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w --- I COMMERCIAL HALL 07NE COMPANY. / F 0 OUR FRIENDS, NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS, AND TO THE PUBLIC. LADIES Axe therrt.sese, Having made good our promise of reply to the base calumnies against us, we fearlessly, but most respectfully, solicit your patronage, according to your opinion of us; and beg leave to inform you, that we shall from time to time (in defiance of any Secret Wine Committee, or of any man, men, or set of men, who would wish to keep one of the comforts of life at high prices,) continue publicly greatt aivcrtise our regular Lists, and the Names of our .114unts; and we shall, as we before stated, every Tu'esday, advertise in all the Public Morning,and Evening Papers alternately, such Wines as we can afford at much lower prices than our General List— being, in part, Wines that we are overstocked with,' and also what we buy from Merchants who are in duced to sell to us at very low prices, for reedy money. They are honourably, though cheaply, bought, and they shall be liberally and cheaply sold, and we will continue to sell good and cheap. We are not to be intimidated: success has made us bold. You have made us independent; and earnestly soli citing a continuance of your favours, We remain, with the gr.tate,t respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servants, TLIOJIAB AND RICHARD ABBOTT. Skinner-street, January 5, 1819. V.S. For Farticularo o% , te offered this day, sec -I , !.t.r!'.ooneoq. _ _ If' GERMAN PAPERS. MUNICH, DECEMBER 24. Th 1 Protestant Consistory, established in c()nfor sillty to the Constitution of the Kingdom of was solemnly opened by day-bleak yesterday, and Cte Counsellor of State, Baron Von Seekendorl, w!:o has been graciously appointed President of it, was iattoduced by the Minister of the Interior. VIENNA, DECEMBER 17. The day before yesterday Princess Catherine de Montfort (wife of Jerome Bonaparte) arrived here. :The went to the hotel of Count Winzingerode, the Minister of Wurtemberg, where his Majesty the Em peror Alexander repaired about fi ve o'clock, without any suite. The Monarch had an interview of two hours with his illnst:ious cousin and sister-in-law.— The Princess returned yesterday to Schonau. The Emperor Alexander svlil certainly depart for Russia on the T2d. We learn from Bucharest, that on the Slst of last month, about ten in the evening,- a most brilliant tnetcor, probably of an electric nature, made its ap pearance. 111 light was perceived even in moms where candles were burning. Several persons who observed it affirmed, that it had the appearance of a globe of fire resembling a falling star ; that after wards it became longer, and ended in a faint light, which disappeared in two mi nutes, leaving a trace of a reddish purple like a long tail. A courier. who arrived on the Ist of November from Jassy, saw it exactly in the sane form, ar.d with the same splen dour, when he was on the road of Moldavia,• 180 wersts (I'2o miles) from Bucharest. This probably is the same phenomenon which was seen ' at half-past eight in the evening of the same day, in the neig hbourhood of theliath of Hercules, near .filehadia, In • tha Bannat, inthe south-eist part of the horizon. It had the form above. described, aid a great number of spiilks fell from it, but with out any sensible detonation, and shed over the whole country a brilliant light, which lasted five minutes. Atter•this there was obvitved, for a longer time, an illuminated longish body, with a black spot, which separating in the miJdie, formed two irregular still I uminous masses, which gradually diminished, and at length vanished. The firmament was serene and star-light ; the air was calm. The thermometer, which was in the morning at seven o'clock 15, and at noon 9, stood, at the women of the phenomenon, at 11 of Itect-, mar; the barometer at 28. ?lie young Count Belecznay, who last summer murdered his father, found meant by the connivance of the son of the gaoler, to escape from the prison at Pesth. He immediately proceeded to his father's estate near Pesth, escorted money from the steward by the most dreadful threats, and had then the assur ance to return armed and on horseback to Pesch ; tl.cre he repaired to the abode of a woman of the town, with whom he had been formerly acquainted ;' ar.J when the Magistrates had discovered his retreat,' he barricaded the house, defended himself despe rately, killed or.e of the officers sent against him, and et length surrendered by capitulation, on condition that he should 'al: allowed, before he gave himself up, to discharge is to the air two pistols. He is now in strict