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1 • 1, • I~ ~. authority is hardly respected, since his despotic power has ceased to be an object of terror. Commerce and all the different links of society seem to be para lyzed; grief breaks out even in the apathy of the Ottomans. The bazaars and coffee-homes are quite deserted ; the mosques alone are filled with elderly men, and the young Turks appear generally disposed to emigrate into Asia. The Cluistbns are not without their portion of anxiety ; trey seem to fear a dreadful re-action after the departure of the R.;c clans. It is not from Government that they expect any rigoro a measure, but from the Turkish populace, because they have giv very uaequivoeal marks of their attachment to the Russians in fact, in every part of European Turkey the prospects for futurity are all alarming, and the moment when the Russian army is to leave the invaded territory, will probably be the signal for the dis solution of tbe whole body, and the Sultan, with all his energy,will not be able to prevent it. Prince Metternich and Lord Cowley have had lately a very warm altercation on politics. It would appear that, according to the orders of the British Cabinet, the English Ambassador required of the Austrian Minister some concessions which were prejudicial to the interests of Austria; and his demands being accompanied by observations of rather a threatening nature, they were peremptotily refused. It appears that from that moment all communications have ceased between those two personages. It will probably be the Prussian Ambassador who will have to reconcile them. THE EVENING STAR. v.. tr, 7 •07- t r . 4 , r a te ,r,.4I4IIPO,PCA I TIS • LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. HOLMAT AT Tall BANK—KING WILLIAM LANTZ!), 1688. FOREIGN FONDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazil Bonds, Spr Ct. 66 I Ditto 100, 201 Milian Bonds, 6 per Ct. 211 Mexican Bd.. S per Cent. Colom. Bd.. 6 per Ct. Do. 13ds, 1825, 6 pr Ct. Do. Bds. 1824, 191 I Ditto Acct. 211 Do. Acct. 20 Peru,. 11d...61) C. 14 Di. 11.11.5 p. Ct. Ditto Ace. 14 Ditto Acct. 75 Rus. Bds. 1822, 5 p Ct. 104 Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. 20 I Sp. Bd.. 5 per Ct. 81 / Do Bds, 1825, 5 p Ct. 20 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLoCK. SHALL PAID. Brazilia”, Imp. (in. .es pm.) 35 20 Do. National 25 10 PIS MARL 14} TO CORRESPONDENTS. " WE bave received some very interesting details from our Lisbon Correspondent; but must defer laying them before our readers till to-morrow." " A Notice of Mr. GALLI- KNIGHT'S Pamphlet to-morrow." We have German Papers this day ; and by our first extract, it will appear that the fourth national Congress of Greece has pensioned the President J. A. C APO D'lB - a Lts with thirty thousand Spanish piastres, from the public treasury, in order " to maintain the dignity of his station, and to defray the charges of his household ?" a very pretty present—" considering" (as they say) that the said treasury is made up of eleemosynary contributions from every charitably-disposed person in Europe. Sensible of this circumstance, Cs PO DIST ILI A s has very magnani mously, and with great policy, declined to receive a sin gle stiver,—and for the best of all reasons : " we could not prevail on ourselves," says he, " to procure even those comforts of life, which suppose a state of prospe rity, while we stand amidst ruin, and are surrounded with whole classes of population languishing in the pro foundest misery." VIF.NNA, OCT. 22. The following are the contents of the Decree of the Fourth Na- tional Congress of Greece, dated 13th August, respecting the civil list of the President, and the answer of the latter : Considering that his Excellency the President, as well before as since his arrival in Greece, has devoted to the service of the coun try the remains of his property, amounting to above a million of Turkish piastres : considering farther that his Excellency, in con sequence of the deficiency of the public resources, has not accepted the 12,000 tallaris (Spanish dollars) which the Parhellenion of fered him for his annual disbursements : sensible of the necessity of furnishing bii Excellency with the indispensable means to main tain the dignity of his station, and to defray the charges of his household : The Fourth National Congress decrees— Aar. 1. There shall be assigned to his Excellency the President, J. A. Capo d' Isuias, for his annual expenses, the ►um of 180,000 pbeenixes in the national coin (30,000 Spanish piastres) from the public treasury. Aix. 