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rrr7 _ emigrants allow us five years. It is trot that the Ai , ' '`noses of Occupation evacuated nor territory as soon as a guarantee for the payment of their demands was no' longer necessary ; but this is an act of generosity which the emigrants do not wish in imitate. The Minister hopes that by paying the emigrants only by fifths, he will preserve his influence over theM for five years. 'Disposing at his pleasure of the Chaifiber of Deputies; and providing, by the means of some no minations, for the same management of the Chamber of Peers, nothing will be more easy for him than to sus pend the execution of the law he is about to pass. M. de Vdlele has, besides, contrived to include in his law project the great source of influence. He is to have the power of deciding r —lst, whether charges or debts have not been paid on account of the dispossessed emi grant ? 2<l, whether he was not chargeable with sums arising from balances on the sale of his property ? 3d, whether he has not received some compensation ? Now there is scarcely an emigrant who did not leave debts behind him when he deserted France, and the greater part of thine debts were paid by the Govern ment. It will, therefore, depend upon the mere will of M. de Villele to charge or not to charge emigrants with the sums which have been paid for them, and with those for which they may be indebted to the Government. A commission of liquidation is, indeed, to be established; bet that commission will only examine such documents as may be referred to it by the Finance Minister, and will merely decide on the qualifications and rights of - the claimants. without taking into consideration debts which may be doe. This indemnity is of itself one of the most important events which have taken place sitree the restoration. There are, however, connected with it, two circum stances which appear to be still more important-Ist, The principle from which the Minister deduces the ne cessity of an indemnity ; .2d, The means of payment. The Charter, in guaranteeing to the purchasers of national estates the property they had acquired, seems to have proscribed every intention of indemnity. An indemnity, in fact, can only be paid by the purchasers themselves, or by those who never purchased. Now every individual is comprehended in one or the other of those two classes: and if the former owe nothing, it is not easy to perceive how anything can be due from the second. ' It is, however, to the charter itself that the Ministers refer for the obligation, which they say it imposes on both purchasers and non-purchasers to indemnify the emigrants for the losses which they sustained five and thirty years ago. One of the latter articles of the Charter is to this effect The public debt is gua ranteed. and every engagement made by the State pith its creditors is inviolable." It was always understood that this article referred solely to the even, due by the State, and the debts contracted by the Government with individuals. The Ministers, however, understand it differently, and find in it a formal promise for indem nifying the emigrants. " The law which is presented," said the Minister, " is merely the accomplishment of that solemn pledge." According to this interpretation, it is evident that the emigrants, after having obtained a first indemnity for the property sold, may demand a second for the use of that property, and a third for the feudal rights which have been suppressed. The Clergy also, will not have a less well-founded claim Jar the sale of church pro per ty, or the suppression of tithes. Consequently, it has already been observed, that in granting an indem nity of ogre milliard to the emigrants, the law project does not exclude any claim for a new l indemnity. lir • fact, the law project leaves a dOor open, not only to the claims of the Clergy on account of the sale of their pro perty, and the suppression of tithes, but to the emigrants also, on account of the suppression of every kind of seignorial privilege. The Minister, who presented the project, explained himself very distinctly with regard to the losses occa sinned by the depreciation and fall of the assignats, by the maximum, by the bankruptcy of two-thirds of the . mites, by the payments made in depreciated papers, &c. He admitted - that in those respects no indemnity could be claimed; but, as to the losses sustained by the Catholic Clergy, as to the suppression of tithes and feu dal rights, he preserved a most circumspect silence. It is said chat the Minister was afraid to reject claims which the conscience of a pious King regarded as legitimate. The Minister neglects no means, great or small, to giin the favour of the Deputies. While we had only a plebeian Clamber, there was given to each Deputy a silver medal, worth about five or six francs, for the purpose of making him known on his entering the Chamber. This year, M. de Villelle has caused gold medals to be struck, worth 320 or 330 francs each. He has thus distributed about 1.50,000 francs