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THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1821. THE FUNDS. PRICES OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK Bank Stock 233 1 / 4 232 1 / 4 3 per Cent. Reduced 76% 1 / 4 54 75 % 76 3 per Cent. Cons. 77 3 / a 54 76 1 / 4 5 A 3 1 / 4 per Ct. 86 ' l / 4 -4 per Cent. 94 1 4 95% 5 per Cent. 110 % 109 1 / 4 —Long Anns. 19 7-16 34 Imp. 3 per Cent. 75 1 / 4 —lndia Stock 238 1 / 4 India Bonds 525. 495. pr.—Exch. Bills I s.3s. pr. Cons. for Acct. 78 77 Ys 78 1 / 4 7754 V-2. We are glad to perceive, from the proceedings in the House of Commons last night, that the Circular from Laybach, the substance of which we laid before our Readers on Wednesday, is to be brought under the consideration of the House, and by a Member of such weight as Mr. STUART VVORTLEY. Mr. W. after pronouncing it to be a document of a most ex ceptionable nature, and most dangerous to the liber ties of this country, inquired of the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether the copy which had ap peared in all the Newspapers might be considered as authentic? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY answered that it might be so considered, a similar copy having been officially communicated to this Government. Mr. \VORTLEY then said, that as it was his wish to bring the subject under the notice of the British Pub lic, he would move, on Tuesday next, for the pro duction of a Copy of the Official Communication. As we observed on the first publicatioi of this do cument, it is a direct attack on the principles which seated the House of Hanover on the British Throne; it is a Manifesto against the whole system of our Con satiation and Government. If Ministers have not ere now spontaneously made that answer to the Allied Sovereigns which it becomes them, as the Ministers of a Government founded on the will of the People, to make to a Declaration which proscribes ill such Governments as " legally null and disavowed by the principles on which the public law of Europe rests," it is but right that the Representatives of the British People should oblige these Ministers to make that disavowal in the face of the world which diplomatic courtesy may have withheld them from transmitting in the more official shape. The Marquis of LONDON DERRY must, indeed, we think, feel indebted to Mr. WORTLEY for the opportunity which he promises to give him, cf speaking out his sentiments; and if it were not for the Noble Lord's habitual lubricity of style, we should expect something very positive and satisfactory from him on the subject. As a similar question will doubtless, however, be repeated from the Opposition Benches in the House of Lords, we may anticipate, from the straight-forwardness and sincerity of Lord LIVERPOOL, whatever may be wanting in the declarations of his Noble Colleague in the other House ; so that between both, the Allied Potentates shall not be without the reprimand they deserve, for the insolent attack which they have made on the title of our august Sovereign, to the inherit ance of that sceptre which the free will of the British People conferred on his Illustrious House: The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon. The following are extracts: PARIS, MAY 09. The process instituted in the Netherlands against Goethals and Martens, Vicars-General of Ghent, and M. Boussen, Secretary to the Bishop of Ghent, bas excited the most lively interest throughout Bel gium. They were accused of having published, with the intention of disturbing public order, a pastoral letter from M. de Broglie, Bishop of Ghent, in which that Prelate was deemed to have instigated disobedi ence to the Government. On the 25th the Sovereign Court of Brussels pronounced a verdict of acquittal. VIENNA, MAY 18. The Emperor of Russia will make but a short stay at Pest, where he purposes to pay a visit to the Arch d:lke Palatine, and thence continue his route for Pe tersburgh, where he will arrive about the 2d of June. The letters from Constantinople continue to present a deplorable picture of the state of affairs in that ca pital. The revolt of the Morea and the Islands of the Archipelago have Carried the fanaticism and ex asperation of the Turks to its height; and this people, greedy of blood, have abandoned themselves to the greatest excesses against the defenceless Christians.