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g i i ' • I, 1' A 1 Nik. . 4 4 MERAk PAPERS. S 4 it . "s xmcstos, JAMAICA, NOVEMBER tet. "Vie scistasvr Dispatch, of this port, which was' • 14 tilsant o — nseniglit of the 10th September, while lying at anchor off the Isle of Pines, by a piratical boat, has been recaptured by a vessel fitted out at Trinidad for that purpose, and carried in there. NEW YORK. DECEMBER 47. The British sloop of war Hind, Sir C. Burroughs Commander, arrived at this port on Tuesday from Portsmouth. To the politeness of her Commander we are indebted for the London Papers to the even ing of the 10th ult.—all that were in the vessel. The Hind had just arrived at Portsmouth with the Royal squadron from Calais, when she received or 'tiers to proceed to New York, and was dispatched at three hours' notice, with a letter from the Marquis of Londonderry to James Buchanan, Esq. British Con sul at this place, relative to one of the chief clerks in the Navy Office, London, who had absconded with a considerable sum of public money, and sailed for this port in the Comet, which arrived on Thursday last. An Officer came up to the city on Tuesday af ternoon at di ee o'clock, delivered the dispatches, and in one hour and a half the man was taken, and nearly all the property stolen, amounting to about 100,000 dolhirs, was recovered. The Hind came up yesterday morning, anchored in the East River, and fired a salute, which was re turned by Fort Columbia, on Governor's Island. The cause of the visit to this port of the British sloop of war Hind, was briefly noticed in yesterday's Gazelle. The following is an accurate account of the matter ;1 " A person arrived here on Thursday last, in the ship Comet, Capt. Griswold, from London, who had been cashier in a branch of the British Navy Depart ment for 29 year s : his sudden disappearance from his desk excited an alarm; and, upon an examination, it was discovered that he was a defaulter to the amount of 1.19,000 sterling. After searching in vain for him, it was ascertained that he had purchased a bill of a broker in London, for £BOOO stealing, under a ficti tiou., name, on a mercantile house in New York ; he likewise bought 50 shares of Stock of the Bank of the United States, besides 80,000 dallars in the United States Stock of 6 and 7 per cent. all of which, be sides other property of his own, he took with him in the abovementioned vessel. The British Government, without delay, dispatched a sloop of war in pursuit of the above property, with instructions to the Com mander to proceed to New York, where she arrived on the 25th inst. with documents directed to Mr. Bu _ chanan, the British Consul for this port, who immedi ately called upon the house alluded to,and was informed that the bill of £BOOO had been that day accepted.— It was now time fur the Consul to act. He procured the aid of two Magistrates of the Police, who, with the Consul, traced the defaulter to a boarding-house, he hai taken lodgings in ; but not finding them suit able to his views, had shifted to another,whither they repaired, and found him with his wife in a private room. One of the Magistrates having introduced himself in a way to prevent alarm to the Lady, pro ceeded to relate such particulars of his case, in ac cordance with truth, and in such a manner, that it produced his confession of the whole affair. His detail of the causes leading him to this disgraceful act (although eloquent and interesting) would occupy too much of the columns of a newspaper. The pro perty abovementioned was delivered up in less than three hours after the arrival of the said sloop of war." HAYTI. Since the death of Christophe, the whole territory which formerly composed his kingdom, and the Re public established by Petion, his been formed into one Government, upon the model of that of the Fede ral Government of the United States, vit. a President, Senate, and house of Representatives. Port-an-Prince is the capital. The Spaniards who had revolted at Port Dolphin twenty-six miles east of Cape Hayden, arrived there on the 2!d of November, and claimed the protec tion of the Ilaytian Government. Among those that arrived at the Cape were the Collector and Adminis trator, and all the principal inhabitants. COLUMBIA. The Constitution lately adopted by the Republic of Columbia is nearly a copy of the Constituuon of the United States, with the exception that the Presi dent is elected for seven years instead of four. He is Commandet.in.Chief of the Army and Navy. BALTIMORE, DECEMBER 29. ♦Ve are at a loss to know the reason which in fluenced the Congress of Columbia to deduct five per cent. from the duties upon importations directly from Europe in foreign vessels, and 7i per cent. in their own. This is manifestly a discrimination to our disadvantage. Is it intended to constrain our Government to negotiation, implying a recognition of their independence.? If that be the solution, it is au awkward manoeuvre not likely to be effectual. =TRACT OF A LaTTIR FROM HAVANNAII, NOV. 28. 