Star. — London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR SALT, WHEAT, PEAS, AND WILLOW RODS. VICTUALLING OFFICE, December 4, 1829. • THE COWMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING his MAJESTY'S NAVY, .f c. do hereby give Naive, That on Fame, the 18th instant, they will be ready to receive 'fenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the undermentioned Articles, to be delivered into the Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz.— FiIUODS 01 DIILIVILIif • One Hundred Tons of Bay Salt, stove dried; and Between the lst day of May and Fifty Tuns of White Salt, stove the 31st day of July next. dried. Two Thousand Quarters on Wheat, to weigh 60lb. to the Bushel; One half of each by the 31st of One Thousand Quarter. of Peas; January, and the remainder and by the 28th February next. Three Hundred Thousand Wil low Rods. - - - - - Samples of the Wheat, Peas, and Willow Rods (of not less than 500 Great Tale) must be produced by the party tendering ; and not any Tender for Rods will be received for less than One Hun dred Thousand. Samples of the Salt, together with the Condi tions of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office. P.ach Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the Person who nukes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WILLER CLIFTON. THE EVENING STAR. . t?, % - l irr - , ' - " k ,1,•, . .. " `e ,p, 4,‘Alesp - .. L :41.,:1i,L14,0 AIN S LON DON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. - PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bulk Stock 2171 1 1 Tndia Stock. 5 per Cent. Red. 93i 4 4 India Bonds 69 9 9 3 per Ct. Cons. shut New Annuities 51 per Ct. 1818, £lOOO Exch.Bills (2d) 68 70 69 51 per Ct. Red. 100 4 100 4500 Ditto 68 70 69 4 per Cent. shut 4100 and 4200 Ditto 68 70 69 4 per Cl. 1826, Commercial, Long Ann. 191 11-16ths Advertised, 6 9 Do. 30 Years, 191 for Jan. 7 951 4 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Ms, Spr Ct 671 4 Ditto Acct. 29 SI Do. Acc. 671 Max. Bds. 5 per Ct. 20 Buena. Ayres lids. 6 p Ct. 27 Do B. 1826,6 pC.OI 4 Colon'. Bds. 6 per Ct. Ditto Ace. 25 1 Do. 1141.1824, Ferny. 811.6 p C. Ditto Acct. 92 4 2 Do Acet. 161 D , nish MI.. sr. Ct. 744 4 Sp. Bds. 5 per Ct. 1011 4 4 Ditto Acct. 741 4 Fr. Rts, 5 per Ct. 100.25 c. Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Exchange, 115 t. 70c. Do. 8d5.1825, 5 prCt. 29 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK 41HAILL mot. sus MAL Anglo Mexican (iw. at 45 pm) 100 100 36 39 Ditto Subscrip. 10 131 151 15 Bolan°, 500 300 470 Brazillae, Imp. (iss. £5 pm.) 35 20 71 Do. National 115 10 161 Columb. (iss. at £ 5 pm.) 100 53 51 General Mining Aso) 20 61 151 400 771 Real del Monte 400 Ditto Subscript. — 10 20 ERRATUM. In our Theatrical Notice of yesterday, for " Arndira►y heir om," read g. profaskmal heir loom." The following—from our Cit entitled to the greatest attention: " CITY, HALE-PAST ONE• - . " We have a strange report afloat, in regard to the affairs of Portugal. It is stated that information has been received from France, that Don MIGUEL is to abdicate the throne of Portugal, on certain conditions ; and that Donna MARIA, the young Queen, is going to be appointed Queen, under a Regency. There is not to be a Constitution, as the Emperor of AUSTRIA has ob jected to it." The pretended news from Lisbon, which made its ap pearance in most of the papers of yesterday, in the shape of an extract from the Moniteur, is a tissue of barefaced falsehoods. The Tuscan vessel captured by Dou MI GUEL'S squadron off Terceira, had no ammunition on hoard, nor any letters from Portuguese refugees. They had no more concern in that ship than they had •in the defeat of BARRADAS at Tampico. It is equally false that the Refugees are directing their views against Madeira; and the height of absurdity to state that they had succeeded, by means of gold, in seducing some persons there to disturb public tranquil lity. The truth is—however incredible it may appear — that MONTEIRo, the Governor, endeavoured to poison a whole battalion of his garrison, who were suspected to favour the Queen, Donna MARIA ! Every Portuguese will laugh at the assertion that M. de SOUZA TAVARES IS a good General, or the Count DE CEA an excellent naval officer. But the most impudent of all these palpable falseho. i 3, that the Treasury at Lisbon continues to pay the ar rears of the officers in the several branches of the admi nistration. Ask any of the officers, in any of the de partments—whether of the military or civil