— The Porte acts like the multitude, with an inexorable cruelty, of which the annals of Islamism have not for ages offered an example. At the moment when the Greek Patriarch and the other Bishops were arrested by order of the Grand Seignior, the Greeks who were collected in the Temples, struck with terror, took refuge in the houses of the neighbouring Eccle siastics ; but they were pursued aad massacred in great numbers by the furious populace. French 5 per Cents. Monday, 84 f. 60 c. A Mail has arrived this forenoon from Lisbon, with Papers to the 19th May. The following are extracts : LISBON, MAY is, The Dinrio of to-day contains, at length, the De cree of the Cortes regulating the importation of grain and pulse into Portugal. It is in nineteen Articles, r f which the following are the heads The importa tion of all lot eign corn, flour, bread, and pulse, into Portugal and Algarve, is entirely prohibited, by land and by sea, except into the ports of Lisbon and Oporto. 2. The Regency may, in cases of urgent necessity, suspend the prohibition. Importation of foreign wheat is permitted, when the price of that of national growth is, at Lisbon, 800 Tees, and at Oporto, 1000 rees per alquiere. The duty, which is 200 rees on bard corn, and 100 tees on soft, at Lisbon, when the price is from 800 to 900 rees per alquiere; and at Oporto, 240 rees on hard, and 120 rees on soft, when the price is from 1000 to 1100 rees, is only 20 rees at Lisbon, when the price is 900 rees and above ; and in Oporto, the importation is free from duty when the price is 1120 rees and above. The importation of mullet is permitted when the price rises to 400 rees per alquiere at Lisbon, and to 500 at Oporto. When the price is 400 to 500 rees at Lisbon, and .500 to 600 at Oporto, foreign mullet shall pay a duty of 120 rees at Lisbon, and of 160 at Oporto. The duty is 20 rees at Lisbon when the price is 500 and above, and there is no duty at Oporto when it is 600 and above. The importation of rye is under the same regulation as that of mullet. The importation of foreign barley and.oats is permitted, without any scale, on payment of 40 rees per alquiere in Lisbon, and 50 at Oporto. Beans, and all kinds lof foreign pulse, shall pay 100 rees duty at Lisbon, and 120 at Oporto, per alquiere. The importation of foreign flour is absolutely prohibited. Foreign corn, imported in Portuguese vessels, only half of these duties. LISBON, MAY 19. The debates in the Cortes have been on subjects of mere local interest. One of the most important Projects still before them, and which they discuss Article by Article, is the Law relative to the Liberty of the Press. A very warm debate arose on the 11th Article, which runs thus : * Whoever abuses the Liberty of the Press, in any of the cues mentioned in the preceding Articles (viz. lit, directly in citing the People to rebellion; 2d, combating the Constitutional System; 3d, insulting or abusing the National Congress, or the Head of the Executive Power), shall be condemned to hard public labour, for a period not less than six months, nor more than five years, and to a fine of from 60 to 600 milrees." Some of the Members thought the punishment, in some of the cases, out of all proportion with the crime; that to excite people to rebellion, by writing or putting himself at the head of the people—that to condemn a writer to five years hard labour, was a barbarous punishment; that it was far more severe on a man of letters, not being fitted by his habits to anything of the kind, than on a person in a different situation; and that it might, in some instances, lead to suicide. After much discussion in their successive Sittings, it was decided that the penalty should be deprivation of offices and dignity, five years' imprisonment, and i 600 milrees fine, as the maximum for the crime of exciting the people, by inflammatory writings, to rebellion. The penalty to be attached to the two other cases is to be fixed at a future Sitting. A question of an interesting nature is now agitating in Madrid, of the nature and progress of which but little has hitherto transpired. It is a negotiation between Spain and those colonies which still acknow ledge her supremacy, for a better form of govern ment than they have hitherto enjoyed. We