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ZivsuftnEl 'ION IN JAMAICA. --........ 'She following extracts from letters received in Glas gow, communicating some further intelligence relating to the late insurrection in Jamaica, are from the Glasgow Qaties of SAturday. " Montero Bey, June 15,1824. ▪ I regret tn say that we are all in a state of the greatest possible alum ; six estates and pens are in a state of open rebellion in Hanover, near our line, and there are, from the latest accounts received from that district, up wards of SOO armed negro men in the woods, with abundance of ammunition buried ; every hour fresh ac counts are received of the disaffection of other properties. Our militia are all upon the alert, and I fear their duty will be hard indeed. A most deep-laid and extensive plot has been discovered, eight hours previous to its be ing carried into effect." “ Pram the Upper Part of St. James's Parish. Awe 15. " I am sorry to inform you a very alarming rebellion has been discovered on the eve of breaking out on Ar gyle Estill", the property of Mr. John Malcolm. The most able and effective negroes have taken to the woods, and are killing cattle and committing every rebellious act they can. The intelligence we know reached Spanish Town on Sunday. The Hanover and Westmoreland Militia, with the Interior Regiment, are out, and keep ing guard at different posts en the vicinity. if active and vigorous measures are not adopted immediately. there es no saying what the consequences may be, and I fear the present Governor is not the man for such times. The King's Proclamation is of no use. Mr. Wilberforce's writings Ilan, produced this. Unless something decisive is soon done, Goo only knows what is to be our fate. We want troops, and not religious in structors; and I hope all connected with us will use their influence with Government, and when they come every parish should have a like protection; not to be kept in the neighbourhood of Spanish Town or Kingston." ZATTU, FROM THE 101021* OF HANOVIR luaus, some 16. " You will be sorry to hear that the north side of Jo mica is again in a state of alarm, from the rebellious spirit evinced on many estates in the parish of Hanover. The first discovery was on Argyle Estate,,the property of Mr. Maloales, They, the negroes, proposed to rise ea the night ef llsel Ith inst. and in the first place mesa, - der their masrers ; then proceed to murder all the white people on the estate, and after setting fire to the works, to proceed to the next property, to murder and destroy with fire all in their way. 41 This plot was happily discovered about ten o'clock, the same forenoon, and niasures taken to frustrate their phut the Western Interior Regiment was ordered out, and is stationed at Argyle Estate ; there are also a body of regulars at the Montpelier Bridge, and every mea sure is adopted to frustrate their evil d esigns. I will not close this letter till the latest, and in the meantime, if anything should occur, I shall inform you of it. " 17th.—Nothing farther has occurred as yet, but the account of the rebels having destroyed several horses and mules betohging to Argyll Penn, also that they still continue in a body. The Trash•liciuses of Alexandria Estate have been burnt down, and as they took fire is several places at the same time, it is fully believed if was Intentionally done also, the overseer's house in Golden Grove was forcibly entered, and all the fire, aunt and ammunition taken away." MINIIIIIINN BRAZIL. Be,ides the Mexican Journal El Sol, from which we Inserted an extract in the STAR of Saturday, we have received El his de Jalisco, and several political pam phlets printed at Guadalaxara. Upon a view of these papers, it appears that the federal system is clot rightly adjusted,: and that, either owing to some opposition of interests, or to a Want of practical experience in those who govern, its component parts are not in a state of perfect cooperation. How far the divisions which pre vail are promoted by persons in the interest of Iturbide, tUte is not sufficient information to enable us to deter s**. If we might judge from what is publicly printed in the Journals before us, that adventurer is detested as an ambitious impostor and a tyrant ; but the truth of these representations, perhaps, cannot be entirely relied oa. The march of General Bravo, at the head of a tonsiduable force, to Guadalaxara, has already been noticed. Guadalaxara is the seat of the Congress of the State of Jalisco or Xalisco, which includes several pro. 