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consequence of these proceedings, the opinion is entep. rained by the English houses, that it is the President's intention to annihilate wholly their commerc e with the Wand. This opinion will not, we trust, be justified by the event. The shipping interest mush_ however,' sustain-injury; for Britis e h o lgoodr, if - importicTiit must be imported in Fr vessels, which will give them a monopoly of the carrying tradtwith - the The terms of the treaty with France, it is said, were severer censured, and thought extremely injurious to zhsidand;—a very natural reflection, but which does' sat appear to have occurred to the inhabitants while dazzled by the splendid and imposing manner with yibich this treaty of independence was carried into effect. VIOLENT GALES IN THE WEST INDIES. NEW YORK, AUGUST G. The French ship L'Eclair, arrived yesterday from itlattiniciue, which place she left on the 30th July, com municates the following : A hurricane occurred at St. Pierre's on the 26th of that month, and continued from seven till nine o'clock in the morning. The most severe part of the gale was at about nine o'clock, from the southerly dii ection. No French ships were lost. Three American vessels, two brigs, and one schooner, were driven ashore, and went to pieces. The plantations there did not suffer much. At Guaslaloupe the gale was most violent at a quarter past ten. All the buildings belonging to Go vet nment Mere destroyed. At Bassaterre nearly two hundred prisons were killed. In that quarter the plan tations stifler ed much. At Point Petre several Ame rican vessels and French coasters were ashore. The latter sustained more or less damage. The plantations there received some injury. AU the vessels anchored at 'Lascaux (Dominique) were lost. Some vessels, also, were lost at Barbadoes, St. Lucia, and Antigua. All the islands to windward ate supposed to have been more or less affected by the hurricane. • VIRGINIA, AUGUST it. Captain Bush, of the schooner James Monroe, in the remarkably short passage of nine days from Antigua, arrived at this port on - Wednesday evening. Captain B. states that the mail boat, which arrived at Antigua on the 30th July from the southward, brought accounts of a very heavy hurricane, which commenced on the 25 - h, and had extended its savages from Guadaloupe to Barbadoes, in the direction of which the damage done to the shipping was truly, distressing—one town in Guadaloupe was undersood to have been entirely blown down. Beyond those points named no injury had been received. One English vessel, and three or four Ameri can ones had been driven athnre in Dominica. Antigua escaped. The weather was threatening, and the inhabi tants commenced making preparations, expecting some thing serious, but nothing occurred further than the up setting of one or two open boats—their crews, however, (blacks) were drowned. SURRENDER OF THE SPANISH SHIP ASIA, TO MEXICO. -.r.-- Some time ago we published the Articles of Capita. Winn entered into between the Acting Commander of the Asia and the Governor of Monterrey, in Upper Cali fornia, by which the Asia and the brig Constante were voluntarily surrendered to the controul of the Mexican ' , Government. On the at tivAl of the two vessels in the Bay of Acapulco, the Commander of the Asia commu nicated the following account of the wants that induced their surrender, which we translate from No. 3, of the documents forwarded to the Mexican Government : Several vessels belonging to the Spanish Navy— namely, the ship Asia, the brigs Aguila and Constante, and transport corvette Garinton, having sailed from the coast of Peru in January last for Manilla, Chiloe, and the Peninsula, on account of the loss of the Royal' Army and the capitulation ratified by Don Jose Can. terac, Lieutenant-General of the Royal Army, and the General of the division of the Republican Army, An tonio Sucre, on the 2d of December, 1824, arrived at the Island of Guajan, and cast anchor at Umata—this we effected, to take in water, to refresh the crews, Etc. and to prepare to continue the voyage as it was pro posed by the abovenamed division, and the Commander of the Asia. But when . we were ready to get under way, the crew of the Asia, then under the command of Don Roque Guruce:a, would not obey the last orders, saying, that as they bad not been paid their