Star. — London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, DECEMBER St. Last Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, a fire suddenly broke out in the apartment of Lady Stew art, wife of the British Ambassador, which, though happily no person received any bodily injury, de. stroyed a quantity of valuable furniture, wearing ap parel, plate, china, Stc.. to the value, it is said, of 200,000 florins Vienna currency. The fire is said to have been caused by the pipes of a stove, which have so frequently been the occasion of so many accidents. His Highness the Landgrave of Hesse Homburg, General of Cavalry in the Imperial service, arrived here on the 20th. - Every preparation is now making at Laybach for the reception of the Sovereigns and their Ministers, and the Court equipages are already sent thither. All is here ready to receive the Emperor Alexander, whose stay, however, will be short, as he will either accompany our Emperor to the South, or return to his own dominions. The Public are curious to learn the result of the proposals made to the Pope by the Allied Courts, of which Baron Libezellen was the bearer, and of which nothing is known, but that they do not relate to a mediation, as was at first state but to something else, which is desired of the Holy See, with regard to the affairs of Naples. The Journal Hesperus, published at Prague, con tains the following interesting article, under the head " DISPUTES IN SERVIA 14 New troubles are beginning in Servia. The cause is very simple. No Turk is allowed to spew himself in any part of the Province, except Belgrade, where a Vizier resides, together with the garrison. The Servian Gosbaar Milosch, formerly a General under Czerny George, executes the commands of the Vizier in the Province. The Servians are, notwithstanding, exposed to various vexations from he Turks. They, therefore, resolved, very lately, to send a Deputation to the Porte, and request to be treated on the same footing as the Moldavians, that is to say, to remove all the Turks out of the country, and to place over it a Hospodar of their own, for which they promised to pay a higher annual tribute. The Deputies pro- ceed to Constantinople, the Vizier hears of it, writes to the Porte that the Petitioners cannot even pay the present tribute, how, then, should they be able to pay a higher one ? 4 4 The Deputies, being informed of this, write to Milthch, and receive from him all the receipts by which they prove that they have punctually paid the tribute for the whole of the current year, though it is not expired. The Porte, surprised at this contradic tion, sends a Defterdar to Belgrade, to &quire into the matter. Soon after his arrival, Milosch receives an order to repair to Belgrade, to hear the Firman which has been received ; but a Turk, a sincere friend to Milusch, privately lets him know the Commis sioners has agreed with the Vizier, to make him (Mi losch), a head shorter, and thus to restore tranquil lity ; and he shouli, therefore, be on his guard. The latter, therefore, had no longer any desire to hear the Imperial Firman, and sent word to the Vizier, that the affair concerned the whole People, and he was, therefore, resolved to assemble as many as possible before Belgrade, that they might hear the contents thethselves, otherwise they would not believe him. ' 1 4 - Without waiting for the answer, he assembled 7,000 armed Servians at the gates of Belgrade, and sent a request to thc Vizier to come out and read the Firman to them. The Vizier declined, and desired the People to send him a Deputation. Milosch sent into the fortress his two brothers, with 200 armed men, to whom the Firman was published, importing that the request could not be granted. The friendly Turk, however, sent again to Milosch, and let him know that the People had been deceived, and that he , 'should demand the reading of the true Firman. Mi losch accordingly let the Vizier know that the Peo ple doubted the authenticity of the Firman, because the Deputies were still at Constantinople, and had not sent any such communication to the People, and he, therefore, begged to know the contents of the real Firman. At the same time he sent orders to all the Rajahs (Judges) to assemble as many armed men as possible, and be ready to proceed, at an hour's no tice, to whatevel ;lace they might be ordered. Thus the affair stands at this moment—it may produce a new storm." The story of the existence somewhere in the Trans- Mississippi Country of a large mountain of salt ) has been recently revived. Governor MILLER, of Arkan saw, has written a letter, in which he mentions an extent of country covered with fine chrystalized salt, six inches deep. He adds, all men agree, both Whites and Indians, that this article is in such abundance some distance