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the bh ip Leal Portuguer, hich had onboard two huli•en d Portuguese troops of the fifth battalion, with the Co lonel and the whole Staff; and the brig Promptidao, with 59 soldiers of the 12th battalion, with their Cap tain, Grudes, were in Bahia, taken by the Maria. TJIE Al The Earl of EUSTON has been apr folk Militia. EXPERIMENTS Il Ms own indiscretion. Riego.. Was accompanied by an English Colonel; a Pledmontese Officer, and one . Aide. de-Camp. When Riego was taken, the Commanciant of the Militiaof Carolina ordered him to shout—" Death to the Constitution r " Live the absolute King !" The hero of -Tragala obeyed this order, but with reluctance. This letter contains an account of the opening of the Extraordinary Cortes, which was given in the STAR of yesterday. The Moniiettr contains some long articles from Ax, Perpignan, and Llers, relating to the action between General Damas and the Spanish General, Fernandez, on the 15th and 16th ult. It appears that the object of FERNANDEZ was to reconnoitre Figueras, and ascertain the state of public feeling in Catalonia. From 180 to iOO French refugees were taken prisoners in this en gagement, and conducted to Perpignan, : where they will await the decision of the Government. Same experiments were made at I with a newly invented shell, having t percussion. It is fired horizontally stantaneoudy upon striking against a adapts Itself to all ranges. It was four feet square and thirteen inches to pieces. It is therefore supposed feet against shipping. It may be stated, for the informatl directed their attention to the subj flight of shot proceeds from the hut of their sides, and the action of th their surfaces. These imperfections in casting ; but by means of the spiv shifted from side to side, so that d all sides, and the projectile moves rally been supposed, that in rifle bal nicated from the barrel. The pr...tel •ition, that it proceeds from the actil that it cannot be sustained unless by in the whole range of projectiles no trary. Among many other proofs th of this opinion, that of the arrow ma The spiral motion is accordingly refs, by making the sides of shot cyl thent obliquely, upon which the air mill. When fired by night, with fuse tha: the spiral motion is maintains the night ; the shot revolving at ell locity may be. From some memoranda found am that he made some experiments for the spiral motion to cannon-shot, be and in that scientific man bad lived that he would have brought them to clue to find out what Method he adt he dwells so much upon the resistant to read them without supposing ths nected with that in some way or very near it, but he failed in the sha of his grooves. The principles are work called Scloppitaria ; and it it nious author, after so beautiful an i short in the application of the theor The experiownt has hitherto been It is probable, however, that in she metal will tell in an enormous rata inflammable matter, they will affon fire, which it will be difficult to gua constructed with great accuracy. PROM THE ETOILE. " Grand Head-quartets, Port St. Nary, Sept. 22. " .All the . preparations are finished, and every mea sure necessary has been adopted by General Bourmont. The Prince and the Major-General ate gone to visit the preparations for entbat king they are waiting the order to embark, which is expected every day. The wind is favourable, and the nights are fine. " Thirty men of the.first post of the Island of Leon are come over to the French : they state that the dis• content of the troops.of the line is at the greatest height, and that their comrades are impatient to join them. " On the day of the attack of Santi Petri, the alarm was general in therisland, and every one flew to Cadiz. During the night of the 21st and 22d, three howitzers were placed near the Salt Mines, and fired on Caraccas. Some officers of the marine have advanced very near Cadiz, where they took soundings, in defiance of the fire from the place. The King is now treated with great respect. " M. Bournaont is to art ive this night at the Head quarters, it is thought, to take the last orders of his Royal Highness for the embarkation." were made at Carron, and very we Shell► upon this principle may also when trod upon; and placed with places, or where an enemy is likely NAVAL IATI; POSTSCRIPT TO TILE ETOILE. PERPIGNAN, SEPTEMBER 27. -.NIA The Balfour, GUNSON, from Lon shore at Plymouth, on Wedneidity The Constitution, Aswoou, fron near Waterford, on Monday night. PLYMOUTH, OCTOBER I.—Wind the Emelie, from Altona for St. Ti Porn -mount, Ovrosaa 2.