Star. — London, England, 1818-11-10 00:00:00

) r r . • 4 a • I i 1 ' N. 0 I s l k l 1 c % 6 . 1 P. , 4• 1 1 1 I. 01 .J.) si v ; i k i . , A. to the custom of CHARACTER OF AI PACHA: thing, nothing -""""-• MUM! althea 'We foal assured we shall be deity en otespeable service to ear m il es t h row & ,d • R ea d er ., by w ee d % from a very intereador and vahable Work, which has jest bees published by M. VAIMISIICOMIT " "" 9. 1 """ y under die dtle of " the Amin blonds,' ranee- rarmY ties tme *the most extraordinary am of his age, whose bina fi n d cnnefor k feats end elevation have already furnished subject to Bong and en t ier i ences t h e en , ilme bat wham real life, character, sad meat :,12; wnt activity from were never Woes known from as a ep-ves him, and " The , bads of the character of Ali Pacha is false. ttemely strict, that . hood and ambition: His. dissimulation is impose. , seemly appear credible. Hisconsfant cuiiont is to arable to one who knows him not by his actions, or ordain what is impossible, in order to obtain all thaO who does not judge_him in conformity . to the only human nature is capable of performing. As it ip basis of hie• interest and ambition. It is not only well known that he never pardons a. non-compliance blended in his words and protestations, but is also to with his orders, and that he never admits of an ex be founstin his demeanour and habits. He is an ex. cube, dread males his servants perform miracles, %remelt handsome man, and possessed of a physior • His ordinary menace when he issues these superna• mousy which he knows 1:cow to render engaging when tural orders l e et my ovdet be eteented,•or may he conceives it nooessarT, but which is isivertheless the black serpent devour thine eyes !" An oath of habitually lo f t atm/ Eitremely attentive die Sultan, by the beard of Mahornet, would in his beklavirjur,lis address .and manners are -elegant. He is choice in his dress,. and his prrnents are even aninptutius. He affects a dazstlineluxury in the or naments and furniture of his palaces, and an Asia tic softness in his habits. Reis continually occupied about buildings, furniture, and decorations ; yet all -this is. only afeetation ;. and the occupation which he thereby •gIVIII to those who surround him withdraws' them from 'a serious abentioti to his actions and designs. : . • " His address is prepoisessmg, and even endear ing : his.connonance wears the impression of frank! news and .honesty, and particularly of a profnuoil wheedler, who .cenad not be suspected if his Amu . had not something of a stuttied sameness.. Indeed 41 his countenance the expression of any one of the pas skins which agitate him within is never io be read ; kalousa, fear, hatred, and vengeance, arc there con- founded under .she form' of a cloadless satisfaction, and cinder thesoftexpression of an irreproachable con science: • oderate, and even obliging in his expres sious 6:levet - pus in the manlier olrepresenting ob.! je to ; clear and methodical ih the classification of I.:s ideas ; gifted by nature with a sure logic and per. sasive eloquence, ;a which he knows-how to e his sopliii.ms ; it is difficult not to be convinced or borne away by him when he enttfrs into a conver s .tines f err the ). urpose of furthering some object or To resist him, it is necessary to be possessed cf a perfect knowledge of his character, and always to hold the e kture before one's eyis ; and still his Ll:ssimulatian is so disguised and profound, that one almost feels a reproach for being on one's guard, mod acting with a salutary distrust. " This dissimnlation, uniform, and so constantly r.;,tained, and which has been of such great assistance is all his political operations, carr nevertheless he up. held only with the greate.t precaution, and by an unceasing attention to hide the springs he employs in order to arrive at the accomplishment of his designs. nese precautions, which.loe kas never laid aside, furnish however a fresh proof of the egotism and cruelty of his character. When 'he has been unable to succeed by the ordinary means, which are to excite dissentions, to render discords implarable, to cause crimes to he committed by those vcr y persons he has singled out for his victim; ; in a word, to excite all the passions vs Lich can give rise to disorders, in order to avail himself of,them either as a mediator or aven ger, he then resolves to proceed towards his object by the most direct road. The violence of his passions, and his impatience to enjoy, do not allow him to wait when he believes he is possessed of the means of striking hi; blow. It is in his character never to de lay to the next day what at the present moment he thinks he can effect, unless unsurmountable obstacles compel him to display as much patience as he natu rally evinces impetuosity. 