confinemmt, ar.d awaits the just punishment of his crimes. BERLIN, DECEMBER 22. • The pu'alicity of the judicial proceedings greatly interest the public here, since the vote of the Minister of Justice on the subject is known. The difference of opinion on this publicity is four.ded prineipplly on. the following grounds . ur Lawyers say, "If the, Judges, who really decide (that is, the Jury), am taken from among the people, a mere simple, posi tive jurisprudence must be first produced by a popu lar legislation, in place of the mixed Roman and German law now in force; otherwise the Jury will. judge as blind people do of colours, and there will be need of a rich cast of lawyers, educated in the science. The other party think that the Roman law, and the cnsl of lawyers who c:.pound it, are the very source of the present corruption and despotism. Themis being more a•. instrument of the Sovereign than a serv:•nt of society, publicity would change many things in the law, and lead to a natural expo sition, and justice would thus appear a more friendly and familiar relation to the people." TweYlh Night.—G. CaartoLL, in gratitude for past favours, and desirous of promoting the hilarity of the present festive season, has the honour of in forming his juvenile friends, now at home for the Christmas holidays, that he has provided for their amusement a set of Twelfth Night Characters, which will be given to them, Gratis, at either of his Fortu nate Lo tery Offices, No. 19, CornhiU, or 26, Word. street ; where No. 2,387; the Ticket which was drawn a Prize of £30 4. 000, in the present Lottery, wa• sold. FLA.V.DFI?S,'MAft. HAGUE, DECESEBER.SI. . The law of the Budget for the year 1819 is now published, dated the 24th Decenlber. The disburse meats being estimated in florins, 72,703,144, and the net revenue at the sum of 72,786,691, there is a sur plus of above 80,000 florins. On occasion of this law, we remark that the annual expenditure has regu larly diminished, being— 1818 - 82,000,000 1817 - 76,783,000 1818 - 74,000,000 1819 - 72,703,000 It is supposed that this last sum will not be all wanted, because among the receipts of the last year we find a sum of 3,616,000 florMs under the head of savings. BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 30. They write from the French frontiers, that the tour of the Duke of Angouleme in the Northern Depart ments had for its object, not only to examine the state of the fortresses, but also m inquire into the opinion of the great number of Generals.and Officers who are resident in the Departments, and are on half-pay.— The Duke had frequent conversations with the prin cipal of them. Some of the officers are put from time to time upon active service, but care seems to be always taken not to include among them those whose way of thinking is exaggerated. The Commissioners, app Anted to investigate the state of the frontier forms es have proceeded a 'great way in their labours. It appears. that these fortresses, during the time that . the French frontiers were ex-. tended to the Rhine, were greatly neglected; and. that most of them require very considerable repairs to answer, iii some degree, the object for which they . are designed. Some necessary materials have been collected for the repair . of these dilapidated works, j and sever.:! dicers of Eneineers have been charged, with the direction of the eperations. A rosolation of the Government is expected to de-• :ermine in what manner the loss of the fortresses' try the last peace shall be made good, and the iir.e of defence proiected ;by Vauban having been broken by that cession. The deck.e of the King, by which the fortresses are released from• the state of siege, and every chingagain replaced an the footing of peace, has made in•all quarters a highly favour able impression The report is renewed, thit the King has resolved to allow twynty , five of the ex-, Conventionalists, banished for voting for the death of, Louis XVI. to return to France. Several celebrated, Generals and others, who have made a conspicuous figure in the French revolution, and who ate among' the exiles, seem not likely to obtain this permission su soon ; but it is however thought that in time Site French Government will-relax m its severity to them also. Considerable changes have been made within these few days in the military administration, all tending to introduce reductioM in the expenditure. Reduccons in other branches of the Administration are spoken of. r IST ;. Sn'TE ynrit 5. 