Star. — London, England, 1824-01-13 00:00:00

0 , f ~ tr., , .. .......•••• . • • .., •"' :t .. " vcr, '—',. , .- , $ , . . Lz_ _ - .~: . - .. . i ti . • distress for want of the common necessaries of life ; and though the articles she sellstnre chiefly of this descrip tion, yet, there was almost no; demaad ; because not one in fifty had a single rix dollar to expend. Such, however, she added, was the distress of some, that she could pot help.giving credit, though with little. or no piospect of ever being repaid." The remaining selections have been furnished to the Secretary from different Most respectable quarters. The first is extracted from a letter addressed to Mr. T. Pringle, by a Medical Officer on the Caffre Frontier, and dated August 29, 1823 : " During my recent'stay at --, I had opportunities of seeing a good deal of the actual state of the settlers in Albany; and I can truly declare, I never witnessed so much poverty and misery before. Whilst your frirnds on the Bavian's River ate reported to be in comparative comfort and prosperity; our countrymen in the Zuuref veldt are without the necessaries of life*. Disease too was amongst them, and some families presented a de plorable picturs." The next is also taken from a private letter addressed to a Gentleman now in Cape Town. It is written by an individual of high character and connections, and who has honourably held the office of Justice of the Peace in England, and that of Heemraad in South Africa. "-Sem 1, 1823.—My family are this day without bread, and I can procure none in Graham's Town, at any price. Rice is also very dear and scarce. Now, in our fourth year, our privations are greater than ever. The spring-bucks are increasing so much, that all my own corn and my nearest neighbour's on the plain has been entirely eaten down. My people are obliged to take their turns in watching them all night. Barker and Biggar have severally lost 30 and 40 head of cattle last week, by the Caffers. Stanly, all his yesterday." • The same Gentleman, on the Bth of, September, says: " Before our present crop is ripe, much distress will be felt for want of food. It is really lamentable to hear of and witness the distress that now prevails from thh cause. A poor Irishman told me to-day, that many families, besides his own, were living, like the soldiers' horses—on green forage; for he had eaten nothing , during the last two days, butlettuces and leeks! Times are so hard that we cannot employ labourers." In a communication dated Sept. 2,, we have the fol lowing statement from the rime correspondent: " I was yesterday asked to join in a petition to Go vernmeut to send down Indian corn for seed to the settlers, as it cannot be procured here. I have been this week at • the Kowie with my waggon, to get flour and rice from the liule vessel (the, Good Intent) which came in a day or two before. I was fortunate in getting one bag of brown rice for my share, for Which I paid 20 ids. The whole..of her cargo was fl,tir and rice, and was disposed of in the boat as it was landed; and num bers went away without a morsel, declaring that their faMilies at home were a ithout grain of any kind. It was, indeed, most pitiable to witness the disappointment of those who had hoarded up a few dollars fur this arrival, and returned empty. I saw some of Thornhill's, Smith's, Cock's, the 'Nottingham, Wilson's, Bradshaw's; Son thoy's, and Holder's parties ; to all of whom I put the question, whether they could spate me half a maid or so of Indian corn ? The universal reply was, ' We have rone for our own use, we have not even enough for seed.' " The rust or blight is very pr&alent both in the rye and solid straw wheat, but I . sincerely hope they will not be materially hint. All the other forward wheats have suffered as usual—nothing remains of them." Another Gentleman, whose high respectability and moderate sentiments are also well known to the Com mittee, wri:es to a ft lend on the 29th Sept. as follows: " I am not one of those who wish to encourage the reports of general (listless for food ; but to say that the settlers have plenty, is too barefaced. I believe Very few have sufficient Indian corn for seed. Applications are made to me from all quarters for it, as I hap2en to have a little to spare." Mr.Collis proprietor of the only mill hithet to esta tlished in the new settlements, states, in a note dated 29th September : 66 That no wheat grown by any settler had ever yet been brought to be ground at his mill ; but that it had been partly occupied up to the cod of July last in gi hid ing barley, Indian corn, and a little rye, reaped by set tlers last season. Since that period not six molds of grain cf any sort had been teceived into the mill ; and out of that (he adds) several persons have taken back maize for seed ; so it is evident there is none in hand to grind."