Star. — London, England, 1829-10-26 00:00:00

r 1 BRUSSELS, Oct. 23. The Augsburg Gazette publishes the beginning of a " Plan of a Convention between the Governments of the States on the banks of the Rhine, and a Code of Regulations for the Navigation for that River." The substance of the first Article of Ibis Convention (which was proposed by the Commissioner of the Netherlands in the sitting of the Committee at tlanheim the 19th of August) is, "that the navigation of the Rhine, from the point where it becomes navi gable to the sea, both up and down the stream, is perfectly free, and cannot be prohibited to any body for the purposes of trade." — Brussels Papers, Oct. 24. CONSTANTINOPLE, SM. 25. The Sultan has resolved to send an Extraordinary Ensbasty to St. Petersburgh, for the purpose which has been officially an nounced--of obtaining from the Emperor of Russia a moslitication of the terms of peace, especially a shortening of a term of the military occupation of some provinces and a diminution of the indemnities. Halil Pacha, the adopted son of the Seraskier Chosrew Pacha, Commander-in-Chief 3f the regular troops, at the head of which he repeatedly distinguished himself during the late war, is appointed to this mission, and will be the bearer of an au tograph letter from the Sultan to the Emperor Nicholas. He will embark in a few days with a numerous and splendid suite, on board a Turkish frigate, for Odessa, whence be will proceed to the Russian capi:al. It is said that the Sultan will offer to the Em peror of Russia to return the Russ an frigate, the Raphael. the Captain of which, soon after he was set at liberty, was !nought be fore a court-martial at Bourgas. The ratification of the Treaty, con cluded on the 14th, are now being drawn up ; and as soon as they are exchanged, Col. Von Duhamet, in the Russian service, ssein is now here, will go to Erzeroum, to carry the news to General Pas kewitseh. All the Russian prisoners of war are already at liberty, and will be immediately embarked en board Austrian and Sardi nian ships, and sent to Bourgas, Sizeboli, and Odessa. Immedi ately after the exchange of the ratifications, the Porte will give ft:mans for the Black Sea, and a great number of ships of all na tions are getting ready to sail with the first fair wind. In the capital the most perfect ttanquillity prevails; and how ever burdensome the fulfilment of the terms of the y may prove to the l'orte, the satisfaction at the conclusion of the peace and the end of the burdens of the war, is too plainly expressed to leave any doubt of the general convictio• that peace was neces sary. Nothing has yet transpired of changes in the Ministry, or the internal administration. Vienna, Ocv. 13. Metalliques, 102 i ; Bank Shares, 1,229. Oct. 14.—Metalliques, 102 7-16; Bank Shares, 1,232; in the evening, I,2s4.—Agemelre Zeilung, Oct. 19. THE EVENING STAR. -- - .°4 . --,, .1 ...• , -,•wer.,-;-)ke --- -: -, 44V (4 0.. ~.....„,. - ..vri! e L , • if,- •, .. , * -4,, t,k7eile • . - - Pvevos o-- 4 LON1)0N. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO 0 CLOCK Bank Stock 216 151 I India Bond. 64 5 4 5 per Cent. lied. 901 1 South Sea Stock 5 per Ct. Cons. 913 1 1 Old Annuities, 31 per Ct. 1818, 991 11000 Fambeq. Bills, (2d.) 73 4 31 per Cent. Red. 99/ g 1 4/500 Ditto 78 4 4 per Ct. 1031 1 £lOO and 1200 Ditto 73 4 4 pr Ct. 1828,104/ 51 Bank for Acct. Long Ann. 19 15-16 tbs 20 191 India for Acct. 223 India Stock 2231 Consols for Acct. 911 1 1 FOREIGN; FONDS, TWO O'C.iii K Brazil Bonds, 5 pr Ct. 66 1 Do. Bds. 1825, 6 prCt. 20/ Do. Acct. 6681 i Peruv. thh. 6 p C. 1415 Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Port. Bds. 5 p. Ct. Do. Ms 182.5, spr Ct. 201 / Ditto Ai c , . 48 * Mexican 1111.3 per Cent. Rus. Bd.. 1822, 5 p Ct. 105 Ditto 100,17 Spanish Bds. 5 per Ct. 63 ila 'mu AND FOREIGN SII A ICES, 'l'Wti irci ('K. CHAR& PAM PIM MAIM Argio Mesitan (iss. at .e 5 pm) 100 100 251 Bolanos 300 300 3621 384 100 90 130 &Manchester ERRATA. Ina part of our impression on Saturday, a letter which we copied from the Tunes newspaper was erroneously headed by the printer, " To the editor of the STAR i" we have to apologize to our contemporary for having overlooked this inadvertence until our paper went to the city ; but it was corrected the moment we discovered it. In the article un the " Dons of WICLLINGTON and his Fossiou Poucv" the word "flame" occurs twice, and ought—ln both places —to be Masse. Last night, Mr. HAN' EL AN D, one of the Kt NO'S Mes sengers, arrived at the Foreign Office with despatches to the Earl of ABERDEEN from the Hon. Mr. GORDON at Constantinople, and from Lord COW LEY' at Vienna. The Haniburi Reporter, received this morning, ai giving the treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey, I,dds the following " Separate Act."