Star. — London, England, 1823-08-15 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN : ONSTIT UTIONS. BERLIN, AUGUST S. On the 2d his Majesty came from TopUtz, his birthday being on the 3d, which he kept with his family in the Pfanen Insel (Isle of Peacocks). The greatest sensation has been excited on this day; which is so dear to all Prussians, by the publication of the Bulletin of the Laws, No.-1-B j _whkh. contains the following general law respecting the Pi ortnctaT Assemblies: • " We, Frederick William, to faithful subjects a new ad durable pledge of paternal favour and confidence, have resolved to introduce Representative Assemblies intnithe Mo narchy, and to that end to est..blish Provincial Assemblies in the spirit of the ancient Gcrman Constitution, such as the peculiar situation of the country and the spirit of the times require. A Committee, of which his Royal Highness the Crown Prince was President, has been appointed by his Majesty to prepare this nizasure, and consult upon it with experienced men from each province." On the Repot t of this Committee, his Majesty gave the following Decree, dated June 5: " 1. Provincial Assemblies shall be called into action. " !. Linded property is the basis of the representation. " 5. The provincial estates are the leading organ of the various s .:tordinate estates in each province. According to this decision, h.s Majesty Cause to be sent to them for their discus sion the projects of laws which concern the province only. 2. So lung as there are no General Assemblies of the States, send' to them for discussion such general projects of laws also as re- I ;te to changes in the rights of persons and property, and to the t ixes. 3. Reserve fur the, Provincial Asseinblies petitions and rvinonstrances which concern the special welfare and interest of the whole province or a part of it, examine them and decide upon them. 4. Leave it to them Co decide on the communal affairs of ;he province, with the reserve. of his Majesty's approbation." To the.present law, which however is not appli cable in Neufchatel and Vallengin, this will add a special law. for each province. Should his Majesty think that changes in these special laws might be useful or beneficial, he will net make them without the concurrence of the Provincial Assemblies. When a convocation of the General Estates of the kingdom will be necessary, and how it shall then proceed for the Provincial Estates, remains for his Majesty in his paternal care to determine. The special laws, all dated Ist of July, relate se verally to the Provincial Estates: I. For the March of 13randenburgh and the Marquisate of Lower Lusatia. s. Thoge of the Kingdom of I . 7.assia, (6) Lithuania, (e) West Prussia. Z. To Pomerania and Hugon. The E...tates of the First Province to meet at Bev , lir. ; of the Second at koningsbetg and Dantzic al ternately ; and of the Third at Stettin. The special laws contain detailed regulations re specting the eligibility of the Deputies, the right of election, the exercise of the right of the Estates, the convocation and the duration of the Provincial As sert:blies, the Communal Assemblies, the Assemblies (.4 . Circles, &c.—Hanzbuigh Paper, August 8. (a) East SPAIN. • MADRID, JULY 30. Tile journey of the Prince to Seville and to the • camp before Cadiz is one of the chief subjects of 1 conversation here. Various opinions . are entertained respectiirg his Royal Highness's manner of leaving the capital ; but the general supposition is, that the Duke .1 considered Madrid as a point of small importance, under present circumstances, and has preferred placing himself at the bead of his army, where his presence may encourage his soldiers and awe Cadiz, and where he may be able. to attempt to negociate • ith the Cortes by aid of Sir William A'Court, who I is supposed to have had some influence in the Prince's journey. Il seems certain that Cadiz is in a respect- • able state of defence, and has provisions for three 1 months. The garrison consists of 6,000 troops of the line, 8,000 militia, half of whom are resolved to fight, and a civic guard of 25,000. It has also sixty gun-boats, which are a great support to the garrison. It seems certain that the Corms are not inclined to • accommodation, but will protract the resistance as much as possible, first, beoause they will not treat I 'with the Regency, then, because they do not think • the Prince can afford them a guarantee, since most ti iolent re-actions take place even in the houses occu pied by his troops ; and, lastly, because several of the Members do not yet despair of the triumph of their cause, according to the accounts they receive from different parts of the Peninsula, and especially Cata lonia, where their Commanders propose to defend themselves to the utmost. Aplot, it is said, has been discovered at Barcelona and Cadiz, to make the in habitants rise, and carry off the King, proclaiming