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mains, either in the city or the environs. The Authorities will allow the lemonade houses and taverns to be re-opened on the 28th, and we hope that the theatre will soon be also re-opened." The Quotidiew of this day says,—' Spain has just recognized Don Miguel as the legitimate Sovereign of Portugal. This news is certain, as we hive just received an official notice of it from Madrid. It was worthy of King Ferdinand to set an example which wi'l soon be followed, as we believe, by all the other great Powers of Europe. Col Gustayson, the Ex• King of Sweden, has left Leipsic for the Netherlands. It is said that he is about to embark for the East, where the policy of the Sovereigns, his ei dreamt colleagues, assures to hint the possession of a new throne. From the Constitutionna of Saturday. A shicument with the above title has been published by the semi official ntorning paper. We are not aware with what Intention this publication has been made, but whatever it may be, this pro spectus of a mutual insurance between the payers of taxes against the levy of all illegal ones, is certainly in circulation, anal we have been able to convince ourselves that it has received nurnero'as and honourable signatures. Proprietors, hankers, the industrious iif all classes, a number of electors, several Deputies and citizens belonging to the bar, and to the various professions, h ive affixed their names to the foot of the declaration of principles, which the Quotidienne has printed in to-day's paper. and which we also give, in imitation of the example. We did not give it sooner, in order to avoid the common reproach brought against us by our adversaries, of directing opinion, and we want to deprive them of this ridiculous pretext for attacking what is a free and spontaneous act, if there ever was one. Now that this document has in a great measure been carried into effect independently of the Journals, and that the Ministry itself has given it publicity, and accompanied it with calumnious remarks, we think it proper to let it have a place in the Cosatitillioned. [Here follows the scheme of the Association, which, after giving the clauses of the Charter against raising taxes otherwise than by a vote of the Chamber, engages the Members " to resist, by all legal means, the collection of a tax not agreed to according to the forms required by the Constitutional Charter."] FRENCH Funos—Saturday Evening-3 per cents, 107 f. 60e. 3 per cents. 82f. lOc. The Journal die Nord, a paper published at Lisle, contains the following particulars relative to the late smuggling action attempted cite name of the British Ambassador. Mese particulars are given by the Journal du Nord as authentic; it guarantees their correctness. ATTEMPT AT SMUGGLING IN THE NAME OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR. The Government has done Its duty respecting the contraband goods addressed to the English Ambassador : the cases were stopped at the Custom-house of Paris, and re-exported to England without a single article having been extracted from them. The Ambas sador of his Britannic Majesty is not less exempt from reproach than the Government, as a simple exposition of facts will show. The coachmalter of his Excellency in London, Mr. —, bad to send to France inches and empty trunks belonging to the equipages of the Ambassador. Mt. -- thought, as it appears, that he had a favourable opportunity of obliging some of his customers in Paris, and he wrote to them, in consequence, to inform them that he had the means of sending to France, free of duty, whatever they might desire. The customers of Mr. did nut refuse this offer, and the trunks arrived in Paris filled with the articles ordered. The French Custom-house apprised the Ambassador of the arrival of the trunks; hi. Excellency requested that they might be examined. They were opened in consequence, and found to be filled with ar ticles of British manufacture. Each parcel bare the address of the person for whom it was Intended. Without doubt, it hid been imagined that the servants of the Embassy would nut fail to send '.ach parcel according to its address, without taking much trouble to leant if the Ambassador was informed of the transaction. Amongst the persons to wham parcels were addressed were Mew.. Lord ......