Star. — London, England, 1822-12-31 00:00:00

• :. • E K VENlritt STAR. LONDON. 'ThESDAY..EISCEMBER 31, 1822. • it THE FUNDS. • -STOCK EXCHANGE, HALIP-PAST TWELVE. Vic market entwine steady at 80; to Si: TORSION )(A3 IT. New Spanish Bonds opened this morning at ssl—were done at hi, at which prices they remain steady, with little.doing.— This is account-day for an the foreign securities; we do not Inez of any defaulters, in council - wee of most of the business is this Account having been dons for money. Current Pricel:—Chniin TS, New Spanish 561 A, Old 88 to i 4; -Ntir Pririsiafi iI6C told 86, "Russian 84, Danish .91, Co lombian 'in,' Peruvian 'nothing dime, Neapolitan IN, Spanish Scrip si ais . PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O ' CLOCK. 8. per Cent. Reduced 80 Vs 79A 8,14 . 0er Cent. 92 1 / 4 sh i —4 per Cent. Old, 98 97% BrinitLon# Annuities 2054—India Bonds 395. 435. Old Annuities 79% Exchequer Rills.( 1,00 0) ss. 75.-ISniall 6s. ss. pr. Consols for Account 81 80% S. The French Papers of Saturday and Sunday have reached us, the latter by express; The official Note of M. de V.H.Lat.E excites as .‘tich discussion with the French Journalists as i 4 *does among our con , temporaries, and the general opinion i 4 that it is pa cific ; and although it is certainly by no means an explicit document, yet, the circumstances titat have attended it--;the defeat of the otgarc of the wit party-- his resignation, and the appointment of one of lessi hostile principles to the office, are many colla teral proofs of the pacific tone of the French Cabinet. The Note of M. DE VILLELE is quite as pacific as could be expected, and, we may add, as unmeaning as any document paving the way for negotiation could be wished; and unless the French Minister at Ma drid has private instructions to explain, we should not be surprised at the Spanish Ministers sending to M. na to'know What it really means. There, however, is littiedoOit but.that the Ffeao Ambassa dor in Spain has authority to treat on a more liberal and specific basis than even this Note might appear to warrant. The French Goiernment had, by its blustering menaces, so far committed itself against Spain, that , it was not easy to retrace its steps; and it would cer tainly have been too much to expect that, after the Fiend) Ministers had asked permission of the Holy Allies to go to war--;got consent, and. threatened . to get upon it, that they should all at once say either - that they were in jest, or that they are now afraid. That there are some - threats in M. de ViLLELE's rote c will admit, but they are Conditional ones, and a; e only a backing out, with as good a grace as pot ! • sible, from that menacing position the French Go. vernment had assumed. • a preceding page we give copious extracts from the French Papers of Saturday, which will be read with interest, as exhibiting the feelings entertained in Paris on the subject of M. de Vtct.aLe's note, and the changes in the French Cabinet. M. de CVATEAU• BRIAND has been appointed Minister for Foreign Af fairs, in the place of M. de MCVTMORENGY, who has received the usual compliment of an Ex-Minister, that of being appointed one of the Privy Other changes in the Cabinet have taken place, as • will be seen by the following EXTRACTS Or PRIVATE LETTERS. requesting her Majesty to' feint °NO* estintfr"W Wisich she -intends. t0.4r0. 4hkreplieltjn the following terms 1. That I 4,eirs:elte;dj,tiaygfe . rty formal aid solt'sidis deelaratinttViat I will'hariieriar. I now ratify it.-2, that bitll2 ready t”ibissit,t,o what the King shall order in Alt* of the law. myself, however, under the necessity of ;midi*, ;bat am veryunwell, more so than is generally supposed, and of observing that self-preservation is . alaw of nature. I am certain that neither the King nor the Govern ment wish that I should die on My way, for we are now in the midst of winter, and I cannot venture to undertake a voyage until the. season be put. To prove that I do not reek is avail myself of any pre text, I am ready to retire to the Palace of Ramalhao with my two daughters (from whom I wish Rover to .be separated) until the season permit me to leave the kingdom.