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.'!L( :: with kindness. Prom., the indent capital Of Pepe. denti e tin °m inters, as having's meaner appigatanee thin Rangoon. 'A few spiral pagodas excepted, thee is nova sitigle btick building within its confines. - Alt the houses are of wood work wired on piles, and more or less substantial in proportion to the means of their owners. There is no ;catchy of provisions in the town ; fish and froit.are brought profusi .n to market, and the Commissariat have always had a• plentiful supply of buffaloes and bull ,, clts for the issue of rations .of beef. As a counterpoise, however, to these advantages, the troops are unhealthy—cholera morbus and dysentery, in a severe form, have cur off -everal of our Officers and - m sny of our men. Dr. Harlan, who went with a detachment to Prome in March last, came dawn here about seven weeks ago, in consequence of an attack of the latter disease, and has since returned to Calcutta on extended leave of absence. The rains set in here on the 4th May, and, with their cooling breezes, brong Co me) t ea'th and its attendant blessings in their train." officer's word, hie onleanced *ithout any apprehension of treachery, emhr*d tl e man; and said, " Now is the time fo you to fulfil your ptr•mise." Bessieres ordered up , his advanced . eu Id, and was proceeding to:ear pri,e the .fort, ut en the French, who were within it_ptseiv rig the treachery, beg-in to fire. Benign% vii fio-t twiny; d smaved, brought up his advanced guard and h ega sa o .fi, t ht &ape! ately. His Commander, Mayon. se eii.k Like enterptize was frustrated, and t ant Bessielis wis oecaloning a uselesrloss of his men, sent him to eateskorders to retire. He at length retreated, htinging Wong the French Officer, with all Iris ;war d, u ho Mind entered into an nnderstanding with I.in' #itr the affair. Bessieres was not content with being Captains but aspired to a higher rank, and at the same time wislied to act just as he E leaied. Manus, his Com mander, frequently reproved Sim for his conduct, and told him that if . he' did not obey orders he should be ponished according to military law. Bessieres, impatient of reproof, determined to desert, and tried among the . French to negotiate measures for oloaining pal don for the murder committed. The French seat him for an swer that he should be pardoned, and should have his tank of Captain secured to him, if he would desert with his whole company, and would point out the means of securing the Commandant Manso. Bessieres, tin• able to bring away all his company, took with him twenty five soldiers, two corporals, and a serje int.- 03 his march to join the French army, he was atrested by Don Martin -I M-lines, an Officer of the saline divi sion; while passing the Rio de Sao Vincente del Ortiv, at S in'Yeliz de Übregat, and was taken by that Officer to the city of Martoril, then occupied by the General in Chief of the Spanish army, the Baron d'Etelles. Bessieres was thrown into prison, brought before the Council of War, condemned to be transported for eight years to Majorca, and to be degraded. In 1820, the term of his sentence being expired, hr returned to Spain frith his family, and settled at Manresa, where he fol 'Owed the trade of a dyer. Scarcely was the Spanish Constitution proclaimed, than he gave up his business, and repaired with his family to Barcelona. He pre sented himself before the patriotic Junta, and inscribed his name as a member : he also enrolled himself in the National Regiment as a private soldier, to demonstrate the li'•eral spirit by which he affected to be animated. Shortly afterwards he sent a petition to the Cortes, re questing his rank of Captain; and this being refused, he endeavoured to foment a counter-revolution ace over throw 'the Constitutional Government, and found a Republic; in this he failed, and being d.nounctd, was arrested, and his h use strictly searched. Bessieres was taken to the citadel, it• d imprisoned in the tower. He was examined, and afterwards brought before the Coun cil of War, composed of several Generals, and of the Governor as President. Though Bessieres defended himself with , great boldness and energy, he was sentenced to the Garoie (a death by sroingulation, formerly inflicted solely en off-nders of noble rank in Spain. by means of an iron collar), and was led back to the tower. He bore