Star. — London, England, 1823-10-21 00:00:00

PORTUGAL. DETRACT Or A LETTER DATED LISBON, OCTOBER 2. •e After the ceremony of the investiture of his Faithful Majesty with the Order of the Garter, on the 23d ult. there was a grand dinner at the Palace, and on the King of Portugal's health being drank, all standing, the ships of war fired a salute, and the same compliment attended that of the King of England. At eight o'clock, a signal being given from the Palace, the British ships shewed their lights, and in an instant they were all in one blaze of illumination. Rockets, blue lights, and port-fires, were let off by the ships. The forts were firing salutes a full hour. A grand ball aid supper concluded the evening. On the 24th the King and Royal Family (having previously bespoken the Opera and Ballet) an nounced their intention of going to the Theatre; and out of compliment, all those who were present at the in vestiture attended. " The King's box is full twenty feet in width, in the centre of the house, facing the stage ; it had a rich curtain before it, which was withdrawn on the entrance of the Royal Family, who were partially cheered on their arrival and departure. On the left side sat Don Juan the King, next to him her Mijesty the Queen, mext Don Miguel their son, and the three Princesses.— The Opera was frivolous and stupid. " On the 28th, arrived the Naiad frigate, and yes terday came the Seringapatans frigate, which has aug mented the squadron of British ships of war from one line-of-battle ship and two frigates to that and four fri gates ; and while they remain here no disturbance is apprehended, but on their departure a dreadful com motion is expected. " Yesterday, a grand dinner was given by Sir E. Thornton and Sir G. Nayler to the Portuguese Govern ment, on board the Hussar: one hundred sat down to dinner ; the Ladies, iu full dress, were on board. About eight, dancing began, and was kept up till four this morning. On Friday next his Majesty will goon board the Revenge to view the ship. Every day the English are shewing him some civility." THE KING or SPAIN'S JOURNEY TO MADRID. "XI RES DE LA FRONTERA, OCTOBER 4.—As I had nothing particular to arrange which demanded my im mediate return to Cadiz, I decided upon accompanying his Majesty on his journey towards Madrid. " Our journey here was one of triumph ; all the Ser ♦iles, Faithful, and French seemed to vie with each other in expressions of loyalty and attachment to the. Royal Faulty. Our retinue was composed of the beads • of Departments, the prisoner s who bad been under ar rest at the Carracas, or arsenal, for " factious" conduct and opinions, as well as those concerned in the assassi nations of Cadiz on the 10th March, 1820. Pantisco, the old factious guerilla leader; Guerra, the noted rob ber, now a Colonel of the Faithful ; the Prior of the Convents of LA Victoria, La Merced, St. Juan Dios, a•rd many of the Holy Brethren; about 500 of the Royal Spanish Guard, under Cordova (who much dis tinguished himself in the affair of Cadiz above•men tione,i), a detachment of the Royal Carabineer', under Espi:icmt, (who commanded them on the 7th July, and is now promoted to the rank of 31ajor-General), a con i,!erable French force, infantry, cavalry, and arta- . ler : , commanded by Count Bourbon Bousset, and all the rabble of the place. "On our approach to Xeres, a deputation from the Cur piratical, with the Corregidor a: their head, followed by a hest of It-rests, nobi:ity, and Ore lowest of the low, met his Majesty, and in a short address congratuLded him on his great achievements; as vi e ascended the hill, the bells raug, flags were displayed ; and on entering the ci y, the same frantic maddened joy was evinced by the mob, as on our landing at Port St. Mary's. The procession passed the ancient and magnificent dwelling of the Dake of San Lorenzo; this Nob!eman had been Ambassador at Paris under the Constitutional Go vernment, had been firm in the cause of liberty, and I believe is still resident in London; thousands of im precations burst from the mob as we passed; the Cara bineers remembered that before this Palace they had been compelled by Freyre, in 1820, to acknowledge the Constitution; a murmur which threatened destrui.- tion to the building circulated among the crowd, but General Bevas was billeted there, and his guard restored tranquillity; at length, after much delay, we arrived at the Plaza or square called Arend, and latterly de la Coodiitucion ; a band of music welcomed our approach, tapestry adorned the balconies, and continued vivas to Ll Rey absoluto, la IngithiCloll, &c. rent the air. The inferior orders paraded the streets, dressed in their best, and adorned with white favours and pink ribands, on which were printed numerous mottoes, such as Viva el Rey ! Viva la Religion ! Viva to Ley ! Viva la Inqui. sicion I' on others, a < iva In l 1• ! Viva el Rey ! Nuera In N a don Ahem la Constitution ! Viva el Despotism ! Mueran los Liberates &c. &c. " Turning w ith disgust from this scene of absolutism aad supersutious frenzy, I was surprised to observe the almost total absence of genteel and respectable people, particularly