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THE E' p. ` LONDON. French Five per Cents. 77fr. 90c. _ .► • S 'G STAR. ' WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1820. THE FUNDS. ' PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced 69 1 / 2 % % 3 per Cent. Cons. shut.-3i per Cent. 78% 4 per Cent. 87 % 1 / 8 -5 per Cent. Navy shut. Long Annuities 17 15-16 18 Imperial 3 per Cent. 68 India Bonds 245. 255. pr. Exchequer Bills ls. dis. Is. pre.2s. dis. Omnium 1 pr.--Cons. for Acct. 70 3 A 'h 3/4. The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday have' arrived in an inverted order—the latter yesterday, and the former to-day. The Duke DEORES, whose valet was said to have attempted to assassinate him by exploding packets of gunpowder between his mattresses while he slept, died on Friday of the injuries he received on the occasion. The accounts received from the seat of the Allied Councils, or the scene of warlike preparations, throw no new light on the intentions of the assembled Sove reigns, or the probabilities of their engaging in a war against the independence of Constitutional Go vernments. An article from Vienna, of the 28th ult. states, that Count BELLEGARDE is appointed Military Governor of the Lombardo-Venetian King dom, and in that capacity he is to have the direction of the military movements against Naples—a cir cumstance which gives some reason to apprehend hostilities. Indeed a war is said to be inevitable, unless the King of NAPLES accepts of conditions of peace, which Austria has transmitted as An ultimatum, and which, it is added, the Carbonari and the Constitutional Party - will not allow the Government to entertain.— it is even a matter of doubt whether the Neapoli tan Government will condescend to receive this uhi. matum at all, si,.,e the refusal of the Court of Vienna to receive the Duke Di GALLO, may be considered as having put an end to correspondence, and as re quiting, by way of proper retaliation, a similar re fusal to allow any Austrian Envoy to cross the Nea politan frontiers. An article from Naples, of the 20th ult. states in fact, that " a German Prince, who had arrived on the frontiers of the kingdom of Naples, with a passport signed by Prince RUFFO (the Ex-Am bassador) at Vienna, had not been permitted to enter." The Madrid Papers contain a Letter of the King of SPAIN, addressed to the Permanent Deputation of the Cortes, in which he enlarges on the sacrifice which he mace to the public tranquillity, by dis missing, at their request, his Confessor and the Su perintendent of his Household. In this document he protests that these individuals did not intermeddle with politics. At Malaga, Barcelona, and other maritime places in Spain, as soon as the official information was ac quired of the sanction given by FERDINAND to the new prohibitory Decree, British manufactured goods rose in value 50 per cent.—and some articles, such as tin plates and iron hoops, 100 per cent. It appears by an official Report that, besides butter and cheese, East India cotton goods, and saltpetre, will be allowed entrance into Spain, but only if imported in Spanish vessels. The Diet of Wirtemberg assembled on the Ist in stant, when the Chamber of Deputies voted an Ad dress of Thanks to their Sovereign, for the present which he had made them of a gold medal struck upon the occasion of his concluding the Const::u tional Compact. " There is a rumour in the Diplomatic Circles, of a curious fracas having taken place at Troppau, in wl , ich one of the great Ministers insulted, or rather assaulted Count METTERNICII. The Noble aggressor left Troppan in consequence of the afF.tir, and is expected forthwith to quit his mission."—Morning Ch ron lac. The following notices in the Paris Papers of Friday, received this forenoon, may, we presume, be consi dered as illustrations of the preceding : " VIENNA, Nov. 21.—Lord SrEwAnr, the British Ambassador, who arrived here the night before last, rill return no more to Troppan."—Moniteur. 66 AUGSBURG, NOV. 30.—At Vienna a new Ambas sador is immediately expected from England. We arc assured that Lord STEWART will return, without delay, to London."—Gazette de France. Bombay Papers have been received to the 13th of Atgust. They are extremely barren of intelligence. The ceremony of proclaiming the Accession of his present MAJESTY took place at Bombay on the 7th of June, amidst a large assemblage of the natives, together with the principal Officers and European inhabitants of Bombay. Towards the close, however, of these demonstrations of loyalty and dutiful affec tion, a considerable degree of alarm and agitation was created by the explosion of a powder-chest on ene of the batteries ; by which accident six European artillerymen and two Lascars were killed, and one Matross desperately wounded. Large fragments of t he gun-carriages were hurled to a distance from the spot, and almost every house in the vicinity of the .battery suffered from the concussion. His Majesty's ship Carron, Captain TuaNEAnx, was totally lost on the 6th of July, on the coast of Juggernaut: Lieu tenant SCONCE of the Royal Artillery, the Master, and 19 of the crew, were: drowned ; the rest only preserved their lives. Uniform tranquillity appears to reign throughout the interior of Hindostan. According to adv ices of a recent date from Chili, the preparations for the expedition against Peru had been completed, and it was expected that the troops would be embarked without further delay. The naval part, under the command of Lord COCHRANE, con sisted of eight vessels of war of various rates, and fourteen transports ; the former mounting 236 guns, and manned with 1,538 seamen, half of whom are Englishmen. The transports, most of which were armed, averaged nearly four hundred tons each.