—in fine, every body had he thought of except the Antbas.ador himself. An enormous package was destined and addressed to M....., who has filled for some time the functions of CI) ,rge d'Affaires of The Cu...torn-house did what was proper in these circumstances; is caused all the cases to be re-exported to England, without allow in; the smallest part of the articles they contained to be extracted for consumption in France. SOUTH AMERICA. . . MONTE VIDEO, Auctusx 7. A letter from Buenos Ayres M tlanctroly and deplorable is the situation of this great city, which has stink from the summit of its greatness to an abyss of wretchedness. Her glory has disap peared. Every thing is in confusion, disorder, and extreme misery. Du: mg the eight months we were devoured by the hydra of civil war, t•titi since the unhappy elections of the 26th July, there is no species of violence and "caudal that has not been committed by the agents of the Executive Power. Almost all the Federalists and perbons of respectability, property, and knowledge, have suddenly ah:ndoned the city, and withdrawn to the country to join General Basal. Innumerable passports have been applied for, to leave the i Republic preferring to leave their concerns and business to themselves up with factions. On the Ist of Decem r the mortal blow was struck, when all the institutions and laws of the Republic were set at defiance. If civil war breaks out again, of which there appears to be no ds übt, the people will experience the most dreadful fate. T'in.t.ands of wretches must perish for want, and others sell every st!.dt to exist with their families, and be reduced to beggary.- 1% here are now the capitals that formed their riches—the luxury that filed many houses? it is now said that General Lavalle mean; to resign the command, and deposit it in the bands of a neu- Ira; person ! Where is a neutral individual to be found ? It is. likewise said that those without the city form a battalion called Los Decidios--" Determined Fellows." under the command of Don Ale- Barros I have been assured that, two days ago, the Com hr ordered one of his dependants, of the name of co proceed to this port with 4 guu-boat from Barmen, le quantity of ctores. ammunition, cartridges, grape tr-pounders; and which one of the parties outside of compelled to return, and finally unloaded her of every board, and abandoned the vessel. MONTE VIDEO, Aua. S. the ferocity in carrying on the elections at Buenos the head of the police issued a barbarous order, which into all minds. Armed soldiers wer4 stationed in ~ and authorised to discharge their muskets upon who raise his voice in opposition to the Unitarian faction.— thout letters of citizenship were allowed to vote. Dur mtable a crisis, the people found themselves obliged to the violent end contumacious partisans bent upon their police patties have resumed their old duties, and the French illarre, who is at the bead of one of them, is the'most fem. :I ethic. You see what we have come to, and what we tpect. The most disgraceful thing is, that a foreign the this one should insult and outrage, vex and oppress of this country. The promoters of the disturbance of December, and murderers of Dorrego, are the cause of of 1,000 citiSens have emigrated and withdrawn to ported that the Emperor or Russia, as a recom the great services which General Diebitsch has to his country, is to create him Duke ; and the Vice-President of Poland is to be conferred on ;tract. of a private letter from Mexico, received by a house in the City, posted at the North and terican Coffee-house: . " Mesico, August 12. have to inform you, that official information has ived to the 3d August from Tampico, with an of an engagement having taken place between !xicans and double the number of Spaniards. The made the most determined resistance, and did could be hoped or expected from great courage —nusiastn. Nearly three hundred of the Spaniards killed and wounded, and only 60 of the Mexicans "led and wounded. It is believed that about 4,000 troops must have, before this time, been en , The Mexican reinforcements are on the way different States ; and the greatest confidence pre the Spaniards will very soon be totally dis and that the same will happen to any further sup . troops which may arrive from the Havannab, lich may be reasonably expected, from what oc from former contests of the Spaniards, by the from their perseverance and sacrifices under perils. Than the present, there has not been thao. at appearance of the Spaniards gaining adherenta. Conductor, with 400,000 dollars, lately arrived at is supposed to be safe, and would be sent back , place. The persons and property of foreigners been respected. hi:etl flit mans to red& Ira; person ! lik wwe said t .Uscidios—" 1 Alvaro Barros inlander of the Gonzales, to I will a large shim, and four• the city comp • thavA on board Such was • Ayres, that th struck terror • I eve , y pariah, ever diould rai Soldiers with( tug al) lament; give way to tt destruction. The police man Taillarre cious and tete may yet saps vagehatid