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, **l. TN E EVENING STAR. LON DON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1822. . .711 E vita*. "'STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There js not much bullbess doing' this a:arcing in the market ; the chief transactinns are b the New Tours, which arc 105 i, and Consols, up to this boa', 8i to 115• for the Account, and fur Idotepliong . • • 101324111.1“110017. The thief transactions its the market up .to this hear tie in Pevr Spaniqsend Colombian Bonds, but the business is ra t h er (lack in ah fdreiga securities this morning. • Current Prices:—Chilian 11511 to 24, New Spanleit•Vie 4, Old 1161 97, New 'Prussian 891 4, Old 119 e, Russian $94, Danish 91, ligaPatan in g, Scrip 93}, Colombian 91 e• Scrip ditto, Peruvian $7. New Sk.o.sliSerip Si. . STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Wiibiu the last hour the Market h 4 considerablf Improved, and a good deal of busioeu is transacting. The Market looks firs, and Consols are 84 for the Account, U for• Money. TONIUGY KAIMIT. A good deal of business doing in Colombian and New Spanish, which are rising ; in the others little business doing. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. '4 per Cent. Reduced 82 1 4 per Cent. Consols 82 5 / 8 3 1 / 2 pe r Cents., 934/g-4 per Cents. 99 1 A 9 / 4 4 per Cent. New 108 A Y 4 1 4 Bank Long Annuities 20 13-16 15 16 'Xi India Stock 256257--Bond. 495. 51s. Exchequer Bills (CI,000) 6s 7s. Ditto small, 7s. 9s.—lndia for Acct. 257 1 4 Consols for Acct. 8 2 / a 881/2. In addition to the French Papers of Wednesday, which reached us by the regular Mail, the Journal de Thoulouse, the Echo du Midi, and the Journal de Urgel, the official Gazette of the Insurgents in Spain, have been received. The last-mentioned Pa, er has no ailusion to the important battle said to have been fought on the 11th inst. but-it- mentions the affair on the Bth as merely a slight encounter between the advanced outposts. This Journal contains a letter from the Bishop of URGEL to the Regency, and a Decree of this self-created authority, which styles itself " the Regency of the Kingdom, which governs Spain during the captivity of FERDINAND The Decree merely relates to the sentence of banish ment passed on FRANCOJSSOLEHAGA, a Peer of Spain, by the Legitimate and Constitutional Government of Spain. This sentence the Regency declares to be null and void, and authorizes the exile to return ; a piece of advice which, if he has *any value for his head, he xt ill hesitate in taking. The intelligence from Madrid in the French PApers is to the 12th inst. On the 10th a Deputation. of the l Cortes presented an Address to his 3lAJEsrit, in an swer to his speech from the Throne. The folio.: ing are the Innst rerna:k:ible pas ages in this AdLiiers: " The Cortes, Sire, deplore with your Majesty the ravages occasioned by the civil war raging in several provinces. They would be glad ROI to be forced to appeal to fire and sward to put ad end to this evil : they would be glad to extirpate even the germ yhich produces such bitter and destructive fruits. Never theless, they cannot refuse to pay 'to the country the tribute to which she has a right in her a2liction : and, assured of the lively enthusiasm with which the catriotisni of S.,ianiards will meet their present wants, they will vote an augmentation of that brave and patriotic body the , permanent army,' the permanent and better organization of as active militia, and the sums neces sary for carrying on all enterprises which have for their object the consolidation of the liberty, the glory, the tranquillity, and Liminess of the nation. • 1 With such succours, the Cortes act persuaded that your Ma jesty's Government may be able to plant Spain in that position which she ought to occupy in the political map of Europe and the world. The Cortes will lend their aid wherever their interference and assistance shall be ailed for, guided always by the desire of preserving the national honour, of nuking the Spanish name respected by all the Powers of Europe, and of ex tending our relations with those Powers with whom it may be peeper so to do ; and especially with those who enjoy fro* testi miens, or whose interests are the same as ossx& The Address thus concludes ; Howevtr painful, however difficult their duties, the Cones are sensible of the obligations by which they are bound. They are honoured in fulfilling them; and, (unified by the union of all the friends of liberty, they natter themselves soon to bring their Llamas to a happy termination. They rely on the active co operation of your Majesty; for it is only thus that the factious en: beannihilated, that the malevolent will be compelled to re -I,outie their plojects . for the destruction of liberty (amidst the ruins . of which your throne would be buried), and that we shall at last have the prospect of future tranquillity and happiness for your lthjesty and the country?' _ . Accounts from n.i.hid state, that Canga Arguelles and some others, whose equivocal conduct rendered them rately objects of suspicion, are now calling out lustily for inquiry into the causes of the late revolt, and loudly blaming the delay of justice in the case of Cadiz, Ste. An *tide from St. Jean Pied de Port, dated Oc tober 1 . 