Star. — London, England, 1822-01-12 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDA Y, JANUARY 12, 1822. STOCK EXCIIANGE-011 O'CLOCK: The Marker opened this morning at 7744 3 4, and hAie continued to fluctuate between that price and 77%8 : but very little business is doing, principally in settling accounts previous to the Account Day, on Friday.—Current prices: Bank StOck 238-3 per Cent. Red. 76% 77 3 Per ('ent..Cens. 76 1 / 8 76 3 / 8 2 / 4 314 per Cent. 87% 7 / 8 -4 per Cent. 96 1 4 3 /. 5 per Cent. Navy 108 1 4 5 4 Bank Lllg Annuities 19 7-16 2 / 6 • Imperial 3 per Cts. 76'4 Exch. Bills, ss. Gs. pr.—Do. Small Gs. 7s. pr. Cons. for Account 77 5 4 2 4 Ys It is currently reported again this morning, that on•the meeting pf Parliament, a proposition will be made for the red,,etiiin of the Interest, One per Cent. The French Papers of Wednesday last have ar rived, but they contain, little intelligence of import ante. The Chamber of Deputies met on Tuesday, when the Committee to which the examination of the proposed Law on the Periodical Press is referred ad journed to Thursday. It was not expected that there would be any Public Sitting before Friday. A private letter from Frankfort, dated the 4th of January, says—" We are assured that the King of W/RTEMBERG will immediately re;•av to St. Peters.' burgh. The Pc,li•h militar% are full of ardour in the cause of the Greeks, but nothing can equal the en thusiasm o the Ladies of Warsaw." An article from Trieste, dated the 23d ult. says— '•Repc.,rts are circulated of such scenes of cruelty that have taken place at Smyrna, as make us shudder with horror. The fanatic Turks have murdered, with out diStinctien, every Christian that has fallen into their hands. The massacres continued without inter— ruption from the 20th to the 28th of November. The, French and Austrians on this occasion shewed great humanity. One frigate, the Leipsic, has been com pletely filled with Greeks. who had escaped the sabres of the Turks. A report has reached us from Corfu, which wants great confirmation, that Sir THOMAS Goa Dos, who had been appointed Commandant of Tripolizza, had died of poison." The most important intelligence in these Papers is the article :rom Vienna, in the Universal Gazette of the 29th of December, wnich states, that " Since the arrival ot the last courier from Constantinople, fresh hopes hare been f•rmed of the preservation of peace between Russia and the Porte. It is firmly believed that, according to the proposed arrangements, the Turks will evacuate Wallachia and Moldavia, and accede to the other conditions proposed by Russia.— There are persons who pretend that the Ru si.tn Ulti• matum has been accepted with so, e modifications; but the silence of our Journals induces us to await the confirmation of this news." • A private letter from Vienna of the same date, in the Journal des Debats, repeats this rumour, and says, that the concessions of the Porte had been of taitied through the influence of the English and Austrian Ambassadors. It, however, adds, that it is still doubt ful whether the Porte will accept the other conditions of the Russian Ultimatum. An article from Odessa, dated the 16a. of Deceniber, harmonizes with these accounts, so far as relates to the moderation of the SULTAN. But notwithstanding these apparently con. &mato? y accounts of the probability of matters being adjusted between Russia and Turkey, we confess we attach little importance to them. If we could believe that Russia had no other mo tives in remonstrating with the Porte, than the dread of a large body of Talkish troops in Wallachia, or a generous sympathy for the Greeks, then would the withdrawing of these troops by the Porte, the cessa tion of persecuting the Greeks, and the rebuilding of their churches (which it is reported the Sultan agrees to do) remove every cause of complaint. But there is not a Russian who would not laugh at the idea that such were the only views of his Government in seeking a rupture with Turkey ; nor are Russian Diplomatists so unguarded as to have made the question of peace or war rest on points on which their Sovereign did not care a straw. The fact is, that no hostile position which Turkey could possibly assume, could for a moment give