Star. — London, England, 1817-09-23 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. 1 (; N. TUES!' Y. SEi'TENIBER 23, 1817. PRICL 5" I (ICI.: 'MIS 15/ 5 1 A 1"I'W EINE O'CLOCK Reduced shut—Consols. holt —Do. f^r f ict 4 per Cent shut—Navy. 106/; —India Bondooothing done. Bank Long Anno.shut—Exchrquer 2.24. to 275. pr. The Paris l'ap. rs of Saturday arrived this morning. The Electi , ns were. to commence on Saturday, and it will he several clays before they are completed. Although oily one-fifth of the Chamber is to be completed, an extraordinary importance seems to be attach( d to the choice of Member:. All the Journals teem w•i:h articles impressing most earnestly on the Elect.irs, that according as their choice may be, it will render the present period either most fatal or most salutary to tl e welfare of their country. A certain list of " Candidates preser.ti:d to the Electors of the Department of the Seine by the Friends of Legitimacy," having been im!ustriously circulated in Paris, as proceeding from the Etat-Major of the National Guard, Marshal OCDINOT, the Commander in-Chief, has issued an Order of the Day, in which he warns them not to suffer themselves to be ensnared by such a manceuvre, and trusts that they will sub mit to no or b dictation but what a love for their Country and thrir King inspires. Among the- ittdi • viduals mentioned as most likely to unite 'majority of suffrages, is the celebrated Larayerrit. Frans an article, which has alt the semblance of coming from authority, we are glad to perceive that the Projet of Law, which has been for some time ma-' Luring for improving the condition of the French , Clergy, will not have the effect of adding any thing to the burthens of the people : and yet the .way in which this is to be accomplished, is, we think, of a mature which may well occasion some doubt as to the advantage actually gained by the people. A Royal Ordonnance, it is said, has kept funds in re serve, to encrease those which have been set apart, by law, for the support of the Clergy; which is in other words ta say, (if it is saying any thing) that the King has kept twlic something which the law has not given him, and which something he is going to confer out of his own bounty, on a class of men on whom t , e law has itself not thought proper to bestow it. Now where is the gain to the people here ? Are not the funds alter all, by which this encrease of provisi. , n is to be made to the Clergy, the funds of the people themselves ?—And, is it not a moc kery to tell them that this increase will cost them nothing additional, because, forsooth, his Majesty has managed so adroitly, as to extract the money from them already, without their knowing any thing about it ? A very mockery we certainly do think it ; and yet, after all, the gain may be con• sidered so far on the side of the people, as to justify our being glad enough at the course the affair is taking. since what was abstracted, or reserved, as it is called, so secretly, might for certain have been re tained quite as secretly, and it is always mneh plea santer to be reconciled to a plow lewd, than duped by a concealed extortion. The British, Hanoverian, Danish, and Saxon troops have. since their reviews by the Duke of MILL/sm. 1011. been again dispersed among their several can tonments. Their condition and discipline are praised bythe French Journals. The Due.* returns imme diately from Alsace, where he has reviewed the Au strians, to his head-quarters at Mont St. Martin. The statement which we gave yesterday, that an, Extraordinary Courier had arrived from Rhodes with the judgment pronounced against the assassins of M. FUALDIss, is now contradicted. No such Courier had arrived op to the night of the 19th ; nor is it yet au thentically known what the judgment is. French Funds. with div. from 22d Sept. 66 f. 45 c . DREADFUL VOLCANO. BATAVIA, Maac■ Various letters from Baujoewangie mention. that swards the middle of January, the mountain ldieng, situated at about twenty.four leagues from Baujoe waugie, began to break out and spread fear and de solation over the surrounding country. On the night of the 2343 and 24th of January, there was a great eruption j immure columns of fire and smoke, and inflammable substances, ascended from the -mons tab with a noise similar to that of thunder or oral - ; the earth quaked even as far as Baujoewaugie. prodigious quantity of cinders, earth, and sand, vomited forth by the mountain, soon covered all the ighbouring fields, and utterly destroyed the crops rice, which had before presented the tnost beautiful appearance. The air became so surcharged with clouds ashes and sulphurous smoke, that it was scarcely possible to respite, and for several days afterwards the light of day was scarcely visible at Baujoewangie.