Star. — London, England, 1822-12-05 00:00:00

' FRANC PROW THE PARIS P#PERS OF THiEDAT LAST. ROYAL ORDONNANCi • " from, Ste..—W.shing to give a testimony of our ftvoor and Satisfaction to oar weli.batoved and right trusty Viscount Met thleu de Montmorency, our Minister Secretary of State fat the Department of Foreign Affairs, wit have ordered and do order .as follows : " Art. 1. Our well-beloved' and right trusty Viscount Mat. thieu 'de Montmorency is created Duke. ".4. This title is attached to his dignity of Peer. " 3. Our well-beloved and tight trusty Viscount Matthleu do Montmorency shall consequently enjoy and after him his children. Pneterkt, and descendants, la the direct line, born or to be born in lawful marriage, shall enjoy, the ranks and honours attached to the said tide of Duke, by order of primogeniture subject es the conditions of our well - beloved and right trusty ilscouut de Montmorency conforming to the laws therewith relating. part co. lady to the provisions of our Ordonnaaos of the lttit of August, isiS, and moreover of going before ear /Casper of the Soaks, Minister Secretary of State fox Justice, to obtain our letters patent necessary in this cast. " Given -at the Castle of the Turneries, December 1, in the year of Grace 1881, and of oar reign the 88th. - Signed) " LOUIS. --'- (C"lstersiffiled) DI DE V . ILLILE." Paris, December S. Mathew. Those who did not find the article of the Moniteur 1 sufficiently clear,will not be much enlightened by the . Balk. The latter paper announces that .it is. well informed ; but that says nothing, becausi it waits until our Cabinet shall have " put forward its diplo macy and prepared its armies." We thought that France had put forward her diplomacy at the Cdn gress of Verona, and that, for a year pelt, she had been preparing her armies; but it seems we must wait for another exhibition of diplomacy and mili tary force. " In peace;" says the Ltoile," France will be ready to make war." We hope, however, that this prediction will not be realized, and that France will not, daring peace, be burdened with the expenses which the necessity of being ready for war must im pose. This would be promising us all the inconve niences of war,without atii , of the favourable chances to which it might give birth. Some men may find their account in such a state of things; but assuredly those who pay taxes will not, The Etoik adds--" If France make war, she will always be ready to make peace." Would it not be better to adopt this pacific disposition in the outset ; and, since it is only meant to return to a state of peace, to keep in it rather than run the chance of being brought back to it after nu merous and painful sacrifices?— Courier Francais. The Etoile announces that the first thing done by M. de Montmorency, Minister of Foreign Affaits, on returning from Verona, was to deliver to M. de Mar changy an autograph letter of the Emperor of Rus sia, which contains the -most flattering expression to wards that Magistrate. The Requisitory, which has obtained M. de Marchangy this mark of Imperial favour, was translated into the Austrian Observer,' and repeated in the Conservateur of Petersburgh. It appear that M. Pozzo di Borgo will not return so soon to Paris as was expected. He left Verona on the 23d of November to visit Corsica, his native country, where private affairs call him. It is said he will remain only forty-eight hours there, and will re turn immediately to Paris. - The persons who accom panied that Ambassador to Verona are expected at Paris an Thursday or Friday next. M. Jabat, who was Secretary of State for the Ma rine in the Spanish Ministry formed after the esta blishment of the Constitution of the Cortes, has been appointed Ambassador to England, instead of Zarcu del Valle, who is to be otherwise employed. VItoM to CoNSTITUTIONNILL. The Moniker is to-day less enigmatical upon the affairs of Spain than it has been fer some days past. The arrival of the Vicomte de Montmorency has pto. bably given it permission to express itself less ob scurely : nevertheless, it still preserves a tone of re serve and a diplomatic style which is not calculated to give a categorical explanation of the question, and consequently to restore confidence to all the interests of France which have been so frequently alarted by the fear of a war with the Peninsula.—Annexed is the article published in the Monaca,. of this morning—. [Here follows the extract, given in the STAR.] The first observation which strikes us in this Note is, that the official Journal confesses that it would be of some advantage for things and persons " to know the progress of questions which► interest them at least in proportion as they are accomplished." It is de lightful to see the Moniteur, especially when it speaks Ministerially, acknowledging the necessity of not allowing affairs of the greatest importance to be sur rounded by those uncertain and contradictory reports which have constantly prevailed since the opening of Congress on the subject of Spain. The Moniteur thereby proclaims one of the fundamental principles of every Representative Government : it is this—that tke nation participating directly in that form of go. vernment ought not to be left in entire ignorance, if not of the discussions, at least of the facts which art connected with its dearest interests. This is an homage paid to public opinion of which the expression is so often misunderstood, and to which, however, in the long run, men are always obliged to submit. It is only painful that the Moniserr should have so long delayed to make the proper application of this maxim: if it had been less chary of positive informs. tins-.