Star. — London, England, 1823-01-11 00:00:00

• • < • ••1 Tli I KirgIANG STAR. :` LON N. SATURDAY, JANUARY .11..1823. ?TIE FUNDS. ' VOCE REM OMR, HALF-PAST TWELVE. ' in trideitil part of the morning the Market appeared rather gloomy. asid scarcely any business was doing. Consols opened at 801 4, sad, tip to this hour, the Market remains steady at the abi4e price. An Express from Paris this morning has brought •tha Fitilsh Funds of Thursday at 87f. sc. printed price, but they left air at 87f. 20c. FOREIGN M.% RIIRT. The most business done this morning was in Spanish and Co lombian Bonds, but not to vest extent, as the holders are wait ing the issue of the Meeting thll day. New Spanish opened at 44 3, since which they have got better. Current Prices :—Chilian 734 to 74, New Spanish 19i to 50, 01d s to 1110, New Prussian ex. div. Old 851, Russian 81, Danish 89, Neapolitan 77, Colombian GO to 61, Spanish Scrip 151 to 16. PR ICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 24.5 1 A —3 per Ct. Reduced 795/ 8 7 8 S per Cent. Consols 79 1 / 2 79 8 1 A, per Cent. 92 1 / 2 92-4. per Cents. Old, 98 1 / 2 4 per Cents. New 99 1 A - V8 • Bank-Long Annuities 20 3 / 4 7-16 India Bands 4W. 41s.—South Sea Stock 89% Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 19s. 12s. Consols for Account 80 1 / 2 Vs. This . forenoon we received a Dutch Mail with Papers to the 9th inst. The following are extracts:— Si'. PETERSBURG'', DECEMBER 12. The reports of war with the Porte begin again to prevail. Everything will, doubtless, be cleared up when the Emperor retums. His Majesty is expected atWarsaw on the 12th of January. General Langeron, Governor of the Crimea, has received orders to meet the EmperoAither at Verona, or at some place on the 'road, by which his Majesty returns home. He is to make a report to the Emperor, and to receive from him new instructions. The news of the conferring the Order of St. Wladimir on two Bankers,. of the Jewi.h religion, has excited a great sensation here. It is a circumstance of which there is no previous instance. This Order, instituted in memory of the founders of the Christian religion in Russia, is ex clusively a Christian Order. VIENNA, DECEMBER 27. It is here considered as certain that the Margra. viate of Moravia, and the Principalitf,of Austrian bilesia, will be united with the Kingdom of Bohemia, under the same Governor, who will have the title of Captain-General, and that this high dignity is in tended for his Imperial Highness tbeArchdnkeCharles, who was formerly invested with it when . he hid the . Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was to his indafa. tigable exertions that the rapid organization of tifk Battalioni of the Bohemian Legions was owing, which astonished Europe,. and is a proof of the great re sources of the House ofdfisitria *O, ness will reside at .Prague; and. irk the sequel the affairs of that extensive Government will be- rranged immediately between the Captain-General , and the Emperor. It is also affirmed that the Emperor will visit Prague in the ensuing spring, and then visit the anyal Family of Saxony : it is also said his Majesty will go through Silesia to Hungary, and be at Baden in the same season. STOCKHOLM, DECEMBER 24. . - His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to this capital yesterday afternoon, having been absent half a year, and was received in the most distinguished manner. This forenoon we received Papers from Rio de Janeiro to the 27th October.—The Gazette bf Rio is chiefly filled with further accounts of the Proclama tion of the Prince Royal as Emperor of Brazil, and 'with Addresses from various towns on the subject of his assuming that dignity. That from Villa de St. Joao de Principe of the 28th September, urges his Royal Highness to assume the supreme poWer.— " The present circumstances," says the Address, " in which this great, rich, and generous Kingdom of Brazil, is placed, by the threats, deliberations, and proceedings of the Congress at Lisbon, endeavouring I to reduce it under the ancient despotism, and per severing in the . rash project of enslaving it, as is clearly perceived in the expressions in which the Cortes treat as factious and as rebels, the illustrious promoters of its liberty ;—proceedings quite con trary to the thoughts of the generous and good Bra zilians, who never adopted any such idea.. For these and many other reasons, we, as Representa tives of the inhabitants of the districts of the Villa, whose opinions are unanimous, invite