Star. — London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

.-.. , . 1 A i i 1 1 I . . . . , . . $ • 1 , • 4 . u. i ' ai • J t i i l i f i 1 , ~. i - 4, 1 1 , t. 1 11 4 ' 1 I ~t , . ( 7 . I' i . ' • • 1 . , . ti . . i . . , . t V 1 1 I i i t 1 , ' O l i . + r,. 1( . ..- . --,-,-, THE EVENING STAR, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 - , ISM THE FUND& y ?RICH OF STOOKS THIS DAT AT TWILVE O . CLOXIC : 3 per Cent. Reduced 7711-4 per Cent. Coss. shut Cons. for Account, 78179 —Sp per Cent. 860 4 per Cent. 94195-5 per Cent. Navy shut India Bonds 78 pre.--Ornnium par. Exchequer Bills 11 17 pre. Stocks continue pretty steady.--Consols for the Account commenced at 79{, and continued so till twelve o'clock, when the market began to look very heavy, and they fell to 781. The Commissioners gave r} Reduced, and were served generally by the job bers.—Bets to a considerable amount were this morn ing made on 'Change, that the trench 5 per Cents. would be done at 56, on or before Christmas next..-1 Private laters received from Paris this morning state, that on Monday they were actually.done at 59 fr. but for out own parts. we certainly do not attach any credit to them. If this statement is true, it would make a fall, in one day, of 4 fr. 50 c. It is currently reported, in the best Informed cir cles, that Sir HUDSON Lows is appointed to succeed General Sir &mar 13noWNRIGG in the Government of Ceylon. Nothing certain is yet known as to his saccessor at St. Helena. Mr. ARBUTHNOT, our Readers are aware, left this country some time ago for that island ; but with what object was not then surmised. The appointment of Lord MELVILLE, so often talked of, to the Governor-Generalship of India, i s now considered as certain, and will take, place at no very remote date. His Lordship will, it is confi dently rumoured, be succeeded in his situation as First Lord of the Admiralty, by the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon. —The view which they exhibit of the state of the Funds on Saturday does not altogether correspond with the private accounts which were circulated on our Exchange yesterday, according to which the 5 per Cents. had rallied to 65 fr. 50 c. On Saturday they opened at 62 fr. fell at one time as low as 60 tr. rose afterwards to 64 fr. and finally closed at 63 fr. 50 e. The great fluctuation which this day's prices eahicit, is symptomatic of pretty extensive operations having been going on among the Stockholders and monied men of Paris ; and, ending as it has done, in raising the Stocks a shade higher than they were on the day preceding, may be regarded as having given rather a favourable turn to the market. The Kit:o has had a slight attack of the gout ; but his indisposition did not prevent him from pre siding on Saturday at a Council of Ministers, which lasted for five hours. The deliberations of the French Cabinet, at Such a juncture as the present, must be of a degree of interest and importance, paramount to all other considerations. His Grace the Duke of NTELLIwcrox took leave of his MAJESTY. the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family, on Saturday morning ; and (as we have already announced) was to depart next day for London. His Royal Highness the Duke of ANCOULEME ar rived at the Thuilleries, from his political and mili tary tour through the Northern Departments, on Sa turday night. The Minister of War has issued orders that the legions of Infantry shall be raised to their full com plement. Those of the North, of the Lower Rhine, and of Meurthe, are to repair to Paris, in order to re ceive a more regular organization ; their complement is to be 1500 men ; and they are hereafter to serve as a model to the other regiments of the line. It is said that the Commission charged with the inspection of the fortified places, and which accom panied the Duke of ANGOULEMZ in his tour, is of opi pinion that it will be necessary to replace, by new fortresses, those which have been ceded by the treaty of Park. This report is quoted as from the Journal de la Belgique, with the view, we presume, of giving a foreiga state the credit of spiriting up the French people to a step, which it would require some want of decency in themselves to be forward in attempting. If ceded fortresses