— B. That my intention is to go to Cadiz by sea, the voyage being, under my privation of health and strength, snore suitable than a journey icy land:' This was followed by a Decree of his MAJESTY, dated the 4th instant, which states, that in . conse- . quence of the refusal of the QUEEN to take the oath to the Constitution, she had lost all rights, civil and. political, belonging either to her character of Portu guese citizen, or to the dignity of QUEEN; and far ther, that she must depart from the Portuguese ter- 1 titory forthwith. . . In the Sitting of the Cones of the llth, the affair of the QUEEN* was again brought forward, on a mo tion by M. ACURSID DAS NEVES, throwing blame on the proceedings taken towards the QUEEN, and de claring that. she should . be set apte entaia at liberty, and that judicial proceedings should be instituted after thi manner of the late Queen of ENGLAND, to know whether the QUEEN, by refusing to take the oath of adherence to the Constitution, had violated the law. The motion was referred to the Special Coin mince charged with the examination of the affair. It is said that this refusal of the Qom.' to take the oath to the Portuguese Constitution does not arise from any political .hostility; indeed, her MAJESTY says as much, but that it is from a conscientious, Qnakerlike objection to taking any oath. Were this really the case, we do not see any reason why het affirmation might not be deemed sufficient. It is, however, more generally believed that this condtiet of her MAJESTY rather arises from female perverse ness, and that, as she and her spouse have not lately lived on the most . loving terms, she avails herself of this oppormuity of obtaining a separatism. -- • •' PARIS, SATURDAY, Six :Ccocx, v. sc. !, The inclosed is the list of the Ministry as agreed upon last night: •' The Minister •f the rnterior, with the Presidency, M. de •"" The Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. de CHAU/111510AM " The Keeper of the Seals, M. de Comes= (instead of M. PICSANNIT). This forenoon we received two Lisbon Mails, bringing Papers to the 16th inst. They contain a long detail of the proceedings respecting the refusal of the Quay" to rake the oath to the Constitution, which we have elsewhere noticed. • 13144A1N0, CIARMONT-TI;INNLIIII, and LAVILISTOII remain. . The Minister of Finance is not yet named. 44 Such was the list agreed upon. e , At five o'clock this afternoon, M. de Chateau- • briand accepted the office assigned to him. Whetherl the other changes hare taken place is not yet aster-' taineti. The renta to-day were as follows :—They . opened at BSf. 30c. their lowest price was 88f.•50c. they closed at 83f. 10c. Spanish Stock dosed at 56." :" PARIS, SI.RiDAY. 44. Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Minister, is not In thi Sitting of the 6th inst. Senor F. Awrowto DE CAMP:* read a proposal for drawing up a Cornmere cial Code. The proposal was, that a reward of 8,000 mill ees should be offered to the author of the first Plan of such a Code, and hale - the - sum to the author of the two Projects which mar be thought deserving of the arzessit. The Projects to be presented to the Cortes on the Ist December, 1321. It was ordered to be read a second time in a future Sitting. In the same Sitting, Senor PESBANIIA tead a paper complaining of the impunity with which a. great cri minal had escaped, viz. Manuel Pedro ale Fteitas Guinaraeg, who was taken at Bahia commanding the factious, who excited civil war, and shed the blood of their brethren, intending to expel the European troops, and proclaimed in that city the independence of Brazil ; yet this man has been suffered to return to his country, where he will probably perpetiate new crimes. Another greater criminal arrived in the Tagus when Manoel Pedro sailed; this is Gervasio Ferreira, ex-President of the Government of Pernarn buco, the author of the anarchy which affects that province, and who was taken prisoner by the unfor tunate persons whom his tyranny had forced to seek refuge in Bahia. The Honourable Member, after some further observations, read a Project of a Decree, declaring it necessary to bring the ex-President or Pernambuco to trial, for various acts tending to esta blish the independence of Brazils and amounting to absolute rebellion. yet recovered from his paroxysm of rage and disap pointment at hearing of the resignation of his friend At, de Montmotency. He is reported yesterday to ' a y e said—' La France se trouvoit dans une position rueoir se placer a la tote de 'Europe, pour tombattre la Revolution ; aujourd'hui elle lest miss ala pea des Reodutionaires:" The refusal of the Queen-of PORTUGAL to take the Signor CORREA bit LACERDA read a project of a Decree, in which he represented the inefficient state of the army, and the necessity of remedying so great . a defect, at a time when a French army, quite pre pared to take the field at the first signal, was assem-. bled on the frontiers of Spain, giving encouragement, as the Spaniards declared, to the factious in Cata lonia and Navarre.; when a Congress is assembled at Verona, whose decisions are unknown, though we are well acquainted with the intentions of despotic Governments towards liberal Governments. Pied mont and Naples are melancholy proofs of this truth. The speaker proceeded to spew the intimate con nection between the interests of the two kingdoms of the Peninsula, and concluded by proposing, that the regiments of the line should be raised, not only to the establishment on which they were placed by the reduction operated in 1814, but to the complement ' which they bad before that reduction.