Star. — London, England, 1824-08-26 00:00:00

SPAIN The accounts from Madrid are rather copious than satisfactory. The King of Spain has declared fresh war, in a Royal Decree, upon Freemasons and all other secret societies. All 'offices and professions are closed against those who shall not, purge themselves on oath of the crime of Masonry, &c. past and present. Indeed, it is obvious that there is a new alarm. Ferdinand, it is said, did not think himself safe at Madrid, and was pro ceeding to Burgos. At the same time, five battalions of Royalist Militia were brought for his protection within the environs of the capital. The popular displeasure vented itself against him in his presence, at Cuenca, on his way to Bacedon ; and in the latter place Spanish and F ench soldiers quarrelled under his very windows.— QuArrels between Serviles and Constitutionalists have also become frequent,. even to the loss of lives. There are additional details, but no fresh intelligence from Andalusia. One thing seems . certain, that the band which occupied and proclaimed the Constitution at Tarifa is not dispersed, but has rather ,r et ired into the Sierra Ronda. There appeari sbme doubt who has been the chief in this movement. General-TOrrijOS was men tioned : he is, however, we believe, now in London. FROM THE COURIER FRANSAIS. MADRID, AUGUST 12. As to the enterprise of Torrijos, the following is all that we can state positively :--" For four days past we have observed that the Government has received cou riers from Andalusia, and dispatched others to that pro vince. Within this short space of time, four Privy Coun cils of Ministers have been held, over which the King in person has presided, and at which the Governor and Fiscals of the Council of Castile have been present.— The cause of these meetings, and of the movements of the couriers, is certainly the landing at Tarifa, and on some other points within the lines of the camp of St. Roche, effected by eight hundred officers and soldiers of the disbanded Constitutional armies, having at their head the Ex• General Torrijos, who was lately at Gibral tar. This handful of men have attempted to excite the inhabitants to insurrection against the existing Govern ment. In some villages in the mountains of Ronda the Constitutional stones have been again erected, and Tor. iijos has distributed 3,000 muskets among the people. The silence of the Journals as to this event has not a little contributed to exaggerate its importance; but the contents of two letters, received from respectable and trustworthy persons, will give the best idea of the truth. The first, dated from Cordova, says—" General Tor rijos, with 1,800 men, recruited at Gibraltar, has landed at the camp of St. Roche. These troops are welt in formed, and in no want of arms. Torrijos has with him the Ex-Colonel of Artillery, Ordonnez, and an Ex- Political Chief called Lechuga. In the first village (Gimena) into which these troops entered they killed three monks and two priests who unfortunately fell into their hands. Their first object was to set up again the Constitutional stone. Fiona thence this band proceeded to Tarifa, where some soldiers of the garrison joined Torrijos, who traversed the country, and laid the vil lages under contribution. The news we have received to-day informs us, that the measures taken by the Gen.- Commandant of St. Roche, O'Donnell, and the intelli gence given to Torrijos, that the French troops sent from Cadiz were rapidly approaching him, had induced him to take the resolution of re-embarking. This body has everywhere spread their proclamations, and we are told that the conspiracy had ramifications not only in several parts of Andalusia, but even at Seville. Some persons have been arrested on suspicion." The other letter, which is from Carmona, and of a later date than the preceding, announces that 4 , the expedition of Tor rijos consists of 800 men, who have with them upwards of 2,000 stand 01 arms. The machinations of this Chief still continue, because his band has been reinforced by a great part of the garrison of Tarifa, who have ranged themselves under his standard. A considerable num ber of malcontents have also landed on other points of the Camp of St. Roche, and in about forty villages in the mountains of Ronda, the Constitutional stone has been replaced." The Royalist Volunteers, with several field-pieces, set out lately from Seville, in pursuit of some consideruble bands of malcontents, which overrun that province. The Pope, moved by the extreme state of misery and total deprivation