11'hen, therefore, he is ander the necessity of employing an agent for one of those operations which he neither can nor wishes to avow, the care of exteriorly keeping up appearances dictates to him the barbarous precaution of. after wards ridding hirMelf of his instrument. Thus does a bloody and impenetrable 'veil cover to the eyes of the generality of his subjects the plots and crimes of their master. • " At the side of these capital vices in the charac ter of Ali Pacha are found some of the qualities which constitute great sovereigns. A profound knowledge of the human heart, which makes his choice good of those who are to be employed near him, enables him correctly to decypher their respec tive talents, and to assign to them the offices most suited to their abilities. In affairs he possesses a per spicacity which exhibits to him their tendency-even at first sight, and prevents him from being deceived in the means he ought to employ to cause them to redound to his advantage. Ile knows how to wait for or produce opportunities favourable to his poli tical views, and he improves them with astonishing rapidity. He is courageous. and his valour, by which he distinguished himself in the first years of his political career, is far fi um being extinguished. He possesses that calm courage which knowi how to measure danger, and discover the means of escaping or resisting it in a deliberate manner. This courage has served to sustain himself with so much tranquil lity, as well as to ward off the dangers by winch another would have been overcome. In order to be secure in the midst of ins subjects, all of whom fear, and nearly all hate him, he takes no visible precau tions of defence ; since by a feigned security he has made to himself one that is real. He generally goes out accompanied by only one or two page:, one of his confidants, and a couple of soldiers ; and such is the dread inspired by his personal courage, and the 1 permasion that a conspiracy could never succeed, that very few attempts have been made against his life. A fortunate chance has uniformly saved him, and even this same chance has contributed to his flame security. o Ali Pacha has a divan composed of the princi pal officers of his house, and of persons whom he chooses among those he believes the most likely to be useful to him. This council is, however, only or ganized for the sake of form, and not one of its members dares to express an opinion contrary to his. He therein proposes subjects for deliberation, dis cusses them, receives the approbation of the persons rsssistritg, and then decides. He is himself his own minister in all the branches of administration, and his s,eretaries write s down the orders dictated by him, which lie addresses to his various subordinate offi cers. Ills prodigious memory enables him to enter the mast minute details; and though, according produce the dread inspired by this terrible saying._ It has always been the precursor of a death warrant. (To be,coadaus3l.) THE EVENING STAR. expense francs (1 ,We have received Halifax Papers to the 23d Oc.: tober this morning, from which the following are extracts : ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA, SEPTSMBER 92. . From an early hour last evening it has been blow ing a pretty smart gale : the wind, though changing frequently, has been mostly N.N.W. and we 'have had less rain than is usual on these occasions. Up to the time of going to preis (three P. NT.) it continued to blow very hard, and with increased violence. Two brigs, and a few small sloops and schooners, have been forced on short:, and those that remain at their anchorage appear to be labouring much. Th e injury Sustained in town has been, we believe, trif!ing, and ste are without any accounts from the intetior of the Island. Sxrr. 29.—The gale which we noticed last Tues . - day, cMitinued to blow with much violence all that night; and although it abated in the course of tlic next morning, it was not until a late hour io the day it had completely subsided. The following ves sel, were driven on shore: At Mr. Casamajor's wharf, sloop Mackay, of this port, laden with corn meal and cm"; schooner S.pLu, of London, from Halifax, ladm with 6th and corn. At ?;r. Niackay's wharf, sloop 11'sttlinv King, of this port, ballast. Within a short e....tance of Ur. Nihb's wharf, leig St. Ccarge, of and frorn Liverpool, partly lad, o with sugar. On the south-east side of this harbour, brigs W..terloo and Ne!ton, of New L:runswick, with rain ; schooners Neptune, of Tortola, with fish; Two Brothers, of this port, part with in n ard eatgo; Matchless, Providence, Zephyr, Notsuch, trader, ar..l i'LS4':fl: ditto, In hillast ; Srutish slurp alarii, %lib corn; shut , l'e-,perance, and Mary, la ballast, seized by the castogn -1 icy r,-; Lucy-Ann, of St, Litt's, in ballast ; Maria, of tbh pqrt, dry goods; Dragon, Thetis, and L7nigh, ditto, is