Star. — London, England, 1822-01-11 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE. This morning a complete panic took place on the Stock Exchange, the Funds fell in consequence, in a few minutes, from 78 to 77% for the Account, and the Market looks most gloomy ; it was reported the Bulls wished to get out at the present prices, but they have been found out and caught. The Jew party have been puffing the Market for some time, and were employing others who have been in the habit of selling, to operate for them, but the Iminouvre has transpired. The report of the Ulti :n num of Russia being acceded to by the Porte, has proved to be untrue. A great depression in the Funds is in consequence expected. PRICES AT ONE O'CLOCK: Bank Stock 237 1 / 2 -3 per Cent. Red. 77 76 A Y 4 3 per Cent. Cons. 76% 76 2 A 1 / 4 ex. div. 3 !2 per Cent. 87%--4. per Cent. 96 1 / 4 96 1 / 4 5 per Cent. Navy 108% 108 1 / 4 ex. div. Bank Long Annuities 19% 7-16 India Stock 233%—India Bonds 795. 80c pre. Euh. Bills, 4s. 6s. pr.—Do. Small 4s. 6s. pr. Cons. fur Account 777 s % Ya. From the-manner in which we gave the account of ex , melo-dramatic death of the GRAND Sitouton and Lis family, in the STAR of yesterday, it would be rerceived that we did not attach to it the slightest credit. This event is, on the authority of the Brussels Oracle, stated to have taken place on the 9th Decem ber. A letter from Trieste, however, states that advices from Constantinople, dated one day later, represented that capital as tranquil ; and the Vienna mews of the 246, which stated the acceptance of the Russian tdilinatina, was said (erroneously we admit) to test on news from Constantinople so late as the 19th of December. Mile the Brussels Papers have thus destroyed the SULTAN, and terminated the reign of the Ottomans, the Atlas lan Murree., in a long and laboured article from Vienna, is endeavouring to prove that nothing tnr. he more tranquil than the Turkish capital,where, massacres hive taken place, they have passed off w quietly as to excite no uneasiness. The principal object of the Vienna article is to dis prove a communication from Odessa, dated the 2d f December, which stated that considerable disorders rrevailed at Constantinople on the 23d and 25th of ovember. Now, although we attach very little im .rtance to intelligence of this nature from Odessa, noising that it is subject to the taint of interested in fluence, yet Odessa was not the only source whence these accounts proceeded ; they came in private let ters from Constantinople, and were echoed and re echoed in communications of all sorts from Vienna, where as many fabrications have certainly been made as at Odessa. The Vienna article is, however, ex tremely contradictory. It admits ,‘ single excesses committed by rude men of the lowest class of the po pulace ;" and after asserting that they were " scarcely observed is so great and populous a city," admits that they were such, that " in order to prevent them the Austrian and British Ambassadors had required from the Divan a new and stricter Ordinance, which they obtained."—(See the STAR of yesterday.)—Again we are told, that as "nobody had offended the Sultan or his Ministers, or the foreign Ambassadors, there was no occasion to call upon the Janissaries or the people to respect public tranquillity." Were this really the case, the interference of the British and Austrian Ambassadors must have been an act of great impertinence; and the severe Ordinance of the Sultan an act of weakness, of which no one would suspect him. We insert the Vienna article below, and wish our Readers to compare the assumptions it con tains with the positive and acknowledged Ordinance f,f the Grand Seignior, and then say what credence is to be attached to the former, which is as follows : VIENNA, DECEMBER 2s. After referring to an article published in the Allge weine Zeitung of the 20th, and dated Odessa, Dec. 2, the Austrian Observer makes the following remarks : " We have long been accustomed to commun'cations of this kind, and should not have considered thii worthy of any re t.