Star. — London, England, 1818-12-05 00:00:00

; 1 4 THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. •SATURDAy, DECEMBER 5, 1815. THE FUNDS. Tatce or STOCKS TlifS DAT AT rvm.va creLosit S per Cent. Reduced 788- 4 1 per Cent. Cons. shut Cons. for Account, 8011—Si per Cent. 88.1-i 4 per Cent. 960-5 per Cent. Navy shut India Bonds 84 86 pre.--Oranium 1 prem. Exchequer Bills 19 20 pre. • A considerable advance again took place in the Funds this morning. ' Consols for the Account were done at 80i, and a further rise is considered inevita ble, from an immense number of powers for purcha• sing'Stock being received from the country. Consols . having shut at 80, bets to a large amount were de cided. At the commencement of the Account large odds were laid that they would not close at that price but the scarcity of Stock, and the caution observed in discounting foreign bills is assigned as the reason for the advance. The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore toon.—The Ambassadors, Ministers, and Charges. d'Affaires of Foreign Powers to the Court of France, had the honour, on Tuesday, of being presented to the King. The English Ambassador was nor present, in consequence, it is said, of its being the day (the eve) of the funeral of the Queen of England ; on which account all the English now in Paris are in deep mourning. The Minister of Finance has issued a notice to the holders of shares in the loan of 1818 for fourteen trillions six hundred thousand francs,• that the pay ment of the last instalment of that loan falls to be made on the 7th, Bth, and 9th instant. The Moniteur, in publishing the extract from the Protocol of the Conferences at Aix-la-Chapelle, re specting the payMent of the contributions; which we gave in the STAR of Saturday last, takes occasion to remark, that the modifications which have been agreed to by the Allied Powers, are all to the ad vantage of France ; that their object is wholly of a precautionary nature, in order to maintain the credit of the public funds, and that the facilities which have 'been grantrd will not occasion any increase of charge upon the Royal treasury, since the additional interest to be paid for the extension of the periods of pay ment, falls to be borne by the Banking-houses who , had previously undertaken the Equidation. In an article under the head of Cologne, we meet with some interesting particulars respecting the ter ritorial projects of Prussia. It is said that, in the Ministerial conference of 30th October last, the bases of a Convention of Exchange and Mutual Cession were discussed between Prussia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands ; but that the execution of this Con vention, or rather the application of the principles acted upon, has met with such serious obstacles, that the issue of the affair is extremely uncertain. Prus sia, it seems, is very desirous that the limits of her Monarchy should be extended as far•as the banks of the Meuse, being willing at the same time to indern rify the Netherlands by a cession of territory on some other point ; and to such an arrangement Austria and Russia are represented as being avowedly favourable. The Government of the Netherlands, hdwevcr, has refined its consent ; and the project may therefore, we presume, be considered. as at an end. Another scheme, which the Prussian Cabinet is said to have equally at heart, has for its object to establish a di rect communication between the ancient Provinces of Prussia on the Elbe and her new acquisitions on the Rhine, in Westphalia. Such an union is only to be effected by the acquisition of some intervening ter ritory, which belongs to the Elector of IlEsse and Duke of NASSAU ; but among many formidable obsta cles which are opposed to this project, not including the of the inhabitants of these coveted territories, which appears to be a matter altogether left out of view in this royal patchwork, we find it is observed, that England would not consent to the trany'erenee. The reason given is, that England would be thus exposed to the hazard of losing that free road which she en joys for her merchandize from Ilamburgh and Bre men by Hanover and Cassel, throughout all the North of Germany. The English merchandize would it•. the case of the transference of the territories in' question to Prussia, be subjected to the system and the Tariff of the Prussian Customs. In other words, Prussia, a great and jealous Power, might presume to impose restraints on English trade, which are not experienced and not to be feared from such petty States as Hesse Cassel and Nassau. The force of this reasoning is, we think, not to be disputed ; and we feel pleasure in thinking, be the cause what it may, that it is the interest of England to prevent any body of people from being transferred to the dominion of a Sovereign who persists in withholding from his own hereditary dominions that free representative consti tution, which, at a juncture of imminent peril, he solemnly stipulated to concede to them. A letter from Tunis, of the Ist of November, con tains the following passage :--" The plague having commenced its annual ravages, trade is paralyzed. From two to three hundred persons die daily, but as 1 1 yet htahometans are the only victims ; the Christians a,: well as the Jews, preserve them:elves by means of _ precautions, which the Alcoran prohibits Mussulmen from using. The plague does not appear this year to be of so malignant a nature as in preceding years; we are not, however, the less obliged to keep our selves shut up, the contagion being communicated, 1 .. wj01 per- not only by contact, but by ions affecied." ' Five per Cents. Tuesday, 691 r. The following is an eitract from the letter of oui private Correspondent received this morning: “ PARIS; DECEMBER t. Every effort to keep up the Funds is unavailing. What would the Gentlemen of the English Stock Exchangpsay if Mr. VANSITTART sent them an order not to , quote the Funds belaw a certain price, no matter at what rate the sales were made? Such, we understand, has been the conduct of the Count de Convarvo: but, on whom does he intendto impose by so silly a stratagem ?" The Upper Canada, at the MistyLAND, to pass a law to•prevent any of the House of Assembly of t recommendation of Governor of Delegates, has again aroused the spirit of the Re formists in that province, headed, at before, by Mr. i GotntLay, who does not appear to have been at all dismayed by his late trial. On the 24th October, a meeting of the inhabitants of the town and township of Kingston was held, when several resolutions were adopted, remonstrating against the passing of such an act, and expressing their disapprobation at the perso nal crimination of Mr. GOUMIAY by the House of As sembly, when he had been tried and acquitted of the charges brought against him, and a petition founded on these resolutions was drawn up and ordered to be presented to the Legislature of Upper Canada. The arrival of Lord SELKIRK in London, is very unexpected, as it was supposed his presence would have been required in Upper Canada at the trials of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies. It is said that his visit to this country is connected with them, and that he comes to explain to Oovernment the circumstances which have occasioned the disputes between the two Companies. Three houses of great respectability in the Mas. chester line, stopped payment yesterday. The total sum they have failed for is said be a very large one. We extract from one of the Barbadoes Papers of October 13. the follow ing particulars of the damages sustained, in some of the West-India Islands, by vio lent storms which prevailed towards the latter end of the preceding month :—By arrivals from Dominica and Martinique, we are informed (as, indeed, was naturally to be expected), that those Islands expe rienced the tempestuous weather with which we were recently visited. It had been more severely felt in the former of those Settlements—for, according to the statement of a Dominica paper, "provisions of every kind had been laid waste; plantains especially, in every quarter; and on many estates, the canes that were previously in a forward state, had been levelled with the earth : the coffee trees were also severely shaken." In consequence of this alarming state of the Colony, there being the prospect of a want of food for the inhabitants of every description, the House of Assembly had wisely applied to his Excellency Go vet nor MAXWELL, to open the ports of that island for the admission of supplies, in vessels of any country, for a limited period ; and, with the advice of his Privy Council, the Governor issued a Proclamation on the 30th ultimo, to that effect. _ _ Extract of a Letter from St. Pierre, Martinique, addressed to a Gentleman of this Tsland, dated 2d of October, 1518 We had bad weather here from the 21st to the 23d ult. without intermission ; the wind all the time from the same quarter as you state it, and at times very violent, though not at all equal' to what it was last year ; so that the country has not suffered very much, except in the loss of plantains and some provisions. The surf was very heavy— carried away a great deal of the lumber piled along the beach, and destroyed one half of the Promenade at the foot of the Hospital.street, with the whole row of trees next the sea. An American brig (the Mungo Park) was driven on shore, after riding it out all Monday and until Tuesday afternoon, and is bilged. No other vessels suffered, those here being all small ones and droghers, which put to sea and got into Fort Royal. At Fort Royal, one vessel (with a cargo of lumber) was lost ; but, as far as I can learn, no damage done to any in the Carenage." By a recent Act of the House of Assembly of Bar badoes, an endeavour has been made towards more effectually suppressing the practice of Obeah. Our readers are aware that by this name is designated a kind of necromantic power, which is mostly exercised by the negroes for the attainment of the worst pur poses. By the above Act, however, it is decreed.