Star. — London, England, 1826-03-21 00:00:00

• vigirty tilhPoßtug Frendh looms and French lope*. Intendants ; the coniequenee Is, that fancy goodi Cave seen 'Made in this country, which, id pdint 6f quality and brilliancy of pattern, are fully equal to the best French specimens, whilst the colours are said to be faster, and, what is still more important is, that the cost of production is even less, the Seotsinam newspaper says, sir per cent. less than similar goods would cost at Lyons. We did not, however, altogether need this proof of the excellence of our manufactures, since it is in evidence before the House of Lords, that when a few French silks have been smuggled into this country, they have been copied so we, thit to use the evidence of Mr. HALZ, the very respectable silk manufacturer in Spi:alfields, where there has beers one French garment worn, there h ire been a thousand sold as French from the very patterns thus copied." Nay, farther we believe, those watchful guardian; of the exclusive system, the Custom House officers at the out ports, have more than once been puzzled in deciding whether imported articles both of silk and lace were of English or French manu facture. If then we have been enabled so nearly to approach our neighbours in an art in which they so much pride themselves, what have we to fear with the new stimulus given to our exertions, protected as our manufacture is as to the price of production by a duty on French silk, so large as 30 per cent.? It is not the least remarkable feature in this question, :hat while our silk manufacturers have.been dreading the ruin of their trade by French competition, the persons engaged in this business in France are equally afraid of us, as will be d seen by the following extract of a letter from Lyons :—" The silk weavers of this place are becoming very uneasy at the removal of some of the best hands among their foremen to England, where they have been engaged to superintend French looms, expected from this country (France). It is generally understood that not less than twenty looms, on the most approved principle, have left Lyons allne within the last two months, and several are making upon the plan adopted by an inhabitant of this city about five months ago. Some of the manufacturers have taken alarm at this, and have petitioned the (;io vernment to take extraordinary means to stop this ex portation; but it has been observed, and perhaps truly, that a few having already been sent away, the English will be able to make as many for themselves as they like. We aiebeginning to feel distress here ; many of the agents who were sent to England to take orders for silk goods having returned with one-tenth part of the orders which they expected to obtain,and for which their employers had provided, so that not only will there be no new orders to execute, but the stock en hand will not go off very easily. Fortunately, provisions ) and particularly bread, are very cheap here, and the regu lations of the police for keeping a full supply are so good, that with little work the weavers may keep from starving." The Editor of the Afacdeffield Iferalci, by whom this fetter has been received, and inserte in that respectable Juurnal, though decidedly opposed to Ministers with regard to their policy as to the Silk Trade, and though declaring that nothing of a positive character has oc curred to convince him that he was wrong as to the arrangements of Government for admitting French silks upon payment of a duty of SO per Cent. says he considers it his duty to insert the above letter, and candidly adds - s " It is as a piece of information more cheeting in its nature than any that we have had from the same quar ter ; and truly happy shall we be if its effect prove bene ficial among our own manufacturers. It may certainly tend to discourage gloom, and to excite competition, by chewing that the French manufacturers have already overstocked themselves, and that they will now proba bly refrain from manufacturiqs in pure speculation, and uselessly glutting their own and foreign markets." The terror of the French and the hopes of the English ma nufacturer, from the new laws respecting the silk trade, may be considered as pretty strong evidence in their favour, so far as this. country is concerned ; and as breaking down one of the most formidable barriers against a free trade, we cannot but consider it as a triumph on the part of Ministers. By the last accounts from South America, we learn that the Brazilians have commenced an acive warfare against the Commerce of the Provinces of La Plata, and have captured several vessels attempting to enter the ports of the latter. The Buenos Ayres Govern ment has passed a law, authorizing privateering against the Brazilians. The following letters on this subject have been this forenoon received from the Agents to Lloyd's, at the respective places where they are dated: BUENOS AYRES, JANCASY 3, 1826. is Part of the squadron cruizing betwixt the Ortiz and Point Indio, have already sent in several vessels to Mor►te Video that were bound to this port, and Admiral Lobo is daily expected up here. This Government has passed a law, authorizing prig ateering against the Brazi• lions, and granting Letters of Marque for that purpose. In compliance with the second article of the Declara• tioo, vessels loading here are to-day clearing out at the Custom-house." MONTE VIDEO, Jamtar 7. 