—The correspondent referred to at page 27 con tinues on the 30. h of September : 66 The report that the settlers have had abundant crops of Indian corn, or that they have now any tole rable supply remaining, is utterly untrue. It is now selling at one shilling (English), per quart, for seed. Since I came from home, 1 am sorry to find that the prospects for harvest are worse : rust and drought are destroying everything. The Citifies continue uncom monly active. Pigot, Cooper, Bestor, Delport, Eras mus, and Vandyke have all lost cattle. If we have not effectual relief in a very short time, we must quit our locations. It is become really distressing and alarming. Oh, for Van Diematis Land ! lam heartily sick of it, and dread being a moment from houre on account of the Caffres." • The Scotch party are located far up in the intrrior, on one of the sources of Great Fish giver, parallel with the Sneuwberg ; and have suffered less front the blizlit than any other Settlers. TRADE Will! IRELAND. It•is satisfactory to lean that the late partial repeal of the Union duties has had so beneficial an effect on the trade between this count y •and Ireland, that the leading members of the Irish con.mercial interest, for whose ad vantage those duties were oiiginaliv, though as we have often thought erroneously, imposed, have now, to the number of more than 300 Gentlemen, signed a memo rial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying that the %t hole may be repealed, and that the intercourse be tween the two divisions of the United Kingdom may be placed upon the footing of a coasting trade. We sub. join the body of the memorial, the statements in which, though brief, appear to be most important; and we may add, that the signatures to it are of the highest respecta bility. Liverpool, it is supposed, from its intimate and extensive connexion with Ireland, will support the prayer of the bankers, merchants, and manufacturers of that country, for a total repeal of the duties. "o msx SAINT MODOORASLE AND acomeaxatx THE Loans OF NIS XASOITY'II TIZA SU RT. " The Memorial of this undersigned Merchants Manufacturers, and Traders of the City of Dublin. " Sheweth —llya a very considerable improvement has taken plain in the trade of linisod since the cessation of part of the Union duties ;and a great incretrikelanpioyment has been thereby afforded to the working chases, to the manufacture of calicoes and jibes deaaons of con cat the ianretiare Memorialists are nnt aware, that is as efesuatittlite where A ttie afot I • _ 7 . , -. ties hm ip hig:= l. S i ir of the w en tbetvin have bees even . set of em eat.. testa ex =and ' Died pu opt% of tech a . y e *respectfully pray to take bee einside hof reed to the Legislo. ' Inn, in the ensuing. to repeal the remnant of the Union , t; a Attics, and thereby to your Lordships a greakir facility Of piecing the hitercoursel eta the two countriti completely on libitieedng of a coasting trade." ' -"TisiabWie Memorial has been signed by 516 of the meet aortae 'tble men of business in Dublin. .. ..... THE EVENING STAR . ... - . _ LONDON. • TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 18'24. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGA TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 1:191,i, and afterwards dropped to 89 to I, with very little doing. The Warlike article ihserted in an Evening Paper last night, has not had any effect on the hlarket, as persons well informed do not attach any credit to it. • FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened at 241 to I, and got up to with. little business doing; except in the above Bonds and Austrian Scrip. Current Prices :—Old Spanish 241 to 1, Nevi Austrian Si ft; Russian 691 to 1, Poyais 31, Mexican Mine Shares 404411 prem. Colombian 65. PIUCE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. • Think Stock 234% %—3 per Cent. Redu. 88 1 k 44 S per Ccut. Cons. 87% IA 7 / 8 % —3i per Cents. 99% 4 . 4 per Cents. Old 101 7 / 8 14—New zosyB 106 105 /8 Bank Lon , " Anns. 9.2 1 4.—India 13ouds 8554375... .South Sea Stock 99 1 4 3 / 4 —New Annuities 87V2 Exchequer Bills 58s. 56i. 59i. 58s. pr. Consols for Account 89 1 / 4 4 89 1/4.