Star. — London, England, 1822-12-03 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. The French Papers of Friday and Saturday have reached us by the usual conveyance. • A private letter in the Journal de Paris, dated Verona, November 20, is of a pacific character with respect to Spain, and states itself to be speaking the opinions of the majority of the diplomatists assem bled in Congress. The Moniteur contains nearly seven columns of the report of the proceedings in the Assize Court, against several persons who are accused of having addressed threatening letters to the Jury who tried General BaRTON. The circumstances are not very interesting, and the trial is not concluded. TOULOUSE, NOVEMBER sg. The last letters from the frontiers of our depart ?tient announce that the Baron d'Enoces army pre sented themselves to our advanced posts and solicited asylum and protection, which was conceded to them after they had laid down their arms on the Spanish territory. They brought with them two hundred Constitutionalists prisoners, who were immediately set at liberty. The number of Spanish refugees here becomes daily more considerable. Military Officers, private individuals, Priests, Monks of every order, all appear to belong to the Royalist party, and merit, on ac count of their misfortunes, and also of the cause which they defend, the same generous hospitality which their nation gave to our emigrants at a crisis which but too much resembles that of which they are now the victims. PUYCERDA, NOVEMBER 20. We learn from Seo d'Urgel that Rornagosa has arrived there, and that he has taken the command. It is added, that the Constitutionalists have com mitted unheard-of excesses in the Conque du Tremp, and that a part of its population is wandering in the mountains. Letters received yesterday (the 19th) announce that Milans, having joined Costa, had marched out of Vich, and that having arrived at Tonroulon, he had an engagement with a division of General Fleyres, which ended in the retreat of Gene.' rah Milans to Vich. Tne blockade of Cardona is raised. Don Joseph Valero, who commanded it, has fallen back upon l3erga. P.S. We•learn this instant that the Baron d'Erolles, after having displayed on the 15th anel 16th equal -activity and courage, has been compelled to yield to .uperior numbers, and arrived yesterday evening at the Seu d'Urgel. Fawn FuNDS FRIDAY.—Five par Colts. opened at 88f. and Closed at 87f. 80c. Scrinioar.—Five per Cents. opened at 87f. 80c. rose to 87f. 90c. and closed at 87f. 75e. _ 4. l'i! E VE'I Al "I'A N. LOS I)ON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1322. Tun FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In consequence of the warlike news received from France this morning, the Stock Exchange was all in a bustle, and Con sols opened as low as 79 ; they rose irAmediately to 79), j.— There still are different opinions on 'Change with regard to the actual result of a war with France and Spain, owing to the re solution of this Country not to interfere. Consols are, up to ibis hour, 79i. ronrics New Spanish Bonds opened this morning at Ct Sin thou sand were done at that price; afterwards they went up to 52, 54, 54. Very little but.iness has been done except in the above Bondv—all other securities are nominal. We are informed that the Committee of the Stock Exchange have invited several Bro kers of the Foreign Market to dine with them at the London Tavern, wishing to %Mite the Stock Exchange and the Foreign N ark et. STOCK v.tcti A NGF., AST ONE O'CLOCK. The market is rather improving, and Consols look a little better than they did, but it is expected that they will not remain even at the present price. Consols shutting to-dry, has also tended to depress the prices. Consols79/ for the Account roams fIAILIKET, MOE Q . CLOCX. There is not the least business doing. Within the last hour not s single transaction has been done.—Spanish Bonds 52e. PRICES OF STOCKS AT UNE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 244% 241 g per Cent. Reduced 78 3 / 4 7 / 8 4 1 ,1 % t; per Cent. Consols 79 79 1 / 4 14 v s tiv s per Cent. 90% 31 8 ...-4. per Cent. 96% % 4 per Cent. \ew 100 3 / 4 99 7 / 3 way, Bank Long Annuities '2O l / 8 India Stock 254 253 252—Bonds 355. 255. fides. Bills (C 1,000) 3s. pr. par, 3s. Is. pr. Ditto 0500) 4s. Is. pr.—Ditto Small 2s. 6c. Consols for Acct. 79 1 79 79% %80 7914 If certain journalists, who have repeatedly assured us that the peace of Europe would not be disturbed; can now be relied upon, it would appear that the la bours of Congress are terminated, and that the Holy Alliance has determined " to cry havoc, and let slip' the dogs of war 1" By an extraordinary conveyance the Afoniteur of Sunday has been received. It •an nounces the return of Viscount MONTMORENCY, the French Envoy to the Congress, who arrived in Paris on Saturday ; and after a good deal of mystifying, in which it assures us that the French Government has possessed that weight and importance at the Con gress to which it is entitled, contains the following paragraph ; that " the Continental Powers will leave to France the end and termination of the affairs of Spain, with the intention of concurring watt all their force in such plans of execution as France shall be in a situation to adopt." Though this statement is sufficiently warlike, yet' it is not very explicit. The object of France in send ing an Ambassador to the Congress was, we are well msured, to induce the Holy Alliance to join her in a crusade against Spain. The British Ambassador is known to have strenuously opposed such an outrage en all the principles of justice. The French Minister, it would seem, then asked permission that she might be allowed to attack the Spaniards, which Js certainly ridiculous enough. For if the case was as dte Pres& Government reptelants itp - thei *Wet/ Of endillsgiwed by Spain, then all)Dg parmistton to go toyetir was, in fact, skiing lea* to defend itself; a rightirhich thnHolt Allies deem treasonable, but *hick the laws of Goa and man have sanctioned.