-- That any slave who shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlaw. fully pretend to any magical and supernatural charm or power; in order to prornotv the purpose of insurrection or rebellion of the slaves within this Island, or to injure and affect the life or health of any other slave ; or who wickedly and maliciously shall use or carry on the wicked and unlawful practice of Obeah, shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer death or transportation, as she Court shall think proper. Also, that if any slave wilfully and maliciously, in the prac tice of Obeah, or otherwise, s►all mix nr prepare, or have in his or her possession, any poison, or any noxious or destructive sub stance or thing, with an intent to administer to any person (who. ther the said person be white or black, or a person of colour), or wilfully and maliciously shall administer to, or cause to be ad. ministered to, such person, any poison, or any noxious or de structive substance or thing whatever, although death may not ensue, upon the testimony thereof, every such slave, together with his or her counsellors, alders and abetters (being slaves), knowing of and being privy to such evil intentions and offences, shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer death, transportation, or such other punishment as the Court shall think proper. The action, respecting the funeral expenses of the late Earl of PETLRBOROVUIT, which was entered for trial at the last Wiltshire Assizes, but which was re ferred to Mr. Moonz, the Barrister, to award whe ther the plaintiff was entitled to recover more than two thousand one hundred pounds,. has been termi nated by that Gentleman's awarding the plaintiff an additional four hundred and sixty-eight pounds; so that the whole cost of that magnificent funeral is at length settled at two thousand,fivc hundred and sissy. eight pound:. HER LATE LAMENTED MAJESTY. Her late MAJESTY'S character begins now to be fully appreciated by the Public. Those whtise opportunities of close observation have been the most frequent have ever spoken of the QUEEN as the most affectionate wife, the most careful mother, the most indulgent mistress ; they have watched with unceasing admira tion her long course of systematic piety, of disciplined industry, and of unostentatious enjoyment. We know of no other female who could have rendered herself more worthy of the Crown and the Monarch to whom she had the happiness of being united. Their tastes, their habits, their feelings, their pursuits, were in unison; and in the calm and dignified simplicity which distinguished the habits of the most exalted, as well as the wealthiest Sovereign of Europe, the people recognised a congeniality of principle and taste between their Monarch and his Consort, which assured them that their private happiness wanted no excitement of artificial luxury, and that their public example•would never offer any insult to the correct ness of English feelings. The vices of other Courts were not only banished from the Palace of GEORGE 111. but it was distinctly felt that an open violation of domestic duty was the great barrier to the Royal favour, cr even countenance. How determinedly and consistently a reverence for female virtue, and a contempt for female indiscretion, regulated the conduct of the QUEEN, is well known far beyond the mere observers of a Court. When, even amongst a dissipated nation, the alleged—the falsely alleged indiscretions of a Queen, were made an excuse for the most brutal outrages of a revolutionary mob, who can tell how much the same spirit was put down in this country by the marked and undeviating virtues of the wife of our Sovereign ? The strong sense, and strict feeling of duty, which were the leading characteristics of the QuEEN's mind, taught her that the Constitution of this country, and genius of the people, were opposed to any direct par ticipation in the affairs of Government by the Queen Consort. It cannot be doubted but that her MAJESTY felt the most decided interest in all great questions of national policy. But we consider it the greatest proof of the soundness of her judgment, that, unlike some of the prominent but mistaken Princesses of former times, she confined the results of her convictions to that influence which a sensible woman must exercise over the mind of her husband. The greater portion of her NlAJErry's wedded life was passed in sharing the duties, in partaking the simple and elegant amusements, or in watching over the impaired health of her Royal Consort at Windsor. The people of that town and neighbourhood had long-continued and frequent opportunities of forming a just estimate of her MAJESTY'S character. They have uniformly. seen her surrounded by an affec tionate family ; in her early life superintending their education with uniform industry ; and in her latter years partaking their pleasures with a ready cheer fulness. They have observed her uniting with the SOVEREIGN in those habitual acts of piety which constitute one of the first graces of his character; and they know that by a steady and unostentatious benevolence, her MAJESTY was uniformly evincing that she possessed the region of the