arrears, they could not supply the necessary and indispensable at titles they required. At this time a popular commotion arose, and al though the crew of the Asia were not absolutely deter mined to disobey the orders, they :hewed a great dislike to raise the anchor on the 10th of March, when the. soldiers belonging to the marine corps and artillery, stationed in the capstan, under the command cl the oldest midshipman in rank, Don Francisco Armiroy Pe naranda, began to beat the crew with their• sabres. But as the minds of the crew were entirely predisposed, they immediatel) ro e against their chiefs and seized them all, particularly the commander,•Don Roque Guruceta. They immediately determined to send to the brig Constante, then under my command, a boat fully manned, that I might be conducted to the ship and be informed of what had occurred on board. At this unexpected event I thought it proper and cor.ven;ent i to go; and on the 11th they debarked from the ship all the officers, and conducted them, together with their equipage, to the shore. On this occasion there was, as it artist be expected, some disorders, which are irre mediable in such cases, but, as I afterwards learned, the number of those who had suffered was inconsider able. The circumstance of putting the principal Officers on :hose, without offending their persons, being concluded, the crew went to the corvette Garinton. Petceiving, however, that the bid condition of the vessel would retard their views, they took off the sails, which were very much worn, some of the spars, and burned the hull,as a proof of the bad treatment they bad received from the Spanish nation since their departure fir the Pacific. On the same night, the brig Aguila, of twenty-two guns, separated from the Asia, and sta tioned herself off the port, and in the evening of the next day sailed, taking an opposite direction. On the following day, the 12th, 1 convoked all the Officers and crew on board, and after having requested them to ex plain tl.eir views respecting the course to be taken, they answered, that I should conduct them to one .of the Independent States which formerly belonged to Spain. After having convinced them of the advantages that. would result horn directing our course to Monterrey, to take in some provisions, aosi that the crew might te• .fresb and then deliver themselves to the laws of the. .United Mexican Sates, protected by a federative Con st;tution, they unanimously agreed to this proposition. During all the latter voyage, I observed no great dis- ' THE EVENING STAR LONDON. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1825. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols erased at 884 for the Account, with little doing, and up to this time they are 881 /. Current Prices: New Spanish 17 4, Old Spanish 221, Rus sian 931 1, Mexican 731, Colombian New 771, Mexican Scrip 81 4, Greek Scrip 171. • PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock Shut.- per Cent. Red. Shut.• S per Cent. Cons. 88 1 % Si per Cent. Shot. 4 per Cent. New losyt % Long Ann. Shot. India Bonds 16 £l,OOO Excheq. Bills S 2 4 . £5OO ditto 4 MOO and £2OO ditto 6 4 A dvertised S 1 Cons. for Acct. 88% 89 88 78 • FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Austrian Bds S p Ct. 974 blex.Scrip, 1825, 84 dis. Brazilian Bonds, Ditto Aect. 81 1 4 4 dis. Ditto Acct. Neapolitan Bonds, 1824 88 Ditto Scrip, SpCt. 182 S, :Ditto Ponds S p C. 8 $ Ditto Aect. 8 dis. Peruv. Bonds, 6 per Cc 674 881 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Acct. r. r i tto Acct. DittoScrip,l us,* pc. 104 db. • Chihan Bonds,6 p Ct. Postuguise Bonds- • Colombian Bds, G p C Prussian 80nd5,11144, 5 p Ct. 1001 Ditto Acct. 79 Russ. Bonds, 1822, SpC.• 954 Dittoßonds 1824,77178 771 781 Ditto Acct. 931 1 Ditto Act. 771 1 1 Spanish 5 p. Ct. Cons. 221 Danish Bonds, S p Ct. Ditto Acct. 221 Ditto Scrip 1825, Span.s p. Ct. C. 1823, Ditto Acct. French: Itentes,s et. Greek Bonds se4 French Rentes.3pCt. 72f. Do. Scrip 5p Ct 161 171 181 41s. Exchange, 254. 10c. Ditto Acct. 16/ I Guatemala 11 du. Mes. Bonds, SpCt- I Ditto for Acc. 2 dis Ditto Acct. 74 Russian Inscript. 6 p Ct. BRITISH AND• FOREIGN SUA RES, TWO O'CLOCK. SNARE. PAID. rstcz Pea 91,Ciui. Castello&EapititoSanto 100 5 103 11 Chiban - £lOO 15 • Potosi, La Paz, & Peruv. m 5 91 4 Royal Irish 5.1.5 1 9-16 4 prem. , Phenix 50 • 27 31 British Iron Company -10 u - £0 - 16 1 1 1 British and Foreign Paper 50 3 6 7 General Steam Navigation 100 5 . 