— But if the right of attacking Spain did not belong to France, the only Power that can with aay ;thew of truth pretend to be endangered by it, still less have the Allied Sovereigns any right, save that of power) to give permission to it. But to return once more to the Afoniteur. We are first told that the Continental Powers will leave to France the end and termination of the affairs of Spain; this would imply that they would leave France to settle her own quarrels, and would be just such an answer as might with propriety be given : but we are afterwards told that these Continental Powers have declared " their intention of concurring with all their force hr such plans of execution as France shall be in a situation to adopt." If .this paragraph means anything, it means that the Allied Soveteigns are willing to lend themselves to any , ' measures, however infamous, that with France they may be enabled to accomplish. In the worst and wickedest of leagues that Sove reigns ever formed (and, Gon knows, history records many such) there was always some object flied, on the attainment of which they would pause. 802,1 A.. PART/ invariably professed to have some tranquil settlement in view, and the end appeared to justify the means. But one would really suppose that the present Powers of Europe were determined to violate the most sacred principles of equity and public law, either without any provocation or even without an object, for the purpose of bringing about a state of affairs that cannot possibly last. But we are arguing on the assumption that the Holy Allies are capable of the iniquity attributed to them : it is, however, to be observed, that no decla ration of their views has yet been made by Congress, though one may soon be expected. We have, how ever, heard; that while the Holy Allies give leave to France to commit any injustice she is in a 4‘ situa tion" to commit, they have renounced generally all intention of interposing themselves. They are said to have signed a Note, in alphabetical order, allow ing the Ft ench Government m attack Spain, when ever and wherever it may be deemed expedient. England, it will be perceived, is no party to these nefarious transactions : she is at least to be neutral whilst a great wrong is doing and. suffering. This has not always been her pol ic y , and we should be sorry indeed to find, that abstaining from being a party to an act of infamy was all that our Government did ; we ought, in the face of Europe and all the world, not only to disclaim, but enter a solemn protest against it. Should the French Government merely have the consent of the Holy Allies to attack Spain, we think it may yet panne before it so far comals the country in a contest which will probably terminate in the final overthrow of the BounsoNs. Blood enough has been shed to preserve this superannuated race; and the fact is, that the People are now becoming wiser than Governments, and that it will he very difficult to make them believe that the interest or happiness of Europe depends on the preservation of a dozen families. —lndeed, Lotus XVIII. in wishing to go to war with Spain, is more afraid of himself than of FEIIDINAXD VII. whose personal safety has never been endan gered. He knows that his own yoke is less tolerant to the French than that of FIIIIDINAND is to Spain; and that, while chivalrous and almost superstitious attachment to the Sovereign prevails in Spain, the ' French consider their KINO as having been forced upon them, and his family as having committed the worst offence—" outlived their liking." There is another reason why we think the French I Government may not be so forward in attacking Spain as might be expected (provided they are not to be aided by the Allies), this is, the alteration that, has taken place in Spanish affairs since their repre sentations to Congress have been made. The French Envoy, no doubt, represented the In surgents as very powerfol ; their Regency well or. ganized, and fully established at Seo d'Urgel ; and their credit good—a loan having b e en opened for them in Paris. But what is now the fact? Why, that the Constitutional forces were no sooner placed under an active leader than they drove the rebels before them, took their principal towns, dispersed the _" Army of the Faith," which has been scat-1 tered into Guerilla panics, or marauding banditti ; expelled the Rebel Regency from the seat of their Government; and, in fact, driven the greatest part of the enemies of social order and freedom into Mance; which, by thus affording an asylum to the rebels, would justify Spain in commencing hosti lities. If the .Holy Allies should join France in an act of infamy, which throws even the partition of Poland and the Treaty of Pilnitz into the shade, they mar' succeed in making Spain a charnel house, and, march-' ins over the dead bodies of a brave people, succeed in bolstering up on the throne for a few months, or perhaps a few years longer, his Most Catholic Ma jesty, PUDINAND 1111.