Star. — London, England, 1816-01-31 00:00:00

TUE EVENING STAiI. LONDON. • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 11116. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT WELVEO'CLOM Redurs.l rno. 611 f—tor ate. nif , 4 per Cent. 77a--S per Cent. 900.—Bands is. pr. One. 18 pr.—Do. pay. 114—.Eacb. Bells Is. 4s. pr. The Funds maintain their late advanced price.— Yesterday was a holiday at the Stock Exchange; but bargains to a considerable aniount were privately done on the Royal Exchange: . 50,000 Consols were contracted for, in one purchase, at 621 for the account; they continued about this price throughout the day. Many stories are abroad which have an influence to keep up the price of the Fuads. The principal is, that the Minister intends to do without a Loan, by conti nuing the Property Tax at 5 per cent. instead of 10, by a fresh issue of Exchequer Bills : and lastly, by borrowing a few millions of the Bank. .The statement with respect to the Loan is, we be lieve, correct, and we deem the others probable.— It is also in f Avow of the Funds, that a Meeting has lately been held by the principal Members of the' Steck Exchange to consider of .the propriety of pe•, titioninft the Bank to eztend their indolpence with respect to the redemption of the Omninm in pledge, amyl the year is considerably advanced, provided that Government shall have no Loan. A Morning Paper alluding to the intelligence first published in the STAR, thit Carthagena had offered to become part of the British Qossecsions, adds. 4 4 we are enable.f to contradict this vague report, which 'newly :niginated in a proposal for preferences in track, lately transmitttd through our Jamaica Admi ral in Government at home."—For the present we only say they may contradict truth, but it will still remain true. The fact is as we have stated. We have cnp; . Ls of all the documents in our possession. We in tended this day to have resumed the subject, but have been obliged by want of room to defer it. No French Papers have arrived this day; nor have we been Al! to find in those of yesterday any thing to add to the extracts then given. It is confirmed, that there have been some disturbances at Lyons; but the accounts are contradictory : indeed, in the present state of the Frer.t.:l Press, but little reliance can be placed on the accuracy of the statements in the Jqurnals. One thing is certain, that the affair us.ll numerous arrests. By all the accounts that reach us, both through the jonrnals and private letters, it seems unquestionable, that the ecclesiastics have secured a strong party to bring back the old system, by which Priest! and Con fessors, tAing advantage of the imbecility of the sreak and dying, were enabled to wrest from them donationeand legacies for the benefit of their own Orders, but followed with the ruin and beggary of the ra gives of the devotees. Should this system ob. t.. 31 again under the Blvasotis, farewell to the pro mised prosperity of France. We have already reproaared that sweeping propa. g tti ,, n of unproved assert;ons respecting cur ti) men, charged with .:tiling the escape of Lava. LETTS, which, contrary to ail law, serves to pre judge the question. Many of the alledged facts are positively denird by Sir }Ulmer's friends : nor shall we give these pretended facts credence till establish. ed by evidence: Indeed we do not believe that Sir ROBERT, Captain HUTCHINSON, Of Mr. BRUCE. bad ' aus knowledge of the escape . of LAVALITTE froin pris'a hefure the fact, whatever part they had after wards in conveying him out of France. The fol.' lowing statement is, we believe, nearly if not per fectly correct : 46 It it sot true that Sir ROSICaTp Of any English man. conu ' ived Lawarrres escape from the Con- ciergerie. • .• is not true that Sir RoIFAT applied ender a fahe zi3me for any passport from Sir CHALLIs STuarcr, or any English authorities in Paris. 6 i It is na true that an original sketch or draft of Pozzo ar LionotrN . paper was found i n si r Itensvor %Vmsores papas. It is not true that any letters from or to Sir itGotitr (:xcept one from his clan brother to hi,u, and one from himself, in winch he related what had passed to a Noble Lord, and de sired him to consmuskate al the particulars to lsie Royal Highs= the Duke of 7 ori) have been found, and we incur that many letters reported, both in London and' Paris, to have been seized in his lodgings, never. exist* +, end that the pretended passages quoted from others, are base and malignant forgeries. 