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THE rG STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1623. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consdls opened this morning at 114 e to 3, and, np to this hour, they are 141 k, ; and for next Aecount. 84j, i. In the early part of the morning there was a good deal doing. The rue in Consols is .wing to its being a great Beer Account; and it is supposed that before Thursday (Aceount.day). they will reach 85. FOREIGN FUNDS. . Little business in the Market, owing to there being no news.-- Cerrent•Priees :—Old Spanish 28j, New 191 to 19, Colotablan 601, ; Russian 84 j* /, royals 4, Chili= 681. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 223 1 ,4-3 per Cent. Reduced 83 1 ,E 44 3 per Ct. Cons. 84 1 4 % 14-4 per Cts. Old 100 1 A 100 4 per Cts. New 104 1 / 8 3 / 8 y 4 —Bk. Lg. Ans. 21 1 / 8 3.16 India Bonds 795. 78s. prem. (Cr. 000) 48s. 495. Bank for Acct. 224y 4 —Consols tor Act. 84 1 / 4 3 / 8 54. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL MINA. We feel much pleasure in announcing the , arrival of General MINA in England, the hospitable asylum of the brave and the unfoftukate.• That he has escaped from a country so unworthy of his gallant services, and is now beyond the reach of monkish vengeance, must be a subject of gratification to every friend to the independence of Spain. After the sacrifice of Rtaco, - no individual who fought in the ranks of the Consti - tutionalists can for a moment, calculate on his safety, while he continues in Spain; for,if he escapes the Go vernment, he is in danger of falling's' victimto the fury of the advocates of the Absolute King. General MINA arrived in a French ship at Plymouth on Saturday last. Our Correspondent does not men... tion the name of the vessel, but we believe it to be the Louise, which is stated in Lloyd's List to have arrived in fourteen days from Gibraltar. The following is the letter of our Correspondent: el Plymouth, Nov. 22, 8 rat. A French man-of-war brig has just arrived at this port from the Mediterranean. She has on board Gene ral. Mina, and also dispatches. The arrival of this General in a French ship has excited much surprise here, but no particulars have transpired, nor can I make! enquiries, as the Mail is just on the start.' By the arrival of a Lisbon Mail this morning, we have Papers to the 16th instant. The Gazetti of the previous day, contains a decree which spews the fears of the Government More strongly titan any measure since the counter•revolution took place. By this deciee, it is enacted that no individual, native or foreigner, living in Portugal, shall import any sso►k in the Portu guese language, unless the author has previously ob tained the Royal license for its circulation. Every person offending is to be subjected to a fine of 480 milrees. If a native, he is to be imprisoned six months, and if a foreigner, banished. Every encouragement is given to informers, by receiving their information in' secret, and concealing their names, as well as by giv ig them the *bole of the fines. We are sorry to see that the King of PORTUGAL, who is naturally of a mild disposition►, is so ill advised as to issue so intolerant a decree, which must excite unnecessary alarm, and rather weaken the Government than otherwise. The following are extracts: LISBON, NOVEMBER 14.—(OFFICIAL). 66 Department of the Affairs of Justice. " DECREE • " It having come to my knowledge that some Portu guese who are ruined in public opinion, and overpow ered by remorse, have left their native land,and emigrated to foreign countries, where they intend to write, in their mother tongue, journals 'or pamphlets of some kind, yitb the criminal intention of again spreading among my faithful subjects irreligious and subversive doctrines and principles, and it being agreeable to my Royal service, and to the good of the People, whom DIVINE PROVIDENCE has committed to my paternal care, to pre vent so pernicious and ruinous an bvil; I have thought fit to order as follows: le 1. All the inhabitants of my dominions, whether . . natives or foreigners, are forbidden• to give orders for any journal or pamphlet printed in a foreign country,' written in the Portuguese language, unless the author has previously obtained my license for its circulation. " 2. If any such journals or pamphlets should happen to fall into the hands of any of the abnvementioned in habitants, they are bound to deliver it, in this city, to the Intendant-General of Police; and in the other cities, towns, and places, to the Delegates of Police, who will send it by the first post to the office of the Intendant- General of Police. 