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... v. .~ ~ ;.~-;; i. 7777 - „ • for departure; nor have Imy ground, beiond those *bleb ! open in common to me and to all the world, for appreh that that departure is likely to be intercepted..-(tlear) , .rji not be expected of me that ['should say anything of what might, I in a contrary sup p o sition, be the decision which k would be come me to form. I can only declare, with eta moot west sincerity. that such a decision would be fanned by ins upon an honest and impartial review of public considerations alone, and would be determined, not by a calculation of my interests, but upon a balance of what I conceived nay public duty.— Gendemen, enough of this topic, upon which I might still, per haps, have hesitated to utter a word, if I had not been informed that my silence respecting it upon a former occasion has been misinterpreted. I trust I shall not now be anisinterpreted the other way ; and that having been understood as ostentatiously abjuring office at home, front not adverting to the possibility of its being rroposed to me, I may not now be considered as, an the other hand, expressing an anxiety fur office, by the, I hope, sufficiently measured allusion which I have found glyself at last compelled to make to surmises of which I ant not the author, but the object. Whatever my lot may be , may this great com munity flourish in that prosperity which is now beginning to be restored to it ; may you continue In the enjoyment of these libe ral principles front which you have never swerved--in that honourable spirit of political contest which has ever distinguished you, and in that cordial and friendly union which binds you to each other, however politically oppoted—(Cheers).—blay you continue to flourish, as you are, an image of a splendid Com mercial •nation, adding to the number of those ; rincely mer chants whose history one among you has so aply described. May you go on mingling science and history with your com mercial pursuits, and aduining all by a continuance of those munificent chkrities which have so long distinguished your town, and when you are called upon to select a Representatiee to fill that station which I have had the honour sif holding in another place, may you find one more able and more industrious than I have beets--one more devoted to your interest, or more thank ful for your kindness, I am sure you cannot find. 1 1 1 I 14. Ll' EN ING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, IBM THE FUNDS. • STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. There is little or no business doing this morning in the Market. Con.ols for the Account itn* /, Money 8 0 11, Reduced 811. FORFIGN Finais.—The Market this morning is very slack, and little doing in any description of Foreign Sectirities.—Chilian 831 to *, New Spanish 631, Old 651, New Prussian 87*, Old 90*, Russian 831, Danish 89, Neapolitan 77, Colombian 87, Scrip 871. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 252 1 % 251% 252 3 per Ct. Reduced 81 1 / 4 -2 per Ct.Cons.Bo% % % 3th per Cent:, 92 1 / 2 4 per Cents. 99 1 / 2 3 4 per Ct. New 99%'%—Bank Long Ann.2l 2015-16 India Stock, 250—India Bonds 48s. 475. 495. Old Annuities 90%—Eschecl. Bills £l,OOO, ss• 2s. 3s• Ditto Small, ss. Ss. 4s.—Cons. for Acct. 80%. " SEMLIN, AUGUST 12. Several of the Ministers had audience of his MeV MTV yesterday on the subject of the new ministerial arrangements; but they are not yet completely ma tured. The principal difficulty seems to be as to Mr. CANNING. The. Earl of LIVERPOOL urges the neces• sity of strengthening the Ministry by the accession of that Gentleman's talents; but there is a repug nance in a certain quarter which is likely_to outweigh all the arguments of state expediency. It is now stated, that Earl BATIIIIRET will be transferred from the Colonial to the Foreign Office, and that he will be succeeded by Mr. ROBINSON, who seems destined for a Principal Secretaryship. Mr. HUSICISEON is also spoken of as likely to have the offices of Trea surer of the Navy, and President of the Board of Trade. The report of the Duke of WELLINGTON having left town for Vienna, which we copied from a Morning Paper of yesterday, is unfounded. German Papers to the 25th ult. reached us this , forenoon. An article from Frankfort states, that , Count HAHDENBEnc, the Hanoverian Minister to the Court of Austria, was on his way to London, where he is to assist in drawing up the plan for the organi zation of the kingdom of Hanover: and that M. HOPPENSTEDT is also a Member of the Committee appointed for the same purpose. An article from Semlin, gives the following new version of the affairs of the Greeks: " Since my last, letters have been received from Epirus, by which it appears that Count Norman could not