Star. — London, England, 1822-12-04 00:00:00

i The Duke of Norfolk The fluke of Northumberland The Dokt of Devonshire The Dlarquis of Htrt ford The Marquis of Anglesey • The Earl of Egremont sl A SERMON will be preached on SUNDAY, NEXT, at St. ANNE'S, SOHO, By the Rev. H. G. WHITE, A.M. Curate of Allhallows Barking; Afternoon Lecturer of St. Mary, Rotherhithe; and Evening Preacher at the Asylum for:. Fe male Orphans; for the Benefit of THE ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR CURING DISEASES OF TILE EAR., Dranoetreet, Soho-square. PATRONS, The RINO% MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, His Royal Iligimess the Duke of YORK, • And his Royal Ifighnhas the Duke of CUMBERLAND. PARSIDENT, The Most Noble Marquis CAMDEN, K.G. . VICE-PR ausr.rs, The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Chi4hester Sir Samuel Shepherd -tdar Sir William Adams Geo. Watson Taylor, F.sq. !11. P. Wilbraham F.gerton, Esq. M.P. The Earl of AZhburnham MatthewWor;cl,l , lsq.. The Earl Fitzwilham I Samuel iftlith, Esq. M.P. The Right Tion. N. Vansittart Wm. BPhington, M.D. F.R.S. Viscount Dudley and Ward I Henry Cline, Bs+ F. R.S. Consulting Physician—JOHN SIMS, M.D. F.R.S. Surgeon—J. 11. CURTIS, Es q. F.M.S. Attrist to his Majesty. Treasurer—SV I LLI A M COB BE, Esq. Hon. Secretary—Mr. W II IT I NG. _ Collector..—Mr. DAMES. :since the F.stablishment of the Charity in 1816, upwards of 3750 Patients, afflicted with Deafness and other •Diseases of the I.:r, hare been received, the greater number of wbom•have been cured or relieved. and thereby rendered capable of follow ing their various employments, to which before many were incompetent. Cases of Accident, and also Cases of Deaf and Dumb, are admitted without Letters of Recommendation. The Benevolent views of the Charity are not confined to the Inhabitants of the Metropolis, but extend to every Individual. livery Subscriber of One Guinea per Annum, is entitled to one P..tient :sways on the Books; Two Guineas entitles to two Patients, and so in proportion; Ten Guineas constitutes a Life Governor. Such Patients as require it, are gratuitously supplied with Acoustic Instruments. Subscriptions are received at the Banking-house of Sir Wil lima Curtis, Bart. and Co. Lombard-street; Messrs. Barclay and Co. Lombard-street; Messrs. Birch and Chambers, Bond street ; NV. F.sq. No. 51, Regent-street, Piccadilly ; and by John Harrison Curtis, Esq. Surgeon to the Institution, N 0.2, Suho-square, of whom particulars may he obtained. g!, - .• Divine Service will begin at Eleven &Clock. NEXT FRIDAY. CARROLL informs his Friends and the Public, that the Tickets have greatly increased in value after each day of Drawing; for although THREE DAY% are over, NO Pli I ZF. above £2,000 has yet been Drawn. NEXT FRIDAY, 6th December, is the Fourth Day, when a very large proportion of the ONE HUNDRED and SEVEN CAPITALS now in the Wheel, will, in all probability, br decided, as a great number of Tickets 'Altar be Drawn on that Day. • The following Capitals are ALL FLOATING in the Wheel, viz. S ...of ... £20,000 I 8 ...of £l,OOO 2 10,000 I 19 2 5,000 l7 • 2 2,000 , 54 Tickets and Shares are Selling in great variety, warranted Undrawn, at CA ItROLL's truly Fortunate Offices, 19, Corn hill, and 96, Oxford-street, where he has recently sold FIVE PRIZES of £30,000 and FIVE of 4'20,000. FRENCH PAPERS. • PARIS, DECEMBER 1. According to the letters received from different commercial towns, the fear of war paralyses all busi- ness. The Duke of ;Wellington is expected at Paris immediately. It is believed he will pass through in a few days. The total destruction of the Army of the Faith ; the preparations making for the concentration of mi litary forces on the Fiench frontier; the reception which one of the leaders of* the Spanish insurrection has experienced in France; the fall of the funds ; the rapid rise in the price of maritime insurances, which certain Englishmen have monopolized in the French ports; the unloading of many vessels which were about to set sail ; the menacing tone of the journals which are understood to possess a semi-official character; the silence which is observed respecting M. Ouvrard's loan, the pretence of which is doubtless considered, henceforward, unnecessary ; the Councils that have been held at the house of the Minister of War; the orders which have been issued for a levy of forty I thousand men ; finally, the natural force of things, and the necessary progression in the development of patties, which we have observed during two years, always gives the advantage to the most violent coun sels ;—all these are facts which it is our duty to state, and leave to the consi.leration of onr Readers. The arrival of the Minister of War, without doubt can furnish an explanation of them, and the same circum stance will be followed by a consequence which we can anticipate, but dare not foretel.