— The troops destined for this enterprize consisted of the following Regiments, viz. the Ist Casadores of Coquimbo, the 2d, 4th, and sth Regiments of Chi lian Infantry, and the 7th, Bth, and I lth Infantry, Horse Grenadiers, Horse Cacadores, and Company of Cortes of the army of Buenos Ayres, to which was attached a train of 28 pieces of artillery. The effective force is stated at seven thousand five hundred. General SAN MARTIN, the Commander-in-Chief, had prepared a large cargo of Proclamations, addressed separately to the various classes of the inhabitants of Peru, including the native and Spanish troops serving under the VICEROY. To induce the Indians to join his standard, he proclaims the perpetual abolition of the tribute to which they have been subjected ever since the conquest of their country, and promises to make every exertion to ameliorate their condition in other re spects, and to elevate them to the dignity of freemen. We have one or two remarks to offer on the sub ject of the Addresses which are now pouring in from all quarters of the country—some to the KING, many to the QUEEN. The fact is not to be concealed, that there is a rivalry between them, and that the Ad dresses to the KING arc got up for no other purpose on earth, but to serve by way of set-off to the Addresses to his illustrious and suffering Consort.— Now let as see what this set-off amounts to. All the Addresses to her MAJESTY congratulate her on the failUre of the of Pains and Penalties ; the most of them because it was unconstitutional and oppres sive, and the very tenderest because, tinder all cir cumstances, it was a most inexpedient and un wise measure. Where is the set-off to this?— Where, in all the Addresses to the KING, can we find a single word approving of the introduction of the Bill of Pains and Penalties? We have looked in vain for any such approval, or anything which can even be tortured into such a meaning. Again : all the Addresses to her MAJESTY, congratulate her on the vindication of her innocence—on its being established that she has done nothing which ought to deprive her of the love and protection of her husband, and of the share belonging to her in his Royal state and dignity. What set-off have we here ? Do any of the Addresses of his MAJESTY congratulate him on his wife being proved guilty, and on its being nevertheless decreed that she shall still remain his wife? No ; that would be too much fur even Corporation servility. In short, there is not one material view of the case to be found is the Addresses to her MA- : JESTY, which is negatived in those to the KING ; and for what earthly purpose, therefore, the latter are got, • we are at a loss to conceive. The silence which all the Addresses to his MAJESTY preserve on the only topics which agitate public opinion, and which alone make' addressing of any use or meaning, is to us the clearest proof that the sentiments of England are as one on the character of the proceeding by which it has been re cently visited as if with a plague or pestilence.— The puppets of office may go on till they are tired adding to the heap of fulsome, unmeaning generali ties, which they dignify with the.name of Loyal Ad dresses and Declarations ; but they will never take a feather's weight away from the unanimous judgment which the independent part of the Nation has pro nounced on the transaction. The Papers which afFect to consider themselves as the exclusively honest and loyal, while they are in reality, labouring with all their might to banish every thing like Old English honesty and loyalty from the land, have made the notable discovery, that the ma jor part of the Press is under the domination of the mob—the very rabble!