4‘ The Henrietta, Scott, from London to Buenos Ayres, was sent in here sth inst. by the blockading squadron. The English ship Marquis of Anglesey ; French ship Charlotta Louisa, and the Dutch ship Kum- Lug, are detained hie on account of the blockade." By the arrival of a Buenos Ayres mail we have re ceived the new Journal of that Republic, the Messagero Argentin*, to the Slat of December. The declaration of war by the Emperor of BnatalL against the provinces of La Plata had been received at Buenos Ayres, and every preparation seems making for commencing hos mities. The Buenos Ayres Paper speaks with some legree of Eonfldente, perhaps misting to the aia•of o:her states; the Republic is at the same time eagerly 'forming treaties with the several tribes in the intetior. The tellowing ire extracts: BUENOS AYRES, Dilemma 26. PROM TOR M!SSAOERO ARGENTIVO. A passenger who lately arrived at Arras° de la China affirms, that when he WAS at Haguia, news was received there of the death of Don Jose Artigas in banishment. This man has long been reduced to a stage of insigni• ficance, and his death is of course without influence, but the pernicious fruits of his example have, unfortu nately, been abundant, and he will always be remem bered as the first in the career of disorder. DRCESISER 23.—Mr. John John George Vermoelen was yesterday acknowledged in his official character of Consul of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, in the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata. By letters from Monte Video we learn, that the Emperor of Bra zil has declared war against the Republic of the United Provinces. This declaration was brought by the Bra. zilian frigate the Fau'a, which cast anchor in that port on the 17th, after a voyage of eight days. It was to sail on the 20th with the other ships of the Brazilian squadron, to blockade Buenos Ayes. The Viscount de la Laguna had received o:ders to march to the Rio. Grande to direct the war. HoAilies may, therefore, be expected to commence with activity on both sides with out delay. The National Government hai taken every means for defending the country, and everything indi cates that the hour is at hand when the cause of liberty and justice will triumph for ever on the whole Ameri can Continent. •Oa the sth and 12th two divisions, amounting toge ther to 1240 men, marched from Villa del PArona join the army on Uruguay, and must by this time have reached their destination. Dammam' 27.—8 y communications from the Com missoncrs appointed to conclude peace with the Ca ciques of the South, dated the 13th instant, from Bahia Blanca, we letrn that treaties had been concluded with the Caciques who assembled at that place, and that on the 20th they would come to this capital by land to receive the ratifications. By communications from the Government of Cor doba, we learn also that the Commissioners of all the provinces assembled in Rio Cuarto, were going to Laguira del Guanaco to conclude treaties. We certainly wish that some means m ►y be found to preserve the open country from the alarms to which it is continually subject, but we think that good regiments of Cavalry are the best security for every treaty with the savages. On the 25th the Government received dispatches from General Lavelleja. The enemy had not yet made any movement of consequence. The Oriental army con tinues to increase in numbers, .and to improve in dis- cipline, and was soon to actin concert with the araty commanded by General Rodriguez. The mail from Chile arrived yesterday, bringing Journals to the Ist December. The expedition a c ;.:inst Chiloe, sailed the 28th of November, under the com mand of General Freire, Sapreme Director of the Re public. The following ships of war belong to it : The Isaiella, frigate, Admiral Blanco; Lautart, ditto, Coptain Bell; independencies, ditto, Captain C4bbett ; Acguiles, ditto, Captain W osier ; Galvarino, brig, Capt. Winter. The Independencia, corvette, which sailed the 25th, was to Join the expedition. The wording of the Bulletin issued on Sunday morn ing not being very favourable, the inquirers at the