Star. — London, England, 1823-06-23 00:00:00

THE COL9MBIAN LOAN. At length something decisive on this subject has been received. The following intelligence is .. ea a. tracted from a Supplement to the Kingitoaklamaica) Chronicle of April the 22d : " Cbroniclao6ee, April 12. " By the arrival of the schooner Carolina this day from OWt tbagena, which place she left on the 15th, we have been fug+ Malted with as Gayeties to the 11th ultimo inclusive, in which we have the proceedings of Congress, which met on the 12th of that month. " What we have long apprehended is now realised; that the late Dlr. Zea, in the Contract into which he so adroitly inveigled the monied people in London, had played a deep game; such a one as will, no doubt, become as memorable in the annals of Stock Jobbing, as the famous South Sea Bubble, or the more modern hors of my Lord Cochrane. " We fear, exceedingly, that this unfortunate event will not stop here; but that it will be followed up by similar acts of the neighbouring States. who may have resorted to British capitalists for money; and that Many innocent persons may yet have to lament the-precipitancy of those who ought to have deliberated before they became the victims of this passion for Colombian In dependence.. We shall dot offer any further comments on this very unfortunate-Art:suction, but proceed to lay before our Readers the Gazette ac c ount of it. " It was propOsed that the proceedings of the late Mr. Zea should be discussed, and that the Report of the Committee ap pointed to inquire into the nature of the negociation and con tract by which he intende'd to have bound the faith and pledged the credit of the Republic, should at once be laid before them. " Don Pedro Gual then produced the called for, signed by Signor Castillo and himself , in whic h l set forth— ' That the late Mr. Zee's power vested in him by the acknow. 'edged Authorities of the Colombian States, was for a political and not fur a financial object; and that any financial arrange ments, therefore, of the nature of those entered into, or into which he appears to have entered, and by which b e has •at l , tempted to bind the faith and pledge the honour of the Repub lic for its due performance, was unauthorised, and di - direct op position to his instructions. . . . That without being enabled to ascertain the tact,. they pre- some the contracting party must have been aware delis power ' , of Mr. Zea not being for a financial purpose; And that they acted in unison to pledge the faith of the Republic, UV* ex% pensc of Its credit. . • That it appears that the contract entered into was:efne in which private interest was more consulted than the credit and public good of Colombia. That the first arrangements entered into, which subjeCted the Republic to the payment of large aunts, fur which Deben, turn were issued at 'a must exorbitant rate of interest, was never sanctioned by the Executive, and of which Mr. Zea was officially informed; and his reply, assuring a ready adherence, is before your Committee. That any subsequent negociation entered into for the can celling of these documents, was in total opposition to the avowed instructions given to Mr. Zea l injurioukto th e interest of the Re public, and tending only to th e advancement of individual views. That from the accounts of the second transaction, which we now lay before your Committee, the credit of the Republic ap pears to have been but a secondary object ; and that from the proceedings, it is evident no good could have resulted from it, had it been ratified by the Government. _ . ' That It be reconinwnded to Congress to refuse, by every act, any proposal for a negotiation of the Loan. "fhat it be suggested by Congress now assembled, that these .sentiments t•f yota Committee be generally promulgated ; being in unison with those of the people whom they represent, and such, in which they trust the honour of the Commonwealth has beta, faithfully and guardedly watched. That it appears, that some portion of the money from this Loin, has been appropriated to the purchase of vessAs, imple ments of war, warlike, and other stores, as well as received into the Treasury of the Btate • and that it be recommended to the consideratiun of Congress that the Board of