7 63 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 10 114 The doubts which we expressei on Saturday of the authenticity of the reported capture of the Monarch of Ave, and of the termination of the Burmese war, by the subjugation of the capital, are greatly strengthened by a more minute attention to the geographical posi tion of the several points of the scene of operations; and it is important that these considerations should speedily have their due weight with our Readers, as already we perceive speculation in India Stock has made some progress. ' Ummerapoor is in North latitude 21.50. and East longitude 96. 10. Rangoon, the sea-port of Ava, h' in latitude 16.30. and longitude 96.40. It is, therefore, due South from the capital about 350 miles. The alleged battle could have been known there before the end of February, and before the South West monsoon bad set in. Calcutta is in latitude 22. 23. and longi tude 88. and distant therefore from Ummerapoor about 600 miles; certainly not more than a three weeks' run' for an Express. The news could be known, conse quently, in Calcutta early in March, and at Bombay certainly before the middle of April. It could not fall therefore, to be known in England, by an Express over land, at least a month ago, in the ordinary course of things. Whereas, Bankok is in latitude 13. 30. longi tude 101. 15. eight degrees South of the capital, and five degrees East, and farther from it, therefore, than Calcutta is ; and yet it is asserted, that the British army, on the 19th of March, was within 100 miles of Banicult ! Lastly, Singapore is twelve degrees South, and three degrees East of Bankok, at the former of which the intelligence is said to have arrived on the 9th of Apt it ; or nearly at the Same time that it could have reached Bombay. As Bombay is in latitude 19 and longitude' 1 72, that is to say, thirty-two geographical degrees on this side of Singapore, it requires little judgment to conclude, that a British Express, whether by land or sea, would, with so great an advantage of distance, scarcely fail to outstrip a French merchantman,. by whom the intelligence is said to have reached Bourdeaux. At the risk of appearing tedious, we deem it neces sary to hazard these remarks, as in these dayi of finan cial speculation, Journalists who are anxious;' in the honest discharge of their duty, to guard their Readers 'from temporary delusion, cannot be too careful in sifting, isOst cautiously, such tinnutirt of ektraordinati events as may arriveilutmofficial channels. It is reported in the City; that on Saturday some .Gentlemen attache' to the Russiiii Embassy waited on the Greek Deputies for the first time, and stated that certain obstacles having been removed, the Court of Russia m;ght be expected to interfere in favour of the Greeks. We give the report without at all pledging ourselves for its accuracy, of which we entertain con sidersble doubts. Halifax Papers have arrived this morning to the 23d of August. They state, that Sir JAMES KEMPT has re turned to Halifax in the packet. A ship has arrived from Madras, with letters to the MI March, but they do not bring any fresh accounts from the seat of war. Private accounts from Madrid of the 29th August state, there was a Council V&A there of the Ministers, which the Governor of eastille and the Suptrintend ant of the Police assisted, since which it was remarked that numerous arrests took place every night. The Ex- Intendant of the Police, Iturtso GONZALES, has been arrested, and sent with a strong escott to Pamplona. Lisbon Pipets to the end of August have arrived.— Their contents are unimportant. The only article of interest is a Decree issued by the KING on the 19th ult. extending his clemency to the partakers in the mutiny among the troops at St. Paulo da Assumpcae de Soanda, capital of the kingdom of Angola, in the month of Oc tober, 1823, and ordering that the imprisonment which they had undergone should be in lieu of all further punishment. The French Papers of Friday, with the Moniteur of Saturday and the Mode of yesterday, have reached us. The Etoik contains several articles on the affairs of Greece, 'it contradicts a report in the Quotidienne, that England was about to take Greece under its protec lion, the same way as the