Star. — London, England, 1822-08-23 00:00:00

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Bank Stock 251% 252-3 per Ct. Reduced 81% 81 3 per Ct. Cons. 80 1 ) 4 IA '4-3 1 A per Cts. 92 1 ,4 4 per Cents. 99 1 / 2 3 / 8 th, 4 per Ct. New 99 1 ,4 5 / 8 lh Bank Long Annuities 20 15-16 21 Imperial 3 per Cents. 80 1 / B —South Sea Stock 90% Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 6s. 4s. Ditto Small si. Bs. 6i.—Cons. for Acct. 80 3 /e 1 / 4 3/8. The French Papers of Tuesday have been received Extracts will be found in a preceding column. FILLNCH Fusns, AUGUST 20.—Five per Cents. Consob opened at 93f. ?ie. highest 9.1 f. 75c. closed at 93f. .5.54. Neapolitan S per Cents. 74k. This forenoon we received Hamburgh, Dutch, and Flanders Mails, with Papers to the 21st instant. The following are extracts: 1 1; • ! • I .c BRUSSELS, AUGUST 19. If we may believe a letter from Vienna, of very recent date, an express from Constantinople has brought news of the highest importance, which are said to authorise an expectation of approaching events in Turkey, which will wholly change the face o: affairs. lIAMBURGII, AUGUST 15. Accounts from Constantinople of the 22d July, state, that besides the destruction of the Admiral's ship, two frigates and several transports were ren dered unserviceable, and that the fleet being after wards attacked by the Greeks off Tenedos, again lost a brig and a guts-boat. Exactly on the day of the nomination of the Hospodars, four Greek Bishops and 150 other Greeks were executed at Constantinople. HASIBURGH, AUGUST 17.—Exchange on London, 37-1 37.4. Sr. rareassußun, Aucusz 4.—Exchanges:—London, 9j; Amsterdam, 91; tlamburgb, 9 3-16 ; Paris, 104jr. AMONA, AUGUST S. The Captain of a ship front Salonica, and the let ters he has brought from that city, convey she fol lowing news: " The Greeks of Cassandra, whom the Turks drove out of it country last winter, took refuge in Psara. The inhabitants of that island, afraid of some attempt on the yart of the Turks, took them into pay in their land service, promising to reinstate them on the first opportunity in their own country. Conform el,ly to this promise, when, after the disaster of the Turkish fleet i.t the Channel of Scio, the islanders of Psara were out of dan ger, they armed a squadron of small vessels, in which they em barked the Cassandrians. In the night of July 5, this squadron entered the Gulf of Salonica, and fifteen hundred of the most resolute Greeks having landed on the coast, marched under cover of the darkness upon two batteries established by the Turks for the defence of their port. The troops on guard were sarpriscd, and killed or dispersed. " The Cassandrians, after having spread alarm into the very city', which the Turks consider as the second Capital of the Em pire, shipped the artillery of the batteries onboard the squadron, and set sail for Cassandra. These, the troops having disemH batked at break of day in the port Couphos, divided into two parties, of which one marched on the town of Cassandra, which eives name to the Peninsula—the other to the Isthmus, called Ora Cassandrian Gates: The squadron supported their opera tions by sea. The Turkish garrison, surprised in the town, was cut to pieces, and the whole Peninsula, which it cost the Turks seven months to take, was reconquered by the Greeks in six hours. 14 After this success the latter landed on the Isthmus the ar tillery they had taken in the port of Salonica and fortified the passage. This time they are better armed than they were before they evacuated it, and they are supported by an established Go vernment, which knows the importance of the diversion they effect against the Turks in Macedonia." of 'ate letter from 111issolongi, dated mates drove Omar Vrioni five aim which he occupied a few c'erent engagements which he had lost 6,000 men. and he himself AO the hands of his enemies. At inch embarrassed, because Marco the Suliotes, -has made himself trti and Placas, passes of consi , and cut off all his corn munica is of 600 Peloponnesians, who dis i, forced the Albarais to return Pacha has left Janina and Thessaly, carrying with him all Pacha. On his arrival, he called .ants of the neighbouring' illages them beheaded on the spot. He tgainst the Greeks, but they were tm, and we expect the result with as the result of the expedition fleet, consisting of fourteen vessels ;ports, disembarked 5,000 men at The Greeks on the coast retreated but, after ascertaining nearly the ►y, they attacked him, killed a troops, and forced the rest to ion. At present we do not know where this fleet is ; but 36 vessels, well armed and equipped, have departed from Spezzia in pursuit of it. The citadel of Athens, and the fortress of Napoli de Romania, have surrendered by capitulation ; thus, in the Psloponnesus, there are actually only three for tresses in the possession of the Turks—Patras, Modon, and Cotton. The two latter are not in a state to resist for a