Liquidation do au florise and appoint competent persons, by commission, to value all such ship.. implements, and stores, as well as to ascertain the sum or sums of money received into the Treasury; and that such measure be forthwith thereafter adopted, to ensure the re p iyateot of the same; but that it be strongly urged to such Com missioners, the necessity of not considering the Republic pledged . for .T. 11,, pa) merit of such arti:les as shall appear to them to have burn sl. l.ped, without a due regard to their having beat first fit to it. service. ' That it be recommended, that such payments be made here to the authorised Agents of the Contractors; but should there nut be any person or persons in whom authority s vested for that purpose, that it be transmitted to the Representative of the Re public in England, to be by bun appropriated agreeably to the Instructions of the Executive. • That in so strenuously suggesting the foregoing measures to the consideration of the Congress, your Committee have been actuated by the highest sense of honour for the welfare of their country, at the same time serloudy regarding the faith of the Re public, should it have been honourably pledged. But under cir cumstances like the present. were your Committee to recom mend the adoption of measures that W%t tend to sanction the conduct of Mr. Zea, they feel that they would be establishing suck precedents as might eventually involve the State in the most seestyicable and insurmountable tlidieuldes, as well as open. ing the door to fraud and gross imposition.' •' The above Report, and its recommendations were agreed to, and read a second vitae, with acclamations, their being only four dissenting voices, and consequently was carried by A great majority. The sensation wisich was sacked in the minds of some English traders at Bogota, on the delaration of the Cont. guess, was inconceivable, as they were previously under the strongest Impressions that the Government would at once recog nise this Loan, although the leading persons in the Blinistry had decidedly declared against it." A Pamphlet, entitled, 64 Letters to the Contractors of the Colombian: Loon," has been published, which has excited considerable attention. The author_ has brought into a small compass the principal arguments which bear upon the question. The positions are stated with considerable force, and the most promi nent of them are contained in the following abstract Ist. That the Loan is illegal, not being founded on any Decree of Congress, and that the Contractors are fully convinced of its illegality.-2d. That the lie. bentures created by. M. Zea were never ratified, and that the payment of the principal and interest due thereon was unauthorised by the Government.-3d. That the Proclamation of the Vice-President, Sant ander, was intended as a notice to the Public of the irregularity of M. Zee's operations.-4th. That the posters of M. Zea were fabricated, having been written on blank powers, committed to him for other' purposes, and that the contractors had notice of the revocation of the powers before the Loan was con tracted.-sth. That the ratification of the Loan would be inexpedient and unjust. It has been reverted that this pamphlet is written under the direetton of Mr. Revenge, to prepare the Public for the official an nouncement of the non-ratification. A letter from Aleppo, dated April 8, says :--There is nothing new from the frontiers of Persia; things remain as they do at St. Jean d'Acre, in stegst quo. Shocks of earthquake are become very infroLuent e and are hardly felt. For the present, we enjoy repose. There is a report, but very vague, of some deaths cholera morbus, on the coast, of Antioch. I fur that this contagion will break out and spread. wednesday last, the King of the NZTHULAMMI attended Divine Service at the Church formerly be longing to the .6.ugustines, in commemoration of the wale of Waterloo. The ringing of all the bells in t h e evening and this morning announced to the citi zens the anniversary of that memorable victory. 