Star. — London, England, 1825-04-06 00:00:00

IA ,~ .~ S . ,4: . . • :t .;.~ l„~ gk • • yet enabled us to form relations of friendship ana good , understanding with that Government, with which we have likewise to arrange questions regarding territorial limits. We age assured of the good disposition of-the Emperor towards Colombia ; and, on our part, we have avoided all cause of complaint and dissension. When the moment shall arrive for negotiating with the; Bra zilian Government, the Executive will not tail to ob serve that frankness and good faith which form the basis of its principles, by conforming to the last ter ritorial treaty made between Spain and Portugal, in M drid, in 1777. . With the United States we maintain the most friendly and cordial relations. The treaty of peace, fr'endship, navigation, and commerce, celebrated by the Executive with those States. through the medium of duly aurbo ii ed Plenipotentiaries, will he forthwith laid before you. The principles oe have therein adopted are so com mendable in their nature r...5.r tender all eulogium su .perfluous. Never has the (iovernm •nt of Colombia ap peared more attached twahat spirit of civilization and • humanity which ought to distinguish the Governments of tree people, than in this treaty. Colombia will have the laudable pride of having been the first among the States of ancient Spanish America, to appear before the world united by public treaties wilt the most favoured r ati .a of liberty. Yon will also examine the convention en ered into with these States, for the purpose of putting an end to the horrible traffic in negroes of Africa. Our laws have already forbidden this execrable traffic, and the Executive has formed its conduct on their basis. Toe law of the 21st of July, of the year 11, h for bidden the introduction of slaves ; and the prof al * cruising ordinances condemn as lawful prises alt " Is trading in African' negroes, that may be coolie in the waters within & jurisdiction of the Repitfitic. But n % penaity being awarded for the violation of this law, and it being a justice due to the human race to modify our ci uising laws, the Executive thinks that these ob- Ujects have been obtained by our convention with the United S:ates. To convey a correct idea of cur relations with Eu rope, I deem it incumbent on me to deal frankly, by entering on a detail which will give you this informa tion, and at the same time demonstrate to the world the political principles of the Government of Colombia. The Commissioners of his Britannic Majesty, in this capital, requested that the Executive would issue the =gnaw necessary for the recognition of the Consuls sent by the King to some of our ports. As no commissions accom panied this application, as is usual and customary, the Executive was under the painful necessity of deferring the exera:ur, until these commissions should be duly 'resented by the several parties, relying on their being framed in t!:e terms usual among nations. As soon as the person on whom the title of Consul-General had been con'erred arrived in this capital, he presented his commission, assuring the Executive at the same time th it the commissions of the Consuls of La Guayra, Maracaibo, Carthagena, and Panama, were conceived in the same terms. The commission makes mention of the Provinces of Colombia. instead of the Republic of Colombia, by which latter title it was determined by our fundamental law that this country should be known since the year 1819 ; and the Consuls are therein accredited to the Authorities that might happen to be e.tablished, instead of being accredited to the Executive Power, or Presi dent of the Republic, as they ought to have been, agree ably to the principles of public right,teourConstitution, alid to the conduct observed by the United States. The Executive considered these errors as a necessary conse quence of that state of ambiguity and practical difficul ties in which theEnglishGovernment found itself placed in treating of the recognition of the Independence of Colomh a, as was stated to Parliament by the Ministers of his Britannic Majesty's Government; for, in reality, it would have been a manifest contradiction, to have accredited Consuls to the Ports of Colombia in the usual terms, and as the rights of nations demand, with out recognizing the independence and existence of the Government from which it sought the admission of these officers. The Executive did not hesitate in adopt ing the line dl conduct most conformable with the dig n ty of the Republic. and serviceable to the interests of the British nation. Placed in the painful situation of de eiving the Republic, by illegally recognising, as duly accredited Consuls, persons who did not come recom mended to the Government of Colombia, and who did not anear destined for the ports of the Republic, I did mot hesitate to refuse the exequatur to their nominations, and caused to be explained to the Commissioners of his Britannic Ma]e,ty the powerful motives I had for adopt ing this Resolution,assuring them at the same time,that in order to give fresh proofs of friendship and good will towards theßritishGovernment and people,l would pet-- n. 4 the persons appointed to these Consulships to protect the c.