long time. As to that part of Greece comprised between the Isthmus of Corinth and Thermopylae, it is all free, except the fortress of Leparte. In Thessaly the Greeks are masters of Zeitouni and Neopatras, and, to deliver the Province entirely, it is only neces sary to drive the Turks out of the town of Larisse, which lies in a plain, and is not fortified." A vessel which left Salonica on the 22d July, has brought letters to Marseilles, which state that, during the feast of Bairam there was a bloody quarrel between the troops of the Pacha and the Janissaries, and that 600 of the latter were killed. At the same time, many of the unfortunate Greeks, and the Danish. Consul, CYRIACOS ZIANO, were put to death. The Osumi's fa mily has been ill-treated and his property confiscated. The same letters add, that a division of the Greek fleet has disembarked a corps of troops in the Peninsula of Cassandra. This corps attacked a fortification in the night, which was badly defended, and tuok possession of the cannon. It then entered the town of Cassandra, and made itself master of the whole Peninsula. On the 20th of July, the Pacha of Salonica marched to attack the Greeks, but the latter are well armed, well fortified, and supported by a division of their fleet." I i ;. . . Extract of a privau ii.:4 the 2d of July : II , " The brave Suli , • • i • 1 -:• ~ . •(- - . leagues from the posit -- - . • . - . ;:. 4 - , • was nearly falling int. 4; • .II :, ': ' l• present he must be mt .., ;5 / ! • Bozzari, Chief of th master of Cinq-Part _ .. , 3 I :•• •`" derable importance, k i i 0 . , , .- ~ . tions. A small corps I 4 ' embarked at Janari, L' • •. • - home. Chourschid ..• 1 • " -a" 4 1 , reached Larisse, in 'I • 1 the treasures of Ali F ') '- F ; 1 1 ' .. Or :?, • the principal inhabits 0, . ~ it •'. I l• - - together, and had t. , 'I! t'll , prepared to march al i • . . . . • .. ~ , t --';;' 'ready to receive him , i . 44 ' -.' impatience, as well 14 .. ' 1 . under Maurocordato. . • ' 4 : I, :, . ii . . 1 " The Egyptian fie of war, with transpo: ; Suda, in Candia. T 1.1,4 !,- into the mountains, b • 1 1 .'. '`- 0 }'l 1 . number of the enema • .;.i great number of his I t , . re-embark in confusi. ; . • , it . • i HANOVER, AUGUST 12. The young Princess, daughter of the Duke of Cam bridge, will be christened on the 16th, at Montbrillant. The Duke of Cambridge will set out for London about the 20th of this month. The Duchess and the young Princess are in perfect health. ST. PETERSBURGII, AUGUST 5. The Emperor and Empresses, the Grand Dukes, and the whole Court, have been these three days at Peter hof, where the Saint's-day of the Empress Maria is to be celebrated to-day by a masquerade, and a ge neral illumination of the extensive gardens. As this fete has not been celebrated for some years, the num ber of persons of all ranks who flock to Peterhof to see it, is extremely great. The Emperor has ordered all the troops usually stationed there to be removed for a time, that the in habitants of Peterhof may be able to accommodate as many strangers as possible. VIENNA, AUGUST 6. The Archduchess Maria Louise is expectel here about the beginning of October. She will reside in a part of the Palace of Schoeubrunn, where her son also has his residence. It is affirmed that the Emperor Alexander has ex pressed a wish that the new Congress, which was to be in Italy, at Leghorn, or Verona, may be held at Vienna, " the residence in which (these are his own words) is more agreeable to him than countries that are too watm." COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 13. The volcano of Oefield Jokkel, in Iceland, which, since its first eruption, had remained quiet for half a year, broke out again with great violence on the 26th of June, and has done great damage to the surrounding country, by the vast quantity of ashes which it has cast up. During the summer several English ships have visited Iceland, for the purpose of fetching cargoes of ice, but did not obtain their object ; the expense of conveying the ice to the coast being so great that it would not answer. Two of these vessels have perished in the floating ice from the polar regions, and only about twenty of their crews saved. Private letters from Boston, in the United States, of the 25th July, received yesterday, bring accounts of a number of failures in that city : one house has stopped payment to the amount of nearly two hun• dred thousand dollars. On the evening of the day when the intelligence reached Paris of the death of the Marquis of LON DONDERRY, it was remarked, that not an Englishman appealed at the Opera. Lord CAST LEKEAGH and his tutor, Mr. TURNER, left Hatchetes Hotel, Dover -street, yesterday, for the Continent. It is sa id that when his MAJarry and Sir WILLTAM CURTIS met in their Highland dress, neither could command their gravity ! Their Highnesses Prince Christian Fs ederick of Denmark, and his consort, Princess Caroline Amelia, arrived