4' $. Any inhabitant who shall receive, and not ins.. l mediately deliver up such journal, &c. as hereby or: dered, shall pay, cm its being found in his possession, al fine ofc-30 milrees ; and besides this, if he is a-native, l shall suffer six months imprisonment, and if a foreigner, be immediately expelled my dominions. " 4. The above fine of 480 milrees shall be given tip the informers who shall give notice of the existence of, any of the said journals or pamphlets, in the possessiatl of the persons with whom they are found. " 5. The information shall be received in secret, and the name of the informer shall not be known unless he • ems permission in writing. " The Counsellor of State, Minister and Secretary of State for the Affairs of Justice, Manuel Marinho Tal cao des Castto, shall att.& to this, and cause the netts sary orders to this effect to be issued, Any laws or regu Lotions to the contrary hotwithstandiing. Signed I;y Ma MAJESTY. 41/1 1 idaceof lianpeeta. tab November, Ism" NOVIMINIEL ittes—The Gauge for IOU), time past has been chiefly filled with news from France and Spain of an old date, and with long lists of proinotions in the Portuguese Army. Vessels continue to be advertised as bound to Rio de Janeilo,.Bahia, Pernambuco, &c. Brussels Papers up to Saturday last reached us this morning,' but they contain no political intelligence of importance, unless the following bungling article Of London news may be considered so : FROM THE JOURNAL Di GAND. FRANKFORT. NOVEMBER 14. . - While tht Cabinets spew so little regard to the fate of - a whole Christian people, individuals do not cease their generous efforts in favour of their fellow-Chris tians. We learn by a letter from London, that General Deivio;,a Mouteneg: in, formerly in the French service, under the Emperor, is raising in England a Regiment of 2000 men, well equipped and of all arms, and that he expects to complete his corps by the end of this year. —An ex-Colonel of Artillery of the Imperial Guard, will serve under General Deivioz. Most of-the soldiers are enlisted in Switzerland and Germany ; as for the , officers, General Deivioz, cannot be under any difficulty, since there arc at London above 200 of all nations, who, after the unhappy issue of the cause for which they combated in Spain ere without deployment, and most of them in distress. Several General Officers, chiefly Prussians, have embarked for England ) with the inten tion of entering the Corps of General'Deivioz, and there would certainly have been many more, had it net been intimated to them that they must equip themselves at their own expense, and that they could expect but very moderate pecuniary assistance from the Greek Otim mime in England.. General Dievioz expects the speedy return of a Greek whom he has sent to the Feloponnesus to obtain correct information of the military and poli-1 tical state of Greece. The French Papers of Friday are entirely silent on the subject of the decrees which the Journal des DebNa ls and the Etoile of a former day stated would be issued by the King of SPAIN, who, it will be seen by an article' in another column, arrived at Madrid on the 18th inst.' Up to that time no measure had been taken, either by the KING or his Ministers, to counteract the decrees of For St. Mary. The Constitutionalists are still left, therefore, in a state of uncertainty, or rather of melancholy foreboding, as to their fate ; and the Monied Interests of France and Eng. land may still speculate on the rise or tall of Spanish Stock. That the circumstance of not being able to bor. row another shilling may infuse a little IRsneity into the Spanish Ministers, who appear so willing to dispense with it, and may hasten the acknowledgment of debts which they appear so anxious to evade, is natural enough. Our, sentiments on the loans are well known ; and we feel no hesitation in repeating, that the King of SPAIN must recognise them. The following Bulletin• is from the Moniteur: • PROM THE MONITEUR.