Star. — London, England, 1829-11-07 00:00:00

:~ ground, saying, " Thou art no Ciiiiihow, but degraded to be— sobody !" mad they were not restored till an -appropriate apology was mad*, and evidence of repentance bad been given. Once, pauing over one of the squares of Sc. Petersburgb, be came in contact with an old ofilcer, who unintentionally, and without my acquaintance with the Prince's person, joked him ; 1M Prince be came angry, and, notwithstanding the apologies of the AM. or dered hint to be put under arrest for six days. It cants to the Emperor's ears, who summoned the Ater to the Palace, but the officer was exceedingly anxious to shield the Prince from punish ment, and to find an excuse for his precipitancy. The Emperor, however, compelled the Tooth to make an ample apology, to solicit forgiveness, and ordered him to be confined and kept on bread and water for seven days. Such facts as these are very illustrative of character, and throw much light upon the social circle of the Im perial house. THE EVENING STAR. )/(' • t ‘ -4.* • cL_Nb . y- EN 4 ei .0 ATIS 4- ui • LON DON. rOVEMBER 7. AT TWO O'CLOCK. India Bonds 64 61 South Sea Stock New Anntddes 411000 Bads. Bills (2d.) 71 .1500 Ditto 75 6 43100 and .2200 Ditto 75 6 -Commercial, Bank for Acct. Cons. for Do. flie • FOItBIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Bonds, 5 pr Ct. 661 Port. Bds. 5 p. Ct. Do. Acct.. 664 Ditto Acct. 50 Milian Bonds, 6 per Ct. Rats. Bds. 1222,$ p Ct 100 Do. Acct. 22# BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO frcLoCK. SATURDAY, PRTCB OF STOCKS Bank Stock 2141 14 3 per Cent. Red. 901 3 per Ct. Cons. 911 1 1 31 per Ct. 19191 99 31 per Cent. Red. 991 9 4 per Ct. 103/ 1 1 1 4pr Ct. 1929, 1 051 #4l 5 Long Ann.l9l 13-16 the I■dla Stock 2241 4 DNA at PAID. Brazilian, Imp. (is.. 45 pm.) 35 20 Do. National 25 10 .! • ,!'" us MAIM 141 1 This morning despatches were received at the Colonial Office from the Earl of CHATHAM, Governor of Gi braltar; and from Lieutenant-General the Honourable F. C. Powson BY, the Governor at Malta. The dispatches from Gibraltar are dated the 12th of October, and those from Malta the 18th of September. We have received several enquiries, on the subject of our late notice of Lord GROSVENOR. A correspondent, who signs himself A WHIG OF THE OLD SCHOOL, de sires to be informed whether we intended—in our article on the proprietary boroughs—to recant or qualify aught which we had pronounced of censure upon the Noble Earl, in our comments upon the Chester dinner ? De cidedly not. It is true that our observations upon the borough system arose collaterally out of that occurrence, inasmuch as a Member of the Cheshire Whig Club— imagining us to have wronged Lord Gaosv exon in some essentials—called upon us to do reparation to the Noble Earl, and also to correct a mistake into which we had fallen, relative to the identity of Mr. DAVIES DAV Elf PO RT. We published, therefore—as we were bound to do—the letter of this last correspondent, and our lead ing remarks for that day were addressed to a few of its principal points: but it will be seen by a reference to the STAR of the 12th and 13th ultimo, that the con cessions which we made to the Noble Earl in his capa city of borough-master, did not in any way alter, or affect the condemnation which we had pronounced upon his subserviency to the Noble Duke. In that condemnation we inflexibly persevere. It is pernicious example for those who cannot afford— within any approachable degree—to be as honest as my Lord GROSVENOR can, to see the Noble Earl fas cinated from the path of political rectitude, and pros trating his high state amid the crowd of meaner syco phants, before the shrine of despotic ascendency. The condition of th 9 country, perhaps, was never—since the expulsion of the House Of STUART—SO critical as at this conjuncture : and if, in addition to the various oppressions derived from excessive taxation, and all the ramifying details of go vernment unconstitutionally administered, the people 'are to witness one by one the secession from them of their most prevalent and influential friends, it is easy to see that they will not bear it much longer. For the effect of these great desertions, will be to throw them directly on their own resources ; and so soon as they once perceive that they are left alone—with no alter native between abject misery, and the strenuous re assertion of their rights-their union will be simultaneous and overwhelming. It never did take place yet—an union such as that which we now contemplate.