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"b • VI 1 EVENING STAR. •) . 4.4:41W0N. NEXT THURSDAY, 4,500 TICKETS TO BR DRAWN -ALL WILL BE PRIZES-TWO £20,000, TWO £lO.OOO-TWO £lO,OOO IN THE FIRST FIVE MI NUTES-ALL IN STERLING MONEY. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, • 1820. MicoascaLts-nAY.—Holiday at the Bank. NEAPOLITAN REVOLUTION. The subjoined letter from Naples is from an Eng lish Gentleman of character, and so tar as the facts of which he speaks have come under his own obser vation, may be considered as unquestionable. With regard to Sicily, we may however suspend our belief till we receive farther accounts. It would, indeed, be wise and humane in the Neapolitan Government to acknowledge the independence of Sicily—if indepen dence be really desired by the inhabitants ; but it . does not therefore follow that it has done so ; and the sending of treops to Sicily carries a different com rlexion. We also subjoin some other accounts rela tive to Sicily, •Altich, it will be seen, wear a different aspect from the reports current at Naples on the sth instant: , g NAPLES (A FaArca), SEPTEMBER S. "Mr DEAR SIR—I have this morning received letters and papers from Palermo, down to the 27th ult. Everything in that city was perfectly tranquil, and the Independent Army had nearly conquered the whole of the island, but not without consider able bloodshed ; to prevent the farther effusion of which, I was this morning informed that our Go vernment has acceded to the Independence of Sicily. —I cannot, however, certify the correctness of this report, but it- has reached me through such a channel that I can scarcely doubt its accuracy. . " Ilere cverytam7., remains in the utmost state of tranquillity ; nor has the peace (If the city, or the common transactions of trade, been at all disturbed or of:structed by the really wonderful Revolution that has taken place here! The observations in your ** * * Ministerial Papers, the Costlier and the New Times, relative to this Revolution, amuse us amazingly.— Unfortunately, for the credit of those Papers, they are a tissue of falsehood from one end to the other. —HoW any men who pretend to have correct infor mation, and whose duty it is not to mislead the Public, can publish such unauthcnticated honsense, is to me matter of astonishment; as the Editors must be aware that any one at all connected with this country, could easily detect the incorrectness and falsehood of their statements. " So far from this Revolution being brought about by military despotism, it has emanated entirely from the people; and a greater or more decided proof of what I state, cannot be conceived, than that, when the new Constitution was proclaimed, the Civic Guard seas placed in all theforts and other strongplaces, along with the Military! and that General Reim bad, at the time he marched upon Naples, an army of upwards of 100,000 men ! composed of landed proprietors as Officers, with their tenantry as privates. " What will the degraded part of the Press say to this? Yet this account, strange as it may seem to them, was published in the Neapolitan Government Papers; and there is no doubt of its being perfectly correct." NAPLES, SEPTEMBER S. " We are assured that the fleet sent against Pa lermo has received orders to summon the city once more before employing force. It is to be hoped that the words of peace and conciliation will yet be listened to."—Monileur. G T.N 0 , SEPT. 16. " The last Spanish courier uho arrived from Naples has reported, that Palermo had surrendered to a Neapolitan fleet with 8,000 troops on board.— It is rumoured that Palermo is to enjoy some privi leges by virtue of the capitulation made." , g LEGHORN, SEPT. 17. " Extract from a private letter:—' A report is in circulation that the city of Palermo, satisfied with the concession of some privileges, has renounced its Indopendence. This news requires confirmation. " Letters from Naples state, that the Members of l tlle Sicilian Deputation had left that city on the sth, charged with the ultimatum of the Neapolitan Go vernment. We have had no news here direct from Palermo pesterior to the 2Gth August." SPAIN. MADRID, SEPTEMBER 14. On Tuesday last, the 12th, there arrived a courier extraordinary from Andalucia, with the aews that on the fith and 7th instant there had been a movement at Seville, nearly similar to that which we had here at the commencement of this month. Captain-Ge neral CYlionoju had ordcted all the Patriotic So clefts of that city to be closed. We have not as yet Amy other details en this affair. On the same day, the 12th, at night, General O'Dorx . ju had ordered that the half of the troops of , the garrison should remain under arms all night, and that the other half should be ready at a moment's whining. The patrols of cavalry and infantry have bona reinforced. MADRID, SEPTEMBER 12. We learn from Gibrakar, that Tetuan, Sarache, Tansim, and the neighbourhood, enjoyed perfect health t , that i n R a b at " t h o e s h the plague had ceased, from eight to ten l, persons died daily of fevers usual at this season, the malignity of which was increased by the bad water of the wells, which the inhabitants were obliged to 'drink, because the Moors of the mountains had cut off the supplies with which they usually furnished them. The plague