-....tk, had it not greatly exceeded the usual measure of false- Luod daily circulated With respect to the affairs of the East. On this account we subjoin a few observations : " 1. Neither on the 23d nor the 25th of November, nor even Srteen day; later (for the direct accounts come down to the 9th). had Constantinople been the theatre of any frightful disorders. '.hat is still better, public order had not been in any manner disturbed. In this large and populous city, and amidst the great excitements of the public mind, the commission of any solitary act of excess is scarcely observable, even amongst the rudest of the lovrte class. However, in order to prevent any excesses Ambasadors of Austria and England demanded a new and rote severe Ordinance from the Porte, which was Mune sh.ttely issued. " 2. We do not pretend to know what is discussed between the Foreign Ministers and the Divan ; but we can assert that the Austrian and English Ambassadors have bad no conference conunop with the Reis Effendi. The last interview, which to our knowledge the Austrian luternuncio bad, took place on th e 25th of November, in a country house of the lieis 'Wendt, oo the Asiatic bank of the Bosphorus ; the last interview of the English Ambassador was some days later; but in both the most ttguisr and appropriate diplomatic forms were observed. " 3. Neither of them Ambassadors has demanded, or has had, so audience of the Grand Seignior. " 4. Tus at once does away with the declarations which the G7and Seignior is said to have made to the two Ambassadors. ileac pretended dmisratioas are, besides, fabricated in a more Wretched mann*: and we have es hillitatlter In liirdeediet neither the Oland Seignior nor any of his Ministers ewer kV the language which the Correspondent of Odessa Isai pin kinky or anything like it. " S. In like manner falls to the ground the principal kik-- that - which was to crown the *hole. cis.--?hat these Ambassa dors had. on their return from the conference, bees Waked by the populace, and that during the whole of the afternoon pistols bad been fired at Lord Strangforffs hotel. We need say so more on this subject. " 6. As no excess had been continifted, either against the Sultan or the foreign Ministers, there could be no ground for calling upon the people and the 'wineries to be tranqidl. Be sides, it is not the practice of the Turkish Government to make the people of the Capital its confidants in political negotiations. ' " 7. The Correspondent has the effrontery to add, that the news was immediately forwarded to Petersburgb by a courier. If this has really been done, which we very much doubt, it will be known at Petersburfh, where there is good information of the real state of affairs, as it is known here what value ought to be put upon such s." The metallics ere yesterday quoted at 73 9-16 t h so and the Bank A tions 625 2.sths. 7rt TRIESTE, DECEMBER 23. The news from Smyrna is disastrous ; the massa cres have continued from the 20th to the 28th of No vember. The conduct of the'English, such as it is described, has caused great indignation. When the massacres commenced, the Christians wished to take refuge on board the vessels in the p6rt ; but the Eng lish left the harbour, in order not to displease their good friends the Turks, by peiferming an act of hu manity. The French and Austrians acted with more generosity._ Their vessels are incambered with Greek families who have succeeded in escaping from the sabres of the Turks.-- (Extract of a letter in the All gemeine Zeitstng.) The French Papers of Tuesday last reached our Office this morning. They are very barren of intel ligence, almost every article of foreign new shaving been anticipated by the German and Flanderi Mails. On Monday the KING transacted business with the I►linisters of the Marine and the Interior. Several Committees of the Chamber of Deputies met, when the Committee charged with the examination of the Law which had been presented by M. de SERRE, for repressing Offences of the Press, nominated M. CHU.. FLET the Reporter. The Report was expected to be presented in the ensuing week. No day was fixed for a public sitting. These Papers contain afflicting accounts of the injury done to shipping along the French, Spanish, and other coasts, during the late tempestuous weather, and particularly on Christmas-day. An article from Milan gives an account of the sentence of the