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. 4 • • \ I i , 1 ~~~ ~~`~ I , .1j 1 Y 1 t I' ~~~ p t DUTCH MAIL. CONSTANTINOPLE, DECEMBER :N. Ie was ou the 13th inst. that the impatience of the • Sultan and the whole nation was satisfied. The brig of the Pacha of Egypt, which had on board the leader of the filrmidable sects of the Wechabites, Abdallah, his Multi, and his Treasurer, together with the treasures .plundeted by the Wechabites.from the • Temple at Mecca, and now recovered, arrived on that day in the port of this city ; The Sultan was im mediately informed of it, and the following day the prisoners, loaded with chains, were led through seve ral streets of Constantinople, and hrought before the Divan. After some questions had been put to them, and their answers noted down, they were sent to the house of Mehmed Ali Pacha, where they remained for the night. But the Sultan was so incensed at this, that he caused them to be thrown the next day into the lowest dungeon of the Bostangi Pacha : there they remained till the 17th, in rigorous confinement. On this the Sultan, followed by a great multitude of people, repaired in •solemn procession to the Eski Serai (Old Seraglio), to receive in this Palace the congratulations of the great men on the victory over the \Vechabites. After the Grand Vizier, the High Admiral, and the Chief of the Scribes or gists, had bowed respectfully at the foot of the throne, the cri minal Abdallah, with his Mufti and Treasurer, were brought in, chained, by the Chief of the Janissaries. —The incensed Monarch looked angrily at them, caused the Tartai s, who had brought them hither, to be invested with s able pellisses, in their presence, and hereupon the Schaich of the Islam announced to them their sentence of death, for the execution of which the Sultan gave a sign. Immediately here upon the chief Abdallah was beheaded at the gate of the Imperial Palace, his Mufti opposite the gate of the Visier, and his Measurer in the Palace of the Burnt Pillar. Their bodies and heads remained ex posed to view three days, but no tafta or table an nouncing their crime was fastened to them, as is usually done.- It is said that a seal was found upon Abdallah Bensund, which, besides the history of his name, bore on it the title of Caliph. On the same day arrived two Tartars of the Pacha of Damascus, with the happy intelligence that the Pilgrims of Mecca had safely passed the desart, and accomplished their journey. The Tartars brought several vessels, filled with the water from the sacred Spring Zemzem, and other presents from the holy city. The Porte is constantly employed in the most ac tive measures to ensure tranquillity and security in this city. The formidable corps of the Janissaries now receives punishments for its numerous mutinies. One of its first officers has lately been banished to Cyprus, and two others strangled in the castles on the Bosphorus. Four other officers, convicted of rob bery and murder, have had the same fate. Private accounts from Tripoli say that the Gover nor of Fezzan had arrived there by sea with a rich cargo of Negro slaves,• elephants' teeth, ostrich fea thers, &c. worth 300,000 heavy piastres. It is said to belong principally to the Dey. However the con tinued traffic in slaves is to be lamented, which even some Christian Powers have not yet abandoned, it is consolatory to learn that the Dey of Tripoli has sent out no cruizers since last summer, and seems inclined to turn his attention to agriculture. FRANKFORT, JANUARY 31. The disposition of the people in Bavaria luay be judged of from the following new definition which is found in the Newspapers published there :.13y the term burghers, or citizens, are meant all those per sons who have the right and the duty of suffrage, and bear a part of all the public burdens. Prince Lichtenstein has notified to the Diet, that, in conformity with the Act of Confederation, he has introduced and ordered the States in his principality upon the Austrian footing. BRANDENBURG, JANUARY 27. Prince Charles, the King's third son, is ill of the measles ; but they are of a mild sort? ST. PETERSBURGII, JANUARY 16. Count Araktschgen now puts in force the Ordi nance, according 'to which 50 soldiers, with an Offi car, shall be quartered on the villages, according to site inhabitants of each village, in order to learn and carry on agriculture; and, on the other hand, to in struct the peasants in their leisure hours in the Mili tary Exercise. PARLIAMENTARY PROCELDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY in. The Loan CraNctu.oa attended at the usual early hour on Cause days, and Counsel were finally heard respecting the Irish Appeal, " Coutts v. Croshie." The Noble and ♦ery Learned Lord then took a view, at some length, of the legal merits of the different Scots Appeals (re certly heard), mintier to voting at Elections for Renfrewshire, as introductory to his propositions fur their Lordships' judg ment on the same, which he stated to be his intention to regu larly move on a future day. At one o'clock a temporary adjournment took place, the Loan Cnasnaittoa having