Star. — London, England, 1822-08-14 00:00:00

I I italr _~ ,_ LON DON. TILE PL:NDS. A' 1 ; t; It; i J.l~ ~~ r ' ~1, 'i p ~` ~ Tl.l 14. N 1 N 1; STA K . WEDNESD 11", - AUGUST 14, 1522. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There appears a scarcity of Monty Stock in the market this morning: some purchases have been made, but flat to a con siderable amount. Consols for the Account soi I. Reduced 80i to Si. Fonvinit FUNlM—Chilian Tlonds opened-this morning at 831, Went down to 82, up to 85,. down again to 84 83/, and up to this hour arc 83.--Other Foreign Securities are scarcely thought of. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The above market remains steady at 80t j—not much busl stew doing, Tbe Commissioners gave 81 for Reduced. F>sv rusus.—Within this half hour there is not much doing in Cbilian nor any other Foreign Securities.—Old Spanish 6lf ; New 69. i; Old Prusiian 881 to 89; New 86j ; Rus sian 833; Danish 871 I; Chili= 824 83; Neapolitan 731; Co• lunibian b 64 ; Scrip 861. • PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 9.51 1 4-3 per Cent. Red. SON 81 1 /2 per Cent. Consols 80% 34 3 1 / 2 per Cents. 92 1 4 1 / 8 -4 per tents. 99 1 h 3's 1 4 ptt Cent. New 99 1 / 6 54 34 1A Bank Long Annuities 20 15.16 21 Imperial 3 per Cents. /30 1 / 2 India Stock. 249—India Bonds 625. 61s. pr. Exchequer Adis of £l.OOO, Gs. Bs. pr. Ditto Small 7s. 10s. pr.—Cnnsdls fur' ct. 80% Ye We this day have the melancholy duty of giving the evidence on the Coronet's Inquest relative to the death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. That it was occa , ioned duping a fit of insanity there cannot be the least doubt; but various causes are assigned for his Lordship's unfortunate malady. Some attribute it to the excessive cares and fatigues of his office, while alters, who profess to have had the opportu nity of learning the sentiments of his Lordship, state, that a supposed slight on the part of his MAJESTY, in not commanding his attendance to Scotland, weighed most heavily on his mind. Whether the extreme pressure of business may not have harassed his spirits and weakened his intellect, so as to unfit him for re ceiving patiently any mortification, it is difficult to say; but, to a man who had so delicate a sense of peisonal kindne,s, this imagined neglect may have preyed too forcibly upon him. It is reported that a misunderstanding has pre vailed for some time between'his Mozart and the MARQUIS ; and that disagreement of opinion had cccasionally taken place on affairs of State ; but, it is said, on last Friday a very decided difference of opinion between his MAJESTY and the Marquis ex isted on a subject not strictly political.—We give these as the rumours of the day, without pledging ourselves fur their accuracy. The French Papers of Sunday have reached us.- - They contain some speculations on the state of Spain, further details of the destruction of the Turkish fleet, a dreadful picture of the new atrocities committed by the Turks on the few remaining inhabitants of Scio, and an account of a frightful murder committed by an Ecclesiastic in France. It would really appear by the language of the Quo tidienne, and the articles of news which it continues to insert, that a change had taken place in the senti ments of the Ultras towards the Greeks. Neither is the alteration confined to the Quotidienne, it has taken place in a quarter where it is still more extraordinary, the Spectatcur Oriental, a Journal which appears at Smyrna, under the very eyes and authority of the Ottomans. This Journal, speaking of the late enter prize of the Greeks, says, " Nothing equals the sensa tion produced in the minds of the Turks, by the ca tastrophe of their fleet, at Scio. Nothing can recover them from their surprise, and we admit that this catastrophe is calculated to.give a new directions to their ideas, and perhaps to events themselves.— The self-devotion of LSONIDAS, amongst the an cient Greeks, produced, it is well known, more than the most brilliant victory could have done, for it re tempered their souls, and carried them to a degree of elevation till then unknown." On this passage the Angsbwrg Gazette makes the following observations Sach language was certainly not to be expected from a Turkish J.•urnalist; but this time the disaster has been too great to be concealed. According to the report of the Turks themselves, their fleet con sisted of fifty-five sail before the catastrophe of Scio, and after having been joined by the expedition which left Constantinople on the 4th of June, it was com posed on the 7th of July of only thirty : five vessels.