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THEZVENING STAR. LONDONv SATURDAY, AUGUST 2. 182 S. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at OM at which price they re main steady. An Expreu from Paris brings the French Rentes of Thursday as foilows: opened at 90f. 80c. got up to 91E 10c. and closed at 90E 75e. and Spanish NI (sellers). FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds upeaed at 521, j, with little doing. French Scrip fr, a, I, pr. Rut‘ian Bonds 831. 4 ; Colombian 621; Poyais 19j. In other Foreign Securities nothing doing. Hausmann, July 25.—Ezehange on London, 56. 11. 37.2. PETIRSBUILOH, July 11.—B:changes* London, 915-53 ; sterdam, 91 ; Paris, 101 ; Hasnburgh,llj. Halmos, July 22.—Exchange on London, 5 M. 7.5. Ausrsansm, July 29.—Eachange on London. 41. 2 M. 40. 9. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced 82 82 1 /4 82 82%, 3 per Cent. Cons. 81 3 / 8 Vs 3 /. 4 per Cts. Old 99% 5 / 8 -4 per Cts. New 100% 5 4 Bank Long Annuities 20 15.16 21 India Bonds 545. 555. New Anus. 805 Exch. Bills (E1,000)285.265.285.-Brnall 275. 30s. Consols for Account 813/8 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. This morning we received the French Papers of l i Thursday, and a private Letter of that date, by Ex press. The Moniteur re-publishes the Telegraphic Dispatch relating to the taking of Ferrol, the conclu sion of which the coming on of night so inoppor tunely prevented it from giving on the preceding day. This tail of the Telegraphic Dispatch merely an - 'minced that the French found all kinds of provi sions in Feriol, and several armed shallops, which, it is stated, will be employed against Corunna. The following are extracts: FROM THE MONITEUR. PARIS, JULY 31. General Count Goilleminot has received from the Spanish Regency the grand Cordon of the Order of St. Ferdinand. A letter from Madrid, of the 26th inst. states, that the Head-quarters will proceed to Seville on the 28th inst. The same lettet states that General Ballasteros, pressed by General Molitor, has endeavoured to escape by Jaen ; but General Foissac.Latour bad marched to meet him, and forted him to take another direction. The position of l3allasteros was becoming extremely critical, as General Molitor had arrived at Grenada on the 24th. The French army, which entered Spain on the 7th of April, will, before the 7th of August, have deli• vered all the provinces of that kingdom. The fortified towns have served as a refuge to the remains of the armies of Riego and Valdes, and the other factious demagogues of the Peninsula. Some of them have already fallen into our bands. The re duction of Ferrol will soon be followed by that of Corinna, which will be one of the most fatal blows to the factious, as it is by Corunna that the succours in arms, men, and money which the Revolutionists of Europe send to their brothers in Spain arrive. The formidable artillery which was at Narbonne and Bayonne, has now been conveyed to Barcelona and Pamepluna. The siege of the latter place will commence immediately, under the direction of Mar shal Lauriston, who will afterwards undertake the siege of Lerida. St. Sebastian and Santona continue to be strictly blockaded, and it is said that in a few days the want of provisions will compel the garrisons to open the gates :-28,000 Spaniards of the regular troops who serve with us, invest Alicant, Carthagena, Badajos, and Ciudad Rodrigo. The most renowned Generals of the Cortes, Abisbal, Sarsfield, and Murillo, are already in our ranks; and the latter has given to the King a faithful army. The Regency established at Madrid has been re cognised by all the provinces of Spain, and the Re presentatives of the Courts of Austria, Denmark, France, Prussia, Rome, Russia, and Sardinia have acknowledged its authority. The Alliance gives it a moral support, and France assigts with her forces. The finances and the army are organizing, and the conduct Of the Regency every day tends to the main tenance of order. Such is the prodigious work the Prince General has accomplished in less than three months. The French army has been re-created, and the most bril liant actions have signalized the return of the white Rag. while the delusion of the tri-coloured Bag is at an end. The Duc d'Angouleme, who, from the centre Of Spain has directed the military operations in all the provinces, now that thry are accomplished, and that everything is ready before Cadiz, will transfer his head-quarters to Seville, to inspire the soldiers with a new ardour by his presence. He would quit Ma. drid on the 28th, after confiding the command lithe troops to the brave Marshal the Duc de Reggio. General Molitor's division is at Grenada with con siderable detachments: thirty thousand Frenchmen are before Cadiz independent of the Spaaith forces. Their efforts, seconded by our fleet and by the means prepared at,Seviule by General Bourmont, promise the happiest results. The King said to the Ambassador of the august poisoner of the Convention of Cadia—" GOD has too I, visibly protected the most just of causes for me to doubt that he will continue his support. As for my self, strong in the purity of my intentions, and those of the Sovereigns, my allies, I am fully resolved not to 14y down my arms- until I have given happiness to Spain, to her King liberty, and to Europe that repose of which the troubles in your