Star. — London, England, 1823-11-21 00:00:00

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' Exchequer Bills (I+l ,000) 455. 48s.—Small 455. 48s. Consols fol. Acct. 83% 5/8. This forenoon we received Brussels Papers to the 19:b in,tant. An article from St. Petersburg!), dated the 25th of October, says, " Count liEsszr. RODE is expected here to-morrow ; we have now no doubt of the speedy adjustment of all our differences with the Porte." The following are extracts: BRUSSELS, NOVEMBER to. The German Journals lately announced that the affair of the navigation of the Rhine was on the point of being terminated ; and it appeired, from what they stated, that pur Government had renounced its pretensions. The official' paPer which had likewise mentioned this fact, now declares that there is no foundation whatever for the assertion that his Majesty has made concessions' respecting the meaning of that Article of the Treaty of Vienna which relates to that navigation. HAG VE, NOVEMBER. 15. SECOND CHAMBER ON THE STATES-GENEBAL. The Order of the Day was the debate on the project of Law relative to the deposit of property belonging to persons presumed to be absent. - M. NICOLA t, in a very concise speech, chewed the ad vantages of the proposed law. Baron de STASSART approved the law, as being emi nently calculate-I to preserve the interest of the absent iu ordinary times ; but he objected that it did net offer the wine security in time of war: for instance, when a province might be invaded by an enemy, and when it might be 'thought necessary to remove, to a place of greater safety the sums deposited in the public coffers. lie was far from thinking that such a Government as ours would ever apply such sums to its own use; butif the war should continue, and interfttpt the communica tions for some years, a family may be put to great in convenience. He therefore proposed, that the family of the absent persons should be permitted to receive, by way of deposit, the sums that have devolved to such persons, in case they should desire it, and on giving sufficient security. Some Members replied to these objections, and the question being put, was adopted by sixty-six Members, Baron de Stassart's being the only vote against it. The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the project of law for relieving from the land -tax, for fifteen years, the buildings erected by the Benevolent Societies of the Hague and Brussels. Messrs. BARTHELEMY and VAN At.rtitx spoke in favour of the proposed law. The former observed, that the object of the establishments which it was intended to encourage was two-fold, to cultivate an immense track of wmss and barren land ; and to employ, in a manner useful to themselves and to society, numbers of unhappy persons, whoni misfortune and indigence seemed to condemn to a premature death. M. VAN ALPHItIi :hewed, that while England made an annual sacrifice of eighty millions (eight millions sterling) for the support of the poor, without being able to extirpate mendicity, the means used in our j kingdom were much better calculated to attain the object.-- The: speaker remarked on the , liberality of our fi nancial laws:—:. 4 While our neighbours.(said he) try to encourage the. Industry, of their country by prohibitory' laws and high duties, we employ the indigent in the cultivation of *yeasts land, and ,our import duties are very moderate." The. law was a`clOPted without one dissenting voice. By accounts from &Aida" to theld of September . we learn that the insurrection was drawing to a close, the greater part of the insurgents having laid down their arms. The following Proclamation on the subject had been issued : BARB WOES, SEPTEMBER 1. 0 Headivartera at Camp Howe, Aug. 22. 41 His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has great satisfaction in communicating to the Public the success which has hitherto attended the operations against the revolted negroes on the east coast of this country, in which quarter alone the spirit of rebellion has been openly, manifested. On Tuesday morning, a large body of the revolters, between 700 and 800, assembled near Mr. Reed's, 'well armed ; they commenced an attack on Peutenant Brady, of the 21st, and attempted to surrowld,ltiro, but the gallant Officer effected his retreat in meet mraellent order. - " The sudden check which the rebels have experienceck at all Points 'has had the best effect. Their