- 111 e greater part of the birds of the air have perished, sad along the rivers nothing is to be seen but dead fish floating on the surface of the waters. Enormous blocks of stone, and trees of a prodigious bulk, were p r ecipitated with a fearful crash from the highest mounta ins, and overwhelmed in their course, houses. bridges, and every thing which they encountered. The rivers every where burst their banks, and in • many places rose as high as 14 feet above their ors& nary level. The affrighted inhabitants fled from all parts towards the shore and town of Baujoewaugie, but were st opped at every step in consequence of the • Toa ds being tenderedimpassable by the inuadasieer and the destruction of the bridges. The subsequent news are somewhat more assstieg t the Monnta;n has seated to emit any more fire; but the atmosphere continues darkened with clolds of ashes and smoke, nor have the inundations yet abated. The desolation occasion J thisAlisasuout phenomena is fearful ; and there is 'Lawn to apprehend that it will occasion a great scarcity of provisions. Many people are sul king; under diseases occasioned by the bad quality given to the waters by the ashes, and a general mor tality hat seix:•d the hornet cattle. In the district of Gabang a mountain tumbled down on the 27th of February, and buried eight families who dwelt upon it. A similar event took place in the night of the 4th and sth of March in the district of Talaga, where a number of houses, with. all their inmates, were in like manner overwhelmed in ruin, and not a trace of their existence left. The Mission of the Russian Goneral YERSIOLOFF to the Persian Court, has revived the public attention to a subject ot ten touched upon, though perhaps 'never as yet viewed with all that seriousness which its im. portance demands—we mean the practicability of an overland invasion of our East Indian possessions by same of our great Continental rivals. It is averred as a fact, in the able publication, On the Power of Russia, ascribed to the pen of Sir ROBERT W ILSON, that BONAPAIITS had resolved, in the event of his succeeding in his attempt on Russia, and reducing it to an implicit co-operation in his designs, actually to make the experiment of such an invasion of the Erin; and of the accuracy of this statement we happen to be enabled, by one of our nilitary friends, to furnish %hat must be allowed to be no insignificant corrobo ration—the plan of the expedition itself, as digested by BONAPARTS, and subsequently found among other documents, in the military portfeuille of France. The billowing is a literal translation : MEADS OF PLAN FOR EXPADITIoN AGAINST THE BRIM! POWER IN INDIA. " France, Russia, and Auo Ha, to co operate in the en'erpriae. " franca and Kui►ia i•; canjuncuon to ward. an army of 70,W° men to the banks of the Indut : . . . . • " Austria to allow the French troops to march trough its ter ritories and to assist thar descent down the Danube to the Black Sea: " A ltus.iao Army of 35,000 men to autmble at Ammo; 85,0t/0 of 'tient regolar troops; 1e.t40 Co.sack,: " his army to be conveyed on the Caspian Sea to Astrabad, there to await the arrival of the Prestos Army : " Astrabad to be the rendesvosir of the Cembiurd Armles,the seat or the magazine. military 'torts and previsions, the atn• rral point of the tines of communication between Indo.tan,Frattce, and Russia: " The French Divi•fon of 35,000 me i n to embark in boats on the banks of the Danube, and salt down that river to the sleek seas " On their arrival in the Ersine sea, to proceed in transports seppiied by Russia, across the Dyck Sea, and the sea of Asopls t• agastroc o paw thence up the right bank