females; I, however, feared to iirquire,least I might excite suspicion, and restrained my curiosity until I reached the I laza de Aaarazanes, where our friends, and indeed I may say the friends of Englishmen in general, received me most kindly; and a young Spa niard present gave me all the information I wished upon the state of the public opinion, which 1 will give you in his own words; Xeres (he said) is a place of about 30,000 inhabitants, many of them rich merchants and agriculturists; under the Constitution it was improving rapidly, from the reduction of tithes and taxes; many of our principal, and really the whole of the middling class of people are compromised ; the clergy and mob are most inveterate persecutors; we are under their rule and worse than we should he in Barbary ; persecution and vengeance have reached their utmost. One of my companions rejoined his family a few days since, think ing himself sate under the proclamation by which emi grants were invited to return, but was obliged to Ay instantly to avoid being arrested, and all his property has been confiscated. Other patriots, without any other cause than that of being so, have been imprisoned, and are in the public jail, not as we confined the factious, but as the Moors keep their slaves in bondage! When this scene oF woe will terminate I will not pretend to predict. The Royalists may confiscate, hang, burn, and banish ; but let the French troops leave the country, and a most bloody counter-revolution will ensue, horn which no Priest will escape. " Letters from Benicarlo, of the 24 instant, were re ceived yesterday. They state, that almost all the re spectable inhabitants of that part of Spain bad fled to the Balearic Islands, to escape the destruction 4 which menaced them from the Faith-men. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1525. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 833, at which price they remain steady up to this hour, with no business of importance. The new Government of Spain, we understand, is very eager to contract for a New Spanish Loan; but the old Contractors, as wdll as the Monied Interest of this Country and of France, are deter mined not to have any dealings with it until the King of Spate ratifies the Old Loan, and obtains, as a guarantee for its papnent, Russia, Austria, and France. • FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened this morning at 24, 241, 24231, and 241. Little doing except in the above Stoat. • Current Prices : New Spanish 20 to 21, Old 24 to Colombian 57, Russian 84 to 11, Poyals 10. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 224% 22 5 1 / 4 3 per Cent. Reduced 82%8 % 3 per Ct. Cons. 83 Y 8 1 / 2 % Y 2- 3 1,4 per Cts. 96 1 / 2 Vs 4 per Cent. Old 100Y 4 3 / 8 1 / 8 3/4 4 per Cents. New 104 103Y8 104 Bank Long Anns. '2l—lndia Bonds 725. 70s. South Sea Stock 95-01 d Anns. 82 1 / 2 New Annuities 8334 1 ,4 Exchequer Bills (E 1.000) 39s 41s. 38s. 395. Ditto Small 395. 41s. 38s. 395. Consols for Acct. 83% 54. Although we are without any later intelligence from Spain,- than that which we yesterday communicated, yet there is strong reason to believe that the destruction of the army of Baron d'Ettoms was followed by the capture of that Chief of the Army of the Faith. Such an event is only important as affording an hostage of equal rank to the Constitutionalists for guaranteeing the life of RIEGO; but passato iz poitto, gabato it Santo, and as the Baron's services are ended, perhaps they have not left so grate ful an impression on the party for which he fought, as to make his life an object of nine!' anxiety. A report prevailed in Paris on Saturday, that MINA, undismayed by the overthrow of the Constitutional Government, and the submission of almost every province in Spain, had determined that Catalonia should not yield without a struggle.• It is said that on hearing of the arrival of the King of SPAIN at the French head-quatfters, he appointed a Regency of Government for the whole kingdom during the capti. vity of the KING (for so he is said to call his liberation), and declaring, that so long as his MAJESTY should be a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, no Decree or Ordi nance which he might issue should be considered as his own, or be obeyed. These reports do not rest on any audio. I icy which we can guarantee, but those who recollect the tardy submission of MINA on a former occasion, and the obstinacy with which he maintained his authority in the same provinces, on the return of King FERDI• NAND from France, will not be much surprised at his contumacy now. MINA may possess many of the qua lities necessary to render him the Sir WILLIAM WAL LACE of his country ; but Spain, in the nineteenth cen tury, is not the country for a WALLACE. The Duc d'Aueout.asia is retrograding from Cadiz. On the sth instant his head-quarters were at Port St. Mary ; on the 6th at Xeres, on the 7th at Lebrija, on the Bth at Utrera, and on the 9th, at Alcala de Gua daira, two leagues from Seville. The Garde Royale had arrived at Cadiz, where it would embark for Brest. BALLASTEROS is evidently out of favour, and has been ordered to Grenada, there to await the Ktxo's