in which the monks who secularised themselves in Spain are now placed, has ordained that all those who desire to retake the flock, and return to their original convents, may demand a Bull for this purpose, which will be granted to theft). At the same time, his Holiness invites the Bishops and Archbishops to point out the churches in their dioceses into which those who desire to continue in the same state of secu larisation may be admitted. The Apostolic Nuncio in Spain is also authorised by the Holy Father to calm and dispel the differences that have arisen between the Government and the Bishops of Carthagena and As torga. These Prelates were appointed to their Sees during the Constitutional regime, and received their Bulls from Rome. The existing Government enjoined them to cease their functions in the administration of their dioceses; and the first was sent to the Penitentiary San Pedro, and the second to a convent in Galicia. On receiving this order, they addressed their complaint to the Roman Pontiff; and in consequence the Pope, as I have before stated, has charged the Nuncio with the arrangement of the affair. . An individual has been whipped by the common exe- cutioner, for the crime of blasphemy. FIGUERAS, AUGUST 13. A vielent conflict took place on the 3d of this month, an the occasion of a local festivity at Villademot, a vil lage situated near to Figueras, between some young persons of Royalist and Constitutional principles. A profusion of blood flowed on all sides. One Constitu tionalist was taken away dead, and four were griev ously wounded. On the same day, which was also one of a local fes tivity, a similar engagement took place at a less distance than two leagues from our frontier, at a village named Vieuze. There was much blood spilt, but happily no death took place. Mercantile letters have been received in town from Litna, brought by way of Chili and Buenos Ayres, dated the 18th of April, but they do nut mention any political news. Meserai was extremely susceptible of cold. His friend Patru met him one morning, when it was freezing very Lard. and asked him how he found himself? " I must run away from you immediately," replied the historian, " for I am at L. This enigmatical reply was explained to Patru. Mezerai kept be hind his arm-chair, immediately on the setting in of winter, a dozen pair of stockings, ticketed from A. to M. On getting out of bed he always consulted his barometer—and according to the greater or less degree of cold, put on so many more, or fewer pair of stockings. Thus, he bad on dam pais when he nut his friend Patna. THE EVENING STAR. LoSboN. THURSDAY, AUGUSt 26, 1824. THR FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being Settling-day, most parties are busy adjusting their Accounts. Consols opened this morning at 931, 4, for this Account, got up to 93j, j ; and for October Account, 941. There is little business doing.—There has been a fluctuation in •the present Ac count of $1 per Cent. FOREIGN FUNDS. In the Foreign Market this morning but little business was done. —Current Prices : New Spanish 161 17, Old 211, Russian 961, Alliance Shares 111 12, Mexican 48k, Colombian Scrip 981 disc. Colombian 75/ 76, Chilian 751, French 'Scrip 12t, Portuguese 813 l, Buenos Aires 11 1 disc. Brazilian 11 1 disc. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 236%-3 per Cent. Reduced 94% 1h per Cent. Cons. 93% 5 / 8 % 5 / 3 % 3i per Cent. 101 %—4 per Ct. Assented lOU% 1 / 2 % 4 per Cent. Old 101 1 A 5 / 8 -4 per Ct. New 10.5% Ys Long Anns. 23 1 A. 3-16—India Bonds 88 87 New Annuities 93 3 A £l,OOO Excite. Bills (2d.) 37 9; (I'4d.) 37 9 E5OO Do. (2d.) 40; (1 1 hd ) 37 9 £lOO and £2OO Do. (2d.) 42 3; (1 1 / 2 d.) 40 1 Consols for October 94 1 / 8 93% 94. Frankfort Papers to the 20th inst. have reached us. They +mention some precautionary measures taken by the Prussian Government against the plague, which has extended to Wallachia. The following are extracts: KONIGSBERG, JULY 31. According to a communication made at the beginning of this month byllit Government of the province of East Prussia, the plague, which had before prevailed only in Moldavia, and towards the mouths of the Danube, had now manifested itself in Wallachia also, especially in Braila and the neighbouring country. The Government of this city has therefore, by a notice of the 14th of this month, renewed the regulations published on the 11th March, by which travellers and merchants were informed of the measures of security adopted in this province to prevent the communication of this