above where he was, that they cut and split off pieces a foot square. " It may be true," says the New York Commercial Advertiser, " that this vast mine of salt exists in the West, but we have not much confidence in Indian authority, and we should have been much better satisfied of the fact, had Go vernor MILLER traversed the country and split off and preserved a foot squate of the salt for his own use. We all remember, that next to his red breeches, Mr. JEFFERSON was quizzed more upon this subject than any other, and doubtless it was premature in the credulous philosopher to state positively the exist ence of such a mountain in a Message to Congress, without better evidence of the fact than he possesses. So indispensable is a Newspaper become in all situations, and to all ranks of the People of England, either afloat or ashore, above ground or in mines be low ground, that even the crews of the Polar vessels could not dispense with this necessary of life, when immured in utter gloom for eighty-three days, and with the glass at 50. under Zero. A Newspaper was actually composed, printed, and distributed for the information of the people. Captain SABINE was the Editor, while Captain PARRY wrote and prepared Dramas, which were regularly performed for their amusement. Something of the same kind has been known in most of our fleets when afloat. In the flag. ship of Admiral SAUMAREZ, when in the Baltic, a Journal regularly made its appearance, not_printed, but written, called the Orlopian Gazette. The con ductors of it were not known; they laboured in se cret; and contrived to drop, unseen, a sufficient num ber of copies of their lucubrations to make them known from the Admiral's table to the Orlop deck. LONDON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1821. letrws, us Twures DAT.--Holiday at the Bank. At a late hour last night we received German Papers to the 29th ult. from which we have given extracts. The residence of our Ambassador, in Vienna was much damaged by fire on the 17th 'ult. and much of the furniture was destroyed, but happily no person was hurt. I - The Austrian troops now in Italy are said to be two hundred thousand, one half of whom are to march against Naples, if the visit of the KING to Laybach shall not produce results favourable to the views of the Allied Powers :—that is—they are to march ; for if the Kixo agrees with them, then the Neapolitans must be punished as rebels; and if he refuse to call his subjects rebels, then the war will be against both KING and People, for introducing a system incompatible with Monarchical principles. The Sard inian Government proposes, it is said, to maintain a strict neutrality. This, however, will be impossible—should the Holy Allies command the Sardinians to take the field. The protocol of the Congress has been circulated,' but not yet published on the Continent. It presents a moderately ; worded denunciation of the changes in Government effected by the military power. We have heard that the new Governments of Naples, Portugal, and Spain, are particularly named in it, and protested against ; and to the difficulty of deter mining on this comprehensive and momentous ques tion, has been ascribed the delay respecting the affairs of Naples. The chief aim of the British Am bassador is stated to have been to postpone any de termination until the views of the King of POW' U GAL, respecting the revolution in that kingdom, should reach Europe. Everything, certainly, that has recently come out, tends to impress the belief that Naples would be but the outpost in an attack upon the new representative system in the South of Europe.—But freedom has a herculean strength, even in its cradle. Accounts received from Madrid state, that persons of adequate talent and information bad been ap pointed, under a species of Royal Commission, to various districts of Spain, in order to (report to the Ministry their opinion and observations regarding the political and commercial state of the interior. The individuals selected for this duty have, it is said, been chosen with great impartiality, without reference to the particular interest to which they might be at tached, their qualifications for the undertaking being the chief matter taken into consideration. The fact that such a Commission had been instituted was an nounced publicly in the Madrid Newspapers, and had given much satisfaction. The apprehension felt some time since of commotions in the southern provinces of Spain, and particularly in Valencia, had altogether subsided, the principal ground of complaint being now limited to the new Tariff, which has already had so injurious an effect upon trade. From Barcelona, under date of the 16th of December, they write that it had been received there, but that there was consi derable doubt whether