orders; while Montu.o is said to have been confirmed in his command. The following is an extract from the Etoil: of Satur day evening : - RECAPITULATION OF THE EVENTS OF THE • CAMPAIGN. On the 2d of April, before entering Spain, the Duke of Angouleme addressed a Proclamation to the Spa niards, and expressed himself thus: [Here follows an extract front the Proclamation, in which the Duke stated that he came to deliver the King, to restore the Altar and the Throne, to rescue the Priests from proscription, &c. and that he came neither to impose laws on the Spaniards, nor to occupy the country.] Next day, the 3d, in an Order of the Day addressed by the Prince to his soldiers, it is stated —" It is not the spirit of conquest which induces us to take up arms. A more generous motive animates us. We are going to replace a King on his Throne, to reconcile his people to him, and to re-establish in a country a prey to anarchy that order which is necessary to the happiness aud the safety of both States." His Royal Highness closed the Address by recommending the most exact discipline, which has everywhere been religiously observed. Such was the commencement of a war destined to place in so conspicuous a point of view French generosity and glory. On the 6th of April the army was put in motion. The Bidassoa was passed on the 7th, and his Royal High ness was received at Irun with cries of Live the King!" Live the Duke of Angouleme r'—cries which were the presage of the sentiments with which the French were welcomed throughout Spain, and the pledge of the success which on all points has accompanied our arms. On the 17th the white flag was waved on- Vittoria; on the 22d on Burgos ; on the 25th on Saragossa. On the 24th of May the Prince - Generalissimo was received as a deliverer in the capital of Spain. A new proclamation repeated there the motives and the pro mises stated in that of the 2d of April. In anticipation of hostilities, the King of Spain, the prisoner of the Cortes, was removed with the Royal Family to Seville. The revolution not being terminated at Madrid, the army of the centre continued its March. On the ISlth of June the Cortes comidering thentielves no longer safe in Seville, decreed the departure of the ging, in spite of his refusal, declared his dethronemen: until his arrival in Cadiz, and exercised the most odious violence - towards him. Cadiz, at the southern extremity of Spain, reputed impregnable, could not be so regarded by our soldiers. The Prince Generalissimo was there and directed them. Seville received our troops with acclamation. Gre nada fell on the 25th of July. Cadiz was invested by land and sea. Meanwhile other armies were besieging the small number of places which still held out, or pursuing the enemy wherever resistance might be made. Catalonia, Arragon, the kingdoms of Valencia, of Leon, and of Galicia, have been the theatre of some of the most brilliant feats of arms. Coronae, at the western extremity of Spain, on the coast of the ocean, surren dered on the 21st of August. Several Spanish Chiefs successively made their submission. Cadiz still re mained, and to it all eyes were turned. The fort of the Trocadero, which protected Cadiz on the land side, was carried on the 31st Aug. amidst cries of Long live the King ! and by prodigies of valour. Sarni. Petri, one of the bulwarks of the Isle of Leon, was taken on the 20th of September by the fleet. Three days previously, Pampeluna, the capital of Navarre, fell ; and on the 27th St. Sebastian and Figueras yielded to the courage and the ardour of our troops. The Ist of October crowned these high deeds. The King of Spain, at liberty, repaired with the Royal Family to the head-quartersof the Duke of Angouleme, and on the 3d, Cadiz surrendered. Thus were glorious events precipitated. Thus in less than six months all Spain had submitted, and its King was delivered. EXTRACT OF A PRIvATE LETTER. " PARIS, OCT OBER 19. " Scandal! scandal! scandal!—Savary's Memoirs art 1 about to appear : Talleyrand is in the greatest alarm on the occasion,' and he has had two audiences of the King, in which he entreated his Majesty to insist on their suppression. The King said it was out of his power: he could not cisange the law. Talleyrand then hinted that he could write something, if he chose, relating to events much anterior to the narrative of Savary: he evidently intended to hint at the affairs of his Majesty himself, but the King feigned net to understand him, and was silent. Talleyrand's attempts to procure the suppression through Savary himself sere equally fruit less; and the latter, to show his resolution, sent the manuscript to his Majesty, who read it with attention, apd does not, we believe, disapprove of the publication." Frankfort and other German Papers to the 15th inst. reached us this mousing, but they scarcely contain a ' single article of interest. The Austrian Observer says, that the dismissal of DSCHANIB EFFENDI is• a proof of .the desire of the Porte to arrange existing differences with Russia, towards which the conferences of Lord STRA NGFORD with the R EIS EFFENDI on the 30th of August may be considered as a great step. We stated