• When we were yesterday inferring the pacific inten tions of the French, Cabinet, from the declarations in the Journal des Debats, its official organ, we little dreamt that our worthy contemporary, the Courier, was again attempting to hoax the Public—for the Funds were not affected by the statement —with rumours of w ar. " We wish to create no alarm, at least no unnecessary alarm," quoth the Courier, and then he goes on to state how he foretold that there would be wAr in Spain, btrt not a word of the retreat behind the Ebro. Another of the Courier's prophecies, which was -sn, little noticed that the Editor thinks it may be safely re vived, was—that a great fleet was fitting out at Brest. The old story is now revived. The fleet could not, it ap pears, have been fitted out when the Cowier last sounded the alarm, for it had to await the arrival of full four. teen foreign vessels (Russian, Swedish, Pt ussian,ltc.), which delivered their cargoes of hemp, tallow, ate. into the arsenal." No sooner, however, had this supply rivet, than the artisans of the Dockyard broke the Sab. bath, in order to carry silent/11 on the preparing -of the fleet, which we are assured consists of eight sail of the line, five large heavy frigates, and four smaller, four brigs, and five sloops, all ready for sea. The Courier expresses a pious hope that Sir CIIA IMES SIVA rir will be able to transmit.a satisfactory explana tion to his MAJESTY'S Government, respecting these naval - preparations. Were any such Meet preparing, we have no doubt but he would ; but should he f.til in this, we are sure a British Admiral would soon give a good account of it. But it appears . that the trench have not only got naval stores froth 'all the maritime Powers enumerated by the Courier, but that even an English Captain has supplied them with masts, ace, for the Dock Yard, though as a Campensation for suppl)ing materials for a fleet, destined, as is insi nuated, against us, the Captain has communicated to the Courier, the use to which they were to be appropriated. But let us see how this awful intelligence is treated by our Morning cotemporaries. The Times takes no notice of it. The . ( hronick chronicles it derisively. The Post puts no faith in it. The Ledger enters it in its day-book—a waste hook would lave been the pro per place for it; the Herald speaks doubtingly; but -the Sew Times and the British Press convert the astounding intelligence into ridicule: -as will be seen by the following extracts from these two Journals FROM THE NEW TIMES. We wish to create nu alarm,' says the Couiier. This is very lb:Pulsate; for certainly no alarm will be created by oste worthy co .emporary's paragraphs. Ire has cried Wolf ! so often, that he now cries it wholly in vain. Ilia present terrors are occasioned by a circumstance in which, it seems, he has been much more sharp sighted than our Ambassador at Paris. Within the last two months we arc told fourteen cargoes of hemp, masts, oak timber , &c. have been .delivered into the aesenals at Brest; and Sir CHARMS STUART, we are to presume, has shift his eyes to shit won derful importation. Indeed! 6, If this be the case, perhaps there is nothing very woaderful in it; perhaps the Brest arsenals may receive twice 'fourteen cargoes of naval stores withi s nat leading to any necessary inference that the peace of Europe will be at all disturbed. But somebody has seen some ships of war-fitting out at Brest ! And so they may have done almost any time the last eight years at Portsmouth and. Plymouth. For our part we are inclined to think that the Lords of the Adnii- I Lacy pay quite as much attention to what is going on at Brest, ind understand its object quite as well as the Gentlemen at the Costriir Office ; and as the latter,wids to create ito alarm—why, we are not alarmed—that's all." FROJI THE BRIM!! PRESS. •• The Cburier, of late, has talked of nothing but of armed pre paration and war. One of our Admirals was called by the seamen Foul-weather Jack,' from his presence being always ominous of a storm ; and the Ex-Government Gazette is completely a politi cal augur of the same description. Like the Trojan Cassandra, it is eternally raving of threataiing ills to come. 