•mmerce and interests of English subjects in the ca pacity ofAttents for the protection of sailors and trade. Tl;e Commissioners accepted these terms with pleasure, without refuting the strong arguments on which my de nial of the exequatur was grounded. If the Congress will c .11 to mind, that in my former Message I pledged myself that, in the course of the negociation about to be opened with the Commissi %nets of his Britannic Ma-. je.ty, I would not lase sight of the dignity of the Go v rament, and the interests of the Colombian people; it ss ill perceive by the present statement, that I have s rctly redeemed my pledge. Public right does not tecogni:e the admission cf Consuls as a bounden (Jul , from one n• eon to another. The obligation so to admit them,rises s.,lely from treaties or conventions celebrated bet wren the parties, or from a state of peace and friend. ship be weer nati , ,ne, whore independence is reciprocally ad it ttcd. This principle, which the English Government iteef leas lately obsersed towards the Consul-General of Burns Ayres in Loedon, . would have authorised the Esezutive to withhold the exequatur, even had the Coninuksi its I f the Consuls been addressed to the Re. public and Government of Colombia. Since this re. cu,rence, nothing has transpired in furtherance of the recognition of our independence. The Government of hi, Britannic Nlajery, makes this event to depend on ci ciinistanc s peculiar to the interests of Great Britain, and op the nature of the information it may receive horn its respective Commissioners. But if the Govern ment of his Britannic Majesty be guided by the feeling of the English nation, and that the information given respecting the state of Colombia be dictated by justice and impartiality, we may presume that this important decisi n on the part of the King of the United King chnn of Great Britain And Ireland. k At hand. (To be euncleded to.morrow.) Igiono IsMumtlica....4unktity of Copper Ore sold at Pool, March 51, 1715 tun.. — Average produce, 61.—Qututity of One Copper, 116 tons 5 ewt.--Ansount uF ak. £10,165. 6s. Average standard, 0151. 18s.--Theru die 625 a 'yin * of Copper Arcs for sale at Redritt this week. "'"NE 'V "lE'w''' - ', , Abwikommillp• 1 11-11'4, EVENIN(4 STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1825. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. OM& opened this morning at 931 for Money, and 931 1 for the Amount, with little or nothing doing. In the Foreign Market there is very little doing. Spanish Beads appear to be on the decline. • Current Pricers New Spanish 171. Old Spanish 291. ROAN 931 4, Mexican 791, Colombian New 901 91, Aiwa', 111 Brazil Scrip 3 prem. 'Mexican Scrip IL Greek Scrip 4114111 e. Danish Scrip 1/ 1 ailedUnt. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock el div. 99434 S per Cent. Red. ex dir. 92% 5 4 1 ,4 3 per Cent. Cons. 93 3 / a 34 Ser Cent. ex div. 100% Sii per Cent. Red. 100 99% 4 per Cent. New 105 7 / 8 Iq6 l / 8 106 India Bonds 86 Old Annuities ex div. 9214 New Annuities 93 1 /4 £l,OOO Exclieq. lulls 64 67 India for Acct. 280 1 ,4 28114 Cons. for Acct. 93% . 3 / 8 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. Iffez.Bonds, 5 p Ct. 791 fex div. Ditto Ace. Ditto Ace. 791 re die. Brazilian Bonds 961 ez die. Ditto Scrip 1825, 14 1 pm Ditto Acct. Ditto Acct. 11 1 11 pen Ditto Scrip, 3 per Cent. Neapolitan Bands, 5 per Ct. Ditto Scrip VMS, 2/ d 3 pr Peruv. Bonds, 8 per Ct. 87/ Ditto Ace. 3 pr Ditto Acc. Buenos Ayres Bonds, Portuguese Bonds 91/ Cl4lanßonds, 6 p Ct. 87 ex div. Prussian 80nd51322,, 5 p Ct. Ditto Acct. 871 ex div. Rula.Bonds,l99ll4p.Ct. 96 51 Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 911 Ditto Acct. 96 Ditto Ace. 901 Spanish sp. Ct. C. 1121 1 / Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. Ditto Acct. 22 f 1 1 Ditto Scrip, 11 2 11 dis Span. 5 p.t.'t C. 1823, Greek Bonds I Ditto for Ace. Ditto Scrip 1695, dis French Rentes, 5 per C. 103 f. Ditto Acct. 41 1 dis Exchange 25f. 10e. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. MINES. IMAM TAMD. PRIM FILL IMAM Anglo Mexican - - £lOO -,C15- isa. sti pm. £ Brazilian - - 100 - 5 - - 22} 23 21 Milian and Peruvian Company S Paseo Peruvian - 100 - 5 - .25 22e 23 Peruvian • 100 • 5 - 71 United Mexican 40 • 20 . Ditto New 40 - 5 - Welch Iron & Coal 25 - 5 - ASSURANCE COMPARE. 11 pm. - 51 • 7i 1 AlLBritSer. Fire &Life 100 - 10 • - De. Marine - 100 - 5 - 71 lIISOILLANZOI7B. IBAU. PAID. •MCI PIA MAR& • 61100 - IEIO -Ziii 131 1 100 • 1 • 30 1 100 - 5 - 9 1 50 1 3 1 100 5 - 10 - - 13 pr. Atlantic and Pacific Australian British Iron Company • Canal Gas Engine General Steam Navigation Hibernian Joint &oat. Banking - - London Brick Company SO 1 Ii i Mexican Company 100 10 15; Notropolitan Alderney Daisy 2S 4 . 