Star. — London, England, 1822-08-21 00:00:00

'\ ' .. - ~~ /MP •‘.. ,-, , T - - -9* * ~ 0141411, COAhT. I titte HE 'Agin:Ailment iublished in some of the • Blomtnij'aperivf this day, stating that an alteration has d! 4 tie nosiest prawn, is a fabrication, and has been rted without our sanction or knowledge. We think it right, also, to declare, that we have no authority to deviate, in any way, front the conditions of the Contftet. HULIATT, BROTHERS, and Co. London, Est August, ma. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Up to this hour very little business has been done in the Market, and Consols remain steady at 80* j, with a flat Market. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Commissioners have given 803 for Consols. The Market appears heavy, and little doing.• Fessiox Foxos.—Within this hour a Broker has bought 1000 Old Spanish Bonds, in consequence of an expreu from Paris bringing the Spanish Stock higher. The above purchase, with others, has caused all Spanish securities to rises---Chilian 83i to 84; New Spanish 641 i ; Old 64 1; New Prussian ; Old 89 ; Russian 04 (in demand); Danish 871 ; Neapo litan 741; Colombian 86 ; Scrip 861. . REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA. The holders of all Debentures issued by me, as Vice-President and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia, may receive payment of the same, with the, interest which may then be due thereon, on Tuxmar, the let day of October next, and on every subsequent Tuesday and Friday, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'Clock, at the Mice of Messrs. C. Hammier, W. Gaanau, and J. 1). Portia, No. 3, Freeman's-court, Corn- W. The interest on the said Debentures will cease from and after the said Ist day of October. Leaden, August 17, 1832. F. A..ZEA, Dllnistg Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia. FRItES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced 81 1 / 4 2 per Ct. dons. 80y, 3 / 8 — 1, per Cts. 92% 5,4 4 per Cents. 99 1 4 3 / 4 -4 per Ct. New 99 1 / 2 3 / 4 Imperial 3 per Cents. 80 1 / 4 India Bonds 665. 6Ss.—South Sea Stock 91 Exchequer Bills of £1 ,000, 6s. 7s. • Ditto Small Bs. 9s..—Consols for Acct. 80 3 / 4 1/4 3/8. The Sovereigns of Europe, either in person or by their representatives, are again on the point of assem bling to settle the destinies of nations, so far as their dicta can settle them! The Emperor ALEXANDER was expected to leave petersbur g h on the 16th inst. in order to be at Vienna on the 6th or 7th of Sep tember ; and here it is said the Ministers of the other Powers will assemble, and the preliminary consulta tions be commenced. What are the ostensible objects of this Congress seems doubtful ; but there is no question as to the real motives which call the Holy Alliance Junto together; it is that of endeavouring to adopt some measures to repress those liberal opinions respecting government which their coercion has not been able to prevent from spreading. It is true they triumphed over Naples and Piedmont ; but they see the noble struggle for independence which is going on in Spain—the gradual march of reform in Portu gal—and the dissatisfaction manifested against the BQURBONS in France. Nor at home do they repose on beds of roses. The Emperor of Am - 1-mA knows that public opinion is against his despotic Government; and the King of PRUSSIA justly dreads the consequence of his not keeping faith with his subjects, to whom he seven years ago promi.ed a Constitution and a Representa tive Government. The Emperor of RUSSIA dreams of nothing but Carbonari, Liberees, and Descanti saes ; and dreads that their influence may even set his Cossacks on thinking that there is something bet ter in the world than civil or military slavery. On Thursday last we published an article from the Petersburgh Journals, which evidently shews the fears and the feelings of the Autocrat of all the Rus• sins. It states that "everything proves the existence of a secret organization, which embraces in its fatal ramifications al) Europe ;" that " the Society of the Corbonavi deliberates, and proscribes, and. finds hands to execute its sanguinary decrees;" and, lastly, that "between us (that is, the Powers of Europe) and barbarism there is nothing but the Holy Alliance." We confess we felt somewhat suprited at such clecla tions, knowing the degraded state of vassalage in which the Russians are kept, when, next day, we learnt from another authority, that the Russian army on the Turkish frontiers, throughout all its can• tonments, swarmed with Carbonari, Atheists, and Democrats I How strongly such avowals betray the fears and the conscious weakness of Russia, is evident: indeed we suspect those fears have had some share in hum bling her demeanour towards the Turks; though her cause has continued to be fought by the Greeks.