prevailed in the neighbourhood of De hucemas, though without committing great ravages. No positive information had been received from Mo rocco and l‘logadore, but it was affirmed that those places were at length freed from this destructive disorder. The Captain-General of Cadiz has published a statement of the number of sick ; and at Xeres, from the morning of the 20th to the morning of the 29th, of thirteen patients with the yellow fever, four died on the 27th, and two on the 28th ; three others bad been seized with the disorder, so that the number of sick was ten. Of common disorders there had been 175 patients, of whom only one had died. It ap pears, that in the fourteen days which have passed since the first appearance of the fever at Xeres, twenty persons have been seized, of whom ten have died. PARIS, SEPTEMBER es. We have received from the frontiers of Spain the sorrowful news that the yellow fever has re-appeared in Andalusia. The official advice of it arrived at Barcelona on the I . 3th instant. A cordon has been established before Xeres de la Frontera. It is said to have been ascertained, that at Cadiz one individual had died of the malady ; as also that the contagion had manifested itself in the Isle of Leon, and at Port Sainte-Marie. Orders have been given for th'e' most rigorous execution of the measures of preserva tion, which have been put in force in the frontier de partments of Spain, and those bordering on the Medi terranean. The land frontier is watched with care. CORUNNA, SEPTEMBER 15. I have letters from Opoito, dated the 7th instant, stating that the constitutional cause cannot be in a better way of complete success, and there is no doubt that Lisbon will declare in its favour so soon as the first columns of the national troops, which are march ing upon that city, appear. General Silveira (Conde de Amarante) has been abandoned by all his troops, and he has fled to Verin, in the frontiers of this province (Galicia), accompa nied by two servants, and he will arrive in this city this evening, having received permission from our hospitable Government to that effect. By the latest accounts from Madrid, everything was going on very well then ; Count Toreno, and the other Deputies who figured in the late debates of the Cortes, have the people's gratitude for their manly and energetic conduct on the occasion. Riego is always looked upon as the country's great hero. PORTUGAL. We have received from Oporto a series of the Diario A'acional, the official Paper of the Junta of the Provisional Government, from the sixth to the eighth Number, inclusive. The latter was the last Paper published, as the Government Printing-office and some adjoining houses were consumed by fire on the 9th instant. The private letters from Oporto are to the 14th, when the troops were on their march to Lisbon. We have subjoined some extracts : the valedictory Address of the Provisional Junta, pre vious to their quitting Oporto for Lisbon, is an inte resting production; as is also the Appeal to the Na tion regarding the views of the Lisbon Regency, in their hasty determination to convene the Cortes, when, only three days before, they had declared that they were not possessed of competent powers. The Revolutionists are determined not to be duped : they demand to have their ancient laws and charters re stored, and—above all—security for the future. FROM THE DIARIO NACIONAL, NO. 7. It has been reported in this city that some of the English Officers resident in it have expressed their disapprobation of the noble resolution which has been adopted for saving our country, and of the means employed for that purpose. It is difficult for us to believe that men of honour and prudence, who cannot be ignorant of the delicate situation of affairs, would abuse the generous treatment they have received from the Portuguese, even to the violation of the sa cred rights of hospitality. But it is to be hoped that the wise and vigilant Government which directs our affairs will not tail to pay attention to this important subject ; and that, if the rumour should prove true, those energetic measures which the case requires will be resorted to. FROM THE DIARIO NACIONAL, NO. 8. Official Dispatch transmitted to the Supreme Government by Camp-Marshal Antonio dc Lacerda Pinto da Silveira, from his Head quarters at Villa-Real. " His Excellency the Conde de Ainarante, Mili tary Governor of this Province, has convoked a Mi litary Council, in which it was unanimously decided to recognize and proclaim the Provisional Junta Of the Government of Oporto, with all due solemnity, to-morrow, the 7th, at nine o'clock. By order of the Council and his Excellency I transmit this informa tion to you, as Military Commandant of the District, idorder that you may, without delay, make known in your city the decision of his Excellency and all the troops t 4 this garrison. All the orders for the National and Royal service which his Excellency may wish to be executed, must be transmitted to this place.