4 , It is re.: true that the letter detailing the transac tion of LAvALLTIO escape from France was sent by a laquall de plate Or by any servant who betrayed it, to the Police. There is strong reason to suspect, that the on!) , letter containing evidence of the transaction, was riptaiiied by some underhand mans by . the French Police, froth some bag of letters for England. We tru,t this fact will be well investigated at the ell• tri,d, or by, our couinrymen at Paris. \V. understand that the first suspicion arose in consequence of a coat, ordered by Sir Rotten . / to be ramie to A m-asure which the tailor immediately re cognised to be snipped by a person who was ndt of 1 is profession. This the loyal tradesman immediately communicated t the PAliCe for such is the state c): corntort.and liberty in France, that so trifling a eu curnstance cannot occur without being divitlgedi.t . . he offi,:ers of justice; sad a tradeintan who allowed ~ such a transaction to pate unsindeed, would be a sus picious person, and lia6le, wider the recent law, to immediate imprisonment. • " 4 The first stip after the arrest of the &ceased miens was to put certain interrogatories to them, and till these interrogatories were answered, the practice of French proceedings was said to admit neither in tercourse of friends, nor even the access of profes-, sional advice. One of the prisoners in this instance, recollecting the maxim of our huinane law, that no man shall be compelled to criminate himself, and de barred of all mut of learning the French Mu en the :died, refused to answer such questions as he thought might be injurious to his cause. On this he was thrown into • fluelerc, the walls of which were damp, the flour brick, and covered with dirt and moisture, the furni ture a bedstead, a chair, and a stove, and the dimen sions ten English feet by nine I In this solitary den he was to pass day and night, though we believe the humanity of the gaoler procured him some little re laxation of that severity, when the gates of the prison were closed, and night commenced. " He had no copy of the charge against him, and it seems on this, and probably on other occasions, prisoners are arrested and examined, not only without a copy of their charge, but without charge being brought against them, or any evidence taken to sub stantiate it. It was not till the English Ambassador by an open letter to Sir ROBERT lammed him that he knew of his arrest, that he agreed to answer any interrogatories, but when he bad seen Lady WILSON, and communicated by letter with Sir CHARLES Sru- ART, and through Lady WILSoN with his legal ad• viser, M. Duero, and when he had ascertained that his friends Messrs. Deuce and HUTCHINSON had an swered the interrogatories, and that his further refusal would only tend to postpone the trial, and lengthen their imprisonment, he at last, and accompanying his compliance with a protest, agreed to answer the interrogatories. 44 On Wednesday evening M. DUNN, Judge d'ls etruction, examined him, an] on Thursday night, when our accounts came away, it was expected that Sir ROBERT would be permitted to see his friends, and consult with his lawyer, M. DUPIN. We are happy t h Sir ROBERT WILSON has at length conformed to the practice of answering the interrogatories, at it vas broadly hinted to him, that unless he did so, he might remain in solitary continT. ment Inr life. and v••• •,ave no doubt that a pertina cious refusal on his Fart would have atl,nered plirpoe but that of prolonging •;• 5ut1..1 ,, .!5. We c Innot, however, wonder ;it hi• septic/nowt to cornp;y with a - nsire rt moral torture, as contr.,' y to Olt: um mutab'o p•;.lciples justice ' as to the maxims of law of England." PRIVATE LETTER. " 1 PARIS JANUARY 47.. _ . " The disqnietncle • which has for some days been Tis;ble amongst the' Rcyaiist: purr, may now be in some degree explained. It is now po , ,i;ively known that the Pris:ce de Schwartzenberg and tt,e Prince de Wrede have been completely disgraced, and that Prince Eugene has been appointed Generalissimo of the Bavarian army, and it is feared he has a gmt in. 3uence in the Austrian Cabinet. Tho PAris have announced this nominati ,, n of the Prince Eu gene; and one of them (the Arend de Pori') was suspended by order of the Minister of Police, for in serting it under the Paris head, instead of placing it simply under the other heads of intelligence. 44 It appears that the Austrian and Bavarian Ca. binets have entered into some private treaty, the bases of which are not known, but which is not, it is said, of a nature to give much wisfaction to the Bourbons. A report is fruitlessly endeavoured to be spread, that there is a misunderstanding between the Austrians and Bavarians, but it is Without founds. lion. It is suspected, on the contrary, that these two Powers have made an agreement to the cime !effect as that before the battle of Waterloo, and it is positively known that then there was no idea of re calling the Bourbons to the Throne. 