disorder. CARLSRUHE, AUGUST 16. Her Royal Highness the Margravine Sophia, consort of his Royal Highness the Margrave Leopold, was hap• pily delivered yesterday evening of a Prince, to the great joy of the Grand Duke and the reigning family, and of the whole country. COBLENTZ, AUGUST 10. The long•wished•for promotion of the highly-re spected Apostolic Vicar, Joseph Von Hommer, of Ehrenbreitstein, to the Bishoprick of Treves, has now taken place, and his Majesty's consent has been given to the admission, in the usual form of the letters of ca nonical investiture, which have come from Rome for the new Bishop. The nomination to the Episcopal See of Trevec, which has long been vacant, is an interesting event, by which one of the most earnest wishes of the country is fulfilled. The new series of the Bishops of Treves commences in the most auspicious manner, by the appointment of M. Von Hammer, one of the most worthy servants of the Church, whose virtues are equally acknowledged and respected by the Catholic and Protestant inhabitants. The first accounts, which represented Ipsara as falling with little resistance, are very clearly contradicted, by subsequent and authentic intelligence. The Brussels Papers, received this morning, contain the following article on this subject : TRIESTE, AUGUST 9. Letters which agree together, and which are partly confirmed by the latest numbers of the Smyrna Gazette, state the loss of the Turks in killed and wounded, at the capture of Ipsara, at several thousand men ; and espe cially by the explosion of the great powder magazine, in the fortified Convent of St. Nicolo. Captains cf ships who were four miles distant from Ipsara, when the capture took place, say that the island was suddenly enveloped in a thick smoke, followed by an explosion, by which their ships were much agitated. They after wards learned that this explosion had destroyed the half of Ipsara. Charleston tapers to the 29th July, and Norfolk Papers to the 22d, have reached us. The following is an extract from the Charleston Courier of the •26th July : FROM HAVANNAIL—By the schooner Marion, ar rived on Saturday evening, we received our files of I lavannah Papers to the 18th inst. Lieutenant Grimke, of the United States Navy, a passenger in the Marion, who left Vera Cruz on the 20th, informs us that the city was healthy at that date, but the garrison of the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa was very sickly. He came to Havannah by Alvarado, having left that place on the 28th ult. Nothing was known at Mexico of Itur bide having sailed from England. Troops were daily expected at Havannah from Old Spain. The French frigate, Joan IYArc, sailed from Havannah on the 19th inst. having under convoy Spanish and other vessels. In a preceding page we have given a Report to the King of FRANC; recommending to him to sanction a decree passed in 1813, for the encouragement of Orien tal learning, by the printing of works in the Oriental languages, of which there are many in the Royal library at Paris, and by the instruction of pupils. It is some what amusing to see M. de PEYRONNZ; who signs the Report, talking about the new direction given to the minds of the studious, and emerging from barbarism, when the press is shackled by a most rigorous Censor ship; of the severity of which every paper bears evidence. —lt is nut to the newspapers that the Censorship is confined, but literary jburnals of every description come under its pruning, or rather amputating knife. A number of the Panorama has nine blank pages, which were ssippreised, and of which onl the holdings were spread, which is as folloWs-4 3 egit Voyages aux Environs de Paris. Although our intelligence from Spain is derived prin cipally from the French Journals, yet it is easy to per ceive that the recent events in that country, and the iiretchedness and discontent which pervade every pro. wince, are such is must give uneasiness to the French Government. In Catalonia, Andalusia, and Gallicia, a marked hostility to the French 'hews itself on all occasions. The Journal des Debals, which; since it is no longer Ministerial, conceals nothing which the Censoil will allow to appear, publishes an article from Madrid, which says A smart altercation has taken place at Sacedon, under the very windows of the KING, between soldiers of the French and Spanish Guards. There was a cry to arms, and sabres were drawn; but, thanks to the firmness of a French Officer, matters did not pro ceed to extremities. Two Spanish soldiers were taken up and conducted to prison." The Madrid letters