2. The present Decree shall be inserted in the Codes of the Decrees; and, after being confirmed, to be transmitted to the Government, to be printed and carried into effect Argos, Aug. 15, 1829. (Signed) The President of the Assembly, SISSINI. The Vice-President, G. MAUROMMATI. (Here follow the remaining Signatures.) ANSWER OF THE PRESIDENT. Argos, Aug. 16, 1829. " The Decree No. 9, of 13th August, which the Congress has transmitted to me, fixes the income of the Head of the State. " In the same decree the Congreu has regard to the little which we have been able to do personally, in order to prove that the Greeks should raise themselves by eacrilices, and not by personal advantages, to the rank which the national independence and liberty promise them. " We esteem ourselves happy that we were allowed to deposit the remainder of our swan property for so sacred a cause, on the altar of the country. " We are very far from not hoping that the nation will one day be able to make it good to us; but till that time shall come, we shall.carefully avoid burthening its finances by requiring the re payment of the sums advanced by us. " We shall also decline to accept now the sum assigned for the disbursements of the chief of the State ; and so long as our private property shall suffice, we shall abstain from touching the public • money for our wants. " if the entire failure of our resources should compel us to it, we shall have recourse to the public treasury ; but burthen it with those expenses only, which the exercise of our functions renders necessary. " We have hitherto practised the strictest economy, and shall continue to do so ; for we could nut prevail on onrse;ves to pro cure even those comforts of life, which suppose a state of prosperity, while we stand amidst ruin, and are surrounded with whole classes of population languishing in the profoundest misery. " You, Gentlemen, participate in these sentiments, and have just given a proof of it, by serving the nation in the character of its re presentatives without any retribution. " We flatter ourselves with the hope that those smog you, who, in the provisional administration, take a share in the Government; as well as other citizens who may be called to such functions, will ,perceive with ns that the public officers under present circumstances, cannot receive salaries commensurate with their rank or their services; but that such salaries must be strictly regn- I.ted according to thepecunlary means which the Government can , command• (Signed)?. The President of Greece. J. A. CAPO D'ISTRIAS. VIENNA, Om 18. The new loan at 4 per cent. was yesterday contracted for by our Government with the houses Rothaildkl, Geymuller, Arnsteia, Estelle', and Sins. The amount is said to be 25 millions of florins currentine money. The primitive price is stated to be 86 per cent. with the advantage of the coupon attached to the obligation; so that the contractors do not pay more than 84 1-3 d per cent. Notwithstanding this, and though 88 were immediately offered on 'Change, the holders would not part with any. It must be acknowledged that circumstances are extremely favourable to them, as the rising of the 4 per Cent. bonds of Bith man, as well as the interest of the holders of Bank Shares, Ste. nsu,t be favourable to the new paper currency ; for the higher that is, the more will all other stock be likely to rise. FRANKFORT, OCT. 27. —Exchange on London, 154—Frank fort Papers, Oct. 28. The Hamburgh Papers to the 27th ult. contain the following notices : HAMBURGH. OCT. 26. According to the last Bulletin .f the Physicians, of the ?Mb his Majesty the ring of Sweden was so far recovered. as to be able to apply to business as usual. HAMBURGH, Oc.r. 27. Borsen Hale, Four o'Clock. A great deal has been done in Funds since Friday, and at higher quotations. There were more sellers, &c. than buyers at the prices below. Discount, 51 money : End of October. Anglo Danish Loan, 5 per Cent. Anglo Russian Loan Hamburgh Ditto 961 Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares Austrian Metalliques =CYAN/3U 0$ LONDON. HAustratur, OCT. 27 —l3 11 ; Two Months, 13 91. Lursw, OCT. 25.—Three months, 61! Baum. 24.—Three Months, 6 271. Pwrzasauests. Ocs. 13.-10 11-16ths. STOCIMOLM, OCT. £O.-90 D. 11 40.