— Nothing would be so gratifying to her as to see the Greeks and Turks exterminate each other, and if, to borrow an expression from JUNIUS, " she lingers be hind till the danger is past, it is to steal forth in darkness and obscurity, and return with the mare. sisted spoils of the field." The affairs of Greece will be one of the most diffi cult points that Congress will have to deliberate upon. The differences between Turkey and Russia might perhaps be adjusted by a sort of compromise, had not the successes of the Greeks given them an importance which is not to be frittered away by ne gociation, nor to be wrested from them by a treaty. We well know that Russia aims at European Turkey, and will leave no stone unturned to obtain her object: the independence of Greece would, however, be fatal to that project; and we believe that the success of the Greeks has given some uneasiness to the Emperor ALUANDIoa s vibe anticipated di* merely changing a Tutkish for a Russian yoke, and never contem plated this brave but degraded people aspiring to freedom and independence. Of the feelings of the Russian Monarch towards Spain, we are not uninformed ; and, if they dared to do it, we should not be surprised at this'magnani mons Czar, with his brother of Austria, proposing to march their hireling troops to re-establish FERDI• NAND as absolute KING. Such a project would be grateful enough to the Bowman. in France, who need foreign bayonets to bolster them up ; but the French Government holds its power by too slender a tenure to join in such an experiment. The attempt to send a foreign soldier through France to Spain, would be the signal of a new Revolution, which would be fatal to the rule of the BOURBON dynasty for ever. Besides, we do not think that the English Goiernment would countenance an interference with Spain or Portugal, however much it may connive at some of the odious measures of the Holy Alliance. Thus it will be seen that the subjects for the discus sion of the approaching Congress, are sufficiently important and sufficiently difficult, to render it pro bable that the siccing may be of considerable duration The French Papers of Sunday have been received. On the preceding day the two Chambers were dis solved. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Cote Droit (says the Journal des Debats) separated with cries of Vive le Roil" the left remained silent, The Con stitutionntl says that some of the left called out after Vive k Rol," and also the Charter!" Private letters from the Pyrennees announce, that at the advanced posts of the cordon the heat is so great, that the wells, springs, and streams are dried up, and that water is distributed by rations to the soldiers: it is added, that the state of the atmosphere has occasioned a number of maladies. Letters from Vienna state that Count Mowrmo- RICNCY, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, is er pected, in that city, and that the affairs of Spain will be discussed in the approaching Congress. The opening of the Congress is said to be fixed for the Ist of October; but the Ministers of the five great Powers will hold preliminary conferences in the month of, September. There is still no intelligence from Spain of a later date than that which we published a week ago. The C'onstitutionnel contains a spirited letter from the Count de SANTA Roo to the Minister of the In tetiur, dated Alencon, August 14, on the expression used by him in the Chamber of Deputies, that the Piedmontese refugees in France shewed themselves grateful for " the protection of the French Govern ment and the kindness of the King." The Minister of the Interior is represented as having uttered a de liberate falsehood in the Chamber of Deputies, with respect to the Piedmontese refugees, who have in vain applied for a passport to England. After reca pitulating the fact, the letter proceeds thus: " 31v Loses— After having beep brought here by your orders, and having addressed to you fruitless protestations, I might have applied to the Chambers. I have not done so. Urged by my principles to remain perfectly a stranger to the affairs of every country but my own, I preferred waiting in peace till the Go vernment repaired its injustice, raaker than become the cause of a warm discussion in the bosom of the Chamber. Men who, like me, feel the whole weight of their misfortunes, and of those of the country, do not like to make themselves tilked of; but, my Lord, the wards which you have spread throughout Europe force me to break my silence. Not to acknowledge benefits, or to disavow a protector, is the part of a base man ; but to suffer gratitude to be attributed to us, to be imposed upon us when the feeling of Injustice which oppresses us weighs on our hearts, is also a baseness. The Italian Proscripts, my Lord, will never descend to it ; they may be driven out, they may be imprisoned, they may be overwhelmed with persecutions, but they will never forget what they owe to .their own character, and to that dear and unfortunate