ity, which, ,added to what she already possessed, will form an extremely rich museum, and add new splendour to her already celebrated 'sill t. She was particularly generous w the learned Academy at Athe n s , an d assigned a large sum fee the Monks of the Holy Se. pulchre, in order to relieve their extraordinary inJi. gence. She also resolved to mark her happy return by new acts of beneficence, giving tides of honour to the persons who accompanied her on her dangerous pil.trimage. Lastly, she charged the neighbouring Priest of Cenobio with %J a e distribution of large sums for the relief of his poor parishioners, and instituted popular games, with prizes,for the conquerors. LEGHORN, SEPTEMBER Ships with corn arrive chttlyfiere from the Euxine. We have now a magazine of 371,00 sacks, and we have no more room. A magazine is formed at Pisa. Some speculators tries' consignments .tn Genoa, but that port is as overloaded as tuns; 600 ships from the Mediterranean ports have sailed to OJessa for core; about the hall are come back, the rest wait for their cargoes. —The harvest in Sicily and Naples has been uncommonly productive. BERLIN, SEPTEMBER so. A regulation is expected, by which English mann. factures will be permitted to be imported into the Prussian dominions, upon the payment, however, of A considerable duty. LOWER ELBE, OCTOBER 5. The latest accounts from Sweden Say,.. o,nr rela tions with Russia are continually as amicable as ; and the Crown Prince lately declared in a large assembly,that in all his actions he took his august .riend, the Emperor of Russia, for his model. Some English papers give repeated hints of an approaching war between Sweden and Denmark these reports are absolutely false ; arid it is natural that since the last peace the armi, s of both Powers are consicht.ibly diminished, and that of the troops that are retainel, a great many are absent on furlough for an indefi nite tune." ST.ITE OF ALGIERS. On Wednes.lty the Promethem, C.tptain. DASn• wool), arrived at l'ortsmouth from Algiers. She sthyed at Algiers 17 days after Lord Exmourit had sailed; she left it on the '2oth September. The officers trequently went on shore, and wete not interrupted in gratifying thrir natural curiosity, as to the extent of the injury done to the fortifications, the arsenal, and city. The city appeared to have suffered much beyond any description that has yet been given; there are hut few houses which do not present . some effect of the bombardment. All the Consni - s7,ooses were unfit to occupy. Five shells, one-13-iitch and tour 10-inch, fell inpr the Dey's Palace, but fortunately aidnet ex plode, or they would have shattered tl , at prircely edi fice to its toulidatien. The Dix keeps timse gratibirg memento of the 27th August iiled up in his Palace ; And he had given res* aids to all who would employ themselvet in ticking up the shot that fell into the city. His Highntss, knowipg that tl , e Janissaries would, as soon as the battle was ended, call for some reward for their services, and anticipating that a commotion must be the consequence, .ind he himself become a sacrifice to their Mot din ..te demand, shipped his family (consisting of his mother, brother, and two nephews) and a considerable suns of money, in a Sardinian schooner, fi:r Constantinople; and it proved the moment Lord LiNI4ILTII bed witheirawn front the bay with his fLet. the Janissaries did demand that the city should be given up to ptilage—upon the plea, that the Moors had not heartily assisted in the defence, and that the Jews were DO better than spies ht the country; The LW made distributions of money to them, but finding that his liberality had only the effect ot still more exciting their insatiable desires, he addressed them upon the danger there wts, that the Moors would overpower them in the struggle, staling there were no more than two thousand ot them, whilst the inhabitants (Moors) consisted of upwards of thirty thousand men ; he proved to them, that the propor tion of those that had fallen was as thirty to one on the part of the Moors. It was not at once, however, that the DEY could persuade these. furies from their purpose—they importuned him to consent. which he as firmly resisted, and rushing in amongst them ; with .his breast uncovered, bid any aif them who could 44 himself a greater friend to their cause and interest; ; than . he *as, to shoot or slay - him upon the spot.--1, This romantic act of bravery and voluntary sacrifice silenced them, and previously' to the Prometheus leaving the place, they were engaged in putting the fortifications into a state of defence for immediate service, fully expecting that the American squadron would shortly visit them. The DEY has determined net to treat with them any farther, though he doubted not they would bombard the place. The conjecture is, if the Ainericans should proceed to acts of hostility., the tdoors• will endeavour to throw off the Turkish yoke. The DEY was very ac tively employed ; he had directed that fifteen gnn ' boats, which were in an half-finished state when Lnrd EXMOUTH attacked, Should be completed, and that the vessels which blew up and sunk in the Mole should be weighed. He had only three sehooners remaining, when the Prometheus sailed they were all ready for service. The Day is about 46 years of age, of aft active, intelligent mind, and his resolution and bra- Very appeared to have suffered no diminution from his recent discomfiture ; though it was pretty evident he entertained a higher respect' for our national prowess, and the irresistible arm of our naval power, than he did for that of any other 'Power. The Pro metheus coterie down to Gibraltar, whence she sailed on the SOth September. The Day, we are assured, thadrato such speech as that lately extracted from the French Papers, 7 . 