—Win Mary, FltAxxutt, from Cardiff fo Dee, Buttons, from Oporto; and Rio Janeiro. - _ _ That important place, Figuei as, has capitulated : three thousand men are prisoners of war. The submission of Lopes Banos is announced, on the same conditions as Ballasteros; and it appears that Ba dajoz has submitted. Camp, to order thoin two vessels to resume their posts, the Trident astern of the Centaur, and the Guerriere' before it. It Was three o'clock. The Centaur had been engaged since a quarter past one; Fort St. Petri re turned the fire only at long intervals; I thought t)le time was come to attempt to storm it. I made a signal to the division to embark the troops in the coats, and to send them towards the Centaur, which was executed with all possible celerity, and I waited only for the moment when the Trident and the Guerriere should have taken their position, and commenced their fire, to order the landing, when, at half-past three, the fort hoisted a white flag, which was immediately saluted by a thousand cries of Vive le Roi. I immediately sent the boats, having on board four hundred and twenty men of the 12th and 14th of the Line, and a detachment of grenadiers of the marine artillery. When they reached to the foot of the rock on which the fort is situated, Captain Teliot, who commanded the landing, sent me a Spanish Officer with a flag of truce, who proposed that the garrison should retire to the Isle of Leon, un der its respective colours, and continue to serve against the French army. I insisted that they should eirgar l e not to bear arms against France during this war. Dm was acceded to, and was going to be executed, when the Spaniards, fearing to return to the Isle of Leon, pre ferred being prisoners ; and our troops immediately took posses,ion of the fort, where the Spaniards had twenty seven 24-pounders, brass, a garrison of 180 men, abund ance of ammunition, and provisions for two months. " I was too well aware of the importance of St. Petri, not to take advantage immediately of the success I had obtained. I armed one boat from each vessel to in• teccept the barks, which, notwithstanding the vigilance of our cruisers, brought provisions to Cadiz, entering by the ricer of this name. I already hear the cannon of the fort fire on these barks. Its fire, with that of the battery which we have in front, entirely , deprives Cadiz of this way ef receiving supplies, whiCh was alMost the only one it had. The Spaniards had 13 men killed and . wounded. The Centaur did not lose a man; The remainder of the report is filled up with com mendations of the officers and men employed. (Signed) " Rear-Admiral Baron Des ROTOURS. " On board the Centaur, off St. Perri, Sept. $3, 1823, 11 r. vir." (A true copy.) " The Rear-Admiral Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Force before Cadiz, " DUPER RE." There are also letters from Madrid of the 23d ult. at w hich date the Regency had received an official account of the taking of the fort of St. Petri, and the &Bowing dispatch from Andujar, addressed to their War Minister: " Having received orders from the Major-General of the Army to give up the prisoner Itiego to the Spanish Authorities, I am about to cause him to be delivered, along with his three companions, Don Marian Bayo, Spanish Captain; Virginio Vicente, a Piedmontese Lied tenant-Colonel ; and George Matino, formerly an Eng lish Lieutenant, to Don Joseph Azlor, Spanish Captain, charged with the order which your Excellency did me the honour to send to me on the 19th' of this month, and which directed, that Don Joseph Azlor should have•the guard of the prisoners. I pray your Excellency to accept, &c. " J. FOISSAC LATOUR. Litut.- General, commanding the Provinces of Cordova and Jaen." THE 14.VENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, OCTOBEIt 3, Is 3. TIIE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Congoh opened this morning at 831 for Money, and 8.1 1 1 fur the Account, with a good deal doing. _ _ _ The Expresses from Park have brought the French Funds at 90f. 45:.—Private letters state, that it w•as reported on 'Change in that Capital, that orders had been sent to London to sell Spanish Stock in our Market, to raise money to pay the Spanish dividends at Paris. _ _ _ FOREIGN FUNDS. Little doing except in Colombian and Spanish Builds. Old Spa aids Bonds opened at 311, and rose to 32k ; Colombian 54 ; New Spanish Bonds 26}; French Scrip 21. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 83 1 / 4 VI 1 / 4 4 per Cents. New 10214 31. 1 103 102 7 / 8 Imperial 3 per Cents. 