at Altona on the 15th instant, in good health,' from their foreign tour. It is now formally announced that the rich heiress. Miss PATTEN BOLD, is about to be led to the by meneal altar by the Polish Prince SAPIERA. It is said to be the intention of the Prince to become naturalized,and to fix his residence in Lancashire, where the Lady's estates are chiefly situated. A letter from Vera Cruz, dated June 15, says— 's This country is at present by no means in a settled state, and it is probable that the Government will be• obliged to resort to strong measures to gain possession of the fort of St. Juan de Ulloa, which it is intended to do, should: the castle not surrender prior to the cool season setting in in October. The means for doing this will be the evacuation of this city, except as a strong garrison, till the castle surrender by starvation. —This plan appears already so much to influence the inhabitants of this place, that three-fourths of its wealthy and respectable commercial houses have -re tired to Xalapa and other parts of the country, giving up all idea of business until this matter is concluded, leaving their establishments here, but without pro perty or money, under the care of a clerk, merely to' keep open the concern." Tux KENG'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. ammilmo PRIVATE LETTERS. EDINBURGH, AUGUST 40.—Fns o' Mom The mighty mass of people which thronged the streets of the Scottish Metropolis for two or three days previous to the arrival of his Masarry, and which conducted itself so well during the Royal entrée, and the subsequent illumination, has gra dually melted away; and though the streets still ex hibit plumes, badges, and turbans, and a few of the inferior grades of the people continue to arrive, yet the general movement is now towards home. The general observations, too, have begun to be mingled with not a little of the national ingredient of eco nomy, and calculation of consequences; and as the good tits retire from the precincts of Holyrood, one may, as often as one pleases, hear such observations as these—" Weel nae doot it's a bonnie sight ; but, dear keep us man, k costs an awfu' expense ! I'm sure monie o' thae Highland bodies wha hoe come doon wi' their tails, or what d'ye ca them, had mair need to stay at hame and provide something against the winter." Let it not be supposed that there is any thing of disloyalty in these and similar remarks.— Far from it, the persons by whom they are made, have uniformly the word " welcome," upon their'' buttons, the effigy of his MAJESTY very finely struck in block tin hung round their necks ; and a rosette upon their breast as big as an ordinary cheesecake, made 9f the' national colours, blue and white, with a St. Andrew in the centre—some of them indeed have a coutse of orange ribbon in the said rosette; but they contrive to leave it doubtful whether this is worn to shew that they pay scot and lot within the city of Edinburgh, or that they are determined to continue genuine Whigs of the Covenant. Nor let it be supposed that the Scots are the less loyal, because they have left off shouting and wandering about the streets of their metropolis, And returned to their la bour. They know 'that loyalty is something far more substantial than this—that the train attendant upon the KING must be fed, that the trappings cost money, and that the persons who are thus gaily apparelled and run after, like the lilies, " toil not, neither de they spilt ;" and that, the' efore, if the remainder of the People—those who form no part of the state and ceremonial of the exhibitions, were not to put their hand to the plough and the shuttle, and the hammer and the axe, there would speedily be an end of the exhibitions themselves. Who are the persons that resort to New Palace-yard, when the Parliament is to be opened or prorogued by the KING ? Are they the more industrious and opulent citizens of London and Westminster, or the substantial yeomen and far mers of the midland counties? No such thing. They are the idle and the dissipated, who are glad of every. excuse for being away from their work. Now if this be the case in London, where the people arc fa miliarised to the KING, it must become the case in Edinburgh, just in proportion as the people there become familiarised to him. It must not, in short, be inferred that the Scots are disloyal because they do not collect daily into crowds and shout. They saw the wonder once—they had every appearance of being delighted with it : and they must not be found fault with that, while even in the ardour of that de light, they have got them home to produce their portion of the funds whence the pomp and the glory' are supported. It is this retiring quality—this con sciousness that the " time to work" is much longer and more important than the " time to be idle," which formed the very foundation of that high com pliment which the people of Scotland drew from the KING. It is because