—One comment taken from this document, is sufficient to settle the ques_ the Principalities for ever, and to establish the ir of NICHOLAS for moderation.—" The PORTE engages to retain no fortified point the left bank of the Danube, nor to permit any tent there of its Mahomedan subjects. It is ac ly irrevocably fixed, that no Mahomedan shall allowed to have his residence in Moldavia or ;hia." We content ourselves with giving this' :traordinary paper to our readers to-day, and reserve remarks for to-morrow : SEPARATE AC'T, va TO THE PRINCIPALITIES OF MOLDAVIA AND WALLACIIIA. the name of the ALMIGHTY GOD! The two contracting powers, at the same time that they all the stipulations of the separate act of :ermann, relative to the forms to be observed on the of the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, recognized the necessity of giving to the adminis . of those provinces a more durable basis, and one harmony with their true interests. With this . has been and definitively resolved, that the reign Hospodars shall not, as formerly, be limited to .ears ; but they shall be invested with their dignity , except in the case of a free and unconstrained abdication, or of an expulsion in consequence of crimes committed, as detailed in the said separate act. • Hospodars are to administer the internal govern of their provinces, with the assistance of their according to their own pleasure ; but without .witting themselves any infraction of the rights gua ranteed to the two countries by treaties, or Hatti-Scherifs ; - shall their administration be disturbed by any cow ' tending to the violation of those rights. Sublime Porte obliges itself conscientiously to keep that the privileges granted to Moldavia and Wal t shall in uo way be violated by the neighbouring :moss, and that these shall in no way be allowed to interfere in the affairs of those two provinces ; also, to it the inhabitants of the right bank of the Danube making excursions upon the territory of Moldavia Wallachia. All isles situate nearest to the left bank Danube are to be considered as part of the terri of those provinces ; and to the point where it enters ittawan territory, to the point of its confluence with Prutb, the channel of the Danube is to form the Indarieo of the two Principalities. provide the mere securely for the inviolability of the .toldavian and Wallachian territory, the Sublime Porte engages to retain no fortified point upon the left bank of e Danube ; nor to permit any settlement there of its Mahomedan subjects. It is accordingly irrevocably that no Mahomedan shall ever be allowed to have _ residence in Moldavia or Wallachia; and that only merchants, provided with firmans, shall be admitted for the purpose of buying, on their own account, such arti cles as may be required for the consumption of Con stantinople. The Turkish cities situate on the left bank of the Danube are to be restored to Wallachia, to remain incor porated with that principality ; and the fortifications pre viously existing on that bank are never to be repaired. Mahometans possessing landed property, either in those cities or upon any point left of the Danube, provided they have not unfairly become possessed thereof, (non usurpis sur des particuliers) shall be found to sell such pro perty to natives within 18 months. The Government of the Principalities being entitled to all the privileges of independence in their internal administration, it shall be lawful for the same to draw sanitary cordons, and to establish quarantine stations along the line of the Danube, and whereever else it may be deemed necessary ; nor shall any strangers, be they Christians or Mahometans, have a right to con sider themselves above an exact compliance with such quarantine regulation. For the execution of the quaran tine duty, the protection of the frontiers, the maintenance of order in the cities and in the open country, and for the purpose of obedience to these decrees, the Government of each Principality shall be permitted to maintain a suffi cient military force. The numerical force of these troops is to be determined by the Hospodars, and their restric tive divans, upon the basis of former examples. The Sublime Porte, animated by an earnest wish to secure to the two principalities every species of prospe rity which they are capable of enjoying, and being aware of the abuses and oppression occasioned by,the contribu tion for the supply of Constantinople, and the victualling of the fortresses of the Danube, renounces in the most complete and unconditional manner its rights in this respect. Moldavia and Wallachia are accordingly for ever relieved of all those