—Marvellous indeed ! The respectable part of the Press, to borrow the compli ment of Lord CASTLEREAGH, on a recent occasion, fenced in and protected by taxes and high duties in such a manner, as to have its circulation nearly con fined to the opulent and middle classes of society, disregards their sentiments, and attends to ne4thing but the wishes of a rabble contemptible in numbers as in intellect ! All this is certainly very strange, but we are re quired nevertheless to believe it. We are required to believe that the People of England, whose intre pidity has hitherto been as unquestioned as their in telligence, suffer themselves to lie prostrate at the feet of an ignorant and contemptible rabble,—and that through fear of this rabble, they purchase News papers breathing sentiments which they not only do not approve, but hold in absolute abhorrence. People of a plain way of thinking can hardly help feeling somewhat startled at these contradictions and paradoxes. They might be apt to believe, indeed, that there is some constraint on the Liberty of the Press ; a constraint which the supporters of Ministers feel extremely inconvenient, They are, no doubt, at liberty to support Ministers, but they thereby lose their readers. Now, the support of Ministers is often not without its advantages, but, to have readers, is also a good thing ; and, unfortunately, the former and the latter are somewhat irreconcileable at the present moment. The Press, therefore, "is not free" —it is under constraint. To this they must come at last, in spite of all their Corporation Addresses, all their shuffling and equivo cation. The secret cannot be concealed. Their false hoods cut the throats of each other. The influence of which they complain is the influence of the property, the intelligence, and the industry of England, which laugh all their hypocrisy, all their hollow subterfuges to scorn. The People of England have from the be ginning set themselves against the base artifices re sorted to by Ministers, and the lawless measures which their dastardly subserviency induced them to adopt. The People of England are of an open, brave, and generous disposition—they hate hypocrisy—they hate cowardice—they hate cruelty—and, above all, they hate cruelty and cowardice when they see them exer cised against a sex whom we are bound to protect and cherish. With religion and morality in their mouths, Ministers were seen by the People of England open ing the flood-gates of profligacy and immorality— poisoning without remorse, and for the dirtiest of pur- ' poses, the most pitiful self-interest, the unsuspecting minds of our youth. They saw them squandering the resources of a suffering people in the purchase of the vile means for effecting their vile objects. Their ve riest creatures are ashamed of their conduct; and while they come forward at the word of command with the hacknied expression of venal loyalty, they are careful to declare that they leave out of the ques tion the conduct of Ministers—the conduct of the very men whom their addresses are meant to support. THE DUCHESS OF CLARENCE. The following Bulletin respecting the Duchess and the infant Princess, was issued yesterday morning: " King's Palace, Sr. James's, Dec. 12, 1820, half-past eleven o'clock, A.M. " Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence has passed another good night, and continues, at present, flee from fever. " The Infant Princess will live. "HENRY HA LFORD. " WILLIAM KNIGHTON. "ANDREW HALLIDAY." After the Doctors had returned from attending the Duches , , they proceeded to the King's Palace, in Pall-Mall, and reported to his MAJESTY the state of the Duchess and the infant Princess. Sir WtrAdmit KNIGHTON attended the Duchess and the infant Prin cess several times in the course of the day ; and at ten o'clock at night the whole of the Doctors again assembled, when the state of the Duchess and the infant Princess was so extremely favourable, that it was not deemed necessary to issue another Bulletin. The Duke of Sussex came to town, for the first time since his indisposition, to make his respectful inquiries after his Royal sister. The Princess SOPHIA also called ; and all the branches of the Royal Family sent to make their affectionate inquiries. In the course of the day there were between 500 and 600 inqui ries from persons of distinction. Monday, the MAyon, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of Rochester, voted a loyal and dutiful Address to his MAJESTY. The Earl of LITk:RPOOL is arrived in town from Walmer Castle. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Lord Castlereagh, from his seat, North Cray, Kent. At Thomas's Hotel :—Lord and Lady Glasgow, from their seat in Kent. At the London Hotel :—Hon. Captain and Mrs. Stapleton, from Portamouth. At Hatt's Hotel : Dunbalin, Esq. from Paris; Sang ster, Esq. from ditto. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Montrose, for the Marquis of Camden's, Kent. The Earl of Albemarle, for Norfolk. Lord and Lady G. 11. Cavendish, for Lancashire. • Claude George Bartillon, Esq. for Cheltenham. General Orde, on a tour. Mr. and Mrs. James William Stuart, for Berks. Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote, on a tour. George Ilyng, Esq. M.P. for Botham Park. Rev. B. White, fur Berks. Colonel Warburton, for Ireland. :Major Molloy, for Macclesford. From the Grosvenor Hotel :—Sir William Robinson, for Bath ; Bev. E. Chaundy, for ditto; R. Sherwood, Esq. for ditto. We extract from a Scotch Paper the following ap plicable remarks on the late executions : • The Reader will find in our Paper of to-day, an account of some horrible executions in London. At a time when knowledge and humanity have made their way into the darkest divisions of Christendom, it is painful and depressing to turn to the old favourite scat of liberty and justice, and see those modern laws, whose sanguinary severity is alike disowned by religion and reason, put in force to no end apparently but to enhance the dissatisfaction of the people with the Go vernment. It is not given to weak erring man to shed innocently the blood of his fellow-creatures for any other crimes than those perpetrated by violent means. And the expediency has been proved to be as ques tionable as the right ; since punishments so ini quitously heavy have not in the least diminished the number of delinquents. The Bank of England ought to be more lenient. We verily believe that their conduct in first putting out more notes than they were able to pay, and then, after a deprecia tion which had wrought itself into every existing contract, taking them suddenly in, produced in every part of the country wretchedness a million times more intense than that effected by all the forgers that ever lived. There is no leading man in that establishment but gained thousands ansl thousands of pounds by those measures which converted crowds of persons, as respectable as themselves, into bank rupts, and yet they do not hesitate to prosecute to death poor ignorant men and women for passing two or three forged twenty shilling notes !" A few days since, an explosion took place:in Forch goch Colliery, the property of EDWARD PROTHEROE, Esq. in the Vale of Neath, by which three men were unfortunately killed, and three others much burnt. The accident occurred in consequence of one of the latter imprudently taking a light into a dangerous part of the works. • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Company's ships Canning and Lady Melville arrlott Bombay, after a passage of 45 days from St. Ileleva, . 97th July last; they were expected to sail Abow: August, the former for China, the latter ter llctigal. s, Dunira was at Bombay the 25th July. The Warren 11:0: 1 , sailed from Bombay for China the 9th June. The under.,.` tioned ships hive left Bombay; viz.—ThattiPs and Hastings, dispatched for China (to touch at l'enr.ne, mer on the 15th, the latter on the 17th flay. The Dun'a- Marquis Huntley sailed for Calcutta on the 25th July. The Aurora, from Aberdeen for New York, v..as spoken the 15th November, in lat. 42. lnng. 56. out eleven wethf, of provisions. The Rodney, MooasoN, from :tliramichi to Liverro G ;, abandoned by the crew, in lat. 49. long. 22. The Sancho, Da loan, from Hartley to London, , , foul of on Friday night, in Yarmouth Roads, by the Merchant, and foundered. Crew saved. The Nova Allianca, DA COSTA, from I.ishon, havi77 s r . a leak at Goa, in May, has been condemned there. Luria of a Letter from Lloyd's Agent at the Havre":. dated the 12th of September z•—•"fhe Relampago and the r - from Vera Cruz, arrived here yesterday, and will sail to-itiorrn for Cadiz. The Constitution frigate sailed from Vera the 10th ult. with four millions of dollars on b ard :or r a ,i, and as she is expected to touch here, her arrival is now L1:6.. looked for." Saturday evening, a Swedish brig in ballast, sprung a le:k Dungeness, when they immediately run her for the she went to pieces as soon as she struck ; the crew were FALMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the Dar;,l, !; SERTSON, for Poole. PLYMOUTH, Dsc. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Su.-, e %% 7 mo:won, front Queb.tc ; and Emily, Con -Let, from Postsmoutit, Dec. 12.—Wind S. W.—Arriv..-d his IL; ship Am, from the Mediterranean. Sailed the [Wart, ton, Alice, and Zephyr, for London. Dsst., Dec. 12.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived an: i the River, the Cadmos, Aver.ent, from the Isle ut Pra.- sailed 3d September: on -he 4th Novsmber, tat 17.70. N long. 9. W. spoke the lloogly, LAMS, front London dras ; and, on the 9th Nov. in lat. 15. 17. N. twig. 30. the Recovery, Psalmist, front Batavia and the hie of Flr.. -to Rotterdam. Also arrived a whaler, supposed tl4. George, BACKLE, front the South Seas; and a light ship, unknown. RAMSGATE, Dec. I2.—Arrived the Mary and Dorrtl- MacsAy, from Sunderland, with her anchor-stuck broke ; the Sarah, HAIINIOND, from Yarmouth for Naples, with btui warks carried away. Cowes, Dec. 12.—Arrived the Malabar, Ascoucti, from F: tavia, out three months and 20 days. Disc. 1 t.—Arrived—At Rotterdam, the Flizalv: Ann, Ridley, of this port, from Newcastle. It Stem:: : ::: Creek, the Charles, Iligginbottom, of this pc,rt, front Tritste and Henry, Fox, from Smyrna. At Port= nuth, the Prc, pest, Wake, from Petersburgh. At Falmouth the Ea;lt , Sev..ell, from this port for Bilbua. The Favourite, Sellers, fa, Bucktush, sailed from thence on the 2d Nov. The Gales, ( Sunderland, and the Aurora, of Hull, both for Hull; and t Guardians, for Sunderland, were loaded and ready for sea. The Triton, of this port, was all well at Buecari, on the Il ult. taking in her cargo. Wednesday, the brig Venot.ihk, Newport, in making the harbour of Shields, struck upon Herd Sand, where she now lies. DANTZIG, Nov. 16—The Henry, of Newcastle, Scour, is shore at the mouth of the Vistula, but expected to he got of • the weather continues favourable. The frost has set in s. intensely. BREMEN, Nov. 25.