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EAST lALDIES. LOSPOF THE MANDARIN!. Pmeass, DILCBMBER 2.5.—We sailed for Ternate immediately with 100 troops on board,•and attacked it ourselves ; our endeavours were crowned.with suc cess, after meeting with an obstinate resistance, and the loss of three killed, and 18 or 20 wounded. We returned to Amboyna in October, when the Gover nor requested Captvin Tucker would remain there in the Dover to assist in defending the island against an invasion from Java, whicliavas expected ; he com plied, and sent me in the INWidarin (prize-ship) with dispatches for the Admiral, and orders to procure stores and provisions at this place for the Dover, which she was in great want of. I sailed on the '2d of November, and after a very fair passage for that time of the year, arrived in the Straits of Sincapour on tke Bth of December ; on the 9th in the Morning, beathtg through a narrow part of the channel, and having no chart but a very old one on a small scale, I stood too far over, and unfortunately got on shore. It then blew a moderate breeze, I did every thing in my power to get her off, but having no boat large enough to carry an anchor out, could not succeed.— In a short time it came on to blow extremely hard, I and the tide had left her so much, that to prevent her capsizing, I ordered all the masts to be cut away. A Chinese junk passed us this situation, and although we had a signal of distress flying, and continued firing guns, she passed without attempting to render us any assistance. The wind and sea continued increasing, which occasioned her to thump so bard that she began W make a great deal of water : when I found her in danger I sent the boat on shore to a small island near us, with the dispatches, and when I found it impos sible to save her, I considered it my duty to endea vour to save the crew ; we then collected all the spars we could, and made a raft, which by five P. M. was complete ; having nine women and three poor little children on board, you may suppose my first tare was to secure them. Thank GOD ! I succeeded; and by seven I landed with all the crew, except four Lascars, who got intoxicated, and persisted in remain -ing by the wreck. The island was only about half a mile in circumference, and had only a few bushes to shelter us from the rain, which poured down in tor rents all the night. At day-light, contrary to my ex pectations, the ship having kept together, I launched the boat, and with much difficulty got on board. I found she had bilged during the night, and WAS full of salt water, consequently all the fresh water was spoiled. I sent a few pieces of salt beef, and a few other things, by the boat, for the people on shore, and remained by the wreck with one European and four Lascars, intending, when she returned, to quit the wreck with every thing I could save, as I saw she could not hold together much longer. The boat had hardly got on shore when the wind increased so much that she could not possibly return, and I , had the mortification of seeing her put back, after making three attempts. At this time the sea was making a complete breach over her, and every mo moment I expected she would go to pieces. At this critical moment.it pleased the ALMIGHTY to send the Chiffonne to our assistance ; she was coming through the Strai ts,and seeing our distressed situation, anchored, and sent a boat immediately to our relief, but the weather being so very bad, the ship had gone to pieces abaut half an hour before she reached us.— ''he European, one Lascar, and myself, were taken from the jib-boom, which we had with much difficulty reached ; the others bad all gone adrift, but by the great exertions of Lieutenant Creighton they were all picked up, except one, who was unfortunately drowned. FRENCH PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE E. • Every thing has assumed a warlike aspect. We ire assured, that the Grand Seignior, in concert with the Divan, is resolved not to yield an inch of terri tory, and to combat the Russians with all the force of his empire. The divisions of Janizaries still here have received nrdet s to march, by Adrianople, to the Grand Vizier's army. All the Pachas of Europe and Asia have received new orders to enrol without delay all the men capable of bearing arms, and to send them off for the army. The Grand Vizier has in troduced the severest discipline into the army ; but at the same time he declares that heroic actions shall be magnificently rewarded. We learn twin . Egypt, that the cavalry which the Governor sent in pursuit of the Beys and Mamelukes who had escaped from the massacre of C tiro, over tnok them in Upper Egypt, where they were almost all.put to death. This Goveraer, who, it seems, iS a man of decided character, and never hesitates about his measures, has repaired the fortifications of Dami etta, Alexandria, and Rosetta, and is preparing an expedition against the Wechabites. In ad.lition to the particulars whichwe have already communicated with respect to the fire at Pera, we