to attend the Council at Carlton House, re specting the Recorder's Report and other special affairs. Between four and live o'clock, several Peers atter4ed in their places; but the Luau 01.4,4es:win being detained at the Council much longer than was expected, did not return to the House until six o'clock. Mr. l'arkhouse presented the 14th Report from the Carnatic Commix-inners, which was laid tipco the table. avEsrMiNsTek HUSTINGS BILL. Viscount SIDMOUTH moved the third reading of this Bill. Lord HOLLAND took the opportunity to express some doubts as to the correct framing of the Bill as then before the House. Perhaps what he had to urge did not go beyond points of form. The -Bill he understood was expressly to revive an Act which was now positively expired, and instead of its reciting the provisions of the Act ityrofessed to revive, it recited merely the title of the bill. It seemed to him an im proper mode of legislation, to revive an Act and not to express on the face of it the provisions of that which it went to renew. So that a person wanting to know what this Bill provided, must go through the clauses of the forrner Act for information. The present, he thought, should be considered as an Act de novo, as the former law upon the subject had ac, tvally expired. This struck him as an important coi.s:deration. He did not mean himself to propose ar.y alteration, but if coinpelled to give a vote upon .the present measure, he should say, " Not content." The LORD UIANCELLOR observed, the course followed in the present instance, was that ordinarily atluv.ed in ceca,ions of the kind. W;ien law on the Stawte Book was ine.tat to-be coutiaued, the ge neral custom was to state such intention in the Bill, without saying a word of the provisions of the former Act. Such a mode was always considered as suffi cientlyattaching the force of law. Lord HOLLAND, in reply, said he must contend, that a Bill to revive an Act, under such circlin stances as the present, was actually an erre/ado law ; and he continued in the opinion, that ur a dill so worded as that in question (notwithstanding it might be usual to omit, as the Noble and Learned Lord stated), the provisions of the original Act should be recited. The Earl of LAUDERDALE coincided in senti ment-with his Noble Friend respecting the present Bill. That an Act for the revival of an expired Bill ' ; should have the same force without a specification of its provisions, was, he confessed, beyond his compre hension ; the present was , to all intents an ex -post facto law. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he must be ex cused by his Noble Friends for differing from them in their views of this question. If he understood the Act brought in by Mr. Perveval, it %%As to this effect, that if a Bill were passed to continue an expired. Act; that word had the same effect as if both the words revive and continue," (if both meant the same thing) were used. And on reference to that princi ple, he thought the language of the present Bill suf ficient for the purpose. Lord HOLLAND observed, notwithstanding what had fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend, he must still feel the inconvenience of this mode of le gislation ; neither did he think that Mr. Perceval's Bill adverted to such a one as that in question, and he still thought there was a necessity for reciting on the face of the Bill that which it went to enact. Viscount SIDMOUTH-then suggested a verbal kmendment in the title of the Bill, which, on a view of its nature and enactment, he thought would be proper. This was at once agreed to by their Lordships. The Bill was read the third time and passed, and or dered down to the Commons for their acquiescence in the Amendment.—Adjourned till to-morrow. could hire his house at full value, at double value, or at half value.. Why should not the holder of money have:ellual Weedom.. , The owner of a house worth ,f.:1000 Anight get .a "yearly rent of £lOO, £2OO, or £3OO for it. If left equally free, the owner of money triAit get 10, 15, or 20 per cent. from some, when from others he could only get sor 6 per cent. Al though this country had flourished under restrictive acts, lie hoped the time was tome when the principles established by the many able books on political eco nomy would be recognised, and when every restric tion would be removed from manufactures and com- mercc—from the efforts of industry• and the enter prises of speculation. Leasie was given to bring in the Bill. It was im mediately brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday nest, and to be printed. Sir ROBERT WILSON moved that the order of the House for the attendance of Mr. Windham Quin in his place to-morrow, should be discharged, and that he be ordered to attend in his place to-morrow se'nnight.—Agreed. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that he was obliged to postpone till to-morrow, the motion of which he had given notice, for deferring . the consideration of the Nottingham Election Petition, as he had not been able .to discover the agent for the petitioner. The Honourable and Learned Member said, thatle would make his motion to-morrow, at all events, although he should not discover the agent for the petitioner. On the motion of Mr. Lusu nron, the Malt-duty Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be corn miffed to-morrow ; and the Committees of Supply and. Ways and Means were postponed to Friday next. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, he believed' he should be more successful in his present motion than he had; been in the last. He was not aware that any objec tion could be made to it, and, therefore, he had not thought it necessary to give any notice. This mo tion was for a Return of the Annual Expense of the Transportation of Convicts to New South Wales and its dependencies ; and also the whole Annual Ex pense of those Convicts from 1815 down to the latest period to which the accounts were made up. To the year 1815, similar accounts were already be fore the House.—Ordered. The SPEAKER reminded the House, that there were two Election Ballots fixed for to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. LUSWINGTON, the Bill fur issuing millions in Exchequer Bills, for the year 1819, was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The House then adjourned a few minute. part five. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Fourteenth Report of the Carnatic Committee was pre sented, read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. DICKENSON obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better Recovery of Small Debts in Somersetahire. General MONTGOMERY presented a Bill for a New Iron Railway in the County of Ayr. It was read a first and second time, and ordered to be committed. Ordered, That there be laid before the House an Account of the quantity of Flax and Hemp imported into England, Scot land, and Ireland, for the last five yenta. Mr. BENNET presented a Petition from the Burgesses and Inhabitants of the town of of Musselburgh, Scotland, praying for the adoption of some Change in the Borough System of Scot land, so far as regarded their internal government. Mr. LYTTLETON presented a Petition from the Inhabi tants of Dudley against the Insolvent 13111, as pernicious to trade and destructive to morals. _ _ --- Mr. WILLIAM DUNDAS obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the F.xtension and Improvement of a Road near Edinburgh, Iconnected with a Canal (Forth and Clyde). Ordered, That there be laid before the House a Statement of the Expenditure in the Storekeeper-General's Department, dis tinguishing the Amount of his Salary, and the Names and Sala ries of all those under him, including also the Names of the par ticular places in which the various Serelces are performed. Mr. DASTARD obtainedleave of absence for one month, on his private affairs. Mr. COATES obtained a similar leave for six wevlts. • The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND, on the Motion of Mr. Wat.tax DIJIMAII, obtained leave of absence for sir weeks, on his official duties in Scotland. Sir ROBERT VAUGHAN obtained leave of absence for on month, on account of Indisposition in his family. The Committees of Ways and Means and Supply were post. posed till Friday next. , REPEAL OF THE USURY LAWS. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW said, he had risen to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the Repeal of the Laws which regulate or restrain the Interest of Money. He was happy to find his views supported by those per sons who were most conversant with the subject, not only in England and in Europe, but in America. In 1817,_ the House of Assembly in Virginia took into consideration the propriety of repealing all restraints upon interest. Usury was now applied only to what was paid for money above the legal rate of interest ; but formerly the term was applied to all interest. The prejudices against interest on money had been very ancient and very general. All patties, all sects, and all divisions in society, united against those whom they called extortioners of usury. But those politi cians finding it impracticable to act upon their own principles, were obliged to allow interest to be taken to a certain extent. Still they considered it but a tolerated evil. Early in our history, I 0 per cent. was allowed to be taken ; but in the reign of Edward VI. prejudices against usury became very violent, and this toleration was repealed. The consequence was, that money which might have been borrowed at 10 per cent. could not be obtained for less than 14. In Queen Elizabeth's reign, the 10 per cent. was again allowed, but with a declaration that to take any interest was a sin and detestable. Subsequent statutes afterwards regulated this subject, till at length the Act of Queen Anne reduced interest to 5 per cent. But through all those statutes the same sentiments prevailed, re garding interest as an evil that was only to be tole rated. This subject had lately been referred to a Select Committee, who had reported the result of their investigation. In times of distress, the Usury LAWS had been most grievously felt ; mercantile in terests had been much injured