—After the severe frost we have had fq some time a complete thaw has set in, with S.W. winds, and d it should continue for some days, our river will be entirvii cleared from ice. Crerox-I-lorsr, Dec. 12.—Ships Entered Inwards :—T:. Adam, from the South Sear ; Active, from the Cape of (kw, Hope; Lenox, from St. John's; Prosperous, from Calais; I lie, front Lisbon; Mary, from Malaga; Northumberland. ;r ditto ; Eweretta, from Quebec ; George, from Rotte• dam Marie Louise, front Caen; Esther, from Denia : Arclne.:dei from Cadiz ; Henry, from Smyrna ; Liverpool Packet, .iron ditto; Acorn, from Wixford ; and Ocean, from Odessa.-171 tered Outwards : The Goede Iloope, for Bourdeaux ; cults, for Rouen; and John, for Jamaica.—Cleared Outward> The Marla Francoise, for Rouen ; Martha, for Bremen; tin a ders Hill, for Leghorn; Samuel, for Jersey ; Caroline, for la maica ; Favourite, for Port-au-Prince; Matilda, for Lisiion and Steady, for St. Thomas's. Her MAJESTY returned the following Answer In the Address of Congratulation from the British Sca men, presented.on Monday last: " 1 have an unfeigned pleasure in receiving this honest asl affectionate Address from the British Seamen, abiding iu the Port of London and the parts adjacent. " 1 have always felt a warm regard for the Sons of the o:exti —my sympathies have been powerfully interested by the ships they encounter, and the perils to which they are inured.— The toils, vicissitudes, and dangers of different kinds, to the Mariner is exposed, afford such numerous opportunities, r.nd indeed, impose such a constant necessity for the performance acts of reciprocal benevolence, as tend powerfully to impreq that noble quality upon the character of those who are deruu.4 to a seafaring life. _ _ _ " Of all the maritime people recorded in history, there art none among whom we can produce any character that is distin guished by more generous or amiable traits than that of dst British sailor. In the British sailor we find exalted couras-, sublime sentiment, and unbounded liberality, mingled with !I. most tender sensibility. While the immensity of the ocean constantly before the view, it expands those grand sentiments ;a the soul which are intimately connected with the principles liberty. The sailor would not love his native element, if L. heart did not expand with that love of liberty, without wh:el man contracts and shrivels into the most contemptible part •.1 animated existence." Her MAJESTY returned the following gracie„s Answer to the Address from the Inhabitants of Nes; Mahon, presented by Lord DUNCANNON 0 The galliff, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of New Mahon, .t•-• requested to accept my unfeigned thanks fir this loyal and sr::- donate Address. " The moral conduct of my adversaries is sufficiently market by the turpitude of the witnesses they have produced, and , : the agents they have employed. Had I even been guilty, conduct would hardly have been less reprehensible. For e. can excuse a recourse to such detestable means as subornaiica and perjury? That race of moralists is happily almost eatira:• who pretended that the end would justify the means. But ).: it is certain, that if aty enemies could have effected my degrada tion, they would have felt no compunction with respect to tnx . kind of means by which it was accomplished. The constancy 0: my friends has, however, enabled me to vanquish the treachery 01 my foes. If my rights are yet withheld, the attempt to deg: ±e me has, at least, been abandoned, and the principles of have triumphed over the projects of Despotimt.' We have received accounts of the Courier Lord,i newspaper having recently, in three different pig" in this county, been publicly consigned to the flair with every mark of scorn and detestation, for its I:21 slanders against her MAJESTY.—Brighton Herald. During the late illuminations, the New Times pr..' the Courier newspapers were publicly burnt at Pcr.' tipool.—Bristollifercury. Friday se'nnight, about half-past seven oci the low premises of No. 3, Albany -street, Edinburs. ,, and the apartments immediately above, occupied "; the Adjutant-General's Office, were discovered to t on fire. The doors of the office being forced, t!'• books and papers were saved, a:though the fang were then making very rapid destruction. By ! 1 :' time the fire-engines arrived (a little past eig o'clock), the floor of the office had fallen down, w Inc afforded ample scope for the engines to play succei , fully, and the flames were extinguished without har ing communicated to the flats above. Captain HOLT started yesterday front Piccadilly, to r foot 300 miles in five days, and to travel into eleven cou..ti , *: that he may not pick his ground. He took the Bath road. travelled five miles an hour. 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