Star. — London, England, 1824-11-06 00:00:00

, ..........., , . .... J cessary ; for extraordinary circumstances now render more extraordinary exertions necessary on the patt of every ffiin employed under the public. 'lf his Majesty recollect those who display, a real zeal in his service, recompensing their devotion, he will certainly not for get to punish with severity, and without pardon or re mission, those who, through caprice. weakness,.or igno rance, do not contribute efficaciously to the fulfilment of his just intentions.' " This circular is said, in letters from the provinces, to have already been carried into effect. At Leon, twenty two persons have been arrested as Masons and Com ouneros ; they are destined to be executed. Nearly a hundred respectable persons have been arrested at San tander, and similar measures have been carried into effect at several other places. In Navarre, all the officers who served under the Constitutional Govern ment, have been arrested and sent to Pampeluna. An old Captain at Valladolid, who could not be reproached with any single act, having been accused of ignorance as to the birth of CHRIST, has been condemned to death alkd execoted,his members have been attached to the pests at the entrance to the magnificent avenue of Valladolid. " The Official Gazette has published a Decree, granting extraordinary rewards to those who, on March 10,1823, massacred 500 peaceable citizens. They had been in vited, with the whole town of Cadiz, by General Freyre, to attend at the fete for the publication of the Consti tution, but the armed soldiery in the principal streets and great square massacred a great number of the po pulation. This is the act of fidelity now rewarded. General Contreras, Ex-Governor of Galicia, who has displayed some moderation, has been arrested. The In quisition is to be established under another form. In all the provinces Juntas of State are to be created, com posed of ecclesiastics and lawyers. Letters from Lisbon say, that a pamphlet is shortly to be published there, entitled, A Parallel between the Conduct of John VI. and of Ferdinand VII. since their Restoration." FROM THE JOURNAL DIES DEBATE. MADRID, OCTOBER 21. It now seems certain that the French army will make a retrograde movement, but it is not certain that it will retreat to the right bank of the Ebro. The Govern ment, or at least some chiefs, fear both the departure and the presence of this army. All hope of moderation lost; We still retain one tribunal, which preserves some recollection of what it formerly was. The Council of Castile being consulted by the King on a proposal made by the Intendant-General of the Police, to expel 4,000 lie?ds of families from Madrid, who had followed the Government to Cadiz, the Council decided that this measure, besides being unjust and odious, was in direct opposition with the amnesty of May 1. Perhaps similar remonstrances of the first tribunal of the King dom, which, to the right of administering justice, adds that of making remonstrances like the ancient Parlia ments, may produce a salutary result in other Courts of Justice. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1824. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, 111 ELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened at 96# for the Account, at which price there Was a good deal done in the early part of the morning; and up to this hour they are 951 fur the Account. • A private Ex press from Paris states, that on Thursday the French Funds were at 1024 for the end - of the Mouth. FOREIGN FUNDS. ' • Current Prices: New Spanish 151 16, Old 21/, Russian 961 1, Mexican 66, 1 4, Colombian Nevi 84' 85, Old 821, French Scrip 141 pre. Austrian 9G ex div. New Prussian 1001 I, Old 991 4, Portuguese 931, Alliance Shares 111 12 pre. Buenos Ayres 4 t pre. 21 3 pre. Peruvian 73, Greek 4 disc. NZsv Neapolitau lj /pre. Pa ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 232 231% 232 1 / t 3 per Gent. Red. 95% 14 % 3 per Cent. Cons. 96 Y 4 96 96 31 per Cent. Red. 101 5 /s 3 / 8 4 per Cent. New 108 107 7 / 8 108 1 / 4 Long Ann. 23 1-16 1 /s India Stock 290%—India Bonds 98 100 £l,OOO Escheq. Bills (2,1.) 