Kings Palace yesterday were very early in their at tendance, and fortunately the arrival of the Bull et i n was two hours sooner than it had previously been, the contents of which enlivened every countenance, and the I gratifying intelligence of the Kato being eonvalescent soon spread through the metropolis. Sir HENRY HALYARD left the KING yesterday about 'eleven o'clock ; proceeded post to London, and called at Gloucester House to report to the Duke and Duchess the state of his MAJESTY. Sir HENRY also called on the Duchess of Witt.r.tuoros, to report to her Grace the state of the Kota. Sir HENRY they proceeded to the Royal College of Ph) sicians, of which he is Presi dent, to preside at a Meeting of the Members, for examinations, &c. at the conclusi m of which Sir HENRY left town for the Kirri's Lodge, Windsor Park, to attend' his MAJESTY during the night. Sir H. HALPOSD has attended his MAJaary since yesterday se'nnight. Saturday, the Duke of YOU, attended by Mr. WYATT, the Architect, inspected the whole of the extensive build ing erecting for the future residence , of ids Royal Highness, the roof of which Is nearly on. _ _ _ Saturday, the Du ke of Gr.nucarraa visited the several exhibitions now open at the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly, and ex pressed himself highly gratified with the various interesting objeets which that place of fashionable resort now prassats to the notice of the public. Sir EDWARD PAORT arrived in tows yesterday morn ing, from India. Yesterday afternoon Mr. WALIRRS, the King's Mes• senger, left town, with dispatches from Mr. Secretary Cameo for the Km. Yesterday the Portuguese Ambassador and the Nea politan Minister had iaterviewe with Mr. Secretary Cannes, at the Foreign Office. Yesterday Sir HilltiZßT TAYLOR transacted military business with the Duke of Yoae, at his house in South Audley-st. Mrf. RADCLIFFICS long expected Romance will ap. pear, we understand, in a few dais : it is called Gotten de igen& ilk j or, the Court if Henry the Third, resting in Ardenne. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs front Florence, and also front Load GRANVILLE, our Ambassador at Paris. Sunday afternoin, Mr. Hurr, the King's Messenger, left town with dispatches front Mr. Secretary CANNING to the Kum. The same Messenger returned yesterday morning about II o'clock. Sir RICHARD SUTTON, when out with his hounds on Wednesday lost, had again the misfortune to break his thigh. The accident occur red a few miles (rent Canwick, at which place the bounds threw off that morning. A►tattooa TI , once the Don Giovanni of the Op to House, is now a Monk in the Convent of La Trappe ! it it a common observation, " What dues the world *sir Now it is a fact (and facts are stubborn things), that Row- Lano's Kaarioun is a cosmetic of vital importance to the preser vation of Personal Attraction, It is unequaled by any other in existence ; and Rovnann's IthcaeLia OH. has pitted the admi ration of the whole world for its wenderfel energetic powers, as a I:rautiher and Pnierver of that inestimable Ornament, the Hu man Hair. :totnit OF CHANCERY THIS • • rntii,tatir v. simian di nutmeat The Soucivoi mum this day conelude4 Ms repl. w hen the Loan Cuancvs.r.on ordered the voluminous affidavits to be handed up. After a few ;Masai, bli Lordship laid that it would be int ' possible to give jedgment without reading over every document in the cause, antes he should bade an opportunity of ensuing him self with them daring the holidays be would take them bona and give judgment eti Abe first day after the recess. In the meantime the children are tol remain under the care of the guardians appointed by the former ordhr of the Court. THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the 13th, 14th, 45th, and 54th Re• giments of Infantry, marched yesterday morning from Westmin ster, for Chatham. Detachments belonging to he 4th and 11th Regiments of Light Dragoons, and the 16th Lanceks, marched yesterday morning from Westminster, f or t h e C ava l ry D epot at Maidstone. Detachments belonging to the 2d, 3d. 20th, 44th. and 48th Regiments of Foot, marched yesterday morning from West minster, for Canterbury. A Detachment of the 81st Regiment of Infantry marched yesterday morning, from Westminster, for Winchester. A Detachment of the 35th Regiment of Foot, marched yesterday morning from Westminster, for Albany Barracks. Detachments belonging t o t h e 37 t h aci d 70th Regi ments of Infantry, marched yesterday Within; from Westminster, ' for Portsmouth. Detachments of Recruits will embark this even ing, on board a vessel in the River, for Scotland. WAR Oersce, Masco 16, 1226. It having been deemed expedient to rescind the regulation by which corps of Yeomanry Cavalry, consisting of less