4 , The rains have been very heavy throughout the whole Island of Cuba, more so than has been ever before known ; the crops have suffered very mate rially throughout the Island. No person can come in from the interior in consequence of the dreadful state of the roads ; and the Custom-House here has been closed for five days owing to the excessive fall of rain." DUNDEE.-The trade of Dundee was never so brisk as it has been these last twelve months. All the weavers, indeed all the labouring classes, are fully employed. Four er five spinning-mills have been ►uilt within these few months, and as many more contracted for. All the Dundee vessels (except three daily expected) have now arrived from the Baltic, without a single loss, notwithstanding the late dread ful gales. The quantity of hemp and flax imported - exceeds that of any former year by about Is, !the quantity of the latter (flax) being 5500 tons, which is a larger quantity than imported into any other place in Britain.— quantity is not more than sufficient for the for our manufactories, which are eagerly 1p as soen as the webs are out of the looms. it there were double the number of looms the produce of them would be no more than to supply the demand. v PORTUGUESE NATIOOAL EANIC. The Portuguese Committee of Finence, in a Re port presented to the Cones, State, that on mature consideration of all the Memorials presented to it en the subject, it judges that this is as favourable a ma ment as can be wished for the foundation of a Public Bank, which besides carrying on the operations usual in all the most respectable banks in Europe, may concur, at the same time, in the extinction of the paper currency. The quantity of the latter now in circulation does not exceed 9000 contos (a conto is a million) of rees, which is far lea than the amount of the specie existing in the country; since _it ap pears that in the Mint of Lisbon alone, there have been coined since 1807, 19,800 contos of rees in silver ; to this must be added the silver coined before 1807, which constitutes about the seventh part,of the coin in circulation. The Committee dpes not hesi tate to say, that the greater part of this money ac tually exists in the kingdom, and though the balance of foreign , trade is in general unfavourable, and large sums in silver go out of the kingdom; yet the Por tuguese gold coin, and the Spanish patacas, which never go out of the kingdom, are more than equal in value to the silver exported. The plan of the Com mittee, which consisted of SI Articles, was discussed in several successive Sittings, and generally adopted. The 10th and 11th Articles, allowing the Bank to , lend its funds on all species of merchandize and movable property, and also on real property, with, power to sell them when the debtor shall not repay in due time the sums so lent, were both opposed, but' carried. The 28d Article, enacting that the Bank, in return for the privilege granted it, shall contribute to the redemption of the paper curtency, by lending, in the first year of its operations, 2,000,000 milrees, or bank -notes, at four per cent. interest, to be paid into the Treasury in twenty equal payments," was opposed, hut carried without alteration. The 3l st is " to avoid the forgery to which the actual paper cur rency is subject during the time it is to remain in cir culation, the Government is authorised to make the necessary disbursements for.the purchase of plates of the invention of the celebrated artist Perkins, to make new paper currency to be substituted for the old." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1829. STOCK EXCHANOE—ON![ O'CLOCK: Consols opened at 76 1 /s % for the Account, and for Money 76. Every exertion was made by the Bulls to keep up the Market, but without effect—further orders from the country having been received for the sale of Stock to a large amount. The Market new looks heavy, and Consols are at 75% 54 for Money, and for the Account 75% %. CURRZNT PRICLS : Bank Stock 287 1 ,4 237-3 per Ct. Red. 76% % 3 per Cent. Cons. 76 7834 % 3 / 4 3% per Cent. 87% 1 4-4 Per Cent- 9 6% %'4 14 5 per Cent. Navy 107% 108 107% 14 Bank Long Annuities 19 7-16 34 Irish 5 per Cents. 