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COLOMBIAN LOAN. XTOTIcg . is hereby given, That the SECOND ..1-N HA VT-TEARLY DIVIDEND of this Wilk will be paid to the Bothd-boldets on the Ist day of MAY next, and any subsequent day (Sundays excepted). The Dividend %Wants are to be le ft for examination at the Office of Messrs. ring, W. Oraharn and 4. Powles, No. 3, Freeman's-court, Cornhill, one diy prevEnis le receiving the Dividend. Freensan's4eart i , Stank 97. leirk • STATE OP IRELAND. A copy of a dispatch from the HarquisWeLLest.RY to Mr. Put., dated Phceoix Park, January 20, 1823, gives some curibtiS particulars relative to the present condition of Ireland. We cannot insert the whole of this document, but the following are the most essen tial points ; Dorsal the . summer and the early part of the autumn of 1822, the measures sanctioned by Puha= mast tot the restoration of tranquillity, combined with other causes, had produced such a degree of quiet, that no necessity existed for my usual communica tion; and I entertained a hope that .I might have been able At this time to furnish a very favourable report of the actual state of ,the country; and that this winter would have passed without any material disturbance of the public tranquillity. Although events have happened in some of the provinces which have disappointed my expectations, I am happy to inform you that the general condition' of Ireland, with respect to internal tranquillity, is, considerably ameliorated. In the county of Limerick, the principal seat of the late dtsturbances, my expectations have not been dis appointed. The reports from the Magistrates of that county present no ajcgravated cases of crime, but manifest indications o f the decline of that system of illegal and secret co:nbination which originally led to open violence. Information is now-more readily afforded; criminals are more easily detected; and the witnesses against them no longer entertain that cxtreme apprehension of danger, which, during the early part of the year 1822, so universally and so justly prevailed. Limerick, therefore, has been restored to a state of tranquillity, and is now more exempt from crimes than other counties, which have been deemed tran quil. The condition of Limerick, however, cannot justify the removal of any considerable portion of the force of the army or police; nor the suspension of the operation of the Insurrection Act. At the end of November a.disposition to disturb ance began to appear in Clare, by notices on the sub- . ject of tithes, by, punishing persons engaged in the collection of them; and by a violent attack on (Mr. 11.1‘Cullock) aa, clergyman, whose life was seriously en ' dangered by the injuries which he suffered. To such an extent had crime prevailed in the ha- 1 rony of Tulla, that the Magistrates had anticipated the necessity of requiring the application of the pro visions of the Insurrection Act. At the close of the, harvest a general disposition was manifested in Cork and 'Tipperary, to invade the property of the Clergy, and of others deriving an in. gm* from tithes. Tithe property, whether in the hands of laymen or ecclesiastics, was the object of attack ; and the means usually employed. destruction by fire. During . the latter part of September, few nights passed witaout the destruction, by fire, of some building, haggard, or stacks of tithe corn,, in the proclaimed Baronies' in the county of Col k. The same system has con tinued in those Baronies, with some abatement, to the present time. It is a cut ions circumstance, how ever, in the character of these transactions, that, in several instances, the grain had been artfully sepa rated from the straw, and had been sold, by the y pro prietor of the stacks, for its full value; and that the same propietor•had destroyed the stacks of straw by fire, with a view of recovering from the Barony the' full value of the corn already sold. These cases were not so unfrequent. The incendiary was of Course undiscoverable. The fact of such numerous and secret conflagrations was alleged to be' an indisputable proof of general com bination, until the vigilante of the military and Po lice actually detected 'a considerable number of the stacks of straw, cleared of thi grain, and prepared for the fire; and thus dis Covered the whole mystery otthis double fraud. By the activity of The troops and of the Police, the number of conflagrations has been gradually reduced; several instances, however, of that outrage occurred during the last week, in one Barony. • While these