Star. — London, England, 1825-01-06 00:00:00

FIiENCH PAPERS.. CIIAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JANUARY 3. ,A 3 the hlinisterl were pir,,ent. tM. de Ville presented the prnjet of a law respecting t to Civil • Aar. 1 The property acquires' by the lite King, and undispnsed of, as well as the Mews of Artois, acquired by the private property of the reigning King, are added to the endowment of the Crown. 2. The Civil list is fixed for all the reign of the King at 21 mil lions (francs), to be paid annually on the order: of the Minister of the Household: 3. Therc shall he paid. moreover, seven millions annually as an appamge to the Princes and Pi incesses of the 'loyal Family. 4. The property restored to the House of Orleans, in execution of tlie.Royalordininauces of 'lay leratnk2o, and September 17, and 0... t 7, 1824, and arising front the appare erected in 1661, 1672, e--. 1 I siSI2 for M onsieur, broih?r of Louis til,V. for him aild hi: de imams in the male line, shall continue to lie possessed on the iitleand cooditinn, by the head of the branch of Orleans till she eztinc ' of the male line, in which event they shall return to the &ate. S. A sum of six millions is to be paid for toe obsequies of the late Eine, and the coronation of the reigning King.—(To be discussed on Wodoteday.) bl.de Martignac presented the bill for . indemnifying theemigi ants, entitle4, l • Draught of law on ilu indem nity to be glanced to The former proprietors of real property (birsufreds) coufiscatt.d and snlJ for the profit of the St.tte, in execution of the laws on emigrants. - 'Title 1. Arntatiiitt and nature of the indemnity. ART. 1. There is allowed an indemnity la Frenchnien, - foriner proprietors of I nded property Attune in France, confiscated and sold to dr pro!it of the State, in execution of the LAW concern ing etnigris. E. For prop r'y sold the indemnity shall be an amount of three. per cent. stock quit to 20 times the revenm: ascertained by the • proces-vc bans o, adjudication. ' 11 Bete we le vcone Ai not estimated, the indemnity • is to be equal to the amount of sa'e, makinz allowance for the del retri--t.al i -- 01 1 of A•signats. 3. Where the relatives in the ascending line bought the property, the indemint y is the real value of the payments by them. 4. Where the former proprietors or their reprerentativrs have re purchased, the • ' milky is the real %aloe they have paid. 5. The revues thre-e jro cent. given as indemnity. shall be deli vered to the former proprietors or their represematives, in fifths in live years, to bear intei est irom the time of r Ite delivery. 6. A credit of 30 midicns of rentes is placed at the disposal of the Minister of Finance. to be inscribed in the bellowing order : Nix millions ... June 22, 1825 Six millions ... June 22, 1828 Six millions ... June 22, 1826 Six million, ... June 22, 1829 Six millions ... June 22, 1827 with dividends from the day on which their inscription is authorised. Title 11. regulate the manner—or pteiernng ceaims, and the allowance to be made for debts due on the estates, and deli ayed by the authorities at the time of sale. Title 111. declares the law applicable to the represen• tatives of those transported or condemned revolutionaril). Teti@ IV. Property attached to establishments of be nerrcence is provide' for. Title V. The right of creditors only to be considered as far as concerns the capital of their credits. Title VI. Term for preferring claims :—One year for inhabitants of Fiance, 18 months for those in other parts of Europe, and two years for those out of Europe. The Minister of Finance then proposed the follow ing project, uhich has for object to afford the nieans of indemnifying the emigres without new taxes. PROSE? OF A LAW CONCERNING TUE SINKING FUND. AND THE OPTIONAL CONVERSION OF FIVE PER CENT. EENTFS INTO THREE OR FOUR PER CENTS. Ant 1. The remotes acquired by the Sinking Fu n d from its esta blishment up to the 22d of June, 1815, shall not be annihilated nor diverted limn their application to the purchase of the public debt before the 22d of June, 1830. 