and entreat your Royal Highness to be pleased to take upon your self those prerogatives, which may be necessary to promote our tranquillity, and avert the bayonets by which it 'is threatened." The Editor of the Journal called Correio do Rio do Janeiro informs his subscribers in an advertisement, 'that he has received from the Intendant of the Police, by order of the Emperor, a notice, not only to desist from editing that.Joipnal, but also to quit the terri, Tories of Brazil within eight days, where he has re ded years, and has been Editor of the said ..latunia 1 aboin six mouths. •• 0 •4i,.. • • : .0; French Papers of the &It have been received, but bit i f- o dftiffiCate btfrtitertiting. Tuesday everting a grand reception at the residence of the Duke d'OntEAo4. "HA 'Serene Highness received 1 the-Ambassadors and #iiiiiitory plenipotentiary of the Ftireigic Powers„-M. the Archbishops:4v FARO,. ged atimeroirs personigetef disthictiloq t ; - ;, The Journal L'ii.toile says ...04 live Paris is eiclusively occupied respecting the ansvier of the Cortes, and the citti4seintuien etitic.hihekrinih' Government will tome to. riffs -dettyliiieitioe'- - Can now be bo more matter of doubt than the reply of the Spaniard's. The Mini'sten orthe ReeolutiOn have their language as direct as the blissisters of Legiti macy. Tliey are now in the presence of each ether.". A letter from Bayonne, : dated January 2, sap— " The fort of Irati wasebandoned on the 28th ult. by the Defenders of the Faith, for want of provisions. 4 4 War is much spoken of to-day. The order to make the Spaniards retire into the interior is so strict, that it includes even personst who have resided here several years. The accounts from Madrid of the 25th say : I We continue to enjoy perfect tranquillity, and the pacific news which we continue to receive causes the effervescence of the public mind gradually to sub side ; its efforts have even been felt in the Lancia burian Club, where, mention being made of the critical situation in which the Ministers are placed. a pomious enlogium was passed on them, and it was even confessed that they had surpassed the hopes of all good Spaniards. They were only blamed for the favour they have shewn to some Journalists who have flattered them, while they have taken for their enemies, others that have dated to point out their faults. This alteration shews, that at the first signal of a foreign invasion, :the whole of the Constitutional party would blend together, which wonld suffice to raise the nation in a mass. Up to the 25th, our Mi. nistry.bad received nu official communication from foreign Powers; and hitherto all the steps taken by a foreign Ambassador, to pave the way for the pretensions of his Government, have been ineffeca tual. No foreign interference, no modifications in the Constitution! The' Constitution or death, and war with the whole world, if we are provoked.' " These are the expressions which pass from mouth to mouth. Even should the Spaniards see .the.Eog list remain tenter in case of aggression, .which does not seem very probable at present, we may be as. I sured that they uvula not yield to the threats of France, nor to the whole of the Holy Allisincak:• id tie Neapolitan General Nl*, who • caowfrout London solely to offer his services to Spain in it should'be attacked, has set out for Lisbon, but will not yet leave the Peninsula. Colonel Piia, hit A t idei:de-camp, remains at Madrid-. Au• the accounts from thit provinies respecting tie Municipalities spew that the Li.; berids have -every where triumphed, which Will Much tend to ccinsaidiiitbe syltem." Ezirtierbt ilptokfitcno,, it# Officer in the squailron acting in the , Mediterranean* • , - "The Turki'latiriAlnly deK ree ebarmilseration, for at this time in the Morta they 'are greegy ie want of provisions, a pound of bread, if to b e sells fel' half a dollar. . , 4 We, having settled our !miten about the neu trality, as also of their firing into the Cbanticleer . • returned on board, and the Turks Yetired to. their castle of Ogia, now in a miserable state, garrisoned by only 400 Turks. " The cause of the Turks in the Morea is very un favourable, all their troops being in the city of Co rinth, about ninety miles distant from us, surrounded by the Greeks, and in the greatest distress for provi-' sions, of which the Greeks have an abundant supply. Acts of the greatest cruelty are constantly practised: not long since, four Greeks had each a stake driven through his body ; they lingered