have to state, that the house of the Armenian in which the fire broke out, was opposite to that of M. M. Feanchines, Chief Interpreter of France. The in habitants of this quarter had been for some time in bed, and escaped with much difficulty half naked, abandoning theif houses and the valuables they con tented to the flames. In an instant, the lire had seized on the four corners of the chief street in the' suburb, and spread with such rapidity, that in less . than fi ve hours, '23 houses were reduced to ashes, among which were the Russian and Austrian palaces, a:td toe dwelling or M. M. Franchini. The Swedish palace was saved, though in some degree• injured by the file horn the neighbouring houses. The jeweils and some other valuable effects of the Austrian Con silt which were missing after the fire had subsided; have been removed. Besides the house they dwelt in, which was burned, together with every thing it conta:ned, Messrs. Franchini lost three houses which belonged to them in the same quarter, and if it had not been tot the intervention of a heavy shower-of r a in, the whole suburb of . Pera would most probably have been destroyed. The fire at Smyrna has been still more destructive to the Armenian, Turkish, and Jewish quarters, the greater part of the market-place. together with the sate of a considerable number of shops and khans, exhibit nothing' but heaps of ashie o and the whole loss is estimated at fifteen millions aft piastres. Adrianople has also experienced the ra vages of an element, from which the opulent cities of the Ottoman Empire has so frequently suffered. VIENNA, JULY For the last fortnight the course fluctuated from 250 to 9 t 5. This tion is produced by a variety of fear, produces a tall in the notes, are raises by hope; diversity of imitation, and very frequently to the same effects. A commercial _ _ importance occasions sudden changes at times, invo luntarily, when it sells or buys upon 'Change a con siderable quantity of paper for its own purposes. All eyes are turned to this merchant, and the speculators follow his example. The bank-notes of 500 florins, which are nt present withdrawing from circulation, amount, in nominal value, to the sum of 200 millions. The notes of exchange for replacing them, in confor mity to the decree of the 20th of Feb. amount to 40 millions. A great many capitalists at present keep their cash locked up, and good coin is becoming scarcer every day : as a proof of which, the rate of interest has actually risen to 40 per cent. per annum. KONIGSBERG, JULY 21. On the 17th, at nine at night, a fire broke out in a street of the Old Town, and the consternation was general. By good fortune the wind was lulled and no one had retired to rest. Assistance was very soon afforded, though that was not easily done, because the streets are in this part of the city very confined : but the buildings were solid and composed of stone. Only three houses were burned. No account has been given of the manner in which the fire originated. SINIGAGLIA, JULY 22. A considerable quantity of merchandize has ar rived for the approaching fair ; the vessels which brought it did not meet with any of the enemy's cruizers. Buyers continue to assemble in consider able numbers, and we have every reason to expect a good sale. BREHAT, JULY 24. The Turbulent privateer, which sailed yesterday, has just returned with the Mary-Anne, an English galliot of 83 tons, which she took by boarding, and which was armed with four 4-pounders. ST. GALL (SWITZERLAND), JULY 2s. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Bavaria, in 'returning from the baths of Baden to Munich, are; at this moment, passing through the Swiss territory.' On their arrival this day at Schaffhausen, their Ma jesties breakfast at the Castle of Lauffen, and will dine at that of Wolfsberg, belonging to the Baron of Hogger. They will afterwards proceed to Lindau through the Cantons of 'rhurgovia and St. Gall. Mr. Muller Friedberg, Counsellor of State, goes to Wolfsberg, in order to compliment their Majesties in the name of our Government. FRANKFORT, AUGUST 4. Since the adoption of the last regulations in the States of the Confederation of the Rhine,, relative to the verification of Colonial goods and to the suppres sion of all certificates delivered in the Prussian ports, this branch of commerce has been in a state of abso lute stagnation. Until the present time, Bavaria; Franconia, a part of Swabia, Austria, Bohemia, Si. lesia, and other parts of Germany, had been supplied with Colonial merchandize through the intermediate commerce of Saxony ; which commerce encountered to obstacles, with the exception of coffee, the impor tation and distribution of which is prohibited through out all Austria. But this intermediate Saxon com merce has ceased all at once in consequence of the Edicts published throughout the whole of the States of the confederation, according to which no certifi cates are to be admitted but such as announce in a most accurate manner the amount of the duty which had been paid for