lawlet.i outrages have been directed against tithe property, the former system of robbing houses for arms, has not been altogether abandoned. —Attempts to destroy persons Obnoxious to the in surgents, on account of information given, or of a refusal to obey their commands, have been renewed ; but these robberies have not been frequent, and have appealed rather subsidiary to*the attainment of other . objects connected with the * destruction of the pro perty of the church. There is reason to believe, that in some cases out. rages have been perpetrated by persons detached fur the special pinpose, from the disturbed Baronies; and even in the parts of the country where the outrages have most,prevailed they have seldom been conducted by persons of the immediate neighbourhood, with the exception of the cases of fraud already described. In lipperiry a similar system commenced, though in a mitigated degree. During the latter part of September and the month of October some destruc tions of pi operty by fire occurred; notices were posted, and some attacks were made for the purpose of pro curing arms. Many crimes have since been committed in the county of Tipperary, but not generally of the former insurrectionary character. The districts of the King's and Queen's counties, bordering on Tipperary, have been affected by simi lar diiorder ; property has been Cestioyed by fire;: and in some places great apprehensions have existed of the disturbance of tranquillity. In the county of Ruscommcni, notices of au inflam matory and threatening character, during the winter, have been senendly circulated ; but, in consequence of the exertions of the police, the outrages. have not attained any alarming height. Some disturbance has also occurred in the counties of Kildare and Westmeath ; it has been met in bbtb. inittances, by an extension of the Peace Presektition Act to additional Baronies. The Province of Ulster maintains its tranqnillky. hunt the statement of facts contained in this dis patch, and from the obsertations which I have sub mitted„to you, it will appear, that the general con dition of Ireland, with regard to the•internal tran quillity of, the Provinces, is considerably improved since the last winter. That the appearance of syste matic disturbance is confined to a few districts on the north-western boundary of the county of Cot k ; and that, even in those districts, no Insurrectionary com bination has been manifested; but K most outrageous attack has been made upon the system of tithes, and upon the rights and property of the Church, with reference to that system. • That a considerable improvemeni ha' been effected in the administration of the law, within the . dlstH icts which had been disturbed; and that it is reasonable to expect increased vigour and purity in their admi nistration. That the new Police has been introduced into the lately disturbed districts, and into others, with general approbation, with the cordial and effective co-operation of the Magistrates; and, in many in stances, with great success in the detection of crime, the speedy apprehension of offenders, and the main. tenance of public peace. The Marquis attributes the improvement chiefly to the Act of the last Session of Parliament tOr the im provement of the Police, and to the revision which has taken place in the appointment of Justices of Peace. A considerable degree of praise is bestowed on the Magistrates, Gentlemen, and Clergymen, for the assistance they have given in enforcing the laws, and for their readiness in holding Petty Sessions.-... Linder the favourable view, however, which the:Mar quis takes, he does not think it prudent to recommend the relaxation of those eitrwordioary powers which Parliament considered tp be necessary for the pre servation of the peace of Ireland. In particular, the Marquis considers the renewal of the Insurrection Act' for another year to be indispensably requisite. I THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1823. Esarta Tossniv.—Holiday at the Bank. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Both the Stock Exchange and the Bank are shut this morn ing, but , the Foreign !dirket is upon for business. In the early part of the day some purchases were made of Spanish Bonds, which opened at 291, 1,1, 1, to 1, at , which price they remain steady up to this hour. Current Prices:—Chilian 70, New Spanish 291, Old 35, New Prussian 791, Old 82, Russian 711, Colombian 81. Some few bargains have been made on 'Change in Consols, at T4l, but very little is doing in any of the Funds. It has been very erroneously stated by a contem porary, that application had been made to the Army Surgeons with a view to ascertain the number of these who were ready for service; with the intention, obviously, that it should be inferred by the public' ,, that something like military preparations are con.' temphited by Government. We subjoin the official document which has given rise to the report, from which it will be seen that it is dated as far back as the first of Docesesber last, and hap no reference to any new posture of affairs. It is also false that " a great way of the Medical-Attendants of the Army" have in consequence of this document resigned ; only two have tendered their resignations, and the appli• cations for appointments are numerous : Cutout...as. Army Medical Department, Dec. 1. 1822. b Sia—That I may be enabled to ascertain the fitness of Mecii. cal Officers for duty, in the event of their services being required, you will be pleased to state the following particulars under the different beads, . lst. Your Age. 2d. The period you have acted on full pay in every branch of the Public Service; and tho Stations where you bate served. 3d. The Disabilities or Ailments you may suffer from, if any exist. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, To Director General. In the private intelligence from Paris, which wt published yesterday, it was said, that the " reported irruption of MINA into the French territory was not credited in the best-informed quarters" in that capital. The Paris Journals of Saturday, which have since come to hand, and from which we have given ex tracts in another page, prove that the whole story is a fable. The Courier Francais merely asserts, that the Spanish Generals MINA and LEMMA arrived on the extreme frontier on the 19th inst. and passed down the line which separates the two countries. The Quo-' tidienne pretends to know a great deal more a the matter; for it adds, that MINA was not only accom panied by General LLoBERA, but also by Colonel FABviatt ; and that this gronpe displayed *to the French troops a tricoloured flag, and an Imperial Eagle ; that FABVIER, moreover, had issued a Ma nifesto, declaring his intention to deliver France from the presence of the BouRIMNS, but that these Bona partean demonstrations only excited contempt, &c• We have no hesitation in pronouncing the whole of this additional statement to be, on the face of it, an impudent fabrication. Whatever designs FARMER and his fellow-exiles may entertain against their na tive country, they must of necessity be accessory only to those of Spain, the country which protects them, and is willing to avail itself, in case of need, of their assistance. If Spain is invaded by France, it will then, according to all the usages of war, be perfectly fair in the Spaniards to turn the tables, if they can, upon their enemy, by sending an army into. France under ahy standard which will tend most to excite internal disturbance, and therebylesag her means of external aggression: But no person' can reasonably Suppose--thisittiie first tit)* itli4h44 . supposed—chat the Spaniards havcany desitntokbo , the list to break -ground; or dint' dig nretnla riot, • • • if they could still it-v . e.4 tlaa naclasig**h tI c Figaik; Bottom/4p are ioniag upon thew ioi noiting . a counter invasion of France ix their ovnytkforoti Thor know well how much of the sympathy so generally felt for their cause rests on the consideration that they isee- disclaiined all intention' of interfering with the Concerns of their neighbours; how mudl of it on the , f;ct. as Lord LIVERPOOL declated, that hitherto no thing has been proved to have been done by them „which ought to make the sincerity of that disclama tioo in the least doubted. Do they not know too that all the other great Powers of Europe are bound by treaty to resist the restora tion of the Imperial Eagle ? And can it then be imagined that Spain, exhausted, distracted, and en feebled as she is, would offer to commence a crusade which would arm so many Powers and Potentates against her? The supposition is incredible; nor need advices be waited for to pronounce the story on Which it is founded necessarily false. The effect for which it has been got up is obvious. The Quolidienne of Paris, one of the organs of the French Ultras, having invented the facts, it is thus that the New Times of London, another equally busy organ of the same party, turns them to account. " We say the appearance of Colonel FARVIER, under these circumstances, is very striking." "It now