contributions of corn, provi sions, cattle, and timber, which they were formerly bound to furnish. Nor shall, in any case, labour ers be demanded from these provinces, for any forced service (corae.) In order, however, in some degree to indemnify the Grand-signorial treasury for the losses which may be sustained by this renunciation of rights, Moldavia and Wallachia are bound, indepen dently of the yearly tribute paid under the de nominations of Kharadzh, 'dive, and Rakiabiye, (by virtue of the Hatti-Scheriff of 1622,) to pay to the sublime Porte yearly, a pecuniary indemnity, the amount of which is hereafter to be determined, — Moreover, upon every fresh nomination of a Hospodar in consequence of death, resignation, or deposition, the Principality where that event occurs, shall be bound to pay to the Sublime Porte, a sum equal to the yearly tribute of the province. With the exception of these sums, no tribute or present of any kind shall, under any pretext whatever, be demanded from the Hospodars. In consequence of the outline of the above specified contributions, the inhabitants of the principalities are to enjoy an unlimited freedom of trade for all the produc tions of their soil and industry, as stipulated by the se parate act of the treaty of Akermann ; the same not to be liable to any other restraint, except such as the hos podars, with the consent of their Divans, may consider necessary for the due provisioning of the country ; they shall be allowed to navigate the Danube with their own vessels, being provided with passports from their own go vernment; and it shall be lawful for them to proceed, for the purposes of trade, to the other harbours and ports of the Sublime Porte,without suffering any persecution from the collectors of the Kharadsh, and without being exposed to any other act of oppression whatever. Duly considering, moreover, all the burdens which it has been necessary for Moldavia and Wallachia to sup port, the Sublime Porte, animated by a proper feeling of humanity, consents to release the inhabitants from the yearly tribute payable to the treasury for the space of two years, to be reckoned from the day of the total eva cuation of the Principalities by the Russian troops. Finally, the Sublime Porte, animated by the wish to secure in every possible way the future prosperity of the two Principalities, binds itself to confirm every adminis trative measure which, during their occupation by the Russian army, may have been decreed in confor mity to a wish expressed in the assemblies of the principal inhabitants of the country, such decrees serving thenceforward as the basis of the internal admi nistration of those provinces ; provided always that such decrees do not any way infringe upon the rights of so vereignty vested in the Sublime Porte. On this account, we, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of all the Russias, have conjointly, with the plenipotentiaries of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, regulated and fixed the points respecting Moldavia and Wallachia, the same being a continuation of Art. V.. of the Treaty of Peace, concluded at Adrianople, between us and the Ottoman Plenipotentiaries. Done at Adrianople, 24 (14) Sept. 1229. (Signed) Count 6LEXIS ORLOW, (Signed) Count F. V. PAHLEN. . Confirmed In the original copy by Count DIEBITSCH SABALKANSKY, 'gat Second Army. This morning we have the A llgemeine Zeitung, and Hamburgh Papers to the 20th instant. The former contains some particulars of a fearful storm which de vastated the neighbourhood of Trieste ; the latter has nothing of importance, further than a notice from Stock holm, stating that his MAJESTY is convalescent. The following are extracts : TRIESTE, OCT. 9. Frets the Obsereatore Triestine, 4' October 13. After the almost daily rains for above a month, our roads were yesterday visited by a furious storm, which did great damage to the shipping. At day-break the rapid course of the clouds to the N.W. shewed that the Sirocco was very violent ; but from the situation of our roads, we did not expect any disastrous conse quences. But, all at once, the wind turned to the S.W. and blew with increasing fury ; so that we were exposed to the whole vio lence of the sea and wind ; which impelled the waves to wards the coast, so that the lower part of the city, next the sea, was inundated to a depth, of which we do not re member any former instance. Happily the ebb set in just at the time of the storm ; so that after the first fury of the waves was broken, the waters subsided ; but not with out having damaged a great quantity of goods in the magazines and warehouses, which were so unexpectedly overflowed. Our fears for the ships at anchor were not so soon dispelled, for