each article. As this statement was never inserted in the certificates of origin with which the colonial articles were accompanied, nor it the certificates of transit delivered in the places ai l intermediate commercial transactions, the holders ell colonial articles in Saxony have felt themselves undo', the necessity of suspending all their transmission di such articles. A special commission, dispatched from Dresden, has proceeded to a very severe examination' ( of all the certificates ; the result of which examina tion was a positive discovery that almost the whole of the certificates were irregulai, and consequently,j that a new duty of 41i per cent. was imposed upon all articles warehoused in this city. The applications of claimants have had no success. The pessesson, of colonial merchandize in this city have been °Wigs* to pay a sum of 214,000 for all the goods of that description which have been imported into Saxony, upon the security of Prussian certificates. The only indulgence they have had, is a little time afforded them by the Government of Saxony for the payment of this sum. Accounts from Berlin state, that the education of his Highness the Prince Royal being completed, this Prince is about to travel with Mr. Dellrue, who was his preceptor. Since the intelligence has been received from Vi-I enna, officially, of the great fire at Smyrna, and of the destruction of a vast number of cotton stores there, the price of that article has risen considerably. AUGSBURGH, AUGUST a. We have had .an Italian summer: the heat over powers us, and still continues without intermission. Reaumar's thermometer was yesterday, about noon, at 35 degrees in the sun, and 28 in the shade. The grass on the hills has been parched up, a circumstance which has caused considerable loss, and greatly en hanced the price of forage. The accounts from Inspruck state, that the heat has been for some weeks past insupportable in the vallies of the Tyrol, and that the drought, which is the consequence, has the most unfavourable effect upon the productions of the earth. A forest within three leagues of Inspruck has been for four days on tire, without a possibility of extinguishing thellames. NAPLES, JULY so. Whilst many agricultural Societies. propose pre miums for the best mode of delivering our plains from the locusts that infest them, the inhabitants of Canosa have made a practical experiment for that purpose, which has been crowned with the most complete suc cess. They assembled in great numbers, for the pur pose of destroying the eggs of that insect in the first instance, and afterwards of destroying the insect it self. Within a few days they destroyed and cast into the Ofanto 80,000 bags of locusts eggs. MUNICH, JULY SI. The King and Queen of Bavaria, after leaving 134de0, went to Scbaufflausea s to view the fall of , .., , PARIS, AUGUST S. Colonel Lejeune and the Chevalier Stoflet, having escaped from an English prison, have just reached France. They were in the centre of England, but reached Plymouth without being discrvered, Acre they embarked, and arrived at Boulogne.„ We shall at last have positive accounts . wilh regard to the fate of the celebrated Peyrouse. It appears certain that 12 seamen, the unfortunate remains of his crew, have been found by an English ship in a desert island of the South Sea, near which the Astro labe was wrecked. We are even assured that these men are arrived in France, and we may expect to re ceive from them certain information with regard to the fate of their companions. OF TIIE SANK OS ENOLAUD. Since none of the reasons derived from the princi ples of justice, prudence, or humanity, have been able to induce the English Government to depart from its anti-social system—that system which give.: it as many enemies as there are true citizens in the differ ent States of Europe—we may be permitted to con template with some interest, the crisis in which that Bank, upon which rest the pow. aakseterity of the nation, is placed. When speaking of the affairs of the Bank, we are not involved in those political reveries, amidst which a people already blinded by its passions may be amu sed and deceived with impunity—here every thing is certain. If the facts alledged be true—if it be a fact that £4 sterling in Bank notes are worth only three guineas, (and unfortunately for the Bank, this is dis puted by no one), it must soon submit to acknow ledge, that its bankruptcy is almost declared. Doubt less, the Ministers and their partisans have good rea sons for not all at once avowing their situation ; doubtless, they have still some precautions to take, some essential operations to concert, before they give to the situation to which they have conducted affairs the only name which befits it. This course is natural, and not at all surprising— but that there should be found men of sense and acuteness, who can shut their eyes to the light of evi dence, and seek in miserable palliatives for a cure to the evil, is what will hardly be believed six months after the fall of the Bank—that is, very soon. Why was not this foreseen, will then say the stupid politicians of Wood-street ? It was to clear I One is almost tempted to laugh at the grave tone with which a Noble Lord, in the House of Commons, endeavoured to shew how much the notes of the Eng lish Bank differed from tusignah, to wlich a Member had the indiscretion to compare them. " How can you assimilate things so finlike ?" said he gravely.