—.OFFICIAL PART. " ARMY OF THE PYRENNEEEL " REPORT OF TUE MAJOR•GENERAL TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. • " MADasp. Novawsza 13. " Mx Lana—His Royal Highness has been informed by Marihal Count Molitor, that the troops of the second corps took possession. on the .sth of this month, of the city of Carthagena, in the name of his Catholic-hlajesty, and that the occupation took place in the most perfect order. His Excellency bestows the highest praise on the manner in which Lieutenant-General Bonnemains and Major-General Vincent conducted the negociations which have led to the occupation of that important place. " The troops of the second corps have also taken pos session. of Peniscola; and in a fresh dispatch, dated the, loth' of this month, Marshal Count, Molitor has just ac (painted his Royal Highness that he has every reason to hope, according to a convention concluded on the 6th of this month, and which has received his approba tion; that his troops will enter Alicant on the 12th. "These places having submitted, the second corps will immediately continue its movement to return to France, by way of Valencia, Saragossa, and Tolosa, and the arrival of the first column in the last mentioned city will take place immediately after the passage of the last troops coming from Madrid and Burgos, the return of which to France I have had the honour to announce to your Excellency. 4, The Major-General Count G LLE 31 I NOT." Philadelphia Papers to the 21st October reached this morning. One of them conteins, an article from Buenos Ayres, which states that the Congress had autho rized the Executive to ratify the CetUtation entered into with the Spanish Commissioners. 'lila& also been agreed to assist Spain with 20,000,000 dollarioo enable her to defend herself against France. Of course, the new Government in Spain will revoke the powers given to the Commissioners, and Buenos Ayres will retain her dollars for her own defence, instead of aiding that of the mother country. The following is an extract BUENOS VAS& as. By the brig Clio we have receive:l Buenos Area Papers to the 13th of August. The Congress of Buenos Ayres have authorised the Executive to ratify the con vention concluded with the Spanish Commissioners on the 4th ofJuly last, and has also a•lopted the project to support Spain in its struggle against the French inva sion, with. the sum of 20 millions of dollars, to be Eft niched by the Independent States of South America!, soon as the said convention shall 'he ratified. The finan ces appear to be in a prosperous state. The interior of tee country is yet disturbed by armed bands. ' dontevideo is still held by the Royal Portuguese, and blockaded by the Independents. FROM CURACOA. By the arrival of the :chooser Tar tar o from Coragoa, we have received a file of Papers to the 27th September. They contain accounts train Caraccas and Laguira to the 6th. The news from Peru is favourable: the troops from-Colombia, and the 2,000 men from Chili, have changed the fate of that country. The President Boli var was expected at Santa Fe. The KING is expected to honour Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Theatres with - his presence in the course of this week. The Cabinet Council which was held at the Foreign ollice, Downing-street, on Battwday, was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers, and sat in deliberation till half.past four o'clock. Saturday evening, after the breaking up of the Cabi net Council, the CHANCILLOR of the Enamours left town fur Blackheath. Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the Duke of SARK %MEAL left town, to proceed on his return to the Continent. The Eniperor of AUSTRIA is expected at Milan in the middle of February. He will be accompanied by his Court and all the foreign Ambassadors. Viscount GRANVILLR, the new Ambassador tq the Hague, is the youngest son of the first Marquis of %%trams, and brother of the present Marquis. His Lordship is married to Lady HANSIATTA CArmonsti, sister of the Duke of Drranunaz. It is understood that Admiral Sir GEORGE MARTIN, G.C.B. will succeed to the command at Portsmouth, shortly to be come vacant. Captain COMMAS Lulus to be Flag Captain. Captain WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM OWEN, who is now employed surveying the eastern coasts of Africa, is appointed Hy drographer to the Board of Admiralty, vacant by the death of Captain WILLIAM Hugo. 