0 4 To all these circumstances may be added the rumours and the movements which have arisen in several places, and particularly at Lyons, where it is certain that the tricoloured flag was hoisted at the Hotel de Ville, and that it remained for several hours in the Faubourg de la Guillatiere, on the next day, after receiving the intelligence of the Amnesty, with the amendments relative to those who voted for the death of Louis XVI. .6 At Paris, aho, there is some high conversation upon the subject, and the Constitutional party are every day gaining strength, amongst those who are not amongst the retainers of Government. " The arrests continue; several hundred persons 'have been taken into custody, and the prisons are crowded." "LYONS, JANUARY n. It The most alarming and ridiculous reports have been malevolently spread here, which several indivi- duals of the most ignorant clisses receive with a de plorable credulity. It is to these manoeuvres that the sudden decrease of our commerce is attributed. IVe do not know whether the great number of arrests which have taken place within these few days, is to be ascribed to the same cause. Among the persons arrested yesterday, we noticed one of the name of •Rousset, a paper.eolourer, and employing several , workmen. The armed force, preceded by the Cow misbary of Police and his agents, came to his house during the night. As he refused to open the door, it was forced. Haviag taken refuge in his shop, be re sisted them for some hours, and, at the moment of being seized, he snatched up a bottle of Squafortis, which lie threw upon the persons who approached him. He was at, length secured, and is now lodged is prison. " A person invested with three decorations, isnd who is said to be at least a Colonel, but whose name we do no: know, was also arrested this morning. A Commissary of Police, charged with this operation, writ to meet him Gn the road to Paris, and brought •aus here in a carnage, foliovied by two gendarmes He was takers to the Hotel de Vile, where he now , 1 remains." • • ••- 4 t • ~TRE PRINCE .REGENr.• .• BRIGHTON, JANUARY SS. stximN. TniadaY, it o'clock. bawl ack The Payees Ratsiarr Las had a very ' , eve* et or the gout, which, however, is now nearly over, bat the disease has left a' great degree oi weaknes, in the limbs which it occupied ,--and, his Royal Highness hes been advised to continue a lade longer at Brighton for the recovery of his health. " HENRY HA 1.109 D. " M. J. TIERNEY." This morning the Duke of IticuodoND arrived.— This afternoon there will be a Privy Council held at the Pavilion, when his Grace will be sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex. Sir Nanny HALFORD arrived last night at the Pa vilion, and returned to town this morning after signing the Bulletin. Lord Prransums left the Pa. vilion this morning. THE ARmr. Yesterday the Duke of Yoan held a Military Levee at his Office in the Horse Guards, which was attended by about thirty Officers. A Military Club is establishing in Edinburgh, simi lar to that in London, and promises to be equally numerous and respectable. Major• General Sir Thomas: BRISBANE arrived from France on Wednesday last, at Greenock. The 54th Regiment of Foot moved on Thursday and Fe iday last, from Hytbe to Chatham ; and the 58th Foot from Canterbury to Ramsgate, on Sunday, to embark for Ireland. The 44th Foot was embarked at Dover on Saturday, also for Ireland• A company (.f . Foot Artillery has marched into the Depot at Can terbury, from Ramsgate and Dover. Detachments of the third Dragoon Guards have arrived in Canterbury from France, on their route to the destination of their Regiment. RAMSGATE, JANUARY SO. Arrived yesterday from Ostend the Britannia trans port, with 170 men of the Royal Artillery.—Arrived very early this morning, from Calais, the Fomax and Union transports, with a few horses and men, anA about fifty waggons belonging to the Royal Waggon Train; also arrived, from the same place, the Ex change transport, with men of different regiments, some waggons, forges, &c. Sm.—The Diincombe and Hound, uith the 38th Regiment on board, for Ire land, are still in the harbour, waiting a wind to proceed. NAVAL 11VTALLIGENC3. fAL.MOU I'H. JANUARY 28. Arrived the Sally, iamits, from London ; the Chichester, Goss, from Liverpool; and the Switt, SPANICLINO, from Carmarthen. Sailed the Lady Arabella packet with a mail for Lisbon. PLYMoUni, JANUARY 29. Came in the HURON sloop of war Irons Scotland, under jury masts; Prince of Wales, MsWiwAst, from Greenock; a fleet of colliers from Sunder land, also a number of coasters; the Danish ship H.icbett, Errinoe master, for Rotterdam to Sr. T lommesi leaky ; also arrived the transports FIG. H. GG. PA. to take French prisoners to France. PORTSMOUtH, JANUARY so. Arrived his Majesty's ship Crisis from Cork. No sailings.