like the arrives of the tst of Dec ' all Upwards t the country. '• It is repo ponbe for ti rendered to dignity of 1 Extract,l mercantile] South Arne r I. ' j " We ha • been receive account of I 800 Mexic; Mexicans i all that col and enthusi were killed were killed Mexican t gaged. TI from differ( wails that persed, and plies of to and which curred froi Mexicans, greater per slightest ai The Conde , Tampico, iI to the plat; • have been THE EVENING STAR. • , • mss ,‘ p .eni s 4 LON 1)0N. TUESDAY, 0 PRICE{ OF STOCKS Rant Stock ex. div. 2131 13g 3 per Cent. lied. ex. die. 98/ g 3 per Ct. CODS. 90/ g 3/ per Ct. 1818, ex. di.. 99,1 3; per Cen- l'• (1. tz.e•v. 98j r i 4 per C. 103 i I o 4pr Ct.1826,ex dic 104 / Long Ann. ex.die.l9 # 11-16 India Stuck CTOBER 20. AT TWO 0 CLOCK India Bonds 62 South Sea Stock 991 OW Annuities, X14)00 &chug. Bills, (ed.) 72 4 4500 Ihttn 72' 4 61(x) and £2OO Ditto 72 4 Bank for Acct. India for Acct. Consols for Acct. 901 FO:tRIG FO DS, Two O'CLOCK Brazil Bonds, Spr Ct. 64i 1 5 Ditto Acct. Do. Acct. 64 * 5 12 51 Port. Bds. 5 p. Ct. Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. 20 Ditto Ace:. 48 Do.' I3ds. 1825, 121 20f 20 Spanish Bds. 5 per Ct. 8j Perwr. 8d... 6 p C.l2* Do Acct. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWot it: h. ONAI.g. PAID. TM max. Brazriat, Imp. (iss. £5 pm.) 35 YO .76 Do. National 25 7i 11& Ili United bles s (its. at £1 pm.) 40 136 The Prussian State Gazette vindicates the modera tion of the Russian Emperor throughout the whole of the Turkish invasion : there is no doubt that hereafter — when it comes to annexations—F ae ne Rio: and Nl cnor.ss will contrive to pull very harmoniously toge ther. The following is the account given in this paper of the Adrianopolitau Treaty:—" The many erro neous statements and opinions which have been spread by the Journals, respecting the co-operation of Prussia in the restoration of peace in the East, now happily effected, induce us to give the following concise view of the whole course of the affair :—From the very com mencement of the war between Russia and the Porte, his Majesty the King cherished the conviction that the Emperor of Russia, while he felt the necessity of having recourse to arms, vet persevered in the generous feeling which considered peace as the invariable object of his efforts, as soon as the conditions laid down in the Russian manifesto should offer. This conviction could not fail to be strengthened, while the Emperor was at Berlin last summer. In the conversations which the King had with his august son on the affairs of the East, the Emperor declared himself ready to contribute all in his power to the ending of the war, as far as was in any degree compatible with the indisputable interests of his Empire, as soon as the Porte should seriously seek peace and enter into negociations. His Majesty was hereby induced, with the entire concurrence of the Emperor, to announce to the Porte, his conviction as happily confirmed, and to sig nify this intention to the other Courts. As things then stood, it appeared advisable immediately to send a special mission on the part of Prussia to Constantinople. The choice fell on Lieutenant-General Muffling, whose rank and personal character were peculiarly qualified to assure the Sultan of the importance of his mission, and give him confidence in the pacific overtures which he was to make. The sole object of his instructions, was to induce the Porte by positive assurances of the unaltered desire of the Emperor of Russia to make peace, to induce it imme diately to send Plenipotentiaries to the Russian head quarters to enter into negociations for peace ; it was of course entirely beside the purpose of his mission to exercise a direct influence on the transaction, either as negociator or mediator. When General Muffling reached Constantinople on the 4th August, General Count Diebitsch had mean while successfully passed the Balkan, and was advancing without obstacles towards the capital of the Turkish Em pire. The Porte perceived the danger of its situation ; and the pacific overtures, so unexpectedly renewed, could not but make a decisive impression. In fact, General Muffling found himself listened to by the Porte, which had already been advised to the same effect on the united representations of the Ambassadors of the great Eu ropean Powers, and the energy and decision with which the General urged, the Ministers of the Porte could not, under such circumstances, miss their object. The Porte sent two Plenipotentiaries to the Russian head-quarters, who were instructed with respect to the terms of peace and the indemnities which Russia had to claim, to leave every thing to the generosity