it would be carried into exe cution, in consequence of the opposition by which, on all hands, it would be met. The Path Papers of Monday, Tuesday, and Wed- nesday, arrived this forenoon. On the first day of the new year, a Deputation from the Chamber of Deputies, with the President, M. RAVEZ, at their head, waited on the Ktso with the Address of the Chamber, in answer to his MA.. JESTY'S Speech on opening the Session. Like the Addresses of other Legislative Assemblies, it is merely an echo to the Speech. On the 2d of the month, the Minister of Finances presented is the Chamber of Deputies a Project of Law, for authorizing the collection of six-twelfths of the direct Revenue for 1821 upon the assessments for 1820. The history of affairs at Naples is brought down in these Papers to the 15th ultimo. The private let ter which we quoted yesterday was erroneous in stating, that the KING had executed a formal act of agreement to the modifications necessary in the Spa nish Constitution. The following is an exact sum mary of the events which took place from the 11th of,the month, where our last narrative broke off, till the period of the Km's departure. In the Sitting of Parliament on the 12th, the Com mittee appointed to examine the act of accusation proposed by Colonel PEPS against the ex-Ministers, six in number, on account of the Message presented in his MAJESTY'S name on the 7th (see STAR of the 30th ultimo), reported, that in the opinion of the ma jority of the Committee, it was the conduct alone of the Duke de CismrocistAno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and of Count Zum.o, Minister of the Inte rior, which was liable to the application of Article 226 upon Responsibility, the first for having counter signed, and the second for having dispatched the Message to the Intendants of Provinces. On the 13th the Parliament replied .to the third Message of the KING--(See STAB of Wednesday laai)—by an Address, in which they first refer to an accompanying Decree, transferring to the Vicar- General, by the new title of Regent, the whole of the Royal power during the absence of the Kato his ' father; and after expressing - fervent wishes for his MAJEsvis safe return, to live in peace among his people, or assist them in defending their rights, they say, that they will regard it as a new pledge .of his MaJzsvv's attachment to the interests of his People, if he will immediately fill up the nominations Ito the Council of State, provided for by the Consti tution, in aid and controul of the Executive, and com plete the modifications necessary in the Constitu tional Act. In reply to the Deputation who waited on the KING with this Address, his MAJESTY said— " I go to the Congress to fulfil what I have sworn. I leave, with pleasure, my beloved son as Regent of the Kingdom. I hope that GOD will grant me the strength necessary to fulfil my intentions." A very short time after the departure of this Deputation, his MAJESTY sent a new Message to the Parliament, of the following tenour : " FAISDINAND. ice. _ - _ " Mr FAMITUL Derrnis—The interest which I take in the welfare of my people demands that I should not defer for an in stant my departure for Laybach. where the Allied Monarchs must already have assembled. " In acceding to my paternal views, you desire that, before departing, I should make some dispositions with respect to the 2omination of Councillors of State, and the modifications in the Constitution. • " Time, which presses, will not allow me to attend to what regards the Council of State. I desire, however, that this Body should be established, in order that the progress of affairs may not experience any delay during my absence. " The modifications of the Constitution require a more ma ture examination than I can give to it in the few hours left me before my departure. This duty will remain, therefore, con fided to the Prince Regent, the Duke of Calabria, my beloved Son, who is Invested with my powers in their full extent. But if you think it necessary that this examination should be made by myself, you can transmit me the modifications, or rather you can wait my return from Laybach, which I hope will be very soon. " As the duration of three months, which the Constitution prescribes to your legislative functions, iv: near Expiring, and as the matters for your discussion are far from being exhausted, I desire, in terms of Article 107 of the Constitution, that the pre sent Session of Parliament shall be prolonged for one month farther; the wants of the Country demand it. (Signed) " FERDINAND." Notwithstanding the delay indicated in the first part of the above Message, respecting the Council of State, his MAJESTY appears, on second thoughts, to have formed a wiser determination; for,• almost immediately after the Message was delivered, it was followed by a Decree, in which his MAJESTY, agree ably to the suggestion of Parliament, nominates the twenty-four Members of the Council of State.