subjoin an extract from a letter received from Madrid on this subject, written by one of the Deputies to the Spanish Cortes from Mexico, and which contains the most correct as well as the most recent information that has been hitherto received of the progress made in the negotiation : ie MADRID, MAT 17. " I have already informed you that, on the motion of Count Toreno, a Special Commission has been named to propose the means of terminating the dif ferences between Spain and America. In this Com mission I have the pleasure of bearing a part, and am not without hope of seeing its objects fulfilled. —There have been several private Meetings of the American Deputies, and all agree in the necessity of according distinct legislatures to the trans-Atlantic dominions, reserving the executive power to the King, and rendering the administration of justice indepen dent. We have a strong party among the Deputies for the home provinces, who give us their support; but they require that the Infantas of Spain should assume the Regency of the countries in question.— A similar idea is entertained by the Mexican Depu ties. It is not going too far also to say, that the King and the Ministers in some degree espouse our cause. Those who have held the high office of Viceroy and other commands in America have, been consulted ; and they accord in the general expediency of grant ing our claim. Felice, the Minister for the Ultra- Marine Provinces, has had several interviews with the King on the subject. Yesterday, all the Minis ters went up to communicate with him; and we have the satisfaction of learning the expression of the King's opinion, that the time is arrived when the question may with propriety be entertained. Last •night the Commission assembled for the first time. The Ministers were present; and so important was the affair considered, that nearly half the Members' of the Cortes attended, although a Sitting of that Assembly was then being held. After much debate, we voted unanimously, as the first basis, that there should be Legislative Bodies in America. To-night the Commission will continue its Sittings for the dis cussion of the other bases, in which we trust to ex perience a favourable result, though we shall cer tainly have difficulties to encounter." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Albion, Fames, from Calcutta for Liverpool, was off Holyhead the 29th ult. at one r. x. The Dorothy, Hausmann, from Liverpool and New South Wales for Calcutta. was off the Straits of Sunda, 4th January. The Bencoolen, Aurroce, from Liverpool for Calcutta, was spoken with the 21st of April, in let. 37. long 21. 47. The Discovery Ships, accompanied by the Nautilus transport, put into Wideweli Harbour, in the island of South Rmaldsha, one of the Orkneys, on the 17th, in consequence of contrary winds; but put to sea again on the 19th, the moment the wind became more favourable. Wednesday se'nnight, a fishing party, who had spent the day on one of the Islands at Doonass, near Limerick, returning in the evening a small boat, were upset near Rook Island, in about eight feet of water. There were ten persons in the boat, and most providentially all escaped. Some Ladies of the party, had been put on shore a few moments previously. Mr. Picker ing and Mr. Gresham of Dublin, Mr. Cantrell, of Youghall, and Messrs. Bennis and Fitzgerald, of Limerick, together with one servant and four boatmen, were the persons upset. The boat was knocked to pieces iu the lower streams, and a basket containing silver spoons, knives, forks, platen &c. lost. • FALM ' OUTH MAY 29.—Wind S.--Arrived the Chesterfield packet, with Mails from the Mediterranean : sailed from Corfu the 9th April, Malta the 17th ditto, and Gibraltar the 11th of May. Spoke off Cape de Gull the Sandwich packet, six days from Gibraltar. Also arrived the Wiles, BULDFULIN from Buenos Ayres for Antwerp, sailed the let of March. Cowes, May 31.-.-Arrived the Amity, /latex, from Lon don for the South Seas, leaky. Pownimoevn, Mar 31.—Wind R.S.E.—Arrived the Milton, MONTOOMBRY, from Jamaica for Loudon; and the Courier, Dutch brig of war, from Piymuuth.—Saikd his hlajesty's ship Acme, on a eruize ; Fame, EASIOATI for Madras, &c. and Lady Hamilton, Kees, for the South Seas. DIAL, MAY 31.—Wind Ir NllE.