—Wind 6.E. RAMON! E, JANUARY 30. The only arrivals since yesterday are the brig Ex change, F. G. Astrrex mister, from Calais, with troops ; and the brig William, FORMAN, from Rot terdam for Gibraltar, for shelter. CHATHAM, JANUARY 21. To-morrow the Warrant Officers of the several ships in ordinary at this port, together with the men borne thereon, will be paid a quarter's wages. The DIAMOND was put out of Dock,.and tie Lfrrav i , taken 'in on Friday last. The ARG'INAUT hospital ship was paid off on Wednesday la,t, and immedi ately re-commissioned. and the command given to ._ off Licutenant JANIILL The hint/6Z WAS pa id yes terday. The BARFLRuR, which was ordered to be broken up, is now to be fitted as a Lazatet, at Stan gate Creek. Accounts were received in town this morning, stating the death of the Earl of CARLISLE, at his seat, Cistle Howard. •A Privy Council was yesterday held at Brighton, which was attended by the Earl of HARROWLY (as President), Earls WESTMORLAND and MuLonavE, Viscount SIDMOUTH r icc. when the whole of the ar rangements for opening the Session of Parliament to. morrow, by Commission, received the necessary sanc tion of the PRLNCE REGENT. The Speech will, by command of his Royal Highness, be read to both 'Houses by the LORD CHANCELLOR. Monday Sir HUDSON Lows, his Lady, and suite, embarked on board the PHJETON frigate at Ports month, and immedibtely proceeded to sea, with the wind easterly, for St. Helena. Some things are occasionally said by our gracious, and good, and truty_amiable Siivereign, that cannot be otherwise than very affecting. He said lately to one of the pages' 44 I must have a new suit of clothes, and they must be black. I must go into mourning for King GEOROZ 111. who is now legally dead." FERDINAND VII. the beloved of the Spaniards, seems to have taken for his model in the art of government, PHILIP IL This Monarch, writing to one of his Ge nerals on the subject of heretics, advises him neither to spare wood nor hemp. He concludes his letter in these words-64 Todos a las FueicAs 1 todos a Us Fuercas !"—Let them all be hanged Let the ru be hanged ! COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. —YesterJ Ay beit t! , O Martyrdom of King CHARLES I the °Nilotic) -I The Wasiak was performed at this Theatre. The instil). mental and vocal departments were excellently tilled. The house was not . very crowded, although the other was shut. • KEAN'S CUP I—The idea of presenting an elegant silver cup and cover to Mr. KLAN, by a subscription among his brother performers, has been given up, the piled/sal Mort having declined to sanction the pro posal. CORN.74CHANOR D JANUARY 31.—We had no fresh supplies of Wheat this niornti)g, and what little was left over from Mona.iy, sold readiiy at that day's prices. Barley is not in such re( ! irst ,is it , Has last market day, but yrices are the s.tase. 'T err was a god arrival of o.its, which art', le is ra•ler cheiper, and goes off slowly. 1.1 reas t *atop and other ii• s tides there is no variation. IRELAND. It k with great concern that we have to sub the disturbancei in Ireland still continue. Th 4 l Nets, which arrived this morni ng , are mu details of the most Heart-rending du ct ; • P oo, ---11 in the shape of trials urfder the Insurrecti on 1 4 subjoin the following account of the Sp ee u ll mission held at Clonmel : rest' 1 'Di CLONMEL, JANUARY 24•011 &Wally _Edmond Maher, Thomas Badly, William 0' i char! Carney, Thomas Fitzgerald, and Irde e ,, were arraigned, for that they, on the al * d 15th of September last, did assault, fire into, " on fire, the house of Win: Burke, at C ippa i • in this County. William Burke being called and swor e , that he lived at Cappa Uniack, where he ' 'the business of a publican. On the night abor t tioned, about twelve o'clock, as the wi tness paring to go to bed, he heard a noise at proceeding from several persons demending the witness's mother went to the door, me t e d it could not be given at that hour. They t h e for some porter, but this was also refosed, a s she open the door. Finding they could ale , admittance by stratagem, they attacked th e of the house' with what the witness sup. sledges or large stones, and shattered them Witness seized his gun, and kept firing tb , shop windows in a daection calculated far -e and from this time he observed that the carried on the assault, not in front of