heart. One of the charges which detraction urged most frequently against her, was, that she carried economy even to parsimony. How justly this charge was urged,- ap pears by the fact that she left no more than £3OOO. The day previous to that on which the remains of her late MAJESTY lay in state, at Kew Palace, was marked by a melancholy act of real unostentatious charity. It appears, that is soon as her Majesty had taken up her residence at Kew (unfortunately never again to quit it with life), she directed some of her female attendants to ascertain, as privately as posiblc, which were the most industrious and deserving fami lies among the poor of that parish, their characters, earnings, and the number of their children. This having been done, a large quantity of female, and children's clothing, was prepared, under the personal direction of herself and her illustrious daughters, and made up into separate parcels, with the name of each of the families they were intended for written on the Outside. These were intended br her MAJESTY to have been distributed, with other gifts, on the occa sion which she fondly hoped would soon arrive—the day ofher removal to Windsor Castle. This hope, so long and ardently cherished by the Royal sufferer, it was fated should never be mallard ; and the Prin cesses, in order to fulfil as far as possible, the inten tions of their lamented parent, ordered the distribu tion to take place Leforc the removal of her remains, and, accordingl: - , they were sent to. the families they were intended for, on Monday last. CANTERBURY, DECEMBER 4. The day on which the remains of our respected QUEEN were to be returned to their parent earth was observed here by a large portion of the inhabitants, who, by a spontaneous unity of sentiment, abstained from all external signs of business, by, closing their shops, and many eveu their private dwellings ; and this feeling, there is no doubt, would have been general, ,had the intention been previously known, and an im pulse given to it by the Chief Magistrate, but whose reply, when questioned as to the observance of the day, we regret to record, was, that he had heard nothing upon the subject from the Secretary of State!" There was, nevertheless, sufficient evidence of the general loyalty of our ancient City ; and the tollim; of the great hell of the Cathedral from eleven till twelve at noon, and from eight till nine in the even ing, contributed in no small degree to the impression of the moment. At Rochester, Chatham, and the adjacent towns, the shops were all closed, and business seemed to be every where suspended. The workmen in Chatham Dock-yard were not employed, by express orders from the Navy Board. Divine Service was perform ed in the Chapel, and a very appropriate Sermon preached by the Rev. G. Davies. Minute guns were fired from half-past one till four in the afternoon, from the bomb proof battery on the lines, and from the LIFFEY and BULWARK men of war, in Gillingham Reach, which were answered Sy the BULWARK guard ship, and guns of the garrison at Sheerness. At Margate, by request of the Deputy, FRANCIS Cosa, Esq. the shops wore closed, and all business suspended. The great bell at the chinch ushered in the morning with the funeral knell, and tolled as a minute bell - throughout the greater part of the day : the flags at the different stations were hoisted half -0,0 star high. The Church, and other places of ship, were hung with black. In the afternoon ar propriate sermon was preached at Zion Chaise:, the Rev. Mr. Youso. At seven o'clock in N e ing the venerable Gothic Church of St. John's lighted up in a splendid manner, and a most pectable congregation, of upwards of three tF persons, attended Divine Service. The service then concluded by the Fooßn, playing in his superior style The bead in Said. The solemnity finished at a late b ass evening, with a dumb peal on the fine ring at St. John's, muffled. At Folkstone, the shops were closed, a;, the request issued by the Mayor. In the m, there were prayers in the Parish church, and 1; in the evening prayers and a set neon, prcachid Rev. I'. Nancy. The church overflowed in all At Ashford, on the first intelligence of the of her late MAJESTY, the inhabitants generally peared in mourning, and the pulpit of the Cl• was hung with black cloth. On the evening , interment a minute bell was rung out fur hours ; and the several Dissenting places of " were opened, at which affecting and appropriate courses were delivered to congregations both - rous and respectable. In the little and loyal town of Wye, the inha, also evinced their attachment to the throne, by pealing in deep mourning, as soon as intriligent the QUEENS death was received, and by the pulpit railing of the altar being covered with black On ensuing Sunday. OXFORD, DECEMBER 4. Wednesday, the day of the funeral of her late . JESTY, was observed in this ('sty with decorous lemnity. All the shops were closed, and tolled from twelve to one at noon, and in ing from eight to nine. At the Chapel of Sew• lege the same solemn ceremony was observed as the day of the