movements arc undecided, their spirit shaken, and a returning sense of dutyis manifesting itself. Every thing bears the ap pcarance ollyproaehing tranquillity. press, the Comman-' that the greater :oast have laid down their arms and tendered ibeir submission to M. Eamon stone, who „was deputed to communicate with them. His xcellency is sanguine in the hope that this sub mission will prove final." In a preceding column iwe base given extracts from the latest French Papers that have been received. An article from the Jousnal des Debuts is calculated to quiet the unnecessary alarms which some of our contempo raries have excited relative to the South Ainerican Co lonies. The intelligence from Spain is gradually losing its inteiest, and in consequence our Expresses from Paris are less frequent. We have received letters from Bombay of the 31st of May last. They state that, in consequence of the con tinued stagnation. of trade throughout ladia, and the insecurity and difficulty in employing money to any considerable extent, so as to yield adequate returns, it has been determined to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent. The reduction would commence on the Ist of August last. P. 9 "Since the above went to pre der-in-Chief has received informaticin ' put of the insurgents along the coati THE KING. His MAJESTY anived at Carlton Palace, from Wind sor, at half-past twelve o'clock this day, we are happy to say, in excellent health. His MAJESTY unveiled in a plain carriage, and without any escort,whatever,.three .outriders and two footmen being the 00y attendants. —Soon after his MAJESTY'S arrival, a Privy Council was held at Carlton Palace ; when the RECORDER was admitted and made his report of the prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate. WINDSOR, NOVEMBER 20. His MAJESTY, with his usual• Suite, took an airing this morning to the Royal Cottage. Sit CnAncits LONG left the Castle for London. A Cabinet Chuncil was he!ti this day at the . Foreig n Downing-srreet, which was attended by nearly all the Cabinet Ministers. Lord UAIVARbItiI and the llonourable and Reverend the Dean of °SWIM - arrived at Howth - on Saturday, from Holyhead. _ _ The Doke of •Ctatastame came to merit yesterday morning from Bushy. His Royal Highness returned in the afternoon to Bushy, to dinner. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY has, on appeal, de ,tided that the Bishop of Exteraft bath exercised a sound 'discretion •in revoking the licenseof the Rev. Enwrir 'EAscorr, late Curate of the parish of St. David, Exeter. • Wednesday last the Royal Naval Club had their first dinner for the season at Oman's. About thirty Admirals and Captains of his Majesty's 'Fleet were present; and it is deserving of remark, that the Vice-Admiral and Rear-Admiral of Great Britain (Sir JAMES' SAURtAIt K.G.C.B. and the Right Hon. the Earl of Nonammut were present—a circumstance which has . not occu rrreedd since the Union.—Edixbargh Observer; Persons not acquainted with the ancient customs of Spain, relative to the execution of persons condemn • to death, will certainly be surprised at General !hearts having been drawn to the place of execution by stn as and hanged. It is the custom in Spain, for persons con demned, to be t(ken to execution on asses; the' Noble, ate clothed in black and strangled. Those who are not noble are clothed' in white and hung. This was theca* with Rtaoo.—Bruuels Paper. The cold was so very sharp in Paris on the 13th inst. that the ponds in the Tuileries were covered with sheets of ice, and what is considered a singular circumstance, the whole of Paris was enveloped in a thick fog, such as was believed in France to happen only in London. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 30th of October states as an en dit, that the regiment of Valencia, in garrists at Ceuta, had been removed, and that French troops were expected there on the following day fromAlgesirass In the Court of Vice-Admiralty at Quebec, an iti• formation was sometime ago preferred against Williim Norris, master of the brigantine William, of Dublin, for penalties to the amount of £2,500, for having taken from the pert of Dublin, and brought to Quebec, fifty; passengers lnore than are permitted b y law to be carried in the raid trigantine, in contravention of the 67th of his late Majesty, c. 10. A verdict was given against ' defendant to the full amount, one