Special Commission, in the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, against thirty-four of the Cube nari who had been arrested, among whom are seve ral Noblemen. Thirteen persons were declared guilty of High Treason, and condemned to death ; and seve ral others condemned to imprisonment for various periods. The sentence had been submitted to the EMPEROR, who, in his clemency, bad remitted the punishment of death, and substituted rigorous con finement for periods of ten, fifteen, and twenty years. The Journal des Debats, in an article which has been mutilated by the scissors of the Censor, notices the studied refutation of tumults in Constantinople, printed in the Austrian Observer, which it views in the same light that we have done. An article from Vienna, dated 27th December, says, that a letter from Brody, in Gallicia, states that the subscription in Russia in favour of the Greeks had been sanctioned by Prince GALLITZIN, in a circular which he had issued, calling on the principal per sonages of the State to subscribe ; and urging it on the score of religion as well as humanity, that each individual may thus second the general interest. The Gazette de France contains a private letter , from Madrid, dated the 30th December, which says, " The Spanish Ministry struggles with success against the threats of the Jacobins. The Provincial Deputa tion of Cadiz had made a new representation to the Cortes, dated the 21st of December, in which they declare, that when the Ministers are dismissed, and confidence re-established, they will justify their con duct, by sheaving obedience to the Constituted Go vernment." The Cortes, in the Sitting of the 27th ult. conti nued the discussion (in the Report of the Committee on the Administration in the Provinces. On the fol lowing day the re-election of the President and Se cretaries, came on, when M. Ray was called to the Presidency of the Congress, by 71 votes out of 122. M. Vtr.LA was named Vice-President. In the Sitting of the 19th, the Cortes was engaged in discussing the project for fixing the limits of the Provinces, and on the subject of Juries, which it was agreed upon should be admitted and regulated by laws enacted for the purpose. French Funds, Monday, Five per Cents. 86f. 56c A mass of private intelligence has been received from Spain, which contains accounts of the state of that country. At Madrid everything was tranquil on the 27th of December, when the retirement of two or three of the Ministers was still talked of. The news from Cadiz and Seville was said to be favourable.— At Cadiz, two Regiments had made a declaration, by which they renewed their profession of respect for the Constitution, and for the decision of the Cortes, whatever it might be. A letter from St. Sebastian, dated the 314 of De cember, says—" The insurgents of Navarre have been attacked a second time by Clucliaga. On the 26th be completely routed than, killing fifty, and .• makilig slay prisondet. - I TU altar in the night fiT the' 26th and on the 47th, itt Ben, betwten %Ida% men and the Custom-house raids, *as veo wirm; they were totally rooted. Fifty ofotir horse chassetws charged a far mote considerable body of the insurt Reny They gave no quarter, and a great number of horses have fallen into their hands. The factious ace everywhere disconcerted and dispersed." Some affairs had taken place, at the close of last month, on the frontiers of France, between the Spa nish troops and the insurgents, which had been entirely to the disadvantage of the latter. • A Dutch Man i bringing Papers to the 9th instant, reached us this forenoon. The first article, relating to the'lonian Islands, also appears in the Constitu tiontrei, under date of Nuremberg, December 81.