— Among the names are—the Archbishop of Mon /MALE, Lieutenant-General D. GUILLAUME PEPE, D ROBERT FILANGIERI, the Prince of VILLARMOSA, &c. At three o'clock on the 13th, the artillery of all the forts, and the vessels in the reads, announced the embarkation of his MAJESTY. An immense multi tude, who covered the quays, rent the air with their acclamations and their wishes for a happy voyage to his MAJESTY. In consequence of contrary winds his MAJESTY did not disembark at Leghorn till the 20th. He con tinued to enjoy good health, but the fatigues of the voyage made it necessary that he should take a repose of some days at Florence. The Grand Duke of TUSCANY had set out from Florence to meet his MAJESTY ; the Duchess of LUCCA had also sent her Grand Major-domo to compliment her uncle. Letters from Rome say, that the Duke de GALLO, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs at Naples, had arrived at Rome, from whence he was immediately to set out to accompany the KING, his Master, to the Congress at Laybach. An article from Vienna of the 21st, mentions that there was some expectation of the place of meeting being transferred from Laybach to Florence. The Court equipages which were to set out for Laybach, had received counter-orders. The following intelligence from Leghorn has been received at LLOYD'S: " LEGHORN, DEC. 23. " On the 20th instant, arrived here the Vastort man of war, REVOLUTIONAIRE frigate, and a French frigate, from Naples; and the limo of the Two &m -utts, who came passenger in the Vaticzust, set off this morning for Florence. The ships sailed yester day, on their return to Naples." French Five per Cents. Tuesday, 79 fr. 75 c. The labours of the Ultras to procure pseudo-loyal Addresses have hitherto only tended to prove their paucity in numbers, and to expose them to the deri sion of their truly loyal countrymen. Can smuggled Addresses—or such as are, in contempt of the voice of the People assembled, forwarded by time-servers, as expressions of public sentiment, deceive any_ even those who are labouring to deceive themselves? Impossible. Some farther particulars, received this morning, respecting the Dublin County Meeting, are given in another column. At length one County Meeting, for the purpose of a, so called, Loyal Address, is to be attempted by 1 , the friends of Ministers. They proMise themselves success at Derby ; and perhaps they may contrive to obtain there a semblance of approbation. But on the other hand, the Counties of Northumberland, Bedford, Berk:, and Southampton, will all meet in the course of the ensuing week, to give an honest ex pression of their feelings in Addresses to the Throne, and Petitions to both Houses of Parliament ; and the great County of York will soon be ready to deliver its sentiments on the conduct of the King's advisers. Can anything be more base, more wicked, more, .._ ~s --- stupid than the conduct of the Ultras (the on l y Revolutionists who threaten danger to the Conk ; tution) in vilifying the whole community as seditiot disaffected, and encouragers of blasphemy! on us ! what would come of these Ultras, if thi, charge were true?. Would Ministers and their minim. dare to use such language if the People were oth er . wise than loyal and strongly attached to the C ol . stitution as by law established ? It is easy to yam ? about excessive loyalty among a People so l oyal that even the insults of those who abuse th e " cannot provoke them to acts of indiscretion., Would these bold men dare to deal out abuse all• scandal, and in the manner they do, if they them, selves really believed one word of all with ul l ith they now presume to charge the People? No ; the} would be the last upon earth to venture to ope n the, mouths in such strains ; but it is easy to vapour wh ere there is no danger. Little curs may, it is well knot; bark at a mastiff with perfect impunity. The following Requisition has been sent to th e . LORD MAYOR: " My Loan—We, the undersigned Members of the C art of Common Council, request your Lordship will convene aa early Court to take into consideration the expediency of N. , tinning Parliament to use such measures as in their wiaiom seem meet for effecting the restitution of her Mamie's R ise into the Liturgy, her restoration to her rights and dignities., • QIICEN, and a rigid inquiry into the unconstkutional pry ings against her MAirsrv.