service—i, they have received either their arrears, or their current pay ? The contrary is known to be the fact. This notable correspondent of the Moniteur, concludes by stating that the greatest tranquillity prevails in the capital aid the provinces. This, in one sense, is unhap pily true but it is the tranquillity of the tomb ! Nothing can exceed the system of tyranny and oppression by which the people are, at present, kept in subjection and silence ; but the reign of terror, it is to be hoped, will not be of long duration. If we have been apprehensive, hitherto, that our Government would recognise the tyrant, we have good grounds for, declaring now that all such apprehension is vanished. The Noble Duke is falling, and will not precipitate his catastrophe by an odious and ineffectual attempt. The despatch of General PASKERITSCH relative to an action fought after the Treaty of Peace, is an afflicting narrative, as relating an unnecessary waste of life : but we cannot blame the PACIIA of Trebisonde for not let ting a Russian courier pass by that important route to the Russian army. The PACHA seems to have known well, that Russian couriers are frequently officers selected or their capacity to retain recollections of what they see and hear. We learn, however, through the medium of this despatch, a new fact: namely, that the Russian army—instead of advancing against Trebisonde—was making a retrograde movement upon Erteroum ; and therefore that the Ottoman Porte, at least on that side of its dominions, could not be so fallen as has been re presented. Erzeroum is about twelve hundred miles from Con stantinople ; and after all the successes claimed by the Russians in Asia during the war, we are—we.confesa— surprised to find that no greater progress has been made by them, and that no lodgement on the Asiatic shores of the Black Sea, beyond the Phasis, had been effected. The Turks—we are told—in this last action, fought very bravely ; and we g..eatly suspect, though they opposed no resistance in Europe after the battle of the I 1 th of June—in which they disputed for four hours victory in the open field—that there are other reasons for this defection from duty, than those arising from fear, or good-will towards the invader. The sudden signature of the peace —the immediate evacuation of the Turkish provinces, as now announced—are links in this chain of mysteries, which a short time will expose to light. In the Courier of last night, there is a vituperative article against the STAR, which some of his enemies— we suppose—have assured us is from the pea.of Lord DuNOLAs. We do•not believe any thing of the kind, the language being much more like that of a footman, thin that of a lord : indeed, we will assume it to be the effusion of my Lord DUNGLAteII footman, of which there is every probability ; if we judge it by the internal evidence. The lying menial introduces his common place audacities as follows :--L" We shall in the first instance give the account of this very immaterial, but strangely misrepresented occurrence ns it has been already narrated, adhering substantially to the published statement, but using our own words : we shall then 'endeavour to ciivest the affair of all its fictitious importance, and that in the fairest possible manner, by relating the simple truth." One would imagine, for his own sake, after such a prelude to his projected distortion, that at least the writer would state the circumstances nearly as they were announced by us, if it were only to invest with an air of greater verisimili tude the falsification which be had builded on them : but the poverty of the impostor's imagination did not appre hend that a little candour would have imparted much plausibility to his lie. " The Marquis Da PALISELLA" —he continues—" who within the last few days came over from France, is represented as laying claim to an ambas sadorial character on his arrival at Dover, and as such receiving the customary salute." The pitiful hireling knows that this is a falsehood : who said that the Noble Marquis laid claim to ambassadorial honours? He RECEIVED them—received them by command of the slave's masters—without pretending to them at all. Yes ; it is the fact that his Excellency did receive them —and by special orders from the British Government — in his capacity of Ambassador from the QUEEN of Por tugal: and it is this fact that galls the Courier. " The Marquis"—he says farther on—" proceeds to London, still supporting his assumed dignity, presents himself at the Foreign