ballast. nat Island, irr:g Francis, of this rirt, in ballast.; In; Cove, schooner Thistle, of this port, La11 . t.4. in Cade% llur, 1:.op Susan, 'of tills port, ballast. Tl•c following rode. out the gale t - - Brirl, Pope Jack, of•Lcm on ; Thomas of Berrr.r and C ,-;sey, and Cvm ce, '6( this port. Scho.7rers, Neptune, of Bvern•Ada ; and r g 1., and Viper, of port. Sloops, Try-Prances, of Bcrmuds ; Martha Byam, L': cam, Earl Ba thurst, Emma, and Express, of this port. ..larna:ca Papers to the Gdi October arrived this morning. tHZ.JAM ANT, or By thy Eon Lia, we learn that the schooner El Car men, which sailed from this post for Santa Martha under convoy of the Sybille frigate, had boen seized at a port ahaut tw.:lve miles to leeward of her desti nation, for landing rum, and sent to Santa Martha, where she was condemned, and the Captain ordered :o be shot. ' Several Independent cruizers appear continually oil' Santa Martha. Previously to the sailing of the Florida, one of them captured a Spanish brigantine, from Carthagena to Santa Martha, and after taking out whatever was valuable, destroyed her and sent the arew on shore. We learn that an Independent p:lvateer, about the 12th ult. made pr:7e of tw•o Spanish cLhooneEs from Rio de la Hach, bound to Carthagena, and that they were ordered to Old Providence, The Esk and Primrose, men of war, on quitting Port Royal yesterday morning, respectively saluted the Admiral's flag. The compliment was returned by the Lame pest sloop, of 20 gur.s, winch took the flag on its being struck from the Esk. A-Dutch Mail arrived this morning, from which we shall subjoin some extracts. One of the Journals contains a letter from a Mr. DUPLANTIER, styling himself a late Captain in the Young [lmperial] Guard, witten from Dusseldorf, giving some particulars respecting the French Colony at Texas, lately reported to have intended to invade Mexico. The writer says:— , -" I have lately arrived from Texas, whither I in tend to return as soon as I shall have executed the commission with which General Laliemand has charged me. With great surprise I read in an Ant werp Journal a letter, said to be from an Officer in the Camp d'Asyle, in which it is asserted that the Colonists are preparing to undertake an Expedition' against Mexico, under the command of Generals Lallemand and Rigaud. This is entirely devoid of truth. The Colonists of Texas are WOO in number, among whom there are .500 able to beat arms ; that is to say, almost as many as are necessary to defend the Colony against the attacks of the Savages or the Spaniards. The Colony has no designs against Mexico. General Laliemand is exclusively employed in the organization of the rising Colony, and has issued usi proclamation which can alarm his neigh boars; and the unhappy fugitives who have united their fate with his, do but till the unoccupied land on which they have settled. As for the riches'of tliis land, they ate still buried in the earth ; they will doubtless be brought to light, thank: to the courage aad the perseverance of the Colonists, whose only of the Turks, he keips record of no- by our political relations, by our interior situation, nevertheless escapee, ••••antr and try-the well-known state of our finances. At Rorn esdipance has been issued convoking the 34h:111111.eaCthteOril"s seders di r sy Y stenl l°Yen in: ogombers'of Peers and of Deputies to meet on the im in his schnipistration t which very 6 His ladefat4abia aitivity makes 906 insueit. he 'eery thing, and no affair whatever Four armed ships have been constructed at Bay- e smallest delay. He requires this onne on account of the Merchants of Cadiz, for-the from every one who serrodnds and of protecting the commerce of that City 1 in this particular he is even so ex- purpose that he carries through things which against the audacity of the Insurgent Corsairs. The • credible. His constant custont is to expense of their construction is estimated at 1,200,000 impossible, in order to obtain all that francs (£50,000.) LONDON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1818. TFIK FUND& PUCE Or. STOCKS TH43 DA T AT rsvet.vr otr.o7E 3'Per Cent. IteJuced 76H-3 per Ct. Cons. Coos. for A cc. 77+—Si per Ct. 86-4 ?er Ct. 93 95 5 per Zt. Navy 108 108; 4 —India Bonds 87 88 pre. ' Omnium l; dis._Exchequer Bills 19 21 pre. Little farther has been suffered to transpire le• spectirg the substance of the dispatches, which have occasioned so much speculation, brought by the MOSQUrro sloop of war, from St. Helena. The whole amount of the intelligence is now confdently said to he, that Sir Iluosox Lowc has intercepted a corre spondence which proved the existence of a commu nioation between that Island and Europe, wihich . had for its object the liberation of Box kPARTE, and that some merchants of St. Helena. from a desire of free ing the Island from