are to be replaced by building new ones, of what use, it may be asked, is the cession at all? The werst of such a project, in as far as this country is concerned, is, that impoverished as the French, nationally speaking, now are and will be for years to come, they will riot stop at the mere chance of provoking the hostility of their neighbours by building new fortresses, but will in all probability }lave the modesty to ask us for the very money to build them, it being now the impolitic fashion for Britain to waste its treasures in loans to all the other cations of the world—no matter for what pit-pose— of peace or of conquest—of virtue or of ambition—of beneficence or of oppression. A Commission, named by the new Minister of Fi nance, and composed of MM. Counsma, Counsellor of State, Leonia . , FEUTRIIRS, and BRIcIGNE, Mas ters of Requests, has been for some days occupied with the verification of the state of the Royal Trea sury, and of its different funds, at the period when his Excellency entered upon his functions. The consecratko and coronation of the grxes, so long deferred on account of the occupation of the kingdom by foreign troops, will, it is said, take place in the course of May next. • The second hearing of the causes of calumny be , Ltween General CANUIEL and Messrs. SAINNEVILLE and FAEVIZR took place on Saturday. M. Durex, the Advocate for M. SAttexxviLLE, was heard in continuation, on the law as it regarded the e.ate of facts which he exposed in his former speech. M. BEITILI, the son, was then heard on behalf of Captain LEDOTT4 who is a sort of sub-party to the complaint of General CANUZL, having been named as one of the General's incendiary agents; after which the cause was again adjourned for another eight days. The official Paper of Munich of the 2d instant, contains an Edict of the Kiwi, appointing the elec tion of the Deputies to the Assembly of the States, which stands convoked for the Ist ofJanuar y, 1819, to be completed and reported before the 25th of • December. Field-Marshal Mos/twin, formerly Governor di Norway, has resigned his situation as Governor Ge neral of Stockholm, and all his other military digni ties. Various repOrts prevail as to the causes of this resignation, which has excited a good deal of sensation. According to all accounts from Spain, that can is any way be relied on, the inhabitants are in a most miserable and pitiable plight. Such is the system of espionage, that it is next to impossible to converse with safety on any topic, but particularly on any sub ject connected with politics or religion. In this state of things, such a knowledge of facts as might enable a person to communicate any thing like precise and defined information on any of the topics that agitate, perplex, and terrify all within reach of the influence of the baneful vortex that threatens to swallow up every thing humane or rational, is hardly to be ex• peeted ; accordingly, the generality of the letters (of which we subjoin one,) speak only in the way of surmise and evil forebodings, and are filled with expressions of dismay and frightful anticipations. A plot is hinted at, not by the Grandees against the Government, but by the Agents of certain Ministers against a great body of the Grandees, by charging them with a design to overthrow the Monarchy, and to establish an oligarchy on its ruins. The Pores NUNCIO, the PATRIARCH of the INDIES, and the IN QUISITOR-GENERAL, as has ever been the case where such vermin have been suffered to interfere with the affairs of nations, are prime movers in all that is most deplorable in the measures which harass and oppress the people, and destroy all social harmony. All commerce is nearly annihilated, and confidence destroyed ; nor can any man count on the security of either person or property—a state than which anar chy itself cannot threaten a greater evil.