Star. — London, England, 1822-12-07 00:00:00

.?' • • ; I t I 1 t, iL" . " "eT ZYJt $iV• Als•••••Ibror ..r• BIBLES FOR DISTRIBUTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. think it wm th while, through the mediOni of your respectable Paper, to apprise my brethren of the Establishment, and all other friends to the circa 'talon of the Seared Scriptures, that I have expe rienced the most beneficial results in my Parish from lately* distributing Bibles and Prayer-Books, deco rated with the new Illustrations which, at so cheap a rate, have recently been given to the world. These Illustrations amount to about 250 for the Bible, and to nearly 100 for the Prayer-Book; yet, at an additional cost of only 4s. or 4s. 6d. for Bibles, and Is. 6d. for Prayer-Books, i am enabled to distri bute very attractive and much treasured Books,which are received as something out of the ordinary course, and excite the attention of the young and illiterate by the universal pleasure which they convey to the eye, while that pleasure excites the possessor to study the volume, and thereby improve his heart and un derstanding. There are few persons who are not susceptible of the attraction of pleasing prints, and very many now at mature age cannot but reflect on the strong im pressions conveyed by graphic illustrations in their early youth. For my own part; I confess that the first impressions which determined my Clerical Pro fession were derived from the access which I enjoyed to an old Bible, filled with engravings, which used to lie in the parlour of an aged relative, in whose house I passed my school-holidays. From the prints, I pro ceeded to study the sacred text, and the influence on my own mind is likely to be felt by others, when simi lar books fall in their way. The prints in the Bibles nnw recommended are not coarse, clumsy, and irreverent designs, but are copied from the most celebrated pictures of the greatest mas ters in the various schools of Fainting, and their exe cution is effective ; while the whole is admirably cal culated, by extreme moderation of price, not to in terfere with the desirable object of general circulation. I am, Sir, your very humble servant, R:c. 4, 1822. Tutu: VICAR OF -. -7 7^7,7` • 77 9 II torrents, and that being ito hve o? 11 timely 1. title, the peOple, quite chastinedonatched in fro. under the temporary sheds ell the Imposing symbols which they bad prepared to display In the glow of torch-light. They are, at the sante time, still preserved for some more propit ious hour. . vines o'CLOOIt, P.M. Viscount Montmorency has set out' on his return to France. He expects to be back about the 15th or 18th of next month, at farthest. Two things are quite certain, at least for the present--..n0 war, and no loans. The three Powers, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have determined to discontinue all political communica tion of a friendly nature with Spain, unless she re gulates her Constitutional System either upon the French or the Portuguese model. NOVEMBER 23. A person arrived yesterday evening with dispatches fqr Lord Strangford, from the British Charge d'Af faires at Constantinople. An instance of sudden death took place here yes terday. A Marchioness, the wife of one of the native Nobility, had just left a dressmakers shop, apparently in perfect health, when she was instantly seized with a fit of apoplexy, dropped in the street, and expired. NOVEMBER VI GRAND FETE AT THE ANIPHITHRATRE. The sober, honest, industrious citizen of London, would have been scandalized by the scene which took place yesterday in the celebrated Amphitheatre of this town, and that too about his hour of Divine Ser vice. It was a scene, however, which Princes not only encouraged but sanctioned with their presences It being determined to give eclat to the close of the Con gress, by some public exhibition on a grand scale, a fete in the Amphitheatre was decided upon as the most appropriate and imposing. All the necessary arrangements having been completed for admitting the Public, yesterday morning, by nine o'clock, the grand porch leading from the street directly to the arena, was thrown open at that hour. Affixed to the wall was seen the following placard : " Quot quot Verona considitis, imperatores, reget, prinet pesque, viii dignitate auctoritate sapientia praitantissimi, am phitheatrum ingrediminor, et amplitudini antmorum par stet loci amplittio." Nothing could equal the impatience of all classes to get within the walls, yet in general the demeanour of the assembled multitude was orderly and correct. Not less than sixty thousand persons were present at eleven o'clock. Among them were individuals from every quarter of Europe, and all appeared in the richest costume of their respective countries. On the wooten platform in the centre, the genius of the Go vernment Wai personified by a colossal figure, emble matic of strength, energy, and various other attli butes. Further on was an orchestra for three military bands, and a portion of the arena close to the platform was railed