—and fail to bring the crest of tyranny to the ground. But we shall recur to these considerations more fully. It will not be out of place here, to notice the postscript of the MEMBER OF THE LATE Wnio CLUB, which —in our anxiety to reply to some of his major points—we overlooked on Tuesday. " I under stand"—says our correspondent—" the suppression of Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT'S letter was entirely ac cidental, being a mere oversight of the Chairman's amid the hurry of other business." ...Now, we beg onr corres pondent to ask himself the simple question, whether it is likely, that a letterbreathing the glorious principles which Mr. DAVENPORT'S letter bresithed• -.could, at such a Meeting as that of the Chester Whig Club, assem bled too for the express purpose of making its annual political ' professions, have been accidentally thrown aside? Our respected Correspondent will not—we should think—on re-considering the importance of that letter, persevere in his insinuated opinion. If Mr. TOLLETT could IN, guilty of such an, inadvertence, the Honourable Gentleman is utterly unfit for the high presidency with which he was invested : but if he could be capable of its suppression, we know not •the term in all the la:Kliegs of exprobration, -sufficiently strong to stigmatise the moral enormity. • We call upon hiss to explain the (=lesion. A Morning . P,iper, _pulling in the wake of the Times, whose doctrinsirof" State necessity" concerning the re cognition s( Don Idiom we have already held up to public 62 :1 4 u , and Oloqatibag 1 (aims .4 6 radon with the following paragraph at the close of a laboured com mentary on the relative position of England with regard to Portugal:-- " It is futile to urge objections to a termination of the present suspense by a reference to the personal demerits of an individual; international concerns of overwhelming importance are not to be kept unsettled until a claimant wholly unexceptionable in character can be disicovered. Besides, it is perfectly easy to renew our amicable rela tions, in so far as the interests of British subjects may require, without at all compromising the reputation of our Cabinet by any step that could be strained into an approval of Usurpation." The writer might have saved himself some time and trouble by merely copying the passages from the Times, to which we have replied, since they are an exact echo to the sentiments of his contemporary. Having already so frequently given our opinion—as well as those of the most enlightened of the Portuguese patriots, on the whole subject, it is not our present intention to recapitu late many unanswerable'arguments. Nevertheless, we would ask the writer, what gave rise to the long coalition against NAPOLEON, but the " personal demerits" attributed to that extraordinary man by the Allied Sovereigns ? That he was the choice of the great majority of the French nation will not be denied : while it is notoriously the reverse, in the instance of the Portuguese usurper. Upon the facility of renewing our " amicable relations as far as British subjects may require," we are not less at `variance with the Morning Chronicle. We flatly deny the possibility of securing British subjects from insult and persecution, or British property from being wantonly seized and sequestrated, under a wretch who has fur nished such repeated proofs of his total disregard of both : or rather, such a settled determination to seek every pretext for their spoliation and annoyance. We are most impatient to see the whole of the Portuguese question brought before Parliament, and entertain the sanguine hope that there is still sufficient patriotism and public spirit left, to redeem England from the deep disgrace which a flagitious Ministry has entailed on her throughout the whole civilized world. When we remind our readers that this advocacy—se important to the oppressed Portuguese, and so inte resting to Europe generally—has been undertaken by Mr. DAVIES DAVENPORT, they will at least feel with us thathope is not yet fiedfrem the cause of constitutions. In reply to several letters we have received concerning the improvement in the mode of fitting