—but will they be able to ex terminate those principles of freedom which are not peculiar to Spain, bat which are making a steady 'promos in every kingdom of pnrope, and which will soap triamph? euppose beam to attack Opals it the manner • /vo t e sessions and error which have too long disturb, 1 wh ,r k t li o thear be sucilicwaofumei; Spain n on t so ; a: b r ehends—sn iugated, and the her she ewes it, above all, to the viruses trf her king, to the measures whi2h be has taken for placia ; the potent FIIRDINAND ti) be held on his Throne by th e han d o f the more pnten t.L no u I t h en we shall h a ve country in a suitable attitude to observe the sericus Spain subject to Fraslin, or rather to the French events ,of the Peninsula ; finally, she owes it to that branch of the BOURBONS ; Italy and the Islands from unanimity of wishes and of sentiments by which a the Alps to Agrigentum, held by the H o us e o f Aus- whole people has recently testified the confidence ! Is this a pbsition of Europe which can by any which it places in the Government. Doubtless this possibility remain ? Is it not one in which commo - important result must be to all the interests engaged don, commotion too likely to upset the m ost ancient in this question, a pledge of security with respect to Thrones, must inevitably occur? The extension of an the ramifications which it may assume.—Moniteur. unnatural dominion does but multiply the chances of Viscount Montmorency arrived from Verona last night, at half-past eight o'clock, and at twenty min its overthrow. notes pact nine waited upon the King. When he left If, on the contrary, Spain, roused to a glorious re sistance, should be able to defend her independence Verona all the Sovereigns were still there. The King of Prussia was to leave the same day (Nov. 9.2) against France, may not Louts XVIII. justly d read that retributive justice which sometimes overtakes for Berlin. The Duke of Wellington was to leave, , even Kings? and may he not fear that the oppressed for Londo n on the 24th. His Grace was expected of both countries will make common cause against at Paris in two days. M: Pozzo di Borgia is e x . petted on the 3..1 of December.—Journal des Debuts. their oppressors, and hurl them from a power they The Quo! idienne, alluding to the alleged Declara. have so grossly abused? The Bovasons in France stand upon a volcano, which is ready to burst. Any don of Verona, says—" We must now wait to sce these salutary doctrines supported by force of arm., war undertaken merely for their preservation on the Throne, will be highly unpopular is France. If the and all the Kings of Europe leagued together to de- French Ministry, therefore, can undertake this thre a t - liver the King of Spain from the oppression of the ened Spanish contest under the present state of public The following is an extract of a letter which came feeling in France on the subject, it is a proof that the Col tes." Government of that country is in no degree identified by the same express : with the People—that they are totally distinct and unamalgamating bodies, and that the present unna tural connexion cannot long subsist between them. Should the war once commence between France and Spain, it is impossible to foresee where it will stop ; and it is even absurd to think we can long re main neutral—that is a word unknown to our voca bulary when a war takes place in Europe; and sooner or later we shall be drawn into it: though we will give our Ministers the credit to believe that, with the experience of the past, they will not be very ready to involve the country in a new war for the sake of a family that has repaid the blood and treasure we have spent for their restoration to the Throne of France, by nothing but ingratitude. All the accounts from France represent the war like preparations that are making. The military preparations are hastening with great activity at Bayonne. A large hospital is about to be established at St. Jean Pied de Port and at Socoa. Munitions of war continue to be disembarked at Bayonne. Let. ters from Metz state that 200 waggons and 100 draught horses are to be forwarded from that town to Bayonne. A Royal Ordonnanee, dated the 20th, orders the calling out of 40,000 men of the class 1822. The period of putting them in active service, and their distribution among the corps of the army, will be hereafter determined, Since writing the above we learn that a letter has been received from Paris, by express, this morning, stating that the French Government have called out the conscripts of the year 1822, Ao s the number of 75,000 men ; and all the sailors are being collected, and immediately sent off to Brest and Toulon. This may only be a rumour occasioned by the Royal Or donnance to which we have alluded. All the ac counts, however, from France, represent the military preparations making as indicative of approaching hostilities. The following is the article in the ltioniteur of Sunday, on which the probability of war is principally grounded, with further extracts from that journal: PARIS, DECEMBER I. Ilia Excellency Viscount Montmorency arrived here yesterday (Saturday), on , his return from the Congress of Verona, and had the honour of an inter view with the King. Questions of foreign politics have this peculiarity— that being combined with distant interests, their march proceeds out of the circle of habitual speculations. . Thus persons most practised in these speculations find themselves in a situation disadvantageous for correct reasoning ; they cannot lay hold of any decided point, nor argue on any certain basis; they are so much the more exposed to be carried away in discussion far from the course of affairs, inasmuch as these affairs are, from their very nature._ subject to more extensive ramifications, and consequently demand longer time for decision. It would, therefore, be of some advantage to know the progress of these ques tions, at