than three troops, were precluded from assembling for the performance of permanent duty, and to permit every corps of Yeomanry Cavalry, lof whatever establishment, to assemble on permanent pay and duty in the course of the present year, for a period not exceeding six successive days, exclusive of the days of marching to an.l from the I places of assembly, i hrve the honour to acquaint you therewith, and to inform you, that your request for permission to assemble the corps under your command, is to be transmitted, through his Ma -1 jesty's Lieutenant of the county, to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. ' lam further to acquaint you, that the estimate of the expense is to be sent to this office, an anon as you have been apprized that tte assembling the corp.; has been approved of. and that you are to transmit with the said estimate a copy of a letter, notifying that the assembiing of the corps has been so approved. It is desirable that your application to assemble should be made as early as practicable before the proposed period of assembly, with a view to the arrangements necessary for the inspection of the corps during the period of the permanent duty. The pay and allowances for the said duty, wiU be those pre scribed by the regulatiims circulated on the liikh of November. 1819. except thSt the non-commissioned Officers and privates will be allowed seven shillings a day, instead of five. I have the honour to be your most obedient servant, (SiSned) PALMERSTON. The commandant of the Yeoman: y Cavalry. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. His Majesty's ship Wet.xest.rr, Admiral Sir Gnome Erns, arrived at Monte Video on the sth of January, The Grocer, Pim, from Selby to London, was ton down on Saturday night, off Cromer, and sunk. Crew saved. FALMOUTH, MAUCH 19.—Wind N.N. W.—Ardved the Plover packet, from Buenos Ayres—sailed 5d January; and from Monte Video, nth do. Sailed the Finsbury transport, for Portsmouth; and Favourite, WASILEX, for Newcastle. Pyrwotrrn. Molten J49.—Wihd N.N.W.—Sailed the Countess Morley, for South AmeNca. Posesuouvw, bloacn 20.—Wind N.B.—No arrivals or failings. DIAL, Moat So.—Wind N.R—Arrived and remain, the Madras, Fairs's, from Madras and Bengal ; Ha r l equ i n , F INTON , from litsyrha ; and Crescent, —, from the Mediterranean. Passed through, the Julie, PRHAOIII, for Calais. Do's's, Maccu 20.—Arrived off the port, the Fox, WHYTE" from Cephalonia ; Frrnail, Cuaestan, from Charente; John Duns combe, Love, from Lisbon; New Harriet, SMALL, from Smyrna; and the Mary Kitty, Duca. from Cork. RAMINUTE, MATCH 20.—The Jubilee. PATIIIILL. from Car marthen to London, is on the rocks, at the entrance of this harbour. Livxaroox, bIA scat ,19.--Wind N. N. W.—Arrived the Bir mingham, Coss, from Savannah—sailed the 14th of February, in company with the Delaware and Tamerlane, for this port; and the Surprise, Booitn,ftom Teoerlift. A HAUNCH OF WILD BOAR. • Mr. H. a Gentleman well known in the monied world, was mule a present. some time since, of a haunch of wild boar. On the day that he received it, he happened to meet the Marquis of 11. in Meeadilly, to whom be mentioned the circumstance, expres sing at the same time his regret that bis cook dad not know how to dress it wooden arena. " Let that be no trouble to you," said his Lordship, "My cook 'mows how to do is.; so send it over to him on the day you want it, and be will prepare it f o r yo u ." The Marquis was thanked, and the offer accepted. A large party was asked by the Banker to share so recherche a dish. The Mar .quis's cook was punctual to the moment, and the haunch made its appearance as it came from his scientific hands. The dinner, like all things sublunary, passed away, and was as the dinners before the flood. In a few days afterwards, the Peer again met the man of money. " Well, H." said he," how did your haunch succeed ? Did you and your friends like it?" " Only passably, my Lord," said H." wq voted it devilish hard; and, besides, your cook sent it to us cold, which was rat h er odd." __ _ _ " Cold!" said the Marquis; "that was odd. 1 must ask bim what he meant by it." .Asked the cook accordingly was.—" Why," sed he," My Lord, I just deed Tot I was beed. I deed dress do boar for blisters H. as I deed dress it for your Lordship; and yen his man came, deed keeve it to bins ready for de boil." " What !" said the alarmed banker, on whom the truth now lashed, "was it to have been boiled?' " Eels," said the Frenchman, " who could eat raw boar ? 