moiety to his Ma = jetty, and the other moiety to the infOrmant. • An Order of the*Madrid Regency, some time aifo established, as a rule, that produce which had pa • 'chides in one ,port'of Spain, should not be taken, to-ano4 ther, for the r.urpose of,consumption, without tlie.tpay ment .of fresh duties. This law has had a mall elect on the trade of Bilboa and St. Sebastian's. !Accounts from' Lille of the 13th of November say, Aitt the small pax 'has appeared in that city, and that was affirmed tfiat ;above 20 children had been curled off in three days by that cruel disorder. His Majesty oe Eniperor of Russia was on the 12th it Tulcsyn, to "review the second '-ateryi under the command of COtini Wirraitiislern. ' • The Court (I(CABSA . FLORES,' appoifited by the gency of Madrid to the post of Ambassador if Vas Court of Vienna, has received his confirmation frosts King FERDINA ND. It is remarkable, that in the Cow: Authentique, con taining the price of foreign stock at Paris on Tuesday hit,. the Spanish " Royalist" obligations are quoted simply as " Guehhard's Bonds," as' a if they had no crecift but his own to depend on ; while the securities of the Constitutional Government are designated 11 81:anish Annuities." About half-past six o'clock last evening the Fortitude. CaMden-Town and Kentish-Town stage-coach, shortly after leaving the Blue Posts in Holborn, was over. turned about thirty yards down Gray's Inn-lane, io consequence of the fore axle-tree breaking. There were two inside and two outside pa ssengers,who escaped with' only a few slight bruises: one of the outside-passengers, a woman, was thrown into an undertaker's shop, the door of which stood open ; had it been shut, it is proba ble she would have been killed, as the coach fell quite across the narrow footway. The lower window was smashed, and it was necessary to cut the traces to libe rate the horses, which lay on their sides kicking. Wednesday morning, a quarter before seven, a young man of the name of Dunn, undertook for a bet of five sovereigns, to go from the Iron-gate, the west end of St.'Paul's Cathedral, to the Blind School, St.George's fields, and return in eighteen minutes, a distance •• upwards of three miles and a quarter; which h e a c . complished one minute and four 'seconds less than the , given time. INSTALLATION OF DR. CHALMERS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS. In Scotland, the Professor of a Univei sky occupies a large space in the public eye, and the Introductory Lecture of a new incumbent, is, at all times, sus object of general interest. The installation of Dr. Cnamens. as Professor of Moral Philosophy, in the University of St. Andrew's, on Saturday received additional interest ,fioin his previous popularity as a pulpit orator, and his , reputation as a Divine. The following is an outline of the Introductory Lec ture, as given in the Edinburgh Star Were it a course of lectuies on the philosophy of matter that I was required to deliver from this chair, I could expect, at the end of the session, to have given but a mere outline of this science, and that the whole Would prove but a feeble and insipid digest, and as heartless and uninte resting as the categories of our school-men. The come .rous and varied topics which this science embraces could not possibly be brought within the limits of one Profes sorship. He might indeed grasp at them, but it were altogether impracticable that he would be able to plod his wayouccessfully through them. He would just ken them as minutely, and comprehend them as clearly, as if on a station of the moon he could discern the diver sified objects which teem on the surface of the globe, and the variegated scenery with which it is embellished. It is just as necessary as a subdivision in the ordinary , affairs of trade, for it would be too unwieldy for one agent to embrace the whole ; and he should be glad to 'finittliat the philosophy of matter would speedily be bioken down, and parcelled into separate Professorships. He understood that in Paris—that great mart for the luxuries of literature and the refinements of life—there were no less than ten separate courses for Natural Philo sophy, six for Chyntistry, and sixteen in the Medical De partment. Were that the casein this country, and were each never to cast one regard beyond the territory of his own profession, hist continue to travel his way into all the elements of his