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TfIE EVENING STAR. • -- LONDON. TUESDAY; DUNE 1L 1821: N't.ts-Tusm►s•—Holiday at the Back• 'ew Brunswick Papers to the 9th of May arrived this forenoon. The Legislature of Lower Canada was prorogued on the 17th of 'March to the 26th of April. We regiet to observe from the Speech deli vered on the occasion by the Governor, the Earl of Dattrousiis, that the Assembly had not acquitted itself to his Grace's satisfaction. The grounds of re proach are apparently not ill-founded; they are, at least, expressed in sensible and temperate terms. The following is his Grace's Speech : " Gentlemen 9f the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the House of .Isa:mbly, Although I cannot by any means express my satisfaction In the general result of your deliberations, yet it is with great plea sure I acknowledge your assiduous and zealous attendance in the discharge of your public duties, during the long and laborious Session which I am now to close." • " Gentlemen if the Ilouse of .datendsly, " I thank you, in his Majesty's name, for those supplies which have been granted, by bills of appropriation; and assure yOu of my best attention in the application of them to the purposes for which they are intended. " I exceedingly regret that the expectations of his Majesty, which, by his command, I had the honour to express to you at the opening of this Session, have not been realized." " Gcatkinen of the Legislative Council, and Goodrum% of the House of Assembly, " When this Parliament met for the dispatch of public busi ness, I did entertain a hope that the experience of the last few years would have led you to a mature and serious consideration of the consequences that would inevitably • follow, if the then state of things should not be remedied; you cannot, therefore, be surprised that I should now express not only my disappoint ment, but great concern, that the same question of Constitutional principle should have again disturbed the unanimity of your legislative proceedings. Upon this occasion I think it a duty which I owe to you and to your country, to call upon you to consider, during this summer, the result of the discusions.of the Session in all its bearings. " You will see the administration of the Civil Government left without any pecuniary means but what I shall advance upon my own personal responsibility; you will see individuals siiffering under severe and unmerited hardships caused by the want of that constitutional authority that is necessary for the payment of the expenses of the Civil Government. You will see the in terior improvements of the country nearly at a stand—you will see, in short, the Executive Government in a manner Palsied and powerless. When I shall again summon you to meet here in Parliament, you will come to decide the important question, whether the Government shall be restored to its constitutional energy, or whether you are to deplore the prospect of lasting misfortune, by a continuance in the present state of things? Im portant as that question is, there can be no difficulty in the deci sion. When ti* blessings of the British Constitution were grunted to this Province, you received with it the recorded ex perience of CCIMACS of practice. There is no question of doubt or difficulty that may not find its precedent in the records of the hyper-jai Parliament; and I cannot think that any wiser guide need be desired." The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this forenoon. Letters received from Naples state, that eight thou iand Austrians had embarked for Sicily. Of the Greek Insurrection there is no want of ac counts, but they are chiefly old reports in a new shape, with such additions as they may be supposed to have acquired in the course of tale-telling. The following are the only new particulars which we have met with. The Isle of Cyprus, hitherto remarkable for its fidelity to the Porte, has become the scene of some serious disorders.. The Arnauts in the Army of the PACUA of the Morea have deserted him, and gone over to the Greeks. The Ex-Grand Vizier, Au ItutzA, who had been exiled to Gallipoli, is named to the command of the Turkish troops destined to act against the Insurgents of the Morea. French Five per Cents.—Friday, 86fr. 10e. A Wu! from Flanders arrived this forenoon, with P.tyers to the Sth inst. The following are extracts: LILLF, JUNE 3. At a moment when all the rowers of the North of Europe have formidable armies on foot, and which are even disproportioned to their population and their revenue, France has not an army which she can shew with confidence either to her friends or to her enemies: it is even doubtful whether it will be com plete on the peace establishment by the end of this year. The only corps which have attained their full compliment are—the Royal Gt&rd, and Swiss Regi ments, forming together a total of 10,000 men, and the legions of the Prince of Hohenlohe, composed of 2,400 men : all the other corps of the army, artil lery, cavalry, and infantry, are very far from being on the footing fixed by the Ordinances.