ships rudders, made by Captain Liu ou, of the Navy, and to which we called the attention of the nautical world some days ago, on account of the extreme importance of the inven tion, and facility of its application ; we are now enabled to inform our correspondents, that one of the ships pre pared on the new principle, will be launched from the building yard of Messrs. CURLI)IO and YOVNO, Lime house, on Saturday next, the 14th . instant. We need not say that an invention so calculated to become emi nently useful, is entitled to the particular attention of naval and mercantile men. We bawd the Allgen:thee Zeitung, and Frankfort Papers to the 31st ult. this day. By our extracts from the former, it will be observed that Pius has succeeded, by virtue of a special commission, in the conviction and condemnation of the Society of Carbonari that annoyed his territories for such a length of time. ROME, OCT. 2!. The Special Commistioo appointed by the Pope to try the mem• bers of a Society of Carbonarl arrested In the Spring, who were twenty-six in number, after the most mature investigation and bearing of Comm], passed sentence a; the end of last month. Don Joseph Plant, of Maddelooa, as being an old sectarian, and Grand Master of a new Lodge of Carban►i, founded in Ream la 182$, was sentenced to death ; one Is sentenced to imprisonment In a fort for life; thirteen others for various periods, from twenty to live years; ten were dismissed, on engaging to appear again if called upon ; and one foreigner was ordered to leave the Papal dominions. The Pope has commuted the sentence of death passed on the priest Phalli into Imprisonment for life in fort Se. Lao. Of the criminals arrested at Bologna two have been dismissed with a slight punishment, the others executed : the number of the latter is differently stated; by some at five, by others at three. Our Journals take no notice of this affair. We learn that the regulation of the episcopal dioceses in Dal matia and Dlyria is now determined. Their number is fixed at six (not seven,as was at first reported). Goritz is to be the See of the Archbishop. The post of Nuncio, in Switzerland. filled by Monsignor Osttni. who embarked about a mouth ago for the Brazils will, it is thought. remain vacant for some time. Monsignor Et golini, hitherto at the bead of the Military Administration, will. It is said, go to Florence, and be socoseded In his post here by Monsignor Toad, Secretary to the Congregation who is commis stoned to revive the ordinances tensed under the late Government. The Pope has presented to the Santa Casa, at Loretto, a golden goblet weighing 1 Mb& of which Mossistoor Sala is consmissimied to be the bearer; and to the Church of &Dion, the native plant of his Holiness, six candlesticks of bronze gilt. Cardinal Alban!, the Secretary of &ate, was promoted by his Majesty the Kloy of Na. plea, with a milaabk analf-boa. The King. during his stay bees, bought mosaics and other works of art to the amount of 16,000 scodL—Alganekse ibilvieg, OM 81. MUNICH. Om S. The King's health continues to improve ; but as account of the cold and foggy weather which just now prevails, his Majesty will not leave bis apartments for souse days. The report that has been spread by some Journals that his Ma jesty's poems have been prohibited in Austria, has received no confirmation whatever. We can likewise contradict upon good aathotity, as wholly groundless, the 'martial of several Jouroals,- that the sew organisation of the schools is not yet to be carried into erect: HANOVER, Ors U. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Bavaria arrived en the 11341 inst. from Mantels, at Gottingen, to prosecute his attalloit at that Univarsity.—Franiort Prim, Ost. 51. At the audit of the Earl of EGILEMONT for his Aaram and Leconfield, &c. estates, held on the 20th nit. He forgave the rents of all his tenants who had their crops drowned. To others, who had not su ff ered so much, hs returned in proportion ' - and to those who had suffered nothing, he returned them 10 per cent. Earl FITZ W ILLIAIII has returned to Wentworth-house from his seat, Milton Abbey, near Peterborough. No less than forty game cocks* have been stolen from different cock-walks, belonging to the Earl-of since Christmas last. FOR THE STAR. NOBODY. 