of the Emperor. General Von Muffling sent the Counsellor of Legation Von Kuster to accompany the Turkish Plenipotentiaries, that ha might describe to him the dreadful popular fer mentation in the capital, and the imminent danger to which the Christian inhabitants were thereby exposed; and to induce him provisionally to suspend hostilities. Count Diebitsch, mindful of the principles of his Sove reign, and postponing every other consideration to feel ings of humanity, immediately complied with .this wish ; and as soon as the negotiations for peace commenced, all the hostile movements of the Russian army ceased. The object of General Muffling's mission was now attained ; the business intrusted to him had been ho nourably and successfully accomplished, and he prepared to depart. The Sultan, however, being informed of this, desired to see him before his departure. He received the Prussian General in a private audience at one of his country seats, (an hone& to which it would be difficult to find a parallel,) and formally addressed him through the Reis Effendi, to express in the most solemn manner his gratitude for the important service which the King had rendered him; and he several times interrupted the Reis Effendi in order to confirm, by remarks of his own, what he had said at this audience, at which not even the Dragoman of the Porte was present, but only the interpreter of the Prussian legation. The strict etiquette usual on such occasions was wholly laid aside. General Von Muffling left Constantinople on the sth of Sept. Meantime the negotiation at the %mien head-quarters were so far advanced, that no difficulty re. mained except on the article relative to the indemnities. The Turkish Plenipotentiaries, though fully empoisred by their instructions on this head, desired to wait for farther orders. The Russian General-in-Chief granted them a delay of five days from the Bth of September; but at the same time caused his vanguard to make some movements in case the delay granted should expire with out effect, and he should he obliged to renew hostilities. In the consternation which this measure again spread in the capital, the Porte saw the extreme danger of its situation. The Reis Effendi invited the Ambassadors of England and France, and the Prussian Ambassador, M. Von Royer to a conference, in order to obtain their advice in this extremity. They could do no otherwise than un animously to advise the speedy signature of the peace, as the only means to hinder the overthrow of the Empire.— The Ministers of the Porte themselves recognised this necessity; and ardently wished that one of the three Am bassadors present would repair to the Russian head-quar ters, and testify the readiness of the Porte to accede to any conditions of peace, and only to prevent meantime the advance of a victorious army to the capital. The Ambassadors declined this, because they were not autho rised to act as mediators. But the Turkish Minister, seconded by the Ambassadors of England and France, urged the Prussian Ambassador to undertake this mis sion, and then to complete the work begun by Ge neral Von Muffling. M. Von Royer, however, felt himself equally obliged to decline this request; as the object of Prussia and the obligation which it had taken on itself, were in fact fulfilled as soon as negotiations for peace were begun. But urged by the increasing danger, the Sultan himself caused M. Von Royer in particular to be requested in writing to under take the desired journey to the Russian head-quarters, and that Minister thought it was the more incumbent on him to comply, as the two Ambassadors again united their request with that of the Porte. Accordingly, he imme diately embarked for Rodosto, and proceeding from that place on horsebask, reached Adrianople on the 11th, in the evening. The Russian General received him with politeness and frankness. In the confidence that in conformity with the new assurances, the Turkish Pleni potentiaries would give up their objections and conclude peace, he again suspended the movements of his army. M. Von Royer having again impressed on the Turkish Plenipotentiaries the necessity of doing every thing in their power, and conformably to the will of their sove reign, submitting to the will of the Emperor, they at length desisted from their opposition ; and the peace be tween Russia and the Porte was signed on the 14th. This was the course of this affair, the happy result of which allows us to consider a number of apprehensions connected with the long and sanguinary differences in the East as removed in all their essential points."