round as a circus for equestrians. The place appropriated to the accommodation of the Royal Visitors, was a splendid pavilion, erected immediately over the grand porch, and commanding a full view of the platform or stage. It was hung with rich drapery of white, pink, and blue satin, and festooned in flout with variegated wreaths of artificial flowers. On the tops were helmets, shields, and other armorial insignia, bearing reference to the days of ancient Rome. The floor was covered with an elegant carpet, and the chairs for the Royal Personages were richly gilt, and covered with scarlet leather. Shortly after eleven o'clock the compartment to the right became occupied in every part, and chiefly by the members of the Diplomatic Corps, and the higher Military Officers, all arrayed either in full Court dresses or in gorgeous uniforms. The Duke of Wellington was dressed in his uniform as. Master- General of the Ordnance, and stood with Lord and Lady Burg hero at the end of the compartment which was farthest from the pavilion. Lord Burghersh was also in the uniform of his country. At twelve o'clock precisely the arrival of the So vereigns was announced, and every head was un covered, but no exclamations of Viva ! were heard. They weie preceded by some of the great Officers of their respective households, and the Emperor of Rus first made his appearance, conducting the Empress of Austria, who leant on his arm as she advanced to the pavilion. Then followed the King and Queen of Naplei, the King and Queen of Sardinia, and the Emperor of Austria, with the Vice-Queen of Italy, the wife of his illustrious brother. Next came the Archduchess Maria Louisa, ushered in by the Vice roy and the Duke of Modena, and attended by her Chamberlain and Maids of Honour. She looked ex ceedingly pale, and wore a white satin hat, with ostrich feathers, and had a large shawl thrown over her shoulders. As soon as they had all entered the pavilion, the Royal females took their seats to the right of the Em press, and the other Sovereigns to the left of th Emperor, according to the gradations of their pre cedency. The Emperor of Russia sat next to his Im petial Brother, the King of Naples was next to him again, and the King of Sardinia occupied the most distant seat in the line. The Viceroy, the Duke of Modena, and his brother, Prince Ferdinand, sat close behind the Sovereigns, and in the rear of them the Chamberlains took their stations, standing, while the Ladies of Honour were accommodated with chairs. The four Sovereigns were dressed each in his national uniforms and all were struck with the venerable ap pearance of the King of Naples, who looked like some aged patriarch with his hoary locks flowing down about his shoulders. As soon as the Royal visitors were seated, the singers and dancers all appeared on the platform, and made a low obeisance. They were led on by a scorps of aged minstrels, with long white beards, and harps in their hands. After the figurantes had gone through various evolutions, the more scientific dancers presented themselves, and their achievements secured the unqualified approbation even of the Crowned Heads. At occasional intervals during the singing and dancing, some Hussars, dressed as professional equeitrians, gallopped round the circus, but did no more. In the meantime there was a lottery to be drawn pro beno publico, and the prizes, according to the re gulated scheme, advances) in amount from five francs up to ten ducats. A fellow who held Fortune's urn in his hand, in the shape of a tin box, stood forth as the Chief Priest of the fickle Goddess, and rattled it at a furious rate, while another wight, with equal vehemence, called out the lucky numbers. In lea than twenty »litotes the whole fete was over. The Sovereigns then bowed to the multitude, and retired in the same order they had entered, followed by all the great personages in their train. --`‘` 7 7- ,0* ~~ , ,~ 4. e. Yesterday a Journal (the a •' ne) that the Duke of Angooleme was to set ostt next sm. for the departments of the South. This ilea% is des titute of foundation.—Journal des Dom; and also L'Etoile of the preceding evening. In contradiction to the report in the Cols:lllusion nel of O'Donnel's return to Bayonne, the Quotidi enne says—" Our letters from that, town, dated the 28th and 29th, concur in saying that O'Donnel still occupied the mountains of Roncal, where he had col lected a division of 1500 men, which was daily re ceiving additions from the neighbouring Biscayan provinces, in which the hatred of the Revolutioivists is decided. On this point the Constitutionalists have only 7000 or 8000 men ; viz.