country threat ened to deprive it r The following letter was written from Corunna, on the 17th inst. by a Frenchman, who was at that time a prisoner in the town : " Before I quitted my prison, I had the inexpres sible delight to see the French army under the walls of Corunna. The garrison was posted in a yetb ad vantageous situation on the heights which command !the town, and they had made some entrenchments. But in the space of an hour all their positions were carried by our troops, who pursued the enemy under the ramparts of the town. The success is the more remarkable, as the attack was made by the advanced guard, which was without artillery. " The loss of the Revolutionists was 98 men killed and wounded, among whom were ten officers. Ge neral Wilson and his Aid-de-camp were wounded. Our loss was inconsiderable. Had it not been for the arrival •of the corps of Campillo, consisting of 1,800 men, Corwin*, which glories in being the se icond bulwark of liberty, had fallen w ithout firing a shot, the garrison having manifested an intention of offering no resistance to the entry of the French. a The garrison of Corunna consists of 5,500 or 4,000 men, including the national guards. Quiroga and Vigo have declared their intention to defend it to the utmost ; bat as the population is against them, they may change their determination when our ar tillery is bronghi against the place, which it can com mand in•all part).". BANONNE:JULY , A courier brings word that the greatest uncertainty prevails at Madrid, respecting, the affairs of the army, and the provinces. The Regency continues to have many persons arrested. We have seen here a young man of 18 years of age, who was pact in pri son at Madrid, as he says, because he belonged to the Militia. Ile escaped by means of bribery. The preparations for the siege of Pampeluna are carrying on with the greatest activity, and it will be regularly commenced in a few days. Marshal La,uriston sets out this morning, as we hear, for Ernani. All per sons belonging to the Bureaux of the second Corps of Reserve, have received notice to hold themselves in readiness, and it is supposed that orders will be given them on Saturday. We are informed from the environs of Pampeluna, that the garrison still makes frequent sallies ; and, as they are executed unexpectedly, they do more or less injury to the besiegers. Thus, on the 16th they killed 30 men, on the 17th 40, and on the 18th and 19th, 200 men of the troops of the Faith, and 100 French. A ,guerilla of 400 infantry and 80 cavalry, has appeared within two leagues of Pampeluna. According to letters from Saragossa, it should seem that we have had two serious affairs before Barcelona, on the 16th and lath. The details are not mentioned, and nothing official has been published respecting them, that has come to our knowledge. It is affirmed, that the sieges of St. Sebastian, Samna, and Pam peluna, will all be carried on at the same time. An immense quantity of artillery passes through this City. PRIVATE LETTER. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. " PAM, JULY 31. The Duke d'Angouleme's removal of the head quarters to Cadiz, is attributed, by some, to his inse curity at Madrid ; by others, to a want of confi dence in General Bourdesoulle : there is not the slightest degree of truth in either of these reports ; his Royal Highness gnes to Cadiz, because there the fate of the war will be determined. Negotiations for the surrender of Cadiz are going on, and it is believed - that the point is reduced to a simple question of arithmetic, it is merely to ascertain how much money is to be paid for the possession of Cadia, with the fall of which the Government of the Cortesgoes, and the for tified places will afterwards fall of themselves into the new system. ie As a large sum is demanded, it is necessary the Duke should be present, net only to negotiate, but to prevent by his prudence the horron of a re-action, which would be terrible. His presence is necessary, too, for the organization of a GQvernment, of which the King will be at the head ; but the formation of a moderate Government will devolve upon the Duke, who it is believe.l bas already prepared one for the King's approval. " The Regency has issued a decree, at variance with the Duke's principles, a decree calculated to produce the most fatal effects : not only all persons in place since 1820 are dismissed, but the treasury intends to insist on the repayment of all the sums it has paid in the three years for the army, &e. A step which would be dangerous, even if practicable, and not being so. it is still worse." ittmbargh Papers to the 96th ult. received this morning, bring the following intelligence : JULY t. Officers of the General Staff have arrived here, who are taking an accurate survey of the country, and making preparations for the formation of a camp of 90,000 men, in which the whole Polish army will be assembled, together with the Lithuanian corps, under the Prince Constantine. Hu Majesty the Emperor is expected in September, when the reviews will begin, • ST. PETIRSEURGII, JULY ii. It is said that his Majesty the Emperor will set out on the 2d of next month, to view the army in Bessa rabia. His Majesty has assigned the sum of 100,000 rubles for the purpose of making a new public pro menade near Catharinenhof. COPENHAGEN, JULY se. We learn that their Majesties will not be back so soon as we expected, as they do not leave Louisenlund till the 3d of August, instead of the 27th of this month. The Rev. Mr. Bastholm, editor of the West &eland Advertiser, has had' an action brought against him , for some free expressions in his Journal ; the prose• cation is instituted at the desire of Baron Nicolai, the Russian Minister. Captain Otto Von Kotzebue passed through the Sound a few days ago, coming from the Baltic. STOCKHOLM, JULY 15. Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses will not go to Norway till next spring, when the Ordinary Stor thing will be assembled, in February, according to the Constitution. The Diee'has been very much engaged for some days past. On the 1011 was the debate on the Re port of the Constitutional Committee relative to the Council of State. The question, whether in confor mity with Article 107 of the Constitution, the Diet should address his Majesty to dismiss the Secretary of State, Mr. Quiding? was put to the vote, and de cided in favour of Mr. Quiding, by a ►najority of 103 to 77 votes. LUNEBURGH, JULY 3. On account of the high duties and troublesome formalities to which the Prussian Ordonnance now put in force, subjects all manufactured goods passing through the Prussian dominions, our merchants have began to send all such goods destined for Saxony, by way of Brunswick or Hanover, Nordheim, Witzen hausen, Eisenach, through the States of Gotha. The Leipsic merchants have adopted the same course for sending goods to us. Dutch Papers to the 81st ult. reached us this fore noon. The following is the only article they contain worth quoting: ODESSA, JULY 4. We have accounts from Constantinople to the 29th of June. The Porte has yielded to the urgent repre sentations and threats of Lord Strangford, and re ' leased the four Russian ships. Rut they must return to this port instead of going to the Archipelago. Perhaps the answer of Count Nesselrode to the Reis Effendi which the Porte has received indirectly, though it seems not yet to have got the original, may have contributed to this concession. Nothing was known at Constantinople respecting the events in the Peloponnesus. The capital was tranquil. Onr com munications with the Mediterranean become more and more difficult. JULY 7.—A ship which left Constantinople on the 2d, brings word that the negociations with Persia had failed, and that hostilities had recommenced. If we may judge from the scanty intelligence fur nished by the French Papers, during the last few days, the war in the Peninsula is on the point of assuming a more active and a more decided character than it has hitherto done. Apathy and disunion have pre vented the Spaniards from offering a successful re sistance to the French, who, with a force that in a former period of Spanish history would never have crossed the Ebro, have occupied the capital, and even sti etched their forces to all the boundaries of the kingdom. The Government has been compelled to take refuge in the strongest fortress of Spain, which is now besieged, while all the principal cities are invested. Such is the situation of Spain, and yet it is by no means considered as hopeless. Indeed, the - indiscreet policy of the Regency at Madrid has counteracted the effects of the arms of France, .and the Spaniard s , seeing no alternative but defending their present Go vernment or a return to the ancient despotism, seem at length resolved to make an effort to avert further degradation. If Spain should be roused to a general resistance, the situation of the French would indeed become peculiarly critical. The prinCipsil,army has perhaps by this time commenced the siege of Cadiz ; but, notwithstanding the conSient assertions in the French Journals that it will soon fallithere is every reason to believe thatit is cagible of a long and a vigorous resistance.: , There is, howevee r much doubt that Cadis will be put to this test, lines, if the army of BALLASTIROS is as strong as it is represented, be. may very easily compel the French to raise the siege. Such, it would seem, is his intention, as the latest accounts repre sent him as in full march upon Andalusia, having previously been joined by Zirtisa, and reinforced the garrisons In the pt It is saidyand not improbably, that the sortie from Cadis had for its object the reinforcement of the, Spanish forces in Andalbsia, and that of the 9,000 Mee with which it was made, 4;000 did-not return, but matched towards BALLAIRIMOII6 whose army they were intended tojoin., Should this be the case, it may be inferred that the Government feels fully eotilldent in'the defence of Cadiz, and that the rein' forcement Of BALLASTEItOs is to !o take some important military enterprise. Whether BALLASTEROS will march on Ca ii, 'attack the 2d corps of the army under General Mo. LITOa, seems doubtful. The latter General, aFtr strengthening the garrisons in Murcia, has still a respectable force; but it is doubtful wl,ether it would be able to cope with the united armies of DALLAS- Tinos and ZAYAL From Galicia our intelligence is not recent. it is now ten days since we r ece i ve d an account of the failure of the attack o n Co runna , and, although it has been stated that the F renc h army had re t i re d , yet the fact is by no means certain. It is how ever probable, that the Constitutionalists will be able to defend Galicia. In