82 7 / 8 India Stock 266—India Bonds 68s. 695. 665. South Sea Stock 94 3 / 8 Etch. Bills (El AXX)) 40s. 41s. pt.— Small 425. Bank for Acct. 227 %—Consols tot Act. 83 1 4 Vu 3/g. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. This morning we received the Monitenr and Mode l of Tuesday, and the 'Pilate of yesterday, by Express.— • Badajos and Figueras are said to have capitulated; and it was reported in Paris, that LOPES BA SOS had sub mitted on the same terms as BALLASTEROS. In another part of our Paper we have given the Re port of the Baron des ROTOURS, relating to the capture of St. Petri ; and we now subjoin other extracts from the Papers received by Express. MOM THE MONLTEUR. MADRID, SEPTEMBER 23. The first battalion of the Royalist volunteers of Ma- ' drid were reviewed yesterday by their commander, Don Joseph Aymeric. The Duc de Reggio attended the re view, and after complimenting the chiefs on the excel lent condition of their corps offered 4,000 muskets, and every necessary for equipping cavalry, as well as am munition and artillery. In execution of the orders of General Ballastems, who engaged to deliver the places in his command to the Royalist troops, under the authority of the Regency, General Bessieres, on the 18th, took possession of the fort of Las Peguas de San Petro. It is remarked that the Constitutionalists, on evacuating the place, joined the Royalists in shouts of "Live the Absolute King I—Live the liberating Army I" The Spanish gardes-du-cerpe left Madrid this morn ing, for Seville. • An officer, who has this moment arrived, informs us that yesterday he met Riego at Carolina, escorted by . a hundred peasants, and a detachment of forty men. The prisoner would sleep at Santa Cruz, thirty-four leagues from Madrid, and may be expected here probably the -4ey after to-morrow. The capture of this Chief may be considered as the work of liZAViti.4ot it is a great criminal fallen by I• FROM TIM PILOTS. At the close of 'Change, a report prevailed that Lo pes Banos had submitted, and that Badajoz had fallen. The 11v:tea, which began to fall, got up again to 90f. 70c. THE ENVIRONS OF SEU, SEPT. 21. Three batteries are about being established, to batter the fort of Urgel. Within these few days the fire from the fort has slackened. This evening a report prevailed that some more troops had left Barcelona, with an in- I tention to penetrate into Upper Catalonia. FROM TIIE C4_I.7IIIER FRANCAISE. ,• The Journal of Toulouse publishes the following details PERPIGN A N. . "The Constitutional division landed with four packets of cartridges a man. On the 15 h it had traversed the country between Monga as far as Llado, near Figueras. General Llamas, notwithstanding his ill health, took active measures. Orders were given to the inhabitants of Gironne, and the other towns, to take arms, under pain of the severest penalties. This General had already taken a position at Llado on the 15th. General Nisolase, who commanded the detached troops blockading Barce lona, arrived on the 15th, at six o'clock in the evening, at Besalu. lie marched a part of his troops to Campre den, another to Ripon, and a third to Barejoda, to cut off all retreat from the Constitutionalists. The firing commenced in the afternoon at Llado. The affair was extremely sanguinary. The enemy fought with incre dible fury, especially the foreign legion. The action lasted till the commencement of night. The next day they wished to continue their march to Figueras. If they had not lo,t this night in taking a position, it is suffici ently probable that they would have effected an entry. A still shar per action took place in the environs of Llers, dis tant three quarters of an hour's march from Figueras. The carnage on Loth sides was horrible; but at length the ammunition being expended, and the Constitution-. alists exhausted with hunger, Colonel Fernandez de manded a parley. A capitulation was concluded, in* which it was agreed to save the lives of the foreign pri soners who formed part of the Constitutional column.— Many French officers, not expecting this clause, de stroyed themselves, some with rams, and others with their swords and pistols. " The greater part of the foreign battalion perished in this affair ; and almost all the superior officers of the column, Spaniards as well as foreigners, are killed or grounded. The garrison of the fort of Figueras made' n° sortie to assist them, nor did it'make any attempt to Iget possession of the provisions of the town of Figueras, 'while the troops which. formed the garrison were with General llamas. It is said that the Spaniards, on the 16th, did not second the efforts of the foreign soldiers, who fought with desperation." This morning we received a Brazil Mail with Papers to the 6th of August. The following are extracts : RIO DE JANEIRO. FROM. THE DIARIO DO GOVERNO, FROM TUE 21ST JULY TO STU AUGUST INCLUSIVE. JULY 21.