four days ! For this, as many Turks were instantly served the same. Co rinth is surrounded by dead bodies, in every state of putrefaction, from the one that fell yesterday, to the first at the commencement of the warfare. " Twenty thousand Turks are now in Albania to force the Isthmus of Corinth, which is strongly guarded by the Greeks ; should they succeed, the carnage will be dreadful. We arrived at Coron in the night, and %vent on shore in .the morning to witness most appalling sights; of 2000 houses, not one was left standing ; what has become of the unfortunate inhabitants, it is impossi ble to say—some to slavery—some massacred— others doomed to worse than death ; this is the fourth town I have been in where destructilini is, perceivable at every footstep. " On the Ist of November the Captain bid.an terview with the Bey, and delivered his letters' Irani Sir Thomas Maitland, demanding ;a dumber of 01- rates who had been pillaging and murdering: The Vey ; replied, he was quite indignant at the sultjec.t, indeed his men were so divided, and killed ,by.the G s i t eki in ambush, that he could scarcely account fotbis men. If upon inquiry it was the case, they shohld be punished, and .restitution mi.de ; but be woulti:riiit consent to give them up. Ite.inquired if any of die British subjects were to commit acts of piracy, whe-; ther the King of England would deliver thernlssiiNal- Upon being answered in the negative, he said; how can you expect the Porte will deliver these men up to You?' If the crime is proved, they shall be. punirhcd.ffir tirit bteade of Ale lbws of 'swims by oaf ma i lam', During this saiflistuehi service Liver of -our, men were placed arottrid rawful of an ampetopmattack frop the-Qteeks .t So succeed in Ois ut itiope,==iise tit be fore ell4'ialiecf slit 'iliiincieh n t‘v s 6;. the they were•kber front 044 - Cistle• 1191 log this aff air , .1i; • •a ll 'camp t atr, t y denyin g knowledge of the boldness, we hae returned-toCbtite ,. - It has for some time back been a . ititiect .of just' reproach on the'British GOvernment that 'the interesti of Commerce have been grossly neglected, and the just remonstrances of 13rit4h Merchants been denied that respect and attentiOn,to which they were entitled. Britain; possessing a Navy amply snlficient to protect het timmerce in every quarter of the world, and to' every quarter of the globe it extends has seen that Commerce at the mercy of a few pirates, who com. mit their depredations with impunity. and to an ex tent that has become , quite alarming to those who are concerned. • • Our . Ministers are stated to have remonstrated with the Spanish Government on this subject ; and some satisfactory arrangement was expected to take place., It is not, however, against Spanish pirates, but also against Spanish Generals, in South America, that our Merchants have canse of complaint. A letter from Kingston, in Jamaica, of November 18, comments with strong, and, if the allegations are correct, with just indignation on the recent con duct of MORALES, the Spanish General, at the taking of Maracaibo, a port on the Spanish Main, belonging to the Republic of Colombia. This place had been fixed on by the foreign Merchants in general, but particularly the English, as a magazine for the deposit of goods, suited to the traffic with •the in terior, which was expected to be very considerable. It appears that, at the period of the capture, which took place early in September, the English Mer chants resident in Maracaibo made application to the Spanish Commander to learn what course of ' proceeding was meditated with respect to them, and received, through the medium of the Captain of a British frigate, then in the port, general assurances that they would not be molested.— Soon after he was fully established in the possession of the place, MORALES, whose chief object in the whole expedition seems to have been plunder, sub jected. them to frequent annoyances, and at length, on some vague pretence or .a violation of his blockade of the coast by a British merchant vessel, confiscated and seized upon the. whole of their property, and ordered them to leave Maracaibo immediately. This arbitrary command.was carried into effect, and the greater part of the English. merchants settled there, or consignee's for mercantile, houses in this country; with their families, had arrived in Kingston. A warm remonstrance un this subject will be presented, we understand, to the British Government ; and we trust that it will• meet with