Catalonia the redoubtable MINA has again taken the field, and it seems probable that the ca•npa: gn in that province will assume a new character. The latest accounts state that Marshal MONCEY, we:Hied with the desultory warfare by which his army is cnt of piecemeal, is determined on forcing the S,:a. niards to a general action, to which they are not in. disposed, and a great battle was expected to take place about the close of last month. AU the Spanish fortresses still hold out ; nor can anything decisive be undertaken against them unti the artillery from France can be brought up. There seems no doubt of the Duc d'ANGOULEME'S departure from Madrid, where the hickerings of party must have rendered his ~ituation'by no means comfortable. Various causes have been as , ignc...l for this measure, both in London and Palk: the mo 4 probable one is, that he may reinforce the besiegiilg army at Cadiz, and in case of its surrender, or of ne. gociations being commenced, be on the spot to direct them to a successful issue. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Dake Comm. LAND and Prince WILLIAM of SALMS left town hr Woolwich, where they were received by Sir W. Coy- DARR; to inspect thAt extensive establishment. Thursday, the Duke of CUMBRRLAND, the Duke and Duchess of CLAnsmca, the Duchess of SAXI. WEIMAR, the Duchess of KENT, Prince LEQPOLD, Prince WILLIAM of SALMS, and a numerous assetn. blage of distinguished personages, honoured Lady DYSART with a visit to a dejeun4 at 1-lam, near Richmond. Marquees and tents were pitched on the lawn; a military band attended, and played during the enter tainment. Yesterday a Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held at the Treasury Chambers. An extra Board was held on Thursday. Tuesday, the Marquis of LA NSDOWN, accompanied by THOMAS Mooae, Esq. left Dublin for Killarney. Friday sennight, the Earl and Countess of Kes- HARR arrived at Killarney. Friday se'nnight, the Earl of Fourtsars and his son, Viscount ERRINOTON, arrived at the seat of tl,e Right Hon. Sir JoaN NEWPORT, Barr. There are about 4.00 looms now in full work in tile' parishes of Braintree and Bocking, by which the poor are employed, and it is pleasing to observe the change in their condition, and their cheerful countenance-, since they have had the opportunity of providing fur themselves and families. The chief manufacture is. silk crape, and many have turned from the plough to the shuttle; and whilst the poor-rate has been much relieved, few willing labourers are left unemployed. Yesterday morning, WILLIAM, the second son of Sir PHILIP Brume, Bart. of Broke Hall, was unfor tunately drowned. This young Gentleman, who was a most promising youth, about 12 years of age, was amusing himself by angling in a pond near the house, and it is supposed fell from a rail upon which he had been sitting. Yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner for Middlesex, and a respectable Jury, assembled at the King's Arms Tavern, Chelsea, near Battersea-bridge, to inquire into the extraordinary circumstances by which the above female came by her death. The Jury having been sworn, repaired with Mr. STIRLING to view the body, which was deposited is a shed attached to this house. The unhappy girl appeared to be about eighteen years of age; she EH very much swollen, occasioned by the water; he: face was completely 'slack, and the body in a state of putrefaction; she was dressed in a red striped ging ham gown, and her head was without cap or bawl; several contusions were visible on the temples, and other parts of the head. The Jury having re turned to the Inquest-room, the following testimooy was ptoducedr. • The Cowmen inquired if any medical gentlemen were h attendance ? The Beadle satd, that none had been summed. COROWIL-.-140•11 is that ? The body has been opened. Beadle—lt was not sanctioned by me. Coaousa—Who were the Gentlemen who opened the body? Beadle—l know nothing about it at all. I was in mu al the morning, procuring the attendance of witnesses. Coaoxia—l never heard such a gross and impudent trout don in my life, to open the body of the deceased without de permission of le Jury. A Juror proposed that the mother of the deceased should be called in to explain the business. Mrs. Anthony was accordingly called in, and, from her statement, it appeared, that two Medical Geode' men called upon her, and stated that they had bees sent by a Mr. Wood, who had given them mmisim l to open the body. It appeared that this Mr. Wood kept the Union Tavern, is Air-street, Piccadilly where the deceased had formerly lived servant. After some further conversation, Weal, an racer_ I of Queen-square P o li ce , sa id, t h at i n cons equence of the short period of time he had been allowed to pro cure the attendance of witnesses, he had not bet° able to have them present. The CoRoNER, under these circumstances, with the consent of the Jury, adjourned the inquiry until di! day ; and orders were given to the beadle and to Walt the officer, to .have all the w itnesses in readiness. The investigation was accordingly adjourned, ea .. ' d the body was ordered to be conve ) eJ to the Wert house and placed under lock and key, to prevent any other persons operating upon it. At eight o'clock this morning the Inquest WILS rt . soured, and continued up to the time of our N er going to press. MIMI in hal we fac mil