the sea was in the most violent agitation with the raging of the storm from eight in the morning till four in the afternoon. The chief damage sustained was reduced to the following :--the American brig Zamor, which lay at anchor at the mouth of the Channel, and her chain-cables broken, and run foul of a bark ; and the English brigantine, Gambia, broke her chain-cable, and was driven by the wind to the Jquero Pond% and damaged a small honer against which she struck. All the banks have sustained great damage. At the Lazaretto of St. Theresa, several parts of the parapet were thrown down, and the lighthouse, near the Lazaretto, was raised from its foundation and thrown on the neighbouring rocks—happily, no lives were lost. PRONE, Oct. S. To.day we bare bad a most dreadful storm : we ban already heard of five boats, partly laden, that are lost; two ships have also drove ashore. We do not yet know how many lives have been lost.-41llgesseine Seisms& 20l Oct. HAMBURGH, OCT. 17. It is affirmed that on the 27th Sept. a Russian squadron of 11 large ships of war was seen to pass by Calmar. steering, as It was thought, towards the Sound. STOCKHOLM, Ors. 13. . . The bulletin of his Majesty's health announced to-day that the fever has not returned, and his Majesty is convalescent.—Hass- Papers, Oct 20. NIOMIANORS ON LONDON. HASUURGH OCT. 20.-13 101 ; two months, 13 9 i. LIMN, OCT. 15.—Three months, 6 16i Braun, Ocr.l7.—Three months, 6 261. Banos, Oct. 16.—Two months, 610 611. Cuarartania, Ocr. 7.—Three months, 6 21. The high and general dissatisfaction manifested by the Bengal Army in all its branches, at the odious and ty rannical attempt to reduce its field allowances, which — under tho designation of batta—constitute an important portion of its pay, has created a deep sensation in Leaden hall-street. We do not envy the Hon ou RA BLE COURT its position—with its Charter on the eve of expiring, and its territorial possessions jeopardised, when it can least afford to display the antics of capricious Sovereignty. That it should exhibit reluctance to give up its long en joyed monopoly of the trade to China—productive to it as have been those misapplied sweets of corruption—we do not think unnatural : undisturbed fruition has taught it to regard that abuse, almost as a constitutional right; but its mad injustice in this affair of the batta, merits quite the appellation of a suicidal policy. During the last week, memorials remonstrating in strong language against the grievance of these reductions, have found their way into the public prints. These documents re present the feelings of dismay and discontent, at the pro mulgation of the order for carrying them into effect, to be universal throughout the service. There is a memo rial from the Artillery, signed by General MscLeon, the Commandant, and forty-four officers; there is another from the Cavalry, signed by Colonel HA WTREY, and fifteen of his brother officers, in the name of the whole body; another from Colonel CoMY N, of the 24th Native Infantry, and all the officers of that corps, on behalf of the Infantry of Bengal; and there is a fourth memorial from the medical staff. All these memorials are addressed to the GOVERNOR GENERAL in Council, to whom they were not only sub mitted by the Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, Lord Con BERM ERE, but before whom they were sup ported in their full prayer by that noble and gallant General, and supported—it is said—with such argu ments, as determined Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK in stantly to write to England, recommending that the obnoxious Order should be rescinded. Nor can we entertain a doubt that the HONOURABLE COURT in Leadenhall-street—when it considers the quarter from which this recommendation conies, as well as that from which the remonstrance proceeds—will hasten to repair its error. Tha memorial on the part of the Artillery says—that the abstraction of superfluity might be received with indifference, and an overpowering State necessity might reconcile men of honourable principles to temporary pri vations : but the ARTILLERY cannot refrain from declaring itself wholly unable to bear quietly a per manent reduction, from that which was before barely adequate for a decent maintenance. The memorial on the part of the Cavalry, calls to mind the " belief and underAanding" with which—at the outset of life —its members entered the army of the Hoxou RA BLE CO M r ; abandoning , their connexions and their native land, in the full reliance " that they would enjoy during their exile a scale of income not only sufficient to support them as gentlemen," but to enable them to lay by from it for the future. This me morial is in some places even affectingly