—Since the events of the month of August last, many Officers who were in active service have been placed on half-pay; and a great number of subalterns, the term of whose service was expired, have asked their discharge. The levy of 40,000 men, which is now going on, is indeed to serve to fill up the regiments; but they are young soldiers; whom it will take some time to form. Lit general, most of the old soldiers accustomed to make war in the North and South of Europe cannot accustom themselves to the state of repoje which they enjoy. The military spirit which gave birth to so many heroic actions subsides but slowly. The rich dotations, the military decorations, the rapid promotions which took place when the army was de. cimated every year—all this exists no longer, and cannot return. A garrison life appears dull to those old soldiers who have been accustomed to traverse Narope, to treat with all ties rigour Of the right of con quest, and to enrich themselves at the expense of th , unfartunate , inhabitants. Some Officers have gone to join the Insurgent Greeks, but the number of these is inconsiderable. The journey is long, their future ' prospects uncertain, and most of them are destitute of the means necessary to zany them to Turkey. FRANKFORT, JUNE 1. We have given our idea of the complaint preferred:, to the Diet by the little Principality of Anhalt Coethen, which being entirely enclosed in the line of the Prussian Custom-houses, is deprived of all free commerce. This is the• most delicate affair which the Diet has yet had before it. Prussia denies the competency of the Diet, and the Minister of Austria appeared to incline to the same opinion, but the Diet has resolved, by a majority of votes, to continue its discussion, and to assert its competency. It has ap pointed a referendary and a co-referen dary, who are the Ministers of Bavaria and Hesse. The farther progress of this affair is looked to with curiosity and some anxiety, since it ss ill shew' whether the great members of this Confederation will submit to the decisions of the Diet when they are disagreeable to them. It is said that Austria has offered its media tion. Prussia, while it asserts its tight to subject to its laws of customs the territories included within its States, has offered to the Duke of Anhalt Coethen an indemnity in money, which the Duke has refused. ' AUGSBURCII, MAY 23. A part •f the Servians are, in fact, in arms; some td their Chiefs are at their head; they are those whose lives are in danger, and who were to have been be headed at Belgrade, whither they were invited to re pair. The fact, however, is, that there has been no hostilities between the Servians and the Turks, who are stationed in the fortresses•of that country.. The insurrection which was 'said to have broken out in Bulgaria, is of no consequence: there are, besides, so many Ottoman troops in that Province, that it would be impossible for the Greeks to make the slightest attempt. The inhabitants of a few villages have Red into the mountains, because they fear the • vengeance of the Turks. WnunEas a Bill has been brought into Parliament Pdepopulate the country, but erroneously called a or Lawt Amendment Bill, it is necessary it should be known that the said Bill sets out upon sundry false averments, which every marl who has anything to do with the administration of the Poor Laws must know to be so. The first " whereas" affirms, that " the Poors'-rate has of late years greatly in creased," which should be corrected, and converted into the contrary proposition—" whereas the Poor s- rate has of late years been greatly diminished," for so it has within these two or three years past. In the neat " whereas," it is insinuated that there is too much facility given to the pauper in obtaining relief; instead of this, the preamble, to be agreeable to truth, ought to run thus, " whereas numerous and effectual impediments have been thrown by late Acts of Parliament in the way of obtaining relief, first, by its having been made necessary that the pauper should apply to his Select Vestry, and that he should have been by that Vestry refused, before a Magis trate can take cognizance of his complaint; and, se condly, by the Overseer having been enabled to relieve the pauper, net by giving, but by lending him money, and taking his engagement to repay the same." The last " whereas" is not better supported by facts than the other two ; and instead of the words, " whereas the removal of the poor to their last legal settlement is attended with great oppression to them," words to this effect should be introduced, " whereas removals of the poor are now greatly diminished in number and frequency, in consequence of the charge able paupers having been already transferred to their respective places of settlement; and whereas in re spect of such removals, the change of residence is more frequently beneficial than detrimental to the pauper, because his removal is the consequence of an absolute and total want of employment at the place from which he is to be removed." The House of Lords has in innumerable instances been the bulwark of the liberties of the country. Should this preliminary measure towards the spo liation of the poor teach the Upper House, we con fidently trust it will be thrown out with indigna tion, as a most unwise attempt to substitute