himself with un shrinking firmness, and expressed no emotion but that or regret at leaving his family. He was afterwards token into the chapel belonging to the citadel, and was informed that his execution would take place next day, at fire in the afternoon. Two chaplains were left with him frtt the . purpose of exhorting him to make a good end; but Bessieres begged they would let him her:pier, and not torment him for the spice of 24 hours, as it would be quite useless, for be would not confess him self. While Bessieres remained in the chapel, 200 or SOO of the first Liberals in the city repairedto thehouse of the Govei nor, sod demanded' of him a respite for Bessieres, thteatening that if he persisted in carrying the sentence into execution. a number of Li'erals would by force effect a rescue. The Governer replied, that he c uld not grant the fay -ur,and would take proper precau tions for seeming the prisoner against any attempt of that kind. At five o'clock preciselyabe time fixed for executing the sentence, Bessieres was taken horn the chapel and led back to the tower, where he was informed that the Liberals had endeavouresl to save him; and that the Governor had written to the Cortes at Madrid, to de termine what was to be done with him. A few days afterwards, an order an ived from the Cortes resident in Madrid, that Bessiere- should b • exiled from the whole territory of Spain, under pain of death if be ever should set foot in it again. While he was waitinz the decision of the Cortes, his snns came to visit him: the instant he saw th-rn he embraced them, and having nothing at the moment to give them, he broke some bread that lay on the table, and . giving a piece to each, said, in Spanish, 0 ta no ere c t darros jamas pan"—(.. I never expected to have given you bread'). The French hiving entered Spairr, and replaced Fer dinand VII. on the throne, this Sovereign appointed him Governor of M idrid, which office he held until toe month of July, 1825. Being of a turbulent dispo sition, and never contented with his lot, he united a great portion of the garrison of Madrid, by the advice of the Prie ts, and sallied forth from the city, exclaim ing si L-ng live Charles the Fifth—long live the In coirsition r L.eutenanoGeneral Don C tlos de Esp rna was instantly dispatched with 1 Spanish force 'o arrest him. Bessieres, nut thinking that he was pursued, suf fered himself to be taken by sutpri-e on the 25th of August, and on the 26th he was shot, having been pro• stanced guilty of the crime of lest myna. ,40 Till!: EVENING STAR LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 1826. STOCK EXCIIANGP., TWRIXE (YCLOcK. The City this morning is not so fertile in reports and events a. yesterday ; though the information of the revolt of Coxmatertoes Regiment, and the slaughter which ensued, is fully credited, the Public are anxiously waiting for further details on this subject, as well as f the *resignation of Cousimirrism Some imagine that it will invcitve the politics of Russia, and cause a great dimension la the family. Consols opened at the same price as they left off yesterday, $I for the Account ; a great deal was doing in the earlier part of the morning, and they get up to Slij to I, sine whieh the market has become heavy. They are now SII to n, and for neat Account 82 to e. In the Foreign Market nothing is doing. Current Prices: Old Spanish 13; 14, Meziean 61k, Russian 11 Greek Bonds 134. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 218 217 216% 3 rer Cent. Wed. 81 3 / 4 81 4 A 3 per Cent. Conc. es die. 80% % % 3!) per Cent. 89% 90 3i per Cent. Red. 90% 89% 4 per Cent. New es die. 98% 3 / 4 97% 98% Long Ann. 20 3-16 % - India Bonds 22 South Sea Stock ex div. 89% % CI ,000 Excheq. Rill, 6 4 5 £5OO ditto 6 4 CIOO and C2lO ditto 6 4 Cons. for Account 81% 82 to 81% 82 1 4 FRRNCH FUNDS, Pans, JAMIARV 9. Five per Cents. • • • . 9E. 83c. Three per Cents. . . . 68f. 50e. Bank Stock . . • . 20751. • Bente') de Naples . . ~ 781. 40c. . Royal Spanish Loan, 1823 . . 490. Hayden Loin • • . 8001 &change on London, One Month 251. irk. Three Ditto 24f. 90c. . FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. WWI= MS Sp Ct ' ttte, ?scrip ; irazilian Bondi, Neapolitan Bonds, IN I. 5aip,5pC.1119.5, • . Perin. 11.15.6 pC. Ditto Acct. 15 dis. Ditto Acct. iluenn4 Ayres Bondi 741 es. div. 