Office, and is refused an audience." All this is represented by the phrenetic footman in Downing-street as having been asserted in the STAR, though it is so notorious that not one syllable to that effect was uttered by us. We merely published the letter of our private Correspondent at Dover, announcing that the Noble Marquis was received on landing by Colonel GOSSETT, Commandant of the Garrison, and a guard of honour from the Rifle Brigade ; and that the guns from the heights and batteries saluted his -Excellency— on the appearance of the packet in the offing, and again on his departure from the town—with the full comple ment paid only to Ambassadors from a recognised Sovereign. We re-assert this : we deny that any public honours were shown to the Princess Es- TERHAZY—and that she is entitled to any : the demonstrations from the fort, and the Guard of Ho nour, headed by Colonel GOSSETT, were exclusive compliments to the AMBASSADOR of Donna MARIA 11. It is quite unnecessary to waste another line on the footman, or to attempt to prove—with that formality to which a less established character would be entitled — falsehood and venality, against asold and prescriptive liar. The Morning Journal's abuse of the Noble Mar quis—and insinuations against our veracity—are no doubt handsomely acknowledged by ASSECA. We wish these twin champions of the bloody MIoUZL, joy of the new prospects of their idol at Lisbon : since it appears every hour more likely—to use the phraseology of our Morning Contemporary—that he may . soon " expiate his treasons on a scaffold." if I We have German Papers this day, the contents of which are interesting.. The Allgemeine Zeitnng affords us a nearer glimpse 'of the stipulations of the famous Misty of Adrianople, showing us that a great number of airossible things are required from the Porte. The in demnity for losses sustained by Russian subjects, at vari ous times since 1806, is rated at one million and a half Dutch ducats. The expenses of the war form altogether a different matter : " the sum is to be afterivardsfized and in order to render the payment a seasy as possible to the Porte, the generous Russian agrees to take part in goods, property—or any thing, in short, he may have a fancy for. Besides these very agreeable tidings, we have a few interesting lines from the Austrian Observer on the subject of the trade between Russia and China.. " It seems the former Power took possession, a few years ago, of a country in central Asia, as extensive as France and Holland together 1" Who is so fool-hardy now, as to deny the magnanimity and moderation of the Einperor Nicholas ? ALEXANDRIA, San. It. We are still uncertain hem respecting the progress of the opera tions of the war ; but secret wishes are probably entertained that the rank may be unfortunate to the Porte, and that the Bekaa may be made very dependent en Russia ; for Mehemet Ars plans moot come to maturity till be bas nothing more to fear from the Sultan, and is able to direct his whole attention to carrying them into effect. Mehemet's Agents at Constantinople send him hardly any letters since the Russians have passed the Balkan ; and it is apprehended that the Porte has thrown some obstacles in the way of their transmission. The latest accounts from the theatre of war come to us, therefore, by way of Trieste. They leave us no doubt that peace will soon be restored, but they are very vague and by no means satisfactory to the Viceroy. It is reported that im portant negociations have taken place in Cairo, and that greater activity has since been observed in the equipment of men of war, and the organisation of the regular troops. The internal admi nistration improves daily ; and it is probable that Egypt will in a few years become muck more prosperous and powerful. The finances, which could not Sourish while the country was governed as it has hitherto been, are now improving, and will perhaps soon bear a comparison with those of the best regulated State. The system of monopoly is to be done away with, as far as possible, and freedom of commerce introduced instead. The Government already contracts by public tender for all the requisites for the navy, and in general invites competition in all supplies for the army. It is said that the Viceroy intends to make a journey into the interior et the country, and to choose several places for the erection of for tresses. It is also said that a special agent is again to be sent to Constantinople. Hitherto M. Rosetti has transacted the affairs Of the Viceroy