— The following are extracts : FRONTIERS OF ITALY, DECEMBER 27. The report is renewed that Para: has been taken ' by the Greeks by storm. It is certain that, an English vessel has brought the news of the taking of Canea (in the district of the same name in the Island of Candia) by the Greeks. The fall of the capital, which is also blockaded on the sea side by Hydtiot vessels, is inevitable. CORFU, DECEMBER S. In the !Ands of Zante and Ithaca tranquillity is not yet restored. In Cephalonia and Cerigo the flame of insurrection seems to be , checked. In general, the system of the neutrality of the lonian Islands is ob served more strictly than ever, even towards the Turks ; and the Greeks remark, with the bitterness that distinguishes all their judgments of the Bridal Government, that this neutrality has become more strict since the Turkish ships have returned to the Dardanelles, when it can no longer be any detriment to them. Executions and banishment are, alas! still the order of the day. It is related here that our august Protector, George the Fourth, has blamed the severe conduct of our Lord High Commissioner, and it is therefore hoped that a successor will be appointed to him. In the Island of Santa Maura the greatest tranquil lity now prevails, as it does here, where commerce has for some weeks past bees •ery active. The Journal of the Two Sicilies of the 20th ultimo contains the following Proclamation, published in Zante, and dated the 15th of November. The ac counts from Corfu are of the 24th of November, but add nothing to our previous intelligence: PROCLAMATION. • " Manus Marmastn, in behalf of his Excellency Sir MAC MArrir►xy, Ecc. " His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner and Comman der of the Forces of Ms Britannic Majesty in the Medkeranean; has a pleasure in testifying the satisfaction which he experiences at seeing that the measure of dharraing the population, peemeibod, in the Proclamation of the 6th current, by Major-General Sr Frederick Adam, has been followed by a degree of quilt and subordination on the part of the people,whkh enables him to draw from it a happy omen of the future peace and well-being of this island. Suck a measure was no less evidently necessary for the security of the inhabitants th emselves, than for that of the Government. " The state of convulsion in which the neighbouring country unhappily is at this moment, the ea **don produced in the minds of the People by the very nature of the contest in the Morea, and by the descriptions of the persons engaged in it, and more particularly the intrigues and wicked machinations of a few desperate individuals, have rendered this measure not only one of political necessity, but even of humanity, towards those who have shewn so little contrail over their passions, in obey ing which they have renounced every principle of prudence, every sentiment of propriety, every sense of gratitude, and even the semblance of obedience to their own Government. " The satisfactory results of this operation, and the success which followed it, must be ascribed to the superior judgment, zeal, and decision of that excellent Officer Major-General /fir Frederick Adam, to the well-known discipline and correct con duct of the British troops, and to a desire, as his Excellency is disposed to believe, felt by the misled and misguided people themselves, to retrace the unfortunate course which first ren dered it necessary to proclaim martial law in the Island. " Ills Excellency, however, does not think that arms can be in no way intrusted to any part of the population. " To the Nobles, without exception (and it is highly satisfac. tory to his Excellency to announce it), their arms shall be re- stored, under the observation of certain forms of a military re gulation, which shall remain in force as long as martial law shall continue, and which shall be immediately published. Nor Is it the desire of his Excellency to retain the arms of that portion of the population whose past good conduct and firm attachment to the Government have demonstrated that therm be safely en trusted with them. His Excellency therefore orders, that as soon as precau tionary choice shall be slide, a thousand stand of arms shall be immediately distributed in the manner pointed out by the above. mentioned military regulation. 6 ' His Excellency must add, that he does not intend to limit this delivery of arms to the above number, but its extension will depend on the conduct of the inhabitants themselves; since the only and fixed object of the measure has been to protect the I loyal and well-intentioned inhabitant., and at the same time to deprive the turbulent, the misguided, and the evil-disposed, of the means of promoting their wicked and traitorous designs. ",By command of Ida Excellency, FRED. HARKEY, " Secretary of the Lord High Commitdoner, Zante, Nov. IS. and Military Scavtary (ad iourim.)