-sth of January, 1921." The LORD MAroa has appointed Thursday net• ; ' the 11th instant, at twelve o'clock. A Requisition, numerously signed by the Nobilitr, Gentry, Clergy, anli Freeholders of the County Derby, has been forwarded to the High Sheriff, se. s pi t in g him to call a Meeting to address his MA. JESTY, " at this iseportant crisis, for the sole po : . pose of assuring him o+f their permanent attachment to the Throne, and of their determination to suppo i the Constitution in all its branches." The Sheri has accordingly appointed Monday next, at tsseh e o'clock, for the Meeting to take place at the County Hall, in Derby. CHARLES BARNETT, Esq. the High Sheriff for the County of Bedford, in consequence of a Requisition • presented to him, most respectably signed, has deemed it his duty to convene a Meeting of the County, to be held at Bedford, on the 12th instant, to consider the propriety of addressing the QUEEN on the failure of ) the late conspiracy against her honour. A Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Ayr was held on Saturday last, when a Loyal Ad dress was voted to his MAJESTY. Sir DAVID H. &Ain was in the Chair. The Address was moved by Sir JAMES FERGUSON, and seconded by Sir \fib. LIAM CUNINGHAM, of Caprington. Mr. Oswath, of Auchincruive, opposed the Address, as intending more than it professed, and implying an approval of - the conduct of Ministers. Several other Gentlemen delivered their opinions, some for and others against the Address, which was carried by a majority of 51— the numbers being, Ayes 66, Noes 15. A Meeting of the inhabitants of Cheltenham was - held in that town on Tuesday last, the Hon. R. Moog in the Chair, when an Address to his MAJESTY yas unanimously agreed to, professing their unshaken !or ally and attachment; but condemning the proem:Ns of Ministers against the QUEEN, and praying their dis• • missal from office. Thanks were at the same time voted to the Duke of GLOUCESTER, Marquis of Lau. DOWN, Earl GREY, and several other Peers, who Lod an active part against those proceedings in the Roue of Lords. T. GRAY, Esq. the mover of the Address, commenced his speech with the following explanatios of the cause of the present Meeting:—‘ , In common with every well-wisher to the peace and prosperity d the town, I beg to express my regret that any politi- cal agitation should have been excited among us; bat when an Address, framed at a private Meeting ofa few individuals, and not in the usual course submit• ted to the test of public opinion and discussion, his been ushered into the world under the title of al& tenham Loyal Address, and is stated to have bees passed at a Meeting of the inhabitants and visitants A l of the town and neighbourhood of Cheltenham, held for the purpo s e of framing a Loyal Address to his Majesty King GEORGE IV. when that Address con. tains a direct attack upon the mainstay of our liberty, the Public Press, together with a general charge of treasonable attempts, in my humble opinion, a public Declaration of the inhabitants of Cheltenham, at a Meeting thus regularly convened, was imperatively called for."—Mr. GRAY concluded a long and ek • cellent speech with moving the Address, which was s i ably supported by H. W. Haulms, and E. Pilaus, Esqrs. The Address received three hundred signr turn in the course of three hours, on Wednesday. At the head of the little junta of birds of passale that framed the snu g Loyal Address alluded to by Mr. GRAY, were Lord MOUNT-EARL and Sir H. Pos. A letter from Dublin, dated December 27, says— , " An occurrence of an extraordinary nature took place a few days ago in the part of the country WI have just quitted. The Marquis of LONDONDERRI dreamt that his son (Lord CASTLEREAGH) came ova to his house, and that he went down to the Statue Gallery to see him. With this impression on his mind he got up in his sleep and walked down to the gallery in his house, and stumbling against a starve, knocked it down; the noise brought the servants to the gallery, where they found the Marquis in an apo plectic fit, in which state he was carried to his room, and still continues in the most alarming condition, with very slight hopes of his recovery." Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships Were taken up, and thus stationed, viz. the Bombay, Car min HAMILTON; and the Herefordshire, Captain HOP., 1200 tons each, for China direct. The Duke of WELLINGTON is now on a visit to Lord SUEFIELD, who has invited a large party to ' meet his Grace. Baron Von O EYNHAUSEN, Chamberlain, and Vice Grand Master of the Horse to the Duke of BRoxs• wicx, arrived in• town yesterday, to announce to our Court the death of Prince Avousrui, brother to her Majesty Queen CAROLINE. He died at Brunswick on the 18th of last month, at nine in the evening. The - Metropolis, yesterday, in common with most parts of the country, experienced a heavy fall of snow. Towards evening, however, a thaw took place, ac companied by heavy rain, which continued during the greater part of the night, and this day, ell )lal THE EVENING STAR. -