un cashless to Russia; and as for the @reeks, it is evi dent that she Emperor ALEXANDER only regards them so far as they hit titer his owri views. Had he felt that generous sympathy which we are told he does, for men professing the same faith as his own subjects, he would not have suffered them to be butchered in the manner they have been, while his Ambassador has been prolonging his negotiations at Constantinople ; on the contrary, his demands would have been prompt and decisive, and the question of war or peace would have been determined in a month. But no, the Emperor of RUSSIA has other views; what they are we often stated, and now repeat, that they are rio less than thu possession of European Turkey. The insurrection of the Greeks was calcu lated to favour those views: Russia is seeking to turn the event to the best advantage; and if she may be accused of looking tamely on, while a war of ex. termination has ' been carrying on between the Greeks and the Turks, she has only been lingering behind till the danger was past , emt she might then march forth, and gain the unresisted spoils of the field. , • There is, indeed, one possible casein w itch Russia mar, for the present, be . defeated in her view —the inxerferince of the rest of the European Powers -2bnt bow will they interfere? Most of.our Re iders will, no doubt, remember the old puzzle of elle man who had a fox, a goose, and a bag of oats, with which he had to cross a river. He found he could only carry one over at a time, and how this was to he accomplished seemed a question of some difficulty; it he took the fox first, the goose would eat the oats; on the contrary, if he took the oats, the fox would kill the goose. The European Governments are in a very similar predicament with regard to Russia and Turkey; if they join with Russia, the fairest portion of Europe would, without doubt, be rescued from the grasp of the Ottomans ; but Russia alone would, be the gainer, and her Em pire, already large enough for the peace of Europe, would be rendered still more.powerful : if, on the, contrary, the European Powers take the part of Turkey, then will the Greeks be again left to the mercy of their savage masters. There is a third course, and though a straight forward one, yet it will be probably more objectionable to the Holy Alliance 'Junto than either of the other two we have men tioned—that of raising the Greeks into an indepen dent nation. Morality, honour, and justice, all plead in their behalf. Shall they plead in vain? French Funds, Tuesday, Jan. B.—Five per Cents. 85fr. 95c. Private letters have been received from Madrid, dated the. 3d instant. The question relative to the dismission of Ministers had not then been decided.— At a Council of State, however, held on the preceding day, it was voted unanimously that two of them should retire. A division of opinion afterwards arose, whether the dismission should he immediate, or be delayed till the submission of the Authorities at Cadiz and Seville should take place; when seventeen were for the former, and thirteen for the latter a; range mein. As soon as the vacant offices in the Ministry were filled, and some restrictive laws had been passed against the disturbers of the public pence, the sittings of the extraordinary Cortes, it was expected, would terminate. The Capital was perfectly tranquil. On the 29th ult. there was in Murcia a great po pular commotion, the result of which was, that Bri gadier Don GRECORIO PIQUERo, Colonel of the In fantry of Mala, was made ad interim Political Go vernor of that province. No accidents occurred. We would particularly call the attention of our Readers to a noble act of genuine patriotism and be nevolence, recorded in another part of our Paper, of that venerable Nobleman Earl FITZWILLIAM. While the distressed Agriculturists are meeting, and having dinners at a guinea per head, to Petition the Legis. lature for Acts which shall relieve. themselves, at the expense of the rest of the community, the Noble Earl esquires -into the situation of his tenants, at sembles them around him, relieves them so far as the most liberal reduction in the rent can do it; and, in stead of holding out delusive hopes of the price of grain being enhanced either by