51.; (1 M.) 55 4 6. £5OO ditto (21) 54 6; (1 1 4 d.) 57 £lOO and £2OO ditto (1 1 / 2 d.) 54 7 Endorsed (2d.) 37 Cons. for Acct. 96*1,4 Frankfort Papers to the Ist instant reached us this morning, but they contain little that is worth quoting. The following ate extracts : SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 22. The Governor of Suleu►e has addressed a circular letter to the other Cantons, to acquaint them that the convention by which certain innovations were made in the tariff of import duties, was abolished on the gist of this month. (This is the Commercial Convention, commonly called " the Concordat of Reprisals," which was intended to retaliate on France for the heavy duties imposed on Swiss produce, but which has nat been found to answer the end proposed). (whio he intended to take to accelerate his recoiery, I does not seem necessary, and his Holiness is wholly de voted to the affairs of Government. Some of the IVf i. nisters have less power to aid the Pope in supporting this burden. The removal of two of the chief Officers of State is spoken of, the Secretary of State and the Cardinal High Chamberlain. The Cardinal it is true, who fills the first office, is far advanced in years, and his strength is not equal to his zeal and abilities. In a preceding colump we have given some extracts from the French Papers, relative to the State of Spain, which evidently does not improve in its condition. The Intendant-General of Police had consulted his Majesty FERDINAND on the expediency of banishing the heads of 4,000 families from the capital. His MAJESTY re ferred the matter to the Council of Castile, which de clared, in answer, that such a proceeding would be contrary to the act of amnesty. The authority of this Council : for the present prevailed. The most lament able scenes of cruelty and persecution are described as afflicting nearly every province of the Peninsula. The Morning Papers contain an article on the proba. bility of withdrawing the French troops- from Spain, but how it has originated none of the editors seem able to explain. One of them calls it a letter; another sup poses it to be a post-office translation of an article that bad appeared in some Paris Journal which has not been received. The myster ions article commerces with stating that for some months past the French Cabinet has been debating whether the Army of Occupation should be withdrawn froM Spain--- : " a measure which many serious reasons render almost necessary r" these reasons are. the anarchy that prevails in the Peninsula—the a I bi trary proceedings of the Government—its rigorous de crees—the refusal to grant an amnesty or to recognise a part of the loans of the Cortes, when pressed to do so by the French Government. The writer then proceeds to say that— " The continuation of the abode of the French army in Spain would have been considered as a sanction given by France to the course followed by the Supreme Au thority in Spain, and France could not take upon itself such a responsibility. It has therefore been decided, in the last Councils of the Ministers, that the army shall leave Spain, except twenty-two thousand men, who will occupy Cadiz,Barcelona, and St. Sebastian. These 22,000 men will not be considered as an army of occupation ; - there will be no General in Chief, no Intendant-General. These troops, except those which remain at Cadiz, being all in frontier towns, will be provided with all they want by the French Military Boards, in the, same mari ner as those in the iatericr of the kingdom. This mea sure will reduce, by 800,000 francs per month, the ex traordinary expenses for the army, which have amounted hitherto to two millions. All the contracts negotiating for the supply of the troops in 1825 have been sus pended. Several Expresses have been sent to Madrid to announce this important decision." There is no doubt that the French Government is placed in an embarrassing situation as to Spain. Not a single advantage .har been gained by the march of the French Army from the Pyrennees to Cadiz, and by the subsequent .occupation of the Peninsula; and the very moment the Army is withdrawn, the same scenes will take place as were made the pretext for the war on Spain. It is, however, impossible that, under any cir cumstances, the Spanish Government can continue as it and almost any change would be for the better. That it would in a moment be overturned were the French Army withdrawn, no one can for a moment doubt; but the abolition of the Apostolic Junta, and of the influence of the Clergy, is a measure so indis pensable to the well-being of Spain, that it ought rather to be hailed as a blessing than otherwise. The tsbsti nacy of FERDINAND becomes confirmed by such ad visers, and neither the remonstrances of Foreign Powers, nor his own danger, awaken him to a sense of the maladministration of affairs, and the evils his Government is heaping on Spain. The Bible