—A new Es- pedition is projected; an embargo has been laid on l such of the shipping in different Forts, as are.fit for transports ; and the owners, in addition to the robbery of their vessels, must also find means to defray all the expenses of the transports. " MADRID, NOVEMBTR " An embargo has been ordered at Cadiz and some ether ports, upon ships of a certain size, for the transport of the troops, which are to be sent im mediately to South America ; the expenses of every description which may be incurred by them will be paid by the owners of the ships. " There is a very odd rumour in circulation in this capital, about the arrival of a personage, who, it is supposed, has been sent by the Congress at Aix- • la-Chapelle with some commission to King Ferdi nand ; and the most curious thing is, that a great many people, who think themselves very well infor med in political matters, are very busy in making conjectures about the subject of this strange message • " A M. Santurio (oa whose information M. Calvo dc Razors and several others had been imprisoned), who was in one of the cells of the gaol called De Corte, knowing that M. Calvo was in another close by, began to cry out as loud as he could, begging M. Calvo's forgiveness for this wicked and false in formation, which, he added, he was persuaded to give by the intreaties and promises of an official per sonage. This affair has occasioned a great deal of uneasiness to the party concerned in it. " We are surrounded here with Spies and 'dor mers ; no one dares to communicate his opinions to another ; `from hence flows a want of confidence, which we cannot find words to describe. The evils which are produced by the scourge of the human race are of such a kind, that no person, however high his rank, is secure against its attacks. A report is whispered, with great mystery, that a plot of these villains has been discovered, the object of which was , to implicate different Grandees of Spain, and the Captain-General of New Castile, Don gasper de Vigodet, in a charge of designing to subvert the existing Government, and to substitute in its stead . an oligarchy like that of Venice. " The number of persons intended to be affected by this infernal plot amounts, it is said, to 60, besides several others who are accused of agreeing to co-ope rate with them. The whole scheme is reported to have been organized by persons in office, who, how ever, are merely instruments in the hands of the cle rical faction, at the head of which are the Pope's Nuncio, the Patriarch. of the Indies, and the Inqui aitor-General. " The state of this country is dreadful. The roads • There was a report at Aix-la-Chapelle of an autograph letter having been sent to King Ferdinand front the Allied Soverelitlw. , in which the Spanish Wing was advised to chimp hie ersseares. are infested with robbers to such a degree, that tra velling, even for the shortest distances, is unsafe.— The poverty of the people is overwhelming, the want of money severely felt, and every thing announces an approaching and inevitable catastrophe." By the British brig Martha, Captain Moone, ar rived at Kinsale, from New York, we have received American Papers to the 16th November. The Na tional Intelligencer states that the Members of Con gress begin to assemble at the seat of Government. BRIGHTON, Dec. 13.—This afternoon the Marquis and Marchioness of HERTFORD arrived at the Pavi lion. In the course of yesterday, the Marquis of HEADFORT and the Lady of Sir BENJAMIN BLOOM.. FIELD with her infant son, arrived at the Palace.— The BLOOM FIELD, and Marchioness of CHOLMONDELLY are expected to-motrow. The Gazette of last night contains Addresses of Condolence to the PRINCE RECENT, from Bath, Nottinghamshire, the Deans and Chapter of Rater and Oxford, Edinburghsbire, Glasgow University, Southampton, Christchurch, Leeds, Berwick, Perth, Lymington, Dundee, Aberdeen, Presbytery of Caithness, Halifax, Blackburn, Bolton, Carlisle, Marlborough, and Great Yarmouth.—The Prince lie gent has given to Arthur Goodall Wavell, Esq. a Colonel in the Spanish service, permission to accept and wear the Supernume rary Crass of the Order of Charles the Third, and the Cross and Military Order of Stn Fernando. It now appears certain that her late MAJESTY had no other property to bequeath but her diamonds; they are to he divided among the Pnixersses, in equal proportions. A valuation has been taken, and these jewels are estimated at little short of a million 'sterling. The codicil to the Will disposes of the QUEEN'S ready money, viz. four thousand pounds ! The other property, namely, the wardrobe, gees to the unmarried daughters: it is very valuable; for be it remarked, that a Lady of high rank, many years attached to the llousehold, observ.ed, " Iler MAJESTY was the richest Queen in Europe in wardrobe." The KING generally wears in a morning a royal 'blue robe-de-chambke held round the body by a belt. His MAJESTY looks well, and walks with a firm and sometimes quick step up and down the five apartments allotted to him. A Court of Aldermen was yesterday held at Guild hall, for the dispatch of business.