of the Don to the small Cossack town of Piati•labutoca : " FO MKS the Danube there, and march by land to the yid. Lily of the City of Czaritzin on the right bank of the Volga: " To embark on the Volga anti descend to Attratan: " From Antruan to bail along the Caspian to Astrabad : " Out the 'auction of the French and Itosbians at Astrabad, the combined Army immediaely to begin hs march: " And to proceed by the Cities of Herat, Arab, and Cadabar, to the right bask of the Indus, LINOTU Or TUX MARCU Or TUC IXXWCI ARV " Passage down the Danube - - - 110 days. LINO/II Or TIVI MARCII Or Tar mums AUNT. " From the loom b of the Danube to Taganroe If " From I aganrue :o Pratt-lzbianca - • 40 " From Piau-bbianca to Czari zin • - 4 " From Csaritzin to Astracan - . - 4 " From Astracan to Aurabad . • 10 " From Astrabad to the ku:us - . - 45 • Total, lig days." The PALMS REGENT, it is said, has signified his' intention of appointing an additional number of Naval Officers to be his Royal Highness's Coop, which honour is to be considered a step of promotion in the same way as it is understood in the Army, when aa Officer was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Bute. The Palace Rxerwr's aquatic excursion has made a sea voyage all the rage among the web-footed vi sitors at the watering places on the coast. There were four yachts at Plymouth on Saturday, all fall of fa shionable parties. A boy was yesterday convicted at the Old Bailey, for stealing/mfr. The fowls were afterwards found in Pk -street, and the boy in Dad-lane. The landlord of the sign of the God Moos, in a town in the west of England, has been refuted a li cence by the Magistrates for keeping a tfisertierly hostel The Annual Meeting of Winnstay Agricultural Society took place last week, Sir WATEIN WILLIAMS WYNN, President s S6O sat down to dinner. Forest Fair; annually held in the Forest of Which wood, in Oxfordshire, was held on Wednesday, at which the moil rustic amusements took place. The Duke and Duchess of blAaLsoitovon and Lord Canectuu., were present. The subscription for the relief of the debtors in the old jail of Edinburgh bat fully answered the purpose intended. The subscribers will be gratified to learn that their generosity enabled the Committee on Tues day to throw opal the door of the jail, and liberate every prisoner confined there for debt ; and a small balance still remains, which is to be applied in aid of the families of those most in want. The criminals, 25 in number, were removed to the new jail on Mon- day se'nnight. The two Millvogues, M'Cristal, and Janet Douglas, under sentence of death, were sent to the lock-up-house. A Russian Ma* ScHwaxow was lately made pri soner by one of the wild tribe of the Cements, who did not release him, till they had received a ransom of 10,000 rouble‘ The Emperor .-ALEXANDER con tributed part of the sum. Captain EDWARDS, of the country ship Decals, who arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday, from Bengal, last from St. Helena, with part of the 66th regiment on board, was introduced to BONAPARTE, and stayed two hours with him. He found the Ex-Emperor in a pleasant mood, and took a glass of wine with him _, in the onssarn-roots. Of this _game BERTRAND in. , i. I worms' Captain uwARDS, the Emperor was exceed ingly fond, knocking the balls about by himself all day long. The frame-work sent oat for his habita tion has been cut up for sentry-boxes, sad he still continua, to reside at Loagload. • .'r ler; A p vom oeig of ri •PPS of a DON 711 E ifilMY. Culonel Rakriso arrived in town yesttrday from Cambray. Major FERRARS of the 9th Regiment of Foot was accidentally killed on the 11th instant, by filling from 'be tainparts, at Cambray, whilst gr,ing his nightly round. Thuriday se'nnight General Autry, Assistant-Ad jutant-General, arrived at Ki!Laney. The Court Martial at Portsmouth on Colonel Az.es, of the 5 ich Regiment, assembled on MonclAy se'nnight, pursuant to adjournment, and after hearing the defence, which occupied until Thursday, ad journed again to Saturday, when General BAYLY made his reply, after which the Court was cleated far the Members to deliberate on the sentence, which cannot br known until the minutes have been laid before the Commander in Chiet for his approval. It is Fort Augustus that is to be dismantled, not , Fort George. The latter is to remain as the military depot for 'the North of Scotland. The contract for supplying the troops in Kent with meat, for the ensuing six months, is taken at some thing under 4d. per lb. for good ox beef and goed wether mutton. General price of cheese, at Nor thampton Fair, on Friday, was from 48s. to 131 s. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE was to arrive at Vienna about the 14th of this month, from St. Petersburgh. The Duke and Duchess of RUTLAND arrived yes terday at their seat, Clievely, horn Belvoir Castle. The Marchioness or QUEENSBZRRY left Richmond on Saturday, for her seat in Scotland. The Ladies MANNSILS left sewn yesterday, for Chevely. The Earl and Countess VRRULAM are returned to their seat in Herts, from a tour. Lori BnowNLow has left town for his seat, Belton House, Lincolnshire. L Td BOLTON has left town for his seat in Hants. The Earl of YARMOUTH has left town for his father's, the Marquis of HARTFORD'S seat, in Suffolk. The Hon. WILLIAM PONSONRF is arrived in town from a tour. Sir CH A nixsCosiczant, Bart. arrived yesterday in Si. James's-street. from his seat in Yorkshire. Friday se'nnight the Hon. Baron Sir WILLIAM SMITH arrived in Limerick from Mount Prospect, and immediately After set oft , t ‘r the Earl of Ross's, on his way to Newton Park, near Tullamore. Tuesday se'nnight the Right Hon. Colonel BAs WELL, M.P. arrived at Clunmel from London. Friday se'nnight the Countess of LAMM/502003H and JOHN KING ' Esq. embarked at Donaghadee f Purtpatrick.—Same day the Earl of LONGFORD landed at Donaghadee from rortpatrick. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gummi - zit intend to embark from Weymouth for Plymouth in his Majesty's ship 'fronts, on Thursday next, and, wind and weather permitting, may be ex pected to arrive there the following day. The Tt outs will n anchor in the Sound, but go round-into Barnp , .:l, where these distinguished guests will land to partake of the hospitalities of the Noble owner of Mount Edgcumbe. Miss NARROW, the rich heiress of Harporly, in the County of Durham, came of age, yesterday week, on which occasion great rejoicing took place amongst her tenantry, And on the following morning she gave her hand to G. H. Wimason, Esq. Barrister at Law, of Harley-street, Cavendish-square. A Gentleman whose name is Nazis, was married last week at Helston in Cornwall, to Mrs. Jones, widow of the late Jones, Esq. of that Borough, by which marriage Mr. PZRKIN becomes a father and brother-in-law to his brother's grandfather, and uncle to her children, and father in law to his brother. An article of the French Penal Code-declares ex cusable a murder committed by a husband who sur prises in adultery the seducer of his wife. A man named Pierre Hamel, brought before the Assize Court of —, has vainly claimed the extension of this principle. He was convicted, on his own confession, of having slain the lover of his married daughter, whom he had surprised on such an occasion. The Court not admitting his plea, its decree as attached before the Court of Cessation, who rejected the ap peal. He is definitively condemned to death. Boom appeared last week at the Newcastle and Pot tery Theatre, in Richard the Third. Whilst he was on his knees to Lady Amy, an enormously large rat made his entrance on the stage, gazed round him, and sud denly made his exit, just as the Lady exclaimed— Out of nay sight ! thou dolt lufect mine eyes !" An Amateur Company recently performed the co medy of The Poor Gentleman, and the farce of The Lying Valet, at the Belfast Theatre, for the bent at of the Fever Hospital in that town. The receipts amounted to 1128 10s. 6d. Two parishes have been lately formed in the Fens of Lincolnshire, which are distinguished by the Lames of Thornton and Carrington Parishes, in each of which a Chapel has been erected, to which the Bishop of the Diocese has licensed the Rev. THOS. MITCHENSON. EXTRAORDINARY LCRI3 NATURA.