-2000 at Pampeluaa, and 5000 or 6000 at Vittoria, under the command of Torrijos." The Courier Francais states, that—" Yesterday, between four and five o'clock, at the moment when all the mails were made up, and ready to depart for their respective destinations, a counter-order arrived, in pursuance of which they were stopped, and the dis patches taken out, and carried back to the offices. — Some time after the mails were sent off in succession. Several did not depart until after six o'clock." We can explain the cause of this unusual proceed ing : it was yeterday's Conslitutionnd. A proposal for seizing yesterday's impression was, it is said, at first rejected, and afterwards approved of; this oc sioned the delay of the mails. We have read with scrupulous attention the number of our Journal, which has been thus seized, and we are unable to find in it anything but arguments stated with extreme moderation, for we should blush to imitate the lan guage of the fanatical Journals which` have not been seized. However, the result of the prosecution brought against the Constitutionoci, on account of the article entitled " My Congress,"' by M. de Pradt, and our confidence in the justice of our cause, renders us per fectly easy with respect to the consequences of the new seizure. The annoyances to which we are sub jected will not prevent us from expressing whatever we believe will be advantageous to cur country. We have pledged ourselves to our readers to do this, and we entertain too much esteem and respect for them not to redeem the pledge. The copies of that number of the Constitutionnel which contains the article entitled "My Congress," will be restored to us immediately, in pursuance of the judgment of the Court. As soon as we receive them, they shall be sent to our readers in the depart ments.—Constitutionnel. Letters from Bayonne, of the 28th of November, contain the following piece of. intelligence.—The King of Spain has refused to sanction the Decree re lative to Patriotic Societies. Some letters addressed to Quesada at Paris have been intercepted by the victo rious arm y.—l6id. M. Beltram de Lis, who quitted Paris by the orders of the Authorities, has been arrested at Bourdeaux, and all his papers have been scrupulously examined. They were again subjected to a similar inspection at Behobie. M. Cares*, a Spanish merchant at Bay onne, has, it is said, been treated in a similar manner. The Spanish Consul was not present on- the occasion. Immense quantities of warlike stores continue to arrive here daily. The building in which military offenders have hitherto been confined is to be con verted into a barrack : its former occupants will be removed to the castle of Dar. Fuans ON Wanwasnay.—Five per Cents. 87f. 30c.—Bank Shares, 1615 E—Neapolitan Stock, 75%f.—Court Authentipse.— At four o'clock the Hewes were 87f. 60c.—Spanish of 18CO, 68f. and the Bonds of 1821, 55f. MADRID, NOVEMBER 25. • In the Sitting of the Cortes of the 24th, the Budget Extraordinary of the Minister of the Maiine was discussed. In the Sitting of this day two propositions relative to the Court of Rome were adopted. The objects of these propositions are-Ist, to take measures to pre vent the circulation of a brief which condemns a work in which the inviolability of the Deputies of the Cortes is asserted ; 2d, to intimate to the Papal Nun cio, and to the Court of !tome, under the proper di plomatic forms, that that Court will not be allowed to carry into effect any of its projects against Spain. General Morillo is at liberty in Madrid. It appears that the Fiscal Paredes has made a claim upon this General for the expense occasioned by sending an officer to the village of Molar to arrest him, and that General Morillo resists the demand. The Marquis de Castellar has just been brought to Madrid, and put in prison. The cause of his arrest is the part which he took in the affair of the 7th July. He had been exiled to the kingdom of Valencia. The Duke of Infantado has also returned to this city. He has published in the papers a contradiction of the report which was circulated respecting his plan for escaping to England. The Landaburnian Patriotic Society increases in numbers daily. Riego, Adan, Galiano, and other Members of the Cortes, Attend its sittings regularly, ar.d are the principal speakers. An animated dis cussion took place at the last meeting of the Society. The Deputy Galiano alluded to the rumours which were in circulation respecting the declaration of the Holly Alliance. The applause with which every sentence that he uttered was received, prevented us from hearing him distinctly. However, we were able to hear his conclusion, which was as fellows:— " If war be declared against Spain, it will prove the destruction of tyrants. The Spanish nation, for getting the differences of opinion among themselves, and especially those which divide the Liberals, and supported by their Representatives (who, like the Roman Senators, will never abandon their curule chairs), and, strengthened by the justice of their holy cause, cannot fail to be victorious ; and their triumph sill be that of all Europe. Let us be united and we shall be invulnerable." .General Riego next addressed the assembly, and in allusion to the subject upon which M. Galiano had touched, he said—" Our present army is very dif ferent from that of 1808. It was then commanded by Generals who were destitute of knowledge and talents, and who committed the most glaring