'S I am NOMOIDT, and my breath, Soon as it is born, bath death." B. Jenson. We've all beard of NOBODY'S pranks, Invindble, peerless, and clever; He votes Ministers motions of thanks. And 'tie known that his fife lasts for ever. At the Bga, he, greet kegs, pleads; • In the Nay:, no storms can assail him ; And the world—as the first of kis deeds, May our Wetzutorog's congiserer hail him. Tho' the sun of his glory has set, Aid Senators thwart and defeat him, Ha Gages neer wifi let us forget ds a General, Nanny beat him. When be vies with Tie Dune in extremes, As a Minister, Monogr** weaker; More abortive Wale NOSIODY'S DAMP And Namur's worse as a speaker.— In opinions on matters of State, It is said that Nogoor's more nsulebh ; And when called to take part in debate — 'Ds contest that Masons's more foolish. NOBODY more homage expects; Of trifles, NOBODY'S more saving; And lons BOLL even shrewdly suspects, Monogr's more food of enslaving. If tired of that perilous station, Which Nosier thinks he has wit for; And excepting am man in the Nation, Why, Roans thought he was fit fore-- In his pride, he'd " remit and resign," As a Statesman, NOIODY'II deplore him; And for fear that the State should decline, He'd and Nosowr glad to restore him ! PETER SCHLEMIEL. Nye. 6,1121. TABLE TALK, MITOAMIL, POLITICAL, MUMMA and 80110BOUS. Pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, soda dose without impudeney, learned, without opinion, and strange without beresy."-811AILITIAltn. MILITARY GOVERNMENT ODlOUS.—Although Au- GUSTUB considered a military force as the firmest foun dation, he wisely rejected it as the most odious system of Government. It was more agreeable to his temper, as well as to his policy, to reign under the venerable names of ancient magistracy, and artfully to collect, in his own person, all the scattered rays of civil jurisdiction.— Gibbon. . PATRIOTIC Pal nz.—When Cu Alan V. desired the Marquis de VI LI. ini a to lend his house to the rebel CON STABLE DE BOURBON ; the Castilian replied that " he could not refuse gratifying his Sovereign in that request ; but that his Majesty must not be surprised if, the moment the Constable departed, he should burn to the ground a house, which, having been polluted by the presence of a traitor, became an unfit habitation for a man of honor. " SINCERITTam.A CARDINAL VIRTUE...24ft! the death of PorE CLEMENT XII. when the Cardinals were deliberating upon the election of a successor to the Papal chair, LameaaTnn, in order to hasten their decision, said to them, " Why do you waste your time in discus sion? If you wish for a Saint, elect Gorri,—a politi cian, choose ALDROVANDUS 7,--41, good companion— choose me." They did so, and he became POPE Buis- DICT XIV. ORIGIN 07 THE WORD " BIGOT." When ROLLO, Duke of Normandy, received GLISSA, daughter of CHARLES the Foolish, in marriage, together with the investiture of that kingdom, he would not submit to kiss the foot of CHARLES • and when his friends urged him to comply, ho answer ed in English, "Nese by God !" on which the King and his party deriding him, and cor ruptly repeating his answer, called him " Bigot."—CAM DEN'S " Remains." MAGNANIMITY.-.-MARCUS AURRLII7S ANTOXINUS regretted that AVIDIUS CASSIUS, who excited a re bellion in Syria, had disappointed him, by a voluntary death, of the pleasure of converting an enemy into a friend.—Gibbon. TOMB OF A TOOTH.•-•••When MAHOMMED 111. ar rived before Arinkil, there happened to be a plague in that city, by which he lost a great part of his army. He himself had a violent struggle for his own life, and was obliged to leave one of his Omrahs, AHMED, to command the army, and return towards Dowlatab ad. On the way, he was seized with a violent tooth-ache, and lost one of his teeth, which he ordered to be buried with much ce remony at Beir, and a magnificent tomb to be reared over it, which still remains, a monument of human vanity and folly.—Dow's Hindostan, v. H. NATURAL APPEAL.—When SHAPTESBURY (author of the " Characteristics") attempted in the House of Lords to advocate the Bill for granting Counsel to Pri soners in cases of High Treason, he was confounded, and for some time could not proceed ; but, recovering him self, he said, " What now happened to him would serve to fortify the arguments for the Bill. If he, innocent as he was, and pleading for others, was dau nted at the augustness of such an assembly, what must a man be who should plead before them for his life 9" FEES OP Ovricz.