Legislative or other means, candidly tells them that the price of the pro duce of the land is now permanently established• —His Lordship's liberality to his tenants is calcu lated to increase their attachment to him ; but there is another trait in his character which endears him to humanity. His Lordship inculcated that sacred but much neglected precept, " The labourer is worthy of his hire!" His Lordship strongly recommended " that the labourer should have fair and sufficient wages to enable him to live, and live tvell, and to support his family, without applying to the Parish to make up for deficient wages ; for nothing, argued his Lord ship, tended to degrade the labourer more in his own estimation, than obliging him to apply for parochial relief: it spoiled him as a labourer by destroying the proper pride which a man felt in supporting himself by his own honest exertions." We could dwell with rapture on this noble trait in Earl FITZWSLLIAM'S character; but it speaks too eloquently to the feelings of every one who can sym pathize with the sufferings of the most laborious part of the community, to require a single comment, The East India Company, in consequence of bills drawn on them, have this week paid One Million and Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds into the Bank of England. Thursday afternoon, the valuable service of silver plate used by the late Emperor NAPOLEON BONA-I PARTE, brought from the island of St. Helena, was deposited in the Storekeeper's Department in the Treasury. The boxes were opened this morning for inspection, being the property of Government. Yesterday Earl and Countess BATHURST enter tain a party of distinguished personages with a din ner, &c. &c. at their how e in Great Stanhope street, Park-lane. The Earl of ESSEX, who has been confined with an ague, is considerably better. The Countess of WAkWICK is considered in an improving state of health. Lord DORMER has arrived at Kirkhkrn's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from a tour. Lord ICsusitioTort 'arrived on Thursday evening at Fenton's lintel, St. linies's-street, from Paris: ' The Right lion. THOM As GRENVILLE has left town for Lord I GRENVILLE'S seat, Dropmine Lodge. . • Yesterslay, the Misses RowLEv, daughte, s of Sir W'aLimit ROWLEY, arrived at the liou,e of Sir• W11e., 1 LEAH, in Lower .Grosvenor -street, Born their seat; Tenth ing Hall, in Eau. BRIGHTON, JANUARY 10. The vreathir to-day has been seasonably - pleasant, his MAJESTY has enjoyed a lengthened premeuade on the Palace lawn. The Earl of LI vettrogL, who arrived at the Pa vilion last night, took leave, and set off to return to town this moining. The Princess ESTERHAZY left the Palace far ton d: this morning. Her blooming children left the York Hotel for London yesterday. Countess MUNSTER arrived at the Palace last night, and Sir Wbl. KIPPEL returned thither this evening: Lord RAVENSWORTH had the honour of dining with his MAJESTY yesterday. The Pages of the Kato were made happy by a Ball and Supper at the Pavilion on Tuesday, to which they were permitted to invite their fi iends ; and the livery class of servants are kindly allowed a similar opportunity to be joyful this evening. rr THE ARMY. A corps of Yeemanry is enrolling in Killarney, under the command of the lion. Captain Known, brother of the Earl of Kraut RI. at Maker and The Barrack-Masters of the Scilly have been reduced. The 41st Regiment is ordered from Edinburgh, &c. to Carlisle. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Dutch walliot wrecked on the Long Sand in the hurri cane of Saturday morning, and the Mate of which was picked np at sea, was the Louisa Charlotte, Captain Mtn&as, from Riga, bound to Dunkirk. Lieutenant DAVID DOILVII, E. N. Commander of the Juliana, East Indiaman, who was drowned on Christmas Day, was the son-in-law of WILLIAM LLOYD, U.sq. R.N. of Torpoitst, and has left a widow and three infant children to lament his lou. Lieutenant ELLIOT, R.N. of Plymouth, is appointed to the Preventive station near Weymouth, vice EVIAN/MAU, removed to Hell Head. Mr. M‘CusLocit is appointed Chlef.Cierk in the Pay Depart ment, at Chatham Yard. A Dutch vessel, laden with iron and blocks of marble, was wrecked near Toulon, during a gale on the 2,ith ult. crew saved. FALMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind W.N.W.