'rue King of PRUSSIA has resolved that, for the sake of greater impirtiahty, the persons accused of revolu tionary intrigues, shall be tried, not at Berlin, but at a distant tribunal ; and the Supreme Court of Silesia has been selected for this purpose. The papers concerning Messrs. ARNDT, JOAN, &c. have in consequence been sent to Silesia. A fire broke out, a few days ago, in the Magazine of the Custom House, at Valenciennes,which happily was extinguished without doing any other damage, than de stroying a great quantity of registers of papers. - We learn from Berlin, that the public entry of the Princess ELIZA of BAVARIA, and her marriage with the Crown Prince of Pausosa, will not be delayed, as was at first expected—they will take place on-the 28th and 29th of this month. - •. A Brussels Paper received this morning, gives the following confused account of a pretended miracle, worked by Prince HordzsitotrE, at Ghent.. The Courier of Flanders contains letter from a subscriber, which gives circumstantial details of the miraculous cure of Mailemoisetle ANIRLIIERGE, aged twenty-three years daughter of M. VAN PRTICUIENI,. _wine-merchant, a; Ghent--acute effected by the prayers of the Prince Ab bot of Holt c...sitonz. This young Lady ' had suffered, for , nine years, great infirmities, her left :arm was shortened three or four inches, 'indicant towards the breast, so that she could not make use of it. This prodigy took place on the Ist of November. A late Paris newspaper states, that as several 'young women are now in the habit of keeping the coriarnercial books of their husbands, a Demoiselle BiaticE an nounces, that from.the 15th of November she will give regular i nstruction to tier Own.sez in that useful science. Gres. fears were entertained:2ll.l°yd% on Saturday, of Me lo'ss niche Ferriby,SialPia sit,2 vessel which sailed from the Thames on the '29.h of October, bound for Elsinore and Petersburgh, with 120,0001. in speck on board, and has not since been heard of. The insurance, effected on her has not exceeded 50,0001. • Accounts from Demerara of the 28th of September state, that the Colony was perfectly tranquit. The ttialof Srnitholre missionary, was to take place on the followlig day. Theaegro, Jack, the son of Quamina, the - ritigkidefin the insurrection, had given evidence considered so important, thin it was expected he would be pardoned, in order to be - admitted an evidence. -It is,remarkable that at - the -tim6;Quarnina was shot, in conseq.tence of thelailoie of all attempts to take him there was found on his peison a Bible, with the leaf doubled down which contains the Bth chapter of the book of Joskua.•l ROYAL Sac IPr It OF LirEnwrine.—At the second ordinary-Meeting of this Society, was read the conclu sion of theca IS. report relative to the Survey of the C4,asts of Syria and Egypt, ordered by Henry V. pre paratory, as that Monarch declared on his death-bed, to his attempting AN expedition for the deliverance of Jerusalem froth the Infidels. ,The whole details of this. valuable paper tend to confirm the highest opinicins entertained of the foresight, prudence, and talents of the Conqueror of Agincourt. His preparations seem to have been matured in every point of view ; and the dictum of Hume, on this particular subject, is unquestionably overthrown by the present paper. (The MS. we ought to state, is the original report, which descended in the writer's family ; the Oxford MS. is of a later period, in the time of Henry VI.) A number of new candidates were proposed for election as members; and-those pro posed on the former meeting were elected. CONDF:NNED SEHMON.—Yesterday the Rev. Mr. COT TON preached what is-commonly called a Condemned Sermon, tw the four unfortunate men who are doomed to' undergo an ignominious death on Wednesday next, viz.