there. ADRIANOPLE, Ocr. 31. In the 6th Article of the principal Treaty signed here on the 14th, it is stipulated that the Porte shall pay to Russia in the space of eighteen months,• in instalments to be afterwards determined, the sum of 1 million of Dutch ducats, u an indemnity for the losses sustained by Russian subjects and merchants at various times since 1806. In a separate or explanatory convention signed the same day (Art. II.) the payment of that instalment is fixed as follows : The Porte pays to Russia on the exchange of the ratification, 100,000 ducats ; six months afterwards, 400,000 ducats ; six months later, 500,000 ; and the remaining 500,000 in another six months ; so that the whole shall be paid in eighteen months. The 9th Article of the principal Treaty stipulates that the Porte shall pay for the expenses of the war a sum to be afterwards fixed. By Art. $ of the separate Convention this indemnity Is fixed at ten millions of ducats, to be paid in such a manner as the Emperor of Russia shall Ix. on an appeal of the Porte to his generosity and magnanimity. In order to render the payment as easy to the Porte as possible, the Russian Court agrees to take in part payment all equivalent in such goods u may be agreed upon. With respect to the evacuation of the Turkish territory by the Russian troops; it Is determined that as soon u the first 100,000 ducats are paid, tile Article respecting Servia executed, and Endorsee° given up, the and within a month after the exchange of the ratifications, the Ruu elan army shall evacuate Adrianople, Klrk•Kilisa, Lute, &urges, Midge. bueada, and other places, which shall be immediately given up to the authorities appointed by the Porte to receive them. On the payment of the 4d.),000 ducats, the Russians shall evacuate, in a month, the whole country from the Balkan to the Sea and the Gulf of Bourses, retreating over the Balkan to Bulgaria and Do broudscha ; which countries, with all their towns and villages, from the Danube to the Euzine, shall be evacuated on the payment of the nest 500,000 ducats. The last payment to be then made six months afterwards. Silistria and the principalities to be held by the Russians till the cadre payment of the military indemnity, ten mil lions, within two months, after which they too are to be evacuated and given op to the Turkish Authorities. The evacuation of the Turkish provinces in Asia to begin three months after the exchange of the ratifications, according to a separate Convention to be made between Count Paskewitch and the Turkish Seraskier in that country, so that the evacuation shall be completed in eight months from the exchange of the ratifications. VIENNA, Nov. 22. A Prussian Paper contains an account of the trade between Russia and China, in Which is the following passage : • Such a good understanding has long prevailed between Rush and China, that the former Power took possession a few years ago of a country in Central Asia as extensive as France and Holland together. This country is inhabited by the Kirgbi. Kaissacks, and other Nomad tribes, who have been Induced by skilful negotiations to submit to Russia. Part of these Eirgitis were formerly subject to China, which was probably glad to get rid of such turbulent subjects, and is not sorry to see them under Russia,which will be able to keep them in order. When a line of fortslications shall have been erected in this country, which is not every where a barren steppe, military colonies will be established in it, iron works erected, and the cavalry that may be necessary, furnished with excellent horses from Central Asia, to purchase which, the English East India Company sent the late N. Nidocroft to Dokhara. It is likely that con venient roads will soon be made, and Kokand, Samarcand, Sa hara, and several smaller Kbanates may perhaps soon be conquered. The new Russian frontier is distant about 2$ French leagues from the English possessions in India."—Austrion Observer, Nos. 22. • Noss —According to the first plan of the Treaty, the payment was to be made in one year, in three equal sums of half a million : the time was extended to eighteen months at the request of the Porte.