—The brigantine Maria da Gloria has ar rived, in ten days, from Bahia, having on board Ma jors Luiz Lopez Alas Roos and Jose Mar is de Ss Bar reto, who come as agents of the Provisional Govern ment. There are also several Dicers on board. They, say that Bahia was perfectly tranTril, and that all the troops bad entered in great order. They say also, that The frigates at the bar were the Commodore Thomas Hardy, with the three that were there, and a brig, sup posed to be a prize. JULY 22.—An Address to his Majesty the Emperor from the Provisional Government of the Province of Bahia, which was first installed at Caxsoeita, states its removal to the City of Bahia; it highly praises the con duct of the pacificating army, and adds that it is taking the necessary measures to revive this great city, now destitute of everything and perfectly stripped, and pre senting the melancholy image of desolation and the bar barity of its oppressors. JULY 9.—Another address (of the 7th) from the Chamber of Bahia, congratulates his Majesty on the deliverance of the City, highly extolling the conduct of the Brazilian troops, and bitterly complaining of the Portuguese. JULY 23.—An account of the evacuation of Bahia, given by an officer, states that the Portuguese convoy, which left that city on the 2d July, consisted of 84. ves sels, large and small. They were pursued by Lord Cochrane, in the Pedro I. with the Maria da Gloria, the Netheroy, and a brigantine. The Caroline frigate entered Bahia on the 9th. The squadron of Lord Cochrane had already taken '29 vessels of the convoy, some of which had arrived. JULY 24.—The Intendant of the Marine at Bahia, in a letter of the Bth, states he found the arsenal in a most deplorable state, the Portuguese having used every thing they could, and broken and destrosed what re mained, so as to tender it useless. The Diario contains an order of ' the day of General Lima, Commander of the Brazilian army, stating that they will shortly reap the reward of their heroic efforts, by entering the City of Bahia; at the same time he re commends the observance of the strictest discipline, es say bre telt of which be threatens to punish in the most. ,x.t.nplary manner—(dated June 24.) A Proclamation to the Inhabitants of Bahia informs them, that his army is going to enter the city, desires them to be in no alarm, and promises them every possi ble protection for themselves and their property ; that if any of them have been inimical to the cause of their common independence they will be safe and inviolable, and the General is persuaded that the clemency of the Emperor will never be sought in vain. The General, in an order of the day of the 3d, returns thanks to the troops for their orderly and regular conduct. An order of the 6th prohibits the soldiers from going armed into the streets, unless on actual duty. Atm 4.—A supplement to the Diario contains ac counts of the change of Government at Lisbon, down to the Bth July. Information 1f the change, bet not official, had been received op thel*th Avo. s.—The Diario is filled with extracts from the Lisbon Papers. • The daily bulletin of his Majesty's health says uni formly " His Imperial Majesty is doing well." These Papers afford scarcely any information rela- tive to the state of affairs in Brazil. The news of Europe, and more particularly of the Spanish Penin sula, fills most of the columns of the numbers of the Dinrio do Governo which have reached as. From the nature of the articles which are inserted, it would appear that the invasion of Spain was considered a subject of paramount importance in Brazil: but the counter-revolution in Portugal, accounts of which had arrived at Rio de Janeiro, was calculated to excite a still more intense interest. The pro lamations of Prince MlGort. and the KING, on the overthrow of the Con stitutional system, are inserted in the Diario, but not a hint is given of the light in which either the Govern ment or the Public viewed that extraordinary event.