—Remain in-the Downs thi Seven/ frigate; and the Calypso, Hunan:sou, from Trieste for Hamburgh. Dove% May 31.—Passed by for Amsterdam the American ship Lion, P&G'', from China in 154 days. MAKWICH, MAY 31.—Arrived the Lard Nelson packet, from Cuxhaven; and Leicester ditto, from Holland, each with a Mail. Amanita—At Jamaica, the Ocean, MiNeilage, from London. At Havre, the Archimedes, from the South Seas; Halli day, Stewart, from New &team ; Auguste, --a—, from Cardiff; and Waterloo, Davis, from Liverpool. At Marseilles, the Bri tannia, Barcla y; and Mary, Bell, from Liverpool; also, the Bol don, Jackson, from London. At Malaga, the Laura, Brick. from Aruudak At Genoa, the Danube, Stephenson, from London. At Leghorn, the Favourite, Carson ; Fortune, Europe, and Ann, from London ; Ann, from Newcastle; and Friendship, Peterton, from Tonningen. Vanua aroma WlTU—The Laburnarn, Taylor, from Liver pool to New York, in lat. 40. 30. long. 47.30. Clyde, from Trinidad to London, in long. 24. out 40 days; Georgia, from Liverpool, on the Ist ult. in lat. 33. 12. long. 68. 57. Portia. un the 12th, in lat. 44. 55. long. 35. 44. and the Greenock, of Greenock, from Portsmouth, on the 23d, in lat. 38. 47. long. 14. 49. Cosross-Houss, Mae 31.—Ships Entered Inwards :—The Active, from Calais; Pacific, from Bilboa ; Francis, from St. Andrew's; Colonist, from Barbadoes; William, from Lisbon; Hope, from Harlhtgen • Maria, from ditto; Sar a h , from Sierra Leone; Asia, from B ombay; Lady Campbell, from Canton; Oporto, from Oporto ; Pyrennees, from Jamaica; Catherine, from ditto • Frederick, from Dunkirk ; Dowson, from Sierra Leone; Se maphore, from Calais; Astrea, from Dantzic • Bri tannia, from Seville ; Earl Clancarty , from Rotterdam ; &car, from Jamaica ; and Buckinghamshire, from Canton.—Entered Outwards : The Mary, for Genoa; Betsy, for Cadiz ; Rising Sun, for Brunel's; Marquis of Wellington, for Amsterdam; and Telus, for Pernambuco. Cleared Outwards : The Pock lington, for Jamaica ; Catherine, for Bengal; Zeeneuve, for Rot terdam; Inclination, for Bremen; and krosperous, for Calais. FATAL DUEL. A most melancholy occurrence has recently caused a oreat sensation in the town of Winster, in Devon share, and its vicinity. The Derby Mercury gives the following particulars of the event, as the amount of what it has been able to collect from the different statements circulating through the county ; but very properly apprises its readers of the difficulty, in the I present agitated state of the public mind on the sub ject, of ascertaining the precise state of the facts, and humanely recommends to the Public to suspend their decision on this melancholy affair " till the evi dence be laid before that tribunal which must soon determine the guilt or innocence of the prisoners, whose youth and early promise of respectability have excited the sympathy even of those who condemn their conduct :" " Mr. Cumin, a Scotchman by birth, was formerly a Surgeon in the Navy, and came about four years ago to reside at Win ster, where he began to practice his profession. An attachment had subsisted for some time between himself and Miss /3uut.x wit, the daughter of an eminent Solicitor in the same town, and, as she was in a delicate state of health, he had frequent opportunities of seeing her in his medical capacity. Mr. Con an 's attentions to this Lady met with the decided disapprobation of her family, and it was expressed to him in the strongest terms. On Monday, the 21st of May, Mr. Coons. and Miss Ben -2LeIIAXX were met whilst walking together, by Mr. WeJ.IAM BRITTLILIANN' her brother, who took his sister away after some hush words had been exchanged between himself and Mr. CtinDIIG So improper did the language of Mr. Cum: appear to Mr. W. BeITTLIZANC, that the latter sent a challenge to the former on the evening of the same day. To this Mr. Connie returned no answer, and another messenger was dispatched to him on the same errand the following morning, who was in formed by Mr. Connie that he should not meet Mr. WILL ISIS Burrunuaic, and therefore should not reply to his note.