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t` • • • ,• 3% GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, OCT. 18. The frequent exchange of couriers between St. Petersbergh, Pa rt., and London, give reason to suppose that important negotiations are on foot between the three Courts, and that the affairs of the East still occupy their attention. It seems that the Russian Ca binet is apprehensive of many difficulties in the execution of various points respecting Greece, agreed upon at London and Adrianople, and thinks its interest will be affected unless the greatest precaution is used in the foundation of the Greek State. But it also appears that Russia takes the interest of the Greek na tion muck to bean, and will have it plated in a situation which shall give no ream to fear its falling again under the yoke now thrown off, but shall promise a rapid advance of civilization. The French Court is thereby placed in a difficult situation ; it partici pates in the wishes of Russia for the future prosperity of Greece, but would not willingly oppose the English Cabinet, and therefore proceeds with much caution. The negotiations at London will therefore soon claim undivided attention. CRACOW, OCT. 13. According to several letters from the interior of Russia, the mi litary preparations are continued with as much activity as if peace had, not been concluded. Hence it is inferrrd• that mahy dilfitult points will have to be arrangrd before a firm and durable peace can be said to be attained ; and that the Russian Government is resolved to be prepared against every con tingency. We also learn that the equipment of ships is con tinued with great activity in the ports of the Baltic and the Euxine. Whether these accounts indicate any great political plan of the Russian Cabinet, or are the result of former orders not yet revoked, or merely measures of precaution rendered advisable by circumstances, time will show. By retaining the amount of twelve millions of rubles in Bank notes of the military contribution imposed on Persia, and by extending the time agreed upon for the payment, the Russian Emperor has given another proof of the moderation•with which he takes advantage of the success of his arms, and treat. a conquered enemy; it is known too that in victory be always offered peace, which he sincerely desires for the good of humanity. But, with the sincerest love of peace, the con stant maintenance of a formidable military force must secure the advantages of peace which have been gained. In Warsaw it is still hoped that the Emperor will come and open the Diet in person, though the season is so far advanced that it may be reasonably doubted. VIENNA, OCT. 19. A Russian Courier has passed through here, on his way from St. Petersburgh to Naples. A Prussian Courier has lately been di.patched to Berlin, and an Austrian to Constantinople. It is said that the loan of 45 millions has been contracted for at 85 per cent. with houses in the city. TRIESTE, OCT 18. The damage done by the late inundations is not so great as was at tirst thought. The magazines of colonial produce have chiefly suf fered. The commerce with the Levant and Egypt revives, and many consignments are made to Smyrna and Alexandria. A ship with cotton arrived from the latter port two days ago, by which we learn that Boghos Jona, the Pacha's Minister, whose brother has establiahed a great house here, is by no means removed from public business, but still enjoys the whole confidence of the Pacha. It is also confirmed that the armaments by land and sea are actively prosecuted in Egypt, and that every body believed Mehemet Ali would soon declare himself independent. VIENNA, OCT. 40. bletalliques, 10:1 1 1 ; Bank Shares, 1445.-411gewseine &Qum, Oa. 25. _ _ The Austrian Observer of the SOth contains the Manifesto of the • Emperor of Russia, and that of the 21st the Treaty of Peace, already published in other Journals, but no additional information. THE EVENING STAR. - • ( . ,„‘`. 16 '(*4 C AI 4 V 4 p . t4Te. _ CAT S ` WNW iN. MONDAY, NI PRICE OF STOCKS 13 tok Stock ndl 5, per Cent. IltettiOt per Ct. Coo& 91j 9O • per Ct. 1818, 3! per Cent. Itett. 981 0 4 per Ct. 1031 1 4I r Ct 1826. 104; 5 j,,tig Ann. 191 13-46thi . N India Stock rOVEMBER 2. AT TWO 0 CLOCK India Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities 90j £lOOO Bach. Bills (2d.) 75 6 4 .2500 Ditto 75 6 .ClOO and X2OO Ditto 75 6 Commercial, Bank for Acct. Cons. for Do. 911 1 S, TWO O'Cl.ol li: Mexican Bd.. 5 per Cent. Do. lids, 1825, , 6 pr Ct. 211 Port. Bds. sp. Ct. 49 Ditto Acct. 481 Rua. lids. 1822, 5 p Ct. 10411 4 Fr. Bente., 3 per Ct. 83f, Exchange 25f. 65c. FORK! G I FUN IN Brazil Bonds, 5 pr Ct. 651 Do. Acct. 651 a Ayr-s NJ,. 