-if it had not frequently taken from other jour nals articles of intelligence most alarming in their nature—if it had constantly and immediately given the lie to the warlike articles which rapidly succeeded each other in certain Gazettes, and of which the con sequences, which ought to have been immediate, are even now adjounied—if the Monacur had only ob served a species of neutrality which, perhaps,was quired by its character and gravity, it would have saved France from the alarms which have lately passed all limits ; it would have saved the exchange of Paris the great losses and commotions which have been felt afar, and which have drawn ruin on so many families. It is fortunate for France, and we congra tulate ourselves upon it, that this nation, so great, so noble, and so generous, has at length re-assumed in Europe, as the Moniteur asserts, the rank and import ance which naturally belong to it from its population, its climate, its industry, the character of its inhabit ants, and its happy geographical position. We remark, however, that the Moniteur seems in directly to exclude England from that honourable union which has placed in the hands of the French Government the balance on which, relatively to Spain,„ the policy of the European Cabinets ought to rest. " The Continental Powers,' says the Menitcur, s, have banded over to France the future manage. ~ rr ~. , ' , all *Atonable person! There is no mention of England In .the Coneen. Uteri ',which have been made. Will that Power con sent to be thus disregarded, when other nations are deciding how they shall conduct themselves with -re gard to Bpaia ? s i Be this as it may, it necessarily results from the *hide in the Monilear that Frame, in the name of the high Centime/kat Pinvers of Europe, is going to enter into new negotiations with Spain. It would not be very difficult to fovea thp nature of the concessions which will be demanded film the Spanish Cortes ; and it is equally easy to foresee the answer to them. If they will not consent to anyene dification in the form of their institutions, it appears probable that there is an intention to use force to compel them. But will England consent tithe armed intervention which is tb result from the refusal of Spain to accede to the proposals which will be of fered taller? The article of the *online is a suff cient answer to..thitt question. • But ifEngland does not consent to the intervene tion, will it preserve, at least, neutrality ? The niteur has not released us from this ditiltulve. Thus it may be said, that the tardy publication in; the Moniteu?.leaves things in the very spite in which people supposed them to be before it bloke sflenee. - [The Journal des Debats and the Gazettasill Francs insert the article from the Moniker, without making any observation upon it. The Journal de - ConentEree neither copies it nor notices itj. PROM THE COURIER FRANCOIS. The Congress has changed its place: it is no longer at Verona. According to an article in the Moniteur of Sunday, it will be for Spain at Paris—for Italy at Vienna—and for the East wherever "the. Emperor Alexander may happen to be. A new political sys tem is to take place of the old. Instead of admitting in Europe only one single interest, - that of the Holy Alliance, the new system of policy reduces everything to the particular interests of each separate State. If there still exist any community of relations among , the Powers, it is now only to be found in the decorum of diplomatic forms; nothing, in fact, being so diffi cult to reconcile as former interests which have pro duced connexion, and present interests which may lead to a rupture.—(After quoting that part of the article in the Moniteur which states that to France la to be left the settlement of the affairs of Spain, the Editor . proceeds:) Thus, as we conjectured, there is to be no general declaration, and Congress is determined to decide nothing po.itively, for fear of deciding too much. Each Power repaired to the Congress with an inte rest of its own, and in the same way leaves it. 