— Twenty were therefore missing. Let us hope that the panic which has taken possession of the Turks will not cease, and Greece is saved.". This panic seems indeed to be of no common kind, and to have produced a most salutary effect at Constantinople, as the following article, given by the Quotidienne, under the date of Odessa, July 17, will prove:—" We have at last received intelligence from Constantinople, of the 11th inst. The catastrophe of the Turkish, fleet has produced in that capital the effect of an electric stroke. —The SULTAN himself and the Divan have been equally struck, and Lord STRANUFORD, who lately said that be direst not propose to the Porte to appoint a Commissioner to treat with M. de TATISCHEFF, has profitted by this general tenor to obtain from the Divan every possible concession. If there ever existed a favourable opportunity for making the Porte give way, it . is the present; and we entertan the pleasing hope that, thanks to the valour of the (reeks. the expedient so long and so vainly sought after has been found." . Accounts of the 26th ult. from Trieste, contain these additional . particulars of the atrocities committed by the Turks in the villages of Mastic, in the island of Scio, after the destruction of the Capi tan Pacha and a part of their fleet:—" The Turks, after taking possession of these villages, collected thirty thousand men, women, and children, whom they drowned, burned, or carried into captivity.— On the sth of July the Asiatics brought to Tchesme 780 young girls, from IS to 17 years of age; and after having bound them with ropes, they carried them to the market of Smyrna, and to other parts of Asia. Many of them died on the road through want and grief." And is it to protect such monsters that all the Christian Governments of Europe have lately exerted their influence, rather than abandon Turkey to that fate which her crimes demand; and which PROVIDENCE is now raising up more faithful instru ments to inflict ! It is in fact remarkable, that the more the Greeks are deserted by their brother Chris tians, the more they seem to become objects of DIVINE favour and protection, and succeed in their enterpt kes. The Constitutionnel says that a courier from Vienna has brought intelligence announcing that the Austrian I Court was not disposed, any mole than the British Ca binet, to second the views of the Counter-revolu tionists iu Spain, but intended to leave them to their own efforts and resources. The following is the account of a most horrible murder committed by a Priest. Is is given by the Mayor of the Commune where the crime took place : " On Monday, May 8, 1828, in the afternoon, M. Ecclesiastic, of the age of £B, Cure of Quentin-sur-Isere, went to the house of a young woman, whose tragical end I announced in my notice of June 5 (Marie Gerin, whose married name was Charnalet), and remained there about two hours. This woman, who was pious, was to have gone the next day to communicate at Vcury, a neighbouring parish, where the first communion of children was to take place, and it appears that the Cure appointed her an hour to hear her in confession in the evening. She was seen entering the Church about six in the evening ; she went in alece, and was not seen to come out. " The husband of this unfortunate woman went at nine o'clock, to seek her at the houses of several of her relations; he went with a female cousin of his wife to; the Parsonage-house, conti guous to the Church. The Cure, who made them wait a few instants, said, at first, he had not seen her—then, recollecting himself, added, he bad seen her devoutly praying, but without speaking to her. " While he spoke, the Cure walked out from the Parsonage, as if he feared they might come in. The Cure afterwards held the same language to different persons; to others he said, that not having found this female in a decent dress enough, he had declined bearing her confession. The Wednesday, it must be remarked, was a working day. " About half-past four o'clock in the morning, an inhabitant of the town, descending towards the plain by a path, not fre quented at night, perceived a little from it, and about two hun dred yards from the Parsonage, blood in abundance, a penknife stuck in the ground, and a string, about six metres long, both bloody. In the same place were found rap of flesh and some fragments of bone. Traces of blood led other persons to the bank of the here, where the neck-handkerchief of the unhappy woman was recognised, without doubt placed there to give rise to the idea that she had drowned herself. The idea of assavoina tion occurred to no one in a country which, within the memory of man, had not been stained by any aims. Suicide was thought of. It was imagined, contrary