—Ilomb. Papers, Oct. 97. The recognition of Don Mu; UEL by his uncle PER-. DINAND, for which we were prepared by the late ac- courn s from Portugal, has been officially announced in the Lisbon Gazette, of which we gave an extract yester- day. Having frequently expressed our opinion on the probability of this incident in the infamous drama now passing in Portugal, its announcement occa sions no surprise. The Lisbon Correspondent of the Journal desDalats, dated on the 17th of last month, says that ASSEC A'S last despatches intimated to the usurper that the example of Spain would soon be followed by England. It is added that DA PoNT A—the emissary of M isL at Paris—holds out the same hopes with re- Bard to the French Cabinet. Not satisfied with crediting our Ministers for their yet unavowed inten tion to follow the example of recognition thus exhibited by Spain, whose natural tendency is to make common cause with an ally like Mi- GUEL, it is very generally asserted, both at Paris and London, that the Cabinet of Madrid has been secretly urged to the recent act, by the apostolical portion of our government—the better to justify, at the proper period, the course on which themselves have resolved. Such is the substance of the reports in circulation. Now, while we offer it as our sincere conviction that the Duke of WELLINGTON, Prince POLIONAC, and Lord ABERDEEN, are most anxious to follow the example of Spain—not merely in her recognition of the monster whose crimes we have held tip to the world's execration, but in every other measure, having for its object to extinguish freedom—we shall not give credence to the designs now imputed to them, till the fact actually takes place. If it be asked on what ground our opinion is formed —our reply is, that the public feeling—both here and in France —is too strongly opposed to such a measure, to render its adoption compatible with their continuance in power. Tnat the Noble Duke and the Noble Earl are prepared to make any sacrifice for such a consummation, their voting in favour of Catholic Relief, after having been so long its bitterest opponents, is an astounding proof. With regard to FERDINAND, we are con vinced that so far as he is personally concerned in the act of recognition, it has been no more his, than it has been the Great Moo yr.'s. Depraved as his other pro pensities may be, is it in the nature of things, that a man who knows and feels, that his own Crown may ere long be usurped by a brother, would sanction a measure which so fully justifies the project of placing Don CARLOS on the throne of Spain ? It is notorious that King FERDINAND has no power whatever beyond the precincts of his Palace : nor need all those, who are at all acquainted with the state of the Peninsula, be told, that the recognition of the Usurper is purely and exclusively an act of the Apostolicals.— Knowing, as they do, that the establishment of Donna MARIA in Portugal, would interfere with their nefarious projects —if indeed it should not totally upset their power—what wonder at their anxiety to pro long the sway of their tool and creature at Lisbon ? Little more than a week has elapsed since we drew the public attention to an article in the Times, which represented the recognition as a mat ter of State necessity, and called for by all the " inte rests of commerce." Having on that occasion—as our read#rs can attest for us—triumphantly demolished a doctrine in every way so worthy of IGN ATIUS LOYOLA, we were not unprepared for some such passage as the following, which we find mixed ap with other matter this morning : "THE EXAMPLE OF TILE COURT OF SPAlN"—says the Times—" MUST BE FOLLOWED BY OTHER STATES, if nothing happens in the interval to inspire hopes of the better cause and the superior title of the young Queen. Nations cannot be excommunicated for the crimes of their Princes; and so long as the relations of business are to be kept up, we must maintain the usual channels of diplomatic intercourse." But, one more sentence : for it is characteristic—more than any thing which has yet fallen from his pen of the morality of our Contemporary—" Usurpation, by long undisturbed conti nuance, is purged of the vices of its origin, and be comes, so far as national intercourse is concerned, legi timate authority." In all the Miguelite Journals, who notoriously draw their subsidies from AssEcA, we have not met with any thing so flagrant as this. They maintain the legi timacy and the virtues of MIGUEL ; but this writer—admitting that he is a blood-stain e usurper, a perjuror, and a foul oppressor—compounds with the ROYAL FELON, and votes honour and recog nition to crimes which disgrace humanity ! Verily he merits—in a degree far higher than he for whom it was destined—the diamond cross brought home in the Sand wich Packet by CARLOS MATIIIAS, for a much less downwright advocate of blood and tyranny. But while the Portuguese