'France carried thither a proposition which she will bring back, without' its being either condemned or ap proved; Austria will retain her desire of peace, Russia her projects, and England her fears. This is the con clusion which may be drawn from the article in the Moniteur, and it is what was to be anticipated from the situation of the different States. When Cabinets arrive at this point, the questions in discussion are close upon the point of being decided, not by diplo matists, but by soldiers. The official journal bestows due honour on the French Plenipotentiaries and the present Ministry, for the consignment which the Continental Powers have made to France of the Spanish question. It seems to us that they have no great reason to congratulate themselveson thisconfidence which Europe has placed in them. Do the other Powers bind themselves to ours with respect to Spain ? By no means. They do not promise to aid it ; they leave it all the honour of invading another country, and secure to it only the advantages of a new occupation for France. There is no other way of explaining the contours de toutes leurs forces aus volt d'esecution qua la France pOkrait etre dans le cat d'adoptcr. Our neighbours are disposed to act, with regard to us, upon the same principle as we wish to act towards the Spaniards, by rendering themselves secure on the side of Fiance, as France would secure herself on the side of the Peninsula.— Thus, according to the Moniteur, it appears certain that, if an army crosses the Pyrennees, an army from the north will pass the Rhine. We know not whether France ought on this account to congratulate herself on the triumph of her diplo matists. We also do not know whether our merchants ought to rejoice at that triumph. From the statement of the Moniteur, England is not included among the Powers which have abandoned Spain to our Govern ment, for she is not a Continental Power, as all the world well knew before the Moniker declared it. At present, from the mere fear of war, it is difficult to insure at London the return of a French ship from India at 50 per cent. What will the insurance be if war break out? But it is not yet decided. It is at Paris the question is now to be agitated, since ithas not been decided at Verona. The speedy arrival of the Duke of Wellington and the Russian Ambassador is announced, who may be regarded as the represen tatives of peace and war. If they have anything to say to our Government, it will n• longer be in the general interest of the Holy Alliance, but in the par ticular interest of their Cabinets. Such is the new diplomatic jurisprudence established at Laybach and confirmed at Verona. The Holy Alliance is nothing, the vicinage is everything. It is in virtue of this right that Austria invaded Naples, that France wishes to invade Spain, and that Russia will, without doubt, invade the east. If we do not deceive ourselves, this was the law of nations before there was any Holy Alliance, and the Holy Alliance was only created to make this law of nations disappear. Since, however, it appears again, others may conclude that the Holy Alliance no longer exists. 4lit' • meth n $ are brought under Si( Kings. Hence tea able writers, who, instead Ist being carried away, by dangerous theories and by vain systems, simp* espress the wants of society, are mostfrequehtly in accordance with the ideas of Governments, and can indicate their determinatibm beforehand.,Thii has occurred with respect to the Quoadienne, in all that we have written on the slues- tion of the Congress, and the intervention of the ., Powers on the subject of Spain. We have repeatedly said, not merely that war was a right, for that was needless; but that it was necessary and inevitable: necessary for the defence,of the principles of society and the honour of the Crown of France—inevitable, because it was absurd to suppose all the Sovereigns of Europe should hurry to the same place, merely to hold a parley, without coming to any conchs:ion. VERONA, NOVEMBER ti. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. " What I can inform you of as cei lain is, that in telligence has arrived here, that several foreign mer chants have requested letters of marque from the Spanish Government to arm privateers, in cast war should be declared between France and Spain, and that a great quantity of these letters of marque have alreidyinen transmitted to different Spanish Consuls, lerticirlarly to those who reside in England, in order to be delivered to the ship-owners, the moment they have official intelligence of the declaration of war." " The French Plenipotentiaries remaining here will not take any part in the secondary objects with which the Congress will yet be occupied. These objects are the affairs of Greece, the occupation of Naples and Piedmont by the Aultrian forces ; bat it is said that these two points may be regarded as already decided. The conduct of the Ottoman Porte has been severely condemned by the Congress, and by the Duke of Wellington himself, who has been. fired with indignation by the Emperor Alexander, who is said to have no longer any hope of accommodating matters, and that he only waits the arrival cf Lutzow to make known his final determination with regard to Turkey. The Envoys of the Greeks have not been officially admitted to see the Sovereigns. Evet ybody believes, however, that two of them are here incognito,' and that the notes which they have presented - have been favourably received. " As for-Naples and Piedmont, the report is une rally spread that the Sovereigns and Ministers °Mese two countries have done all in their power to procure the recal of the Austrian troops, but Austria has op posed their demands,which found only feeble support in one principal Member of the Congress, and, in consequence, it is believed that these