possibly have been present at the affair at the Thermopylz. _ _ The great ignorance of geography of many Greeks has probably made them confound him with some other General : however, Normann is saidlike wise to have gained a victory in Albania on the 2Cith of July, but the particulars are not known. So much is known fur certain, that in the middle of July he was posted with Bozzaris near Acta, which is eighty leagues from Thermopyli. • " I have a letter from Bitoglia before me, of 31st July, which likewise announces the entire defeat of Chourschid Pacha at Theimopylz--(This is the letter stating the Pacha to have been taken prisoner, with 70 Beys and 11,000 Turks. To this is subjoined the other report of the defeat of the Greeks on the 13th, and.of their victory on the 14th July, and the heroic conduct of young Bozzaris, who defended the Ther mopylz with 700 men, but lost his life, ice)" Advices from Zante, of the 3Jst of July, represent the Turks to have scoured both sides of the Gulf of Lepanto, to have occupied Corinth, and also to have retaken Athens. From Corinth they emended them selves to Napoli di Romania, the evacuation of which, ,by the Turks, they arrived in sufficient time to pre vent. This fortress had surrendered to the Greeks, to be delivered up on a fixed day, and the Turkish garrison, by the articles of capitulation, was to be' transported to Asia in English or Austrian ships,,._ `.'o secure the safety of the garrison, the Greeks had sent hostages into the place, but as.soon as the gar rison saw that their own lives were safe, by the ap. ) roach of their countrymen, these Grecian hostages were butchered. These accounts—to palliate this - r F; tr i i s e ri 11,1 "" w iltrillligirl. lll E9lPPT"7 "7 , 74P‘ . . additional proof, W ally were %stinted, of Turkish ill vilisation—state, *at, when 'the Tarki arrived be fore Athens, the Greeks 1 that plies put all their prisoneri to death. Tile Zante scams a l so stat e, that the combined Turkish and Egyptian fit Ats had been met on their way to Patrav, and that the Greeks had raised the blockade of that place. - I Turkish army, and , give _ vusaa, -Am 110.—bistalllqUes 81 1540.•.-Bank Shares VS corps to arrive and surround it. Two thousand Greek I women, whom the Archbishop of Germano had as- The French Papers of Saturday have been receivel They are principally filled with the proceedings of the Courts of Assize at Poitiers and Paris. The affair of Rochelle, which is before the Tribu nal in the latter place, is still not finished. On Fri day three new witnesses were examined for the pro secution, when Messieurs Bsetvna.s, BAarHa, Foaca, AYLISS, and MORQUART, the Counsel fur Baradere, Gaumn, Rose, Henon and Manias, were successively heard in defence of their respective clients. . . sembled, and brought to the tops of the saduntaint with their children, some of them not mere than ten years of age, rolled down stones during the whole ac tion upon the Turks. Like another Leonidas, the young Bozzaris, covered with. glory and wounds, breathed his last sigh amidst the cries of Elutheria (Liberty). " His body was carried to Corinth, attended by one thousand Grecian mothers, and one hundred and sixty Priests, who every hour sang hymns of gratitude to ' the GOD of ARMS% It is also asserted that Odysseus sacrificed himself through patriotism. Like his great prototype of old, he joined art to enterprize, and went over to Chourschid Pacha, to persuade him to pursue the Greeks among the fastnesses where they had formed ambushes for his destruction. For this pur pose he represented, in the strongest colours, the di visions which were, believed to prevail among the Greeks, and promised Chourschid both his advice and his support. The nubs]) Commander, how ever, still doubted his sincerity, and when he found that defeat was the result of the advice thus given, he caused Odysseus to be beheaded, and the guard of two hundred men whom he had brought with him, to be massacred." The speech of M. BERVILLI is interesting inasmuch as k stews how contemptible the cdespiracy was which has given such alarm to the French Govern ment. The following area few of his observations on the subject: 44 The accusation has laid down general facts ; it then has endeavoured to :hew a participation in the pin on the part of the prisoners belonging to Paris, and among them it includes my client, Barasiere.— Let us examine these pretensions. What is the situa tion of an accuser ?—that of a person who makes a demand. Every person who does so ought to define that demand, and the obligation is strictly imposed pon an accuser who pleads against the presumption of innocence—who claims not money, but human blood, and who, ir he gains his causes does not obtain damages or compensations, but punishment and scaf folds. In conspiracies especially, the accusation can not take its elements of conviction but in the circle of the cause, and in facts personal to the accused.