funeral of the lamented princess Cr Lorre, and appropriate P alms, Lessoas, and thems, were introduced, Yesterday, at half-past three o'clock, his Highness the PRINCI: Rect. sr held a Court at ton House, at which his Excellency Baron Kt( the Ambassador from the Court of the Nett, was introduced to the REGENT by the Earl B.trual I lis Excellency delivered a Letter of Condolence the demise of the late QUEEN from the KING of NETHERLANDS. Lord G HENRI UR came to Court, attended h‘ of the Esquire Bedells, as Ch. nci ir of the Tn . sity of Oxford, in his robes, being deputed by University to attend his Ho} al Highness upon melancholy occasion of the demise of his Royal ther. His Lordship was introduced into the - of the REGENT, when he delivered an Address Condolence upon the demise of her MAJLSTT di QUEEN. • The VICE-Cur.NCELLOR of the University, bridge, in the absence of his Royal Highness Duke of GLOUCESTER, the Ghancellor of that U versity, attended for a similar purpose. He was it duced into the presence of the IlEsirsr by the BATHURST, and delivered an Address of Cone ,'upon the demise of her MAJESTY the Quecx. Lord JAUES MURRAY was tile•LOrti in Waitir, Sir 1111.0/10YR TURNER WU the Groom in Waitil for Sir EDWARD PAURT. The Duchess of GLOUrEcrrR and the Pr;, .i.svousr.t have removed from Cambridge 11( Kew Green, to Frogmore. The. Duke and Duchess of NEU C %nu left tt yesterday evening for their seat, (lumber Park, N, The Duchess of RICHMOND returned to town terday, from a visit to the Fall And Countess roues?, at their seat, Lime Grove, Putney. The Marquis of TAvisroca has left town, fcr seat, Oakley-house, Bedfordshre. The Marquis of BUOKINGIIANI left Lord Cil VILLE'S seat Dropmore, yesterday, for his scat As.; ton, Hants. The . Earl and Countess of MACCLESFIELD on Thursday at their residence in Conduit -street, their seat Sherbooe Castle, Oxfordshire. The Earl and Countess of JERSFY are ex, horr.e in the beginning of next seek from Paris. Mr. WEST, the President of the Royal has presented the parish of St. Mary-la-bonne with fine Picture of The Holy Family, which is to be' up as an Altar-piece in the New Church. We regret to learn, by letters received from Cape of Good Hope, dated October 3, that Mr. Br RI HARD, an enterprising traveller, who had prosecuted , his inquiries in the interior of Africa, under the name of Sheik-lbraliim, died at Cairo, of dysentery. IRISH LAW APromrsterrs.--Monday Mr. Ser jeant JEWS was appointed a Judge in the Court cf . King's Bench, and took the oaths before the LORD CIIANCELLOR, MT. Justice DAY having previously surrendered his patent. Mr. LEFOREY is appointed the new King's Serjeant. Ax IRISH DEFENCE.—At the Commission Court in Dublin, lately, a peer-El . -day-buy of the nameut , 'Maly Keirnan, was tried and found guilty of stet. ing two cows.—ln his defence Thady protested his innocence, and with a most rueful countenance lemnly denied the charge of having carrh d ,)11' the COWS —" for," said he, " one of them was a bu l l, and the other cote followed hilt !" HANOVVR, NOVEMBER '20..--Throllghollt all Cer• many it is universally allowed that of all burdens that of quartering soldiers is the severest, as it inter feres in so ruinous a manner with the domestic rela tions of the inhabitants both of town and country. In Hanover, although we are in the most profound peace, we still contione to support this burden, and those who have not accommodations in their own houses for the soldiers, must, in many places, pay 25 high as from 96 to 40 rix-dollars a year to have thew quartered elsewhere. To this must be added the taxes, which are cli;efly expended in maintaiaing the soldiery, and which are nearly six times as high as they were in 1804, and the parochial burdens; so that in the new provinces, more especially, many a farm which does not pay 400 rix-dollars of rent must pay above 100 rix-dollars to the State. We entertaia the hope that our mild Government will, by a mine tion of the military, relieve us from this pressure as soon as possible. Places of e Lelllooll ar Oil Chap e l , k in zbe tv St. J o h n % L'Y d a m ost Iree thou . I n 117. organis t , N L . , • le 1 Jfild e hour cif t,'• • ! I ing of be: 2 3"ezbk c m the v morn: a, and at noshed by •,], 'ci in au i r ! of the ' generally if the Ch urc h 2venin g o f 7 47 I,ut for th : es of W. .• er mronriate bit a both IT heinhabitar.•3 '`) how, by a•• Tv irrteliigence tLe pulpit a r e black on the re at• f her late decorous and the bell d in the ever. tt 1 of New U 0 a bserved as 'rincess ;;7 ,Ons, and ck, his Roy Court at Carl Baron F. e Netherland srl BArsicasr t° :ondolence o. KING of . tended by if the Tn . iyer eputed by tl less upon t. his Royal M. :o the presen an Address lAJLSTY th ersity of Ca I Highness ti of that U He was in • T hr the of Cond. -. • 4L'ELX. d in Wahin, im in Waitin I the princes bridge llutve STLE left tow e.r. Park, ;1:3..t I to town ve Countess BA urns-. t town, fcr h . Lord (ism tis seat .wing FIELD arrive• tit -street, fro • e. are expecte im Paris. dal Academy -bonne with is to be•plac • h. ived from t