Patriots—both in London and Paris, and throughout Portugal—are loud in their cries agaiast the abandonment of their cause by the Times, we entertain no apprehension for the consequences. We only lament that such a prostitution of high talent and contempt for public principle should prevail, at a moment when the dearest interests of our country more than ever require that both should be unsullied and co-operant. A private letter from Paris states, that the Countess VILLA FLOR is about to join her gallant and heroic hus band at Terceira. The Countess is to be accompanied to the port of embarkation by the Marchioness DE LOULE, sister of the Usurper. Our correspond ent further dates, that the Marquis of PALMELLA has been most favourably received by the Prince DE POLIGNAC, who has treated with his Excel lency as the official representative of her Majesty DONNA MARIA. CITY. Twit Lys o'CLock. Consols, which left air yesterday at 91 for Money, and 91 to I for the Account, opened at the same price this morning ; but at present may be quoted a shade higher, 91i to * for the Account, with little doing as yet. In the Foreign Market nothing doing u yet. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. We are still without the arrival of the Harnburgh or Dutch steamers, consequently we have no intelligence from the Continent to communicate. This being a holiday at the Bank, no money transactions are going forward in the Funds; but Consols are steady, and improving. Consols, which were in the early pan of the morning at 91i for the Account, may be quoted at int buyers and 91 + to for money. Our Foreign Market is void of interest, with not much doing: but there is a small improvement in most of the Foreign Securities: We have received Jimmies Papers by the Packet to Sept. 8, this morning. —(From the Courant of the 3d : ) We understand it to be the intention of the Lords of the Admiralty to join the North American and West India naval station, under the command of a Rear-Admi ral. Bermuda to be the head-quarters; but as the dock yard there will not be ready until next year, it is re ported that Admiral Fleming has had the option of remaining for 12 months longer, but has declined. The command of this station was offered to two distinguished Admirals, both of whom declined ; the principal objec tion made by these officers, was the ruinous state of the Admiral's pen, which induced the Lord High Admiral to direct, that the present naval Commander-in-Chief should not make a permanent residence in any particular island, so that the benefit which Jamaica has hitherto exclusively derived by the residence of an Admiral, will now be shared by the other islands." CUROACOA, AUG. 29, 1829.—The Barham will be ready for sea by the middle of next month. The Mer sey came in from Antigua and Martinique two days ago; she is going to Trinidad with the Grasshopper. The Kangaroo goes to Maracaybo, for documents required by the Kingston merchants, and will proceed with them to Jamaica. The Icarus takes this. She has been over to St. Thomas's to enquire after the pirate that plundered the Admiral Benbow in February last. It is reported that the vessel which committed that outrage returned to Guadaloupe two months ago, with a cargo of slaves, and from there went to St. Bartholomew, the recep tacle for all such ruffians. When the Mersey was at Martinique, the new Governor, Admiral Freissenette, arrived there, and was very well received. After th 3 High Mass at church he is reported to have thanked the people for his flatter ing reception, and told them that he was sent there to bring them back to the obedience of the laws, and re minded them that although colonists, they were still French citizens and must obey the laws of that country in the same manner as if they resided in one of the depart ments. He is reported to have ordered the Procureur de Roi to confiscate all the slaves not registered, which will amount to about five thousand. If the penalties are exacted they will amount to an immense sum of money. The Governor of Guadaloupe is likewise recalled. If the French will put down the Slave Trade in earnest the Spaniards and Portuguese will soon give it up, and the commerce of the world will be free from molestations to which it is now subjected, from the demoralized marauders engaged in that infamous Lraffic. FROM TILE JAMAICA COURANT, AUG. 27.