—John Smith, aged 24, for uttering forged £5 notes ; John Crisp, aged 29, for buiglary; Jamei Scott, for wilfully cutting and maiming his wife nehr the Regent's Pit k, in September last; Edward Hogan, for a like offence, committed on his foreman, in or near D.,ctors' Commons. The Reverend Ordinary deli vered a most impressive discourse, from the words used by a penitent on a memorable occasion ) i,e. from, Luke, chap. xxiii. verse 42, " Loan remember me." l7 -- At the conclusion of the service, Smith, who is a young man of respectable appearance, and who from conscien tious motives would not plead Not Guilty at his trial, went to the respited convicts, .and bid them -an •altic, tionate farewell. The deportment of the unhappy. men was highly becoming their awful situation. Crisp is a fine-looking man, and when his particular offence was al luded to, he betrayed evident symptoms of emotion. The Under-Sheriff war present, and perhaps on' no recent occasion has the Chapel of NeVrgate been mote crowded than on the present. RETAIL BRIEWERS.--SOllle persons b g expresied doubts as to the m ean i ng o f t h e Std Gett i tlL Mr. C. F. •the Member for Reading, proposed the fol lowing,question to Mr.; HEILEAS; the Secretary to the Treasury : " Can a person hold an Excise license, as a victualling , or retail brewer, and under such lice nse sell beer by retail in any small quantities from his pre mises, provided the same be not consumed ens. bis pre mises, without being licensed as a publican by the Ma gistrates?" Mr. Hatiugs retorted to the Board of Ex ene, and enclosed to Mr.C. F. Palmer the following offi cial answer from Mr. CARIt, the Solicitor for that Honourable Board I.—et A licensed brewer who disclaims the allowance made to common brewers, and pays the full duty as a retail brewer, may legally sell beer in retail to lIE manned elsewhere than an his premises, with out incurring any penalty" ._ COURT OF KINDS BENCH-7711S D. BLASPHEMOUS LIBEL THE KING V. J. W. TRUST. _ The SOLICITOR-GRNERAL moved the judgment ofit e Court on the defendant, Joseph William : trust, wk » had been convicted of publishing a blasphemous wicked libel against the Christian Religion. Lord Chief Justice Ausorr read over his notes ci t the trial. The defendant put in an affidavit, in which he stif e i that he had given up the shop, and had ceased to pub. fish the works complained of, and had none of t h e copies in his possession. Mr. FARNCII made a most forcible appeal in mili gt , tion of punishment. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied. The COURT ordered him to be committed to Ne w , gate until the second day of next Term, for the purp ot of saying to whom he had disposed of the property, THE ARMY. Saturday sennight, the Grenadier Company of the 10th Abbe, ment, under the command of Capt. A r .s. xx , marc h e d from Abbe,. Ifeale to head-quarters, Rathkeale, having be en prev i ously rege 4 d by a detachment of the 29th Regiment, under the command ot Captain Pormtu, from Triter. Four companies of tile 65th Regiment have marched from Nu ll on their route to Edinburgh Castle ; the remainder of the Reemest_ is to continue in tiull e an they are replaced by the 17th, which i, now at Portsmouth, lanry returned from India, and is expe&ed ( 4) arrive at fluU on the ht of next month. If nne circumstance more than another can speak creditabbr to the character of the soldiers of the 934 Regiment, it is this, that on embarkation for the West Indies, there does not appear to he a single desertion, which is really a most unprecedented circuinstasee and redounds much additional honour to that excellent liegimea,.. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. Commissions signed by his Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk. George Waddington, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant. N Regiment of Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry—Kerrisoo Harvey. Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Squire, resigned. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Ruh : of the County or York, City and County of the City of Teti. Yorkshire Hussar Yeomanry—Lieutenant Mon. Henry Ca ll a n to be Captain, vice Scott, resigned ; Cornet Sir John Vanden Bempde Johnstone, Bat t..to be Lieutenant, vice Lascelles, pro moted ; Cornet William Augustus Lane Fos to be ditto, vies Kaye, resigned ; Edward Fenton, Gent. to be Cornet, vice John. stone, promoted ; Honourable Charles Stourton to be ditto, vice* For, promoted. • Letters from Leipzie say, that the passage afiFrench, Russian, and Spanish couriers through that city is very • frequent. . eOVIINT-GARDIZN....