two extremities of Italy will be occupied some time longer by the Austrian troops, The principal reason alleged by Austria is the situation of the Peninsula. " The King of - Naples had allowed his intention of abdicating to be known, but he was told that then the Crown would go to the Duke of Calabria; this ob servation was followed by others, which appeared to hue induced his Majesty to give up this intention." Constitutionnel. t• If this news is true, led we are disposed to believe it, the external commerce of France will be instantly annihilated. We shall see the disaster renewed to which we were victims, when, on the faith of peace with England, we sent an immense number of vouch to sea, which became the prey of the privateers and ships of Great Britain: the memory of this great disaster is not yet effaced. Our maritime commerce will be again ruined, from having calculated on the durability of a peace which promised to be lasting. It appears, that not one of the many vessels which we have at sea will escape the many privateers which will put immediately to sea under the Spanish flag, and which will blockade all our ports during the whole duration of the ward—i Nola of the .Ethisr f the ConstitutionneLl PETERSBURGH, NOVEMBER e. We are informed from the Southern frontiers of the empire that the passage of numerous bands of Greek refugees, forced to quit Odessa, its environs, and other countries under the Russian Government, con tinue without interruption. VIENNA, NOVEMBER 21. There are to be great changes, it is said, in the des tinations of the principal members of our diplomatic corps. Prince Paul d'Esterhazy will go from the Embassy at London to that of Paris. Baron Vincent returns here. Count Zichy goes from Berlin to Lon don ; Baron Bender goes to Berlin, aad Baron Steig entesch to Turin. New changes are also spoken of Among the Members of the Diet at Frankfort. The public funds have fallen since a few days.— Metallics, yesterday, 85.15-16.—Actions of the Bank, 928. 8-10. 711113 CM /VIII" IN ?AWL Five per Ceat. Consols. Opened at 86f. 90e. Highest - S7l. —c. Lowest -86 f. 50e. Closed at - $6l. 90e. The very valuable Philosophical Apparatus which belonged to the late Dr. COPaLAND, has been pun, chased by the Faculty of Marischal College, Aber deen, and is new their exclusive property. The astronomers of the Continent appear to have been actively employed during the present year in observing the three comets which were first discovered by M. Pons, at Marlia, and subsequently by other astronomers. From the north to the south of Europe the journals are filled with observations and calcula tions relative to these singular visitors of our system. Every principal Observatory, front Prague to Milan, appears to have directed its attention to these objects; and the favourable state of the weather has enabled the observers to pursue their researches with unex ampled success. Among those who have devoted their valuable time, either in making observations or in calculating the orbits of these comets, we observe the names of - Pons Preposi du Ciel, as he is calle by Zach). Carlini, antini, Ursin, Schumacher, Gam bart, Bella, Hall hka, Caturegli, Frisiani Olbers, Harding, nke. It does not appear that either of these comets have been seen, or even looked after, in this couptry. They have, is fact, scarcely been heard of, except d tr: p uigh the vague notices in the newspapers.—Ph' ical Magazine. ANALOGY:-....A little girl happening to hear her mo titer speak of going into half-nsournsng, said—" Why are we going IntollaMmourning, Mama, aro' any or our relations half-deadf" • • . apt tetagmatidg. of tbe: I Dain , w i s h sh e ' bop we mer - tie alliwid tandad toseatting *kb dole teriii in seek Ifer se•frel 601 , 0 %OA means of executions as she may find hsain a situ*. T the Owillielmet nave "'I -"-4/I"7":"drissitt Bon to adopt." •In taking this reioln"adds the wet t 1 reasons of gate which have a w lie 4l Abgil b * .tionitewr, « the high Castile/stet Powers must have triction of the Represatiatiies of the Freueb acted on an idea so simple and Just that it will agiis Wise statesmen do not disdain to consialt 1)405 essonable person • • opinion on before nsediu4ng on the secret initiveswkfch all i . _ -•4ie_ _a _ AN, era brought under nsaderistion in the Councils at TROM TIM QUOTIDIIINNZ. The policy of the Fanatics has, then, triumphed at the Coress, as the Quotidienne has always wished it shoul d. We believe we can state this with confi dence, and the article of the Moniteur, however vague it has appeared to us, serves to confirm all that we have been able to collect on the result of this great diplomatic decision. Viscount de Montmorency returned yesterday even ing, and it is already reported that the King has re compensed, by a new tide, the services Which that Minister has rendered to the Throne of franc,. Per- "TM?, IttENEVII LONDON. ""T" - * THURSDAY, DECSMIKR a. 1824. 