6p C. 23 4 Ditto Ace. 23 1) Nis. sv. Ct. 7li 1 Ditto Acct. 72& Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do Bonds, 1825, 5 p Ct. 19 narrtsu ANI) I:,,REEGN TW't* t►'rt • 414 A mt. PAID. PP M MING Ifrazilia• , Imp. (iss..es pm.) 35 '2O 79& Mexican 100 35 7i Guardian Fire Ass. 100 20 24i TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ws have received—but too late for insertion to-day—a letter of considerable interest, signed • Mums ov vsa LATE Wino CLUE, explanatory of the conduct of Lord Gaosvmma towards his pro prietary boroughs. We will give it tomorrow. We have received letters from Oporto via Paris up to the 14th. The accounts they contain relative to the recent executions there are quite appalling. No sooner had the executioner struck off the heads of the three victims, than he held them up, still reeking, to the multitude, and by pressing the small portion of the necks which remained, caused the features to ex hibit various terrific contortions. This proof of dex terity was loudly applauded by the judges who were pre sent. These sanguinary monsters dined together on the same day, and drank the health of the' Executioner for the very able manner in which his task had been per formed ! While such scenes are passing at Oporto, the tyrant is said to be following up a most infamous amour with the daughter of the Marquis DE BORBA. Had not the opinion that an intercourse with the softer sex humanises the heart been disproved by the NERDS and GREGORIES of former days, the usurper of Portugal would furnish a new and damning proof. To render this affair still more atrocious, our letters state that the object of his present illicit passion, is actually be trothed to the Count da LAPA. • The Ministers of the young despot are closely imitating the ex ample of their mister, or rather willing tool. SAN TEUEM is paying• his court to .the Viscountess de BAIIIA--‘o* nearly the whole of his col leagues have their favorites, generally chosen among persons who, likeitemselves, set morality and decorum at defiance. The Barber is still confined at AlfeW.— His arrest is attributed to an intrigue of the old QUEEN Such are the facts which our letters They speak for themselves, and require no comment. We again ask how long such horrors are to be tolerated ? It would seem that the mission of Prince . SOUTZO and M. EYN 4RD bad for its object, in the first instance, to solicit pecuniary aid from the , French Government previously to .any proposition for a loan : but that the Ministers of CIiAILLES X. have refused all further advances. It is more than probable that this refusal originates in a belief on the part of Prince POLION AC, that CAPO D'ISTR lAS le what we have all along represented him to be—little more than a Russian agent. When we reflect on the conduct he has pursued both with regard to the English creditors and the English benefactors of Greece generally, we feel no regret for the conduct of the French Government. If—instead of this mission of SOUTZE and ETNA RO—an Envoy had been sent to England with that decree in favour of the Bond holders which he promised to issue on leaving London, we are convinced that he would have obtained additional assistance here. It is thus that an unprincipledand disho nest policy meets at last its condign reward. As matters now stand we trust that no person may be found in France so simple, as to repose their confidence in a mancapable of acting as CA PO u'lsTains has towards those, without whose timely aid Greece would never have acquired an independence—nor even a political existence. With the example before their eyes, of the scandalous indifference with which the English creditors have been shuffled of, it is by no means likely that any French bankers would, for a moment, listen to proposals for a new loan to this lonian adventurer. Sundry versions of the meeting which took place at Sudbourne between the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. Husx tssoN, have been bandied about by the public prints. Oae article especially—bearing . about it the impress of authoritative statement—appeared in the Times of Friday last, asserting that—" common civi'•ity was all that passed from the Duke to him." According to this statement, it would seem to be the Noble Duke's wish to have it believed that he regards, either with shame or aversion, any renewal of his connexion with the discarded Minister. It is fit, however, that the Right Honourable Gentleman should be made aware, that there is a very different story in circulation : for it is asserted by more than one of the individuals who constituted the motley assem blage lately brought together at Lord HERTFORD'S, that Mr. HUSK ISSON will be admitted back to office, on the condition that he abandon his " Free