— Arrived the Mar. garet, Rivecv, from Prince Edward's Island. Sailed the Blessing, and Erin, for Waterford.; Mary, for Jersey ; Mary Ann, Nora tin, Linen Hall, Haford, Ilebe, C.andish, Speedwell, and Sports man, for London. DEAL, Jam. 11.—Wind W.N.lV.—Arrived asl.l sailed for the River, the Levant, lilikisieg, from Belfast; Wellington, —; and Dash, NICHOLLS, from Limerick; Friends, CLARE; and Charlotte, Bonowirct., from Liverpool ; William, Nacsox,from Samarang for Amsterdam; and Endeavour, Messzt.stax, from Shields fur Jamaica—the latter remains . — Came down from the River and sailed, the Princess Mary, CLARK, for the South Seas; and Louisa, ItarriNoroo, for Jamaica.—Sailed L'Aigle, for the South Seas. An anchor, weighing 13 cwt. 1 4 lbs. belonging to the Smeaton Castle, for St. Vincent's, has been landed here. HARWICH, JAN. 11.—Arrived the Leicester packet, with a Mail from Holland. SCILLY, Jaz. 8 —Arrived the Sally, DIAMOND. from St. John's, Newfoundland for Bristol, with loss of sails, rigging, bulwarks, stauncheons, anchors, cablea,.&c. and cargo damaged : she must discharge to repair. The Prince Regent packet, from Penzance to Scilly, was struck by a sea on the 4th, which carried away two men off deck, bulwarks, stauncbeens, boat, &c. Arrived the lietsy, POWIIII, from Savannah to Cork , leaky, with loss of mast-head, &c. CASTLITOWN, JAx. 6.—A very fine launch, clinker-built, marked" W3I. MATNNWS," has been picked up on this coast. Pa arrow, Jaw. 10.—A large quantity of American timber and deals have been seen floating near this place. Some casks of butter have been picked up on the coast, marked " Cock." Comm-novas, Jaw. 11.—Entered Inwards :—The Sc. An tonio, from Ostend; Lavinia, from Kiel; Theodore, from Dant zic • Providence, from Petersburgh ; Carolina, fr om S tett i n ; Bellona, from Dantzic ; Mercy, from Liebau ; Elizabeth, from Gottenburgh ; Froja; from Stockholm ; Breveg, from Christiana; Aldborough, from Calais; Fancy, from Petersburgh ; Julie, from Calais ; Messenger. from Belfast ; and Friends, from Sligo.— Entered Outwards:—The Industry, for Ihrnburgh ; Amphi trite, for Jamaica; Po, fur Calais; Equity, for Trieste; Blaclett, for Jamaica; and Augusta, for Stettin.—Cleared Outwards:— The New Albion, for Trieste ; Thistle, for Limerick ; Lavinia, for lima; Nancy, for Bengal; Po, for Calais; and the Minerva, for Seville. PORT or Hots..—Corr or • TIMM/RV WARRANT. Treasury Chambers, Dec. 1, 1821. After our hearty commendations, having considered your Re port of the 3d ultimo, on a Petition requesting permission to warehouse Salted Seal-shins at the port of Hull, these are to au thorise and require you to allow goods enumerated in Table D. of the Act 43 Geo. 111. cap. 132, to be warehoused at the port of Hull, for which this shall ho your warrant. (Soloed) VA NS 1 VIA RT, B. PA G ET, G. 11. SOMERSET. To the Commissioners of Customs, Liverpool. Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE, Commander.in-Chief at Plymouth, has been severely indisposed there, but ii now happily recovering. NAVIGATION COMMITTEE—An official Report has just been presented to the Navigation Committee of the City of London, by the Officers appointed to make a survey of the banks of the River Thames, for the' purpose of ascertaining the extent of the injury done by the late floods, and in order that the proper repairs may be carried into effect. Some idea may be formed. of the amazing height to which the water rose iu the river, without an easterly wind or sudden thaw, from the following extract from the Report:—" It exceeded by four inches the height to which it lose in 1774, as recorded by a stone let into a wall at Shepperton, and two inches higher than it is recorded to have risen in the same year by a stone let into the Wall of Isleworth Church-yard." It is nevertheless gratifying to learn, that although very serious injury has been done in many places to the towing-paths, and to some of the finely-constructed locks, yet the navigation of the Thames in the City district was never impeded for an hour, nor were the up-country vessels for any length of time. From Christmas-day till Monday, the 