among his friendi, without offending • the delicacy of any of them. The Session could not commence under a more favourable presage. It is not in consequence of the wish of the Minister that the French army continues to occupy Spain, but in virtue of Notes from the Russian and Prussian Go vernments. The Ultras themselves have given the de tails of this disgraceful negotiation, without any other object than that of degrading a favourite, whose good fortune they envy. • The Second Chamber of the States-General of the Netherlands, after four Sittings, employed in discussing the project of law for some changes in the Tariff of Customs, have adopted it by a majority of 75 to O. It appears by letters from Batavia, of the 17th of September, that the wants of the Dutch Govern ment have induced them to bring their coffee to mar ket, but which has brought extremely reduced prices, having sold only for ten dollars the pecol, of a quality which last year produced 27i• dollars the pecul. The last-dispatches from Jamaica, dated the 14th of November, have brought the most satisfactory intelli gence. The House of Assembly had met , and were cordial in their approbation of the Governor's Speech. We trust that there will not be anything to disturb the harmony which at present exists in the three branches of the Legislature. The Duke of MANCHESTER is much beloved ; and in the conclusion of their Address to his Grace, the House of Assembly expressed them selves in the following terms:—a We hope, by a dili tient attention to the public business, to insure n short Session ; and from the long experience we have had of, , our Grace's mild administration of the Government of island, we rest assured you will, in every *ay con. with your duty, meet our wishes and promote welfare. We consider it, indeed, a most provir blessing, that /cur Grace has continued the an of our interests, through a period of much and we sincerely prays that you may long con ear protector." i o i ti s l is ti la r h ; sistent vi our well dentist guardiai Ira ; al , tuise au I FOREIGN FUNDS. To-morrow being settling-day in the Foreign Market, numbers are making up their accounts, and some realizing profits. One failure took place this moping in the Foreign Market, but to no great extent. Current Prices: New Spanish 141 /, OW 201 I, Bunten 96/, Mexican 79/ Colombian New 251 I, Austrian 961, Buenos Ayres 40 42, Gas 2, Greek 561 57,' Brazilian Scrip 16. SRA RES. Alliance Assurance - £lOO - Do. Itlarine - 100 - Anglo Mexican Mines • 100 • United Mexican ditto - 40 - Iteal del Monte ditto - 400 - Brazilian ditto - 100 - Colombian ditto - 100 - Rio tie la Plata ditto - 100 . PAID. £lO 10 10 70 5 2/3 TSICE TO-DAY. ti pre. 100 Pt: ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 229) 230 229 '/ 2 3 per Cent. Red. 94 1 / 2 % 8 / 8 'h - 3 per Cede Conc. ex div. 937 8 1 h /8 3i per Cent. 101 1 / 4 3i per Cent. Red. 100% 8 101 1 / 8 4 per Cent. New 103% 5 / 3 Ys India'Stock ex. div. 281% India Bonds 103 102 103 £l,OOO Exciter'. Bak ('2d.) 62 6; (1 1 ,41) 62 6 Inas for Acct. 286% Cons. for Acct. 95 Y 8 1/8 Frankfort and other German l'Apers reached us this morning. They contain an article from St. Petershurgh, stating that the Emperor of R►usst.s hats reduced the ditties paid by merchants. The death of young Cot.o. COTRONI is variously accounted for in these papers. The following are extracts : ODESSA, DF.CEMBER 15. According to the letters from Cflustantinople of the 7th of December, it was generally reported that the Captain Pacha, who has at all times shewn great at; tachment to the Sultan, would obtain an office about his person. It seemed that the Sultan entertained some apprehensions, as he had ordered his Ministers always to attend hits in future at the Mosque; and had issued, at the same time, several ordonnances, to keep the common people in awe. No servant or slave was to appear in the streets after nine o'clock in the evening. These precautions excited some sensation. A conference between The Reis Effendi and a Euro pean Minister was spoken of, which did not promise any faeourabie.result of the nerciations with the Eu ropean Paters. TRIP.STE, DECEMBER. 26. Accounts from Zante of the 13th December say, that Colocotroni (the soil) who had again excited some dis- turbances in opposition to the Greek Central Govern ment, had been executed, or, as others say, had been killed in an action with the troops of the Government. Private letters from Ilydra, of the gd December, say, that since the naval action fought off Candia, there had been another engagement near Rhodes, in which an Egyptian frigate was burnt, and several transports taken. The last news is brought, with trifling variations, by a ship that has arrived here to-Jay, in twenty one days from Tchesme. VIENNA, DECENIBER 30. Mr. Stratford Canning, british Ambarsador to the Court of Russia, has had a private audience of the Em peror. Ilis Excellency was above an hour with his Ma jesty. Mr. Stratford Canning will set out very soon for St. Petersburgh. Count Woronzow Daschkow, Minister