4e i Metropolitan Fish Company 25 1 II Pearl Fishery £25 sh. sB'4 pd. iu. £lO pm. 12e 20 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 5 - He Patent Bricks - 50 1 - 5 Pearl and Coral Fishery 40 4 21 Royal &mom/ 5 41 Westminster Fish Company SO . 5 41 THE QUARTER'S REVENUES-OFFICIAL RETURNS. In the STAR of yesterday we gave, exclusively, a statement of the produce of the Customs for the Quarter which ended yesterday, which was as correct as could then be ascertained. We now present the Official Re turns, and it gives us much pleasure to find, that the Revenue is even more flourishing than we represented it. ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the Years and Quarters ended ith April, 11124, and Stb April, 18115, 'hewing the Increase or Do. crease en each bead t►ereof. imam us= am= S. 1824. , 1825. 1,595 X: 347,55 Excise Stamps Past (Ace I Taxes I 1,41: 6,1102,11 , 1,475,00 ftepiyintent by Aua• tiii . T0ta1.... Customs ... .. ..... . 357,11 994,411 46,199 Facise Stamps Pust Office Taxes Repayment ►y AN tria. Total 0,111%1, _...4 4,00' 57 0 5,693,190 2 Deduct Increase... ,005,370 Decrease on the Year . 1,690,520 eRAILTRILS =MD ♦rRIL S. 1824. 1 1825. I Increase. IDecrease. X. 2,1871 ie. 2477,21. 5,575,441 1,714,111 587,001 477,51 ••• 16,61, 6,5071 10,512,5671 365,379,1,739,319 Deduct Increase... 365,379 Decrease ost the Quarter 11423A40 On referring to the above tables, it will be seen that the total Revenue for the Quarter which ended last evening, was 10,512,5671. the amount for the corre sponding Quarter of last year was 11,936,5071. Thus there is an apparent deficiency ;n the Quarter just ended of 1,423,94(X•; but it must be recollected that theQ rafter ending April 5, 1824, included the sum of 1,733,3331. part of the repayment of the Loan of Austria, so that the actual Revenue of the; Quarter was 0n1y10,203,174/. or 309,3931. less than the produce of the Quarter which ended yesterday ; and this amount is the actual increase on the Quarter, as compared with the corresponding Quarter of last year. This increase is at the rate of nearly a million and a quarter a year, which added to the reduction of one million and a half of taxes, shews that our Revenue actually increases at the rate of nearly Three Atillions a year I In comparing the several branches of the Revenue in the. Quarter which ended 3e:terday, with that which .__~. tqlshina led on the sth April, 18;4, it mill be seen that Agile is an increase irllcry article connected with Com- In the Customs the increase is 82,6591. In the 179,0831. in Stomp:Abe increase is 49,0231. in the Post Office 31,0001. and in the Miscellaneous 16,6141. The only decrease is in the Taxes, and that, mach as they have been reduced, is only 55,9861. If we look to the Returns for the year, we shall find them equally gratifying. The Revenue for the year ending sth of April, 1824, was 50,812,6721. and that fo.the year ending yesterday. is 49,122,1521. Here main is an apparent decrease, and that to the amount 1,690;5201: but of the amount of the former year, 2,500,0001. was the produce of the repayment of the Austrian Loan ; and the real Revenue for the year ending the sth of April, 1824, was only 48,312,67 W. or 809,4801. less than the produce of the year ending yesterday. The increase on the year is in some branches of the Revenue immense ; thus, in the Excise alone, there is an increase of 1,595,8131. in Stamps there is an increase of 347,5571. and in the Post Office 62,0001. Nothing could be more strongly indicative of the extension of our Commerce, and the growing prosperity of the country, than the increase in thesebranches of our Commerce ;Ind that, too, notwith standing the repeal of taxes and remission of duties to a large amount. The increase in the Stamps is the more extraordinary, as there has been so great a repeal of the duties on Law Stamps. In the Customs there is, on the year, a decrease, but it is a mere trifle, when we consider that duties on Wool, Silk, Coals, &c. have been repealed during the period to the amount of more than a million of money. So that the real increase in the Customs, in the year, may fairly be estimated at upwards of One Million. To-morrow we shall give the Account of the In come and Charge on the Consolidated Fund, and the Produce of the Enke Duties—the increase on which strongly proves that the comforts of the lower classes are rapidly increasing. The Income on the Consoli dated Fund for the Quarter ending the sth of April, was 14,018,4121. Ss.lld. and the Charge 8,229,3581. 9s. 101 d. leaving a Surplus of 3,789,0581. 