'The worst of it is, that its annunciations are as wholly] unattended to ; no one believes them,—they are like the idle wind that passes an. regarded. The tale of the formidable preparations in Brest, where, according to the Croaking. Gazette of war, eight sail of the line, five large frigates and four smaller, four brigs, and No sloops, were getting ready for sea, is one, we are persuaded, of Mere ro mance. No preparations of anything like that amount are making in this port. Demonstrations so decidedly warlike could not escape the vigilance of our Government, and would be met at once by a demand of explanation, and a poirerful fleet from our ports. Our lino-of-battle ships would at once be uncovered, and their topsails bent to the wind, ready for action. Any Ministry would deserve to be impeached that suffered a hostile squadroar, of the strength mg numberi szientioned in the Carrier, to be • -,---r - • - ~, masa M Brest or say other port of - France, without instan t premed= in this country to meet it. The French Cabinet must know that luck would be the immediate resat of any alarming de s monstraciotia tech as the Clark" heralds; atsd'that France now par woes no marine that could cope with the naval power of thia try. Its strange, that while the fold we Cher' Courier is -brewing aOuddenotorm of this description, the "tench Ministerial papers have not a ripple -on their surface. The .7sursal des Debuts of Fri day (M. de Villele's paper) gives the strongest assurances cf the most pielfic intentions on the part of France—a policy this great Power, under 'listing eircumstances,would be Insane not to put sue." The Editor then quotes, from the Journal des Debate, the article on which we commented yesterday. This morning we received Lisbon Papers to the 31st ultimo. One of them contains ap article on the state of South America, deprecating all foreign interference• and claiming to Spain and Portugal the sole right of governing countries " they have colonized at the' ex pen,eef their population and riches." .If Spain and Portugal .possessed the power, no - one would dispute their right; but South America has ceased to be a co pony of Spain and Portugal, and is, de facto, independent. If, however, the mother countries can again bring them under subjection, no European Power will prevent them. The South American' " State% can require nothing fairer than this; but they may as justly deprecate the interfe rence of any other Power against them, as Spain or Portugal can *do that of aid offered to assist them in maintaining the independence they have achieved. The I.isbon Gazette, from the 24th to the 30th iii clusive, is almost entirely taken up with eztracts from rthe French add Madrid Papers, particularly the I?estau tador, and with Orders of the Day, &c. relative to the Army. The following are extracts: LISBON, DECEMBER 23. Tire accounts from Naples give reason to expect that a farther redaction of 501Xl men is going to take Place in Lige Army of Otcupation in that kingdom. We have already said that the British Parliament has been prorogued till the 3d of February. Some Jour nalists fancy that the affairs of South America will be discussed . in that Assembly. We 'are ignorant under, what poifit of view they judge such a discussion prat- ,Citable, if it is understood to commence by it an inter_ vention hostile to the rights of the mother countries ; and if it cart by just only in the intention of offering good offices, they may perhaps be asked by the legitimate Spvereig us. The consideration or the mer:7.antile interests 'of any foreign nation as•a ground for interference in the do mestic concerns of another independent nation, without its asking it, is a ridiculous absurdity, contrary to all the principles of the law Of nations ; to change the state of things contrary to the will of the proprietors is odious on the same principle ;, even suppos;pg the end to be praiseworthy, that is not 'sufficient to sanctify the means. As there does. not exist on the part of Spain or Por tugal, any perfect internal or external obligation which interests the proper or perfect rights of any other na tion with respect to their transmarine provinces, it is evident that these two Powers have the liberty to regu , late with the entire plentitude of their national and po 4itical rights, their interests in those countries which they colonised at the expense of their population and riches, arid which really form an integral pats of those monarchies, It is afi3icting, in so er4ightened an age as ours, to see the speculations and theories of certain writers, rela tive to the Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the New World, losing sight of all the best principles of sound morality,' and of the natural law of nations, to subject them to mere mercantile calculations, or the 1 abtraction' of what is emphatically styled the spirit of tire age, to Which Enrope and America owe their pre sent agitation. Who has the right to regulate or dis cuss the means of preserving those provinces, 4 im p! oving their condition, of watching over their felicity, of securing them against whatever may threaten their internal or external