1 s THE kyriiNo:sTAk: . LONDON. MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1823. THE FUNDS. - • STOCK 'EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. ConsolS opened this morning at inn I, at which price they continue; with little ifusitiesa doing. A report prevails on 'Change that Valencia Mid Tortona have surrendered to the French. FORETON FUNDS. Owing to the unfavourable intelligsnee from Colombia, the above Bonds fell from S 5 to 48, 50. Spanish Bonds 'opened at 32, with a heavy Market, and little doing. Current Prima: New Spanish 314 to 32, New Prussian 844, Russian 80, Danish 90, Colombian 50. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Ct. Redu. BO'4 IA 3 / 4-4 per Cts. Qld 977# 98 Bank Long Atms. 20 7-16 3 / 4 —lndia Bonds 38s. 40s. Exchequer 'Bill: ,000) 17s. 195.--Small 18s. 20s. Consols for Atct. 813/ 4 3 / 4 . • EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have received to day, by Express from Paris, the following official announcement of the removal ' of the King of Spain from Seville to Cadiz. " TELE G RA PIITC DISPATCH. 41 %as DUKE OF ANGOIMEMZ TO THE PERSIDZNT OT THE COUKIL oS MINISTERS. " liead-qharters. Madrid, 17th Ant, 10 edict, " On the Ath, in the evening. the King was re• moved from Seville•to Cadic. • 66 Our'troops will arrive at Seville on the 21st and 22d1 whence they will immediately move on Cadiz:' .Froin the accounts which we published on Satur day; it appeared that the French army had cleared with cape the difficult passes of the. Sierra Morena. and reached La Carolina, which is on .the Seville side of these mountains. From Carolina to Seville there are nd impottaat military positions, and. no Spanish • -.. troops to Occupy them if-there were; so that we may reckon surely enough on* late seat of Government being, ere now, in the • hands of the french. About the next step of their progress, namely, from Seville to Cadiz, the French Commander speaks more inde• cisively, and certainly with reason.—General Boun- DzsouLT can be in no condition, as yit, to undertake the siege of Cadiz ; and a siege it surely will stand. The abandonment of the Sierra Moren s z, whiahmight have been defended by three or four guerillas, properly stationed and 'commanded, against an army ten times more numerous than that of BOURDESOOLTOIOOIO DO% to be sus e, bespeak much confidence For abilluns of defence which the Spanish Government can have now in store.—But Cadiz is a very strong place, : to,strong says a contemporary, that " it will laugh a siege to scorn." The inhabitants, too, are eminently, cOnsti.. tutional, and if they only remain steady ill their at tachment to the Cortes, the French will find that they yet have much to achieve before they complete their triumph over Spanish independence. We have received, by the same Express, the MP , ;thew' of Saturday. It states that General ROYM Appointed Ambassador from Prussia to. the Regency of Spain, had arrived in Paris and would this week set out for Madrid; for which place M. BRUNETTI, M. BULOARI, and M. SAMPNY, the Charges d'AT4ires of Austria, Itussia, and Sardinia, had left Paris the preceding week. Deserters from Santona state the garrison is in want of proviledh. The soldiers are compelled to live on grain. They express a general wish to enter into some arrangement with the King's Government. The Moniteur alsogives the following extract of a private letter, dated " GIBRALTAR, MAY its. " Andalusia and all the adjoining provinces have been declared by the Cones in a state of siege. The, object of this measure is to levy military contribu tions on that unhappy country, though all the land owners haie already paid 47 for 100 of their. revenue. It is farther affirmed, that the Cortes have jest - de creed the penalty of death against all those who shall publish unfavourable news, and that the liberty of the press is abolished. . " Colonel San Miguel, late Minister for Foreign Affairs, has arrived here. His friends circulate a report that he is going to join his regiment in-Cata lonia: he does. not take the shortest way. Others say that he has brought with him a great, part ot the sacred utensils and plate of the churches of Seville. Several persons pretend that he is gone to Gibraltar, to take - measures for putting Ceuta in a good , state of defence; to which place, it has been reported, it wasp intended to conduct the King. My own privateopi- Mon is, that be merely seeks to escape." • MADRID, JUNE 111. The Provincial Junta