to all prebabWty, that after having stabbed herself with the knife (which was afterwards recognised as not belonging to her). she had preserved strength to go and throw herself into the Isere. It is 890 paces from the place where the knife was found to the bank of the here, where the handkerchief was. " The despair of the woman was explained by the rigour of the Curd in confession; and it was imagined, that having been refused absolution, she had destroyed herself. Her death was said to be the work of the devil, and credulity and superstition propagated the story. On the 111th of the same month, how ever, the character of the terror that was created was changed, when some shepherds discovered in a creek of the here, SW paces from the place where the handkerchief was found, the thigh and the left leg of the victim. On the Thursday following, the day of the Ascension, the bust was found, about six leagues below St. Quentin. The identity was established. It appears hence certain, that the body of the victim was carried whole by the assassin to the place where the rope and knife were found, and that be there dismembered the body ! " On Friday, May 17, about ten in the morning, the gen darmerie came to St. Quentin and went to the parsonage to make investigations. Almost immediately after the departure of the gendarmes the Cure went off himself, and the same day gained Les EcheUes, a frontier of Savoy. He was arrested a few days after and conducted to the prisons of Chambery, where he re mains detained. No other inhabitant of St. Quentin has left it Mice May 8. I could enter into other details—speak of groans heard the evening of the same day in the neighbourhood of the church. But the procedure wiU undoubtedly dissipate the dark ness in which crime would envelope itself. (Signed) " DAVIN, Mayor." We are somewhat surprised (says the Constitutionnel) at learning that a man accused of so execrable a crime has not yet been delivered up. The Piedmon tese Government made no difficulty in giving up Di dier, accused of a political conspiracy Is it that men accused of murders that make one shud der appear less dangerous than those cast forth by our sad civil dissensions ? We have received, by express, Madrid Papers to the 7th instant. They contain a variety of details relative to the political and financial state of Spain. The most important article is the announcement of a change of Ministry. It appears in the Universal of the 6th, in the form of a postscript, and the follow ing are the terms in which the statement is given: " It is twelve at night, and we are informed that his Majesty has now agreed to the formation of the new Ministry., We do not pledge ourselves for this news; but the following are the persons said to be Sled on for Ministers, via.—Don Evuisto San Miguel, Don Francisco Fernandes due*, Don FeHpe nieio Navarro, Don Antonio Martinez, Don Manuel VadiHo, and Senor Caps. We repeat, that we do not pledge ourselves to this acesent, bet we em stmt thet"the itew Adage win be essmiseted te.eiseriew." The same paper contains two Decrees addressed to the Marquis de SANTA CREE, Major-demo, of the Paldce. These Decrees relieve, according to the of ficial language, the Conde del PUMA from the alcel of Chamberlain, and the Marquis de MOIIIESPARE BELOIDA hint the office of Master of the Muse, sod appoints the Marquis de SANTA CEDE to discharge the dutiespre empire. General LOPEZ BANOS * the new Minister of War, arrived in Madrid on the evening of the Sth. The liberal party hailed his arrival with eaultation. He was expected greatly to influence the appointment of the other Ministers, and 03 urge the adoption of ener getic measures for defeating the wicked designsof the external and internal enemies of the liberties of Spain, MINA arrived in the capital on the 4th instant, to confer with the Government on the Mtatis of tran quillizing Catalonia. The con duct of the Duke of INFANTA/Xi is still re garded with suspicion. He was ordered to Badajos. and, on his application to the Government, was per mitted to pass to the second military district ; but the express condition that he should reside in Co runna. On his way he lingered at Ponferrada, and the Government had to send fresh orders for him to proceed to his destination. Reimours had prevai:ed of his having headed a party of insurgents. The accounts from the provinces do not possess much interest. Some uninteresting skirmishes with the.banditti, who take the title of " Soldiers of the Faith," are detailed. It appears that these insurgents, though they commit great depredations on the de fenceless inhabitants, are incapable of coming into the field in any force; and that, when they do chew themselves, they are invariably defeated by a very inferior number of the Constitutional troops. 