7th, may be stated as the longest period. The bridge of killaloe, over the Shannon, presents a most frightful appearance—six arches have been swept away in the centre, and one at the County of Tipperary side. It was caused by the breaking of the canal bank above the bridge, the materials of which were carried with the flood, and choked the arches. . A commercial letter, of the 26th ult. from Trieste, states, that news had arrived there, by a vessel from Smyrna, of an embargo having been laid by the Turks on all Greek property. there was, however, according to the report, no want of ships, of different European flags, in the Archipelago, for the protec tion of their commerce. . PuacTlCAr:EcoNomx.—A Second Edition of this little Work is just published, with the addition of. a copious Index, which was much wanted. It now forms a complete• Family Manual, whit!' may be referred to on almost tom subject connected with. domeffic economy, containing as it doe•, a aquiety of new and impurtunt information, calculated at once. to increase our cdtuforta and dimino our papenaeo. NOBLE ACT OF E;4IILFITZWILLWL Wednesday last, Earl FITZWILLIAM assemble] his tenants occupying farms under his Lordship, a t Ma .. ton House, where they had been previously requested to give their attendance, by a circular from his Lord ship's Steward, WILLIAM SIMPSCII, Esq. The N‘)l)ie Earl received his numerous tenantry in thegreat 11411. After each was seated, his Lordship infainel th em that he had taken into his most serious considerati• their situation as farmers, in the present state of the times :, by an amicable communication which he had with some of his tenants, who had kept a regular account of the out-rings and expenks of their farms, and which account his Lordship had investigated, it was clear that a reduction of rent was necessary, for he was quite satisfied in his own mind, that the reduced price of the produce of the land was now permanently established, since our return to payments in sovereigns and thiffingi, and he did not wish to hold out any delusions that corn would fetch a better price ; he was satisfied in his own mind that it ci,uld not/ it might fluctuate a little according to the se a . sons, but in no material degree: and his Loid :hip was of opinion, that any alteration in the Corn Laws could not possibly have the effect of raising the price of the produce of land—he did not mean to hold mit any such hapes—he had therefore reduced his rent , , r under an impression that the average of corn in the year 1792, 91, and 95, was about the standard At which we might expect it to keep. Hi, Lordshio stated farther, that •he expected each tenant would stop and dine, and that they would find a sealed note directed for each in his seat, stating the rent he 1:44 fixed upon their respective farms—and with which he hoped the tenant would be satisfied. His Lord. ship considered that the connection between landlord and tenant was their mutual and common interest: he was aware that the tenants had embarked consi derable capitals, which they must necessarily do to enable them to occupy their farms properly, and it was but fair that they should be remunerated both for their capital and their trouble. His Lordshi p next strongly recommended that the labourer should hate fair and sufficient wages to enable him to live— to live well, and sport his family, without going to the parish for relief, to make up a deficiency of the wages which he ought to have ; for, in his Lord ship's opinion, nothing tended more to lessen the la. bourer in his own esteem as a man, than being obliged to apply for parochial relief; it spoiled him as it la bourer, by destroying the ',toper pride which a man felt in supporting himself by his own honest exertion. The reduction which has taken place is from 45 to 35 per cent. including 15 per cent. which his Lord. ship took off in 1815.—At the hospitable mansion as excellent dinner was provided for the tenants on 111:s interesting occasion, and upwards of eighty sat down to table. The VICE-CHANCELLOR iS about to visit Earl DICEY, at Sherborne-Castle. The Earl of kens:area is spending his holidays at Melbury-house, Dorset. The Eat' of SHAFTESBURY is keeping up the ' Christmas festivities at St. Giles's-house, Dorset. Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE keeps alive the vicinity of his extensive domains in Cornwall, by the syre princely hospitality as usual. Thursday the Bishop of CHESTER gave a Grand Dinner at his Palace in that City, to the Mayor, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Town Clerk, and several of the Clergy and Gentry of the neighbourhood. Earl GROSVENOR attended as as Alderman of Chester. Friday se'nnight, the Earl of DARNLEY gave a grand dinner and ball, on which occasion the strperi ball-room was thrown open. All the neighhoutiaz Gentry were invited, and also the principal Office. s of Chatham Garrison. The Band of the 3tißcgin ent of Guards attended, and played during the eveni. g. The first Subscription Ball and Supper, at ti.e George Inn, Litchfield, on Tuesday last, was most numerously attended. The Ball-room, which was crowded with rank and fashion, had a most brilliant appearance: the dancing commenced about ten, and was kept up with great spirit. At one the company repaired to the Supper-room, where viands :1;:.1 luxuries of every kind were tastefully spread viva the tables. After supper the dancing re-commenced and contineed till nearly five o'clock. Among the company present were_ The Marchioness of Stafford, Lords Gower, Chetwvnd, and Carlin, lion. Mr. Stewart, Mr. Eld (Sheriff of the County) ar.d family, Mr. Littleton, M.P. Sir Roger and Lady SophiaGreskv, and her sister, Lady C. Coventry, Sir Charles and Lady Oak:ry and family, Sir Thomas Constable and daughters, Sr Francis and Lady Darwin, the Dean of Litchfield and daughters, Mrs. The,. Levett (Lady Patroness), Mr. Ackland and Mr. Charles Swatt,y (Stewards), Dr. Mrs. and Miss Power, Mr. and Mrs. Nothur!, Rev. Ley Brooke, Mr. and Itliss White, Dr. Jones, Mr. W‘d,r ley, Mr. Scott, Mr. Gifford, Mr. Burt, Captain Arden, and the several families of Gresleys, Peels, Lanes, Inges, Floyers, fens Levetts, Heathcotes, Sneyds , Robinsons, Mucklestons. Madans, Newlings, Probys, Hinckleys, &c. &c. A Ball was given at the Greyhound Assembly Rooms, Croydon, en Wednesday evening, and sci dom, out of the Metropolis, has anything been so fashionably attended, there being upwards of one hundred and fifty persons of the principal Families from the adjacent parts of Surrey and Kent. Vic utmost haat ity prevailed, and the merry dance uas kept up till about four o'clock next morning. The Duke and Duchess of BEADFORT and family left their seat in Oxfordshire, on Thursday, for Wor cester Lodge, near Badminton, Gloucestershite. It leas long been the b oast o f t h e B r i t i s h M etropo li- , that notwithstanding the number of its benevolent in stitutions, yet no work of Charity is commenced with out its almost immediately receiving liberal supra. There are some, however, which recommend them selves more strongly to the humanity of the Public than othersj and, certainly, none more than the Lon don ()Thor ,Asyluns, an Institution which, we ale sorry to learn, is compelled to a very limited exmise of its charitable purposes for want of funds. It I;.is long been the intention of the Committee who tr 311. q- e. the Charity, to erect a pl a i n b u ildi ng as the only 4- 1 - 'fecttial mode of realizing t h e b ene fits contemplated by the original subscribers. For this purpose they invited an additional subscription, and to the honour of our fellow-citizens be it itcorded, a sum of Six Thousand Pounds was raised. The entire expenses, however, of the proposed establishment are estimated at £t5,000 ; and there is little doubt that, consider able as the sum is, the benevolence of Englishmen will be equal to the occasion. The fatherless can never appeal in vain in a country not more remarkable fur ixx wealth than Its humanity. 1- er le IL ' el rn a 1P t td - i ar a IS, it To lie , vr Its to er Id ip NS ce gut tc, ti he At i t ) [id , te c! 1 . d. 1 st : isi- to It tip Ild ng . of 7d. la- ed • I la- an to aa 11:s IV a 1: a T'. t e at d he of ore' trl rc a t !.s , rt 1 - a .e • ei st • 1 as !It 1 ld t t J 0 1 ;.1 Ir 1:1 .o v, 1 t el r- iv lr •0 LE OF • t - your iei iai , S' • 41% , V1 ch .our .übli Hite SO d Ans spec! YtOy: c ave feCtio to th trick ev er Uf t i amp] vtlem to tit to. -; i~ Z.• IF ;