the but by the sides, and close to the walls, a i d e appeared to come cross-wise. Wittiest had thirty rounds of ammunition, and kept foi l as possible, though at ;lindens, for the his house, and of his family, which to ne nine persons. When about half his am... • was expended, the assailants called eut to ' to deliver his elms—he replied by directing a ball to the spot whence the demand per After the witness had tied abont lair shots the assailants again demanded his arms, , that if he reluied, they would set tire to the —but he still continued to reply oaly by free charges from his musket, hoping they would la eyed to the extremity of bus ning his house. however, brought fire, and eetnmonicated it a stable, which was thatched, as was the witness's. and all were connected ; but he thought they dal mean to burn the house entirely. When the was on fire, the assailants called out, and said, it Burke would deliver his arms and surrencln,. would save the house ; but he remained firm ii resolution never to capitulate to them, and c need to encourage his wife and children, nui rest 4.f his family, telling them that Gen was and gracious, and was still able to protect t: They then set fire to the two ends of the dam' house, which, with the stable, the witness pe.. altogether on Ere. Witnesc, in the tome of attack, heard SOMe shots from the asseilaat but, from the noise of breaking the wind," of falling of decanters and other vessels, was Kt able to say if he heard many. The gamma gindlng to spread ia three parts of the hems firing ceased en bosh sides, but the assail*, mained outside. Burke's family, in despairoav thered around him, while he threw blanch ' knees, resigning his family and himself to the of the Atm IGHTV. He then recollected that be upon a former occasion, pierced about two se of the mud wall o: his bed roam so thin, that be • at any time (in case his lime should be attar' easily push it out if necessary, and had kept de. of his bed against it, for the purpose of c' the thinness of the wall there. By this time the was filled with smoke to suffocation, acc with flame ; Burke, taking a spade, opened the sage above descs ibed, and, on putting out his saw nobody at that side of the house ; the flak covered with smoke ; he then crept out, and his family after him ; a man of the name of Keating, who was also iu the house, came out same time, as well as the servant-maid, who out the hooks with her. The witness and bis f remained outside but a few moments, when the vant girl, who had gone a short distance hem house, came running back, crying, 64 Here thee coming—we'll be all killed!" Bunke, thee, 1 his wite and children to the house of a smith, them there ; and, accompanied by the smith and Keating, returned to the house, now eavdord fire, but saw nobody near it. The witness, _Eros beginning of the assault on his house had no • tunity of obaereing any of the assailants io a ' to be able to identify them. While the home burning, a military party came up, and they tioned to Burke that they had met some mea, wham they had exchanged fire. The next witness for the proeecteion was Keating. He corroborated the evidence givta# Burke precisely—and further stated, that oil ctrl{ 'opt of the opening in the wall, and walking t.. the kitchen door, he saw a man outside of it bayonet, and two other men in arms were Out ' He deposed, that in the early part of the attack saw several men break into the gate of the yard, attack the windows in the rear of the house, be • like tygers, to watch the chimney and revels escape of any one. This witness swore that bet tempted to fire repeatedly at the assailants, Int! his arms would not go off; that the night was a! moony; that he saw several of the men who sat lacking the house: but on being desired to 10 11 . 11 Ole prisoners, and asked it be had seen Any of ga i at the attack, he declared solemnly he bad not. The Jury retired for a few mements, and 0 10 1 . in a verdict of Guilty against all the promo s, cept O'Donnell, and sentence of death was flounced imniediately from the Beach ageing nnind Melia, Thom is Hurler,. Michael C• 410 Thomas Fitzgerald,. and William !slither. ob O t_se n r M y oofnda Mr. y oßnilayckomneociznivieicatrioFnetthooarkdp,labcey ef0:0: Mara, who was beateaced to be hanged. Marphys, uhu were lei wine respectability heal _.‘" reel, pi. ailed guilty.—Alarm and Neal were t Caher, tor the rubbery of Mr. lludie)'s 4 1 7:„ and Mieh.iel Sharp was executed on die Wit (00d tue spurner of William Aleny. i It s u t u.eis jo ,the,triais the fellows who have been Coga n/11:e . the =mks. of Mr. liaiter, will not come on a t ty Special Commission s which concludes Vele vie'-'