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PAID. 400 11S 60 100 • 5 • _l 3 l 100 5 51 4 50 IS 10 10 6 lii 100 10 5 Intelligence reached town this forenoon, that a courier had ortiv.ed at Berlin, from St. Petersburgh, bringing with him the manifesto of the new Emperor NICHOLAS, Which was immediately published in the Prussian capital. ' When the Courier left St. Petershingh, which was on the nil ult. order had. been restored. A grow! Court day was held, at which all the Nobility and Military Officers attended, to congr malate the Emperor NICHOLAS on his accestion to the Throne. Je ileum was sung in all the Clutches. The Estrenon in person presented Ate banners to the troops. • The public mind is worked up to an intense degree I of anxiety, in relation to the affairs of Russia. All that is certainly known amounts merely: to the single fact, that the Grassi Duke Nrcnot.as was on the 26th ult. rititicr or A LETTER Fiona AN OFFICER AT RANGOON, proclaimed Em peror, by the resignation of his elder DATED 5 - ro Jour, 1825, nicctrao 1N cmaactow P LAST WK. brother, Consratrrina. The motives of this resigna " Some ten days ago we heard, that there was a tinn are for the present involved in mystery ; endless Burman Ambassador in Calcutta, on the errand of conjectures supply, both - in the foreign and British peace, and that we are to go home in October. The Journals , the of real n want LORD grant it may be so ! for I am heartily tired of a Was CONSTANTINE a free agent in this most remark war from which we cannot hope to derive either honour, profit, or pleasure; and of a place in nowise attractive, able affair, or was his conduct influenc edtion by of the and in in which I have been fixed l ike a cabbage ever ons necessity ? His voiNntary renuncia since I came to it. Though rich in the luxuriance and throne of a mighty empire from any supposed con value of its vegetable productions, this country possesses tempt of worldly gteatness—h's spontaneous re hut little wealth, and that little, to far a , I can learn, fusel to become the absolute master of the lives is almost emit ely absorbed by the King and his Nobles, who,it may be supposed,will take care to place their trea- and fortunes of fifty-five millions of human beings, wry beyond the reach of an invading enemy. I question from a romantic attachment to the Lady whose desti much if the capture of Ummerapoora itself would give nies he has united to his own, is a conclusion so utterly to the victors a t upee a man, or that the whole circulating . improbable, that it can hardly have emanated from a Medium of the empire would suffice to reimburse Go vernment the expenses of the conquest. Our trorps mind unimpaired in its reasoning faculties. entered Proem on the 26th April, and hutted them- Self preservation, the most powerful of all motives, selves for the winter. No opposition was made. The would deter the legitimate heir of the Monarchy from Prince of Skrawaddy,. a brother of the King, was a few renouncing his rights in favour of the next in success miles off, at the head of a small body of men, but did soon, , simply because, in despotic countries, the tranquil not show himself. The inhabitants fled, seared at first, into the woodi, but they son -returned, on 'assurance lit of the reigning Sovereign. is seldom considered being given that they would be protected, and treated compa:ible with the personal safety and presence of the INDIA. --.....- rightful claimant. 14either is it tn be stipplised that the adherents •of the latter would quietly aequiesce in his own wishes to remaih ins private stationigtanting such wishes were sincere; bdt that they would far ;more pro bably, t At measures in the name of their Prince, to ' embroil the Ern/ire. We infer, therefore, that the resignrion cannot have been voluntary.. If compulsory, to what sosse it is to be attributed, yet remains to be ascertained. In a preceding page we have insertel critimts Cl' tracts from the French Journals, on the affairs of Iltessia, and some interesting particulars respecting the last moments of the Emperor ALEXANDER. The news of the revolt of some of the I a:periAl troops had not reached Paris, hot the report gains ground here, and we suhjnin from a Morning Paper some add firma% details on the subject. With regard to the abdicatietn Of CONSTANTINE, nothing has yet transpired to account satisfactorily for so e:tra•'rdinary an event,though ablin.lance of reasons are alleged both in the French and English Journals. A Morning contemporary se ms to ascribe t' is signal act of sel-denial on the part of Coss rANTINE, to his affec lion for his wire, 310 the circumstance that she is not July qualified for the honour; of royalty. 