country whose esteem is their first want, " I own it would have been sweet to me to have experienced the benevolence of the French Government, to have lived under the protection of the author of the French Charter, by whom liberty was givers to France after fourteen years of an opposite movement. Other Kings of France have prosecuted Italians proscribed for the same cause, and the last defenders of the li berty of Florence and Sienna found in France a second country under Francis I. and Henry IL " Hear what has happened to me in Prance :—I entered it with a Swiss passport and a borrowed name, in the false belief that this precaution would secure me a peaceable abode at Paris. I dwelt la that city and the country for four months. I was quiet, and with an Irreproachable conduct should I not have been left so? On the 23d of March last I was seized by the agents of the King's authority, in a public square at Paris, and taken to the Prefecture of Police, where I read on the warrant ' for my apprehension these very words—` accused 4#* mai ms i n _ gentians.' I demanded to be taken to the Prefect of Police : I immediately told him my true name. After a long interroga tory, I was thrust into the prison of the Salle St. Martin, and the proceedings in my affair began. " It is evident that the Magistrates must have found in my papers, and in my conduct, a complete want of proof of culpa bility in matters of politics, since the proceeding against me was confined to the irregularity of my passport. I expected to be tried and condemned on this last point; I knew my fault; I was ready to undergo the punishment of it. I had only com mitted a formal offence, nothing was purer than my intentions, but I had still fallen into a violation of the laws, which is never, in my eyes, entirely to be justified. The French Magistracy I thought that it was not their duty to resort to a rigorous and literal application of the law—they disdained to bind the lofty maxims of equity to any considerations, and the tt a punal of First /miaow of Paris declared that there was no ground for the pro secution. The public prosecutor opposed this decision. The Royal asset pronounced a second judgment in my favour, and ordered my liberatioi hi the accustomed form. I then requested of your Excellency the power of enjoying French hospitality, that is to say, to be allowed to live in France, under the protec tion of the laws of the kingdom " I thought that the Government ought by this benellt to make up to me for all that unjust alarms as to my political con duct in Francs had mode me surer. This Illusion. at which I have no need to blush, soon vanished. lat Ent saw myself de tained aloe days is pubso ; em the simple buss of the Prefect of "eFer. ! 'F . Cry'rr r.rm .0 • 111 to the jailer--a sheer Violence offered to my person, as, ' =aiding to the Decree of the Royal Gottrt, I could not legally be deprived of my liberty, but by a new warrant (esiesdet Amman) issued by the Magistrate. The answer et year Excel luny arrived. It was an order to the Prefect of Polies, to get me taken to &Jenson by the Gendarmerie, to abide there coder the sureaktsor of the local authority. Immediately en my ar rival In the plate of my relegation, I wrote to your Excellency, ' Eit ate longer en asylums in Prism, rx is passports /Jr Ilogiend I repestfreosthe French Goometherst.' I have received no answer, and you have, undoubtedly, my Lord, forgotten my letter and my protest, when you uttered in the Tribune the words I have cited. " These facts, which concern net sue alone, and which are nearly common to me with Messrs. Muschiettl and Calvet* my companions arrested and relegated at the same time with me, are known to Tour Excellency, and can be proved, if ne cessary, by authentic documents. I preserve the order of the Royal Court of Paris as a precious monument of the protection which my innocence has found from a French tribunal. " Now, my Lord, I. ask whether we have been treated in France with justice or with injustice, with benevolence or ma- 4 levolence? whether we have been protected or opptessed ?" M. de SANTA Rosa, after reiterating his demand for passports, observes, that after all he has said, it may be judged whether France is an asylum for misfortune. A prosecution is going'on aglinst M. 'APACE, the Editor of a Parisian publication, called the Courier des Spectacles, for inserting in his work, which, though periodical, is not a newspaper, articles relative to po litics. The charge is, that he has published dis guised politics and direct politics. Among the ar ticles of the former kind exhibited in the act of ac cusation, the two following are the,most remarkable. The prosecution of such absolute trifles seems a sin gular indication of alarm or irritability in the Go vernment : " Tire OLD Ctoruas Suer . — An Officer, covered with ho nourable scars, is in the deepest distress. He looks to his clothes for a last service. Their condition announces under what glo rious circumstances they covered their unfortunate owner; but that is no recommendation to an old clothes man. As to his sword, the veteran warrior transmits it, bequeaths it, but will not sell it. The blade is bright, though stained with the blood of the enemy. This veteran is in poverty : but perhaps if his sword had been dipped in French blood .. .." " Tee CANTA!,SZD Boosmaxaa.