Plenipoten tiary of Russia at the Court of Bavaria, left this city the slay before yesterday, to return to Munich. It is affirmed, that the departure of their Imperial Majesties for Italy, is fixed for the month of March, that they will pass the spring at Milan, and part of the summer at Venise. ST. PETERSBURGII, DECEMBER 24. The Emperor has issued a decree to the tollov►ing effect : " Desiring to give our faithful subjects a new proof of our wish to lighten the taxes and to protect com merce, manufactures, and all kinds of industry, we have thought fit to grant (from the commencement of next year) a considerable diminution of the due; paid by the several classes of merchants, and likewise to approve the subjoined additional regulations of the organization of the guild, and of the trade of the other classes, which more precisely determines the rights and obligations of the commercial bodies; we are fully convinced that our faithful subjects of these classes, profiting by the favour which we grant them; will strictly confine them selves within the bounds which these regulations assign to each, will redouble their efforts, andlulfil our gearest hopes, by contributing to the progress of commer cial activity. " St. Peterstoorsh, Nov. 96,1524. " ALEX AN DER." The Minister for Foreign Affairs has exchanged with the Ministers of several Foreign Powers, declarations relative to the abolition of the duty called jar detractats. it' , virtue of these declarations, which ensure, in every particular, a perfect reciprocity to Russian subjects, the duty hitherto levied for the benefit of the Imperial Tree 'miry, on theexportation and transfer out of the empire of inheritances and other property belonging to fo ieigners, is abolished in favour of the subjects of Ba varia, S'artemburg, France, and Mecklenburgh Schwe. Tin ; and this abolition shall have its entire effect, not only in all future cases, but in those in which, up to the TWOr .. .~ ~ ~ - !!ir . S 411 'date of the signature of the deelaratiOn ) the said dutie have not seen actually levied. The river was frozen over on the 18th. the naviga- i tion of the Neva has not been open so late since 1801. It was only interrupted during part of the 17th. The French Papersorrr — iday have reached us.— Some of these journals insinuate that our recognition of tlitee of the South American States—a measure which all the Courts of Europe have been constantly expecting, is likely to embroil us with them. Nothing can be More ildiculous. One of the Papers even goes so far I 'as to give a private letter from Lisbon, stating, that ' s lEngland has demanded from the Court of Portugal' an explanation of this course it would follow, if, under certain circumstances, England should find herself obliged to break with the•three preponderating Powers of Europe.." The letter is evidently an absurd and clumsy fabrication. On Sunday lakt, Lient.-General Pozzo nt Bonoo had a private audience of the KING, in which he presented to his MAJESTY his new credentials, confgming him in the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Room to the Court of France. The Duke of SAN Caacos also pre sented his new credentials, confirming him in the post of Minister Plenipotentiary from the Infant Duke of LOrca. - • The Journal ales Deifies states, that it is expected the GoVernmenteihe Netherlands will immeJiately follow the example set by the British Cabinet, with regard to the new States of America. - According to the Etoik, all doubt must beat an end with respect to the evacuation of Moldavia and Walla chia. The Porte has formally announced it, and a day had been appointed for the reception of M. de MlN ztacxv, as Charge d'Affaires for Russia. According to private letters, dated Head Quarters of Bern Camion,before Patras, December 1, the siege of that fortress was about to be vigorously carried on,— Eight vessels, sent by Admiral MIAULIS, cut off all communication by sea, and the blockade was strictly respeced by vessels of all nations since its official recognition by the British lonian Government.— Heavy cannon and mortars :had ken brought, and batteries were erecting. - The works were directed by European Engineers, and the Artillery was served by a foreign legion. An army of 10,000 men Commanded by CONSTANTINE BOZZA !us covered the siege. The Moniteur contains two Royal Ordunnances. The first for raising 60,000 men from the class of 1824, with a table stating the contingent to be furnished by each department. The second grants to the Officers of the corps of Eap peurs Pompiets of the city of PAtis certain advantages, to indemnify them for the slowness of promotion which results from the pat ticular regulations of the corps. After our Piper went to press, we reeeived the Mani. tour of Tuesday and [:toile of yesterday. They are both very barren of intelligence. The Chamber of Depu ties met in B,i,etiix, on Tuesday, at one o'clock, and proceeded to , examine the preparatory Taws concerning the indemnity of the ea.isrants and the reduction of the renter; but their labours