—Jcurnal de Paris. We have received the following letter, dated Foix, November 25:—" We are in the, most dteadful con fusion here, and the reports from the frontiers of Ar ragon succeed each other with so much rapidity, that it is impossible to state them all ; for during three days couriers have crossed one another in every direc tion, and at all hours of the day. The remains of the Army of the Faith hiving no longer any point of concentration on the frontiers, have entered this de partment by every road. Llivia was evacuated on the gist of this month ; the members of the Regency, the Generals, and other Officers, have all taken refuge in the French territory. Many bands of fugitives have already arrived at Foix, and are about to proceed to Giions, where another band of 100 men arrived last night, escorting ninety Constitutionalist prisoners, who have been on the frontiers during twenty days. These are the prisoners whom the inhabitants of the French frontiers have for some time desired to deliver up ; they have now been set at liberty by the orders of Government. The soldiers of the Faith vTho have' fled into our territory, appear to direct themselves upon Arragon, by proceeding round this department, but it is probable that they will not again leave France, for a courier who arrived this evening from St. Girons has brought intelligence that Baron d'Eroles had fled to Saint Beat, a French commune in the department of Haute Garonne, which communicates with Arra gon by the valley of Aran. In a few hours we shall have here the Marquis de Mataflorida, the Bishop of Urgel, and all the Staff of the Army of the Faith, together with a battalion of Monks. Mina has en tered Urgel and Puycerda, where great rejoicings took place upon his arrival. 46 P.S.—We have heard that last night an affair took place at Hospitalet, the last French village on • the frontiers ; and we hear at intervals the report of artillery, which reverberate in the mountains. Two couriers have just arrived, and all the troops in the town and the villages of the Canton are ordered to march immediately. Some personi assert that an , gagerneilt 'has taken place befweett Mitta's troops an. the Ftench cordon, who endeissonted to protect the, bands of the soldiers of the Nith; *others, en the co' n- Itvary, say that the French soldiers fired upon those of the Faith, because they attempted to pass into France with their arms."—Courier Francais. An individual who left Seo d'Urgel oti the 19th, informs es that upwards of 200 men had been em ployei for many days in digging new fosses round the fortress. The Minister of War, who did not pro ceed with the Regency to Puycerda, has set o u t. t o rejoin it; the state of his health alone detained the Marquis di Mataflorida at tlivia : the Regency con tinues at Puycerda. Perfect tranquillity exists at Urgel ; the inhabitants are full of hope, and are far from dreading an attack on the part of the Constitu tionalists. The task of defending the town might be left to themselves. After the last engagement, which took place near Concre du Trempe, Baron d'Eroles retired upon Geri, and Romagosa upon Guardia; his troops fought with great bravery. The enemy sent some of his forces .forward as far as Ortogueda, but he was obliged to retire on Pablo de Segur. The Royalist troops, after having been attacked near Ripol, were compelled to retreat to Ortogirenza. Mina has gained all these advantages by his trout) delite. Damon d'Eroles has passed Mina's line, and the latter Gene ral is retreating, which he has been induced to do by the Royalist insurrection which has broken out at Sa ragossa. This event must be very favourable to the operations of the Baron d'Eroles.—L'Echo du Midi. The Royalists who fled from Catalonia took refuge in the province of Calatayud. Calatayud, however, was soon fortified ; and on the 15th the Political Chief made a sortie on the rebels, and drove them be fore him as far as Almeria. Enraged at being thus shamefully defeated at every point, these wretches who pretend to fight in the name of religion, were base enough to tear the remains of the Deputy An tillon from the grave in which they were deposited in the burying ground of St. Eulalia. General Torrijos entered Pampelima on the 20th, and wks received most enthusiastically. The funeral of the Duke de Fernan Nunez, late Ambassador from Spain to the Court of France, took plate yesterday morning. The corpse was interred in the Church of Notre Dame de Lorene, Faubourg Montmartre. The procession was composed of fifteen mourning coaches and a considerable number of car riages, containing all the Ambassadors and Ministers of Foreign Powers, as well as of the former Ambas sadors from Spain to the Court of France, and many of the countrymen of the deceased, amongst whom were Prince Massenano, Duke de Berwick, Count Torreno, &c. _ _ The trial of the persons accused of sending threat ening letters to the Jury who tried General Berton, was finished on Saturday. One was acquitted ; and of the two found guilty, one was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 100 francs I the other to six months' imprisonment and 300 francs fine. ROME, NOVEMBER 16. As we foresaw, the sojourn of the King of Prussia will be short. The departure of him and the Princess is announced for Thursday next. The weather has been unfavourable to the excursions of the august vi sitors. However, his Cicerone, the celebrated Mr. Humboldt, has so well distributed the time, that in the course of eleven days his Majesty has seen every thing worth seeing. ' The interview of his Holiness with the King, has given rise to many observations, on account of the difference of religion between the two Sovereigns.