2. The herder which shall be acquired by the sinking fund from June 22, 1825, to the 22d of June, 1330, shall Le cancelled for the begat of the State, as they are purchasad, as weil as the oesiporu of interest attached to them. 3. Datmg from Alarch 22, 1825, the sums accruing from the sinking fund shall not be applied to the purchase of public stock when the price is above par. 4. The proprietors of Five per Cent. Reties on the State shall have, dating from the day of the publicatioq of the present law till June 29, 1825, the Lanky of demanding from the 31inistry of Fi nance, their conversion into inscription of Renles at the price of 75, and to date from the sante day of the publication of the same law to the 22d of September, 1825, the faculty of requiring this conversion into 41 per cent. at par, with guarantee against reimbursement till the 2251 of September, 1835. The retries so converted shall continue to hear interest • at 5 per cent. till the 22d of December, 182 i . The sums arising from the diminution of the debt under the conversions authorised by the foregoing article, 'hap be applied to the reduction, from the yearlB26, an equal proportional number of hundred p..rts, of the land.tax, personal tax, taxes on moveables, doors, and windows (cuntrifiutiessfonciere, personelle, mobiliaire, et des Fortes eifenetres). To this end a statement of the annual product uf the aiminutinar of these interests shall be drawn up by the Minister of Finance, Ist October, 1825, and Nerve as the basis of a Royal ordonnance, which shall realize on the assessments of 1826, the diminution of impost granted by the present law. (Left sitting). THE GREEKS AND THE TURKS. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. LEG DORN, DECEMBER ES. Several commercial touses have received letters from their corre:eondents at Corfu, dated the first day of this month. They speak of a new naval action between the Greeks and barbarians. The details are not given, but it is certain that some action took place on the 12th or 13th November. It was off Candia that the battle was fought, which may be regarded as one of the most important of the campaign. as Ibrahim Pacha's loss is estimated at 50 ships of all classes. The blockade of Patras has become very strict on the land side. The garrison lately made a sally, which seemed to prom i se success; but when the Greeks thought that the Turks had advanced fir. enough, they fell upon them with their usual impetuosity, killed many; and took a considerable convoy of oleo and ieged had hoped to get into the :late that the Greeks ha.:e begun Patras, and that they have al es maste s of Fort Scattarum. poAtive information on this sub been obliged to fall back upon lost entirely melted away. re renewal of the Greek Govern r quietly, and ended on the 12th the members of the Executive in their places. The Pr esizient of Panazzo Notara, and the Vice of Breste. „ DECEMBER 10. Jed letters from err stantincple of •me public that Ibrahim PACiIA has - of the Sulta-u-to make a despe (ea. He went first rowe&ds Candia coups), but the victorious Greeks knd made him suffer neat the bay of Marmarissa, on the' he labours to repair the damage taken place in the relations of the seemed to promise suc thought that the Turks 1 fell upon them with 11 many ; and took a con sheep, which the belie fc.rtress. Some letters the regular attack of 1 ready made themselves We have, however, no p jeer. Omer Pacha has At to : his corps is alums The elections for the roent paned over very c] • of November. All th • Power are confirmed in the Legislative Body is ] President is the Bishop MASSA, We have just received the sth. It has become not executed the orders rate attempt on the - More (probably to take in trot • came ep with him, and ; • He then took Leine in I • coast of Asia, where h ,cillne to his fleet. • C No change has yet tal t. • Porte with the Minicters of the Chi i-tian Powers, par ticularly with M. Min%iacky. From some expressions that the Reis-Effendi let fall in' a cooversation with a diplomatic character, it 'should even seem that the Ot-, roman Governmeot.attaches but little importance to the arrival of a Russian Ambassador ; and especially if, as is believed, his instructions should enjoin him to inter fere in the affairs of Greece. Some persons go so far as to assert that the RaAs-Effendi has formally declared, that the Porte would refuse to receive any Russian En voy who should be charged to make any arrangements iespe..:ting the existing ci.ntest between it and the Greeks. However, the great Christian Powers are so strictly united, that they cannot attach much import. ance to the resolutions of the Turkish Government. CHILI. The following extract from a private letter from Chili, though of a somewhat old