in the Quotidienne make the affair appear still more serious, for they not only admit that blood was shed, but add, that the detachment of the 22d if the line sent to restore order, was compelled to fire and to make two charges on the Spaniards, who after that became peaceable. The Constitniionnel asserts that the force which landed in the vicinity of Algesiras, and took Tarifa, consisted of two hundred men, armed and en listed at Gibraltar, under the command of General TOR RIJOS or Colonel VALDES. But the Doile contends that their movements were directed by Lieutenant- General MARESCHINI and Father Nano, and that an at tempt which they afterwards made on Ximena, was de feated by a very trifling Spanish force. THE KING. WINDSOR, AUG. 25.—His MAJESTY and suite toolc an airing this morning in the accustomed manner.— After the KING returned to the Royal'Lodge, his MA JESTY walked upwards of an hour in the plantations at tached to the Lodge. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER ar rived yesterday evening at Frogmore, on a visit to her illustrious relations. The Princess AUGUSTA gave a se lect dinner party. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CLABENCE will extend their stay at Frogmore, it is expected, till the end of the week. This morning the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, the Duchess of GLoucesTse, and the Princess AUGUSTA, arrived at the Castle in the Princess AUGUSTA'S carriage. The Royal party returned to Frogmore, and soon after one o'clock again left Frogmore for the Egham Race Course ; the Royal party returned to Frogmore to dinner after the Races, which were numerously attended with company, from London and other parts, the weather proving extremely favourable. The works at Windsor Castle, in which his MAJESTY continues to take unabated interest, have already pro- ceeded far enough to develope the capability of this venerable structure for magnificent improvement. The arrangement of this ancient building has been singularly, though fortuitously, adapted to the proposed altera tions; for upon completing the new opening in a direct lime with the Long Walk, the grand entrance to the in terior of the Castle was found exactly to correspond with the line of approach from Windsor Great Park. The Lodge of our late venerable Monarch being now completely removed, the workmen are employed in con tinning a gradual descent from the new entrance to the Long Walk; but it is with much regret we learn that the cupidity of a small proprietor prevents the imme diate completion of this splendid improvement. If we are rightly informed, the price demanied r a small house and garden in the line of approach, at present unoccupied, and of no personal convenience to' the owner, whose name we avoid communicating, is 3,000/. while the real value, we are assured, is from l 1,0001. to 1,5001. The Commissioners are said to have' tendered 2,5001. for immediate possession ; which offer , has been refused; so the probable consequence will be' an unavoidable delay till Parliament shall have sanc tioned the reference to a Jury, who will assess a fair compensation. We feel much pleasure in stating that the health of Mr. Secretary CANNING continues to improve. The Duke of GLOUCESTER dined with his Royal Sister, the Princess &mum MATILDA, yesterday, at her residence at Blackheath. We understand Mr. ROTHSCHILD'S brothers leave town. for Paris, to-day or to-morrow. Mr. GREENWOOD entertained the Dowager Duchess of RUTLAND and a select party at dinner yesterday, at his villa, Old Brompton. The Rev. M. FENWICK, Bishop of Cincinnati, in North America, is now at Antwerp. Yesterday afternoon a number of convicts, tried at the last Suffolk Assizes, strongly guarded, were brought to the Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-street, by the Ipswich coach; and after partaking of some refreshment, they were sent off by the Ports mouth coach for Langston Harbour. Tuesday sennight, Mr. Ross, a respectable farmer, residing at Waterfowl, in Braemar, accompanied by a Gentleman front Aberdeen and a guitle, mounted to the summit of Locbnagar, to enjoy the view from that stupendous h e i g ht. Th e p art y h a d begun to descend, when Mr. Ross requested one of them to hold his pony, while be returned to survey a particular spot overlooking Loehgar. After waiting some time, the Gentleman became alarmed, having, on looking round, seen Mr. Ross's whip, as be thou„ ht, thrown up into the air, from the spot whither he had gone, although he could not see himself at the time ; and, on going