artificial and conventional technicalities, against nature, right, justice, and policy. It was reported yesterday very currently, upon the authority of pretended intelligence received from Constantinople, that the Palace of the British Lega-' tion had been broken into by the Turks; and that the Secretary of Legation (Mr. HAMILTON) had been as sassinated. It was moreover stated, with the same confidence, and with equal truth, that the English residents had been exposed to imminent risk, and, in many instances, to personal violence. We are happy to have it in our power to give a positive contradic tion to those rumours. At the height of the excesses that had agitated the Turkish capital, the British na tion was respected ; and where individuals in the confusion may have been exposed to insult, they were confounded with the Freznks in general. We have accounts from Constantinople of a later date than the period at which thot,e outrages are said to have been committed, and they are entirely silent on the subject. Our advices are to the 12th ultimo, and instead of noticing those pretended insults, they. affirm, on the contrary, that the British Legation had, in no instance, occasion to complain of ary abate; ment of the respect which they had been in the habit of receiving. We understand that Government have received information to the same effect. We•have also advices from Zante, through ship arrivals at Marseilles, to the 19th of May, which state that no recent news was received in the island from the oppo s ite contiaent. The Greeks, therefore, could not have made any particular progress in that neigh -1 bourhood. However, it is reported that they have been more fortunate at sea; and, it is said, that a number of their corsairs (eighty sail) had captured two Tut kish sloops of war. They had collected in this force for the purpose of making, at an early period, a descent upon Scio, in order to levy a heavy contrbutiion on the Greek inhabitants, to defray the expenses of the insurrection. The Turkish garrison amounted only to a few hundred men ; and the Greeks entertained confident expectations that they should dispose of them easily. But the consequences of such a descent would probably be an alarm at Chesme, and the massacre of the Greeks at Smyrna. The following is an Extract of a Letter received from the Agent to Lloyd's, at Constantinople, dated the 10th of May : " Though some more alarming disturbances broke out here soon after last post, I am happy to add that tranquillity has prevailed for some days, and we have hopes of its continuance. " Under existing circumstances, and in considera tion of the report of some of the Greek Islands being in a state of revolt, I have suggested to his Excel lency, our Ambassador, the advantage and necessity of some protection for our trade through the Archi pelago, which he has promised to take into imme diate consideration. " The Ann, LONCRIDGE ; Elizabeth, CALAUNI ; Coburg, FARMAN, and Daphne, Lt.twELLYN, are de tained in the BOsphorus by eoturary winds." We are sorry to announce the death of the Coun tess of LIVERPOOL. Her Ladyship, after a long ill ness, expired this morning at Fife House, Whitehall. His Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD and the Duchess of KENT, attended by Sir ROBERT GAR. DINER and Colonel ADDENBEOKE, yesterday honoured Mr. MXTTIIEW WYATT with a visit to view the three figures which are finished in marble for the Ceno taph to the memory of the late Princess CHARLOTTE.' Hts Royal Highness was deeply affected; and the Duchess of KENT appeared also to be much inte rested. Their Royal llighnesses expressed the highest approbation of the work. The Royal party pro ceeded from thence to call on- the Earl and Countess GROSVENOR, to view their splendid mansion, pictures, &c. The Royal party partook of a collation. • • Lord HENNIKER is seriously indisposed, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Yesterday the Duke of CLARENCE and the Prin cess AUGUSTA took an excursion down the River Thames. Their Royal Highnesses took water on board a pleasure-barge at Vauxhall-bridge. Yesterday the Duchess of KENT visited the Duchess of CLARENCE, and dined with her Royal relative. The Duchess of BEDFORD has issued cards of in vitation for a splendid Ball on Friday, the 22d instant. Sir RICHARD and Lady BURROUGHS entertained, yesterday, the Duchess of RICHMOND, the Ladies Labtrrox, and a distinguished party, at their house in Berkeley-square. . Advices have been received from Chili to the 28th of February. The Papers are chiefly filled with the official detail of the operations of SAN MARTIN in Pern, which convey a high idea not only of the mi litary tactics of that General, but of his skill in the more difficult art of negotiation. His representations appear to have induced the secession from the cause of Spain of all the principal ports on the Pacific, to gether with many of the towns and districts of the interior; thus drawing a cordon' of insurrection on the land side of Lima, while the harbour of Callao is blockaded by Lord COCHRANE. As SAN MARTIN relies very confidently on a strong party even within the walls of the capital, his object is understood to be, not to make an