—A bootmaYer, who wished to be an elector, but who was not rated high enough, caused an additional window to be made in his apartments. As soon as he was qualified, his vote was solicited on the one hand by the Constitutional candidate, on the other by the opposite candidate; and he found himself in danger of losing the business of all the persons of the patty with which he did not vote. In this diffi culty he consulted his wife, who Is a shrewd, Normand. She cast up the business received from both sides, and found that they lad 150 Constitutional customers, and only 40 of the Ultra party. She further remarked, that the Constitutionalists being young, in the full possession of their faculties, active, indus trious, and addicted to the cultivation of the Arts, wore by far the most boots, even with a single leg, when they have had the misfortune to lose the other, which has occurred to a considet able number .f them, while their adversaries hire almost all arrived at the age of decrepitude. Hence she concluded that her hus band must vote with the Liberals." The Counsel for M. Lepage contended, that these articles contained :timely reflections, and were to be considered as purely literary. It would not be con tended that Juvenal and Boileau, in satirizing man ners, had written political articles. The articles which come under the charge of direct polisle, are entitled Horace Vernet—Biographie de Academiciens radies—De la peins de mart en matiere criminal. The Counsel argued that the two first related en tirely to the Fine Arts. Their object was to complain that the exposition of pictures had been made a ques tion of politics. As to the third article, it was purely philosophical, and in that view it had been inserted in the journals as the criticism of a work in which the question which the title of the article involved was discussed. The trial commenced on Saturday last, and was adjourned till to-morrow. This forenoon we received intelligence from Bay onne to the 14th instant, which represents the Insur gents as having been successful in several engage ments with the Constitutionalists, in Navarre, Arra gen, and Catalonia. These statements, which are evidently those of a partizan of the Insurgent " Army of the Faith," have so much the appearance of exag geration, as to entitle them to little credit. The fol lowing axe extracts : BAYONNE AUGUST 15. The post from Madrid was stopped on Sunday evening by the factious at Salinas, two leagues from Vittoria, so that we have no news from the provinces beyond the Ebro. Those from Biscay inform us that the Pastor is daily engaged with the different bands in that country, which continue to increase ; they add, that the nomination of the new Ministry, and that of Mina to the command of Navarre and Biscay have given great satisfaction. _ _ It ; difficult to imagine how the Government at Madrid will acquit itself in the present state of things ; its situation calls for the display of great resources. The arrival of General Mina in Navarre will doubt less contribute to the pacification of that Province, but it remains to be seen whether Ballasteros or Mo. rill° (for both are spoken of) will obtain the same success in Catalonia, considering the progress of the revolt and the great support which the factious have in a foreign nation. The Constitutionalists have cer tainly conceived hopes from the English nation and even its Government, in whose favour they will make all possible sacrifices if it supports them in the strug gle in which they are engaged. The following is the manner in which the LiheralJewrisal of St. Sebastian I expresses itself on this subject: " The day is not distant when we shall perhaps learn that a treaty of commerce has been concluded j - _,` ~ ~. ' ~ between our Goveinineit and that of Great Britat n , it is even said that an alliance is in contemplation' between Spain, Portugal, and England ; that the latter Power has sent a note to the French Goverlv. ment, to require the dissolution of the Sanitary Cot. dun, and to repeat the assurances of its resolution to maintain the order of things established in the Perlin. :Ida. It is added, that our Government has also rc. ceived a note from the British Cabinet, declaring that it will always support our Constitutional system." In the same Journal we find the following passage: —" In the state of perfect health which the Peninsula enjoys, and the hope that is conceived that the ep,. demic disease will not re-appear in Catalonia, nothin g can be more ridiculous than this sanatory cordon, which serves only to harass travellers of both na- Lions, and to fetter commerce. Let it be called a Cordon of Observation, well and good: but then, o f what use are these Lazarettos, where the most robust and healthy men may catch a disease during the fou r or six days that they are detained ? It is to be hoped, that as the yellow fever does not exist in any part of Spain, the French Government will abolish this culous quarantine, and confine itself, it it sees goo!, to making its territory respected by the Spanish bands of the two parties, which might trespass on it, and troduce political contagion." 