errors; but now we have a Mina, a Ballasteros. au Abisbal, and other Generals, who will lead our soldiers to •ic tory. Since the former period, young Officers have been educated who are filled with pattotic ideas. Ci tizens l tear not ; we shali•vercome our enemies, and the signal of attack will be fur us the sistel of victory.' - THE CONGRESS. VERONA, NOVEMBER 20. Yesterday, at four o'clock, the Duke of Welling ton went, in a full Court dress, to dine with the Arch duchess Maria Louisa, who had invited a small party of about sixteen persons of the highest distinction among the visitors now assembled here. His Grace looked remarkably well, and was accompanied by Lady Burghersh, who, since her arrival, has expe rienced from him evet y mark of affectionate regard that could beexpected from the most affectionate uncle. NOVEMBER 21. The Ministers met yesterday, as usual, at the house of Prince Metternich, and remained in formal con ference for not less than five hours. The Duke of Wellington dined at home yesterday, and all the official persons attached to his suite were employed in the bureau during the whole day, and a great part of the night. In the evening the Opera was crowded to excess. There were present the Em peror of Russia, the King of Pitisia, and the King and Queen of Sardinia. The Archduchess Maria Louisa came in a winter dre,s of rich satin trimmed with ermine, and on her head she wute a lace cap imerted with alternate stripes cf white satin, and having in front a vatiegated wreath of artificial flowers. She seemed to look meditative and melan- clioly, and did not, as on former occasions, enter into conversation with her Chamberlain or her Maids of Honour. It is oily recently that she has been released from a state of the most paintul surveillance, for du ring the whole time that Napoleon was dragging out his existence at St. Helena, she was watched with a degree of jealous vigilance that nothing could equal. NOVEMBF.It 22. Yesterday was a day of elaborate preparation ; the night was one of dismal disappointment. The Muni cipal Authorities of Verona, wishing to testify their devoted loyalty to their own, and their profound re spect for the other Sovereigns, by a grand general illumination towards the close of the Congress, ap pointed last night for the purpose, and t!ce inhabitants (who had received ample notice of the design) were not slow in seconding the laudable views of the Dele gate and the Podesta. The arrangements were made upon a scale infinitely more grand, gorgeous, and extensive, than any that had been previously witnessed by the oldest man or woman in the town, and every thing promised a display which the youngest child should never forget, if at all capable of retaining im pressions from external objects. According to the usual practice on such occasions, every bed lent its covering to grace the walls of every house, and various were the instances in which the exhibition of a dirty sheet or foul quilt only served to proclaim to the world the slattern habits of the padrona. In truth, the drapery was such as to defy the most forcible powers of description. Ragged, wretched, rich, splendid, clean, dirty, whole, torn, and patched—it presented to the eye a combination of motley emblems in colour, texture, and form, which placed wealth in the more glaring contrast with po veity, by pointing out the extremes of both. But the good people of this famous town of Verona were not content with the exhibition of drapery alone; there was not a single tradesman within the walls who did not allegorise his loyalty with the contents of his shop, and whether he sold broad-cloth or bar nacles, tallow candies or tobacco, it was all the same, be still contrived to make out a series of substantial metaphors, which he exposed at his door, in order that all the world might see how happily he could devise, and how fervently he could feel at so lute toting a juncture. One individual carried his in genuity so far as to shape the likeness of his So vereign out of a large cheese ; and a baker moulded a tolerably fair imitation of the King of Sardinia's face out of the more plastic article of dough.— In a fashionable and much-frequented quarter of the town, called the Via Nuova, which leads into the grand promenade, the public eye was challenged By the shop of a man milliner,who had evidently endea voured to outdo all his neighbours in figurative em bellishment. Over his door was the following written designation of his calling—Negosio di Pietro Bianchi Modiste!—Everything was now ready, and Verona was to have flamed from one end to the other, when the elements conspired to mar The illumination. Just as the evening began to close the rain came down in . 