'Tite latest accounts from the Deckan state, that Elphir.stone is erected at Poonah early in Sep tember, from Kandeiat, where every thing is at pre, sent quiet. It gives retch pleasure in stating, we believe; from the most authentic sources, that, Durmajee (the Chief so gallantly captured by 1 4 1ent. Sutherlard, at Daby, in the beginning of this inenth) is the identical person to whom the murders of the two brothers of !the name of Vaughan, Lieutenants in the Madras, !army, is to be ascribed; we must hope, if this is fully proved, that he will meet the punishment he so justly merits.—lt appears that Sir John Malcolm has found it necessary to accompany the ex-Yeis.hwa a part of the way to the place of his destination—on the 26th, of July, they were at Kutchrode, and were proceed ing along the banks of tha Chuntbul, to the Man ! &so: district, where the separation will most likely take place. AUGUST 22.—Accounts frbm Bombay state, that the fort of Moolheir has surrendered to the force under the command of Colonel Macdowall, which completes the conquest of the province of Kandeish, and terminates the war is the Peishwa's late domi nions.—Accounts from the Eastward state, that the ; city of Rangoon had been nearly destroyed by fire, on the 29th of May. It is added, that a band of thieves, amountiog to two hundred, taking advan tage of the confusion that took 'place, plundered the houses of many of the European inhabitants, in open,_, day • and though the leader of this band was disco. vered, his interest with the Government enabled him o escape with impunity. CALCUTTA, AUGUST S. Intelligeoce brought by the ship Laurel, lately art.,' :ived from New South %Vales, Amboyna, and Ba-j tavia.:—The brig Greyhound arrived at Port Jackson from this port, a few days before the Laurel sailed, The ship Frederick had proceeded from the Derwentl to the Mauritius, with sheep, 8:c. . • The ship Supply, having been on a trading voyages from Batavia to the eastward, had put into Bima . ' Bay, in the early part of May. She was attacked by; a number of piratical prows, which continued firing for a considerable time ; a shot struck the Supply , between the rudder and stern-post, and, lodging 'there, rendered her uernanageable. From this acct- dent she got on shore, and the • pirates proceeded to board ; when Captain Baynes commenced a heavy fire from his stern-guns. During the firing the ship got off, and the shot also worked out ; by which cir cumstance they were enabled to make sail, and stand out of the bay. When the Supply arrived at Am boyna, there were twenty-three shot holes in her I sides ; the largest shot weighed 241 b. and a number of double-headed shot were about her main-chains— The pirates have become vcry daring, and cruise between the Carimon and Taggal. The Laurel saw the wreck of a small brig on the Angenella reef to the northward of Batavia. The mast and pht of the keel of a ship were also to be seen on the Woerden shoal, which lies to the S. W. of Pooloo Racket. The name of the vessel reduced to this deplorable state of wreck is not known. Thy/tides have been running with extraordinary rapidity in the Hoogly lately, and some damage has. been done among the shipping. THE EVENING STAR, LONDON. ROTH THE THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS PRIZES NEST BE DRAWN NEXT TUESDAY, BEING TrE LAST DAY. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS HAY AT TWELVE O . CLCCIE : 3 per Cent. Reduced 78 78k —S per Cent. Cans. shut Cons. for Account, 79Q-31 per Cent. 8% 4 per Cent. 95;1-5 per Cent. Navy shut India Bonds 9395 pre.—Omnium j pre. Exchequer Bills 18 40 pre. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this fore noon.—The KING had, on New Year's Day, a very brilliant Levee, at which he received the customary felicitations of all the Public Bodies and Functiona ries, Foreign Ministers, &c. M. Mtßavi., who was Secretary-General to the Ministry of Police which has been suppressed, has been appointed by an Ordonuance of his MAJP.STY, Secretary-General to the Ministry of the Interior. Acconnts, from which we subjoin some extract:, have been received from Madrid to the 19111 alt. ac cording to which nothing but the most profound ltrainkuillity reigned at that date throughout t):e , 1 a) minions of FERDINAND, and instead of agitating re- 1 farms, and plotting revolutions, his good subjects were wholly employed in lively speculations al.out the pregnancy of his beloved QL anil the pro bable chances of her giving a male or a fc male Heir to the Spanish Crown. Some surprise is affected to be expressed that Eng- 1 which knows better than any other Power in ruff< pc the physical and moral situation of Spain, should be always the readiest to give credit to ru mours of revolutions in that country. The circum stance admits, we think, of a very easy explanation. At there is no power