-- In fact, here the corpus delicti is not a material fact certain and fixed in its nature—it is a fugitive thought which must be seized and fixed, and which cannot be exactly known but in making it personal to the accused by the evidence. " Has this course been followed ? What abuse of general facts! What disproportion between the im portance of the accusation and the consequence of the accused. It is the soldier, Bicherou, who leads us through all Europe, and even into Greece—it is the serjeant-major, Goupillon, who is called to answer for the excess of civilization! Among the general facts there are some of two orders. The first are facts of Csrbonarism. They are not the objects of the charge. AU those who were accused of pure and simple Carbonarism have been released: but these facts are a kind of train introduced into the cause to frighten your imagination. Let us see how far this fear is well founded. We bear talk of poniards, oaths, and executions. Oh ! if I bad to prosecute a Mason lodge, how easy would it be for me to raise up, before your eyes, the most frightful images! What terrible oaths—what fi ightful trials, could I not conjure up to your view ! And yet all the world knows that a Mason-ledge is only a society for pleasure and bene volence. The poniard may be an innocent instru- As private letters from Zar►te give a very different account of the recent engagements between the Turks and the Greeks, further information is necessary to enable us to judge correctly as to the success of the latter. PRIVATE LETTER. " P•■ts, AUGUST 26. " We have got the English Players once more upon the lapis; and as there is at this moment a dearth of opportunity for dis playing our Ministers in their more extended capacity, I will hold up one of them, at least, in the narrowed sphere of domestic po licy. After the infamies of the Porte St. Martin, and the cowardly retreat made by the Government before the violence of the mob. Mr. Penley and his company found themselves here in the utmost difficulty. Pillaged by the Proprietor of the Theatre of their just share in the profits of the representation, and at immense loss by their journey and sojourn in Paris, the Manager was ailised fo ask leave to perform for six nights, by subscription, in a small private Theatre in the rue Chantereine. He accordingly made his application, and it threw the whole Cabinet into a dilemma— such as might have been caused by a treaty of commerce or a declaration of war. The point was debated in several successive Councils, while the poor Players were kept dancing attendance for nearly a fortnight in the greatest suspense, and at an almost ruinous cost of living in the hotels of Paris. At length it was hinted to Penley, that he might expect an answer on a certain day and hour ; and, after several adjournments, he was at last in formed, that he might have liberty for his performances—not in the Theatre he asked for—but in the Salle Fawn, one four times as large as was r4ouired ; the fining up of which would cost an immense expense, and which had no recommendaticn whatever . - but that it belongs to the brother-in-law of M. Corbiere, the Minister of the Intesior—for whose family patronage a poor com pany of English Comedians were to be duped and re-pillaged. I believe the secret annals of Ministerial meanness afford nothing worse than this—but it did not succeed. Another of the Ministers interfered, and the prisms* mairie of the Cabinet—fear, came in to the decision of the point. It was apprehended that the' Central situation of the Salk Aware might attract obstructions to the per formance, and as the English Ambassador warmly espoused the claims of Mr. Parley, the little private theatre was finally granted, and the Mini►terial Rulers of France thus finished a negotiation, worthy of the Cabinet which, in its wisdom. ordained Talma not to pace , the stage, in the character of Sylla, with his hands behind his back, because such was a common habit of Napoleon ! —The representations of the English plays go on quietly enough, and are patronised by a number of amateurs of La Litteralure Anglaise, and oppoiers of the new system of French Pufftesse." imams Fran, Auaosv l.—Five per Cents. opened at Of. 60e.