date is interesting : "SANTIAGO 1)E CHILI, AUGUST 46, 1824._ " There has been an unexpected Revolution here. I told you how popular General They re had become, and gave you an outline of the absurd measures he had sanctioned. The consequence • was, that be became the dope of a fanatical party, of which the Bishop.' whom the former Government had basiShed, hut who returned joist before Fieyre to Santiago, was the prime mover. Freyre's Prime Minister, Benevente, native of Conception,- possessing considerable talents, and moth more liberal notions than are common among the wisest of the Chillinos, dies, to him 411 those who professed, .or pretended to enteitain similar .notions, and thus strengthened, made 'propositions to Freyre which lie immediately accepted. placed himself at the head of this pal ty, and effected *change by fa , more stsrpri.ing than any thatilas eve, occur led in this country. His measures were at once si, bold arid.oecisive l as completely to astound add disarm the servile faction. ! 4 Bene‘ente retaii.s his situation of ' Minis.ei of Mai itte and Finance, Freyre that of nominal, or rek, Director; General Prnto, a man of talents, is appointed Minister of State and Wit. The first step Genital Freyre took was to annul the last new Constitution, which in practice was found in be something worse than toeless. He dissolved the Coons it t State and the Se.iate, and declared himse,f itti ahs.•.ute power for three months. at the en f which ti ..e a Congress is to be called : 'he mt-antinie the Prowl. sional Constitution 4, t 1818 is in he so e. Hts 11.11. but by far the boldest sie, wit, the orsnro.nre.i, of the Bishop, and the substitution tit a man to, twin he can, or thinks he can confide, in his place. He seized all theNlonasterial property in_ the countr), and on dered the whole of the Monks to be banished. These are really and truly most astonishing proceedings, and yet they have been decreed without even the slightest she.. of resistance. They have put an immense property into the hands of the Government. Many of the richest estates in Chili belonged to the monasteries, a large por tion of the sea-port town of Valparaiso, and still larger portion of the city of Santiago belonged to the Church. " These eizures, in the present dist, essed condition of the Exchequer, will not only furnish a large supply of money, but will, for some time to come, fun nish abun dant revenues. The poor, easy, quiet, but bigoted Chi linos, crossed their breasts and foreheads, lilted up' their hands, turned up their eyes in amazement, and then sank into their usual apathy. Freyre and his Ministers ma naged their matters with great adroitness. The decrees 'contained the full approbation of the resident Nuncio from the Pups, which at once silenced all shew of oppo sition. The Nuncio is a Chilino, formerly a Friar. He was selected by the late Supreme Director, O'Higgins, and sent to Rome to make his su'inission, as Repre sentative of Chili, on its becoming independent, and re turned home in the character of Nuncio. He has made a pi omise to the Monks, which will never be performed, to convey t them into Secular Clergyman, and to give them Livings. Another no less wise measure has been adopted, in the determination to get rid of the whole of the regular or irregular army, retaining only 500 soldiers and the militia of the Pi ovinces, for the pro tection of the country to the southward, against the Indian natives. Government intend to re-organize the navy, and put it on the most respectable footing pos sible, that it may serve for and secure the national in dependence, which can be attacked in no way but by sea. The mode adopted to get rid of the army, is to send it to Bolivar, in Peru, he having applied for as sistance in this way. • Active preparations are now making to dispatch them. The squadron is getting ready, transports and stores are pieparing, and in a short time the whole of the troops will have left the country. All these extraordinary measures , so opposite' to the prejudices and modes of thinking of the Chilians, have been adopted without the lealt shew of opposition. 