4 ' " H. I perceive has," said his master, • and I do nut wonder he found it a bar indeed." It was even so. The Marquises cook had imagined that the mere mechasleal culinary process was to have been executed by the plebeian cook of the banker, and had sent it unboUed ; in w hich state Mr. 11.'s party ne dusihtfuund it hard enough. It is seedless to say, adopting a pun already sported, Mr. 11. did not find the h aunch itself a more decided hone than the story of its adventures. The happy rallery in s. hicn the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER noticed the grumbling of MALACHI MALAGRoWTHER, in his speech on the Budget, was much cheered in the House of Commons, and it is even noticed with approbation in some of the Scotch news papers. The Caledonian Mercury, alluding to the subject, says— " The Minister makes an attack on Malachi Malagrowther, whom he rakes rather successfully with the cross fire of his wit. The truth is, that MaLtchi's zeal prompted him to diverge rather too much into general discussion. As long as he held to the point in. hand, his reasonings were all powerful ; hut he wished to prove too much; and that his scheme for abolishing the one-pound notes was part of a general system of innovation on the national institu tions of the country ; and to make out something like a case lie was obliged to press into his service the unfortunate topic of the late reforms in the Boards of Excise and Customs, which, in place of being any encroachment on the rights of Scotland, were most judi -1 dons and wholesome retrenchments, for which the Minister deserve praise. We greatly mistake the character of our countrymen is they think it an honour to pay people for doing nothing, or that the national dignity is any way wounded by the abolition of useless offices, however long tbey may have existed." By a Parliamentary paper it appears, that the pay and allowances of the disembodied Militia of Great Britain amount to 191,4231. and those of Ireland to 95,9481.—. On the Militia Establishment of Great Britain are 615 Lietitenants, 143 Ensigns, 89 Adjutants, and 84 Pay masters. In. Ireland, 912 Lieutenants, 169 Ensigns, 88 Adjutants, and 98 Paymasters. The expense ,of the re-co;riTe of the copper coin - of Ireland is estimated at 61 23(1. It is calculated at 750 tons in circulation and in the Bank of Ireland. Accounts from Cologne say, that the society of spe culators in wool, at B,llin, have formed a fund of three millions and a half of fix dollars, for the rut - pose of as-isting the owners of flocks, and keeping up the price of that article. iito The ititiasiiskapei7 sP eer tieli iilEi Altkorfe, Northamptonshire, for the helydays. , The Earl pa Counteis of Sefton, and the Ladlei liolitietii; tea town yesterday, for their Seat. Stoke #arro, for the holydayi. The Earl of Arran left rosin ye3terday, for his nit, Arrii Lodge; Sussex. • . „ Lord Althorpe left town yesterday, for his sett, Wtcefon Hall; Yorkshire. The Earl And Countess of &Judi, and the Ladies Hiney; Ted yesterday, at their bouve !n Sr. James square. from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Darlington and f;.ntily bate arrived at their seat, Newton lipase; Yorkshire. from itahy Castle, Durham. Lord Molyneuz left town yesterday, for Stoke Faim, Lord Arden left to*n yesterday, for Sri W. ileztheotes, Bart: seat, Hursley, Hants , Tni the Ifolydays. The Bari of firecknoek left town yesterday, for Bath. Sir G. Woombwell, Bart. arrived its tort yesterday, from MI seat, in Yorkshire. Mrs. Marsharn left town yesterday, for der seat, Bosley-house; near Maidstone. Lord and Lady Berwick and family arrived yesterday, at their house in Bryan ten square, from their seat, Huttinshant HaU, near Shrewsbury. STOCK EXCHANGE SPECULATIONS. The demoralizing name of the atmosphere of the Stock Exchange cannot be more strikingly evinced than in the fact of its members making that a subject nj gambling speculaion which every nind, rightly c,,u stituted, views with feelings of ttoxie:y and alarm—we mean the state of his MAJRSTY'S health. What would be thought in private life, were the members of a large family assembled round the sick couch of their father, to make the probable result of his illness the subject of bets and speculation? Much the same want of decency must influence those who can make the visitation of PROVIDJINCE upon the Krim, their common parent, a topic of gambling contest, in that arena from which the feelings of nature and of shame are thus ItiP owedly expelled. But, whatever may be the want of feeling exhibited by people whose ambition it seems to be, on this and on all occasions, to show that they have none, we are sure that we speak the sense of the greet bulk of the community, of all ranks, opinions, and persua ions, when we say, that there never was a period when the painful situation of the Monarch more firmly rivetted the warm feelings of his subjects than that of our present KING. Our readers know that we are not in the habit of rendering this paper the