Trade" system. We are not speaking here of an unsupported, solitary rumour, but of a statement propagatnd in several high quarters, and put forth with a preconcerted co-operation of plan, and great and conspicuous activity. But the report goes even farther yet : for it affirms that the late Colonial Se cretary has consented to the terms proposed ! Now, although we do not hesitate to declare that—in our opinion—this rumour is a premeditated and scanda lous calumny, it will be for the friends of the Right Ho nourable Gentleman to determine whether it merits contradiction. Instead of coalescing with the Noble Duke, Mr. H vstossoN would do well to silence the slanderous insinuations, by ranging himself in the ranks of those patriots, who are known to be at this moment uniting to rescue the national character in the eyes of despising Europe : who are known, in fact, to be determined on the effectuation of those only changes, which can force backwards the stride of ad vancing ruin, and close up the already yawning gulf into which the present policy is so precipitously hurling the country. Let the Right Honourable Gentleman do this, and he will repair the tarnished lustre of his name ; tarnished—we are fond to believe—less by his own agencies, than the over-ruling accident of associations, in which he found himself imperceptibly limed. By re turning to the people, who have . never yet deserted him, because they saw that he acted by compulsion—not from choice—Mr. HUSK ISSON may yet rise to a proud place in public opinion. We have the Allgemer — ne Zeitung to the 27th and Frankfort Papers to the 26th ult. this day. The former defends " the moderation" of NictioLAs "it would be absurd to require the Ertl PERO u's generosity to go so far as to conclude a disadvantageous peace; no, — the peace is, and ought to be, advantageous to Russia— the contrary would be a reproach." NICHOLAS has taken very good care not to merit such a reproach. FROM THE LOWER RHINE, Orr. 17. The very general expectation of the victorious entrance of the Rawians into Constantinople (to which there was evidently no longer any serious obstacle,) has been disappointed, by the conclusion of the Treaty of Adrianople. On the other hand, we have the greater reason to admire the Emperor Nicholas, as a generous protector 'of peace. It would be absurd to require the Emperor's generosity to go so far as to conclude a disadvantageous peace ; no—the peace is, and ought to be, advantageous to Russia; the contrary would be a reproach. But even according to the Russian manifesto, and other declarations of the Russian Court, at the beginning, and during the course of the war, the demands might now have been greater. —lf we consider the war just ended in all its bearing., the nego cistions of many years that preceded it, the insults that were offered to Russia, the injury that it sustained from a formal treaty, of that of Akermann, which was to put an end to all differences, only added to the well-founded complaints of Russia, by the perfi dious neglect of fulfilling it; next how a Turkish Manifesto de stroyed, without reserve, every appearance of a prospect of coming to an amicable arrangement with the Porte ; lastly, if we consider how this war has been carried on by Russia, with what prodigious exertions and expense, with what generous conduct towards the enemy : and lastly, with what astonishingly great success—we must confess that there are few instances of a conduct equally just, equally energetic and moderate, as that which Russia has displayed in the whole course of these political and military transactions. Let any env show us a treaty of peace concluded during the last 50 years in which the conqueror with such advantages, and such a position. showed equal moderation. When even the French politicians exclaim in their journals against the arrogance of power, the abase of victory, &c. this is unseasonable in the extreme. What! the Russian armies are in possession of the must important provinces of the Turkish Empire, at the very gates of the capital, which they have, by dear-bought victories in a just war, and not the smallest ad vantage should result to their country from such conquests, and they should retire as if their arms had not been victorious?—.4fige please Zeilang. Oct. 47. STOCKHOLM, Oct. 13. A journal says, under the head of St. Petetsburgh, it is affirmed that Prince Chusrew's mis4ion has procured for his grandfather the Saab, a reduction in the military contribution. A fifth part of the whole still remained to be paid, of which the Emperor 141 said to hate remitted one half, and to have granted bee years delay for the payment of the other half. On inquiry, it is said that Count , Sjornstierna did not state that treaties of commerce with Mesita and Colocatda had been actually concluded in London, bat that be had commenced modules, for that purpose with the Ministers of those powers, which were interrupted by his departure from Lon. dos.