— Etiquette has been strictly adhered to, but the mutual testimonies of respect and affection which they gave to each other, have proved that his Holiness continues to hold that high opinion of his Majesty, which he ex pressed in a Consistory held on the subject of the be nefits conferred by his Prussian Majesty on the Ca . tholics of his kingdom. As his Holiness was conducting his Majesty to his saloon, he was heard again to recommend the Prus sian Catholics to his care. The rigid incognito of the King prevents the dis play of public fetes. The cupola of Saint Peter's, and the Girandola, only have been magnificently illuminated. • ..,an troops attil the Italian Govetnineet cne execution confided to the Austrian military. gi The exchange of couriers between Verona and the principal capitals of Europe is very frequent ;--. several have lately arrived from Paris. The Duke or Wellington is frequently seen walking in our streets in the morning with Prince Metternich. Otherwise the Noble Lord lives very retired, and rarely appears even at the Ministerial conferences. His health con stantly demands the greatest care. Lord Clanwil liam, in all the diplomatic discussions, has the office of delivering the sentiments of Great Britain."— Courier Fraarnit. THE EN! NG STAR. CRACOVIA, NOVEMBER 10. According to orders of the Government, our Free Masons Lodge is shut up. It has terminated its existence by a noble act : it gave the Senate the sum of 1,600 Polish florins, with the request that the Se nate - mould employ it in acts of benevolence. The Gazette de France gives the following extract from a letter from Vienna, dated 20th of November: " We hear from Verona that the Palaces occupied by the Allied Sovereigns have been hired for four weeks beyond the period for which they were originally en. gaged. This circumstance, viewed in connection with several subsequent arrangements, affords ground for believing that Verona will continue for some time longer to be the central point of the important dis cussions which havebeen the object of the assembling lof the principal European Cabinets. The influx of strangers of every rank and country has continued ever since the impediments which were opposed to a residence in Verona were in a great part removed." The Quolidienne contains the following paragraph under the bead of Vienna:—" Letters from Italy state positively that the Greek Deputies have failed in the object of their mission. No alteration will take place in arrangements which have been determined upon between Russia and England, relative to the affairs of Turkey. It is supposed that most of the Plenipo tentiaries will remain at Verona during the winter.— AU the lodgings are engaged up to March." EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. 44 We are assured, at least, according to the wish I formally expressed by Prince Metternich, that it is agreed on to allow Piedmont and Naples to remain' occupied by the Austrian troops, to the time, yet undetermined, of the meeting of some future Congress, when the necessity of a longer occupation w►ll be again discussed. The motive for this determination is said to be the enhtusiasm in the interior of Italy,land the intriguer of the formidable sect of the Carbonari, and the collection of a great number of Piedmontese and Neapolitan fugitives in Spain. The means also have been discussed of destroying individually all the Carbonari in the different prov►nces of Italy ; but it seems that measures to be taken on this point will not occasion a declaration horn the Congress. They are to be concerted between the Chiefs of the different LON DON. WEDNESIMY, DECEMBER 4, 1822. TILE FUNDS. STOCK EXCIIANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The above Market opened this morning at 79/ 80, and seve ral good buyers appeared in the market ; but the sellers were so numerous that Consols fell to 791 ; and;up to this hour, they are 781 1, with a heavy market. Early this morning an Ex press arrived from Paris, which left on Monday afternoon, bringing the French Funds 87f. we. for money, and for the end of the month 87f. 45c. Spanish 55/ to 1, Neapolitan 75. FOREIGN rtrwas. In the early part of this morning Ne* Spanish Bonds opened at 59. i, since which they have fallen to sli. Very little business has been dons except in these Bonds, and that mostly for money. Current Prices :—Chilian 78, New Spanish 51 i, Old 60, New Prussian 86, Old 86, •Russian 84, Danish 89, Neapolitan 76, co -lombian74, Peruvian 79, New Spanish Scrip 12i dis. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 248%.-3 per Cent. Red. 78 5 / 8 78 2 per Cent. Consols, shut-3% per Cent. 90% sA 4 per Cent. 96 % 97 96 96% 4 per Cent. New, shut Bank Long Annuities 20 1-16 19 15.16 Imperial 3 per Cents. 77 3 / 4 India Stock, shut—Bonds 30s. 28s. Ezch. Bills (EI ,000) 2s. Is. pr.—Small par, 4s. pr. Consols for Acct. 79% 3'B % 78% 79%. Although we hare had further arrivals from France, yet we have no intelligence of a later date than that which we were yesterday enabled, by an express from Pads, to communicate to our Readers. In the preceding columns we give extracts from such of the French Papers of Sunday as had not previously reached us. •The warlike article in the Moniteur, which we inserted and commented upon yesterday, has excited great alarm in France, where a war with Spain is highly unpopular. The letters from the dif ferent•commercial towns describe every kind of spe culation as quite paralyzed by the fear of war: the Stocks fall in the capital, where a general gloom per vades, and everything indicates what a hazardous ex periment Ministers will make, if they have the folly and wickedness to make war on unoffending Spain. It will be a war in which success can bring no honour or advantage to France, and in which defeat will be ruinous—a war undertaken without provocation, and even without an object. The pretence is, that the state of Spain threatens France. Nothing can be more false. Spain never, for a moment, contemplated any attack on France, or any interference with her ; and, as for the spread of liberal, or,.as the French Go vernment may call them, revolutionary principles, why it 'is notorious that they are even more general and more violent in France than in Spain. No Spa niard thinks of deposing his Sovereign, or changing the succession to the Throne; while, in France, the ,Ministers are almost every month sending men to the guillotine for conspiracies, which have for their object the overturning the Government, and calling another family to the Throne. Nothing can exceed the temper and moderation of the Spanish Government since it has been rege nerated ; it has not attempted to cement its power by the blood of victims, as France has done ; and notwithstanding a foul conspiracy has been formed against it, yet few have suffered, except in the field : And as to its Conduct towards France, the Spanish Government has not offered the slightest menace or molestation to that Power, but, on the contrary, has borne gross insults and hostile provocations. France has, for the last twelve months, kindled and kept alive the insurrection in the frontier Spanish pro vinces ; and now that the insurrection is nearly put down, and Spain might justly look forward to that repose which is so desirable for consolidating her political institutions, France seeks to enlist all Eu rope to make war upon her. Talk of BONAPARTE'S invasion of Spain—why it was not more atrocious, or more unprovoked ; and its criminal audacity was less revolting than the base cant of the French Government. But will France really go to war with Spain ? After all her menaces and preparations, it is difficult to conceive how she can avoid it ; and yet the event is not quite certain. France has obtained what it WAS ridiculous to a,lc-Lpermission to go to war or not ; and the Allies, who impiously arrogate the title of Holy, have, it is said, expressed an intention of concurring in it : but how, or in what manner, is not stated. Suppose Russia to send her half-civilized legions, Austria to furnish an army of hirelings, and Prussia to supply a few regiments of living automata to aid France in the infamous crusade, all these troops must be paid and supported by France, for we will ♦enture to say not a single regiment will be sufeied to march from any of these Powers without an en gagement to this purpose. Indeed none of these Powers (Prussia, perhaps, excepted) possess the finan _gal means if carrying on an offensive and distant war without money. On air former occasions Enz. land was the Power that furnished those sinews of war—money in loans and subsidies. France neither posiesses the power to do i:, nor would the pe o ,,i e make the sacrifice. The case of N.iples and Pied. mont may, perhaps, be cited as an instance, but here Austria, dreading the loss of her usurpations in Italy, marched her armies at once to occupy these coup. tries, which could be done at little expense, and we are not sure that she does not look forward to one day adding Piedmont to her Italian ter: itocies. That the Holy Allies should sanction a war oft Spain Kill excite little surprise in :those who re. collect