14s. lid. The Surplus of the Income over the Charge upon the Con solidated Fund for the Quarter just ended is 2,959,0301. Os. 111 d. We have received Frankfort and other German Papers to the Ist instant. The Austrian Observer of the 25th, co ns a long article relating to the Greeks, which we ruin. ,will be seen that there has been a serious engagement between some of our ships and the Greek Pirates. COLOCOTRONI and his rebel associates are im mediately to be brought to trial. The following are extracts: CONSTANTINOPLE, FEBRVARY ss. ae+ Two changes in the Pachalicks merit attention, on ac count of the persons concerned. Raouf Mehnsed Pacha, formerly Grand Visier, and who has long been expected to be restored to that post, has been removed from Erzerum to the Pachalick of Kastamieni,which is nearer the capital, and Ghalib Pacba is appointed Governor of Erzerum, which can have no other object than to send him a greater distance from Constantinople. The Government of Napoli, since the termination of the struggle with its internal adversaries, has resumed the siege of Patras by land and sea with increased ar dour, and as it appears with a considerable force.—' Coletti, the Minister at War, is stated to have led a corps of 8000 men against Patras, and the Gulf of Lepanto is said to be closely blockaded by Greek vessels. There is even a report that Patras has surrendered. It is af firmed that the fortress had only a few weeks provisions left; and however little reason there may be to expect this of so active a commander as Jussuff Pacha, we must not, however, declare it to be impossible. Meantime the Porte is exerting all its efforts to form a powerfal army in Albania and Epirus. Very large sums of money have been sent to pay the arrears due to the Albanian Captains, for the preceding campaigns, and this it is said has again secured to the Porte a powerful party in those countries. The appre• hensions respecting Omer Pacha are nearly vanished. It can hardly be doubted that be was disposed to re vok, but the last measures of the Porte seem greatly to have diminished his hopes of support from his for mer friends.* _ _ _ On the 31st January, the English frigates Cambrian and Seringapatam, and Cyrene sloop, had a serious en gagement with some Greek pirates. Captain Hamilton was informed that four Greek mistics had pillaged an lonian vessel, and proceeded to look for them in the sea of Negropont.t He put out all the boats belonging to the frigates to pursue them. Two of them were at length overtaken, but resisted and fire) on the English. The two Greek vessels were at length taken, and burnt by Captain Hamilton's orders; but the English had eight men killed and twenty wounded in the action. The frigate of the Commodore, who had advanced to support bis people, was so much damaged, that it is supposed he will be obliged to go to Malta to repair. . _ The internal war in the Noma, had ended with the flight or submission of most of the chiefs of the opposition. Colocotroni, according to the Hydra Gazelle of 11th January, had gone to Napoli di Romania, to submit to the Government. An istasius and Camello D. ligiani, in their flight from Caritina, had reached Mistra, where the Governor of the province had shut them up in wcon vent, on which they had sent a remonstrance to Napoli di Romania. The Directory then gave orders to send the fugitives under a strong escort to Napoli, and if they refused to submit, to send them bound. The same Paper says, that Londo, Zaimi, Nikita, and the Son of Sissini, aie in prison at Anatolica. An Extraordinary Commission of nine Members is appointed to try the rebels, and that without appeal. The fate of the two bro:bers Londo, in these troubles, i 3 remarkable. Both Andrew, the Ea birector, his brother Anastasio:, Member of the Legisla ire Council, were generally respected as the first pato iots. Anastasins, after the defeat and flight of his brother, `had the confidence to appear in the Legislative C..tuncil, where he took part in the deliberations without beim,: molested. Two days after, the Directory, by a format message, demanded that he should be eicluied, whic!s was immediately done. • • The Gazette of Athens gives the Address of Andtew Londo to the Greek nation, to justify himself from ohe accusation of having abandoned the siege of Mums from interested motives. This Address, signed by Pan° Colocotroni, and others, declares it was owing to the neglect of the Government, and the want of provisions, that the troops were obliged to retreat. It appears that the rebels, as they are called, demand an account from the Government of the application of no less a sum than thirteen millions. • Accounts from Corfu, of the end of February, say, that Omer left Joanina on the 15th January, for Salonichi, and that Ring, Iwith 2,000 men entered loannina the same day. By an account from Ayrna, the engagement seems to have been in the Gulf of Vol°, which is probable, as the pirates were front Skiatko and Scopolo.