'The leaders of the servile bands endeavoured to turn to their advantage the mutiny of the Guards, by spread ing the report that the KING was absolute at Madrid ; but this manoeuvre was not attended with any success. It is, however, in the Palace that the principal ene mies of the Constitution are believed to exisv; and some of the Madrid Journals are loud in their demands that the Royal Household shall be purified. Some occurrences have lately taken place, which, though rivial in themselves, acquire importance as indica tions of the spirit that prevails. It appears that, at half-past five o'clock on Tuesday evening, the 30th ult. six stones, of considerable size, were thrown from a window of the Palace, at a Mili tiaman and a soldier of the regiment of the Infante Don Carlos, who were on duty at the place called Panto de Diamante. The Commandant of the Guard, on being in formed of this insult, communicated the circumstance to his Excellency Senor Don ion de PALAFOX, Cap tain of Halberdiers, pointing oat the window whence the stones had issued, and alleging that they had been thrown by a woman. His Excellency immedi ately proceeded to verify the fact, and it was proved that the stones had been thrown from the apartment copied by the Senora de Lociuz, duenna to the Senora Infanta Donna FRANCISCA de Aszs, as it ap pealed by a seamstress who was in the habit of going to work by the day in the said apartment, and who, by order of his Excellency, was immediately placed in the custody of the guard of the Palace. His MAJESTY being informed of the circumstance, transmitted a Royal Order to the Secretary at War, for ascertaining the truth, and for the speedy punish ment of the guilty. His MAJESTY says he does not wish the Palace to become an asylum for delinquents. " Though from the statement of the Captain of the Halberdier Guards, it appears that the person ho threw the stones was not a dependent of the Palace, but a seamstress, who happened to be in the chamber of Senora de LOCUS, duenna to the Se nora Donna FRANC/SCA de Am; yet his MAJESTY has determined that all who inhabit the said apart ' ments shall abstain from making use thereof, until they have legally proved their innocence—the Fiscal who directs the inquiry being empowered freely to arrest those to whom any suspicion may attach, and to receive the declarations which he may think pro per, without the necessity of any farther authority." A few days afterwards a similar insult was offered to the exterior guard of the Palace: a large glass bottle, and some old shoes, have been thrown at some soldiers of the militia, but it has not been ascertained from whose apartments they had been thrown. There are in these Papers several articles contain ing statements respecting the Spanish finances. On the Ist inst. Senors DIAZ del MORAL, PARDO, and SUAREZ del VILLAR, entered on execution of their functions. The first takes charge of the office for the examination, recognition, and liquidation of the documents of the public debt; the second is com missioned to superintend the incorporation and aliena. lion of the property consigned to the same object; and the third is exclusively charged with all the na tional property applicable to public credit, and with the collection of the duties thereto appropriated. An abstract of the Budget fixes the charges for the public service of the year, commencing with the Ist of July last, at 664,813,324 reals. The Ways and Means ate calculated to cover this expenditure, Among the items under the last head, the Revenue on articles of consumption is estimated at one hundred millions of reels. . A Memorial, addressed to the Minister of the In• terior, has been published by Don NT/MI rt Ben- Titan its ka, in which the Memorialist proposes, o n ( certain considerations, toyfurnish all the money which may be required for carrying on all the public worl3 of acknowledged utility in different parts of Spain. This forenoon we received a mass of intellizence frogs Spain, by the way of BatOnne, tip to the eeh instant. The accounts from Madrid, which are only to the Sd, are chiefly anticipated by later intelligeree direct from that capital. On the Ist inst. Salvaeor Gabardo, a soldier in the Guards, and one cf the ac• complices in the murder' f Lieutenant LANDABuitcr, was executed in the public 'square. All the g;arivai was under arms. He wished to harangue the people from the scaffold, but the Priests would not allow it, The crowd was immense, and generally pitied the victim, whom they would willingly have delivered if they could put in his place the principhl werson s whom public opinion designates as the atith,zs of the plots.