'iota, and which, in point of extent, population, and wealth, is one of the principal members of the Federation. —The news of the expedition of General Bravo created great alarm in the Congieu of Jalisco, and a resolution was passed, on the 21st of May, to instruct the repre sentatives of Jalisco in the general Congress of Mexico, to endeavour to obtain from the Supreme Executive Authority an explanation of the object of this extraordi miry military measure. In the dispatch addressed to the Jaliscan Representatives, it is observed that there is no account of any enemy on the coast threatening the independence of the State ; that the movement of General Bravo has no ostensible motive; that among the reasons which may be put forward as a colour for such a proceeding, are the reports of its having been intended to crown Iturbide in Guadalaxara, and of the existence of popular commotion:: all of which are as serted to be false, and to have their origin in certain public papers, which bad unjustly accused the State of Xalisco of being " Iturbidistical: All this the Xaliscan Deputies are required to repre sent to the Supreme Executive Authority, accompanied by the assurance, that " the peace of the State has never been disturbed by the Iturbidists, because, though there may be in it some of that party, they are powerlesi, and never can accomplish their object, since the country abounds in good patriots. The dispatch was enclosed in a letter from the Governor of Xalisco, Luis Quin tanar, in which he declares, that the State being unin formed of the c.bject of General Bravo's invasion, the Government would be under the necessity of repelling force by force. After receiving this dispatch, Senor Ca ned°, on the 28th of May, submitted to the General Congress the following proposition, signed by all the Jaliscan Deputies: " Ths Deputies of Jalisco have received °Setat information. by which they learn that the Government intends to invade that State with troops calks:red for the said purpose. The constituent act, in faculty 5 , an kl e le, stipulates, that the Government cannot de dare war without the previous consent and approbation of the Ge neral Chapels. The Jalisco Deputies appeal to this law, and is virtue thereof, pray the degrees that the Government be imme. (Rattily :81W open to two iniscaistios soasosidog those ocoorrooses so intorosslog M the Fsderadon; and dot, is cessoiossoo oldie facts and isammas which prom she Mods mediae aremal so was* Jaim e the Congress may ow to sods rosoloNul as id Scale so k askoloted to save doe cosetry Irmo s and oar ftwoodlltary oppresqlon." After BMW Canedo had supported the above pro. position, by a speech, and read the dispatches received from his constituents, some of the Deputies of the Ge ore Cosgress obselwed, that as the subject under too sideresios vas erne agree &limy, it was proper that any &gawks which might take place should be secret, or at least that it should be determined in a secret sit ting, whether or not the debate ought to be public. This latter alternative was adopted, and the Congress proceeded to deliberate in secret. The resulrof that de liberation is not yet known. AFFRAY AT MADRID. The following additional particulars of the affray at Madrid on the 25th ult. are from the French papers and private letters: MADRID, JULY se. Yesterday the eaPital was the theatre of a lamentable scene. Some French chasseurs, being in a pot-house, were insulted by one of Quesada's soldiers, who was soon chastised for his rashness. Other Spaniards took part in the quarrel, and the guards, composed entirely of Spaniards, instead of endeavouring to restore order, took part in the excesses against the chasseurs. The French soon came to the assistance of their comrades. In an instant sabres were drawn, and the French sus tained an unequal combat. The Royalist volunteers of the quarter caused /a generale to be beaten, and, after taking arms, flocked in crowds to the scene of action. A musket-shot was the signal of assassination. The French, without any arms except their sabres, defended themselves heroically, and dearly sold their lives. The houses were closed—the doors were barricadoed—ter ror prevailed on every side, and cries of 64 Death to the .French r resounded. The populace, armed with stones and clubs, rushed upon the French. The Royalist vo lunteers kept up a fire. More than three hundred mus kets were discharged. Fortunately, they did not do the mischief that might have been expected. General Ordonneau and General. Quesada. coming up with the French and Spanish troops, succeeded, after much exertion, in restoring order. An extraordinary thing is, that the Spaniards, who alone were armed with muskets, had more killed and wounded than the French. The latter bad five or six men killed, and twice the number wounded. Upon this occasion la generale was batten, and all the troops were under arms. We make nctrefiections. AU the blame attaches to the Spaniards. This morning General Digeon sent one of his Aides de-Camp, under the escort of eight chasseurs, to Sace don, with a letter to the King, in which it is said to be stated, that unless within 48 hours he receives ample satisfaction for the assassination of yesterday, he will immediately quit the capital with his troops. PIJVATt LITTIIt, SAM DATE. " The degree of beat we are at this moment expel.' encing here is almost intolerable, the thermometer has not been known to mark so high for 107 years. This intense sultriness of the weather