they are in general retired and industrious, that they relish and adorn a.spectacle when they do come abroad to see it. When those ciitumstances are borne in mind, we are sure it will be deemed no symptom of disloyalty when we say that the crowds which for the last two or three days have attended the art ival and departure of his MAJESTY are not much larger, or more dif ferently formed, than those which we meet with upon ordinary occasions. _ _ _ When the grand progress is to be made, and tie be lieve it is fixed for Thursday, we shall have the people out again; and when the banquet for which the Parlia ment House is fitted up in very fine style, shall come to be served up, it will he found that there will be no lack of stomachs. To a people who must live and pay taxes out of the present scanty returns of their lands, or the labour of their fingers or their head, the approaches to shews and spectacles—even Royal ones—are somewhat analogous to the approaches of the fly to the candle ; once, and not too near, and it is but a scorching ; but repeatedly, and nearer, and down drops the buzzing idler, deprived of all means of future flight. The Scots are too calculating not to know this, and too wary not to avoid its effects. THE DRAWING-ROOM. This being the only time during a century and a half, at the least, when the daughters of Scotia have had the flattering opportunity of flaunting their trains, flourishing their plumes, bowing in the pre sence of his MAJESTY, and, finally, giving their cheeks to the glory and honour of the Royal basial salutation, and certainly the only time when a native Royal Drawing-Room has been held in Scot land, since she had either much wealth or popula tion to display, it is not to be wondered at that it produced con esponding anxiety among the fair. A random female here and there may no doubt have been in the Royal presence, and there may be one or two cheeks which have before been made happy by the Royal impress ; but the greater, by far the greater part of the roses and lilies of Scotland were, up to this happy 21st .of August, 1822, in virgin, but pitiable ignorance of so much honour. Is it to be wondered then, that the preparations of this event ful day had their sources remote in the past, and the hopes of the fair ones groped their way far into the future; and if they had not made themselves gay upon the occasion, it would have been alien alike to the honour of their country, and the disposition of their sex. Morning, noon, and night have, accordingly, been spent at the mirror, and many a projection - has been squeezed, and furrow smoothed, in order that " for Scotland's glory" and their own, they might , appear splendid in the presence of the KING and his Nobles, and their own. admirers. AU this is most laudable ; and as the fair ones literally frighted the reign of " old night," we may forgive them although they have been somewhat inviting to that of chaos—. whose doings cannot be better expressed than in the words of an ingenious correspondent "If the Levee of Saturday and the Court of pow day occasioned a muster of cocked hats and stuffed perukes, and wonderously deformed and depressed bonneting—if the Reverend and Learned Bodies" who were introduced were compelled to sound the note of preparation in the ears of their barbers and hair-dressers immediately after the ordinary discus sion of rolls and butter, the Drawing Room of this morning has arisen as much in bustle and prepara.. torratrangement—above said Levees and Court — Rs Arthur's Seat does above the Royal Palace, or the kilt of a true Celt above his knee. It is not possible for any one who is removed out of the vortex, to imagine or figure out the sensation amongst the fair creation, from the titled dame down to the Bailie's, and even the Burgher's wife, which the long antici pated Drawing Room has occasioned. Reports have been in circulation, for days, of the most distressing import. At one time the KING was said to have re solved against all 44 Basial" salutation whatever; at another time the brow only, or the cheek, or the hair, was reported as destined- to meet the Royal lips ; and even down to the evening of yesterday very serious doubts existed upon this most distressingly agitating q4estion. Ladies, from the Dowager down to Miss u her teens, have been practising, during the whole r ? f last night, smiles, smirks, attitudes, and inviting simplicities. Table-cloths, and every species of sheet ing, have been in a state of eager requisition, and have been suspended by pin and hook to tails where long and courtly trains were destined so soon to hang. [lad one enjoyed the Asmodsesm privilege of unroof ing Edina last night, what a world of wonders and novelty had met their view ! Passages and door ways crowded, at the dead of night, with mermaid figures sailing half naked, and with a comet projec• tion of train, from room to room, and from sopha to sopha, and from chair to chair, eyeing all