back, he discovered that he bad fallen from the cliff, which was here above three hundred feet perpendicular height. It appeared that in falling be bad struck against a projecting part of the rock, about fifty yards from the top, a part of his skull being found there; and it was with difficulty that his mangled remains could be gathered together at the bottom of the cliff. It is impossible to say how the lamentable accident happened ; but it is supposed that a stone had tripped his foot in going round the edge of the precipice, which, at the part where he fell, branches off from the usual track taken by travellers. He was an unmarried man, residing with his mother, and was much respected in the country. • Yesterday a Gentleman appeared at the Mansion. House, and stated to Foy, the Marsbahnan, and D. Forrester, that he had lost a check, drawn on Perring and Co.'s banking-house, CornhiU, of the value of one hundred and fifteen pounds. While stating the circumstance, a person present said he saw a man, a short time before, of whom he had a slight knowledge, and whose residence was over the water, come out of Perring's with a handful of sovereigns. On this intelligence, Forrester went in quest of the man, and, near London Bridge, saw a person who answered the description. Forrester immediately asked him what he had done with the money he had lately received at a Banking-house in Cornhill ? He immediately produced the whole, except about a pound. He was taken to the Compter for examination. Thursday two Irish boxers, Rough Rain, and Clarke, the fancy barber, fought for twenty sovereigns, so the borders of the enmity of Wicklow. The battle occupied thirty-four minutes, and termi nated in favour of Robin. Sixteen brave rounds were fought, and the winner finished with a suaimerset. PUTNEY REGATTA Yestenky afternoon, Putney presented a icene of unusual gaiett an 4 bustle: the attraction was a Rowing Match for a prize wherry, w*ch the liberality of the inhabitants had caused to be built for th e occasion, and which was to be contended for by watermen belong. int to that ancient and loyal hamlet. The fineness of the evening drew together a numerous assemblage of spectators from the neigh bowing villages; and Wandsworth was not 'backward in contra. bating her share of beauty upon this interesting occasion. The competitors were four in number, and the contest through. out was maintained with great ardour; but the superior skill and strength of Richard Cobb gained him the prize, which he imme diately took possession of, amidst the plaudits of the spectators. ice observed, as afiliale to the evening's diversion, an article of which shall be nameless, but which forms an essential part of a Lady 'S stitdrobe, decorated with ribands, and suspended from the summit or a high pole. This, we understood, was to bp run fur by young *omen ; bin We have reason to believe it was re. turnedlo the donor, there being no cindidates for this num THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE.—(Am latraomnu). The LORD MAyoz wished to know how, when both patties were ignorant of each other', language, they contrived to make love ?"—Ssa n, August 25. Confin'd to no region, by rules unrestrain'd, But by Nature endued from above, Is that converse of hearts, by the eyes oft explain'd, Which is known as the language of love ! August 25. P. HORSHAM, AUG UST 24. Lord and Lady SIIIIICINE and family leave Holmbrook for the hospitable mansion of WALTZ.. Boaart.t., F.sq. M.P. West Grin. stead Park, 'on Saturday, where they will sojourn till their tkpar tore from England. Admiral Sir J. HAWKINS WHITSHFID, Bart. K.C.B. Lady WHIT SHED, and family, kit Hohnbrook-place on Monday, for Portsmouth. BOGWOR, AUGUST 24 This delightful little place is filling very fast, nor do we wonder at its increasing popularity, when we consider the improvements t hat are daily making for the comfort and convenience of its visitors. NEW SOUTH WALES. The following petitions from two convicts at New. castle, in New South Wales, to a Gentleman command. ing a station in that Colony, vie, in ingenious allitera. tion, with the most ambitious efforts of Irish oratory. What can be better than " sympathetic segasity," or the " predominant potions of ebriety ?" Th e Petition of --, a Crown Prisoner, most humbly sheweth, " Your Petitioner was committed to jail on the I ttth of April last, by your Hon. Order, on the eledged charge of selling wine to they milletasy ; secondly, brought before your Honour, together with Mr. Close, I. C. and received the sentence of corporal