seems to have produced an effervescence in the blood of the populace—they are, if possible, more inclined to be turbulent and evil dia• posed than ever. This unfortunate disposition was called tato action by the affair which took place yesterday (Sunday), a slay upon which there are a sufficient at enber of drunken persons to be found in the streets. Five French soldiers, somewhat overcharged with liquor, and probably rendered vicious by the heat, were passing through the street of San Antonio, in quarter Maravillas, where there is a sentinel placed boa longing to the battalion of Guides of Quesada, which has a guard-house in the neighbourhood ; the French soldiers took it into their beads to disarm this sentinel, but be resisted long enough to give his comrades at the guard-house time to come up; which they did with their fire arms. A great number of French soldiers who were drinking in the adjoining wine-houses rushed also to the spot; mob also soon collected, the greater part of whom took the side of their countrymen, and is a short time there was a pell-mell engagement between the French and the Spanish soldiers and populace. At one time there were probably not less than five hundred persons engaged. Several shots were fired, and sabre wounds were dealt about in all directions with right good will. The affair at length becan;e so alarmingly serious, that the authorities talked of bringing down a troop of cavalry and advancing some pieces of cannon, when probably another second of May would have been the consequence; but fortunately some superior Of ficers, both French and Spanish, having arrived on the spot, succeeded, but not without considerable difficulty and some personal risk, in quelling the fury of the sol diers and soothing the populace, who were exasperated to the highest pitch; nor was the alarm and confusion confined to the scene of the riot—it spread with incon ceivable rapidity through the rest of the city, the more particularly as the inhabitants heard the drums beating to arms in the barracks, and the tocsin sounding; some of the populace having got into the belfries of some of the churches, and set the clappers of the bells going. In these kinds of popular commotions it is difficult to ascertain the precise quantity of mischief done, as yet we only know for certain that :fight men have been killed, and twenty-nine wounded, some of the latter dangetously. I myself saw seven or eight carried to the hospital, one of whom bad the leg almost entirely cut off, and another whose body was scarcely recogniza ble from the number of sabre wounds with which it was , covered. A person who was in the melee told me he saw four French lancers stretched apparently lifeless on the ground. Both sides fought so well that it is doubtful which had the better of it, when the officers interfered. There is one thing certain, that if the utmost precautions be not adopted to keep the French and Spanish soldiers apart, there will be a frequent occurrence of similar afflicting scenes. The Spaniards too, look with a most evil eye upon the French soldiers; and they have un fortunately got an idea into their heads, that notwith standing the conduct of the French Government, the soldiers of that nation are more disposed to respect the Negros than the Blancoa" A private letter from Frankfort states, that the Em peror of AUSTRIA has commuted the penalty of death, pronounced last year by the Supreme Tribunal of Verona against certain individuals for high treason, to 20years solitary imprisonment in thefortress of Spi tzberg. Letters from Maranham of the 25th June, were re ceived yesterday. They give a sad picture of the state of affairs in that part of the Brazils ; one of them says —" I am sorry I cannot give you a better account than the last. Our relations with the interior are all at a stand. The boats which leave this place are invariably plundered by a band of 400 soldiers, who, having put down the General at Arms, have established themselves on the banks of the river, and subsist upon plunder. No European Portuguese dare venture out at night. Unless Portugal should recognize the independence of Brasil, the result of ail this may be dreadful." A vessel was seized at Liverpool last week by the Custom-house Officers, having on board a cargo of Bra bant wheat, which had been shipped under false docu ments as British. She is the Alert, of Rye. THE EVESTIMTAR. LONDON. 4 TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCIL Consols opened this morning at 93j, I, and got up to 9.31; but up to this hour they are 40 ivy the Account, with little doing• FOREIGN FUNDS. There is little doing this morning in the Foreign Market, except in Colombian and Mexican Securides. Current Prices:—New Spanish 161 1, Old 22, Russian 96};, Mmican 53, Askance Shares 121 f, Colombian Scrip 4 &s. Colons- Man 511, Chaim 791 80, French Scrip 131, Austrian 951, New Prussian 961, Old 99, Portuguese 88, Buenos Ayres to 1 pro FOREIGN EXCHANGE& ANSTIMDAW, Am. 6.—On London, 39. 10. 