-4ligemeine &rung. Nee. 48. Mr. SCOTT, the British officer whose seizure and im prisonment by the agents of MIGUEL has been detailed by the Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Herald, and which we copied yesterday, was a few years ago well known in our military circles as the Editor of a Perio dical devoted to that profession. Having proceeded to Portugal for the benefit of his health, he has been occu pied in collecting the materials of a work which cannot fail to throw an important light, not merely on the manners and customs of the Portuguese, but on all the secret intrigues which preceded and followed the usurpation. Although remarkable for the correctness of his demeanour in not giving any cause of complaint to the faction, there is no doubt of Mr. Scorr having felt as became an Englishman, on witnessing the horrors of the last two years. We look with considerable anxiety to the arrival of this much-injured Gentleman, knowing, as we do, that the details he can furnish, will be highly interesting. In the meantime; we refer our readers to a second extract from the Correspondence of the Herald, which fully corroborates all our previous statements with re gard to the condition of Portugal and the approaching fall of the tyrant. CITY. Twar.vs (Mane& We have received, through an extraordinary con veyance, letters from Vienna of the 26th November.— Metalliquee 103140-0 921; Bank Shares 1,250 ; Roths child's Loan 5-0 1820 175, and looking up. The following is an extract of a Decree issued at Egina, Oct. 1, 1829, in six Articles, by the Congress of Greece :—" A book of the national debts is to be in stituted ; and a loan in a foreign country to be negociated. All debts contracted shall be liquidated ; and the Govern ment is authorised to raise 200,000 sizammas of national domains, for the purpose of redeeming gradually the debts by a sinking fund; the honour of the whole nation re quiring her to fulfil her engagements." This act is signed by the President. Our arrivals this morning are very scanty : not even a single ship letter has come to hand. It appears almost certain that the new Four per Cents. will be paid off by Government ; and thus a further im provement in the British Funds is expected to take place. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sia,-- 7 1n their grief for the late capitulation of Bar radas, the enemies of the liberty and independence of the new American States will be somewhat consoled by read ing a letter, dated Santa Fe de Bogota, Aug. 12, which has appeared in a Morning Paper of this day. The loss of a battle, the complete destruction of an army of the independents, are, and ought to be less satisfactory to the Spanish Government, than the discredit of a Chief of so much influence, and so detrimental to their power in America, as the Liberator Bolivar. So, after having worked hard, but unsuccessfully, to discredit in his own country the great Colombian hero, the agents of the despicable Ferdinand have betaken themselves to the European press to obtain their object. I am quite confident that the author of the letter I allude to is either an agent of Spain, or an i nveterate personal enemy of Bolivar. I have reason to believe that the letter in question has been written in Europe, and not in America : it is dated at Santa Fide Bogota, and no per son residing in that capital gives it the name of Santa which has been abolished by law, and is now quite forgotten. It is to be remarked, likewise, that the packet from Colombia, which arrived on the 4th ult. having brought letters from Bogota to the 14 th of August, this letter, which is dated the 12 th of the same mouth, and which must have come by the same packet, has not until to-day made its appearance. Notwith standing, I will briefly notice its contents, leaving for a future occasion, if necessary, a more extensive reference to them. With an oratorical cunning already too well-known, the author begins his letter by affecting an air of impar tiality towards the Liberator. He tries in vain to dis semble that he writes cum ird et studio. He presents the one side of the medal bright and dazzling, that the reverse may appear still blacker and more deformed. According to the author of the letter, Bolivar was until 1826, " the patriot, the hero, the idol of his countrymen ; he was amiable in his courtesies, — accessible to all—well instructed—agreeably imagina tive—even eloquent—his conversation fascinating—and his polished manners gave a singular grace to all he said and did." What has then Bolivar done to forfeit these glorious titles and rare qualities ? What has he done ? Why, he has rescued his country from the abyss in which it was plunged ; he has saved it from the horrors of the most disastrous anarchy ; he has checked the dismem berment of the Republic, and prevented its provinces from offering to the world the shameful spectacle which