of Spin and the Indies hay.' ing already declared in its Proclamation of the 6th instant, that it would not moguls; and that it stbuld , regard as never !laving esinelliall the public and ads' MinistratiTC acts, end en the attieekof the Govern. meat established by the rebellion skm elapsed, tint prOteedings *all - be immadistalrimpOloti to re• insaisat m*ve pence' or- f4ikara t .iiiiii iii-liiplite dim ac cording to the follinving ruins - • - :: . " 1 . Evert PM , " IS 0 0/8 ass afPlll ll4 W she 0144 pew, Woes assiduity; d Nadi 7, SIN sime be Dm diodes* * - 11, Zest? Womb be 41 0 111 4.6 4111 1 1 11. bi. 4 04. ttot- Win Muth; 1..904 blibilsk &SOWS@ tiscallishawellia Mt' ' tea sows to the Cmeekstised *Wait Rad aecemirigaill is!. . liii.pplb awed apish% site he isusfewly restipololl. . ' ~ .... ie 1 1 ....X.i1e 040 ;a 0 aSisitiffait Orli WA= s4Fiki. lip; ISM Ists essimest a mobs their fawns% sip Molt , • :4 1 . ,ther Add-phew provided it nimlts fietwde Writhe that wm be midi that their conduct iwithout rept,* .and Fumbled the/ lareeogieed to be wanfeyet tbeiMiefinestildeers; allcurh e ten be diaabarged witheet Wiry or. pensiout fici M ancient °Seers, who, having retained *dr. var., aid have been advanced, and brie experienced *en*: chug, 1101Ing the revolutionary mann, shall return (on the sasarroo- Odes as prescribed in the pleading *tide) to illl the am* places which they held before the 7th March, 1120, till the 'Go imminent, being informed of the reasons of their premed's of the injury which may have arisen from it top third perm, read of the particular cue of each individual, Mail order i what it may judge to be peeper." INTENDANCY OF MADRID. " The Regency of the Kingdom, during the captivity of the King our Master, orders, that the Intendants of the shall immediately suspend the sale of the property attached to the public credit, or anything else belonging to the Treasury. " That these Intendants, as well as those who have their eos- Hence, in their respective districts, muse all the books to be broeght back to them, which hive been kept by the funetkm aiies charged with the employment of the public money. &c. " And lastly, that the holders of publie money, deliver, with out delay, to did said Intendants, an enact adcount of the mort gages, estates effects, dtc. of the Treasury, since March 7,letot carefullypointing out each, their origin, situation, and value, se aways to the estimate made, the revenue they produced before thelralicnatien, and the quantity and trality of the land, &c. " Dy order of his Reyna Highness, (Signed) " JUAN DE ERRO." FARTHER EXPRESS FROM PARIS. At a late hour this forenoon we hatereceived, by another Express, the following additional advices from Paris : 46 General Bourmont arrived at Majadas on the 13th June, on his march to Seville. General Bourdesoult occupied the city ofCordova on the 14th; a tumultuous movement of the popu lation of that town, and in Jaen having compelled the Constitutional garrison to retire in the direction of Seville two days before. General Bourdesoult was expected to reach - Seville on the 17th. •d - General Molitor, having compelled General Bal lasteros to raise the siege of Merviedro, entered the City of Valencia on the 13th of June, and the Royalist Chief Don Ramon Chumbo got possession of the Castle of Tortosa on the 12th. The King of Spain appears to have left Sevi:le by water, for Cadiz on the 12th." EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER: " PARIS, SATURDAY. JUNE its. 44 The principal topic of conversation at Paris is the conduct of Ministers towards Lady Oxford and Mrs. Hutchinson. No specific accusation is made against these Ladies ; but they were hospitable, kept open house, and being women of talents and-en gaging manual* eoneued at their tables most of the people of talent in Paris. A . Ministry like this is necessarily despised by men of, understanding. In fact, by far the greater number of literary men, and of men, in any way distinguished in . France for their talents, are hostile to it, and not a few of the very first men have been prosecuted for libels. Such per. sons were frequent visitors at the houses of these La. dies, al they thus became the objects of the suspi cion, Aid it length of the vengeance of tbi Govern-, ment. Lady Oxfordtas long been a Marked person." Fans Cir. SATUZIDAZ—Fiire per. Cents 88f. 75c. - • THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION ! ' IZTRACT SAM A. PRIVATS MITI& es PARIS, (SasfaaaT) iseall.