by them. He could appeal to Judges of the greatest experience, and to the Lawyers of that House, whether persons were not found guilty of usury who were not extortioners, but followed the common usage; only they happened not to do so according to the Act of Parliament. Here the Learned Gentleman made some observations on Mr. Preston's hook. Dr. Adam Smith had rather 'favoured the 'Usury Laws ; but with that candour which always distinguished him, he afterwards ac knowledged that he had been wrong. One of the consequences of the Usury Laws was, that annuities' were often had recourse to as loans. Another very injurious consequence was, that lands had suffered by disadvantageous sales, because no money could be borrowed at the market price. Mr. HUME rose to address the Chair. The SPEAKER asked whether the Honourable Member had risen to second the motion ? Mr. HUME said, that it was his intention to con cludeby secohding it. The motion had his hearty concurrence. Property in houses was left to the dis. cretion of its holder. Why then should money, the representative of property, be restricted ? The holder cif es ery other kind of isropent was left to.manage it. to his profit or his kos, as it might happen. . nian• THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ti:E O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 268k—Bk. Long Ans. 20 1-16 3-16 3 per Cent. Reduced 76i 7i 7—Cons. 7611 i Cons. for Acc. 76ktiii —3l per Cent. 8. 6i + per Cent. 94f 51-5 per Cent. Navy 105V1 India Stock 228—India Bonds 76 78 pr. Old Annuities 76} 77—New Ditto 751 Excheq. Bills (2d.) 15 816 pr.—Omilitun dis. The Market has experienced an advance of I per Cent. since the opening. Consols for the account commenced at 76i, and went to 761, but it is consi dered an artificial rise, and not expected to continue. —To-morrow is the day for the payment of 40 per Cent. upon the New Loan, being the last redemption due to the Bank. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning. The list of changes, consequent on the appoint ment of the new Ministry, in the Prefectships and Sub-Prefectships Of the Departments, is every day receiving new additions. M. CINTRE, Prefect of Finisterre, has been named President of Dordogne, and succeeded in the former Department by M. AN GELIER, late Sub-Prefect of Leghorn. M. Puc ET has been named to the Sub-Prefectship of Saint Mar cellin : and the Sub-Prefects of several other Depart. meats have also been superseded. It is not surprising that the attention of the Ministers should be thus di rected to a branch of the public service which em braces so large a portion of the Exe,utive Power throughout France, and which possesses consequently such effectual means of supporting or thwarting the policy of the Administration. General GOURUAUD having requested the Austrian Minister at Ilamburgh to inform him whether he might be permitted to establish his residence at Prague, in Bohemia? received for answer, that he was at liberty to do so, on condition that the Austri:ui Government should be entitled to remove him to any other part of the Empire, should such a measure be rendered necessary in the sequel. The General, not choosing to submit to this condition, has given up his design of going into Austria, and will remain some time longer at llamburgh. The 22d of this month will be the second century of • the foundation of the Bank of llamburgh—an establishment to which that city is principally in debted for its commercial greatness. Tl►e merchants intend to celebrate it by a grand fete, and a medal is to be struck in commemoration of the occasion. Puy-, ing the last year, which has been one of leis prosperity than usual to this city, there have been in all t,eventy three failures for sums amounting to 2,113,105 liv. 2s. banco, 185,025 liv. 2s. current, 2, i florins and 3,05 y liv. of nine louis.—Trade continues still in a very languishing state. Several of the mediatized Princes of I3.►varia per :gist, it seems, in refuting to recognise thc Con,titti tionia Charter which the KING has riven to his sub jects. The Archbishops and Bi►hops are also, we are told, to wait till some arrangement is made with the . Nmicio of Rome, before they take their scats. The Government, however, we arc ltApity to be .15- cured, is as firm as it.is enlightmed, and w , stopped in its course. 'The Gazette of the s, nerd; which appears to be a semi-official Pal dares that the Kin; will not suffer any upon the Charter. The conditions on whith the Court of has effected at Hamburgh a loan of six milli stated to be, that it is to continue for a thirty years—that 8 per Cent. interest is to on it; and that the KING is to mortgage the domains in security. Accounts from • Bayonne state, that seven duals (of the 28, who some time back were from the Basque Provinces to Valladolid; being implicated in the conspiracy of General VALES, which was suppressed about two years have been sentenced to suffer death: others have been seat to the garrison of Ceuta, some space of two years. In Spain, it seems, the English Journals pursued with more vigour than any Works in the Index of the Inquisition. What a come to them, to have plovokeLl the vengeance of A ItusSian Courier has proceeded to Ital; to St. Petersburgh the Count CAPO Slam, ter-Secretary of State of Russia, as soon as of health permits it. The following is an evract crom a prival from Paris, dated Fel,ruary :—" Another , phice yesterday, between M. \'iennais, one Editors of the Journal de .Paris, and M. Royoi of the Author of the TratTedy of Nocizm, %yr' for his Ultra-Royalist opinions. The lltter a slight sword wound.