separate occupation, and bring down his thoughts to bear upon it, it would be found that all the sciences verged to one great and harmonious result, that there was a unity and bearing to that mighty throng by which theyweve suspended, as the elements of chy mia try graduallypassed into the elements of its natural philo sophy. No one, however high his attainments, should be allowed to stalk - in proud philosophy, to make inroads upon others, and by this heterogeneous mixture of to pics, to envelope it in labyrinths of metaPhysical.obscti rity, out of which. it cannot speedily be extricated, and which have no other tendency than to perplex the mind, and to place greater barriers in the way of a free and full development of truth. Philosophy ought not, as it has too often been made, to minister to the pride of our understanding, instead of ministering to our piety. Newton, the most sublime, and the greatest of its cham pions, who had investigated the laws of nature up to nature's GoD, and who, after having made discoveries which were lair beyoad the ken or the intellect of others to execute, declared, in the genuine spirit of true mo desty, that after all he knew nothing, and that what he did know, tended more to raise his admiration of the great Architect of Nature, and to inspire his mind with de vout feelings of the harmony and beatitude that appeared in his works. The suggestion of the term " moral" has led to the significant denomination of Moral Philosophy; but it is now only a counterpart of that philosophy which has taken cognizance:of, and made violent usurpation of ethical science. The strict and appropriate business of our class is the philosophy of morals. To the days of Hutcheson and Smith, it was confined within the limits of its primary elements ; but since the days of Hume, its barriers havebeen broken down, and there have been dif fused over it the science of metaphysics, which has been altogether foreign to its object ; and it would assuredly, ere this time, have altogether languished and expired, were it not for the zealous and vigorous supporters it found in the well-cultivated mind; of a Reid and a Beat tie, who, by the extent of their acquirements, and the force of their seasonings, soon rebuked into silence all the petulancies of the philosophic infidel; and it would not certainly have again returned, into its degraded state, had it not been reserved for a Brown and a Stewart to cancel it from our Universities. On every topic that volition is concerned in, it is duty, and the will and the understanding have a reciprocal action on each other— right volition must be proceeded by right views. Worth and integrity of heart, as Dr. Campbell observes, sharpen our discernment, and as Alliston properlyare darks in his Essay on Taste, that loveliness might be resolved into a moral feeling, 'and that virtue is the ob. jest of a tasteful as well as.-of a moral contemplation, whicb enable us to.probe.an instructive way through the mental arcane of our moral nature. Moral philosopliy is not mental. Its legitimate province belongs to what man morally is, and of what man puzlst morally to be. It is the philosophy of duty.' It treads on the precincts of Theology. It stands, indeed, at a distance from it, but it leads from a given point to the temple of sacred ness. Its direct object is the moral using of our moral nature. Asa Professor of Natural History, who restrict= himself to the science of Conchology, in the scholarship of shells, so must the moral philosopher treat of man in his best estate; and will this be called an uninteresting study, which relates to the temporal happiness of our species—which elevates man above the lower creation—. assimilates him in moral excellence to beings ofla higher order, and which would even turn the earth itself into a temporary paradise? Some, indeed, may think that if we are to be exclusively confined to such topics as these, that instead of being in the school *of refined literature and science, they are merely attending a course of prelections, which will degenerate into' a sort of pulpitish morality, and w,hich will . have a tendency to tarnish the purity of that, Academic Phi losophy, of which they are so much enamoured, and to which they bad probably been long accustomed. —But they may be assured that the course to which we are to confine ourselves will' be replete with ques tions both subtile and arduous, and there is no fear that we shall be led to amuse ourselves with tinsel or a pandy _sentimentalism, but we shall have to treat on subjects that will call ins° exercise every energy of the-mind.