least in proportion as they are accomplished. Thus, after such contradictory rumours as have been current on the state of our relations with Spain— after the discussions which have taken place on this inexhaustible subject during the conferences at Ve rona—after the indecision which so many opposite opinions must have everywhere produced, we should find, perhaps, a sufficiently solid basis for new con jectures, in the assurance that France has occupied at the Congress of Verona the place which belongs to her among the Monarchies of Europe ; and that the Continental Powers leave to her the end and termi nation of the affairs of Spain, with the intention of concurring with all their force in such plans of execu tion as France shall be in a situation to adopt. In taking this resolution, the High Continental Powers must have acted on an idea so simple and so just, that it will strike all reasonable persons : they must have confided for the decision of a question which interested them all on that Power whose inte- I rest in this question was the most immediate. This mark of confidence, so important for France, she owes to her own wisdom, to the power site has recovered since ideas of order have triumpbod over dune dis- M PARIS, DECEMBr•.R i. " You will see by to-day's Monitesse, that the decision of the question of peace or war is entirely left to the French Govern. meut ; and the other four Powers of the alliance content them selves with a general tender of their confidence, and an offer of their support in ease of extremities. Montmorency has returned with this result. He arrived last night at eight o'clock, and ' waked on his Majesty immediately after. M. I'ozzo di Borg.) is expected in a day or two, and will be especially destined to push on the war party. As in the declaration of Congress, nothing is recognized but the general right of interference, if a sufficient case of danger or injury is made out, no Power is tor. nutted by it definitively, or precluded from judging of the po licy of France, as it discloses itself in the successive tnea;Lres which she pursues. The struggle between the peace acd the war party, which has been for the last two mouths carried on ;:t Vienna and Verona, will now be renewed at Paris. Certain of the Ministers, and the Emperor Alexander, with, prob:tbly, .he Emperor of Austria, will remain at Verona till the result of the negotiations of the French Government with chat of is known. The funds yesterday fell, as was anticipated. It the Chambers will meet on the 7th of January." The Correctional Tribunal has rejected the preli minary objections which the bookseller Ntocrucr had pleaded in justification of his republication of " The Social System, by the late Baron de HOLISACH."- Sentence was thetefore pronounced against him of three months imprisonment, and of SOO francs fine. The copies of the work are ordered to be seized. M. °lama, merchant at Marseilles, was al rested a few days ago, and was still in secret confinement on the 23d ult. The reasons of this proceeding a;-e not known.—Journal de Paris. In the absence of positive information there are a ways a variety of rumours ; and, among others, have heard that the First Captain of the Age has Leer outgeneralled at Verona, by men " who never set a squadron in the field, or any mere about a battle know, than a spinster r' It is said our Envoy was very-cordially received by the Iloly Allies, but th.a when they had obtained from him a knowledge ci the line of policy our Government intended to ad 'IA with regard to Spain, they made a cabal among themselves to defeat it. Another rumour is, C.= some high words took place between our Envoy and the Russian Minister. A, report prevails that our Government will send a Fleet of Observation into the Mediterranean, in case of hostilities between France and Spain. This forenoon we received a Flinders Mail, with Brussels Papers to the 30th ',tr. The following are extracts: ALEPPO, SEPTEMBER 2(2. The shocks of earthquakes still continue, but they are far less violent. Most of the inhabitants aTe leaving the country, and those who remain are, Re . us, building barracks. Our houses are in ruins.— Our new village, where we are to pass the winter, proceeds rapidly. M. Lesseps, the French Consul, has laid down the plan and superintends the work. — Our situation is most distressing. CORFU, OCTOBER 24. Civil war has broken out between the inhabitants of Middle Albania ? of which Beiut is the Capital, and Omer Brione Pacha, of Joannina, whose hater.] they have carried off and also his brother, and have signified to him that they will not release them till he sends back the son of their former Visier, lbrahint Pacha, whom he keeps as a hostage. After this the Toxide tribe abandoned Omer, who is glerly embarrassed from another quarter. This Pacha, after the reduction of Souli, 11 meta himself that he could act on the offensive ag.li..st Xero Meros in Acarnania, and gave out that he .x. 3 advancing with 15,000 men. But the Greeks disco vered that he had only 7000, and concluded that Ile would never venture through the forests of Mact tr /Eros. They went and waited for him at the entrance of the Ambracian Gulf, dividing themselves small parties, and occupying the defiles, w lilch a covered with impenetrable forests„ As soon as the enemy landed at Loutraki a scat of actions commenced from the 10th to the Omer was constantly beaten ; and on the 16th, af:er severe losses, he succeeded in reaching Vonitza, e he embarked for Prevesa, at which place he now is Maurocordato, Hiskos, Irati, and Macry, d ter having erased the enemy, advanced towarJi Aro, I. 1; ,~ 'M 1 i '1 1~