--To be read a second time. In the Sitting of the 9th, the MINISTRR of the Manna was introduced and read a paper, in which be represented the deplorable state of the Portu guese navy, and of all the establishments belonging to • it. ()deb to the Constitution, has excited animated dis• eussions in the Cones. It was intimated to her MA- Jewry that the time fixed by law for her taking the oath would expire on the Sd of December. To this the Quaxx replied— ,4 That she had caused it to be stated to the Ktt:o, that she would not take an oath; that she had made a promise never to swear either for good or evil during her whole life ; that she did not adopt this course from haughtiness, or from , hatred of the Cones, but merely because she had passed her word—for a good person ought never to retract; that she knows the law; that she is aware of the penalty which the law inflicts, and that she is trilling to submit to it." T a letter from one of the Ministers to the QUZzag, • - . Ai piOstittiVelmsivy consist, if ittrili • XlrAi INTELL/GBNCE. Ctioe A*: .E virom , o s iot es from to Lloyd's, at Pe 'zany', • ) t r itti :e- stht " eth r eiFo e urenn ßa tc pl ri d ieu , rl 7 taest a r a s i ne rs iagnhe , r. f , r f o h. n niak L vi ;: h : t t a i n t ri t l .eight frtg - ates, nine cwig,"..,1#1,. . Anil-gas (ships of burdes)ortykievess to ,T ,lt i stnik ate.s eil ' ° " h te er , b p n : j u ber . b ii r gain to used if p*CkCtS • ; but old, SA ut ,be. unfit for service in a few years. • At • Rio 'Ode • itottetbre cohiGehV/ISsinctld bronchin eintllilimit7tmUettligl o g to s ve the crew Janeiro there: remained • three .of the line, thtee'fri- ti l l 6.11)* k 49 it from • -I.6l" o7 l cove ll6Thic of G . To 7l l 4 ope lsid - S. sa g refit A l7 4 tt ‘ (tt t o h b e e V r, e a n n u e) s. ' — frcr tt i • gates, two. doryettes, :tau one brigantine, almost :all. ofthem good'shipi.. • • • • St. tielena-the gOtist epokershittlki Of December, in lrt. 34. B' • long. 34. 48. the Adamant; from Calcutta and ilseCape of Good Senor FONSECA RANnyL that ti—Je• necessary ~ i lopr for Laildon.....ille'srrivesi,. the . Duke o a f K r e h n e t pu pa k c e k o et f • •• • • • • • el from Lisbon sailed the 14th ac t ; nd information should•be asked ofitheaovernosent, that Ai r rlborough packet; frods lisbon 7 -sailed December. ki vverstern, Dec. g9.-Wind S.Ea•-Arrlted. the Cyrus, from the Cortes' might designate, in a constitutional mans ner, the amount of the force necessary to • . be main- Bill ) " , in eighteen days. • Potersatotrro, Dec. 3d .- W ind Fast.-No arrivals or sailln tamed by land and sea; and that the Minister for to- Dzat., Dec. 30...... Wind IL-Came down from the Ri ve r l as t night and sailed, the Vtile Giese):, for Smyrna; and reign Affaits be ordered to acquaint the Cortes with Juno, groats, for Gibraltar. " • * the state of our political relations with foreign n* MAROATGy DEC. 30.-s The Lord Tewnstnil, advised re.ter: tions.—Ordered. day . on shore on the Foreign Rock, wept to pieces last nigh:. Pet:es:ter, Dec. 27.-Afriveti the St. Nkkcila, .of Ulmer' PervstAst, front BoUrdeaux for Rotterdam,. with wine, leaky, and must unload to repair, out Ave weeks; Edwin*, et. Stettin, 'lntrust', from Bourdeaux for Amsterdam, with wire "She has lost her fore-topmast and several sails, and ii very leaky, put three weeks; Perseverance, of Pook, Feistert.e, from Cork to 'London, with provisions; • Fame, of Peniance ; Rumps; from London , with sundries. Sailed the Maria, of Scilly, Terchavnew, with 580 hogsheads of pilchards, fur Ita!y. Le Pere de Femur, Bette, from SWIMS to ilavre, is GI Mount's Bay. Decorate lE.-Arrived the brig Rapid, of London. Capt&in D. Warms, from London, bound to Charente. in ballast.. Site sailed front Portsmouth on the 11th inst. and on the Soth,.in the Bay of Biscay, fell in with the French chasse-tuaree La Jeanne, of liochefort,•Captain J. L. CHATITAL, belougingto the - French Government, bound front Brest to Rochefort, oh a cargo et' Government stores, in great dit.tress, the vessel's deck bring completely under water, avid the vessel miraculously lotetetti up by some empty casks, which were fortunately on board. After great difficulty and several attempts, Captain and his brave crew succeeded in rescuing the Captain and lot crew, seven in number, together with ten passengkrs, front a , watery grave end an untimely end. Captain WARRIts *Old his crew had previously come to a deter - • •tation of alEw ancing themselves with respect