the or, etthrow of the Constitution. The time when the garrison hail made a sally, was to be taken ad vantage of for the execution of thii plan, which has entirely failed. The loss of Galicia has alarmed the Constitutional party. To baffle their efforts, there wanted only the co-operation of the Portuguese with the French and the Royalists. The negotiations for Cris purpose between the Prince, the Regency, arid the Court of Lisbon, are not wholly broken off, and if the Portuguese have not yet passed the Mincio, nor approached Badajoz, or Ciudad Rodrigo, as was de mauded, it must be attributed only to the delay of the settlement of the new Government at Lisbon, and not to airy want of inclination in the counter-revolu tionary party, the Count Amarante himself having offered to march. It is amidst so many obstacles and treasons that the Constitutional patty resists in many places, in some with success, without foreign aid. The Government of Madrid, consisting of men of limited talents, surrounded by embarrassments in its administrations and finances, disobeyed by the pro v laces, where anarchy reigns, and not enjoying the confidence of its own party, is in alarm; it fears the arraugeinent which the French and the sound part of the nation desire, and begins to be convinced that the Prince his no other part taltake thanvio grant to. the Constitutionalists what the party of the Faith %could refuse; to make useof their forces, their Com- . istandets, to tranquillize the people's minds, and to put an end to the - excesses of a party, whiCh 'has kept. the scaffold for four days in the square of Saragossa. These seem to be the only terms On which the Con .stitutionalists can yield ; tharis to say, securing them selves agaitistthe:vengeance of the partisans of ab solute power and the Inquisition, viho will never par don there; without this, it may. be feared that such men as Zayas, Quiroga, Milans, ind• Mina, will not lay down their as ms. and at all events it will be in dispensable that a strong French army should remain in the conntiy for several years. The situation of this capital lar, described; the entrance of the Prince with 20,000 Men gave it 4 degree of splen !dour, but the departure of, all the troops has placej Madrid in a state of gloominess and uneasiness, which May produce discontent. The news which each party circulates in its own favour, adds to the state of anxiety; to which may be added, the repeated appear ance of a band of 150 Constitutional cavalry, and the invasion of several others in the province of Madrid. obseiVed, that forlome dayx past the ittgency has endeavoured to repress the disorders which it has hitherto tolerated, The Corregidor has published a notice to put an end to the insults offered to the Negros. Orders have also been sent to the provinces to annul the arrests made by the people, except those of person's known for their enmity to the present sys tem; it is said, however, that the municii4tlities of some towns, for instance, of Seville, Valencia, Sara gossa, and Valladolid, have refused to obey this order, alleging that it endangers the public tranquillity. A report froin General Milans, of the action at Jot ba, on the 25th, when his positions were attacked by Marshal Nloncey, says, that his troops retreated by his order, after making the most obstinate reistance, and always victorious; that the enemy lost 900 men, and his loss was 50 killed and 140 wounded. sassination. has been discore:ed (tlia„Ga7eile de Cautel l of the sth makes no mention of thil-disccieery). .lle was formerly a Sub-01I1Ow E. it.is not known what' induced this man to adopt, such conduct, his family being in every respect in' favourable 'circumstances. The affair will prob Ably be subjected to a severe in-. quiry, and will he proceeded upon with all the rigour of the laws. It is lamentable that men. of this. de. scription should augment that distrust4i Sovereigns to which so_Many differfnisauseshave given the in our time, and perhaps by that meanspriveut the ame liorations - which cithffderide Citleite 'cati king aliotit.":' - THE .EV INING STAB.- . PRIVATZ LETTER. " I _ MADRID, JULY 31. " I think there is some chance of matters being ar ranged between the Duke d'Angouleme and the peo ple of Cadiz. 1 have reason to know that there is a disposition to accommodation on both sides. " The arrests here continue : a greater number were taken up last night than for many days pre ceding. I am credibly informed, that during the present month of July upwards of 700 respectable persons have been imprisoned in the prisons de la Corte and de la Corona. No reason is assigned. It would seem the Superintendant-General of Police (a new branch of Administration in Madrid, introduced by the French), thinks he has no other duty to per form ; probably the extortion of money may be the secret object, as the new men in of fi ce are extremely needy. The unfortunates deprived of their liberty are all persons of good circumstances, and many very rick.