—Fears were entertail another duel of more importance, between nant-Generals Maison and Excelmans ; but ciliation took place between these two Officers, the auspices of a great personage. ... M. 'Constant has delayed the publication of his of the Hundred Days: This work was with great impatience. The cause of its dei known; but it has given rise to various coni We announced yesterday that the Court had issued a thundering denunciation reigners found aiding the Insurgents in South rica. The fict reminds us of the Balls put the See of Rome against the Reformers, t!. them with' nothing less than eternal perch' the work went on notwithstanding the succeeded in breaking their priestly chains and so will it be with the Patriots. To-day we make an entry on the other account. The Patriots have captured alotll, nish frigate, of 50 guns, and have had an • of other two new frigates which were latel them at New York. We subjoin the acm is extracted from a letter received this mo: Lloyd's, from their Agent at 21 , !eLos Ayr , BUENOS AYRES, NOVENHLf? 44 . By an express arrived lion, St. Jago de have accounts of the capture of the. Span la Reyna Maria Isabel, mounting 50 &a port of Talcalutina, by the Patriot vessel. San Martin, and Latc:;r.). It is likewise repot font of the transports of the expedition from to Lima, under the convoy of that frigate, taken.—The CLili Gazdie, of the Bth, ord, capture of the convoying ship. On the I 2th rived the Horatio and Cttneago frigates, York, where they were built ; they will 3'2 to 36 guns, with a complement of 200 the 6th inst. arrived the Spanish ship San prize to the Vigilance ship privateer, from and on the 18th inst. arrived the Spanish gente, from La Gityra to St. Domingo, p same privateer:' The Notice of the above i ll teLizence been posted up to-day at Lloyd's, adds CoenuAxt: was hourly looked for, at when the Expedition would proceed at o Lima." It is a fact, says the liii,:tor,tun (•ity Gm generally known, but highly interesting , candle interest, that by a late Trvaty evil Britain, 16 per cent. only is levied on ported into the Brazils in BritiA: • - essels, trade carried on in American vessels is duty of 21. per cent. This diAinction, it., 'by the Americans, must scion destrgy't'tlei that quarter of the Anierican Pontinent, deavours are not promptly made for placii a more equal footing with Great Britan. It is pretty generally understood that Lord REMill has been outvoted in the COmtuitt Windsor Establishment, the numbers beini the reduction of two of the I.:queries, and fusal of any pensions to the 140 State OIS QUEEN. - The forthcoming Play of a Stoisse;land, lane, is from the pen of. Miss JANE Pow of the Popular : Novels of the Scottish Chief% dens of Warsaw, Pastor's Fire-side, fire. Sr No. 2,325, a Prize of Ll,OOO, and /so, of t3OO, drawn on TUESDAY LAST, were Shares at CAttacu.t,'s Offices, No. 19, Cr No. 26, Old3rd•street, which it will be I were the most fortunate Offices iu the tat having Sold No. 2,337, a Prize of C. 10,000, 7,003, a. Prize of I:S,(XX), in Shares.—T: Shares tttr the New Lottery, which con .?rites of P.:0,00Q. and Thirty-seven eth are on Sale, at CA itanci:. successful Offio Co..uhill, And , 26, 04ertl-street. wii'rmt • t ;!,7tr,.(•... Pap''', d.. The intlov•at - ,L I llc o ' l iiioo 0 a l e Tc 0 F Denmark Tie are • a period of to be p l id • the Roy a l 12 ren • re :re escorted to c' accused ▪ s years since) Ts of th em arne for tl e • „. Is are now it ks in se r ted :omplimertt of a desp ot ! sly to recall A ai ,R lx as the stat e irate Letter r dud t 0 csn s it e k one of the • Royon, son . well kno‘•,-.1 is :ter received itertained of th cen Liewc. iut a recon. ficers, under r. Benjami n ep looked for nt delay is not 1: :onjectures: , t 7t of Madrid against fo. South Ate- published by elreater,ing 1 rclition—bat Protestants as hi pieces ; I.t r side of the urother Spa- an . ..zr:cc<.sion VC .ely bailt for b ` t* , •ount, v.thich morninz, : • f? 714. de Chili, !re finish frigate ;uns, is the ;els General eported from Cali- :e, had bec ly gives ti:: • I 2th ins:. a•••• , from New I have from men. Oa !an ThrPmr, , rn this pun, h brig Di;i- prize to ex e which has /s:—" Lord Vaiparaiio, once agaiatt Gazette, net to the mew- with Great articles ,whilst the subject to 2 it is supposed heir trade :u if some cl- i ng t f l em en 6 ,ord CA STLY. nittee on tie ing 8 to 6 for sd for the rt , Acers of the el," at Drerr 2TER, Zee! 7hiefs, 11.24- Ste. p. 648 t aP/ 471 were fold 1: Ccmhill, and rccellecntsi. late Lotter'. ooe, and N^ . —Tickets anti sr tnins Three 'they Capital' tlCify No. 19.