23414 Ditto Ann. for 15 Years 80s. 78s. Exch. Bills 4s. 6s. pr.—Do. 4s. 6s. pr. Cons. for Account 7614 75 34 76. The Paris Journals of Saturday were received this morning. In the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, the Committees on the Budget met, and elected each a Reporter, or Chairman. The following day, Satur day, was fixed for a public sitting, when the Report of the Committee on the subject of the Press and the Public Journals would be discussed. To-morrow we hope to be able to gi ire a full account of the proceedings. An Ordonnance of the KING delegates to Baron CAPELLII the General Administration of the Police in the Departments ; and the Minister of the Interior is ordered to appoint a Director-General under him. By another Royal Ordcnnance, the Ten Companies for the Home Service, which were suppressed in 1517, are to be restored. They will be principally employed in guarding the Royal Establishments. The following are additional extracts from the Paris Papers of Saturday : PARIS, JANUARY it. Letters from Madrid of the 7th instant state, that' the King had at length decided on accepting the re signatiun of the Ministers. Their successors are not named. Letters floes Saragossa of the 9th December, an nounce that tranquillity is re-established in that Pro ♦ince; but the Political Chief, Queralto, and all the Members of the Municipality, have addressed a let ter to the King, demanding the dismissal of the Mi nisters. The Archbishop of Saragossa still refuses to return to the Capital. He has made a representation to the King of the insults he had suffered. This Me morial, which has been printed, was publicly burnt on the Place del Coso. NUREMBERG, JANUARY is. We are assured that the Turkish Commanders in Wallachia and Moldavia, have declared that a new Pachalick will be formed of the two Provinces, when the power of the Hospodars will be suppressed. If this news is confirmed, it is calculated to provoke a war with Russia, which, by existing Treaties, can oppose all innovation in the government of the two Principalities. The last letters from Constantinople state, in a po sitive manner, that a number of transports are pre paring in great haste for conveying troops either to the Morea or to Candia. VIENNA, JANUARY 7. _ _ It is said that the Russian Army of the South corn menced marching towards the Pruth, and that three divisions passed the Dneister on the 26th, partly during the night. The troops are furnished with biscuits for fifteen days. The towns gong die Peoth are already filled with troops, by . which it appeah impossible that this state of things can lalt. Frooch Funds, Jan.lB.—Five per Cents. ME lerc. 0185 LOVEDAT. One of the French Journals (The Qwetidierne) having asserted that if the niece of Mr. Lovenatv had been converted to Catholicism, it was in conse quence of the request of Mrs. LOVIDAT, this Lady has contradicted the report in a letter to soother of the Paris Journalists. The following extract of a letter from Paris gives some necessary explanation on this unfortunate affair: 44 P.m, IMAM' 14. "Pew cireamstances have created a more powerful sensation than the Petition of Mr. Douglas Loveday ; he complains of the rape and seduction of . his two daughters and his niece ; he talks el Princes of the Church, and persons near the throne, whom he will not name: it is a great pity that Mr. Loveday did not state the legal meaning of those wordi in French before he raised an outcry which has ruined for ever the reputation of his daughters. In French, the word rapt does not mean violation, but simply the ruining away with a minor (pailliet)-4 Manuel do Droit Francois.' In the Index, rape (rapt) refers to Art. 554 of the Penal Code, which states, • whoever shall, by fraud or violence, carry off, or cause to be carried off, or shall have ;Educed, turned, or deplaced them, or caused them to be induced, turned, or deplaced from where they had been placed by those under whose authority, or to whose sanction they had been con fided, shall suffer the pain of solitary confinement.' Seduction, as the Memoir itself determines the sense, only means that they were seduced from their own religion to adopt another. Miss Loveday's virtue is unimpeached, except in the mistaken invectives of her father ; her only crime was changing her reli gion, and undue influence appears to have beeu used to effect this change." Tw•o Flanders Mails arrived