—When ADDISON WS$ 111 Office he made a law to himself, as SWIFT has recorded, never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends. " I may," said he, " have a hundred friends; and if my fee be two guineas, I shall - by relinquishing my right, lose two hundred_ guineas; and no friend will gain more than two." SOBIZ TRUTH..—" A fellows being drunks, was brought before a Justice, who committed - him to prison; and the next day when hes was to be discharged, he was come .to the Justice again, who amid to him, " Sirrah, you ware not drunks the last night."—" Your Worship says true;" said the fellow. " Yea, but you were drunke," said the Justice ; " and you did abuse me, and said I was a wise Justice." The fellow re ,"If .I said so, I think° I was drinks indeed, and I cry your Worship mercy, for I will never do you that wrong when lam sober."—TsvLou, the `;Water Poet's Wit and Mirth." A JZSUIT.—He sprang from IGNATIVS LOYOLA, & Spanish soldier ; and though he were found out since the invention of the cannon, it is thought he lath not done less mischief. He Is a false key to open Name' cabi nets, and pry into their counsels. In Rome, aid other countries that give him freedom, he wears a mask npori his heart: in England he 'lifts it, and puts it epos hit face: Sir Thomas Overbizry's Characters. • . ADVICE ♦IR WAREIXO.—:-How is it pomade to ox 'pees that mankind will take advice, when airy will. sot• so mach at take wanly ?—Swift CITY. Twine o'CLoev. To the present hoar there Is a general pause In the Coma Mar ket. Consols opened dds morning at the same price they left ed yesterday. 911 for Mersey, and I for the Account; since which they have been quoted at 91j for Money, and 91i for the Account; the Coating° for January Account is 90 per cent. It appears that a large party ei speculators hare been buying for the next Account, and their object Is to carry over the speculadams for January, with an idea that the Funds will experience a further im provement. The Medan pocket, which le elm =dandy looked for. etW remains due. We hare no further information from the Continent worth observation. In the Foreign Market. Mexican Stock is still meght after; in other securities nothing doing. CITY. HALF-PAST ONE. The Feuds have remaioed 'endocarp during the whole of the morales at nif for Mosey, and a for the Account, with little buskins transacting. Canals time improved during this week about a per cent. In the Foreign Market nothing doing, except in Brazil Bonds and Portuguese &oek : the former has rather improved. and the atter remains stationary. The respecting the state of the Co lonial Markets, have lately been so gross, that we shall in future notice their inaccuracy. Last night, papers stated that the East India Company's sales of sugar, 19,000 bags, sold at 235. to 24). 6d. For fine qualities last sale, the same sugars, 30s. to 335. making a fall of • ten per cent. Now the fact is, that the fall . is only 3s. to 48. and the fine, in place of selling at 235. to 245. 6d. as represented, sold at 345. only a trifling mistake of tso per cent. Rice is stated sold higher ;it sold Is. lower, Rum Market stated more firm ; it has been declining for weeks. Persian silks, 10d. per hundred, there never was such a price, and probably never will. Tallow quoted 351 per cwt. there never was such a quotation. The above are only a few of the mistakes, and we shall continue to expose, these gross errors, which are evidently produced by persons giving details of what they are entirely ignorant of. A Malta Mail has arrived this morning, brought by the Sheldrake : sailed from Malta 22d September, from Gibraltar 12th October, and from Cadiz 14th October. Accounts from Manchester state that there is no mate rial alteration in the state of the Markets, and the improved demand for manufactured goods has been fully maintained during the present week, and a to lerably fair business has been done, but without any im. provement in the prices. For Yarns of all descriptions the demand continues. _ _ Accounts from Liverpool state that there has been a steady and good demand for Cotton ; the sales were estimated at upwards of 2,500 bales, and consist of 150 Pernams at 7d. to 76d. 300 Maranhams at 61d. Common Cotton., 100 for export, at 61d. and 6ad. for duty paid ; 100 Bahia at 61 