44 The Chilinos are certainly a very singular peo ple, they are a most striking contrast to the people on the other side of the Cordillera. Most of the heads of the Convents acquiesced in the new decrees, without even a murmur; the few who ventured to protest against them have been put into close con finement on board the O'Higgins man-of-war, where they have already been forgotten by their supine countrymen. General Blanco has hoisted his flag on board this ship, and everything is going forward with an activity never before known in Chili." Murray. the person apprehended on suspicion of , robbing the Stirling mail, was removed on Friday, from the Police Office to the Calton-hill gaol, Edin burgh, %vitro he is committed for trial. Two extrz-rdinary large eels were last week taken upon the saltings at Steeple, in Dengie Hundred. These monsters of their species there is every reason to believe; to be the fresh water silver eel. That caught on Wec.- nesday se'nnight was seven feet in length, 21 inches in k circumference, and weighed Ally-seven pounds. The (*her, which was taken on Saturday last, was six feet long, larger sound than the former, and weighed sixty two pounds. Nothing equal in size to these eels has been caught on the same part of the coast, or on any other, within our knowledge, for at least 20 years; about which period, one nearly six feet long was taken close to Potman Marsh Wall, about a quarter of a mile from Blalcion-bridge. An American is known everywhere by his attention to women—it matters not who they are—zhigh or low (unless they have negro blood in them). Except in the higher classes, to the higher classes, the English are not. —We have heard an English woman say of a fel low-traveller in a stage-coaah, whom any body would have taken for an Englishman, " No, he is not." " Why, do you , know him ?" " No, I never saw him before." " How can you speak so positively, then?" " How ! didn't I see him:reach one Lady her shawl, and help others into the coach ?" He was an'Antericaa 1 She did not know hica.t 1111-4; EVENING :ITAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1825. ETITUANT.-1101.1DAT AT Till BANE. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVR O'CLOCK. Consols 'opened this morning at 951 for the Account, with very little doing. FOREIGN FUNDS. There is a great deal doing in Mining Shares this morning, which have experienced a further rise. Current Prices : New Spanish —, Old 29M. Russian 96, Mexican 7614, Colombian New 914, Old 904, French Scrip 14 prem. Chilian 854 86, Portuguese 884, Brazilian Scrip 84 pre. Cceom bian Mines 34 55, Auglo Alines 51 53, Marine Alliance 14 2 pre. Alliance Shares 94 pre. Greek 564, Gas par 4 pre. Neapolitan Scrip 14 pre. Buenos Ayres 924 I pre. THE QUARTERS REVENUE. In the STAR of yesterday, we gave, exclusively, a very correct statement of the produce of two of the must important branches of the Public Revenue, for the Qiiarfer ending last night, of which we now pre sent the nfficial returns:— ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the Years and Quarters ended sth January, 1824, mad sth January, 1825, shewing the Increase or Decrease ou each' head thereof. CURS rineD JAN. 5. 1824. i 1 8.25. Customs Excise Stamps .... Post Office Taxes ... Macellaneous Repaymint by Aus tria • .........."•• T0ta1....) Customs Excise Stamps Post Office Tars Miscellaneous Repayment by Aus tria. . ........ Total 13,425,0551 13,571 ; 951,1711 803,171 Deduct Decraue.. 805,171 • I Increase on the Quarteri 146,0001 INCOME and CHARGE oc the CONSOLIDATED FUND, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1824 and 1825. Qua 11121111 MOM) JAN.S. 1824. I 1825. INCOME. Customs Excise Stamps - - - Post Office - - - Taxes - - - Mi4cellitneous - - Repaymeut by Austria - , Tontine 'Money - • - Surplus 3d Cla,s, Civil List, Stc. - 'fu Cash brought to this Account, to re place the like sum issued out of the growing produce of the ;Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for Public Services CHARGE. Exchequer Annuities - - - South Sea Company - - - Bank on their Capital - - - - Dividends . - - - - National Debt - - • - Trustees for the payment of Naval and Military Pensions - - - • Civil List • - - • - Pensions . • - - - • Other Charges . - • • - 10,367,246 10,475,000 • a • a I 3,117,528 .3,517,196 13,484,774 13,982,196 Exchequer Bills issued from the Consoli dated Fund at 10th October,lB24, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund in the Quarter ending sth January, 1825. 