—lt is reported, but I do not know how exactly, that the French lost 700 men in their late attempts on Corunna." Tire following is an extract of a letter from a young Gentleman, a native of Glasgow, one of Sir Robert Wilson's companions in arms : " vie°, amen 2, 1823. 44 I left this place about the Ist July, along with Sir. Robert, and arrived in Corunna after a pleasant journey of five days. When I had been there a week I attached myself, along with Lieutenant Wilkinson and Captain Mathews, to the Foreign Legion forming there, commanded by a French Count. We were under arms all night of the 12th, expecting every moment to receive orders for marching next day. Sir Robert received the decree of the Cortes appoint ing him Lieut.. General of the Province, and giving him power to raise a foreign corps of 10,000 men. He immediately sent for us three, and told us he would commission us to raise men, and that he had hired a vessel for us—Mathews to England, Wilkin son to Ireland, and lin Scotland. We were to draw upon the London Committee for the expense. How ever, in the afternoon; he changed his mind, as he was afraid the Committee would not Fray the ex penses. Wilkinson was, however, sent to Ireland, where, I wish to GOD he may succeed in getting men. Captain Mathews and I were just sat Sovin to din ner after seeing him set out, when we were roused by the fire of musketry outside the town. I caught hold• of a sword which was in the house, and went out with the intention of informing Sir Robert, but I met him galloping to the field, whither I followed him. He was the first General Officer in the field of action. —General Quiroga and the Governor soon followed. Mathews and I placed ourselves at the head of the Foreign Legion, which was just marching on the field when we go,t there. The enemy in the first place attacked the outposts, drove them in, and then at tempted to gain possession of the heights, which they did, after a severe conflict well maintained by the Spaniards. The enemy was four times our number, so it was impossible to keep our ground. —The Corunna volunteers fought well. The enemy lost 700 men, killed and wounded ; and we lost 100, killed and wounded. Amongst our killed. was a Spanish Officer, a brave man. Colonel Light, who came from England with Sir Robert Wilson, was commanding the advanced troop of the Spaniards, encouraging them by his brave conduct ; but at length was obliged to retreat; and when endeavouring to get his horse within the gates a musket-ball went through his right thigh; he fell just at my side. I carried him off the field to the Consul's house, where I got a surgeon for him. I was just returning back to the field, when I met them carrying Sir Robert Wilson off also. He was wounded in the left thigh. He shut the gates against the enemy himself. " The inhabitants were in a deplorable state about him, crying Oh, the Angel; the Angel, our saviour, is killed. He, however, was shouting Five la Li berty 1' His wound is not half so bad as Colonel Light's. The latter has been in forty-five actions, and never was wounded till now. I was at the outworks the test of that day and the nest. " The enemy are erecting batteries on the heights, but have not fired a great gun into.the town. The enemy's sharpshooters keep still firing into batteries and outworks, which we always repay with interest. A party of our soldiers made a sortie, two nights before I came away, burned the houses the enemy were in, went into the gardens and brought so many vegetables into the town, that a basket full was selling for one halfpenny ; next day Sir Robert embarked for Vigo, on the 21st. He requested I would go along with him. We were in Vigo in 22 hours, after sailing 160 miles. We could not take poor Light, be was so ill with his wound." Accounts from Cassel say that the Elector of Hesse, on his return to his capital, ordered Mr. Van Manger, Director-General of the Police, to use all diligence to discover the autbors of a conspiracy supposed to be formed against this Prince. The only proofs of nlch ,an infernal plot, seem to be hitherto some anonymous letters which were written to him when he was at Neundorff. These letters are full of the most dreadful menaces, and predict to the Prince that he will not live long if he does not change his conduct. The Niremberg Gaulle contains the following ar ticle on the subject: " CA BULL (HEss!), JOLT 31. 7 —The Author or Editor of the work which menaced our Sovereign with as-. LONDON. ~..._.._ FRIDAY, AUGUST IS. 1323. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHA NGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at NI, I, and went up to at which price they remain up to this hour. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish opened at 341,1,i t New Prussian 80, 1; Russian• 85f, I; Colombian 651; French Scrip 2i. This is settling-day in all Foreign Securities. ONE O'CLOCK. An Express from Paris brings the French Funds of Wednes day, at 93f. 30c. Spanish Boads were at 42 41}. French Scrip at 3 to 3i premium. The rise in the French Funds is attributed to an increased confidence in negotiations being opened for speedily terminating the war. _ _ . . _ Stock in our Market has risen, particularly Spanish Bonds, which are now at 35. - PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 225 224% 3 per Cent. Reducel 83 2 / 4 . 82% 83 3 per Ct. Cons. 82Y 4 1,4 Vs 34-334 per Cts. 95%8 4 per Cents. Old 100% % 100 4 per,Cent. New 101 1 . 1 ,4 1 / 8 9 / 8 Bank Long Anns. 21 S-16 5-16 Imperial S per Cents. 82 India Stock 260%—India Bonds 565. 575. Exchequer Bills (1:1,0(70) 28s. 31s. 28s. Ditto Small 335. 295. 325. Consols for Account 132 A 34 34. This morning wereceived tbe Moniteur of Tuesday, but it contains no intelligence that has not already been anticipated by previous,,arrivals. In its Official part it gives the Dispatch of of arshal MONCET re lative to the movements of General Cultist, which we gave yesterday. It also inserts a list of the Offi cers, and even the private soldiers, who distinguished themselves, when the garrison of Barcelona made the sortie on the 30th ult. Brussels Papers to the 12th instant, and German Papers of a recent date, have reached us. They are principally occupied with details of the operations of the Greeks, and plans for the new campaign, which ,threatens to open with more activity than ever. The Oriental Spectator of the 27th June, says, it always thought - the Only goOdjain was litif to attack any of the islands, but to'go,direct to the object, to combat and vanquish the revolution at its source. It entirely depends on the fate of the Mores. " there," says the Turkish Journal, " that the hydra is. Let the' Ottoman Hercules triumph over it, and the islands are but so many polypuses, which will putrify and fall off. Every island that is attacked will be destroyed like Scio: they will therefore be like so many trees cut down to the root, which will produce no more fruits for the empire." The Austrian Observer of the lit instant con tains the following intelligence from Constanti• nople to the 11th July. The Captain Pacha, with the greater part of his fleet, had arrived in the Gulf of Lepanto, after providing the fortresses of Negro pont, Canea in Candia, Modon, and Coron, with pro iisions: he has blockaded Missolonghi by sea; and it is said, that JUSSUE PACHA and OMen BRUME will attack it by land. The country about the Gulf of Volo and the island of Negropont, appears to have been lately the scene of a very bloody re-action on the part of the Turks; who, it is said, bad been for a time oppressed and ill-treated. Similar events have been caused by a landing of the insurgent Greeks on the coast of Asia, and this t a part which had hitherto been spared the horrors of this barbarous war. Fifteen Ipsariot armed vessels, accompanied by above one hundred barks, appeared in the bay of Airamit end Sandarly, landed some thouiand men near the latter place, plundered the town, murdered the greater part of the itthabitants r and carried a great number of them into : slavery— amongst the number was the Harem of CARA OSMAN OGLU, the Chief:F; a powerful family which, for about 50 years, has etelcised inthis part of Asia a sovereignty almost independent of the Porte. After this they plunderestand.burnt all the villages and farms in the neighboOrhOod, and after a short action with sortie troops that were sent against them too late, and in which they lost about SQ men, returned to their shipeladen with booty. pected an attack filled the whole country With - terror, then with boundless rage. ' The consequence was, that in the town of Pergamo,l which is not far from SandarlY, the Tarkish inhsibi tants, united with some Turkish soldiers, fell on the treek population, and, notwithstanding.all the exer tions of the Cadi, a venerable•old man, who is said to have received eighteen wounds on this occasion, a dreadful massacre took place, in which. about 1000 were killed. " '" When thiisiteeisentiirai feceived at Conitantisoplei, the Suvrai *demi linautsi cOni mands the . troops on the Bosphorastientuidiately to Pr s. send .a large dekachosent to., PPP% 44p 4 d - tnpunish with the utmost rigour the authors of singui nary scenes, which he considered to be neither j•t;ti •h uor excused by the preceding excessei of the itnergents. Two thousand men m,►rched in - come qneace of this order, and IBRAHIM PACIIA followed 'them two days after. Stull is the statement,in the Austrian Obw r re r ._ The .Al!genuine Zeitung gives news-from Coustavi nople of the same date, in which If4a-stated tat Canttt.NltSzLßODE's answer to the Refs Ermor bad been received, and that it was bOped the former relations with Russia would be restored. The same Paper gives a still more gloomy picture