worded : it is an eloquent appeal against the injurious Order which it repudiates, and sets in a strong light the bad faith of the DIRECTORS towards their servants — amounting to a violation of compact—which its promul gation involves. We should be wanting—say the CAVALRY—in a due regard for the welfare of the army, if we submitted silently to the operation of the order. The memorial on the part of the Infantry, ex presses confident hope and expectation that the Go v ERNOR-GENERAL will defer carrying the order into effect, until reference can be made to England : but if the reductions which it deprecates shall be persevered in, the cheerfulness and promptitude in duty which have hitherto distinguished the INFANTRY, must give place to feelings of dissatisfaction and despondency which it is not in human nature to combat or overcome." With all our hearts, we sympathise with these gallant Remonstmnts, who have deserved better things of their unjust and insensate masters. It is true, they are at a great distance from the parties whom they memorialise, and distance—in the case of represented injury—is con ceived always to be detrimental to the chances of redress. But they have this advantage over ordinary complainers, that they are the physical depositaries of the Sovereignty against whose injustice they are expostulating, and they expostulate with arms in their hands. As to the cant about obedience being the paramount duty of a soldier, which appeared on Saturday in an evening paper, with whom the vindication of tyranny is in some sort an official obligation, we recommend the HoNouR ABLE COURT—if it values its future power of dictation— to adopt in this instance the promptings of a more enlight ened policy. The Indian army can feel no chivalrous feudal principle of ALLEGIANCE, to bind it—an instant longer than protection is reciprocated for service—to ase of commercial Suzerains, who owe to IT every foot of their extensive territory, every soul among the countless millions who call them LORDS. Let them beware how they to inflict a grievance exasperate whichih i as t, so by l P co e ft r i s ly ist i i i n pp g ealed. The conjpncture justly a6.ains t in which they are about to lose their charter—or to yield up. for only a modified renewal of it, the marrow of their hith er to guaranteed monopolies—is not the safest in which to try experiments, which may alienate the affections of their army. Where would this company of traders be, if the military—throughout those enormous possessions-- declared itself independent of their authority to-morrow ? There would be no sending over a regiment or tux► of • _ King's troops—supposing that Government were inclined to assist them—to put down the formidable and distant mutiny : even the entire army of England, were it prac ticable to transport it thither, would be insufficient to stay the plague. The Courier, who treats the affair with signal insaga city and want of feeling, observes that it is so much a matter of course for officers to memorialise autho rity on topics connected with " pensions, pay, and promotion," that it is quite ridiculous to entertain an' serious apprehension on the subject. According to him, the members of that profession, when they have once submitted themselves to military discipline, are never thenceforward to acknowledge any but the mechanical impulses which directing power communicates. P Ass lv is os ED I HNC E—even under arbitrary and insolent oppres sion—seems with the Courier to be the cardinal virtue of a soldier. The Bengal army—he says—has expressul a natural disinclination to have its allowances reduced, and its memorials, to procure the matter to be re-consi sidered—backed by the recommendation of the exalted Functionaries in that Presidency—have been forwarded to the Supreme Authorities here. As a matter of course-- he continues--the re-consideration will take place," and there can be little doubt that the ultimate decision will be strictly consonant with the principles of justice and the important interests involved." Now, as the " inte rests involved" are those of the Directors especially, we are inclined to be of the same opinion—but not at all on the same grounds—as the Courier. We do not think so highly—indeed, we do not think highly in any view— of the principles of justice which govern the Leadenhall street Corporation : but the arguntentum ad imperii rui nam, we suspect, will prove equipolent to more ge nerous animations. The Officers of the INDIAN ARM v have manifested no desire " to intimidate" their supe riors : they have merely assumed that preparatory atti tude, from which the HONOURABLE COMPANY may infer—without being conjurors—that the tame abandon ment of their invaded rights