Society is very active in supplying the Irish with copies of the Holy Scriptures, both in the English and Ii ish languages. This measure is of course resisted by the Roman Catholic Clergy, which leads to some tumultuous proceedings. A short time ago, we gave an account of a Meeting at which the Archbishop of MAN, who pi esided, was driven ficm the Chair by clamour. The Dublin Journal, received this morning, contains the following extract of a letter horn Carrick on-Shannon, dated the 2d November, which relates to another Bible Meeting that was interrupted by a Roman (Catholic Clergyman. " The Anniversary Meeting of the Carrick-on-Shan non Bible Society was held yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Percy in the Chair: as opposition to this Society is now the order of the day, this meeting could not hope to escape ; on the first motion being put from the Chair, the Roman Catholic Clergyman of the parish, stood up to oppose it ; this occasioned great uproar and cries of 6 Chair, Chair;' silence having been at length obtained, the Chairman in a mild, but firm manner, stated that he would not permit any person to address the Meeting, who was not a member of the Society— but proposed to the opponents, to meet on any day they should appoint to argue quietly and dispassionately on the.subjecl. After some further conversation it was agreed to meet on this day week under the following arrangements—Three Clergymen. of each persuasion to choose a Chairman ; the Reporters to be sworn, and each side to have liberty to admit fifty persons by tickets ; any person who speaks or interrupts the Meeting to be immediately put out."—After this arrangement the business of the day proceeded quietly. . His Highness Prince . WILLIAM of Baurisu wic arrived at Lausagute on the 17th, and set out on the 20th ult. for Carlsrube. , VIENNA, OCTOBER 23. On the Bth of this month, the Assembly of the States of Bohemia, convoked for this year, met at Prague, is ith the usual solemnities, under the direction of the Count Palatine, Count Francis Antony Koloverat Liebsteinsk y. Nis Majesty had appointed Baron Herman de Hesse principal Commissioner. BERLIN, OCTOBER .2s. According to the testimony of the Stale Gazelle, the behaviour of the Students in the last year has been ex cellent. No one has been oxpelled, nor has the coll odium ab eundi been given to any under circumstances of aggravatiop. There has also been no suspicion of a secret association. The number of Students increases considerably, so that, in the last half yea:, 779 were unmatriculated, of whom 177 study Divinity, 559 Juris prudence, 155 Medicine, an 88 Philosophy. The Diario di Roma7nri67i, ult. states, that ac cording to a letter from the Consulate at Aleppo, of the 16th of August, the Persian army had taken Sulimania. the residence of the Pacha of Curdistan. This news had been already received by other channels. The follow ing is an extract from the same Paper : ROME, OCTOBER 16. The Pope enjoys very good health. The journey KING: Wilmot, Nov. s.—His MAsasnr, yestetday And this day, was enabled to drive out in his pony phaeton, and to take his customary airing through the diversity of rides which his MAJESTY has made since his resi dence at the Royal Lodge. His MAJESTY has not for some years past enjoyed better health than during his residence at the Lodge, which is attributed to the daily exercise which he has taken in the Great Park.• The KING IS expected to leave the Lodge next week, for a short stay in London, when his MAJESTY will at tend the Theatres. I'HE ARMY. The 2d (or the Queen's Royal) now quartered at Chatham, fias received orders to proceed to Bombay with the first fleet. The 78th (or Ross•shire Buffs) is removed from Kilkenny to Dublin ; and the 79th (or Caweronian Highlanders) from Dublin to Kilkenny. NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. The Wallace, EDKIN, from Miramichi toWhitehaven, was totally lost at Southport, on Wednesday night—crew saved. Porrsstotast, Nov. s.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Hero, Cum moms, from Guernsey for Carthagena. Sailed the whole of the outward bound, eacept the Columbian Packet, Jowcs, for Laguyra ; Madras, for India; Hero, for Santa Martha; Ethelred, for Ja maica ; and George the Fourth, for Africa. DIAL, Nov. s.—Wind N.W.—Arrived and remain, the John, Lovist.t., from Jamaica.