were not terminated, and they adjourned at five o'clock. The Rentes left off.on Tuesday.at 102 f. 75c. The Roman Catholic Association met again, in Dub lin, on Saturday. The Hon. PIERCE BUTLER was in the chair. Mr. O . CoNNELL and rsfr. SHIEL addressed the Meeting at great length, and we are happy to say in a much more temperate manner than they have done on former occasions. The former Gentleman noticed the false alarms which were circulated in various parts Qf Ireland, with a view to disturb the country. Mr. O'CONNELL disCIAMIed all the imputed views of the Association, whose single object, he contended, was Catholic Eilancipation. Their object, was not," he said," to meddle with the question of Reform; I.!t Ca tholic Em incipation be granted, and he pledged him self the Catholic Association wolild be dissolved in half an hour. They were attached to the Throne, the Law, and 'the Peerage, and it was 'a rank false hood that Reform was any part of their object.— There was no arming among the Catholic people : there was not a Catholic rent collector in Ireland who was not a most powerful ft iend to the Government, and who were not warning the people. He concluded by giving in his notice of a motion for an address to the LORD LIEUTENANT, and a Petition to Parliament on'the present system of exciting false alarm in Ireland." Mr. Sum. moved a series of resolutions on the sub. ject of the late plosectition of Mr. O'CONNELL, whose conduct and character he eulogized in the highest terms. The la , t resolution was, that an address should be presented to Mr. O'CONNZI.L, expressive of the deep reliance of the ks , sociation on his zeal, patriotism, and integrity; of the value which they attach to bit great public services; and of the conviction that his conduct has been uniformly and successfully directed, not only by an earnest anxiety for the freedom, but an honest so licitude for the peace and tranquillity of the country. Mr. O'Conzsau. rose and addressed the meeting at .considerable length.. He vindicated his own character and that of the Association, for loyalty and attachment to British laws, and the British Sovereign. The whole of Mr. °Toxins:Les speech was veryltem perate; and he seems to have found that the violent declamation in which he lately indulged, was not only calculated to excite uneasiness among the Protestant part of the population, but to injure the cause which he advocates. Ir is not only in the speeches of Mr. O'Connu.c that we see a masked difference. The Roman Catholic in habitants of Nenagh had addressed a letter to him p few days after his arrest. His answer contained the following just and sensible observations:. ~~ 1.1.1•••,. it, Indeed, rhave atsy claims bit the atection of , countrymen, I should rest them principally ul the etertions I have continually made to convi the people that emancipation cannot, as it ou g not, be obtained through any ether than the legitim i channels:of the Constitution. I have long been strong persuaded that the manifold grievances of the Iri s ',elle have remained unredressed, principally hem of the disturbances and outrages which have generated by those very oppressions thetnselves, which, being criminal id their nature, and, afte r a l driftless in their objects, are calculated to ec mixed character of folly and of crime to the imp ' rectionary movements of our wretched I do confess that I begin to entertain tn. , te layo ut . , hopes of permanent relief. - Tne people at larts at length perceived that those- who insti,ote them crime and outrage are their bitterest enemies, and tk i those only are their sincere and genuine friends ith advise them to respect the laws, and place all thei hopes of relief on legal and pe.iceable Petition and re The Catholic rent for the last week amounted 7751. 3s. 7.1. Nothing is said of the proposed missi of Mr .o*Cownata. to London. IHE KING. witaosoft, JAW. 12.—His MAJESTY has not ge le t ft l t Royal Lodge since Saturday last. D ur in g the part of Monday and yesterday, his MAJESTY'S time tral occupied with public business. Yesterday afternoon, her Royal Highness the Prig cess AUGUSTA took an ailing in her carriage and four, accompanied by Lady M. l'Avt.ort and Alias Wvx, YARD, and atteuded by two nu triders, through theGreu Park; her Royal Highness returned by St. Leonard . ; and paid a visit to the ad and Countess HAncount. Yesterday afternoon, a few minutes before fug o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived in town, in his travellinr carriage and four, with outriders, &c. from the Roy, Lodge, Windsor. FARIIIONABLE 11101rEJIENTS. Viscount Altborp has left his father's (Earl Spencer) seat :4 Northamptonshire, for Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady John Thynne kit town yesterday for G. Sri, Esq. N. P. seat, Wrotham Park. Lord Loraine has arrived at his seat, Barking Hall, Estill from a tour. Lord Li!ford has arrived at his seat, Atherton llall , Lancashir from Northamptonshire. Captain Milner . left town yesterday, for Brighton. Lord and Lady Barnard have left town