this forenoon, and one last night. The following are extracts: FRANKFORT, JANUARY 12. We learn from Vienna that the Government hasl received information of tumultuous scenes which have taken place in the district of Rzechaw, in the king dom of Gallicia, where the peasants have revolted, to avoid the performance of feudal service and the payment of a part of the contributions due to their Lords. Baron de Hauer, Governor of Gallicia, being informed of what was passing, sent a battalion of the regiment of infantry of Matuchelli, which met near a village with an assemblage of peasants, who were prepared to resist. The troops fired upon them, killed two peasants, and wounded six others; the rest dispersed. The latest news from Greece announce that there continue to arrive numbers of old soldiers and of volunteers from all parts of Europe, who come to place themselves under the banner of the Cross. The General Government of Greece intends to organise them in Legions, and to form of them a separate corps, which will be raised to the number of ten thou sand men. According to letters from Pest, In llungary, Prince Alexander Ypsilanti is still confined in the fortress.— The Turks, far from evacuating Moldavia and Wal lachia, receive daily reinforcements, and their strength in those two principalities may be estimated at eighty thousand men. i:: : • last year 1500 tom nearly 55 has been i 1 The extra demand I bought tti 6 Indeed, it , ring, tho i rifficient I STUTOARD, JANUARY & The Stadion Alercaty contains a letter from an Officer formerly belonging to the free corps of Lut zow, who says he is at Marseilles with 60 pr 70 indi viduals who are going to embark for Greece. g$ I confess," he says, " it is a strange mixture of persons of all nations, Germans, Danes, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, Poles, and Spaniards, some military, some student; some animated with enthusiasm for the good cause, others adventurers hoping to make their fortunes eit her by sea or land." BRUSSELS, UNWARY 17. The Court of Assizes has been for some days en- Igaged with a trial which excites considerable interest here. It is the action brought against the Editor and Proprietor of the rrai Liberal, for twelve articles in serted in that Journal, which are complained of as tending to excite disturbance in the kingdom. On the 15th, the indictment was read; on the 16th, the witnesses, 14 in number, were examined. This moan ing the sitting of the Court was public, and Mr. Marc, acting as Attorney-General for the prosecu tion, shewed the danger to which the public tranquil lity wciaid be exposed if the inflammatory articles published by certain Journals were allowed to go unpunished : he observed, that he felt much satisfac tion that most of those who had endeavoured to ex cite troubles in our country were foreigners. He then proceeded to shew the inflammatory tendency of the twelve articles, and to prove how each of the accused (four in number) was implicated. Mr. Maubach spoke in his own defence, alleging first, that he could not be considered as being a party to any of the articles laid to his charge; and secondly, endeavouring to shew that they had not the inflammatory tendency ascribed to therm Mr. Sterens followed in Mr. Maubach's defence, main taining that his client had no share in the articles in questiou.—The trial will be continued to-morrow. The trial of Graun, 'accused of having threatened violence to the King's person, is fixed fur the SOth of this month. The accounts from Batavia come down to the 16th Sept. They rnwition numerous promotions made by The cholera *orbits had aseed its ravages at Batavia l Bourahaya o and Paton. means ; but it continued in Bantam, Kandal, a n d potash, and had manifested itself, ou the 28th July, the Island of Borneo. In the roads of Batavia, Barnarang, and Seurat:ay ; there were, besides nine of bis Majesty's ships, a b out 100 merchantmen, of diretentnations. TRIESTE, JANUARY 2. We have letters from Corfu, down to a 18th of December, which contain authentic accounts fro m the Mores. This month has been very fruitful in impn rtant events. Already on the 2d, the Greeks entered I) 4 _ teas after a most obstinate attack. The Turks previously pillaged and set it on fire. The Greek s having received considerable reinforcements on the 10th of November, attempted an assault, but in rai n . Jussuf Pacha retired into the forts of the Dardanel;ei after the action he bad before Patras. An errially favourable result has crowned their efforts in die ea. vitons of