—We are happy to learn that the whole of the officers of 33d regiment, with one exception, who have been for several months past under arrest, have been released. Two of the officers will he sent to other regiments ; and we hope all that has passed will have the effect of restoring har mony to a regiment remarked for its gallantry in the field, and for its orderly conduct in quarters. We understand, that in consequence of the interference of Mr. Watts, the British Consul at Carthagena, Mr. Miller, who was sentenced to death, has received a free pardon from Bolivar, and to quit Colombia. MONTEGO BAY, Ave. I.—Wednesday, about two o'clock, this town and neighbourhood were visited by a sudden squall, accompanied by rain from the North east, which broke down several Maringo fences adjacent to this office. The vessels in the harbour sustained some injury. The brigantine Ranger broke adrift, and the Mary Ann was damaged ; almost every vessel started from her moorings. FROM THE ADVERTISER OF TII E 3D.—We understand the Law Officers of the Crown have given opinions that some of the Islands not having complied with the terms of their charters, have lost their right to them ; but hav ing been given by the King in Council, the difficulty will now be as to the mode of Parliamentary interference. The Jamaica Mail does not bring any further accounts from the Spanish Expedition in Mexico, that we have already given to the public. A vessel has arrived from Bengal with dispatches, sailed 9th of June. This is not so late as after arrivals, which we have previously announced from that quarter ; and on this occasion we do not find that there is any news of importance from the East. LIVERPOOL MARKET, Nov. 2.—A very fair business continues to be done in British Plantation Sugar; the sales this week amounting to 900 hogsheads, at ready prices, besides 300 bags of fine white Bengal. Nothing has been done in Foreign Sugars. We continue to experience a very good demand for Cotton, and prices keep steady, except for lower qualities of American, which have been rather forced on the market, at a de cline of a halfpenny per lb. There is little doing at present in Indigo. TABLE TALK, HISTORICAL. POLITICAL, LEARNED. mid HUMOROUS. Pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, auda cious without hnpudeney, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy."—Susismas. AN EXEMPLARY CHIEF JUSTICE.—Sir EnmuND ANDERSON, who was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1582, was a very strict lawyer, and governed himself entirely by the statutes. We have his express declaration that he neither expected precedents in all cases, nor would he be bound by them where he saw they were not founded upon justice, but would act as if there were no such precedents. In the Reports of hi., time, published by GoLDEsBoROLIGH, we find the fol lowing: —" The case of RESCAIT was moved again; and SiIuTTLEwoRTII said, that he could not be received, because he was named in the writ ;' and added, that he had searched all the books, and there was not one case where he, which is named in the writ, may be received: What of that ?' said Judge AN DERsON ; shall we not give judgment because it is not adjudged in the book.: before? We will give judgment according to reason ; and if there be no reason in the books, I will not regard them.' " ORIGIN OF THE SPINNING .JENNY.—" Sir RicH AR:, ARKwRIGHT raised himself from one of the humblest stations in life to opulence and rank. He began the world as a penny barber at Manchester ; and by un common genius and persevering industry, he perfected a system of machinery for spinning cotton, that had in vain been attempted by many of the most eminent and skilful mechanics of the 17th and 18th centuries; and which, by giving perpetual employment to many thou sand families, was productive of great commercial ad vantages to W.s country. The machine is called " The Spinning Jenny." In 1786 he served the office of High Sheriff for the County of Derby, and was knighted on carrying up an address to the king. Sir RICHARD ARKU RIGHT left behind him property to the amount of half a million sterling." It would be well if those who mistake personal vitupe ration for political opposition, and resent the measures of the Minister by invidious and ungenerous allusions to the origin of the man, were to emulate the example of public utility and honourable industry which they affect to despise. It would be well for ENGLAND, if amongst her" monied men" she could boast of more such characters 8S Sir RICHARD ARK W RIG lIT and SirROBERT PEEL. CHIVALROUS COMPLIMENT.