—Prussian State Gazette, 14th Oct. HAMBURG H, Oct. 12. We learn from Berlin the death of the celebrated Field•Yan sisal, Count Von Gkainar. We learn from Vienna, under date of the 6tk, that the Austrian Government has contracted a loan of 24 millions of florins, at four per cent. which will soon be published, with the loans of Rothe child, Geymuller, Almeida, Eskeles, and Senna and Co.—Ham burg/8 Clornniundent, Oct. IS. HAMBURGH, Ocr. 13. Dorsal Halle, Four o'Clock. In Funds. the prices of which are at present high, much business has been done in the course of the day. At the prices quoted below the market clamed, rather sellers than buyers. Discount 4j per cent. _ _ Anglo Danish Loan, Z per Cent. Anglo Russian Loan Hamburgh Ditto 95 Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares Austrian Metalliques . lOOl —ilasubstrge Repotten ZICIIANG TS ON LONDON. liaisavaou. Orr. 13.-13 106 ; two months, 13 9. Dawn, Oct. 16.—Three months, 6 266. BOOM, OCT. 9.—Two months. 612. STOCEMOLII, OCT. 6.—Ninety days, 11 32. PITIRSIOIIOII 9 OCT. 2.-101. AILITIDDAM, OCT. 16...42 13. Two months, 12 10. The Dutch Papers to the 17th October, St. Petersbtargh ditto to the 2d October, and Hantburgh ditto to the 13th October, con tain no patticuLsr news. It is well known with what inconceivable recklessness credit is given and received in India to almost any amount, and the enormous interest at which young Europeans—when they fall into embarrassment—are in the habit of borrowing money for their extrication : but which transactions, ninety-nine times out of an hundred, only clinch their—not till then, perhaps—irredeemable ruin. The facility with which debt is contracted in India, and money obtained, has been fatal to thousands of young men who began their oriental career with the fairest prospects, and under the brightest auspices of talent favoured at its outset with high connexions, and even commanding patronage. Numerous—even too numerous to reckon—are the instances of this description, which have fallen within our knowledge. Thoughtless ness and extravagance—by reason of this facility—had become as it were systematised in India : even dispositions, naturally prudential, gave way to irresistible general example—and men who, perhaps, in this country would have been remarked for their economy and forethought, were often seen to rush headlong into the influenzal vortex. The fatal temptations to exceed their income, far from diminishing, augmented as their difficulties accumu lated: usurer after usurer accommodated them at a destruc tive interest--and those who could not finally satisfy these harpies by the mortgage of their pay, or revenues from whatever source arising, were consigned to a jail for life. It is melancholy to reflect how many gallant and gifted spirits, after serving twenty—and even thirty—years in India, have found themselves compelled to forego the dear happiness of re visiting their native country, and settling amid their surviving friends and connexions : and who— if not thrown into dungeons by their merciless creditors —have nevertheless been detained inexorably, while these vultures fattened upon the remnant of their Indian in comes, to die in the far-distant scenes of their hard ser vices and harder fortunes ! We have been led into these observations by the receipt of the Bombay Courier of the 28th of March, announcing the establishment in our Indian Empire of the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and the opening of the first Insolvent Court at Bombay by the Hon. Sir J. P GRANT, Chief Judge of that Presidency. The entire of the Learned Judge's speech on this occasion will be found in our first page : it was our intention at first to have given only partial extracts from it, but we have thought it too important and interesting to abridge. We have received a pamphlet by Sir ANDREW H L - LIDAY, on the subject of the insane population of these kingdoms, full of curious and interesting details. It is addressed in the form of a letter to Lord ROBERT SEY MOUR, whose philanthropic and humane efficiencies in several of our great hospital establishments, have long consecrated his name to public gratitude. We have always thought that the attention of Government might• be advantageously directed to the improvement of our national asylums, and of the plan of treatment pursued in them, with regard to these unfortunate beings ; and that the letter of Sir At; DILEW HALLIDAY will mate rially conduce to hasten this desirable intervention, fva cannot entertain a doubt. The epistolary portion, how ever, of this pamphlet, is contained in a very few pages, the bulk of it being occupied with a statistical Report —from each county separately—of all the cases of insa. pity at present existing in them. These returns are classified