— " Upon the creation of assignats, their issue was enor mous—and it frightfully increased in a year or two. With us, on the contrary, even in a period of fifteen years, there has scarcely been an increase of fifteen millions sterling (360 millions of France) in paper circulation." It might be answered, that it is by no means the quantity issued, but the power of incessantly issuing, which decides the fall of a paper-money ; but it is more proper to observe,. that the Noble Lord has blinked the question. The point for consideration is not what has hap pened to the Bank of London, but what is now hap pening to it, and what must naturally ensue. How is it that a paper, issued in so small quantity, has al ready depreciated? The Noble Lord should have thought of this objection, which he himself indiscreetly furnishes, and which it is natural to make to tholes who attribute the fall of assignats only to their enor mous issue. They do not see that they take the ef fect for the cause ; and instead of saying that the great issue was the cause of depreciation, they ought to perceive, from the then existing state of things in France, that from what is now going forward in Eng land, that, in both countries, it was depreciation that led to issue, whether in assignats or bank-paper. The comparison, therefore, was not so misplaced as he wished to persuade the House. As long as England shared with all Europe the weight of the struggle against a nation divided and torn by parties—while enjoying an immense and ex clusive commerce, she developed all the sources of prosperity—is it surpiising that she kept at par the paper of her bank, and that she enjoyed a credit which the most insignificant banker obtains as long as his affairs appear in a prosperous state ? Certainly not; and it must have lasted till the favouring causes ceased to operate—till the period when France, unite* as a whole, resumed her superiority upon the Conti nent. But the point is no w for England to cause the, effect to continue while the cause has ceased—to re. establish her credit, sinking under the weight of the very force which supported it. Such is the problem which the English Ministers have to solve. Is there any prospect that they will succeed ? • It is a truth become trite, that paper-money exists! from the confidence reposed in those who issue it.—• This confidence is built upon their known resources and their conduct. If it is ascertained that a banking firm gains more than it expends, its. paper enjoys a credit which is in itself an addition to the property of the bankers. if unforeseen accidents or miscon duct augment expences and diminish receipts, their credit declines, and can only be restored by a different system of conduct. Such is the state of the Bank of England. Its credit has declined to that degree, that the nominal value of its paper is to its real value as 96 to 75. What has pro duced this fall ? An expenditure always increasing, which must still increase in a frightful progression; and a diminution of its receipts, which soon, from the effects of the Continental system, will be more and. more reduced. What cure is proposed for the evil? This is the most curious part of the subject. Some say that it does not exist—others that it is of no con sequence—a third party, in the hope,•doubtless, of resorting to the true remedy, proclaims aloud the danger. What will be the event ? One of two things—either the latter will be listened to, or the noise which they- have made, and their very zeal, will hasten the evil. But we do not anticipate even d ts ; we wish to pre sent facts, not conjectures t the event belongs to fu turity, which we do not prebume to penetrate. • • . We this morning received Dublin Papers of Wed nesday last, but they do not contain any further pro ceedings of the Catholics on any information of in.. portance. An Anholt Mail arrived this morning, by elk!: we have received intelligence from almost every part of Europe. We select the following articles, as being the most interesting among the great variety which tilt foreign Journals contain : LEIPZIC, JULY 10. It was the day before yesterday intimated to all tl.e merchants of this town, that they will have to pay 40 per cent. upon all the Colonial products which they have received with Prussian passports, which, it is said, will produce the sum of 11id,000 crowns. The intelligence from Silesia is very unsatisfactory to commerce. The want of money is every where felt, and occasions a fatal lowness in the price of estates and the productions of the earth. The Proprietors every day see, with grief, their revenues diminish, whilst their expences