—A Resolution was unanimously agreed to, expressive of the feelings and sympathy of the Court, and of condolence wi.h his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGNT and the other Branches of the Royal Family, upon the demise of her late MAJESTY-(for which see Advertisement). — RICHARD ROTHWELL, Esq. who was unanimously chosen to be Alderman of Cheap Ward in the room of the late Alderman Goovernette, was introduced to the Court in, due form, and after taking the usual! oaths took his seat accordingly.—After the Court of Aldermen had sworn in Mr. Alderman ROTHWILL, the LORD Mayon gave an elegant dinner at the Man sion House to the Court of Aldermen, at which were; present Aldermen Sir WI LUAU CURTIS, Sir STEPHEN CLAUDIUS HUNTER, LEIGHTON, Sir JAMES SHAW, BIRCH, SCHGLEY, J. SMITH, WA:rim:as:, HEYGATE, dre. and up wards of forty sat down to a most sump tuous dinner; which was served up in the first stile of elegance,* Toe Earl and Countess of JERSEY arrived yestef . - day at their house in Berkeley-square, from Paris. S:r F. and Lady Mulvey arrived yesterday even ing at 'Thomas's lintel, Berkeley-square, from Paris. Sir 11. Bunco, Bart. left the St. James's Hotel, Jeymyn-street, yesterday, for Ireland. The Anniversary Festival of Sr. ANDREW, on the day particularly set apart for ;ts celebration, was postponed this year, by the Scottish Corporation, out of respect to the memory of her late Most Gracious Majesty, the QUEEN : we observe it is to be held To morrow, at the Old London Tavern, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, in the Chair ; when we hope to see the meeting numerously and re.pcctably attended ; and that a Charity so useful in its object, and so ex cellently administered, may not suffer from a delay as delicate as it was praiseworthy on the part of the Managers of the Institution and the Stewards of the day. We understand that, in the course of the even ing, there will be a brilliant display of musical talent, and some novelties produced which, until the present occasion, have never been heard beyond the circle of the Drawing-room. " The commencement of the Public Lectures in Paris," says a French Journal, " has been remarkable for the digressions in which the Professors have al lowed themselves to indulge. One Professor of Phi losophy, who has the honour of having the Marquis LA } . /1 YETTE as one of his auditors, makes an eulo. gium on the warriors who fought for the indepen dence of the United States; another, whose duty it is to teach Roman Literature, amuses his auditors with reciting passages of the new Tragedy of Belisarius. It appears that it is with these Lectures as with the lOvertures to Italian Operas, that they have not al ways a reference to the Pieces which they precede." . The four brothers, who compose the firm of Rome- CHILD, have been suceessively admitted among the German Nobility, with the title of Baron De Rorus-I CHILD, by the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and by the' King of PRUSSIA. Lord ELLENBOROUGIL who died at his house, in, Bt. James's-square, on Sunday evening, was the son of Dr. LAW, formerly Bishop of CARLISLE. After rising to some eminence at the Bar, he was appointed Attorney-General in 1801, (without having previ ously been Solicitor-General, in consequence of both offices becoming vacant at the same time), and the next year, in consequence of the death of Lord KEN YON, he was appointed to the distinguished situation of Chief Justice of ENGLAND. On the Ist of April, 1802, he was created a Peer by the title of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Baron of Ellenborough, in the County of Cumberland. It is fresh in the recollec tion of our Readers, that his Lordship very recently resigned-the Chief Justiceship, in consequence of his increasing infirmities. He was also a Governor of the Charter-house, and F.S.A.: he married in October, 1787, Miss TOWRY, daughter of GEORGE PHILLIPS TOWRY, Esq. and has Issue, I, EDWARD, married December 11, 1813, OCTAVIA STEWART, youngest daughter of ROBERT, Earl of Londonderry, (by FRANCIS PRATT, sister to JOHN JEFFERIES, Marquis Camden, K.G.) ; 2, Commas-Ewa:4, married May 22, 1811, ELIZABETH SOPHIA, sister to Sir CHARLES ETRELSTON NIGHTINGALE, of Kneesworth, County of Cambridge, Bart.; S, MARY; 4, JOHN ; 5, ELI• ZARETII ; 6, ANNE; and 7, a daughter, burn January 11, 1812. If.4VAL I.