into Lunatics and Idiots, and these again are subdivided into male and female so that at one flanc, we can perceive not only in what form the afflict:on is most predominant, but in which of the sexes also. The Idiots-Lin a very great majority of the return+ -preponderate heavily over the Lunatics, especially in Scotland, and North and South %Vales : and the aggregate of afflicted persons in both genera of alienation in these last mentioned districts, is also out of all proportion higher than in the English counties. Throughout all Scotland, for example, the number of insane persons may be calculated as one for every five hundred in the population ; and throughout all Wales, as one in every eight hundred: whereas the proportion of insane population as ascertained for Eng land proper, is about as one to every thousand. As there is a greater numerical population of females than of males throughout the whole empire, so the number of alienated, as well as imbecile persons, preponderates in that sex : but—except in one or two instances—this pre ponderance is only in the ratio of their numerical excess. In this brief accoudt of the very curious and valuable Returns of Sir ANDREW HALLIDAY, of course OUT readers will understand by the term lunacy those intel lectual aberrations only, which have been superinduced by influences exerted upon minds originally sane : such are love, grief, despair, ambition, terror, avarice—RELl• GION. The term idiocy relates exclusively to connate imperfections, with the exception of a very fe►w organic derangements which have supervened from outward accident, or very peculiar disease. Thus we frequently find that children, who survive hydrocephalus, only do so to stagnate in imbecility to the grave. It is asserted in this pamphlet, by Sir ANDREW HAL LIDAY, that the statistics of insanity have more than tripled in Great Britain within the last twenty years; and he presses this fact upon the consideration of the Government, as pregnant with most alarming sug gestions. But we are not of opinion that the learned and ingenious Knight has made suffi cient allowance for the increase of the popula tion since the year 1808 ; neither do we think— with him—that there is any great fear of insanity ever becoming a formidable characteristic of the Bri tish nation. Entitled, however, to our thanks for his philanthropic exertions, Sir ANDREW is, in a pre eminent degree. That idiocy is greatly more predo minant amongst us than lunacy, he has satisfactorily esta blished. And that mountainous regions—such as Wales and Scotland—are more conducive than level soils to this affliction, we think is also deducible from his Reports, as 'well as from analogous argument drawn from the Crains, and other idiot mountaineers. CITY. Tw arms o'CLoe Ir. At length we have received the official information of the Treaty of Peace between Russia and the Porte, in a Manifesto issued at St. Petersburg on the Ist October, which document sets at rest all the former Stock-jobing reports, and premises future repose in the East. The Accounts received from the Continent this morn ing state, that it is credited that some secret articles have been made in the above treaty, which are the demolition of Silistria and Shumla. The frigate Raphael to be res tored to Russia, and the Turkish fleet in future is not to leave the Bosphorus. It is also stated by accounts from Peia, that a Russian Ambassador was expected to arrive at Constantinople the end of October. The Consol Market this morning maintains yesterdays price, 90a for the Account. The Hebrew party being still absent, no speculations of consequence have as yet been effected. The Foreign Market is also in a state of inactivity. CITY. HALF-PAST OWL The Consol Market has been very lively during the morning, Consols which were in the commencement of the day at 90a got up to 90i a for the Account; owing to a purchase of about 200 thousand Consols. The Bulls at present remain masters of the field ; and the Bears who are afraid of getting another defeat, are obliged to get into stock; particularly as there is every appearance that a general peace will be maintained in Europe. We all anxiously waiting the arrival of the. Hambro' Steamer ; which no doubt will bring some fur ther accounts from the Turkish frontiers, in regard to the operations of the Pashas; who no doubt ere this have complied with the mandate of the Sultan. Consols may be quoted at present 90i buyers, and 901 for money. In the Foreign Market there has been a great im provement in Brazil Stock which has got up 14 per cent, and has been done at 651, a lot of Spanislt Stock blo also been purchased privately. 14 other foreign Now: rities nothing doing.