yesterday that the reverses of the Turks had been admitted in the Austrian Observer. It now states that though the Turks have entirely failed this cam paign, the Greeks are not united, and one half of their victories are mere fabrications. But it is allowed that they will, in spite of all disadvantages, long keep what they have gained, unless the military operations of the Porte are conducted with more ability and energy than they have been in this campaign. The Editor of the Nuremberg Correspondent corn plains that the French Journals alter and disfigure arti cles which they pretend to translate from the German' Papers. FLOODS IN PIEDMONT. TURIN, OCTOBER 9. We hear from Vercelli that the Sesia, being swelled by heavy rains, overflowed its banks on the 26th and 27th of September, and did great damage thereto for the space of two miles below the bridge which crosses the high road from Turin to Milan. The beau dad antique church del Casali, called the Old Capu chins, was destroyed by the fury of the waters, and a large garden, formerly belonging to the Inquisitioq, was overflowed. The Magistrates seeing the church in imminent danger of falling, caused the fine marbles of the high altar, which well merited to be preserved, to be carefully . removed. The waters of the Sesia rose to such a height, that in some places they approached within a few inches to the canal of Prarolo: the greatest exertions• were necessary to prevent this misfortune, which would have ruined the fertile territories of Pra rolo and Pezzana, and ruined the high road from Ner celli tq Alexandria and Genoa.— -Picdmontese Gasette, October 9. We. have. received letters from Brazil to the 90th Auglist, containing some' curious information relative ,to Lord - Cocalanz's proceedings at Maranham. It ap `pears' it . rat - his Prlfihip *rived - at Maranhao) on the 27tli_Of August, in the Brazilian lisse-of-battle ship Don Pedrir the first, soon made isimself master of the place, hoisted the Imperial Brazilian flag on the forts, and then seized in the harbour 16 Portuguese vesseli, and also detained several English vessels, which were sus petted of having Portuguese property on board. Some arrangement was likely to be entered into with the owners of the property. After the subversion of the Portuguese Authorities in Maranham, a vessel was dispatched to Para, where a convocation took place of the Authorities, and on the 11th the EMPItItOIt was proclaimed with the usual so lemnities. Para and Maranham were the last provinces that adhered to Portugal, and the whole of Brazil, therefore, has now renounced the mother country.—The following letter is from an eye-witness (an Englishman) to his friend in London: es litaltaxitsx, Amor: 29, 1823. . . 4 . 4 . Slam my last, of . the 26th of Joss. this pleat hes beat a scene of confusion which it would be useless to endeavour to a e , 4, A new occurrence, however, has now presented itself, whi t hi s. , s . produced a change of scene, though perhaps eventually it may * : serve to plunge us into additional difficulties. O n t h e 26th aen.4l off this port a 74-gun-ship; under English colours, which tia kd out to be the Brazilian man of war Don Pedro the First, nibs mantled by Admiral Lord Cochrane. She presently arichatith• front of both the foils, br ought her broadside to bear up/ 104 ; 1 : and then, for the first time, hoisted the Imperial Brazilian di " The forts could do nothing against his Lordship, for the me formerly mounted on them towards the sea, had been almost i t, moved to the land-side of the towel, to protect ul from an in that direction. There remained, indeed, i n t h e tiro forts:47,4 six or eight guns mounted on the batteries ; but as it was m an% that these could not sufficiently protect the town, our Aut64, resolved (wisely, I think,) to surrender at once. His Lordshi pttl. sequently took possession' of the place without firing a shot. A 4. volution was immediately effected in our political situation. )1,,, ham joine the cause of Independence. All the Europe an p, ) ,. guese here were disarmed, and every one of them, high 11.1 0 , , that held any place or office, was at once turned out, and his Lion filled by a native Braidian. " Lord Cochrane at present acts as sole Governor of the and exercises a pretty comp:ehensve patronage; for he pEti , natcs any person he chooses to any office he thinks prcper, pointing them all of course in the name of his Imperial Dh jvsty Don Pedro. Several Proclamations have already bin 6 sued from on board the Admiral's ship, and signed ' Cooling. His Lordship has not only made prize of all the Portuguese 4 1 ; 4 in OP! harbour ; but he insists on having two-thirds of the proper) in the town belonging to Portuguese in Europe. This stems to k pretty sharp practice, but I presume his Lordship will find eas t convenient chapter in the Law of Nations so sanction his <hint% la has, of course, taken all the money in the Treasury, and, in fa. 1,1 think he means to drain us of all the money in the town. No woo have been allowed to sail since his a:rival, nor can any hu,i ne „ done. Ile is at the present moment busy in overhauling the Cu tom-Muse Reccrls, in order