more attention than the memorials of British merchants have recently lone. • While on this strbjea; we may notice that the Eng lish, fitru of Beoweand Co. at Valparaiso, have ad. dressed a. Memotial in behalf of the English mer chants to the Government of Chili, remonstrating against a Decree passed in August last, by which a considerable alteration was made in the scale of duties and regulations applicable to foreign trade. The Me morial refers to a Decree, dated Sept. 30, 1820, and published in the Government Gazette of the 9th Octo ber following, for regulating free warehouses, and fixing the duties on foreign merchandise imported. In this Decree it was declared that no change or augmentation should be made in She import duties, or at least should not have effect until after six months notice, reckoning from the date of the publication of any new Decree en the subject. Notwithstanding this declaration, a Decree, dated the 2d of April last, was published, raising the duty on foreiga liquors from 36i to .55 per cent. The - merchants were in clined to consider this as au unintentional oversight ; but the memorialists . observe, that they were filled with alarm when they saw the Decree of the 34,0 f August last, published in the Ministerial Gazette of the 7th of that month. This Decree contained a sudden and total repeal of the existing laws. It ordered the embarkation of all the goods then in Valparaiso, or the full payment of the import duties before the Ist of October. This decree the merchants could not but consider a breach of faith. The Memorialists therefore remonstrate very strongly against it, and point out the injustice, which is done to individuals who had been induced to bring their property from England under a reliance on the protection which the Decree of Sept. 1820, appeared to afford them. They state, that cargoes of merchandise often arrive at Valparaiso, which either are intended to be sent to some other port, of for which there is at the time no vent in Chili, in consequence of the mat ket being overstocked. Great hardship must, therefore, be experienced if the import duties are to be paid on these cargoes, instead of allowing them ,to be warehoused until a market be found in. Chili, or;the goods be reshipped for another port. The Memorial finally states, that the English mer chants of Chili had, ib full confidence of receiving the notice stipulated in tiii.Dcree of the Spzh of Sep. tember, 180, continued, as usual, to order goods froinn England, Add thus t—" Undo': this confidence our rrinnds' in LOndori hniO,.shif•pcd .on board of various vessels , .liquors ancLodierststiclOsn -distreonsigned 'dug; the acriral of Aiitith 4 resseluat Vilpaiaitois daily eiftcteti;'we - therciot4"prAy Um; Tour Excellency will. be pleatesl i to order the Officers of the Custom-house of Valpeiaiso to admit the said liquors • and other goods for the consumption of the c4untry, under the condition and regulations con tidned in the said Decree of September SO, HMO." ' We have received no account nftisetilivision - aftMe: Government Cbilrisiiitis Fel itirt if the new.Govectirnents sOiltli AineriaViitela te b e reeegnieetii,bits;roireass Pewee, they must be guilty of ivcb iflAKoir,* ;On* to have bate pretties& in thisinstisears h v . . •In , • t Private accounts : from Bright f* thit his MAJOSTY b*4l* fr esh •atiaeli of .the rowe l' Wednesday, attended • .wiib creased considerably in the course 'of the ftillowiag day, so much so, indeed, that his MAJESTY was eau; fined to his bed. Thii circumstance is . Said to have been very studiously concealed at the Pavilion. • The Brighton Papers received this .moraing ere wholly silent on the subject of the Ktxu'sindisposition. The Baroness HA NSTINe, one of the Ladies in at tendance on the Duchess of CLARENcE, has been on a visit to the Duchess of KENT during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE to the Kim at Brighton. The Baroness accompanied Ole Duchess of KENT to Covent-Garden Theatre on Wednesday eveninl. On Thursday MOrning the Barone ss re . turne to BashfPark, to meet tbe Duke and Duchess on their return from Brighton, and wat .honoured with the company of the Duchess of Kate?. Her Royal Highness returned to the King's Palace at Kensington in the evening. Extract of a letter from Shrewsbury, dated Jan. 9: ' 4 An interesting, orrather a novel scene preNented itself to the inhabitants of Shrewsbury a •few• days ago. Mr. PELHAM, who has just been returned Member for the County, was seen