5, says—" On the 11th the Constitutionalists entered Scava and Ochavagia, where they retook 34. soldiers who had been made prisoners. The Army of the Faith had been completely beaten and routed. So great is their terror, that they have abandoned the fort of Irati." ' The Moniteur of Wednesday contains a formidable story of some dagger-blades, with emblematic de vices upon them, that have been seized on their entry into France from the side of Belgium, or that point where Prussia most unnaturally touches upon France. These blades," says the Journalist, 4 , present eta. blems of a nature perhaps more alarming, and cer, tainly more significant than the weapons themselves. Thus on one may be seen an urn, a sceptre cast down, , a sword with three stars at the type extremity; on `~.' - M1FF7!"77 1 .- ;. RTI O- 7 - • V'tir klik &ill ther side, a wind-glass, ' . ,a ;woken sceptre.' a crutch, and a mak; . berm* thesartgarea are fasces. l i serro ended by palms, similar t 6 the millesentations iiißapublicin emblems. On another blade, instru 1' went, i f posishntent appear. : It may be asked — for whom can such presents, btought from foreign countries, he destined's" The Josmerd des Delpais has a somewhat cm ions document, in the I. irm of a Note presented to the Porte, by Lci.l STRAN GrORD, on the 47th Of August last, relative to the recovery of debts due to the English from the estates of the Greeks who fled at the coma. mencement of the rebellion. His Lordship tells the Porte it is notorious that most of the Greeks were only induced to flee their country from the fear and alarm which were general in the early part of this revolt that no distinction was made between the inno cent and the guilty, and that all Greeks without ex ception were criminal in the eyes of an enraged popu lace; and he proposes to the- Porte to recall those Greeks whose timidity was their only guilt, in order that they may pay the British merchants the sums they owe them. The-following . is the Note we have alluded to : . CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPTEMBER It. The following Note was presented by Lord Strang ford, the English Ambassador, to the Sublime Poi te, on the 27th of August The English Ambassador mast do himself the honour of calling the attention of the Sublime Porte to a subject Which is of the greatest importance to the interests of the British imirthants. " The Ambassador hu already, on different occasions, pre-' sensed reclamations to the Reis Effendi, on the subject of the debts which the English have to recover from the property of Greeks who took to flight at the beginning of the rebellion. "Toe departmentvf Defterdariet, to which this affair has been remitted, has always replied, that it could be decided only ac cording to the Mahomedan laws, and that these laws, always wise and just, did not permit the Sublime Porte to dispose of the property of his Greek subjects, unless the proprietors were pre sent, or properly represented by Attornles. . . . " But ft is of public notoriety, that the greater part of these Greeks have been induced to fly from their country by the fear and alarm which like efferveseence of the public mind had spread fo,generally in the first 'moment* of the revolt, when the distinc tion between the innocent and the guilty was not well established, and when all the-Greek* without exception , appeared criminal in the eyes of an exasperated populace. . _ " It is equally notorious that the . greeks, of whom timidity was the sole crime (and whom the Anthassador does not con found with traitors who have taken flight to escape punishment),_ have taken refuge prinaipally in foreign countries, that they only sigh for the moment when they may again return to their homes, and that only the fear sad uncertainty of the reception they may meet with, still compel them to remain under the dominion. of another Power. . " To dissipate these apprehensions, to enable the victims of a very natural suspicion to return into their native country, to put at length the British subjects in a condition to recover their debts, by personally prosecuting their debtors before the competent