66 Nut only," he says, 41 is she of a rank by birth which would rot permit her to enjoy all the honours of an Em press, but there is a more serious obstacle in her .rel;gion, for she is a Roman Catholic; and, without em bracing the Greek communion, she could not be per mitted to share the throne•" The fact, however, is, thit in no country in the world has less attention been paid to these matters than in Russia. We yesterday di:- cussed the subject of disquslification by birth, i Alluding to the case of the great CaTnent vs, whose origin was humble and mysterious; besides, in a coun try where the to mth of the Ruler is, nine times out of ten, the lsw of the land, any objection of this sort would easily. be removed. With regard t the wife of CONSTANTINE having been excluded on the ground of religion, the idea k absurd. Religion has seldom been an obstacle to a crown. A King of S IxoNv, to obtain the throne of Poland, abjured Protestantism for the Roman Catlin' c religion; and what is more remarkable, that although Poland is lost to the Kings of SAsouv, they adhere t•i the Catholic Religion, even when their subjects are almost wholly Protestants. To come to more recent times, did not the prevent King of SWEDVI renounce the religion of his fathers for the throne of Sweden? But let us return to Russia, and we shill see how little religion has to do as a qualification for the throne. As the Imperial family of Russia is the only Royal House in Europe professing the Creek It -ligion, and there ate no collateral branches of it to afford al liances in the way of cousin:, the Imperial family hats always been obliged to seek abroad For wives and hUsboadi, acid that, consequently, in families profes. sing a ; diffirlAt 'religion from that of the State.— 'The present Empress Mother was a Pcincess of W' ternterg, and :a'Pro•estant ; the widow Of the late Ea imp* was also a Princess of the House of Baden, and' yet this difference in religion was no bar to .their ascending the throne of Russia. The wife of the G•and Duke or Emperor Nicnocas, a daughter of the King . f Paussta, is also a Protestant, and is, consequently, en the score of religion, as much disqualified as the wife of CoNsraorriNe. if we examine the Greek religion, we shall see that is diff e rs much less from the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, than it does from Eotestantism.— The Greek and Catholic religions admit the same Sacra ments, and attribute them• to the same effect ; both have their monastic institutions. The Russ;ans do not, it is true, acknowledge the Poet's supremacy, but they use auricular confession, worship the VIRGIN Many, and other Saints, and pay their adoration to crosses and relics; indeed,. they only vary in some minor particulars, and a Roman Catholic, in em bracing the Greek religion, has much less sacrifice to make than a Protestant. It will be seen from a preceding article, which, how ever, reached us since these remarks were written, that intelligence of a recent date has been received from St. Petersburgh; it is however !wholly silent as to the revolt of the Guards of which we copy the following account from the Tholes of this morning : Advices from St. Petenburgh of the 26th ult. relate a most ex traordinary scene, which is said to have occurred in that city a few hours before the proclamation of Nicnot.as as Emperor, and which stained that ceremonial deeply with the blood of the Russian sot_ diery. It appears that the Empress Mother, Matas, Feonoaowsu, bad called upon the Officers of all the regiments quartered in St• Petersburg!' to assist in the proclamation, and to transfer to NICHOLAS dill - oath of allegiance which they and the troops under their com mand had recently rendered to his brother. Ail the regiments assented to this, with one exception, which was that of the Regi. ment of Moscow, belonging to Cowsrattenta himself, and the only one of his regiments then in St. Petersburgh. The Officers are said not only to have demurred to the Empress's command, but to have represented in strong but respectful language, that only a few days had