1,391,382 Issued out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund, in tarther part of X 14,600,000, granted for the service of the year 1824, per Act 5 Geo. IV. cap. 42. - Surplus at sth Jan. 1825, as above stated 158,894 Total at sth January, 1825, to be pro vided for by an issue of Exchequev,Bills charged on the glowing produce of the aonsolidated Fund, for the Quarter ending sth April, 1825 1,550,276 By comparing the above tables u . .it!) . our statement of yesterday, the correctness of the latter will at once be perceived. The total amount of the Revenue for the Year ending the sth January, 1824, was £19,478,401 ; that of the Year ending yesterday was £50,546,092, exhibiting an increase in the year 1824, over that of 1823, of £4570,958. It is true that there is a set off of a decrease of £1,503,267, occasioned by the repeal of duties, but even when this sum is deducted, there is a net balance of the year of £1,067,691. The produce of the Revenue for the Quarter ending the sth of January, 1824, was 13,425,0551. that for the Quarter ending yesterday, 13,571,055/. being an in crease on the Quarter of 146,0001. and this too in de spite of remitted duties and repealed taxes to so large an amount. The increase in the Excise for the Quar ter just ended, is 793,4311. (or at the rate of more than three millions a year). On the Stamps (notwith standing the repeal of duties on law-stamps) there is an increase of 79,2221. the Post-office has produced 5,0001. more ; the Taxes 41,961.1. and the Miscellaneous 31,5541. There is, however, aileficiency in the Cus toms of 38,5041. occasioned by Ore remission of Silk Duties, and the repeal of taxes on Wood, Silk, Coal, Bcc. - to the am' nnnt, within the year, of 1,150,0( We have already stated the amount of increase on Excise ; and on turning to the several articles, w•e I there has been an increase on almost every branch of it the total increase being r 879,5182, and, the decrease only £85,851, leaving a net increase on the Quarter of 793,1311. The ankles on which there is a decrease are 67,1371. on Licences, 16,9281. on Salt, (owing to re. pealed duties) and alvaut 2,0001. on Cyder, P etry, Starch, Sweets, and Wire. The increase in the Excise for the Quarter just enled, is on Auctions, 14,6521. Beer 57,7811. Bricks and Tdes 48,2131. Candles 4,637/. Glass 12,422/. Hops 31,,,:931. Malt 130,1551. Paper 31,2951. Printed Goods 4.4 Soap 11,6781. Spit its, British, 310,2081. Forei gn 76,4511. Tobacc ) and Snuff 90,7291. Tea 1,5581, The Income of the Consolidated Fund, for the Qua : s er ending sth January, 1824, was 13,484,778/. and th e Charge, 10,367,2461. leaving a surplus of 3,117,5 A The Income of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ending yesterday, is 13,571,0131. and the Chate 10,475,0001. leaving a surplus of 3,517,1981. We have no room for comment, nor is it necessr , r, since nothing can be more gratifying than the si:inrica this country presents at the present moment, in to its finances, and to every branch of commerce. Tile Revenue,. it will be seen, not only covers a deficit cc. casioned by the repeal and 'emission of duties to the amount of about 1,150 010/. in the year, but also )iehli a surplus on the year of 1,067,691. It is true there is the produce of the mou...y repaid by Austria, but deductiq this, there is still an immense sorpks, —The increase, it will be seen, is almost entirety on articles w hich chew, net only the growing prosperity of the country, but prove the impi,,,in g condition of the humbler classes cu society. A re. clueing taxation, and a rapidly improving Ite.em ie _ peace at home and abread —an extensive comii manufactures which outstrip ll the world ext:mt and valueand a thrising Agriculture arethe distinguish. ing feature... of this period, and will mark the reign of his present MAJESTY, as much for its prosperity in peace, as its success in war. To the Administration, the highest praise is certainly due, and we trust it will 1 aig continue . to receive the gratitude and blessings of th e public. . All the Morning Papers of to-day copy the account of the Revenue given exclusively in the STAR of last evening, but not one of them has the candour to state the source to which they were indebted. Three of the Papers, however, state that they copy it fr m an " Evening Paper; but all the other Morning Pape's either give it without any acknowledgment, or muti late it, in order, we presume, to prevent detection. One Journalist, who is extremely sensitive on plagiarism, gravely prefaces our account by saying, " We alluded some time ago to the improvement that had taken place in the Revenue, for the Qua' ter