along in sidelong anxiety the full-length mirrors, and almost twisting into cramp and convulsion every nerve and 4new of the neck. Again ; in more peaceful atti tudes and guise, one might have contemplated the sitting maiden upon, and over and around whose polidred brow the scissors of the barber were travel. ing in rapid and noisy activity—looking for all the world like 'Patience on a monument, smiling;' and then, at no great distance, the finished head—erect —motionless—gracefully attitudized—fixed down into an arm chair, there .to remain till the full ac complishment of bodily decoration in the morning. —lt is absolutely true, that as against the City feast, preparations of plates and pottingers have been making for days and weeks, so, in reference to this day's Drawing Room, have many fair forms been in a state of progressive decoration for many days past. Barbers have become meteors, and fly with the rapidity of lightning from street to street, and from door to door. The whole female population seems to be positi, ely and negatively changed, whilst the hair-dresser, like the electric spark, flashes and darts—alternates be tween them. And, after all, what is the end of all this—a coach—a scold to the coachman—a careful alighting at the Palace door—a jostle—a bustle--a squeeze— perspiration—discomposition—a start —.t stumble—and a head-ache for days to come—...ad so ends this strange eventful history r" The lowering of the morning rather disconcertel the anxious Public, who, however, began their move ments towards the Palace at an early hour, and de spite of the drizzling rain which continued during the day, had a very gay appearance. The leading costume was white's-a - 61i, with spangled under robe, and plumes of white feathers. There were few cr no national badges, and we remarked only one or two Ladies in tartan. A good many wore blue, and a few green and yellow, with their characteristic fea tures expressing intelligence rather than beauty, and the elderly ones having, according to the almost uni versal appearance of Scotswomen, the two curves edging in their mouths, as in a parenthesis; the daughters of Caledonia certainly had a respectable and interesting appearance. Their demeanour was highly characteristic, when, even to demureness, they moved toward the State apartments without a move ment of the eyes, or a smile on the countenance; and we doubt not but the Ktrzu was as much struck by their characteristic modesty, as he had been by the sober, yet sincere loyalty of the people. The KING arrived about half-past two, not in the Highland garb, as was anticipated, but in a Field-Marshal's uniform; and long after his arrival, the file of carriages and hack ney-coaches, waiting to discharge their fair burdens, extended far without the precincts of the Palace.— The throng of spectators was greater than at the Levee or Court, but whether from the KING, or the attire and beauty of the Ladies, is a problem of which we shall not attempt the solution. The Drawing Room was attended by the principal Nobility and Gentry who had attended the Levee; and we should suppose that the whole number pre sent might be from 2500 to 3000. FROM THE EDINBURGH OBSERVER OF TUESDAY. The Commission from the Church, which presented the Address yesterday, must have struck his Ms- JEsTr with considerable surprise; it was undoubtedly known to him beforehand that the members of the Church of Scotland are not all necessarily Clergy men ; but what is known by report only, does nct prevent the whole of the effect of surprise when the eye first meets a new object. Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam qua aunt oculis subjects fidelibus. Military, and Highland, and other dresses, appeared amongst those of the clerical order, as the proper costume of the members of the Church, producing an effect of which the most accurate previous un, ca .lar knowledge could not altogether destroy the no velty. We must recollect that his MAJESTY, in re ceiving Addresses from clerical bodies, has hitherto been accustomed to black dresses. In this respect it must have been a perfectly new sight to his MAJESTY and all new sights produce new sensations. One of the strongest sensations that m us t ar ise in the mind of any man, upon seeing what the people of other countries, accustomed to other clerical appearances, would be inclined to call an heterogeneous mixture of professions and ranks and offices in life, would be the consideration, that the Church was not here limited to *particular set of men, but was composed of all the people of the country ; and, reasoning tiom such'an observation, he would discover the clue that would explain what secret influence threw so much decorum and propriety of conduct over the crowds that assembled to witness his MAJESTY'S landing.— The intimate connexion between, or rather the iden tity of, the Church and the People, cannot but have some effect; and if any, a beneficial one : that con-