how many acts of injustice they have cons. mitted or tolerated : lod we should not be snrpri,ed to learn that a secret treaty has been entered into for new aggressions. The acquiescence of Russia in any attack on Spain, however unprincipled, might bz purchased by France allowing that Power to take advantage of the late exterminating war between tile Greeks and Turks, and seizing the bone of Lion. The consent of Austi is to both these acts r‘i aggression would easily be obtained by adding a f ew German leagues of territory to her Hungarian f!or l . tier. As to Prussia, we do not see so clearly fow she can be served, unless by allowing her to swall ow up some of the minor German States, for in this wo r ld it too often happens, as I-lUDIBRAS says, that— Little rogues submit to fate, That great ones may enjoy the world in state!" But should France declare open war against Spain, the probabilities of success are not very great. 11:e Spaniards are a brave people, and great occasions have always roused them to great exertions. Inde pendent of the feeling which so unjust an. attack on their liberties is calculated to provoke, they cannot have forgotten the former invasion of Spain, the de struction of their cities, and the massacres at .lladri,i by the French troops. So far as we can learn lions the last Madrid Papers, which are to the 23d tilt. though Spain will do nothing to provoke a m ar t yet she is not unprepared for resistance, but wi:l struggle, and struggle hard too, for her liberty. The Universel of the 22d ult. alluding to the t elm t of war, says—" If Europe wish to ensure her o: - ..n.i:141 our tranquillity, let her respect our rights as we e spect hers:* if it is wished that the Spanish Revolution should nut overstep the boundaries which it has sworn to maintain, let not the Spanish People be irtitatt.4 by scandalous acts of injustice ; let not their national pride be wounded, by requiring that. they should act a disgraceful part, unworthy of an indepen dent nation. For two years the Austrians have occupied the kingd )1:1 of Naples—they are there yet, and cannot venture to abandon their pest.— Rut what would be the consequence, were foreign troops to presume to invade. Spain, in order to com pel the Spaniards tc accept a Government which they do not approve? It would be necessary to sta tion a sentinel at everydoor, and even that would he insufficient. Those very individuals who are now destroying their countrt, to open the road for foreign troops, would then be the greatest enemies of the in vaders; and the Peninsula, which is now the cause of so much anxiety to the great Potentates of Europe, would be for years and years the terror of foreign despots, and would ultimately effect their annihila lation. M. de PRADT has said, and we agree with him If war be declared against Spain, we shall hear the first cannon, but the child yet uteborn will not hear the last." The Espectador, another Madrid journal of the same date, after charging the French Government with supplying the insurgents with money and arras, and secretly keeping up a civil war, while the official correspondence with the Cabinet of Madrid breathed nothing but peace and good faith, the Spanish jrmr nalist thus very briefly but pithily notices the ix,inte recommended to be made on Madrid—" These folks (says a celebrated man, speaking of the Ultras) learned nothing, and have forgotten nothing. It scan; they do not yet sufficiently understand how dread the people of Spain have for such poiaes. however, they wish to know it, let them ascend the Pyrennees, and take a view of Spain. The unburied bones of five hundred thousand Frenchmen will au* swer the question." The chargé against France of assisting the Spanish Insurgents is well founded, and we are even assured, by a private letter from Paris, that the loan of 20 millions of francs, negotiated for the Rebel Regency. has been furnished by the French Government, which has fallen on this way of openly assisting the factious of Spain. A circumstance tending to support thi. opinion is, that within these few days the bills of the frontier towns of Spain have been much in reques:. and that considerable remittances have been made to those towns from Paris. We have not yet alluded to the part this country may be expected to take. It is difficult to sullr'e that we can look tamely on, and, after rescuing Sp•lia from the usurpation of BONAPARTE, permit het to be trampled upon by Louts X.VIII. Spain is au 01 , 1 and faithful ally; and there never, perhaps, was A ,time in which a closer connection could be mere vantageously formed for this country than at piefew. The private letters of the 22d ult. fvom 'Ma 3 "' state with much confidence that, durini: a secret si!- tint; of the Cortes, held on the 16th, authority given to the Government to enter into :a connnerc;al treaty with England, of the most fa'rou rabie native • ' conferring pi ivileges not before gra' ttej to