the state of restraint to which it is subjected by the presence of BONAPARTC, are deeply implicated in the scheme. Connected with the plan of escape, it is stated as a fact, that in the beginning of September a vessel was seen,on the wind ward side of St. Helena, which acted so suspiciously, that she was chaced, but in vain. Several times since the same vessel has been observed and pursued, 'but her sailing is sn excellent, that the lightest of the British cruizers have not been able to approach her. The attempt-to rftscne BoNAParat: or effect his ;scare, is made a capital offence byte .56th of the King, chap. :'. Immediately after the Cabinet Canrull broke up on Saaday, a Messenger was sent off with dispatches to Lord C:ssr;iittAort at Aix-la-Chapelle. The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night, and those of Saturday have also reached us this morning• The Fund, 'are beginning to recorer from their late depression. On Thursday they closed at 70 fr. 15 c. and on. Friday reached 70 fr. 75 c. but fell to the closing price of the preceding day. The follow ing article in the Monilmr of Friday may be consi dered a a sort of official explanation of this te• vulsion. EXCHANGE OF PARIS, O❑ the approach of the last liquidation, it was re marked that the operations of many speculators ex ceeded their means ; the Exchange became embar rassed ; payments were made with difficulty; and the result was a considerable fall in the Funds. Provisionary measures have been tsiken to arrest the evil; and definitive measures, which will be at tended with the happiest success, have been con certed to prevent its return in future. The Bank of France has discounted at sixty days daring the whole period of the liquidation. The Compares of Ex change Agents has behaved on the occasion in the most honourable manner ; and abundant resources I have been furnished or secured. A spontaneous meeting of the principal Merchants, Bankers, and Capitalists of Paris, has come under an engagement to purchase, if necessary, many millttns of rentes. A subscription was opene d for this purpose, a n d fill e d immediately. The subscribers to the late loans have afforded their zealous co-operation. From a most thorough examination of the situation of the country, they /litre formed the fullest conviction that the rentes could not rest on more solid bases, and that it is the ignorant and ill-judged exaggeration alone of me mentarywants, which has produced an incidental influx of Stock into the market. The real state of things being once known, confidence has been every where restored. The payments of the liquidation are made without difficulty; the next liquidation pro mises to be made with equal facility ; and the funds arc again on the rise. It has not even been necessary, in order to effect this happy result, to make use of the resources which the meeting of Merchants, Capitalists, and Bankers, of which we have just spoken, has offered. This association, however, is still kept up. It responds, by its confidence, to the views and the solicitude of Government, in a manner worthy of praise, and adds still farther to the mass of its guarantees. All in terests are united. All have but one sentiment and one object—the good of the State ; the support of a credit so happily established and 4o strongly secured thrideftd:ere—nce:b ebtourage aosni m dti e v n e l t y Badeni n as seatheirrnee asserted e dj t t e hat u !pat of A x future La. P C r°s fir i a: r ßiLtyL!, —ones i s t to "'Po. I • 2 7aad t3.913 t:a e‘a' r e ' 1 1 1 i i : I s Ivt bee arisia n p dispatched from this city to Ca:i t s ru h a c e . • news that the Baden territory will not be i t a l ., Co upo n n gr , :sdwthilalt be e as c or lo vi se a dwoilnl btehiendieotrnhn:fiaenddi ganot:t...t manner.--It is now said that th Sovereigns will depart ber.veen the 15th and eo s h . . - e pro: co l During the visit of the King of Prussia to o nit s : discussions will be set on foot respecti ng t l le mum er vial relations of the f ront i er provinces. Thy; A m . of the owner of ‘tiestphalian domains has agai n p, seated a very e nerget i c memorial to the C on * PRIVATE LETTERS. Ids " AIX -L A-CIsAPELLt, XOl% • A couriet -arrived here on Monday from p with dispatches from the Frenca Govern Duke of Richelieu, th e contents o f which so 7,, Important, as connec t ed w i t h the *due co: l 4 ‘ ppit ' The French Minister immediately laid t: . e. b a " 0 ; the Ministers of the other Allied Prover s• r ho tained an application frora the French ousolots e he ~p at ray a ti t cr ie tf o rstc h, e.::cnd:c i iagrao l ci the part of th e Contractors, for a tatitam,s,:,;cr ou r ue r . i xe r ti v. . T e 7 102 en o t c f . , ni senwd a membrial to the Fiet.cit h they uo:aa he t bt i te i en u g a e , o whereed inconveniences t f c u h i I biwrned, and requesting its interposi:ma