arm-in-aim with Mr. HILL, the Tory Member, and Mr. LLOYD, of Aston, the Whig candidacy., who declined in favour of the foriner. , As Mr. Psumst has never yet de clared publicly his political opinions, some o ill have it that he is inclined most to Mr. Hem and thetefore must be a Tory; others conceited that he was most attentive to Mr. LLOYD, and thereret* : giscbe a Whig : from such slight circeemstaacektis,commen politeness was it endeavoured to ascertiiss.dwpoli: . tical creed of our new Member. The , genus l opit nion is that his pdlitics are uncertain." , We understand that Mr. Bscictibust, vibio, pro tempore filled the situation Of . VNLVEU Sec,tutwAny of STAYS at the Foreign-Office, clueing Leird -CLAN. WILLIAM'S absence at the Congress bF Verona, is to proceed to India With Lord ‘kitt the pre , sent we believe LOrdCl.Afittlikte retires to privet life, the Hon. Mr. Hat., Our. gistiny at Turin, hating declined to accept .Of the situation .Whiat has bees bestowed , on Lordf stA NCIS CONTSGISAM *Whiten being no appointitent helongingto tfie Foreign DO; partment, in con-equence of that reftP7al, imatedlatcif vacant which would suit his Lordship. The Right Honourable' the Loup MAYOR and tt•• mil y left town yesterday- evening for •South Mimms; his stay:willbe but short, as on Monday he intent to rein n. • bit.lllY-LANE TIIIIATRE•r•MaCbegh was repcatci last night to a well tilled House, and went off. with admirable spirit. The united efforts of Tomei) and Mrs. West called forth frequent and warm "applause. The Pantomime followed, and it , tricks were gem• rally successful, and provocative of laughter. COVENT-GARDEN.—The Opera of Artaxerxes WIN performed last night at this Theatre, for the second time this season, when Miss PATON again sustained the character of lklandatte. She sang with much spirit and sweetness, and many of her songs were loudly applauded. After the Opera, the Farce of London Stars was introduced, in Which YATES gave many of his imitations in a most excellent manner. Commit personated the Irishman to life, and kept the audience in continual laughter. The amusements of the evening concluded With the Pantomime. nie House was very well attended. In a recent number (says the Drapeau Diane/ WO announced the death of the regicide Monnel. We have just received a Copy of the recantation which he made before he expired. This document; which it is gratifying to us to publish, bears every character , of authenticity. The bitter repentance which it ma nifests will be a motive of consolation to the friends of religion and legitimacy : " The undersigned, S. E. Mennel, Priest, and ler metly Curate of Valdelancourt, in the diocess of Langres, at present at Constance (Switzerland), -deg dares that he retracts all that he has committed by example or precept, either in a public or a private manner, contrary to the Catholic, Apostolic, and Ito. man Religion, in the pale of which he desires to die; praying his former parishioners, especially, to par don the scandalous actions of which he may have been gnilty ; heTurther declares, that he is impressed with the most poignant sorrow, and sincere re. pentarice, for having voted the death of the King, !Louis XVI. that he humbly implores Goo, who is fall of goodness, to judge him, nut in justice but in mercy, which is infinite, in whom be places all con fidence: pp Do)t-Apo's liorryins FROM Sr* attention of the Public as the present crisis, it appears, would be well bestowed on a careful petusal of these Les ters ; " the met it of which," says the Menaly RE' view, " consists, not merely in given an accurate and entertaining account of Modern Spanish, I.lk and !Manners, but they call for our attention is a mos* important point of view, as exhibiting.a vigorous no masterly sketch of the moral and yoliticarstate pf ,Spain, previously to its late regenelatinu.; aF the same, time, affording us such an insight, intq Spanish Chat acter, as may assist.us in errapinjng 0 . 0 causes which have led to that great event , Fm A:of t:Lining the probability of the success.od st4bility,9l the new system. Prom the Volupie behreusoutm ' belle's instances might be collected of' the shamefo 'and ridiculous t i o li wer which TOM . k."O, the Ptl4esifilr of the Spanish 'vqrnnOt:' • . • • • imtnx .1* tk : triortugg of cdn‘hij sennigpt4.4. broke out in the felituonAery bUildings, Mr. as BUrifOt A pt ralb r o+k a 1%3141 ; Aktal . 4 •• 4 • 'S • 4 'tgr e alc = 4 'T 5 1 019iAr !heti 3-cF9'l'fiffailltPAt tion orzi stock iousuifia. 7:4 ll_