lonian Islands, and says there is much more truth in another statement, which is, that letters from Napoli of the Ist of August announce that the Provisional Government of Greece had on that day published an act of submission to the British Government, invoking its protection on the ;erne conditions as the lonian Isles. This appeal to the British Government is stated to have been preceded, by conferences between the Greek Chiefs and Captain HAMILTON. The Node says, this determination, which it calls an act of despair, was taken before the siege of B.lissolonghi was raised, and hints, that if the inhabi tants of Napoli seek to escape danger by such means, it is probable the Greeks in other places, not pressed by the same necessity, may refuse to accede to such a proposal. • The Mode says, all the accounts from Greece state, that the Greeksikre resolved to die sooner than submit to the Turks. It also Contains, from the Anti de to Loi, the "port of General CoLocoraora to the Ministei a War, relative to his operations against the Turks, up to the Bth of July. It states, that hearing, on the 4th of that month, of the deharkation of fresh troops at Nava. rino, he resolved to attack lattaintm PACHA at Tri corpha, which he did with 9000 men ; and after a des perate' engagement, which lasted several hours, the Grteks • were compelled to abandon their position. The report only estimates the loss of the Greeks at 30 men, and that of the Turks at 600, a disparity which is 'somewhat suspicions. ACCOUNTS from Smyrna, of the 2d of August, men tion as a report, that GZOROR SPAGNIOLACHI was to be sent on.* m'ision to the British Government, to claim its protection. Another report is, that the English de manded possession of the forts of Napoli, as a guarantee for the Greek Loan, the writer forgetting that our Government has no more to do with that Loan than the Swam/ himself. An English vescel is said to hive arrived at Napoli, on the 3d ult. with a thousand barrels of powder, and a large quantity of other ammunition, and 200,000 guineas from the Greek Committee! The Afonitenr of Friday has a notice, stating that all persuns interested in the property of vessels or cargoes captured by the Spanish cruisers during the late war accoritiog to the Royal Ordonnance of the 20th April, 1825 (inserted in the Moniteur of the 26th of the same month), vs ill 'not in allowed, after the Ist October next, to bring forward any new claims for in demnity for losses resulting from those captures. In , consequenie, the register opened for the inscription of claims of this kind will be definitively closed on the Ist October at midnight, and all claims which shall be pre sented subsequently will be considered as null. The servants of BESSIERES, and of the Officers taken with him, to the number of a dozen, have arrived at Madrid as prisoners. With them is a * son of BESSJERES, who accompanied his father, and who, though•a Lieu tenant of Foot, is only thirteen years old. The same Piper contains a letter from Madrid of the29th ult. which states, that numerous arrests conti nue to take place in the Spanish capital. The company of Royal Artillery Volunteere'is to be disbanded. Its Commander, M. Zaa, has been sent to Barcelona and the Officers to Badajos. It is stated that on the sth of Aug. Missolonghi still held out. Nat% Stn. 10.—Five per Cents. 1001. 80c. Three per Cents. 7.1. 90c. Venetia. !it . Ge.bettcs the 25th ult. and Piedmontese Gazettes to the Ist iast. reached us this forenoon. The former cenuia4Cii the account in the French Papers'of a dieadful hurricane at Venice, in 'Lily last. The POPZ has addressed an Apostolic letter, dated the 19th ult. to all the Cabolies residing in Belgium, *to inform-them Q( the nullity of the:prelbaotien of WILLIAII VET to the saishoptitk of Ut r e a b t, aid of the ecclesiastical censures which are incurred both by the individual proclaimed, and by those who participated in his sacrilegious inau- Rotation: tad he paternally exhorts them to avail all intercourse with them, and to persevere in the Catiida lic communium Frankfort Papers to the 6th instants and other Ger= man Journals of a recent date, have arrived. The in. telligence they contain from Greece being derived throdtth the Oriental Spectator of Smyrna and the Austrian Observer, two Papers decidedly hostile-to the Greeks, is unfavourable to their cause. On this