‘.7±LLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 11 Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Industry, Top. , Teneriffe for Amsterdam. Sailed his Majesty', LFF. and HERON, on a c ru i ze . PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBrIt 15. Wind N. E.—Arrived the Demerara pa c k et . NABLEs, from London f or D eme7ara ; :115 X l ship ROSARIO from a cru i ze . COWES, DECEMBER 15. Sailed ) esterday the Portuguese ship k_ nonts, from Hamburgh t o Oporto, which put here 12th October leaky. DEAL„ DECEMBniI Wind N. t—Came dcmn from the nice r l at night and sailed, the Ann, GOODWIN, for JAln a j ca . Onyx, WALKER, for Barbadoes ; an d this ra,n4; the schooner Young Proteus, Hotun, for The Active, Cntszt, from Petersburgh to iv lost an anchor and cable last night in the and remains. MARGATE, DECEMBER Put back yesterday the Royal Sovereign, Cr from London to Rotterdam, for shelter. CORRY, DECEMBER 7, The brig Sunton, ISuaros, of Whiteharen, er laden, from America for Sligo, was wrecked ca. S.W. coast of Sky, on the morning of the 306 after the crew abandoned her (who are all sile vessel took tire, which with the carzo e:tireiy sumed, excepting a few pieces of tim'rer. Tiareller, DIXON, of Whitehavan, has pat iteo r Slappen, in this Isle, after encountering eta-.. 7 r , on her passage from Limerick to Liverpo o l, It damage. GRAVESr.ND, 12. Sailed the Abeam, Lewis, fie Dubin ; Bombay; Neptune, Stranack, for Cktcnd; c,‘,„ Greco, Hamad, fee 'similes. defer uP. ipon dem 'takes., In, eat partie 'This sc alleged ti the defenl I,A) COURT C THE DTf $l , f:. is was an in and con til debt, upon arrester fge4 idenie on 1 % e prosecuto aving i pietist es, 12 1. 3..1* . the defers :" put ja needful, up Ouse; wlu .t to the p r Rice - -14 d for duty, fr l • •' 4re akt; or paid. 1 r 3„ 1 , .und th at tl 1 r . valuable t o render : el)G3 '; ledged ha .elicer upon itional dem G:tr, custons-ho' ,plying Wit] ch ended it e7, er 4t uk upcn tl ked afterward :, 3°lll t.'••• victed hitn 1 site the on the pai . rnenced at . ve-mention ;- " 2 '4 of debt the fiats that amour - -4`l4tt . for his v. ught to tr. e, on the f ir A .endant. nt of peijit r : 1,7f: 1 it os 011 c: e c :oin ; iT r nac : lon y sc. e Gri,f. ; Laity, Anc ` Cwr: ibe Jury 1 , from (1,m , ,• rimall, kat 'dge 01 IT This was a Cupera• to ,d for the p nit, and thi r, N. 4, ti n le -v d h ef ic e h n! P . 3 • oe nabactor The case • s ncl lll ,f , On the 23 1°4(1'1" Fan g hi atm, liotaz two c CET. ~o n one of :holm 1 b,d • .0, all pa 41, Nal stake-holi 4"1 ortbumbet mor, 3lotrq - ongst th e mpany '.r c • d prize arch y the part) thnßetexCitices; fendant t t the . his sham std ' action F illy r l et B :2l: d dw av e s r . eni T ..o paid rhaSereaut ralLi!". l‘fierv.el!lat?;;; money t Ee7c h e er (2 ,:O k LIARRIEII, of the to the la:: The Jot nof the Sa id thei lat Bertnt The CH isk.n.l of Tete '' , m i rers who ha the action CUSTOM'-HOUSK, LONDON, DECEMBrit:: Soles Eieastarse IN-wagon—The Ferdinand, retina, Damen, from Ste-tdo ; Minerva, Fr.n.klaid. miehi ; Mutual, Scott, Rising STII, Armstrouy, Ann, Hunter, Jasper, Gray, We ar, Thotapson, Ski; se-, ' ler, Hopewell, Fo-bes, Dorothy, Itobaln, and Fait, G: from Petersburgh ; 114og, Joker, f:oal Louteio ; the Pe; Wolff, from Pillau; Nelkmzow, from Gru.l Hop: well, Stupart, Jane, Dsrmison &nan and Ann, I and Vedra , B.sry, front Memel ; Baker, Ankhy, from 0 Hardy', Hardy, from Narva ; Cincinnatus, New York; Ceres, Becker, from Daathic; Duke of Miller, from Honduras; Uly scs, Mann, from Cupr..!:: and Britannia, Sword, from Rostock. Ourwmins--Salus, Crickmay, for Smyrna; Cobol*, ford, for Barbadoes ; Cellingwood, Le Mesorkr, for and Bombay, Hamilton, for Chins. Cen.s.arn