13TOCI EXCHANGE, TV gtva O'CLOCK. The darn Hubei opened tide oteenhat at 7ei 1, but the oiestent it was Mews that an Express bast arrhred from Pais bringing she trends Panda Mg dOe. du market got better, and Console rose to 79 I s leen after another &pima arrival., oi t g Wen ad information Of the dodo; of die Priaieh Funds at NM 1105. Spanish 561. • Omsk up to Mi Arai: are 71.1 fog the Account. rosins twee. New Spanish Bonds opened this inaniosa stnia en the ae= rival of the Express from Paris they got sp. * but M. wards went down to tin. Colombian his onperisoced a groat depression, owing to a private letter received &eat Colanalds by a foreign Broker, stating, that Colombian goods were worst nothing, and cautioning the parties net to have anything to do with them. The chief business this morning loin New Spanish Current Prices :—Chillan 731 to 74, New Spanish on, 65, New Prussian $5, Old 84i, Ku an $2, Danish 84, Neap°. titan 75, Colombian 84k, Peruvian 78, New Spanish Seri,- PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 242 1 4-3 per Cent. Red. 78% 2 per Cent. Consols, shut —3 % per Cent. yoy i 4. per Ctnt.96% 1 ,12 1 / 4 , —4 per Cent. New, &a Bank Long Annuities 2019 15.16 India Bonds SOs. 265. Exch. Bills (E1,00(►) 2s. pr. par, 2s, pr. Do. Small 2s, 4s. Is. pr.—lndia for Acct. 250% Contols for Acct. 79% 3 / 4 % 5/8. We have received the French Papers of Nfonday. They are chiefly occupied with comments on the warlike declaration in the Monileur of the prece;:ing day; though some of the Paris Journal% copy it vritn out any remarks, and one of them neither co l ies nor notices it. The only Paper that speaks boldly out on the subject is the Coad;tutionmel ; and ahhoup,h every one is aware that the meditated attack on Spain is neither in self-defence, nor, as pretended, ft:: the protection of FERDINAND VII. but for the pur- pose of putting down the principles of liberty, yut the Editor of the Consiitutionnel is the only one vi ho dares to denounce this conspiracy of the Holy Alli ince. " It appears certain (says this Journalist) that the Holy Alliance persists in the right which they have as sumed of bringing before their tribunal all the Kings and People of the Continent of Europe, and inquiring, with arms in their hands, into every change which may have been made in their laws and institutions- Naples was attacked at once ; negociation is men tioned with Spain, but this is less a concession than an act of prudence. Policy proceeds differently to wards weak and towards powerful States. Thus France, Spain, and Portugal, to be more or less free, must await the consent of Russia, Prussia, and Aus tria ; thus Constitutional Governments will be com pelled to regulate themselves according to the will of absolute Governments, and this will must necessarily be to restrain public liberty. In examining candidly the secret causes which influence all the old diplo macies of the Continent, they will be found to cocci: less in the desire of overthrowing the revoltiti -, n of Spain, though this is no doubt sufficiently strong, than in the design of destroying everywhere the germs of liberty, of paralysing, if not of totally sup pressing, all liberal institutions, and of re-establishing absolute Monarchy, by subjugating all the middle and enlightened classes of society to a powerful Clergy and a privileged Aristocracy." Such are the real objects of this new league of So vereigns, and we agree with the Editor, when he further observes, that they will not be satisfied until they have re-established in Spain an absolute Mo narchy, and the Inquisition. There is said to be considerable bustle among the forces in the South of France, which would indicate the almost immediate commencement of hostilities; but there has been no new levy of troops except the 40,000 of the Conscription of 1822, which are ordered to be called out. The prospect of war, while it creates great alarm among all thinking and well-dis disposed Frenchmen, excites no enthusiasm among the military, with whom almost any other war would be popular. They see that there is no glory to be ob tained in the contest, and that the real object is only to enslave themselves; besides, instead of being under the leaders who, with BONAPARTE, so often led them to victory, they have a set of imbecile or inexpe rienced Commanders placed over them, whose only claim to the distinction is one which the French mili tary will be the last to recognize. It is understood that after the arrival of Viscourt de MONTMORENCY at Paris a Council was held, at which the ultimatum (we must refer to tl-a Russian Minister at Constantinople for the modern intorrre tation of this word) of France was agreed upon, nod that it was next day dispatched to Madrid. What the demands of France are we. know not, bat there is little doubt they are such as that Power has no right to make, and such as Spain will not agree to. An article from Verona states that several foreign merchants have demanded letters of marque for armed cruisers of the Spanish Government, is case of war, and that several of these letters of marqua have actually been transmitted to the different Spanish Consuls, particularly those residing in Spa nish ports, to be given to the owners as soon as war shall be declared. We also understand that a num ber of vessels in our ports, and particularly in the River, are equippin:., in order to avail themselves a F f ' ~+ i ~i ~. , I I !I