on a visit to the Ila V. Powktt, at his seat, Somerby, Leicestershire. The Earl of Bective arrived on Tuesday at Gould's Hotel, Jr myn-street, from his seat in Ireland. Captain Pretzel, ILN. arrived yesterday at Blake's Hotel, Je myn-street, from Aidwick, Sussex. Baron D'Elmar has left fir for Brighton. Departures from the Puiteney Hotel, Albemarle-street :—N and Mrs. Tureen and family for their seat in &nt ; and 111 Levsey fur ditto. Arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street :—Lord Mimeo from Niekon Mowbray, Leicestershire; Charles Berkeley,Paq. son, from their seat near Norwich ; Sir Charles Hach, ltart. Erg Berks. Count Karole left ditto, yesterday evening, for Paris. The Earl and Countess of Stanhope have arrivod at their seat Kent, from lkightuit. Mr. WILMOT-HORTON arrived in town last nigh.; from Blitlifield, in St.ffordshire, where be had been an a oi.a Lord BACOT, and transacted business at the Culotta' Office, MCI. ing-street, this day. We can positively state, that certain reports which have been circulated by some of our cotemporaries, of the L. Earl of hfouascimacas having been married, are totally deititta of foundation. The Right Hon. Lord HENNIKER gave a grand hall and supper at Major house, his Lordship's seat, at GreatThornhars, on the 4th, which was attended by all the brat persons of flak* and rank in that part of the country. The friends of Lord l'eac.tvat, supped together at Powell's Hotel, in Poiryn, on Monday last, in commemorationa his Lordship's birth-day. TheKingsbridge ball, on Friday last, was numerously and fashionably attended; above one hundred persons were present. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commander* took lease of the Court previous to departing fur their respective destinations, sir. —Captain Cnaatzs SzzLnon Trams Royal George; Captain Ili- CHARD Anson, Waterloo; and C aptain JOHN Ronan Miaow wiz, Btidgeiiater, for Bengal and China. The Earl of CLANRICA RD! left London on Saturday last, for Pads, where (says a Dublin Paper), according to the re port In the fashionable circlei, the marriage between his Lorthhip and the lovely daughter of a celebrated Statesman will shortly be solemnized. The Brussels Paper of Saturday states, that on the preceding day, a British Cabinet Messenger passed through tini city, DM front Vienna by Mr. &WATFORD CANNING, with dih patches, said to be important, for the English Cabinet. The following will shew the advance in the price of Mining Shares iti one month : Dec. 10. Jan. 11. X X .e X Anglo Mexican 100 10 paid 31 pr. 156 115 125 Brazilian 100 10 paid —lOl. dis. 66 70 44 pt. Colombian 100 10 paid 19 pr. 52 62 510 Real del Monte 400 70 paid 550 1350 United Mexican 40 10 paid •35 15S 115 125 The man who, it was stated a few days since, had re cently committed various frauds under the travelling names of Major Brock, Clare, a West India merchant, and the Rev. Mr. Carr, was apprehended ill his travelling cha riot between Royston and Cambridge, on Tuesday, on the charge of feloninu;ly stealing the said chariot and a parr of horses from a Mr. Mann, of Holywell. He was entrusted with the property on trial, and to give 160 so vereigns is approved of. 'This transaction took place oft the 4th instant, when the swindler was playing the port of the West India merchant. Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, a fire broke out at the paper-mills at Horton, near Windsor, be logging to Messrs. TIPPaII and FRY, of London, which were completely consumed, with another adjoining, for the 'manufacture of mill boards and brown paper. Three men went to work at the mill at four o'clock yesterday morning, and it is supposed a lighted candle dropped unknown among the paper in the upper Pat of the mill, where the 4re originated, which was not discovered until too late. Prompt assistance was ren dered, but the buildings being all wood, with such I quantity of paper, all attempts to save it was useless, and they were consumed. A third mill, adjoining the other too, was saved, hairing a party wall. The rage for Joint Stock Companies is not confined to Edinburgh; sew are spoken of in Berwick, Iris. Joint Stock Insi.rance, Coal, and Iran Foundry Companies, in consequence of the ptosptct or a railway into Rozburghskire. There is also hinted a Joint Stock Company for a railway to join the branch front Rozburghshire, at Kenfteld (should the route surveyed and recom mended by Mr. Tasman not be adapted), which would paw Whitewall', Hutton Mlli, Tweedhill, New Castklillh. Bankbill, and terminate at Norwich Quay, where there will be a depot front Berwick I'LL—Berwick Istvertiser. TIIE EV ,•' STAR • 1.0.~'1)n~T: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 182.5. TILE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Console opened this morning at 95# for the Account, and foe nest time 95k, with little or nothing doing. The principal business doing thi•l morning is in Brazilian Mining Shares, but there is little speculation ; and all the Mining Shan. have fallen. I il 16 wi so Sg wi Iwo ba