—Closed at 94f. ment—and that of the Carbonari has not, since the society has been established in France, inflicted the least wound. This fact speaks volumes against the frightful suppositions of the indictment. The con demnation of the Templars took place on charges equally terrible, and posterity has cleared them. Since, then, simple Carbonarism is not the crime, let us pass to the second order of facts—namely, those relative to the plot. The accusation denounces a vast conspiracy formed against social order, and against all thrones. Now turn your eyes to the prisoners at the bar. You see a young Advocate—a schoolmaster—a student of medicine—a clerk in a private administration—a 'Captain (abandoned by the prosecutor)—three Ser ljeant-Majors—a soldier—such is the vast conspiracy against all thrones! I look for the funds of this con spiracy, and I find thirty francs (twenty-four shil lings and sixpence) given by the charity of the Pi erect to one of the accused. Such is the opulence of the conspirators! But their arms ? Twenty blades, mostly without handles, proved to be the sabres for Wants, shortened. But we hear of a Directing Com mittee. Where is it ?—who proves its existence ? It escapes, it is said, judicial proofs. Why, then, do you introduce it into a judicial process ? But it shews itself by its acts! Where are they? They ar e es tablished by former judgments. What are these judgments? There was a conspiracy, they say, at Nantes, at Strasburg, at Belfort, at Joigny. My client replies, verdicts of acquittal were pronounced at Joigny, at Belfort, at Nantes, and at Strasburg." The Coubsel then asked who were the conspirators ? what were their means of seduction? and what was the conduct of the Chiefs of this military plot . Be ties was imprisoned for quarrelling with the Sy/la— the inheritance of his plot, like the Impassion of Alexander, passed successively into the hands of, Pommies and Goabio, who likeoriet contrived to get into the clutches of the polka. The conspirators were thus reduced to two agleam and one soldier ! who had no money, and made no preparation in their barracks for executing their plot."4—The Learned Counsel then shelved that his, client had nothing to do with the conspiracy. These Papers contain letters from The Portuguese Papers contain some Royal letters from the Ktxa at Lisbon, to his son, the PRINCE RE GENT, in the Brazils. One of these letters directs the Palma REGENT to institute a summary investigation into the reasons why the Deputies of Minas Geraes, and the other transmarine Provinces, have not taken their seats in the Sovereign Congress. A second let ter contains the Decree of the Cortes, authorising the continued residence of the PRINCE at Rio Janeiro and governing under the KING and the Cortes until the publication of the Political Constitution of the Portuguese Monarchy ; and orders that the Provi sional Juntas of the Government be elected and in stalled, conformable to the Decree of the 29th of Sep• tember, 1821, in all the Provinces in which it has net yet been faithfully executed. Another Decree of the Cones condemns the De cree of the PRINCE REGENT of the 16th of February last, directing a convocation of Representatives of the different Provinces of Brazil, and :declares it null and void. Gibraltar Papers to the 18th ult. state, that the in surrection in the Ronda Mountains was begun by a few vagabonds, for the sake of the plunder, and that their whole force is calculated at not more than 200 men, and against them troops were advancing from Algeciras and Malaga, while others were assembling in the Ronda Mountains to attack them. lALDIYAR has again made his appearance in the neighbourhood of Xeres. The city of Leon is reported to have proclaimed the KING with absolute power. The Army of the Faith in Navarre has been again defeated at Nabascues, after three hours fighting, with the loss, besides ammunition, Stc. of .50 killed. Bitoglia, dated July 31, which still assert that a great victory has beea gained by the Greeks at the pass of Thermo- ~~~ wounded. They fled is the direction of Tiermies Mountains. Dutch Mail with - Papers to the lift inst. reached forenoon. The following are extracts: HASIBURGII, AUGUST 27. learn the following from the Russian frOntiers i Bth of August. His Majesty the Emperor leaves St: Petersburgh on the 16th for Warsaw, whence he will go to Vienha. He will be accompanied as we leain i by Count Nesselrcde, by Mr. Von Muller, Counsellor of State, a Secretary, and three Aid-de-Camps. It is affirmed that in the approaching Congress, im. portant and very comprehensive measures will be proposed against the Liberals or Carbonari in all the countries of Europe. The Pruisian Minister, Count Bernstorff, having received dispatches from Toeplitz, where the King of Prusiia is at present, set out .on the 20th with a small suite for Vienna, to attend the preliminary con ferences. Nothing is yet said of.the departure of the Chancellor, Prince Hardenberg, for that city, nor is it known whether the King of Prussia, who was ex pected back at Berlin on the 29th, will go to N'ienna or not. '7 5 : 4 74,1 1 111 0 7 _ _ • pyle. - Then lettirs.sat, 