—When Lord ANSON commanded the Channel Fleet in 1747, he captured six French men-of-war and four East Ind;amen. Of the ships of the line which ho took, one was called " The Invincible," and another " The Glory ;" and when the Commander of the first came to surrender his sword, he thus addressed the victorious Admiral—" Monsieur, yetis avez vaincu l'lnvincible, et la Gloire vous CLERICAL COURTESY, AND CANDOUR.—There is a pleasant story related of LA UNCELOT Au DREW A, Bishop of Winchester, in the life of WALLER, the Poet, who, going to see the King (JAMES I.) at dinner, overheard a very extraordinary conversation between his Majesty, the Bishop of Winchester, and NEALE, Bishop of Dur.. ham. These two prelates, standing behind the King' s chair, his Majesty asked them, " My 'Ards, cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all thi s formality in Parliament r The Bishop of Durham rea. dily answered, " GOD forbid, Sir, but you should ; you are the breath of our nostrils." Vhereupon the King turned, and said to the Bishop of Winchester, " Well, my Lord, what say yon ?" " Sir," replied the Bishop, I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases." The King answered, " No put offs, my Lord ; answer me presently." " Then, Sir," said he, " I think it lawful for you to take my brother NEALE'S money, for he offers it.—" MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTs.--Princes usually make wiser choices than the servants whom they trust for the disposal of places. I have known a Prince more than once choose an able Minister ; but I never observed that Minister to use his credit in the disposal of an em ployment to a person whom he thought the fittest for it. —SwIFT.— Thoughts on Various Subjects. Any ANTAG ES OF SATIRE.—Such productions of wit and humour as have a tendency to expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversions to all kinds of readers. The good or prudent man, may by these means, be diverted without prejudice to his discretion or morality. Raillery, under such regulations, unbends the mind from serious studies and severer contemplations, without throwing it off from its proper bias. It carries on the same design that is promoted by authors of a graver turn, and only does it in another manner. It also awakens reflection in those who are the most indifferent in the cause of virtue or knowledge, by setting before them the absurdity of such practises as are generally unobserved, by reason of their being common or fashionable : nay, it sometimes catches the dissolute and abandoned before they are aware of it, who are often betrayed to laugh at them selves, and upon reflection find that they are merry at the:r own expence.---` Freeholder,' No. 45. LITERARY SYCOPIIANTS.—Some authors, rather than not flatter, will commend a man for what he ought to be blamed.—Tom BROWN'S Short Amusements.' By the Jamaica packet we have received letters from Bogota, of the 14th Aug. which confirm the peace be tween Colombia and Peru, and the public place full con fidence in the liberator Bolivar. The internal state of the country is daily improving. Application has been made to Bolivar from the Mining Company, for leave to export ore to England, which has been granted. An association similar to that of Paris and other places, for offering legal resistance to the levy of taxes not voted by the Chambers, if such an attempt should be made, has been formed in the department of the Aube, under the denomination of " Association Troyenne." BRIGHTON, Nov. 2.—Lord HOLLAND occupies one of the largest houses on the New Steyne, where the hospitality peculiar to this amiable and excellent Noble man is constantly sustained, and Lady HOLLAND is every evening "at Home." What are called the Whig Nobi lity and Gentry are here in great force—The Duke of Bedford, Earl Jersey, Lord Nugent, Lord Glengall, Earl Dudley, George Tierney, But. M.P. James Bar nett, Esq. the eminent banker; Ralph Bernell, Esq. M.P. Marquis of Bristol, Stewart Rose, Esq. Colonel Craddock, Mr. Mandeville, Lady Lyndhurst, the Mar chioness of Downshire, Lady Dudley, Lady Burdett, Countess of Jersey, and Lady Holland, were all on the promenade this morning. A decision of the Minister of the Interior, notified to the directors of the theatres, informs them that they are not to perform pieces in honour of the King on the day of his fete.—Messager des Chambres. The eldest son of General BLUCHER died on the 10th of October, at Koepenick. This officer held the rank of Major-General. He died after protracted sufferings, in consequence of the dangerous wounds he had received in the campaigns of 1813. Friday the Special Commission at Cork terminated without any further trials. Those persons untried are to remain in prison until next Assizes.