to provisions, and, after takiag on board 17 additional persons, they were obliged to cottrent themselves with half a pound of bread, a very etn4li eu. city "1 meat; and a pint of water, each man, per days in this , Iktr...a4c condition, and with a leaky vessel, occasioned by striking se. veral times against the chasso mare:, in : , ...v:ttg the ere!, and passengers-and with a contrary wind and boisterous weather, they were obligeii to b2ar top . for the f:rst port of safety,. and last night they were lat,ught by a pilot poet into St. STichael's 'Mount Pier, in this part. Distant:vox or Severn, for the Hero, her crew and cargo, and tLirty-four and a I.alf attheri.if forego spirits, Jan. 4, on board in the Dower, and rev.ailtd for toite months. ' S.- LISBON, DECEMBBR.IS. All the Papers and correspondence relative to the affairs of the Queen are printed in the Diario of the 14th December, as they were laid before the Cortes in the Sitting of the 13th ; but the Cortes, on account of the importance of the subject, resolved that all the documents should be published, and that they should be discussed on a future day, to be announced by the I President. Eztract.of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Constantinople, dated November 2.s—received this morning 44 The Darius, Norm, from hence to Wessa, ran foul of a sand-bank off the mouth of the Danube, . . . . and. a gale springing np, • botb vessel and stores are totally lost—crew saved. Eight other vessels are lost in the Black Sea,.viz,--Austria.n ship, ells, Attuto- . vicff,inballfist,boustd toOdessa; A ustriati 1) rig A tire, liano, in ballast; Rus - sian brig Ran ap"d'anntlirr commanded both with goods, for Odessa ; the Austrian *ship Pallas, and brigs Count Langeron and Jia Genio, and Maltese brig Costanza, all with cargoes from A'Tu . rki4l 74 11145 been destroyed at Tenedos by a Greek flre•ship. The , rest of the fleet cut and ran into the Dardanelles." Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Smyrna, dated •15th November : The Flora, Moon, and the Lovely Ann, BURGESS, which sailed from hence 19th ult. With provisions for Napoli de Romania, were met outside of our GulL by some Greek cruisers, which had received in- formation of their loading here, and carried' into the Isle of Ipsara, where the Greeks took pos session of their cargoes, and discharged the ves sels, paying the masters their freights. The Flora returned here on the Ist instant, when Captain MOOR communicated the intelligence_ to Captain A tutaw, of his Majesty's.ship MARTIN, mho immedi ately set sail for Ipsara, in company with the Flora, to demand restitution of- - the cargoes, which the Greeks were obliged to comply with. The Flora was reloaded there, and, has proceeded on her-Image.— , The cargo taken from the Lovely Ann i$ in ware house under Captain Aeasw's seal, waiting the ar, rival of the Lovely Ann to reload it. This vessel left Ipsara, with the Flora, for this port, but we fear has been driven to leeward. Captain ASKEW is en titled to every praise for his conduct on this occa sion, as well as for his general attention to British shipping during the time he has commanded in this quarter. " The. Symmetry, BIONVEL4, which sailed hence the 2d inst. for London, ran aground on a bank in our Gulf, and was obliged to discharge most of her cargo before she got off ; but not having received any damage, she has proceeded on her voyage." Lieutenant HENRY KENT has been promoted to the rank of Commander, for his services on the Lakes if Canada. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Between three and foam o'clock in the afternoon of Christmas-day, the iTilialiitants of Handsworth were thrown into con siderable alarm and consternation, owing to the ice having given way, oh which a number of peop!..: were sliding, at a mill-pond, in front of Soh,-, Birmingham ; in consequence of which a great many fell in, and, we are sorry to state, that seven were drowned, two girls and five boys: THE SIRPENTIVE Brven.—Ska;ters innunterab!e appeared yesterday on the ice (which was of imme n - c thickness); but the surface was greatly injaied by the vast:cloudt of dust driven from the eastward by ::•1 uncommonly strong and piercing u;nd. The line el carriages extended along the northern banks of tra: river. As to elegant Belles, among the peOettrian-., we saw not one. We saw nothing new in the es obi • tions on the ice. The • quadrangles were performed with an ease and grace quite delightful, and evtuallsi only by the quadrilles.. One party of eight executed the, mazy round with great velocity and correctness. A melancholy accident happened a few days sinv.