- Ws, aft 4 , By three different couriers that have_arrived from Madrid, Government has received information'thar the Portuguese counter-revolution is entirely con summated ; that the Infant Don Mig:iel entered Lis bon on the. 34 of June ; that . General Rego was de -posed from bis command, and that the troops under hii had sent in their submission ; and, in a word, that the King had been, established in all the plenitude:of absolate power. •• - f, A report from General Bourdesoulle has likewise been receive 4, stating 'that various towns of small consequence had made their submission: that the peasants everywhere in Estremadura were opposed to the Constitutional system, and that they arrested the Constitutional soldiers whom they found scattered ever the country, and delivered them op to the French army. It is singular that this news was ,not iosied up ; it the *Exchange ; but they will be in the Moniteur to-morrow." Accounts from Bayonne of the 14th inst. state, that the French, who formed the garrison of Bilboa have prripinuely evacuated it; leaving only 12 gunners, probably for appearance sake, In themeantime, the Mail from St. Andero had not reached Bayonne, where it was affirmed, that the Constitutional troops had entered the • former city, 'and Would soon enter, Bilboa... But the neighbourhood of Madrid swarms with guerillas; and the letters from there state that in the mountains of Avila a most determined band has made its appearanCe. The celebroted•CHALlCO, whose band amounts soon thousand, has made La.Mancha the theatre of his Operations.' Another, underViims, 1200 strong, has chosen the immediate vicinity of thel capital for the Acene of its harassing warfare. Cat- Am is said so have lately entered Alcala, close to that Ilittto have replaced, the stone of the Constitu- ' I tille k *HTit yastored the Constitutional Authorities. It Ise itterOOTerylit , ,ted in the samoletters, that the army :of Bu .t which- K. has been ioasiderably re atOdagiso,oactthat hebad pushed ' a divisioaailai as Ifsiesaa, with the inte i ntion of "aP pm:aching Madrid, for the purprne French in ..tkehr retreat, sko dtj thrd fail Inuk on t 4, Oro ! _ It is singular that not a wor,l is said of 11 4 . istoreseorps, which, it was stated some time h ac k had marched•to oppose the progressof Bat L A srEit o‘ Accounts from Seville say, that the .Cones h oe suppressed the convents of both sexes. The ululate, at Seville have forbidden the postmasters in %an th countries not occupied to send any cow *lento It is affirmed that a French squadron has eiztereht harbour of Cadiz, and that it does not sea m threaten the city; it is added that I 2tvo I r e m ' troops have been landed at Port St. Mary, a n ,i 0.1 , 4 all vessels leaving the bay are to be examined, ti De person may escape. Public anxiety as to the events in Portug 4 l 4 11 , 4 yet relieved by the arrival of a Lisbon packet. 8. 4 a long delay in the direct communicati3ns f;, ;ruut Tagus has seldom been known. A courier is elle % gone from London to Lisbon, by the way f ii;. c oit , tinent, in ten daYs, and the rackets generally p et r ol their voyages in a shorter time. The latest atlvi cas s i England, direct from Portugal, of cours e t h ee . t advises which can he ti ustezt, are of the 23d stir. frr, Oporto, and 2441 from Lisbon, 411. i must b. this moment .no less than four packets at se I the Marlborough, which was to leave the Tagus u ti the Ist Instant; Duke of Kent, No. St, on the m ; efuke of Kent, No.l, -on Chi 15th, and the Sianao; on the 21st or R.2a:. • . WO fhol Ohl ver wOr evel THE lefAIG. Saturday evening, about half-past five o'clock,6 KING drove - through Win ~ o r, in his low pia,:ta L His MaJur/ looked in exceheut health. The . Prri l k bells immediately rung a merry p.m'. and ing the houses of the inhabitants and the T 04 were brilliantly illun.inated. His MAJESTY ) we are rejoiced to state, c.rl:insts in good health. He is expected to , vn in a few days to hold a Council ; but his .opid!ic will not take place so soon as way ex pcc