tri bunals, a word of the Sublime Porte will suffice, and I wish it may be pronounced. We shall then see return to the bosom of their country the unfortunate men whom the force of circum stances alone hid obliged momentarily to remove from it. The Government will resume its rights over a cmliderahle part of its own subjects, and those of the Ring of Great Britain will no longer have to suffer the fatal consequences which result to their interests from the prolonged absence of their debtors. " The mass of the claims amounts to so considerable a sum, ' and the necessity of satisfying them has become so urgent, that the Ambassador would fail In his duty if he did not request the Sublime Porte to adopt the only means which, in the present state of things, can obtain for the English creditors the justice which they have so long and so vainly solicited, by making publicly known what are the intentions of the Government with regard to the debtors, and giving them the formal assurance that', with out any personal risk, they may return to their native country, and appear before the competent tribunals, so that justice may be done to their creditors.—The Ambassador, in recommending this.proposal to the acknowledged wisdom and equity of the Sublime Porte, seism this occasion, Etc. &c. (Signed) " STR A N G FORD." French Funds, Oct. 23.—Five per Cents. opened at 931. 60c. dosed at 93f. 65c. This forenoon we received intelligence from Bayonne to the 18th instant. The defeat and total dispersion of the Army of the Faith is said to be fully con firmed.. This event is thus announced :—" We hare now received authentic and detailed letters from St. Jean de Pied de Port, &e. which confirm the total dispersion of the Army of the Faith ; the greater pars of the troops having returned to their homes, while the others seek an asylum in the French territory, At St. Jean de Pied de Port, Lecomberry, and the environs, there were, on the 14th, above 600 soldiers of the Faith . , and the Mayors had applied to the su perior Authorities for instructions respecting the manner of disposing of these unfortunate people." These accounts contain numerous details of the movements of small bodies of insurgents, and of the circumstances stated in the Paris Journals. Colonel CABRA is said to have arrived at Bayonne, with se veral Officers of the Army of the Faith. It would appear that there is .no probability of the remains of this rebel army rallying, except in France, and it is doubted whether that will be permitted. The accounts from Madrid are not so late as those we have received through the French Papers. The following are extracts: BAYONNE, OCTOBER 17• Such contradictory reports are spread concerning the operations of Mina, that it is impossible -to form a satisfactory opinion ; on the one hand the accounts published in the Journals are not implicitly credited, and on the other bulletins are distributed with pro fusion, containing exaggerated statements of alleged victories gained by the Royalists, and other news of an alarming tendency. One of these bulletins an nounces the meeting of the Congress at Venom. eni l says that 900 1 000 men frill won enter the provinces i I'F , . :~ ~.;~~,: . Bayonne, &c. These reports stittitional party , tinually call on for a levy en masa, anci Clergy, who are presuined to support the et _ fenders of the Paith. The MiPiiters . believe their. safely depends en the violent patty , bdt with to avoi d the explosion so much deslied by the truly anarchical faction. It is affirmed that at a patriotic meetiggi l where Lopez Banos and San Miguel were prsseat ir k was agreed thar it was i rnpossible to retrograde a urnalte* step, though the Holy Alliance should send a :pil lion of men into Spaitt. The intentions of these young statesmen 'are pub- licly applauded, and it is said that the demand for $7,000 men and 6000 horses, made by the War Mi nister,Driginated with San Miguel ; the object being to have a good army at any rate. It is added, that the army will be raised to 100,000 men, exclusive of the active Militia : 40,000 will be for Catalonia. It is resolved to levy the militia in Valencia, Bis cay, and Navarre, notwithstanding the opposition of the inhabitants, who have been hitherto exempt. The Ministers of the Interior, the Marine, and Finance, shew great zeal and activity. It is said the Queen has given up the journey to Saxony : it is certain that her health is much improved. Hamburgh Papers to the 19th instant reached us this forenoon. They contain an article from Bombay, of the 2d of June, which states that a Revolution had taken place at Goa, when several Members of the 'Government were banished, and had arrived at Bom bay. It is said, that above a