a ; 400 Orleans at 6d. a 7d. and about 1,200 Bowed, and Alabama. at 51d. a 6id. The consumers have been the principal purchasers. Private letters from Paris state that the French Mi nistry were gaining ground, and appeared firm in their situations ; which was not to be wondered at, considering the great privileges they were invested with, and the enormous civil list of 40,000,000 of francs. We are informed that a further reduction of expenses is going to be made in the Navy department. Quebec Papers are arrived to the Ist October, but their contents are not of importance. The frost which took place after the rains has done much damage to the wheat. We do not hear of any news of consequence being re ceived by the Gibraltar and Malta mails. Friday se'nnight, Lord CLIFFORD, accompanied by Sir T. D. ACLAN D, bart. qualified as a Magistrate for the county, at the Castle of Exeter. Hie Lordship is the only Catholic who has yet qualified since the passing of the Emancipation Bill. A metropolitan Evening contemporary has justly de signated the Doneraille Conspiracy " a terrible, wide extended, and oath-bound confederacy against Protes tant life in Ireland."—We admit the terrific truth of this designation ; but in doing so, we protest against the injustice with which the Journalists of the Orange party have arraigned the whole body of Ro man Catholics, for the criminal excesses to which the detected complotters of murder have been incited by means to which we acarcely dare trust ourselves to allude ; we protest against the injustice, the impolicy, and the il liberality of holding up to universal detestation and ab horrence the majority of the population of Ireland, whilst the ambitious and heartless - instigators of popular fury and popular resentment, not only stand aloof from all the consequences which their malignant exasperation has produced, but are suffered, aye, suffered with impunity, to goad their unfortenats. dupes into all the frenzy of su perstitious enthusiasm, and then consign them to the des perate guidance of the evil passions which they have roused into action, and to which they have given a fear tul impetus. 'ln such a criais, shall we be silent ? As suredly not. We have been the honest and the zealous advocates of Emancipation ; we must ever be the advo cates of Constitutional Libel ty ; but we cannot forget that we have duties to perform to our country—to huma nity, and to the cause of , religion. And when we see the laws of that country flagrantly violated ; the common rights of humanity outraged with savage ferocity, and the pure and holy Spirit of Religion profaned ; its sanc tity polluted ; its most sublime essence, its Charity, turned to the very poison of men's souls, and its name and its authority made the pretext, the cloak, and the sanction of deeds of unprovoked vengeance and of cold blooded assassination, we cannot suppress the indignant horror with which we contemplate the details of that conspiracy.—Cheltenham Journal. It was Peter the Great who said that his empire wanted water. Ever since his time it has been the great object of Russia to push her conquests to the bor ders of the ocean. Her empire, on the south, already extends along the Caspian and the Euxine ; whose shores are covered with her cities, and with her naval and com mercial establishments. The Mediterranean, and the rich and celebrated districts which lie between her and it, are now L the object of her cupidity. Her policy has ever been gasping and cruel, 'but cautious and prudent. Site bolds her purpose steadily before her, and pursues it with unshrinking pertinacity, but by gradual and wary steps. The step which at present she contemplates taking in promotion of her views, is the retention of Walachia and Moldavia ; the transfer, in fact, of the limits of her empire from the Pinth to the Danube. The accomplish ment of this object she has effectually secured by the . exorbitant claim which, in the shape of indemnification for commercial losses and for the ebtpences of the war; she has made upon Turkey; no less. it is said, than be tween five and six millions sterling. As, according to all" human probability, it is utterly impossible fee the . Sultan to satisfy a demand of such magnitude, the Fin - cipalities will of course be left in the possession of Ni- Aoki, in the liquidationof the debt.—Shepld Courant.