— 'We know, indeed, that there is a disdaiiifol 'philosophy which looks askance at anything that has any reference to the Christian revelation. Moral philosophy is not phaosopwhheyn. acrd situ trite . dino is r set ' a deeply tlit Christianity, but it touches on the border s o f ir, rand ttt rest, matidraibitiet ca d o demo-infidel 7bie th able sM to i Christianity lies clear ••bekire •-his prospect ; a n d i t is- only bold in 'defiance; spirit of inquiry" which- would blight-all- our immor. -of tal h i t n e t r ef it e u " re,. land s. 'lnsetruPP:fteral6teinlimeeost) glligriant;:elnoinindens; but_wben*confronted with-the names at a Nevion, • Boyle, a Bacons and: st Locke,: they sink 'into aims ies.ignificante and. nothing. • . No one feels 'more. than Lao the momentous nature of- the duticsin which tee duo W as raise out hiv Vq4 to be engaged, and the close amigo& they will requi t One. indeed, might have expected that after quit t i nt the duties of asusiportant office, i should have allott e d considerable 'time to study, preparatory to enterin , upon a new one ; and I should certainly be s emi gentlemen, if my want of previous preparation shonti incapacitate me from superintending your studies i s the manner in which they ought. to be com ititt But I am of opinion that juvenile minds, in theirs*. bryotic state, can be more readily madenoguainted wi4 the elements and principles of philosa,•hy, by add re m il them in a collotpial mower; than by formal and ela borate ora' ions : and thus, by adopting a questirmalani conversational process of tuition, we think that we sb4 be able to render our instructions more yermanentl e useful than by thine flights of oration which merelybd the senses into a sort of complacency. The method* have alluded to will be the best for scholarship, then.. , the worstfor spectatorship. But we ate not spectators tC, learners: there as something, indeechat first sight irksmay• in the task—it is just like one a t t en di ng a concert music, enraptured by its sweet notes and its aoimatir, flourishes; but he must remember, if he would becora• a proficient in the science, he must experience mane„. harsh stops, and many trills of discotd.trice; bat it is• • not our intention to serenade your ears with the strain, of eloquence; our duty is to sehool and practice yak. in the proper business of the class, and with a youthful and devoted hand. Animated by those sympathies which influence the mind of the teacher, we think t h at we may safely anticipate that our labours will not by Wholly unsuccessful." During the delivery of this harangne, yrnfound ness reigned in the Hall, except when it was occa , lon• ally interrupted by heists of acclamation, which were elicited from his admiring audience, by whcm he was listened to throughout with breathless attention." The commerce of hull is rapidly 'on the increase: SO 'hips were lately reported for cargoes there in ten days. About two years ago a little boy, whilst in the play. ground of a most respectable school at Mitcham, Surrey, in apparently good health and spirits, was suddenly struck sprechkss. He received the best medical as.ist ance, and war often seen by M. Bastiforou and Mr. . Asizameenv, who both predicted his , ecovery,.and re- I commended him to be kept . perfectly •quiet. After re: maining several months by the seaside, he was taken under the roof and immediate care of M r. WiNctuto, an eminent surgeon at Oxford, whonaused him to stri dergo a regular course of electricity and galvanism, ac companied by tonic preparations, for nearly four months, when he ordered him again to the sea. From tins time' he has be en recoveringhis_speech, and is now returned to London as well as ever. For 18 months he never articulated a single sound. The boy's name is Charles Downing. Flan AT Poterstrearrn.