which is better acquainted with the state of Spain than England, there is none that knows so well the miserably-degraded l condition to which the people of Spain have been reduced, by a weak, ccrrupt, and bisected . Government—none which can have a stronger conviction cf the certainty that such misery and misrule must soon come to their natural crisis—and none which, from the enlightened, liberal, and generous character of its citizens, is more disposed to sympathize with the hopes cf a• people stut:ggling to be tree, and to lend a willing ear to every thing that 'peaks of their success. `. We are favoured in the same account* with some I 'intelligence from Mexico, where also, if we may be lieve ar.y thing that issues from the Madrid pressott the subject of American Affairs, a wondbrful degree: of prevails. Father TORRES, however, , svh6 l!as been so often taken,-killed, and quartered, is, admittrci to be still roaming= large, and in stiength' ityfficieat to act on the offensive against what nick-named ILIA Armies. MADRID, DECRIbIBER t. We learn by the English Journals, u - andate I nu; cessively by those of other countries, that our's is tl e' theatre of a grand agitation; while there reigns in' the capital as well as in the provinces, a calm which nothing is capable of disturbing. The stagnation of `commerce, the fall of the Royal valis, the extinction Of the arrear debt, do not excite the least disquietude, We do not know what can be the object of this alarm ing news, for which our settled tranquillity, as well as the reserve of our Ministry does not give the least shadow of a pretext. They must have a poor idea of the state of things and opinions who suppose that in Spain there is the slightest disposition to insurrectional movements for any political object. Some madmen, such as Mina, Porlier, Lacy, Richard, have so far miscon ceived matters, is to dare an attempt on the Govern.' meat ; but they have been betrayed by the very per sons on whose support they thought they might rely. :Soppose again, an Administrator of Finances has wished to hazard some reforms or innovations, his fall has been a timely warning to his successors; nor has the exile of two Ministers involved along with M. de Garay, been attended with any regrets. Let us be viewed then only as we are. It is singular 'that in England such false reports should be accre- L dited with most facility, while there is no Power in Europe which knows better the physical and moral condition of Spain and Portugal. ‘Ve look on our affair of the Floridas as terminated. he United States have very active agents here, who urge the conclusion of the transaction. Things are still much in the same state at Cadiz. • DECEMBER 17.—The details contained in the Offi cial Reports of the Military Operations in Mexico, which are dated in the month of June, may have occasioned some inquietude as to the character which the insurrection there had assumed; but since that period tranquillity has been almost entirely re-estab lished in the Viceroyalty. From one of the Re ports made by Colonel Linares, Commandant of the Province of Guanaxuato, we observe, that Father Torres had collected above 1,406 men, and had with that force attacked Colonel Bustamente, who, nevertheless, succeeded in putting the rebels to flight, and cutting off more than 200 of their men. The same dispatches acquaint us, that in the Province of Temascaltepee the inhabitants repair in crowds to the Spanish Authorities, demanding the benefit of the amnesty. T —A lithor of the Commandant of Sea Coast, dated 31st May, confirms the taking of Zacatula, situated on that coast—, point, extremely important, which the destined for the reception of such of the R, as they might make prisoners. A new• notice of the Commissioner of Debt invites the holders of Royal valet I them, in order to obtain the con , ,olidat ion of their .amount, conformably to Decree that subject. Dec. 19.—The Queen it :.ot yet arrives sired term cf her pregnancy. This event, such high hopes are attached, and the al arrival of the Princess Infanta of Naples, sent the cr.ly topics of general conversatioi PP.IVATE 'LETTER. " PARIS, DEC:! , TIM NEW MINISTRY. " The Marquis DEssoLus is not mue.l s private merit .ini known bow ur the flattering dlc:ee of his MAJESTY, doubt, the newt• Minister will speedily just " Of M. Gout-lox Sr. Ora we need s; his name and tale.nts are %Tell known. " Baron Louts figs alre.tdy been M;ti ranee, and enters ttron ha otE.:e with knowledge of his sul) . je.t : •his gcni:3 s h. mind is capacious. • .