* Yesterday afternoon,' his Highness Prince Erna- HAZY and Count CARAMAw:anived at Chandos House, from North Cray, where they have been •n a visit to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Yesterday, the Misses FITZCLA RENTZ arrived at their house in Audley-street, from Bushey Park. Yesterday, being the Anniversary of the Right Ho. nourable CHARLES Jamas Fox's Birth-day, a large party of Noblemen and Gentlemen partook of a most e'egant entertainment at Greillon's Hotel, in Albc- MAtle-street. The Earl of Esau continues seriously indisposed at his seat. Cashiubury. Sir HENIIY HALTORD and Dr. BAILLIE attend h* Lordship daily. • . NA PAL 1 741 rELLNENek: Copy of a ifttiir front the Consui-Cieneral of the Netherlands, dated Loiion,.tannary p, insist, addressed to Mr. 10161 Bialairr jun. at Lloyd's t " For the information of mariners, I have to Infiniti you, that his ilajesty the King of the Netherlands has ordered a List& House, of between fifty-five and sixty feet high, to be erected ea Ryk Dub; near the Ildderl the opening for the relenting lamp wW be tea feet wide. " This new light will replace the present coal-Me light, and will be erected nearly on the sante spot, thereby not altering the sailing course for entering the Tezeh " It is intended to commence burning this new VOA on the 15th of September :get. (Sigised) " WM. MAY.”. The following is an extract from a Private Letter, dated Ge.• net, December 27:—" We have witnessed the meet distressing 'scenes since the evening of the 24th. Never has so terrible a storm been remethbered at Genoa as that which has recently taken place, and which lasted two nights and t*o days. The number of unfortunate victims who have perished bait yet eo :. reedy ascertained. We have already accounts of thirty-nine vessels which have been either s un k or shattered in the port. It is impossible to say to how many millions (Gene's/a fines) , the loss amounts—not a single vessel has eedapeds Ih Porto Franco, many warehouses along the walls have beat destroyed; at Nervi a house has been torn op; and the ell warehouse, at sftuagli have been carried &tray." Fatatoorn, Jae. 9.—Wihd N.lLL—Arrited the &. GeA•et, Meanest, rom Carer for Dunk irk Betty, Hostinams, from Newry; Commerce, Mocurr, and Sportsman, Canoe, from Waterford ; *Lark, Serest, from Torbay for Waterford; Mary, Quics, from Cork; Alexander, Hone, from Limerick for Lon don ; and Philotace, Coaans from Rio de Janeiro, in 95 d a ys, for Antwerp, the lat t er with hies of beats, bulwarks, staunelteons, Ste. Sailed the Isis, for Havannah ; Annesley. for St. Michael's I. St. George's. for Dunkirk; Lark, for Waterford; Jane, Dam- . sel. Wellington, Ant, Elizabeth, and Alexander, for London. PLTXOO7O JAL 9.—Wind N.—Arriv e d th e Abeena, Rue. SELL, from dark ; Amity, Pervert, from Waterford ; and seve rs) coasters and colliers. • • P01T101011714 JAN. 10.—Wind Northerly.—Sailed the Crown transport, for Woolwich; and Maria, BILOWNE, for London.-- Passed by, the Columbus, Dant.s, from Bremen for Haeannah.: Dui, JAL 10.—Wind W.N. W.---Catne 'down from the River and sailed, the Honour, Bazasa, for Cadiz; Luna, Boon, for St. Thomas's • Axnaaws. for Penzance • Ardent, BOYD, for Belfast ; Sarah, Nrcuoz.sox, for St. Mic hael's; and L'Aigle, &PADDOCK, for the South Seas. The latter remains. Carrom-Housz, Jae. 10.—Ships Entered Inwards:—`The Prospect, from Riga; Spring from Dantzic ; Majestic, front St. Petersburgh ; Flying Fish, from Ostend; Po, from Calais ; Friends, from &ettin ; Henry, front Riga ; Mercury, from St. Petersburgh ; John, from ditto ; Isabella, from Randers; Jessy Watson, from Sc. Petersburgh ; Commerce, from Memel; and Mariners, from Rigs.—Entered Outwards : 'The Otto, for Ghent ; Esther, for Cork ; and H e nry Willi a m, f or Malta.