'C THE EViN 1 - N -7 T •C - sr 41 • Ali. LON DON, W. H. The remarks ea a paragraph wLich apptmnra ip 4914 1 Paper respecting a certain investigation In the Barrack N il , mew', is ut the nature of an Adßaftittleßt....4oll itgut fur as such if it *art. d in the STAR. TrESDAY, Oe'rOBLR 22. IFIS PR ICE OF STOCKS MIS DAY AT TWELVE (1'CIOC: kteducrd 614 —Com. mg. for act. G:l{ • 4 pwr iiirtn. 7731 -5 per C. navy 91}; in.la Minds 1 Ils. 136. Fre..—Ficlequtr :11111, 65.95. pre. Sme German Papers arrived last tight. lit, !top' Highness the PvNeeis of WALeS her pilgrimage, has again returned to villa cf Lac. In her travcts her Rqyal has made a valualife coUrctiln c>f :ontiqui t i es: o these, and articles before collected, a blunts is forming at her al•eady celebrated villa. An article from Berlin states; that a rezalt6 ii expected by which British MAni3fActures h eptri milted to be impottei into the Prunian dm;nio Nol Payment of a high duty. Now we venttnt!: - (1 peer before the Regulation makes its appearg, c-,thArlx, 601 Cotton Yarns will not be rack..d among I 14401tif AC In reb ; but either passed.altogether or be ranked as a raurmateriaL Were bosh !~*7' ~. ►kan Pa r -- wo ols, so positi got the been an! hearing /Pam ' Ngw , • Man' to an equally high ad valoreffi duty, there utak. at be an appearance of equity and fairness in*. measure; for every Government has a right to k e i duties on imported articles ; but an extra duty's* goods in their highest state of manufacture, Ai those which art only in progress [ yarns] re s] arc ted free, is neither more nor less than taking ad us , tar of the advanced state of our maeinery toki. litate the progress of their own weaving iva. tories, while our's are kit without employment, i s use a homely adage, we should nevtr atomi sm a purchaser with a spiggot unless he buy al:ovine. —An absolute prohibition of the exprrt dull twist world be the soundest policy whicltthis on i try could adopt : next to that the best megure e . x . 4 be to impose a high duty on all cl;uon yarn urand —to fix this at a vniain rate for the Erst foam* —to increase the duty on yarns exported in tLe cond, and again in the third Ler rnont`.s ion which all exportation us cease. This would visa an instant demand for cotton yarils from the c,,, c ► neat—and, consequently, a consi,:erable dincta venue; but at the same time it r otild give spititlo our Manufacturers to continue their bu'iness, i e te confideoce that by Cie time anotiier year shall eg;re they will have a market for all t!,ey can flambe. tore; for none know mote cervaialy than theyk, what would be the inevitable consegeenee of thew. sure which we recommend. Nor would the spiearn have cause to complain : the den; to d In Mt luta would continue undiminished, and aA that ottlii follow to them would be, cret:ttlally, the haling kw instead of foreign customers for tl.clr article. --- the I Tact , b ent andtri pest ,- Repub' west Ithat yen a ff ith d 311. the their w tbq ;It [44ty sera , the is pp+ Tt is th fit* i L O.Lc niot , I *by s& pact "or i Cat The Irish Papers received this morning re much importance. 7/i: Sxrt.'; ern Rd..orter, publif, at Cork, states, that expresses had ar, ivA to nti.h lin, prohibiting the use of Grain - in t),' D softer,: and that they were in consequence st , pirel n DuOn Evenip.:l Pod of Siturday last, sto , , - ,, the r at three o'clock, to announce, that an erder hal' sued from the Castle, allowing the Distiliation Grain to proceed. The Southern Reporter of Wednesday last on " Orders were received this nvirtling at the Ezra Department toper:it the Cork cliqillers to work d their ground Corn, and to aseet tain tb! stock dm have on hand ; but to prevent the in lion nrai s ; °I keiving till further orders." Tut': kino.—The following anecdotes of ost* loved Sovettetora May be relied on as authent,o-fl the summer of 18 14 the KING bad luc ' d inlet,'" l the QUEEN desired to be Win med when that Inn case—she was so; and, on entering the tot" found him singing a hymn, and accompan)iagit the harpsichord. When he had finished it, hi. .. down and prayed aloud for her Maatsrv,tbenletl fsmily, and the nat.on, canchiding with a PI for himself, that it might .please GOD to arriv heavy calamity from lam, but if not, to glue 1 resignation to submit to it. He then burst tutor and his reason again fled. One mnrninv the passing bell was tolling at Windsor, tisitt Linguit'ed stho was dead t , His attendants did nneanswer him, but on his repeating then' , thry s'aitt,'• "Pleal* yhurlesjeitif -Nrri..g4.6- al Mrs. S.--," rejoined the King; 4 she was a . 4raper, and lived at' he corner of —•--street, ( 01 the Wee) ; aye, she was a good woman, and brotlf bp her family in the fear of Goo—she is gory HEAVEN--.-I hope I stall soon follow her.." 'SUDDEN DEATH OF LAND BEAUCH A MP.-0 0 " day morning, about three o'clock, Lady lisaccico was awakened by a gr oan from her Lord Id n: side in bed : she was greatly alarmed, called , servants, and sent for medica l assistance, but it op , found to be all too late ;. his Lordship had mired! 'a fit of apoplexy when her Ladyshipheal 4 ther i o , His Lordship had gone to bed apparently is Inn t , 'health, after enjoying the society of a few pertg7 friends to dinner. By his death a vacancy i§?°,: . sioned in the representation a t h e county of o li o center ; as Lord ELutaiv, (better known by the 0 of Mr. Lvoota) one of the county Monacan . ceeds, of course, to his fath er's Peerage. kilt L' ii .. " ship was born 25th of July, 1747, and mono ki only daughter of JAN E S Data, Esq. and 13 10 0 t issue—erst,_ W ILLIAM 13EALTHAMP, Viscoun . Jo L EY, now Earl BEAUCHAMP' who has succee4o, his.tities and estates ; secood, tied to CHARLOTTE SCOTT, only daughter of in g r . n o Lail of CLONMEL ; two other sons and Ilille::::j ten. His titles are, Earl Beauchanspt V'w°L: glmley, of the Couoty of Worcester, aud Baron -- chump, of l' , .)sslke, in the Couiq of WVlnclA gg. • 1 i JoilN lIEGINAID._I; r-10 sac Fri lindel