—GoD preserve your Excellency. " Awronio SALINAS DE BENEVIDES, Colonel of the 6th Regt. of Cavalry. " Chaves., in Council, Sept. 6. " To the illustrious Senor Juao Antonio Teixeira de S. Palo." " Pedro Pacheas Pereira has offered to the Su preme Government fifteen horses for remounting the Police Cavalry. This offer, which will probably serve to induce many other persous to im patriot, has been acceptei." worthy . - These Papers contai n a number of official do. ctiments. Colonel Manuel Pinto da Silveira gives, in two letters, an account.of his arrival at Coimbra, and of the taking of the oaths to the new Government, by the troops and the inhabitants, on the 31st of August. All the persons of distinction belonging to the town were present except the Bishop, who was absent hi= indisposition, but was represented by his Secretary. At night the town was illuminated. On the 4th instant the troops at Villa-Real, and the inhabitants of that place, declared for a Junta and a Constitutional Govenunent. On the 3d, a squa dron of the 10th Regiment of Cavalry, under the command of Captain Bernardino Mascarenhas da Rosa, had declared for the national cause, and was to join the troops of Oporto next day. This squadron was expected to be followed by other corps. Colonel Alexandre Alberto de Serpa writes from Villa-Real, under the date of September 6, that the national troops there had been joined by two squa drons of the 6th Regiment of Cavalry, commanded by Major Joao Pinto ; a battalion of the 12th Infantry, commanded by Captain Beulo Viesa ; and the Chaves Regiment of Militia, commanded by Lieutenant-Cu lonel Francis Xavier. The Students of the University of Coimbra, wishing to give a testimony of their attachment to the na tional cause, have offered to serve in the army. Two cavalry Officers, who had been employed as spies by the Lisbon Government, are said to have been taken at Coimbra. The Junta sent them back to Lisbon, desiring them to give the Regency foil information of everything they had seen. DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED BY TIIE PROVISIONAL JUNTA, PREVIOUS TO THEIR QC Irf ING OPORTO FOR LISBON. " Isorastrarrrs OP OPORTO !—The Provisional Junta of the Supreme Government owes to you its most warm and unfeigned acknowledgments, not only for the efficacious co-operation with which, in so many ways, you have aided the holy cause of our country, but also the truly honourable spirit with which you have preserved tranquillity and regularity in your proceedings, from the memorable day of our glories up to the present time. " With pleasure the Junta complies with this grateful duty. It withdraws from among you with regret, but according to the general wishes it is necessary to approach nearer to the theatre where these will have their last effect. Till, however, this happy period arrives, the Junta leaves among you a Committee, com posed of three of its own Members, worthy of its perfect confi dence and of yours, with whom the Junta leaves powers to deter mine and order everything circumstances may require. " The Junta will never desist from its present projects, nor in the smallest degree swerve from the road chalked out. Each ace of its Members would rather spill the last drop of his blood than think of abandoning a cause in which their henour, your glory, and the felicity of the whole nation are involved. Remain tranquil and firm. The Junta will never forget your patriotic virtues, and will never let slip any opportunity of promoting the just interests of your great, honoured, and faithful city. Rely on the love it professes towards you, and on its unalterable sen timents. [Signatures.] " Oporto, Palace of Government, Sept. 10, 1820." PROCLAMATION OF THE PROVISIONAL JUNTA TO THE PORTUGUESE NATION. " Poartroorsx !—The Provisional Junta of the Supreme Go vernment now, more than ever, has occasion to address you with sincerity and frankness. It would not be necessary in your eyes to justify the motives of the resolutions taken, and the assiduous labours it has enthusiastically undertaken in your cause and the salvation of our beloved cojintry. The purity of its intentions, the regularity of its procee&ngs, its firmness in sustaining those promises given, and the unceasing watchfulness with which it has laboured to complete the grand edifice of Public Organiza tion, must be already known. to you. " The Lisbon Governors, as soon as informed of the occur rences In the Northern Provinces, and of the ardent enthusiasm so rapidly spreading, pondered on the state of public opinion and the effects of our demands, and only w,ben they learnt that the two Generals of Tras os Monte. and Beira bad mutually joined with a.view to suppress the national feeling, to rivet the chains of the people, and retain them in the extreme abjection and misery in which they were already sunk, did they awaken from their lethargy, and dared to proclaim that a million of Portu guese, who aimed at being happy, were rebels to their King; that a Junta, which upheld such incontestible rights, was intrusive ; that their useful and glorious labours were an overthrow of public order; that the Cortes only could be convened by the King, and that the whole nation ought in silence to await the measures so oftentimes demanded and promised, and as often refused. " We could not for a moment suppose, that the Lisbon Go vernors expected by such absurd principles and captious phrases to disunite Portuguese, arm them against each other, and to ram other distresses add that of a civil war. They are men, and in the human breast such a black and vile project could not be har boured. This, however, would be the inevitable consequence of their rash plans, if in the minds of Portuguese, the sacred ties of nature, religion, and of patriotism, did not exercise all their influence. " The Junta was not alarmed at these specious measures of the Lisbon Governors, because it knows your hearts, and is firm in its principles. Its Members are not rebels against their King, because they love him, and have sworn to fix and maintain the independence and glory of his Throne, which the Governors of the Kingdom had depreciated by their inept administration, and allowed to be undermined by odious parties. It is not in trusive, because it was established by the unanimous voice of a numerous people, who wished to escape from inevitable ruin.