2 M. 39.8. HASIZURCH, AUG. 3.—On London, 341. 41. 2 M. 36. 11. Parsassnaou, JULY 20.—0 n London, 9.3144. Paris,lol. Baum, Jinx 31.—0 n London, 6 M. 6. 211. Liaise, JOLT 30.—0 n Loudon, 3 M. 6.151. PRICE OP STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank giOcic2iiiiliPer Cent. Reduced 94% 3 / 4 34 8 per Cent. Cons. 93% % 3 / 4 4 per Cent. Assented 1013/4 %-4 per Ct. Old 101% 4 per Cent. New 1061 54 10 6 % Bank Long Anns. 28 1 / 8 1-16 3-16 1 / 2 India Bonds 80 82—New Annuities 93 3 / 4 £l,OOO Excheq. Bills (2d.) 88 6 42 ; (1 %d.) 86 8 £.500 Do. (2d.) 38 6 42 ; (1%d.) 36 8 £lOO and £2OO Do. (2d.) 38 6 42; (Phd.) 38 40 Consols for Acct. 93% 34 3 / 4 %. This forenoon we received private letters from Smyrna, containing intelligence of great importance from Greece. All doubts as to the fall of Ipsara are at an end. The Capitan Pacha summoned the Island on Friday, the 2d of July, his messages were returned with insult, the Ipsariots either thinking the enemy would not land, or that they could offer formidable resistance. The next morning, at four o'clock, while a feigned attack was made on the batteries in the port, on the east side, 14,000 men were landed on the west side of the island, which was immediately carried. Ten or twelve armed Greek vessels, with all their fire-ships, were burnt by the Turks, and 18 or 20 other vessels struck their colours. Ten or twelve of the best Greek vessels, with many of the richer Greeks, and, it is said, the public trea sure, escaped at the. commencement of the attack, in- stead of waiting to resist it. The Capitan Pacha, it appears, acted with great clemency, and offered a re ward of five hundred piastres for every Greek prisoner brought to the camp alive. The fall of Ipsara has led to that of Samos, which has sent in its submission ; and Eipresses, announcing these important successes, have been sent to Constantinople, where they will infuse new vigour into the long torpid councils of the Divan. The following are the letters to which we have alluded s " SMYRNA, JULY 5. 41 Ipsara was taken by the fleet of the Captain Pacha of Saturday, the 3d instant (July), at six o'clock was., The fleet appeared before the Island on Friday, and the Captain Pacha sent in two flags of truce before he com menced the attack, promising a free and full pardon to the Island, if they would lay down their. arms. The first was sent back w ith a message, That sooner than submit, every man was determined to die.' The second fared worse, and was sent back with his beard half shaved of, and with a message, 6 That they were wait ing his attack with anxiety.' The attack commenced at four o'clock, A.M. on Saturday morning, on the West of the Island, where about 14,000 men were landed, whilst a feigned attack was making on the batteries in the port, on the other side of the Island. " The flight became general about six o'clock, and the Captain Pacba, seeing himself completely master of the island, and willing to stop a further effusion of blood, issued a proclamation, promising 500 piastres for every Greek prisoner brought to the camp alive. A good many vessels in the port are said to have escaped. Thus has the 6nt attacked, and one of the islands said to be amongst the mat formidable, fallen nearly without a struggle. I fully calculate that this is the forerunner of other successes on the part of the Turks ; and it is a problem, to me not easily solved, to what rate of dis count the Greek Loan in England will fall." " JULY 6.—We have later and more detailed accounts from Ipsara. It appears that all the fire ships, and abou► ten or twelve armed Greek •essels, were burnt by the Turks, and that eighteen or twenty others struck their colours, and had the Turkish flag flying when the last accounts came away. About ten or twelve of the bed Greek vessels, with the richer Greeks on board, with their families, and, it is said, the public treasure, escaped at the commencement of the attack, without fighting at all, telling their betrayed countrymen that they were going to attack the Turks in another quarter of the Island, to cause a diversion. The Fort of St. Nicolo, with a lfandffil of men in it, was blown up by the Turks on Saturday morning. The Turkish fleet will go next to Samos, which will most likely be at tacked in a ♦ery few days. 4 8 ES. The island of Samos has sent in its submis sion, and expresses have been sent off to Constantinople, and to the Captain Pacha'i fleet, to announce the event. A Tartar passed through here this morning, bearing the express.", Papers to the Sd instant reached ns ;Lis forenoon. The following Are extracts HANOVER, JULt so. _ _ Major V. Einem, of the Guards, is gone to. London with dispatches, which are sttpposed to relate•to the ex. pedition to Portugal. COPENHAGEN, JULY 31. Wednesday afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Christian returned from Bornholm, on board the Pried Ingo.ll. BERLIN, JULY 20. The Consort of the Grand Duke Constantine of RusiA Princess of Lowicz, has passed through Breslau, oldie; way