—Passed through from the River, the Ju lius, JACKSON, front St. Kitt's; Lady Keith, Wane, for Trieste; Atlas, Remo, for Charleston ; and Montrose, Roxsoitouon, for Tri oidad ; also, the Hope, Parrtsoit, front Ramsgate for Malta ; and the Ocean ' CANT, from Harnburgh for Teneriffe. The whole of the outward bound have sailed. _ _ layman., Nov. 4. Arrived the Tryphone, Woonzu, from Buenos Ayres; William, Jonusom, from Macaio—sailed the 17th September ; Fletcher, Coamatos, from Africa; Delaware, HAIM.. Tom, from New York—sailed loth October; Commerce, Rao; and Jean Stewart, bl`Kruma, from Quebec; Eliza, GIUSDALZ ; and Nancy, —, from Miramichi ; Orion,Va La, from Newfoundland ; ,Albion, COLVILLE. from Leghorn ; and Maria, Mums, from Oporto. noel -Haan, Nov. 4.--Arrived the Margaret, JOHNSON, from New York; Gonter, Potreo/tap, from Para; and Cumberland, from Baltimore. ANECDOTE OF LOUIS MIL We are requested to state, th a the letter which appeared in the STAR on the 29th of October, and signed " Mary Page," is a fabri cation. We received it by the post front Berkhampstead, and had no reason to suspect the imposture. We understand that Miss !'age had received great attentb•n from Louis XVI 11. and the French Princes, fur which ,he has always expressed her gratitude. We now subjoin a letter from Miss Page, for the authenticity of which we pledge ourselves.—En. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAR. Berkhamp%tead. Nov. 5. SIR—I am much surprked to find you have inserted a letter in you. Newspaper rf October 29, a. signed by me. It is perfectly incorrect and a forgery. I request you will state that it is so, and that I had no knowledge of such a letter having been written, or the paragraph to which it alluded. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, MARY PAGE. EDINBURG 11, NOV. 3. THE LATE LATE FATAL DUEL BETWEEN MR. WESTALL AND CAPTAIN GOURLEY. We have been favoured with the particulars respect. ing the above. Mr. WESTALL having been lately con nected with FISHER and Co. lace-manufacturers, Lon don, had been at the Doncaster Races, where Mr. W. lost a bet with Captain Costa Lev of seventy guineas; at the same Races, Captain G. lost a bet with a friend of Mr; West/ad.'s. The parties very lately met toge ther at the Bull Inn here, when, after a most friendly recognition. of each other, captain G. reminded Mr. W. of the bet he had lost with him. Mr. WESTALL now in. formed the Captain that he was authorized by his friend, with whom Captain GOURLEY had lost a similar bet, to set the one bet against the other, upon which Cap tain G. cane.' him a swindler; Mr. W. then called him a liar. 'lle Captain then seized a poker, and aimed a blow with it at Mr. WesTait.'s heal, but it descended upon his shoulder with such torte as to break it in two. Mr. W. was rendered insensible by the blow; but when he recovered he went into the Coffee-room, where he indulged in the most abusive language against Captain GOURLEY. A challenge ensued, and Salisbury Craggy was chosen as the place tar deciding the quarrel, as next morning. At the time and place fixed, the patties, along with Capt. D. as Capt, GourtLzv's second, and a Medical Gentleman, appeared ; but Mr. J. who had been em-' ployed to act as Mr. WES rALL's second, was absent, in consequence of his attendance having been prevented by the interposition of his father, who had come to the knowledge of what was intended. In consequence of that Gentleman's absence, it was arranged between the parties, that they should adjourn to Not th Queen's-ferry, in order to afford Mr. WESTALL an opportunity of en gaging another second. Captain G. and hi. friends ac cordingly repa'red to South Queen's-ferry, and were about to push from the shore in a boat, when they ob served a carriage approaching, for which they waited. This carriage contained Mr. WESTALL and Mr. P—s, who had agreed to act as his second. They were re ceived into the boat, which conveyed the whole com pany across ; and on the heights above Queen's-ferry this tragedy was completed. DUEL PREVENTBD..