of the events on the coast of Asia than even the ration of the Austrian Observer :- • " The Greeks: , it says, a , having rejected all proposals, the war as sumes a fatal character of extermination, which must be more and more destructive to the Greeks. It seems as if their main object was, by their landings on the coast of Asia, to incre the number of the unhappy victims of their fanaticism, as they thus in. flame the vengeance of the Musselmen ; so that all the Greeks have no resource but to embrace one of the two parties." Relating the events at Sandarly, it says, the Greeks proceeded in the same manner at Mnylene. The Turks in revenge destroyed all the Greek cotton plan. -tations at Kirkagaz. In Negropont, all the open country has been laid waste by the Turks. The ac counts from .Salonichi are equally afflicting. As- DALLAHPACHA had sentl2,ooo men to the gu if of Vol o, to quell the insurrection that had broken out there. —The insurgents fled to Trikeri, but the Turks laid waste twenty-four of the Greek villages; bn which occasion, according to the Spectateur Oriental of July 4, 8,000 Greeks perished. The women and children were carried into slavery - . Further ac counts from the Morea and Negropont are expected with impatience. It is affirmed that the Pacha of Adrianople, as well as the Pacha of Scutari, is at La rissa, and the Thermopylae in their possession.—So far the AUgemeine Zeitung. We are glad to observe that the memory of the Ktrio's visit to Scotland, of which this day is the Anniversary, is so warmly cherished by its inhabit ants. The Gentlemen of Dumfries-shire and Gallo way have formed themselves into a Society, under the name of thew Southern Welcome Club," for the purpose of annually commemorating the happy event ; and we understand that similar Clubs have been formed, or are forming, all over the country. In another part of our Paper we republish a poetical yet accurate description of the joy and enthusiasm with which his MAJESTY was welcomed.tortlie Land of Cakes. • -In these grave times we are so glad to get hold of a good joke, that we have given at some length, an account of a Meeting which might have *beep discussed in a few lines. We allude to the Meeting convened by Mrs. SERRES, or her friends, yesterday, at the Freemasons Tavern. After the very satisfactory te futation of the claims of this Lady to an alliance with the Royal Family of England, by Mr. Pen in the House of Commons, it betrays no ordinary degreeof assurance on her part to re-assert those claims, or of credulity in others to believe in them—if any person (Sir GERARD NOEL excepted) can for a moment believe in them. If Mrs. Swiss had been a woman or spotless character, instead of a known promulgator of spurious documents, she might have been entitled to some al.. tendon ; but as it is, she ought to be treated with no more delicacy than any other dealer in impostures. When Sir Gra.-.an Noel. brought the questios d Mrs SEMI'S% claim to Royal birth before Porliamelq, Mr. Pm, refuted it by the positive evidence offacts; he might also have disproved it in the evidescs! If (have herself. : It is well known that Mrs. Mots claims for Dr. ''‘Vmssar (who has successively too her uncle and her grandfather) the honour of bftif the author of Junius's Letters. it was in 1817 dot, claim was set up ; and in order to prove Dr. Wis4lo/ the real Junius, she states the following argelittO, quite incontrovertible :—" Dr.Ws ',Dior was geortioq* vied—thus, no conjugal attentions interrupted diePr gressof learning; his secret was, therefore, doiiiiiM . cure. He had not a wife, in a moment of soli tenderness, to possess herself of the fixed iesolges.l it his mind. Jn . the answer of:Junius to Junin; h . , state was illustrated—tbinniiipluttic slit/iglu; ew. itselfiwhen, with gallainn.rallping'Jurt*he."?!" VI ms, ied to become a hosilstad i -: :iiikhosiiro oo dearly demonstrated the writer had neverberalrt rice!, or he would naturally have excliiiniirr . to hare a plurality of wives,"ltc. When Mrs. Saunas wrote this paragraph thitr dearly had, not formed her scheme for' :„ ? Priniess. • In 1817, the proof of Dr. w l l 4wr' '..: . iirtists rested on his celibacy; in 182101 f -Ottawa to be is Princess of .Cumberiaise , to same Dr: WlLtior (who, from heft had become fair , grandfather), havingloologr Princess PoitiAikinc, ofP , -no records reamed, am! . WAS [writ' tpeardg . ; . .. • 44, i 00 . ,OLtvit :iiitr - isleraillt:.44leir: 4 ,when she Otilifyoy O n t*fill ?tack, DreWat.sCri:lrinte. Earl Of WA ItSliZiL . C . OrninoPic4o4 lin June, .1815. Alai, SailultgiVos which .of the impostures she the Public • sykll,.:bar; Po. ' with ' &Rh; t'' ' • */-*: 'i . .. . wit wb 1, con VOL wit on 1 ebai tae tem XOl .1 tow ser pon 103 alas mad day 861 Mu teed Song we A and Imam th e p he fa in logi , from loin; sort, , to hei tiler), tartar - au. ,- . 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