hundred of the inhabi- tants had also been confined in dungeons in Goa; and that several houses have been plundered by the sol diers. The following are extracts: BOMBAY,JUNE It. On the 26th of last month arrived here, fretn Goa, Marshal Correa, Senor Ipureiro, Chancellor oE the Supreme Tribunal, and Mesers..Margellpes, Pocha, and Aloo, Judges in . the They are said to have been suddenlrsint awayfrom that.place by the persons now in power there. -They were men of the highest consideration there, and, three of.them Masters of the Constitutional Junta established there. in September last year. We underiiincrtbit'thi Archbishop Primate and General Godinho were likely to be included in the sentence oreeile. Above a hundlredof the inhabitants, *own whom were several Vicars.and . persons•of distinction, were oonfined in the dungeons of Goa, and no one ad mitted to them. Some houses had been plundered by the soldiers, many persons wounded and ill-treated, and nobody could pass through - the Pangem street without being insulted. Several persons had left the province, and others were preparing to do so as soca as possible. - • •-aurk / 7- ' 7 % . :47-,arr LETTER Hi. AND POLITICAL STATE Oi l PORTUGAL. THE EDIToIt OF TIM STAIL LONDON, OCT. 18, 1822. ovy . last communication, the King and Cortes of Poaregal save completealovith an unanimity 71 ,„bid r Amb ilsr amen both, the regeneration of the eyonstitutina of the , Monarchy, and the Portuguese standatbnspicoous among the enlightened nations of Europe evil people deserving of liberty, and capable of enjo)iiig it.' Their King, too, has shewn himself no less worthy of ruling over a loyal and liberal peoplc . But before I enter Upon the transactions of latter times, I must complete the task I have imposed myself of giving the history of the former ages. The connection between England and Portugal commenced at a very early period in the history of the two countries. In 1147, we find an English army, under William Duke of Normandy, engaged in the siege of Lisbon, and assisting the King, Alphons-, in the conquest of that capital, then held by the Moors. Under a succession of warlike Monarchs, the Portuguese maintained their independence and increased their power; and whenever a season of peace admitted of the assembling a general Cortex, their aid was always demanded by the Sovereign in providing agaibst contingencies, and in perfecting the civil institutions of the kingdom. We must re mark, however, that from a very early date the over grown power of the Church (the tyranny under which Portugal has ever languisied) in many instances not only thwarted the best intentions of the King,but over turned the wise and salutary decisions of the Cortes. Portugal was often laid under an interdict by the Ruler of the Vatican. Nay, so great was the influence of the Court of Rome, actuated by the advice of the Clergy, that his Holiness presumed to release the Portuguese from their oath of allegiance to the great grandson of the first Alphonso, and to give the crown to his brother. In 1280, the first war between the Chris tian Rulers of Castile and Portugal took place. It was of short duration, as the Portuguese had by far the best of the contest; and the Spaniards were glad "to securea stricter union between the Crowns by va rious intermarriages. : About 1380, a treaty of alliance was negotiated ;between Henry the Third of England and Ferdinand King ` of Portugal ; and John Duke of Lancaster was joined by the Portuguese in his attempt to obtain the Crown of Castile, which he considered as having fallen to him in right of his wife Constantia, t' .e eldest daughter of their lite King Peter. But as the luxury of the. Court had in a great measure destroyed the natural bravery of the people, the assistance f the Portuguese army was of little avail. Ferdinand, who died in 1389, left no male issue ; the King of Spain, therefore, laid claim to the Croy n of Portugal, as belonging to his Queen, the eldest daughter of Ferdinand : this was the cause of a flesh war, as, by the Constitution of the kingdom, no Prin cess who had married a foreign Sovereign was to reign irr Portugal. Jn this crisis the eyes of the na tion were turned to Don John, Grand Master of the Order of CHRIST, who, though an illegitimate son of Ferdinand, was still considered a natural Prince, and being a man of good address and great military ta lents, he was invested with the command of the army, and by the unanimous voice of the people, who dreaded the Spanish yoke, declared King of Portu gal. His energy and commanding powers soon called forth the innate valour of his followers, and the Kiug of Castile was obliged to retire into his own domi nions. Here again the alliance of England was of material advantage, and the great victory of Alju harrota was in some measure owing to the bravery of a body of our countrymen, who wereicraed in the vanguard of the left wing of the Portuguese army.