—lhs“Vort Papers, 46th Oct. A contemporary in giving a detailed report oi the Special Commission at Cork, has the folloiVing comments on the formidable conspiracy to exterminate the Protestants in Ireland : This measure of the Government has succeeded in its first stages beyond all eupectation. The Crown prosecution at Cork, was admirably conducted by the Solicitor-General and his aides; so well as to develope the ramifications of as bold and atrocious a conspiracy as ever was hatched by a knot of secret assassins for the deadliest of purposes ! Human life, in the estimation of these sworn murderers, was not abso lutely worth a pin's fee, bound together by oaths to obey the orders of their " Committee' the conspirators, it is evident, would not hesitate to sacrifice the whole County of Cork.— Monsters of the most infamous character are proved to have been leagued in formidable confederacy to destroy some of the principal persons in the county, nor is it yet known to what fearful extent has this horrible Whiteboy system spread its baneful inilueoce, nor how many hundreds, nay, thousands of the peasantry, may be fast linked at this very instant in the foul chain of ini quity. Is it possible we can want proof of the unnatural and truly alarming state of society, in that wide district, after the evidence adduced on this trial? Three Gentlemen, of high consideration, are deliberately denounced to death!— Perhaps the public will inquire what was the crime which merited a doom so dreadful? The offence then was simply this, as elicited in Court—Mr. Creagh had the impudence to serve notice of eject ment on some defaulting tenants, located an his estate. Admiral Evans bad the audacity to make a speech in Parliament last May twelve months, in the honest discharge of his duty as a Senator, which speech those miscreant legislators construed to be hostile to the Roman Catholic question ; and lastly, Mr. Bond Lew was too active and intrepid a Magistrate during the lusurrec. Lion Act, six years before, and possibly at a subsequent period too. This was the " very head and front of their offending—no more," and the punishment was death! Good Heavens! after such an exposure is it wonderful that the country should become a desert— that it should be abandoned to its fortunes by men of rank, property, and intelligence, and left to the tender mercies of those reckless savages, who contemplate wholesale bloodshed and murder with as much indifference as they would a turn up at a fair ? The first witness produced for the defence candidly informs the Court upon his oath, that" the whole country are Whiteboys"—that he knows Whiteboys to be in his employ, and that they were used to secrete fire-arms in his haggard ! What a perilous state of things for the. South of Ireland. Look again to the testimony of Dr. O'Brien, P. P. of Doneraile, the focus of this infernal conspiracy ; though a witness for the pri soners, he explicitly declares, the town and neighbourhood of Doneraile is "the very reverse of quiet !" Will than the em ployment of half-measures be effectual under such a combina tion of impending circumstance& ? Will a mistaken lenity be advisable, when an explosion is momentarily expected? Com. mon sense will give a negative, and without hesitation we say, in the present state of the county Cork, it is the imperative duty of every individual, Interested in the welfare of society at large, to hunt down these ravenous wolves, who would greedily batten in the blood of their fellow men—monsters whose existence is a dis. grace to the country that gave them birth, and to the character Of human nature. It is expected the four men found guilty on Fri day last, will be executed next Saturday." CITY. Twimvs o'CLock. We fully expected this morning several important arrivals—the Jamaica and Mexican Packets—in which we have been disappointed, owing, no doubt, to contrary winds, which cause our having so few arrivals this morning ; and in consequence of which we have a great dearth of information, with no speculation going forward in the Funds. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 901 to 91 for Money; and 91 to for the Account—opened at the same price this morning, with little or no business transacting. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. CITY HALF-PAST ONE. The Bulls and Bears appear much fatigued this morning from their furious attacks of last week, and are resting on their arms, watching each others movements, causing a great stagnation in the Funds ; and Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 91 for Money, and 91 to a for the Account. They are also quite idle in the Foreign Market; scarce a bargain doing to the present time, and most of the prices are nominal, and near the same as on Sat urdey. The private lettets by the express from Paris, bring the French Rentes in the evening at three per cents. to 82, 90; the Neapolitan Stock has got up at Paris from 89 to 91. A private letter from Paris states, as an illustration of the public credit of Portugal in the French capital, that bills on Lisbon to the amount of £3,000 were attempted to be negotiated a few days ago, and although bearing the most respectable signatures, no person could be found to touch them. Accounts from Ancona state, that some important event is on the point of taking place in Greece, and that the whole of the attention of the English Government relates to that country. The lonian Islands are being reinforced. A report prevailed at Paris, that all the paper on Madrid is being bought up there by an august person. It is said that Miguel has attempted a loan in Eng land, as low as 35, 5 per cent. but that no insane or desperate person has been found to meet his wishes. Accounts from Naples mention, that since the peace a considerable fall in grain has taken place. Letters from Brussels state, that a serious quarrel has taken place at Leyden between the garrison of that town and the inhabitants ; the particulars are not as yet known. This affair has been referred to the King. Accounts from Odessa of the 9th of October state, that M. Ribeaupierre has received orders to proceed for Naples as Ambassador to Constantinople ; and that Count Diebitach is expected at Odessa where he will remain for some time. Letters from Madrid of the 19th Oct. say, that shocks of earthquakes were felt on the 13th Oct. in Murcia and Orchuela. Letters wrote from Toulon 21st Oct. state that 4 brigs are getting really to sail on the 15th Nov. for the exercise of the mariners. It appears, by accounts from St. Petersburgh, that the object of the mission of Prince Chosiew was to ob tain for the Schah, his grandfather, a reduction of con tributions. Letters from Port-au-Prince of the 3d September, say, that M. Guinebaud, Consul General from France, was expected there every day. Affairs remain in the same state of stagnation ; coffee has fallen nine gourdes. Quebec papers to the 30th September, and Montreal to the 29th September have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. The Quebec papers are destitute of interest. The Montreal papers have a pa ragraph from the Kingston Herald, mentioning a report that his Excellency, Sir John Colborne, would soon be promoted to the Government of Nova Scotia, and Sir Thomas Arbuthnot appointed in his stead as Lieutenant- Governor of the Upper Provinces. This is not credited in the Montreal papers. We lament to hear that Lord HOLLAND is still suffer ing under an attack of gout, at Brighton. We trust the health of the Noble Baron will be entirely re-established before the approaching meeting of Parliament. ACKERMANN AND THE ANNUALS. We have received several of these delightful volumes— the BIJOU, the FORGET ME NOT, the JUVENILE FOR • OET ME NOT, and the GEM. The last has been already noticed in our columns; but it yet remains to pay our tribute of admiration to the others. Of these, not less from its own intrinsic merits, than because it is the parent of the numerous tribe of Annuals, the Foao ET ME Nor is in every way entitled to precedence. Indeed, whether we consider the exquisite finish of the engravings, and the fascination of the subjects which they represent.--or the taste, power, and elegance of its contributions, diver sified with every variety of style, and enriched with every originality of thought—the FORGET ME NOT does not shrink from a comparison with the most beautiful of its progeny. Some of its rival daughters, exceeding it by far in stature, have dazzled us this year with a display of finery on a larger scale : but—regard being had to proportions, and the great difference also in price remembered—there is not a gem in all this bandeau of anniversary literature more chaste and brilliant than the FORGET at E NOT. In contemplating the perfection to which this little Volume has arrived, and the competition to which it has given birth, it is impossible not to ac knowledge the obligations which we owe to the public spirit and enterprise of Mr. Ac EIL MAN/1. He it was, who first—by his liberal encouragement—drew round him meritorious and neglected genius, and concentrated into one focus so much of the scattered talent of the country : his was the glory to open this new field for their expatiation, where national taste skims annually th e