te,!. It is no t thought that his MA : TESTY will not ,t. t o to thecoast he. fore the rising of Parliament, for which, from the st• cure of the subjects lately introduced, no time caa present be definitively fixed, Saturday morning, the Duke of CUMBERLAND MI the Duchess of GLOUCESTER went to Bushy Park, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE where their Royal Highnesses partook of a ildeuge. The Royal Duke and Duchess returned to town in the evening. Their Borg Highnesses stopped at Twick• enham, on a visit to Sir WArrisx WALLER and the Baroness HOWE. Mr. Secretary CANNING had a grand party at din- ner on Saturday, at Gloucester Lutist. The CHateozza.on of the EXCHEQUER had a dinner party on Saturday, at his house in Downing•strcet. Saturday, Prince LEOPOLD lionnuted. tt....3 Earl ei Baosmow with his company to dinner. Yesterday, the Duke of CUNBBBLAND left town ve a visit to his MAtststv, at Windsor Lodge. The Marquis and Marchioness of LA useowygras a grand dinner on Saturday, at Latisdown House, Berkeley-square, to a distinguished party. Saturday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council•irsi held at the Foreign Office, Downing -street, which was attended by— '! Lord Chancellor, the Bari of liarrowby, the Earl d Westmorland, the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, Earl Bathurst. the Chancellor of the hubs quer. Viscount Melville, Mr. Wynn, Lord Beaky, &c. The Cabinet sat in deliberation tilt ludf.past four o'clock. x i N o' s T y 'Aim ',Tile whole of the pet formsnces .went off on Saturday with great eclat. lu the brib Bunt circle were: The It:inching of Gloucester Duchess of Kent, Prima Pea dare, his noyal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, P r i nce Leo. pfd. Lord Pahnerston. Ladies Grenfell, Ryder, hilenboroagb, and Illarrowbyobe Vlce-Cbancellor, Lieutenant.Gcneral We , tberell, Mrs. Abberky, Mrs. L. Foz, Mrs. Canning, itc. The bands of the Royal Horse Guaids and the Royal Fusileers, play on Windsor Terrace on Wed• nesdays and Sundays, from seven to nine. Tea PARK 4WD GARDENS.—The coldness of the day kept many away from this gay Sunday resort.— But about five, the carriages and liorsemen proceed. ing to Kensington Gardens were innumerable. The promenade, at six, was attended by most of the Fa. reign Princes, the Ministers, and their Ladies. The Park wall was occupied as usual. The same light -and airy dresses, with small bonnets or hats with Sowers. Nothing new in equipages : the bawds appears to supersede all other vehicles. The Cambrian Ball at Ataracit's, on Friday, r 4 splendidly Attended. Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS acted as Master of the Ceremonies. The children of the Welch Charity School were ranged around the Great Room on the ground floor, at the time of the entrance of the Royal Personages who honoured the Fete with their presence. These consisted .01 the Duke and Dac24ess GLoucesrett, the Ditches: of KENT, and the Princess SOPHIA MATILDA. Data; commenced about midnight, when those of sylphie form (for the ball-room was nearly crammed} trot the lead in the dance, : viz. quadrille and waltz alter nately. So it was until three o'clock, when a mos• tion took place; but this was only for a tinsel the music struck up again, and played till five o'clock. The Earl of BANDOS, upon the last settling day of his tenants, gave directions to his agents, that wise the rent was tendered of all such lands as were held by terminable leases, there should be an slimed* made, commencing two years ago, of tree-heitr farms taken within the last ten years, and of one-MP on those which had been leased forty years since.,._ The Metropolis was never perhaps so fertile is Exhibitions as at this moment, not only in galisdi of the Fine Arts, but in collections of Natural* tory. In the latter department, it is true, we hale not a national establishment, like the Museini4 Natural History in Paris ; but here the enterprisieff spirit of individuals often effects what in other awl tries can "OAF be done by Government. We her. been led to -dame remarks from seeing the SU dines Minor, or Little Zebu ; a Spotted Deers the Bast indictor and.two,livnLand Turpenr, of the tortoise species, from the interior of New South Wei' hall •