0. that oethe 18th at July, aa d many wounded. They fled i the Demetrios Ypsilanti, who bad collie* a numerate Tiermies Mountains. army, determined to idltivengeane , efor a tight se• A Dutch Mail with - Papers to tl ' pulse which he had experienced the preceding ,is this forenoon. The following Seven hundred Greeks,-placed at the entrance of the HAMBURGII, AUGE Thermopylae, fciught the whole d ay to stop the W e l earn t h e f o ll ow i ng f r o m t h Turkish army, and to give time to the i.ther Grecian ilth of August. His Majesty the AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 30. Above 100 children, mostly of the lowest class, having fallen victims within a few weeks to the neg ligence of their parents, and been carried off by the small-pox ; the Burgomasters have given notice to the inhabitants of the imminent danger, and seri ously exhorted every one to promote vaccination to the utmost. BATAVIA, ,)lARCII 22. We learn from Sou rabaya, that his Majesty's f: ;gate Melampus sailed from that place on the Piz inst. bound to the Molucca I lands, having on board tie late Sultan of Palembang, Maehmued Badan oe,ii:„ who is to be conveyed to Ternate, which the Supt err..: Go vernment has fixed upon as the place of his bani-hrrient. The Resident of Ternate had received previous notic.: of this resolution, with orders to make ail the necet.- sary preparations to receive and establish the late Sultan as well as possible, and to treat him with all . the respect and indulgence that are compatible with the security of his person. About fifty of the relations and servants of t:le Ex Sultan accompanied him thither; several of them, who at first followed him from Palembang to Fort Orange, have expressed their intention not to accom pany him any farther. The New York Papers to the 4th ult. contain the official account of the battle of Dubajun, on the 7th of June, in which Colonel . PENANco was capr. ired, and which terminated in a retreat 50 leagues in the best order, the Spaniards only obtaining the field of battle and the Commandant. The Colonel had only 700efective men, whilst General MORALES had 12tX). The loss of the battalion of Boyaca was great, ccc sisting of 69 killed, wounded, and missing. FROM THE BERMUDA PAPERS OF 6TH JULY. ASYLUM FOR AFRICAss.—On the night of the 2241 ult. forty-six slaves made their escape from Turk's Island, in two small vessels, Accounts were received from the Caicos, a few days afterwards, that one hun dred and one slaves (men, women, and children) had gone off in several small craft, which they had taken possession of. The inhabitants of Turk's Island being apprehensive that thii evil would increase; have armed themselves, and kept a strict guard at night. In the meantime, the Magistrates have petitioned the senior Officers in command on this station for pro tection, until communication can be had with the Governor of the Bahamas, at New Providence, and the Admiral on the Jamaica station. Informaticn has reached Turk's Island, from Porto Plata, t!::!t small vessel bad recently arrived there with a n::m• ber of runaway slaves from Tortola. The Salisbury packet, from Brazil, has brought letters from Rio de Janeiro of the 3d of July, Bahia of the 13th, and Pernambuco of the 19th. The prin cipal intelligence is, however, contained in the letters from Bahia, of which the following are extracts : BAHIA, JULY 2. For the last month literally nothing has been dve —the shopkeeper sells nothing, and the importer «;:l sell only for cash or produce, so that in reality he also sells nearly nothing. The Militia being callA out every alternate day to exercise, the shops are co:1- sequently shut on those days after twelve o'clock. Though all has been in appearance tranquil for the last two or three days, intelligence has reached us that the planters in the neighbourhood of this place and for about forty miles up the river, have been en couraging the native disbanded troops to assemble at different points, furnishing each man with high arms, and ammunition. The European Cornmaii2ec has in consequence sent a gun-boat up to stop the entrance of the river, which to-day is reported to have been taken, and two or three others are in col sequence preparing for the same destination. Should this prove correct, we shall have no more business for some time with the interior, which is our chief con sumer, and, sales will be pretty neatly or altogether at a stand. Jury 3.—The Prince has been proclaimed neatly throughout the Province, between which and this place there ezists'active warfare. One gun-boat, sett by the Governor to blockade the river, has been tiike3 at Cochbeira, with the loss of thirty men ; and it is said that another has been sunk, which was subse quently scut ou the um; errand. The whole of the