attack to which his force is inade quate, but to wait patiently till the partisans of In dependence gain the ascendency. His system of for bearance has led him also, in his advance on Lima, to hazard engagements as little as• possible; but whenever compelled to fight, his troops have generally been successful. The late Viceroy, PEZUELA, appears to have made several attempts at negotiation; but SAN MARTIN refused to listen to any of them. The English vessels captured by Lord COCHRANE, on the ground that they had Spanish property on board, have all arrived at Valparaiso for adjudica tion. The Captain of the Edward Ellice, in a letter to his owners from that port, inculpates with much severity the conduct of Lord COCHRANE, who, lie contends, used the most unfair means to prevent his communication with the Captain of the British fri gate ANDROMACHE, then at Callao, to obtain inter ference in his behalf. Ile considers his Lordship's intention to have been to detain him, with the Lord Suf f ield and the Indian, till Lima should surrender, for adjudication there. The instant the Commander of the ANDROMACHE heard of the circumstance, how ever, he insisted on their being sent to Valparaiso.— It is believed that the cargoes will be condemned, but that the vessels will be relcaied. Two French ships of war, the Colosse, 74., and the Galatea fri gate, arrived off Lima the beginning of February, and proceeded a few days after to the port of Iluacho. Letters, dated the 10th of March, have been re-' ceived from Buenos Ayres. They arc far from ex plicit on the internal state of the City and Province, which, however, does not appear to have regained its tranquillity. SARRATEA and RAMIREZ were at the head of some troops in Entre Rios, and threatened the city with an attack. CARRERA was in Mendoza, but without giving rise to the apprehension of any meditated movements on Lis part. The office of Go vernor of Buenos Ayres was still held by RouliwoLz. Commerce had become extremely limited, in con..c . quence of the uncertainty that prcvailiql as to sic future prosfects of the cuuuti y. THE ARIY. The Light Rome Volunteers, commandiA by rolooel Qum., are to be inspected in JAyde-Park, on Thursday inot h ; l . at nine o'clocL .e. The transport William, bound to Mita:, with troops, p into Falmouth on Wednesday, In consequence of havMg s w y a leak. The troops, amounting to 250 men, have been li nt ki i and are now at Pendcnnis Castle and the town of Fahnoatk; they consist of detachments of the 60th, 68.1, and 74th Ites, ments, with a few of the Itoyal Artillery. Yesterday the 84th Regiment marched from Portsmouth ga r , rison to relieve the 85th, now stationed at Brighton. The Second Dragoon Guards, or Queen's Hays, have br e d their head-quarters in Sheffield. Captain Mutes Troup, wi t h the Staff and Band, marched Into barracks there last Sat in .. day. A Squadron, compri-ing Captains GA MIL! and Rout Troops, were to follow yesterday. The five remaining troup e will he cantoned in Huddersfield, Halifax, and other to wn , i 3 the West. It is upwards of seven years since this distiqui s ,d Corps was quartered in Sheffield, since which thq hi re b een in Scotland, and afterwards fi.rnted part of the Army of ob, eet cation in France, under the Duke of WaLtaturrou. Friday last, the Huntingdonshire Regiment of :%lilitia,und e , the command of Lieutenant-Colonel VAUGHAN, lini.hrd th e i r twenty-one days training and exercise, as prescribed by A ct Parliament ; upon which occasion they were addressed by the Mayor of Huntingdon, Sir Joint ARUNDEL, in the name ut self and the town of Huntingdon, in a speech of thanks 44 compliment, on their sober, orderly, end soldier-like coAuc:ll quarters, as well as on the apparent improvement in the military discipline and appearance of the men, who took their hav e with three cheers. _ _ The Isle of Wight Militia finished the allotted period for tram. ing and exercise on Wednesday. The Westmoreland Yeomanry Cavalry finished their arm l et period of permanent duty on Saturday. They sae addressed the preceding day by their Commander, the Hon. Colonel Inc vita, who expressed himself highly plessed with their condom Tuesday, the 29th ult. the sth Royal Veteran Battalion, em u mended by Lieutenant-Colonel Coouxaw, arrived st Shreve, bury from Plymouth, for the purpose of being disbanded; aril on Monday, the 4th inst. the Battalion assembled, at six o'clock, in marching order, in front of St. Chad's Church, ek e , the Corps was mustered ; . after which hid Maestre's Warrant, toga. ther with the COMMA Nora-ix- Cititte's order for the dish.,ndment of the Battalion on that day, and the Commanding Officer's tam well Address to Officers and men, were severally read by grj. gade-Major ECIMILST.F.Y, of Sir .Inns Brsc's Staff, and the M. intent of the Battalion. A short but very appropri lee letterwas then read by the Paymaster, from the Officers of the Benefit% expatiating on the merits of their Commander, and presented as him in their name. Immediately after which the brave soldies simultaneously rushed forward, and surrounded their venerable Colonel (who had fought in many actions, and had the hours to command the 45th ihitiment at the battle of Tal er..ta), with repeated cheers, which rent the air, they bore him off totals quarters en their shoulders in a triumphal car, decorated with laurel, which they had previously prepared for the occasion.