punish. ment, which was severely inflicted, together with placing me in the jail gang up to the presant. " From which I dismiss the most humble submission, impinreing your Honour's humane consideration on part of the sircunt stance, whereas I your Petitioner was a Government Servant, consigned to Mr. Pennington, and was I to give a clear expk nation of the sale of the said wine, it would incur my :Master and Mistress's displeasure, so far as would prove my future unhappinesst " Through this consideration, I sincerely beg your Honour wilt be pleased to dismiss from your sympathetic segasity the henioustun of my imputed crime, and once more reface me from the mistrrpuf a close restraint, where your Honour was pleased to place me fur the first offence imputed from my arrival on this Settlement. " And I shall always discharge a zealous propencity to assiduity, and remain in duty bound to your Honour untill my last breath. " Dated Sept. 9th, 1823. " J. M. D." " Honours= Sic —I submissively beg lave to address your Honour on part of my late misconduct. " Whereas lam so long on this Settebuent, and never incured the displeasure of my superior., nor ever being guilty of arretatious conduct until the present, which was displayed by the preduniimut potions of thrifty. " And front the salatary state of sobriety I forward my sincere ejaculation, belying my ardent requisition will meet with your spun- Simians impulse of humanity—and humbly imploreing your Honour will participate with my present disaster, and dismiss from your view the irretatiousuess of the imputation—and be graciously pleased :rupee me from this distitute situation to my former. " And I shall remain in duty bound to your Honour. " H. Sir, your obedient Servant, " Sept. 20, 18113. " J. H." Thursday, at the New Bailey Court House, Manches ter, Glover, who keeps what is termed a Tom and Jerry shop, in :ford-road, was convicted in the fine of £2OO, for having drugs in his house of a deleterious nature. Upon the discovery taking place, he exclaimed — 4 ' 0 Lord, 0 Lord, forgive me this time, and I'll do so no more, for I am ruined 1" _ _ Wednesday se'nnight, between six and seven o'clock, as two flats belonging to the Earl of Bridgewater, the Ranger and Memel, were tacking down the river from Runcorn, they ran fcul of each other opposite Garston, when the Memel sunk. Of four men on board, two met with a watery grave—the other two were saved. One of the men who thus perished was a fisherman from Runcorn, the other belonged to the flat. Tuesday evening an overdrove ox made his appearance in Theobald's-road. He was preceded by two avant•cou riers,in the shape of bull-dogs, which every now and then gave him assurance of their presence. He gored a pony which was standing in Theobald's•road, in a chaise-cart, in which were two infant children, whose perilous situa tion excited instant courage in the minds of those around, who extricated the poor innocents from their situation, regardless of the attacks of the enraged ani mal upon the same pony, which was attached to the cart. He also tossed and gored a helpless old woman, and has, it is feared, so seriously injured her, that she is in much danger. At length, after having put the whole neighbourhood in dismay and disorder, he was secured by means of a few dustmen, and an experienced butcher, who, mounting one of the high-shelved dust carts, approached the place where he stood pawing the mud and roaring, and, throwing a slip noose over his horns, dragged him to a post and slaughtered him. A few lessons in fortification might have been learned in the streets on this occasion, where trucks, wheelbarrows, &c. formed a moveable defence against his encroaches but he happily committed no further mischief than what is above stated. In the canton of the Vallais a singular species of ostracism was formerly practised, when it was intended to drive away any powerful and obnoxious member of the State. A large club was provided, the end of which was rudely carved into the shape of a man's head, the supposed representation of the obnoxious party. Every one who wished his expulsion drove a nail into this club, and when the number of nails was thought to be suffi ciently great, this emblem was carried in procession be fore the house of the offender, who was summoned to justify his conduct; but he was already condemned without being heard in his defence, and ordered to emi grate in a certain time. If he refused to obey the Sen" tence, his house was attacked and pillaged. Tbis pry" cess of dra-law has been long obsolete.