'ln E 14:ii 1 N 4. STA It. LONDON. ' SATURDAY, ai rt.rava uran THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TNELQS'O►CLOCIL Cotrois dyeing this- morning at 791, and remained steady, with little business doing. roam. 1111113110 A dead calm prevails in this market, and little or ao business doing up to this hour. Current Prices s—Chilian 70, New . Spanish 59} Eit opened at 414), Old 54, New Prussian 113 e, Old $3, Minim% at, Danish Mit Neapolitan 71. Colombian 71, Peruvian 79,,Spauish Seri 15 dis. PRUSSIAN LOAN OF 10112, CONTRACTED BY ME: N. M. ROTHSCHILD, iN LONDON. The Half-yearly Dividend of this Loan falling due on Wed nesday, the Ist of January next, will be paid on that and every succeeding day, between the hours of ten and two, at the CAmint ing-honee of Mr, N. M. ROTTIACIMA, in New -court, St. Swithiu's lane.—N.D. The Dividend Warrants must be left one d.ty fur inspection, viz. those presented on the 31st December will there fore be paid on the Ist January, and so in continuance. NRAPOLITAN LOAN. The Dividends due on Wednesday, January 1, Oil the 'c o p e . litan Loan, will be paid by Mr. N. bh ROTNOCIRICA, Sto c k negotiated by him, and according to the current rate o' es. change, on that and every succeeding day, Sundays zze between the hours of ten and two.—N. B. The Dividend rants must be left one day for inspection, viz. those presetit,d Cr. the 31st of December will therefore be paid on the Ist of January, and so in continuance. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 243 1 / 2 -3 per Cent. Red. 7814 3 4 3 1 ,4 per Cent. 90 5 / 8 Y B -4 per Cent. 96 1 / 8 1 4 Bank Long Annuities 19 15-16 7 / 1 1 20 India Bonds 30s. 32., Each. Bills (4 1,000) 25..55. pr. Consols loi Acct. 79% 80 79fi 80. Nothing can sbew more strongly the dread with which the French merchants anticipate the possi bility of a war with Spain, than ;he anxiety they ma nifest, at this moment, to have their mating com merce re-insured in London. Already a great m.ny of their ships, particularly their homeward-bound East and West Indiamen, have been re-insured .zt ' Lloyd's. The former were, two days since, done at 15 guineas per cent. some of which very ships were insured, six weeks or two months ago, at three guineas and a half per cent. The premiums upon their homeward-bound West Indiamen have risen to ten guineas per cent. while English vessels, of the sane 'description, are done at six guineas. The next French Mail is expected to bring a great many orders for insurances ; and it is supposed that premiums aill then experience a still further advance. The belief that the counsels of the Ultras in Fiance will, in opposition to the general voice of the nation, bring on a war with Spain, is not confined to Pat is.— The price of ships has already advanced in Londcn and the principal Out-ports, not merely of such as are best adapted for privateering, but of such as can be at all employed, as it is expected that the nu• merous letters of marque which the Spanish Govern ment will issue, cannot but soon sweep the French commerce from the face of the seas. The French Papers of Wednesday are rather of in• terest, as correcting some of the mistatements of those of the preceding day, than as to adding to our in information respecting the policy or impolicy of the French Cabinet. In a preceding column we have given extracts from these papers, by which it will be seen that the report of the Due d'ANGOULEME setting out for the Army of the South is contradicted. Re detention of the Mails on Monday night, as stated in the STAR of yesterday, is also satisfactorily accounted for.—lt was not in consequence of any new arrivals, or for the purpose of sending off new dispatches, that the horses were unyoked and the Mails taken back to the Offices —no, it was to seize such copies of the Constitutionnel of that day as were going into the Departments: these being intercepted, the Mails were suffered to proceed. The Constitationnel of Monday, which had thus become obnoxious to the Ft ench Ministers, contained a spirited, yet temperate exposure of the views ri the Holy Alliance, which it declared have for their object 46 the design of destroying everywhere the germs of liberty, ef * paralyzing, if not of tot•tlly suppressing all liberal institutions, and of re•establi_l:- ing absolute monarchy, by subjugating all the ntid,!le and enlightened classes of society to a powerful Clergy and a privileged Aristocracy." Such is the principal paragraph in the obnoxious article, which we inserted in the STAR of Thursday, The Editor only denounces what all the world knows, that the Holy Allies have formed a league against liberty. " The head and front of his offending !lath this extent, no more." And for this several thou sands of the Paper have been seized, the subscribers of the Journal disappointed, and the Editor sub jected to a new prosecution—unless, indeed, their te cent defeat may prevent the French Ministers fare plunging further in the odium which their arbitrary conduct draws upon them. About two months ago, the French Ministers, bY , their agents, the police, seized on a Number of the Consiitutionnei, which contained an article by M. de PRADT, entitled" My Congress." A prosecution wcs commenced, the result of which has been, that all t! c Numbers of that Journal are to be immediately re stored. This is one, and almost a solitary instance,