-Mr. SINCLAIR performed in The , Cabinet again op Saturday night, and the house, at an early hour, was full in all parts. The Opera was strengthened by HAutsv, from Drury-lane, who:played Mimic:do (vice Laitxix) by permission of Mr. &La, row. Mr. &act...silt sang with more steadiness thanes his first appearance, and was encored in all the songs except the simple air, is OhLady, ne'er think," &c. The is Polacca" was called fora third time, and the same compliment (even after the scene had changed) was paid to the duet in the last act between Miss PAvorr arid Mt.' HARLOT. Att. lIARLRY was most loudly K. , :rlatuled.' 'Miss Pivorr plays Floretta with great spirit, and sings . it delightfully. BLIND Tnaystutn.s—We learn from Irkutsk (5. - bera), under the dare of the 21st of September, wind follows :—We have at present ocular evidence of a mat unexampled phenomenon. On the 16th of this month, M 0.% m Ea HOLMAN, a Lieutenant in the English service, blind since he was 26 years of age, arrived here. Behar .mpleted, without a guide, this long and hazardous' journey, which he undertook with inconceivable courage . ; Re lett England for Russia alone, furnished only with. some recommendations to persons of distinction. Never. theleas, he performed this extensive journey without eie periencing any delay, which might have been expected from the obstacles which must have arisen from his blindness, and his difficulty in expressing himselfeitheria. Russian or French. Somebody always accompanied him from one own to another, serving as interpreter. He writes an account.of his journey in English, according to the information which he collects. In doing this la makes use of a writing machine, invented In England, and used in several polytechnic schools. He is el small stature, about SO years of age; his countenancers open and agreeable. He still remains at Irkutsk; endeavours to form an intimacy. with the principal habitants. He experienced great pleasure at finial some of his countrymen here, with whom he could allif • verse-respecting these regions. v 414 SHIPWRECIL—By the Nicholson from. Quebec arrived in Liverpool on Saturday, we have received Quebec Papers to the /th Oct. from which we emelt the following account of the wreck of the brig Monne, of Aberdeen, Alexander Martin, master, on St. his Island, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence :—Sunday MOW bag, the 14th September, at three, a.m. the Meagre. bound from Newry to Quebec, in a thick fog, and ivied southerly, struck on a sunken rock on the south.e side of the Island of St. Paul ; but fortunately for the crew and passengers, she beat over it, and came iacdoi tact with the cliffs of the island. There were Mgt persons on board when the vessel struck, twelve If them seamen, the other. passengers, Eve of whoa drowned and many of the survivors dreadfully Ira The Captain * and crew, who were p art i cu l ar ly ite their endeavours to save the lives of the passenge tunatily sustained but trifling injury. The meths adopted to get en shore, was by cutting away the which4ell. on the rocks, and by the greatest on twenty-Sussof their number succeeded. in gettinge vessiTheld together but ten noinutes sthe werelandid, and the whole of the passengers ao of the crew being at - rest !Alen she strock s thel consequently cast naked on shore. Is this deepl state they remained three days on the Island, It anything to subsist on but a few pieces of perks fortunately floated on shore from the wreck, and they were obliged to eat raw; souse clothinge also came on shore, assisted, in part, to cover the kedness. Luckily, on the moming of the I 7thsd Generous Planter, of London, from this ports 11 sight of the Island, and perceiving their spa ceeded in bringing them all on board, alle iP them from their perilous situatloo. Tbe C (Woodford) afforded them every assistance whiei distresses required * and is deieiving of *Pi praise for his humane and gentieetalllY -MCP wards then'. The Captain, mate, sad oat pill went home in the Generous Planter; arrived here in the Sir James ICoal_pto "' h . e. • they were tran s fe rre d by Captain WOodkorae.'. Stewart, of the Sir James Kempt, rendered son!. assistance which his means would alloys and entitled to . illfitioritedo• preachers,,--- g Methodist .rsbi ' cu IC p 1 T 11 b Is Is , v I J