security and tranquillity, unless it be their legitimate Sovereign, that wise and tender father to ss hom PROVIDENCL confided this power and this duty, together smith the legitimate prerogative 14 S )vereignty over all the countries of his inherited Empire, and who, by his direct relations with the people whom .he governs, is not only better qualified to judge of their wants and interests than speculators or me taphysicians, but is most deeply interested in the I prosperity, the greatness, and glory of these people, with whose felicity his own greatness and glory are inseparably united? _ The French Papers of Saturday do not contain a single article of interest. The King of SPAIN has issued two decrees, to encourage the exportation of Spanish produce and endeavour to revive the trade of the coun try,which was reduced to a state of complete stagnation. By the first of'these, wines, brandies, vinegar, liquors of all kinds, fruit (green, dry or preserved), skins, hemp, and soda, the produce of Spain, may be shipped off from every port iothePeiiin.sula free of duty : whilst the same arti cles coming from foreign countries are to pay the usual introductory duties. By , the second, the ft ee exporta iion of Spanish - flour, grain, and seeds, is allowed, and the existing duty on the importation of those of foreign growth is continued until the Ist May. At that period some alterations are to be made. These regulations are symptoms of liberality on the part of the Government ; but it will be seen by the fol lowing extract of a private letter from Madrid, that mare decisive-measures are necessary to rescue Spain from her present wretched state : _ MADRID, DECEMBER 30. 4 ,. (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.) Our absolute Royalists have been somewhat quieter tor several days past, and the Liberals are allowed a little repose. The gentlemen of the Faith have relaxed their animosity against the Constitutionalists, and now 7 ' ..• 3 , . . 0 .. 0,.........._..40.00.601........0/10.0.....40........• ' . : .. , .........,•-:00. • • . _ - .- ......- ibrPir~i~ ifiallagaL. ~~ complain loudly of the King, who, they tiy, ha s no , rewarded thetnrits they deserved. These compla;me pretty plainly chew, that the men who pretend to y t the purest Royalists are not particularly devoted to the Xing. The French, too, have also to sustain a cos, siderable share of this Royalist hostility. During the Christmas holydays abarbarous doggrcl song was mina through the public-streets, which had fur its clicouts—:. 4 1 Let Blacks and Whites* 'join bean and Auld, " Td drive all Frenchmen from the - land." The GovernMent has definitivelyordetet all the shops and Archbishops who had repaired to Madrid, return to their dioceses. The finance department has undergone a great pusi. fication ; about 15 of the principal clerks have been dis. missed without any pay or allowance whatever. Our official 'Garotte announces that all the officers who served voluntarily In the national militia arc des. ' missed. This measure is much too rigorous, for under the Constitutional system a great number of these officers were obliged to serve, under pain of being marked out as enemies of the existing Government. Lieutenant- General Grimarest, late Inspector. General of Militia, h appointed Captain-General ci.Arragon. Ile is succeeded in the former office by the Count de San Roman. ' General Silveira, who is here 'in the character of Charge d'Affaires from Portugal, maintains the greatest secrecy respecting the events which have lately taken place . at Lisbon : nevertheless, it is currently reported that there has been a seditious movement in that city, though nothing positive is stated as to its consequences. It .is this moment reported that Genesal Botirmont, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, has applied to his Government :for an additional number of troops. This step is not at all surprising, for the Spanish Gr.:- vernment• do not tranquillize the public. mind by stop. ping the persecutions and repressing the false zeal cf the pretended defenders of the altar and the throne.-- Nnain must soon become the theatre of the most dread. ful transactions. It is remarked that few days pass in which. some French soldiers are.i not assassinated ; Red the dispersc of the army encourages the daring atrocity of a pcop'e who, because they are flattered, believe themselves capable of accortiplishing anything. Travellers who arrive at Madrid state that the roadi are scarcely prac ticable ; there is . every moment danger of being stopped and robbed. The -couriers cannot advance'a step with out an escort. It seems that nothing short of a miracle • can now save Spain. • The Men of the Faith sfyle theentelsrs Moms (Whites), and the Constittstionalias they call Negros (Blacks). BRIGHTON, JANUARY 11. The Ks so attended Divine Service is tbe Paltce Cha pel to-day. In the Royal Closet, Lord and Lady Gwyart Wete included in his MA.JEsT•Y'S attendant suke. Every seat in the body of the Chapel was' filled by Nobility, the Itoial Household, and town's folk.