— The confusion which this victory occasioned in Spain induced the Duke of Lancaster to make a second at tempt to secure the Crown for his daughter, and John of Gaunt, then in his sixtieth year, embarked for Lisbon, taking with him his wife and two daugh ters, the Ladies Philippa and Constance. At Oporto, the first named was married to the King of Portugal —a union which . produced a still firmer alliance be tween the two countries, and an end was put to the war between England and Spain by a marriage be tween the Infant Henry of Castile and the Princess Constance of England. A treaty of peace having been concluded also between Portugal am! Spain, John I. found himself in possession of an undisputed Crown. The nation now enjoyed repose for a series of years, and Portugal was at no time in a more flou rishing condition than towards the end of this reign, Under the patronage of John I. and his son Henry, a spirit of enterprise was fostered—new countries were discovered, and Prince Henry, an able scholar and mathematician himself, was surrounded by the learned men of every nation in Europe. The descendants of John and Queen Philippa continued to reign and to maintain the glory of Portugal until, in 1574, the gallant Don 'Sebastian sailed for Africa) with the flower of the Portuguese youth, where they perished on the banks of the river Logue. He was, indeed, succeeded by his grand uncle, the Cardinal Henry ; but Portugal was never able to hold up her head, and, through the perfidy of the Courtiers who sur rounded the feeble Monk, he; Crown was sold to Philip 11. of Spain. . The Philips, during their usurpation, left no means untried to depress the military spirit of the nation, • pp that AD can orni Mitary stores hiVojtdeli . , • . alarm the timid craft amps* the Coat . . r, and haat:le. the l violent, who *. TO T Government forsostotis measiSie . use, for direct imposts on tte cones of poiti ST. PETERSBURG IT, OCTOBER 1. Swarms of locusts have committed great ravages, during the suminer, in several provinces of the Crimea. BERLIN, OCTOBER 15. The British Minister, Mr. Rose, has returned from London. lIAMBURGII, OCTOBER 17. We have received, by way of Odessa, news from Constantinople of the 20th of September, of the fol lowing tenour :--( 1 Great uneasiness prevails here.—. The Turks have been defeated by the Persians near Erzerum. The great caravan has been plundered by the Wechabites, who are advancing towards Mecca, and it is believed that the Pacha of Egypt will be obliged to withdraw his troops from Candia and Cy prus, in order to oppose them. " The state of affairs in the Morea and in Thes saly is still very critical. On the Coast of Syna a second earthquake has desolated the Cities of An tioch, Sidon, and Alexandria (Little Alexandria, or Alexandrette, is probably meant); lastly, the Trea sury is so exhausted, that the most rigorous Decrees against luxury have been issued by the Sultan. All silver plate must be brought to the Mint, where the owners receive a very low price for it. The mahmu dies and the bubies (coin so called) are called in to be recoined at a depreciated standard." HAMBURGH, OCTOBER is. This being a holiday (the Anniversary of the battle of Leipsic), no Course of Exchange was published.— Business was done en London, 39-96 to 9; Amsterdam, 100 to ; Pahl 961. ST. Porsassuaan. Ocr. 4.—Etchings on London. 10 142 1-10; Haniburgit, 9 5-52 ; Paris. 1051 1. Yesterday the Earl of CLANCARTT bad a long audience of his MAJUTY; The Noble Eul took leave, on his departure for the Hague. The Duke of Sops arrived en Thursday at He=ten Pa. lace, from a visit to Mr. Om, at Holkiam, ist The Zvi and Countess of AL/MAMA have strived at Mr. Cowes seat, at Halkhani, from a tour. • Lady Cosisaastsas arrived on Thursday ovesdnit at Thomas's Hotel, Bakeisy-nliazer hem Pub. We are sorry kora that Mr. blanaasar,wbo he. boampoadag the tboauteal vacation to traversing the dusk Gold of Isd pa severe snack of fever, to eismilmmiss of ug the add sad damp excavatkms of Heradanenns, derby an estrantaly bot day. Though reamed fni all do donor of the attack, It MR behind a degree of dabilley,mblob k was feared would not be removed UN be breathed am Nils his nadisdr. ETHlLlBlRT'llToirsa.—The work of destruction is complete, and it will be, for the historian in,a tuture age to record, that 'the Vandals of the 19th century demolished that fabric; Which the Godis of former ages had not only Annoy attempted, but, amid all their Mart (sad they were lift 4 / 1 1 feipeCted