the United Provinces—or rather, the disunited Provinces of the Rio de la Plata—have for so many years been pre senting. It is very difficult, Sir, as you well know, to judge of the events of a revolution, and of the men directing them, who are often carried away in spite of themselves by the tide of circumstances. It is nonsense to imagine that a man whose glory is identified with liberty, that a man whose penetration his very enemies acknowledge to be great, should think of establishing absolute power in Colombia. How could he enslave a people who have made so many sacrifices to be free—a people so warlike that every citizen is a veteran ? How could he subjugate against the will of its inhabitants so vast an extent of territory? What would support the absolute power ? Not the allurements and il lusions which for 300 years surrounded the Spanish throne ; not the habit of passive obedience which has been replaced by its very reverse ; not the influence ex ercised by the clergy, and which is almost extinct ; not a nobility which does not exist. It may perhaps be said, as indicated by the author of the letter, that he relies on the army, and that he will sustain the principle of " the army being triumphant, the people a nullity." —But who is not aware that such a state of things would be too violent to last any length of time ? Bolivar is the son of liberty, its friend. and its firmest support. Bolivar has ever been sincere ; he has always declared his opinion as to the form of Government most adapted to his country : he openly expressed it at the Congress of Angostura in 1819 ; at the Congress of Cucuta in 1821, and on several other solemn occasions. Bolivar knows very well that in Colombia there can be no liberty without order, and no order without liberty. He has exercised a temporal dictatorship which he will soon lay down : a dictatorship which has been as salutary to Colombia as was to ancient Rome that of its most virtuous citizens. It is alleged that there has been no motive for a dictator ship in Colombia since the country has not been invaded or threatened by a foreign foe. Supposing this to be the case, who can deny the immensity of evils and dangers which threatened the destruction of the republic? Let us bring to mind the frightful state of Colombia at the beginning of 1827, the division of the Provinces, the dissipation of the revenue, the immorality of all classes of the people, the abuses rooted in all the depart ments of the administration; let us remember all this, and let us declare whether evils of such a magnitude did not require a prompt and powerful remedy; whether a canker so deeply rooted could be extirpated without introducing the knife to its very roots ? The slanderer has carried his audacity so far, as to insinuate that the Liberator has made use of the torture. I challenge the impostor to produce a sole instance of his assertion. I am not aware that the circulation of the works of Bentham and Constant has been prohibited : the truth is, that only the teaching by them in the Universities and Colleges, under the direction of Government, has been forbidden ; and that, not because the Liberator does not know how to appreciate the merit of these philan thropic writers, but because he considers their works too abstract and complicate to be understood by the young students, and because the false application of their prin ciples is dangerous to the welfare and tranquillity of the State. The Liberator respects the clergy, because the Colom bian clergy are equally respectable for their moral vir tues and for their patriotism ; because to persecute them systematically would be unjust and impolitic ; because, as Bentham himself says, the regular clergy, or the monks, have also rights to enjoy ; and the monastic state in which they live is a property legally acquired, and of which it would be unjust to deprive them. The libera tor, however, is far from allowing the clergy to exer cise too great an influence over the minds of the people. Lastly, the Author of the letter accuses the Liberator of being cruel. This deserves no answer : his conduct in this respect has been too notorious. Would they have the assassins of the 25th of September go unpunis hed? I beg, Mr. Editor, you will have the goodness to give this letter a place in the columns of your valuable Papers by which you will much oblige Your most obedient servantJUSTUS December 10919. • We skid madam to-marrow some farther mg intem dl e remarks eamervini the lassaams sad Cokunbk.—Ss,S•••• i. r I b