‘ The nomination of M. Ray (II?, the funds go down the faster, while t.2e of M. Louis's nomination Inade tile:it rise We respect ti:e proverb, de mu,rtitis :ie r cre w e leave M. Hos - , and his p. I,acity, to enjoy in peace the pension of IV, to whi c h h e k enfitleci even as the Mini hour.—M. de SlikkP presi iei in the (liar putic; last Session, a *irit of itniv justice, that Is placinEL:rn in a sitx:ticn is eminently Etta:l—the givi.:7,lllin the scrc N Of M. de CAZtli we need say lle mind has lcng beer. made :op re:pecii sincerely rejcice that ti.c exi%i..ble Min, Police is abolished—it was one adapted trouble and intrigue, and on the return lity, like martial laws, it ought to czas ceased accordingly. " M. PORTAL is t man of grea meri putting a candle under a bvi:cl tom...ke to cf Marine where tiiere is -a Marine. however, one good atter.dir.g it, r.s it tried merit and known .rorth a vece of Ministers. " On a rapid revive of the new mites that unity of principle and views Mitten tiff nevcr go cn v of-which let us lock or;; at f-c the want of it was fatil to cre.i:: and .quillity.". The fact which we mentioned yester ? failure of several House , is Paris, was. WI 'tioned in various letters received its C of the letters state the number to Le fourt4 only half that number. A Morning Pap following as theirriames!--Bovitav, Bo and Co. DOYEN; MARTIN' DE Prncit an. PRAZ; I. P.ECAMIEIt; GE. DiCatil.;C: and r All these Firms are in the list which w( ceived, besides tire others ; but we still mention of their names, any thing that credit of such Houses being very inju% founded. Next Mail will terminate the anxiety. The Private Letters from Hambt another failure in that city ; the house of Busch and Co. We are sorry to add to commercial deficiencies, that a most respect in the City of London, yesterday also suss payments. A Dutch Mail arrived last night. Thy are given in another column. Ths morning we received Hamburgh the 99th December. On the 24th ultimo, jesty the Empress-Dowager of RUSSIA Berlin. Among the other persons of distinc. have also arrived there are the Grand Duke LICNBUIta-STRELITZ, the Duke Of CUMBER/ 'Baron BLoM E, Lieutenant-General in Service, and Minister Plenipotentiary to of Russia.—Exchange on London, 52.6.-32. New York Papers to the 7th ult. Charleston 4th, and Philadelphia to the sth, arrived ing. The following are extracts : ATTACK UPON GENERAL LALLEMANI BLISIIMENT AT GALVESTON, Prom the Ne•.o Orleans Gazette of the copy the following extract of a letter from man at Natcl:itoches, under date of 4.!$:11 Oci " Juan Beramindi and Jeze Angel N rived here last night, and confirm the nt arrival at Attascosito of the Expeclitioi alluded to in my last. It is composed of under the orders of Don Juan de Castan( hundred men had made themselves masters belonging to General Lallemand, 414 Castel sent a flag cf truce to Galveston, which ' turned at the departure of Belsamindi. of the expedition appears to have been this fort and Galveston, and to intercept possible the trade of the Comanchez. left 100 men on the 'pinky, at a Plaatai ~... . lant of tl:c Sale, 5 ' s the news o f tl. e t hat d :oast—i t military rer to th the rebels b ad nets ha the Royal form ,y late a ter of the i on has OA tb ,1 vales to :viol, of the third the dec !ecrecs issued op s everal beat ( trrived at the de. which . event, to , i e dl the approacl:;!ir tples, are at pze• a, di? dest 7 °. :nation. nior: DECLIgACit lad tr. kcrs nuea known, bet Lot pu : Ur has proc ; • re ,i . d the n its, which, a! Iv Justify. Iced say tt 3. „d e r of • s Ministe r o' . t he C . with a I . : . tniig, • rao 3, re! 1 01 t.;e b.tr. hods , -.it rise his ah•i bo. a nit his polaic.,i bout Cot ofIV,OOO f, ie. 0. 3:a Onttribn .11 be y • s ;tic!: • e 'sod con r,.:. • hfinist.y Area for tinle..• !turn of tr.re,,,*l. ) czase, I..ts : merit ; but. t ; m...ke him - •*3..1 it n•an now :he Cci . .a..l es Mir.:.:ry, it rr.-- *A's vatiiOrt e t 'owe want t prci e 3linistry.l7:l..trz and nse ion yesterday, rf t'-.e •as. we End, meta ce - foarteen; others, mi g Parer gives ti,e ed Cu and CO. Dr-- and PARQUIS.— ch we tin; re- e still avoid tke that affects t:.; r injurious if ua- tate the pres,:;,t iamburgh notice use of L.L:DIARus add to this list of : respectable firm c; lso suspended its t x t. The contents • t burgh Papers to lt , ultimo, her Ma- USSIA arrived at if distinction wl.) d Duke of Mr.cs- EN BERLAND, and in the Dani..h ary to the Court W. 6.-32. 10. • • • .; Charleston to the rrived this morn- iNIAND'S rST.A- 7 STON. f the 7th ult. We T from a Gent:e- 23th October: 00 Navarro as- the news of thr )edition which I ed of 500 men, 'astaneda. Two masters of a fort • Castaneda had hich had not re- ndi. The object been' to destroy rcept as much as bez. They have Plantation called