— It does not subvert public order, this it rather restores. But, why seek to explain to you what you already know from your own observations? The Junta will go on firmly, and you have yourselves already seen the happy effects of its constancy. The brave troops of 'fres os Montes and Beira have successively left their Generals, and are already united to the cause we have sworn to defend. General Silveira himself has taken the oath to this same cause. The inhabitants of the three Northern Pro vinces have also been enabled to declare their sentiments with out disguise, and are about to march to meet their brethren, who with equal enthusiasm await their coming. " The Lisbon Governors are not ignorant of these late events, so contrary to their hopes, and so much opposed to the reten tion of their power and Administration. Now, however, they recur to another more insidious, though equally useless artifice, in order to alienate their minds, and persuade you, that through them you will find remedies for the public misfortuoes. They tell you they are about to convene the Curia, by particular instruc tion they kavefrem the King our Lord, fur urgent cases. Mark well, illustrious Portuguese! On the 29th of August, no 07ft hall the power to convene the Curler ball the Kink. The peo ple who demanded them were rebels. Then there were hopes of turning public opinion, of suppressing the general feeling, and of sowing discord. On the 2d of September, the Lisbon Go- vernors had received particular instructions to convene the Cortes in urgent cases. And what greater urgency could there be than public misfortune, so long felt and lamented? What greater urgency than the demands of the nation, so often, and in so many ways repeated, in private and in public? What greater urgency than the fatal division of Portuguese into three well , known parties, and never suppressed by the Lisbon Governors? What greater urgency than the cry of a whole Province, that raises itself from the abyss into which it had been plunged?-- Yet this Province then was rebellious, because hopes were still entertained of suppressing and devastating. The general cry was then the voice of insubordination, and as such was to be punished and suppressed. The misfortunes of the country dkl not touch their hearts, because they were not heard or felt in their stately and luxurious palaces. Now, however, they themselves wish to convene the Cortes ; but in what manner? For what purpose? With what inten tions? Is it, perchance, to see things regulated by justice, and consequently their power diminished? Is it to remedy the mal versation of the administrators of the public revenue, end to benefit national agriculture, industry, and commerce? Is it to revive our ruined navy? Is it to establish just laws; capable of maintaining peace among the people, and securing their rights, such as will suppress abuses and crimes nearly naturalized among us; such as will restore public order and establish our felicity on fixed and permanent bases ? Is it to define the tier 31 liens tit the nation, and trace out the just limits of power snd ohs_ thence? Is it, finally, in order to give us a stable Con 'nation, buck as we require, one that will be a rampart of publi liberty, and the solid foundation of a just Throne ? " Ab! no—do not deceive yourselves, Portugnese! 'f these were the intentions of the Lisbon Governors, long go they would have been performed, for it is long since our wa is have reached their climax. They themselves now acknowl the that the King's instructions provided for this, in urgent cas s. Did not public misery suffice? " They tell us they are about to establish a Corn oittee of chosen persons to consult on the method of convening a 4 hokl ing the Cortes. Persons chosen by them, and their confidence! Persons under their influence ! Persons who cts. tainly will spin out their labours till the time when the nation is involved in discord, when the public ardour and tnthu iastn are extinguished—when a foreign army possibly may have come to subjugate us, and render our chains snore heavy ; til , through measures of rigour and severity, the wishes of the peo ple may be eluded, and the nation again plangtd inzo a still deeper abyss. " No—lllustrious Portuguese !—no, valiant national troops . .Lia do not suffer yourselves to be deceived. You already know what you have to expect front the pompons promises of the Lisbon Governors.—Firmness and constancy are the virtues worth writ crown our projects with success, and of these the Jutra will give you the most signal example, pledging to spill the last the.? their blood in your service, and bury themselves under the ruins of public liberty, or succeed. 