—This morning, Capt. A. ROGER SON, accompanied by a friend, repaired to Kensington, to meet H. MAGEE, Esq. to decide a dispute which arose at a certain building in the vicinity of St. James's. street, on Thursday night, or rather early on Friday morning. The dispute was said to have arisen, over a game at Rouge et Noir, but the more feasible con jecture was, that the little urchin Cupid had been play ing off his pranks on the hearts of the Gentlemen. A previous notice of their intention having bees given, on their arrival on the ground they found they had no oc ca.ion to draw their arms, unless they first laid two peace-making personages hors de combat. In this dilemma they withdrew, apparently for the purpose of carrying into effect their intention, but finding the officers were determined to follow, they separated, and thus the matter for the present ended. The Earl of Heanoway arrived at Rome on the 13th ultimo. Mrs. LANs Fox has left Lowther Castle, on a visit to the Earl of WISTMORLAND, at Apthorpe. Dr. LIPSCOMBE, Bishop of Jamaica, and Dr. Cots alms, Bishop of Barbadoes, with several Clergymen attached to their respective Sees, will sail for those islands in about a fortnight. We are assured that the Columbus will not come up the River until Tuesday next, which will be a fall spring tide, but will lay at Margate Roads, or the Lower Hope, till then. It is believed that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE• Russ intends shortly to pay off a certain portion of the outstanding Exchequer Bills. The whole amount of these Securities at present is 34 millions, of which four millions, it is said, are to be reduced. A report to this effect was very confidently circulated yesterday, and produced a favourable impression on the Funds, Cuil4(4s hav ing advanced to 961 4 for the Account, at which they closed. The • present premium on Exchequer Bills is from 341*. to 565. bLASGOW COT'TOig•SPINNEIii. FROM THE GLASGOW FREE FRESS. Sunday evening last but one, a body of cotton: spinners assembled in Anderston•walk, just it the limit s of the Royalty, and condlicted themselves in a m ost disorderly manner, setting. at defiance thb police, wh o were sent for, but dared not act beyond their bounds. On Monday, a spinning master was followed by si x operatives into a public.house, and would have be ta assaulted there, but for the interference of the owner. On leaving the house, however, just as he got into the street,. a person tapped him on the• shoulder, %l el turning his head, he received a blow with an instrum en t sufficient to have done for him had it been in the rigl►t place. One of the miscreants is in custody. A ixor girl has been shamefully beaten for continuing to won t ; So late as Friday, some spinners were observed oprosi ;e the windows of a mill-owner, who is endeavou►in g I , carry on his business in defiance of the strike. U:►e of those persons charged a pistol, and gave it into th e hand of another man, pointing up to the house of th e master. Is this to go on ? We call upon every r ain among the cotton•spinners, who has a character to p ie . serve, to endeavour to dissolve this most perti:ccois combination, or else to break at once from its shackles, and set it at defiance, relying on the protection of the aws, and the countenance of his fellow•citizeres. A strike is a desperate remedy, and ought to be the last thing resorted to—and never resorted to but in a desperate case. It is incredible upon how slight carries this strong and hazardous measure has teen adored. When we stated hypothetically, the other day, the ca•e of cotton-spinners entering the counting-houses of tl.tir masters, and demanding the dismissal of his clerks,•tte little thought that such a case had actually occurred. Some months ago, we have been-informed, a body of the workers demanded upon certain grounds, that the deli, and carding•masters of a particular establishment should be removed. The cause of complaint was inquired into, the complainants being taken into the office, and the books examined before them, when it was proved to a demonstration that their dissatisfaction was utterly unfounded. Notwithstanding this, they perevered is their demands, with which the master, snorer than pro voke a strike, complied. Two days after, these same workers came for Ward, and stated that they would allow the discarded individuals. to return, being convinced Ant they were innocent of the charges that had been brcri,glit against them !—ln another establishment, a man was paid off for repeated drunkenness and Megalith ' attendance. The rest of the workers would not allow any one else to take his wheels, which consequently stood Lid a spinner from the Shaws was brought in to take charge of them. The spinners came forward in a body, required that this man should be pot away ; but the master resisted, and they instantly struck. The man, conceiving his life to be in danger, deserted the whetl , ; upon which he had been put, but was subsequently brought hack by the spinners, as the master would no: allow them to return to their work without him. Is it not a disgrace to a body of rational men, that business shall he impeded. and embarrassed on pretests so unjust and frivolous as