—Tuesday night, a destrue tive fire was discovered at Drayton Farm, near Coshani, five miles from Portsmouth, the property of W. PAD. WICK, jun. Esq. Expresses were immediately dispatched to the neighbouring towns for engines and assistance, 'which was most promptly afforded by the respective public departments of this garrison, and the infrabl tants. The first engine that reached the farm was f rom Tipoi e; then followed the Portsmouth town en gine, engines from the Royal Enineer derailment, . &nod Marines, Stc. &c.; bat ere - this assistance cool.' arrive, the fire had assumed so alarming a feature, that all attention was directed co.two or three stacks that had not yet taken fire: these 'were ultimately obliged to be taken to pieces, and the sheaves carried try hand to the neighbouring fields. To accomplish this object, Officers of both services, prlaate soldiers, and citizens, were seen vying who should render most aid. The fire now had assumed a most awful and terrific aspect ; four large 'ricks were raging in the yard; cow-houses, brick sta hling, out-houses, &c. had been completely destroyed, and the devastation of the whole farm, saving the ricks abovernentioned, and. the farm-house, was inevitable. Every exertion was now made to save this little rem.' nant of a valuable property ; this was not accomplished till nearly six o'clock, after incredible exertion du: ing the whole night, The property destroyed falls little short of £4OOO, scarcely 1,2000 of which is insured. °reef the' destroyed ricks contained 200 quarters. We have the 'additional painful tstik 'of recording, that the above fire . lois - caused by an incendiary. 'AN ARTIPICIAL Nosz.—The following operation was performed at St. ThoMas'i Hospital, London, the 7th' of. this month :—A man came into the theatre tons .dergo an operation, which, though not entirely new is the annalsnf surgery, .had never been pe, formed Otte believe) at the Borough. The operation was that for as artificial nose; attd the person on whom it was poi formed was about thirty-four years of age, stout, of short stature, with a broad - face, and the nose completely-de titroyed. The man was 'placed on - the table, Bat on hit *tick, with the head a little depressed ; the first step d ,khe operation leas to remove the diseased parts, add pare the edgel from the old nose, after this, a ponies off integmbent, previously Marked with ink on the' left side oithe forehead, of an irretkular shape,was detached' 'from the surronuaing skin, wit the exception of asma I biece between the eyebrows. ' 'rhelategurnent waithea rought down over the face, in the'situation of his for mer nose, the point by which it was joined tothe fers 'hesid 'being twisted, in order Chat the , pait which talcs intern a new five laid , on the .twi! buyers Thi parcel' Mogulsl'i Barley for Sian* and 1 ), buyers on rash , weak are--v P' ernal before its debit hment wliAtbe so also is iii . w situation ; the skin was modelled . toy the _ a nose. and confided" in its ply:vet—timeliest . t: e sutures; ' s trips .of 'adhesive ',gauge mere -. r Igitudinally : chk earls side of the.ttme, then''' . ms of lint, over each, aria a nth) of adheziif over them again; two &writs of lint were .. • 'the newly-formed fotith&J cavity for _ the ced itito , y ! 1.4, pres,ure by means itE. adhesive straps was t the upper_part of thenbek, *here tbe.integostitifd • fisted. The spot from Which the skin was ) s dressed with simple ciresipg *Ad stickie, I min; the operation, the patjEnt was often vah ', :,.. . se himself from the table for tire rrirposeef _ ' ..., : the blood which got into his mouth, aci . -.. ~ ich retarded it a little. Th e o p era t or w I S M r . Tea .. I the whole was 'completed in l ess t h an half*. . ,•;... Conti nxcit!goii: 'ld AIIIC.LAItg, NOV 0..;, 11 " gor, e artli A ls of thi s *eat are again moderate; ail oimiL , ers being out of their stock of Can. ike, - 'l'f reit of most. kinds 'of brain 'pretty tont% ._._. . . 04.4 a priceo f butt here r iLs dull -trade for all lA' 'a, w .r ' OM . Barley sells bireollg, and therelnut Cm ' I • ' Bans and fea t sin c e . t h e be g i nn i ng of the s i. • ers on rather better terms than last looted; 1 3 0 016011 rk are—Wheat, SOSO qrs. Batley, GM stra :Oak IN. , • tit, 61100 tacker • ! ~... .-. SM ITH FIELD DIARKET, NOVO/Wm ' .. . Ile quantity of Cattie at Diarket tub mamba to he demand. and higher priors were alkes‘pardsibelf of stsphsku steak ,', but the inferior tarantula** . %askew. ly.l..thartiot k pricis at wider: .:, . a . _... ''• .. Heel, per stone of 1114. tb..1161. to 3s. BC Afatkop li llk,h . oh •11..0i. to:4. ed. Palt,Ya.lod. ioOla 1 0 4*. •-• . ' • , •,z • The to the r.:e ot yet ( hers, Mhii whe imp] Mr. Johi to a • ( Cu' •er yes WI Nisi pp the ve a Cu SW til TM Al WI W 1 ti to -~ 1 I t , I •+i f '-