—Nola of the Austrian &merger. By the arrival of the Hyperion and Florida we have received New York Papers to the 2d, and Baltiamie Papers to the Sd of March. The irritation which the election of President had occasioned appears to hate subsided. The Baltimore Patriot gives us rumours prevalent at Washington on the subject of the new Cabinet, that Mr. BARBOUR or Mr. FORSYTIt would direct the War Department; Governor CLINTOR had been offered a mission to England, or the Treasury Department; and Mr. CLAY had assigned to him the State Department. On the subject of General CLINTON'S being appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, orme of the American Pipers says Will he accept it r "4 Ought he to accept it r are questions in the mouths of everybody. It is unquestionably the most flattering appointment that Mr. Adams could bestow, unless it be that of Secretary of State. There is not a man in America who could represent this country to the first Court in Europe so advantageously as Mr. Clinton." The business of the Congress was finished on the Id of March, and on the following day the Session would close. One of the Baltimore Papers, alluding to the naval preparations in the United States, says The Public have been amused with the idle surmise that our Government are about going to war, because they have recently given orders to have the ships of war now on the stocks finished ; and have also advertised for contracts for timber to build three line-of•batde ships, six frigates, and three sloops of war, agreeably to a law passed some time since by Congress, for grades ally increasing our navy. This is all that has been done, and this is enough to set several of our contem poraries upon the war key." We have received the French Papers of Sunday. The Monitezir contains an official Note relative to the in structions lately given by the English Government to the Commissioners appointed by it to examine the claims which have been, or may be made, by certain proprie tors of St. Domingo, either for the restitution of the produce of their estates sequestrated by the English Government during the occupation of the west part of the island by the force of his Britannic MAJZSTY, from the end of 1795, to August,l79B, or for the reimburse ment of the value of slaves belonging to them, and de manded during the same time to be enrolled as a corps of black troops, in the service of England. According to this Note, Mr. Mourtza, chief of the Office of Liquidation at London, is authorized by the instructions of the English Treasury, to examine, and give an account of the claims of the proprietors in St. Domingo,for value received accruingfrom sequestrated estates, or for property which was made use of by the English authorities during the occupation of that island ; with the following restrictions:—" No claim will be admitted for persons who reside in Europe at this time, after the Ist of July, 1825; and for persons who are nOw residing out of Europe, no claim will be admitted after the Ist of April, 1826." The claims for slaves will n•rt be admitted unless they are accompanied with regular certificates of en rolment preceding the 4th of March, 1797, delivered in favour of the ancient proprietors of the plantations, &c. from which the Negroes were taken, or of their succes sors or agents, duly empowered by their pi oprieturs. The rent of houses occupied by the public function aries, claimed by virtue of the proclamation of Sir A. WILLIAss son, which had not hitter to:been admitted, on account of the absence of these proprietors in France. will be granted for a period which can in no case exceed two years. The New York Gazette of the Ist of Mach contains the following article :—A letter from St. Bans. to a respectable house in this city, under date of February Bth, states that the French Government has made a de. mond on the Venezuelian Government of Porto Cavallo, for the amount of the ptopeity captured, carried into that pint, and condemned, under their flag. That Iplace is declared in a state of blockade, to continue until sadden:on be obtained, by a frigate, two brigs and a schooner. Miss CANNING, whose marriage we yesterday an. mooned, is not only one of the most beautiful, but one of the most amiable and accomplished Ladies of the day. For the loss of such a domestic companion nothing can console parental affection hat the consciousness that she is placed in a rank s u itable to her emeriti, and that she will in a larger sphere be an example to her au, and an ornament to smiety. After the ceremony, the happy pair kit Gloucester Lodge, for Sodbrealte, near Richmond, the suit of Mr. Wat,sure-Hownsit,to spend the honeymoon. Among the company present on the oceAsion of the menage were—. The Debi's' Portland, Lard William Rentinek, Mr. MIL the Earl of unseal, the LW* Itervoy, Lord [inward dtc Ntildra, tine. IMP . ITTi ~-~ A. 155,100 ~;-~'. "F P • • • • ' • • ve tfi in th tel foi Cc 74 • Co dt 461 311 PrE Yo vie btu Shi Th Jos lot for 1 shit He P . m mud Get NM the du evo wh ab 4 tht to. . Col ph tai tru ut we 4 fdo of rig we of Pr' Po th wi • 16 it til th of to as ID( ~e ~i 11 , 4 PT= 10,414