—A-grouse was shot in Arran. by Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON on the 9th September, of a singular appearance.' Its head, neck. and wings, quite wl►ite ; the body and , breast mottled with white feathers ; the rump, , tail, and legs, similar to the common grouse. it had been seen several times, during the last season and the present, amidst a btood of ordinary grouse, and rose amongst them when it was shot. AN IMPORTANT CAILTTIONA Gentleman long dis tinguished as conductor- of dne of our chief public amusements, being this week on a visit at a friend's house in the ueighbouthood, was seised with uneasy symptoms in the stomach ; when, having access to a family medicine chest, he took out two bottles ex actly of similar form, intending to take three drachms of tincture of rhubarb, and a few drops of laudanum; but he incautiously mistook the bottles, and took three drachms of the latter, with a small portion of rhubarb. However, he had scarcely swallowed the dose before he discovered the mistake, and by taking so lirge a quantity as two flasks of oil, some vinegar, and the early attendance of a medical Gen tleman, the deplorable effects apprehended were hap pily prevented, ald the Gentleman feels at present I perfectly recovered. NAVAL INTELLIOEA'CR. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER u. Arrived the Killingbeck, from the Downs r tips ; FosiiruNn flow ditto for the %Vett 1.1 and tke Lune Irem ditto for the South Se ; two latter liar.' prssed by. The K.sintschath sian frigate, from Cronstadt, bou n d t o Pacific Ocean on a voyage of discovery, stadt on the 7th instant, Elsineur the 17t come in bete to.day for supplivond will ...,cve4', her voyage in a few days.—Wind N.N.E. DEAL, SEP UMBER 22. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Mar: lrtt from Buenos Ayres. Sailed the ALS/IT:loop on a cruize.—Five o'Clock. The Duke of 4 2 ,1 1 rough, HALLETT, for the Cape of Gocd now cormi:;; through the Gulls fur the Dow is expe . ct m to proceed on her vclage, as the wir.: l . fair.—Wind N.E. HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 44. Arr;veo the 111;.autoy pAcket from Hambuq:, a . Eat! Leicester pAcket horn both wit i a! LIVERPOOL, SEPTEMI3ER 21. Sailed the Bengal, Curfamt:tvisos, for Cal:u- Eliza, HARMAN, for Pernambuco; Cecilia, an; , M.Keisztz, for Demarara ; Addison, and It -h,c ; for PlulaJelphili, and a ft w other vessels. Ta e E. terprize, KLYSE, which sailed from hence for I),n , on the VII ultimo, and put into Cam pbelton, hg, spi ung a leak, is now od this port. GRAVESEND, SEPTEMBER 22. Arrived the Vrow L.ubeira, Cedit, from Rut erdam; Bell, trout Petersburg!' ; Ellett, Collis, from Antwerp; Em u Arthur, front Petersburg!' ; William and John, Nlandaado Petersburgh ; Cerrs, Dear; and Britannia, Burr, from Ara gel ; and the El , z.tbeth, Wak.., from Riga --;:ailed the 14: Wilkinson,rris, for Gibraltar; Elizaheth, Capp ; and inter Ltd At W fur Leghorn; B itatania, atrorack, tor ().teed;' mu., Walker, for Hantburgh ; Diana, Cummings, for Ilfi•ez Joule Maria, Schaal', for Amsterdam; and William sad 24..1 lialladay, fur Rotterdam. , The Dolories, Plates, from Santa Eugenia, taken the 24th ult. off Cadiz, by an Insurgent Pn vateer, and after being plundered, was given up the crew cif the Maria, from Sr. Anderu to Cali which she bad previously captured. The San Triers°, from Carrel, was taken the '25 , ult. eight leagues from Cadiz, by an Insurgent' vAteer, but given up after being plundered. TI Privateer had previously detained sir vessels (most them in ballast) from the coast of Callicia. By the following, it appears that another Ent vessel has been insulted and .plunderer/ by a pirate: Extract of a letter from a passenger olio saikd in the 1L.71 Mgilvane. from Clyde to Jamaica " Kingiton, LIT I " Nothing particular occurred from the time we Monday, toe 23d of lune. when I was awoke shout morning, by the secood mate coining down to Intoera the tain that there was a vessel astern Bring at us; the Captaiu ruediately got upon deck, an I followed bin; we want half an hour, when she fired another hot, and we _ heard a ball passing over our heads; the Captain ir..a.edia hove-to, and un her coming quite close she spoke us, cod told t she would see d a boat on board. Upon this we inielL.:iato t l suspected that she was a pirate, which was actua:ly the I wo of their officers and fire men boarded u, : :hey