cream of wit and poesy, and the fine arts intermingle in emulous concurrence. The FORGET m E NOT 18 embellished with fourteen exquisite engravings : among these, Undine—by WAR REN, from the inimitable RETZSCH—and the Exile, by PORTBURY, from a painting by STEPHANOFr—the Int provisatrice, by RoxiNEY, from Bow e—and the Flower Girl, by ROBINSON, from GA UG Al N—deserve to be particularly mentioned. If we do not speak in such detail of the BIJOU, it is because our space—not our inclination—warns us : it is, perhaps, one fourth less voluminous than the FORGET ME NOT; and its embellishments are only nine in number— but both in the Fine Arts, and the Literary depart ment, it exhibits elegant proofs of its confraternity. The portrait of MILTON composing Paradise Lost, esteemed by many RS the chef d'oeuvre of STOTH A RD, is engraved here in a style of beauty which has all the effect of painting, by ENSOM ; and Lady JANE GREY, from a painting by DE H SERE, is rendered equally striking by the fine hand and correct execution of DEAN. The portrait also of a living beauty—Mrs. ARBUTIINOT enriches this collection, engraved by Ewsom, from Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE ; and smiling upon us with the same irresistible power as from the canvass of that magic painter, fairly confounds in our worshipping hearts all distinctions of party-politics. The following ef fusion—contributed by our gifted friend, CHARLES BRINSLEY SHERIDAN—IS characteristic of his peculiar style : SILENCE. Frost the Foaort sa NOT. IT CHAZLIS 111111111111101, 2141. Weigled with the eloquence of Silence, Sound, With all its varied charms is weak and vain ; If thqre are tones by which the heart is bound, ". Silence infuses deeper bliss or pain : The last, for months, my fretful breast has found; The first, methinks, it ne'er will feel again. When youthful hands, and eyes, and feelings meet, In that prolong'd and soul-subduing pause, Silence is Converse, dangerously sweet ; Aid while the speechless Pair more deeply draws The breath, and hears each heart responsive beat, In Passion's sunbeams Prudery's frost-work thaws. The mutest signs possess a language still, A language framed, enervatingly strong, To fetter Reason, drag the manly will In unresisting slavery along, Quench Virtue's vestal flame, and quickly fill Life's cup with infamy for venial wrong. And ob ! the pangs of Silence—thy by day Creeping along, with still tle unanswer'd prayer! As gradual darkness grows on evening'. ray, Doubt, fear, and wonder detp•ning to despair; Till, as the dawn prepares the Enlightener's way, Come Truth, more clear and chill than morning's air. When Fancy's idols base were lips and eyes, She soon found others prompt to mile and roU ! Sick of such treacherous chase and paltry prise, The wearied Mind appreciates sense and soul, Pines with more grief than PaNsion's selfish sighs, And drains regrets, the dregs of Sorrow's bowl. MILTON DICTATING TO HIS DAUGHTERS. Front tee Buoy. What pride is on that brow! but not the pride By lordly power or youth's wild hope supplied; For deep'ning clouds around his fate are roll'd, And be is friendless now, and blind, and old. Yet not his spirit quails before the power Of this cold world, when comes his loftier hour ; In holier vision, when his sight grows clear, And Heaven's own music fills his !lensing ear : Hark! the full tide of inspiration rolls, Thund'ring with mighty voice ; and o'er our souls Comes awe, deep awe : Before our tranced sight Float glorious visions—angels cloth'd in light, And demons dreadful in their guilt are there, Fall'n and yet angels; ever doomed to bear The curse of GOD within them,—terrible forms Scared by the bolts, and darkly girt with storms. And see, within that bow'r in silence laid, Two human forms ate slumbering in the shade, The first, the fated pair....and o'er them beams A billowing light, for Goo is in their drrams, A laugh, a horrid laugh ! HeU triumphs now, And sin's dread mark is fixed on mortal brow, And shame weighs down the heart—a lew'ring gloom Falls on the soul in that hush'd hour of doom. Hark ! the load trumpet . ! But the trance is o'er— And that deep voice is musical no more; Closed is his gorgeous vision, and again His spirit seeks the haunts et earthly men. His reverent daughters mark his changeful face, And the last fading rays of glory trace Left by his Heavenward musings, —and once more Milton is desolate, and blind, and poor. From, the JUVENILE FORGET ME NOT our limits will not permit an extract : but it is a charming and'ap propriate present for young people, and in the style—as weU as subjects of its embellishments—quite worthy of the taste and spirit, as it is suited to the laudable .design, of its ingenious projector. H in fo