—The sermol was preached by the Dean of Henrarouo.—The Anthem was taken from the 62d Psalm : Ills MAJESTY'S dinner party yesterdsy included Lnni and Lady GWYDYR, Lord and Lady ItAVVISWORTIi, and the Count and Countess Mints.vin. SALES OF PROPERTY. MR. HOGGART. Life Policy.—A Polk) , for the sent of 25,000, effected in the Equitable Assurance Office. dated Jan. 26, 1909, on the Life of a Gentleman in the fifty-fourth year of bis age, with the aeeumula tions thereon, now-amounting to 24,200, subject to the annual pay. went of £99. Ss. the next of which to be made by the purchase the 96th instant.—Sold for 61,360. MESSRS. ROBINS. _ Leasehold.—No. 34, Harley-street, Cavendish•square, containing ten rooms, domestic apartments, and eellarage, held for 47i years, at a ground-rent of 219. 12s. per annum. Sold by dintelloo of the Assignees and Mortgagees of Sir George Harnage,-Ben. ebank rept.-3,400 Guineas. The Duke of MONTROSZ entrftained a select party to dinner yesterday, at his house in Grosvener-square. • The Dowager Marchioness of SALiSSURT entertained a select circle of fashionables yesterday evening, including the Dow ager Duchess of RICXXOXIL The Hon. Miss feip the only daughter of Lord and Lady HOLLAND, IS 5e14011317 Mat Holland House. ' The Marquis of CHANDOS hai left town for lib seat, Wooton, Backs. 'r" The Marquis and Marchioness of HIINTLY left town yesterday morning, for Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire. The Marquis of GRAHAM has left town for Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Lord and Lady MANDEVILLE left, yesterday, Kirk ham's Hotel, Luwer Brook -street, for their father's 'Ohs puke of Mancnitsraa) seat, Kimbolton Castle, Hanna:don. Lord HENRY THYNNE has left town for Woburn Ab bey, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Barrow. Lord HARVEY has arrived at Brighton, from the Earl of Smarms:tales seat, St. Giles House, Cranborne, Dorset. The Countess of DYSART is expected in town on Fri day, from her seat, Halmingitam Hill, Suffolk. Sir W. KNIGHTON, Bart. has arrived at his house in Hanover-square, from his seat, Blendworth Cottage : Heenduan. Friday, the Third Mastership of St. Paul s School teas filled by the appointment of the Rev. J. Coons. A.M. of Trinity College, Cambridge ; the other candidate, Mr. Jinx!'" was equal to Mr. Coorza in votes, and it was decided by lot. Itossim visited Drury-Lane Theatre on Saturday night. After the Opera he was introduced into- the Grean-roam by Mr. Hons. The appearance of the House was infinitely beyond his expectations. The sweetness, depth, and compass of BRIXAM voice quite astonished him. He promised to attend at the new Opera this evening. Ktso'so.Tuxaras.—The orchestra of this Theatre assembled ..rs• terday evening in full number, for the purpose of trying the of the reverberation of sound under the alterations that have tato place in tki interior of the edifice, and of giving to Rossini, the :o: • d uctor. a specimen of the combined as well as separate power eat instruments of which it is composed. A formal introduction took place Jon the occasion, in which Signor Berm= acted as mastc: of the ceretnonies first to SrAonoutrez, the leader of the bind , and then to ea ch j performer individually. The piece selected as .the first trial was the overture to La Games Latina, whir) was played In a style fully answering the expectations of Roy SIM; at least if external indications of pleasure may be esoc dered a fair index of the composer's sentiments. With very fel exceptions, the whole of the band of last year appear agitt ifl their places. There is a first oboe and a principal bassoon, both foreigners, we believe, who make their first appearanel in tbil country, of whose talents it would be unfair, perhaps, to farm I judgment on so slight a trial. The successors of Gateau= mg Houses, who were probably the most skilful performers on these*, struments in Europe, will' halt* much to encounter in the way g disadvantageous consparison. It is said, that the - banking-house of Messrs. Pm acis Wittman, and Co. of Mertbyr-Ty4hl,bu suspendadfaypwat ,J- • • • - .~ ..~ /~~r..