appears that at that very period (the arrest of Mr. BowniNG) communications were carried on between the Re volutionists of various countries in Spain and in Eng land, and that the common object of then: all was to overturn the French Government, and to spread the flame of Revaution throughout Earope." Yes, yes—This is what the French Government would have the world believe, in order that it may not stand altogether without justification in its attack on Spain, nor altogether without a chance of obtain ing the support of some of its old friends, should it happen to have the worst of the encounter. But no one seriously believes in any such conspiracy ; nor is it possible any one can, while it is supported by such absurd and palpable fictions as the one which we have just exposed. Whatever standard may be unfurled in Fiance, in the case of her invading Spain, we know enough of the designs of FABVIZR and his party to be convinced that it will not be the Imperial. They know also, as well as the Spaniards, how the PoSvers o 'Europe stand pledged to combine against it, and if tbei move at all, it will assuredly not be with that 'or ant other such " Bonaparterm demonstrations:" •Bdurbon may possibly be arrayed against Bourbon ; brit, is so nice a family quarrel as that, it is to be hoped-that England at least will have no occasion to interfere:. t %S.N',IJ, Bayonne Papers to the 24th ultimo Nadia** forenoon... They state that the Due d'ANGouLaus was not expected there until the 31st ultimo (yester day). All the preparations to receive him were cocn plete; and it was believed that as soon as he arrived the divisions of the vanguard of the Ist, 2d, and 3d corps will enter the Peninsula by Irun, St. Jean . Pied de Port, and Oleron. Three Mails were due from Madrid, though letters from Old Caulle had been received; and courieml who gave the Royalists a gratuity were permitted to pass without any obstacle. Letters from Bilboa state that ZAIALA had nearly got possession of tin,: town, by an intrigue with the ;;.habitants, but a heavy rain and the National Guard forced the Royalists, who were about 800 strong, to retire into the neighbouring villages. Several arrests had taken place at Bilboa. It is stated that QUESADA has seat orders to his troops to persist in a second at= tack upon Bilboa, in order to make themsel►es mas ters of it before the French enter Spain Colonel O'Dotorat. arrived, with 400 men of his regiment, at Irun on the 19th ult. to watch the mo tions of the French army on the Bidassoa. GODOSTIDI, the Royalist Chief, with 1000 men, is at Goazueta, four leagues from that river, and re ceives all kinds of assistance . from General QUNIIADA, who is still at St. Jean de Luz The Trappist, with 200 men, is raising recruits in Guipuscoa. General O'Dowwar. it still at Valcarlos, where he is organizing a. battalion of Royalists, while another of the Royal Guard is forming at St. Jean Pied de Port. LONGA is engaged in embarking military stores, &c. to pro ceed to the neighbourhood of*St. Ander, where he is to form the right division of the Royal army. The Constitutionalists still hold I.umbieres, a moun tain of Navarre. On the 18th, forty of their cavalry attacked 150 Royalists, who were going to France, sad cut them to pieces, not one having been able to escape. The Constitutional Authorities continually make requisitions of provisions, which are conveyed to Pampeluna, St. Sebastian, Tofosa, Vittoria, and Logrono; so that it may be a ffi rmed that the French will find but few resources in the provinces on their side of the . Ebro. Frankfort Papers to the 26th ult, have reached us, but the only article of intelligence they contain.ioun account of the baptism *of the Prince Royal of Wi*. TEMBERG, Which took place 21st ult.. at Stlitgarti We have given in a preceding part sonse.interew ing extracts reaPeCting :the statenfireland, ,ftetini 'Dispatch . of the' IlarqUis dr. wEtucat.tv 'to Vll2 ,PEEL. From this document, anclfrom a recolreCtiiin. of What the condition •of Ireland has beenintormer •times, we are persuaded, notwithstanding th*'te'pon which tha journals of that country contain,.that it is' ! in a Vale of progressive improvement. The ;CiAacluct. people is neither so lawless, ferocious, wet 'cruel. lailt hair bieru.'.'• Many of the fire raisings'ir appears iof WhiCh so much ha' been said, and which 11ifv,'e muclaalarnt,havebeen'merel y stacks Of straw set 00 . 