—lt is affirmed that pallisades are truing to be placed on the heights (Vistilla , ), and even that several cannon will be placed at different pmts of the capital. The accounts from flit Provinces arc nrt of mu c h importance. A strong column has made itself mas ter of Mequinenza, in Arragon, according to letters from Saragossa, the Governor of which has applied to Madrid for reinforcements. A confederation has been formed in the three Pro. vinces of Biscay to raise ten companies of Chas , ,eurs to pursue the factious, who commit the greatest ex cesses. These soldiers will be paid by the Prov;nces, and placed under the command of three distin guished Officers. QUESADA has withdrawn his whole force to the ex treme frontier, and is employed in constantly exer. cising his soldiers. According to the last statement w;*.h he has sent to General Ecims, his division con sists of 2300 foot and 300 horse. Orders have come from Madrid to Bayonne to suspend a;1 supplies, and to require accurate accounts from those who have managed the large sums received from the 114ninsula. New York Papers to the 14th of July, and Phila .. delphia to the 13th, arrived this day. PROM TILE BALTIMORC PATRIOT, JULY I I. The schooner Amanda arrived at this last evening, in the remarkable quick passage of sisty•five days from Valparaiso : she left Valparaiso on the 3d of May. The United States ship Franklin, and the frigate Constellation, were to sail in two days for the United States, via Rio Janeiro—NO news. FROM THE BOSTON PAPER OF JULY 10. CtrEA.—Since the anal establishment ef a :erara!e Government in Mexico, and the recognition by 6:e United States of the independence of Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Chili, and other nations who shall be able to maintain their liberty, we have received rt.- peated intimations of a disposition of the people Cuba to change their situation ; we have even heard that discussions have taken place among certain en lightened inhabitants of the island, whether, in ease they cut asunder the ties binding them to Spain, they will unite with the Empire of Mexico, or form a connexion with the United States of America. The new Emperor, ltu rbide, is understood to be op posed to the continuance of slavery in all its forms; and this illumination of his n:ind is viewed by the slaveholders of Cuba as boditr , no g ood to them in case of an union. We observe that more troops are ordered out from Spain to succour Morales, in the S l ;ani.ll Main, and the money is to be supplied from Cuba. The inha bitants of Havannah, St. Jago, Principe, and the other important towns, have but little specie to spate. Indeed, notwithstanding a recent official contradic tion of the existence of any rebellious sentiments in Cuba, we observed in one paper a letter from Matan zas to this city, indicating the marked exteut of the revolutionary spirit. FROM CARACCAS, JUNE is. a REPUBLIC OF COLUMBIA, MAY tn. " TO TUE INTENDANT OF VENEZUELA. " This morning I received by post, from the Secretary o! . Staze and of the Department of War, the following communir. t un , " I have the greatest satisfaction in informing you, that i Excellency the Liberator President has gained a complete tory over the enemy of Quito. The battle was fought on the 7th of April last, on the heights of Cariaco: the battle was bloody, and the loss considerable; for the enemy, who besides being deprived of their General-in-Chief, 11Iurgeon, by his death, saw the flower of their troops perish. On our side. we know that General Torres, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. Paris, were wounded. " LINO DE CLEMENTI.'" CARACCAS, SAME DATE. Important intelligence has just reached us that tl:e army of General Morales in Coro has been com pletely destroyed, and that he, in a fit of despera.; , :J, shot himself with a pistol. I believe, howe%cr, lie must have been killed in the action. By a Leeward Island Mail, we have receive.] '- tigua Papers to the middle of June. The folhy.vilig are extracts : - FROM THE PAPER OF MAY 28. The brig Albion, Potts, from Bermuda, bona,' to this island, was lost on a reef off Anguilla, c3lled 0:e Prickly Pear, at two o'clock A.M. on the 21.4 tilt. — The vessel went down so suddenly after striking, that it was with difficulty the crew saved their lives. FROM TR, FAME PAPER OP THE 29TH. We find by the Barbadoes Papers, that the A,,cm bly of that Island, at their Meeting on the 2.1 ult. Adopted sixteen Resolutions on the subject of t!‘e Ad journn3ent of their House by M. Mesident Sku:o, during the absence of the Governor., and on the pie- 1