— The Adjutant was next placed in it, and cirried to his quartets in a similar manner; but so great was the impatience of these brave fellows to manifest their attachment to their Captains and Officers in general, that they lifted them ott their shoulders, and carried them through the streets, co immense concocts of the inhabitants, who appeared to be highly gratified with the demonstrations of loyalty, and attach/a...at evinced by these de- serving Veterans to their Otficers, at. the close of their service. And it is win thy of remark, that scarcely a r. 12.1 of the &leafs* was to be seen in the town sof Shrewsbury isy :en o'clock the same morning, nor was there one solitary ir.stance of comphik preferred against the Corps by the irhabitants. The 31ilitia of Bedfordshire, having cc.rnpleted the Ivey training, was inspected previous to its dismissal by the Len Linnet:awl., who was pleased to express himself highly grab:led at the cleanliness, steadiness, and soldier.lik•: appearance of 3e Battalion, as well as the precision with which the several mere. ments were performed, under the command of that old e 4 excellent Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Gtt.nx, who s with Captas ilanwir, the Adjutant, received the best er.coneliams of the no viewing Officer. In the Tiering the fAlcers gave a Ball, s which were present the Lola Leertweatr, and all the beazey and fashion of the neighbourhood. Dunce,/ was kept up earl past four o'clock, and even then the eventian . : teemed " Garry s depart," so much were they delighted .wtii -Se festivities of Ile evening, heightened as they were by ae =ceasing and &liras manly attentions of the Officers. Tfie following is a copy of his [loyal Highness -he Duke of YORK S reply to Li.; appointment as Graa Master of the LoyAl Uru.ge lns:itution, dated Horse- Guards, February 8, I St!l : • " SIR-I hare to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of :te 6th instant, and to acquaint you, that Mr. Eustace catcd to me the Resolution entered into by the Members nit Loyal Orange Institution, appointing me tittle Grand Master, with which I feel much gratified ; and I am sorry that my ac quiescence therein should nut have been sooner communicated us )011.-4 am, Sir, your's, " 111 EDERICK." St. Paul's Cathedral has for some time past pre sented a very extraordinary appearance, owing to the scaffolding erected around the top of it, and which is nose nearly completed ; it is of a singular construc tion, and extends from the iron gallery upwards to the eight of ten feet above the cross. The intention is to take the ball and cross down, which are to be entirely new. It is an undertaking of magnitude, aid we trust v. ill be completed as easily as is anticipated. Among the numerous travellers who have visited Italy since the restoration, no one has been admitted so unreservedly to inspect the interior of its social and political machinery as Lady Mottoarr. The fidelity of her delineations of France (most justly appreciated on the Continent, where that country is tLe most thoroughly known) have procured for her an intimacy and a confidence abroad, which have been rigidly withheld from English travellers. It k, therefore, with much satisfaction that we notice the publication of a Work containing the observations collected by Lady MORGAN during her two years absence from England. Wednesday last, a duel was fought in Paris, be tween an Officer in the Cuirasiers and a respectabk merchant, when the former was The quarrel originated at one of the Theatres. VA LENCI. EIINFJ.—(PI ivote Letter)," A terrible occurrence has spread consternation throughout Ibis town. On the 4th instant, at a quarter to seta o'clock in the morning, a laud explosion was heard. It was soon announced that the Lisle•gate, under which was a powder-magazine, was on fire. Alati instantly became general, the inhabitants precipitatell flying in all quarters to avoid the danger. Thegar' rison mustered under arms, and the .)layor and fl i9 Assistant (M. Dinaux), and the Sub-Prefect of DeLyff repaired to the spot without delay, and, by the 4 re' sence, contributed to maintain order. Some bomb' and grenades exploded from time to time. dbow t eleven o'clock the four towers of the gate, in % ditch were a considerable quantity of arms ' gave waY. Happily, the flames had not penetrate d to the sub' terranean magazine; from m hence, at th:s ! cokes moment, some powder was taken out, and cenve)ni to the citadel. At the hour at which I write thy`' the danger is over, but not the alarm. One man only has been killed: it is thought the decea , ed is the ill' dividual who imprudently caused the file. A 6 00 ' sand conjectures are advanced on this point. Tbe }CO is immense. The lead, iron, and brass formed 0 frightful torrent of buanint; lava. Of this imtnen 4 . edifice, there only rem:ail:llle walls, wliich are 0 '; Ipected to fall every instant. Thus a monument of the fourteenth century, which has reiisted.sevod I nientut able sieges, has fallen ill a few hours l'