1 by proprietors themselves to defraud the • Publit. '137 the following 'account we shall see what a large proportion of all the 'Mischief is comprised under the term burning :—The amount of tie reti, tion fur burnings, and other destruction of p r o perly, delivered in to the Clerk (Stile Noce of or.e county wa s £10.536, 10d. Of this sum, £8,612 17a, $4, 44 on the county at large, petitions to that amount bait% over £lOO each. Admitting as we do that the stag of Ireland is and Must unhappily be for many ye truly larneatable, nothing but wilful. blindness, or told forgetfulness, could assert, in the teeth (f this 0644 declaration, that 44 the lamentable state of ma n! districts becomes more manifest with every posh,` The violent spirit of the diffet eta parties of that cops try, which nobody seems better to appreciate or mos s deeply to deplore than the Nobkman at the bead 0 the Irish Government, or which no preceding Xlinisi ters have done more to calm and suppress, is so terwoven with all the thoughts and actions, all th" jealousies, suspicions, and confidence of the peopl e , that • it is quite impo s sible in stant l y to destroy It, Feuds are natural to reply, and persecution is agre e . able to bigots,' of whatever denomination. The vio lent spirit of party, therefore, which exists in Irela r id, arises from the situation of, the peopl e , an d can tasty be soothed by time, which may teach moderation t o all. Of this spirit the following is a good illustration, which has been reported on respect title atnhority " A man was at the last Assizes of Mullihgar put ea his trial for murder, and the clearest evidencek o . duced of his guilt. The man was a Catholic, and a on& Catholic was on the Jory. Eleven Jrimrs agreed tacos. vict the accused of murder, but the twelfth stood out, No argument, no appeal to justice of to conseies s i e , could influence him. The Jury, atttr being locked up until the Judge left town, were distill, ed without a verdict, and the murderer escaped. 4 Your Orange. men' (are the words ascribed to the refractory Juror) your. Orangemen would not •do justice whe re their own people were concerned, nor will I agai nst a Catholic. Such is the state to-which inveterate and ferocious feuds have sunk a Miserable portion of this empire.' At Carrickfergus also, on the 24g tilt a promo. tion for riot took place before Baron - M 4 Clelland, where the parties indicted appear to have been Cathe lies; but after the examination of several witeessei, whose evidence•just went far enoughin prove de impossibility of discovering which faction was the aggressor, the Judge wisely stopped the further pre. gress of the trial; and dismissed both Orangemen and kibandists, with a just reproofvf that unnatural spirit by which the banners of two communities, calling themselves Christian, are made the incitements to deVastakion and civil bloodshed : This lamentable spirit, the great source of Ireland' vim:, is the natural growth of the situation in which that country has existed since the time of the first . conquest; we locik to the 'present union of the tiro countries, which haa'given to Ireland, what she never had before, a Goiernment above the influence of the contending parties, which-has no interest but to see thent both nnited in promoting the 'general 'prosperity as the only possible means of restoring her to tran quillity. For a greater part of the period since It.. land has had this advantage, our Getvernment was engaged in so •ardtrous a contest as to have no tiny to attend to domestic melioration. xt is because we feel, as well as on other accounts s thatour on this& mastic concerns,•particularly the state of Ireland,de mood the undivided attention of our Minister; the we deprecate all attempts to hurry us into a war fal the support of a foreign people,who do not stand moe in need of our exertions in their favour, and have not half so many claims on them, as out own countrymen. Solent quiz dicere Falsom Audeat? Seemed Editiow, Monday, 31st March, 1823.." The important inks mation which we are now about to communicate to the Public, is another decisive proof of the priority of oar intelligence:—'t THE FRENCH ARHY ON THE Pr• RENN RES BROKE UP YESTERDAY."