occa. sion, however, we hear less than usual of the impending evils by which we are generally told the Greeks are threatened with immediate destruction ; all that is as. serted to their prejudice is, that CoLocovtoNt was de. feated on the 4th of July, in a battle with IBRAHIM PACH A, at Tricorpha. The losses on each side, it is al• lowed, are differently stated. The Austrian Observer is, as in duty bound, inclined to believe that the Greeks suffered severely, while they, on their part, affirm that they had only 30 killed, and that 600 of the Egyptians perished on the field. These conflicting , statements are perhaps each equally unwortF.y ( f credit. Judging from the result, it does not appear that this action, or any of those which followed it, have been of a very de cisive nature. There are reports from Smyrna that IBRAHim had subsequently marched to Argos,and again appeared before Napoli, at the post of the Mills, front which he was lately so gallantly driven; but it is not pretended that these rumours have been corroborated by any intelligence entitled to the least attention. The following extracts are from a Frankfort Paper Mium 'content, and lidesirous of changing- their dews, found ' 'bat few that did nbt firmly adhere to their original de termination. In so critical a situation, I therefore co operated immediately with the crew, for the safety of the ship, itsarmatnent,..tc. without sparing any Congo* : to better Our condition. Having arrived on the 211th Of • A-Pill—at - Monterieyy I went ashore• the--tnonsent after having cast anchor„ and I , visited . the. Geyer*, Commandant of that place, to *horn I mentioned my views and my wants for the repair of the ship. Finding in him all the protection I desired, we made the treaty concluded on the Ist of May last. In consequence of this, he gave me full access to the mountains, and by means of the carpenters on board, I made as many spars as possible during my stay, these being the arti cles Most wanted, thinking, by so doing, I would act in conformity with the wishes of the nation. Its this place we were furnished with refreshments for the crew, and so prepared, placed ourselves under the contras' of the United Mexican States. AU persons on board the Ada and brig Constante have enj o y e d during the voyage the best possible health: of the persons whom I took from Guajan, one died since our departure, and one in Monterrey. The few sick remaining on boat are not dangerously ill. None of the former Officers belonging to the Asia are in com mand, except Don Nicholas Marusi, the surgeon ; the other two surgeons remained on shore, and the third pilot who occupies the station of the second. There remain in the vessel all the non commissioned officers, with the exception of two boaitswain's mates, who staid at Guayjan. There is also on board, as a pas senger, Don Juan Marano, appointed to conduct the °facia correspondence of Monterrey to that of the supreme Government of Mexico. The brig Coostaote has 38 persons. including the Commander and Lieutelant. JOSE. M A ItTI h EZ. On board the Asia, I lth June, 1825. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 4. The Oriental Spectator, of Ist August, contains the conclusion of the private letter relative to the affair near the Mills before Napoli di Romania, the first part of which was inserted in our journals of the 20th August. Having described the deplorable condition of the unhappy country people, whose cattle were carried Off by the Arabs, while their crops were burnt by order of their Government, lest they should prove a resource to the enemy, the writer speaks of the endeavours made by Colocotroni, after the retreat of the Egyptians, on the 27th June, to assemble a few hundred men; and he then continues : 4 , But what will be the result of these last efforts of the Greeks to defend them selves? What can they hope from so unequal a contest, especially in the deplorable state to. which the Peloponnesus is reduced? 