vehicle of fulsome panegyric or of party feelings; and they will therefore the more readily go along with us, and give us credit wh en we affirm, that no Monarch ever occupied this throne,whose whole public conduct has been more justly calculat d to endear him to his subjects, than that of his present MAJWITY. And not only at home is his MAJZITY'S life and reign a topic of general interest and applause, but throughout every foreign state, in which the name of the British Government is known and recognized, we will venture to say, that the personal conduct and character of the KING is held in a degree of.respect and admiration, which insures to his subjects the blessings of peace upon the surest foundation. In the choice of his Ministers, the. Km° has been both fortunate and consistent ; but we greatly err if his MaJnszy's personal character has not been, from the. time of his accession to the throne, the great bond of union at home, and of respect and confidence abroad. To all the qualities (and they are not few) which unite to form the character of a gentleman, the KING adds that excellentivadiness of understanding, and firmness and consistency of pur pose, which leave none 'Aho come about Hip in any way his superior. Respect for him is not derived from a sense pf his station alone, but from qualities- which chew how that station is filled and adorned; and we are, therefore, sure that we express only the feelings of every right-judging man in the k ngdam, when we say, chat the anxious wishes of the whole n ttion can be but a; those of one man—that the life of his Mauve may long be spared to adorn the kii gly office, and w benefit the peiple lie reigns over.—[horning Neia d. Saturday night (the l lth inst.) the house of Denis Sheehan, a farmer olthe better class, at Monanimmy, near the village of Killavullen, was attacked by robbers, one of whom effected an entrance by forcing open the kitchen window with stones, and afterwards opened the door for two of his companioni, while a fourth kept watch outside the door; two of those who entered had their faces coloured ; they proceeded to light a candle at the fire, threatening destruction to the servant ma d, and a small boy who slept in the kitchen.- S:reehan, who was in bed with his wife in the room adjcining, on hearing the noise, immediately got up, and seizes a spit which was near his bed side, and in the most determined manner resisted their entrance, by defending the doer of the bed-room fur a considerable time, until he unfor tunately received a stab in the left breast from a bayonet which one of the ruts ins had fixed on a pole, throueh an opening in the door, which killed him ; a`ter this they attacked .the wife, and beat her with the end of a pole in the most cruel manner, and nearly broke one of her arms, calling out to her to give the money; the poor woman pointed to where the box lay, from which the robbers took 171. being the price of a horse which her husband had sold a few days before at Millstrert fair, of which, it is supposed, they were aware, ::a they said they knew the money was in the house. Ehmhan was a most powerful man, of excelent character, n 1 made a gallant resistance. He has left s;s young chil dren. An Inquest was held before Mr. O'Brien, one of the Coroners fur the county, and a verdict returned of Wilful Murder against some persons unknown. One of the ruffian received a wound in the lip, which bled profusely, from the spit with which Sheehan defended hinrself.—Cork Paper. The body of Lieutenant Frederick Close, of the 86th Regiment, who has been missing since the 26th ultimo, was on Wednesday bound in the river Suir, about a mile and a half from Clonmell. According to son e statements, there were several marks of violence upon the body, sufficient to lead to the belief that the unfor tunate Gentleman had been basely murdered by some atrocious ruffians. It is right, however, to remark, that ,a letter, which we have seen, merely states the finding of the body, without saying anything of the appearance above mentioned. No traces have yet been discovered of the young Lady who disappeared at the same time with Lieutenant Close; but there is too much reason to fear bat she has shared his melancholy fa - e.—Wekr. ford Chronicle. A desperate contest b .tween an armed party of smug glers and the Blockade seamen took place At D) church, about four o'clock in the nun mng of the 16th, and two seamen were very severely, And f•tle petty otfi 'er slightly wounded, A ith slog shots. The smugglers exceeded 100 in number, and were ;An be no douut but that some of them Also must have been either killed or wounded; they, lioaever, succeeded in working the goods, excepting two tub', and their eleven chriel galley, A h ch were Atud. = MI II