elapsed since they had sworn fealty to Cousrawnwa as their Emperor; that it wan wholly inconsistent with t►at oath to transfer It to any other person, unless in the event of his death, or at his express order; that it would be disturbing the order of the recta. slots to act otherwise ; and that nothing less than Communism's own appearance, and an order from his mouth, would induce them to consent. This determination, it is added, was reported to the Empress Mother, who became extremely indignant at this resistance to her will, and conscious of the danger even of a delay of obe dience in a Russian soldiery, gave orders that the refractory regi ment should be immediately fired upon, if their consent was not at cows tendered. Her spirit and promptness of determination on 1114 trying occasion, if the accounts may be relied on, could not have been surpassed by CATIMILDIF herself. Her orders were obeyed, and a slaughter instantly commenced of the resisting regiment, of whom between 900 and SOO are said to have been sacrificed. berm the remainder submitted. It has even been stated, but in chi respect there is much ambiguity in the accounts, that the troops o Colour:ma's regietent returned the firs, and that in euniequenc Treat ntithbers of die other regithenti fell. At tree, itOritie , iti the loss of lives sustained by the adherents t• Cossrawrtww. _ . The above appears to us to be the most accurate version, aftti carefully comparing the statements on the subject current in the most respectable quarters, of the latest news from St. Petenburgb but the difficulty of obtaining real information from thence; espe cially at a crisis like the present, is so great, that our readere wilt do well to exercise caution in adoptiug.any. The lassie curious pad of the preceding intellipnce is undoubtedly the insight given ►y it into the character of the Empress Malin, which is here deteloped as that of / bold, ambitious woman, who must, with a character socii as that of Nionotas is described to be, obtain the ascendancy in the; conduct of public affairs. We hear further, from a source *hick will not allow us to doubt the fact, that her hatted of Co/mantises wife has been one of the learling motives of• the part she has in the exchision of Covent:Tine himself from the throne, and that si vow made never to permit her residence in the same city with be:-: self, has impelled her now to assume that energy to prevent itd being broken, which was not to be found in the disposition of the timid and irresolute WieNOLAS. Another account, which we have sees since the above wa4 print, states that the mutinous Regiment was joined by parties frond the Regiments of the line. and that they attempted to proclaim COMM:TINE anew, in opposition to the attempt of the Empress to. have Nrcunt.as announced as Emperor. it is added, that a Ge• neral Officer was among the killed during rho• conflict which ensued. Mamas is s a id to have headed the attack on the mu. tineers in person. This forenoon we received the &labials observer td the Ist instant. None of the Vienna papers contain any further accounts from ,Warsaw o• St. Petersburgh. TheAustrina Observer very properly ridicules the .absurd report that the Courts of Vienna and Rome intended to take steps in England, in favour of the Irish Catholics. It will be seen by the following extract, that the Em peror of AusratA is paying great honours to the memory «f the late Emperor of Rus it : VIENNA, DICIMIR 50. His Majesty the Emperor has been graciously pleased to address the following letter to Prince Hohensolletn, President of the Aulic Council of War : 14 Dais PRINCE HoIIENZOLLERN—As a permanent monument of the bonds of the intimate friendship which existed between me and the late Emperor of Russia, 4nd the conseque Ice of which had so salutary an eff•ct am the great events of these l fitter time-, I hsve resolved, " First, That the Regiment which is called by the n.tme of the_ late Emperor, shall bear it for ever. K Secondly, That during the five weeks' mourning which has been ordered, the colours of the Regiment shall be covered with crape. " Thirdly, That during the funeral service m be performed to morrow, the grenadier company of that Regiment shall be drawls up before the Chapel of the Russian Embassy, and the Officers' wear full military mourning. " Vienna, Dec. 29, 1825. " FRANCIS." • German Papers to the 6th