— Cleared Outw ards: The Pomona, for Para • Pilchard, for Africa; Jane, for Oporto; Swallow, f o r Bom bay; and Nary and Mu, for Dublin. THE ARMY. A detachment of about 70 Officers and men of the 40th Regi ment will embark in a few days, on beard the East-India Com pany's ships Orwell and Macqueen, at Gravesend, for Bombay, to join the Regiment. EPITAPH ON CAPTAIN DUNNING. This Gentletnatidiedsomeiimeiiii;h7;;lsinclige;t circutn stances that his brother Officers raised a subscription to defray his funeral espenees • and one of them in addition to his con tributions, compos ed the subjoined Epitaph, which was placed upon his tomb-stone : Here, free'd from all strife, let the poor soldier rest, - Who' the constable oft was out-running; Who ne'er in his life did the debtor molest, erery day he was Dunning / A little boy, remarkable for his wit, was one day. eating an apple in thit presence of his Drill-Master . (who always addressed him by the title Of the little Captain!) and having ate the , fruit, he took the re maining part to the Drill-Mister, saying, The Captain presents to the Serjeernt the Copps (core), and its Colonel (kernel), but is sorry that the Major part is gone !" • The various Public Bodiei of Dublin appear:tn . :ions to express their gratiScation at being governe,d by an Irishman, in Addresses s to the new loan LIEUTZ• WANT. The Noble Marquis, in his Answers, gives a strong assurance of his disposition to second die wishes of his Sovereign, in diffusing 'the spirit of concord and union; so strongly recommended in his MAJZSTY'S parting letter, When he left Ireland. We stated yesterday that a Board was held at the Treasury on Wednesday, to take into consideration the reductions at the' different Public Offices, and a minute was signed by Lord Livcitroot, &c. that those who now retire should receive an altowanee accord ing to the scale mentioned in their Lordships letter in the year 1821. This reduction is £5 per cent. upon original salaries, and £lO per cent. upon the increased salaries; the sums thus deducted to form a superannuated fund, applicable also to a provisiOn for the widows of Officers in possession of salaries thus reduced. A letter, the contents of which are of great im portance to maltsters, has just been received by Mr. Gooca, M. P. for Suffolk : • " Treasury Chambers, January 4, 1822. " MY MAR Sta—ln consequence of your and other repre sentations, it has been determined by their Lordships, this morn- • ing, to allow the time far soaking the barley in the pmcess of malting to be shortened, until the Ist of June next, under such regulations as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the Revenue. The rules will probably be the same as those adopted in the wet season of 1816. The order will go to the Board of Taxer this night.—Ever yours. "S. 11..LUSHINGTON." A bet has been made in the Stock Exchange, by a . jobber, of £l,OOO, to receive £lO,OOO, oa the event of a fall of 5 per Cent. in Consols during the Fe bruary Account. • -It appears by the French Papers, that the weather• at Naples, in the middle of last month,•was so mild that it rather resembled April than December. - The King, in consequence, passed' much of his time in visiting his country houses ! It is reported that the Emperor of RUSSIA has in vited his brother-in-law, the King of WIRTBI4IBBO, to command the Polish Army, aware that a Russian Commander would be unpopular, and afraid, we suppose, to trust them under a Polish one. • ,• Coax NICII4I.IIGt, MARK-LA/ I t, Jas. 11.—Our Market has been but moderately supplied with Wheat since Monday; and - •what few simples of fine quality appeared this morning sold pa f■u as good terms as on that day, but there is no improvement in the ordinary sorts. Fine malting Barley obtained Wednes ,day's price, but the stained and inferior samples were dull sale at from 17s. to las. per quarter. Oats were rather cheaper, the arrivals being large. In Beim and Peas lo alterations. •~••' 81111TWELD 11 1 11AIMET, JAL 11.—The supply at Market Nis morning was middling, of all descriptions of Cattle, and prices were the maw as pee last wee k' s market. Hay and Straw 'main the same.—Current /nicest . beef, is. rid. to 44. ed. p. r stone of sibs.; Muft is , s at 6 d.. to Ss. Bd. Veal. Sal 04. Pork, its. 6d. to 4s. Od Cattle at Market : Beasts, 440; f alves,lBo; Sheep and Lambs, 1,790 t Pigs, 240...—1iay and Straw par load, Hay, 3L 101.. N 4/. us. Llover, 41. Cs. 0844 Os. Straw, li. Ss. to 11.14 x. ".4 .t a: ...k -ko P . 1 )1.' 1 ! ~~. ~~ ~ 1; }} l 3~•~~