—..." From the highest possible authority I! r 0 the celerity of " prior in tilligence l"—to be able to announce in London what took place seven hundred miles " over the hills and far away," the day before!!! Accounts from Bahia, to the 10th of February, vie Pernambuco, represent the struggle between the Bra zilians and the Portuguese as nearly at an end. llti latter had suffered severe losses, and were reduced to defensive tactics. Their reverses had entirely broke( their spirit. The Treasury was empty ; the army, is arrears of pay and provisions, had become disgusted and refractory ; and provisions wete becoming stared It appears by other letters from the same place, that no attack whatever had been made on Labatour,ihe Brazilian . General, and consequently that the state ment of his defeat, which we extracted from a Mare .ham paper, is wholly unfounded, The chief appre hension was, that lie, and not Madeira, trould be the ( assailing party, which had induced some of the mer chants to convey their property on board the ships in the harbour; for security, during the confusion of a general attack. " • Yesterday the'Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR pro ceeded from the Mansion House in grand state, to Christchurch, Newgate•street, according to annual custom, to hear the Spital Sermon, which was deli vered by Dr. &Mit Kant, the Bishop of Bristol.--. After the usual account of the City Hospitals had been inspected, the Bishop entered the pulpit, and took his text from'the 9th chapter of Jeremiah, part of the 26th verse—" Let not the rich Man glory in his riches." •'The'service being ended, the procession re' turned -.tes' the Mansion - House, where the LOEP MATOH had. a select party to dinner,. the usual gate quet and Easter Ball having been deferred to the of tlte'thotlfhi'in consequence of the Mansion Road thet-Egiftlan Hall tindeteing repair. Weletinivbrithtegret t . ' that the Celebrated voialitti -13 Mrs.Liedb; 04'U/unit I:secedbit:Of her day, tat !onset Weltt to' the establiainicintikeither of out `Winter ThelAtres; andlbe ttiorti4e; that iris not, 0 we uddersrddkfretteeny fittilt4pllterfthat the PubM are Miliongetlo hase•theiiklautedf haling het 10 lit - • Never, giii:4reteran son stet leg tfit ctlitr da'Y, shall wehfte'B4-'Wteppis t o (ifs! sgaire i .atitl'ulfsetEd g lish bahidsysuligtoith:sua esbcs ag SPA !had I°AI at °mu 'ALAI much pleasure - 11 telStißkiin'ineedottirif geoline on-thepat! of ifit Ant de LOretteit and Ashilitallitbatft'lW Csioi~4l dors h tee not rialt even Veto pia" service the whole' of the intbd*".sslgned thEnt :- . 10 ittnbitssatiots but the profits of even'' eiril, sind — soVllo; die from the Spanish GoreritMtuti we trust Will excite tnittiy:'itift puttee% iteekti ;04 Spain. rikeo l • em Th it e of 14 ,1 4 'Durso of akweh 31 t a ers thi s mart • December. reitt arrived t ) SW. lodiattai k the. Reg It r report' whit arrived Ceditpany'i shi diked): Thai t he it tipst or, Ciptain • The Antrlc frn• et•6l • .::21blis spats Clteepetk, the the OiiiiiFt atizleohe l Ott OCT% lt D► T9l4ladras St rroN For Ban , bay J/jkiik.flete • IPbtaffe Cap - :For; hlerev Osean, I'lJe als PsaaariCs, ; 691.44 from thi iiliken with Oti FALICOUTtI, Wil stßer t iu ' hirr roa r: riccelm li sA l i L i w T he;in ,l c a b a a saa" Gu n i N alsua ll ;g : d l uoc .li k il frodi the River liwt Miles, Bs Isaown, for Ban Nicholas. Warta Prince Leopolu Castle; outward the outward-but wiz, which vets SCILLY, Mane appeared oti the flying, although kept displayed b: on board abysm her; bill When v Vessel, the sea rt sold , the whole o I )Peliliktl.tro boa • boat or to put apprehension's th Had tlie least ex kablie that ell 11 **Neu, on the during which tip more ! The otb hours, were take, froth i'resco for animation. One children; the otl ezentplarT cha rat LILITH ItCllll dew on ! Amidst scut, sailed frets J Curraas_umni garet, front Itotte Coburg, from' Vrendsehap, from W1(414 trunk o.i lingen.—Aistered dilatable, for Cal FreundfchMl; for Hatiburth ; Saral Cleared cktward, mica; kleping Fl rin, for Vigo ; Itl for Prince .:dwar Thi Bartlett, Leone: after being . . A letter fro 4 The-factious morning, an riven in Alcal: some sl:irmishi with the Consti dalajara. Tic suit of them." The followii LIAM; and is i anchor in Kor shockingdetai: I went on of a very grew with whose pi Chief's mime v is said he recei diets!) , after lu ,i. e da 4 di leacaught : epwe h n i riwi k lnl, s sliasic prbei ° ae hg t i l ,wii 1 t i this is . n o t a ll ; him, and atca *ar in every d three returned, at the head am taken is the vi ten,he a A N a ll of which wa s a ' bly the. child rim brothers, I self; the other Pars old, all tory, or to se ll to enable the i wicked de e d s. " - SUDDEN Ds, 'rat that We h a ' Caowbea, tsq Und gen 'eight o'c tly loc , k as n i4 PPY and clip v i saPoPlOity ; at P r ° 4 ned, let ii .41 7 1 . 1 7 breathed i t__ . ne ss of Mr. C 'außever y 1 ta.tieeti on t h 4 e alinenth l'O ul NkiballE t 04141 4111 /0 1 / 9 1 11 : 11kt1 ?. OM liall,