g r w t C 7 7.. gress to get the term prolonged. A cuat . :.eige wa s held on Tuesday, in Which the meni al ;.,l bankers, and the appliation of the Fi•eacli were taken into coroideretion, and the bered Yc with that liberality which ha, characterized aa deliberations and decisions oo this irai coat.: unanimously agreed tO the pr:longetion 14,4 The payrr.ents will therefore be made by tuQ: t : e ; ;;.1 monthly instalments ; so that t h e w i no e coaract sit be fuldlled by the 6th of January, 1?2 ;, f.mad ef September, 1819. A courier was, I hate Lead d"... patched yesterday to Paris, requiting the au saosse of Mr. Barit at Conpess. There will be, ot score, an additional Couvention, like a coairit to a s.:11, embodying this modification of the former. • " At a late conference the Allied :.liailers tsck into considesgion t he delAFs interposed by the G. venunent of Sweden in fulfilling the stipulations of the Treaty of Kiel, by %% inch Norway was detached from the Crown of Denmark, and added to that cf the fernier Power. The 6th article of that Treat?, which beats date the 14th of - January, Ibl E, r.ipti. laws, .that the King of Sweden shall charge hifeolf with a portion of the de of of the Danish Monarchy, Proportioned to the popt.lation and revenues of Soo way, the ceded kingdom whether that debt con. sided of what was contracted in foreign cuan.ries Cr at home, in royal obligations, bar.k, and other paper; • and fliateommissionctrs reould be appointed to deter mine this proportion.. This is the article which has not .yet been fulfilled; and the Allied Ministers, vs guarantees of the Treaty, have decided that it be fulfilled forthwith. • "As connected with the Congrmi. may mention, that the Grand Duke of Baden is said to be dangerously ill at his chatean,•Dela Favorite, near Cat lsruhe. His sister, the Queen of lisraris, is gone to see him, perhaps for the lad time. The Government of Baden and the family of Hodilong, are paying court to the inhabitants of the Orval Duchy with all their might, to acquire popularity as a guarantee of their succession. The Counts Hoch berg, who are great landed proprietors, have abo- lished some feudal 'rights, declaring that they an contrary to the spirit of the age. " There is a report here that Russia had ofirei to treat with Great Britain for the cession of the lonia Isles, and met with a direct refusal to enter into ary negotiation on the subject. I have not been able to learn on what authority this report is founded. " The King of Prussia arrives here fran Paris to night, after an absence of sixteen days from Con gress. The Grand Make Constantine is liks wise to petted. He goes afterwards to Brussels, a,or done directly to Warsaw. " I have just now heard that Lord Castlereagh i as re-engaged his hoose till the Pith of Loceniber. Jt will be recollected that all the hotels were at first y taken for two months. " Mr. Baring will be here on Saturday or &Inds'. M. La Bouchere remains to transact the business ut the arrangement at Paris doting his absence. " NOVEMBER c.—Sae P.M. " In the account which I yesterday transmuted ,you of the application to Congress for a prolonga tion of the term for paying the coetributiono merely stated the fact and the result, without enter ing into those explanations with which it ought to have been accompanied, or into a detail of the cir cumstances which were necessary to give a full sad impartial view of tl:e transaction. You will see by the Paris Papers, which you have no doubt received to a late date, that the French funds have been fail ing since the conclusion of the late Convention, and that the discount on the new Stock has been rising. There was a consequent stagnation of business, mat considerable embarrassment in the money market. t"lhis change forcibly struck the Finance Minister of France and the French Government in general. — Its cause they could not fail to attribute to the cen clitior.s of the late convention. They therefore ap plied to Mr. Baring for. his opinion on the subject. and the steps that ought to be taken in consequence The Finance Minister represented to this eminent Banker at the same time, that, in his opinion, he hal agreed OA too short a term fur the payment of the contributions ; and that the transference of so lace a sum from the Mercantile circulation to the treast7s of the different Governments, in so limited a ptri:Jd as had been agreed upon, might produce very tn;to riot's consequences on the finances of France and the commercial interests of Europe in general. French Ministry, therefore, proposed to Mr. Baring, if he would ogles: to prolong the term of paymen't, to apply to Congress to relieve him from the part of his engagement which stipulated for the final die charge of the contributions in nine months, and to requeo a prolongation of the period fora fese tZtOrlll , 141