us of two barrels of pork, hail a b. It of potato,y, le., cal um, one keg butter, foisr brinks porter, three few medicines, some newspapers from one passeug• r aid a t books from another; some of their sailors informed our that the reason they took .ko little was, because they bad tlYo Spanish brigs a few days before. and that they th.d no, for any thing more; the crew consisted of 97 men, mostly , and Irish; they carried in guns; they told us i: we had hove to the second shot; they would have fired nyht upon next time. We were boarded in lat. Y 4 22.10ng. 27." Upwards of sixty Dutch schuyts have been El out this year for the Herring Fishery on our several of wtich have Arrived at Yarmouth, what is termed the Dutch Fair has commerced. MIRACULOUS DAMON' TIMES.—A few day as wm, Gentlemen belonging to the fishery on river Arun, above Arundel-bridge, were drawin; mullet, with which that river abounds, their net came so loaded with fish, that they were forced apply additional strength to get it ashore, when it found to contain upwards of two tons weight of salmon, trout, pike, roach, and other fish ; the F ri: pal part of which were generously given to the Sir JOHN DUCKWORTH was always a carefill ftrucket man, and could not escape a saar's jvb, the tollowing humorous anecdote told of him, well known. in the service, testifies :" Wigan taro of one of his Majesty's ships on the Jamaica tion, a report reached the quarter-deck, while diet was under a press of sail, that a pig was overb....s at the same moment the Captain's Steward infer him that the pig was his property. The items , orders were immediately given to the Officer: the fore and mainchre-garnets, weather nrain-hrs. clear away the quarter-boat for lowering squ , re the main-yards, or poor min will le dr The Steward again reached the ear of his C and curnmunicated the pleasing information that pig was the pilperty of the dead ra,om mess, and his. The orders now were—. , Stand fast the forest maia-t;u:ks, keep last the boat, for poor piggy col not I: Laved 1" The family of Mrs. Wrr.wvNN, of ChtlieA Road, were alarmcd on Sunday night by the el, cion of A pilau), and the Int-al:Mg pane of g!, io the drawing.room, Mrs. WuLt‘ VNN act!: three daiighteri war It turilLO out thg ball had peilorated the wilius..; , t of the room, tx. ceiling. It was not discotmcd whether the act lc intended or accidamt!, cr who did it. On the nigh; of Thurs Jay last, an arrociou; 0 rage was committed on a young man, named Ji tans, a husbandry servant, in the employ cf Mr. P sons, a farmer, of near Low. h been assisting in getting in the harvest of Nli. h 0, ,: colt, a hunker, who resides a short distance from NI Parsons, and wits on his way dome, U!) ,, Ut uin.: o'clock. On reaching a stile about one liut.J: yards from the house he had left, he laid his 1:41%1 the top bar to get over, when a violent bi'n ir . some sharp instrument cut off his fore-enter. a word was spoken, and the assailant retreare2 discovered. The poor fellow immediately Frier to Mr. Northcott's and medical aid was procuP Olt examining the place where the act w..s c. 11 1 .7 ted, it was found that the instrument ad elto half an inch into the top bar of the sti:e. No re4r can be assigned for the act, the sufferer beirg a °"' man of inoffensive manners, and had had oo demanding with any rer:xn whataver. T'ic ;•77; ttutor is as yet nudiv.cvcrvd. ; r r ,t 11 3, ; !:e ry and :• 11 oteed r. P 't H :Tv. is I , ar ; ssind 4 RP!: :al • • R . h,c; ; : • 1.),%•, : i 1, !loc. im; dud, r 14:1 4 zr.d it- I * 11. 0. :&:1,1 24.. ;ent Pr;. 'en up t, o CAUL the ‘2:& gent Pr. d. Th (most ttj Englii • pirate: the At.-, Dull- one la c a the C. aptala u aitc4 e • e dirk; it lid told e niratAirul cht.- I , lUuder,' I e.l 1;a11,. ds aid a to nor proih, ud boar tl not not busily Scu ✓ high E't it upon 3 ecn fithl . tur coa wince ced. ays ) on swing iv r net bt- Orced tt ten it test of 1. prin6 the poor., ',j,! acd, s jar, is" lin), all iivn Cap mica st,- e the ship int • - Am:l lece,sey in.ln 3:4 d.tvg! C ti,ds I!! isttd toter! gy roil/ sea Fel le eipir• tti pa and iv that pea the • act *Ai oils or , led Jr? :.fr. Pa' 7 • N ow: , root Mr !Am! Hs,t, er. 1 0 • ate.! Teter tl I 81E• 0 4 o reAi • a yw": ff