1 have been told by well-informed Greeks, that there are scarcely five thousand men belonging to the country under arms ; the remainder is a dangerous assemblage of strangers, without public spirit, without a country, without any object but thai of plunder, and of running away in case of a reverse. Liberty here is only extreme licentious- ness; the Greek Government has no kind of strength, no means of repressing disorders. Everything is subject to the will of the strongest. The Chiefs present them selves to the Government to demand the pay of their soldiers. The Captain who ought to have two or tbr,ee hundred men, has in reality sixty or eighty. When the pay-day arrives,- he has recourse to the kindness of other captains, who, with en tutderstansting that he is to do them the same service, lend him, for that day only, the number of men sufficient to complete his band. 'Fbe Government pays, but the money finds its way into the purse of the Captain, and the soldiers receive hardly anything. From this sordid avarice, which is the ruling passion, the greatest inconveniences arise. The soldiers are continually changing from one Captain to another, to try who pays the best. If the enemy ventures to make his appearance at any point,the Greek Government orders a Captain who has received pay for 300 men to pro ceed to that point. The Captain takes care not to refuse, but he goes with 40 men, and the next day he is back again. It is especially in the places where the troops are encamped that. the country people suffer the most terrible distress; they have lost their cattle, and the G reeks themselves carry off from the peasant his only remaining horse, on the pretext of the public service. Everywhere there is general uneasiness, brutality, thirst for pillage,and complete insubordination. The Moteotes, entirely disgusted with this state of things, refuse to march, and fly into the mountains, rather than expose themselves,• without object and without' hope, to an enemy who has inspired them with such terror." New York Papers, to the 17th of August, have been received at the New England Coffee-house. We in sert in another column an extract from one of them, giving an account of the circumstances under which the Asia and the Constante Spanish ships were given up to Mexico. Mr. VAUGHAN, his Majesty's Envoy to the United States, arrived on the 9th ult. in the Chesapeake, on board the PHAETON frigate, Captain STURT. The French fleet, consisting of nine sail, is also stated to have arrived in the Chesapeake, from the Havannah:— The Brandywine, American frigate, ordered to be fitted up for the accommodation of General LAFAYETTE, .on his return to Europe, was nearly ready for sea, and is said to exhibit an excellent specimen of American ship building. A vessel which arrived on the 13th of Au gust from Rio Grande, brought a report that at the time of her sailing, Monte Video was closely blockaded, and that -in some actions which had taken place between the insurgents and the outposts, the former had been successful. The Court-Martial sitting on Commodote PORTER, had come to a decision on the 11th of August, but the sentence was not to be known till approved by the Presi dent. The deaths at New York had diminished to 109 a week. This number, which is enommusythen it is considered that it was not produced by any regular disorder like the Yellow Fever, is said to be nearly one hundred less than the week preceding. Saturday evening, M. COTINE, an Italian Messengers left town with dispatches for Sir Faunae= ADAK, Lord High Com missioner of the Itinian Isles. Monday, the Duke of LZINSTBIL arrived "at the Bli da Hotel, Edinburgh. • A French frigate has been ordered.4o proceed to the Frith of Forth, for the purpose of conveying to France the re mains of the late Duchess de GRAMMOWT, now lying in the Chapel Royal, Holyrood-bouse. Private utters trom Madrid state, that at the exe cution of Dun. Nato Ictumas and Colonel SUMO; on the 15th Olt- fur their Constitutional opinions, the executioner jumped on their shoultient and beat out their brains in the air. Ile Royalist Volunteers wished to cut them up, and 'drag their limbs shoot the .treets, and the irritated populace seconded the ides, but the Itrayal Guard charged upon them, and dispersed thew to their homes, with strokes of their sabres. —r's from I;utiluo, c BULL Berl;ke o the Soo ring -t 0 #w t ,LIVICRPOI Ist olt. PRI MIL l'he C A:end4 months, Cler keni of %/bid number of prism of any Se,tion ber wou ! u public t n the (consist blish su recti on, 'of 450 of past The briar tad to The of the' been I Court. •erne I on MI • Frida, "A I much made stay i trial, sel hg affida applit COW'S with by th not 0 Cour the fi be tp 'had T 1 son! 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