— The health of the EMPEROR was not completely re stored at the date of the last accounts, but daily bul- letins are published in the papers, which uniformly an nounce that “ he is doing well." Letters from Cadiz, dated the 6th ult. have been re ceived, by the way of Gibraltar, full of gloomy fore bodings and fearful apprehensions. Grief may paralyze the faculty of invention, and therefore, perhaps, it is, that the imagination or the recollection of the writers cannot travel beyond the now hackneyed expression of FRANCIS I. which is thus parodied :—•" All is lost, eves 'our honour." Yet Cadiz, we know even from the French themselves, had defended herself for a fortnight at least since the date of the letters ; nor was any immediate expectation held out of its surrender or capture. Another epistle, without signature, but understood to be written by a member of the Cortes, and addressed to a Spaniard in this country, has the following passage; Henceforth call yourself a German, a Swede, a Russian, by any name rather than that of Spaniard, which is for ever disgraced and dishonoured. The fair is over ; and it is my intention to embark on the first occasion that presents itself, to seek an asylum in South America." We are soriy to learn, from a letter inserted in the Glasgow Courier, that symptoms of insubordination have been manifested among the Negroes in the Island of St. Lucia. The Letter, which is stated to have been Written from a ,respectable mercantile house in St. Lu cia to friends in Glasgow, is as follows : • " castrise, St. Leda, August 8, MS. " Sine the ateeilletif Mr. Banks?a ntedon reached thin Waal, the *endue el seantaf the Negroes has caused much alarm. Three ntitstrious chatectetsvithgleeden in a pkt against the white and free coloured peeps, heeit been apprehended and brought Lees tows. Lest night was Geed foe the estannencenstat of their brigandage. The *thing Mews, end evert one en the alert, we hers the ale. &reed disturbs:weer* be pr entail, but we fear some severe ex amples wilt be Decresary, and is seaskerabk doe elapwt ere min qi kid ilielplinet be 'stabilised in is, ntindlof the Negroes. So notch for philanthropic coedits, producing misery anditdieed., shed, in place of peace and geed order." ----- Ocvoara S.—Wind ES. Sometsetshire, PARZI4T, /*PORI Jan company with his Majesty's ship Ea 50 sail of homeward-bound ships ft.( down from. the Hirer and sailed, Jamaica ; and Tula, Witty; for brosia, Latium, from Finsburgh f Belmar', ()mare 2.—lt if / 1 the Goodwin Sands during the ga drowned. Arrived the Atkinson Bridport, with sails split and bows; London to Ykistol, with sails split, CUSTOAI-110USE SHIPS EWriltin INWARDS—The Tosterlandet, from liernmand ; at rwuos—ll►e Madll shal Blucher, fur Rotterdam ; Britt 'stilton. and Ruth, for Jamaica; for Demerara; awl Union, for 1 CLICA ZING Ouiw•ltus—Tire Eali for Gibraltar; Bellissitna, for burgh ; and South Fisk, for San I. .~.... Yesterday afternoon Prince nom (the only son of the Ouches Ramsgate. His Royal Highness s The Duchess of KENT an the King's Palace, Kensington, la The Duke and Duchess of at their seat. Stowe, from Cbekci The following copy of a a mercantile house in Plymc 4, 1828 :•. 44 Gentlemen, I my safe arrival here last passage, with head winds f Finisterre, and from Cape St ever, I am informed by let that there is not more than and the fruit is nearly ready I we shall soon be dispatches Sunday, with fair wind or Favourite sailed with me re arrived. I think that we we here, as it now blows s —I was boarded by a Fren the Gut, who detained us would scarcely permit me a Spanish port. I hope we in going to Malaga, as t coming off to protect Britil in Cadiz three ships of the li of war, and several gnn-boa they they are not equal to th get everything they want. and state the nature of tl which time I to remain J. OWMAN, Mr. SADLER ascended in on Wednesday, and after a Ili:ley Moss, four miles fi lowing is Mr. SADLER'S acc " I ascended at twenty-five mit minutes found it requisite to cot dose my elevation was shoot thre was of she man pleasing hind. I this hadanisil coast extending to the very. &dimly. At ten abates tc I it to be in the nelghboodtood of I b.Yooa and in continued to opening the valve. I abaft ben which predated at akin east, though, at fret. nay lined In cdstsequenco of a efinaber veripeol and odor gimes Ins iv Watts@ pant Ave, I anoinell nip late to have been *ant two. • now shone unintereartedly tips exottasion. The theensionent by any oseams, to some MS* peered to be *boot one nallon tin distiandy beard. The balm, wa Meaty, and, conceiving the gre landing on this side the rivet, I I die descent. A greet siessntr won now induced to follow eves weil.enchned grass field. I lard igski fottuntße to effect scourer before several persons sane tq asioupt the•eanber were Mr. permitted me with a thane to course of the balloon from that