inst. reached us this fore. noom. One of them contains an article from Bucharest of the 15th ult. stating, that the Porte has re•olved to send MEDSCHID EFFENDI and/lossetm BET to the Cap. tain Pacha, to open negotiations with the chefs of the insurgents on the preliminat7 condition of submission.: AUGSBURG, JANUARY 3. The Gazette of. Hildburghausen contains the account of the proceedings against U. Manger, Chief Director of, 'the Police at Cassel, whir hat been convicted of having written and circulated the &Mous threatening letters. Tile Board of Police has been en►irely changed,With the exception of one member, Ct;unAlor Wendt, who ►s genet ally esteemed, and has also fully justified himself in the investigation that has taken place. Manger is sentenced to imprisonment for life in the fortress of Spangenburg, where he has been for some time. Its object seems to have been to increase his own influence, in which he succeeded so long as he could alarm the Electoral Court to such a degree, that nobody could enter the Palace without a pass from the Police. To protect the life of the Elector, and maintain tranquillity in the country, it was necessary to take extraordinary measures, the oppressiveness of which was universally felt. If this had gone on much longer, general confusion would have ensued. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - Arrived at Dolyhead, the Orion, --, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. The Mary Ann, ---, from Newport to Dublin, was totally lost near Milford, on the 50th ult. . The Margaret and Mary, Yowls', from Liverpool to Newry, wao totally wrecked near that port, sth instant. Two large vessels, supposed to be colliers, are welsh' the North east Channel, about three miles S.E. of the lower buoy of the Whiting. in ten fathoms water. FALMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind N.E. moderate weather.—Sailed the Weasel, SOANS for the Mediterranean. PLY MOUTII, JAW. 10. —Wind N. N. W. Sailed the Mary, West? as, and Hazard, CH um:9ra RD, for London ; also, two brigs and two schooners, bound eastward. The Maria, Moms?, re mains, with several oaks& Poenstowrit, JAN. 11.—Wind W. N.W.—Sailed the Star, Kin, for London. ; and bis Majesty's ship Cnixiore, on a cruise.. DEAL, Jam. N. W. light • breeze.—Arrived the Sarah, BATSMAN, from Heinduias; Expedition, Warms, from Aberdeen for Jamaica ; and the Mary, Houses, from Arn.terd.uts for the Havannah. Passed through from the River, theSirthattes M'Carthy, Maws, for Nevis; Active, i Alai', foe lit..*:Vibeent's; Creole, _Gamvav, for Pernambuco; and several others, names not reported. LITIRPOOL, JAIL Io.—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrived the Day, Vassar, trom Alessina. Off the port, the Maria, from Sicily; and Juno. Bum, from Danteic. - CUSTOM-HOUSE; Januanv 11. Snits Errant]) lOWA iIDS.••-The Margaret and Vrow Giertsey, from Rotterdam. Evens* Onvwwaxes —The Samuel, for Seville ; Vrow Annegina, for Antwerp ; Veseten, for Gottenburgis ; Prince of Waterloo, for Ostend; Heroe, for Calais; and Ceres, for Waterford. Cl.zmusio Ourwaaao--The Vann, for Calais; Montague, for Jamaica; Commerce, for Brussels; Symmetry, for Odessa; Maris, for lkourcleaux ; and Bnigiteden, for Norway. - - - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER left town soon after five .'clock, yesterday, for Beckenham. His Majesty 's ship TWEED is fitting at Portsmoo"hs for the conveyance of the Consul appointed for St. Doinngel. His Grace the Duke of Mouvitoss has transmitted the sum of ten pounds to the funds of the Royal Botanic Institu tion of gow. • Frid G ay, las the Bishop of CHESTER arrived at his father's house hi Bury, and the bells immediately commenced ringing in honour of so distinguished a native. Sunday his Lordship preached at St. Mary's in the morning, and at St. James's lathe afternoon. A machine has lately been constructed us Germany, " of such astonishing properties, that if raw flax be put in at one end, ruffled shins are turned out at the other." However antra ordinary this may appear, the power of conversion is mach ex ceeded is our new multiplying wheel, by which any Person leg turn Nineteen Guineas into one of the Sts TWENTY TIOCOAIaIi chat most be all decided oo the lot of Manor; the closing owe fthe IViieel fit Fortune is at band, for Government will hue M L .ttertet alter the two avec Drawings. ~;•