Orrwaano—Pusey Iran, Head, foe I% Dowse°, Dormer, for Serpi Leone; Frederickton, Burin Hamburgh; Union, Clench, far Leghorn; Joao Loslesn: Daintier, for Antwerp; and the Catharine Green, It' for Jamaica. DISTRIBUTION or PRIZB.MONET. The Phoebe, for the Ru,sian veosels, St. Nicholas I sod a vessel, name unknown, the 18th mast. at 41, street, Strand; recalled there every Tuesday three months. The Marlborough, Victorious, Narcissus, Junor, Me Pantome, and Atalanta, with the Sarossa in company, Anaerkan slaps Rolla and Protectress, at Greenwich II This morning a general fog pervadad the London and Westnalster, insomuch that the Offices Badcing-houses, and shops in genera: , all jighied up as in the evming. By the arrival at Plymouth of the H t Itßtel, tain Sir C. T. JoNits, from Bermuda, M 18 d: understand that the fever had not wholly when she left that island ; she is therefore undo tine. Mr. 14.1wstArx, Surgeon, and Mr. B . Master, died in the West Indies of fryer YOUNG, Assistant Commissary-General, aho the West Indies from Bermuda, in the BARRI service, died the day after his return to the place. Mr. T. GRAY, Assistant-Surgeon of RAC N, has been appointed to the Hospital at Berme Tho yellow fever first broke out at the island laud, in September ; nearly all the artificers who u. recer.tly arrived at the Naval Dock-yard, were its tacked by it, and twenty are dead. Five sold' also, belonging to a detachment of the G2d Regi ment, die i in the hospital : the remainder were moved to St. Catherine s Fort, where they hare kept under strict quarantine. Many others, reside" on the Island, have fallen victims to the contagi Which rapidly extended to the neighbouring islands• but at the time of the HARRIER'S depatture, only to cases of fever had occurred in the preceding ten days. NEWCAsTLZ, DRCEItiITR 19..—A desperate affray took place ax Stanhope, on Monday morning. A posse of about eight constables, from Bishop Auck load and Darlington, had been sent to Chapel with warrants against several poachers ;—by travelling all night, they surprised and took in bed two bra thers of the name of Siddel, and immediately set oat with their prisoners on a cart ; they halted at S hope to refresh themselves, and were boasting ho cleverly they kad accomplished their dangerous btu: qrss, when 101 six or seven of the most des • poachers of the vale, who had been in pursuit, entne the house, and after a sharp engagement of four five minutes, they fairly floored every office: ar brought out the prisoners in triumph. None of t:. constables are dangerously hurt, although three a. severely cut about their faces and heads. On the night of Friday se'unight, the house of N.. - Scott, residing at Bridgetown, Old Bridge of .1 , mond, was totally consumed by fire, with al, the it. perty belonging to her and her three sons. Yesterday morning the coach-house of )f.tritews Jorres, Esq. of Brook Green, was broke open, and robbed of the coach-glasses, cushions, hammer-cloth, and the box-coat of the coachman. EXTRAORDINARY It .—Sunday eveiog, Mr. J. Grouser- rill, of Cheapside, after attending the Evening Service a: at John's Chapel, Chapel-street, Bedford-row, retired to the hose of Mr. Evans, the I; ing's Arms, opposite, where he spent evening with some friends ; and remaining till a Late hoer, Is requested to be accommodated with a bed for the cicla, wij was complied with. About ten o'clock, a man, who rim fent.' himself as a butcher, came to the bar and desired to !vie , a lel for the night, which he would retain for the month ii caw nient. Ile was accommodated with a bed, in the neat neon that in which Mr. Groundrill slept. Neat morning it vrd covered that the butcher had got up at an early hour, beio. - K-1 of the inmates were stirring, having previously entered NI Groundrill's bed-room and carried off his wearing epp:rek peu up in a blanket ; in the coat pocket was a r,d morse:t pocket-book, containing two bills of exchanv cute far 6d. and another fur IDOL and a 51. Bauk of England Groundrill was obliged to borrow one of the landlords clothes, until he got some from home. Mr. Grourdrifi ceived the villain in his room in the morning, wiled" it ' ‘: tains round his bed ; but thinking it was some one of tet tam sod he turned round settled Idesself to situ •