increase. Notwithstanding the decree of the King of Pt ussia permitting the exporta. tion of woollens, this article has experienced a consi. derable fall. The fair at Breslaw was not a good one, very little business was transacted in it. We are be. sides assured that the new municipal organization has not obtained in that same province the useful end which the Government promised itself inpublishing it. VIENNA, JULY te. Every eye is at present directed to the Hungarian Diet, which will open on the 25th of August. We have no doubt but that noble nation will renounce some prerogatives, contrary to the spirit of the pre sent age ; we already know that the lilagnats (the nobility of the first rank) have resolved to guarantee the Billets d'Amortissement to a considerable amount. The noble Hungarian guard, which bad been sup pressed, will be reestablished at the epoch of the opening of the Diet. The regiments which are to proceed to Presburgh on this occasion have already re• ceived orders to march. The Emperor will form a commission to maintain order at the Exchange, and to vratsh over the opera tions carried on there. Five Imperial Councillors I and two Merchants, are members of this commission. Jtrtv 13.—They write from Semlin that the Grand Vizier, not wishing to accede to some of the Russian pretensions, and having, during the pending nego. ciations, received all the reinforcements he demanded, had suddenly put his army in motion, and advanced in many directions upon the Danube, principally towards Rudschuck. His head-quarters were, on the 12th June, at Rasgrad. As soon as the Russian General was informed of this movement, which was any thing but pacific, he gave orders to his regiments in cantonments to break up from, their actual positions, and take the direction of Rudschuck. The corps of General Count Lan ghon was already, in part, arrived there. The Rut sian troops pcsted in Lesser Wallachia were occu pied in passing the Danube to join a Russian ccrps of observation posted between Ridden and Nicopolis. There is also a Russian corps d'arm6 forming near Silistria. We therefore expect important events, and the more so, as the news of the prolongation of tlis armistice between the Russian and Ottoman troops, is not confirmed. . . . . . . . . • • • • • e"''' . r v. tbilit%e, and proceeded thence to Laden, by the i Tilt EVENING STAR. purse of esehanp has Lake of Constance: His Majesty arrived in good this constant &smut- .time this evening at Nymphenburgh ; and her hla- LONDON. if causes. Sometimes jesty the Queen is also expected. hut at somewhat a - es, at other times they later hour. Tke Waters of Baden appear to have. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17. )f opinion, the spirit of produced die most favourable effects upon the health mere chance give rise of their Misiestioa. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS ISAY AT ONE n•ci.oci. ercial House of some I per Ct. Coss. for money 6"H—Ditto for ateuzilt 14 . ! PARIS, AUGUST S. It per Cert. Reduced 63—Navy 5 per Ceta 94 if ban es at times, invo. Colonel Lejeune and the Chevalier Stoflet, having 4 per Cent . . 79f, I—Bonde Ise. Ica . Ss. rem. -o=mm l ii dia s upon 'Change a con , lick. Bilk (3c1.) Ss. du. co par—Di to (Sid.) Is. Is. prem. ...........4 fin... •An rniviieh nriann hays ;list reache d STO.CICHOLM, JULY 21. 41 We, Charles, by the grace of GOD, King of Swe den, the Goths and Vandals, &c. &c. do hereby give notice, that as we have always used every means in our power for promoting the welfare of our subjects, and the security of the State, and for this purpose endeavoured to bring the finances into due order, and increase them this being a principal, and not to be neglected, condition to be observed for the indepen dence and honour of a State, we have always ac knowledged as an undeniable fact, which is confirm ed by the experience of all ages, that the properest means for attaining this end is to put is force the ex tended measure of increasing the national produce and manufactures, and on the contrary to lessen the ne cessity of importing foreign goods. If, even in fa vourable times, the deviation from this fundamental rule can at length undermine the welfare both of the 4tate itself and of individuals, it is clearly to be per ceived what pernicious consequences must more sud denly arise at a time when, being engaged in a con tinual and unavoidable state of war, commerce is thrown out of its usual channel, and our.exportation I is considerably restricted. is As the love for our native country and the natu ral care for our own prosperity and that of our de- I scendants warms and binds every well meaning citi zen, by prudence in his house-keeping, parsimony in his way of living, and, above all, by laying aside a` foreign superfluities, to prevent a careless expend cure of the still remaining strength of the State, anl the disorder which must take place in the Finances, in case the imports are not diminished in the sane proportion as the exports decrease: we therefore es. • ,- . - 1,.