ending yester day." It would have been but fair had this Jour,saliat stated that all his formei allusions, as to the Revenue, were founded on the statements, which, from time to time, had previously appeared in the STAR. This forenoon we received .a fi!e of the Allgemeige Zeitung to the 29th ult. They contain no news, but state, that :Messrs. WILKINs and lionrmall, arrested oa suspicion of being concerned in treasonable associations, are still in confinement. Til forenoon we received Lisbon Gazettes from the 20th to the 25th ult. They contain a Royal Ordon nance, conferring on the Members of the Chapters of the Metropolitan, Church of Evora, the title of Sea horia. The 24th ultimo being the birth day of one of the Princesses, it was celebrated with the usual honouis. We have for several days past been in constant er• pectation of receiving the speech of the President of the United States, on opening Congress. It is now believed that the Diamond, from New York, which was lost in Cardigan Bay on Mortally, brosght a copy of this document. Charleston Papers to the 9th Dec. have arrived; they do not contain a Word of news, worth quoting. Lord GRAVES is returned to Bishop's Court, from a shooting excursion at the seat of the Marquis of Anot.zsita. Sir TimmAs and Lady ACLAND have been spending their Christmas at Holnicote, Somerset. The Duche s s of Kawr and the Princess F . moose honoured the performances at Drury-Lane Theatre, yesterday evening with their presence. Mr. LITTLEw 00D, a King's Messenger, 'was sent off from the Foreign Office, on Friday evening, to Madrid. A loving pair, on Wednesday se'nnight, were about to be joined in the fetters of holy wedlock, at Poltimore, the h7.des maids and a host of friends were in attendance at the church to witness the ceremony. After waiting a considerable time Or in quiry was made " Who had requested the attendance of the par son ?" The bride of course had not—the bridegroom has neg lected it—messengers were dispatched in every direction to f.::1 the Rev. Curate, but in vain; and the expectant fair one, suffused with tears, was compelled to retire till Thursday, when the tiap:i..ls were celebrated. ADELPHL THEAThE.I--ThiS hduse pow nightly pre sents a pleasing spectacle of right merry holiday faces, expauded by the heartiest laughter during the representation of both the Lite of an Actor, and the new Pantomime of Mother Red C.p. Tile performers of both pieces being now mellow in their char:cterss leave no rub nor botch" is their work. The former piece holds out an excellent warning to those who are infatuated Viith the ap parent pleasures of the stage, whilst the latter is amusing in the ' highest degree. General Batuassrertos had a private audience of the DAUPHIN on Saturday. Friday seinnight, being the anniversary of the birth of Mance, son and brit of the Right Honourable Lord Givenve. upwards of fifty of the Members of the Strathearn Dighland So ciety, of which his Lordship is Chieftain, assembled in the Free masons' Hall in Muthill, to drink " to the health, honours, sed prosperity of the young heir' of Perth." The company present were all dressed in full Highland costume, and during the evening testified in the true Highland way their attachiii.-nt to a family so deseivedly popular as the Noble House of Perth. Friday, the T..ouu Puov.)“ of Edinburgh received a respiae, during his %MTV's pleasure, Itsr the odor tuuate lad,Carybdi,lately coadeuincd for street robbial 3,517,196 . M 3,8311 3,679 97,708 97,704 89,12 b• 29,125 8,518,353' 8,505,193 1,211,700 1 1,211,800 212,500' 91,652 142,377 212,500 90,477 264,522 I 1 Increase. Decrease. 1,733,333 966,666 - I 166,691 1,156,816 390 476 57.000 ... 1,266,807 ... i 69,769 I X. I 10,406,4610; 10,259.739 23,956,4671 25,115,283 6.362,620, 6 753' 096 1,3/17 : 000 1 1:444,0 00 6,188,8771 4,922,070 410.340 340,571 50,546,092 2,570,9581,503,267 Deduct Decrease... 1,503,267 i 49,478,401 1 llncrease on the Year £ 4107/111.TZRS DDID JAW S. 1824. I 1825. X. 2,853,345 5.647,132 1,556,810 361,000 1,946,0841 94,0171 2,814,841 6,640,563 1,636,032 366,000 1,988,048 125,571 766,6671 1,067,691 41 Increase. 'Decrease. ... 793,451 79,242 ,C. 39,504 2,565,317 5,842,075 1,556,810 361,000 1,946,089 94,018 766,667 11,465 7,184 334,154 113,484,774 i QUA IMEILS 1 1 1824. 2,814,799 6,640,563 1,636,032 366,000 1,988,048 125,571 11,40() 1 ,100 408,683 113.992,196 .HOLD J AN. 5• I 1825. e , kJ . Iv] de •!1 be b N bl