64 Oporto, Sept. 8, 18'20." IS!rtiature,.] The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon: The Moniteur says, that at the Tuileries, on Mon day, the delivery of her Royal Highness the Duchess of BERRY was looked upon as very near at hand. An Engli4iman of the name of Joint ORTIIONT (probably HonToN) was lately arrested at St. Pierre les-Calais, as guilty of seditious proposals; but on being conducted before the Kivg's Procurator at Boulogne (Pas-de-Calai , ..), he was, for want of proof, set at liberty.—Five per Cents. Monday, 74 f. 45 c. A letter from St. Andero, of the 15th SeptemLer, throws some discredit on the report recently repeated with such confidence through the Jamaica l'ape!s, that the Independents of South America were dis posed to a re-union with the mother country. It is to the following effect:—" We learn, from Biscayatt merchants who were established at Caraccas:, have returned to their native country, that although the news of the re-establishment of the Constitution in the Peninsula bad caused an agreeable sensati•,.n throughout the whole part of the Province of Vene zuela occupied- by Aro:mu), the Insurgents bad re ceived it with the greatest indifference, and have le doubled their hostilities against the Royalists. If we may give credit, to what these merchants farther re. port, BoLtVAR had lately sent emiltaries on the Con tinent of Europe, in order to sow the seeds of discord in the Peninsula, and to complete the impossibility of its sending troops to combat him." The details of the proceedings of the Cortes, con tained in the Papers received yesterday, record an act of justice highly honourable to the Spanish na tion. In the Sitting of the Nth instant was read the Report of the Committee of Rewards on the ca:ie of PABLO LOPEZ, commonly called " the lame ma:: of Malaga," who was condenined to death in 1814, and had actually been imprisoned - six years in a dun geon at Cadiz, whence he was released by RI EGO. One charge against him, for which the punishment was inflicted, was his having assisted at a serenade given to some members of the Cortes in 1814, and which was supposed to have been projected by him ; and another, the constant attendance he was in the habit of giving to the debates of the Cortes, at one of which he was accused of creating a disturbance.— Even these charges, frivolous as they were, were de nied by PABLO LOPE,. ; and the Officer attendant oa the gallery of the Cortes declared him to have had r.o share in causing the riot alluded to. The netts:ldol was not attempted to be supported by evidence cf any kind. The Committee of Rewards, with the object not only of indemnifying him for the injuries he had suffered, but rd rescuing the nation from the reproach of having inflicted them,recommended that a grant should be made to LOPEZ from the public tunds, to the amount of 70,000 or 80,000 reals (MO or £BOO sterling), for the purpose of building a house for him in Malaga, his native place, and that an annuity for life should further be given to him cf the value of 8000 reals. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. At kilvart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street : The Earl Baer= and Lord WA LASCOU IL; from a tour; Sir Groact Cautrisss, Bart. from Path. Sir Witusx Dsumm, Bart. at Kirkliattie Hotel, Lose Brook -street, from a tour. Lord KENSLNGTON, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, (as a tour. DEPARTURES. From Mivart's Hotel, Lower brook-street : The Earl 3 14 Countess of Kvisrsur., on a tour. From Kirkham 's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—The Earl aid Countess of GALLOWAY, to Birmingham ; Gramm Bcc-A', Esq. to Bristol ; and G WAGE Caanniurou, Esq. and family', :a their seat in Bucks. Sir GERARD NOEL, a few days since, received letter from the Gentleman who proposed him as th: Member for Rutlandshiie at the last Election, int i. mating, in strong terms, his disapprobation of Sr GERARD's refusal to support the measure now in pro- gress against the QUEEN. Sir G'i:RART) NOEI. re plied immediately, that if his Correspondent won!' convene a Meeting of the County, and it should apie that his Constituents entertained the same opinion, he would resign his seat, and give them an opportunity of electing a Representative more submissive to thcit wishes. The worthy Gentleman further observed, that, much as he might esteem the friendship of Rutlandshire supporters, he could not forget th:a he was more interested in keeping upon good terms xvi:k himself; that accident might deprive him of the 3sir ciation of his friends, but that the good opinion of hi; own conscience ought to be his companion, whether in the solitude of retirement or in the bustle of die world. Sir GERALD NOEL further &elated, that his objection against the proposed measure isbas firm ant unalterable. He denied the right of tho House of Lords to institute such an inquiry ; and that even bai the QUEEN been as guilty as he was convinced ,he was innocent, he should have been proud to give proof of his attachment to the principles of the Cone stitution, by resisting such a daring encroachm . :a t upon the rights of the People. 1 . e7 TL co: TIC as sa a