64 Nobody now even pretends to dissemble the pro. section which the French Government gives to the Spanish rebels ; clothing, ammunition, balls, bombs,C cartlidges, muskets, cannon, all are before our eyes ; and but a few days ago, several cannon were sent to. wards St. Jean Pied-de-Port, with six horses and two oxen. It is generally believed that Spain can do no less than declare war against that infamous Gover. 1 ment, which seems to provoke it by all kinds of mea l and iniquitous aggressions; but if the Spaniards hare the discretion not to act as aggressors, and only t) be prepared to make reprisals, the opinion and the efforts of the Spanish nation will go with them:— Liberal Guipuzcoano. We learn the arrival of some Constitutional troops at Barcelona, but they do not amount to 4.00 men. A Hamburgh Mail reached us this forenoon, brin . c.. ing Papers to the 14th instant. The following are extracts : CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 18. (FROM A PRIVATE COMMUNICATION.) The day before yesterday the English Ambassador received an official note, informing him that the Pore (as we have already stated from other resources) hal appointed the Boyar Ghika Prince of Wallachia, and Stourdza Prince of Moldavia. In making this choice the Porte has, for the first time, departed from its custom of choosing Greeks residing in Constan tinople to fill those high offices. They are natives cf the country, and the Porte is said to have excthed itself in this note for having departed from the ancient mode, because, under present circumstances, it could not possibly have sufficient confidence in Greeks to put such important posts into their possession. The eva cuation of the two Principalities continues without interruption, and will be complete before the arrival of the new Princes, who leave this city in a few days. " _l" 'r .__... ._ ; .\ FRANKFORT AUGUST 6. The fortifications of Coblents are nearly completed, and will be quite finished by the end of the year. Hassauang, Am 13.—Exchange on London, 37. 1. 37. 4. PILTIIMUIRON, JULY 30.—Exchange on Landon, to. 915.16 Amsterdam, 9 13-16—ilamburgh, 93 3-16—Paris, 103. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 25th July. The following are extracts : FROM THE NEW YORK GAZETTE OF JULY 24. The Board of Health of this city met yesterday afternoon, and resolved to meet hereafter every MO-• day at four o'clock, P.M. The city, it was understoc2, has never been more healthy at this season of th year than at present. MATANZAS, JULY 6.—There is nothing particular to communicate, except the report of a severe en gagement having taken place between an American Government schooner and several Spanish piratical boats ; but as the report comes by the way of Ha. vannah, I presume the correct account will reach you from that quarter. Yesterday, the Earl of CLANWILLIAM, the Private Secretary to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, and Mr. PLANTA, left tows for North Cray, to pay a visit cr condolence to the Marchioness of LONDONDERRY. His Excellency the Marquis WRLLESLEY was so shocked on receiving the afflicting news of the Mar quis of LONDONDERRY'S death o■ Wednesday after noon, the 14th instant, that his Excellency was mute, from the effect of horror, for some moments. All the dreadful particulars reached him at once. They were only known that evening to his Excellency, Mr. Gout- BURN, and Mr. GREGORY. . The Dublin Patriot says r—gi It would be utterly impossible to describe the consternation that pervaded all ranks in Dublin, on the news of the unexpected death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY being received by the mail last evening (Wednesday, the 14th inst.) As in London, it was scarcely believed. To-day (Thursday, the 15th inst.) all the antichambers of the Castle are filled with Nobility, Gentry, and other persons of rank, anxious to learn such particulars as might not have publicly uanspired." The Princess Arlo VITA and the Duchess of GLOU. =MLR are still at Leamington. They regularly drink the mineral waters, and walk out early every morning in the public walks. The Spa is very full of fashionable company. The Duchess Dowager of RUTLAND and Lord FOR. assrsa are expected this week at Leamington Spa. i i C. y I`i r' "i 7.;