these—that the master of an extensive establishment may be reduced to the di lemma of failing to fulfil his contracts, or else allowing the men who receive his wages to dictate to him as to whom he is to take into his employ, or whom he is to dismiss from it? We ate accustomed, in this country, to lift up our hands and eyes when we hear of the bar. barons Itisli, who will not allow the inhabitants of 4 neighbouring county to settle as farmers or labonTe3 among them—what shall we think when.we are told that the very save kind of thing exists in our own neigiliy , us. hood, among these cotton-spinners ? It is a fact—or c have been most shamefully nrisintormed—it is a fact that the working spinners of Lanarkshire have brought tLe system of exclusion to such a pitch of perfection, that no man but a Lanai kshire man dares enter a mill in this country--an obvious reason for which will be perceived by our readers, when we tell them, that in Lanarkshire the prices are 12i per cent. higher than they are in Ren fiewshire. Now, we have reason to believe that the masters would abandon Me per tentage they demand, if the men would consent to work at Renfrewshire prices— not that the masters want to break the prices of their men, but that they are desirous of giving them an option. We here give a copy of a series of Resolutions en tered into some time ago by the spinners of an extensive establishment in this neighbourhood. The spirit in which this document was drawn up will be sufficiently evident to our readers, and will develope, without any elucidation of ours, the aims of those who framed it : " GRIEVANCES.—We unanimously agree, that we are defrauded in our sizes. We wish the quadrant and reel to be adjusted. We wish seven cops to be rasped, the four top rasps taken off, and the seven next fur the quadrant, as it was formerly. We wish all the fines to be entirely done away with. We entreat you to take these two men back to their wheels, as you see no other man will take them; and we hope it will prove better for you and us both. We have too many masters ; therefore we insist on you to give the power to one man, and we will abide by him if reasonable. We consider that Mr. and are too vigilant, by imposing on the general part of the men; therefore we wish you to give them a reprimand before us. " We consider Mr. to be no judge of his busi ness; therefore, we insist on you to turn him off, and get a man who is a judge of his business. We INSIST that you will make no examples on this occasion, a; we are all involved alike, and will stick to each other if done. Lastly -44 We muse that you will admit no indifferent characters to work among us, and that may not be adreitud with us in inure. Anderstone, 7th Aptil, 1824." The Ayrshire weavers are all profiting by the strike made by the Glasgow weavers against Mr. Hutchison. Such is the demand for that gentleman's work, that it has been found necessary to establish regular agents in all the country towns. The work is so well paid that the webs are disposed of as soon as the agents receive them ; and it is in contemplation to have a large esta blishment in Kilmarnock, with warping mills, &c. for the convenience of the surrounding districts. The wages for weaving were previously paid very low by other houses. In Galston, where there are 420 looms, an agent took an average of the work of the sthok of his weavers, amounting to nearly 200, from June,lB23, to June, 1824, and it came to 7s. 7d. a week, without deducting for 100m -rent, &c. The same agent took an average of his best weavers, and it amounted to 95- a week. Out of the number one man made 271. and the rest about 231. a year. None of these were. Mr. Hut chison's weavers. In Mauchlin, where there are 200 weavers, nearly one-half are working for Mr. H. and their wages average from 13s. to 16s. a week. In New' milns, where there are 700 weavers, they are turning to Mr. Hutchison's work as their webs are finished. . , Li tol 6llil SEDV tORD The ikiedwir Murray ever es 4 trust hi acquair rharact vo l t tc ot frig to defer occasic that he to thos own le necesso it m Canto on the one ca thing% 1, DE Don Ju twfore I re, th' ?nd in so rem but mei ▪ could Cantos sr the of chase an exc might ov letter matte his ov “ I 1 plicate! are licati4nl my col that it bim 11 of the exact I thing to atm theme perrai ever b N( prop porta attea ludei es abasi finge moors if the c no he carri will have me, VS_ artic ticec solve Call I are c lade unto toad othe terra foul that Qui .esta whi but Teri is -fin p a 1 1k al Cl .- b t