to di.zover Portuguese property. " A steam-engine lately arrived out here from England towed a double fence pump ; it is to he put up at Itapicaru. Thence ez in this neighbourhood are all stopped from want of a supply °lrk, There is much diff.saity to get in funds of any sort : and, as I tsi before, I fear it will be a long time before this neighbourhood*: be restored to a state of peace and tranquillity." A Liverpool Correspondent, under date of Oct.l writes as follows: " A letter from a Gentleman in Maranham, dated August 93,t, his Correspondent in dd. town, says — ' We arrived on the Ma last month, on the very day acird Cochrane, as Admiral of Brazilian fleet, in the Don Pedro man of war, commenced i blockade. Lie detained us outside until the 28th, when, in sin. of a capitulation entered into, the Portuguese flag was lowered,z rhat of the Brazilians hoisted, and we were allowed to enter I Here we have been ever since, without being allowed to eels as the political relations of the place are nut yet settled ; Dori Lord Cochrane been able to get through his Augean clearing out the Customhouse of the confiscated and neutralpr perty, 5* make room for the two cargo, s now waitirg to be unloalt I want language to describe to you the work which is goieg e Lard Cochrane, contrary to all rule or precedent in establish warfare, or even to the Proclamations of the Emperor, has down here to pillage this place to the last farthing. fie has cosi cated all European property of Portuguese, and forced the keno to redeem it by two-thirds in hard cash; and he is now procekii to overhaul books, and get at balances. His proceedings arethe of a pirate, more than that of an Admiral, and years will not rep; his devastations. Of the state of commerce I need say nutting; is at a stand. Perhaps, when affairs are settled, there may be sen demand for the interior. The George, Wellstood, arrived in b. last last Sunday, and Lssrd Cochrane seized her, on the plea a she had gone out to fetch troops for the service of the enemy. T letters were opened by him acid kept, and the vessel renuias um: detention.—Oh, for an English man of war !' " Considerable anxiety is felt by the Monied Intern both in this country and in France, as to the Spar.i! Loans, lest they should not be recognized by the nc Government; and our Ministers are blamed for not i terfering. But whatever course our Government m. adopt, and we have no doubt that it will be reg lated by a due regard to the rights of British su jects, all interference at present would be prematur for we have no positive information that the Loans rs even be disputed. It is true a Decree has been giv in the French Papers, purporting to have been issu by FERDINAND from the French Camp, which deck' all the acts of the Constitutional Government null al void. It is however remarkable, that in all the accout from Spain this Decree is not mentioned, nor is there tl slightest allusion to its existence; its authenticity, then fore, rests solely on the veracity of the French horrid —The clause which revokes all the acts of a Gown merle during three years, is too sweeping to be cane into effect, and must lie qualified in its operation; as we have to doubt, that whatever may be the wishes( the Spanish Ultra Royalists on the subject, the lor will find that he must recognise loans contracted forte der his authority, and of which he participated. Eng land, France, and even Spain herself, are too dentlyit terested in the subject to suppose that so gross a km of national faith will be committed. The Morning Chronicle has what it calls some "ct rious information" respecting the conduct of our GI vernment towards South America.. Our Readers wi readily perceive hew important and how curious it i when they read the following picture of this country:- " The present state of the United Kingdom is full.ofdi ficulties. An enormous public debt, a depressed agrical tore, Ireland filled with misery and discontent, theslip ping interest in the lowest state of adversity, the We India Colonies in a state of rebellion, and the macs facturers at present the only flourishing class of b MAJESTY'S subjects." How unfortunate! that they shoe! not partake of the universal misery; but it will rem home to them soon, for the sage Chronicler predico ‘g that they are about to be deprived of the imams consumption which South America affords for Ase labour." 0 fie on the Government to send some eigi teen or twenty Consuls and Vice-Consuls to 50. 1 America, at an expense of one thousand or two ties sand pounds a year each, for no earthly purpose ho that of reducing English manufacturers to the Oa . and discontent" of I re l an d, to "the a d vers i t y of the del ping interest," and to " the rebellion of the Colonies!! But what is all this to the appalling crime one del Ministers has been guilty of. We have seen how es' fully theChronider places his charges, making then 1 ° in magnitude from debt', and difficulties; to disco tent' and rebellion.' But his greatest charge 0 served for the last—Tell it not in Downing-street 1- 1) ^ claim )it 'not in the City!—Mr. CANNING is err " his otium cunt digreitate in the County of Den* is/ I