-. at Bannockburn. A little girl, from four to five ycar old, strayed out withont being observed, whilst the mother happened to be otherwise engaged, and un fortunately fell into a tan-pit. Though the chiid had only been missing 10 or 11 minutes, and though medical aid was had recourse to, yet every effo: t proved unavailing, for the•vital spark had been irre .vocably extinguishes!. • On the night of Wednesday the 'Stir, the spinnln mill belonging to Mr. Lawrence, of Green Den, near Brechin, was completely destroyed by fire. ' The ac• cident occurred when the foreman was extinguishing the lights. Besides the whole of the machinery, about 400 spindles of tow-yarn and 25 cwt. of tow were burnt. The fire communicated with a thre:h •ing-mill, adjoining to the spinning -mill, which alto shared the.f ate of the latter. We are authorised to state, that the article which we copied from a Morning Paper, stating that Co lonel BERKELIT played the part of Jajer, on the 20th instant, at the West London Theatre, is erroneous; that Gentleman not having been in town since August. A new Pantomime is announced at Drury-Lane Theatre„which will speedily appear. A bat was, a few days ago, seen in Donegall square, Belfast, flitting about for upwards of An hour, after dark. BISHOP, the composer, is appointed one of the Pro fessors of the Theory of Music and Composition to the Royal Academy of Music. • Several barges attempted to go down the River yesterday morning . to bring np coals from the Pool, but were stopped in their course at London-bridge,' where the navigation was choaked up by the masses of ice collected in front of the starlings. The appear mice of the bargemen, as they walked up and down tie small space worded them to keep their blOod in circulation. was most affecting. The return of the tide will enable them to return to their respective wharfs. It was impossible to afford them any relief, from the unsettled state of the ice by which they were encompassed. A shark was caught in the Kyles of Bute, on the 28th ult. measuring 10 feet in length, and 3 feet 10 inches in circumference at the thickest Fart. It was caught with the common long line made use of on the west coast. A few days ago, a carrier of ilindon was fined in the mitigated penalty of 321. his wife having lent hi; horse to °friend, and taken money for the loan. Two prisoners lately attempted to escape from the New Prison at kirkdale, by scaling its tremendous wall, although the term of their imprisonment V:ai within a month of expiring. They incurred, how ever, this imminent hazard of their lives in vain, being detected in their attempt, when one of them fe:l from the wall and broke his leg. A horrible assassination has been committed at the grille. An inhabitantAif that town having gained a prize in the lottery, : froposed to his wife to ask a smith, their neighbour, to supper; while they wco at their repast, tikoKitizen acquainted his guest with his good fortune : . the latter soon left. him. The patrol of a Swiss regiment passing by, found the street door open,_ on which the officer commanding it went in and stumbled over a dead body ; placing his men at the door, he went into the house, and found the father and mother,. and their two daughters, 2i' sassinated, and a child concealed under a pleas. 11:e child said that sonic black people, whom he did net know, had committed the crime; one of the soldiers observing that a smith lived opposite, the officer of the patrol went to him, and the answers he received to his questions, confirming his stupieions, he ::r -rested him ; in fact, in rive minutes he confessed that he had but just got home, when he returned to h:s neighbour's with his journeyman and his maid servant, %%id) whose aid he assassinated the !Trams who bad ueatcd histi so amicably a Lew minute.' c• The fanatical Journals of Paris are quite enraged at our diplomatists. La Foudre thus vents its spleen: Lord Wellington has at la,st left Paris, sooner than we dared to hope. Let the race of GOD go With him on his passage, but let him return as late as possible. It is asserted that his Grace went away little satisfied with . the Cabinet of the Thuillereis. So much Th e better !—so much a thousand times the' better. Gob rant that in going off, the Noble Lord has not left pacific instructions to some trusty ones, and that a new Elias has left no mantle to a new Elijah ! However it may be, he is gone off; and that is somethibg." COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night the Tra gedy of The Earl of Essex was revived at this Theatre. Mr. MACREADY, as the unfortunate favourite of Eli zabeth, played with animated energy. Miss KELLY personated Rutland, with an intensity of feeling. The character of Elizabeth WAS assigned to Miss LACY, and shesustained it throughout with great effect. The Pantomime followed..—The House, was crow did in every part.