— In consequence of this, Mr. SCIINCSR, a Surgeon, residing at Bakewell, a friend, as we are informed, of both the panics, was sent for by Mr. W. BIITTLIZANIC. He came, and about three o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. %Luau and r. FRANCIS Barr- Tina n , a ccompanied by Mr. Sumas, proceeded to Mr. Con nix's house. They were here joined by Mr. Annaxw Buena. acre; when Mr. Saimaa going into the house, informed Mr. Conan that be must either make some apology to Mr. W. Bauxursaut or fight. It is stated (but we will not vouch for the accuracy of this report), that in reply he again declined to do either the one or the other. " Subsequently, however, he appears to have consented to give Mr. W. Burn.nans the satisfaction he required ; for pis tols were furnished to the parties, they separated to a distance of fifteen yards on the gravel walk in Mr. CODDIZ'S garden, and on a signal being given, they fired. Mr. CUDDIE unhappily received the shot of his antagonist in his bowels, and died the following day, about one o'clock in the afternoon. " Mr. Gounco, of Chesterfield, acting as Coroner in Mr. Mantaa's absence, summoned a highly respectable Jury to hold their Inquest, and a verdict of K Wilful Murder" was on Wed nesday returned against Mr. Burnassines three sons. ANDieW, WILLIAM, and Faancis ; and also against Mr. SPIV:CIR. Mr. W. Barrrixaawx is not yet in custody ; but the others are now confined in the County Jail." Letters from St. Thomas's, of the 20th April. state, that they expect hostilities to recommence again on the Spanish Main. New PUBLICATIONS.—The following Works have been recently published by Messrs. COLBURN and Co. 1. The Universe, a Poem. By the Rev. R. Maturin. 2. Practical Economy ; or, The Application of Modern Discove. rica to the purposes of Domestic Life. 5. Precaution; or, The Matrimonial Balance, a Novel. 4. Falmyre et Flaminie ; ou, Le Secret, par Mad. de Geniis, 2 vols. 5. The Hermit in the Country, by the AUthor of the Hermit in London, 3 vols. Secret Memoirs of the COurt of Westphalia, tivo. 7. Memoirs of Granville Sharp, by Prince Hoare. 8. Private Correspondence of David Hume, the Historian. 9. Prince Maximilian's Travels in Brazil. 10. Memoirs of her late Majesty Queen Charlotte, by Dr. 'Watkins. 11. Idollien's Travels in the Interior of Africa, edited by T. P.. Bowdich, Esq. 12. Scheming, a Novel, 3 vols. 13. Sir Arthur Clarke's Essay on Diseases of the Skin, 12mu. Aoki 14. The Sixth Vol. of Lord Oxford's Work., comprising the Letters to Montagu, role, &c. COURT OF KING'S RENCII-THIS DAY. The Court was occupied until half-past eleven o'clock in hearing undefended causes. Major CARTWRIGHT, Messrs. WOOLER, EDMONDS, and AlAnnox, then appeared in Court, and CHARLES Mannox was called upon to address the Court. He read a very long speech to the Court, in which he denied the seditious intention ascribed to him in the indictment, and impugned the mode of selecting the Special Jury, and arraigned the conduct both of the Counsel and witnesses who took a part in his trial. He was, in this part of his speech, severely rebuked for his . animad versions upon the conduct of these par ties.—ln resuming, he took a wide latitude of politi cal animadversion, and exposed the whole system of Rotten Boroughs, and said, that all he and his friends wanted, was to secure for the People the fair choice of their Representatives. They had only done what was done by the great men of the Revolution after the abdication of King James. MADDOX proceeded in terms of such severity, that the Court declared he could no longer be heard in vilifying the constituted Authorities of the State; and he concluded by saying, he asked no mercy for him self or his suffering family, as his heart acquitted him of all crime. He knew he had no other favour to ex pect from the Judges than they had already given others consigned to their judgment by selected Juries. Mr. MILLS (of Bristol) then rose in the Jury-box, and made a strenuous effort to be heard is behalf of Lewis, who was confined in a jail in the country; but the Court said, they did not now mean to sen tence Lewis, and he (Mills) could not be heard. Mr. DENMAN was then heard at some length, in mitigation, for Major Cartwright, whose conduct he justified, so far as his expressions respecting the House of Commons, by quoting what was said upon a similar subject by Lord Chatham,' Mr. Pitt, Mr. Burke, and the greatest men in modern times. Sentence is not yet passed. His MAJESTY received visits yesterday frnm the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, Princess AUGUSTA, and the Ptincess SOPHIA MATILDA. Yesterday the Duchess of CLARENCE visited the Duchess of KENT, at her residence at Kensington. One of the brothers Rornsenim (Cnaimits) who is now at Na ples, has obtained from his Sicilian hfwarsrr the title of Marquis. Mr. Ptescum, who lately died at London, has bequeathed 05,336 in the three per Cent. Consols, with its compound interest, to be accumulated for three years after his death, for the foundation of a school for poor boys and girls born in Magdeburg and the neighbourhood. It is to be in or near Magdeburg, where the testator was born.