lb Ems. :MAGDRBURG, JULY 27. On the 25th instant we celebrated the three huncired,ll anniversary of the day when Martin Luther first preached as a reformer in St. John's Church. The new Prusstao Liturgy was used for the first time. WARSAW, JULY 20. Father Philip, Provincial of the Capuchins in the Kingdom of Poland, set out to-day for Rome, havin g been appointed by the Pope Procurator-General of atl the Capuchin Convents throughout Christendom. Ili; dignity is next to that of General : it is the first time it has been given to a Pole. Dutch Papers to the 7th inst. reached us this morn. ing. The King of the NZTHULANDS, in order to p.o. tect the manufactures of the kingdom, which are s:!:,1 to equal, and even surpass foreign articles, has laid t heavy duty on all goods imported into the Netherl.toth , East India possessions. The following are extracts: BATAVIA, MARCH 20. His Excellency the Governor-General signed, on tLe 14th February, a Decree to the following effect; descriL ing in the preamble the wholesome measures adopted by his Majesty in favour of the manufactories of the king. dom of the Netherlands, and considering that the ma nufacturers of that kingdom have now brought their manufactures to a degree of perfection which not only places them on an equality with foreign artc!es, but in many respects even surpasses them; it is decreed that all cotton and woollen manufactures not made in the Netherlands, and which are im ported into the possessions of the Netherlands in' the East Indies, whether is foreign or Netherland ship ,shall pay a duty of twenty-five per cent. on the tacc,l wor:11, if they are consigned from a place to the west of the Cape of Good Hope, and of thirty-five per cent. if the genes come from a place not belonging to the Netherl ands to the east of the Cape of Good Hope. This taxed vahte shall be regulated by a price current, to be drawn up every three months by the Chief Director of the Finances and the Director of the Customs, with the assistance of merchants of Batavia. FRANKFORT, AUGUST 5. The Greek Princess Suzzo, wife of the Hospodar, who took such a leading part in the first insurrection in Moldavia, has hitherto lived at Odessa, and is now is this city. Among the persons who for some time past have beta under strict confinement at Copeneck, and are there ex amined by Prussian Commissioners, on account of their participation in Secret Societies, is the well-known De Witte, who was arrested at Bayreuth. A distinguished man in the Bavarian liberal Opposition is spoken of as having at first received this person into his house, and afterwards given him up to the police, for fear of the consequences. In a preceding column we have given some further details of the recent events at Jamaica, founded on the authority of private letters. We trust the fears of the writers have made the danger greater than it really is ; nor is it to be wondered at, that a population of thirty thousand Whites should feel alarmed at the least synsp tom of insubordination among three hundred thousand slaves. The Jamaica Journals, extracts from which we gave in the Sit a of Wednesday, and which are of a later date than the private letters, represent the danger as past, the slaves returning to their work, and tranquillity on the point of being restored. The private letters to which we have alluded, lay -the whole blame on the slaves; another letter, in the Glasgow Chronicle, apprehends still greater dangers,:if the mea sures proposed by our Government for the amelioration of the slaves are not adopted. This letter, which is dated the 17th of June, contains the following passage The slaves on two estates have risen, and the example will certainly be followed if something is not done to ameliorate their condition, pursuant to the direc tions of the British Government. The few wise and moderate men who are here, talk of petitioning the British Government to send out Commissioners to settle the differences between the slaves and their mas ters. Something of this sort indeed must be done, if they hope to preserve the Colony ; for although these ebullitions may be quelled from time to time, yet so long as the half enlightened negro and the violent planter are left to their own passions, there can be no hope of permanent tranquility." It is reported in the City this morning, that a vessel had arrived at one of theout-ports from Jamaica, which left the Island subsequent to the 18th of June ; the Cap tain, it is said, reports that the Insurrection of the Negroes had entirely subsided, and that tranquillity was again restored. In another column we h -- ave given a more detailed account of the late affray between the French and Spanish soldiers in Madrid, which appears to have ben more serious than was at first represented. The ill blood thus created, will not easily subside ; and unless either one party quits Madrid, or the troops are kept in separate cantonments, frequent rencontres may be eX pected. 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