is the very last thing which they contemplate. Our promised narrative describing the treatment ex perienced by the Spanish exiles and patriots, from Don MIGUEL and his agents, will be found in another co lumn. All we shall say of this document is, that there are a hundred witnesses now in London, ready to prove its perfect veracity—since they were themselves among the sufferers. While we cannot doubt that public sympathy will be largely extended towards these unfortunate persons, whose only crime has been a desire to give freedom to their country and maintain the prin ciples .they had espoused, we trust that be sides the subscription which has commenced under such generous auspices, some influential means may be adopted, for inducing the Government to take up this matter in a national point of view. Here we might go back to the origin of the Spanish Constitution, framedas it was at the instigation of England, and while Spain was among the most effective and faithful of her allies. We appeal to the noble Duke himself, whether the Spanish Patriots have not a powerful and unanswerable claim on the protecting generosity of England. We shall not be suspected of adulation or flattery, when we remind the Noble Duke that his brightest laurels were gathered in Spain, and that however inefficient the co-operation of a few of the Spanish Generals may have been, the people never ceased to act as powerful auxiliaries. While we invoke not merely subscriptions, but every article of clothing which can be spared from families or individuals, we would fain call the particular attention of Ministers, and especially of the Noble Duke, to this subject. Until the Cabinet of Madrid is persuaded to receive the exiles, and give us a gua rantee for their safety when once in Spain, would it it be too much to entreat that a wing of one the hun dred now empty, military quarters might be assigned to the starving soldiery whose case is set forth in the nar rative ; men, of whom perhaps many fought and bled in the fields of Salamanca and Talavera ? If to this were added a few weeks rations, and some old blankets, the Duke would acquire laurels of a new kind—they would not be less fresh and green than those obtained from his most brilliant victories. We should hope the above narrative,which has acciden tally fallen into our bands, will find a place in the columns of our contemporaries throughout the kingdom. Its circulation will do more than any ordinary appeal to the British generosity. BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF THE SPA NISH PATRIOTS IN PORNIGAL. • The injustice and cruelty with which the Government of Don MIGUEL has treated the Spanish exiles, who sought an asylum in Portugal, having been frequently alluded to by the Public Press ; and a number of these unfortunate persons having reached England in a state of the utmost destitution, we have little doubt that the following affecting statement, drawn up by one of the sufferers, will be read with deep interest, even by those who have no political sympathies to bestow on the victims of such wanton oppression : The Spaniards who took refuge in Portugal went there at dif ferent periods, and, from various motives; some sought shelter from the relentless persecutions which followed the invasion of the French for the purpose of putting down the Constitution; many were provided with passports in regular form, which were regia wegt at the Spanish Legation ; scene had fled with their arms from tar garrisons on the frontier, rather than surrender to the Libertl ride army. Another portion of the emigrants consisted of those who, on bearing that a eh.. ter bad been granted to his subjects by Don Pena°, were glad to avail themselves of the protection it was likely to afford, as well as to Sy from the system of espionage and persecution to which their opinions exposed them at home. . Finally, a cousiderable number of those patriots, who bad passed over to England and the Netherlands after the French invasioa, naturally wished to seek a more genial climate, and little imagined • they were destined to suiet cruelties still greater than Of they ba i l hitherto expetieseed. I . stingers, ar the Earl of Constantin The Hai giving the adds the I taken from tion of th; character SUBLIME upon the settlement cordingly • ever be al Wallachii cxtraordin our renter RELATIV • In the high cony confirm Akerman' election I have roc°, tration of more in 11 , view, it of the H( seven ye; for life, abdicatio committe The fl ment of Divans,. • permittit ranteed t nor shall mand tet The S' watch ti ; Ischia s Govern() interfere prevent from m and Wa of the I tory of i the Ott; the Pm boundai To p; • Moldav, engage; the Da Mahon] fixed, t his resi mercha