— Haniburgh Paper. We have received a series of Frankfort Journals to the 26th ultimo. The PRESIDENT of the Germanic Diet communicated to it on the 24th May, the De claration signed by the Ministers and Plenipoten tiaries of their Majesties the Emperors of AUSTRIA and Russm, and the King of PRUSSIA, at the con clusion of the conferences at Lay bach. The Diet thereupon unanimously resolved to offer to their IM PERIAL MAJESTIES" the homage of its most respec ful gratitude for this communication, with the most humble assurance, that it concurs in profoundly ve nerating the contents of this communication, the noble monument which these august Sovereigns have again raised to the durable consolation of all well disposed persons, as a testimony of their justice and love of order"!! After the PRESIDENT had made these official com munications, he also made a confidential communi. cation of the Circular Dispatch which accompanied the remittance of the above Declaration to the Im perial Ministers at Foreign Courts. The Polish army is said, in an article from Berlin, to have received orders to march, as it is supposed, to the frontiers of Moldavia. The late Leipsic fair was at the commencement very indifferently attended, but improved towards the close, when immense quantities of merchandize were sold. Numerous purcasers had arrived from Poland and Russia, and even from the Turkish 'do minions. The Greek merchants, however, were far less numerous than on former occasions. The Saxon Diet is at present sitting at Dresden, and, it is thought, will nut close before Midsummer. With respect to the Constitution, it seems that all is to remain on the old footing. The improvements in it will be deferred, it is said, till more favourable times. Though there are many defects in the inter nal administration, which are rendered less sensible by the wise Government of the KING, yet there are some which are rather oppressive. This is the case in the judicial institutions, the division of the taxes, the numerous privileges of the estates, called Nobles, &c. Accounts from Geneva say, that the Prince of Cis- TUNA, Count SANTA ROSA, and otlier Members of the late Piedmontese Government, had arrived there ; but that the Government had given them notice to quit the city and its territory. NATIONAL DEBT.—By a Parliamentary Paper just issued, it appears that the total unredeemed and un funded Debt, up to the present year, amounts to £845,100,931. ADULT ORPHAN ASYLUNL—Yesterday a meeting of the Subscribers to this Institution was held at the Hon. Mrs. EoEwroN's, St. Jame s 's Palace, for. the election of two candidates. The numbers were : Miss Harford 397 Miss ILJI 205 Miss Foley 63 Miss Roby 962 Miss Horne 113 When the two first Ladies were declared duly elected, Coax EXCHANGE, MAne-LANE, Jim l.—A large proportion of Monday's supply of WU/rat remained over for this morning's market, and having but few buyers the sales were very heavy, but there is no alteration in prices. Barley is is. per quarter lower, having very little demand for that article, nearly all the Maltsters having left off buying for the season. The arrivals of Oats have been considerable, which occasioned a general heavi ness in the trade, at a redutti.,n of Is. per quarter from Molar day's quotations. In Beans and Peas there is no alteration. SMITHFIELD MAMIE?, June I.—Beet, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. per stone of albs.; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 2d. Veal, 41. Gd. to is. 6d. Pork, Si. 641. to Ss. 4d. Lamb, ss. 01 to 61. Od.—Cattle at Mar ket, -Beasts, 32A; Calves, 160; Sheep and Lambs, 6,100; lip, 140.—Hay and Straw per load, Hay, 31. 104. to 41.45. Clone, 41. Os. to 51. Qs. Straw, U. 6s. to 11.7 saw