Corinth. The Commandant of the Castle of Acrocorind, has made proposition to join them if they will restore him his son, who was made prisoner at Trip°li zza , leave him the command of his corps of two thousand Albanians, and restore to him his treasures which they have taken. This proposal was sent to the SI. nate at Calamata, who replied, that they left it to I v decided upon by the Military Chills. It is not ki;or a what they have determined, but at all events the war may be considered as terminated in this distric•. fortress of Modon has surrendered by capitulat;(,, , ,_ In the environs of Napoli di Romania, the Turits!live suffered considerably ; the Castle, which is in d.cl; power, is bus a heap of ruins. The Commandant offered to capitulate on the 19th of November, LA the Greeks rejected every offer of capitulation. The new Government gains in strength and c'edi t , since several foreign adventurers have been exclude,' from the direction of affairs. Demetrius Yps:tat:i has at length assumed the dignity of General in of this Army of Coron. The Deputies of the v_•%;-..,•1 provinces continue to arrive at Calamata, and ft certain that the great National Assembly x, i:" united there about the New Year. A report is spread that Odysseus has gainel a new victory near Thermopylz ; the Greeks are stated to have suffered some loss, but the Turks are who'd) , destroyed, th nigh fonr thousand strong, and little 6- ferior in number to the Greeks. Some pieces of ar. tillery are said to have fallen into the hands of the torious Greeks. VIENNA, JANUARY ‘7. The news from the frontiers of Turkzy inform that several Turkish corps, especially Asiatics, hare lately arrived in the Principalities of 3101davia 1 Wallachia, where the whole Turkish force may t.e estimated at eighty thousand men. The petition If the Jewish community, to obtain a reduction of the war contributions, has been very ill received at J.-% The Deputies sent on this mission have received t!.e bastinado,and,an extraordinarycontribution c t ducats has been the fruit of their endeavours. Although four Mails have this day readied as ntli the Continent, yet neither in the French, Gernun, ,:or Flemish Papers is there any conalusive evidence as to tl'e question of war or peace between Russia and Turkey, The procrastination of the negotiation either argues great obstinacy on the part of the Turks, or that t!:e demands of the Russians are too exorbitant to be ac ceded to unless as a last resort. It is stated in tariutls accounts that the Russian armies are marching in great force towards the Pruth l which renders it er ttemely probable that the Autocrat of all the Rus sias will not remain long passive, but " cry havoc, and let dip the dogs of war." While Russia is temporizing by negociation, the Greeks continue their successes over the Turks. We yesterday announced that they had taken Arta : ara one of the foreign Journals states, on the authority cf letters from Corfu ; dated the 18th of December, that on the 2d of that month the Greeks carried Paths br assault, the Tut kv having previously set the town en fire in several places. Other accounts state, that Fa tras was entirely destroyed. Another victory is 5.:J to have beengained over the Turks near Thcrawp) ls, by the Greek Commander ODYSSEUS. The cause of the Greeks, though not meczing w ith the avowed support of any Government, is rcceiving considerable assistance from old soldiers and solur teers horn various parts of Europe. The nunibc: these is said already to exceed 10,000, and that 114 are organizing in distinct corps. Some accounts state that the Turks are about to evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia, while other ie. ports contradict this, and say they have sta. 80,00 men in the two Principalities. Letters from Malta to the 20th becemlite, state', that the Government of the Island had issued a free clamation o prohibiting the exportation of wallikd stores or ammunition. The brig Nymph, t‘liirh at. rived a few days before from London, with muskets and 4.00 barrels of gunpowder on board, was laid ander an embargo; but, as her cargo was originally ia• tended for Constantinople, it was supposed she wouhl be sutfet ed to proceed. The only consequence of the prohibition would be to transfer all the trade in the articles comprehended in it to Genoa and Leghorn, where no such impediment existed, This nse.,suit was extremely unpopular with the lkisisb resident in Malta.. 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 1 II 1 . i 1 1 O e •• C $ s • A R II .1 it •